Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 236: The Hang Ten Melting Pot

Episode Date: February 10, 2022

This week we discuss a cop getting his feelings hurt about a song; our senile congressman being inappropriate with his colleague; and the ways in which emojis can both solve and explain racism in Amer...ica Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

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Starting point is 00:00:00 we live in hell i mean we've we've been keeping people we have no housing like we already didn't have any housing and now all these people like hundreds maybe thousands of people displaced from those tornadoes have just been living in hotels this whole time and it's been how long it's been like over a month right yeah it was in early de. It's been like three months. Jesus Christ. I guess two full months. Oh, damn, man. Yeah, and like staying in a hotel every day, man. That's like nobody can. With a family.
Starting point is 00:00:32 Like kids literally going to school, getting picked up and dropped off at hotels. Yeah, man. And being denied. And like some of the reasons it said they were denied. I'm just fucking. Yeah, because the dude wasn't on the lease even though he was subletting his roommate was subletting the apartment so fema's like that's not a primary residence so you don't we can't we can't prove that they own such and such or or most of them were denied because they uh missed an inspection they had to be inspected or something
Starting point is 00:01:06 it's like this whole town is flat where are you supposed what are you doing what are you fucking doing what if you lose documents though that you're supposed to be using the police to get aid in there your house got fucking swept away by a tornado who knows down the mississippi bitch go dig it up that shit is being! That shit is being used by a bird to, like, you know, fill their nest right now. It's a hog's nest, motherfucker! Good luck!
Starting point is 00:01:35 Oh, shit. That shit did reach to Georgia. I can't believe his dumb fucking ass came down here and walked around. For some reason, that's for some reason that's like my sticking point that he walked his happy ass around town that's the bleakest part of it though right he walked around down here then went back and was like no no don't don't give it to him no don't give it to him they didn't they didn't suffer enough it was that bad they don't need it
Starting point is 00:02:00 Nah, don't give it to them. They didn't suffer enough. It wasn't that bad. They don't need it. I mean, I have to, for work, I have to, like, write up a little fucking update about what's happened the last three months politically in Kentucky, and I just want to write FAILED STATE in all caps. Failed State. Like, what's there to say?
Starting point is 00:02:19 I don't know what else to fucking say. It's the whole point of me not knowing what even to do about this here program we have. I don't know what else to fucking say it's the whole point of me not not not knowing what even to do about this here program we have i don't know what else to say we live in the ultimate hell we really do that all i know is to give give valentine's to people that's it i really i just i found a bulk sale on vibrators that look like little tubes of lipstick and I just gave them to all my friends I don't know what else to do I'm at the end of my rope you just gotta carve out little crannies of happiness
Starting point is 00:02:52 like community where you can't cause otherwise you just go insane I'm just in here making dog valentines I don't know what else to do you can't be emotionally raw dog in reality shaking in a corner cutting out hard construction paper. That's where we're at.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Yeah, and defeat him, cutting construction paper like a kindergarten. Yeah. But, at least I'm in my own house. Well, that's someone else's owns. Not in a fucking hotel. Shit's great. Sorry I came in hot here. Nah in hot here nah we're here for it before we even hit play no i've been recording well last night i got well yesterday i checked my mail
Starting point is 00:03:42 and i was opening up my mail last night and i had a thank you for it was a frankfurt address i was like and it was a handwritten uh envelope and i was like oh god am i being sued what is this because anything coming from frankfurt i don't want it it's good and scary the last thing they sent me was that i'm three fucking points away from having to hire a driver and having my license taken somebody's gonna have to drive me around but just no small accident i spent all morning in the frankfurt dmv or transportation cabinet what do they call it here we're getting a new license well i failed my uh permit test yesterday. Incredible. What was it?
Starting point is 00:04:28 This is like the show Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader because this test is for 15-year-olds. Well, yeah. It was me and like three pimply-faced kids and they put me on a computer like a touch menu
Starting point is 00:04:44 type deal. and i stopped the test like i didn't stop it i waved to the test doctor i said ma'am i said i just started and it says i've already skipped 18 questions and and missed five i said what's the deal and she said oh it's oh it's circling back around i was like i've not even made it through it it's like what i'm trying to tell you it's like i just hit i know this to be correct because i'm 36 years old and been driving for 20 years and it counted it as missed you're arguing with the wall i did i stopped it twice i was like something's not right here. And then it glitched out for a second and when it came back, all
Starting point is 00:05:27 the numbers on the bottom were changed. And I was like, what is going on here? Somebody trying to stop you from getting your license, man. I don't know what it was. Well, it was weird though because I don't know if y'all have taken the permit test since you've been 16,
Starting point is 00:05:44 but it's not stuff like, what does this sign mean? And what does this mean? And what do you do at a blinking yellow light? And what do you do at a blinking red light? And whatever, whatever. It's now like copaganda shit. It's now like, true or false, or not true or false, but you can lose your license for six months if you do which of the following things?
Starting point is 00:06:10 And one's like backtalking officer. One's like refuse a search. And then it's like if you refuse a breathalyzer. It sounds like all of the above. They got like a fourth option that's like well it's like actually cops can do whatever they want so any of these are right yeah what happened they were catching heat from killing too many they're they're um what they're doing is they're now baking into the driver's tests like how not to get shot by the police because the police are killing too many
Starting point is 00:06:46 people and so they're like well we got to do something we have to teach people how not to get instead of just you know taking defunding the police defunding the police taking the guns out of their hands or whatever it's like no no you can't say we didn't warn you we taught you how not to do it and if you get shot it's your fault now so yeah if you fail the permit you deserve to get shot that's weird there's a bill in the kentucky state legislature right now that would make it to where every school district can form its own police department like every like like high school middle like an agency history school like like a full like a whole ass agency not just like school resource officers
Starting point is 00:07:26 instead of deputy dumbass with like condoms and pads in his pockets walking around we got a whole fucking fleet of robocops ready to pop off deputy dumbass like teaches you how to put on a condom and how to
Starting point is 00:07:42 solve a homicide case wait so is this is this independent of like the local police forces that already exist i think so yeah i think it's like how college campuses have their own police forces i think that like now it would be it would make it to where like yeah like your local elementary school can have its own like car fork creek police squad you know and they like fucking arrest kids for like huffing aerosol cans or something i don't know what was that what was that arnold schwarzenegger movie where he was a cop in like kindergarten kindergarten cop yeah yeah yeah it's like that but they'll be able to like have black sites like where they can like disappear there'll be like black sites in the boiler rooms.
Starting point is 00:08:27 Disappear children. Right, right, right. Disappear children in the boiler rooms. No, they're going to institute chokies. Like for Matilda, they're getting chokies back. Chokies are making a comeback in Kentucky. Wait, what are chokies? You never seen the movie Matilda?
Starting point is 00:08:44 Yeah, I've seen Matilda. In Trish Bolt's office, she's got are chokies? You never seen the movie Matilda? Yeah, I've seen Matilda. In Trich Bolt's office she's got a chokie. It's a tiny closet with nails sticking out all around the kids. Oh, it's like Iron Maiden? Yeah. She sticks the kids in there. Using medieval torture devices on children? Yeah, calls it the chokie.
