Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 164: Back for the First Time

Episode Date: September 17, 2020

This week it's Deeply Diseased: Liberal Edition, as we examine three stories of rich liberal people acting like absolutely clueless psychopaths. But first we cover Amy McGrath and her questionable activities around 9/11 and Flight 93, as well as her recent "nose dive" in the polls. And we also speculate on rumors that Trump may be buying property in eastern Kentucky... Please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Did you guys watch the Smokey Robinson video I sent you? Oh my god, when was that from? I got a few seconds to end, but I couldn't. That wasn't from 2020, was it? Gang banging. Gang. I think it was from probably the early 2000s. I was talking to my friend Tim about this.

He's like, is anybody even banging anymore? Like, aren't we all a little just too demoralized to even really be in gangs anymore man nobody's throwing sets up anymore everybody's just like man what's the point well there were um june brought everybody together in june uh all the gangs uh remember there was a big uh iconic picture of them all of like six different chicago gangs holding uh a sign that's together that said like abolish the police or something which i'm sure is a state is a um is a firm uh belief they've had for a very long time gangs were that's true abolitionists yes gangs were on the bleeding edge of defunding the police yeah that say the least yeah

that's that's pretty interesting they called an armistice you're right though tom uh uh they were too demoralized to be throwing sets up anymore I wonder if that song in that video was more of a I mean imagine if it was made just a few years ago then it really would be like this piece of brilliant outsider art

like a sort of commentary on how old people turn into like down with dope up with hope pull your pants up. Like Smokey Robinson thinks that gangbanging is the number one issue on the ballot this November. Yeah, yes.

Meanwhile, which the truth is, if you even know any Bloods or Crips, it like not at all like we've been sold it is you know what i mean like just in dealing with guys like that we know through like they're locked up you know what i mean right right right the last big gang scare i remember is ms-13 it seems like they haven't been able to do one since then you know yeah that that one didn't really hold as well now it would now like if they would have launched ms-13 today antifa we wouldn't even be talking about antifa it's gotta be you're

right it was the pre-antifa like boogeyman right it was um and i remember when we were working on that prison stuff we would find people who'd be like hell yeah i don't want a prison here and we'd be like hell yeah all right and then they'd be like because i don't want ms-13 coming here we'd be like truly that's the first time i heard that was from like uh nimby motherfuckers scared that a gang was gonna to set up in Letcher County. I was just like, MS what? I thought it was when that went. Okay. Honest to God, the first time someone said that to us, I thought they were talking about a disease,

some kind of a disease that we were going to get because of the prison. And I was like, wait, what? It kind of sounds like COVID-19. Wait a second, man. Wow. wait a second man wow oh man you imagine yeah ms-13 sets up like neons their turf

i mean the old the old neon in the doll hairs the old neon doll hairs would be a perfect headquarters for um some some uh what did what did terence used to say we were gonna have what um what our tribulates headquarters was gonna be an organized crime outfit yeah yeah yeah

i mean it would be funny that after the decline of coal, MS-13 moves in and starts employing people. It's like you can either learn to code or you can go be a runner for MS-13. The choice is easy. Right, right. Well, so anyways, welcome to the show, everybody. September 17th, Thursday. We've got a lot to talk about today. But let's just go ahead and get

this one out of the way um amy mcgrath uh just doing excellent soaring above the above the competition and by that i mean mitch mcconnell has a 15 point lead over her at this point two months out she pulls out the biggest the biggest uh weapon in her arsenal that's her involvement in 9-11 or not involved yeah and you know how they've turned that on her have you heard the mitch mcconnell ads about that no what do they say they have flipped that on her head already they are they have turned like because they know that people are only gonna barely remember any of that and the the morsels here are just amy mcgrath and 9-11 so they flipped it to me that um she called the day trump got elected worse than 9-11 and they've got recording of her saying that the like the day that trump got elected she can't even describe the feeling the closest feeling that she's ever had to that was

9-11 um that's because she probably quite literally shot down flight 93 over shanksville pennsylvania yeah she had a she had a surgeon's hand about 9-11 by now. Surgeons. She was ready to go. Yeah, she put out an ad that you had a funny tweet about, Tom. If I did do it, parentheses 9-11 by Lieutenant Colonel Amy McGrath, Simon & Schuster. You want to listen to this ad real quick? It was 9-11.

The White House was deciding whether to shoot down a hijacked airliner. I was in an F-18 waiting at the end of a runway in case that horrific order came. I'm Amy McGrath. Now Mitch McConnell is attacking me over 9-11? I swore an oath to protect our country. Mitch McConnell got out of military service, and he's done nothing but sell us out ever since. He's going to attack me over 9-11?

Well, guess what? I was ready to do it. I was ready to do 9-11. I was basically an Al-Qaeda. Look, dude, some of that stuff is... I was hanging out with our dear friends Matt and Carrie last night, me and Nicole, and we kind of went down the rabbit hole. I'm like, you know, I don't know, man.

I think that a very funny um idea so there's either two things that happened on flight 93 one is that amy mcgrath shot it down right i mean like that that that there we do know there was a shoot down order wasn't there didn't cheney and bush like a shoot-down order at some point? I don't know. Yeah, I think so. I think that's right. No, I think... Yeah, I can't remember how it went.

