Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 233: Hotboxing The Senate

Episode Date: January 20, 2022

This week we observe the tragic cognitive effects of drinking radioactive fracking fluid; explore the genealogy of Joe Manchin; propose a new film for filmmaker Chloe Zhao; and sound the alarm on all the fairweather capos now turning on Biden Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

drug-induced nap yesterday buddy i've had a crick in my neck for two days it's about to kill me i'm pretty sure that uh any mass shootings that have ever taken place have been by people with a crick in their fucking necks and that's the actual root that's the root cause they've been at a job sitting down for like eight hours a day for like eight years and they just go they lose it because we're crazy that's the last goddamn straw it really is so bad oh shit but yeah it took me

I had to dig out my old expired muscle relaxers you love a reason to go back to an old friend just feel like a block of jello or some shit oh yeah well i mean i tried to make sure everything was cool calm collected before i took them because i knew yo yo yo but them motherfucking dogs went ape shit trying to fall out of this house and i'm telling you I had to about crawl to the door

like slinking yourself to the door like what arm dragging that shit I took it at 11 I was in the perfect position I had my little body pillow so my neck wouldn't move I had my neck propped up just right then the motherfuckers and I was like

feeling a little while it was about 1.30 when they went off and I was trying to get to the door. Like water. Tom, did you get your blood pressure up over that game last night? No, I just kind of expect us to lose on the road, and when we win, it's a pleasant surprise. No. I literally can't be stressed anymore i'm concerned for my heart health yeah we're beyond stress

i've been spending the last 10 minutes trying to tee up a joke that i can't connect that's what you know like today you know today like everybody's talking about the M&Ms, the Mars company has made M&Ms have, you know, Gen Z personality features. Like one of them has ADHD. Another one's asexual, sex positive. One of them, ADHD diagnosis. What is asexual, sex positive? They're just different. They just get different traits.

Well, so... You don't support any of the teams. You just support the game. You're like, you know what? I just hope everybody has fun out there. I hope we all make it. Good luck. That's probably where I'm going to pivot to.

No, I'll catch heat for that. Apparently asexuals do like sex. It's just a thin line. I don't know. It's complicated. I don't claim to know everything. Even though I speak into this microphone. I support the asexual community i support

who whatever you want to do anyway joke i was going to try to make and i couldn't thread it because who would have thought okay so you know how van halen famously on the rider got all the brown m&ms removed okay i didn't know that but no i thought sure. If I was a betting man, I would have bet a million fucking dollars Diamond David Lee Roth would have been a cancel culture guy. Apparently he's not. Really? So what I was teeing up, what I've been

working on, workshopping for ten minutes was David Lee Roth has all the brown M&M's removed because their sex pot or whatever. He's a woke. So he's an ally. He's a woke. Oh my God. Whatever. So he's an ally?

He's an ally of the brown M&Ms. So now the whole bit falls apart. Oh Lord. Him and Gene Simmons have a feud apparently. Oh my God. Who is a cancel culture guy. Are one of the M&Ms pro-cancel culture now? Nah. It's like, nah.

One of them was the orange one has anxiety. One of them is the red one is trying not to be an asshole. How did I fucking miss this? Is this a commercial or something? Oh my God, dude. It's just like an announcement that Mars, I guess, the brand that makes M&M's made on social media. You know how someone, if they the brand that, uh, that makes M&Ms made on social media. You know how like someone,

if they're like trying to look cool or something, they're walking across the street and they get hit by a car. It's just completely fall into a bad hole or some shit. Yeah. Or it just completely fucks their shit up. Like they're obviously broken and they're bleeding out. And people are like, do you need help?

Do you need help? You're like, no, no, I'm cool. Nothing's wrong. That's how I feel. That's wrong. I'm good, I'm good. That's how I feel.

That's how I feel about mental health now. Like, hearing this stuff, I'm like losing my mind and people are like, are you okay? Is everything fine? And I'm like, no, I'm chill actually. I don't even have mental illness. I don't ever. I have no idea what you're talking about. I have the opportunity. If I curl my ankle, somebody better call 911 and get an ambulance. I'm gonna need a stretcher. I have the opportunity. If I curl my ankle, somebody better call 911,

get an ambulance. I'm going to need a stretcher. I can't walk on them no more. These ankles. My point is that I hate having mental illness and living in a world where it's all anybody

can fucking talk about. It's commodified and sold back to you. Exactly. I'd rather not think about my elements every day every day with those ailments i'd rather die i was talking um i was talking to someone about this the other day like we we really do live in the i mean obviously this is all cynical ploy to sell shit but we really do live in the era of overcorrection. It's like 20 years ago, we weren't considering enough of things like mental illness.

And now it's all anybody can fucking talk about. And it's like, can we just have a normal, just medium between the two? Just be chill about it. And also people are overprescribed, like drugs too and shit like that too so people are not even only talking about it but it's a way for like pharmaceutical

companies to sell you shit yeah yeah you're addicted to antidepressants exactly and you're hooked on it like me for fucking years and years i do think there's some of it too that just health care is so so abundantly bad that it's like a universal experience that everyone has. It's just like the pits of bad healthcare. Goddamn. Yeah. I mean, that's crazy. I mean, how did they land on that as like something that would sell?

That's amazing. What cracks me up is I feel like this is uh i read one like a while back someone saying like what your only goal every day is not to be the one the character on the internet that day correct you do you do not want to be the main character of the internet on any given day and it's always cracks me up when it's some dumb ass fucking m&ms have stepped out thought they were just dropping some cool new logo or some shit and now they're the fucking main character on the internet and they might as well go right off a bridge that was like with the ikea couches you guys remember those couches oh yeah they came out with the lgbtq couches the one they remember those couches? Oh, yeah. They came out with the LGBTQ couches.

They thought they were doing a good thing. People were like, no, these shits are ugly as fuck, man. Ikea released a gay couch. Yeah. It was like part. It was like. I thought that was just called an Ikea couch. I thought all Ikea couches were a little bit gay, honestly.

All of their couches are gay, and the ones they made that to be specifically gay were clearly designed by straight people. Exactly. The bisexual one was the absolute worst. It was buffoonery. It was like some pink and black shit with hand marks all over it, like hair prints. Fist teams or fists all over it.

I think it said, I think it was supposed to say, you you are not alone but if you rearranged it in a way it said you are alone yeah yeah it sure did it's dope uh it just had like Tom's of Finland print all over it like it's just not subtle at all oh was... No, I'm confusing it with those wristbands that the Not County Tourism Board put out that said, you are... And then it had an outline of Not County so that it should have said, you are

not alone, but if you just read it, it just said, you are alone. Those were just priceless. They put that all over the internet. It's every man for himself now, Not County. What I love most about that is no one knows. The shape of Not County is not a recognizable

emblem. No one knows what the shape of Not County looks like. These are the most arbitrary borders imaginable. Oh, Lord. Oh lord. Wow. Well the M&M's. The woke M&M's.

