toxic news and twitter fights with Dave & Lisa
🚨 A quick heads up: This week’s episode is way more political than usual. 🚨
Emma literally just had her baby and she’s home hanging out with that perfect little baby angel. 🥹👶🏼 Travis is trying to navigate the world without Emma while she’s on her maternity break, so he’s hanging out with two of his new podcast friends, David and Lisa Beckemeyer, from This Week in Outrage. We dive into why everything feels so loud, angry, and broken right now, and why there’s actually way more middle ground (and exhausted, reasonable humans) than the internet wants you to believe.
We get into:
- How David went from getting into Twitter fights and doom-scrolling cable news to starting a research-driven podcast about toxic polarization and building bridges.
- The concept of the “exhausted majority”- the huge group of people who don’t love either party, hate the constant outrage, and don’t realize they’re actually part of the majority.
- Why our brains love feeling morally superior and how partisan media (on both sides) profits from keeping us angry and addicted.
- The wild case study of The Necessary Conversation podcas (it’s actually not satire).
- Trump as a “charismatic hero” for some people, and what happens psychologically when your entire identity is wrapped up in one politician.
- DEI, Target, culture wars, and why some folks feel like they’re “losing the culture” regardless of facts and reality.
- A revelation about trad wives, the manosphere, Project 2025, and the strange obsession with deciding how other people should live.
- RFK Jr., beef tallow, anti-vax conspiracies, and the Noah’s Ark experience in Kentucky.
If you’re exhausted by the 24-hour news cycle or just confused about how we got here… this one’s for you. 💖
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00:12 - meet David & Lisa
05:14 - Twitter fights
10:46 - the news is toxic
14:49 - The Necessary Conversation
26:15 - DEI and woke culture
32:01 - a tradwife revelation
37:48 - words matter
40:07 - a car crash you can't look away from
43:50 - an obsession with heaven
46:25 - ad break: Cozy Earth
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48:00 - The White House timeline
59:31 - flight attire
01:10:00 - a surprise reality roundup
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But I guess I should probably introduce the show.
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So we just jumped in. that's okay now i'll take
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it um so i'm travis and this is bestie approved
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i'm obviously here without emma because she literally
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just had her baby um so that's super fun and
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exciting and he's happy he's healthy he's perfect
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and he's adorable um but i actually have two
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new podcast friends here uh david and lisa from
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outrage overload and i Would love for you guys
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to introduce yourselves and tell us a little
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bit about yourselves. Well, I'm Lisa. I've been
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a David Beckmeyer wrangler for more years than
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I'd like to count. But we started our show because
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we were not having any time to talk to each other.
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So we started saying, let's start talking. Make
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this time. We're going to talk what's going on.
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And if someone listens, fine. Great. I love that.
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Yeah. So I'm David Beckmeyer. So, yeah. So the
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show that Lisa and I do together is called This
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Week in Outrage. The overall kind of media empire,
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if you will, is called Outrage Overload. And
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our sort of serious show there that's a Connors
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Institute podcast is called Outrage Overload.
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And that's the one that. Where I interview like
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scientists and like a serious thing, it's the
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opposite of what we're doing tonight. I interview
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scientists and researchers and practitioners
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and stuff like that. And we talk about sort of
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toxic polarization and bridge building and kind
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of rebuilding our divides and things like that.
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That's awesome. That's awesome. And so when you
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reached out to me originally, I think the way
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you kind of introduced yourself was like you're
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trying to find some middle ground. And I think
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right now that's. really, really, really what
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this country needs. So I guess what sparked the,
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the, like that idea, I guess. Yeah. I mean, I
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think you hear it from a lot of people. If you
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go and talk, talk out there to folks that a lot
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of people are, you know, just at their kind of
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wits end of of of this kind of anger like there's
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this idea of it was a bunch of research on it
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um hidden tribes i did some research and kind
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of came out with this idea of a exhausted majority
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where like a lot of people are kind of over it
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with the two parties fighting all the time and
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and kind of not really giving us great options
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you know when that comes up and so there's you
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know there's this huge majority of people that
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really don't like either party don't really like
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the options they don't like the vitriol they
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don't like the anger and the fighting all the
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time but they But you don't know that they're
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a majority because their voices have sort of
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been silenced by these louder voices that really
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give this perception that everybody is angry
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all the time and isn't ready for a conversation
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and all this kind of stuff. And those people
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are out there. Yeah, they exist. I'm not saying
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that's – it's naive to say they don't exist.
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But it's a misperception to think that's how
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everybody is. Once you actually meet real people,
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they have a lot more. gray like this not that
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sort of i guess red and blue versus black and
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white it's not that clear cut that you're either
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in that bucket or that bucket people are kind
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of thinking about this different ways but there's
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all these kind of incentives to drive us into
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this thinking that the other people are terrible
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and and you know and then once you get that in
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your head because we kind of live in our bubbles
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and all that then you just think there's no one
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out there that on the other side that i that
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i can talk to and they're worse it's so it's
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not my fault it's their fault you know and we
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just keep it it's just like a spiral downwards
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as you get that kind of mindset going it gets
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worse and worse so i was living in that like
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everybody else right i was out there getting
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twitter fights you know and then and you know
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and i was caught in it i was watching the news
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and it was getting me mad all the time and and
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that was like that was like the trigger of like
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the or the signal that like this is really isn't
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right they're just trying to make me mad all
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the time it's working I'm just mad all the time.
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I'm sitting on the couch yelling. I can't do
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anything sitting on the couch yelling, right?
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So that's kind of where I'm kind of a science
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nerd and a science geek. So maybe there's other
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people like me that would like to kind of research
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some of this and see what's out there. So I don't
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want to do my own research. I'm going to go talk
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to the people that do the research, right? So
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that's kind of what I thought is an interesting
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way to do it. And I thought a podcast was a –
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was a good way to do that because you go a little
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deeper right kind of more than a two minute segment
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we can talk to somebody for a little bit longer
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and go a little deeper and i could so my role
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is kind of this guide to kind of bring the researchers
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that are doing the work and then bring them on
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and let them present and talk about it but make
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it accessible to you know just anybody that's
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kind of science curious you don't have to be
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a full -on math geek and this kind of stuff you
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don't have to know the ways that you do statistics
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and things like that you just kind of have have
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some logic and reason and be interested in the
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science and so we expose this research that's
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going on out there in a kind of you know funner
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more interesting way because there was some academic
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podcast doing some of this but they're like three
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hours long and it's kind of academic to academic
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and who wants to listen to that but other academics
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and so i thought you know maybe make something
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that would be a little more appealing to a broader
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audience nice i love that it's funny that you
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bring up like the twitter fights and everything
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because there's i put this on our list but there's
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a tweet that like resurfaces every couple of
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years but it's uh talks about it's someone saying
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like azalea banks is schizophrenic until i agree
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with her and then and then she's like she's the
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best voice ever and it's so funny that like it
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resurfaced when it did because like that's exactly
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how i'm feeling about like candace owens right
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now like i'm just like I truly kind of want to
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know if there's like any research behind that,
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like behind like what what is going on with like
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people like Candace Owens and Marjorie Taylor
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Greene, where I'm like, I categorically disagree
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with everything that comes out of their mouths.
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But but now I'm like, oh, hey, maybe maybe there's
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something there and maybe we can find the middle
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ground there. We're we're hopeful, optimistic,
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I mean, hopeless, optimistic with Marjorie. Anytime
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she says the slightest little thing that we.
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slightly agree with we go we're getting her we're
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getting her back we she's well she's out there
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well and i yeah well yeah so there is this idea
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kind of in social science that have talked that
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that even political scientists have talked about
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this as well um you know kind of this idea of
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this kind of renegade character that can um do
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uh play these roles of like um how they have
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authority on one side and then and so that they
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can actually you know sort of point out these
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these criticisms on that side so you and they
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kind of are like these you know cross uh and
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and and you know you'd think we'd have somebody
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like you know liz cheney would be an example
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of that right like theoretically you didn't have
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anybody that was more sort of trusted and well
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known in the conservative world and then she
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sort of you know comes out against trump and
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but they don't it doesn't work like the whole
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thing that social scientists said would always
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work sort of didn't work but there is this idea
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these people that can cross cut like that that
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have they have enough sort of cachet on their
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own side that they kind of, you know, make a
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point like that and start to, and in fact, I
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mean, the stuff that Marjorie Taylor Greene is
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saying, frankly, is exactly the kind of stuff
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that you want somebody to say. Now, you know,
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was she going to live up to it? Is she going
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to live up to it? All that. But, you know, this
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idea that, you know, she actually said, I'm sorry
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for being part of the problem. And, you know,
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I'm ready to talk across divides and all this
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kind of stuff. I mean, that's what you, that's
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the kind of thing these social scientists have
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been talking about. take that role on and you
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know so i don't know you know it'll be interesting
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so again it's like to say it's like i hate him
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until wow they're really saying good things now
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right well and that's that's the thing with marjorie
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taylor green right now where it like because
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when she started coming out and saying all of
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that i was like she's she's she wants to get
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reelected like that's that's what is happening
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right now and then she resigns and i'm like oh
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my was was she being serious like was she actually
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saying that she's sorry and like now she's kind
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of like bowing out of the game because the fallout
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is going to be that bad. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting.
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I don't know. Yeah, exactly. I don't know the
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answer to that because it's like, it's hard to
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sort of, I don't know. It's hard for me to armchair
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quarterback this because I kind of would not
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be, the resignation in some ways is not a surprise,
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but how quickly it happened. Like you say, how
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can you say that's not a surprise? It's totally
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a surprise. Well, once she did this kind of transition,
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you're like her path is probably, you know, her
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path towards future politics is probably being
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cut off, but, Like the speed at which that happened,
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though, it's being cut off with other politicians.
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But I think she's going to get the general public
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behind her. It's possible. I mean, she could
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be another populist that builds a populist groundswell
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kind of, you know, although, you know, there's
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a lot of now because of the stuff that, you know,
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like we see with like these fake accounts. There's
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a lot of stuff now. Maybe Trump wasn't as much
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a groundswell from the ground up as as it sort
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of looks like it is. Well, that's that's the
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thing is I cannot imagine that like MAGA like
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as as a concept as like as like this like idea
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that it's as big as it is. There's no way that
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like that many people are all in for Donald Trump.
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And I have to believe that like a lot of what
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we were like seeing with like the the the obsession
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on Twitter probably was part of like what we're
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kind of like getting confirmation of now where
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it's like. like what what's her uh the daughter
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ivanka like her her biggest fan account was based
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out of what nigeria like come on yeah yeah so
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i think that maybe that it's not really as big
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as as it is i think you're right Well, and also
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whether it really originated, you know, kind
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of on the on the on the base or are, you know,
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on the streets and, you know, in these small
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towns or whether, you know, this kind of Russian
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influence or who knows what state actors maybe,
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you know, kind of started it and then it latched
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on, you know, as a populist movement. And then,
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you know, because we amplify it, the Russians
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don't have enough power on their own to do that
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or whoever state actor. We did it like it's our
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fault. We fell for it. But I do think that I
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was it. I think it was. it was your show that
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i was listening to i think with uh the guy austin
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that you guys had on where um what was it it's
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like for every one tweet from someone else like
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it sparks like what 10 000 or something is like
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the ratio so like yeah they absolutely if they
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didn't like the spark they absolutely absolutely
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lit a few more so no i yeah like it's it's a
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hundred percent like we're the accountable ones
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but yeah like you know we can do that all by
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ourselves i guess Right. Well, yeah, I mean,
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that's kind of what I guess that's part of my,
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you know, complain about the whole. Well, you
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know, I mean, the problem is like we this goes
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so deep. Right. Because people just are not active
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civic participants. Right. Maybe we've had it
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easy for too long. I don't know all the reasons
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for it, but we're sort of passive. Right. We
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just let this stuff flow to us and we don't really
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take a role that much of a role in it. You know,
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it's kind of funny that we have all these, you
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know. folks like my show and, and, and other
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people like a lot of political commentators and
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they're talking about all these things and doing
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all, and you have all these, you know, political
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strategists and they're thinking about all this.
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Like most people are not just putting that energy
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in. Like they don't, they don't watch any news
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at all or read any news at all, like zero. Like
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there's so much research showing the vast majority
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of people just don't any, whatever news they're
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getting is coming to them sort of passively through
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other feeds. Well, and it's I think the people
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that are watching the news are probably watching
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the most toxic sources. And by the way, on both
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ends, like I like my audience knows I Emma and
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I are raging like borderline socialists in a
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lot of ways. But like I can look at both sides
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and like I look at MSNBC and I'm like, oh, my
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God, like we shut your mouth. Like, please stop
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talking because like you're making us look so
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bad. And then I look at Fox News and I'm like,
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I can't believe people. believe anything that
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comes out of their mouths so i guess like i don't
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think there's a source of information that like
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is actually like pure is not the word but i guess
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it's like you're not getting really great information
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that's not designed to be polarizing from anywhere
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so yeah right i love when people say oh but i
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watch fox news just to see what the other side
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is saying No, you're just watching because you're
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entertained by it. Well, you know, and that's,
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you know, there's some, okay, that's fine. But
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in some sense, you're getting... They're not,
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nobody's doing that. Most people aren't doing
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that. But, you know, there's a lot of people
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that talk about that idea that, oh, you need
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to look at news from both sides or read news
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from both sides. That's kind of okay. But if
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you're looking at garbage on both sides, then
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you're just getting more garbage. Like you're
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not actually getting more informed. You can look
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at it from the perspective of a media analyst
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and say, what is the media trying to say? Because,
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you know, like you say, The left leaning programs
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and and and articles and journals and things,
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you know, kind of both do the same thing. They
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don't necessarily lie, although you could say
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people on the side on the right lies maybe a
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little bit more. But it's mostly not straight
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out lies. It's more they just kind of leave stuff
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out and then change the shape of it. Right. So
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that you get more angry because they're kind
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of leaving some stuff out most of the time. Like
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a lot of times when you go look at one of these
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stories that I don't know, even even Marjorie
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Taylor Greene or something said this thing or
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Trump said this thing often, even a lot of times.
