The Black Guy Who Tips PodcastRod and Karen banter about putting the phone on DND for NYE, sacred baby dap, New Year gun celebrations, and Return of the Mack. Then they discuss some suspected terrorist incidents in New Orleans and Chicago, fireworks explosions in Hawaii and Germany, a Lego display falls at an NYE ball drop event, moderate drinking is good for you now according to a new study, TikTok influencers are replacing medical professionals while spreading misinformation and sword ratchetness.
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Hey, welcome to another episode of the Blackout tost podcast. I'm your host, Rod, join us always by my co host. Welcome to the new year. It's starting off with literal bangs? Is it's scary here outside?
What's happening? Okay? Oh well, you've just been watching anime all day?
You know what?
I sure have?
The rhythm is back. Oh shit, it's the old days out here. Were about to bring back the damn terror alert.
We've got to be back. No colors again, red yellow.
Whatever the fuck that ship. Were about to bring the whole rainbow back. It's crazy out here. We'll get to it in a second. The official weapon of the show is folding chill. That's right, the unofficial sport and bulet bar extreme extreme extreme extreme. Did you have any banter before we get into the rest of the stuff.
Mm hmm, but I guess it's all right. Do you have any.
Talk to me?
Do you have any.
Talk to me?
Do you have any banter? Banter? Banter, banter, banter? Do you have any banter?
Talk to me? Do you have any banter?
Go ahead, player, they it's two but they kind of all bland together.
Okay, we'll go ahead and drop drop them off.
One of the first ones. I joked about this online and I'm so glad I did this. Uh. I was like, I'm going to make sure I've turned my phone off before I go to sleep, because I don't give a damn about your happy New Year text until I wake up because a lot of times them alerts and your phone going on a lot of them, yeah, and waking you up for the people that's up. So I'm glad I turned them bitches off.
Yeah, Randolph and the air Friar Consortium, the group I'm part of on my.
Text chain that you know, and and I liked it.
I liked the black men having fun, black men and Gregorio having fun and celebrating the New Year's and brothers was taking pictures, were holding their wine and saying, you know how much the group meant to them, and and all of that stuff.
And that was very dope.
Uh.
You know, the only problem being I was in bed by ten knocked them out. I had a busy day yesterday. I got up, I did.
My my workout early.
I had to do an early podcast with the Locked on Hornets. Check out Locked on Hornets if you're a basketball fan and the Charlotte Hornets fan or a Rod Morrow fan. Because I was on the latest episode and that was very fun. Y'all know my brand of optimistic sports fan enthusiasm, enthusiasm, it was, you know, it's very rare out here in this sports world. So they like talking to me. So I had a good time on that. But then I you know, between that and then we did Keith and Girl, then we did our show. Right then we went out and got something to eat and all this stuff, and I was just so tired. I was like, I'm going to bed, and so I just went to bed and.
That You're right.
I could have put my phone on do not disturb. Now, Lucky for me, I don't have my phone sound on or anything. I just put my phone on the little stand next to the bed and I'm good. I can go to sleep. I don't give a fuck if it's going off or not. But uh, yeah, I feel you that that after midnight can be a lot.
And I know people don't mean no harm, but you know, you got some of them family texts that I got on I've muted a lot of them.
Family text.
You look like twenty five people had the people in there. You just got random A's phone numbers. I learned how to just mute them text so they don't even pop up on my phone because it's like mirror Christmas. Happy you knew You're like, that's the only time people hit it, and just like twenty five and everybody in the chat want to hit up at the same time, you know, Happy Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, and that's great, you know, but it was like, hey dog, I'm trying to rest this at three am.
I think just by never really responding, I don't really get in those anymore.
I used to get in them.
But also, like, my family is very rude sometimes, and so if you put people on that text. I don't know about other people family, but my family, you got about a four to five text limit before motherfuckers start getting mad at you, yes.
And say take me off this text. Them be like, take me off this goddamn text.
Because people be trying, you know, because my family's also very funny. So you got people that's making jokes, you got people that's coming you know, it's like hey fam, happy Birthday, Happy, you know, happy first of the year.
Da da dah.
Then you got the you know, you got that person that starts it off. Then you got the person that got the jokes or whatever, like hey, you know it's a new Yeah, but you still owe that child's poor ha ha you know that. But then but then you know, yeah, then you got your Facebook meme people that post like, here's a picture of a woman bending over the fridge and be like, it's three in the morning, you coming to the into your kitchen thoughts, you're the nice woman is bending over?
What you gonna do? You know that nigga is the family thread? What's wrong with you? Yeah? I thought this was about Christmas. Eight?
And then my favorite is the people that is the religious person, cause it don't take long before, like about eight text. Then you get that one person that's like Joseph, I mean this, you know, like it's liked to rhymen in seven, nine, ten, and I pray for them that shall weep together in the joyous morning of the Lord. And I'll be like, what I know, We're about two texts away from somebody being like, if y'a don't take me off this motherfucking list.
Yes, And then and then you got the people who they didn't even know they number was on the list. You know how sometimes people just be like, I'm gonna add you to the list, and you got added not knowing.
You got added.
I'm the person that gets added. I'm the person I just never responded.
How did I end up in this group chat with thirty five papal and low key?
I kind of be excited because I know the cussing out is coming, and that's when it's gonna really pop off.
Yes, because we damn say how you really feel, you know whatever? And then you know.
About three texts, like everybody stops texting. But yeah, I'm used to it at this point, but I didn't get it this year. So maybe my discipline is paid off of never ever respond to that shit.
I got to that point too, they like, is this even his number? Like you'll never know.
You will never know because I'm not respect That's why I muted it.
And and just know I ain't got no time for it. Yeah, a baby gave me DAP Today.
I was at I took my walk, like about a three mile walk, and I went to the park, uh and was walking walking around the little pond area, and oh there was so many people out there because people had to day off and people just want to get out the house, probably doing that New Year's resolution.
But it wasn't really a you can't like.
It was I walked slow and I was passing people because it was just that many fucking people out there.
A lot of people just casually walking like they were trying.
To yeah yeah, and so uh anyway, I was sitting resting and this woman was with a stroller and her two like young ones, this black lady, and uh, the the you know, the babies were adorable.
Of course, you know, babies are adorable. They are.
And one of them was just like like she was kind of like she had been walking, but she was like she was new to walking, like she ain't been walking too long. And uh, she was walking and you know, everybody's moving around out the way and stuff like that, and for some reason she just made eye contact with me, and I smiled back, of course, because it's a baby. I'm like, hey, little baby or what. I have my headphones. I couldn't hear the baby. And then she just walked over and made her fist like this, and I was like, oh, I guess you want some depth not daped up. You know, the mom was kind of looking smiling or whatever, and then the baby, uh, you know, walked off or whatever. And I'm gonna take that as a good omen. That's a good that's a good sign. It's the first day of the year. That's a great got the blessing of the little baby DAP.
I feel like that must be people in their life, like just somebody like dap me up.
Now now I looked out there. She didn't wrap up any other people. I'm the only person that got DAP. So I'm gonna take it as a sign. Yeah, I'm a special person, and that baby might never dap anyone else again for the rest of their life.
I don't know where that baby, how that baby knew.
The dath to that baby that I was that I was safe, that it that it knew that I was cool.
But I was like, I am cool, And I'm gonna take that as confirmation. And I'm gonna go finish this walk. So shout out to that baby. I appreciate you.
You were adorable. Oh and.
My last one is like I say, kind of connect to the first one.
I am.
I know that I'm old, and actually, like I say, you went to bed before me. I went to bed not too long after you. By about ten something, we both were out, and I think I did kind of wake up a little like a minute or two after midnight. That's because I was sleeping. I was like, what is that noise? Was like, oh, them the fireworks, everybody blowing in the air. And then I wroll my hands back over and we right on back to sleep.
Yeah, I got used to it.
It was like they started shooting guns at like seven, like soon as the sun went down.
They were shooting guns out.
Here, And it was like, I don't know how this shit happens to me. Every fucking year. It happens to me every year. It's gonna happen to me again July fourth, By the way, every motherfucking year, I forget they're gonna be shooting guns.
And every year they start shooting guns. And I'd be like, this why I'm in the house. This why I'm in the house.
Because the way physics work, bullets gotta come down somewhere.
Yes they do.
I'm sure every year there's a tally that they're just like twenty seven people injured throughout the country because motherfuck just shooting guns. In the air like it's in your physics, don't matter, Like it's all like, no one's gonna accidentally turn the gun to the wrong angle right and it gonna come down through somebody window and kill them or some shit.
Right, random person gott getting hit by bullet and don't realize somebody will just what happened to your bang?
Bang bang?
We live in such a stupid ass country. I don't know what the fuck is wrong do other countries do?
This is just like a thing, you know.
I don't get me to saying nobody else does it a little too much authority in your voice like this, we don't be going playing.
I'm not saying nobody else does it. All I'm saying is that other countries don't have as many guns, so the odds of people getting hit are lower than they are here in the States now that it don't happen. But you know, they be like, hey, we gonna regulate these bitches, and we're like, here's a gun.
Yeah, I don't like it, it is my point, and we do. Like it's so crazy how much we fight in America about guns and how much we need them. Who gonna protect you from a person trying to run up in your house. We need it for self defense. And then it's like, well, what do you use your gun for? I like to shoot them in the air when it's the end of the year, can't you just do fireworks or something that don't that that won't Yeah, something that's a little less likely to kill you is and at least it looks good like it's at least it's pretty. You shoot a firework in the air. It's like we all get a show. You shoot a gun in the airs, just like I hope I'm not. You know, two houses over? Ain't that the truth? The fuck is wrong with people, man, I don't understand it. But yeah, the New Year's celebrations, we you know, it was.
A wash New Year's for us.
Yeah, And I was fine with that, and I was content with that. I haven't been up for New Year's in the very very years. I'm just resigned that if I take a nap, I'll be up. But if I don't take a nap, I'm not seeing nobody this midnight.
Yeah, I don't, Yeah, I don't. I don't mind it.
