Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 192: Amerigo Vespucci's Guide to Social Distancing

Episode Date: April 1, 2021

Have scientists finally discovered the Sasquatch in eastern Kentucky? Tune in to find out, and to hear us talk about Biden's new infrastructure plan as well as gentrification in Austin, Texas Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

it's funny because every man, every man, uh, that grew up in the area, we did always fantasize about being in the mafia or some sort of like mildly violent, uh, organized crime organization.

And I'll go ahead and tell you if my uncle Don wasn't built for it and he was part of the pagans motorcycle club, then I'm sure as hell not built for it. Oh, was that a witch was that a witchcraft motorcycle gang no tanya was the pagans were not a witchcraft motorcycle gang but rather could have been could have been ran ran meth through maryland west virginia and kentucky way to draw snitch uh i think this is well documented you google pagans motorcycle club

man the math trade is the first thing that's going to open up well i had no idea but did they not know the origin of the word pagans was it to throw off the math scent i think i don't know pagan you know generally has the connotation that you just don't give a fuck. You're just like... Oh, okay. You believe in... I mean, I guess technically it's belief in many gods, but it's a specific kind of...

Or no gods. I look at paganism as just like the folk religion of places. It's almost pejorative to say something's paganism when it's just like just the ancient Scottish and Irish and whatever religions that were around before Christianity or whatever else. Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. But in high school, when you said you were pagan, that just meant you were just cool enough to flout the living God. Yeah. You did Wicca wiccan yeah yeah like in the nerdiest way possible though like it was not cool to be a pagan like you you were taking a risk in a way but not in the way that you thought you were

well one of my good friends in high school was a flamboyant red-headed gay boy and he actually taught me a lot about dick he he's the he is the person i went to when i had dick questions because he had a dick so it was nice to have a gay friend around but he was pagan and wicked and very public about it so he got a lot of shit if it wasn't over the witchcraft shit it was over the man fucking he got a lot of shit in high school and he did not give a fuck anyway i loved him and we were so close but now he posts he's still a wild ass witch but he posts these crazy stuff on the internet all the time that's like if you smoke drink do drugs uh eat bad food eat fast food you're not really a witch because you're not caring for your vessel so now he's like a witchcraft truther and i'm like damn dude how

this happened that's fast people over calling you a fag and now you are essentially calling me one have you ever watched the episode of king of the hill called the witches of east arland where hank has to go threaten ward rackley and tell him to stay away from bobby no he says how old are you son he says 40 he says try 3 000 he says okay this is not your fault. The pagans were a pretty violent 1% motorcycle club. Not a gang of gay witches that rode around on motorcycles. A girl can dream. That's right.

A girl can dream. That's right. Speaking of mysterious... Speaking of mysterious forces in eastern Kentucky, did you guys see that thing a few weeks ago about these researchers think they found, like, DNA from a Sasquatch in eastern Kentucky? No. Let's see if I can find it.

I thought you had exactly the same reaction. How do you see stuff like this and not immediately send it to us? Do you sit on stuff just for this purpose? Just goes back to that we can't hang out anymore? It has to all be content? I mean, that's just what they tell me because i don't

want to hang out with me what what is a sasquatch like scientifically like what do they is it just like a crypt like a cryptoid so yeah it's like a humanoid cryptid cryptid rather yeah um of all the things you expect to find in the hills of Appalachian, Kentucky proof of Bigfoot's existence might not be at the top of the list, but a team, it's not, it's not implausible, but a team of paranormal paranormal researchers and reality TV show

investigators thinks Kentucky Southeastern mountains may hold the key to proving the cryptid is out there. You know, I've heard this before about Eastern. I mean, you know, just over the mountain in Wise County, they've got the wood booger. You know, that's like a big thing. I thought you were going to say I've heard in Eastern Kentucky people say that. I was going to say, you mean from Kevin Howard? So the wood booger has changed residences, basically. He's just made it across the mountain, and they've tracked him.

Imagine that. Creatures know no boundaries, no bullshit state lines. He went to the DMV and had to refile his... Listen, I only come out about once every 60 years so let's try to i'm trying not to elicit a lot of fanfare here so let's kind of keep it moving they're like sir you need a you're gonna need a notary for this to prove who you really are yeah jay booger jay stands for Jesus.

Wood Jonathan Booger. Here's the team. The show is Expedition Bigfoot. It's on travel channels. Oh, this is a TV show, not a band of scientists, not a lab. There is an actual esteemed primatologist in the group, and they sent the DNA to UCLA, like UCLA's eDNA program. Let me just read you this. The team includes Bryce Johnson, Expedition Operations,

Dr. Mariah Meyer, primatologist, Russell Acord, ex-military survivalist, and Ronnie LeBlanc. Oh my god. They brought the survivalists in case one of them falls off Brad Branch Falls. Yeah, or you get cornered in a

cave by a standoff with Bigfoot. Yeah. Well, look, here's their credentials. Here's their bona fides. Dr. Meyer is a world-renowned primatologist. For nearly 20 years,

she has been a wildlife correspondent, including for National Geographic. Her explorations have led to several scientific discoveries including the co-discovery of the world's smallest primates and brand new species russ's mouse lemur which she co-discovered with her colleague dr ed lewis on an expedition in northeastern madagascar um so i don't know take take that uh so like the person in question has found new species of animals before yeah but that is true yeah um interesting but you know i i worked in the non-profit did they say what they actually found you yeah yeah yeah i i feel like i've worked

in the the narrative industry long enough to know that you can say you can fudge some of the details about your about your uh career in your life to make it sound like you're credentials yeah yeah yeah sure the best bio the best thing i ever heard about myself was a bio tom wrote about me i was like oh my god what is this he somehow tied me to netflix i'm in the i'm in the business of making people making people feel good uh i had a buddy one time that said that he found a howler monkey on his property in fleming county kentucky well what's that is that i need to i need to know look i've i've hung up a lot a number of biologists and a lot of people

have stories about weird things happening i've heard of people finding uh coral snakes that you're typically like found in like florida places like that like as high up as like near lexington which you know some of that stuff is just these exotic animal shows people go buy these creatures and they either get loose or they can't take care of them and just let them out somewhere and then the animals figured out how to adapt or just hasn't died yet and so i think it's funny that a common like folk legend you hear around here is a mountain lion which is hilarious because mountain lion is real it's not a cryptid it's just like people are like well i mean it's lore and they did and they this was at one point their range but like

they've been ran out like a long a long long time ago um okay i have a couple questions did they one y'all remember the exotic animal bust up neon a few years back the exotic animal bust yeah there was a man with like 20 some exotic animals in his house up neon refresh me and y'all don't remember this i don't remember this well hell i ain't an expert i just remember it happening and and i immediately was like is it eric anyway it wasn't but yes i'm got neon i maybe even this story might be darker than i'm remembering immediately i'm gonna look it up but it actually could have been that he let them all loose that's what happened he let them all loose because he was dying or something it's fucking crazy i don't remember this i thought this was i don't

think that happened in neon that happened in zanesville ohio no no okay then it's a different one but i swear to you this happened in neon there was a man with a ton of exotic animals and maybe he didn't cut them loose maybe Maybe they just, okay, maybe I'm merging those stories. But he got busted. It was all over the papers. Okay. So I can't just have him without a permit and all that kind of stuff. Big cats, monkeys.

