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what a Smith? How's it going? Is that we're going to talk about Will Smith and the cultural rosetta stone that is Will Smith slapping takes Twitter incredible together some some of the some of the top contenders for most incredible Twitter interactions. Yeah, the takes well, first of all, real quick, I guess my question is does anybody here have actual takes beyond like that was wild? I think it's kind of Yeah, I'm fine. I do actually kind

of have a take? Yeah, I'm fine with it. So yeah, and then I felt like I felt like when then when I saw Twitter the next day, I was like, oh, Like my first thought was like, dang, nobody but Will Smith could get away with that. That was my very first reaction. Um, And did I think it's inappropriate to walk on stage? Yeah? Man, that's embarrassing for everybody. Don't

put like that. Likely there's like a more chivalrous way, in the classier way to call him out, like even walking up on stage and taking the microway and saying what you want to say up there and then handing it back. That would be a better move. Regardless, had that ship gone down in a bar, you know, we all would have been cheering him. You know that its some fuck insulted his wife in a bar. Not only would we have cheered it, we would have expected it.

Some people would say, like, man, that was too far, but it's not beat him with a chair or like hit him with a broken No, he like gave him an open palm slap. Do I also think that he? But yes, I also think no, he shouldn't have done it. And I think that perhaps they're going through some ship. I don't know what's happening in his life, and like what fight with him and Jada might have proceeded this moment, some conversation where he needed to go whatever ship. I

don't know, but obviously he's going through something. There's also that that's lacking from this whole conversation of like, and then the other thing I really hated. While I'm just ranting and ranting, I believed it because I didn't want

to be contributing to the online conversation anymore. But yeah, when I first logged on, seeing lots of people put in like calling saying, saying Will Smith behaving like a thug, talking about some people some peo people, sit down and like I really respected, like like with anything, this is my recommendation, down until he gets the oscar and then

give him a standing over. Right, Well, then there's that, But I mean, in general, my my feelings about Twitter takes the next day after things are like you better sit and watch for a minute, because there's going to be this first reactionary and then the people of color are going to speak up and say actually and make the real points, like actually, it's a really big deal for a black woman to be publicly shamed about her

hair loss. It's a it's something that most of us, don't you, most of you guys don't even know or pay attention to what this means, like actually, and so maybe it's an opportunity for everybody to listen and learn instead of spouting off or how Garrison has cobbled together. The shocking amount of people compare this to the motherfucking

war in Ukraine. Okay, Planting, Well, it's just this, it's this beautiful thing where we can't have two things going on in the world that are that are just completely separate, like any rational person would be like, Okay, even if you agree these are both worth talking about, there's nothing there's no similarity, like nothing, no through line connects these, right Will Smith hitting a guy because he made a joke about his wife has nothing to do with a

land war in Europe, But because they're both happening at once. You can't. You can't just like let things be things. Everything has to tie into everything, Like what if I want to get people to click on stuff, God, I can make it about the war. We should read some of these yeah, so yeah, well, yes, I just think it's like it's okay to be like, wow, that joke is pretty insensitive. Um, and specially when the Oscars, which I disagree with. I actually think most people at the

Oscars there should be one office. But but it did make a better show. But that Chris Rock had also he also like made a documentary about this issue. Specifically, it's a pretty documentary. It's called good Hair, and it was inspired by his daughter asking why she doesn't have good hair. Um, so like the issue that Katie alluded to is like something he's aware of, but like but so like so it's it's like, yeah, insensitive joke. Um,

you know. It's also like he said it anyway, and also like yeah, uh fine, like obviously like his right to get offended, Like every every step of the way, it's like, ah, I shouldn't have done that. I understand why he did, Like every every step of the way. You know, it's like, yeah, probably shouldn't have gone up a stage and slapped the guy like on TV. But I got why, Like all the steps, I'm like, yeah, I get it, wouldn't shouldn't do that, But I don't

know I get Will Smith's actions. Like fundamentally, if we take everything else out of this. I don't get why Chris Rock was getting up on stage at the Oscars in two and making a joke about the film G I Jane. Yeah, just on its face, saying repeatedly, explain to people what that movie was. So everyone keeps going, is she are they making one? I know, I think