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And then you go. look at a little more and go,
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well, in context and a little bit more here,
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it's kind of Trump being Trump and it wasn't
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really that big of a deal. You know, some of
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these things that you can go look at or some
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of these other things that are being proposed
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sometimes. Now, the last nine months, maybe that's
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a little different, but there's a lot of these
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things when you go look at them, if you're looking
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at the left -leaning version of it, a lot of
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times it's exaggerated and just try it because
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it is trying to get you riled up and trying to
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get you mad. It's mad and it's the whole, if
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it bleeds, it leads and all that kind of stuff.
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And so it's all those incentive structures that
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they know. You know, they know how human brains
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work. And we all, whether you're on the left
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or right, you still have a human brain and you're
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still going to, we're all susceptible to all
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these tactics on us. So there's no, you know,
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so we all fall for it, you know, and it's a feel
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good thing, right? Like we feel morally. um superior
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if we keep seeing these things that show how
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bad the other side is so we like it in the moment
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doesn't really help us like we don't sleep better
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because of it and we don't have a better picture
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of the world or anything but we feel better in
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the moment because it kind of justifies that
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we made the right choice look how bad those people
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are i i guess i mean like i i don't love it but
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like i i guess if that's if that's like If that's
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how we're morally justifying it. But one of the
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things I put on my list, because this kind of
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like leads me into one of them. And you said
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Lisa was pretty familiar with this, is a family
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that like puts themselves on blast. And it's
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a podcast called The Necessary Conversation.
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When I put it on the list, I was like, oh, surely
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they're going to like know exactly what this
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is. And you said you weren't super familiar,
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but Lisa is. 100 % familiar. I want to know your
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thoughts on it because I swear to God, when I
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first started seeing it, I was like, this is
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satire. This is not, this is not real. And then
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it's like, it, it, it's real life. Like these
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are real people and they're like, this is their
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actual belief. So at least, so I want to know
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what you think about this. Well, the more the,
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I, I only watch it on Instagram. So I only get
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the short clips. Right. And so they, so he, Chad's
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very good at cutting the, you know, the most.
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sensational grab you know grab your uh your attention
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clips but um yes if you watch if you watch those
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clips um yes it's very disturbing um how right
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the parents are how right wing they are how much
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they support trump she the mom always wears a
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trump hat the dad won't listen to anything i'm
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kind of saying this for david's um benefit because
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he doesn't really know the dad all he says to
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the kids is that you're stupid both these both
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these kids are highly educated people I'm not
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quite sure what Chad does actually but she's
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a screenwriter for movies okay so and you know
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they keep saying the biggest mistake they ever
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made was letting Chad go to school in California
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that that ruined him he's indoctrinated 100 %
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that's what they say all the time Constantly.
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Yeah. And that you're stupid. You're so stupid.
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You're so stupid. You're idiots. And the dad
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just, the dad is the most childish thing you've
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ever seen. He just is like, I'm not listening
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to you. You're so dumb. And there's, there was
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a big gap of time where the dad wasn't in any
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clips at all on Instagram. He just decided I'm
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not doing this anymore, but somehow the mom got
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it back. And the mom's always wearing a MAGA
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hat. For Halloween, she dressed up as Melania.
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It's so uncomfortable. It's very uncomfortable.
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But I do have to say, I do have to say, I have
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a little bit of hope for this family. The mom
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does tell the kids that she loves them. She does
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say, I hate these conversations with you. And
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I did get this sense that I'm trying, I kept
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trying to find this clip again, where she says,
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the only reason I agreed to do this show with
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you is so that we can have a regular life outside
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of this. So I think their agreement is, is that
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they only speak politics on this show and they
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don't speak it in their regular life. And that
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is the agreement actually. Yeah. And I say that
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is Bravo for them to be able to do that. And
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then, but she does say she loves them. Although
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she does say we never made any mistakes as parents.
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David, have you made any mistakes as a parent?
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Of course not. Yes. I mean, we, our kid was really
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little. We said, we're going to make a ton of
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mistakes. We don't know how to raise you. You're
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the first you we've ever raised. But yeah, but
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the dad to me is just. so childish and just he's
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just there's no there's not going to be anything
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getting through to him and I hate right I'm I'm
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sorry Travis if I'm taking over this but I wanted
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to get a couple other things out I was I was
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boohooing in tears when she the mom was um very
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upset about the Epstein papers and Chad was so
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supportive of like yeah mom that's really hard
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and just let her Cause she wants them released.
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She's convinced that Trump's nowhere near, he's
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not in them anywhere. And she wants them released
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and they weren't getting released. And she was
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really upset about it. And he let her just kind
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of vent and not say, not digging on her, which
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I thought was quite lovely. And, but she's can,
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and she wants, cause she wants all the pedophiles
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arrested as we all do. We all, I don't know anybody
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want, all the pedophiles arrested well that was
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cash patel's thing for 10 years okay well that
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was that was cash patel's thing that's pam bondy's
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thing that's donald trump's thing and like it's
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like i mean they campaigned on releasing the
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files right and then it's like now that we're
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here it's like oh oh no no no no we're not gonna
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and i'm glad that like that got through uh congress
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and i'm glad that it was such a And astonishingly,
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like we're all in on this number. Like what was
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it for 27 to one in the House? And then it was
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a unanimous vote in the Senate. So I'm thrilled
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about that. But yeah, the mom was a was a school
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teacher for her entire life. And like that, like
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she cares about these kids. And like it's really
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sad to see like this is real life and like for
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that to become politicized. And for her to. I
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think there's like a there's a. an unwinding
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process like when you're when you're trying to
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like separate like you're like the political
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side of it from like the real life implications
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of what happened to these literal children and
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you realize like I voted for this guy. People
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say he's in the files. I don't want to believe
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that. And I can understand like, you know, not
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wanting to believe that. But this whole idea,
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this and this notion of like people running around
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saying it's the left and the right. It absolutely
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is. And this whole thing of like people bringing
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up like, well, what if your favorite celebrity
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is on the Epstein list? And I'm like, well, first
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of all, I can tell you Bethany Frankel is not
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going to show up on that list. But if she is
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not, she's not she's not my hero anymore. Like,
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I don't know what to tell you. Right. Right.
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There's a lot of people in our lives we've had
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to go. Yeah, we're not in that movie ever again.
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Right. Yeah. You know, my my my bill, my Bill
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Gates flags off my truck. And I think that's
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the other thing, too, is like, I think MAGA put
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a lot of eggs in the basket. And I'll come back
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to the because I think this all relates. But
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like. with with the necessary conversation podcast
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but like i think maga put a lot of eggs in the
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basket of i'm all in on donald trump like he's
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my guy he is my guy and like this like putting
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him on the pedestal i think was the biggest mistake
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because it's like like we we've seen like he
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could keep moving the goal post of like what's
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acceptable and i think now that we're we're literally
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talking about like is he in the epstein files
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is this like is this going to be the breaking
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point i think this is where you're starting to
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see a lot of people really reckon with the fact
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of like oh i went all in on a guy that i probably
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wasn't entirely sure about and now what do we
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do with that i think that's a very that it's
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probably a very hard process psychologically
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to go through of like separating yourself from
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that because like in a lot of ways and i can
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understand like the charisma and like this whole
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like what everything he campaigned on i can understand
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him being a heroic figure for a lot of people
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like not i mean not for me but like i can understand
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how he got there and i think that has to be very
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very hard like i so i i i sympathize with those
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with those people because it's like you're losing
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your hero but when you see it like oh god sorry
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no no go ahead I was going to say, when you see
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it with like this family on YouTube, really arguing
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it out where you've got the mom who's like, no,
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no, no, there's no way. And I'm like, for her
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sake, I hope she's right. And then you've got
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the dad who is just like Donald Trump's on those
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files. I love Donald Trump. He can do no wrong.
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And like, it's it's just it's it's it's such
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a bizarre fight to see happening in real life
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because I'm just like. Like, how did we get here?
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How did we get here? And to see her being really
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upset, too, about the the mass deportations.
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She was not happy about that. And I think that's
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also when her husband backed out because he just
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was going to stick with, I'm going to back up.
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They broke the law, so blah, blah, blah. They
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deserve everything they get kind of thing. They're
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here illegally, you know, and then, you know,
00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:43.240
they're trying to explain to them, well, there's
00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:44.839
citizens that are being wound up. And also it's
00:23:44.839 --> 00:23:46.519
a misdemeanor, by the way, to violate the border
00:23:46.519 --> 00:23:50.940
crossing. Right. But anyway, so, I mean, I think
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that they have given, you know, she was, she
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just does not want the. mass deportations are
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ice she's not happy with ice's job but she's
00:24:01.650 --> 00:24:07.750
still very much a trump supporter um and um i
00:24:07.750 --> 00:24:09.490
forgot what's going with this well you know i
00:24:09.490 --> 00:24:12.109
was gonna say like this is you know if we get
00:24:12.109 --> 00:24:14.910
it i don't want to get us bogged down by the
00:24:14.910 --> 00:24:17.910
sort of science -y you know political science
00:24:17.910 --> 00:24:20.470
other kind of stuff but you know i mean this
00:24:20.470 --> 00:24:22.849
is kind of a what has happened over the last
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you know 30 or 50 years kind of depending on
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how you measure but especially the last you know
00:24:26.710 --> 00:24:30.089
25 or 30 years that this wasn't always like this
00:24:30.089 --> 00:24:33.089
right we didn't our our political identity wasn't
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this salient in our lives like it is now like
00:24:35.230 --> 00:24:37.890
it's first thing we kind of want to know about
00:24:37.890 --> 00:24:39.509
somebody now and this kind of stuff and yeah
00:24:39.509 --> 00:24:41.869
you know Should I listen? That wasn't like that
00:24:41.869 --> 00:24:44.150
30 or 40 years ago. And so this has been, you
00:24:44.150 --> 00:24:46.609
know, a slow thing to kind of build that up.
00:24:46.690 --> 00:24:51.470
And, you know, and and I think if you do like
00:24:51.470 --> 00:24:53.250
the Robert Putnam and the sort of bowling alone
00:24:53.250 --> 00:24:56.109
stuff and all that, somehow political ideology
00:24:56.109 --> 00:24:58.109
is sort of taken over for this kind of tribal
00:24:58.109 --> 00:25:00.930
nature that humans want. And it is very hard
00:25:00.930 --> 00:25:03.410
now. So and so if you think about like the dad
00:25:03.410 --> 00:25:06.170
or even the mom, even if she is to a point where
00:25:06.170 --> 00:25:08.059
I don't like this or I don't like that. Where
00:25:08.059 --> 00:25:10.079
does she go? Like the left isn't going to sort
00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:12.980
of she can't see the left as an option. No, she's
00:25:12.980 --> 00:25:15.700
still 100 percent. Yeah. So and they wouldn't
00:25:15.700 --> 00:25:17.319
take her anyway. Right. They know you're a bad
00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:19.240
person because you supported him before and this
00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:21.839
kind of stuff. So, you know, it's tough because
00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:23.259
there's where are you going to go? Like there's
00:25:23.259 --> 00:25:26.519
no you and, you know, it's it's almost like the
00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:28.359
box into a corner thing. Like I don't have a
00:25:28.359 --> 00:25:30.220
good option. So I'm going to just double I have
00:25:30.220 --> 00:25:32.200
to double down, I guess, you know. And so, yeah,
00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:35.869
so is that like we just don't have. you know
00:25:35.869 --> 00:25:38.690
a good pathway for people to like you know what
00:25:38.690 --> 00:25:40.869
like your guy's not great my guy's not great
00:25:40.869 --> 00:25:43.230
either let me tell you right right we have problems
00:25:43.230 --> 00:25:48.190
too yeah well and that was that's really the
00:25:48.190 --> 00:25:50.730
the most interesting thing like when you when
00:25:50.730 --> 00:25:52.910
you i guess not the most interesting thing but
00:25:52.910 --> 00:25:55.269
it's it's it's such a big deal to people i think
00:25:55.269 --> 00:25:59.039
because like you're And you say it really happened
00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:01.900
over the last like 30, 40 years. And I think
00:26:01.900 --> 00:26:04.160
it's because like the last 30, 40 years have
00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:06.579
been like literally fighting over like, well,
00:26:06.660 --> 00:26:08.440
this party wants you to have rights. This party
00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:10.380
doesn't. I know that's not what every political
00:26:10.380 --> 00:26:12.039
thing is about, but you've got like, I mean,
00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:15.039
something that's very real for me is marriage
00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:20.619
equality. And you have people on the fringes
00:26:20.619 --> 00:26:22.539
of the far right. I know it's not most of the
00:26:22.539 --> 00:26:25.359
right. It's overwhelmingly like. accepted and
00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:28.460
like not even thought about in in most of the
00:26:28.460 --> 00:26:32.319
united states but um you've got the fringes of
00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:35.619
the far right like being lit on fire by the heritage
00:26:35.619 --> 00:26:37.779
foundation that are like we need to repeal gay
00:26:37.779 --> 00:26:39.480
marriage like we need to pull that back and i'm
00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:43.200
like oh okay it's not going to stop with me so
00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:45.420
like i think it's so important to people because
00:26:45.420 --> 00:26:48.880
it's like oh you voted for this guy you don't
00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:53.180
want me to have rights and i like i think I think
00:26:53.180 --> 00:26:55.480
I can see how people get there, but like I'm
00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:59.160
just like I know that my family is overwhelmingly
00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:03.740
conservative and right leaning in a lot of a
00:27:03.740 --> 00:27:06.900
lot of areas. I know they're not voting for the
00:27:06.900 --> 00:27:08.299
Republican Party because they don't want me to
00:27:08.299 --> 00:27:10.019
have rights. And I think that's a that's a thing
00:27:10.019 --> 00:27:14.240
people have a hard time separating. Yeah. And,
00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:16.259
you know, that's that's such an interesting that's
00:27:16.259 --> 00:27:17.920
actually a very interesting topic, too, because.
00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:21.079
It's one of those ones where – I mean it's one
00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:23.559
of the things that Trump was able to really appeal
00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:27.920
to, particularly in the beginning there, 2015
00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:33.079
timeframe, 2016 timeframe. This idea that culture
00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:37.180
had sort of pushed – like they were losing the
00:27:37.180 --> 00:27:40.400
culture wars kind of thing, right? And it was
00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:42.119
kind of funny that people could simultaneously
00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:44.759
kind of say, I don't really have a problem with
00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:47.150
gay marriage, but – Damn it. Why did we let that
00:27:47.150 --> 00:27:49.390
– why did gay marriage happen? Like that's –
00:27:49.390 --> 00:27:51.170
but I actually don't have – like I personally
00:27:51.170 --> 00:27:53.150
don't have a problem. I even know like my family.
