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and things like that. Past lives also, it's a good um, guys, I have. If we're talking past lives, everyone's gonna kill me online. But yes, I have talked to a psychic who told me we can cut it out. You can. There's some Cody already knows this or you should. Was that I saved a lot of Jewish people in World War two. I like, say, I hid people and like my basement, and I was like, yeah, that checks out.

But then, um, the psychic also told me that I was a dolphin and I died really violently and that's why I have an aversion to water, and I do have. I am a little afraid of the ocean, but don't all dolphins die in the ocean. I am choosing to believe that your past life was a dolphin who helped rescue Jewish people. I think I think that that's a

story worth telling. And please everybody on Reddit especially, keep your opinions about me on going to see a fucking psychic who gives a shoe yourself like motherfucking funny fun diversion. Sometimes it's it's it's fine, it's and jokes on you when you come back as an aunt. Motherfucker. Okay, and that also saves people during some sort of genocideide sort of genocide. The Schindler Oscar Schindler of ants. Yeah, you know, I save much more munch of money for not going

to a psychic. This one actually is a sliding scale that you pay afterwards. So so if you didn't like what they said, she just really wanted it to be affordable for whomever wanted her services. So and you don't pay till afterwards. I was poor. If she tells you your past life was Heinrich Hindler, you can be like, well, I'm not paying for this out, You're not taking my money, Cody. She also said that you're my twin, So that's cool that it's true. Honestly, there's a lot going on here

that is worth unpacking, but not for this show. There is, you know what is worth unpacking. I watched a TV show that I liked pretty good recently, were it Advice Community? Now I do that a lot, but no, the animated well, actually this is does tie into that because the animated Harley Quinn series, which I'm not a particular fan of any of those comics, but one of the carry they have, the Riddler, is played by Jim Rash, who does the Dean Community, and they have have the Riddler be patterned

off of the Dean from Community. It's very fun. It's good. It's good. It's a good call. Yeah. Um, he makes such a funny Riddler. Oh he would, he would be the perfect Riddle size that he didn't wear a Riddler costume on Community at one point it's it's he's It's it's pretty good. It's a pretty good show. I enjoyed

it a lot. If you enjoy Jim Rash and his antics and superhero love, Jim Rash, the Oscar winning writer Jim Right, check out sky High if you're familiar with the movie, Scott, I've never seen that before and I have not seen it. It's a so it's a it's a superhero thing for like ten years ago, fifteen years ago, and it's a sidekick heroes school. It's like a high school. Uh yeah, this sounds right up my alley. Yeah. Like two of the kids in the holler in it. Um.

Bruce Campbell is in it. Bruce Campbell and Jim Rash together, Jim Rash and he really oh Russell, Kurt Russell, Kurt Russell, Jim Rash and Bruce Campbell are in a thing together. Oh my god, Oh my god. Also, if you're a fan of Succession, Greg from Succession is also in it. Get Out. How long ago was this man? I want to say, like years ago. So he was like a kid, Yeah he was, No, he was not yet New York's

most Eligi. No, I like it was. I've watched two shows recently another so another if you watched the Expanse Vampire Diaries. Know, if you watched the Expanse, the main guy on the Expanse what's his name? But I've never watched Thank you all all you expansies and Expanse heads out there. Um, he I watched the entire first season. It's like, I know you from something? What are you from? What is this? What is this? What is the actor from?

But I wouldn't look it up until the final season or to the end of the season, because I wanted to give myself a chance. I didn't figure it out. He's also from sky High. Um, so the Expanse and Succession too amazing shows with great actors. I mean, I don't know much about any of that, but the fact that Jim Rash, Kurt Russell, and Bruce Campbell are an ething together has completely changed the world for me. Kevin McDonald, they're all there. Oh, man, Cody, you're making this case.

You're making a strong case, and I'm going to go watch that for sure. But I bet neither of you has watched Patriot yet. That's what I bet. I bet neither of you have watched my recommendation that you're going to love this is the time, not is that Time killed the vibe here? Um, I've watched. I mean, I don't normally watch new stuff, but but I'll try Patriot. I've got to try Patriot, and I gotta try Peacemaker. People keep talking about peace. I'm watching Peacemaker, and I

gotta say, so far, it's entertaining. I'm a little too anxious and um for a lot of too much violence right now, which is funny that I'm recommending Patriot, you know, even if. But it's really good. Um, and the intro is so fucking good. I play it, I rewind it over and over, and I'm trying to learn the dan That's all I've seen, trying to learn the dance. It always hits nice. Well, it seems like we're all having a good time on TV. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure the world is doing just as well as I as