Starting point is 00:08:59 We're not too far away. This is actually a nice little segue for a story that was going around last week. We didn't get to cover. Honestly, put me in the chokie. The chokie. They hold them in the chokie before they put them in the pokey. The chokie to pokey.
Starting point is 00:09:19 The chokie to pokey. That's good. Slippery slope. Fuck me. This is in the Daily Independent. Boyd Sheriff opposed to upcoming performance. This is Catlettsburg, Kentucky. The Boyd County Sheriff is voicing his displeasure
Starting point is 00:09:44 after the tourism office announced a country music artist with a song entitled Fuck the Popo will be performing at the Boyd County Convention and Arts Center March 17th. Sheriff Bobby Jack Woods Bobby Jack, that's a great name.
Starting point is 00:09:59 Bobby Jack. Bobby Jack. Bobby Jack's nephew's girlfriend's sister-in-law. I used to cut her grandma's grass. Sheriff Bobby Jack Woods said his deputies will not be providing security for Country Music Act Corey Smith. I'm adamantly opposed to anyone coming to Boyd County promoting anti-law enforcement rhetoric and sentiment, Woods said. I was informed about this in late December, and I said I would not be providing security. Ashland Police Chief Todd Kelly expressed his displeasure as well, saying he was disappointed an artist would write a song against the police.
Starting point is 00:10:38 Like, never been done in the history of popular music. Exactly. It's like, you can't try to ride like you can't be trying to ride like the nwa wave like that happened like two decades ago you know that happened like 30 years ago man that's nobody cares anymore no that's that i mean it's crazy i mean just it's absurd for like a thousand different reasons but it's like if obviously like the police know that they don't exist to protect people anymore and so they're just cutting out the bullshit and they're just like well we're not going to do anything where
Starting point is 00:11:09 our feelings might get hurt but it is interesting like if we lived in the ideal world where police did what they were supposed to do it's like all speech should be protected so if you have a song that's fuck the popo like you should still have to show up and do your fucking job i mean that's just part of it right right right i mean i'm not saying i want them to come because they'll probably wind up like shooting 13 people on accident or something so it's like whatever but you know it's still absolutely absurd when the people give you an idea of like how highly they think of themselves you know like they're the dividing line between like anarchy and between like lawlessness and shit like that you know they're like we're not
Starting point is 00:11:48 going to show up to this concert like good motherfucker don't come uh-huh yeah they're probably going to come in plain clothes inside a ride and say that it was uh because they weren't there right well it's like cops are just advertisers now they're just trying to convince us they're worth they're like they are something yeah exactly i don't even know if cory smith the artist like if if that's even a big okay first of all i don't know who's cory smith is but if he's got a song called fuck the popo that's pretty dope i'm down with that is it a country song i gotta say that's a welcome sea change for bro country, though. Yeah, seriously. I was about to say, if he's country, he's stepping out. He's stepping out from the bro line.
Starting point is 00:12:29 He's an island man in that world. He's featured on such compilations as Mud Digger 1 and Mud Digger 2. Okay. Is this a guy that's in Bubba Sparks' clique? You know how he does that Sparks' clique? Yeah You know how he does that country rap stuff now? Yeah Oh shit
Starting point is 00:12:52 I mean We're gonna have to pull it up He's like in the same milieu as like Cross Canadian Ragweed And like Trent Tom I mean these are just like they're just country boys
Starting point is 00:13:06 but it is interesting that I mean who knows if he would even play that song like you know what I mean like it's just a song it's not even confirmed that he was gonna play this song he just has a song called Fuck the Popo that's why they did whatever they did
Starting point is 00:13:23 someone tipped them off someone was like hey man just letting you guys know core smith he's got a song called fuck the popo and they were like no for for motherfuckers who like walk around with like guns and tanks and shit like that they're so fucking soft man i'm want to say this uh you know the aunties the people who protest and harass patients outside of abortion clinics yeah when they get pregnant and need an abortion and they call the abortion funds those people who were harassing people in front of the clinic do you know what the abortion fund does they fund their fucking abortion yeah regardless of this like these fucking cops are insane people they're actually getting paid right yeah yeah you if you could just sit there and like hear
Starting point is 00:14:20 somebody hurl insults at you but you get paid. I mean, that's what podcasting is, right? I get paid for this shit, bro. People call me all types of names, man. I do my fucking job. And you show up dutifully. I clock the fuck in to take your crits. That's what I showed up for.
Starting point is 00:14:43 And you get to carry a gun, motherfucker. Stop complaining, man. Stop bitching. Yeah yeah you are the softest little bitch alive this is interesting and like it wasn't even that big a dance it just said fuck you like you never had no your cousin ain't never said fuck you it wasn't like kill the po-po it is very interesting it is a very interesting thing like if someone had a song called, like, Fuck the Accountants, and, like, you were an accountant,
Starting point is 00:15:09 you'd probably be like, Yeah, man, fuck the accountants. I fucking hate this goddamn job. Bunch of CPAs show up in a picket church concert. See, if I do that, motherfuckers tax us. I think... Can we do like a quick read-through of the lyrics of this song?
Starting point is 00:15:32 Yeah, we should. Before we do that, let me give you the background for why it was written. Okay. I think we probably, just gesture broadly. I think we got that part. Well, it's, okay, hold on cory smith is his name right oh fuck the popo all right um he wrote the song in 2003 oh fuck it almost 20 years ago wrote this song oh wait wait no i'm. The song at the center of the controversy was written about a 2003 roadblock in which Smith was arrested for disorderly conduct.
Starting point is 00:16:09 The charges were subsequently thrown out. Since pinning the song, it has met its fair share of controversy. A venue in Chattanooga, Tennessee pulled the plug on his set when he performed it in 2011. Jesus Christ. Smith has gone on to state publicly he is friends with many officers and does not think all law enforcement is bad boo come on man Corey you were doing so good
Starting point is 00:16:31 well you know what like all those all the cops that are crying about anti-law enforcement sentiment and everything are the same people that in the next breath say oh well you can't hold against somebody what they said 20 years ago yeah right like somebody like there's a tape of somebody saying the n-word well that cuts both
Starting point is 00:16:50 ways motherfucker that's what you think you can't hold it against somebody that uh 18 19 years ago they said fuck the popo it was a different time than it was accepted. Oh, man. It was normal. Let's see the lyrics to this. I'm going to read the lyrics. Blue lights flashing, they got traffic stopped, and Highway 11's done turned into a permanent roadblock. I wasn't driving.
Starting point is 00:17:23 I wasn't driving. My wife was my DDd and she hasn't drank a drop still got hassled by the jpd and i said hey dude can't you just leave her alone alone she ain't done nothing wrong man and we just want to go home man that's i mean like i i mean this shit does it's it's uh it does happen and it fucking Yeah, I mean, and I was mad as hell thinking, fuck the popo, and they wonder why folks don't trust them no more. No mo. And I'm not going to let this go, and I'm singing fuck the popo.