he this was like a writer's room situation. I think he got on stage and and like look at the room and made a decided to do some crowdworks like yeah, and it's I mean, it's very funny that it was about a G. I. Jane joke, but also like and him saying like it was literally he said, like it was a g I Jane joke, but I will positive it wasn't, said dude, dude, it was a GI Jane joke, but I will I would put forth that it was

not a GI Jane joke. The joke was about her hair, Like it's not it's not a G I Jane joke, Like, that's right, not what was? But a lot of people learned what Alabecia was. That's true. Yes, that's true. Um, okay, so let's read some of these the yeah it takes beyond wow. Well Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage to the Oscars. That's fucking wild. Beyond that take, which I think is reasonable to have, Um, what are your favorite I gotta say one last comment on the slab itself.

You can really tell how much time Will Smith has put into the craft of being an action star because that was that was a good looking slab. I was gonna say that. Yeah, I do want to say, Actually again, God, this it's just what an interesting day it had been. Um, the a lot of people like obviously are like thinking about like, well is this Uh, it was staged. It was totally staged for whatever reason, while also getting mad

at this weird Kirston dunch joke. Um, but the Kirston Dunch joke she was in on and it was it was even if she wasn't in on it. It was a complimentar Kirston dunce. It's the most standard joke that you do with the Oscars, which is, I don't know this famous person whatever who cares. Um. The idea that people were mad about it and didn't understand it and needed her to apologize is like whatever, Okay, But um, people are like, oh look Chris Rock, like it's so

totally staged. You can see him like preparing for it. He like what he's waiting for Will Smith to like walk up to him, and like he's smiling and and like it doesn't it seems like he doesn't know what's going on or whatever. Like I just wanted to point out Chris Rock has um a nonverbal learning disorder. Um So, yeah,

he's talked about it the past couple of years. Um I think like in yeah, just a couple of years ago, there's a piece on it, so like he didn't register that, Like that's not how he like, uh operates socially necessarily by life, seeing like Will Smith walk up to him like he's gonna slap and go oh, I understand this situation. Um So, I don't know someone walks on stage, I'm certainly not anticipating what their move is, is that they're

going to hit me. If you don't think that somebody's going to stop you, I think he might walk on stage and grab the mic. I'm gonna actually argue on the other side, really because I I if I am, and I'm sure Katie that if I'm you, I probably don't think that. But I have said a lot of things that have made people hit me in the face in the past. And so if I am on stage making fun of Will Smith's wife and I see him walking up to me, my ash, you know what, I

probably went a little too far. That's about to call cock me. That's all right, some of these tweets, Yeah, do we want to go to a bad break first? All right? Okay, sure, you know who won't slap Chris Rock in the face, because how would they ever be in a position to do that. That's not a realistic thing to expect from our sponsors. It's not impossible. It's not impossible, but not likely unless it's one of those like gag hand slap things. That's right, I don't I

don't think I approved any sponsor like that. So we're probably safe, well together everything. Let's finally get to these takes. So the first one, we have a lot of people decided that a couple like the number one thing to compare this to again was was the war in Ukraine. So there's like this take where they've got someone has replaced Will Smith's head with the Russian flag and they're they're slapping a flag of the Fascist as Off Battalion, which is a Ukrainian militia unit um that's by Coba.

Who is Coba was Stalin's name, so it's it's some sort of like online communist guy. Uh. And then there's another take that I think is even better. White people on here crying about how violence is never okay, but fropping at the mouth for the US to invade Russia, which is also very funny. I just like, why can't like, why can't be different from each other? Why the second

like not being comparison. I will say at least these these are broadly in line with what just like people do jokingly about everything, where it's like, well this is a thing that went viral, so let's attach it like these are These are tongue in some of them, like the woman walking away and the guy and the girlfriend turning over their shoulder and sacking. Yeah, this is impossible to describe, but the person walking away and the boys media and the the girlfriend is zelenski um. This one.