part of that transition. Part of my problem with Peacemaker and TV in general right now is that I can't get through an episode. Um, I'm feeling wound up. I check my phone and then I'm reading something. I'm having a hard time tuning out, so trying desperately in the world, Yeah, Robert, m hmm. Let me just I'm gonna I'm gonna google the world, and I'm gonna scroll over to the news

tab and I'm gonna see what's going on. Oh oh wow, there's there's actually quite a few problems happening, right, Although this Caribbean destination was just named the best beach in the world. That's number three. Yeah, that's not so bad, Is that really? I mean the article about the Ukraine war stoking food in security is like six down. So clearly yeah, tricks to help you think like the world's

greatest designers. Yeah, so I think things are doing important than the best places in the world to retire something that is good? That is it that our priorities are really locked locked in? Um? Cool? Cool? I think we figured it all out. That's the episode where do we want to start at the end by everybody? So, did you guys know that now San Diego is ranking as the least affordable city to buy a house over San Francisco? Wow? Really that changed quick? Also San Diego like close behind.

I don't know, it was never in the top in my head at least, so I would think that maybe during the pandemic. Um, so I went when the fires were really bad here, I mean again, during the pandemic it's ongoing. Um, but the that lockdown here, I'll start saying, um, when the fires were really bad, I went to San Diego, I went to college in San Diego. So I went there for the weekend to like escape some of the

smoke because you couldn't go outside. Um in l A. And the hotel was filled with people from San Francisco. So maybe there's something about them like wanting to stay in California, but like being fed up. I mean, it's interesting. Obviously this is anecdotal, Like all people who live in California. I thought slightly more often about San Diego than I do about did about Sacramento, and I never thought about sacraments. Look, I gotta tell you that I do not recommend moving

to San Diego. I lived in San Diego. Is very depressed in San Diego. Um, I dropped out of school for a little bit and had to like muscle build up the courage to go back because I hated living in San Diego. Yeah, I mean it's everyone calls America's hell basket, but it's yeah, it's just attracts all these I'm sorry if you're from there's lots of lovely people in the horrible place. It's there's there's no there's really no one good. They're much like Russia, not a good person.

Like the violent protests in Portland and like San Diego, so fucking violent, scumming villainy. The film surges above the waterline, beautile, tallantiful, but you guys, taco wonderful Mexican food, and it is it is beautiful. It's just very nice people that I don't want to hang out with. I just felt lonely and isolated and like I couldn't find friends because there was either like rich conservatives or a bunch of very

drunk frat boys. It was like, speaking of well, it sounds like college your experience, It's like it's not San Diego. It's like, oh, you just didn't like well, I didn't like college in San Diego, and I think that I would have enjoyed college at Berkeley. But I know I needed to move to the other end of the state to get away from my family therapy. It's news time. I was about to go. This is this is now

the Ship Talking San Diego podcast. I mean, we've covered my my dicey, my dicey past lives, given back to Mexico. I had the worst break I had my worst breakup of my life in San Diego with a drunk frat boy. See there you go. They're drawn to it, and there's other people. I just I've been saying for years California should end it to Mecula and we should have a thirty mile d m Z where nothing is allowed to live. No, I feel bad. You can just boil the earth to

keep San Diego away. So we keep Temecula though, because what is Temecula done well? Temecula has turned into a giant d m Z where no life is allowed to thrive in order to protect us from San Diego. You guys, I just thought my partners from San Diego, all right, she got a friend and say it's fine. Just throwing that out there. Honestly, the only problem with San Diego is you've got to deal with border patrol way more often. You're gonna want to deal with border patrol. Horrible frat boys,

great tacos like you need to talk about the news. Yeah, the new we're really nailing it so far. This wee so earlier today in the news, earlier day in the news. Uh, bipartisan effort to keep the daylight savings time all year round, so the Sate. That's amazing. It's amazing the things that we can agree on questions, daylight savings is what we're in now. We just we just sprang forward into daylight savings. Yeah. I believe we are currently in because I just do

not ever need it to switch back. That's the one. Like, let's not do this bullshit switch. This is the good one, right, we all agree this is the good one. Um, this is allegedly the good one, depending on where you live and what time of year it is. So I support um the national policy uh benefiting me individually and like this, Um yeah, it's I don't know. I don't even have like strong feelings about daylight savings. I don't I know that like it bothers people twice a year, um, for

like a day. It's just unnecessary. And I do resent losing um an hour of daylight when your days are naturally getting shorter, and for a lot of people that work all day, that is really detrimental to their mental health, UM and productivity. And don't like the sun going down at four or five PM. I don't get me wrong. So that's the point. Well, yeah, but now you're gonna have like you're gonna have kids, a lot of kids like going to school, like when it's like dark for