That's crazy. This story's developing. I'm still waiting to hear more on it. I really wanted to get my Diamond Dave joke off but it's just not there. It's not there yet. Everything's there except for the one thing you need to have. To lay on the plane.

The wheels. It happens in joke writing sometimes, man. You know? You gotta let it just stay a little longer. Exactly. If only Diamond Dave was a little more racist, I'd have gone with that. If only. Might as well jump.

What do you think about Van Halen? He didn't do the KKK. I don't know. Racist Van Halen would be a funny bit yeah it's like hot for uh uh i don't even know see i just the bit falls apart because van halen are allies yeah you're right we can't we can't make accusations against them that isn't there. I mean, that's how we'll get sued, you know.

Well, I mean, it's just... False accusations all the time on this show, but not that far. Yeah, that's what we do. Tom, I can't hear you very well. Can you? What about now? A little better, yeah. Yeah.

What about now? Crank it up. I'm just going gonna turn the game through the fucking roof. I'll blow Terrence's ears out when he's trying to put this together. I love to have my ears blown out

by you, dude. Have you guys ever wanted to know what John McCain would have said about Putin and Ukraine? He did already, like, say, like, has a situation not happened before in the past where he's had made exact comments that would be similar

to what he would make today? I've been waiting for him to sound off on this situation. Yeah, I mean... Speak from beyond the grave, man. They've fed his words and ideas into one of those AI things.

One of the AI processors or whatever. He a bot now? I mean, I like to... There's two pages I go to and I'm looking for content. Obviously, the first one is the New York Times opinions page.

But the second one is the ideas section at the Atlantic, which usually has good shit in there. Everything from like, can we handle movies these days to i mean like that that's those are ideas usually in the ideas section our movies child labor good yeah pretty much it's it's questions like that they're good ideas usually um so hot sauce. They had one this week that said, what John McCain would have said about Putin in Ukraine. I don't know anything about what's going on in the Ukraine, other than apparently Putin wants it,

and the New York Times opinion page can't stop comparing it to some sort of non-consensual sex they literally are like they're like uh putin putin's message to root ukraine marry me or i'll kill you or something like that it was just like oh yeah that was a friedman headline yeah something like that i mean yeah yeah yeah that was a Friedman headline, yeah. Something like that. I mean, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a question, just a semantics question before we go any further. What deems something the? Like, why do we talk about the Ukraine the way we talk about the Ohio State University? That's a great question. Why is a place a the place, like the Yukon Territory? That's something I've always wanted to know but been afraid to ask.

The South? For fear of the woke mob coming after me. The South? The South has it, but Appalachia doesn't. We need to start saying the Appalachia. What's another good example? But people say the region. They love that. I do love that.

I said it one time. Tom about took me out. Couldn't he? Did you say region without the definite article or something? I'm from region. I'm from region. Yeah, why is some stuff like I am legion? Why does that? That makes no sense. I'm from the, I am legion from the Ukraine, I am Legion? Why does that make no sense?

I am Legion from the Ukraine. I am Sam. I am the Sam. I'm the Zodiac. We are the Walrus. I just wonder why. I just wonder why. Anyway, I didn't mean to derail the conversation.

It's just a little something that's been on my mind the last few years. The last few years? I didn't want to catch it from every direction. So you've just been sitting on it for a couple years? That's the thing. The other day, I do this thing now where I just delete tweets just because I get viscerally frustrated with comments. I said something about, I'd like to see a Martin Scorsese movie about West Virginia Italians.

And some guy goes, well, where you want to start with is Matewan. And I'm like, motherfucker, I've not seen Matewan 14 goddamn times. mate one and i'm like a motherfucker like i've not seen mate one 14 goddamn times you know like come on you know what i mean it's tedious bro it's like you can't say anything without somebody smarter than you giving your their unsolicited opinion and it's like i get it talk about you know more than me i get it or we're trying to make a joke and somebody just twists it and turns it and pokes holes into it and tries to like you know make it sound like you were serious it's like no motherfucker this was a joke the premise was a joke yeah somebody dm man said that uh aaron was in hot water again for denying the Uyghur genocide in China. Oh, my God.

Been meaning to have a word with you about that. You're on probation, bro. I'm on probation now. God damn. It went to my boss. God damn. Oh, God. That is funny.

They tried to write it here now to his boss. Yeah. Deny employer. Deny genocide again. Answer the principal. Fucking shit. Wow. Just keep it a buck.

Even if you believe something's happening over there, you also in the same sentence have to be really weary of anything the CIA is pushing as a narrative. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying, man. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying, man. That's all I'm saying. Who told you not to trust China? Anyway.

I literally do not care. Like, you could literally be like, Uyghurs don't exist. And I would be like, dude, that's what you believe? Go for it. Damn, that's your lived experience it's like and i don't have i don't have a line on it because i don't know the thing is exactly where i by virtue of where i live i already hear such an insane array of opinions across the spectrum i mean just talking to people on the street overhearing

conversation at the laundromat um you know uh yeah you gotta block you gotta block you gotta let go through life with the default filter on it block all that shit yeah yeah yeah yeah i come from a from a people that believe you can talk to deers and that there's cave witches and stuff. I mean, like, you know, I don't rule nothing out, but I also take everything with a heavy grain of salt. Or that you can speak in entirely other languages. Yeah. Man, that's interesting. I mean, I'm learning i'm trying to learn spanish right now

um like with an app i mean lingo yeah yeah and i took like i grew up in a region where a lot of people speak spanish and so i grew up like you know what i mean i know a lot of the words and stuff and can sort of like pick up like, you know what I mean? I know a lot of the words and stuff and can sort of like pick up on the, you know, sentences and other stuff like that. But has anyone tried that? Like do a lingo, but it's someone that speaks tongue

in the Pentecostal church and they try to teach you the- That'd be a terrific concept for a horror movie yeah oh yeah there are preachers who claim they can understand you know and like we'll write out things people say and shit translate wait so i thought it was just gibberish is it actually based in like some kind of understanding i thought you tell me i think I've got the lived experience on this one. What we believe in the Pentecostal church is that if there's tongue talking,

there needs to be an interpreter present. And an interpreter is somebody that has the gift of interpretation of the tongues as laid out in the book of Acts. So it is its own separate language, basically what you're saying yeah it's a supernatural prayer language is what we believe so it's not like spanish it's not like you would just like laughs no there's no like there's no like babble or duolingo for the time there's a dictionary for it not available in duolingo say what you want about mountain people but we're complex they're like that man is holy my god he's got the gift that's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna like go to

do a lingo with the pitch it's like listen i have a spiritual gift called the interpretation of tongues and i want to bring that to your platform for the right price. Damn, that'd be a long con. That'd be an incredible long con. Imagine how many church people would sign up for it, like just trying to put it in there, but like they couldn't really nail it, you know, because like the tongues is like kind of indecipherable for the most part. Yeah.

