In the Field with Grace Kuhlenschmidt

Speaker 1 This is an iHeart podcast.

Speaker 2 You're listening to Comedy Central.

Speaker 3 When you hear Off the Grid, you probably think of living in a cute cottage in the woods like Ted Kaczynski.

Speaker 4 But you don't have to venture way the f ⁇ into the wilderness to live like Ted.

Speaker 3 Meet Josh Spodek, astrophysicist, NYU professor, and real-life Captain Planet.

Speaker 10 I used to empty my garbage weekly. Now I emptied my garbage once in 2019, once in 2018, once in 2017.

Speaker 7 Okay, twin, I also only take out my trash once a year.

Speaker 9 But recently, Josh went even further, taking his Manhattan apartment off the electrical grid completely.

Speaker 1 So what is your problem with electricity?

Speaker 12 Did it kill your family?

Speaker 6 Or did it?

Speaker 13 Because I am now realizing that's kind of something that could happen.

Speaker 14 I do use electricity. I have my solar panels that I take up to the roof and charge the battery, but that's it.
I try to minimize my footprint as much as I can.

Speaker 7 Now, what exactly is electricity? And I know the basics.

Speaker 15 It's

Speaker 7 the stuff that's in the air.

Speaker 14 Electricity, actually it's very complicated.

Speaker 15 When people think it's simple, I'm like, are you dumb?

Speaker 14 In one sense, it's simple in that it just works because that's how

Speaker 6 it's gravity.

Speaker 14 Gravity. So we've learned to control this power through wires and batteries and things like that.

Speaker 14 So almost always you're gonna be polluting.

Speaker 6 You're gonna be polluting.

Speaker 17 And I don't want to pay.

Speaker 8 Josh's typical day as an eco-warrior starts with cardio, going up 11 flights of stairs with his solar panels. His heavy, heavy solar panels.

Speaker 12 By the way, you know we're like breathing out carbon right now.

Speaker 14 Yeah, that's all part of the biosphere.

Speaker 14 But it's not bringing new carbon from outside the biosphere.

Speaker 12 I'll be right up there, man.

Speaker 5 Just give me like one second.

Speaker 23 Luckily, I was able to find a task rabbit to go up the remaining 10 flights of stairs.

Speaker 14 Connect the solar panel to battery?

Speaker 19 Cool.

Speaker 24 And it's not just about saving energy.

Speaker 25 Josh has also been living packaging free for a decade.

Speaker 8 Americans throw away 268 million tons of trash per year, which is enough to feed 10 rats. But Josh says there's a better way.

Speaker 14 I keep all my garbage here and the last time I emptied this was Christmas 2019. So this is my fourth year on one load of garbage.

Speaker 1 Do you mind if I give this to you?

Speaker 14 I pass on that.

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 14 And if you bring a reusable container next time, this isn't reusable? People in the future will be dealing with it for 500 years or more.

Speaker 26 So 500 years, someone will be using it.

Speaker 16 Maybe my great-great-granddaughter.

Speaker 14 They won't be using it so much as it'll be in their bloodstreams. Plastic, it doesn't decompose.
It messes with their hormonal system.

Speaker 14 It causes disease.

Speaker 7 You have quite the imagination.

Speaker 27 Josh also uses that imagination in the kitchen.

Speaker 14 So this is split pea. I got carrot, beet, cabbage.
I just put in nutritional yeast.

Speaker 6 It's like really fragrant.

Speaker 14 Bon appetit.

Speaker 16 I hope you like it.

Speaker 14 I think this will be better tomorrow after the flavor is mixed a bit more.

Speaker 8 This way of life seemed really difficult. How was Josh keeping himself going?

Speaker 14 So this lifestyle may look like deprivation and sacrifice to others, but for me, it's really about joy. Totally.

Speaker 3 You seem very joyful.

Speaker 6 People were saying.

Speaker 14 You know, I compost, I recycle, and I do what I can, but I have to balance that with living my regular life.