What Will Smith did Chris Rock is the same as what Putin did to Ukraine. Putin felt threatened and disturbed. Will felt threatened and disturbed. And we all love violence, Let's admit it. War is the same as hitting. It's hitting cities. I bet Putin loved it. I feel why Will did it? Unreal? Cheek or dead now, just like civilian casualties. It's because he's like literally that take as

saying that Will look Will Smith. Uh Like Putin felt threatened by civilians in Ukrainian cities, so he had to level those cities and kill tens of thousands of women and children in the same way Will Smith felt threatened by Chris Rock and head like it's nonsense and just based on the fact that there was a single person responsible for making the statement that made Will Smith angry and he slapped that single person. It would be a just comparison if Will Smith had slapped everybody on stage

at the Oscars. I just like walked through the crowd hitting every person, and it would be like, wow, he really is kind of doing a Putin at the strange and like I said, it was about like an unrelated joke from like a year or two ago, it was about Chris Rock joining NATO. Then we would all be like, well, I guess this does compare to the situation in Ukraine. I'm not really sure why. I also like the the like it's it's more Will Smith is putin, but there's

some Will Smith is Zelinsky is. It's like, whatever you want, just just see made comment. The instant that that slap went viral, I was like, y'all, this this is going to be. You are going to see a lot of takes comparing to this the situation in Ukraine and both

men will be standings for both nations. In the very next day, there was an article in some fucking website that that is a bigger name website than it has any right to be, with the title like the Will Smith doctrine has no place in one of the best

outstanding Oh god, so good. It's just well. And then I also wanted to mention before this even um, it really frustrated me the way a bunch of actors and link Sean Penn specifically starts saying like, I'll give back my statue if the Oscars of the Academy by ze Lensky to talk the funk are you talking about out here? Are you making your documentary? Do you think do you

think for a second that man has time? Well, it's also just like in Middle of the Night where they are also like he is broadcasting, why do you need it? Why do you need it at the Oscar? Yeah, it's it's it's what do you like? Like, I don't think has Zelinsky made any statement about wanting to speak at the Oscars. It's nonsense, like he's got things to do.

Like whatever, you're the man has a full place. Like the ego its the Oscars, the egoism of thinking that like, well, we are the elite of the world, we should be lending our stage to this man. It's the motherfucking American Oscars that nobody cares about. People in Hollywood don't even who was it? Fucking was it de Niro? Like it was a Pacino? I think it was one of the I think it was Picino. Yeah, just like forgot that night, Like literally he just forgot um, which we all did

in till Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. Yeah exactly. That was the moment I learned the Oscars were that night. Yeah, Albaccino confirms he forgot state us. Like the Sean Penn thing. It's so funny to because like, Okay, man, give your oscar back. Yeah, like like what will that? What will that? Do? Know? Who remembers? Like who has the actual the physical Oscar statue. Are you gonna Is he still fucking over there making

his documentary? Is my question also, And I was just thinking about that too, like yeah, you're right, just fine, give it back, Coody, like the statue back, um, but like he can't because he's in Ukraine. I guess, Oh, he didn't say he could give it back. He said he smelt it. He's in he's in Poland. He got out of Ukraine very quickly. Like even that egoism and centering. I know we've probably talked about it then, but it really gets it's what Sean Penn does. But like some

people defending him, like, well, what's wrong with that? What's wrong with that? Are you think? Do you think that there aren't Ukrainian filmmakers that are documenting what's happening to their home? Does this man need to come and get in the fucking way and take up resources. No, it's

not like it's one of those things. A lot of journalists have died covering this war as actual journalists, as opposed to like showing up and then immediately bouncing when it got which is like good, he should have left when the invasion started, but like he should also not have just been like you Sean Penn, you are you are Sean ass Pen, Like you know you're not needed there, You're not supposed to be there. Putting you there are

not best. It's like that dude who just let British kid who showed up in Afghanistan to be like l O L I'm on vacation and Afghanistan as a fool is falling. Get the like no, no, like this is very serious. A lot of people's lives are being destroyed, a lot of people are dying. Like it's not about you go go away. I can't believe how much I used to risk not respect him, but like there's no