Or like it's not very phonetically, you know, sound is what I'm saying. They need, yeah, they need Duolingo You know sound is what I'm saying They need Yeah they need Duolingo for the tongues Is what they need They need the learning app Yeah Like give it a name Like that's a spin off like the Tower of Babel

Or some shit like that Surely that exists already Just call it Babel I think something called Babbel already exists. And I think it's similar. Yeah, it's kind of like Duolingo or anything else. Like a language learning app or whatever. I didn't have a good experience with Babbel when I was trying to learn Mandarin.

That would be hilarious If China did invade Tom would have to be the one who would Have to be our interpreter We would be helpless Tom would have to speak Mandarin to them I was the bulwark between us And A firing line

Us and the big red the big red scare right right you know i it'd be fine i could i could diffuse it easily any tensions i did take i did take mandarin in college and uh the teacher gave us all a a name in college and uh the teacher gave us all a a name and mine was your palm which is like a and i said what's i said dr uh i forget what her name was now i said what's that mean she goes it's it's like a big bird that flies many miles that's a hell yeah i'm sure I'm butchering that too If any of my Chinese speaking friends Mandarin speaking friends

Can tell me how you actually say A big bird that flies many miles That's what I was It's gonna be something wildly insulting Yeah You can't fly because you have no wings Yeah right right right Just a peacock, buddy.

That's what it really means. Anyway, John Hickenlooper's back on the scene today. Is that the dude from Colorado? Yeah, after the Democratic establishment circled the wagons around him to fuck him out of the nomination, he's back championing what's called the for the people act i said it's terrence earlier but perhaps did he get elected as a senator or some shit like that after he ran for president i'm not sure what hick and looper's capacity is but in this clip he's playing the banjo i'll just go ahead and give you that much i think he's a senator he was governor did the devil's milkshake now he's a bill

here in the Senate. It's hard to make man-fellows sound good. It's so rare. It gives power to the voters. That thing's out of tune, by God. That thing is bad.

That thing ain't never been tuned. Give me some more. Give me some more. Give me more. You want more? Did you stop it? There's more, right? It said something, give power to the people.

He won't stay in corporate packs. Now this bill will make it easy For voters to have their say So let's make elections fairer And pass Desmond today God damn it. That's the way he is. Senator from Colorado, John Hickenlooper, ladies and gentlemen. Was he trying to make himself seem like he's closer to Main Street,

to the common man type of thing? Is that why he's doing this? I think so. Well, I think it was... I feel like, wasn't it kind of like a spin on that Capital Bill cartoon or whatever? I'm just a man. That's what it started out as.

And then it quickly became a man that's been touched by some combination of long COVID and drinking fracking fluid. That's what drinking fracking fluid will do to a motherfucker. A little schoolhouse rock with the long COVID.

Oh, man. Jeez Louise. Did y'all see the other, there's a campaign video dropped this week out of Louisiana with this big old guy in a chair out in the middle. Smoking of blood.

Hell yeah, I saw that shit. It was so good. But as soon as I saw it I was like, can we apply the equation that the democrats use the how we got the scientist in the commercial with the white uh scientist jacket riding on a fucking easel right the democrats looked at this man and said we're getting you a blunt. He'll give you a blunt instead. He rolled up to shot day and they got a big throne.

There's a big throne out in the middle of a field. Yeah, it looks like my man's just chilling in the swamp in a lounge chair just smoking a big spliff. That's literally what he was doing. It's like a leather armchair. Yeah. I will say this.

If we get those three, if we got Hickenlooper, that guy. What's that guy's name in Louisiana? Anybody know? I forget. I saw it going around, but I forgot. What's his name? I forget. And then we get the lab coat guy.

Say what you want, but we'll have some fresh leadership. The new face of the Democratic Party. No one is storming the Capitol when there is a man in a white lab coat and a man holding a banjo standing in between you and the teeming masses. No one's going to try to fuck with those two. No.

They're too powerful. They have too much swagger. Who was the other guy besides Hickenlooper? The other no-name guy that was in that race? Bennett. Oh, yeah. I forgot about him.

Where was he? I think he was in the democratic primary right democratic primary yeah for it was weird there was like four or five guys who were completely indistinguishable from each other yeah they were just like carbon copies of each other just your run-of-the-mill white dude. Bad posture, greasy hair. What are you going to do? Joe Biden was one of them. The eventual winner. Exactly.

He won on the win. Oh, man. His fake ass hair. What is the for the people? I can't even say that without laughing. It's so stupid. It's like an old 2017 era Trillbillies bit. Like, For the People.

Like, they put it into a bill. And like, hey, that'll resonate with the youth. You know what's funny is they've been doing some wild stuff around this bill, though. They've got Nick Saban and Jerry West, who is the NBA logo, and all these famous West Virginians trying to shake Manchin down to support it. This is the voting rights bill, right? Yeah. Who are the famous West Virginians?

Nick Saban, Alabama football coach. I thought the voting rights bill was dead. I thought Biden conced bill was dead. Like I thought that they had basically I thought Biden conceded defeat on it. Like it wasn't going to happen. I thought I saw that too. I thought Manchin and Sinema

didn't they have a vote on it and Manchin and Sinema voted it down? I think so. That might have been the case. I tell you what this motherfucker is going to do. He's just going to pinball voting rights isn't going to work. I'm going to go back to Build Back Better. And once that fails again, he's going to say voting rights.

That is literally... We're bringing it back up. How my career has gone. I'm like, yeah, I'll do music a little bit, and then that fails. I'm like, oh, okay. I'll go write a little bit, and then that fails. I'm like, oh, I'll just go back to... It's good to keep your options farmed around.

Right, exactly. You know, I've been doing a little research into West Virginia Italians, specifically in Fairmont, where Nick Saban's from. Well, I guess a common practice was like, Manchin used to be Mancini and Saban, Nick Saban's family

used to be the Sabatini's. But like, they anglicized their names, I guess, to... I don't know, I guess just to kind of... To be accepted? Well, it was Scotch-Irish dominance. And of course, all the Scots-Irish had anglicized their names because they're stooges to the crown. And I've had to live with that because those are my forebears.

You deal with the boot of the queen in different ways, and it makes a motherfucker act funny sometimes. In any case, in Fairmont, West Virginia, where Nick Saban's from, it used to be a black hand stronghold. Not the Serbian black hand, the Italian black hand, which was kind of like an extortion outfit, kind of a little La Cosa Nostra adjacent. Okay.

So the Serbian Black Hand was fascist, right? But this Black Hand was the mob. This was just kind of organized crime in the New World. Oh, good. A little bit. I guess it probably existed in the old country, too. In any case, the Black Hand ended up supplying weapons to striking miners against the company. Oh, damn.