00:27:53.230 --> 00:27:55.569
I have members of my family that are like – but
00:27:55.569 --> 00:27:58.950
I still have like this weird kind of – I'm opposed
00:27:58.950 --> 00:28:02.329
to this idea because it's like attacking me at
00:28:02.329 --> 00:28:04.910
this kind of cultural – it's like a place I lost
00:28:04.910 --> 00:28:07.269
the war. And it's like a place where Trump was
00:28:07.269 --> 00:28:09.549
so good with that language of we're going to
00:28:09.549 --> 00:28:11.789
win. And they understood what that meant. I think
00:28:11.789 --> 00:28:12.990
most of the rest of us didn't even know what
00:28:12.990 --> 00:28:16.160
that meant. Right. But it's it's stuck with that
00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:17.680
group because they're like, yeah, we've been
00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:20.059
losing for so long and losing for 20 years. You
00:28:20.059 --> 00:28:21.579
know, we lost this. We lost that. We lost that.
00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:24.539
And, you know, and I think that's a place where
00:28:24.539 --> 00:28:27.839
there's so much room to kind of let's come to
00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:29.299
the table because you actually aren't concerned
00:28:29.299 --> 00:28:31.819
about this. So why is it bothering you so much?
00:28:31.859 --> 00:28:34.539
And that's a conversation like we've never been
00:28:34.539 --> 00:28:37.099
good at because people immediately start, oh,
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:38.799
you don't like it. So therefore you're a bad
00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:40.700
person and blah, blah, blah. And we don't find
00:28:40.700 --> 00:28:43.619
this way to kind of. overcome that like thing
00:28:43.619 --> 00:28:45.339
that's like pretty obvious like you actually
00:28:45.339 --> 00:28:47.500
aren't concerned about it but you are concerned
00:28:47.500 --> 00:28:49.819
about it at the same time and it just talks about
00:28:49.819 --> 00:28:51.700
this whole identity and this winning and losing
00:28:51.700 --> 00:28:54.200
you know kind of black and white winners and
00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:56.220
losers kind of mindset that's happened where
00:28:56.220 --> 00:28:59.359
my side needs to have these three wins and every
00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:01.839
every loss that every win that your side gets
00:29:01.839 --> 00:29:03.920
is a loss to me whereas like that's an example
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:07.259
of who loses in that right there's no winners
00:29:07.259 --> 00:29:10.180
losers there right well that's something that
00:29:10.180 --> 00:29:14.960
i've like i will spiral over because it's like
00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:17.960
and it comes into this whole conversation about
00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:20.339
diversity equity and inclusion and how like the
00:29:20.339 --> 00:29:23.759
like donald trump and like like all these guys
00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:26.119
like anytime they hate something it's they immediately
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:28.559
label it woke and it's like it's dei and i hate
00:29:28.559 --> 00:29:32.359
it and like whatever and then you see like you
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:34.740
you really start to see people saying well like
00:29:34.740 --> 00:29:38.359
like we have diversity equity and inclusion initiatives
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:41.460
in in so many places in the country and that
00:29:41.460 --> 00:29:43.839
must be why i'm i'm disadvantaged and i'm like
00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:46.539
i don't i don't think you get what diversity
00:29:46.539 --> 00:29:48.700
equity inclusion means if you think you're disadvantaged
00:29:48.700 --> 00:29:52.480
in any way but that's that's not a fight i'm
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:54.859
gonna win any anytime soon with people but um
00:29:54.859 --> 00:29:59.660
but like you you really you really see it in
00:29:59.660 --> 00:30:03.759
like where you know target was the big one where
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:05.859
they like they said okay we're gonna roll back
00:30:05.859 --> 00:30:09.829
our diversity equity and inclusion policies And
00:30:09.829 --> 00:30:12.930
like their their entire business model is just
00:30:12.930 --> 00:30:15.609
like on fire around them. And they're like when
00:30:15.609 --> 00:30:19.049
I put it in these notes, but like they they they
00:30:19.049 --> 00:30:21.289
laid off like eighteen hundred people and then
00:30:21.289 --> 00:30:23.710
they blame it on their processes being too complex.
00:30:23.829 --> 00:30:26.930
And I'm like, you just have to take the loss
00:30:26.930 --> 00:30:28.809
and admit when you messed up like that's like
00:30:28.809 --> 00:30:31.049
Diva, you have got to figure this out because
00:30:31.049 --> 00:30:33.539
like. I cannot imagine that there's not someone
00:30:33.539 --> 00:30:36.720
sitting in a boardroom in Minneapolis where Target
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:39.019
is based saying, hey, do you guys remember when
00:30:39.019 --> 00:30:40.599
we were for the girls and the gays and the days
00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:42.859
and we were doing really, really great? And people
00:30:42.859 --> 00:30:45.180
just like showed up to spend hundreds of dollars
00:30:45.180 --> 00:30:47.599
at a time. And then we like made this fun little
00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:50.140
announcement. And then like they stopped like
00:30:50.140 --> 00:30:52.880
like the fact that they're not publicly making
00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:57.539
this connection is is so insane to me. Yeah,
00:30:57.700 --> 00:30:59.420
they and you know, they used to have a really
00:30:59.420 --> 00:31:03.319
great on. on a pride month, they had some great
00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:05.079
products that came out. I'm like, you'd always,
00:31:05.099 --> 00:31:07.059
I always get a little excited. Oh, they're going
00:31:07.059 --> 00:31:08.740
to come out with the, with all their pride stuff.
00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:10.819
It's really cool. And then when they said, Oh,
00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:12.400
we're not doing this anymore. It's like, yeah,
00:31:12.420 --> 00:31:14.420
I don't think I've been into target since then.
00:31:14.500 --> 00:31:16.619
I don't think we have. I don't think I truly
00:31:16.619 --> 00:31:19.640
think that that was like, and then you're like,
00:31:19.740 --> 00:31:25.200
DEI is a, is a sore spot with me because like
00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:27.240
you said, Travis, nobody really knows what that
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:31.390
is. They just think that it's bad for white Christians.
00:31:31.509 --> 00:31:33.690
And it should be bad for white Christians, by
00:31:33.690 --> 00:31:37.450
the way. But, you know, it's like, you don't
00:31:37.450 --> 00:31:39.430
even know what that is. Do you know who made,
00:31:39.529 --> 00:31:43.089
you know, who benefited the most for DEI? And
00:31:43.089 --> 00:31:45.349
they're like, oh, no, no, it's just all those
00:31:45.349 --> 00:31:49.279
Asians. And I'm like. What Asians? Ew. What are
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:51.720
you talking about? What are you talking about?
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:54.720
No, white women are the ones who benefited the
00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:59.460
most. But then again, MAGA wants women back in
00:31:59.460 --> 00:32:02.000
the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. Well, is
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:05.960
MAGA on that path? Yeah, the trad wife. Oh, the
00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:07.660
trad wife thing, yeah. But I thought those were
00:32:07.660 --> 00:32:09.339
a little bit separate. I don't know if that's
00:32:09.339 --> 00:32:10.980
a one -to -one match. Well, like we've discovered
00:32:10.980 --> 00:32:13.700
that trad wife is more of a porn addiction. Well,
00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:17.599
it's got its aspect to it. Well, I know I was
00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:19.700
surprised I did. I did an episode. I did. I basically
00:32:19.700 --> 00:32:21.180
ended up doing these episodes that ended up being
00:32:21.180 --> 00:32:23.039
a series. Right. I initially started with kind
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:25.319
of the trad wife, homeschooling, homesteading
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:27.839
stuff. And that was kind of episode one in this
00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:30.019
series. And then I did, you know, the young men
00:32:30.019 --> 00:32:32.140
leaning to the right versus young women. Yeah.
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:35.220
Right. And sort of the Gen Z particularly. And
00:32:35.220 --> 00:32:37.200
so we did an episode about that. And then I did
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:39.339
that as a kind of follow up. The third one is
00:32:39.339 --> 00:32:40.819
kind of the Manosphere one, because Manosphere
00:32:40.819 --> 00:32:42.859
kind of kept coming up in both those other two.
00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:46.039
So it's like, why better? try to figure out what
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:48.000
the manosphere even means so then i did that
00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:49.960
manosphere episode so yeah so i did this episode
00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:51.839
on trad wife and that's where i i learned it
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:53.700
and like once i talked to one of these experts
00:32:53.700 --> 00:32:55.480
about it and they were talking about you know
00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:58.539
that that there's this kind of um uh kind of
00:32:58.539 --> 00:33:00.599
a porn side to it that like there's this whole
00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:03.880
fetishy trad wife thing going on i'm like oh
00:33:03.880 --> 00:33:05.359
now that you mentioned it that makes perfect
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:06.880
sense of course there is but it didn't occur
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:11.559
to me until right no travis is not gonna sleep
00:33:11.559 --> 00:33:14.069
now for a week but it's like you know We talk
00:33:14.069 --> 00:33:15.730
all the time, like if there's a thing, there's
00:33:15.730 --> 00:33:17.990
a porn version of it. Of course there is. But
00:33:17.990 --> 00:33:20.690
just even as, you know, all those women, you
00:33:20.690 --> 00:33:23.990
know, cooking and sitting with all the kids screaming
00:33:23.990 --> 00:33:25.410
and all that. They're flowing dresses and all.
00:33:25.450 --> 00:33:28.970
100 % turn on fetish. Yeah, there's got to be
00:33:28.970 --> 00:33:31.490
a fetish for that, for sure. Yeah. Show me your
00:33:31.490 --> 00:33:32.650
feet a little more. I mean, I'm not here to kink
00:33:32.650 --> 00:33:36.309
shame anyone, but like. No, of course not. Of
00:33:36.309 --> 00:33:41.849
course not. But when you're trying to frame it
00:33:41.849 --> 00:33:46.289
as a. You know, this is the way life should be.
00:33:46.390 --> 00:33:51.150
Women should not have a vote. A vote should be
00:33:51.150 --> 00:33:53.230
for the household and the man will do that. And
00:33:53.230 --> 00:33:55.670
women should be home having kids, as many kids
00:33:55.670 --> 00:33:59.069
as possible. Yeah, it's pretty gross. And for
00:33:59.069 --> 00:34:01.490
women that want to do that, great. Like that's
00:34:01.490 --> 00:34:04.289
your choice. No, that's fine. Yeah, no, 100%.
00:34:04.289 --> 00:34:06.589
But like making all women do that is where we're
00:34:06.589 --> 00:34:08.610
talking about, like drawing the line. Yeah, but
00:34:08.610 --> 00:34:11.050
are you okay? I would like to talk to a woman
00:34:11.050 --> 00:34:13.699
who's okay giving up her vote. And letting her
00:34:13.699 --> 00:34:15.039
husband vote. I don't know. You see him. I mean,
00:34:15.059 --> 00:34:17.260
you see him online talking about it. Again, I
00:34:17.260 --> 00:34:20.079
don't know how real that is. Well, I'm also saying
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:22.440
if you're doing it online, yeah, you're not a
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:26.059
trad wife. This is your need to be seen. This
00:34:26.059 --> 00:34:28.599
is your introduction to. It's an influencer.
00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:30.360
You know what? There's going to be the real trad
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:33.599
wives of, I don't know, whatever. I'm surprised
00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:35.539
it hasn't happened yet. Andy Cohen's got that
00:34:35.539 --> 00:34:37.139
lined up already. Hasn't that already kind of
00:34:37.139 --> 00:34:38.619
happened? Isn't there a show like that? Is there
00:34:38.619 --> 00:34:40.380
not something like that already? I'm amazed that
00:34:40.380 --> 00:34:43.650
hasn't happened. PBS did the 1800 house. Yeah,
00:34:43.650 --> 00:34:48.429
they also did. What was it? Sister wives for
00:34:48.429 --> 00:34:52.909
that. Kind of. But like at the same time, like
00:34:52.909 --> 00:34:55.130
that devolved pretty quickly into seeing like
00:34:55.130 --> 00:34:58.690
what the cracks in those marriages are. But like
00:34:58.690 --> 00:35:00.789
I. So here's here's the thing about the trad
00:35:00.789 --> 00:35:03.289
wife thing, though. Like if you truly believe
00:35:03.289 --> 00:35:09.059
like as a woman, your experience is. But you
00:35:09.059 --> 00:35:11.539
want to like be a mother and you want that to
00:35:11.539 --> 00:35:14.300
be like your sole identity. I want you to do
00:35:14.300 --> 00:35:16.000
that. Like that's that's the cool thing about
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.079
all this is like you have the choice to do all
00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:21.340
of it. And I think when you get into this area
00:35:21.340 --> 00:35:23.000
where like the Heritage Foundation is like, no,
00:35:23.019 --> 00:35:24.800
no, no, this is what must be promoted. This is
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:27.039
what this is like what we need to push. And this
00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:30.980
is the agenda. And you literally write it down
00:35:30.980 --> 00:35:35.119
in Project 2025. I'm like, oh. You don't you
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:37.519
don't want women to actually have rights. You
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:40.619
you like that. That's that's always been such
00:35:40.619 --> 00:35:43.860
a bizarre thing to me. Like in in in most areas
00:35:43.860 --> 00:35:45.920
of life, I'm like, I don't care how anyone lives
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:47.559
their life. It's truly none of my business. As
00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:51.280
long as everyone involved is like is on board
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:52.900
and like they're doing what they want to do.
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:54.539
I don't care how I don't care what your family
00:35:54.539 --> 00:35:57.079
looks like. I don't get it. That's all I care.
00:35:57.599 --> 00:36:00.360
Yeah. Like whatever. Everybody's in agreement.