Yeah, he had a kangaroo. What? Yeah. A bunch of crazy shit. We'll get Eric on here to give us the true hollywood story but the other question i have is did they say i might have missed it what they the remains they found let me yeah like what dna i didn't get to it is it like is it like a wad of cum or something crazy i didn't get to it here um using an advanced algorithm the team determined the location of a 75 000 acre

area in southeast kentucky held the greatest mathematical odds of encountering a bigfoot during the specific 21 day window they were filming starting there they were able to find they were able to find what they believe are migratory patterns of the famed cryptid as well as a possible structure made from trees similar to what others claim are made by bigfoot creatures according to sasquatch investigations of the rockies tree structures are thought to be an indication of bigfoot creatures marking off their territory from other bigfoot creatures so the team then collected soil samples from under the structure and sent them to the UCLA California Environmental DNA Program for analysis.

Environmental DNA is genetic material naturally left behind by animals in the environment. So yeah, maybe cum, maybe scat, saliva, blood. A little eyelash. Yeah. Man. Toenail. They're going to be so disappointed when they find out this is just Joseph Newell homesteading up on a, you know, strip site somewhere.

He's just growing his beard out. Shit. So, according to Miroslava Mungiaramos, the eDNA program project manager. Analysis of the sample indicates another primate other than humans was in the area. What we're looking at are the unique organisms that we are able to identify. Our software does what's known as

metabar coding, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What I found very interesting was that, yes, we have detected human DNA in these areas, but we're still seeing different primate DNA. There wasn't just one human primate there are several different primates some sort of primitive relative that exists in the area um ramos said so the howler monkey story in fleming county might be a real thing dude it might be a real thing this is what she said the dna seemed to come from a species of chimpanzee that would not normally be seen in the rural hillsides of kentucky here's the thing though about some of

that shit like with like i get maybe like lizards and birds and amphibians and reptiles and stuff that like are super rare that you might not see i I feel like our closest cousins on the evolutionary chain, we would, like, recognize they were kind of hanging out somewhere. Yeah. Like, I think as remote as... Especially as much as people walk the hills for ginseng and mushrooms and shit up here, you know? Well, every one of these fucking liars got a story about seeing some sort of goddamn thing. You know what I mean?

Yeah. one of these fucking liars got a story about seeing some sort of goddamn thing you know what i mean yeah yeah they got they've got um feeders and cameras all up over at my hillside i would give anything for some deer cam footage to leak of me up here naked acting crazy in the woods behind my house anything well that's maybe the basis of the show, then. You might be a Sasquatch in question. He's got a big pink dick. You love to say it. Yeah, she said here, it's a real head-scratcher. It's important to note that the higher the detection, the more confidence we can say that whatever organism,

in this case, we're looking at the pan genus or the chimpanzee genus. There's 3,000 reads. For Mayer or Mayor, who is the primatologist, the discovery is significant because it's based on science, not on lore or legend.

I don't know. I don't know. Compelling, plausible, yet I'm not persuaded. My money's still on Tanya's, what they're going on here. It was me. But it was definitely cum that was left behind. It's true. I have been at your house and found a lot of eDNA just around the property.

Okay. house and found a lot of e-DNA just around the property. Okay. It would be hilarious if they got up there and started filming and then ran into Edgar Sumter, that guy that stabbed his dad in the head and just ran into all these... You know, there's people, like degenerates,

that live on the grid out here with these wild horses and shit. They're going to run into one of these mountain men sooner or later. Yeah. G.O. There's something very alluring, I guess. It's kind of the idea behind, like, the blue fugates. It's just the idea that, and the idea that there's, like, a hidden, you know, civilizational complex out here.

It's just, like, there's some parts of eastern Kentucky, I think, and Appalachia that are so goddamn remote. It's just, like like you want to believe that there's something out there that is untouched by humans yeah yeah so where do you fall on the blue fugates i mean it's not i mean they're libertarians right they drink out colloidal silver i don't know i have no idea that just speaks to the purity of the water they're drinking you know what i mean that they're just alkaline i had to go over to norton yesterday to take leon to the groomer and um as i was driving, you know, speaking of things about Appalachia that are alluring to people, as I was driving, you ever just pass something that you see that you're like, that would be a perfect photo op for the New York Times?

Yeah. All the time. I like passed like a burned out you know housing structure or something and in front of it was just a written sign with someone had scrawled with very you know shakily you know written handwriting just said impeach Biden

and I was like that would be nice one be funny if like that was just uh some fbi or cia agents beat was just to be down here going native living among us and scribbling anti-governance just see if they could lure into it oh god it's because they're bored yeah um speaking of crypt that's how terence got here and he defected. Yeah, that's true. I went native like General Kurtz, Colonel Kurtz. There's a big story in Reuters.

Um, about a huge news week. I remember two days ago I was like overwhelmed with how much was going on. Yeah, there's this story. I was just speaking of cryptids in eastern Kentucky of Jonathan Webb, founder and CEO of App Harvest, describing, explaining their 60-acre eco farm in Moorhead, Kentucky. We plan on, when all is said and done, growing just about all fruit and vegetables in a controlled environment here at App Harvest. Love it.

Tom, next time you go in your Kroger, you need to look for App Harvest tomatoes. I heard they're there. Yeah, people have said that. Several people have sent me pictures of tomatoes with App Harvest stickers on it. Just to razz me. pictures of tomatoes with app harvest stickers on it just to razz me like every day my inbox is just inundated with dolly stuff app harvest stuff people just love to break your balls god damn well well this is like when i was in high school i got really into dolphins maybe middle school and then for like five years all i ever got was like dolphin shit you can't you

can't escape it. You're just going to be the dolly man for the next few years. Buckle up. Were you big into not eating tuna because it contained dolphin, that kind of stuff? I've never liked tuna. I don't like tuna. I didn't know it contained dolphin. I mean, that was like the big controversy, right?