There's like a big West Virginia sort of immigrant saga there. That's what I was talking about Scorsese needs to examine. It seems like if you write a pizzelle, somebody just needs to write the book about it. And then Scorsese is getting around with it. Somebody do the research, write the book about it, and then make it into a film yeah right i don't know i think chloe zhao director of the eternals and nomadland should take that project on i think that would be much better suited in her hands they should do an eternals of west Virginia, you know? Like, Manchin and Jay Rockefeller and Robert Byrne, you know what I'm saying?

A CGI Jock Jablonski getting his way explaining. There's a lot there. That's all I'm saying. Yo, I saw that movie the other day. Trash. West Virginia Eternals? Yeah? West Virginia Eternals? Yeah, West Virginia Eternals.

Chloe Zhao's The West Virginia Saga? Goddamn, you got in on the ground floor, Thor. Eternals was trash, huh? Yeah, it was garbage, man. That's what I've been hearing for months. I can't and won't pull the trigger on it. You know a movie is trash when you fall asleep like 30 minutes in, man. You know, I used to think when I would get bored with a film

that there was something deficient in me. But it's like, you know, I could put on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is three hours, and watch it like three times in a row. Yeah. He said what you want about Tarantino, but the motherfucker knows pacing and how to keep you hooked in the whole time. Yeah. I could watch Contact. I'd say PTA to a certain degree, but he could hum a few bars in a few of his movies.

Yeah. Man, I could watch Contact. That movie's like three hours. That's fine. Yeah. That's a good three hours, though. Yeah. Yeah. contact that movies like three hours that's fine yeah it's a good three hours though yeah all I watch is documentaries you've given up on cinema what it's hot daddy say about documentaries last time would you say that

whatever so tiny about the brain of brain of somebody who watched only documentaries would be crazy. It's called Everybody That Starts a True Crime Podcast. Yeah. A motherfucker that's had a steady diet of Dateline and First 48 for the last

15 years, man, and now all they do is listen to a true crime podcast. That's the brain you can question. Absolutely eroded. Terrence has pivoted to reading only fiction and watching only non-fiction. That's right. I only watch Taxi to the Other Side or whatever.

When are they going to start making video games that are documentaries? You know what I mean? You learn about the killing fields in Cambodia, but you get to take get to, like, take a virtual tour through them. That's coming, right? Yeah, yeah, it's gotta be coming back.

Yeah. Entertainment. To be clear, you get to play as the Camaroos, or you're against them. Or choose your own adventure. Well, wasn't there, there was a video game like 10 years ago. I feel like it was maybe one of those like Tom Clancy books that they,

it was like one of those Tom Clancy games and it like opened with you being a, like a Chechen terrorist and you just got to like mow civilians down in a like airport or train station in Europe. Oh, they did that with Call of Duty. They did that in a Call of Duty game. Just men, women, and children?

Yeah, literally. They gave you a machine gun and put you in an airport and you were playing a Russian terrorist. What? Tanya, what are your thoughts on video games? This is a subject I've never asked you about. What do you think about video games? Do you think that they're bad for society?

Do you think that they are causing young incel men to shoot up synagogues and other stuff? Cinemas and other stuff. Houses of worship. I don't know enough. All I know, I mean, I bought a Switch last winter when I was so depressed, hoping I would just play it and be happy. And it didn't work. I'm probably just going to give it to my nephews.

Every time I see them, they ask me about it. They're like, hey, what's up with that Switch? She collected dust in a drawer. Yeah, but I do. I mean, I. Damn, that is a grave injustice to a child just a gaming system just collecting dust just like they know they're like hey what's up with that switch i mean take it a little switch it gave you depression just randomly he'll be like damn i've always

wanted to play a switch too bad there's no unused switches for later out for me to fucking play i need to i need to pack it up and take it to them it really is a grave of justice sitting here fucking dusty but i do i thought i could just disappear into a uh animal crossing but i couldn't get into it i was like this is just a bunch of talking and bullshit. I wanted to build some shit. Hell, I wanted a forest. I wanted a garden. This is bullshit. It was going too goddamn slow.

But I love Mario Kart. I still have my Super Nintendo for my seventh or eighth birthday. Still works. And I'll play anybody in Mario Kart or Street Fighter 2. The only other thing I know is... I'd sweep your ass in the corner and never let you up. Oh, you god dick. That's my Mortal Kombat strategy.

I'm a sweeper corner guy. Wait, so y'all actually know how to play fighting games? I just button mash, man. Oh, yeah. I'm Chun-Li all the way, bitch. I was Chun-Li for about six years from middle school i just smash buttons and pray and hope for the best man and pray what's that hope and pray it's that's a good i just wait till you jump into me and i do that juice thing that blanca does or blank uh-huh

send out the electric shock that's my strategy um no i did used to one of my exes used to play gta and i was kind of like watching that from the sideline but i couldn't handle i would i couldn't handle getting high and watching him drive too fast and shit and i was like we're gonna wreck it was just it felt like a wreck simulation i was like i hate wrecking a car i don't want to see this i don't want to see i don't want to i don't want to lay here i distinctly remember laying there just like my anxiety is going up and up like i can't watch this we're just gonna wreck any minute this motherfucker can't drive i was playing one of them vr headsets the oculus not too long ago and that one thing there's this game where you go up to the like

top floor of this building and you walk out on a plank. And man, the wild shit is I just know I'm in a living room. But it's like, that shit feels like... You're Steven Paddock. That's the sweaty palm motherfucking thing, yeah. In like the 26th floor of the Mandalay Bay, there's like a Jason Aldean concert beneath you. Oh my God.

And you have an assault rifle. Yeah, then you're just so happy you have an assault rifle. Yeah, then you have an assault rifle. In Vegas. And a disembodied voice somewhere telling you, you know what to do. You know what to do. You see that? Damn Blazarian's down there, too. He's taking charge.

Dude, he was down there. And there's, like, video of him be like oh no man i'm going to the cops being like deputize me i'm ready yeah i'm ready to take this motherfucker out i mean don't they use like first person shooter games to train military people to train to train to train school shooters that's the cleve old harris method just like you know pump marilyn manson into their ears and make them play first person shooters all that yeah put on a catheter to them they can't even get up oh my god

nah toddy i think i think yeah i think the the dod or pentagon whatever they go to video game conventions so i've heard and they draft uh these young players uh for uh to become drone operators seems bad i don't know terrence i don't i don't have a i don't have probably enough information but does don't seem great don't, but don't seem great. Don't seem good. Don't seem great. Yeah. Well. Don't seem good at all.