two hours. Yeah, them their kids. It gives a ship. Interesting, Yeah, that's my attitude. Well, I mean the solution is just like have school start later, which is if the sun goes down earlier, that kids don't go to school. Now anyway, it's less heat though, less heat, less air conditioning needed, more breezy, So there's a positive there. Wait, what I was saying, If the sun goes down earlier in the day and you don't, then it gets cooler earlier in

the day, and then you're sure. But that has nothing to do with how we quantify time and standard No, but I was I was like one of the few people was like, oh, no, the sun is going to be out later, which means it's going to be hotter in my home. It should never be dark before seven pm. And whatever violence we have to do on an international scale to ensure that this is the way everyone lives is worth it. M that's my Robert. I agree with you,

maybe not completely, but I agree with you. Um okay, fine, uh. I guess I'm alone in my principles of not caring. But that's just the way it is. So speaking of you know, San Diego, here's the sponsors of the show, which are the San Diego real estate industry. San Diego, apparently you can't get a house here. Now together, you're back, and uh, let's talk about no fly zones. Do you

guys want to discuss this. We're done praising the Senate for taking the time to pass by partisan Honestly, it's a little bit like if you've ever had a friend who's like you care about them, but their alcoholism is leading them to risk other people's lives by constantly driving drunk, and like one time they take a cab home instead of like driving hammered home from a party, and you're like, well, I'm glad they did that, but also clearly this they're

going to drive drunk again, like the problem has not been So that's how that's how I feel about the Senate passing this, where it's like, yeah, well, I'm glad you guys decided to do one thing, but I feel like you're going to hit four kids crossing an intersection because you get drunk at eleven thirty in the morning. Yeah, So I my feeling very similar. I feel oh good that I mean to me, it's a thing that I would I think is good and would like to see happen,

but also that that's the thing we're doing. What where you can agree on this is where we come together. Ship is usually like let's give the military hunter billions more dollars or something like that. Um I do. I will say, I do resent the fact that if you're so like you're get you're getting your day like savings. Now right, we're not changing the clocks anymore. I think that is kind of an insult to everybody who had to change their clocks before. Now that's right, really, so

we should keep it going because other people had to before. Now, so we here's change it. Here's the rule, Cody. I think anyone under eighteen after we make the change never allowed to eat oranges. Okay, well, and I think that we need to also talk about we're not allowed to um to talk about how we used to eat oranges or um that there was ever a different time zone, because I think that might make people feel bad in some way, you know, and we don't want anybody feel

bad about that. I do want them to feel bad. I want to be filled with eternal rage at us for the fact that we get oranges. I want to just like sit on my front porch as children go by in school buses eating oranges and mocking them. Um. But you know, this is the beauty of democracy. We can have different opinions on these things. I also have

to I'm sorry. The bill, the actual bill is called the Sunshine Protection Act, which sounds like an environmental bill, like it sounds like something about energy and like preservation or something. It's very like. I mean, I don't think they did it to like trick people, but it's just because that wouldn't get passed. But no, it's a funny name. So I don't know. I want to talk about like no fly zones, yeah, just and like part of it. I don't know. So what what what you have happening

with Ukraine? It's the thing that happens with everything. And folks have been making this point for for week since the war started, that like all these people who were virology experts you know, a couple of months ago, are now experts on Ukrainian politics or experts on like NATO or whatever. Um. And yes, that's absolutely happening, and it's very frustrating. And there's nothing that I hate more than like fucking dilettant journalists who just kind of slide into

whatever the thing is. Like I started reporting on Ukraine in two thousand thirteen, Um, I have not been doing it constantly, and that's part of why I've mostly just been signal boosting other people's work and and not been

kind of trying to make pronouncements about stuff. And it very much frustrates me to see the same people who are like coming out with half formed bullshit about COVID restrictions based on their experience being the son of a publishing magnate or whatever the fuck um, are now talking

shit about like what should be done in Ukraine. And it's it's frustrating, like comprehensively um, because there's on one hand, you have these people like there was this fucking post going around like it was iced tea or ice cube whatever,

whatever ice is. The is the one who's most on Twitter who was like, you know, if one Russian soldier shoots one US soldier, that's it, We're gonna have a nuclear war, which is a stupid take because guess what, Russian soldiers and US soldiers have shot each other a bunch of times in the recent past, as have soldiers

from multiple other nuclear powers. It happens constantly. It happens between Pakistan and India, it happens between India and China, it happens between Russia and the United States, and nobody starts firing nukes over some fucking yea who's and whatever chunk of the world is shooting at each other because that would be bad for all of the people who

are in charge of those countries. So number one, like you have these people who who's like opinions on geopolitical conflicts are heavily based and like the as they have remember from movies and assume our actual realities rather than like the US killed three Russian soldiers a couple of years ago with air strikes in Syria, and you know what, it didn't make the news in most places. Nobody fucking cared,