I don't know. Tuna, I don't like tuna. Wow. You know, I have had nice sushi that had tuna in it, I think. But, like, tuna salad is only. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. You don't like canned tuna, but you will eat, like, tuna fish, like a steak or like a sushi or something. Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

I didn't realize it. It's kind of like sweet potatoes. I didn't realize a sweet potato could be served without brown sugar and marshmallows. And I didn't know that tuna came without mayonnaise and all that shit in it until I was an adult. Because I'd never encountered it. But I will indulge in a sweet potato as an adult and a nice seared tuna. Every single one of the comments of this is just roasting them. That's really funny to

me roasting at harvest we have at least a little something to do with that you know well i gotta tell y'all i didn't think they i assumed that thing went under because i hadn't heard about it since we were making fun of it and then i had a phone call yesterday with a friend and she's like oh yeah they have they have a huge farm they've already got their tomatoes in kroger they say they employ 500 people in moorhead and they're opening a new place in berea and i was like what oh and she sent me a link probably the one you you're looking at yeah apparently this was promoted by exxon mobil oh my god also jonathan jonathan Webb. Let me just say something about Jonathan Webb. Explain to me how a guy goes from making beats for Rommel Smooth Bradley 10 years ago to working for the State Department to having this, like, billion-dollar startup, which is just, like, a front for, like, when like when Kentucky like legalizes cannabis.

Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Like there's just nothing about this man's resume that's like coherent. You know what I mean? So he's just biding his time until he can grow weed in there. He was like a dipshit like me that was just like futilely making beats on Fruity Loops and probably sat in the back of his head. Yeah, man. Well, in those days, it probably been like the game or 50 cents or joelle santana's gonna buy one of these any day off of beatport and then it's gonna be on and then he went oh you

meant beats i thought you meant b-e-e-t no beats like no the guy made music beats like is that right like is that it part of the store he like worked at like or the girl yeah maybe it's like the department of defense or something like that like how like what like what's how do you make that trajectory yeah that's just like me i'm sitting in one day i'm sitting here on fruity loops making some like tight ass snares and like the next day i just get the call up from the fbi you know and then the day after that you get a call up from jd vance and peter teal wanting to give you a billion dollars to start up a shit tomato hydroponic tomatoes across the the appalachian region it is another like he i mean it's literally called app harvest and he sucked in all this support to do this thing

and pour oh god damn it ruby she's tied up hold on oh my god get out of here you psycho ruby god damn it she got tangled up in all my wires oh my god i think what tanya was going to say was that he got he raised all this money to he raised money off of the idea that eastern kentucky needed a just economic transition that it was so poor it needed something some a hand and it went to morehead with a major no no no no no you're getting ahead of yourself they had that agreement with the city of pikeville and pike yeah i know i know and then when they said oh well that's going to be too hard to do, they went to Moorhead because Moorhead's like right off the interstate. You could reasonably say it's Appalachia, you know what I mean? Even though we got to draw that distinction about like Berea and Moorhead and stuff.

Like, yes, it's Appalachia, but it's not like Coalfield, Appalachia. Well, and Appalachia is a political boundary. It's not a geographical whatever. If Chickasaw County, Mississippi, which is flatter than a goddamn pancake, is Appalachia, then... And Campbellsville, Kentucky. Then by God, we all are. You know what I mean?

Yeah, the whole fucking country. Yeah, Moorhead has a major university and is on the interstate. It's just... I wouldn't say major university. Well, that's your alma mater, Tom. I was trying to give you a bump. Let me just tell you, this institution produced me, Rob Wiseman, Chuck Woolery, and Billy Ray Cyrus. Yeah, I guess in a way it did produce pretty good.

I think Steve Inskeep, right? Steve Inskeep from NPR. Phil Sims, Super Bowl winning quarterback Phil Sims. And also Kenneth Fareed, formerly of the Denver Nuggets. So you've got a pretty illustrious alumni there. So women don't go to Moorhead, I guess. No successful ones. No women of notes.

I'm joking. I'm of no i'm joking i'm joking there's tons of no women that went there including my friend dustin withrow who was former winner of the mountain laurel festival that's in bell county so multiple people are just like one tornado and this thing's gone. The app harvest? Yes. And since they are in the flattest part of Appalachia, a tornado is a definite possibility. Are the owners racist? I don't know why.

But I support the question. I think you have to ask. Listen, hey, Jonathan Webb, the people want to know, are you a racist? Come out with it. And then he's going to say, no, I can't be a racist. My best friend is Rommel Smooth Bradley. It really is a bananas question. I love when people say I'm not racist. Hold on.

I ain't got a racist bone in my body But But I'll tell you this God y'all this is too dark but yesterday On the phone with my mom she got off on one About China and I just Lost it What'd she say?

I'm not gonna repeat it You're not gonna platform your mom? You're gonna de-platform You're de-platformingform you're de-platforming sheila i'm de-platforming sheila de-platforming your own mother she said but she's canceled sheila's canceled no she said worse than this in the past honestly but it just you know i i i just it's very disappointing to me because i've spent so many hours talking through things calmly with my mother around. I mean, we have been having conversations about the border of the southern border of this country for 15 years now.

And it's taken that long to like bring her around. Oh, it's probably probably wasn't me. It probably is finally, literally the headline kids in cages. it's like the last straw for everybody the last frontier but i mean where are they hearing this stuff is this literally what people say on the news just i mean i know we've been saying china virus and that's bad enough but she was saying all this crazy shit i just what she she said, I'm absolutely positive that China started that virus for population control. Yeah, it's because you had Trump's former CDC guy out there saying that he is absolutely convinced that it was made in a lab near Beijing or something like that. So I was like, Mom, you're obviously repeating shit like this.

You work in a grocery store. How can you be absolutely positive of anything happening in china come on sis like we are literally living in east tennessee and east kentucky what makes you so sure about this and she was just like i read i uh i i think i unironically think it was created in a lab, but not in China, in the United States. Yeah, that's what I thought. I said, Mom, China discovered this virus. There's every indication to think it started here. Instead, she was like, uh-uh, absolutely not. In fact, there's much to refute the notion that it was discovered in China,

or that it was invented in China, or originated in China. Or that it was invented in China. Right, exactly. Or originated in China. And there's a lot of evidence and precedence that the United States does biological and chemical test experimentation on people. And so... Documented. But she did the age-old, I'm done talking about this by saying, okay. So she's like, okay.