00:36:00.780 --> 00:36:03.340
Everybody's safe. Everybody's. lives you know
00:36:03.340 --> 00:36:06.340
that's fine you yeah you should do you you do
00:36:06.340 --> 00:36:09.480
you boo yeah do like and that's and that's the
00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:12.820
thing where you've got the project or i'm sorry
00:36:12.820 --> 00:36:15.300
uh the heritage foundation and then turning point
00:36:15.300 --> 00:36:17.699
usa was the other big one where they're literally
00:36:17.699 --> 00:36:20.119
writing down on paper like this is the way we
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:22.539
want people to live their lives that is strange
00:36:22.539 --> 00:36:27.769
to me i don't get that Yeah. What I will say,
00:36:27.769 --> 00:36:30.409
like, so I will say that, like, the DEI thing
00:36:30.409 --> 00:36:33.289
is another example of this idea of that. I think
00:36:33.289 --> 00:36:36.469
the left often kind of forgets that, you know,
00:36:36.469 --> 00:36:38.909
we think about political power and sometimes
00:36:38.909 --> 00:36:41.210
the right sometimes seems like they have more
00:36:41.210 --> 00:36:43.130
political power here and there. But from the
00:36:43.130 --> 00:36:44.829
right's perspective, like they feel like they
00:36:44.829 --> 00:36:47.389
are excluded, that the left has all this cultural
00:36:47.389 --> 00:36:49.769
power, right? Like the left is kind of to them
00:36:49.769 --> 00:36:53.030
taking over academia, taking over Hollywood,
00:36:53.250 --> 00:36:56.960
is taking over, you know. education from their
00:36:56.960 --> 00:36:59.340
perspective. And, and so, you know, and that's,
00:36:59.340 --> 00:37:01.260
and so they feel like they have to go and assert
00:37:01.260 --> 00:37:03.420
themselves in those, in those realms, you know,
00:37:03.420 --> 00:37:05.440
and I think DEI is kind of part of that. They,
00:37:05.460 --> 00:37:07.760
they kind of attached, you know, again, like
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:09.960
Lisa says, DEI means whatever somebody wants
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:13.420
it to mean, I guess. But I think that's part
00:37:13.420 --> 00:37:16.039
of where it comes from. Like, so I had to call
00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:18.300
this person they. You know, it's like, screw
00:37:18.300 --> 00:37:20.800
that. I'm not going to do that. You know, and
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:23.659
that that whole conversation where people are
00:37:23.659 --> 00:37:25.699
screaming about like, I don't want to do that,
00:37:25.739 --> 00:37:28.340
then don't. You don't have to. But like you,
00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:32.099
you cannot force an entire population of people
00:37:32.099 --> 00:37:34.480
to get on board with like your notion of what
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:36.800
the perfect family is or what the perfect religion
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:40.199
is like. That is so strange to me, like how we
00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:42.280
started versus how we got here. I'm like, Diva,
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:44.920
like, do you not do you? You're losing the plot.
00:37:46.199 --> 00:37:48.460
Well, sometimes you've mentioned rights like
00:37:48.460 --> 00:37:50.980
I've heard the term rights a few times. And sometimes
00:37:50.980 --> 00:37:52.619
when we use those kind of words, just be careful,
00:37:52.699 --> 00:37:55.199
because like if you say, you know, for like a
00:37:55.199 --> 00:37:57.320
person on the right, they think they're defending
00:37:57.320 --> 00:37:59.420
the Constitution to support Donald Trump and
00:37:59.420 --> 00:38:01.260
do a lot of other stuff. Right. They think they're
00:38:01.260 --> 00:38:03.860
the ones defending rights. And it's the left
00:38:03.860 --> 00:38:05.380
trying to take the rights away. So a lot of this
00:38:05.380 --> 00:38:07.920
is how people interpret this language and words.
00:38:08.340 --> 00:38:10.000
You know, I had a conversation with somebody
00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:12.179
on the right that wrote a whole piece about.
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:15.079
you know, charisma and how the leftist falls
00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:17.619
for charisma all the time. And and, you know,
00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:20.500
conservatives never fall for charisma. And I'm
00:38:20.500 --> 00:38:23.960
like, and I'm like, isn't Donald Trump like a
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:26.239
counter argument to this, like a counter point
00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:29.000
of this? And he's like, well, no, because Trump's
00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:31.800
not charismatic because he's kind of. crude or
00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:33.659
whatever. It's like, OK, so we're just defining
00:38:33.659 --> 00:38:35.559
words the way we want to define them now. Right.
00:38:35.820 --> 00:38:38.019
And so and I think it's but it's a good point.
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:39.760
It's like that's what we all do. Like this guy
00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:41.679
did it. But I mean, I'm sure I could have taken
00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:43.579
one of his paragraphs, kind of neutralize it.
00:38:43.619 --> 00:38:45.119
So you didn't know if he was talking about Trump
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:47.280
or somebody else or a left person or right person.
00:38:47.420 --> 00:38:49.099
And, you know, you would hand to a bunch of people,
00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:50.079
a bunch of people on the left and say, well,
00:38:50.099 --> 00:38:52.179
this is 100 percent about Trump. Right. And probably
00:38:52.179 --> 00:38:53.360
some people on the right would have said, well,
00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:57.070
that's 100 percent about Mamdani or Obama. So
00:38:57.070 --> 00:38:59.070
it's just like it's just how we look at things.
00:38:59.110 --> 00:39:00.929
We see what we want to see in this stuff. And
00:39:00.929 --> 00:39:03.309
so it can be a real problem when we just don't
00:39:03.309 --> 00:39:05.809
interpret the words the same way. I have a problem
00:39:05.809 --> 00:39:07.909
giving Trump credit for coming up with all this.
00:39:08.469 --> 00:39:10.789
He's someone's pawn. He didn't come up with this.
00:39:11.210 --> 00:39:12.650
Yeah, it's starting to look that way, isn't it?
00:39:12.710 --> 00:39:17.469
Yeah. But yeah, I think he does have an intuition
00:39:17.469 --> 00:39:20.789
for it, though. He can he can. He did, I think,
00:39:20.809 --> 00:39:23.630
see like a missing piece and none of the, you
00:39:23.630 --> 00:39:26.030
know, he simplified things and he figured, you
00:39:26.030 --> 00:39:27.730
know, he's simple, I guess. Right. I mean, he
00:39:27.730 --> 00:39:30.750
sees it simple. And, you know, most of us, most
00:39:30.750 --> 00:39:33.050
people see it simple. So he was able to say stuff
00:39:33.050 --> 00:39:35.929
in simple ways that say the thing he wanted to
00:39:35.929 --> 00:39:38.690
hear. And I think, you know, all these strategists
00:39:38.690 --> 00:39:41.550
are just overthinking it. Oh, 100 percent. Well,
00:39:41.630 --> 00:39:44.659
and I think. The best way I've heard it described
00:39:44.659 --> 00:39:47.179
is Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall
00:39:47.179 --> 00:39:49.059
in line. Like Republicans are going to show up
00:39:49.059 --> 00:39:51.480
and vote for Republicans no matter what. Democrats
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:54.000
have a tendency to fall in love with their candidate.
00:39:54.099 --> 00:39:58.139
Like, I mean, you could not tell me like that
00:39:58.139 --> 00:40:00.679
Barack Obama and granted there there's room for
00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:02.260
criticism there. But you couldn't tell me that
00:40:02.260 --> 00:40:04.719
Barack Obama was not the greatest president that
00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:06.380
ever walked the face of the earth. And I was
00:40:06.380 --> 00:40:09.480
just mad that like I wasn't I wasn't 18 when
00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:13.030
it was. the time for his the first vote jesus
00:40:13.030 --> 00:40:18.809
he's that young if it makes you feel better i'm
00:40:18.809 --> 00:40:21.449
lying about my age like now so like we moved
00:40:21.449 --> 00:40:26.210
a little bit away from there it's fine like i
00:40:26.210 --> 00:40:28.329
support everyone's right to lie about their age
00:40:28.329 --> 00:40:34.110
but um i think donald trump really found his
00:40:34.110 --> 00:40:37.670
niche in I can I can make the right fall in love
00:40:37.670 --> 00:40:41.809
to like. So I think what we're seeing is probably
00:40:41.809 --> 00:40:45.349
just the pendulum swinging so far because it's
00:40:45.349 --> 00:40:46.730
like, oh, well, we've been falling in love with
00:40:46.730 --> 00:40:49.889
people. So for so long, but like the right didn't
00:40:49.889 --> 00:40:52.190
really have a guy to fall in love with. Like
00:40:52.190 --> 00:40:56.869
I looking back, like I can't think of any figure
00:40:56.869 --> 00:40:59.820
on the right that is truly just like. as charismatic
00:40:59.820 --> 00:41:03.219
as donald trump is it's like as messy as he is
00:41:03.219 --> 00:41:05.059
it's like and like this is the thing is like
00:41:05.059 --> 00:41:06.559
if he would if he wouldn't have gotten involved
00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:08.099
in politics and i've said it a million times
00:41:08.099 --> 00:41:11.019
i would love the guy like i and if i think back
00:41:11.019 --> 00:41:13.940
to like 2014 being in new york if i would have
00:41:13.940 --> 00:41:16.320
ran into him at a party like i know exactly how
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:17.679
it would have gone he would have been holding
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:19.760
court with like a bunch of people like he would
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:22.039
have been having a time because he's messy and
00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:24.800
he's funny and he's kind of a disaster but it's
00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:26.679
like a it's a car crash you can't look away from
00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:31.650
and I just wish he would have like harnessed
00:41:31.650 --> 00:41:33.570
that in a different way. That's just all there
00:41:33.570 --> 00:41:38.670
is to it. I disagree a little bit. I think he's
00:41:38.670 --> 00:41:43.389
the we just because he wasn't in politics. He
00:41:43.389 --> 00:41:46.889
was he has been misogynistic forever and we've
00:41:46.889 --> 00:41:49.909
just overlooked it because he was a nobody. But
00:41:49.909 --> 00:41:53.510
I if he was in a party and told me that, yeah,
00:41:53.590 --> 00:41:55.750
I'm going to go check on the girls in the dressing
00:41:55.750 --> 00:41:58.039
room at the pageant. I would be fucking qualified.
00:41:58.900 --> 00:42:03.420
OK, that's fair. Yeah, that's fair. You know,
00:42:03.420 --> 00:42:06.980
and I think that those comments were kind of
00:42:06.980 --> 00:42:09.059
just whatever. That's just Trump being Trump.
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:12.679
He's a nobody. Forget that. You know, he's just
00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:15.280
going to sell some steaks and water and airlines.
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:18.239
It's all going to go underground anyway. But
00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:22.340
I think that if we knew if we knew then what
00:42:22.340 --> 00:42:30.420
we know now. Oof. I think he would be, I'm using
00:42:30.420 --> 00:42:34.239
quotes, canceled. Canceled. Yeah. I mean, he
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:36.480
was canceled by the Village Voice like 25 years
00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:40.300
ago. Yeah. I think I was looking at it from the
00:42:40.300 --> 00:42:42.059
perspective of like, he's, I mean, he's like
00:42:42.059 --> 00:42:43.800
a drag queen. Like, I guess I didn't think about
00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:45.619
like the things that we know he said at the time.
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:47.980
Now we're talking about something totally different.
00:42:47.980 --> 00:42:51.320
I would love to see him. It would be funny. I
00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:54.340
would pay good money to see that. But, you know,
00:42:54.340 --> 00:42:55.900
I think of Trump differently, right? Because
00:42:55.900 --> 00:42:57.900
I see him, I think he's sort of so broken as
00:42:57.900 --> 00:43:00.480
a human. I kind of see him as almost like an
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:02.880
alien that's going through life kind of pretending
00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:05.480
to, like, this is almost like chat GPT. Like,
00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:07.679
this is what the way a human would talk, right?
00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:13.559
Yeah, he's... I mean, kind of. Like, I mean,
00:43:13.579 --> 00:43:16.960
who even says, what a weird turn of phrase, grab
00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:19.260
him by the pussy. Have you ever met anyone in
00:43:19.260 --> 00:43:21.119
your entire life, even somebody crude that would
00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:24.030
use that weird turn of phrase? I mean, he just
00:43:24.030 --> 00:43:27.989
feels like he's a he's a machine is trying to
00:43:27.989 --> 00:43:30.670
sometimes pretend to be human. I mean, and all
00:43:30.670 --> 00:43:32.989
this stuff. I see that that 10 year old, I'll
00:43:32.989 --> 00:43:35.309
be dating her in 10 years or see that, you know,
00:43:35.369 --> 00:43:38.389
my daughter, my my daughter is so freaking gorgeous.
00:43:38.449 --> 00:43:41.289
And I would love to date that. I mean, just the
00:43:41.289 --> 00:43:43.269
stuff that we've heard. And then he has these
00:43:43.269 --> 00:43:46.650
weird like little moments of like self self awareness
00:43:46.650 --> 00:43:48.250
where it's like, I guess I'm probably not going
00:43:48.250 --> 00:43:51.510
to heaven. Right. And then he turns around and
00:43:51.510 --> 00:43:57.059
he's like, quiet, picky. Yeah. No, but what's
00:43:57.059 --> 00:43:58.800
his obsession with heaven right now? What does
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:00.360
he think? I don't know. What does he think heaven
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:04.059
is? I know. I don't know. I mean, I feel like
00:44:04.059 --> 00:44:06.539
heaven is something like Stefan from Saturday
00:44:06.539 --> 00:44:13.530
Night Live. Go see heaven. It's got wombats in
00:44:13.530 --> 00:44:17.409
the corner, dancing wombats. It's got everything.
00:44:19.909 --> 00:44:23.630
Are you old enough to know who Stefan is from
00:44:23.630 --> 00:44:27.110
Saturday Night Live? You've got to look that
00:44:27.110 --> 00:44:32.909
up. Travis. Get some clips of Stefan. You may
00:44:32.909 --> 00:44:35.309
not even know this much about Saturday Night
00:44:35.309 --> 00:44:37.010
Live, but Saturday Night Live has the news segment.
00:44:38.849 --> 00:44:40.909
yes and stefan would be one of the people that
00:44:40.909 --> 00:44:43.389
would come on and he would give um you know uh
00:44:43.389 --> 00:44:46.090
hot tips for what to do in new york city what's
00:44:46.090 --> 00:44:48.989
the hot club in new york oh oh oh yes yes yes
00:44:48.989 --> 00:44:50.869
okay like i did i never knew his name i know
00:44:50.869 --> 00:44:52.929
exactly who you're talking about yeah yeah and
00:44:52.929 --> 00:44:55.610
so and and the one of the things about that that
00:44:55.610 --> 00:44:57.809
skit is that he didn't know what he was going
00:44:57.809 --> 00:45:00.309
to say like the writers give him cards in the
00:45:00.309 --> 00:45:02.989
moment He didn't know. So that's why he was cracking
00:45:02.989 --> 00:45:04.289
up so much all the time because he would read
00:45:04.289 --> 00:45:06.429
these cards and then say, and then they started
00:45:06.429 --> 00:45:09.070
making that, that, um, they started scripting
00:45:09.070 --> 00:45:11.289
that like mad libs. So they would just sit in
00:45:11.289 --> 00:45:13.130
the writings. They wrote it all out, but then
00:45:13.130 --> 00:45:15.289
they'd say, okay, we just fill in a blank. Yeah.