It is interesting how, like, the shooting game is what always gets brought up. Like, nobody ever, when arguing against video games, nobody's ever, like, arguing against racing games. Being like, it's going to make kids want to drive too fast. You know what I mean? Or, like, no one's make kids wanna drive too fast. You know what I mean? Or like, no one's gonna... Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, or like Super Mario,

like nobody's gonna try to jump on top of somebody's head and smush them down. Right, like nobody's gonna... Nobody's gonna... Right, right. Like this game's gonna make... I'm gonna start doing it in a pot. Right on the top of my fucking head

It's not gonna make little portly Italian boys Jump down sewer pipes Gonna make kids wanna throw Banana pills from their car And make the car behind them spin out Little Mancini's getting stuffed in the gutters Yeah if only Joe Manchin Would have the example Of the Super Mario Brothers

We could avoid this whole mess If there had been more positive Italian role models Has that new movie come out yet? Were they making Chris Pratt the Mario? Did that already come out? Not yet Oh they just got all that all hopped up That was a slap to Marigo Vespucci's face

In my opinion Casting Pratt up. That was a slap to Marigold Vespucci's face, in my opinion. Casting Pratt. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, man. That's funny. Alright, well I'm putting you down as anti-video game then then if that's your stance

fuck it i don't care yeah sure why not tanya believes video games are a direct source of toxic masculinity noted and wanton car accidents the car is spinning out yeah i can't handle no wrecks simulation no thank you no no i definitely can't no i can't okay you definitely i'm good on that simulation i've been in this shit for real man fuck that god damn that's a terrible winner yeah that's a hard winner that was a terrible winner. That was a hard winner. That was a long winner. God damn. I want to know what For the People Act is.

It's for the people. I think it's the same thing as the voting rights deal. S1. I think it's a colloquialism for that I could be wrong though I see I see Well it definitely seems like

Um I mean just by judging the Op-ed pages the last two weeks Like the libs are pretty mad with Joe I mean Ezra klein had a the vote blew no matter who crowd is mad at joe ezra klein had an op-ed in the new york times that was like things just aren't going the way we thought they would or something to that effect a lot of them have cited uh it's it's his preference for a left-wing agenda. You can't be serious.

Did you see that article, Terrence, in Politico? They're saying... I'm sorry. No, no, go ahead, T. They're saying he's not getting shit done because he's so far left. Are you fucking with me? That's the consensus between David Brooks, Tom Friedman, and Jennifer Rubin. Oh, my fucking God.

The three biggest names in punditry. J. Rubin Blogger? What did J. Rubin Blogger say about the Biden presidency? She said it's good or bad? She said it's disappointing. Oh, man. Because it's too far left. Yeah, how about I say I'll bring this article up If y'all wanna

Examine it a little bit Let's see Blah blah blah Damn My Tom's trying to find that I just want to make a quick note Of the Brand new novel

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Is that real? Did Dolly Parton really write a book with James Patterson? Yes. She did, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they've been talking about it for years. So did... Wait, what kind of book is this? Is this an action-adventure mystery-thriller book

where Dolly Parton is a detective or some shit like that? Is this the true account of how Dolly ended apartheid in South Africa? One can only hope. No, this is, I don't know, the tagline is, she's a singer. Wait, she's a star on the rise. She's a singer on the run. So I don't know, maybe someone's after her. Maybe someone's after her. Singer. She's a star on the rise. She's a singer on the run.

So I don't know. Maybe someone's after her. Maybe someone's after her. Wow. From America's most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller. The thriller about a younger singer. That's James Patterson? It's JP.

JP. I guess sales don't lie to them. That's true. Did you just tell me he's a billionaire, Terrence? He's almost a billionaire. That's crazy. Oh, for writing books, bro? For writing airport books.

2022. Almost a billionaire. I feel like doing his best Tom Clancy and selling it to people like Bill Clinton and Obama and shit. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her and destroy her.

That sounds pretty tight. It's a... You know, Nashville is a pretty dark and seedy place for runaway children of a doctor and a lawyer who are just kind of floating through their 20s. Floating through their 20s on dad's money. It's like a sort of romanticized version of Nashville

because the real version would be she pays $3,500 for a one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath townhouse. And plays for free on the main strip because nobody can get paid to play the bars plays to eight people at the bluebird cafe and it's few it makes somehow makes a hundred thousand dollars a year and has a spotify page with like tips yeah yeah one of those yeah one of those ginned up spotify pages where you know it's bullshit because our biggest listeners are in like whitefish montana moscow idaho jenkins well i found that like i'll go um like i don't know like i've found singer songwriters or artists or whatever like that and like whole entire playlist of other artists like that and they've all got like a hundred in between 100

and 150 or 200 000 regular listeners and it's like shit you have never heard in your life like what the fuck is this like who is listening to this and it's gotta be mostly like trust fund kids who um are in like a quartet and one of them plays the wash jug one of them plays the banjo and one of them plays like the synthesizer and like they they make the worst shit imaginable but like one of their dad pays some content farm in bangladesh to just to make it 100,000 listens. Manufacturing consent, literally. Yeah, that's what the Chomsky book was about. It was about that, literally.

Trust fund kid banjo groups or whatever. What's the Politico article, Tom? Out of Politico, I guess this was yesterday. Biden's favorite columnist revolt, it says. Oh, no. Oh, no.

What? Say it again. Say it again. Biden's favorite columnist revolt. His favorite columnists revolt. You're just cutting out on me. His favorite colonists. His capos.

His street. Colonists, not communists. Yeah, columnists. Not his favorite communists. No, that'd be us. Not his favorite colonists. Like they're going overseas and overthrowing governments. Like colonists.

Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha got, got, got, got. What a damning first sentence. Even Jennifer Rubin thinks Joe Biden is in trouble. Oh, shit, dude. Oh, 9J dog. Quote, quote, Biden needs a reset. Here's how he can do it. End quote.

Read her headline on this morning's Washington Post column. Usually a reliable go-to for the Biden sympathetic worldview. After all, this is a little editor's note. After all, this is a woman who said that the boyfriend looks nice when looking at Andrew Cuomo's dinner table one night. Democrats need Biden to correct course and promptly, Rubin wrote, describing Biden's presidency as, quote, rocky. She's not alone.

Over the past several weeks, many of the staunchest Biden defenders in the media have soured on the administration's current direction. New York Times columnist David Brooks. I like the implication that there's current direction. New York Times columnist, David Brooks. I like the implication that there is a direction. Like, what the fuck? Yeah, what is that? Exactly, as if we were heading anywhere at all besides collapse.

They're just chilling in their car, idling the engine. Like, no one's going anywhere. Smoking the blood in the car. Exactly, they're hotboxing it. They're hotboxing the car right now. As far as I'm keeping score here. They'd be doing better if they were hotboxing in the car right now.

No. Okay. What they're actually doing is they've run a hose from the exhaust into the window. That's where they're going. And they're all choking each other. They all got their arms on each other's throats. And they're all about to cum at the same time right before they die.

The freakiest shit imaginable. That's right. You're right. And the whole car, the inside of the car just goes blank covered in cum all over the place. Just splattered all over the windows and inside the windshield. More like goddamn powdered milk that much. You gotta pull them out like a cocoon.