Like nobody gave a shit because that's pretty normal. Um. And so on the other end of things, you have all these like kind of lib folks who are making these very clear statements about like a no fly zone you know, would be fine for this reason or fine for that reason, and you know, sometimes we have to risk nuclear war for this and for that, And it's it's one of those like I'm not even I'm not even because I I have I've talked to a lot of people who are alive because of no fly zones

and other parts of the world. So I'm certainly not like against the very concept of a no fly zone, but I think there's a number of reasons why it's it's not going to be particularly effective in Ukraine, Like even if you kind of divorce the nuclear aspect, which is a major area which is concerned um, but even without that, even if, like even if if Putin said tomorrow, hey, you know what, no nukes, Like whatever happens, nobody's nobody's using nukes over this if he were to like, which

you never would, but like if you were to say that, I don't think that instituting a no fly zone would have a massive impact on the amount of civilian suffering because most of the killing of civilians, based on what I am seeing and what I am reading from other analysts, is being done by field artillery, which is not and by like ballistic missiles and stuff, which I don't see. I don't think there's any real way that a no fly zone is going to like stop or reduce the

amount of ballistic missiles. There's different ways it could be like, one of the issues is that when people talk about a no fly zone pro or negative, they are usually assuming that it is more of like a single fixed thing, when there are a variety of ways in which it could be instituted. It's like, one of the questions is, like, all right, if you believe that we should have a

no fly zone, should we just be stopping aircraft? Or you try talking about stopping ballistic missiles from entering Ukrainian airspace. If that is the case, how are you going to do that without like actually moving in anti missile defenses all throughout these areas where like they're bordered by Belarus and Russia, because most of the ballistic missiles being shot into the country are being shot in across those national borders.

And unless you're moving, you're either moving in like mobile anti missile units that are like run by NATO troops, which is a real big escalation, or you're gonna say, like we're we're gonna let them fire missiles in, but we're just gonna stop aircraft, which is again not dealing with much of the problem. I don't tend to think that a no fly zone is going to do much. I get why Zelinsky, and someone in Zelinsky's position would be like advocating for it. I certainly don't blame him

for it. He's in a pretty impossible fucking position. I just don't think it would do anything. I think, at least on um Our end of things here. I think there was a moment on social media where it looked like they were not getting very good much traction. Ukraine was surprisingly holding people back, and then everyone was like, we have to protect the skies. Like it felt to me like a very reactive thing in the moment that people kind of latched onto it was part of this conversation.

But like, there's just so much Russia just has so many people on the ground. People want simple answers, and people on like every side's on every like ideological side of this. Once once simple answers want to boil things down um to make like the problems and the solutions seem simple um, and they just aren't. This is a

very complicated, messy war UM. And I think that if you're if you're someone who is saying that, like I support the USE, I support the United States, NATO, the EU, whatever sending military aid, I think a strong case can be made that the aid that's already going there is the most effective way to do that without actually sending in ground troops directly to fight. Um. Like, I don't think there's other than you know. I think there's a

case to be made about like this. There's this issue going on right now with like trying to get Poland's MiGs and trying to get more fighter jets to Ukraine. You can talk about like ways to increase so called lethal aid, you know, sending weapons over UM. I think a strong case can be made that if if your concern is allowing the Ukrainian military to more effectively fight the Russian military, that stuff matters quite a bit. I

don't think a no fly zone, UM. I think the main thing that it would do is it would it would necessitate the moving of NATO and US troops closer into a conflict where they would be more likely to get in fights, you know, where they would be more likely to get directly involved, which is messy for a bunch of very obvious reasons. UM. I also think a strong case can be made that, like just sending in weapons is working relatively well um, and that there's really

there there. I don't see a I don't see any simple ways NATO, the United States, the EU, whatever could significantly reduce civilian suffering outside of the potential of negotiating actual corridors through which civilians could flee, which Russia has a at this point fucking fifteen year history of like

setting up civilian corridors and then bombing them. I mean, when that just throughout this as it's been evolving over the last few weeks, every time it's like a piece talk and then putin agrees to this and not target civilians and then immediately target civilians or like the corridor, I was like, we have any more news that day? I was like, yeah, people are posting this, that's cool. I doubt it's going to happen, And of course it immediately didn't happen. Um, I have a question, sure, because

