New Barney Drug Regimen, Florida Bans MOST Books 02.16.23

is Thursday, February three. My name is Jack O'Brien, a K and got no melanin pronounced the team my friend. Just to reminder, when you are a Caucasian, he sings the songs about a party on your birthday. He sings a song that doesn't care what fits your birthday. Oh, Curtis je, Curtis JE, Curtis JE. It's fifty cent. It's never fifty cent, No matter how uncol you think that sounds.

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haven't got the rage. Oh it's I love having a new guest on and singing, or an old guest and just appalled the appalled look on their face when I'm just belting out something that like that is indistinguishable from like any other like they don't know what song it is. That's a great way to start a podcast. We're trying to, like, you know, reach an audience with this. Just alienate everyone

and humiliate yourself. But I thought yours was beautiful and you know, the lost faith, lost breath, but it's still it's all. It was all that I could do. I left it all on the floor. I gotta take us right. And that's all we could ask from our podcast athletes. So thank you, Andrew. Andrew, We're thrilled to be joined by a creative and political activist who hosts Beyond the Pale on w b AI in New York. Is a caucus member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and

co founder of its electoral arm, the Jewish Vote. Please welcome back to the show, Raphael shipping Up. Happy to be back. How are you doing? Man? Wait, you're coming to us from New York? What was happening in the future back there? We're you know, we're we're dealing with the our amazing cop Mayor. Yeah, just what the world needs right now. We can't find him anywhere and he have been following on Twitter. You've been like kind of

hunting him at his favorite restaurants. Oh yeah, handing down Valentine's We're handing out our people were handing out Valentine's cards, you know, looking for him, asking him to stop taking money from our schools and giving it to police. Right, Yeah, yeah, there's something about schools. These Republicans really seem keen on fucking up the lives of our children. They're trying to need it. Yeah, they do kind of kind of their whole thing. That's stuff, that's what they require for their

their version of the society. Couldn't even keep his he's getting a ticket from the city or just uncontrollable rats coming out of his private property where it's like you have to work so hard to stand out in the city. Rats in the city where there's like crossing guards for rats between just like float around on a bed of rats. Like how how Like I'm trying to imagine what somebody would have to do to to stand out like that, like just moving around, just floating like a dracula, a rat.

Dracula is just two inches off the ground. Walls made out of pizza crust everywhere rat coat made of live rats. They're just swarming. Why is your coat moving off? That is terrifying, sir. It's weird how New York mayor has just always find the perfect metaphor for themselves. That's right, it's incredible. All right, Raphael, we're going to get to know you a little bit better at the moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things that

we're talking about. Nicky Haley, the sensible Conservative option, the moderate Republican option for president just came out as very like just wild, came out swinging baby with the ends. Well, we'll talk about the event, but it involved her expressing the most profound support for somebody who once claimed that Hitler was set by God. So we'll talk about that.

We're going to talk about Florida schools. You know, so some of the folks in our discords and Zeit Gang, we're mentioning that they live in a place where there are I believe, two hundred and fifty approved books for all of K through twelve. And yeah, like the library, the school library shelves are are empty in these schools.

And it's something that I think I was vaguely aware of but then you just like see like there there's a there's a New Yorker article that's like talking to this person as though they're like a source and a journalist. And then you like go they like like off to his Twitter account, and this fool's name is like jags fan Brian on Twitter. He's just like just a dude, man.

These are just like this is happening to like people who are just like, yeah, I sent my kid to like the local public school, and like the they had to they got the book, their book taken away from them that they were reading for school because it wasn't approved. Like god, Yeah, so we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about Subway being up for sale perhaps mayhaps,

so we'll talk about that. We'll talk about Barney returning with a face lift that like looks like he has gone he's been on TV twelve, you know, like his he looks like he lost all of his like boogle fat. Yeah he got the surgery. Yeah, I like what if it makes him feel good? Yeah, Barney used to have like some heavy lids for a cartoon. You know, well

we know we know why. Yeah, Barney was lifted, you know, Barney, Barney was smoking and that this Barney looks like he has switched over to cocaine or you know, Crystal mess and I really love you, I really love you in a row. I'll love you forty eight hours in a rough gateway gateway drunk. Yeah, I think that's right. All that plenty more Before we get to any of that bullshit, Raphael, we like to ask our guests, what is something from

your search history? So the last thing I was listening to another podcast, and I think New York acknowled it doesn't exist anymore. It's gone. Actually, the last thing from my search was was ironically about being uh, they're They're teeming plotted its way back to elevance. Yeah, with that creepy chat GPT, the one that those college estates. Yeah,