00:45:15.369 --> 00:45:17.469
Phil, we're going to do a Stefan fill in. I need
00:45:17.469 --> 00:45:21.550
a adjective. I need a animal. I need a noun.
00:45:21.730 --> 00:45:25.679
I need, yeah. You know, so. So even the writers,
00:45:25.820 --> 00:45:28.079
they wrote the basic script, but then they would
00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:30.539
mad lib it in and then that's what they would
00:45:30.539 --> 00:45:33.099
give him. Yeah. Oh, that's amazing. So that's
00:45:33.099 --> 00:45:35.380
what I think. So that's what I think that Trump
00:45:35.380 --> 00:45:37.280
doesn't even know what heaven is. What is, I
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:39.599
mean, what does he, what does he really think
00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:42.239
he's, he's not a deep thinker. I mean, he's not
00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:45.460
a deep thinker. And don't forget, John Paul said
00:45:45.460 --> 00:45:47.539
that don't be an asshole. Everybody gets to go
00:45:47.539 --> 00:45:50.260
to heaven. Just don't be an asshole. Didn't he
00:45:50.260 --> 00:45:52.659
retract that? No, he did not. I don't know. I
00:45:52.659 --> 00:45:54.650
don't know. But the Catholics lost their fucking
00:45:54.650 --> 00:45:57.110
mind. They were not happy about that. No, they
00:45:57.110 --> 00:46:01.550
were not happy. You've got to die for more if
00:46:01.550 --> 00:46:06.389
you want to go to heaven. Yeah. No. Yeah. I guess
00:46:06.389 --> 00:46:10.110
I don't know. The long and short of it is, like,
00:46:10.190 --> 00:46:12.650
Donald Trump is a case that I don't think we're
00:46:12.650 --> 00:46:15.030
ever going to solve as a nation. And, like, at
00:46:15.030 --> 00:46:17.289
most, we have three more years with him. So,
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some ways, I would like to see in 100 years how
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history is going to reflect on this. Yeah, I
00:47:48.500 --> 00:47:50.860
know, because you can imagine. I don't want to
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live for 100 years. Yeah. Well, you can imagine
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like some character 100 years ago. somebody that
00:47:56.179 --> 00:47:58.219
was living through it would look at how historians
00:47:58.219 --> 00:48:00.119
talk about now they're like oh man they got that
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:05.960
wrong that's true but it's so anyways go ahead
00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:09.300
i like i want to know like i think i have thought
00:48:09.300 --> 00:48:10.900
about that a lot like how are we going to talk
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about like covid and black lives matter and like
00:48:14.579 --> 00:48:16.639
things that have real impacts and it's like are
00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:20.539
we going to whitewash it or are we gonna like
00:48:21.210 --> 00:48:24.070
And truly learn from our mistakes of doing that
00:48:24.070 --> 00:48:28.670
with like the civil rights movement and and everywhere
00:48:28.670 --> 00:48:31.630
we went wrong and say, no, we have to be honest
00:48:31.630 --> 00:48:33.349
about that, because I think this is something
00:48:33.349 --> 00:48:35.989
like as this is on a societal level. I think
00:48:35.989 --> 00:48:38.389
we have to start being very honest about like,
00:48:38.469 --> 00:48:41.170
yeah, it's OK to admit we messed up like this
00:48:41.170 --> 00:48:42.829
American exceptionalism thing is not getting
00:48:42.829 --> 00:48:47.570
us very far. Yeah, and I think that right. And
00:48:47.570 --> 00:48:50.170
I think the Democrats still haven't really learned.
00:48:50.869 --> 00:48:53.050
figured out what what the takeaways are from
00:48:53.050 --> 00:48:54.969
this whole last 10 years well we tried to start
00:48:54.969 --> 00:48:59.809
doing that I mean Columbus Day was pre -Trump
00:48:59.809 --> 00:49:02.869
we were getting away from Columbus Day yeah for
00:49:02.869 --> 00:49:07.409
obvious reasons and even like nobody likes even
00:49:07.409 --> 00:49:10.369
even Spain like and Portugal don't like Columbus
00:49:10.369 --> 00:49:14.050
nobody likes Columbus right and you know but
00:49:14.050 --> 00:49:16.489
it's also so we were getting away from that and
00:49:16.489 --> 00:49:19.730
getting more of the real story and then here
00:49:19.730 --> 00:49:22.510
here he comes and now you know columbus day is
00:49:22.510 --> 00:49:25.889
back with a vengeance and i think that's such
00:49:25.889 --> 00:49:28.630
a bizarre hill to die on like what like you you
00:49:28.630 --> 00:49:30.809
truly can't handle it being called indigenous
00:49:30.809 --> 00:49:33.929
people's day like you you cannot handle that
00:49:33.929 --> 00:49:37.449
idea and so you like what attachment do you have
00:49:37.449 --> 00:49:39.489
to christopher columbus like i don't understand
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:43.719
The attachment he has is that or that that side
00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:46.579
has is that the other side says, don't be stupid.
00:49:46.820 --> 00:49:48.860
Well, I guess it's part of that whole culture
00:49:48.860 --> 00:49:51.639
war nostalgia thing. Yes. They feel like it's
00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:53.320
another place. They're losing the culture war
00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:56.059
and losing. Can I just tell you, I've never felt
00:49:56.059 --> 00:49:58.599
nostalgic about Christopher Columbus or Columbus
00:49:58.599 --> 00:50:00.840
Day. Like I've never felt a sense of pride around
00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:04.559
it. Like that is a bizarre thing to me. I'd rather
00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:07.380
call it Tony Soprano Day because then I would
00:50:07.380 --> 00:50:11.460
be way behind it. Yeah. Right. I mean, the whole
00:50:11.460 --> 00:50:13.820
story is like who even decided to make that a
00:50:13.820 --> 00:50:16.820
story? It's such a wacky story anyway. Who came
00:50:16.820 --> 00:50:21.320
up with that mythology? I I love how creative
00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:23.300
we get with history. Like, I think it's just
00:50:23.300 --> 00:50:28.139
such a fun thing that we do. Also, speaking of
00:50:28.139 --> 00:50:30.500
history, because this kind of is a perfect segue
00:50:30.500 --> 00:50:34.699
into like one of my last topics. Have you guys
00:50:34.699 --> 00:50:38.960
seen the. the timeline on the white house website
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:42.079
of like the history of like the building of the
00:50:42.079 --> 00:50:46.840
white house you know i hadn't seen it until you
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:48.780
brought it to my attention but yeah i did i did
00:50:48.780 --> 00:50:53.880
look it over what are your thoughts this is so
00:50:53.880 --> 00:50:58.219
bizarre like to me like what are they really
00:50:58.219 --> 00:51:01.539
doing like you know I mean, I mean, for one thing,
00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:03.739
I mean, Trump does like this idea that if I put
00:51:03.739 --> 00:51:06.579
my crimes out there in public, like they're OK.
00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:08.400
Right. If I just say I'm going to do it, it must
00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:10.719
be fine. Like everyone says, well, it must not
00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:12.860
be illegal because he put it on a website. But
00:51:12.860 --> 00:51:15.920
so there's that side of it, maybe. But what is
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:18.639
this whole thing anyway? Like, is it what is
00:51:18.639 --> 00:51:20.659
it? I mean, I guess it's it could be as, you
00:51:20.659 --> 00:51:23.500
know, Occam's razor kind of it's just the grift.
00:51:23.519 --> 00:51:26.699
Right. It's like a new way to grift. I don't
00:51:26.699 --> 00:51:28.619
know. It could be legacy like he wants to do
00:51:28.619 --> 00:51:31.170
some kind of legacy there. I feel like the whole
00:51:31.170 --> 00:51:33.369
thing is not about a ballroom at all. I feel
00:51:33.369 --> 00:51:34.869
like there's something else going on here that
00:51:34.869 --> 00:51:38.130
none of us know about. So, Lisa, did you see
00:51:38.130 --> 00:51:41.150
the link that I put in the notes? I'm sorry.
00:51:41.309 --> 00:51:43.969
I did not, Travis. Oh, that's OK. That's OK.
00:51:44.110 --> 00:51:47.090
So I'll just just for a little breakdown. So
00:51:47.090 --> 00:51:49.590
on the White House website, they have like a
00:51:49.590 --> 00:51:51.530
timeline of like the history of events. And it
00:51:51.530 --> 00:51:54.179
starts out pretty normal with like. we built
00:51:54.179 --> 00:51:56.539
the white house and then we had the the fire
00:51:56.539 --> 00:51:58.880
in the war of 1812 and then we rebuilt the white
00:51:58.880 --> 00:52:00.739
house and then like we added the east wing and
00:52:00.739 --> 00:52:03.880
we added the west wing and then it gets to um
00:52:03.880 --> 00:52:09.679
the uh obama administration and they're like
00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:14.579
that jumps way to the way forward well they i
00:52:14.579 --> 00:52:17.199
mean they to be fair they do have like nine pages
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:20.449
of like history and then it's like like after
00:52:20.449 --> 00:52:23.630
the uh the rose garden being installed it jumps
00:52:23.630 --> 00:52:25.949
to like the obama administration it's like barack
00:52:25.949 --> 00:52:29.150
obama invited the muslim brotherhood into the
00:52:29.150 --> 00:52:30.789
white house and that was just really really bad
00:52:30.789 --> 00:52:32.630
they're terrorists like it literally says this
00:52:32.630 --> 00:52:37.030
on the website and then it goes into uh oh i'm
00:52:37.030 --> 00:52:38.989
sorry the one right before that is bill clinton
00:52:38.989 --> 00:52:44.230
got had his affair in the local office yeah and
00:52:44.230 --> 00:52:49.119
then it jumps to uh a picture of hunter biden
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:51.260
falling asleep in the bathtub it's that picture
00:52:51.260 --> 00:52:52.780
that's been all over the internet and they and
00:52:52.780 --> 00:52:55.219
it's like hey we found cocaine in the white house
00:52:55.219 --> 00:52:58.960
this must have been joe biden's son like and
00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:02.559
then it's uh well you know i want to say they
00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:05.480
do this jump too right i mean they go from and
00:53:05.480 --> 00:53:07.340
they kind of act like well this just is a normal
00:53:07.340 --> 00:53:09.159
flow right but if you look at like they talk
00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:10.699
about the total quote -unquote reconstruction
00:53:10.699 --> 00:53:13.170
that was done with with truman right so that
00:53:13.170 --> 00:53:16.110
was 1948 and they jumped in 1970 right they don't
00:53:16.110 --> 00:53:17.809
really notice that oh that was like that was
00:53:17.809 --> 00:53:20.670
a long time it's a pretty big gap but also like
00:53:20.670 --> 00:53:23.150
they don't talk at all about how that truman
00:53:23.150 --> 00:53:25.210
reconstruction was like the place was running
00:53:25.210 --> 00:53:28.800
down and also there was a huge like they put
00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:32.019
truman as like truman did it but really that
00:53:32.019 --> 00:53:34.219
was a whole effort by the whole like historical
00:53:34.219 --> 00:53:36.239
i don't know all the names technical names of
00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:38.780
all this these groups that do this kind of architecture
00:53:38.780 --> 00:53:41.480
you know this heritage architecture kind of stuff
00:53:41.480 --> 00:53:45.059
of dc i mean truman was just happened to be the
00:53:45.059 --> 00:53:47.320
president at that time it wasn't like his project
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:51.940
this was like you know a huge i mean he you know
00:53:51.940 --> 00:53:54.559
these other groups and these these outside you
00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:57.900
know experts that that kind of worry about this
00:53:57.900 --> 00:54:00.579
history beyond one president worked on that project
00:54:00.579 --> 00:54:02.119
and then they kind of jumped like you say these
00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:04.579
other things that are like what is the bill clinton
00:54:04.579 --> 00:54:07.760
you know monica lewinsky thing have to do with
00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:09.739
rebuilding the white house that's super weird
00:54:09.739 --> 00:54:14.860
well that to me is like why are you so obsessed
00:54:14.860 --> 00:54:17.360
with owning the left like why is like why is
00:54:17.360 --> 00:54:19.400
that your entire personality and why is that
00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:21.679
what you're going to put on the website and then
00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:23.960
it's like okay so you have i think one of the
00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:27.199
last items on the timeline was the trans visibility
00:54:27.199 --> 00:54:29.860
day of awareness where the trans woman took her
00:54:29.860 --> 00:54:32.119
top off on the white house lawn and i'm like
00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:36.500
did you include the uh shaman on january 6th
00:54:36.500 --> 00:54:38.320
that was running around without a shirt on because
00:54:38.320 --> 00:54:40.139
you really wanted to obsess over someone not
00:54:40.139 --> 00:54:43.170
wearing a shirt like i don't understand why you're
00:54:43.170 --> 00:54:45.369
not including your side in that like it's just
00:54:45.369 --> 00:54:48.789
it's one of those things where i'm like politics
00:54:48.789 --> 00:54:51.329
is messy and i get that but it's like you were
00:54:51.329 --> 00:54:55.090
you were literally taking like one of the most
00:54:55.090 --> 00:54:59.869
iconic legacies of like a building right and
00:54:59.869 --> 00:55:03.829
being so gross about it like i don't like this
00:55:03.829 --> 00:55:06.190
idea that like someone in the trump administration
00:55:06.190 --> 00:55:08.510
was like yeah let's put this on the website like
00:55:08.510 --> 00:55:12.239
i i don't i i don't get it Right. I mean, they
00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:13.860
could have they could have clearly had a whole
00:55:13.860 --> 00:55:15.500
bunch of if they wanted to, like they switch
00:55:15.500 --> 00:55:18.739
from this idea of. of literally kind of construction
00:55:18.739 --> 00:55:21.239
around the White House to this, like, you know,
00:55:21.260 --> 00:55:23.019
scandals around the White House. Like if they
00:55:23.019 --> 00:55:24.880
were going to switch to historical events that
00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:26.480
were significant, there's all kinds of things,
00:55:26.500 --> 00:55:28.099
you know, different signings, you know, there
00:55:28.099 --> 00:55:30.000
was different treaties signed and stuff like
00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:31.880
that you could put in this list, right? But yeah,
00:55:31.940 --> 00:55:33.739
then they picked this weird thing with Bill Clinton,
00:55:33.920 --> 00:55:37.059
the Muslim Brotherhood. And then I love the photo
00:55:37.059 --> 00:55:40.119
of Hunter Biden in the bathtub with a cigarette
00:55:40.119 --> 00:55:45.289
hanging out of his mouth. My God. you know but
00:55:45.289 --> 00:55:47.730
it's this shit that they pick is ridiculous sorry
00:55:47.730 --> 00:55:49.389
i don't know if you're an explicit website you
00:55:49.389 --> 00:55:51.730
want to bleep that yeah no it's every episode's
00:55:51.730 --> 00:55:53.650
explicit i've called i've called christy now
00:55:53.650 --> 00:55:55.489
i'm the c word on my podcast before it's fine
00:55:57.119 --> 00:55:58.400
You know, and then the other thing about it is
00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:00.559
once you get if it's supposedly a timeline, the
00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:02.400
other thing is like, you know, this stuff starts
00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:04.340
to accelerate a lot. Right. You get all these
00:56:04.340 --> 00:56:07.219
things. Like I said, one bullet is 20, 30 years
00:56:07.219 --> 00:56:09.360
apart. And then you get to this end and it's
00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:13.599
like 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2025. It's
00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:15.960
like all this stuff that he's done in the last
00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:18.739
nine months or whatever. Right. It's like he
00:56:18.739 --> 00:56:20.780
just compresses it all and talk about how wonderful
00:56:20.780 --> 00:56:23.019
it is. Yeah. I mean, they're so wonderful and
00:56:23.019 --> 00:56:24.880
they're so good at everything. They're just really,
00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:33.030
really good. Who is he hiring to do this website?