Speaker 10 Right.

Speaker 7 That's usually what I'm saying to myself.

Speaker 14 And you think, do I have to think about every other person on the planet every time I do anything?

Speaker 7 That's exactly how I think.

Speaker 9 It's like you're reading my brain.

Speaker 14 But systemic change begins with personal change. I got to quote Abraham Lincoln here.

Speaker 16 Okay.

Speaker 14 Nothing damages you more than to do something that you believe is wrong.

Speaker 12 And I'll quote Abraham Lincoln.

Speaker 28 God bless America.

Speaker 12 He said that a lot.

Speaker 17 Probably, yeah. Wow.

Speaker 21 Josh had inspired me and I was ready to make a difference too.

Speaker 28 Going a full 24 hours living life Spodek style.

Speaker 15 This is a day in my life with zero electricity and zero waste.

Speaker 4 I start my day by waking up.

Speaker 27 Whoops.

Speaker 5 No electricity means no lights. Luckily, my toxic roommate isn't home, so I'm using her food to make my famous green glow smoothie.

Speaker 11 I start with bananas, some beautiful organic kale, one scoop of collagen, and then

Speaker 11 next up, a trip to Precycle, a packaging-free store where you bring your own containers.

Speaker 3 Good thing I always travel with my Tupperwares.

Speaker 4 Josh, if you're watching, check it out, man.

Speaker 19 I'm really doing this.

Speaker 6 Hello.

Speaker 7 So, these are oats right here. And then, last but not least, these

Speaker 12 flour.

Speaker 26 Sure, yeah.

Speaker 7 You could probably just weigh my whole hand just to make it a little bit easier.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 12 Oh my god,

Speaker 6 I did it.

Speaker 7 That was only 90 minutes.

Speaker 7 Me!

Speaker 7 Woohoo!

Speaker 7 Thank you so much.

Speaker 7 I mean, you have the wrong apartment.

Speaker 3 Get out of here.

Speaker 11 Little did I know, things were about to get really, really bad.

Speaker 6 1%?

Speaker 4 You said you had 5% 10 minutes ago! F

Speaker 4 you!

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 6 All good, bro.

Speaker 4 All good.

Speaker 22 Just me here with my thoughts.

Speaker 3 That's chill.

Speaker 12 I know what to do.

Speaker 32 Sadly, I didn't make it.

Speaker 11 But you know what? I did make a difference.

Speaker 5 And that's something they can never take away from me.

Speaker 8 America's democracy may not be the strongest, but at least it's it's the oldest.

Speaker 10 There seems to be some sort of gerontocracy.

Speaker 27 We have the oldest leaders among rich countries, and we love all of them.

Speaker 30 Joe Biden, Donald Trump, this guy.

Speaker 28 But are there drawbacks to having our leadership with one foot in heaven?

Speaker 21 I spoke to Mark Fisher, neuropolitics researcher at UC Irvine.

Speaker 33 We know that brain function tends to deteriorate. with aging.
One of the first to go of all the cognitive functions is called executive function. It's decision-making.

Speaker 19 I see.

Speaker 33 What can be more important for a political leader than decision-making?

Speaker 26 What am I going to have for freaking lunch?

Speaker 30 I'm president of the United States. What the heck am I going to have for lunch?

Speaker 28 That's a hard decision. And I hope that I have a burger for lunch.

Speaker 12 I guess I've had this freaky misconception that old people are wiser and smarter than me.

Speaker 13 And it feels like what you're telling me is that that's not true and I should never trust them.

Speaker 17 Oh,

Speaker 33 I wouldn't say that.

Speaker 33 I wouldn't say that. No, I think that the experience that one gains over the course of a lifetime is extraordinarily important.

Speaker 33 But there are some measurable cognitive functions that do begin to decline over the age of 60.

Speaker 28 So even though you have more experiences, you are still getting dumber.