I was like down that rabbit hole. And it's scary because you know, we watched Google make smart people smarter and kind of ignorant people more ignorant, and now now we're gonna come upon a new society where they can't even accidentally come across the right information. It's just gonna the search engine is gonna tell them what the answer is in sentence form. But also maybe, Yeah, if you don't know how to use it, you might draw the

wrong conclusions. Yeah, it's got controlled by billiadaire monopolies and AI itself still racist. If the feeling lucky button on Google was wordy like that's what they've decided to go with here, I'm a little nervous. I'm feeling lucky and I will not shut up my favorite type of people just constantly feeling lucky, regardless of you know, outward indications of or results. And I just can't can't shut the funk up. So what would you learn? What would you

have you? Did you see any of the results? I think I saw some results where somebody was like where is the avatar showing? And it wound up with them like down a very strange path. What I do is I don't have the that's like private access to test it out right now, but I test out other aies. I work with a group called Athena Coalition, and we oppose Amazon, and they are authors of their own AI stuff and and things that hunt that they sell to

like governments to oppress their people. And it's really scary what's out there? Like if you ask your basic questions, a lot of these aies. You could see what they call guardrails, but really they actually like you could see its censoring results. You could see it, you know, saying like no, you don't like if you ask about armed revolution, you'll see them always responding, you know, like yes, the most successful ways historically to change oppressive systems have been

violent revolutions. But however, however, not amore no no no no, no, no no no. Here's one very carefully selected sentence from the I have a dream speech. So that makes the love AI is like even the uncensored version of it. It's just like this whole thing is like educated on number one, the totality of the Internet taken credulously, and number two like people who love AI, like that's who

interacts with it most. And guess what, people who love AI are fucking creeps, So like like on the whole and listeners who love it, but you know what I mean, it's just like, yeah, of course it's a fucking creep. It will just be what whatever Andrew Yang would reply with, Yeah, God, that fucker he's ruining being Andrew and about my age and Chinese. He fucking a Wormand but on the other hand, the same hand, but I'll just pretend like it's another hand.

I forgot, Hey, what is something that you is overrated? You know Valentine's Jay just passed, and it's really the truffles over tule overrated. I can't take the difference between things with them, without them, the price difference is clear. I don't know what the hell people are talking about. Either my tongue is dead or these truffles seem like like they just it's a scam, and it's yeah, I

think that's right. All all luxury is a scam. I just like I like the little shavy thing, but like, how do they even they find it with these They have these elaborate things with pigs and they go through florists and they find it, and and like when did we start trusting the animal that eats maggots from roots and maybe caterpillars that are too weak to run away from a pig, Like what a luxury food item is. It's just I don't know. Charlotte's Web is an o.

I've been saying that one. Charlotte's Web is a fucking op to upsell us truffles. I think that's that's what you pay for. You pay for the fact that like the process is so steampunk and like twelfth century like, and it's like it's like getting like you know, like boots made by entirely one person or something. It's like they're not better, they're just expensive. It was annoying because it was annoying to make right, that's a good Yeah,

so everything's a power trip basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah they are. I feel like truffles are the most expensive food, like on a per It has to be because it see what the shavings cost. Yeah, maybe you are paying for the experience a little bit, but yeah, I'm just to be entertained. You have to be entertained by it. I'm happy to get some parmesan graded over my ship, like some fresh ground up. You know. That's good. I

don't I don't need the Yeah. I have enjoyed a truffle here and there, but never like it's it's kind of like buttery, but it's hard to explain, Like it doesn't really taste like anything else, and it kind of tastes bad. There's like a buttery but like there's a little bit it's like any mushroom. It's just now I love mushrooms. Yeah, I love mushroom, but I don't. I don't maybe it doesn't have enough. Maybe I'm not reaching. I've had enough truffles in my mouth, even from bro Bro.

You just need more, You just need to take more enough. It's gonna hit you really hard. It's gonna Yeah, Barney, Barty, talk to you about Barney. Yeah, what is something you think is underrated? I mean, this is hard to make a case for it because everyone loves it. But chicken. Yeah, I still think it's still so fucking good. Everyone loves so good. Even even vegans love chicken for other reasons. But everyone loves chicken. But it's still not enough, Like it's we still have to rub it in how good

it is, how amazing it is. But I think that's also a power trip because I feel like, you know, I do my own research as well. You know, these were dinosaurs that used to hunt us, and now we've overcome them in such a way where we're just trolling them, and we created turned them into these little things and then we're just like clowning them. We even billboards of them eating themselves. Like it's just it's just horrendous. It's a it's offensive and I hope they rise up. Yeah,