00:56:34.110 --> 00:56:37.389
I assume Caroline Levitt's brother or something.
00:56:37.429 --> 00:56:40.869
I don't know. Caroline Levitt's kid? I don't,
00:56:40.869 --> 00:56:44.150
yeah. Maybe. I mean, like you say, this could
00:56:44.150 --> 00:56:46.889
be an Onion website. Like once you start switching
00:56:46.889 --> 00:56:48.449
into the Bill Clinton scandal and everything
00:56:48.449 --> 00:56:50.809
that goes after that, this could 100 % be the
00:56:50.809 --> 00:56:53.360
Onion who put this website together. And they're
00:56:53.360 --> 00:56:56.199
so unserious. Like, that's that's the thing is
00:56:56.199 --> 00:56:58.500
like, I'm just like, Diva, you're the president
00:56:58.500 --> 00:57:02.159
of the United States. Like, this is a dot gov
00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:05.679
website. And to Lisa's point, he just doesn't
00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:08.139
get that. Like, he doesn't get the significance
00:57:08.139 --> 00:57:10.739
of that. He doesn't get that he is the president
00:57:10.739 --> 00:57:14.440
of all of the United States. He thinks he's president
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:18.039
just of the MAGAs. Right. Well, he's president
00:57:18.039 --> 00:57:20.340
of whoever likes him. Yeah. That week. Yeah.
00:57:21.289 --> 00:57:24.349
Maybe. And if you say something he doesn't like,
00:57:24.369 --> 00:57:26.530
he's going to call you piggy or dumb or stupid
00:57:26.530 --> 00:57:30.130
or fake news. Or pull your broadcasting license
00:57:30.130 --> 00:57:34.170
or sue you. Like, whatever. Yeah, it is crazy.
00:57:34.269 --> 00:57:36.949
This is the world we're in now. And like you
00:57:36.949 --> 00:57:38.690
guys were talking about the history. What will
00:57:38.690 --> 00:57:40.909
history look back at this? And you're like, I'm
00:57:40.909 --> 00:57:42.849
just hoping we look back at this and go, what
00:57:42.849 --> 00:57:44.929
were we thinking? Like, how did we let this happen?
00:57:46.739 --> 00:57:49.360
I hope so. You think about the dumbness like
00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:53.659
this is literally, you know, idiocracy, right?
00:57:53.739 --> 00:57:55.659
I mean, this is like idiocracy didn't even go
00:57:55.659 --> 00:58:01.119
this far. But I've wrote all of my topics. I
00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:03.119
feel like I've like I have like one last thing,
00:58:03.179 --> 00:58:04.699
but I want like what's on your guys's list. I
00:58:04.699 --> 00:58:06.119
want to hear I want to hear all of your stuff.
00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:10.679
What do you have, Lise? All of our stuff? No,
00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:13.139
just say anything. Oh, by the way, me and my
00:58:13.139 --> 00:58:15.300
brother have decided to see where it's not bad
00:58:15.300 --> 00:58:19.880
and we used it all weekend. Yes. Be European,
00:58:20.139 --> 00:58:22.239
right? Be English. Just say it all the time.
00:58:24.280 --> 00:58:27.000
Right. Or I think the Aussies do it too. I don't
00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:29.079
think they're bothered by that word. No, they're
00:58:29.079 --> 00:58:31.119
not bothered at all. Gay guys have like taken
00:58:31.119 --> 00:58:33.460
back that word, too. Like I like we scream it
00:58:33.460 --> 00:58:37.900
constantly. So, yeah, I know. And I just feel
00:58:37.900 --> 00:58:40.619
so liberated where I can call my brother the
00:58:40.619 --> 00:58:44.079
C word. Yeah. Proud of you. Not in not in not
00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:46.619
say, hey, you C word. But in a fun way. In a
00:58:46.619 --> 00:58:55.920
fun way. Oh, my God. I love you. Yeah. Let's
00:58:55.920 --> 00:58:58.780
see. What do I have on my list? You know, you
00:58:58.780 --> 00:59:03.019
know, we we're in California. We have Newsom.
00:59:03.059 --> 00:59:07.139
So I always like to talk about one of Newsom's
00:59:07.139 --> 00:59:10.639
trolls against Trump, which are just magical.
00:59:10.719 --> 00:59:14.139
Yes. Even though we don't. Yes. We're not we're
00:59:14.139 --> 00:59:17.860
not lovers of Trump, but I do love that. I do
00:59:17.860 --> 00:59:22.679
love that. He's just going for it. And I'm going
00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:25.579
to just give it to. Give it, give it back to
00:59:25.579 --> 00:59:27.619
them every single time. What was the one that
00:59:27.619 --> 00:59:29.559
you need to, but lately it was like, you need
00:59:29.559 --> 00:59:33.639
to dress appropriately on the airplane. Oh, what
00:59:33.639 --> 00:59:37.099
do you mean? I have to dress appropriately on
00:59:37.099 --> 00:59:40.139
the airplane. That was also on my list. Yeah.
00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:44.630
Yeah. And then. International flights, man. I'm
00:59:44.630 --> 00:59:47.250
putting my sweats on. I'm ready for a nap. What
00:59:47.250 --> 00:59:49.889
are you talking about? Your son was horrified
00:59:49.889 --> 00:59:51.329
when we did an overnight flight and you and I
00:59:51.329 --> 00:59:53.110
showed up in pajamas and he's like, what are
00:59:53.110 --> 00:59:55.949
you doing? You're going to wish you had your
00:59:55.949 --> 00:59:59.510
pajamas on too. And then he shows a picture of
00:59:59.510 --> 01:00:05.210
freaking RFK Jr., the head of our health, walking
01:00:05.210 --> 01:00:08.670
around an airplane barefoot. That's fucking disgusting.
01:00:08.989 --> 01:00:15.039
That's gross. rfk jr is a gem man i gotta tell
01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:20.860
you the gift that keeps on giving i that's another
01:00:20.860 --> 01:00:22.780
one of those things where i look at it i'm like
01:00:22.780 --> 01:00:25.739
is this satire like this this can't be real like
01:00:25.739 --> 01:00:29.219
oh you think beef tallow is is an actual like
01:00:29.219 --> 01:00:31.500
okay that's you're all in on beef tallow you
01:00:31.500 --> 01:00:35.099
are you think vaccines cause autism like okay
01:00:35.099 --> 01:00:38.099
you are you're not a real person like i'm convinced
01:00:38.099 --> 01:00:42.190
of that Well, wait, you're in Kentucky now and
01:00:42.190 --> 01:00:44.929
they've had you've had three children die from
01:00:44.929 --> 01:00:48.449
of measles. No, not measles. Whooping cough,
01:00:48.610 --> 01:00:51.730
right? Oh, because they're not vaccinated. Three
01:00:51.730 --> 01:00:55.010
unvaccinated kids died in Kentucky. That's amazing.
01:00:56.230 --> 01:01:00.670
Isn't Kentucky also where the arc is? Yeah. Oh,
01:01:00.849 --> 01:01:04.449
yeah. The Noah's Ark experience. That's a that's
01:01:04.449 --> 01:01:07.510
a real highlight, too. Have you done that? Have
01:01:07.510 --> 01:01:11.780
you done that yet? So I'm actually in Indianapolis.
01:01:12.260 --> 01:01:14.619
Most of my family is from Kentucky, though. Like
01:01:14.619 --> 01:01:16.340
I still have a ton of family that lives in Kentucky.
01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:21.380
No, I've I've I've never partaken in the Noah's
01:01:21.380 --> 01:01:27.099
Ark experience. And he's a cool town. Yeah, of
01:01:27.099 --> 01:01:30.420
course. And then Megan Kelly is also the other
01:01:30.420 --> 01:01:36.039
gift. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Talking about
01:01:36.039 --> 01:01:38.239
like anything Trump does is OK. Now we're like.
01:01:38.510 --> 01:01:40.670
kind of coming up these weird definitions of
01:01:40.670 --> 01:01:45.110
where you draw the line yeah with that's the
01:01:45.110 --> 01:01:49.849
thing is like megan kelly had had the real opportunity
01:01:49.849 --> 01:01:52.409
to have the world eating out of the palm of her
01:01:52.409 --> 01:01:54.750
hand after the whole fox news fallout situation
01:01:54.750 --> 01:01:59.849
and lord have mercy you want to talk about someone
01:01:59.849 --> 01:02:02.610
who squandered an opportunity like that is that's
01:02:02.610 --> 01:02:07.170
rough like and it gets more disgusting when she
01:02:07.170 --> 01:02:12.090
has a 15 year old daughter yeah it it does and
01:02:12.090 --> 01:02:17.130
that's do do i i think part of the problem is
01:02:17.130 --> 01:02:19.530
she she is one of these people she's similar
01:02:19.530 --> 01:02:22.429
to tucker carlson in this way where i don't think
01:02:22.429 --> 01:02:24.389
she thinks before something comes out of her
01:02:24.389 --> 01:02:25.929
mouth and like she's just talking and talking
01:02:25.929 --> 01:02:28.610
and talking and talking because like you i think
01:02:28.610 --> 01:02:30.889
i when i watched the clip i was like oh this
01:02:30.889 --> 01:02:32.590
is where she realized what came out of her mouth
01:02:32.590 --> 01:02:36.349
and she started writing it back yeah but i'm
01:02:36.349 --> 01:02:39.119
like The fact that it came out of your mouth
01:02:39.119 --> 01:02:41.460
lets me know like, oh, you're you're willing
01:02:41.460 --> 01:02:43.880
to move the goalposts for Trump in this scenario.
01:02:45.420 --> 01:02:48.059
I'm everything that comes out of your mouth is
01:02:48.059 --> 01:02:49.639
completely irrelevant to me now. I'm like, it's
01:02:49.639 --> 01:02:51.219
not a conversation I'm willing to participate
01:02:51.219 --> 01:02:54.760
in. I can't like that's disgusting. And why is
01:02:54.760 --> 01:02:57.340
she all in on Trump? He he threw her out a long
01:02:57.340 --> 01:03:02.280
time ago. He tossed her to the curb. Yeah, I
01:03:02.280 --> 01:03:05.400
don't. That's. That loyalist thing is something
01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:07.679
that's never made sense to me. Like, I don't
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:10.719
I don't get it. Yeah, that's the one that's always
01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:12.380
been a challenge for me, too, particularly these
01:03:12.380 --> 01:03:14.920
powerful people that like they know they're going
01:03:14.920 --> 01:03:18.019
to get, you know, I mean, I guess it's the power
01:03:18.019 --> 01:03:20.639
that is driving it. Like they just want to stay
01:03:20.639 --> 01:03:23.159
in power somehow and stay in the power circle
01:03:23.159 --> 01:03:25.800
or whatever. But like historically, like he screws
01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:29.539
everyone over eventually. And, you know, it's
01:03:29.539 --> 01:03:31.219
the classic the leopard's not going to eat my
01:03:31.219 --> 01:03:35.400
face off. I can't believe the leopards ate her
01:03:35.400 --> 01:03:41.179
face like and that's like I and I guess like
01:03:41.179 --> 01:03:45.039
I to what end and I'm like if if you really take
01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:48.360
someone who like who has done this kind of well
01:03:48.360 --> 01:03:50.500
it's Kamala Harris where she's been very honest
01:03:50.500 --> 01:03:54.960
about her relationship with Joe Biden and she
01:03:54.960 --> 01:03:56.679
still likes the guy and that's all well and good
01:03:56.679 --> 01:03:58.139
like and she's gone on the book tour and talked
01:03:58.139 --> 01:04:01.880
about like yeah like we we fought a lot and At
01:04:01.880 --> 01:04:04.039
the end of the day, like I still respect him,
01:04:04.099 --> 01:04:06.500
but like our relationship is complicated. And
01:04:06.500 --> 01:04:08.500
I think like you just have to be honest about
01:04:08.500 --> 01:04:10.500
it. Like these people that are so delusional
01:04:10.500 --> 01:04:13.980
about this notion of Donald Trump can do no wrong.