Speaker 33 You know, I'm a neurologist. Dumb is not a word that we use.

Speaker 19 Okay, all right.

Speaker 12 I'll say it then.

Speaker 19 Don't worry.

Speaker 8 So having a bunch of old brains in charge might be a bit of a problem, but this wise old neurologist actually has a solution.

Speaker 33 Our Neuropolitics Center, we came out with a recommendation that cognitive testing should be done on all politicians, not just older politicians, all politicians.

Speaker 34 Woman, man,

Speaker 17 Cameron, Keeby.

Speaker 24 Unsurprisingly, Trump says he aced his cognitive test already.

Speaker 33 If you get it in order, you get extra points. An individual is given a number of things to remember, and then after a period of time, three to five minutes, they're asked to repeat that.

Speaker 30 I mean, those aren't hard things to remember, right?

Speaker 26 Person, mama,

Speaker 33 dad. It's only one part of the exam.

Speaker 17 Yeah, thank God.

Speaker 33 And by itself,

Speaker 33 it doesn't determine a whole lot. I mean, you have to look at the entire exam.

Speaker 30 And you have to look at someone's personality.

Speaker 13 I mean, I have a really good personality.

Speaker 33 Absolutely. Thank you.
But

Speaker 33 that's really not assessed in a cognitive system.

Speaker 13 It doesn't need to be.

Speaker 3 Without seeing his test results, we can only guess how well or not well Trump's brain is doing.

Speaker 35 I'll tell you what. what.

Speaker 21 But it did make me curious.

Speaker 7 Could my brain be president? My name, Grace.

Speaker 3 My date of birth, June 30th,

Speaker 7 1995.

Speaker 33 This first part of the exam, this isn't scored, so this is just identification material.

Speaker 28 Okay, God, I would like to be scored on those two, actually, if possible, because I think I got them right.

Speaker 3 Do you have more difficulties doing everyday activities due to thinking problems?

Speaker 30 No, I have almost nothing to do on a daily basis.

Speaker 3 At the bottom of the very last page, right, I have finished on the blank line provided.

Speaker 33 So this is a test of delayed recall.

Speaker 7 Got it.

Speaker 6 This one is so easy.

Speaker 3 Can I call my mom to just double check?

Speaker 33 Last question. In the course of just a few pages, we've covered many cognitive domains.
Sir.

Speaker 5 Did I pass? Let's hear it, brother.

Speaker 6 Come on. Come on.
You got it. Woo!

Speaker 6 Let's go!

Speaker 28 Now, if only someone could go to Washington and get our elected leaders to take this test.

Speaker 9 Okay, fine.

Speaker 6 I'll do it. Hello.

Speaker 36 Hey, how you doing?

Speaker 36 Good to see you.

Speaker 9 You too. My name's Grace.

Speaker 36 I'm Maxwell.

Speaker 1 I'm looking for a congressperson.

Speaker 36 Well, I am a congressman.

Speaker 22 So who does like your Botox or your work?

Speaker 11 You look incredible.

Speaker 36 I appreciate it. I'm actually 27.

Speaker 21 Yes, most junior congressperson Maxwell Frost is the only person who would talk to me for this story.

Speaker 1 So how would you feel about having a cognitive test required for politicians?

Speaker 36 I don't think we should have that.

Speaker 12 Okay, why not? You worried you'd fail, dude?

Speaker 36 What is a cognitive test?

Speaker 1 For example, I could show you one.

Speaker 36 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What are these?

Speaker 36 A rhino and a harp.

Speaker 6 Congratulations, sir.

Speaker 11 You get to keep your position.

Speaker 9 They told me that if you screwed this up, that

Speaker 1 this office would be mine.

Speaker 36 I'm gonna be honest, I had to think for like just two seconds about what animal that was.

Speaker 6 Yeah, of course.

Speaker 20 In this baby politician's view, the issue with politics isn't old brains.