I was like, mom. She repeated crazy things I heard about Chinese people as a kid. Like, just insane shit. And I was like, mom, that's not true. Literally nothing you just said is true and it sounds crazy. You don't hear yourself? And she was like, okay. crazy you don't hear yourself and she was like okay i mean like i i've stopped engaging with my family members on all things i know it's there's no i've tried uh it's always some

shit with her but i just love her so much and i really want us to be able to spend time together. Well, I saw this really conservative guy now, so it's kind of rough. He's an anti-vaxxer. I saw this meme yesterday with Keanu Reeves and he was it wasn't a meme, I guess. It was just a quotation from an interview he was doing. He was like, he's like, I go out of my way to stay out of arguments these days. He's like, you could tell me one plus one equals five. And I would say, sounds good. And that's really.

Oh, yeah. I don't. I don't mean I'm not fucking. Yeah, exactly. I'm not out here arguing with people. And when people act awful, like say awful things, I'm just like, wow. Just kill them with kindness. I don't have it in me.

I mean, my sister raised her voice with me on vacation last a few weeks ago and i said i'm in too vulnerable a state to be yelled at it's just not gonna happen because you know how you are with your family you're just not tactful with your sisters and i get it i was like but i'm not in a place to be talked to this way i am very fragile i'm not able to argue i'm not able to deal with any of this tanya i have to ask are you an agent of beijing i don't know seems like the deplatforming your own mother it's interesting in service to president xi jinping that's interesting. Yep. You and Jonathan Webb. Oh, God.

Well, speaking of China and the United States' role in the virus and response to it, just yesterday, President Biden unveiled a $2 trillion infrastructure plan and major corporate tax raise. He unveiled his plan

to plow $2 trillion in government spending into U.S. infrastructure alongside $2 trillion in higher corporate taxes as the first stage of a multi-trillion dollar effort to reshape the world's largest economy. He said, he said it is, I lost the part where he was talking about China. I mean, it was, okay. He said it's aimed specifically at improving competitiveness with China.

This is, you know, I mean, I don't know. This is interesting. Like, there's been a lot of discussion in the past. I know we've talked about it in the show over the past couple weeks over Biden's seemingly willingness to doing willingness to, um, do large transformative, uh, policies, you know, um, like the last stimulus bill, uh, like the child tax allowance or whatever. I mean, what, what do we make of this? Is this a, uh, is this another sort of empty promise from uncle joe uh does it indicate um a success

of the left's left's ability to pull him towards some more sort of progressive direction uh what do you guys think about this i think if you examine the personality of Joe Biden, do you think it's possible there's part of him that just kind of gets off on, like, besting Obama in terms of, like, legacy? Not his boy Barack. I mean, he likes that friendship for, like, you know, very specific. Do you know what I mean? Like, I think he's like, oh, well, I've been in office three months, and I'm already doing this, this, this, and this. Do you know what I mean? Like, I think he's like, oh, well, I've been in the office three months, and I'm already doing this, this, this, and this.

And you know what I mean? It was this week he had his press conference, wasn't it? It was last week. Was that last week? I was trying to watch something on the news, and it was just his dumb ass. I saw Mitch McConnell be quoted about it that i mean all we know what they're they're just constantly saying like he's spending us out of house and home yeah corporate tax hikes are just gonna crush our economy biden said it would help america's

standing in the world it will promote our national security interests and put us in a position to win the global competition with China. The plan sets aside up to $621 billion in funding for traditional infrastructure upgrades, including roads, bridges, public transport networks, electric vehicles, and vital hubs such as ports and airports. It will also try to direct the spending towards projects to help the U.S. mitigate the climate crisis. These proposals include $100 billion in measures

to modernize the electricity grid, tax credits for clean energy generation and storage, and to plug orphan gas and oil wells. I saw there's like $300 billion for drinking water. Interesting. That's an interesting development is this like a new deal situation that's what it sounds like what was the price tag on the new deal but they confiscated all the gold and the confiscatory tax rate was in the 90

you got a way to go on that he's just like i'm just gonna like find two trillions laying in a amazon's couch cushion somewhere i guess that's how they are planning to fund it with um couch cushions corporate yeah cash cushions that's the new currency now it's uh currency's backed but backed by couch cushions not by gold it'sions that green stuff used to roll up at a joint try to see if your friends would smoke it they uh yeah they instead of going around confiscating all the gold they go around and say all right you're me at couch and they just flip it open they take all the nickels and dimes and pennies they find they just go around this okay

that's their hall and that's how we're improving roads this year. CNN's video of people just crying as their couch gets shook out. Yeah. I was saving that for Wing Wednesday at the Buffalo Wild Wings, and then the heavy hand of Joe Biden swept in and took it from me. This is fascism. Yeah. The package is expected to be paired with tax increases on wealthy individuals, including income, capital gains, and estate taxes. As he prepares to begin the negotiations with Congress, Biden is facing competing pressures within his party.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Democratic lawmaker, has said that $2 trillion infrastructure plan is not nearly enough and has argued for a higher figure. It's very interesting. She's absolutely right. But it is interesting. Like we pointed out in the show a few weeks ago that the liberals seem to be in this state of sort of like protracted counterinsurgency against its left. Yeah. And they are signaling a willingness to enact some of these large governmental initiatives to, you know, both stimulate the economy, help out, as they say, poor and working people.

But it's, the weird thing about it it like you can you can spin it in the media as this two trillion dollar thing but aoc is correct it's like two trillion dollars isn't even near near enough like what we would actually need well consider this consider this the total of the 2008 bank bailout was 700 billion so basically like half of this like 18 guys got you know what i mean jesus fuck right so like you double that double that and that's fine for the 350 million people right right i mean obviously i would i could bitch all day about infrastructure like bridges crumbling and how badly we keep up our uh our like social services which would be roads and shit but uh i mean this even him talking about competition with china like this sounds like a bill to

literally save and prop up capitalism yeah definitely it's not a win for the left i wouldn't say i mean if aoc is even like this is bananas this is bullshit not administration says it's going to revamp 20 000 miles of roads and repair 10 000 bridges what did y'all see the not to pivot too hard but you see like uh like the train route plan that like oh yeah just putting out there that amtrak is adopting or whatever yeah i didn't see it i saw people talking about it and i meant to search for it before we recorded but i didn't see it what what exactly was it well it's just it's just like leaves out huge swaths of the country and the connectivity.