01:04:14.059 --> 01:04:17.920
I simply will never understand that because I'm
01:04:17.920 --> 01:04:21.639
like, we've we've watched him turn on. One of
01:04:21.639 --> 01:04:23.860
his most vehement supporters in Marjorie Taylor
01:04:23.860 --> 01:04:25.920
Greene. And, you know, what's interesting is
01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:28.139
like the left hated Marjorie Taylor Greene for
01:04:28.139 --> 01:04:32.440
what she was in Congress for five years and.
01:04:34.039 --> 01:04:36.460
Hated her the entire time. MAGA hates her for
01:04:36.460 --> 01:04:40.320
two weeks and she's had to hire security. Yeah,
01:04:40.340 --> 01:04:42.219
well, now she knows what it's like. She has a
01:04:42.219 --> 01:04:45.239
little taste of what she was dishing out. Yeah,
01:04:45.239 --> 01:04:48.269
well, it's in as part of that whole. You know,
01:04:48.269 --> 01:04:49.989
the left is the violent side, right? I mean,
01:04:50.010 --> 01:04:52.670
we talk ourselves into these ideas. The lunatic
01:04:52.670 --> 01:05:00.010
left. Yeah. The radical left. Yeah. Yeah. And
01:05:00.010 --> 01:05:01.570
we have to kind of get out of using this kind
01:05:01.570 --> 01:05:05.449
of language. No, of course we do. Of course we
01:05:05.449 --> 01:05:10.429
do. It doesn't represent anyone real. Say it
01:05:10.429 --> 01:05:12.150
again. I was just saying it doesn't represent
01:05:12.150 --> 01:05:14.250
anyone real. Like it's all just a caricature
01:05:14.250 --> 01:05:18.440
of this idea that doesn't really exist. No, it
01:05:18.440 --> 01:05:21.559
doesn't. But what I do want to because Lisa mentioned
01:05:21.559 --> 01:05:24.159
it, Sean Duffy telling people to dress up for
01:05:24.159 --> 01:05:26.199
flights like when he came out and said what he
01:05:26.199 --> 01:05:29.179
said about travel, I thought that was the most
01:05:29.179 --> 01:05:32.380
wild concept anyone has. Like, you were really
01:05:32.380 --> 01:05:35.239
brave in this economy right now to start talking
01:05:35.239 --> 01:05:37.739
about what people need to do on flights. Like,
01:05:37.739 --> 01:05:44.090
I have to tell you, I will. I will show up to
01:05:44.090 --> 01:05:46.289
the airport in joggers and like a Lululemon t
01:05:46.289 --> 01:05:48.050
-shirt and like that is the best you're getting
01:05:48.050 --> 01:05:50.769
out of me. I'm not interested in like interacting
01:05:50.769 --> 01:05:53.090
with anyone. I'm not interested in this whole
01:05:53.090 --> 01:05:55.630
notion that like we have to be kind to like other
01:05:55.630 --> 01:06:02.030
travelers. Like, no, you're insane. Well, I'm
01:06:02.030 --> 01:06:04.269
not there. I'm not there to, you know, make new
01:06:04.269 --> 01:06:07.469
friends. I need to get to my just my destination.
01:06:08.090 --> 01:06:11.539
But I want you to be clean. Just be clean. I
01:06:11.539 --> 01:06:14.260
don't want you to show up in the in the joggers
01:06:14.260 --> 01:06:16.019
and the lemon shirt you've been working out in
01:06:16.019 --> 01:06:18.059
all weekend. And no one wants to hear your music
01:06:18.059 --> 01:06:19.780
either. So you can keep that in your headphones.
01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:23.519
No, I'm going to be so for real with you. I don't
01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:27.239
care. Like, I'm going to. Well, no, like, that's
01:06:27.239 --> 01:06:29.900
for me, though. Like, I'm just like, I have I
01:06:29.900 --> 01:06:33.019
have my headphones in. I'm not paying attention
01:06:33.019 --> 01:06:34.840
to anything that's going on around me. And like
01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:38.039
these. These issues that people run into at the
01:06:38.039 --> 01:06:39.780
airport, I'm like, these are self -inflicted
01:06:39.780 --> 01:06:41.760
issues. Like if people can mind their own business
01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:43.920
for the most part, like we're probably going
01:06:43.920 --> 01:06:48.119
to be cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. I mean,
01:06:48.119 --> 01:06:49.840
everybody's got their quirks. You do your thing.
01:06:49.880 --> 01:06:52.920
I'll do my thing. We're all good. Yes. I just
01:06:52.920 --> 01:06:54.880
want to be showered when you come. I don't want
01:06:54.880 --> 01:06:56.460
to sit next to you if you haven't showered in
01:06:56.460 --> 01:06:58.900
a while. Showering is helpful. Like I cannot
01:06:58.900 --> 01:07:00.880
imagine unless you're a sociopath, you're not
01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:02.519
showing or you're showing up to the airport without
01:07:02.519 --> 01:07:05.909
a shower. Yeah. And like you say, I don't care
01:07:05.909 --> 01:07:10.449
what you're wearing. Just just be clean. Stay
01:07:10.449 --> 01:07:13.230
in your zone, though, a little bit like don't
01:07:13.230 --> 01:07:17.190
want to use all the space. Sure. But that comes
01:07:17.190 --> 01:07:18.889
with minding your own business. I'm going to
01:07:18.889 --> 01:07:21.130
sit here. I'm going to like read my book. I'm
01:07:21.130 --> 01:07:23.130
going to play on my iPad. I'm going to take a
01:07:23.130 --> 01:07:25.750
nap and I'm not going to bother anyone. But like,
01:07:25.789 --> 01:07:28.130
I do want to know when Sean Duffy like got on
01:07:28.130 --> 01:07:29.969
the TV and said what he was saying about like,
01:07:30.010 --> 01:07:31.769
we need to bring civility back to flying. Who
01:07:31.769 --> 01:07:35.059
was that for? Who are we doing that for? Yeah,
01:07:35.079 --> 01:07:36.480
I do want to know that. Who's the audience for
01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:41.019
that? He had some sort of encounter the day before
01:07:41.019 --> 01:07:44.840
that he didn't like. Some girl probably was wearing
01:07:44.840 --> 01:07:46.880
a very small T -shirt and it was too distracting
01:07:46.880 --> 01:07:50.570
for him. Probably. He wants her to wear more
01:07:50.570 --> 01:07:53.130
clothes. That's what it is. Could be. Even if
01:07:53.130 --> 01:07:54.789
that's not what it is, that's what I believe
01:07:54.789 --> 01:07:57.130
it is. Well, you know, we we used to go to a
01:07:57.130 --> 01:07:59.190
lot of trade shows and stuff. And out here we
01:07:59.190 --> 01:08:01.409
have like these shows like Comdex and these other
01:08:01.409 --> 01:08:03.849
ones in Vegas. Right. And often they overlap
01:08:03.849 --> 01:08:08.690
with like some big porn awards thing. So you'd
01:08:08.690 --> 01:08:10.590
fly in and out of Vegas and there's like all
01:08:10.590 --> 01:08:13.409
the, you know, porn stars are there on the plane.
01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:15.760
Almost nothing. Nothing, right. Well, because
01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:17.300
they're going straight from the plane to work.
01:08:18.100 --> 01:08:20.060
Yeah, I guess. Well, it goes straight to the
01:08:20.060 --> 01:08:24.460
plane to the trade show floor. We did that all
01:08:24.460 --> 01:08:26.800
the time. Well, that's true. Yeah, yeah. And
01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:28.439
there was definitely people on the plane that
01:08:28.439 --> 01:08:31.380
were not comfortable with that. No. I found it
01:08:31.380 --> 01:08:33.079
just kind of entertaining. I'm also like, good
01:08:33.079 --> 01:08:34.960
for these girls. They're going straight to work,
01:08:35.039 --> 01:08:39.359
man. Whatever. Good for them. I love that. They're
01:08:39.359 --> 01:08:41.680
not the ones making the problem. You are. Right,
01:08:41.699 --> 01:08:43.479
exactly. Like you say, it's self -inflicted.
01:08:43.869 --> 01:08:49.930
Right. There is. What do you have, honey? I've
01:08:49.930 --> 01:08:54.210
covered my stuff. I'm all good. Cool. Lisa, did
01:08:54.210 --> 01:08:57.689
you have anything else? I could go on forever.
01:08:57.890 --> 01:09:03.949
I've got a long list of shit. We can go on forever
01:09:03.949 --> 01:09:06.409
just on the Housewives themselves and I don't
01:09:06.409 --> 01:09:12.380
even watch it anymore. So I that's I got to tell
01:09:12.380 --> 01:09:13.760
you, that's something if you've ever listened
01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:15.659
to my show, that is something that I will talk
01:09:15.659 --> 01:09:19.539
about to no end. And like, I, I do get the argument
01:09:19.539 --> 01:09:21.939
that they're not they're not great people in
01:09:21.939 --> 01:09:24.439
a lot of cases, like you were saying earlier.
01:09:24.659 --> 01:09:27.500
But it's something that like I've had to like
01:09:27.500 --> 01:09:29.880
really grapple with where like Jen Shah is getting
01:09:29.880 --> 01:09:31.579
out of prison. And like, I mean, she went to
01:09:31.579 --> 01:09:35.319
prison for literally defrauding vulnerable elderly
01:09:35.319 --> 01:09:37.899
people out of like their social security checks.
01:09:38.180 --> 01:09:42.149
And I'm like. Can I still watch her on the real
01:09:42.149 --> 01:09:44.050
house of Salt Lake City if she does come back?
01:09:44.090 --> 01:09:46.090
And like, I think that is a very fair assessment
01:09:46.090 --> 01:09:50.149
where it's like you. Like you can make the argument
01:09:50.149 --> 01:09:51.909
of separating the art from the artist in a lot
01:09:51.909 --> 01:09:55.609
of cases, but I'm like, oh, I don't I don't know
01:09:55.609 --> 01:09:57.069
if I could separate that. I think that's very
01:09:57.069 --> 01:10:01.350
fair, Lisa. Yeah, because you're actually paying
01:10:01.350 --> 01:10:05.329
her. Your your time is money for them. Your eyes
01:10:05.329 --> 01:10:07.909
are money for them. So you're actually paying
01:10:07.909 --> 01:10:12.340
her. She doesn't deserve your money. I'm just
01:10:12.340 --> 01:10:16.840
telling you, Travis. She didn't deserve like
01:10:16.840 --> 01:10:22.060
all the old people's money. Exactly. Yeah. You
01:10:22.060 --> 01:10:25.279
can always watch Love After Lockup or 90 Day
01:10:25.279 --> 01:10:27.079
Fiance. Those are good. Those are good shows.
01:10:27.180 --> 01:10:30.960
There's nothing wrong with those. Listen, I'll
01:10:30.960 --> 01:10:33.140
watch 90 Day Fiance all day long. And like Love
01:10:33.140 --> 01:10:35.180
After Lockup is something like during COVID,
01:10:35.279 --> 01:10:40.789
I got deep into that show. That's so funny because
01:10:40.789 --> 01:10:44.729
we got deep into like some very bizarre documentaries.
01:10:44.930 --> 01:10:47.930
Not only, you know, of course, Tiger King, everyone
01:10:47.930 --> 01:10:53.909
got involved in that. Love Tiger King. So, of
01:10:53.909 --> 01:10:58.189
course, you watch Chimp Crazy, right? No, what
01:10:58.189 --> 01:11:02.090
was Chimp Crazy? Made by the same people. Okay.
01:11:02.289 --> 01:11:07.649
This lady hid a chimp from PETA. Actually, a
01:11:07.649 --> 01:11:12.060
very large chimp. I think you would enjoy it.
01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:15.220
I'll check it out. And it's also a lot of my
01:11:15.220 --> 01:11:17.420
monkey's not going to tear my face off. Right.
01:11:17.500 --> 01:11:20.100
And there are some faces that have been torn
01:11:20.100 --> 01:11:24.460
off. Beautiful. Yeah. So Chimp Crazy was another
01:11:24.460 --> 01:11:27.439
one. And Don't Fuck With Cats. Those are, I mean,
01:11:27.439 --> 01:11:30.079
those are the style of documentaries we got into
01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:33.380
at Gov. I love that. Speaking of the Tiger King.
01:11:33.399 --> 01:11:35.840
Don't Fuck With Cats, right? I've seen that one.
01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:38.979
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Good. Speaking of Tiger King.
01:11:40.080 --> 01:11:42.800
Speaking of Tiger King, he's an interesting case
01:11:42.800 --> 01:11:44.359
because he's the one that's been like begging
01:11:44.359 --> 01:11:46.439
Donald Trump for a pardon. And it would appear
01:11:46.439 --> 01:11:48.619
that Donald Trump will pardon literally anyone
01:11:48.619 --> 01:11:52.239
except for the Tiger King. And why? And why?
01:11:52.380 --> 01:11:56.380
Because the Tiger King, I mean, I mean, I don't
01:11:56.380 --> 01:11:58.840
know why he wouldn't pardon him because he would
01:11:58.840 --> 01:12:03.369
get a lot of publicity. i don't know like that
01:12:03.369 --> 01:12:05.250
like i mean that was the thing though is he had
01:12:05.250 --> 01:12:08.489
a limo waiting outside of his jail like for like
01:12:08.489 --> 01:12:10.729
waiting for that pardon and like they were like
01:12:10.729 --> 01:12:15.630
that's that's not happening like yeah yeah it's
01:12:15.630 --> 01:12:18.109
unfortunate i don't know yeah i mean it's weird
01:12:18.109 --> 01:12:19.829
they don't see some like you say some political
01:12:19.829 --> 01:12:21.810
advantage to it because like you say that it
01:12:21.810 --> 01:12:24.590
would be a lot less you know bad than a lot of
01:12:24.590 --> 01:12:27.100
the other people he's pardoned Yeah, I mean,
01:12:27.140 --> 01:12:29.579
if you can let all the January six people off,
01:12:29.640 --> 01:12:32.140
you can let the Tiger King off, like let let
01:12:32.140 --> 01:12:36.579
him run his zoo. It can only be stuffed animals
01:12:36.579 --> 01:12:39.600
now. He's not allowed to have any of getting
01:12:39.600 --> 01:12:42.739
permits to have exotic animals. But I would love
01:12:42.739 --> 01:12:45.760
to see. I don't think he ever had a permit. No,
01:12:45.880 --> 01:12:48.500
that's true. But I mean, he was also on camera
01:12:48.500 --> 01:12:53.060
and he did a he did a couple of. reality shows
01:12:53.060 --> 01:12:55.699
before tiger king because he was did the whole
01:12:55.699 --> 01:13:00.460
um he was in louis louisiana right i don't know
01:13:00.460 --> 01:13:04.039
could be somewhere louisiana or yeah it had to
01:13:04.039 --> 01:13:06.500
have been louisiana because it wasn't maybe mississippi
01:13:06.500 --> 01:13:08.800
i don't know right and he was making this big
01:13:08.800 --> 01:13:10.739
deal about what a hickey was and but but he was
01:13:10.739 --> 01:13:13.720
marrying this man and i know he's married two
01:13:13.720 --> 01:13:16.659
men and that was so shocking and we're like going
01:13:16.659 --> 01:13:22.430
okay Why are you freaking out? OK, it's just
01:13:22.430 --> 01:13:25.810
for this show. And but who so you never know
01:13:25.810 --> 01:13:29.109
what the story is about. Yeah, he was he was
01:13:29.109 --> 01:13:33.869
just he wanted publicity so bad. Yeah, it was
01:13:33.869 --> 01:13:37.289
publicity. It was like his third try at some
01:13:37.289 --> 01:13:42.149
sort of documentary show about his life. And
01:13:42.149 --> 01:13:44.630
that was that was the thing is like, I remember
01:13:44.630 --> 01:13:46.850
watching that and I was like, this guy is like.