I normally am up for New Year's because I normally stay up. I just stay up kind of like just in general. But this year I didn't give a fuck.
I knew I wasn't going nowhere your they were busy, Yeah I was.
I had my I was seated in at the house, ready ready to attend, you know.
And I wasn't getting drunk, none of that stuff. That was it.
The biggest thing I did was I think I had a cupcake and I was like, all right, cupcake, got that in for the year.
What a celebration year, you know, great for me. My last thing is this I was.
I was in a restaurant and this song came on and I realized as I was listening to the to the lyrics and singing along because I know all the words. After all these years of listening to this song, I still have no idea of what the.
Mac was returning from. Mm hmmm.
I suspect he was returning to was mackin. But it's whatever he was returning from is not in the song. It's not in the song now, of course, I asked. So I brought up this joke on social media, and being that the Twitter detectives are out there, they would never let a query go unanswered.
Ha ha ha.
They couldn't possibly be, like Rod is such a funny person. That must be one of his jokes. No, they wn't did the research and they told me. I didn't look this up. This is just what they told me. But several people said it, so I'm assuming it's true. Apparently the dude that made the song Mark whatever his last name is, Okay, he had went to jail and his girl cheated on him, and then when he came out of jail, I guess he was like, I'm gonna be on the streets, and like his whole album was about going to jail and coming back out.
I never heard the whole album.
I only heard that one song same a million billion times like the rest of us, and so I didn't know it was a whole thing where he went to jail or whatever. But it does make sense because part of the lyrics is you lie to me. And I was like, damn, he do sound mad like his macan feels a little bit man of spirit.
Yes, it does.
It. It's a lot of songs. Was like, oh, that's a cute song. You were like, no, dog, this is a stoking song. This is a manuspriit, Like, have you really listening to some of the lyrics, you'll be like, oh oh this this y'all had issues.
Yeah, he didn't sound like like when I listened to it. He didn't sound like he was returning on some like it was fun. It sounded like he was on a mission.
Yes, you know you lie to me all those times, Like I said, I loved you. You lied to me. Yes, I tried, I tried. That's turn up, Mac.
That don't sound like that sounded like them dates he going on. It's gonna be a lot of women. Like all he did was talk about his.
Ex right like, oh, child, a child. I had to get on the app and unfront him.
Yeah, I mean I thought he was handsome, but I mean all he wanted to say was that his last ex lied to him and he asked to go through my phone.
Right, he broke out his song, Girl, I can't deal with that, Like his heart was still broke when he was returning to Mackin. It wasn't no was no healing, no therapy.
Right, you lied to me even though you knew why died for you.
You lied to me.
Yes, I cried, Yes, I cried turn back. That's not that's not half, that's not.
Not a good song. Yeah, that's not a cheerful returning.
This is the kind of thing that if you're home, y'all about to go to the club, and y'all homie start talking like this, you want.
To sit him down. But like go to the club.
Maybe maybe maybe we need to sit in the house a little bit. Catch this chill tonight.
What do we just go to a nice dinner hour. Let's go to a lounge. Yeah? What, me and you? Just me and you, we just go out and we just talk a little bit.
Man, I thought that was I thought that was axe body sprayery. Them looked like tears on your shirt, right, you like you look like you've been crying.
Are you okay? We need to have a conversation. Your eyes is red? Serf. I mean, I'm your friend. You can talk to me. Yeah, I didn't.
I don't. I don't know why I've never thought about this. I guess because the song such a bob and then I'll be singing hard to the song. But I don't be thinking about the song. But this man, this man was on some fresh and fit Buddy was Buddy was Buddy was about to be calling them females and bitch and he was.
Real close to it. He was.
He went from Queen the bitch the next woman was about to be paying the price. They was. These holes ain't ship right? This Mark Morrison was out here.
He was out here. It was acting angry. He was like, all these females, just won't you for your money? Y'all? Like ship Return of the Mac sounded like a threat. Don't it know? The Mac looking for you? What? Oh no, I don't know. Child had me? They God, he couldn't rap. Who knows that song? Would?
It sounded like, all right, that's it for my band? All right, Well then let's get into some some news.
Uh take a random beat so you can do this vital signs all normal, the quality of the thing.
I like this be but it takes thirty seconds to start. I gotta remember that next time. All right, let's get into the news, Like I said, crazy news starting off the the year okay, okay. The first thing is there was a terrorist attack where ten people were killed thirty people were injured after a car plowed into.
On a New Orleans crowd on Bourbon Street.
Oh no, yeah, and then the guy got out the car and like shot at the police. Till the police killed him. I believe he shot two officers as well. Police do not believe he acted alone, as they also found like three or four explosive devices that were wired to remote detonate, and on surveillance video they saw like three or four people place those those explosive devices on the street in coolers.
And then like walk away.
So like they don't think this guy acted alone, and they're still looking for him. He rented a Airbnb which caught fire the morning of the attack, maybe trying to cover his tracks. He rented the car, the truck off of this this place called like tour something like, I forget the name of the app. But so it's not like you know things that make it harder to trace you. Although they do know his name, they know he's from Texas. He's forty two. He's a US citizen from Texas. Of course, political people tried to politicize it immediately, this is what happened with Democrats, or we go on the border, you know, just stupid shit, right, irrelevant, before you could even find out what happened. Turns out he's a US citizen from Texas. He's two years old. They were saying something about him having an ISIS flag, which I was like, oh, buddy, was a throwback.
Wouldn't it.
Though it sound weird to say it, but like I didn't know. I didn't know Ices was still out here playing the hits. I thought there was done, you know, I thought, yeah, I thought Ice is that's like Jack bowershit, Like we're going back.
To twenty four right, I didn't even know.
Yeah, damn uh. But yeah, so you know, we looking at everything else. It turns out, you know, the old school terrorism could still get you.
You got radicalized somehow. Yes, he did somebody's message board. Yeah what I thought.
Here's what's crazy though, not that this isn't crazy, but here's what's the craziest part. So tonight, there's supposed to be a football game, I think the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, which is one of the reasons a lot of people is down there, right, not just for just that.
Okay.
The way that this was reported was so interesting because the first thing they did was the police said they didn't think there was a threat to anyone else, and that they distinguished that the people that were killed and that they were victimized were mostly locals. And I'm and then they weren't they were gonna play the game. They just announced maybe a couple hours ago, they're actually gonna postpone it to Thursday. But at first everything they were going to just play this fucking game, like this tragedy was like, this is just what happens. This is part of it, and you know it's and it's like, y'all need to secure the scene, y'all, Like y'all don't. At the time, they clearly didn't know he had accomplishes yet, so like, how can you even promise that.
Everything is gonna just be going as normal.
That's somebody making decision, going there's too much money in town.
I just write and I And the thing that felt so callous to me was distinguishing that these were locals. I think they did that in the same way that in almost like when there's a mass shooting, but it's a shooting at a party and it's because someone got kicked out the party earlier and da da da, and so they like to distinguish that to be like, this isn't terrorism, this is anything. Be scared of. Everyone just operate. This didn't happen to this couldn't have happened to you, you don't go to the gay club. So this is a gay this is a gay attack. It's not really about just regular people go on with your life. That's how it felt like they were trying to dismiss it, which is a very callous thing. But of course as more information comes in, it's like, no, you can't say everyone's safe. There's three or four more people on the loose. You don't know who else he was working with. And there's more shit that I have to say about another thing that happened today, but go ahead, okay.
And it's also one of those things where you go, that's this one, and you basically have another event that has gonna have a lot of people at it moving around.
You don't know if that other location is at target too, Like does just keep that real? You just don't know.
And yeah, whoever made that decision initially was financially and somebody was like somebody with some sense came in say no, the fuck you don't.
So it's interesting you say financially. It's interesting you say that because I'm I'm what does that look like to you? Someone saying financially, we're gonna make this decision? Do you think like a call was made to be like police, you need to just tell them go ahead about business as usual.
What do you think happened? It could be it could be a number of things.
When I said, financially, who I think whoever over is over the bowl, I think the people over the bowl didn't give a fuck about what the police was talking about.
I know that I know.
But what I'm saying is the information eventially came from police, this idea of like it was just locals. They called it an event at first, not terrorism.
They didn't mention any plans to cancel anything.
It just like the reason I'm I'm bringing this point up is as much as you know and I get it, capitalism is evil, big money corporations.
Blah blah.
Right, it feels like you don't even need to instruct people because it's like, hey, status quo.
Because I truly do believe once we.
Started letting mass murders happen on the daily in America at our schools, even once we started letting that happen, and with the rest of us went on with our lives. No tragedies, no acknowledgment, no funeral services on our news channels. We just pretend that this stuff does not happen unless it unless it's something very jarring that happens the very tiny kids, and then in that case, we blame the police for being cowards or something, and then we still move on like there's nothing to be done. We still elect and put people in power that actually pour gasoline on the fire of gun of gun terrorism in America, And so part of me wonders if there isn't even a call made, just the police are like until we see some information that tells us we need to continue to look for more people or that we're not safe, We're gonna just.
Tell people that it is safe. And then oh, oh.
Shit, guys, now that we looked at the footage, it's actually three to four more people out there, And maybe can we have a game two days from now?
Can we have it tomorrow?
Which is still kind of weird, right, like the game is now tomorrow, Like, how can you even really be sure if these people are on the loose, How can you even be sure people are safe tomorrow.
It's one of those things where I could see either scenario happen. I could see the bold people not contacting them and they looking at the police and the police said everything final, Well, Bins, we got the ball in, you know, like they I could see them base what I'm saying them basically, and I could also see them either regardless of what the police was gonna say, unless the police told them their event was not safe, they were gonna have it anyway.
Because it's a show.
And so now your show is gonna be interrupted because guess what, motherfuckers, I take their ass is home and they're not gonna bet they're not gonna be inten. So your bowl tomor role whenever they're gonna happen, it might not be as full.
And I don't expect the I don't expect ESPN to necessarily care care right, but like today you could tell us.
I'll turn on the TV.