Starting point is 00:17:56 So I got arrested just for speaking up, and that cop said, boy, the only right you have is to shut the fuck up. Now I'm a jailbird. I've done time in the pen, and I've got a real messed up story to tell all my friends. Yeah, my name was in the newspaper in my hometown. They ruined my reputation because I didn't bow down. And now I'm Metis Helsing and fuck the po-po,
Starting point is 00:18:16 and they wonder why people don't trust them no more. Anyways. Your local newspaper will put your worst facebook pictures in the paper they absolutely will they they think they they are an investigative tabloid is what they think but if you've got a picture of you holding a gun on facebook bitch you're done listen it's about to be a headline it's the cover the whole cover of the paper listen to this lyric listen to this lyric my man cory got a taste of um uh what happens to the black underclass of this country he said now i understand why all these rappers are mad
Starting point is 00:18:59 they must have been treated as badly as i have now i'm yeah jesus he says now i'm screaming matter i just love that i just love that like not to say that what he what happened to him isn't bad it doesn't suck you know what i mean but like you know like you're comparing like getting like harassed by the police you You know what I'm saying? Like, getting, like, drugs planted on you and shit like that to, like, a cop telling you to shut the fuck up. You know, at a roadblock. It's interesting. I love it.
Starting point is 00:19:33 I love it. This song, actually, I think you're right. It's not a comparison, Aaron. But I do think it's an interesting kind of lyrical exploration of the way the cops work. He said, they're putting roadblocks in front of my house, man. I'm starting to feel like I live under the Taliban. Can't drive home without a gun in my face.
Starting point is 00:19:54 Thursday through Sunday, they're invading my space. And it's true. I mean, you can't. In a way, Corey Smith was kind of the oracle, wasn't he? I like what policing would become and be widely criticized for, like today. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. While using intersectionality, you know?
Starting point is 00:20:12 I mean, not to say that stuff is like, you know, wasn't happening for time immemorial, but I'm just saying that feels timely in a way you don't really see in this strain of the genre especially it's it's country do we confirm it's a country song it is apparently i ain't heard it yet i mean let's see this is i mean it's just cory's just uh tossing up a little solidarity oh my god does that sound country to you tanya fucking taliban I'm just tossing up a little solidarity.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Oh my God. Does that sound country to you, Tanya? The fucking Taliban. Oh, am I the, am I the desider? You're the arbiter of country music. Is that sufficiently country for you? I don't know what's country. I mean, it's, the interesting thing about this is that I think this song is a pretty measured criticism of the cops.
Starting point is 00:21:11 Basically, what happened was he was driving home one night. His wife was sober, and he was shit-faced. And they started giving his wife a hard time, and he got mad about that. And they arrested him and sent him to jail. And basically, all he's saying is, you wonder why people don't trust you anymore you wonder why all this shit is happening like look at what's happening you can't go anywhere without a fucking gun being put in your face like this it's pretty mild just observations about like the way the police function but it's just like they got their panties in a fucking wand and and
Starting point is 00:21:44 decide you like at this they're like not we in a fucking wand and and decide like at this they're like not we're not we're not gonna provide security at this guy's concert no no from a song from 2003 though like that means that they had to like have searched like his discography or some shit and found that song man yeah i guess well this happened to him in 2003 It looks like this song is from 2008 But still that's a long time ago What did they do about Bone Thugs and Harmony When they came there last week Bone Thugs Was Bone Thugs up there
Starting point is 00:22:17 Bone Thugs played Ashland What Did they go out and hop Yeah Did Bone Thugs have a personal escort through Ashland What? Did they go out and hop for a second? Yeah. Did both thugs have a personal escort through Ashland? I'm curious, because Ashland's not necessarily what I'd call a hotbed for sort of live performance or anything like that. But yeah, they sure as hell were there.
Starting point is 00:22:41 Well, they got the Paramount. That's a beautiful theater. I saw Loretta Lynn there. Is that where they played. That's a beautiful theater. I saw Loretta Lynn there. Is that where they played? That is a beautiful theater. It's a beautiful theater. I don't know. And that's what you're talking about. That is a beautiful theater.
Starting point is 00:23:03 Sound like you owe the theater with that voice I should have thrown myself down the stairs I could have owned it Well, um, Corey You have a freestanding invitation to the Trailbillies If you want to come on Yeah, Corey, come on If you want to tell your story
Starting point is 00:23:23 Okay, it sucks so bad. We're going to roast him. Come get roasted. Corey, come on. We've never invited anybody to come get roasted on the show. I think it's a good idea, honestly. I'm not going to roast him. I think that he should be supported for talking shit about the cops.
Starting point is 00:23:42 And I think he should stand his ground, man. Fuck these goddamn cops. Hey, was this a, did he have a recent comment in the article? No. Yeah, did they reach out to him? These are his lyrics from 2018. From 2008. We ain't talked to the boy
Starting point is 00:23:58 in 20 years. Does he still hate the police? I don't know. If he comes out and says, no, no, I love the cops. Sorry, guys. Please come to my show. Then we'll say, gotta go, Corey. Zoom is freezing up.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Sorry, we lost you, Corey. We lost Corey. At Mountain Internet, honey. Well, I finally went down. My bad, Corey. My bad, dog. Well, I finally went down with my bad car. My bad, dog. Well, thanks. This was a great conversation on policing with country singer Corey Smith.
Starting point is 00:24:37 The obvious choice for these things. I'm going to pee on myself. It's like, you know when John Ruhle was on MTV and they asked him about 9-11 he came on and talked about police the perfect person a paradigm of country intersectionality
Starting point is 00:24:56 yeah I'm still so sad y'all got mixed up in that fire festival shit right like this great tragedy has happened man on this like geopolitical scale and they ask you what do you think about shit man Well, at the very least, we can talk about mudding. I'm a mudder from way back.
Starting point is 00:25:30 I've done my fair share of mudding. What's mudding? Is that mud wrestling? Yeah, mud wrestling. Yeah, mud wrestling. Muddiggers. I'd like to see that, Terrence. mud diggers i'd like to see that terrence i used to i used to envy the guys that had a mudding truck that was like the high water mark of just uh you know i just had like shit kicker friends
Starting point is 00:25:55 in high school that would like take me with them just to like you know see if they could like um you know see if like the nerdy skinny guy would get really unnerved, like, you know, like, being, you know, look at those, like, four-wheel drive trucks and, like, fucking drive them through, like, you know, mud pits and shit. I don't know. Yeah, like, badass shit to see if you could, like, hang. Yeah. Scared pussy. I hung. I was down, man.
Starting point is 00:26:31 Sounds pretty homoerotic. Whoever was smoking weed in their truck. That's where I'd go. Oh, yeah. Well, that was pretty interesting. So, yeah, but I guess they're still going to have the concert because the guy who, like, booked it and organized it and everything, he's just going to hire out a private security firm with, like,
Starting point is 00:26:58 staffs off-duty cops. That's interesting, actually, man. It's kind of made me think i mean we don't got to get into it but it's made me think like the future of policing and like i mean yeah police are getting money but i mean there are a lot of police departments too where like you know like the resources like i mean people don't give a fuck you know what i'm saying like they talk about funding the police and they're pro-police but i mean you have local police departments that are like i don't want to say suffering i don't want to use that word to from their point of view they're pro police but i mean you have local police departments that are like i don't want to say suffering i don't want to use that word to from their point of view they're suffering but it's just like yo you live in a system where you could just hire out a private police force well
Starting point is 00:27:30 i think most concerts do that anyways and in fact now that i think about it i think that the actual police very rarely provide security for any concerts period so like this is just a stunt really yeah and when they did it's just a whiny baby tail it's just a whiny exactly but i mean even when they did like astroworld man like the cops fucking weren't there to do the things they were supposed to do you know to keep it safe and shit right that's because satan was somebody's always watching out let that be a lesson to you I kind of need to know If this is all happening
Starting point is 00:28:13 Going down at the Paramount Theater What this show? I don't see Yeah Paramount Where's that? I don't think it's at the Is it?