I mean, I am one of these people. I'm trying my best to not weigh in on things that I shouldn't weigh in on, and I'm doing my best to read everything and listen to things and learn right during this time, and and some of what's happening, and like the headlines at least as filtered through American media, which is of course sensationalist um makes it feel like Putin's just really pushing it, trying, almost almost tempting it, you know,

sing bombing near borders, saying uh sanctions are tantamount to war as well, you know, like it feels a little bit like he's laying the groundwork for something bigger if sometimes but is that like a very reactionary thing to say, because like at this point, it kind of feels like for him, digging in deeper is the only way out, because like this is it bad for him? This He's very much in that situation where like the only way

out for him is through. But at the same but so like if America gets involved, all of a sudden, he's got a narrative that's bigger than him and plays

into like nationalism and whatnot. I don't know, well, no, I don't think that's really I don't think there's any like, I don't think there's any more the United States could be involved that he could actually make any use of from like a propaganda standard, because at number one, if you're paying attention to like what is being said in the Russian media, there's really no way to escalate kind of what they're saying I don't think Putin wants a

nuclear work because he's not a crazy person. He's he's doing what dictators do. He's gambling, um, and he's gambling. He was, he was gambling at the start of this. I think that it would be over in like three or four days. Um. He would effectively double the GDP of Russia, which taking Ukraine would have more or less done if it had been taken like intact, and you know that would have set up he could have got something.

He could have made some more moves in Georgia or Moldova, like, he would have had a bunch of options because he would have just done this thing and gotten away with it. And now he's bogged down into this fucking nightmare that is not going great for him. Um, I don't. I think one of the frustrating things is that I think there's a there's a long series of conversations that Cannon ought to be had about like, all right, well this ship started in two thousand fourteen. What could several US

presidential administrations have done to have made this outcome less likely? Um? And what could several US presidential administrations have done in

Syria to have made this outcome less likely. But at the moment that we are in right now, I don't see a tremendous amount of things to be done other than like the war is gonna go the way the war is going to go, like because sending in the US ground troops, sending in NATO not really an option and and to its credit, like I've seen a bunch of ship on the left about how like Biden's clearly trying to like set up for no flies on. I don't think the Biden administration is any fucking desire to

do that. Um, he's not. They're not making moves to do that like they're they've been like shipping on the Polish attempts to like get mid twenty nine into Ukraine like they've they've they He has been pretty cautious about this, And you can think that's good or bad or neutral. I'm not really making a value judgment either way. It's a pretty messy situation. And of the US presidents who have things to blame in Ukraine, I think he's kind of low on the list because Obama had two years,

Trump had four. Uh, Biden had about a year of this going on before, like it blew up. So it's it's a man um, but it's it's a lot of people's messages. Yeah, and I don't have I'm not sitting here criticizing by it and either, like I I think it's a really tough situation. Not trying to defend him either, because I don't think he's doing well. I just think like, yeah, man,

I don't know what you do. Also, I also kind of feel like time will tell if this is the right course of action, if this was the right Like, who fucking knows what happens, what are the fallout the long term ramifications of Putin succeeding and taking Ukraine and what he does next or what happens, and and you know, like I don't know. Yeah, but for right now, you have to do your best possible calculation with you with the information that you have, and protect as many lives

as possible. Um. I've heard people like journalists on podcasts saying like, well, for now, that's his decision, and like at a certain point that crisis might get humanitarian crisis might get so big that that he decides to it. But I see little reason to see that right now, because it's like how it's versus the whole world, like getting the whole world involved. Yeah, I I don't, I don't.

I mean number one, it's also like not I think there was a real question if like they had taken Ukraine quickly and then Russia had started making other belligerent moves towards other nations that are on their border of like,

oh god, how bad could this get? But at this point, so the the the soldiers, the the armed forces that Russia arrayed on the Ukrainian border prior to the start of the war, where about seventy five percent of their standing active duty military right their actual capacity to to project military power, but was on the Ukrainian border between

six and ten. Most credible estimates are six to eight percent of that is dead like of of their of their like total standing kind of like like professional mility terry force, which is Titanic casualties, they wouldn't be able to move on to another invasion. Yeah, there's not. I I actually the shock waves of this politically, diplomatically and and and indeed militarily and humanitarian matters, like in a number of ways, you're going to be going on for

the rest of our lives. But in terms of like the ability of this war to expand Russia doesn't have a lot of bandwidth right now. Um, and they are one of I mean a number of things are happening.

One of one of the things that's going to be have an impact on this it's kind of an impact on a bunch of stuff is that um COVID surging rates have shut down Shenzen, which is what makes most of like the significant chunk of microchips, which, in addition to being necessary for your bitcoin mining rigs and your gaming pieces, are also really necessary for modern military equipment.