I'd like to see that. It would be one of the most hilarious ways that we could go out as a species that believe weak enough with chickens to take us out. Yeah, we deserve it. What's the billboard with them eating themselves? You know? It's just like all the all the advertisements for chicken places are always like a comic of a chicken eating chicken or like right, like we're just plowing them at this there was like a peda thing that was like these chickens are forced to

eat themselves. That's probably true too, like some like cruel raw type ship. Yeah, chicken, chicken is really good. Chicken is just the best. It like, it doesn't give me bad dreams like red meat does. Just meat you don't get, do you guys not get bad dreams from beef? If you eat beef, and sometimes beef really me up. You think you're getting the memories of the cow? I think so. Yeah. I think it's there's like something evil about it. I don't know. I had a wonderful like stress dream nightmare

last night. I woke up at like five in the morning and I realized I've been trying to rewrite this movie, and I've been stuck on the first scene, and I woke up in a panic that my car had been towed. And then I was like, eureka, I could fix this first scene. Yeah, I was like, the character have their car towed? No, no, it was it. I went from unbelievable stress to like, oh my god, I think I fixed this thing. That's a great example of this country

where even in our dreams were working. Yes, a stress dream that also was not that consequential, but I woke up so upset. Right, my car got towed. That was my stress dream. Yeah, yeah, I mean they've solved science problems in their dreams. We talked about that a lot earlier,

like a couple of months back. Like the answers that people have come up within their dreams are pretty cool, and it's always like through some weird visual metaphor, like they were trying to figure out what the molecular structure of something was, and like they were thinking of it as like linear, that it had to be linear, and then they dreamt of snake eating its tail and woke up the more like, oh, it's a fucking ring. Sounds like you need more beef. Nightmares, like you need to

eat more beef. There's just a piece of steaks stuck in some part of their stomach. Those sending the weird messages, Look, I'm not a scientist, okay do I Oh you're you sound like you're a magician. That's all right, Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back to talk Nicky Haley and other bullshit. And we're back. And this is this is early in the week for me to just be like, I don't fucking know, Likecky Haley, I guess, but that that's where we're at, folks. Three EPs in,

four EPs in, I'm like, uh, but yeah. So, just a day after Haley was being heralded by some conservatives as the more moderate Republican hope, she held a campaign launch event where she was introd by the election denying Trump loyalist Ralph Norman, who also formally endorsed her in a tweet. The events invocation was delivered by Pastor John Hagee. After he was done, she said to Pastor Hagey, I still say I want to be you when I grow up. And for context, this man claimed that Hitler was sent

by God to help create Israel. Eventually, so way to go. God nailed it. His reputation was so extreme that John he endorsed John McCain, and not only did John McCain like not make it a cornerstone of his campaign to like launch his campaign, he publicly had to reject his endorsement in two thousand and eight. So like we've come come along you guys fifteen years mere, fifteen years later, and we're like, hell, yeah, this is my guy, this is this is who I need to hitch my wagon too.

I mean, the reason, you know, Nicki Haley screwed is because the trend my entire lifetime, and I'm an old man, has been Republicans will nominate the most bigoted person they can get away with. But it's just simply the rule. Yeah, she just she don't got it right, but she's trying. She's trying to, like you know, she's playing the game. Yeah yeah. Does she even appear moderate alongside Trump? Like at all? Does she appear moderate next to him? To

some people? Maybe? Like is that the play? Is that? Like? Yeah, yeah, I think that's the play. They've they've extended the window so far. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's unbelievably to the right now, she's just she's sword of Nazi and that makes her a moderate. Yeah. But Ralph, you were saying that you you you had a message for for Nikki that you wanted to just so you know, I'm from off you just just this is just raf to the to Nikki.

I'm from Queens. Maybe that the most diverse area, especially with Asians and South Asians like Nikki, and I want a message. I want to one on one message to Nikki. I hope you're listening. I know you're listening because podcast. Yeah. Hi, I'm Raphael Shimonov, central Asian from Uzbekistan and Queens. I know your real name, Namata Dawa and all of us Asians and Queens, especially when Jobbi homies and also me all our a p I homies. I don't know why

Hawaii is in there, but it's chill. We're good. But all of us, almost all of us, most of us, probably a slight majority of us, mostly renters. We look down on you. You're a seller. You're one of those immigrants who closed the door behind you and marry some prep school white kid who went on to occupy Afghanistan. I mean you literally married a wealthy prep school white kid who went on to occupy Afghanistan and kill and rob af again people for their sweet opium. And you

know what, shame on you, Nimmy, shame on you. Thank you, am I allowed to put my headphones back on. It seems like you're done talking. Okay, all right, I'm back. Let's let's talk about Florida that better news. No, not quite quick. So the good cop side of this act is real? Yeah, Like, well, I think she was supposed

to be. She was being set up by the media as a good cop, right, Like they were like, well, here and here she comes to be the moderate side because she's you know, I know it just you and she's you'd want to bring her home to your parents, right. She worked at the U M. That's a cool sounding, middle of the road job. But here here we go with it? Just it does? It really seems like a race to the right and a K at the bottom.