Speaker 21 It's the lack of young ones.

Speaker 36 I do think it's an issue that, yeah, young people are as representative. I don't think we should like boot out all the old people and just have young people running the country.

Speaker 26 So you're not ageist?

Speaker 10 I'm not an ageist.

Speaker 3 When do you feel like you would retire?

Speaker 36 I don't know when I would retire, but I do think we need term limits.

Speaker 1 Do you think if you stay in Congress for 30 to 4 years, you'll be able to bring Congress to term limits?

Speaker 36 Because of how this place works, maybe, but my hope is we'll have it way before that.

Speaker 21 So it's not hopeless.

Speaker 3 We just need our young politicians to stick around until they'll be able to change the system, however long it takes.

Speaker 11 You know what?

Speaker 22 I think I'll vote for you.

Speaker 36 You can't.

Speaker 12 Why?

Speaker 36 Not. Because I live in Orlando.
I represent Orlando, Florida. If you move to Orlando.

Speaker 15 I I could go on a paid business trip to Disney World and leave my vote there.

Speaker 36 Yeah, yeah. That's illegal too.

Speaker 37 The election is so close and the stakes are so high.

Speaker 12 I feel like I can't think about anything else.

Speaker 28 Can someone just tell me what's going to happen so I can chill the f ⁇ out?

Speaker 38 Presidential race at a dead heat.

Speaker 23 Deadlocked at exactly 48%.

Speaker 39 Got Trump up two points. Harris with a three-point advantage.

Speaker 18 Maybe Trump up a point or two.

Speaker 23 Harris up by four.

Speaker 39 Everything you're about to see is within the margin of error. Within the margin of error.

Speaker 21 So what do these numbers mean?

Speaker 1 I could do the a beautiful mind thing, but maybe it's just quicker to talk to an expert.

Speaker 15 Anthony, who the f ⁇ is going to win this election?

Speaker 35 I can tell you that this race is effectively tied. Has been for a while in all the polls.
There are so few undecided voters who say they may or may not vote, and they'll probably decide this.

Speaker 28 Okay, thank you for all of this information.

Speaker 7 It's been really helpful.

Speaker 27 I'm wondering who is going to win the election.

Speaker 35 I can't tell you that.

Speaker 13 Do you think that polls are the best way to predict elections?

Speaker 35 Well, polls tell you what people are thinking now and more importantly, they show you why people are thinking it. But what do we know about people? They sometimes change their minds.
100%.

Speaker 28 So this morning, for example, I was at a diner. I know what I want.

Speaker 13 It's going to be two eggs scrambled, sausage, potatoes.

Speaker 12 Right.

Speaker 28 But it was 11.30.

Speaker 15 So I was seriously tempted to get a chicken seizer wrap. And that's basically exactly what you do.

Speaker 35 Not really, but it does underline the idea that people can make different decisions at different times.

Speaker 15 Can you just blink once if it's going to be the person that I want it to be?

Speaker 15 Okay.

Speaker 15 That's a really bad sign.

Speaker 20 So despite that being their only job, the polls can't tell us who is going to win.

Speaker 27 Fortunately, there is someone who has called nine out of ten of the last elections using a system of 13 questions about the economy and the electorate.

Speaker 34 I don't pay attention to the polls. They're snapshots, not predictors.
My system, the 13 keys to the White House, examines the fundamental forces that drive presidential elections.

Speaker 24 So how did you settle on 13 keys?

Speaker 34 Using pattern recognition, every election from 1860 to 1980.

Speaker 15 Why not 14?

Speaker 32 Could have been any number.

Speaker 24 Why not 15?

Speaker 34 I love all those numbers, but the big message is it's governing, not campaigning that counts.

Speaker 34 That the electorate as a whole asks whether the administration has done a good enough job for four more years or they want to make a change.

Speaker 15 So, Alan, what is your prediction for this election 2024?

Speaker 34 The keys indicate that Kamala Harris will become the first woman president of the U.S.