And Russia burnt through particularly a lot of the very best, most advanced Russian military equipment was blown up in the first like four days of this war. A significant percentage of their ship blown up or abandoned, tracted away by farmers, whatever. And not only economically, is it going to be difficult to replace a lot of that stuff you know they have, They have essentially endless amounts of like BMPs, these shitty armored personal character carriers. They got a lot of like

T seventy twos and whatnot. But when you're talking about like advanced SAM systems, high grade like modern artillery MLR s, systems which are these like multiple rocket launcher systems. Those are require things in order to make more of them that number one Russia is going to have trouble affording. And number two, the the global bandwidth to produce the things that are necessary to make that has changed in a really significant way very soon, like very recently. Um

how long has China? But I know that they're back in a full blown outbreak right now. I'm wondering if it's going to be like a month thing like here. Um, I don't know that nobody who knows, right, who knows? I'm just saying my thoughts out loud. Yeah, Um, I don't know. It's it's I'm trying not to like come down too much on one side of the other, other than stating, I don't really see how a no fly zone would materially change the circumstances of this war in

a way that would be worth the risk. Um, I'm not against. I don't know. It's messy, Like a bunch of weird things are gonna happen in the aftermath of this war, including the fact that like an awful lot of military grade anti aircraft weaponry is just like around now in a lot of weird hands in a way that has never been the case, um, and that could

have some impacts. There's there could be a really negative weapons anywhere is going to have well effects that you don't well and a part of the insurgency that's inevitably going to happen, you know, I mean, provided well, it's just like some of it is like yeah, we're shipping stingers and manet like man pads and ship in there and like who knows what will happen with all of those, But also like a bunch of twenty million dollar Russian

anti aircraft batteries are just like random people have them, and like there's a lot, Like there's a lot that hasn't happened before, Like nobody has ever dealt with this. We've certainly had the situation of like oh yeah, with the Mujahideen and Afghanistan, Like yeah, some people were just like like a bunch of fucking anti aircraft rocket launchers that were man portable wound up in the hands of some sketchy people and like that was there. There were

some like consequences to that no one's ever had. Like the wee, now this this system that can shoot down aircraft. It's seventy thousand feet or whatever. That caught that only Nation States can afford is just owned by some guy named Igor in a forest. So, like, what's gonna happen with that fill in the blank. Who knows? Anyone's guess. I'm sure it'll be fine. Yeah, boy, you know what, I like brakes together everything, So don't go back. I don't know. Okay, they got a break, but we didn't

get a break. There's no time for breaks. Dive right in, Cody, what's thirty seconds? What's your solution to Ukraine? Stop it? Okay? Good, good answer, Yeah, thank you, we nailed it. Welcome the easy answers. Yeah, it's called the fourth second answer to the thirty second question. Well, that's gonna do it for us here, Ye, problems came back from break for one bit?

What else you gonna doh? That my new my new my Google alert for the world, and the news tab just came up of Vladimir Putin responds to Cody's statement, what do you say I get? Yeah? No, he said, okay, though, okay, okay, yeah, it's stream these episodes live to him. Yeah, piped right into Russia. They don't they don't let anything on air but through but but us for some reason for sure immediately responded to me, and yet has yet to respond

to Elon Musk's challenge to physically fight him. There's, my god, there's something I want. It's one of those things I don't I don't care who would win. I just want to see it. Let's yes, let's have it happened. Embarrassing, it's pretty so unbelievably embarrassing and kills me that so many people drive his fucking cars. It's I know that they're good for the world and that's great and stuff, but you know, they all know who he is different one.

They all there's lots of electric cars. I'm not gonna hate you, but like I'm not going to date you. It's I got a buddy right now who is like he's essentially retired because he's um um got disabled in the military and stuff, and he just like I took a got a ride to Odessa to help with like the flow of orphans that are being created as a

result of this war. And like Elon Musk twenty million bucks a rounding era for him send a bunch of people into like help get LGBT people out to help deal with the with orphans, help get civilians out, and don't tell anybody it'll come out six months later. It'll come out because it's not gonna work. That was gonna if it comes out later that he like. So here's the thing. I I wanted to bring it up. Anyway when we started, Elon Musk, has anybody received any word

on how starlink is faring? Because if you recall, I mean, I don't know if I've mentioned him the show what show are in my dreams? But um, my parents tried getting starlink because they live in an area without good uh Internet, and they couldn't use it because there are trees around. So if there is like you're going to have not trees a tree. If there's a tree, it will disrupt service easily for people. So I feel like

that might be a problem. Also, the last I checked, people have to have terminals on the ground and those are like six Did he distribute terminals to people so that they could access the starlink stuff? You know what I mean? Like, I am very curious, has to because everybody was sharing that and saying this is a you know what this Elon Musk, you might have your thoughts on Elon Musk, but this is pretty cool. And I said, maybe is it you know anyway? Is it? Is it right?