So de Santist this year has moved his fight beyond K through twelve to like ap and college courses, and Republicans across the country are taking their lead from him because he had such a most successful most recent election. But it's like it's just wildly racist. Anything that teaches that America has been racist in its history he wants out of their truly just dystopian. His laws against the teaching of race, sexual orientation, and gender have led to

strict book bands in various school districts. In higher education, the governor's rolling back diversity that is from a Vox yeah box article Equity and inclusion initiatives reduced tangure protections, moving school leaders to review core courses to make sure they're free of quote liberal indoctrination. All of this has ramifications beyond de santisms, and like a lot of the ship that he's like worried about, Like there there were math books, like most of the math books were getting

rejected as too liberal. And yeah, I mean at a certain point, and that point was probably about four years ago. Like the rest of the country has to like start considering, like a high school diploma from someplace like Florida not valid, right, Like, like why would someone who graduated from the school system be allowed to go to college outside of Florida public colleges. Yeah, although they might be the most eager readers to ever like appear as freshman as at a as freshman in college,

like everything's like yo. Instead of being like we can drink, they're like we can. And also I feel like I said that in such a like boot like accepting way of the whole rest of our country. But you get the general idea. Well, So, Duval County is currently working off a list of three fifty books that have been approved at this point for K through twelve. And it's not like I've read somewhere people being like, well, they're trying to prove a point that like this is how

bad it's gotten. No, I think they're genuinely afraid of being suited. Like it's the same thing that happened with like you know, reproductive healthcare there, like you can really get fucked and like the way in in this setting, and so they are you know, I'm not saying like so do do that and like take all the books off the show. I'm just saying, like that it is a consequence of policy. It's not it's not you know,

performative like or it doesn't mancel politics. Yeah, it has to say whether it's like malicious comply to prove a point or fear it's still proving the same point, which is those rules are horrified. I know, Like we had recently some guests on the w b A show, and they were the students from this county in Jacksonville, Florida,

in high school who got their play banned. It was called Indecent and it's it's actually a play about a play that's being banned in New York, a Yiddish queer play that was banned in like the twenties in New York for having the first lesbian scene or something like that. And then they these high school kids were about to do the production in Jacksonville and high school and it's

a famous playwright, Paula Vogel, and they got canceled. And the theory is actually that like these maga people joined the school board, like infiltrated the school board and made it canceled this play. So now right now, like Paula Vogel and all these kids, Madeline Scotty, these actors are fighting to reintroduce the play to get it unbanned. And that was part of a concerted strategy by Steve Bannon

a couple of years back. Starting a couple of years back, they were just like, all right, this is the future of the thing in the past the we went with gamer forums and now we're going with the p t A and like, I remember when that was a story and just be like, man, that seems like that's going to be really bad for the future of the country, and it here we are. It is bad for the

future of the of the country. When you're in twelfth grade, you're working with a list of twenty two books that you are allowed to read, and it's it's yeah, I don't know, it's just wild too. Like you know, when The New Yorker covered this, they interviewed this guy, he's like their source, and he's going in, like he picks up his daughter and she she's in second grade, and she's just like, I did you hear what happened at

school today? And you know, we had this like read to Achieve like program where we were like talking about getting to read these books, and like her older brother like they had to like take one of the book that he was reading away, and he like so he like went in and asked what was happening, and they had like papered over the bookshelves to because they're like, well, we can't have these on display because otherwise, you know, somebody could come in like one of these mega PTA

people and I get fired and then I don't have healthcare in this country and I can die. Like every you kind of always have a gun at your head in this country when it comes to employment, Like that's what it's. It's just really fucking dangerous. And I think America has always been a little closer to authoritarianism and totalitarianism than we've been willing to give give it credit for. But like this, you know, people are going to fall in line quickly because their ability to continue to survive

is on the line. There's a Brooklyn library, actually, there's a program called Books on Banned and anyone in any state who needs a book that's banned in their library, they'll send you the book. It's kind of an incredible program. Nationally, they'll send these books nationally. Yeah, well, it really is like the Tiny Sliver of Hope is some version of Look, maybe the kids aren't reading physical books that much these days.