I just remember the weird thing about Flight 93 is it's the one thing nobody ever talks about. And I've spent the better part of the last 19 years thinking, in the quiet moments, what happened to Flight 93 why is nobody talking about it and then amy's ad really shed some new light on it i thought the i thought that was the plane that um they told the story that people overtook the plane and it landed they like that's the one landed yeah yeah it landed okay all right no no no no check this out flight 93 landed in a field outside of shakesville pennsylvania and there was like nothing left of it again the fucking black box but but listen it's doing a lot of work back listen to this they didn't find the

fucking black box but they found two passports they found two passports from two of the terrorists no oh my god oh the black box right is supposed to be like encased in like this indestructible shit under that can withstand the worst circumstances flimsy ass passport is literal paper so here's my you know how they made them they made a movie about this that you know that was um i was called flight 93 wasn't it i think so how am i just hearing this i guess i was a kid and i just like glazed over and every every year since on 9-11 i just don't tune it out i got a question though just time out isn't it kind of funny like a movie about the most boring detail of 9-11 got green lighted to have a movie made about it it makes sense look okay

about this as propaganda it is it is perfect propaganda because what it says is it it's it tells the story that americans aren't entirely helpless that at the last moment we did oh yeah yeah yeah it is you're right you're right it is like a feel-good stories so here's here's what if if my feel-good story it ends with everybody dead yeah okay so but but the story is that the brave people on the flight took it over and crashed it to save the pentagon or something that's exactly right yes that's exactly right but here's here's what i think um i would like to see a film about flight 93 where the crew it's got a big like sort of sixth sense twist at the end you know what i mean like a in a big sixth sense twist at the end. You know what I mean?

Like an M. Night Shyamalan type twist at the end. And the twist is that as they're trying to overpower the terrorists, they realize that the terrorists aren't actually jihadi terrorists. They're like Hungarian mercenaries or something like that who have been hired by the CIA. The French Foreign Legion. The French Foreign Legion. Legionnaires.

What are you doing? The plain full of legionnaires. i must take down this plan you do not understand the people on the plane have this moment where they realize that america is in all that it is and then everybody dies and the secret goes with it nobody knows anything about what happened. It's Pepe Le Pew. You could riff forever on what happened on Flight 93. You could make a million different art films about different characters. You know what I mean? Yeah, my family is getting paid $2 million. I'm going to press this plane.

I can't take it. It's Pepe Le Pew. Instead of trying to take the plane down, it's just trying to fuck everybody on the plane. Yeah, it just smells real bad. You and C-9A come to the cockpits. Shit. Anyways,

I don't think nobody took that fucking plane down except amy mcgrath there's one person that took that fucking plane down and it was amy mcgrath okay here's what i here's all i want to say here it's like look if everybody aboard is going to die regardless you know what i mean all right like maybe the thing to have done was just to let it go to the white house and see what had happened you know what i mean that was shook things up a little bit well the funny thing is is they don't know where the fuck it was going it could have been going to whitesburg for all we know you know sure that's true was it coming for the veterans Museum. Was it leaving Philadelphia? Is that right? I don't remember.

Maybe Washington. Two of them left from Boston, one from Washington. I don't know where Flight 93 came from. Okay. Anyways. Anyways, man. Some holes in our research. Yeah.

So anyways, the larger story here is that McGrath is currently sitting 15 points below Mitch I don't want to say I told you so but I believe there is a soundbite of me on this self-same program saying that there's not a chance

she gets within 10 points of Mitch McConnell I think you're right Tom and for all those that say there's not a chance she gets within 10 points of Mitch McConnell. I think you're right, Tom. And for all those that say, well, you know, if you fuckers wouldn't have talked about, like, her pissing her pants and whatever else, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. She might have

had a chance to win this U.S. Senate seat. And to that I say, look at that goddamn haircut of hers. She's not ready for the show. I know. Remember when the tweet went around calling this disheveled picture of... Bieber. Yeah, of Bieber.

Justin Bieber. I mean, the girl. Yeah, yeah, yeah. this like disheveled picture of uh bieber yeah of bieber justin bieber i mean yeah yeah but we did as we tend to do as the true ability's crystal ball index remains virtually undefeated i'm build a whole tarot career off of it. All we do is predict the future. That's right. It ain't good, but we'll tell you. No, somebody's going to accuse us of manifesting at a certain point, though. True. Well, I do have that power, too. My bad.

They're going to say to us, listen, it's not that you're all predicting the future. It's because you're manifesting bad things. They love the word manifest. It's a big one these days. I can't wait until there's a radio ad. They manifested 9-11. Tom Sexton.

Yeah, the guy that manifested 9-11. I got locked out of... He was nine years old. I was 13, but whatever. So anyways, on to the next news item. Tom, you said that Trump is attempting to move to Kentucky, huh? Listen, we might be the first ones to break this open, if it's true. If it's bullshit, then, you know, whatever.

Yeah, big if true, big if true. This is a big if true. this is a big if true but the rumor is if trump loses the election in november he has purchased a 25 million dollar farm in madison county kentucky where he intends to make a run for governor there are so many holes in this story tom there are many holes in this story but but i love it nonetheless as a hypothetical i'm all in number one of which you don't think there's a 25 million dollar farm in madison county there's absolutely the entire all of madison county is not worth 25 million dollars every square inch of the entire county well what you're forgetting is that trump

is like largely a paper tiger and so like he probably if there is truth to this he probably bought like a five million dollar farm and it's leaking it that it was 25 million okay now that i that i would believe even five millions a stretch honestly that's about the high end though you can see that yeah well that would have to be about a million acres i don't know. It's like... A dollar an acre is about what it's going for right there. Yeah. What's your source on this?

Rex Chapman. Rex Chapman. So, Rex, you know, sometimes he's right, sometimes he's wrong, but I hope he's right on this one. You hope Trump's moving to Kentucky? No, I don't want him to, but if he has already, if the wheels are already in motion, I hope that we're, one, the first to break this story, and two, get a lot of good content out of what's soon to be a miserable thing for all of us. I don't know, though. Let's talk about a trump governorship gubernatorial well as i went on record in the group chat earlier if his primary run is on the

his failed son matt bevin if his whole run is is coming to clean up matt bevin's mess maddie he failed me He's a big loser. Did everything we could for him. Nobody liked the guy. And then everybody and every motherfucker that voted for that fucking asshole is just like, yeah, I hated the son of a bitch.