Sean Penn. But like in general, I used to just being younger and naive and then like thinking adults were smarter here, like they must be, and like just how fucking dumb. That's part of it. Like I did used to care about the oscars. I used to think, you know, it's magic and all of this and entertain in these filmmakers. But now I know that these what bullshit. It is that none of these actors necessarily deserved the praise, you know, and and they're anyway, and then they go off and

do ship like this. The only moment, the only things that the Oscars I cared about were Samuel Jackson got a It was like an honorary thing. But he got the statue, and I like to see him happy. I like, I like Saduel Jackson. It's just nice to see him smile. And then al Pacino just absolute, just completely forgetting the Oscars. I know that there are some films that one that mean a lot to people. I think that some people

might every year people care about any of them. But I haven't seen whatever just about any of the movies for this year, so I don't feel qualified to speak on you know, any historic wins you can. You can get that from your entertainment. Did not get nominated, which means that all of the Oscars are invalidated. That's my stance. So you do support Will giving his so statue back? No, I support Nicholas Cage getting a statue, but not of the Oscars, just a statue of him. He must have

won an Oscar before. I think he's always a little too weird. He's uh for that. It makes sense that he would have gotten something that's so good. I want to rewatch. But man, incredible and oh, Katie, I think you would. Actually, it's it's all right, Robert, I'll watch Pig if you watch Patriot. I'll get in there one of these days. I'll get in there when I'm finished watching Seth Rogan Be a Handyman and Tommy Lee's Mansion. He was also nominated for adaptation That makes Sense. I

said that. I said that, I think the second kind of ridiculous. Obviously, there's a bunch of silly takes from people like Max Blumenthal of The Gray Zone being like this was staged in order to distract from as off battalion atrocities, or like this was uh normal, aston being like this was staged in order to uh stop um fucking people from talking about Biden's comment about Putin that people were all free flipping out at That's all very silly.

But I think the silliest takes and there's like a specific brand of these from kind of centrist liberals that's like,

this is unsettling because normalizing casual violence. And like, my dudes, number one, if you are if you are going to criticize Will Smith for normalizing casual violence, all of the movies where he casually beats and murders people as an action star, probably better than the time he slapt Yeah anyway, like it's it's it's astonishing, And just like in general, Hollywood exists to normalize certain kinds of violence, Like a huge amount of every any year of the money made

in movies is movies that are made with the participation of the U. S. Defense Department, um, like especially throughout the early and middle stages of the of the War on Terror. Um And then like, how are you going to claim that Will Smith giving a mild slap to Chris Rock is normalizing anything when we have all just been watching cities get level by thermobaric everywhere. You can't. You can't further normalize violence in American culture. It can't

from gun violence every fucking day. We're like, I'm literally holding a gun right now, Like it's out like this is the United States, Like we grew up before school shootings and now they're a thing like their drills every day, Like yeah, they like I will add one more. I thought we were done oscars with our reaction this, but I got one more hot in the tank. Um. Everyone. There are some good points of like oh, like distracting from the significant wins or the Best Picture, CODA winning

Best Picture and all this stuff. Um, I would argue that you're the one doing that. Every every one of us talking about all this instead of CODA winning. Are the ones that are doing that by us, UM, caring about that more than everything else. We care about that, So we're talking about that. Um, But that's on us. I think, I mean, I think it's fine. I don't have any problem with I think it's silly when people like Matthew dan Kona, who wrote that article about the

will Smith doctrine Ukraine. By the way, Matthew ancona former editor at The Spectator, award winning political columnist, columnist, and and fellow at All Souls College in Oxford, UM, just like that that is worth making fun of, uh and even insulting. But like at the end of the day, for the rest of us just laughing at this on Twitter like a famous guy slapped another famous guy live

on stage. And look, I'm also not saying that. I'm not saying that it's wrong for us to like have a moment of like, look it it's a thing happened, that it happened. We all just have that moment but in general, I'm like Will was doing something that's about his life and his relationship and and the rest of us are making it a distraction, you know what I mean. Anyway, that's human nature, sure, but anyway, Yeah, maybe I'll regret this take tomorrow, but right now, I don't know. It's like, yeah,

and it is what it is. I don't know. It's also like it was it's fucked up to see like that happened, and then five minutes later, like, yeah, Scott was very funny. It's like the funniest thing that could have happened. It's like it's like so bizarre, it's like funny, it's surreal. It's like it is fun up and like I didn't even realize I thought he won before that. And then I think that they would have asked him to leave if they didn't know that he was going