Like the teeniest, tiniest Liver of Hope is like I guess some kind of e book version of this, or you know, I mean with the reproductive health band. It's like, you know, I I actually don't even know, but I know people were like talking about or I don't know the results of how this worked out, but it's like, you know, these days you can order drugs from other places um legally or quasi legally or illegally, but relatively safely to get the health care you need. I don't know.

I mean, maybe the internet is our savior, but obviously it's probably not. Yeah, it's never worked before, for it's never never once. Yeah, but I know that's like the tidy sliver of hope though, which is probably not a good one to hang on too. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, my my sliver of hope is just that like, these are extremists who are like infiltrating the p t A and it will continue to alienate like the majority of the country the way that we saw with the

abortion ban and mid terms. But but we are also are like so far behind because it's like now it's like you gotta fucking get a normal person to run for school board or p t A. And like that's going to be at minimum a year if not more,

to like even get someone to run. Yeah, that's that's like the key reason why the age fights, the union fights, the healthcare fights, the college that fights are so important because those are all the things that kind of shackle folks from the time they need and the drive and will they need to go and do civic things like that. So then whoever is left is someone who's just like

fine and can just like dedicated. In New York right now, there's people literally at every freaking drag Queen Story Hour, it's the same people who are coming to to disrupt it. Like they just don't have any issues with like needing money or paying the rent. They're just there to do it, to do this kind of thing. And and when we call on regular folks to come out and defend it, there's a lot of great response, But it could be even more if we weren't also worried about the price

of things. You know that that's just so obviously now engineered from from the top. Yeah. Anyway, shout out to the getting of the Discord for bring this to our attention that this is something that's like a impacting you in your life. And shout out to Jags fan Brian on Twitter, because that wasn't like, for whatever reason, that really like drove it home to me, like, oh, this isn't an like This is not just a political thing

happening back and forth between political people. This is the this person just wants to be a fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars, the NFL team in Jacksonville, and like is like, are you fucking really like after going to my kids school and like take a video of all the empty bookshelves, like I want to talk about Trevor Lawrence and how cool his hair is or whatever the fun Jaguars fans

talk about. Well, it's also like that that that the other tidy sliver of hope is like I guess radicalizing people that are mostly addressed in you know, other ship. Like if the Jags is your main thing, then it's pretty telling that you went online and did this. I mean, something is gonna happen, like the just the the amount of like industrial accidents and train derailments and all of these consequences of out of control, top down just profit at the cost of any human safety and comfort like

that that is alienating people. I just worry that our government and our media apparatus, like the mainstream media apparatus, is so completely allergic to socialism that eventually it's just gonna be like, well, I guess fascism then, because like that's the only thing that is responding to this that we'll get away with you covering, you know, like that that's the only thing that like ABC, NBC, CBS, like I don't know, like that seem to at least even

be able to see everything else. Feels like it's like invisible to them. Any any socialists to action is just it is we like lost a rhetorical war to the fucking least articulate human beings on earth. And there's there's an argument we deserve what we get. Yeah, how the fund did we let them tard the words socialism in this way and yet they could just straight up the fascist? Yeah, And I feel like they lost sight of it for long enough that like most young people are now like, yeah,

I'm a socialist, what the funk you're talking about? Of course I am. But like it's still there's just an unspoken rule or like something with the political and media, like the political body and the media central nervous system that is just like those words don't make sound in our brain. They don't, they don't, we don't have. What they have was just like this game of brinksmanship that they have when they pull things to the right, the

extreme right and fascism seems reasonable. What's our like, what's left of socialism that we could use to scare the all out of them that, you know, other than eating the ridge maybe occasionally will throw out, you know, like, what's our thing? What could we we could put out there that could make socialism seem like Okay, that's that's like the same game they put it really is like like I was I I think I can't remember how I tweeted this the other day, like not the other day,

what months and months and months ago. But the the idea that like even just like thinking of our Congress, like the fact that I quote safe seat like drives you to be more polar It's like I'm represented by fucking okay, but mostly mealy mouthed Adam Schiff, who has like the safest quote unquote democratic Well, I guess it's

price some place in New York. But it's like if if he's supposed to be the analogue to like a Marjorie Taylor greed, he should be out there, colleague for like privatizing the oil like industry and executing the CEOs like the ant Yes, but he has to have dinner with those CEOs. It's not close, and they're for it and they're paying for his campaign. Yeah, it's like yeah, so there's no version of this like look, yeah, it's like someone needs to take that position to be negotiated

down to a sensible one. We're like we go. It's like we're going into a car dealership, Like, here's how much money I have. Yeah, that's like that's it versus I'm not supposed to spend this, but I will. We're at it negotiating. I think mostly because we like each other and have you know, have enjoy things and have hope in each other. For some reason, I think that

maybe gives us this false sense of hope maybe. And we also don't have a political apper, Like the Republicans are doing the will of the people that they represent and they're like guessing each other up. The the Democrats are just they're to pretend to give lip service to what we're doing, but they're actually representative of big corporations. So it's just yeah, it's it's not happening. We're fucked.