Hell yeah. Fact him. What a fucking piece of shit. They will. Anything he says, they go along with. He's like the Pied Piper, but for chuds. He just plays his little flute and takes them into the cave. Or, I mean, surely he wouldn't be so dumb as to run with Bevan as his lieutenant.

Me and Maddie, we're back again. No. Me and Maddie, we're back again. This is how it needed to go, folks. Maddie's not really a number one guy. He's more of a number two guy. Number two guy. That's fine. Go along with it.

Oh, he would, yeah. He'd love you like, yeah, I fucked that up at number one, but I'm doing it at number two. Yeah. God damn it. Well, you know, I was thinking about this too though it's because you know we're talking last week about the revelation that trump's mcdonald's order that he eats every day is two quarter pounders of cheese two filet-o-fish sandwiches two large fries there's no way a milkshake and an apple pie. You doubt that? Look at the guy.

That's so much. Does that look like the face of a man that's not taking in 8,000 milligrams of sodium per meal? So the Travis Scott special is the first celebrity partnership. Wouldn't even touch the surface is the second uh celebrity mcdonald's meal gonna be what you just listed as the presidential combo you're you're forgetting that trump was in mcdonald's ads in the early 2000s and late 90s i don't think i forgot it i don't think I forgot it. I don't think I ever knew. I didn't want to know. I did not know. But imagine that if like Trump, he leaves office and like McDonald's does this presidential campaign where like Trump's walking to McDonald's and all the employees are like playing hell to the chief and all this stuff. And he steps up, he orders two quarter pounders two filet of fish two large fries

a milkshake and an apple pie oh my god he knocks that out and then it's like for a limited time only you can get six sandwiches and nine million fries for eight dollars all for the price of $9.11. Right. No. You know I love the numerology. It is kind of funny, though, that he's got the quarter. I know plenty of big boys that have a big McDonald's order. You know what I mean? Right, right, right. But what's funny is he throws in the most arcane sandwich this side of the McRib in two of them.

The fish. Have you ever known anybody that ordered a goddamn filet-o-fish from McDonald's? My mamaw. She loved it. Loved a filet-o-fish. Well, in Eastern Kentucky, though, it's like you only get the filet-o-fish if you don't have a Long John Silver's in town. Yeah, we didn't. Right, right.

Yeah. But isn't that strange yeah i guess someone with all the options getting choosing a mcdonald's filet of fish i just can't i can't i can't stomach it he he got the white house chef to knock off mcdonald's fries and quarter pounders so he could like because he was worried about getting poisoned by like a by like a mcdonald's employee i guess so yeah but it's like how would they how the fuck would they know was for trump i'm sure he motherfucker doesn't roll through the drive through himself no he can't drive i don't think

right i don't know so i'm pretty sure he can't wait he don't drive he can't drive, I don't think, right? I don't know. I'm pretty sure he can't. Wait, he don't drive? He can't drive? I don't think so. It's just been like, they've been carting him around his whole life. Oh, wow. Yeah. That's funny. When I worked for the Clinton Foundation, they used to do this thing whenever Clinton would go out to eat somewhere.

They would have a caravan of these big black vans. First of all, this makes no goddamn sense whatsoever, because if you're looking to fly under the radar or confuse would-be assassins about the president's whereabouts, why start a high... Basically what amounts to a high- like jaunt to like a fucking wendy's or something it's got six black vans and they i was like why do you have like so many vans and they're like well you know in case somebody's looking to kill the president like they'll never

know which one he's in if there's like six of them oh my god you know whereas if there's one they could like reasonably like you know peck him off or whatever if they thought that was him but my question is like this is like little rock arkansas 2012 like is anybody really scheming to assassinate bill clinton um i'm sure there are people but i'm just saying like on a tuesday night i don't know about that but trump i think trump does the same thing but with mcdonald's is they just like don't go to the same store twice you know right right keep you guessing right um well okay so i've got what i've got for you two galsals is a journey into the world of Deeply Diseased Liberal Edition.

This is Deeply Diseased Liberal Edition. Okay. And so we're going to be weaving an intricate web here. We're going to be covering three separate topics, all related in some bizarre, strange way. And they will all be reminiscent, in my opinion, you remember when we did that episode about the coffee shop owners in Harlan County that we all know and love so much? Classic.

Yes. Episode 143, for those of you who want to go back and listen to that one. Episode 143, for those of you who want to go back and listen to that one. This is very much in the line of that, in the tradition of that kind of disease. So when I say deeply diseased liberal edition, I mean very rich people who have tried to innovate something and, you know, they wind up reinventing slavery or they um or or you know bucks yes yes yes facebook bugs reinvented scripts back for the first time they they have simultaneously tried to use their wealth and capital in the traditional channels of capital to make the world a better place and in the process hijinks have ensued and so these three stories in my opinion fit into the deeply diseased liberal edition up first number one this comes by way

of the new york times the headline is their dream was a working farm but they weren't farmers wait is this are we is this at harvest again it is kind of similar is it it Donald and Melania Trump? But they did have $25 million. All right, I'll just start reading here. Claire Coe and Eugene Kwok didn't want a woodland cabin or beach house as their weekend getaway from Manhattan. They dreamed of living on a working farm. Never mind that neither had any experience farming. After years of shopping at the Union Square Green Market,

they had become increasingly curious about where their food came from. We experienced this great interest in being able to consume produce from the local Hudson Valley area, said Mrs. Coe. Miss Coe, 38, the chief people officer at a cheese company. Wait, chief people officer? She's a people person, I suppose. I don't know what a people officer is. CPO. CPO.