to win the award. No, I don't I think that someone's I don't think that they knew what the reaction would be online because it's all about traffic. No, I think you know that, like, well, he hit a dude, so everyone's gonna want to see repeated cuts to like him. We out a guest of this ceremony. Finally people are

carrying with the oscars again. Um. I will say one thing I wasn't expecting so obviously, like everyone's got to take every and like some of it is tribal, some of it is just like here's my funked up opinion about it. Um. And I was expecting a lot of like, uh canceled culture stuff and like you know, sensitivity to like oh you did, and like people who think that like, uh, it's not Oh like I saw some do you mean,

like people like cancer? Well I saw that kind of stuff, and just like there's there's a certain type of Republican where I was like the honest, the honest response that you you should be giving, like don't do your little culture wars stuff. If you're true to yourself and you're real,

what you're gonna say is, uh, it was fine. I saw a man insult another man's wife and he went up and he defended his wife, and then Chris Rock acted like and and didn't like he didn't like complain or cry or do anything, and then they moved on. That was that like that's like the conservative like that's what you actually believe, you think, And I just want to say. Good for and do not cut the context.

Good for Marjorie Taylor Green for sticking to that. She said exactly that she like the only one I've seen has been like, yeah, it's like here's what you think I would think, And I'm gonna say it. I'm not gonna try to I'm not gonna try to warp it into like Dr Seuss is canceled, whether or whatever it is. It's just this is how fine, this is how I want life and society to be. And it was and that's the end of that. It's not very funny society

to be, but it's like at the basic level. But I think everyone's actions in that instance made complete sense to me, and I have no issue with anything that happened. We have somehow gotten too full segments out of this. You got damn right, we did. Um, thank you will and Chris Rock for for giving us content. Oh do you want to take a quick break and then we'll get into that to his da, we'll get we'll get JayR pilled Bulson Narrow seems like you're gonna get sucked

up and die. Just seem like get you very sick. Yeah, yeah, hold on just a bit longer and we'll finally get to some act actual Good lord, No, there's no other news than the news we've discussed. We'll get get everything. So Don Calpuccino didn't attend, then, Hello, and welcome back to the news show. They don't only talk about the news. That's right. And this is the first moment of the show that you have been listening to. There's nothing before it. This is a record for us. I think that was

kind of news. That was kind of news only discussing the most important things happening in the world. Like so, in a similar manner to how Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on camera. Okay, now I understand was slapped by the fact that a couple of years ago he was stabbed in the stomach while on campaign, and now his ship regularly backs up and it has to be sucked out. That's what happens. I mean, he is always in the hospital, isn't he He's sometimes he's like a right, like, let's

be fair. Sometimes it's a bird. You can't. Obviously a lot of the times when he goes to the hospital, Uh, it's because of the time he got horribly stabbed in the stomach. But he also has had to go to the hospital a number of times because he keeps getting COVID like three times. That's the thing. It's like it's got stabbed, so like constantly needed ship siphon out of him.

He's got a bunch of times. And also like was rude to animals who end up attacking him, or like his his vibe offended an animal that went after him. Yeah exactly. I don't know. I just have there's some comedy someday about all the ways death is trying to claim Pulson Arrow, like something, some bumbling comedy of this man constantly escaping death. I don't know. I don't know it. It's also like it's incredible because also that EMU attack was while he was quarantining for COVID. It's very funny.

It's the only pictures you'll see of him with a mask on pretty much. Yeah exactly. It's a lot more funny him flee from an EMU with a mascot. I don't know why. Yeah, tell us more about what's happening with him, And I mean, we don't know he's in the hospital. He sucked at the hospital, like in either like right at the start of the year, too or at the very end of the last year, it happens a lot to him. Was hospitalized in January for an intestan that was clear he did not need surgery. But

it says this thing. It says there's there's several times of being hospitalized and not needing surgery, but because they just gotta they gotta suck the poop out of his nose and then get him to give like a thumbs up in the hospital bed where he looks like one of those like weed commercials where like sunk into the couch because you're he's just it's very funny. Why is he still in charge? You know? Um, because he's the powerful. Yes it feels yes, yes, one of those feels like

he shouldn't be Maybe definitely feels like he shouldn't be. Um. You know, I keep a photo album, like a digital photo album. We we got paid to endorse them last year. Uh, and they sent me one. It's an Ori digital frame. Um, it's only pictures of Bolonnaro in the hospital and it sits in my living room. Yeah, it's it's just all and a picture of him getting stacked. We need he's getting like ship sucked out of his nose. He's lying