Well yeah, yeah, I don't know, something big has to change, but it feels like and it does feel like if it's either something big changes and or we get fascism at some point in like the more near term future. Yeah, but I don't know. And it is like it's like I don't have the imagination having grown up in America, I don't have the imagination for like what it is general, like what that looks like. Yeah, it really does need

to be like a general fucking strike. We're not going to get to a hundred years before another global fascist superpower, right, No, We're literally we're literally not going to make it. Yeah, yeah, to the late thirties, Come on out of here. How long did it take? Actually it was it was I guess Mussolini was first. Yeah, early thirties, I was I was thinking from the edge, I guess from the we have still you know, mid forties, Okay, yeah, that would be.

I'm just saying we're not We're never not going to get a chance, folks, a century of of not having most of the globe roll ruled by fascism. Right, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. And we're back, and so is Barney. And that is what we need to be paying attention to right now. The redesign was released in the past week, and instead of the costume that was basically like a seventy pound sauna trap.

I can't one of the worst looking things to be wearing that kind of like big Bird looks hard, but Barney just I don't know, it looks like it's all made of like a really warm that like there's no looseness to it, there's no bagginess. It's from my own experience having to dress up as the Toys r Us Giraffe when I was younger. What, yeah, I was, you were Jeffery. I was Jeffery in Douglas and Queen's. I

was just super tall. Yeah, it's pretty tall. I couldn't get out of the doors without going forward, like the head straight right. Wait, So it was a one person operation. One person operation. There was a fan inside that didn't work, and it was extreme because I swift shifts. I switched shifts from someone so was like summer and I just like basically had to put it on while it's like still wet from this person person the last person. It was horrible and then the kids were really horrible and

the parents were really horrible. You know what when when it's summer in queens. What you need is yes, oh my god, that I mean, I can't imagine, like I

don't even want to. Well, they would, they would. Like one thing that was funny was thinking about like how the different types of people who would decide where my balls must be, so like they would like where to find my eye, Like the smart people would try to find my eyes first, then nowhere to kick me in my balls or try to kick in there was no way. It's it was completely steel hard and that that encasement, and but they tried, and it was just like interesting

to see what people would come up with, including the adults. Yeah, with the adults went for your balls too. There is something like in eight in children at of a certain age that they're just going for the ball. Yeah, there were some adults that would like give the kids pointers how to go after Jeffrey Queens, do better, Do better, Queens, Queen. This Douglas and Queens is this area where we're like

right on the border of Long Island. Yeah, Yeah, there's a lot of like you know, you got commuters coming in to kickt awesome meat heads coming in and like someone's like, oh, they're they're beating up Jeffrey called the police and I'm up, parents says, I am the police. Technically I wasn't beaten by a cop, I think, and it's always the US future cop for sure. All Right, So Barney's back. They're gonna do a cartoon character animated series. He looks just so wide awake, I guess the way

I would describe it not referring to drugs. But yeah, they're gonna be releasing Barney movies, YouTube content, toys, plus apparel and accessories for adult fans, which I think means like we'll get the original Barney on on some T shirts and ship. But I don't know, is it. It's always tough to say, like is this something that is happening? Is this something they're trying to make happen. I feel like seeing any indication that they're Barney hunger thirst out there.

I feel like with kids, I P it's like always a slam dunk because it's like no offense to any fucking two year old listening to the show right now. But they're not They're not very discerning, and so it's really just like the only thing is like whatever parents can handle, and there's probably enough parents that are like have fun enough memories of Barney. Yeah, like compared to your baseline, you know, non previous I p pitch for

children's content, you know, it's it's he's enough of a shape. Yeah. The songs are fine. The songs are catchy bangers, two year old bangers, Toddler Bay, Nurse Daniel Kaluya we've talked about did come out like I think a couple of years back and was just like, yeah, I am making a Barney movie and everyone was like, what do you mean, why why are you doing that? And his answer was not satisfying. He was like, oh, well, you know I