To take that interest a step further, Mr. Kwok Forty, an architect and assistant professor at Farmingdale State College on Long Island, began fantasizing. Why not buy some land, give much of it to a young farmer, and build a two-family house where they could all live together? He came up with a name for his project. Oh, God. Together. It's together. It's like together

but to gather. Did they take the vowels out? You gotta take the vowels out for it to be a true liberal upstart venture add an x add an x in there yeah two t g h r x and it's it's together say that completely incomprehensible but yeah um he was no expert on rural living either but he wasn't about to let that stop him who is really who among us nothing you can prepare you for he said living in the city and being exposed to the culinary scene i was just naturally drawn to food systems and looking at upstream where the production happens i wanted to combine food systems with my design abilities and try to create something that was innovative so he embarked on a two-year crash course in farming

while conducting an exhaustive real estate search blah blah blah after considering various properties within a two-hour drive of new york they settled on a dairy former dairy farm they bought it for 175 000 in march 2018 um in the family that they set up on the farm was this woman named alissa phillips and jack wedham wedham they are a, and they have a daughter. And so the couple have moved onto this farm and have started farming it for these rich people. And apparently they've sunk all of their savings into it and are about to go broke, the tenant farmers. So if you haven't started picking up at this point

about what I'm describing, what I'm describing was actually very popular in the South right after slavery and Reconstruction. It was called tenant farming. Yeah. Man, they just think they invented this, didn't they? Back again for the first time. That's exactly right.

And so this, you know, this comes from the New Republic who wrote about it. The author is Nick Martin. He wrote, if this sounds familiar, it is. The correct term for what the couple invented is tenant farming. It's a practice that has been around for centuries and America

tenant farming is inextricably tied to the Jim Crow South. What would be funny is if the guy that came this and says listen i was just sitting at home thinking about damn if i ever started a farm what would i do and then i was just turn the tv on and there was this old disney cartoon with this like crow family of crows that were like sitting on like a picket fence and talking in a very caricaturish way. And then that's when it hit me. Like he saw an old racist cartoon. Yeah, I think that cartoon's actually called Jim Crow.

Oh, my God. Oh, God. Oh, man. Well, anyways, yeah, so they got these two farmers to move on to their farm and farm it for them and like i said they've apparently sunk all their money into it because they're still charging these farmers for rent they knock the rent down gracefully to i think 1100 a month or something like that 1200 a month um but they still have to pay rent and farm all of the it's very futile but they have to farm it all with their own like implements and kick up the

surplus i love liberals rock man it's like it's just like the ultimate in like horseshoe shit you know what i mean it's like oh man they like they're like innovating themselves back into systems of subjugation truly yes have these people not heard of wolfing oh my god even what thing though is more straightforward exactly it's like free you live there for free they provide you with all of your living amenities for you to like learn to work the farm or whatever the fuck i mean even that's pretty bullshit but they're they're charging people double what i pay a month for a three bedroom house oh my yeah i mean the people who have to farm this have to invest all their own money into it and so what they said is you've got to dig a well then you've got to get the water

from the well to the crops oh Oh, my God, dude. They said a lot of our investment went into improving the soil and bringing in compost and other soil amendments. So, like, the people who they got... They've just been moving dirt around. Exactly, dirt and manure, probably. It's a pretty... What the shit pile they've created for themselves pretty uh pretty interesting right

i wonder what they thought when this article came out do you think the new republic prepared them for uh blasting them for recreating tenant farming. You know, if I had to guess, they're probably reacting the exact same way our benevolent coffee shop owners reacted. Just digging their heels in. Blog forthcoming. Blog forthcoming. Deeply diseased is always so much better

when it's liberals doing it. Yeah. I agree. When it's Republicans doing it, it's just like typical rich asshole shit. And it's sadder. It's like. Yeah, no, it's like wiping your ass with like gold bars. Like that's deeply diseased conservative edition.

Deeply diseased liberal edition is. Yes, re-innovating. Asking someone else to do it. Feudal relations from like the 1400s. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. God. They're gonna, before long,

they will have re-innovated like absolutism monarchy. They'll be like, we got this new form of government. It's great. There's a king and a queen. Yeah. God damn it, man.

It's like, we talked about doing a year zero about development arrested and i just want to like send a copy to this guy and be like man you got a lot in common with some of these guys it's weird yeah yeah um well in their minds though they're making the world a better place you know and that's what makes it so fascinating liberals cannot just do do their own fucking thing without putting some trying to convince other people that it's for a common good yeah like just move if you want a farm just move to a fucking farm and shut the fuck up about it liberals cannot they literally cannot have like i mean we've saw this like tenfold in the last six months either covid or the uprising it's literally just liberals like oh my god i'm

making this great t-shirt and you know 69 of the proceeds are gonna go to um something that has the word black in it. Uh-huh. We're going to put Breonna Taylor's face on a T-shirt and give her family, like, a penny on every shirt we make. Right, right. Exactly. You know, it's what I... The one message I just want to broadcast to liberals and not a few leftists

is everything doesn't have to be a project, like a political project. Not everything has to have some sort of broader implication for the cause of socialism, or in the case of liberals, whatever you all do. You know what I'm saying? That's how we become a subculture. And this is coming from a man that got out of the primordial ooze of contemporary a brief dalliance with contemporary christianity so take it from me man i've been there uh yeah i see i i agree um yeah no i mean do what so if you want to farm and farm with somebody under uh you know dehumanized and under subjugation just do that