Starting point is 00:28:22 Damn I already closed the fucking I already closed Wynonna Judd's it's at the... Is it? Damn, I already closed the fucking... I already closed it. Wynonna Judd's gonna be at the Paramount in June. My God. Boyd. We really are just doing live music again, aren't we? No, it's at the Boyd County Convention and Arts Center.
Starting point is 00:28:38 I don't know if that's the same thing as the Paramount or what. No, I ain't been there. Wynonna. Yeah, I ain't been there. Winona. Yeah, man, live concerts again. We have to move on from the pandemic. Apparently. Apparently. Well, anyways, they could just book.
Starting point is 00:29:03 What they could do is they could just book Kid Kentucky. Do you know who Kid Kentucky is? No. Is he the rapper? What he is is he is a Kid Rock lookalike. He sounds and looks exactly like Kid Rock, but he's Kid Kentucky. There's one in every state.
Starting point is 00:29:28 That's why he's named so. Right, there's a Kid Alabama, a Kid Rhode Island. Kid Georgia. You got a Kid New York, Kid New Jersey. Kid New Hampshire, yeah. Kid Vermont, yeah. Yeah, they got a dude who's a Drake lookalike, man, and that's what he does.
Starting point is 00:29:45 He gets paid out by, like, venues to go to parties and look like Drake. Have you all ever went to Instagram and typed in hashtag white Drake? Nah. Oh, man. Thank me later. Thank me later. It's a bunch of motherfuckers that look like a thumb that like... Saying that they're the white dreg.
Starting point is 00:30:12 Amazing. Oh, shit. Well, okay. There's like so many things to talk about this week. It's almost unreal. Like there's so many things. I don't even know where to start. We gonna do buffet style again? Yeah, we gonna go dim sum again?
Starting point is 00:30:32 We could do that. So, I mean, I don't even know where to begin. So, the very first thing, thing I guess that comes to mind is on the show last week I wanted to talk about the Marco Rubio pro-labor bill. But that's old news by this point. Do we even want to talk about that? Is there even anything there we could talk about? No. about that? Is there even anything there we could talk about?
Starting point is 00:31:09 What else we got? It feels like Russian roulette. Yeah, what else we got? There's Dolly Parton pledging to give all of her employees free community college, even though people already get free community college in Tennessee.
Starting point is 00:31:27 But, like, people celebrated it like Benevolent Dolly was. Well, now, Terrence, people coming straight out of high school can get free community college, not everybody. Oh, that's true. My bad. Well, then that's good. It's not everybody. Oh, that's true.
Starting point is 00:31:41 My bad. Well, then that's good. This is just another perk to live out your retirement working for Dollywood. Did we pull Dolly to the left? No. Yeah, we pulled Dolly left. I don't think we have. Jury's out, I'd say. I can change her.
Starting point is 00:32:03 By the time you wrote that article, you did change Tom, you wrote that article, you did change her. You wrote that article, you did change her. It was Tom's article, he did. She read that, she'd have felt bad about herself. Good job, Tom. Getting the goods. Getting the goods. DA got the goods.
Starting point is 00:32:30 You're welcome, employees of dollywood i'm the reason now we have to go to school i'm the reason you gotta pull summer classes at severe county community college Oh man Jesus Christ So there's the Dolly thing Our congressman Hal Rogers Hit the national news for once Come on He was getting on a Train with his fellow congresswoman
Starting point is 00:33:03 What's her name? Betty something uh do you guys know no i hadn't heard this you hadn't heard this it's going no i like where this is going keep going wow i'm intrigued okay um did he get his ass kicked on the subway joyce joyce baby joyceity she told me she did she she almost did kick his ass and it was pretty funny there's there's video of it like after it happened um but what happened was they were getting on a the train and um and she asked him to put his mask on and he poked her in the back and she said don't touch me and he said kiss my ass and um and she fucking motherfucker she's like black right yeah she's black and she told him off she was like you
Starting point is 00:33:51 picked the wrong woman like for that like she like there's like a video there's a video of it like of her telling him off and it's pretty satisfying like um it wasn't some rando on the train it was the congresswoman yeah she was like i'll drag you in front of ethics and everything like this is um like i'll drag you on this train yeah yeah i will drag you up and down the aisle i'm dragging you into court why is it that these motherfuckers Like these portly or either like gangly Motherfuckers always would have fucked with an older black woman You don't do it dude Bro that's
Starting point is 00:34:29 You don't do it man What an illustrious legacy man You've just built prisons and the first time you made a national headline In years is cause you accosted A black woman My god Imagine this motherfucker Jesus man Oh so rich and powerful i'm telling you that
Starting point is 00:34:49 this fema situation has fucked me up and fucking thinking about how rogers makes people to fight somebody so bad i'm sure her ass was like i've literally been waiting on this my whole life bitch you. You just touched me. I'm about to own you, mother fucker. Try me. Laid one finger on me. You're fucking done. Yeah, she was pretty measured. I mean, if he would have done that to me,
Starting point is 00:35:17 it would have been an uppercut. Bam, yay. Terrence is gangly ass. Yeah. Climbed him like a tree Yeah I would have found the strength To take him at least a few feet off the ground Wow
Starting point is 00:35:31 I cannot believe he touched her This motherfucker is really senile That is brazen I mean to lay hands on somebody like this. I mean, he's got to be sundown in a little bit. You know, even for his standard, that's a little out there. He probably doesn't even remember. He's 84.
Starting point is 00:35:57 I mean, he is a fossil. He is ancient. Like, he is so fucking old. But, yeah. She could have literally just tripped him and ended him right there i know he would have shattered on the floor hit the ground dust yeah that's what that's the people that are ruining our lives they could be taken down with a fucking spit wand. This is ridiculous. You just blow it up and they'd kill over you.
Starting point is 00:36:31 Right. That is an interesting thing. You wouldn't even need the Lee Harvey Oswald with the rifle in the bug depository. You could just hit them with a straw and a spit ball and their fucking head would explode. That's how old they are. One drink of McDonald's Sprite in this motherfucker. Yeah, that's true. One goddamn fizzy water going down the wrong pipe
Starting point is 00:36:59 and we're out of this nightmare. Ever since Tom used his mic cord to try to hang himself i can't i'm like we really could just do it oh my god yeah damn yeah i wonder if he has has uh well it's not his district i'm sure not i wonder if any of these motherfuckers have inquired about why only 14 of aid requests to fema out of fucking tornado stro in kentucky have been approved yeah fucking two months later and these motherfuckers go ahead time my bad go ahead no instead they're poking women
Starting point is 00:37:46 on the motherfucking train I got a damn FEMA check from the Bush administration for for my fucking living room carpet
Starting point is 00:37:58 getting wet during a flooding thing it wasn't even no damage or nothing it was just dried right out but they still sent me a FEMA check. Damn.