love you. You love me when you say you love me too, that's one of the first songs I remember. And what happens when that isn't true? I thought that was really heartbreaking. It's like, yeah, man, that is that is fucking dark. Now let's go back to the question of what is this movie about my friend? Because that's just what you just described, is a child finding out that they're not loved. Yeah, that's that. Yeah, that really

hit me. I need a moment. I feel like skinnam Rink like kind of already did something with this like that, So like my idea old version of what it was gonna be. I haven't seen Skinner Marink, but like what I've heard of, like the promise of Skinn Marink, I feel like is what I had in mind for this from him. But I don't know. I think, you know, just Barney. It's just do a sort of Barney versus philosophraptors. Yeah, time, yeah,

time drop him in. Yeah, and it's not it's not fluff in there because when I first picture that, I'm like, oh, the last raptors are biting him and there's just like stuffing coming out. But no, yeah, yeah, and it's not just purple all the way down either. There's flesh in their friends. Yeah, it's dark. It's dark, but it's ultimately uplifting. He's gotta gotta be along for the ride. It was the same plot as Cross the Park where he Barney comes in and like started snapping necks at the end. Yeah,

kids are up for that. So basically what they did to Transformers just like, yeah, let's just make these toys murderers. But you can't have Barney on Jurassic Park because Barney boy dinosaur and it's all women and as we know, Barney is fucking concert, so like that would be a problem. You know, nature will find a way as especially if Barney's at Barney Dinosaurs. Especially there's new Barney that is clearly on crystal meth. Yeah, you're gonna have a population

control problems in that island. It's a it's a perfect sequel, just like Purple otherwise lifelike red ord philociraptors for the sequel. Yeah, how how do they get there? I mean they were blue in the in the Jurassic World one, I think versus Purple. This is great. Yeah, whoever wins, we actually we just kind of hope Barney wins. Yeah, Chris Pratt's Dinosaurs, Chris Brett's Blue Back to the Blue as a lazo Raptor. Yeah,

a cab includes definitely includes Chris Prett's Blue the Lazzer Raptor. Yeah. Yeah, Well the sandwich chain equivalent of Barney the Dinosaurs subway is up for sale. Yes, yeah, also like made from a fluffy plastic plastic synthetic component. But you know, just the rubbery is sandwiches like a still kind of down. I'll funk with a wonder bread. It can't be worse

than like McDonald's bun or you know, I don't know. No, yeah, it's it just doesn't like, Wow, my sense is enough for me to like ignore that I'm eating something that barely qualifies this food, whereas McDonald's just has so much it's so good, it's so good and whatever chemicals they've that. Like we're on that Ohio train on the way to beat the McDonald's headquarters. Like that's what I worked my senses into believing that, like this was fine dining. Yeah,

subway just like they do have something like that. Because when you walk by a subway and smell the bread the quote bread baking, Yeah, it does trick you into being like that smells like food. That smells like food that I want to eat. But anyways, not much to say about them except that they may be up for sale's yeah, so any any buyers out there? Yes, I feel like I got enough punch, I got enough stamps saved up. I think I'm good. You can buy it. I think, for at least if I did at my

glove glove compartment, I think I could. I think I'd come up with like the subway and not be redeemable for some majority owner. Yeah, so I just need a little bit. Would be the first thing you change with your new ownership. Oh my god, nothing, Well, I gotta stop giving out those stamps because I don't want to get your post. That's right. I'm pulling, pulling the ladder up behind me, just like Nicky Man. That's right. And you would get a bag of lace and a stale

chocolate chip cookie with your sun chips Sun Chips. Baby, yeah, bake Laze. I don't know why I did it to myself, but like when I was eating it subways subway, I was like, all right, might as well go whole hog and just like not enjoy this meal at all and and eating like baked laze. I think what it is is like it bake lays, like more vegetables than you get at any other fast food place, not like a lot,

and it's not like healthy, but more vegetables. I think it is like it just wings off enough of the margin of like this is better. It is indisputably better than off their fast food for you. Doesn't mean it's good, that doesn't mean it's terrible, whatever what you want, but I think that's it. I think it's it's it's like lets people live the lie that they want to live,

and that is probably why it's in business. I think I'm mad because I was like, my go to for like most of my teen years was the meatball sub And then that was the one that when the information came out about like what what was unhealthy about subway, they were like, yo, I don't think we need to tell you guys this, but and I was like what me? And the other one was the Tuna, which was Gray Loves Still Rides for the Tuna, which they were like,