you know what i mean don't you don't you don't you don't have to uber that you know what i mean you don't have to to door dash that or instacart that you know right right um well it does get at something that i think is very fascinating and what i what I think our next story really digs into, which is that there are class antagonisms among, let's say, the top 5%, maybe. If you want to be generous, let's say the top 10%. And people in those upper classes can have their own sort of idiosyncratic politics and their own vision about how to change the world. But it's weird. There's an ecosystem, right? There's like the billionaires at the top and then there's the millionaires

and then there's the, you know, half millionaires. You know what I mean? Like people who are just exorbitantly wealthy. And then there's, you know, and they're a small part of American society. And then there's the vast majority of us, the rest of us who just don't make any money. But these people do have sort of class antagonisms And then there's the vast majority of us, the rest of us, who just don't make any money. Yeah.

But these people do have sort of class antagonisms amongst one another. And I think that that's fascinating. And, you know, before I move on to the next story, the reason I pulled out that story was because it's so reminiscent of shit you see all the time living here. Because of the whole food systems tie-in thing, you know. Yeah. And for that reason, it looks a lot like App Harvest in some ways. Yeah. see all the time living here because of the whole food systems tie-in thing you know yeah and for that reason it looks a lot like app harvest in some ways yeah um so the next story i wanted to highlight and this one made the rounds um about a month ago or uh maybe a few weeks ago my sense of time has been become warped but this one is comes by way of The Cut, which is, I believe, run by New York Magazine.

The headline is, The Eco-Yogi Slumlords of Brooklyn. How did a couple who built an empire of yoga studios in homes with living walls end up as pandemic villains? So this story opens up with these two people. Their names are Gennaro Brooks Church and Loretta Gindville. They own several retail stores in Northwest Brooklyn, like yoga supplies, and she has her own yoga studios and stuff like that like they run these businesses or they just own the buildings uh they they they run the businesses in this in a loose sense does that make sense like they own the businesses but they have

people run the stores for them you know what i'm saying yeah so this story opens up with them at the beginning of the pandemic in early july going to one of their properties at 1214 dean street and attempting to move in to that property because the pandemic essentially had cut off all of their revenue sources um from their retail stores and from their yoga studios because you know everything was still in lockdown at this time and so they they apparently couldn't like i guess they had like several million dollars locked up in assets but because of the recession they weren't able to access any of that so they had to move into one of their rental properties and so the story opens with them attempting to move in to one of the rental properties where about 10 tenants lived

one of those tenants had recently just had brain surgery to remove a massive tumors and um they kicked her out uh they they had absolutely no sympathy for her um god they attempted to kick everybody out of this um because they just wanted to live in the building empty yes i can just read here if you want um genaro brooks church and his ex-partner loretta genville so they had broken up before this but they were still trying to move in together they tried to move into the uh the apartment with their three children two dogs two handymen and a mattress um they loved how that sounded um they called the cops to like try to get the tenants out i guess the

cops showed up they were like there's really nothing we could do and the kids just moved in um one of the tenants described seeing the kids sitting around eating popsicles and i kind of had the image of like the two children in the shining or like the two little damien Omen children just walking around this place eating popsicles. Just staring at people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But let me go through their sort of empire, their business empire. So, Ginville started a yoga studio

and a retail store called Area Yoga and Baby back in the late 2000s. They got in on the ground floor of the gentrification surge after the recession of, like, northwest Brooklyn. So they were like gold mining, you know, frontiersmen, essentially, right? Prospectors, speculators, out on the front lines. Yeah, and they dressed the part probably too yes they absolutely did if i know anything about brooklyn um by 2008 they had two homes um by 2012 they had nine stores two yoga studios a a spa, and a salon. I want to read this for you real quick,

this little excerpt from how she treated her employees, which I thought was very fascinating. So apparently she used to try to essentially pay her employees in what she called karma hours. Oh. Oh. Basically have. Hold on a second.

I need a second after that. Oh. Oh, yeah. oh yeah yes essentially have them work for free but they would accrue karma hours you know what i'm saying not to be confused with comp time oh there's here's the thing about that here's the thing about that woo-woo shit that woo-woo shit is basically the religion of gentrification now. Like, if you really want to get into some, like, transcendental meditation and some, like, real, like, Eastern meditation, like, New Age-y shit, like, you can't, like, you have to go to, like, a fucking, and you shouldn't do this, but, like, you got to go, like, see, like, a guy in Nepal or something. You know what I mean? Well, it's like Twitter Jack. It's, like, Nepal or something. You know what I mean? Well, it's like Twitter Jack.

It's like what he did. You know what I mean? Or Joe Rogan. All these rich guys do this at a certain point. Our very own JB. Our very own cryptocurrency. Right. That same retreat that Jack was at,

that woman got bit by the rabbit dog and died from rabies, do you remember that? Yeah. Oh, my God, what? Jack was stoic. Yeah, Jack, that could have been Jack. Genville, like I said, she, you know, and then I'll get to her partner here in a second. But by 2009, they owned nearly $3 million in property. 2017, they had 14 area stores.

But one thing I found really fascinating, and this is kind of what I was getting at earlier when I said there's class antagonisms within this class. In 2015, Guindville somewhat notoriously put up a Bernie Sanders poster in one of her stores a few months after Hillary Clinton had visited the location. She said, Hillary Clinton is, you know, more in the game with all of the corporations, which I'm against. Clearly.