Even in Kentucky, they stop in Louisville, and then it just goes all the way around. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah, I saw. There's no connection between Louisville, Nashville, Asheville, this whole... It's just huge gaps in the thing. And it's funny, because you got the libs in the comments they're like well have you not considered that amtrak loses so much money every year on this and it's like well maybe it's because we shouldn't have privatized goddamn rail you're about that

it's like right jesus fuck i can't believe the poor people who are very likely not making much money crying about corporations losing money liberals hate when corporations lose money like they there there's nothing they applaud more in the world than like a good boss that like built something and like to hell with all these people with their hands out that like you know know, want a little piece of it. This is an interesting thing, because when the president made the announcement, the media and I think the administration itself is framing this as the biggest public investment program since the creation of the interstate highway system in the space race of the 1960s. And I think they're probably correct in that um but it's interesting because i don't know if you guys remember this over the course of the entire really the last four years since bernie really became a sort of viable political force

i mean i don't know how many times i've seen people say like do you like your interstate highway system do you like your uh water system all this other yes you like national parks that's socialism you know you can thank socialism for that and it's like this kind of just proves that actually no that's not what socialism is socialism isn't big public spending no yeah that's the that's we've been sort of led to believe that it's like if you just like uh yeah if you have libraries and hospitals, like, thank a communist, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we talked about this, I think, probably a little more than a year ago.

I remember as the primary was starting to really heat up, and you had the two sort of competing visions of Warren and Bernie. And I remember there being a lot of discussion around like what those two visions were. It seems like Warren's was more technocratic. You just spend a lot of public funds. And in the process, hope, you know,

that it puts you further on the path towards some sort of uh socialistic society but it was wasn't it galen brett the last galen brett we read was did you expect biden to be such a socialist you think you might have mentioned that i think that was the title of it i think i think you're right it's so funny how they've so demonized communism and the left that, like, a measure to save socialism that, like, invariably costs the upper classes has been so tarred as, like, an example of socialism or communism. Right. And that serves just to, like like keep it from happening again so like i'm i'm curious what people think about this like this infrastructure plan i wonder what like the response would be to it from like the bezos's of the world so forth they probably i don't know i

mean i guess yeah i mean two trillion is a pittance to them of course you know i mean like in aggregate i i just i find it inconceivable that they would actually be coerced to pay taxes i don't know why it's kind of like when we were talking about on the episode last week like the my sort of distrusting the vaccine process because it's like well the government's never helped us in the past why would they now and it's kind of the same thing but in reverse with this tax thing. It's like the government has never in my lifetime shown any willingness to actually tax the wealthy. Like, are they really going to do it this time?

I just can't see it happening. Well, I mean, the thing about this, like, shit is, it's like when you look at it, like, $22 trillion seems like, oh my God, it's a T. That seems like this exorbitant amount, right? But when you consider that, again, the bailout was $700 million in 2008, that we have a $900 billion military and all this kind of stuff, it's like, actually, it's kind of like falls well short of like what we spend on other shit to like sort of just i i don't know like what biden's sort of end game in terms of

like his public image because that that also has to be considered here you know what i mean it's it's just like with the immigration plan that's like probably going to like not go anywhere but like there's so much in that that liberals are scrambling like the immigration plan that's like probably going to like not go anywhere but like there's so much in that that liberals are scrambling like the immigration plan for example that liberals are scrambling and saying like oh well we got to get joe manchin to vote for this and we got to get like policies procedures and blah blah blah right channels when like no actually biden could just like take the pen and do so much of right do you you know what I'm saying? And I'm sure there's probably stuff here that Biden could just like today, if he wanted to, you know, could really just like level up on.

But I don't know. Two trillion just seems like a pittance. And it just seems like. Well, yeah, when you put it in perspective with the bailout in 2008. Yeah. You said million this time, but it was billion 700 billion right yeah i'm sorry yeah 700 billion yeah and 900 billion a year on military uh right is that something like that almost a trillion dollar military yeah my question has the military ever took a cut ever no i don't

think so they lost i think they lost they that as you talk about couch cushions the pentagon lost one year lost like 123 billion dollars in their couch cushions they just couldn't account for it couldn't account for it yeah so like you know what i mean like well that's when you think of shit like that it like the thing that enrages me about shit like this is, like, you have this stuff, and then, like, you have, like, conservatives and not even a few liberals, like, fucking foaming at the mouth about, like, welfare fraud and, like, food stamp fraud, which is, like, literally, like, a percent of a percent of a percent. You know what I mean? Uh-huh. Like, I think our food stamp fraud in this country is something around 50 million dollars a year nothing like in the grand scheme

of things not a goddamn thing and who is running welfare fraud not fucking rich people i mean people who literally need it who gives a fuck but also yeah that's you said it like the other parts of that is like you're fucking you're foaming at the mouth about people trying to eat yeah they literally remember when a few years ago hazard like perry county created a task force of local undercover cops to try to buy pop from people and bullshit to catch them up in it i will never forget that i literally was sick for days over that just like it's just well it brings up an interesting point it's like this is what the government is supposed to do i mean the government is supposed to provide these infrastructural

updates and services like yeah and now we're debating over it they're supposed to keep us safe and healthy we are neither we're the opposite of those right so they're doing the bare minimum but it's being framed as this transformative thing they're just doing what they're supposed to be doing right right and now they're and they're talking about like biden's this great leader of men and women and this still has to get through congress i mean who the fuck knows what it's going to look like as it emerges from the other side of that oh yeah and honestly i wouldn't put it past biden to put forth all this big ass bullshit no and it's not going to go nowhere so that he can be like i tried i spent four years trying you know like whatever but before we get too far from this

military thing in the press conference he did last week, I saw somebody asked him about him saying on the campaign trail, on day one, I'm going to end these endless wars. He's still not brought one person home. And he was asked directly about it, like when troops are coming back. And he was like, well, it's more complicated than you might imagine, blah, blah, blah. He's got on the horn with these bloodthirsty generals stationed over there, and they're like, no, no, no, we can't come home, Joe, because they hate their wives or some shit, and they don't want to come home.

Like, these people are fucking sick, you know? And they're over there. They're fucking cowboys over there pissing in people's water supply. And that's a fucking mall class. I just imagine there's, like, generals over there popping champagne, and then the first few seconds of the OJ's for the love of money comes on and they're all just like dancing and waving

singles at strippers over fucking Kabul. I'd say it's a lot less sexy than that, but... Dwight Eisenhower famously, when he called out the military industrial complex, talked about the generals hating their wives and how it would further our overseas wars. Oh, my God.