They're cocooned in there. Yeah, they peel away from the... God damn. New York Times columnist David Brooks Who penned an August column with the headline The Biden approach is working And in November A column with the headline Biden is succeeding tweeted last week That quote

Today is the day for Biden to begin revamping his presidency in a more centrist direction. There's no path forward for a leftist agenda. It's like David Brooks was, like, totally in the pocket for him when he was saving Americans 17 cents on their Fourth of July bill and also telling everybody that we don't need masks anymore. Oh, my God. Right.

Fellow Times columnist Tom Friedman even thinks Biden should consider replacing Kamala Harris with Representative Liz Cheney in 2024. Oh, yeah. I heard about that. The unity ticket. Right. The unity ticket. Former hardball host chris mack this motherfucker got fired for being a hothead with a temper problem wait this is central park

motherfucker yeah this is essential part yeah the guillotine is essential part that was awesome yeah fuck former hardball host Chris Matthews who declared Biden will be a quote a good president for our time end quote emerged from his relative silence to just a tweet in January that the country

was heading too far left they are really out here saying that Biden's moving too far left what is their definition of like too far left like i mean what has biden even done that like i mean what has he done period but i don't think like he's even pushed anything that's like it's built back better that i mean i guess i guess rebuilding roads and bridges and shit is too less. You know what I mean? It's not.

I guess their point is that those big infrastructure packages are doomed and not going anywhere in Congress or something like that. Yeah. I don't know. Depending on who you ask. What was that? Go ahead. I'm sorry.

I don't know. There's nothing to even say about it. It's like. No, go ahead depending on who you ask the critiques are either evidence that biden does not need to break with the left-wing activists who are overrepresented on twitter or the classic whinings of clueless beltway pundits wait go ahead tom go ahead no they're literally talking about like i mean not us but they're talking about like because i keep hearing this like i sent you something last week terrence

about how this dude was saying that although there are these left-wing activists on twitter saying that this is how we should like you know be doing the covid response the reality is that most americans don't wear masks anyway so it wouldn't matter if we sent masks to people but they're all they're like hinging upon like this online left now as if this is like a real fucking thing like you know what i mean like like like for people that say that the twitter isn't real life like it's they're very concerned with what people on twitter think you know it's very weird man overrepresented on twitter it's like i don't know man it's a big place well there was another thing in the near time i don't know the the conjuring up of the left by the media in the last couple weeks has been interesting i've not really kept that much up with it but um

there's like a new york times op-ed that said what's happening on the left is no excuse for what's happening on the right It's the I mean, it's just like what left are you like? There is no there is no left Again, it's just like the far right is so welcomed into the Republican Party that they literally Stormed the Capitol and and everybody was just whatever. There's no left in the sense that if we did that, we would immediately just get sailed down the fucking river. You know what I mean? I guess all those people are.

There would be a massacre. All those people are as well, too. They would have burnt the building down just to get us all. Exactly. They would have nuked the building, man. They would have sent a bomb in that city. You're right. They they would have nuked the building man they would have said a bomb in that city yeah you're right they probably would have like yeah yeah they really would they're probably

willing to just scorch fly a helicopter over and drop a bomb yeah napalm and the entire like jesus that shit is so funny the way brooks sees it biden's aggressive rhetoric on voting rights in which he compared current opponents of democratic legislation to old school segregationists from the 60s represents how he has strayed from his roots as a moderate wait but he like brooks brooks wants biden to go back to being a segregationist. With Strom Thurmond. That's what I'm saying, bro. Like, come on, dude. Brooks believes the president risks alienating moderate voters

with legislative pushes that are dead on arrival in the Senate, where he believes the White House mishandled relationships with Senator Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. Oh, man. Anyway. mansion and kristin cinema oh man anyway essentially it's just talking about how if i could you know biden biden used to like to wake up and read uh you know j ruben blocker and friedman yeah yeah because he doesn't know he can't he can't rely on it for his comfort anymore so so basically his point too is that fighting for anything at all is too far left And now he can't rely on it for his comfort anymore. So basically his point, too, is that fighting for anything at all is too far left.

Like the minute that you fight for something is too far left. Not to say that Biden's even fighting for anything, but even like nominally, you know what I'm talking about? Speaking about voting rights is too far left. Yeah, I'm kind of like with Tanya. Yeah, I'm kind of like with Tanya, I'm getting to the point where it's like I can't even listen to it anymore because it's like to me to listen or try to engage with American politics is just as impossible for me to try to engage with like the politics of Serbia. Like, I have just as little of a chance as affecting politics here as I do anywhere else in the world. So it's like, these are just the assholes that are just running shit right now.

In fact, you might have a better shot with the black hand, the Serbian black hand. I don't know. It's weird. I just don't like... I don't know. I don't know.'s it's weird i just don't like i don't know i don't know it is just so fun i mean every time i see anyone say something about voting i'm just like it's so dystopian to even to even talk about voting at this point it's so dystopian i'm like get real fucking grow up get a life b life. Biden came here like last week and there were voting rights groups like Black Votes Matter and other groups like New Georgia Project, I guess, too, that didn't go to his speech.

Him and Kamala made a speech about voting rights. They didn't go. And I was just looking at the comments, man. And there were so many black liberals and white liberals, of course, that were like were like oh these why aren't these groups going to the speech of these groups didn't they're not even a part of michelle obama's fight the vote project or organization or whatever and it's just like dude like i mean not that these organizations are perfect you know but they got the right fucking idea of course they don't want to go to a fucking speech you know what i mean when he's like just gonna like just talk instead of actually going back to congress and like doing something so it's

like what's the fucking point you know i'm not sure it's a winning strategy to trot around a former segregationist to talk about it just it just doesn't hit the right note particularly in Georgia. Yeah, no. I read a really long article about, is it Keisha Lance Bottoms? Oh yeah, Keisha Lance Bottoms. Yeah, there was like a profile of her in New York Magazine that was like, why did Keisha Lance Bottoms drop out of the race or or decide not to run again or something like that um it was pretty interesting um especially i didn't i don't know i

didn't even know a lot of this stuff like when in 2020 she said that she didn't want atlanta or she said atlanta will be known for lemon pepper wings and great strip clubs if we're not careful. And it's like. It already is, though. What the fuck is wrong with that? Well, yeah, exactly. It's like, those two things are awesome. They're staples of Atlanta, man.

Yeah, as opposed to what? Fucking, like, yuppie gentrification shit? Exactly. And police brutality? No, I'm good on that. I love the Claremont Lounge. That's one of my favorite places on earth um shit man i still gotta go i guess i didn't know this though her husband's an executive at home dep. At Home Depot. Yeah.

No, I don't know. There was some crazy stuff in here. Like, for example, I didn't know that she was, I didn't know that she had backed Cop City so heavily. And I know we even had an episode about it. Oh, yeah. But I guess I just kind of forgot about that. But, like, she sees it as a kind of crowning achievement in her career. Now it's like,

Oh, that she, that she was the one that, that I guess it got shepherded through under her administration. Yeah. But even though she kind of like build herself as the criminal justice reform candidate, she absolutely did.