I mean, it's very fast. I mean, I think that this is a fundamental aspect or a fundamental dimension to understanding these people in the way they think. They really do think by using their wealth and their capital and influence they can make a more sort of just society you know what i'm saying and so that's why they act like they're exempted from like the basic tenets of marxism you know what i mean or something not even really the basic tense of marxism that's not even really the right way to say that but like by virtue of they've accumulated a fortune and have like a level of like sort of enlightenment that you should take note of that they're not like they're not the bad

small business they're not the petty tyrants you know what i mean no you're exactly right what they are is they're people who made it the system worked out for them and therefore they altruistically decide well the system needs to work out for more people. And so the path that they take to get there becomes very, like I said, hijinks ensue. They reinvent tenant farming. They become eco-yogi slumlords. Yeah. Company script back for the first time.

It's called Karma Hours. I mean, what do you even get for karma hours free yoga classes it's like the company store but when you go to the company store all you can buy is like nog champa oh my god it's like all you need man if you think about it no let me read from this on the surface they catered to the upper crunchy crust of brooklyn hawking imported wooden toys prenatal yoga classes and rooftop gardens to gentrifiers with money to burn but it was quote yoga on the outside pure capitalism on the inside as one former area employee put it behind the scenes ginville and brooks church were exploiting the city's growing underclass for a short-term or reliable cash flow employees

working without benefits and tenants paying up to one thousand dollars each for a single room in an illegal conversion apartment by this year it appears the landlords were pulling in nearly ten thousand dollars a month at that one property alone that they tried to move back into. I mean, this guy, this guy is very strange. He believes in something called human design. He's an adherent of human design, a pseudoscience combining astrology with chakras and was created on Ibiza in 1922 by an advertising executive named Alan Krakauer, who claimed to have received messages on the meaning of life from an entity called The Voice. He became known for his sort of eco-adornments

of his apartment. Listen to this. Listen to what he tried to do to the apartment he lived in. He built a freshwater pond in a tree house, and in 2011, he tried to build a literal man cave under his front yard. Wait, did he call it that? Did you say man cave? I did.

I said man cave. Did he get into paleo and want to take it to the next level and live as the cavemen lived? I mean, I think it's funny it's like plato's allegory of the cave but set in 2017 in gentrifying northwest brooklyn like and and and instead of not being able to see the platonic forms the department of building just comes by and shuts your shit down which is what happened the department of building said to come by and shut his man cave down it's not not up to code um but uh you know so as i was saying um you know that their working conditions weren't so great uh they were trying to kick their tenants out and move in during the pandemic. They broke up at a certain point because Genville, the wife, started fucking her pool boy, essentially.

And then they got into a hot, steamy relationship. And now, apparently, their coronavirus truthers are skeptics. They're completely unrepentant about trying to kick their tenants out at the beginning of the pandemic uh they've dug in their heels they've done exactly what our coffee shop owner friends did um they have completely denied any wrongdoing and believe it or not it comes full circle back to just being a reactionary. They're basically the Falwells. We missed talking about that story. That was a big blunder on our part.

But, yeah. That was really our bread and butter, too. The moment's gone. Whatever. Maybe another time. I must have missed it um so all right so the third item i have here any more any final words in the eco yogi farmer slum lord or the tenant farmer two gatherers two gatherers yeah I ain't got nothing else on that

I think it's we've pretty much said all that can be said okay well then the third thing I have here so we've spent the last two stories you know on this terrestrial plane on this

rock we call earth let's get in our SpaceX spaceships and terrestrial plane on this rock we call Earth. Let's get in our SpaceX spaceships and blast the fuck off. We're going to Mars, bitches. Hell yeah, baby. So this story is in CNN. It came out this week, or last week, I'm sorry.

Elon Musk, colonizing Mars could be dangerous and ridiculously expensive. Elon Musk wants to colonizing Mars could be dangerous and ridiculously expensive. Elon Musk wants to do it anyways. Ridiculous and dangerously expensive are his middle name. Everything the guy's ever done that's except PayPal is like being just dumb and ridiculous. A scam. He's a scam artist. 100 yeah so um but i do think this

is an interesting story because it does plug in in you know i they pointed this out in that new republic article i was talking about it does plug into the same sort of liberal impulses you have this big innovative idea for making the world better that does not include making people's material lives better, making a more egalitarian and just society, but rather holding bright, shiny objects in front of people's faces and saying, look, a better world is just right ahead. We just have to use science and technology and innovation to get there. And this, to me, this story fits right in with it. it um so you know just to cover the basics up front elon musk has spent nearly two decades rallying spacex fans around his goal of colonizing mars

something world governments aren't currently attempting in part because of the unfathomable price tag such a mission will will entail musk this company's ceo and chief engineer refers to his interplanetary ambitions more like a sci-fi protagonist with a moral calling than an entrepreneur with a disruptive business plan. If there's something terrible that happens on Earth, either made by humans or natural, we want to have, like, life insurance for life as a whole, Musk said during a virtual Mars conference on August 31st. Then there's the kind of excitement and adventure. SpaceX's plans for a red planet settlement bring up numerous technological, political, and ethical questions. One of the most challenging hurdles may also be financial. Not even Musk has ventured to guess an all-in cost estimate. So the rub here, the thing that Musk has to figure out is how to make it lucrative, essentially.