This thing had already happened, right, And I saw that, and I didn't know it had happened. I just turned on ESPN to see, like, I guess they're gonna talk about the college bowl games upcoming, and that's that's really all they were talking about. And then like I think when they came back from commercial one time, they were like, and we do want to acknowledge that there was a tragedy today and I was like, oh, tragedy, there's like a player get heard or something. They're like, yeah, some ten people died, thirty people got ran over by this car. A man shot with police, he was killed by the cops. I'm like, y'all really visiting up here for an hour not talking about that and then coming back to be like, let's mention this real quick.
But they don't worry, guys. The game is still happening.
Yes, because here in America everything is a production, like like like literally everything is a production, and most of the shit we assume it's some form of entertainment slash television slash pretend world. And I do believe that Americans in general have been desensitized to this just in general, we like, in general, we have been desensitized from our kids to the adults, like nobody actually gives a fuck unless it's directly impact you in your local community, unless you know somebody that dies, like directly the average person contacts.
It's like they made it where you have to continue.
To move on because if you consistently responded to it, you woul could be in a forever perpetual sadness. Yes, yes, yes, And so in order to not try and find it, to walk out your front door in the morning and to function. You really it's sad, but you also have to turn that part of your brain off.
And this boils down.
To what I've said before. It is the popular It's his fault. The people that vote. You vote people in office that would put a stop to this shit. You put them in power, You give them the numbers, you give them the authority to do the shit that you won't done. You don't, so when you don't, this is the result of that.
Yeah, definitely is part. That's so that is part of it.
In general, I would still say with individual actors, I don't know, because there's other countries where people take cars and plow in the people. There's other countries where people do terrorism. But in America, we allow the gasoline of assault rifles and weapons and things like that. We allow that to be on the streets and then pretend like we don't know why this is happened. It must be mental health, and it's like, no, it's worse here because of the people that we let be in charge. So I agree completely, but just wanted to point out before someone else did that, Yes, someone had in France, someone that's taken a car and plowed through a crowd, like that's not germane to only America. But America is the deadliest country in the world when it comes to this type of stuff. And it's because we let it be the deadliest country because people don't give a fuck.
No, they do not.
And when you look at people and you tell people you love your guns more than you love yourself, You love your guns more than you love your children, You love your gun more than you love your family, like you love these guns more than life itself, people will think you're insane. But the reason why I say you do is because you allow these laws. Some of these people have had their children killed by accidental guns and all that shit, but they go, no, fuck it, I got the right on the gun. Like they've been shot themselves, and they look at you in the eye and be like, fuck it, I got the right on the gun.
It does a lot of people that when it comes to gun ownership, are basically sideline setters in the by which I mean like, no, they're not going out mass shooting people. No, they don't really. Uh, they may legally own all their weapons and all that stuff. They may even even though I doubt it takes some safety precautions with their weapons, uh probably not the recommended put it in a safe, put your clips over here, and all this shit, because it takes away from the the the uh scenario on your mind where someone's busting in your house and you ain't got time to unlock the safe, go to the other room, get the weapons, get the get the bullets, get the car, you know. Like so, but people have this dream and this love of owning these weapons and these big AR fifteens and all this shit and and a lot of them even when they go, you know what, y'all making good points. We should have an assault rifle band, you know what. You shouldn't be able to just go get a gun from a second hand thing without being ready ship blah blah.
Agreed.
But at the same time they'll be like, I mean, I don't want to like actively create a group of responsible gun owners that fights against Republicans that uh that that just let guns run them unk like I'm not like like, essentially it's helping me out. I may never own an AR fifteen, or I may own one, but the point is I'll know that I won't be able to own one if democrats get their way, if people that are against all this gun violence get their way. So I'd rather have the gun than not. So I'm gonna just sit here. And that's that's ultimately the shit that's happening. There was also.
About saying, also, this might not be connect connected, but it's something that made me think about it. When you said local too, you know what, I also thought about black because it's New Orleans, so I could see them going something this quote unquote local and and and they don't want to go black, so they just go local. And so when you do that, that's for America. That's America's way to dismiss the whole situation.
Like it might not be that simple.
And my mind when you said local, oh, y'all trying to blame it on the black people. So did y'all can go on with whatever the fuck y'all doing.
Yeah, you can't dismiss it, Okay, That's what it made me think. When they said.
They had a shooting at the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City one time, like a couple of years ago, maybe just a year ago, and it turned out to be two people got into an altercation and just started spraying at each other and people in the.
Crowd got shot and killed.
But they they were so quick to be like, not terrorism, just two brothers shooting each other and somehow just made it okay to people, to which I'm like, I don't know. To me, terrorism are things that are still terror in the public. And I can't think of anything more terrifying than people just houling off because everyone has access to guns and just fucking random because you mad so one stepped on your shoe, I'm dead.
That's that's still scary to me, Right, I shouldn't have to lose my life over that. I ain't have shit to do with that.
Hanah Nulu also had an explosion on New Year's Eve. Damn it was a fireworks explosion. It killed three people and injured at least twenty. It was It was in a neighborhood near Honolulu's International Airport and a joint US Air Force and Navy base and a little one in two miles east of the USS Arizona Memorial which anner Sellers.
Who died in Pearl Harbor.
Uh Two people were declared dad to see the other twenty victims were transported to hospitals. They said they had never seen injuries like that. Uh, they're still investigating the cause of the blast. Had no details how the accident occurred. Okay, so we don't know. But that's another one of these explosions. On New Year's last Las Vegas, they had, uh, I want to say, at least one dead and I think seven injured or something. A Tesla truck blew up in front of Trump's Las Vegas Hotel. They said a person died inside of the pickup truck and they were work and they were working to get the out. Seven people nearby had minor injuries. Several were taken to the hospital. The fat fire in the valet area of the Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas was supported at.
Eight forty am. It was. It was also rented off of that turot app. Yeah, they might need to get in and ban that fucker.
And it was loaded with fireworks. They're now investigating this.
To see if to see if if it was foul player, if the truck just blew up, I mean the car just blew up.
Yeah.
And of course you know all Elon Musk cares about because he's on Twitter trying to to talk about Hey, this wasn't like one of our normal car fires, whereas because we fucked up, this looks like somebody blew the truck up, and uh, this is the fireworks and they're investigating. Don't the the telemetry inside of the vehicles was positive at the time of the explosion, so it wasn't like the auto driving went off or whatever. But yeah, so they're looking at that like that could be terrorism. So I don't know, man, this is like twenty twenty five already starting off mad, scary, you know, and I think, like the fireworks things may or may not be related. I don't know, right, but it's just crazy how many these things happened last night. Germany, they had firework chaos and that messed up their New Year's celebration. Five people were killed and dozens of emergency workers were injured as a state of incidents involving fireworks marred New Year's Eve celebrations in Germany.
Damn, I hope. So.
Despite calls for a national, nationwide band on the private use of fireworks, they continue to be significant part of New Year celebrations. Among those killed were two in the eastern state of Saxony. According to a local public broadcaster MDR, including a forty five year old man, was killed after handling what was described does a firework bomb.
Oh the big ones that go.
I don't know, No, I'm just making this assumption. And look like they got a band on it. It's the reason why they got a band on it.
I don't think they just said.
They said they have calls for a nationwide on First of all, it's a band, not a D band band. Yeah you said band like Redding band anyway.
Oh, band like like like you banded it band B A N. I think there's no D on this type of band. My bad.
But they called for a band B A in. They are calling for a band, which means they don't have Okay, I'm with you now, but this is why they want one. This is why they want and they did not specify. They put in quotes firework bomb. I don't know what that means.
Okay, I'm with you now.
So I don't know if it's some ship he rigged, if it was an actual bomb, if it was some like terrorism ship, or if it was just some like like wash wash this.
I don't know what it was. Yeah, we got a lot of in the country here, we got a lot to watch this. You're like, you lost your whole hand.
I don't know what that sounds like in German, but they may have that.
But yeah.
In the Capitol, Berlin firefighters responding to eighteen hundred and ninety two incidents on New Year's Eve, two hundred and ninety four more than previous the previous year, over fifteen hundred emergency personnel service people were on duty. At least thirteen attacks on emergency workers were reported as well. So I guess they show up, Hey, you can't out, and then it's like, well they want to fight. I have no what the fuck is going on for them in New Year's I thought they was the chill country.
What is happening? What is happening?
That's why I'm like, I just let the professionals do it, because it they get fucked up and they know how to use the shit.
Three hundred and thirty people were detained in the Capitol on New Year's Eve. One police officer was severely injured at the being presumably hit by an illegal firework.
He's undergoing surgery.
Several people are standing around the scene attack the police officers, and it is one of the low points of the night.
I bet you they were drunk. Wouldn't be surprising if they came.
I don't know, I'd be let us know what's going on? Right?
What the I thought y'all was chilled? I didn't know y'all was fucking up the cops and blowing up.
Let us know you safe? Is it that serious over in Germany for the New Year? What is happening? And then we ain't got guns? We got fireworks though?
Yeah, and I think the one of the more disturbing ones didn't involve any fireworks or guns.
This sounds like a terrible way to die or get hurt.
But a Lego display fell and injured ten people at the New Year's Eve ball drop of it in Massachusetts. Oh yeah, graphic content? Wait what's graphic about it?
I thought?
Thrown up?
So I'm like, they got some balloons that are suspended above the on the ceiling in a net.
I don't know. And I guess who out dropping legos was smart. I don't know.
What do you see legos? They don't even see legos. I don't even know where the legos are at they in the balloons? I don't That's what I'm assuming.
Oh oh, it was over to the right.
Okay, so there's some type of lego display over to the right.
That fell down when the balloons came down. Looked like the balloons took it down. Oh shit, I'm listen.
I've heard her stepping on legos, but never legos stepping on you and the right guys.
Right, And and it looked like when they let the balloons down, look like the balloons was supposed to kind of scatter, but looked like the whole thing just fell Like when plot versus the balloons.
You know, normally that stuff, the balloons.
Just kind of scatter and float down, But this one like something may have went wrong and it just took the lego thing.
Got that. The thing was high shit too.