on his back in a hospital bed. Every day. When I get up, I just look over and I see first thing, a different picture of JayR. Bolson Yaro dying, like a little video of it for like enough time for us to see a couple of the picture cycle throws at some point on your convenience. I would love to see that, of course, thank you. Um. But yeah, that's what I recommend everybody do. Go find pictures of j your Bolson Yaro, print them out, you know, put them, put them up in your house, put them in your

kid's bedroom. Um, you know, get those deflated thumbs ups. Yeah, if you're getting married, instead of putting together like a photo album of you and your spouse, your future spouse, maybe show your friends and family Jay your Bolton Yaro in the hospital. Nice thing. Maybe I'll show them a little perspective for a baby shower. Yeah, I've got one. On Saturday, I was wondering what to give them. So you can always give people the gift of Jay or

Bolson Narrow slowly dying in hospital. Oh god, I might have to do that now. That sounds fun. It really really helps. So Biden's got a new budget. And you know, you could really say that that Biden is the Will Smith here slapping open handed everyone who thinks that we spend too much money on law enforcement in the Defense Department. Yeah, he's really really violence. He's really given Smith to our collective chiefs. Will Smith. Not having that's right enough, not

having any social have the environment, that's right. It's the flat to mere putin of the United States continuing to spend all of its money on weapons for authoritarian I do think we should, as opposed to healthcare, a pretty big milestone um, which is the defense budget finally exceeding eight hundred billion dollars. I know I'm opening that bottle.

You know, Cody, when we first started to hanging out, I got that bottle of champagne and I was like, Cody, one of these days they're going to get that Defense Department budget past, and then I'm gonna crack this open. And you said it's never gonna happen, Robert's never gonna happen. Well, who's having champagne tonight? Maybe champagne Smith of alcohol anyway, congratulate. Yeah, So he's he's clearly gearing up for the mid terms and is making it's one of those things. I think

it's bad to defense department anymore money. I think it's bad to give federal law enforcement, ice, even local law enforcement anymore money. That doesn't mean it's a bad move politically. This might work out for the Democrats politically. Um. Yeah, it's just so. I mean, it's obvious and obvious signal to move movement more center and to be ignoring anything

the progressive say. And it's like, well, it's evidence that the kind of crime panic um stuff that that the Republicans have been pushing heavily and the media has worked in the media has worked. The media loves talking about crime. Um, it's evidence that a lot of the demonization of homeless people and of migrants has has really worked, um historically. Like he's also like he'll jump with that chance that he knows how to do that. So long it's like, oh,

I can do this. This is like in my natural form, I can't. I can't argue for like giving the police less money and moving funds to other programs or anything like that, but I can. I can. The essence of being a moderate really of being like, oh, is it kind of tipping in that action? Never mind like just going away and never sticking firm in a direction. I mean so much just goes against even what he has talked about in his own campaigning. You know, there's so

much reversal that we're seeing from him. Yeah, I mean so Obviously. The bleak thing is that at the moment, you'll see this from a couple of ways one of them, and this is generally how news will frame it as, like, most Americans don't support defunding the police. It's not a popular policy position. It's also accurate to note that it's massively more popular than it was before, like it do a significant surge. Also, if you describe what defund the police,

the phrase means it's supported by people. It's the same thing with the no fly zone stuff, where it's like you support no fly zone? Yes, what if that's what it means this? Oh then overall, Um, I think what Biden is doing here is popular. Now part of what's going to determine, Like it's one of those things increasing funding for police is something that people tend to support

when polled. Um, that doesn't mean that this is actually going to get the Democrats anywhere electorally, because in part um, the kind of the odds that this will have any sort of impact on the kind of crime that people are worried about in time for the midterms is pretty nil. So it's a question of will Biden kind of harping on the fact that we did increase, you know, fund the signaling actually the signaling do it? Or will people still be like spooked enough by crime? Are they're gonna