Starting point is 00:38:10 People missed their inspections because their literal home is gone. They missed their inspections. It's just hypocritical, man. These people complain about government and shit like that, but when the institutions aren't doing their jobs,
Starting point is 00:38:27 they have nothing to say. There's nothing left. This government is useless. It's not... There's not even a shred of fucking anything left. They can't do that.
Starting point is 00:38:43 Accountability? Not even accountability, man. They can't do a. Accountability? Not even accountability, man. They can't do a goddamn thing. What is the fucking point? I just... Hotels are the only housing we have. We can't even fucking house people. Those fucking sick freaks
Starting point is 00:39:05 you said it's been like three months god damn man um what's come of this is he going to is he getting took to the ethics committee I don't know is she suing his ass
Starting point is 00:39:21 I think it's ongoing I think this is an ongoing story. I know she did a press release. I didn't listen to it, but I know she got on the news the other night. I was talking about it. Yeah, I saw her on CNN. Where's she from? What's her district?
Starting point is 00:39:37 I don't know. I'm afraid to... Let's see here. Oy, oy, oy. I don't know. I mean, while we're talking about sick cops and sick old bastards... Ohio.
Starting point is 00:39:57 Ohio. I don't know where. What were you going to say? Oh, okay. That we have... Letcher County County We have our own sheriff disaster tale In the paper this week Or last week Whoever
Starting point is 00:40:14 I think Columbus Her district is part of Columbus, Ohio So Street fight She's street fight Territory Go's street fight Territory Go on street fight Yeah do it Joyce Bader
Starting point is 00:40:29 Go on street fight Hit up the homies What else you got for us Terrence Okay well you got There's a few There's a few different articles we could do one that okay so obviously there was one going around that was kind of funny uh it was op-ed in the los angeles times uh who are you calling a warmonger by james kerchick uh that guy is an idiot and a half, but he's...
Starting point is 00:41:05 I don't know. I read it. It's kind of funny. But I agree with him in this. But I agree with him. This guy's completely moronical, but he makes some cogent points. I hope somebody says that's about me one day. Yeah. An idiot,
Starting point is 00:41:23 but logical. Then there's a story in NPR about how if you're white and you use the race-neutral emoji, it means you're privileged. Wow. So the yellow one is a sign of white privilege? The yellow one's a sign of white privilege. The yellow one's a sign of white privilege. I thought it was the Sampson's. Just a heads up,
Starting point is 00:41:49 dog. Just a heads up. You won't be out here using the yellow. Don't do it. If you're white, you better be using the goddamn white emoji. You will be candy. I always like the whites that go a little too arab slash latino with their
Starting point is 00:42:08 thumbs up just because they're like scared to embrace the white thumb oh bro i mean like i had a boss but uh ed before i got the job it was at a diner like a restaurant place before i got the job i had to do a phone call with him and text and shit like that actually it's before the phone call even so i don't even know what he sounded like um and the manager that referred me on my old job didn't tell me what he looked like he was a white dude so when i was texting him man he was using the black like brown thumbs up emoji and shit i was like yo this is a brother man i was like, this is a brother, man. And then I heard his voice.
Starting point is 00:42:48 I was like, bro. Why are you trying to Trojan horse me, man? I don't care if you black or white. I'm working the job anyway, motherfucker. I need money. Jesus Christ. Was it some sorry to bother you shit? Or was he really just a white guy guy He was really just a white guy man
Starting point is 00:43:07 We had really weird views But yeah man My boss at KVX sent me a black fist One time I was like God damn it My landlord does it Six figures School shit My landlord does it Six figures
Starting point is 00:43:25 School shit My landlord does My landlord hits me with that Mexican thumbs up every time I give her Money for rent Like a little too much melanin on that Sir Yeah for a
Starting point is 00:43:44 50 something blonde lesbiansomething blonde lesbian. White blonde lesbian, yes. She got a tanning bed? No. God, I've been looking on realtor websites and shit and pictures of people's homes
Starting point is 00:43:59 with all their shit in it. It's so interesting. And so many houses, more than you would think houses, have tanning bedrooms. Really? A room with a tanning bed in it. I mean, not that I would ever get in one of those, but just the concept is terrifying, man.
Starting point is 00:44:19 Like, what if that shit fritzes out? Well, we could read that one. That's kind of the one I'm more partial to, but actually this- With that yellow emoji one? Yeah, but this one actually seems kind of good too. This is in the Washington Post.
Starting point is 00:44:32 Blue suburban moms, or blue, you know, as in Democrat, blue suburban moms are mobilizing- Not the blue fugates? Not the blue fugates, no. They've drank colloidal silver. Blue suburban moms are mobilizing to counter conservatives in fights over masks book bans in diversity education this is about a this is about a group called red wine and blue of 300 000 liberal suburban moms so these these are like the analog
Starting point is 00:45:05 to the conservative moms that we covered last week when we talked about them trying to ban the N-word. So it's blue bagger versus red bagger. Yeah, yeah, it is kind of, yes. It is. Yeah, I'm down for that one.
Starting point is 00:45:17 I don't know. What do you guys think? Which of those sounds most interesting to you? Honestly, the yellow emoji with it and mostly because i just i'm like i'm thinking that my landlord would be the target audience for it so i want to see if she adjusts her behavior when rent's due next month yeah i'm gonna say my old boss this episode. I'm going to see if she goes yellow and remains on the side of the oppressor
Starting point is 00:45:47 or if she goes white and is more realistic. I'm going to send it to my old boss and be like, bro, I'm going to call you in, man. I'm not calling you out. I'm calling you in. Just listen to me. Just a little heads up, bro. Okay, well, let's see here. NPR, which skin color
Starting point is 00:46:04 emoji should you use? The answer can be more complex than you think. This article has three authors, and any time you see an article with three authors or more than one author, like, you're getting some interesting shit. Heath Rosella identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino.
Starting point is 00:46:25 When texting, he chooses a yellow emoji instead of a skin tone option because he feels it doesn't represent any specific ethnicity or color. He doesn't want people to view his texts in a particular way. He wants to go with what he sees as the neutral option and focus on the message.
Starting point is 00:46:42 I present as very pale, very light skinned, And if I use the white emoji, I feel like I'm betraying the part of myself that's Filipino, he said. But if I use a darker color emoji, which maybe more closely matches what I see when I look at my whole family, it's not what the world sees and people tend to judge that. In 2015, five skin tone options became available for hand gesture emojis, in addition to the default Simpsons-like yellow. Choosing one can be a simple texting shortcut for some,
Starting point is 00:47:14 but for others, it opens a complex conversation about race and identity. Oh, my God. Let me ask y'all a question. Let me ask y'all a question. We've trafficked enough in the NGO world between all of us and campaigns and stuff. Really, give me an over-under
Starting point is 00:47:31 of how many tough conversations I've had about the skin tones and the emotions. Because if it's more than just like some jokesy banter a la what we're doing right now. All these motherfuckers need to be
Starting point is 00:47:48 like blocked and reported and shut down and like their assets seized by some authority. I'm not usually on the side of the state, but I would welcome their assets being seized. I'm an abolitionist. They should have never gave these whites money
Starting point is 00:48:06 but like just the person who before they respond with an emoji has like a crisis of racial identity like what the fuck is wrong with you bro you should be locked up in a padded room for the rest of your life man get the fuck out of here I used the line on Sheila last weekend.