But it was interesting. So, you know, you know, just a few things that she did, like after the riots, like the George Floyd riots, like blah, blah, blah. She earned plaudits for being decisive in 2020 when she, okay, blah, blah, blah. What might have been interpreted at that time as a gambit

to put a lot of different fires has shown itself in the months since to be a full-blown reinvestment in policing. In July, Bottoms announced plans to spend $70 million on hiring 250 new officers and further expand the city's surveillance apparatus by adding hundreds of cameras. Cops now brag to local reporters about how many people they're pulling over for traffic citations. One unit, composed of just six officers and two supervisors, stopped 2,300 motorists between January

and mid-February 2021. Jesus Christ. God damn. It's like, well, y'all read that story about Brookside, Alabama. Yeah. Did you see this going around? I didn't see this.

So, basically, their police chief there was like doing some what we call fee grabbing right like you know they're like a speed trap town and they're writing all these citations and like from the year 2000 I think it was from 2000 yeah like 2006 to 2018 so like however many years that is 12 years or whatever it is they made less than 50 arrests for like like crimes like serious crimes none of which were murders or sexual assaults or anything like very serious, but like just other stuff. Okay? Now, since they've instituted this program, right, where they've basically like just putting people underwater in traffic courts and stuff like that to raise money,

they're averaging 4.4 arrests per household per year. God damn, dog. Per household. per household per household so the average household in brookside alabama has been arrested somebody in that household has been arrested 4.4 times babies and pets and everything more people than can be tested with our free kits coming down the pipe yeah i can't even test all these people they've arrested god damn jesus fuck and that shit's only going to get worse and i speak from my personal experience getting that driving on a suspended license ticket this week because it's like i looked that up and i was like one i didn't know

that my license was suspended but the other thing is is i looked it up and i was like is that even legal because it used to be just like even two or three years ago. That's not probable cause to pull somebody over and look at their license. But under the cover of darkness, the Supreme Court passed a precedent from a case in Kansas where cops can now run your tags. And if the owner of the vehicle has a suspended license, you can pull them over and cite them for that. So that's why they pulled you over? He said, I pulled you over because I ran your plates and you have an expired license. Which in my mind, no, he never told me why

he stopped me. But I didn't think anything about it. I was just like, okay, fucking snow and ice on the ground. Maybe I slid a little bit and he just thought I was drunk or something. At first I was like, you can't do that it's illegal but it's not it's not illegal as it turns out god damn man but that's just recently that happened in april of

2020 and one of the uh agreeing opinions on that was you ready for this but ruth bader ginsburg Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth Conda. Hell yeah. Little RBG. RBG. Fucking me over from beyond, from the great beyond. Oh, my God. Shit. Go ahead, Terrence.

No, you go ahead. No, I was just, no, I got nothing to say, really. I was just going to comment nothing to say really i was gonna just gonna comment that that brookside alabama story is just crazy man to see what like the small town with like more cops than they need just running the shit like their little fiefdom man yeah that's what pound was and the end result is you you end up collapsing over to your own white really you know what i mean i think it depends i think um the sort of needle that a lot of these municipalities are trying to thread is like we

all know that they're not building civil infrastructure anymore right because they don't fucking uh like there's no guarantee like that. It's a return on investment. There's no guarantee there'll be civilians in 50 years, but there will always be prisoners with the logic that the system currently runs on. And so they build out carceral infrastructure and they just keep arresting people.

And it becomes like their way to stay solvent at a certain point. But some of these municipalities can't do it, you're right. It's just too much capacity. Well, everything dries up because you don't want to get a reputation as a town where if you cross the street without looking both ways, you're going to get a ticket.

Well, I think that gradually, over time, every place will be that. Every place will just harass you and um you know just try to shake you down for as much shit as possible you know just you know to over time like dude it's crazy like i was telling um i was talking about this with my girlfriend last night like you know there's these like fentanyl scares right now and a lot of schools are responding to this by um disinfecting and like patting down every student

that walks in the doors now and like that would not have been possible five years ago you know what i mean like in the same way that 9-11 like made it it okay to just grope you every single time you go to an airport, now it's like that at schools, and they're doing it under the guise of health and hygiene and sanitization, and you see it in the way that the police have been able to control the fentanyl thing. I was going to ask you a question. They treat it like toxic gas. I wasn't aware fentanyl was a virus or a bacteria, though. Fentanyl?

Exactly. Exactly. What are you going to do are you gonna do sanitizing dude yeah what's Purell gonna do to fucking a drug it's just another way for them to take one more step into every aspects of our lives

you know what I'm saying it's theater yeah they're running theater it's theater but like it's all under the guise of I don't know it's it's theater but like it's all under the guise of i don't know it's it is kind of i know this is controversial to say because it is kind of but it is kind of futile in a way because it's all a part of a larger scheme to get you sort of in their tendrils somehow like even more so like for them to extend their tendrils into your life even more and be able to just, at a moment's notice, just, you know what I mean, like, pull them in.

It's, like, cumulative. It's kind of like the same policy that the broken windows policing kind of policy goes along, right, is that once we, like, like, you know, are controlling these little micro, like, events and, like, incidents and shit like that, you know, controlling these little micro like events and like incidents and shit like that you know like slowly as you were saying we'll be able to kind of create this like more i hate to say fascistic but that's kind of what it is right it's about control and power you know that's the thing like they talk about like mass incarceration is declining but if you like look at what's actually happening is like they're no longer just like sending people to a geographical specific location they are now moving that location closer and closer to everyone else and it's becoming more

diffused rather than like these just sort of like hyper local places of yeah concentration and other things more diffused and concentrated it's becoming more diffused so that like yeah like one day you wake up and you look around and again like i said at a moment's notice they can just pull those tendrils and just suck you in right in you know what i mean because you didn't get your license this that the other and then before you know it you're just you've just they're not gonna they're not gonna be building a prison that the town itself is going to be built into a prison you know what i mean exactly right that's exactly what i'm saying right like they are they are extending the mechanisms of control of the prison more and more into everyone else's life so that like there's no longer a distinction anymore so like all the logics and um you know processes of of of exploitation

and whatever else involved in a prison is now just so easily embedded into your life that it's just, it doesn't even matter whether you're law-abiding, quote-unquote, or not. Like, eventually, you're going to be funneled into that system. I was taking a survey of this with my ticket, and I hate to keep harping on this, but it's just funny because...

I'm able, i'm fine to like go to court and pay the court costs and like if convicted or whatever pay the fine and whatever thanks to uh the generous supportive listeners like you but i was thinking about this because i was running the math back i was like this would have absolutely fucked my life up like a couple years ago you know what i mean like five six years ago yeah i was like this would have absolutely fucked my life up like a couple years ago you know what i mean like five six years ago yeah i was gonna speak tickets like 160 bucks yeah well i mean the max fine is like 250 you're going to talk about a couple hundred bucks in court costs i the whole reason my license was suspended is because i didn't pay a 30 reinstatement fee that

the county attorney in fayette county didn't me about or anything. I didn't know about this. So it's like all these little fees, you know what I mean? They stack up, and then, like, if you're a poor working person, you can get buried under that shit. And then it's like you don't show up to court because you've got to go to work. That's a failure to appear. That's a bench warrant. That's more. That's more.