blame Democrats for that? YadA YadA, YadA. UM. I don't know, Like this is one of those things where it's very possible Biden is making the intelligent decision politically. I just think it's bad, just like I think it's bad to spend eight billion dollars on defense or eight point one billion dollars on ice UM. But that doesn't mean it won't work because most people seem to support doing those things, which is bad. But that it's not Joe Biden's job to do good things. It's Joe Biden's job to win

re election. And like I have to say that part of my disappointment with this um because yes, you're right, maybe this is the way that he needs to go. Because even in in circles of people that I know and people that are pretty liberal and in general, once you sit down and talk to them on issues, um, so many people are talking about Yeah, but crime, and there's so much that's pervasive, that's happening, and there's so many talking points that it is impossible to break down

and push back against it. Plus you you you add into that inflation, which we all know is certainly not only Joe Biden's fault. There's a lot of stuff happening in the world, and he walked into a situation. Maybe there are short term things that he could have done differently, but in general, inflation, I don't know. I can't speak to that, but in general, inflation is is bigger than him. Any person in power right now would be dealing with it right step stepping in a year into a pandemic

that there's more he could have done about. But due to social issues in the United States, it wasn't gonna go well. It was gonna go well. And then you add in this war and all all the things. Okay, so yeah, there's a lot going on. There's a lot going on, so all of that, like he's gonna handle this, uh that situation. So I understand politically what's happening, but

it's sucking disappointing. And it's also but disappointing is how many people, um kind of buy the line and the panic the panic lines and like, oh yeah, crime is rising, and what are we going to do about the unhoused population and what are we going to do about this? And like nothing's changed in the last eight months since he's actually been off, as my glad, things have gotten worse. That's what's always so frustrating too, is it's like, do you think that it might um needed that we meet

and might need a minute? Do you think that like the problems that you're you're scared about, like the fact that aspects of society are collapsing, that increasingly huge numbers of people have fallen totally through the cracks that there's absolutely no control over, like for example, the degree to which landlords can gouge people for rent, the fact that food prices are raising um while wages are not raising, the fact that like things are getting a lot more

desperate for people, while the international system seems to be spending out of control. Is it possible that like that has more to do with the fact that we continue to shackle ourselves to a system that trends inevitably towards um violence and uh, what's the word I'm looking for, um inequality than it has to do with specifically Joe Biden. That he's more of like an art he's more of an avatar of the system than a cause of it.

Like he certainly is not making it better, but he's not making it better because you elected him to represent a thing that can only go in one direction. Like, that's that's the guy Joe Biden is. That's the guy he's always been. And he's only gonna he's only gonna he's not gonna press hard on the gas. But he's only going to press on the gas. Um. Yes, so I'm not Yeah, I'm not in maybe overthrow the government. Look, ums not, he's not in the car on the road.

You necessarily wanted to be honest. Yeah, and he probably shouldn't be driving. Look, he's old, his eyesight is not great. They'll just go, we gotta get Puttin out of there. Talk about that real quick minutes him talking about Puttin talking about that gas machine. Joe Bie, You know what, I loved that, and I loved particularly that people immediately were like, well, he's irish and you know how the

Irish incredible. That was not a kind of racism. I expected to come back in two like, okay, we're talking about the fighting Irish. Very fun Okay, okay, man. Maybe maybe he's actually maybe it's he's tired. Maybe it's not the Irish thing. Maybe he's like, um, it's just you know, look,

obviously he's no Donald Trump. And Donald Trump's rambles an off book dialogues and off prompt or all of that was exhausting and awful and and and very very glad to not have funny sometimes all the time and funny sometimes ever and then hold on one And when he was talking to that kid about Santa, there's so many good things. Um uh bad too at some things. And that was bad. That was a bad mistake that he made.

I saw that you should line and was like, he said what, Look, I said what I fundamentally, I agree fundamentally with the sentiment where it's like, yeah, Putin is a brutal dictator who probably shouldn't have the unilateral ability to end all life on earth. It would be great. He should definitely not be in power as the US president, who shouldn't travel to the border of the country that he governs and say that that's not not a good call.

It's not a good call. That's a that's a that's a behind closed doors because yeah, he's there for peace talks, right or maybe that one was talking to NATO, but he's there for peace talks. It's not really a negotiating regime change. Those guys got poisoned. I don't know their names. Well, yeah, we'll talk about this, but it definitely seems like I mean, that happens a lot around around the Russian border. But there's just a lot of polar him around the porter.