Starting point is 00:48:26 I said, Mom, people need to be left in rooms with drains and never checked on again. I think I speak for the entire jaundice community when I say that we should have banned the yellow emoji aaron were you gonna say something a second ago right before no no no go ahead go ahead um all right i use the brown one that matches me said sarai cole an opera singer in germany i have some friends who use the brown ones too, but they are not brown themselves. This confuses
Starting point is 00:49:05 me. Cole is originally from California and identifies as black and an American descendant of slavery. She said that while she was not offended when a non-brown friend used a dark emoji, she would like to understand why. I think it would be nice if it is their
Starting point is 00:49:22 default, but if they're just using it with me or other brown people, I would want to look into that deeper and know why they're doing that. I use the default. What a horribly embarrassing thing to get like, hey, could we just see all your texts where you use the emoji, and you just color-coded it to the person you're talking to? That would be hilarious for us us but it would be awful
Starting point is 00:49:45 i mean that's its own form of racism right like right like the same boss that i'm telling you about man i'm talking so much shit about this motherfucker it doesn't matter he's listening to show but like one time this is during the airport man i'm just dragging his ass this is during the airport bad man like during the protests right when they were banning people trump has many people from coming in from certain seven muslim countries and this uh these two muslim women came in and they were in their like hijabs and stuff right and this motherfucker walks up to them on like middle of sunday brunch and says i want you to know that you're welcome here and here's a gift card like you know what i mean like you're signaling them out to try to perform anti like i don't know at that point i guess it's not anti-racist but i know what the
Starting point is 00:50:29 fuck it is just to be performative but it's like actually motherfucker that's even more racist right yeah yeah yeah what the fuck are you doing you are basically essentializing them like what you are is you're boiling their entire identity down to just that. Exactly. People are complex. Right, right. That said, if any restauranteurs feel bad about the heavy foot of the British crown being on my people from the islands,
Starting point is 00:50:59 then feel free to give me a gift certificate. The island. Feel free to give me a gift. I want to know, I want to talk about what do you think people are most using the hand emojis for? You think it's just a thumb up, thumb down situation? Yeah. What do y'all use hand emojis for? I use the, you know, hang ten. I use the bicep, the arm one.
Starting point is 00:51:29 Well, see, there's a robot arm bicep now. You got a robot one? I do the hang ten a lot, too. And I go up a shade if it's like May through August, and I go down a shade during the fall and winter months. So you correlate your emoji skittonius with how my base tan looks.
Starting point is 00:51:53 Actually, I can't fault that. That's accurate. It's the only accurate way to do it. After not a hard drinking, it's the yellow mine's the yellow hanged in um jennifer epperson from houston identifies as black and said she changed her approach depending on who she was talking to i used the default emoji the yellow toned one for professional settings and then i used dark brown emoji for friends and family. I just don't have the emotional capacity to unpack race relations in the professional setting.
Starting point is 00:52:30 And then we get a new subheader here. Is the yellow emoji really neutral? A 2018 study published by the University of Edinburgh looked at the use of different skin tone emojis, what is referred to as modified emojis, on Twitter to find out if the modifiers contributed to self-representation. Alexander Robertson, an emoji researcher at Google. An emoji researcher. An emoji researcher. Somebody gets paid at Google, bro.
Starting point is 00:53:00 This dude works from home. He makes about, I don't know three four hundred thousand dollars a year maybe more uh-huh uh and he has a take-home uh covid testing kit he can test himself endlessly he tests himself maniacally all day long every hour on the hour. And then he sends a hang tin that he sets to deck. All clear. All clear, baby. All wavy gravy over here. He is...
Starting point is 00:53:34 Y'all ever use the chef? The chef one that's like... The chef's kiss? Yeah. Yeah. After much debate, my group chat has decided that's the fisting emoji. It's the fisting emoji yeah i thought you were gonna say like fisting emoji
Starting point is 00:53:53 and it also means delicious in italian delicious yeah i was gonna say i thought you meant it's like anti-italian we decided that this was an anti-italian emoji yeah if you put if you use that emoji and it's just white like that's some cultural appropriation you know because like it's not olive toned it's not olive tone mediterranean you know um okay alexander robertson an emoji researcher at google and phd candidate involved in the study, said the emoji modifiers were used widely, but it was people with darker skin who used them in higher proportions and more often.
Starting point is 00:54:35 After another look at Twitter data, Andrew McGill, then writer for The Atlantic, found that some white people may stick with the yellow emoji because they don't want to assert their privilege by adding a light skinned emoji to a text or to take advantage of something that was created to represent diversity perhaps like heath or salad they don't want to think about how their message could be interpreted but zara ramen a researcher and writer in berlin argues that the skin tone emojis make white people confront their race as people of color often have to do. For example,
Starting point is 00:55:10 she's, she shared Sarai Cole's confusion when someone who is white uses a brown emoji. So she asked some friends about it. One friend who is white told me that it was because he felt that white people were overrepresented in the space that he was using the emoji. So he to kind of try and even the playing field what the fuck bro bro just say you've been to miami that's fascinating that person's rationale is fascinating. He's like, no, I'm trying to, like, you know.
Starting point is 00:55:46 It's like, there's too many. I want to help out Team Black. I want to help out Team Black. I want to help out the spells, bro. Help out the spells. I'm not looking for a pad on the back. I'm just doing my part. I wasn't even going to mention it.
Starting point is 00:55:59 I wasn't even going to mention it. Trying to fix the game in favor of my brother's assistants, man. That's it. I respect it, man. For me, it does signal a kind of lack of awareness of your white privilege in many ways. Rahman, who in 2018 wrote the article for the Daily Dot, The Problem with
Starting point is 00:56:17 Emoji Skin Tones That No One Talks About, also challenges the view that the yellow emoji... Let me stop you just for a second. Anytime, listen, I just want to say this to all of you right now. Anytime we ever feel bad about ourselves on this program, like we're not doing a good job
Starting point is 00:56:36 or like we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel content, just remember that somebody gave this man probably a couple hundred bucks or something to write a think piece about the race implications of the emojis. Well, I believe it's a woman, so you've misgendered them already. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:57:03 Also challenges the view that the yellow emoji, similar to the characters from the simpsons is neutral because on that show there were yellow people and there were brown people and there were black people she said there was a default in society to associate whiteness with being raceless and the emojis gave white people an option to make their race explicit i completely hear some people are just exhausted from having to do that many people of color have to do that every day and are confronted with race every day ramen said but for many white people they've been able to ignore it whether that's subconsciously or consciously their whole lives yeah i i agree the thing is is i'm just not convinced that emojis is the best way to like
Starting point is 00:57:46 absolutely even this or you know i don't know anyways i'm not sure this is the arena where you battle that out and sort that out this is this is this is not worthy to enter the marketplace of ideas what i'm saying we just want health care and to abolish the police. These aren't big requests. As a delegate of the black community, black people don't care about emojis, man. You don't give a shit about that shit. That's elegant. You don't care about this.