A large lego display fell during the balloon drop, landing on several patrons. The Peabody Fire Department responded to the center just after the noon local time. Department Deputy Chief Dan Deane told USA Today it appeared that the lego display of an arcade machine was connected to the netting that released the balloons. Ten people were injured, three adults and five children are transported to a local medical facility, and two people refuse medical service because they tough.
That makes sense because the way that failed. I was like, the way that fail made no sense. I was like, it looked like it may have either bumped or up was connected to it because I was like that that wouldn't make sense, and why would you do that? Why would you connect a lego display to a drop?
The New Year's Eavet celebration was sold out. It's unclear how many patrons are at the event during the time of the incident.
Yeah, it's now who got to put it back together? Is the real question. That's a great that's gonna take a while. Do you need the instructions? Is it evidence? Did the police gott to put it back evidence? Now that's the police problem. Well, I do have some good news.
Moderate drinking is linked to lower overall mortality rate, says National Academy of Sciences, sponsored by SLITCH.
A lot of people go, yeah, I'm drinking, but I'm drinking a little bit less. A new report.
Reviewing evidence of modern alcohol consumption and health outcomes issue earlier this month by the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine has concluded that the WHO and the.
Gamma researchers are wrong.
Moderate drinking is associated with some health benefits, with one noticeable exception and report. The report concludes that with moderate certainty that compare with never consuming alcohol, moderate alcohol.
Assumption it was like y'all still drink now, don't don't don't go dry is associated.
We still need y'all money at the events.
Is associated with lower all cause mortality. All cause mortality is a measure of the total number of deaths from any cause in specific group of peep over a specific period of time. In this case, mortality rates derived from comparison between teetotalers and moderate Tipler tiplers.
What is Tipler? This is a non American.
In addition to report found that compared with never consuming alcohol, consuming modern mouse of alcoholics associated with lower risk of cardiovascular mortality in both men and women. Some evidence, however, suggests that modern consumption is associated with higher risk and female female breast cancer. With respect to comparing moderate alcohol consumer versus lifelong non consumers, No association between modern alcohol consumption and colorrectile oil cavity, farnagl esophagale, or luring gl cancers can be made and no conclusions can be draw regarding associations between weight related outcomes and modern alcohol consumption compared would never consume alcohol.
Did they say what moderate means moderate? I'm sure in the study they did.
They didn't say in this article, like if it means like one drink a week or whatever. I always think the these articles are weird because it's like a lot of correlation that they that the article treats its causation. But normally the people who write the article are not the same as the peer review papers, and a lot of times you go read the peer review papers, they're actually kind of hard for a regular layman to understand. Yes, who knows who's telling the truth and what's really right and what's been simplified?
Right? But yeah, I just thought that was interesting, Like alcohol is back, baby, we're back. Get off that weed, right?
But speaking of medical advice from people you're listening to on the internet, because how many y'all were like finally riding, Karen said, I can drink.
TikTok? What about it?
TikTok? We used to do it out in the park. I wonder if that's gonna happen. TikTok is gonna be the new hip hop thirty years from now it might be uh anyway, uh TikTok has opened the door to a new age of medical misinformation.
No shit, Uh yeah.
Doctor wrote this in The Guardian and basically said people are now listening to influencers more than their doctors in some cases, like we already knew back in the day when you used to go to like WebMD and it'd be like that tickle in your throat is stage twelve.
K you are dead already at this How are you even googling? Right? Well?
This month, BBC reporter around Stephen Bartleer's podcast The Diary of a CEO, so it was spreading harmful health misinformation, capturing a wider image of a moment we are currently seeing people have less trust to health professionals and are increasingly relying on videos and other engaging content they see online. I've seen patients while working in the A and E who have heard online that hormone related diseases such as thyro out toxicosis or diabetes can be treated with herbal and therapies, so have actively chosen to not take medication, instead choosing to take different supplements and alternative therapies. This this is look this doctor sebbi shit, this is alkaline watershit.
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, And you see a lot of that shit on And I've seen doctors actually on TikTok and and they've been saying I told my patient this, and they was like, I actually know what I'm talking about. But they went on TikTok and listen to their friends and it didn't go well.
You know, I still think one of the most compelling scenes that I've like just speaks to our times ever was in I May Destroy You.
This TV series that was on HBO, and.
The main character who's dealing with a lot of stuff from like anxiety and all this stuff from being on the internet and being like, it's just it's just a really good show. It's one of my favorite shows. But there there's an episode where she goes to the doctor. She takes her friend with her, and part of the reason she's going is because she's dealing she's like having these panic attacks and her she's feeling like sick and.
All this stuff.
And so she goes to the doctor and her friend goes in with her, and the doctor is like, we ran all these tests.
Here are the results of this test.
And at the end of the giving her the results, her friend is like, that's racist because she's a black woman doctor. I don't know if they were white or they don't they weren't black. And the doctor's like, well, because the doctor's like explaining, like, listen, we're gonna give you your blood pressure is high, you need to watch that. We're gonna give you some medicine, but you need to stop smoking, you need to watch your alcohol intake, you need to maybe get some more exercise. And the reason I'm saying this is because Afro Caribbean people have a higher instance of high blood pressure and dying from it.
Blah bah blah.
And her friend just goes off as like, you're that's racist. What if the fuck are you talking about. Don't listen to him, Let's go, let's get out of here.
Fuck this doctor. We're gonna get a different doctor.
And this keep in mind, this thing is written by a black woman, right, so this this is written by somebody who's trying to have these conversations through her art. And I loved I loved this so much because it's symbolical of so much of what we see online where don't trust the experts, and it starts with you know, the government, but you know it's people saying, don't trust your doctor, don't do this, don't do that. And I get why people have it. I get why people have had shitty dealings with doctors, people.
Have had things da da da. I get that. But there is a science behind this. These people did go to school.
They are looking at these test results, right, like some of this is better than your intuition. It's kind of like how people and it's a very antiquated notion. But it's like when people say shit like I'm not taking no medicine.
I'm just gonna do blank.
That's fine, But how did you get here if you were just if you're capable of the discipline of I'm just gonna lower my blood pressure by eating different. Maybe you take nothing's gonna stop you from eating different. Nope, Maybe you take the medicine and you eat different and then you get your blood pressure low enough and then you don't need the medicine, right as opposed to I'm just gonna walk around with the silent killer of high blood.
Pressure and die because or just.
Risk death every single day, get headaches and all this shit because I don't like I don't trust these doctors, and they just trying to give me medicine, and so you know, it's like I'm not getting my oil change in my car. You know, it's like it's like nons. It's okay, this is where you're at. It's just a snapshot, but you can make decisions that change your life.
So you're not dealing with this.
Right right, And of course being black, they are. There's actual medical racism. So you have actual instances with black maternal health and doctors who are racist and don't offer treatment stuff like that. Anyway, point being, when you sow this type of distrust throughout society, whether you find it to be reasonable or not reasonable, whether you find it to be.
Valid or not valid, it doesn't really matter.
Nature abhors a vacuum, so someone is going to step into the void.
That is, I have these issues. The issues didn't go anywhere.
So if you're getting headaches every day, you're getting headaches every day. If you're getting chest pain, you're getting chest pain. If you've been told and believe I don't trust my doctors, that I don't listen to them, you're gonna start listening to somebody. And there's no shortage of motherfuckers who will turn that camera phone right towards their face, beat it up with some makeup, and go on here and tell you drink that alcohol in water, eat some grapes, and don't listen to nobody but me, and you're.
Gonna be all right.
And I wondered when, and I've been saying this for years on this podcast, but I said, we was gonna start seeing the results of what the internet has done to us, what social media has done to us. And this isn't even like completely quantified. This isn't a study. This is just a doctor giving like, hey, we as doctors are seeing this a lot now. But at some point we're going to have to discuss what is healthy from the internet and what has not been what has because it's not enough to point out the flaws and stuff. A lot of the Internet is about replacing shit. Like it's like when people say, like, cut your family off over something you something on Twitter or whatever, but they then replace it with like me, I'm your new family the internet.
Nigga, just only listen to me, tapp into me every day, check on me every.
Day, follow them my tweets, listen to my podcast, subscribe to my channel. I'm your new family. Get away from them, come to me. I'm not toxic, I'm perfect. I'm a stranger you never met, but I am fucking I'm on it.
I know. And you know who's really against you?
The fucking the doctor that you've been seeing, that you've been going to, that that actually runs test on you that I've never seen.
But let me tell you all the test of bullshit.
Just listen to me, eat these grapes, and buy my alcohol and water, sign up for my doctor sabit class.
I feel like that has had a real effect.
And it could be my confirmation bias, but this, this was an article that made me go, yeah, that's sounds.
Right to me. Yeah, I got several things.
Well break it down, player number one, going back when you were talking about the TV show, when you was talking, I may destroy you.
Uh.
And what's so funny you have black people to follow for that when uh me being a black woman, my doctor, our doctor actually would tell you told me before a uh, these things affect black people more than any other group because you know that some doctors don't give a fuck about none of them studies. But if you got one that actually cares about your group, that shit matters, and that because that means they're doing their job, like like they are specifically doing your job based off of the knowledge that they have at the time that they're talking to you and some That's the thing about these groups and particularly online and even like friends in your real life. People that actually care about you will not fight things that are actually beneficial to keeping you around. They'll be like, girl, you better take that medicine, hold Jesus hand and going about your business.
You can do both, you know what I'm saying.
Prayer about it, whatever you need to do, like you know and have some common sense because I love you and I want you to drop dad you know from high blood pressure or stroke. You know that that shit is true. And also you made me think about that Facebook group.
We talked about it years ago. It was this letting online.
She joined a Facebook group when she was pregnant and they was telling her that in the group, they was telling this woman all types of crazy shit.
She ended up losing her fucking baby, and them bitches turned on her and took her child.
And put it on like their board. When you go on Facebook and you go in the group up there, and you know, she started talking about, hey, y'all stood me wrong, y'all did me wrong, and they kicked her out of the Facebook group because these people don't care about you.