What do you about to look it's fine, it's not, it's just plum, but it is. I do think you get these people who are like, there's also this this tendency to massive overreaction where it's like, well, now we're gonna have World War three. It's like, no, just because Joe Biden said a thing that Putin has known for a while, he's thinking, doesn't mean Putin's going to suddenly start firing the missiles because, among other things, fundamentally, I

don't think he's feels particularly in danger. Like there's been the same kind of ship we see we saw from like liberals when Trump was in office, where there's all these conspiracy theories about things they're going to take Puttin out of office, and there's just this big conspiracy theory about like I'm a secret FSB agent and there's like resistance to the Putin regime and like people are gonna he's having trouble holding onto power, and don't trust any

of that. There's no no real evidence of it. Everything I'm seeing like, I have not yet seen a reason to believe that Putin is not fairly solidly in power. And it would be deeply surprising if he were overthrown at this stage. All those angry staffer accounts from four years it is the foreign policy equivalent of that people, and it's like he's pretty good at centralizing power and keeping it. Question. Yeah, did you guys see I haven't

seen this. Somebody mentioned it yesterday and I'm just asking you on our show if you see Nope, not that. Did Ellen Musk say something about he thinks Putin might be the richest man in the world. Yeah, sure, in the same way that like Bizars of Russia were, because technically all of the do you think he could be that much of a billionaire, not in terms of because it's it's kind of pointless to say because he doesn't. It's like, were the Roman empires, the emperors the richest

people who have ever lived? Well in terms of a bank account, I don't even know if any of them had any kind of like accounting the bank because they're the emperor, right, the state belongs to them. Um. So you can make a case that, like whatever any given Roman Empire emperor at the height of the empire was the richest person who ever lived, and you could make the state that like one of the Russian tsars, which

the richest person who ever lived. And that's the case anytime you have a situation where there is a state that is extremely powerful and a single dude is effectively the owner of it. Um. So yeah, I mean you could you can make that case. It's kind of meaningless because I guess the point that I'm gonna outflaw is like, what the funk is he talking about? Anyway? Yeah, wealth as an autocrat is different from like wealth as a businessman, Like they mean different things, like to the extent like

who could buy the most expensive things? I guess they both could. To the like I don't feel like had a bridge taken down for his meaningfully, there's I don't think there's really anything that like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos could buy that Putin could not um, whereas there are things that Putin could buy that they could not U. But uh so, yeah, but I don't think it really matters because we're not sorry to derail this into Elon. Do you think Musk could poison people with polonia? I

do actually suspect he could pull that off. All right. If you can't poison someone with two hundred billion dollars, why even have two dollars exactly, which he doesn't. It's it's stocks and ship whatever. I think it might be time to wrap up. I don't know. Let's talk about Tremor Lacelle Dillard stage name flow Rider. You talking about Roberts breakout single Low was number one for ten weeks in the United States? My man, what the fun you're

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flow Rider. Anyway, this the Will Smith of Altros slap in the face of our listeners, and that's just pretty good. But I've got one more flow right as slapped the face of the Eurovision Song Contest when he represented San Marino, a country that I don't know that he'd heard of before the Vision Song Contest. Katie save us please. Well, I don't know if this is real or not, but it's a tweet. Oh good. So it says the devil works hard, but the updated of the Macbeth Wikipedia page

works harder. And it's a screenshot of the Wikipedia page. At the Academy Awards, Chris Rock congratulated Denzel Washington on his performance in The Tragedy of Macbeth, verbally saying the name of the Scottish play allowed in the Delby Theater. Moments later, Rock was slapped by Will Smith after making a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith coincidence, Are you not supposed to say of the theater? Not supposed to say that out loud in the theater. It's bad

you call the Scottish play and sto us. I guess I had heard that anyway. I brought it home mish um. I don't know. I'm done. You know, I bet who? You know who I bet knows not to say the name of the Scottish play in a theater is flow writer there it is? Really you don't You don't make twenty second in the Eurovision Contest without knowing a thing or two about the Scottish play. You know I could. I could do it. At the end of show on India by everything so dull, Everything so dull, and it's

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