Starting point is 00:58:16 What's funny about this? What about Android users where this is like? Or like people with like, you know what I mean? Like where this just doesn't even factor Into the equation Or you got a flip phone Or you got a brick Maybe you know You're on hard times
Starting point is 00:58:29 And you've got One of those burner phones You have to add minutes to Every couple days Exactly That's when you gotta go back To the race neutral emoticons man You know like
Starting point is 00:58:40 Comma You know what I mean Like Smiley Oh yeah Yeah like parentheses and shit. Three less than. Now, if you could find a way to be racist with emoticons.
Starting point is 00:58:56 Good luck. That's a new frontier. Three weeks, somebody else is going to write an article about how emoticons are racist. How bringing emojis was a new frontier in like racial progress? We were afraid to speak up during the emoticon era.
Starting point is 00:59:12 Can't be silent anymore. Now we won't be silent. Yeah, Tanya, now we won't be silent anymore. Shit. Ramon admits there's no specific answer to all the questions about emoji use but said it was an opportunity to think about how people want to represent their identities i think it's more one of those places where we just have to think about who we are and how we
Starting point is 00:59:39 want to represent our identities she said and maybe it does change depending on the season. Depending on the context you're in. Depending on the season. It's your thing, Tom. It's, yeah. I, that's. And I hit the beach. That's, so that's actually the end of the article. That's how I let people know I've been on vacation.
Starting point is 01:00:02 Yeah. The tan emoji. Yeah, tan it up, tan it up. Just darken it a little bit. Well, I do like the implication here though that if you don't use that if you are white and you are using the yellow
Starting point is 01:00:16 emojis, you're doing a racism basically. You are. Racism. You're ignoring your privilege. This is like 1000% I could see something becoming like a topic du jour in Sierra Club. I know this is like making the
Starting point is 01:00:31 rounds. There's going to be a ton of admin people that are like, I'm going to adjust my behavior. I just like to acknowledge my privilege. Someone's getting called out. Seize the fun. Is somebody getting fired over this Yeah. Someone's getting called out. Is somebody fucking fired over this article?
Starting point is 01:00:47 Someone's getting called out for their use of too many of the yellow thumbs up in an email. Yeah, like they're getting this in their inbox in the morning, like sending it to all the employees, the people that work there and shit like that. You can't hide behind that yellow forever, Dave. Well, this is weird. I mean, as Jacob Bacharach pointed out on Twitter, Zira Rahman is actually just an employee at a nonprofit. I don't think she was even involved in this study.
Starting point is 01:01:31 I don't think she's an emoji director of emoji and empath studies at Google or anything. Empath studies. Just some rando. Oh, God, man. Shit, man. I don't know. Do people really not have anything better to do with their time? I mean, imagine if that's the thing you research.
Starting point is 01:01:56 You just pour over Twitter data. Like, that's grim. Who reads that stuff anyway? What if the only person that was the only archetype that was meant to use the yellow emojis were the people that say, I don't see race? Not even the anti-racist, the people that don't see race at all. Well, I think that's the implication.
Starting point is 01:02:19 I think the implication is that if you use the yellow emoji, implication is that um if you use the yellow emoji you kind of kind of how like you know like six or seven years ago um everybody was like you had the you you know white people did these like struggle sessions like i'm racist i'm still racist oh my god like they like kind of had this idea that you have this sort of core, cerebral cortex within you that is really racist and that you have to sort of excise like an organ. You have to kind of cut it out of you with a scalpel or whatever. I think what they're saying is that... The lobotomy.
Starting point is 01:02:59 Yeah, you lobotomize the racist part of your brain. It's like self-flagellation, yeah. Yeah, yeah. lobotomize the racist part of your brain it's like self-flagellation yeah yeah yeah i think what they're saying is that like this is kind of an uh an extension of that or a function of that like when you use the yellow emoji what you're saying is that you endorse the idea that whiteness is the neutral uh you know what i'm saying and yeah it's like it's one of those things where it's like it sounds kind of profound and like like i mean it's it's right like in the sense of like white supremacy does kind of rest on the assumption that like white is the neutral
Starting point is 01:03:37 you know default it's a default and whenever and everything but again it's like these are just they're just like modern hieroglyphics they're just ways you know what i mean like it's i mean you can't look that deep into like well i mean like it just seems like it just seems like and not an excuse like a conscious effort but like i mean you could talk about like white supremacy and like anti-blackness and systemic racism like through a host of different ways you know health care or just like the incarceration system i mean just all these different socioeconomic factors but to choose something like that's literally aesthetic
Starting point is 01:04:15 where it's just like these symbols and signifiers of a certain mood or emotion and to pack so much into that to like dissect it like it's just like you know like people would be like yeah america needs to have a conversation about race a real conversation but i don't even know what that means but if it means anything that shit can't happen because motherfuckers are writing articles like this you know what i mean yeah yeah yeah yeah the news were down bad. The news is down bad. It really is, Tommy. It really is. It's so down. Well, what it is is they finally got the perfect situation
Starting point is 01:04:53 because this finally allows them to police interactions and conversations at the micro level. Because we finally got to that point where like you know all ever at least these people anyways all of their conversations take place over this thing like they don't have real friends in the real world like it all takes place over this and so they think that's like the metric for both determining a person's like racism as if it is a kind of numerical value, but also how you solve it and treat it. And so it's like, for them, it's the perfect situation.
Starting point is 01:05:32 It's just like, no, now we can intervene in people's lives at the sort of micro level. And I feel bad for people that work in nonprofits because this will be the thing that they have to start doing. I mean, like nobody out in the real world is gonna like take any of that seriously no nobody's gonna nobody real world is reading that shit it's just like they atomize it and take it away from all like material context so it's just all about individual behavior and interpersonal reactions instead of like
Starting point is 01:06:01 changing anything systemic like yes oh if we all used emojis that reflected our racial identity in the fucking crayon box of race you know what i'm saying like racial colors that's kind of that i mean like by that logic like that's why that that white dude in this story is not totally off because if that is true like then it could all just be solved by more white people using more black emojis like if you know what i'm saying you know what's hilarious about this it's it's it's the same ngo grunts that like do all these like tokenizing measures you know to like black folks and you know different folks of color that like will contort themselves into such a weird position with shit like this and not realizing it contradicts everything that you like are preaching about
Starting point is 01:06:51 like inclusivity and all the other like ngoe buzzwords you know what i mean the highest ranking officials in this country showed up in kente cloth. What are you supposed to... Oh, my God. Yo, every time... That was so dope. What do you think's happening? What's going on here? That's where we're at. Something happened psychically when Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer
Starting point is 01:07:16 took a knee in the Kintai cloths. It unleashed a force that we just... We don't know what we're dealing with, really. Like some sort of like sea dragon or something is doing something. It's like some butterfly effect shit, like that's gonna change the course of history. It's like a turning point, man.