How to basically not lose tons of money in the process. And he started to take some ideas from this other guy, this writer. He wrote a book called The Case for Mars. L. Ron Hubbard. That man. Yes, L. Ron Hubbard. L. Ron Hubbard. book called the case for mars and l ron hubbard that man's l ron hubbard l ron gene roddenberry gene roddenberry would be fine yeah roddenberry yeah no instead he started taking ideas from this man named robert zubrin who wrote a book called the case for mars in 1966 and this is what he has to say about how Mars could be colonized. To look towards a potential future of humanity,

Zubrin looks to its past. Just as the labor shortage prevalent in colonial and 19th century America drove the creation of Yankee ingenuity's flood of inventions, so the conditions of extreme labor shortage will tend to drive Martian ingenuity. So let me get this straight. What I think you're telling me is that we're going to carpet bag Mars and subjugate people on Mars? it back mars and subjugate people on mars i think what i think what you have to go even further back in the historical record tom i think what he's saying is we have to enslave people and send that's what i'm yeah i i yeah i shouldn't dance around that we what we have to do is have to have

some like new martian what would you call an american earth martian slave ah man that is there are no new ideas under the sun it's like okay okay we can't afford okay we're going to colonize mars but look we don't have time to figure out a new egalitarian way to do it what we have to do is just stick with the blueprint we've always done some people are gonna get hurt along the way whatever you know we can work those problems out as they arise i mean it does again it offers you a very interesting psychological profile of these people because it shows you that exactly instead of making the world more egalitarian it's like let's just dig in and revive older forms of hierarchical domination and exploitation. Like, why not just revive slavery? Fuck it. Why not?

All because Elon Musk has a goal of dying on Mars. He wants to get to Mars in his lifetime. So the way to do that is through system of domination, subjugation, and slavery. through system of domination, subjugation, and slavery. Literally, pressing people into chattel slavery, selling their kids from them, being like, look, you may not like it, but at least you'll be the first generation to die on Mars. Lord have mercy.

That's kind of cool, right? That's kind of cool right that's kind of cool right i'm imagining a like a uh appalachian job retraining program where we have to like we've tried everything on mars and then the powers that be say this they say well it's clear these degenerates only know how to do one thing that's dig rocks so we're going to send them to mars as part of the call it job recreate to dig rare rare mars martian minerals to power this fucking outfit this is the future yeah uh rinse wash repeat man we just keep doing the same thing yeah it's coding or mine mars bitch no he literally says this c CNN business interviewed this guy Robert Zubrin he said Zubrin stood by those

ideas arguing American colonization has worked he harkens back to the colonization of North America as an example of how would-be Mars colonists might fund their trip either by liquidating their earthly possessions to fund the trip or by indentured servitude if you say okay you want to

go to mars you're going to want to offer something if you look at colonial america a middle-class person could travel to america by liquidating their farm but the proceeds would give them a one-way ticket but if you are working what you could do is sell your labor for seven years why not except it's it's fucking mars it's gonna be way longer than seven years you won't come back you will not come back that's the funny thing is you're stuck there if they want to keep you longer there's no like yeah like yeah there's nothing oh my god if somebody says but won't there be exploitation there well sure that's what people do to each other all the time. These are the ideas.

Oh, my God. These are the ideas. And again, you can church it up in all the liberal veneer that you want, but to actually accomplish the things that you have set out to do to preserve your own class status requires a great deal of exploitation. Yeah, and that's just it god damn man that is so funny back for the first time oh man oh man well so anyways that's um those are my three stories of the deeply diseased liberal edition. I hope that I'm sure wherever you live in America, it probably reminds you somewhat of your own situation with gentrifiers, with eco-yogi slumlords, with people who say they want to make the world a better place by paying you $6 an hour and working you 70 hours a week.

Yeah, maybe just don't. Yeah, no, these people are, in my opinion, as things start to heat up, because obviously that's just what's going on now with wildfires, hurricanes, violence in the streets. Like literal heating up. Yeah, literal and metaphorical figurative these are the best targets for your outrage and anger i mean in my opinion um because they they occupy that like sort of strata just you know between the working people i mean like they're they're business owners obviously they're capitalists but they see themselves as not being as detached as the billionaires you know what i mean they see themselves as caring about people's actual

circumstances and being able to work with people right but but they don't understand that they are so far divorced from the real world that in some cases they reinvent tenants farming and in other cases they want to get off the world entirely and and so i don't know that's why i say these people are the best targets for your outrage i hate him so much and he's not wrong in thinking that people want to escape this planet that part is correct i will i will give him that yeah um he is um the thing about musk that just annoys me so much is he's like the guy that's like he can't even when he loses he can't lose like he's beyond failure like donald trump in a lot of ways because he's established this cult around himself

like if you really want to be infallible in life you first must create a cult for yourself you're right and i don't know man that's so fucking did you see this week he said that um he said the uh answer to traffic is just to dig as many tunnels as we want i did see that you can go much deeper with tunnels than you can over skyscrapers. As many as you want. All the tunnels you want. You can literally mine into the Earth's core as far as you want without issue. Nothing bad can happen. He's going to be proposing that. He literally took, you know, growing up, you're like, if you dig through the Earth, you wind up in China. He will be proposing this to you.

Like, we're just, we're going to bore all the way through the earth till we get to china and then you can just get to china in like three hours oh my god i love that and then you pop up on china and there's all these racist caricatures like just like the cartoons quote unquote china oh fuck well uh that's about all i've got for the week that was your deeply diseased liberal edition um is elon musk even liberal does he claim that he says he's a socialist. Oh, yeah. He does. Oh, fuck, that's right. But he talks mad shit about Marx. Especially, yeah, I don't know. He's a complete moron. Absolutely moronical.