Speaker 17 Cool.

Speaker 41 Alan's track record is solid, but he did make one oopsie in 2000.

Speaker 34 People say I got Florida wrong because I was calling Gore,

Speaker 34 and in fact, Bush ultimately won. I say I was correct because Florida way disproportionately rejected ballots cast by African Americans.

Speaker 15 So your system works perfectly unless someone is stealing an election.

Speaker 32 Yes.

Speaker 5 Thank God that won't happen, right?

Speaker 19 Right.

Speaker 5 Okay, so is there one other reliable method for predicting the election?

Speaker 41 So election results are a perfect thing for astrology to predict. The position of the planets when you're born influences a person's personality and how their life unfolds.

Speaker 27 And Amy has been amazingly accurate in some of her predictions, like naming the exact date that Joe Biden stepped down.

Speaker 41 There was a full moon coming up that was was in Capricorn at 29 degrees and 29 degrees represents an ending and Capricorn represents old age. So I just put together that he was going to drop out.

Speaker 13 That's fair. That makes sense actually.

Speaker 15 So what are your current predictions for the 2024 election?

Speaker 41 I predict Kamala is going to win the presidency.

Speaker 28 So basically with this election, what you're saying is that Kamala's chart just looks more powerful than Donald Trump's?

Speaker 41 Yeah, Donald Trump's chart is giving desire for power and control, and Kamala's chart is giving more following her life path and what she's meant to do.

Speaker 42 So is it real?

Speaker 28 Is astrology real?

Speaker 41 Yes, it's very real.

Speaker 19 Okay.

Speaker 41 Very real.

Speaker 24 The stars had made a clear prediction for the election, but what could they predict about something that really mattered?

Speaker 12 Like me?

Speaker 41 I do see a wealth aspect in your chart.

Speaker 40 That's fabulous news.

Speaker 41 And Trump's a Gemini and you have a lot of Gemini energy.

Speaker 28 So you would say Trump and I are similar.

Speaker 41 Yeah actually your Venus is on his son so you might would fall in love with him.

Speaker 27 My V is on his what now?

Speaker 31 This is a marriage aspect actually.

Speaker 15 This changes everything.

Speaker 28 I mean are you gonna tell my girlfriend or am I?

Speaker 31 But for Trump, it's not outside the realm of possibility that he goes to jail.

Speaker 15 So my husband is going to jail.

Speaker 28 Yeah.

Speaker 28 But I'll be wealthy.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 19 Okay, good.

Speaker 19 You're going to have the money.

Speaker 5 I am loving astrology.

Speaker 27 There you have it. But with both the stars and history predicting the future, do we even need to vote?

Speaker 32 Ah, here's the thing.

Speaker 34 The keys are based on history. And if people don't vote, you're going to break the pattern of history.

Speaker 44 So I have to vote.

Speaker 34 You must vote. I don't care who you vote for, but you must vote.

Speaker 5 You're such a Leo.

Speaker 39 I'm not a Leo.

Speaker 34 I'm a tourist.

Speaker 44 Let's cut that part out.

Speaker 25 Last time I was in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 20 was just two months ago, which feels like a lifetime.

Speaker 22 I was so young and naive looking for answers.

Speaker 40 What is her prediction for this election of 2024?

Speaker 24 And Alan Lichtman gave them to me.

Speaker 32 Kamala Harris will become the first woman president.

Speaker 27 But Alan Lichtman was wrong.

Speaker 18 Donald Trump has been elected president.

Speaker 39 Can you just admit that you got it wrong with your foolish little equation? You got it wrong, Alan.

Speaker 32 You live in a total makeup.

Speaker 32 You've got it wrong. Say you were preposterously and stupidly wrong.

Speaker 32 Al.

Speaker 15 I seriously trusted you.

Speaker 32 Well?

Speaker 28 No, no. It's not your time to talk yet.

Speaker 28 I seriously trusted you.