Starting point is 01:07:38 Yeah, like the Adjustment Bureau. God damn. Shit, man. that's pretty crazy um well uh so you know also yeah anyways that's npr i love i fucking love what npr has become it's it rules it's like you're gonna get stories like that sandwiched in between like how in between stories of how much rate fidel castro was like a racist and a homophobe you know what i mean it's like like npr fucking rules it is the most brain warped shit imaginable it's like it's like uh they'll beat the war drums for american Empire and then the next story they'll talk
Starting point is 01:08:26 about how if you like horsey sauce from Arby's that signals something troubling about your racial biases and stuff like that. Like some Malcolm Gladwell shit. Yeah. Oh man.
Starting point is 01:08:43 Oh god damn. God damn. God damn. Well, I'm glad we did that. I was kind of a little, I was bummed. I was feeling more, I was feeling more like I wanted to do blue suburban moms. But we can talk about that on the Patreon because I've got some anecdotal evidence
Starting point is 01:09:01 to go along with that one that I can't put on the main feed. So we can, we'll hit that on the Patreon. It seems like a good one. Red, wine, and blue. That doesn't even sound real. That sounds like a bit, man. It doesn't sound like a real thing.
Starting point is 01:09:19 Just 300 suburban moms just like fucking storming the goddamn state capitals like the Visigoths. They're coming. It's red, white, and blue because they're white. Wine. No, red wine, right? Red wine. So they reclaimed the wine mom thing. Oh, God.
Starting point is 01:09:37 It's red wine and blue. I'd imagine that we thought we'd saw the last of Pantsuit Nation But we were mistaken Oh no we have not No Never The girl boss machine ain't that loving up man Ain't never letting up No never
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Starting point is 01:10:17 I'm told that God's going to call me home. I can't believe that motherfucker did that It's pretty awesome It's gonna call me up Imagine the person that's like My god I better go give them $20 Your brother Earl's going to die Ariel's gonna be watching
Starting point is 01:10:43 The Cincinnati Boys this weekend oh yeah yeah i'm a since you know i've i have become cincinnati pilled i'm fucking cincinnati pilled you talk about the super bowl like in the last in the last just in the last like i guess three three years or so like i i'm i'm thinking about pulling up roots and just moving this entire operation to fucking cincinnati why don't we go to cincinnati we're all moving to cincinnati if it said that uh pittsburgh's the paris of appalachia it's what's cincinnati the la juba jana no how you say the Slovenian capital It's Venice It's Venice it stays flooded
Starting point is 01:11:27 I'd say for me The streets It's gotta be Mecca It's some kind of like Some sort of religious significance Yes The holy site Oh shit dude
Starting point is 01:11:41 Have you heard Don't they say people from Ohio or people who broke down trying to get to Detroit or something? What's the joke? That sounds about right. Hillbillies that broke down trying to get to Detroit Rock City. I support Ohio House. Tight as hell. There, I said it.
Starting point is 01:12:09 It took me a long time to come around to it, but I support Ohio. Hey, what we ought to do is move to J.D.'s street. Move to his gate of community. Oh, hell yeah. Ohio fucking rules. They got all those mounds. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 01:12:25 I'm trying to... Yeah, I'm trying to take back the mounds. Not me personally. I'm just an ally to the indigenous people trying to take back the mounds. But I think they need to be... I think they need to be returned to the indigenous people.
Starting point is 01:12:43 Why stop there? Let's just do all of it just do all the land just go ahead do it all why stop with the mail sharon cincinnati is tight though it's a gorgeous architecture i mean like there's people are like nothing ever goes on in places like that it's like come on it's nice cool ass city yeah yeah i to say, like, as giving away my city boy roots, like, I'm always like, yo, what are people doing in places like Cincinnati or Ohio as a state in general? I thought you were going to drop a bomb on us and say you're born in Cincinnati. Just letting y'all know I was born in Cincinnati.
Starting point is 01:13:19 Like, you know, being from New York, it feels like the center of the world, man. But, yeah, Tom, I bet you're right. Cincinnati's got some dope shit. What's going to happen in that town if the Bengals win this Super Bowl? What's going to happen? What's going to come of Cincinnati? Oh, my God. It's going to be on fire.
Starting point is 01:13:36 Good times. They will set a blaze. Probably win or lose, I'll say. I hope they win. Whatever happens. I'll be rooting for them. That's for sure. You're rooting for them? Yeah. Wait, who are they playing? I don't. I hope they win. Whatever happens. I'll be rooting for them. That's for sure. You'll be rooting for them.
Starting point is 01:13:46 Yeah. Wait, who are they playing? I don't even know who they're playing against. Anytime Terrence is out in support of sports ball, you know it's a big deal. Big time. There's greater implications for this game than meets the eye. Sociopolitical ramifications. Tom, can we get the breakdown on the Patreon?
Starting point is 01:14:07 Let's have a Super Bowl episode. Yeah, I'll give you Patreon this weekend. It's just a tout service where I give you my picks for gambling this weekend. And the bigger implications. It is We've got like a coastal
Starting point is 01:14:22 elite team versus a true heartland Rust Belt team. You know what I'm saying? Exactly. This is a referendum on America. Is this about to launch another civil war? I hope so. I hope this is what does.
Starting point is 01:14:37 Midwest versus the left coast. I guarantee you J.D. Vance has already said that, though. Like, coastal elite team versus a heartland. You know what I'm saying? Oh, like try to draw political implications, social political implications. Oh, you know he is. You know he is. Numbers are in the toilet.
Starting point is 01:14:55 He's doing the tried and true classic. Yeah, you already hired out Marjorie Tyler. God damn, I forgot about my girl, man. She's not on Twitter no more. I feel it a little bit. TG, baby. Forgot about my girl. I forgot about my girl, man. I used to follow her, man. She's amazing. She ain't as good as Trump,
Starting point is 01:15:14 but she got some beggars that would knock her off. Definitely. Quick and tough. Alright, gang. Go to the Patreon. Support us so that Tom isn't stricken down by a bolt of lightning. If you are, make sure your feet are on the ground.
Starting point is 01:15:34 Because I always heard that if not, the lightning exits the part of your body that's closest to the ground. So if for whatever reason you're like hovering naked and your dick is hanging down, it could go at your dick. Fuck. God's not gonna strike me down. Hell, he would've done it
Starting point is 01:15:55 a long time ago if he was gonna do it. But just give us money. It could keep the mic cord from somehow snatching around his neck. Wait, did that happen? Yeah. It's not God killing me you gotta worry about.
Starting point is 01:16:10 It's myself. See, I want equipment. God damn. I'm gonna toss all this shit in the hot tub with me. I can't take no more. I'm literally about to go out here and simmer and chain smoke and scream about FEMA into the void. I'm broke.
Starting point is 01:16:33 Your neighbors would probably come over, but they would probably think you're talking about FEMA camps, and then you'd have a weird, awkward conversation. They've heard worse up here. i can't say for sure but i think that girl up on the hills had a stroke all right well we'll see you next time uh bye

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