Really? No. So, you know, like, Trump had negotiated with the Taliban to, like, withdraw from Afghanistan by May 1st, right? So, like, that deadline's, like, coming up. But here was Joe Biden's response when he when asked in the news conference that same news conference i guess last week he said it's going to be hard to meet the may 1st deadline but when asked if our troops would still be there next year he said i can't picture that

being the case that is a classic fucking dodge we're gonna be there forever yeah forever my roommate in college was in afghanistan for years and all he did was fucking kick cans around and like graffiti and piss and shit and empty palaces and literally when they turned they when he left they turned over their base the u. base, to local forces or whatever. All these fucking cowboy bastards shit in all the little offices and trailers and stuff. They had set up shit all in it before they turned it over to local forces. And now that friend of yours that was in Afghanistan is the subject of the Chuck Lorre comedy about a U.S. soldier that brought an Afghani home with him. Dude, that was mind-blowing a buddy comedy about a u.s soldier in an afghani yep wow wow um well before we move

on to the next thing i just want to point out you have this question of before us of like what actually is socialism and what actually gets us to to what actually gets us there is it this is is is it the government spending lots of money on public uh projects that it should have been funding this whole time and i guess my response is the same as it was about a year ago when we were having this discussion between like the difference between Warren and Bernie. And my response is the way you get there is through coordination

and organizing with other workers, obviously. And if you want a good example of what could be pushed for and achieved to do that, something like the PRO Act would be a good example of what could be pushed for and achieved to do that, like something like the PRO Act would be a good example, in my opinion. Contrast that with this big spending plan,

which we don't even know what it's going to look like when it comes out the other side of Congress. This is just the government doing what it's supposed to have been doing the whole time. And so I just can't really call it this transformative policy. I can't call it this transformative thing on American life because it just highlights how just stripped out of everything the commons has become by this point.

You know what I mean? everything the the commons has become by this point you know what i mean just it's been stripped down and hollowed down to its most bare you know parts and sold for profit and and like them just doing this is as you said it's the bare minimum like i said so i don't know i can't really call it transfer tom says that we're the most cooked society ever where we literally do expect fucking nothing because that's what we've always gotten and then when they do the smallest little thing we're like oh we're so impressed well when you're we're living in we're living in a society when we're living in a society where joe biden's going to absolutely be remembered as this great statesman, a guy that would sell his best friend down the river for a Capital One windbreaker.

I mean, it just gives the whole game away, you know. It really does. It's like, to me, to his sort of like floating on the periphery of like sort of like making concessions to the left. Like he won't call out Amazon by night. Like, for example, the Bessemer, like the Amazon Union Drive down there. It's like he supports the workers in Alabama, but he won't say anything about Amazon. You know what I mean? He won't like really attack the entity or anything like that.

That's just kind of what he does he's joe biden is uh you know despite his reputation as a pussy hound he's an edger edger in chief that's right uh speaking of besse, anybody got any leaked vote results? Not I. I don't think it's been decided yet. I saw that Amazon lost the effort. They wanted to install the cameras to watch the ballot counting, the counting of the ballots, and they lost that. A judge overruled it.

Wow. I don't think the... Can I ask a question? this is just for unionization of that one plant right yeah one location all right yeah yeah so we'll see i guess um well so the fun has been fun it's been a fun amazon fake twitter week oh yeah it is fucking pathetic to see amazon's like doing all this like ham-fisted fucking like oh bernie sanders oh we pay our workers a 15 minimum wage once you get your federal government in line there yeah yeah say that to the guy that desperately tried to do just that and got rat fucked. Yeah. No, I mean, it's pathetic.

I mean, they've been so whiny. And honestly, I was thinking about this the other day. Did y'all remember this headline from a few weeks ago where Jeff Bezos announced that he is going to be stepping down from i mean i don't think he's currently ceo is he still ceo of amazon he said he was going to be stepping down i don't think he is i think he did step down already um i think i saw there see There's C, some director, some higher up, is, I saw on Twitter, getting into this. Jay Carney. Yes. He was like an Obama. Yeah.

Bureaucrat. Yeah. Yeah. I think, my thought on this is, I think that Bezos is stepping down because I think that Amazon has gotten to a point where his wealth has become so renowned. It's become so notorious that it's become a hazard to them at this point. It's become detrimental to them at this point. A liability.

And so, and if you're out there telling workers, like, you know, you work for the richest part, a man who made like $300 million in a week at the beginning of the pandemic. I mean, that's a very useful organizing tool. Who was poised to become the world's first trillionaire fairly soon, like in a handful of years. I think that that's why he's stepping down. It's a liability for them at this point. Yeah. That's insane.

What happened? Think about that. Their owner got so rich it became a liability for them what happened was the amazon board of directors listened to biggie's ten crack commandments commandment number three was don't never let them know how much paper you holding because that breeds jealousy they won't take it so that what they're doing is just trying to eliminate the workers preying on bezos's downfall and hopefully that's enough to kind of stave them off that really is true because we you know we spent more time shitting on jeff bezos than amazon

itself and they needed to cut his name out yep you know like no i don't mean us personally but no yeah i know we didn't but like in general people were coming for him he was like the face of the rich and fucked yeah that's so true that was a it was an absolute pr move wow um i bet his i bet his like exit severance package or whatever is still some ungodly percent of Amazon's profits for years. He'll retain shares in the corporation, obviously. He's just not going to be the CEO. Yeah, for sure. He'll own 51% or something, but just won't be involved in the day-to-day or something like that. He'll be too busy over in Kabul popping champagne and pouring it on a bunch of dime-piece strippers.

Right. So I had one more thing I wanted to cover today. It shouldn't take that long. It's a nice little deeply diseased. covered today. It shouldn't take that long. It's a nice little deeply diseased. This is coming from my previous home of Austin, Texas. This is in Texas Monthly. They just moved into an Austin neighborhood. Now they want to end one of its traditions. The fleet of several dozen cars pulled into East Austin's Fiesta Gardens, or Chicano Park as locals call it, on a recent weekend with the booming of powerful stereo systems announcing their arrival.

After a few loops around the park, some drivers, most of them black and Latino men in their 20s and 30s, driving customized lowriders, bright candy-colored slabs slabs and jacked up trucks with flashy chrome rims packed into a nearby they just want to ride swingers on 24s man and they're fucking they're trying to fuck it up for them there's not not hurting anybody it's awesome um i mean like truly some dudes rock shit, you know? Some unloaded barbecue grills, toddlers, and pitbulls, then cracked open beers and blasted Texas hip-hop and Tejano music. Others joined a slow-moving... They wrote this lit... This is like my ideal party.