She lost her baby, but most importantly, her coming in there and saying, my experience listening to y'all made me lose my baby win against their narrative, and their narrative was more important. They became the thing they said the medical industry was. They were like, the medical industry is is erasing Black women in their experience, their lived experiences. And then they're they're covering up the truth from you. They're keeping everybody from knowing that this that what is happening with black women in pregnancy, and it's all their fault. And so you're like, Okay, I'm gonna listen to y'all. And they were like, don't go to the doctor. Don't go to the doctor. Hey, they need to Mike, they might need to force I'm so overdue. They're saying maybe they should force a c section or forced labor. Don't listen to the doctor. Your body will tell you my child died. Deleted, blocked, mute it, do not come into this group anymore. That is to me as that's more dangerous in many ways, and because it's hiding behind the fact that it's replaced, it's using the very real fears and dangers of a system that we would like to change, of a system we would like to make aware and responsive to the different needs of certain groups of people that that can't that has shown the ability to do it for the record, like we've seen the maternal health rates improve when we when we have passed legislation, so we know that this can work for people. And you're going, nah, just listen to us. And then if somebody you listen to us and don't work out, you're raised.
Yep, And you bought up a good point when you were saying, replace it with me.
If you're bored, replace it with me.
You're sad, replace it with me, depressed, angry, replace it with me like that it really stuck. That's a lot of a lot of times people don't realize this, particularly people that go down these holes and use Particularly if you spend an exorbitant amount of time online, like a lot a lot of time online. It don't matter if it's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, whatever it is. Think to yourself, what am I running from. What am I using this to replace in my life? Be it sadness, depressed, be it I'm trying to run away from an issue, be it I don't want to talk about something, And if you think about that, you will refocus your thing, your time.
But it's designed to give us a.
A high in our brain so that it's hard for you to to to change your habit because you sometimes people know the right thing to do, but it's hard for them to turn that switch off when you get that dopamine hit, when you get that high, when the when when the thing that you're trying to run from makes you feel good, you know, because if it made you feel bad, people would be online. But you know, so since it's making you feel good and it's telling me that this is where I need to be at all times, I really don't need.
To be anywhere. I think.
Also, there are some very real things in society that I don't think you can deny, right, and so they take the real issues of society, but then they flip it into this opposite world where all of a sudden none of it matters. It's like it's like how people can go from like fat acceptance movement which I think is an actual valuable movement of like we need to stop being so fucking mean and scared and and and attacking and bullying people for being bigger, Like it ain't your fucking life, it ain't your fucking business, if we're being real, But the amount of like ridicule and bullying and derision and revulsion and even people that that look traditionally what people would consider attractive.
The way they.
Talk in their inner monologue is very fat phobic. It's very like, uh, I could never be fat. That's the worst thing you can be in the fucking world. Do anything not to be fat, you know, take I'll take any amount of medicine. I'll eat crazy, our fucking our exercise tillu till it's unhealthy, whatever I have to do. They have influencers that are literally like they they have become malnourished and died from it, yes, but they've been elevated millions of followers and stuff because it's like, well look how they look that they look the right way. You can be smoking, you can be uh, you know, on drugs, you can whatever it is. You can drink yourself to death. But if you don't look a certain way, everything's fine. Motherfucker's walking around with with with the entire inside of their body all fucked up from alcohol.
And then but they're.
Laughing at fat people, right, Yes, so that's a real thing in society. That's not something the Internet made up. That's not something that's not real. But you can take that that that point and go, this is a real issue in society, and then go, So when you went to your doctor and your doctor said you had high blood pressure, they said your blood sugar was too elevated, they said you're pre diabetic.
They said you need to make some changes.
And one of the changes that can help with say your liver or whatever, is losing weight. Well, then people will take that on the internet and go, remember all that stuff I just said about how fat fobus society is.
Your doctor is fat phobic. They told you lose weight.
Don't listen to them as opposed to I don't know what the fuck your blood sugar is, nigga, I don't know what the fuck your blood pressure is. I don't know what medicine is you want, I don't know, Like, I'm not responsible if you can't not responsible if you heel over at thirty five because you were listening to me and because you like my tiktoks.
I actually haven't.
I didn't take a hipocratic Oh, I don't have any responsibility to you. So I'm gonna but I'm not gonna tell you to question me and be cynical. I'm not gonna tell you like I'm just gonna tell you doing nothing is just as empowered, is more empowering than doing anything. And and I think it's very important to point out that these people uh have managed to come in and be the experts, be the advice givers because of these real issues in society. Like I think a lot of people don't see these things as related. They think these are two different things. I'm like, if you got rid of what's funny is if you got rid of a lot of the fat phobia in a Mamica. And this is just one thing, by the way, Yeah, but if you got a rid of just a lot of that, you actually would have people who are like more prone to be like, you know what my doctor said, like I should lose some weight to help out with this health outcome.
It's actually not a big deal to me. Like I don't like, I'm not like, I'm not feeling like they judge me or were mean to me. I'm feeling like they're doing their job.
The same way when I go to my mechanic and they say, hey, the car will run if you got the fuel injector system, I don't go, your motherfucking your anti fuel.
I go, okay, yeah, because.
There's no stigma against a car, but as a person, there's a stigma against you. So that's why I think these things end up being like this. And I think also in a lot of cases, the online stuff is just as fucked up. Like I'm just using the fat phobic people this time, but a lot of this stuff, the wellness shit is like, don't worry about your cancer. Drink drink grape juice and put a little bit of wheat in it and you will be all right. And it's like that's one medically not fucking you have no evidence to back that up. Two, you're not a fucking expert. You're just a person that has a lot of listeners, which we now in society associate with being an expert. How many times have we talked about somebody saying some full hearty shit on this podcast, But the retort many people have is. But they got four million followers, so they got they got the number one pocket. They smart and it doesn't mean it doesn't mean they're expert, doesn't mean they're learned or anything. It just means they have a huge following. And we use that to say that's what the new expertise is. And you know what, your doctor ain't got four million followers on TikTok, not if they're a good doctor. Your doctor just talks to you in a room and then you go tweet about the shit. They're not telling anybody any of the information. So I do think this was it's a bunch of factors that lead us down this road.
Right and also the also the thing is, either way it goes, be it this, be it you know, medicine, be it therapy.
You're gonna spend money.
You're either gonna spend twenty dollars on the copey and get some right information or you're gonna be in twenty dollars on they bullshit, subscribing or whatever. Because at the end of the day, they are selling you something, so you're gonna separate from your money.
Even well even if you never give them money.
The currency of the Internet is attention true, it's views, it's clicked, so they're getting something every time you click on their thing, and at the end of the day, they don't care any more about you than then they claim the doctors do or whatever. And also like because it's part performance if you look at what people need to do to stay relevant on the like my friends who watch TikTok, who watch TikTok, sometimes they'll send me these tiktoks and they're kind of like because of our conversations, they're very like one day, no, I kind of hate TikTok, but also they're very aware of the things we talk about, and so sometimes they send me the examples of the stuff I'm talking about. And like, one of the things is people that claim to be like these life coaches and positivity coaches and stuff. If you look at how they talk about you their listener, a lot of times it's not the stuff that it's not the positivity and claim like the positive stuff they have. It's a lot of negative talk to you, Like listen, because I ain't a basic bitch. I'm not gonna be worried about what my ex is doing. Like y'all bitches be worried. It's like, I'm sorry, but if I pay them out there, you're not gonna take tell me you're better than my therapist. And I paid my therapist and they ain't call me bitch, not once. I'm not once, I'm sorry, but I'll actually pay the money. Stupid dumb like they didn't and they didn't just tell me that their life was so great because they follow all their own advice.
And I'm a fucking idiot.
If I'm already dealing with negative self talking all that stuff, that ain't what how I need to be talked to. And of course it's not everybody. There's plenty of good people on TikTok that that that that I'm sure experts and do this work. They may not go as viral, it may not be as explosive or whatever, but the but I think it's very important that as we have watched a decentralization and a lack of trust in our institutions eroade throughout the public spere the I I think some people think it's a good thing, and I can understand how you think it's a good thing to think like some of these institutions are traditionally racist, tradition whatever, right, But what we're inserting instead, because of the nature of howards a vacuum, we're inserting these individuals who their Their system of reward is not even like I need to get this money from my patients, I need to keep people. I just want to keep people alive because I went to school for this and this is what I've dedicated my.
Life to it.
No, their reward is how many views did it get, how many ads am I going to be able to play? How much money is going to my Patreon. That's where their expertise is going. And so their reward system is now set up in a way of what's the most bombastic way to say this, what's the most bombastic way to get people to pay me attention? Because yes, I make the money off attention. Your doctor doesn't make the money off attention.
No, they do not.
And and also it's one of those things where you go from regulation to deregulation.
Everything is direct regulating, y'all.
Like, if you're paying attention, you go from doctors that have standards and everything else to now it's the fucking wild wife. It's deregulated, quote unquote not deregulated as we stripped the rules, but deregulated as now we got.
You said it right.
Even if you talk about the rules, doctor Sebb doesn't have to have no FDA approval or nothing. There are people who are spent money bought his medicines quote unquote, and they probably died and probably died from cancer or whatever the fuck was eating them up because they were like whatever that I think it.
Was it a Nanda Lewis.
There was some woman recently who just came out, black woman who used to be like a video vj you know those video jocks on MTV, and she said she's suffering from like very severe vest cancer because she was like, I'm gonna just go all natural. I'm not gonna I'm not going to get kimo, I'm not going to the doctor.
I don't need them to do this. And it's a sad thing to read.