01:13:47.180 --> 01:13:49.359
you could write like an entire sociology paper
01:13:49.359 --> 01:13:54.300
on him because like he's so bizarre and this
01:13:54.300 --> 01:13:57.039
like obsession he had with carol baskin and like
01:13:57.039 --> 01:14:02.060
i'm like who is this diva And then like you find
01:14:02.060 --> 01:14:04.140
out that he like was dating the guy that ended
01:14:04.140 --> 01:14:06.520
up like blowing his brains out. Like, but like
01:14:06.520 --> 01:14:08.300
he was married to the other guy. And like the
01:14:08.300 --> 01:14:11.020
guy that like accidentally shot himself was also
01:14:11.020 --> 01:14:13.640
like straight, I guess, like ostensibly. The
01:14:13.640 --> 01:14:17.340
whole thing is so crazy. And that kid's mom was
01:14:17.340 --> 01:14:20.880
still hanging out with the tiger king. And you're
01:14:20.880 --> 01:14:26.399
like, honey, honey, you're oh, oh, yeah. she
01:14:26.399 --> 01:14:29.640
needed a hug bad and she needed to be into the
01:14:29.640 --> 01:14:32.359
car and driven away she needed someone to hold
01:14:32.359 --> 01:14:34.420
her hand and like look her dead in the eye and
01:14:34.420 --> 01:14:36.399
just say a couple things she needed to hear because
01:14:36.399 --> 01:14:39.520
that was rough right what are you still doing
01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:42.739
here yeah you're you mean your son is gone but
01:14:42.739 --> 01:14:45.359
you're still sitting here i i don't know to me
01:14:45.359 --> 01:14:50.619
that was just yeah What else? What else, you
01:14:50.619 --> 01:14:52.899
guys? You need to watch Chim Crazy and then get
01:14:52.899 --> 01:14:55.579
back to us. I will absolutely watch Chim Crazy.
01:14:55.979 --> 01:15:00.720
Was it on Netflix? I think it was on HBO, actually.
01:15:01.279 --> 01:15:03.600
I will add it to my list right now. You probably
01:15:03.600 --> 01:15:07.319
can get it almost anywhere, but wow, she's magic.
01:15:07.920 --> 01:15:10.239
From the moment they start her on the camera,
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you're looking at that hair and those lips that
01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:17.310
she's... have blown up and you're like oh yeah
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this is this is gonna be a good ride for all
01:15:21.710 --> 01:15:25.590
my talks for all my talk of dissing like reality
01:15:25.590 --> 01:15:28.890
shows one of my uh guilty pleasures for a while
01:15:28.890 --> 01:15:30.829
was like animal planet had this show and it was
01:15:30.829 --> 01:15:32.369
more like a you can almost say it's like a cop
01:15:32.369 --> 01:15:35.229
show almost but it was like all these people
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that had wild animals you know as pets and They
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all say the exact same thing, you know, talking
01:15:41.369 --> 01:15:43.489
about my leopard's not going to eat my face off.
01:15:43.529 --> 01:15:45.770
They all basically say that, right? My alligator's
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dead. All these experts would tell him, you can't
01:15:48.399 --> 01:15:50.260
keep this animal. It's going to kill you someday.
01:15:50.359 --> 01:15:52.619
It's like, oh, no, you don't understand. My tiger
01:15:52.619 --> 01:15:55.020
loves me. My tiger is not going to eat my face
01:15:55.020 --> 01:15:56.859
off. And they all say that. And they all got
01:15:56.859 --> 01:15:59.140
killed in this show. Everyone got eaten. Oh,
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yeah. No, we had a guy in my neighbor. Not well,
01:16:01.880 --> 01:16:03.500
my neighborhood. I say that loosely because I
01:16:03.500 --> 01:16:05.180
live out in the country. But like we had a guy
01:16:05.180 --> 01:16:08.279
growing up in my neighborhood who kept a bear
01:16:08.279 --> 01:16:11.279
like a big brown bear in his backyard, like in
01:16:11.279 --> 01:16:13.960
like a fenced in cage situation that was like
01:16:13.960 --> 01:16:20.270
probably. ten by six and they were like the like
01:16:20.270 --> 01:16:22.369
the county was out to his house several times
01:16:22.369 --> 01:16:26.510
being like sir you will die like this like and
01:16:26.510 --> 01:16:29.289
i guess like in the state of indiana it's totally
01:16:29.289 --> 01:16:32.069
legal to have a bear as a pet like there's like
01:16:32.069 --> 01:16:36.250
fine okay great but you so he had this bear in
01:16:36.250 --> 01:16:40.649
his backyard and he like and then the one of
01:16:40.649 --> 01:16:44.199
the the kid who i went to school with like And
01:16:44.199 --> 01:16:45.920
he came to school one day and they were like,
01:16:45.960 --> 01:16:47.859
yeah, my dad's in the hospital because the bear
01:16:47.859 --> 01:16:52.960
like slashed his chest open. Oh, my gosh. One
01:16:52.960 --> 01:16:55.380
of these one of these people had a like a Komodo
01:16:55.380 --> 01:16:57.960
dragon that they were that was their pet. And
01:16:57.960 --> 01:16:59.539
it was, you know, the classic, you know, like
01:16:59.539 --> 01:17:02.260
my Komodo dragon loves me. My Komodo dragon is
01:17:02.260 --> 01:17:04.920
not going to kill me. you know the dragon doesn't
01:17:04.920 --> 01:17:07.460
have feelings it's a dinosaur it does not have
01:17:07.460 --> 01:17:10.439
feelings no and uh you know so the guy was missing
01:17:10.439 --> 01:17:12.500
like for a while they finally did like a whatever
01:17:12.500 --> 01:17:14.880
you call it to self the check they do that wellness
01:17:14.880 --> 01:17:17.159
check they did a wellness check on him and this
01:17:17.159 --> 01:17:20.180
is well i bet this dragon was just had been munching
01:17:20.180 --> 01:17:22.239
on him for like a week dragon was dragon was
01:17:22.239 --> 01:17:24.220
well there was like half of him left but the
01:17:24.220 --> 01:17:26.119
dragon was just like i'll save this part for
01:17:26.119 --> 01:17:31.069
tomorrow munching them up that's that's one of
01:17:31.069 --> 01:17:33.489
those things i i look at people that keep reptiles
01:17:33.489 --> 01:17:36.170
as pets like where they have like like full blood
01:17:36.170 --> 01:17:38.449
like out of snakes or one thing but like that's
01:17:38.449 --> 01:17:40.750
still like weird for me but like i look at reptiles
01:17:40.750 --> 01:17:43.170
and i'm like no one really talks about how i
01:17:43.170 --> 01:17:46.569
wholeheartedly believe that those are like like
01:17:46.569 --> 01:17:49.189
just dinosaurs that have evolved like you cannot
01:17:49.189 --> 01:17:51.390
tell me that these komodo dragons are not like
01:17:51.390 --> 01:17:57.550
of this world like so Like, there's no way, there's
01:17:57.550 --> 01:18:00.090
no way I'd keep one of those as a pet. No way.
01:18:00.609 --> 01:18:05.449
There's nothing pet like a reptile. Reptiles
01:18:05.449 --> 01:18:08.470
aren't cuddly. They're not fun to pet. They don't,
01:18:08.470 --> 01:18:11.130
they don't fetch. They care about you less than
01:18:11.130 --> 01:18:14.409
a cat does. Yeah. And they're like, they feel
01:18:14.409 --> 01:18:18.449
weird. And like, I, it's, I've, I've never. And
01:18:18.449 --> 01:18:23.159
you have to feed them live animals. But if you
01:18:23.159 --> 01:18:26.539
are keeping a list, I also highly recommend Cat
01:18:26.539 --> 01:18:30.340
Dancer. Cat Dancer. Cat Dancer. And it's about
01:18:30.340 --> 01:18:34.840
two ballerinas. Cat Dancer. It's about two ballet
01:18:34.840 --> 01:18:39.659
people who are ballerinas, a man and a wife.
01:18:40.239 --> 01:18:45.539
And they decided to bring tigers into their act.
01:18:47.720 --> 01:18:51.869
Found it. On Amazon. There it is. There you go.
01:18:51.930 --> 01:18:53.989
That's on the list. There you go. There you go.
01:18:54.270 --> 01:18:58.350
And it's, it's a boy that, that story took some
01:18:58.350 --> 01:19:01.010
turns. You're like, wait, wait, what? Yeah. I
01:19:01.010 --> 01:19:02.970
didn't see that coming. I didn't see that coming.
01:19:03.029 --> 01:19:06.510
There was a couple of that guy. Yeah. Yeah. I
01:19:06.510 --> 01:19:11.970
can't wait. That's another one that. Just when
01:19:11.970 --> 01:19:13.449
you think, you know, what's happening. Right.
01:19:14.409 --> 01:19:21.289
Exactly. Like, who's that? Beautiful. Yeah. Cool.
01:19:21.810 --> 01:19:23.310
What else? Do you guys have anything else on
01:19:23.310 --> 01:19:27.970
your list to throw at the people? No, I think
01:19:27.970 --> 01:19:30.250
I think I think I've exhausted my list for tonight.
01:19:30.329 --> 01:19:32.970
At least I got like 25 things, but nothing interesting.
01:19:33.909 --> 01:19:36.689
Nothing worth talking about. More politics. Yeah.
01:19:36.949 --> 01:19:39.729
Yeah. Well, you guys can come on when you come
01:19:39.729 --> 01:19:41.470
on to come back on whenever you want. I'm going
01:19:41.470 --> 01:19:43.329
to need to fill in a couple more spots before
01:19:43.329 --> 01:19:46.949
Emma comes back. But this has been such a blast.
01:19:47.069 --> 01:19:48.909
Like tell the plug your show. Tell the people
01:19:48.909 --> 01:19:52.989
where they can find you. So This Week in Outrage
01:19:52.989 --> 01:19:55.710
is a podcast you can find on any of your players.
01:19:55.850 --> 01:19:58.409
You can go to outrageoverload .net is our main
01:19:58.409 --> 01:20:00.229
website where we kind of have all the serious
01:20:00.229 --> 01:20:03.210
stuff we do, but also the silly stuff. The silly
01:20:03.210 --> 01:20:04.310
stuff is a little harder to find, but it's on
01:20:04.310 --> 01:20:06.989
there. You can reach out. But yeah, This Week
01:20:06.989 --> 01:20:09.529
in Outrage is on Spotify and Apple and all the
01:20:09.529 --> 01:20:12.350
places. Same with my Outrage Overload show. We
01:20:12.350 --> 01:20:15.810
also do sub stacks. You can get that from there
01:20:15.810 --> 01:20:17.590
if you'd like to read stuff more than. more than
01:20:17.590 --> 01:20:19.989
listen to silly stuff. You can read my stuff.
01:20:20.170 --> 01:20:22.270
And then, yeah, that's pretty much it. All my
01:20:22.270 --> 01:20:24.210
contact info is on there. So fill all of our
01:20:24.210 --> 01:20:26.350
contact info. So you have some idea you'd like
01:20:26.350 --> 01:20:28.409
to talk about. We do our show live on Sunday
01:20:28.409 --> 01:20:31.050
nights. So you can actually chat with us live
01:20:31.050 --> 01:20:34.529
on Substack. So if you want to participate, you
01:20:34.529 --> 01:20:36.590
can just join our Substack and we go live every
01:20:36.590 --> 01:20:40.250
Sunday night. Amazing. Well, thank you so much,
01:20:40.270 --> 01:20:45.430
Lisa. Do you have anything to plug? No, I'll
01:20:45.430 --> 01:20:48.859
be okay. I'm back in town. I've missed a couple
01:20:48.859 --> 01:20:50.920
of shows, but I'm back in town. So I will be,
01:20:50.960 --> 01:20:52.920
I've been saving stuff up for Sunday. I know
01:20:52.920 --> 01:20:54.880
I've been saving stuff up too. So we're going
01:20:54.880 --> 01:20:58.539
to, that show may go a little long. Yeah. Yeah.
01:20:58.819 --> 01:21:01.619
I will. I will listen live. I can't wait. This
01:21:01.619 --> 01:21:04.739
is going to be so cool. Awesome. Well, thank
01:21:04.739 --> 01:21:10.600
you. Thank you so much. And I'm wondering if
01:21:10.600 --> 01:21:14.000
I can get a squeak mail to me. they'll get a
01:21:14.000 --> 01:21:15.800
swig yeah but they have the recipes up there
01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:19.140
so we might try that for um thanksgiving oh that
01:21:19.140 --> 01:21:24.180
sounds disgusting it is okay i've got all the
01:21:24.180 --> 01:21:27.319
rest i've got all the uh ingredients okay all
01:21:27.319 --> 01:21:30.439
right and keep drinking your diet dr pepper i
01:21:30.439 --> 01:21:36.420
can do that yes yeah cool well from indy to wherever
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we love you and thanks for listening