Yeah, exactly. Others joined a slow-moving carousel that floated from the parking lot into the street and back again, swerving from side to side and occasionally screeching their tires, unleashing plumes of white smoke that covered the block in a light haze. Some variation of this assembly has taken place nearly every Sunday afternoon since the early 90s. But now, many residents of The Weaver, a newly built luxury apartment building across the street whose website promises renters access to a, quote,

community that is rich in history and tradition, have decided it's time for the weekly event to come to an unceremonious end. Some of the building's residents defend the car club gatherings and note they predate the Weaver residents' arrival, but many others have grown tired of the loud music, annoyed by the traffic, and turned off by the smell of skidding tires. One particularly vocal tenant, a non-Hispanic white woman with short blonde hair who appeared to be in her 50s and refused to give her name, claimed that smoke from the tires was killing nearby trees and that traffic from the gathering would make it impossible for an ambulance to reach her in the event of medical emergency. This is a Portlandia skit. This is not real. There's like an Eastern Kentucky analog when people get pissed off that people are riding four-wheelers around Fish Pond Lake.

Yeah, yeah. It's just stomping out any expression of human joy is just what these people live for. That's exactly right. Check this one out, though the this is the best part another weaver resident votes god damn it i can't even talk because i'm fucking losing it another weaver resident voiced more generalized criticism calling the events a quote display of toxic masculinity oh my god i'll tell you what whoever wrote this was beaming onto this scene just desperate for a pit bull to come out of that car one pit bull so they could say pit bulls i can't get past it i think the person that wrote it is sympathetic to the cause of the dude's rock movement here um but the the

weaver definitely what is just praying that a pit bull like mauls a six-year-old um like shit i'm going to make it my duty if i ever visit austin texas in the near future i'm going to like i'm going to pull up blair and paul wall sitting sideways and i'm gonna have i'm gonna have six pitbulls and a goddamn cadillac el dorado and i'm just gonna like hang out there all day goddamn day they come up and ask you to leave because you're getting on their nerves tom jesus christ no paul wall around here um we should shut this thing down a third resident who blamed the lack of police response to the quote idiotic city council's decisions

slash the austin police department budget wrote in march on a building forum oh my god indeed at a recent gathering a non-hispanic white tenant had flagged two police vehicles and pleaded with officers to disband the celebration, calling it, quote, scary. The officers... Even though the event sometimes violates noise and traffic ordinances, it doesn't pose major threats to anyone in the Weaver, nor does it break other city rules. major threats to anyone in the weaver nor does it break other city rules um yeah i mean uh this is just this is in the cesar chavez um neighborhood of east austin um when i lived there it was already starting to be pretty badly gentrified um but it appears that in the almost 10 years since i've been gone it has just been uh just descended upon by all of these just like tech company fucks from like apple you know oracle samsung you know who are just building these massive high-rise you know luxury apartments

and uh yeah you're right tom they're just trying to stamp out any expression of human joy uh left i mean it's just not enough for them to like drive people out economically they have to do it culturally as well it's just like you know you you they can't have any i mean i mean here's an example um In 2015, Jumplene, a beloved piñata store that had become a colorful symbol of the neighborhood's Latino heritage, was bulldozed without warning. In its place, a cafe catering to cat owners was erected. Cat owners. A cat cafe.

I mean, dude. No. Yeah. Oh, my. That's maybe the most dark gentrification story I have ever heard. When you say they bulldozed it without warning, are we talking like Israeli, Palestinian, like settlement? Or are we just talking about it set vacant for like a while and they just bulldozed it? I just clicked on the... i mean either way it's bad

i'm not just i'm not a cat cafe i have never even heard of that dude i don't know it says for the past eight years jumpoline owners monica and sergio lazarazu have been lejarazu have been selling pinatas and other party supplies from their shop on Cesar Chavez. Tuesday morning, Sergio Le Harazzo drove by and saw the crews tearing down the business with everything still inside. Quote, I don't know what happened because we don't receive any information about the demolition. So yeah, it was literally torn down. With all their shit in it. Yeah.

Jesus fuck. Oh my God, listen. Oh my God. Dude god there's a photo there's a photo of them oh my god and you can see them tearing the building apart with all the piñatas spilling out of it jesus christ no you're right tom this is like West Bank shit, man. Jesus fuck. But yeah, it's not enough. It's not enough that they just do that. They also have to just make sure that nobody has any, you know, even remote sense of community and joy and fun. It's not enough that, like, every city in the fucking country has been reduced to a fucking old Chicago pizza company, noodles and company, Ulta, Target, Old Navy.

Just, you know, just like a never-ending just landscape of, you know, just big box store, like, development shit. And, like, every city in America is just bland and colorless and just has no flavor. But, like, now they have to, like, ratchet it up a notch and, like, destroy people's livelihood and whatever semblance of, like, community that was had left in the name of erecting, like, these ugly-ass fucking buildings. And, man, that's goddamn depressing. I would almost, if I thought i wouldn't go to jail

i would almost say on the show somebody should go free the cats and then demolish that place in turn free the cats first free the cats yeah make sure make sure the cats are safe they're they're this is slave labor on for the cats okay i support the cat community too so do cats run the cafe do you bring your cats there how does the cat what is fucking cat cafe i saw a cat cafe in columbus ohio one time and it's just exactly what it sounds like it's just a cafe with cats in it and they keep them in there basically you know all night and they have a bunch of like play areas and and. I don't know if you can bring, you probably can't bring your own cat. Maybe, I don't know.

I've never actually been to one. I've just seen them. Jesus Christ. Imagine going in there and just like you walk out with like 20 different strains of toxoplasmosis. Oh my God. Tom would go there. I've got a twitch I've had for 10 years back from visiting a series of cat cafes in the early 2020s

jesus christ man that is so fuck it that is so fuck it yeah what's the build back better solution to that what's the fucking biden transformative vision solution to that there is none i mean they're they're trying to facilitate that well this i've spiraled now over this but i wanted to two steps back here they mentioned austin's slashing their police budget which was a big win like that right he said the city council the city council idiots they that was was pushed by hundreds of organizers last summer. And that was one of the few victories of the summer. Right. A handful of cities who actually got their police budget cut.