It's her body and it's her choice, of course, but it's a sad thing to read because it's like because she was now saying like, yeah, I am gonna listen now, I am gonna like I am gonna try to medical procedures now or I wish I had or something like that, and I'm like, there's a cost to letting this be the new expertise. There's a cost to it, and we're starting to see it. The Diary of a CEO podcast, for instance, there have been guests who suggests ketogenic diet cure cancer, diets ketogenic diets cure cancer, and others stating that COVID vaccinations, which have saved millions of lives, did more harm than good. Same thing with Joe Rogan. He once suggested that gene therapy that covid vaccination was gene therapy, and has had a considerable number of episodes where ITA's guests is about a nonsense related to health pandering towards conspiracy theories. Naomi kleinb brilliantly explained her twenty twenty three book Doppelganger the concept of diagonalism, the belief that power is tied to conspiracy, and how this has filtered through the day to day life in Western society since the pandemic. Diagonalism, a turn coined by William Callison and Quinn Slabadian, explains the shift in the categories of left versus right politics. Instead of showing how people once considered it to be from the left wing or a political spirits end up moving towards the far right with the share belief that power is innately linked to conspiracy.
Yes, I totally have seen that.
It's one of the reasons that when y'all the fans of this show right in or people start suggesting we have guests on the show, and they start suggesting conspiratorial things, you will almost always hear me either a pushback or treat it as comedic, because I feel like the gateway from conspiracy to a lot of this right right wing and misinformation is so short, and people think you can play around with a toe in it, and it's not really like that. Too many people started off sounding like it was just I'm told, yeah that Joe Rogan didn't jump in.
And was just a conspiracy theory. He started tinking around with.
It when people say, hey, man, what are you doing, he went further into it, and now he just full blown has people on his show saying a bunch of unscientific shit, because it's not really something you can play with, at least in my mind. I'm afraid of the slippery slope of now you're just a big asth misinformation spreader who uses the fact that people are telling you you're wrong as evidence that you're right. Right, because once you go so far down that rabbit hole, everyone who's like the COVID vaccines are not killing people. Oh, they part of the conspiracy. See this is how it works. See they got you. It's Aaron Rodgers going on Pat McAfee every Tuesday on ESPN acting like he is somehow not part of this mainstream media and like I somehow I'm against everybody else, but I'm on TV, the same TV channelism. But yeah, it's they get to now there's never anything they can be wrong about because if there's no evidence, they will accept it is right because that makes it part of the conspiracy.
Agreed. And also it's one of these things.
While we kind of just talking talking about a lot of this stuff in general, you even have some professionals that actually see people, these non professionals getting attention, and like you said, they'll dip they toe in all this internet shit.
And you're going you need to stay out.
Of this and just do your job, because you haven't go on like that lady she went on went viral for talking shit about her clients.
Oh the black woman who was like shitting on black men. Yeah, and like went viol and yeah, And I remember a lot of people because of the Internet and the way that social media hierarchies are set up, it was like, we have to defend her.
She's a black woman.
And I remember from jump being like, I'm not comfortable with anything we're watching.
I don't know this woman.
What she's doing seems like a gross violation of her clients privacy.
But whether you think that's okay or not, just think about it.
If it was your therapist, it don't take that loan to connect the dots because we know everything about each other. But imagine you went to your therapist and your therapist was ranting about things that you realize where about you.
Yes, online, even that to.
Me is extremely unprofessional. She ended up losing her license and losing her job. But she's gone down some really weird rabbit hole since it's actually and keep in mind, I take no joy in her down Like you.
Said you dip your toe in then this down Hereah, I don't take any joy in it.
Like now she's like got a OnlyFans and she's like always posting this very sexual shit about It's like it's gotten to a very weird place that makes it feel like, oh, was this ever really about any of the stuff you said it about with mental health and black men at the beginning, or was it just like the ego gets fed through all this stuff, which is something that can't be separated from all the social media, including our podcast.
There's a level of ego to this where it gets fed.
And if you're not strong about killing your ego and realizing how much of this is not really about you or just limiting and like, hey, I might be entertaining, people might want to hear what I have to say.
That doesn't mean I fucking know everything.
If you're not having that humility or something inside of you, then you become like, don't listen to your doctor, listen to me, don't listen to your bank, listen to me, don't listen And a lot of times, you you know, it leads you down this rabbit hole.
Yeah, like I said, a lot of times, it's about it's about cloud is about that attention because you, like you say, you don't get paid in quote unquote dollars and cents. Sometimes you do, but a lot of times just the interaction and all that stuff is how you get paid like that's the currency. And another example of this is about that teacher, Remember that male teacher that went viral. We had a lot of people to row into us and that like we were crazy when we was like, hey, y'all, there's.
Something wrong with this. You should not be doing this.
And eventually a lot of those people say, hey, y'all knew y'all we kind of we were so adamant about it till the more stuff came out to people say, Okay, this makes sense, Like yeah, for sometimes people to kind of work, they feel a certain way, and then they work back with to justify how they feel versus just looking at the situation they're going, hey, these things are crossing lines on social media between professionalism and entertainment that they just shouldn't fucking cross.
Yeah, and yeah, TikTok to me is one of those scarier ones because I I maybe it's just because I don't truly understand how that TikTok thing, the algorithm of it all works, but it people really treat TikTok like it is like whatever their algorithm takes them to is just their new reality. Like it's just like unlike like there's just not a lot of skepticism. They're like people like I have friends that will send me like a link to a video and be like, look at this, it's the truth about Kendrick or something, and I'm like, I don't know how I tell you this. This is just a nigga in his car talking like it doesn't They don't seem to have any more information than you or I have, Right, it's just a maybe it matches our theory, but it could. No, there's no actual truth in this. It's just a person talking, and there's something about the legitimacy of it being on that platform for people is enough to replace, you know, actual confirmed information. This is not a journalist giving me sourced information, right, this is just a guy who's like I noticed in a video from three two thousand and three, Kendrick said this, and then in twenty seventeen he said this, and then on this song these were the lyrics, and so I take that to mean that Drake killed Kendrick's best friend.
And I'm like, I.
Don't think this is true, and I think it's kind of weird that you do, you know what I mean. It's like, well, what it is interesting? I was like, no, I know, I sound like a dick. It's not interesting, and it has and it needs to not be interesting, because this is the conspiracy rabbit hole where you just start accepting a lower level of vetted information. And we make fun of q Andon, but this is how these Q and nine motherfuckers got there. Yes, it's like you just have to present to them like, well, there are some people that are being sex trafficked and that is a fact. And then the next thing you know that like democrats are eating the blood of babies and they's sex trafficking them and it's like what And that's why I'm voting for sex traffical for president.
Wait a minute, how did this happen? Because I started down the rabbit hole.
I started down the rabbit hole, and for a not some people already over here, and I feel like this happens on the extreme left and on the extreme right. Most people started down this fucking rabbit hole during the pandemic because they fucking bored and at the house, and so they got on that crack and they've been on that crack and it's hard for them to get off, you know, because everybody claims that they are an exception to the rule and that that there's nothing the internet don't trick them bitches, tricks everybody.
It tricks you.
If you're on there long enough, you will find something that has food you. You are not an exception to the rules when it comes to this shit, right.
So yeah, it's just like I said, I'm not teared to tell I'm not an expert. I'm not here to tell people what to do with their bodies and all that shit of anything. I'll try to be on the other side of like, I actually don't know what the fuck anybody's story is, and everybody, I'm assuming everybody's doing what the fuck they want to do, right, and whatever the outcomes are are individually based.
That's that's what you have decided.
And the same way that I don't want people to fucking I don't like when people give me unsolicited advice and shit about my body. I but I would never let those people replace my doctor. And if I really truly felt I had a bad doctor, I get a different fucking doctor. Like I'm not like, I'm not going to do this thing of like there's no role for doctors in the world.
Why are they even here? Because one way or another.
You gonna end up seeing those motherfuckers, and whether it be because you you, whether it be an emergency or whatever, everybody eventually ends up seeing no motherfuckers, right like you're gonna and if you don't, a lot of times you're gonna regret that you didn't, you know.
So it's just kind of.
Interesting what happens when we let expertise be kind of democratized into like or decentralized into like everybody's an expert.
No.
No, it's like how not all opinions are valid and not everybody is equal on all have an equal weight.
There's a thing about expertise that does matter.
But I'm reading this book shouting to Momony Jones called Amusing Ourselves to Death.
I think it's by Neil Postman, I think.
Is his name, and I'm only, like, you know, a few chapters in, but it's been very interesting to read. It's kind of heavy, heady, and I think he must have either passed or this this work is just from a long time ago, because I think it's from like nineteen eighty five.
But it's about how.
TV is becoming this new landscape that is changing how we communicate with each other. And it is replacing the written word of like even newspapers and even books at some point, and he's like, we're becoming a worse society for it. Even though I'm not making the he's not making the argument in the book of we're.
Becoming a worst society.
He's actually saying, like, I believe that this book isn't even about that. It's just here's how it's changing us, right though, in the way that like we'll never have a fat president again because of TV.
Yeah, because of TV.
If it was just if it was just if you just saw the shit on newspapers and magazines, fat president, don't bother nobody like, hey, I'm just reading's what's the merit of their ideas?
Even like with something like radio, you.
Know, but when you see the person, all of a sudden, there's something comes up and people are like, Nope, can't vote for him. You know, Chris Christy can't be president, you know, whether he had better ideas than Trump or not. He fat, you know, And so it changes. But now this book was really before the advent of like social media and the internet.
Really shit still applied.
I'm I cannot unsee and unthink about how that book is so I wish we knew his thoughts on this, because I see things now where I'm like, the internet is like TV on fucking myths, Yes, like like the internet is like everything he thought was gonna happen where he was like, Yo, shit is getting bad out here, you know when he brings he brought up like how we get news right and how we can pretend that it's all like listen, it's just about what's sourced and what's vetted, and who's the smartest and who can give us the straight facts? Can anybody pull up the ugly news anchors come out? Where are the fat news anchors? Where are the where the news anchors who's just face not as attractive as? How come every news ain't gonna beat face beat to the god's hair did to the nonsw Why is that? Because we can't get our news any other way? Because it's a physical, optical media that we will no longer tolerate that the same way that I'm sure when it was books and news articles, if you had an ugly font or a bunch of typos and misspellings run on sentences, I bet that made it hard for people to be newspaper like, I'm not reading your ugglass newspaper, but now we have a TV screen to look at, and I don't want to get my news from your ugly face or from your you know whatever. You gotta wonder and I I can't get my news from you. It's too distracted that the internet is that times one hundred.