it's actually not tuna. There's turtle in there. Yeah, I don't know, man, all right, I mean, come on, it's it's a two to say I wish for like three dollars. Of course there's turtle in theres. You should be be glad you're getting turtle. Yeah, the turtles, the truffle of the sea, that's right. Yeah, it's I never really taste any turtle, alright, Wrath, It's been a pleasure having you on the daily Zeitgeist? Where can people find you? Follow

you all that good stuff? We have a New York, New New York City radio show on w b a point five FM. We're also streaming on w b I dot org and on all the socials under Beyond the Pale FM, and it's it's uh, not your average show. It's the show like radical left to Jews and that prospective. And sometimes, you know, people come to me and it makes sense, you know, like that Jewish play was banned or there was you know, any kind of issue around

like Palestinians and Israelis and stuff like. That's easy. But then people come to me with really interesting topics and I don't know how to make them Jewish. So it's fun to watch how I how I put a square thing in a round bag in a round hole. But but that's where you find me. Beyond the Pale FMS on Facebook, Twitter, on Instagram. There you go. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying tweet or otherwise, Well, there's two. There's one real quick one

is at Athena Coalition. We we published a Super Bowl ad, we took on ad and we remixed it, So look out for that at Athena for all social media. Scarlett Johansson, Colin Colin, Colin Colin jobs host or something who. Right now, we're on the anniversary of New York Kicking out Amazon from Queens, and he was one of the people who are during Sadnite Live kind of attacked us for saying that we like like paraded the right wing talking points

about losing jobs, which is complete bullshit. Really yeah, yeah, they're all They're all, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. It's one of those Harvard ass VC funded like if there's a if there's a human being, who is he almost married? Yeah? Yeah for sure. And then the other one is this Buster right, Like I don't have the link or anything, but it's like Trevor Noah bumps into Buster a rhyme somewhere and it's just beautiful and they just go into Busters Versus and it's just amazing and

people please find it. It'll heal your soul, right amazing? Andrew, where can you will find you? And what is the media you've been enjoying? Podcast? Is yoss racist? I regrettably more back on Twitter since the last time we spoke, just because I don't know, I'm a fucking du fist. But it's it is okay because it looks like Ellen is edging towards getting rid of blocking people, and that will definitively be the straw that breaks in Camel's back.

I checked blocks personally done. My, oh my god, you've blocked people. Yeah, let me see what I just posted it. Congratulations, it's it's really it's I will say. The changes Elon's made have made it easier to identify people that need to be blocked. So like Eddie, Eddie, Twitter, blue Folks, anyone who's like in his mentions, given the cry laughing of o G, it's just such an easy instant block. It's unbelievable. Anyway, so good job, I guess um. So anyway,

my my media, I haven't been enjoying. As a tweet from friend of the show, if you walk away, he does a thing where for Black History Months he usually makes these lists. This month, I don't know if he does it every year. He's doing cartoon characters that are in his mind canonically black, and I just want to say, my enjoyment of this is definitely cancelable. So I guess

it is what it is. But for for Day fourteen, he said, uh, Day fourteen, Hong Kong FOOLI is canonically blackfully walks and that Dragonfly Jones could run, And truly, I don't know why that actually fixes that racist as character. For me, it's so terrible, but that was my absolute gut reaction, and I don't know. I have to live with myself, so I haven't worse than everyone else. I apologize, but it did make me laugh. Amazing to media, I've

been enjoying. I finally saw a triangle said necessarily enjoyed that enjoyed a tweet from the Kid Marrow super Bowl Ads just visual DJ Khaled Songs. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and website Daily Zeitgeist dot com. We post our episodes and our footnotes were linked off to the information that we talked

about today this episode. You got it in there as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. And super producer Justin I believe it has a song he was playing yesterday, but I was like, is it is the song from yesterday? Justin, Oh, yeah, yeah, it is. This is this is a track goes Yeah yeah. I was playing this at the beginning. Um, the whole crew was kind of vibing out to it, so I figured I suggested today this is a track called Cardi by

Troy Boy. It's got like a Latin sort of style at the beginning of it, and then it just goes into this really big bass vibe. It's amazing. It'll definitely whost you up in your day. So this is Cardi by Troy Boy, and you can find that song and the footnotes notes it's I. I also like the wait. If Miles is playing a song when we like all come on the zoom and like everybody's vibe into it, he'll do it that day. He'll he'll make that the footnote song. But super producer Justin's like, now fuck that

and make you wait yeah, which which I like. I gotta leave him one more man. That's right alright. The Daily is That Guys are a production by Heart Radio. For more podcasts from My Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is gonna do it for us this morning back this afternoon to tell you what's trending, and we'll talk to you all that fight m