When's the last time you went back to Austin, Taryn? April 2019. yeah when's the last time you went back to austin taryn um april 2019 like what's like what's the vibe versus when you were in school there versus now dude it's i mean it's astonishing honestly parts of it are unrecognizable it feels like being in an alien i mean it was already changing it was probably already well underway by the time you were there. Yeah, yeah. But even when I was there, it hadn't yet become, like, the destination of, like, tech, you know, people moving from California to start their sort of, to open up, you know, corporate offices there, to start their own startups. It hadn't yet become that,

but it was definitely on the way to becoming that. Yeah. Um, I, I just can't get over the, uh, calling the event a display of toxic masculinity. That blows my fucking mind.

It's like, this is why I like, as long as we got like, you know, uh, you know, a lesbian as the head of the department of defense we can continue to fuck it and just run roughshod over every fucking country in the world that same fucking mentality it's so fucking disgusting no offense tanya Fuck you. No offense. No offense to lesbians everywhere. It is astonishing, though.

I mean, it's like it has been fully weaponized to just excuse all of the worst, you know, all of the worst things. I mean, they're going to be saying that about the West Bank if they aren't already. Like, yeah, we got to get those Palestinians out of there. It's toxic masculinity. It's toxic masculinity. It's the toxic masculinity of the Islamic faith that's poisoning the West Bank. The kids with slingshots. Yeah, exactly.

Six-year-olds with rocks, throwing rocks at tanks is toxic masculinity. If you resist any kind of boot to the neck, you are engaging in toxic masculinity. If you resist any kind of boot to the neck, you are engaging in toxic masculinity. Words that will echo through eternity. Nancy Pelosi, quote, it's all about identity on our side now, end quote. She said that? Yeah, she let the mask slip during one of her not so great mornings.

And then it's like now you have this full-scale sort of weaponization of the most hollow interpretation of identity politics imaginable. And it's, yeah. It's all representation over redistribution. Well, listen, you wanted to not think about your politics for the last four years. Well, here you got it. Yeah. Yep.

Oh, God. I mean, it... Yeah. I mean, if I had to guess, I would imagine that those same people, if they're saying that it's toxic masculinity, those same people probably display they're saying that it's toxic masculinity, those same people probably display the this house believes in science, Black Lives Matter, et cetera.

Oh, a million percent there. A million percent. Two streets over, I walk by this house. I go on a morning walk every morning, and it cracks me up. They got the surge Black Lives Matter sign flanked on the other side by we support lexington police jesus christ oh my god this town i don't know if y'all not how much time y'all spent lexington recently this is the most copy fucking town in the history of the world it's like for a place where not like a lot of shit happens you know what i mean it's like you got like 20 goddamn different departments that just patrol this place. Copy.

That's in cop. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's weird because I feel like it's been like that ever since they merged with the county government. Like Lexington and Fayette County governments merged or whatever. And so now they have, it's like a mega force. Yeah. It's a weird thing happening even in moorhead like you had city county like all like you know like you're fucking like constables sheriffs all that kind of

stuff campus police and then on top of that you had like your different like little security things and stuff and it's just like you at one point you could count in a town of 7 000 people five police agencies and state police well i mean this is what we said what what's the stat one in ten people works in security or something yeah yeah and that the stat you know just to kind of tie a bow on that into into sort of like draw a sort of um yeah sort of like draw a bow around all of these things. You really can't ask for a better example of how reactionary that, as you said, Tom, interpretation of identity politics is because the statement this is a example of toxic masculinity is a political statement it is pushed by people at the top of the democratic party the ostensible

progressives but it is in this instance and in pretty much every instance, I would imagine, used to, you know, used as or used by the soldiers on the front lines of like gentrification. The new settlers of our day and age, you know, these people are basically the new settlers. settlers um i mean that's a great analogy now that i think about it with like the west bank or with 300 years ago and people crossing the appalachian mountains and and displacing indigenous people i mean these are the new hey wait a second buddy it's always been scott's territory this is my home place oh my god i mean but it's interesting i mean could you imagine um you know 300 years ago like scotch irish settlers being like yeah the the the indians and natives they're uh they're ericoi just hunted here we basically just we did them a favor well could you imagine them using like oh they uh they have chiefs and that's toxic

masculinity oh my god oh man patriarchal much uh eastern band of cherokee get rid of them it's it's interesting it would be no go ahead i'm sorry i i i don't know it's just interesting just uh just you know keep that in mind as you go out there and navigate the world or better yet do not go out and navigate the world or better yet don't go out and navigate the world yeah what are you fucking lewis and clark just fucking stay at the house that's what i'm gonna say the next time somebody invites me what are you lewis and fucking clark i'm at home bitch yeah all right uh got marigold vespucci over here wanting me to go out to eat with her

come on you seen what goes on out there got marigold vespucci over here wanting me to go out to eat with her but um but yes i i'm not articulating it well because my brain is literally just done for for the rest of my life but i guess i would just encourage you to all ask in what service are these politics being deployed whether it's somebody saying that it's toxic masculinity to justify eradicating a cultural practice that has been around forever or whether it's a massive trillion dollar infrastructure plan that is being used in some sort of cold war race against china you have to ask yourself what what what function do these politics and rhetorics uh serve um and if you're not careful before you know it you're going to wind up being like well these people are on our side they they they uh they are transforming society and they're doing the best they're

moving the needle when in all actuality they're co-opting the very things that could be used to create a better society to make it worse yeah uh yesterday joe biden became the first president to recognize trans visibility day right big goddamn hoot joe yeah um but yeah kellen uh is it heliford henniford i forget her last name but our uh season of the witch friend she uh season of the bitch kellen which i have them all saved in my phone it's like their name and which kellen which ambria which laura Anyway, she introduced me to the mantra to whom does it serve.

Well, there you go. It's a good question. There you go. At every turn. Yeah. Well, that about covers it for this week.

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mlb opening day baseball season baby uh also beware beware of i've tweeted this out but it bears repeating beware of the uh tricksters jokesters hucksters and so forth today it's already fools yeah i already told sheila you know how she is and i told her i talked to her yesterday i said if you if you have an emergency, you better call somebody else because I'm not answering your calls. Be vigilant. She does me every year. But basketball season was very depressing for me. So I've got a lot of hope in baseball season.

Yeah, you'll be into it for about three weeks. And then you'll be like, okay, sports sucks again. Fuck it. Anyway. Go Redlegs! Oh, God. sports sucks again so fuck it anyway go red legs oh god all right well we'll see you next time it is snowing hard up here