He even had, I mean, you're right about this, Cole. He even had one of his employees talking about what a great job tesla is this week on the timeline knowing damn well that test the tesla factories have like 1940s death rates like 1940s um like factory uh death rates injury rates for workers yeah it's not safe it really isn't and that's why i mean the whole thing is it's a scam obviously but um it's also a death factory yeah it's like it's like the um lularoe of automobiles or something it's almost pyramid scheme like and it's like you get this like okay it's cool kind of cool looking but you get this like finicky car with all these bugs that like you know might spontaneously combust on you or something out of

nowhere but like you get the elon musk steve jobs sort of futuristic cool of it all man what it is is it's like so i can see i know how they're gonna do this colonization scheme they're gonna start going to every town and going to like the poorest neighborhoods and being like hey you want to take a ride in a tesla and they put you in the tesla and then all the doors lock and then um you know the the computer screen on the dashboard comes on it's like hello citizen eight nine three five seven and then um welcome to your new uh life or something like that and then you know rockets grow out of the side of it and it fucking flies you up to the the space colony on the moon,

which then takes you to Mars. You're trapped then. And then you keep hitting the take me back home button, and it just says in this very regal British accent, now why would you want to do that? Why would you want to do that? Why would you want to do that? You can go home when you want to, of course. Let me go home. Now why would you want to do that? Why would you want to, of course. Let me go home.

Now why would you want to do that? Why would you want to do that? Your new home is the Red Planet. You're a Martian now. That might be what they're angling at here. Well, anyways, that about covers it this week, right? Yeah? Yeah.

I mean, we could. All right. I thought Tom might have a Kanye take to share, but they've probably all been. I do have just one. Did you all see that hilarious Rick Fox tweet? No. He was like, my friend at Kanye West just wants everybody to know that he's been banned from twitter for 12 hours i did see that yeah

well he yelled to me from another room yesterday damn gc kanye just tweeted all of his contracts and she don't even get on twitter i don't even know like it must have been a headline i was Ye just tweeted all of his contracts. And she don't even get on Twitter. I don't even know. It must have been a headline. I was just like, what? Yeah, he took that picture of he put his Grammy in the pissy toilet. I saw that. He's pissing on his

Grammy. That was my fave, actually. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ! He's got the world's biggest tv this week he had a big week he lost his mind on twitter again and he had the world's biggest tv he's got a hundred foot tall tv is that true wow it's custom yeah yeah you can't you can't just and say, give me the 100-footer. Speaking of Target, this week there was a mask-off parade through a Target. White people storming through Target. Did you see that?

I saw that. It was a literal parade. Yelling at everybody to take their masks off. Yeah. Take them off. Liberate yourselves. Pull out your mercury fillings, villains children i implore you i did have a i did have like sort of a um dark thought this morning i was um uh driving around this morning i was thinking man do you think there's like sort of anti-mask cop dickhead that has given somebody the coronavirus by making them take their mask off at a traffic stop and getting in their face and shit?

Oh, you know it has. Absolutely. Or some reactionary judge that refuses to let people wear masks in their courtroom and they got sick because of it or something like that? I watched a video this week. It a cop cam so you know whatever but it was this cop got a noise complaint in some fucking i don't remember where it was but some college town and went to a house full of dudes and they it was in the middle of the day and they had like 20 people in the house they were having a party middle of the fucking day and no one had mask on of course and the guy's like listen there's a

mandate like you can't have more this many people together like what are you all doing he was like oh yeah they were just stopping by they're leaving and he keeps he keeps 20 of my rowdy friends yeah they're just they're going somewhere else and then he keeps like talk he keeps talking to him and they admit they've all tested positive for covid it was not all everyone in the party but all the people who live there there's like five dudes that live there and he was like this what happened the cop asked for his id and he goes and runs his id and he comes back and he's like man i've never seen this before but this has you flagged as uh positive for covid like on his id it was connected to his id and he was like yeah yeah i tested positive a couple days ago and i was uh even the cop was like what and he was like yeah we all have it and he's like yeah we all have it and this is like news to their like 20 buddies in the house yeah they're all standing on the

porch just kind of looking around and the cop visible you know the cop came so he starts stepping backwards even the cop is like what are what the fuck are you talking about that's awesome so then like 10 people come out of the house and just go down the street and the cop's like i think all of you need to get tested all of you that are leaving this house need to go immediately to be tested was this like on a college campus or something yes it was a call because he kept saying you know uh he's like i can cite you but the real problem here is going to be the college the college is going to come down on you for this la la la well this is the thing that fucking kills me so much about schools being back because like when you're that age i mean when you think you're invincible

when you're that yeah you feel bullet yeah exactly i was like when the like the swine flu was like ravaging my campus like i was out partying and shit you know yeah no i mean it was inconceivable that they were going to be able to control this on college campuses like yeah i mean it comes back to the condom issue if you can't get somebody to wear a condom come on you think they're gonna wear a mask on their face all day please condom for three minutes. Tanya, it's too hot to wear a condom. I've health issues. I can't, I've health issues. I can't disclose that I can't wear this condom.

Yeah, I've got, you know, like the mask. It's like, there's like two health issues that like you shouldn't wear a mask. I'm going to say, yep, I've got two health issues. I can't wear a condom. The doctor says the cum goes back in there and it gets clogged up. I can't do that. It's a whole thing. It's a whole thing, apparently.

You don't want to hear about it. You don't want to hear about it. Just lay back. I'm boring you. I'm boring you with the details now. Look, we're doing this. If Tom has never said that during sex, will buy you a mcdonald's fish fuck i'm bored you with the details it's just are we doing this or what i love that rapper bfb the pac-man it's two best lines it's too hot to wear a condom

and i'd die before I put my dick in plastic. Jesus, man. Fuck. I gotta go. That's my sign off. Alright. Tanya, you wanna plug your Patreon? Yeah! I got a Patreon. Patreon.com slash Haint. T-H-A-I-N-T-T Check it out. It's Mabin this weekend.

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Tom didn't wear a condom this week. But he did wear his mask. I always wear my mask. Oh, boy. That's right. Alright, well, thanks's right. All right.

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