Speaker 40 And I thought that what you told me was the truth.

Speaker 34 I was being honest.

Speaker 32 You were. You were, Alan.
It was a prediction.

Speaker 34 Not a fact. And I told you.
I'm a human being, right?

Speaker 27 You didn't tell me that you were a human being and that you might be wrong.

Speaker 34 I certainly didn't mean to hurt anyone. I'm not psychic.
My predictions are based on history. And this year,

Speaker 34 which you know was the craziest year ever, the pattern of history was broken. That can happen.

Speaker 37 Did you even notice I got a haircut?

Speaker 39 I actually did and it looks great.

Speaker 32 I agree.

Speaker 15 It really frames my face.

Speaker 40 If only Alan's political judgment was as good as his taste in haircuts, but it wasn't.

Speaker 24 And I needed to know why.

Speaker 43 What are some of your excuses?

Speaker 34 I definitely think I was thrown off by pushing Biden out. We've never seen a sitting president, the elected nominee, forced out.

Speaker 34 So that leads me to perhaps reevaluate my call on the contest key.

Speaker 43 See, yeah, I knew that was stupid and I was going to tell you, but I didn't want to women'splain.

Speaker 34 The broader point is, I do think

Speaker 34 Harris's race and gender played a role here. There are deep strains within this country of misogyny, racism, xenophobia.

Speaker 43 I wish you had told me that the first time.

Speaker 43 Could have maybe thrown that in there.

Speaker 21 And to be fair, Alan wasn't the only thought leader who got this prediction wrong.

Speaker 43 Have you talked to Charlie XCX about this or anything?

Speaker 10 Talked to who?

Speaker 15 Charlie XEX.

Speaker 18 Maybe I'm not hearing you right.

Speaker 43 Charlie XCX.

Speaker 34 Charlie XCS. I don't know who that is.
Yeah.

Speaker 15 She said that Kamala is brat

Speaker 15 and it just

Speaker 1 at this point I'm kind of thinking perhaps Trump was more brat.

Speaker 34 Oh, okay.

Speaker 43 Yeah, but you and her have not spoken.

Speaker 34 We have not spoken.

Speaker 20 I was secretly glad they hadn't spoken because that would make me crazy jealous, which is an issue I'd been working on with my therapist.

Speaker 26 But did Alan have any regrets of his own?

Speaker 28 Are you thinking, why did I ever get into politics?

Speaker 43 Why didn't I, you know, just stick to modeling or something?

Speaker 34 This is one prediction in over 40 years. I was listed as number 85 of the world's hundred leading geopolitical experts.

Speaker 34 But people think, oh, he made a wrong prediction that invalidates him as a person. It's crazy.

Speaker 15 I one time was in an Uber and there was an iPad on the back of the seat and it said, what sound does a dog make?

Speaker 43 And bark was right there.

Speaker 12 I clicked moo.

Speaker 28 But lucky for me, it's not my job.

Speaker 43 And so it really had no impact on my life.

Speaker 34 I'd like to say one more thing.

Speaker 15 Please.

Speaker 19 Yes.

Speaker 34 We shouldn't just write off an error. We can learn a lot about our politics and our society from analyzing the mistake.

Speaker 6 Wow.

Speaker 43 Yeah.

Speaker 34 If you can't learn from your mistakes, then you're in big trouble.

Speaker 15 You know what, Alan? I forgive you.

Speaker 22 And I hope that we're back here in four years.

Speaker 34 I hope so. And I hope.

Speaker 43 I hope you're right that time.

Speaker 34 The great Benjamin Disraeli, the former late prime minister of England, once said, finality is not a word we use in politics.

Speaker 43 I think Charlie XCX said that.

Speaker 43 That's that? I think Charlie XCX said that.

Speaker 34 Every time you say that, I kind of go, what? Because it's not a name that rings any bells at least.

Speaker 28 The world is up in arms about social media companies being run by Trump-aligned billionaires.