It's not even news, and it has replaced our news.
Like how many people I saw so many people today bemoaning I couldn't find out enough information about the terrorist stuff on Twitter.
Think about that for a second.
You know where I got my information from the fucking AP reuters or routers how you pronounce it, Like I just went to vetted news sources and was like, oh, they'll have accurate information with quotes from the actual police and all of that stuff. Twitter was never even when it was more even when it was more active, Twitter was never really one hundred percent more accurate. There was a lot of bad information. It's killed many a celebrity. It's given us misinformation. It's told us to target people who it docks people that were the wrong people.
It's done a bunch of shit.
But we look at the golden days before Elon took over, and made it even worse, and go man, Twitter was we would have learned so much on Twitter before the news, And I'm like, maybe that was wrong and bad. Maybe what we should be doing is looking at the AP and going I know they talked to three sources, they actually went on the scene and talked to some of my witnesses.
But but what have we done.
We've conspiratorialized the news is don't trust the AP, trust your rogan.
You know.
And so I know this is a long mean during conversation, but yeah, that's what I was thinking.
And also today two things today, Yeah, two things. Number one, when you're talking about all these non professional quote unquote professionals out there, the.
Thing is for a lot of them, I don't have to respect you.
And a lot of times the people that respect these people think it's something wrong with you for not respecting them because they're not professionals. You know, when you and you go a you might want to contact your doctor. Hey, you might want to talk to you like your therapists. Don't tell me what your therapist said. Don't take the therapist's words and go online and quote and dance. I don't know your mental condition. I don't know what you actually need. This is the person that has your medical records, your family history and shit like this.
They would know more than me. Don't listen to a.
Bunch of strangers that do not fucking know you. And so no, I don't have to respect their opinions, you know, and they like I say, people that like there's something wrong with you when I don't have to respect their opinions. And also something else I want to point out when I was talking about how do you have the extremes on the left and have the extremes on the right. A lot of the extremes on the left, like you say, people can quote unquote identify those like your Q andons all that stuff. When it comes to the extremes on the left, for some people, they can't see it because they're in it. Like a lot of the lives about Kamala Harris, a lot of the shit about your Biden, a lot of the misinformation and how people were saying, hey, and't do nothing.
All that shit was the extreme on the left.
But if you tell people, hey, some of that shit that y'all are spouting and retweeting and reposting affected body having to step down. All this retweeting and reposting and and acting like you know, the worst, the worst.
Hey, y'all, some of that ship came from Russia, all that retweeted.
But but see, they can always point to the left and be like, hi, hi, y'all are stupid.
Y'all are dune. I mean that talk to the right and go hi, hi, y'all are stupid.
Y'all are dumb because their quote unquote on the opposite team.
Yeah, exactly, I agree. But but but.
When it comes to the left side, everybody wants to act, they want to do shit, and let's say, throw the throw the rock and hide the handkn ACKed like they didn't. They didn't have anything to do with the lives being spread. They didn't have anything to do with with Kamala losing. They didn't have anything to do with the misinformation. They didn't have anything to do with none of that ship that didn't know I didn't have anything to do it. But you was got too, You would got too. You would just got on the opposite side. That's all that means. And so you need to vet shit, and and and and I think we live in in the age where it's uh, the internet may make it hard to that shit, so I get it.
Yeah, the media.
They say the media is the message, which, uh, you know, I definitely understand and agree with that idiom.
But I would say with social.
Media, the media is the medium, meaning it is the it is the venue, it is the road, it is the place like you are, it is the locality. Like it's like living in a virtual reality. This place now has different rules, Like it's like it's you know, the media is the message. Could be like, well, if you hear something on TV, that's the different, like it sends a different message than in print. I feel you, but we are now living in it. It was like the media was not interactive before, meaning the if you got a newspaper, I was not part of the conversation with that newspaper, so I could read whatever my feelings were on it were between me and myself and I and that article that I read. Now we exist in this feedback loop where like the TikToker tells me something and I'm in the comments the podcast says something, I'm leaving a reply the YouTuber said something, and I'm making them a response to YouTube video. Like we are existing in the place where the message is supposed to happen, and the messages are not necessarily vetted. There's not regulation here and the way that there is in new media before this now listen, a lot of this, as I said earlier, is because those tent poles have fallen created very real issues which made us have to go to our own devices.
Right.
They could not figure out a way to necessarily monetize the media in a way that was sustainable once social media and the Internet came into it.
And that's a very real issue, it is.
And what happened is they start having to let They let the editors go, They had to stop vetting the as much information. They laid people off, they stopped local news. Billionaires, people with money came in and bought them up and said, you guys are going to say what I want you to say Los Angeles Times. I'm a Trump supporter, and I own you. You are no longer talking about Donald Trump in a negative way. So this only fuels the amount of distrust in these institutions, which then of course goes who cannot trust Joe Rogan or my favorite TikToker or whoever. And it leads us here but with your but unlike with the new York Times or the La Times or whatever was came before that you didn't trust. Now you're existing in this spear with this person. You weren't having a conversation with Ted Copple. Ted Copple wasn't really responding to you, right, he wasn't reading your comments. Now we are here in this place where you say something, and you could be a random stranger on Twitter and you say something about you don't like something Pat McAfee, you might be on the Summer Jam screen tomorrow with him being like, Hey, I'm on ESPN and I'm holding the entire weight of my platform on your ass because I didn't like that shit you said to me on Twitter, which is something that would have been completely unprofessional and shut down yes ten fifteen years ago. Like you're an editor, someone in charge. Hey, I know you don't like what that person said, but your job isn't to be here fighting people because they said some.
Shit you on Twitter? What the news?
Yeah, but we've lost that and so I you know, it's like I said, I think I brought up this example the other day my girl uh Naima from Naima and Genisia from Why Am I driving a blank?
On that podcast t with Queen and Jay Thank you.
But she had brought up like how Lizo went on on this is on social media. I'm not like there's no shade or nothing, but she brought up how Lizo went on Kicky Palmer's podcast, and I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, you know why they do that because media journalism itself became so fucking deregulated that it really became less beneficial or equally, actually, I say less beneficial, because what the reason you would go on an Oprah show or Gail Kings show and Gail would ask you some tough questions and you, honestly, as much as people think celebrities don't want that your pr people want that. They want you to get a couple because one, it makes jealous people feel like you got grilled a little bit, right, you're accountable, got you got scolded, you got your hand tapped, and then once they feel you paid a little bit of a price, then you can go back to being a celebrity partying and getting their money. Many a celebrity has gone through it. If anything, people kind of see through it now, you know. Chris Brown goes on Larry King and everybody's rolling their eyes. But we but but the point being they used to do that all the time.
But at this point, I bet you an.
Interview with Keky Palmer is getting more attention than the interview with Gail King on ABC, or at least it's rivaling the attention. And in addition to that, because of how people feel about actual journalism, they don't want it. They want these people sucking off their stars. They want these people being soft places to land, or if they don't like the person, they want them being just like mean to them the whole time. But no one's really invested in it for like can you get to the truth of it right? They're really more invested in like picking the team right. And the media people have played along with it.
Yes they have. There a lot of the problem why they get bypaded.
They was like if the real journalism and the non journalists are quote unquote tweeted the same, Like if.
You went to like tell me, if Lizo went to Don Lemon, who's gonna be more satisfied with that interview than if she went to Key Palmer. It's the same fucking thing to most of us. And Don Lemmon is an actual person that was a news anchor, journalist and all that shit. The vast majority of us would have been like I would have rather stid talking to Key Key Palmer. That's just facts, that's the truth, and that's what the celebrities give us. But the point being, these tenth post of these institutions have been so sullied that it has become a self fulfilling prophecy. So your conspiratorial people lean towards these places all bullshit, and eventually those places kind of became some bullshit, yes they did, you know, it became less vetted, it became less rigorous.
It became about we're not getting enough attention.
We can't play enough commercials during MSNBC to make money, so we need to have some Republicans on that come and say misinformation in our face. And I can't look at Lizzo, who, essentially, whatever her issues are, are essentially trifling in the sense of I don't mean she's trifling, but I mean those issues are very small compared to the real issues of our world.
Right, MSNBC can't handle the.
Serious issues, Why the fuck do I care if they can handle Lizzo's issues.
If ABC knew news can't handle Trump.
I don't really give a fuck if they can handle uh Blake Lively, you know what I mean, Like both of them become it all becomes the same level of unseriousness because of the medium that is happening on, which is mostly the Internet, and and and and the places that aren't the Internet have mirrored the Internet's uh structure and hierarchy, the half hierarchy, and to become that for most of us. And so it's like an unseeriousness of society that is just happening, Yeah, a post serious society that we're just living through right now.
Yes.
And also one more thing I wanted to talk about. Hold, something else I wanted to talk about too, was I was listening, not listening, but reading the pod news podcast, I mean email that they sent out today and something when you talk about.
Image and the way people know. I saved this article. Okay, did you want to cover it then?
I was gonna cover it in a different on a different day. But if you think that it can relate to this conversation, and go ahead and bring it up, and then I'll pull it up.
Now, Okay, when you were sorry about oh fuck, it won't let me read it. Go ahead. I'm sorry.
It's one of these ones whereas it's like if you're not a member, you can't read it, no problem, go ahead, go ahead, just go through the gist of it.
We won't be able to read the whole article.
Boo.
Let me see if I can get it. No, go through the point you will go make okay, I'll figure something out.
My point of this when you would talking about image and you were talking about how to do wrote that book about television and how television has evolved and things like that.
One thing about podcasting.
Podcasting used to be just a audio format for decades. Most of the time men Roger did a podcast, it was years before we actually had any formal video. And so yo, how you looked literally did not matter, you know, your size, your weight, your color.
Or any of that stuff.
People would just kind of you know, because apple used to be basically, if anything, it was how you sounded, yes, more than how you look. People would criticize, even with me, but criticize us your southern you talk, you sound stupid, whatever they would say. But you know that would be the biggest quote unquote criticism because they couldn't see us and basically the article was saying how a lot of podcasts mediums are switching and literally having both now like you almost can't have a podcast without having a video.