And, like, you see, I mean, mean like you've seen reporting on this over the last couple years of people just like for minor traffic violations ended up like going to jail for like stretches of a time and just get buried in that man and it's fucking satanic yeah that's what happened in um oh god damn man what was like why am i not remembering um mike brown's um city i'm I'm blanking out right now. Yeah, in Ferguson. Yeah, in Ferguson, Missouri. That's what the problem was, too, because you had, like, basically people in a, like, debt peonage.

You know what I mean? That, like, because they, like, couldn't pay the fine and they had to go to jail and they didn't miss out on work. And then they get out of jail and, like, they don't have a job. So they turn to, like, you know, more illicit activities that people fucking do you know what i mean if you can't make money or you find other ways to make money and it's the same thing that happened in that brookside alabama story where i think one of the sheriffs from um maybe the county sheriff or something was like actually this kind of policing creates more crime like it actually leads to crime because of the things that people are willing to do which are

criminal activities you know under the law at least that people are willing to do they be able to survive you know so yeah yeah it's it's funny because i remember terrence's piece that came out about the opioid stuff it's like when all when the rise of all this was really coming about crime was actually down but the narrative was crime was way up and things were out of control and all this kind of stuff the funny thing is while building out all this prison and police infrastructure like then you do have like the rise of like survival crimes you know what i mean that kind of stuff like that and that's the way they want it right because they need to justify their existence somehow exactly so it's yeah, it's like they don't really want to stop any sort of crime.

Like, they want to have, like, a class of people, like, you know, sort of underclass people. Criminal underclass. Well, they've criminalized survival strategies. You know what I'm saying? And at a certain point, don't know i mean there are contradictions in that um as well but it uh it definitely seems like the future is more prisons obviously but like the definition of the prison is changing and um like because they can't control or keep a lid on the sort of, you know, ripple effects of climate change and other stuff like that.

Like this is just their solution. And it's like that was the lesson of 2020. It's like every single person, even if you read this article, like Keisha Lance Bottoms was like somewhat sympathetic to the idea of quote-unquote reforming the police however you loosely you wanted to define that but like the article kind of went into like how she was kind of not it's like she's hamstrung by you know the sort of like you know white capitalists and power power elite that still control atlanta and stuff, like, how every black leader of Atlanta has always been constrained by that. And so it feels like that's the, like, they don't have any real alternative or any will, really, to combat that or harness.

I mean, it's just, like, if you were a leader and you came up against that problem and just, like, oh, I want to do, like, reform. I want to, like, you know, cut back the police budget and all this other stuff. It's like, well, you've got people in the streets, like, burning shit down for this. Like, you've got support. But, like, I don't know. They're literally afraid of, I mean, they're literally, like, afraid of, like, all these, like, local elected officials, like, whether they're mayors. I mean, you can talk about the mayor. Well, I mean, Eric Adams used to actually be a fucking cop.

But even de Blasio, right? Like, terrified of, like, the NYPD. You know, of their unions and of, like, the cultural purchase that the police have in people's minds, you know? Well, didn't they do some, they did some wild shit to de Blasio, didn't they? Yeah, to his daughter. Yeah, I think they do some wild shit to Blasio, didn't they? Yeah, to his daughter. Yeah, I think they doxxed his daughter. They fucking kidnapped his daughter. Or doxxed his daughter.

Yeah, this motherfucker trots his happy ass back out and praises them. Yeah, and he's out here fucking breaking his neck to sing their praises. These people are fucking sick. I mean, Keisha Lance Bottoms gave the cops, after Rayshard Brooks got killed, and there were the protests, and the they had the curfew. She gave these guys that got shot in the Wendy's at the Wendy's parking lot. They gave these motherfuckers like was the word I'm looking for, like like a bonus.

You know what I'm saying? It was incentive to show up for the job. Meanwhile, like, you know, and they like they do this shit all the time right to like boost morale but it's like you know you mentioned something i was thinking about terrence when you're talking it's like look at look at like what happened two years ago over the summer like this uprising and the most we got out of it was like this george floyd policing act you know and like all these like aesthetic discussions about race but really and truly like the political establishment democrats republicans double down even harder on like policing like where you had like fucking kamala harris and joe biden like the top cop of

the land as vp during a time of civil unrest against police institutions like that's just like god damn you guys really don't give a fuck like you're just doubling down man well and if like what happened to the minneapolis police precinct and like the uprising in the street and all this stuff's like terrence was saying if that does not signal in your mind that you have popular support or at least some uh like a non-insignificant measure of public support you're never going to do it exactly you know what i mean like you're never it's just like it what's it going to literally take for you to like make any even like the most sort of surface level reforms it's like what you do is we see you we hear you and then we step back out here and it's like we're going to invest in

training and da da da da da it's like these motherfuckers are not even legally required to act in dangerous situations there's no there's precedent the supreme court that they literally don't have to do anything it's the best job in the world you could kill with impunity you retire a hero and you don't have to do shit you don't want to do you gotta do shit man and then if you feel perfect job for better little cunt assholes. Oh, shit, dude. I gotta bounce, boys. You gotta bounce. All right.

Well, let's draw this one to a close. I mean, cops suck. You know, that goes without saying. So it feels like that's where we have landed today. Video games are bad for you? Video games are bad. What else did we have? Van Halen should change her name to Van Racist.

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We'll put the link in the bio. Anything else? No. Wait, can I just tell people something real quick? Yes. So I got on Struggle Session, this other, uh, this podcast where it talks about culture, video games, music and movies and shit. I'm going to be, uh, kind of like co-hosting, uh, with Leslie Lee and Jack Allison on their Alan Moore Presents series.

So I'll be talking about some Alan Moore shit as a, shit as a uh reappearing or regular guest on that show so check out triple session what's the word on alan moore is alan moore good or bad these days he's a comrade he's an anarchist he's he's good as hell but not just his political views but he honestly seems like a good person so i fuck with alan moore heavy man um well i read him a lot when i was in my 20s uh i didn't know if he was one of those that had been canceled or not um like a frank miller type nah nah he's he's or jeff johns or all these other motherfuckers who yeah have been canceled nah alan moore's still good for now today today he's not canceled i hope hope people in case are like, what about that Tanya? She canceled? Yeah, let's look up.

Let's look up if she's canceled. They should have a status. Surely they've canceled her by now. They should have a thing like that on your Tinder. It's like VAC status, canceled status. It's like StockX, but for your internet friends. Oh, God. All right.

Cancellation status. Pending, it's complicated. Pending 90%. Not yet. Under community review. All right. I got to go. Bye.

All right. We'll see y'all later.