I mean, it's definitely a pr thing. It's a pr thing. Also like he's not clearly not taking it seriously anyway. Um. And it's like, you know, posting memes about how people whose support Ukraine or like yeah, however, how being horrified at seeing another set of cities carpet bombed into powder is like bandwagoning as opposed to two and a half million refugees have been created in less than three weeks. What a fucking nightmare? Um, which is like what most

people are doing. Most people's reaction to Ukraine, you know, the takes on Twitter are fifty fifty, but most people's reactions just like, oh god, this looks awful because it is. And that's like a reasonable way to look at a war. No, not really, He's rich, um yeah, because it's it's he. Never. I mean, if there was anybody that I I think might be an alien and human skin, it's him or these two people I saw on a walk yesterday. Nothing wrong with they were cute, No, no, they were sweet.

They just spoke to me a little. So. I mean, you know, there's cool ship going on. There's stories coming out of the UK right now that one Russian oligarch's mansion has been occupied by a bunch of anarchists who intend to I mean, last I heard the cops were lining up outside. I'm not sure if, but but kind of forcing the police to either let them do it or defend an oligarch's property is a pretty neat move. Was there a story out of France or something like?

They haven't verified that one, so I don't know what the state, but it Yeah, I like the idea of people occupying. I mean we'll start, well, they all start using some of those properties for refugees, Yeah, to host refugees. That's a great idea. Again, I think other kinds of oligarchs we could take their houses too, But if it starts with Russian oligarchs, that's fine to me. It's all got to start somewhere. Um, yeah, so that would be neat.

You guys want to talk about Missouri. It's part of the world, it is, and it is a part of this terrible year. Weren't. As someone who was born in St. Louis, I certainly wish it weren't the world. Yeah, Missouri is going to pass this law that bands um abortions of actopic pregnancies. Um an Ectopic pregnancy takes place out of when the seed is implanted outside of the uterus. It is not viable. Um it you cannot carry a child to term and have it survived. It will kill the woman.

It will kill the mother, and it Oh I mean how I don't. I don't, I don't. I do not understand the rationale and the thinking behind thinking that this is. Um, I don't understand the logic. It's just facts of what this is. Like there's no life being saved here, You're you're killing people. Yeah, it's yeah, well I mean it's because this is I mean, ultimately, they just want to uh you know, we all know what they want to do. Ultimately. UM. I mean, is there anyway this is you know, where

you're like doing doing something that's like completely unreasonable. And I feel like this has to get struck down. I'm

sure it will, Like it's like it's it's ludicrous. Um. But it's the kind of thing that like, okay, well we won't you know, I don't know, just making like crafting the and pushing these like very uh awful bills and then when they're struck down be like, okay, well we'll do we'll do it, and it might be some quote reasonable and then they get what they actually want, right, it might be some sort of move like that for sure, but it's just um oh, it's just really hard to

see not to be some white feminist because there's lots of harder things that not harder. Gosh here I am checking choosing my words very carefully, but it is hard to watch um them ship away at this and know what's coming and know that ultimately, like in a few months they are almost certainly about to overturn Row and it's like a slow motion car crash happening, and so like, yeah, okay, maybe this, but it's still fucking offensive, um and scary.

And then also what it doesn't designed to Like when it doesn't pass, you're like, well, at least that didn't happen. Yeah no, fuck, that's like dant amount to murder of a person that's of a mom that could go and have an actual pregnancy, that could is already probably heartbroken that she can't carry a child to turn because also guess what a lot of most people. It's not like women don't are aborting babies left and right. The decision to not have a child is deeply personal and very

difficult for most any who. That's my little soapbox. Um, so yeah, maybe it's something that we don't but I will think we deserve to be angry about it, even if I don't think that it will ultimately stand, and we should continue to be We're gonna just be seeing this continuing on and on a lot like trans rights and the different bills aimed at targeting and trans use. We're just gonna keep seeing it. We're gonna keep seeing this.

These are the things that they can do and chip away and chip away and change subtly change public perceptions. I've had so many conversations I want this one person. I won't even give more information, just saying like, well, yeah, but it is a big deal if it's a gender affirming surgery. Want not to completely pivot this whole conversation

gender affirming surgery at a young age. And I'm like, you are accidentally talking sharing a right wing talking point, you know, like you are accidentally buying into this narrative, And that's how it happens, even if people don't even know what's happening, they're like, well, maybe this points like no, it's not it's not valid here. I can't even remember

if I brought this up in another podcast. I talked about it a lot when you like look at when you when you read kind of like actual scholarly analyzes about the early years the Third Reich was in power. One of the things you come across a lot is this like problem they had where in order to get into power, they had to make a lot of like really bug fuck claims to get like number one, to get people riled up, to like uh, set kind of some of the ideological stages and like create this sort