Speaker 37 But are they mad enough to get off the apps?

Speaker 43 Let's put this on TikTok and find out.

Speaker 37 That actually made me so mad.

Speaker 32 You seem pissed. Yeah.

Speaker 38 It definitely just feels very propaganda.

Speaker 38 Incredibly angry. And to see it so blatantly broadcasted that like the wealth of, I mean, combined wealth of like trillion dollars

Speaker 38 sits right in front of the cabinet right next to the president. I mean, do you think the anger is justified?

Speaker 46 100%.

Speaker 32 Yes, yes.

Speaker 46 Yes, completely. 100%.

Speaker 42 I think it's... You guys are so pissed.

Speaker 32 You're like about to punch me.

Speaker 32 Calm down.

Speaker 32 Trump sucks, so it's kind of...

Speaker 38 I don't know. I just feel like...

Speaker 42 He's going to be pissed to hear you say that, though.

Speaker 38 He really likes you.

Speaker 32 What apps are you mostly on?

Speaker 38 Instagram and TikTok. Okay, gotcha.

Speaker 29 I'm on Instagram and Snapchat.

Speaker 23 Okay. Instagram and

Speaker 46 X.

Speaker 32 You're on X. Oh, my God.

Speaker 37 So if you mostly use Instagram, at what point would you be like, okay, I have to get off this app?

Speaker 45 When I'm opening Instagram, I'm not being run by Mark Zuckerberg. I'm just like, I'm deciding, like, all right, I'm gonna go on here.

Speaker 45 And yeah, like, kind of finding more cooking things to be pushed on my.

Speaker 44 An amazing one-pot pasta recipe. You're like, it's actually five.

Speaker 44 And this is being monetized to Trump.

Speaker 32 Yeah, I'm like, I don't, I don't.

Speaker 40 Do you think you'd be willing to pick an app and delete one with me today?

Speaker 15 We don't even need social media when we have books like this.

Speaker 28 Like, I'll read just a little.

Speaker 32 Okay, I won't bore you.

Speaker 15 Tuesday, mixed berries and chia seeds.

Speaker 42 Wednesday, honey and Greek yogurt.

Speaker 42 So what would it take you to delete the app?

Speaker 32 Instagram? Mm-hmm.

Speaker 38 Oh, I mean, I deleted it last week. I'll probably delete it again.

Speaker 32 We don't need it.

Speaker 27 But you do say you keep re-downloading it.

Speaker 42 I do. So what do you think Mark Zuckerberg could do to make you kind of kick it out?

Speaker 46 I don't know. I've probably already done enough.
Yeah.

Speaker 32 We probably should delete the ad.

Speaker 26 Do you guys want to do it?

Speaker 32 I read it. Right now?

Speaker 42 Wait.

Speaker 38 I saw this post that was like people get FOMO from not being on social media, but then they get FOMO from real life.

Speaker 32 From being on social media. Oh, fact.

Speaker 32 Is that like really meta? I don't know.

Speaker 32 No idea. I need to go back to school.
That looks so over my head.

Speaker 38 Alright, I'll delete with you. Can we do it together? Yeah, we'll do it together.
This is a beautiful movie.

Speaker 32 I'm gonna delete

Speaker 32 my Airbnb. I don't know if this doesn't count, but for the sake of this, I mean, here, you can choose one.

Speaker 32 No, go with Airbnb because I don't stop renting little houses. We'll delete it after one, okay? Okay, so three, two, one, delete.
All right, ready?

Speaker 32 Three, two,

Speaker 32 one.

Speaker 29 You're such a coward.

Speaker 32 You're such a coward. You're not cowardly.

Speaker 32 You don't understand me. We were doing this together.

Speaker 32 Damn,

Speaker 32 We were doing this fing together. We didn't do it.

Speaker 29 And I can't get off. Come to the fing camera.

Speaker 32 Wow.

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