Form to it, Like like it's almost.
A mandatory nowadays that you are you do your podcast, you need to be recording it on whatever platforms, so you could be on YouTube, so you can be on Spotify wherever else you know they record. And basically the article was saying how a lot of women are, like everything else, are being criticized because you know, some of the women was like, hey, dog, like men can just show up any old fucking kind of way on their broadcast at their house, but as a woman, I can't come on here with makeup.
I don't know anything about Joe Rogan and Joe Budden's makeup. I don't know anything. They may get it, they may not.
But it's never been a real conversation amongst anybody. But a woman shows up without, you know, lip gloss and her face beat to the gods.
You know.
It's one of the things I said about TikTok that has always bothered me. But and I think it's the reason they never took for me, is that people were treating it like, oh no, it's just kind of like video Twitter. And I said, the fact that if you go to TikTok, everybody looks for the most part. Obviously it's not everybody, but so many people have to look conventionally attractive in order to gain a.
Level of following there. Yes, and.
They got busted on the algorithm because they had employees come out and be like, yeah, we were told to limit the amount of content from certain people. So if you were overweight, if you were older, if your makeup wasn't great, we were told, don't put them people on the front page, don't put them in the algorithm, suppress that shit. And I'm like, this is to me, as much as people treat that place like it's the Freedom Land or whatever, that shit is just as fucked up. It's just a different way of being fucked up. But yeah, it's uh, I mean, I agree with you completely. And I thought I saw that article this morning too about that, and yeah, and I think where it really ties in is the media is the medium, meaning you have to accept the rules of this new place. This isn't before where it was just like you're reading the newspaper and you put it down and that's the end. Like, no, you must accept the rules of the new place, and the rules are your face needs to be made up. When you go to video format of a podcast, they want to see your full body. They don't want you wearing a snug. They want to see what your outfit was. They want to see the back of your house. They want to Like, it's different for a lot of people, and the refusal to play the game, how many fucking can are we gonna get? You know, Like it's been thousands of episodes. People still even weird ass comments where it's just like you're not playing the game, Ryan and Karen. You know, it's such an interesting thing because they don't see it as Hey, you know what, I'm just here for the content of them talking about whatever. Why does it would it matter to me if she wants to wear her Eminem's fucking code or not.
Doesn't matter? Does it really fucking matter?
Does it change any other information you received, any joke, any No, And I'm not saying they mean anything bad.
I'm not picking on us.
The media is the media that we're not playing by the rules that we're supposed to be playing by, And a lot of it is because we don't really have to. We're not trying to make our name. We're already making our money. We're happy with the life that we've had, We're happy with the money we've made, and so we're not chasing something now. If we had started this podcast yesterday, who fucking knows what we be doing, we might be up here and fucking h g strings, I don't know what, Like, I don't, I don't know what the rule is, because then you need to you know, like the rules have been set and you're not gonna make a But we we have a stable amount of people that just fuck with us, so we're not having to to really go all out. But anyway, I'm I say and yeah, because like I said, over over the years, I've just realized this and people's that's.
People knowingly and unknowingly do this, like you say.
With the audio version, NPR says that they have a phone line and they have uh callers and like inboxes today email that they just automatically UH send a reply to a jump for keywords because people are emailed and called them by women's voices.
As NPR is not a visible meeting, they don't like vocal Friday don't like women saying like a lot, yeah, ship like that. NPR just basically says, we get that call so many times, we're just not going to acknowledge it or reply to it. But this is now like a feature. This is part of doing the podcast as.
A woman, and it could become very frustrate, like I said, and particularly me doing this over the years, and I've had people, you know, say things, you know, like hey, you know about me not wearing makeup and things like that, but I don't care. And the thing is, I am comfortable enough in my own skin not to care, and I am happy and I am content, you know with that, you know, because also it's one of those things where people project a lot of times when they write in and call in and things like that, you know, particularly when they kind of aim towards a woman, and a lot of these podcasts their own personal projection, own personal issues, whatever those internal things are projecting.
Yeah, I totally understand, and I remember all that stuff, and you know, I think, yeah, anyway, I'm not sure it's the exact same thing, but I as far as like are what we originally started on the expertise and the people telling you not to trust your doctors and all this shit. But it definitely is part of this, Like the media is the medium because the reason that a lot of the reason that they do that stuff and that you see it is because it's such a personal media that we put out where they can believe comments and you will see them and they can leave an emailing you and get a response and all that stuff. But you know, but it doesn't change anything. The difference is they used to do that to the news anchors, but the news anchors just didn't have.
To see it.
And obviously there was a lot of professionals between the news anchor and that camera that said, even if people are saying stuff about you, you're here to do the weather. You're not here to come up here and say, hey, you're not gonna talk bad about my heef.
It was something else's job to filter through that bullshit.
Well, yeah, I'm saying even if it got to you, right, whether it filtered through you or not. Like you know, my friend, our friend Nachelle works in media, she works in news, and she's like, yeah, people say horrible stuff about the anchors and horrible stuff about their bodies and everything. But the difference is it was a professional space that did not allow for them to go on the air and have a retort, because that's not what you're there for.
You're there for the weather or traffic or given the news.
And we've lost that because the deregulation of what professionalism is has led us to a place where it's like you, you are gonna go in there and yell at the person that didn't like your makeup or that wants you to wear a snuggie or things I need to make it hotter in here or something like that, you know, like.
It's regular anyway, you trying to freeze me to death, sir?
Anyway, this went on a long ass tangent that I didn't mean to go on, but it was very fun and I think it was a good conversation and you probably won't hear many other places, so you know, hopefully people enjoyed that. This is the last episode until the feedback show. I wanted to end it on something a little more fun.
Okay, we can, Well, we'll do some sword ratchiness.
Okay that always had always cheers everybody down?
Uh, where's my sword ratchiness? Sound?
Affect everybody?
All Right? Here we go.
And a Medford man is in jail after allegedly attempting to murder another man with a sword. Twenty four year old Marzelle Culver has been charged with attempted murder, first degree assaults, first.
Degree first another pos right here? That used to be a pizza hunt. Yes, that was a That was a piece of hut with it all you could eat buffet.
Yeah, you know we old because every time I see certain the red seats and red cops.
I don't care what color you painted. Now. That shit was a piece of hunt.
Yes, up, piece of hut. You can't disguise the disguise because you ain't changed the roof. Nobody pieces like the hoot. Okay, right, you turning it blue, but it used to be red. You ain't fool to me.
I don't give a fuck what sign you put on.
The outside right, burglary and first degree attempted assault. At around six pm last night, police responded to the one thousand block of Batty Streets for a report of a stabbing. Responders discovered a man bleeding profusely from his deep or rather from deep cuts on his head, neck and arms. He was rushed to the hospital while police spoke with the man's roommates, who said she witnessed the whole thing.
She was kind of startled because of suspect.
All of a sudden, just entered the door, enter the house, went over, immediately to the wall of swords, grabbed the sword and just went into.
The kit Okay, what okay, okay, I don't mean to victim, but I'm gonna have to do it. Why the fuck do you have a wall of swords? Is this fucking showgun? Why do you have a wall of swords? Do you work for the fucking the Emperor of Japan? Why do you have a wall of swords? This makes no fucking sense. Your house should not have a wall of sorts. Are you taking on the lanisters? There's no fucking reason in twenty twenty five for you to have a wall of sores inside of your motherfucking house. Of course you got stabbed, of course, what I mean, I won't have some sympathy, but come on, man, damn.
Kitchen started attacking the mail without even saying a word.
Culvert then allegedly went after the roommate as well, but she was able to escape to another room. Culvert was not unseen when the responders arrived, leading it might.
Even be the story from yesterday. I feel like we covered this.
To a search of the area, he was located and arrested at Riverside in Tenth Street. In the interview with Culvert, police say Culvert admitted to the attack with the intent the intent to kill the man. Culvert allegedly said this was because he was banned from the home.
Oh yeah, we did, Rea, So this is just the article of it. Okay, that's the video because I think you read Hey, yeah, I think I read it. But still it's even works on video.
You had, Well, why did you They didn't mention a wall of sores. Maybe they knew I wouldn't be sympathetic in print. They didn't mention it in print. I got like a different story.
Shout out the editors. Some of them came in and said, not on my watch.
They said, don't put that in there because Rod gonna be like, and that's why you gotta stabb I should have stabbed him. O, I would do a different one.
Then the woman arrested for attacking a neighbor with a sword.
A woman is now in jail for attacking her neighbor with this sword. It happened on Friday an apartment building near Sprague in South Adams in Spokane Valley. When Spokane County Sheriff's deputies arrived, they found forty three year old Elizabeth Pittassek fighting to get control of that sort. The investigator say Petassick knocked on the victim's door that morning. He opened the door slightly and asked if Patasick needed anything. She said no, then return home. A few minutes later, the victim says he could hear Pittasick screaming in her apartment. As the victim was leaving his apartment to take his two teenagers to school, Patassick lunged at him with the sword. The victim blocked the sword with his hand and pinned her against the wall.
To protect the kids.
Deputies eventually got Pittasick to drop that sword and took her into custody. Investigators say she made statements to deputies that suggest she may have been suffering from a mental health crisis.
Oh my god, Wow, it was scary too, that shit like somebody dune.
And amazing to realize your daddy got some superpowers. You'd be like, oh, daddy, you was a badass.
Yeah, blocking. I wondered the way they described blocking it with his hand. I had assumed at first he like got stabbed through the hand, But now I wonder if he like literally like deflected it and held this because it's because they didn't mention any injuries, right, so maybe he fucking shadow kicked that shit.
I don't know.
They Daddy used to be an undercover agent, and it was like, damn Daddy.
He yelled out of out loud of anime moveing blocked right, It's like lightning blade deflection.
What call no one one? I'm like, Daddy, why are you glowing? Right?
All right, y'all, that's it. We'll be back Saturday for feedback. Thank you for listening, everybody. Don't forget live show tickets are on sales.
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