of zero sum game. There's a lot of like different promises they made and like things they would talk about ideologically that once they were in power, no one had any idea how to translate into policy because it was just nuts. And so a big chunk of their early years was like finding out how to actually like what the policy versions of all of these crazy promises were

looked like. And we get a lot of the things that were like most fucked up and horrible and weird from the Third Reich out of this peer it and what you're seeing in these states where the GOP has effectively demolished any kind of opposition to Republican policy is number one. All these like bug funk things they say to go viral, they have to figure out, like, well, what does the law version of this look like? And the other thing going on is that like, well, we've

already effectively banned abortion. So if you're a Republican congress person or if you're running for office or you want to like get re election or whatever, you're trying to keep your name in the news as Republican policymaker. There's

nothing really more to do there except crazy shit. So that you can say you're still you're you're fighting for the pro life thing even though there's nothing more to fight for in Texas, and that in the in the state you're in, because you've effectively banned it, you have to keep doing things to keep the donations and ship coming.

So you said, well, now we're banning a topic pregnancies, and like that, that's that's why this is happening, yeah, Or like the CRT stuff where it's like railiance that for a year and then sudden He's like, well, now you can't teach about Martin Luther King Jr. Like there's just all this stuff. Like well, on a policy level, once you actually decide what it is, it's ridiculous and unworkable. And that's I mean also with trans rights and all the again exactly, it's all, it's all part of it.

These are the new thing goalposts, and they'll just keep finding something else. One of the things that I think is funny out of all this is that like Beto O Rourke, who is hopelessly running for governor again, like looked at the political situation in Texas and was like, all right, well, the thing that I have to compromise with the right on and when when real or in order to have a chance at election is critical race theory. I'm gonna keep saying I'm gonna take everyone in Texas

his guns. That's that's fine. I think I can win making that claim. CRT is where to make the compromise? What is how is he compromising on CRT um He made a statement that like he doesn't believe critical race theory should be taught in schools or some ship. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh my god. It's just like what the fuck are you doing? Well, because it isn't because it isn't taught in schools, you know, but like it's really gross, Okay,

I yeah. He was asked like I'm sure it's one of those things where like he made a statement that's not nearly as he's clear is not a good communicator, which he was to support critical race theory, and I think he said no, he said he doesn't think CRT should be taught in schools, because what he's trying to do is say like, well, CRT is like this law term that they teach law schools, and I don't think they should be taught in schools because and it's not.

I think are probably on the same page as well. We don't see CRT being taught in our schools right now. It is a course that is taught in law schools. I don't think CRT should be taught in our schools. That's just help. That's so he's so bad at this. The right answer, like the right thing is like, it's not you're lying to people. It's not you're lying to people, and it's fine to teach the history of racism in

our nation. His response is like, let's give them. Let's let's let's respond to this in a way that like makes the obvious sound bite, because I don't think he gets I don't know, he's he's not. He's not. He's not going to be the governor of Texas. You know, he's not. That's fine, he's not going to be the governor of Texas. He's it's it's just not going to happen. A different kind of person is necessary. I'm looking at

it now. That is a really bad response because it's just like giving people in the easy Yeah, I mean, it's gotta I'm sure. I don't know if listeners are super aware of Christopher Ruffo, but he's this like, uh, you know, you know, he's like he'd have been stabbed, admitting that he's conflating everything with everything else in order to make it confusing. And then you ban everything that's his whole whole things out there. But now you have

him tweeting Beato. Rourke becomes the first prominent Democrat to flip against critical race there. Yeah, yeah, well that's not what happens. It's not what it is at this Yeah, I don't know that's going to be the episode for us. Yeah, it is isn't it feels right? I want to pick yourself up a little. Imagine Christopher Ruffo getting stabbed by Dustin Hoffman dressed as a pirate. Yeah, that's nice. Or um um being a dolphin saving people and hiding them

in underground sea caves. Being a dolphin like me stabbing Christopher Ruffo lookie and then giving giving a high five. Today. I once saw the real actual Rufio at yogurt Land. That's good, and I'm sorry, but it's just so much like the colorful food that they throw at each other that it's that. I was like, this is gonna be amazing that I did not throw it at him. I wanted to. Should you guys know that? When they were making Hook, one of my favorite movies, perfect films, so good.

Um at the actor who played Shmi, who was also the main character and who framed Roger Rabbit, which blew my mind. Ye Hoskins, Yeah, he and Dustin Hoffman who played Hook, decided to play their characters as if they were longtime gay romantic partners. They just didn't want to say it, but like that's how we're actually going to play it, Like that's it's perfect. Well, I'm you watching that tonight. It's so good, awesome. Yeah, it's film incredible

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