Bonus Episode 49 PREVIEW: The LA Transit Mass Delirium Incident

Ooh, look at that thermal paste.

Num nom nom nom nom.

Delicious.

Num nom nom.

They tell you that's an eat up, but it's because they don't want you to become strong.

Well,

it's just Heilman's mayonnaise, right?

It's not just Hellman's mayonnaise.

It's Hellman's mayonnaise and a little bit of dill.

Okay, the only step of eating thermal paste is to smear it, right?

On your.

I think you smear the thermal paste, right?

Oh, I like to be a sluttered little bagel.

I'm going to get a little bit of a switch to my bagel with the little syringe they give a little syringe

that's anti-semitism

uh but you know as long as they don't scoop the bagel they that that is that is disgusting that's horrifying

the legitimate reasons to scoop a bagel uh-huh which are that tummy hurt

i wait why is that a legitimate reason i don't see the connection because tummy hurt and bread hurt tummy i would i would sooner i would sooner die of stomach ailment than than lose my

talk to my wife who makes me get my bagel scooped.

Oh my God.

It's a brutal thing.

Tummy hurt.

And when I eat too much bagel, I poop a lot.

But that's not the point.

The thing we're here to talk about, bring up, bring up the thing, the thing we're here to talk about is my dad, because the one time I had a female body inspector t-shirt said FBI female body inspector of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Back when I ran that Hardees and Myrtle Beach, don't worry about that.

Okay.

And then my dad made me throw it out because it was a, it was not, it wasn't that it was like offensive.

He's like, oh, this is kind of of funny.

He's like, that's really misogynist.

And I was like, I got, as, as Doa put it up, outwoked by my dad.

Oh, I thought you were going to say because you were supporting a law enforcement agency.

And he was like,

I believe, I believe it was both.

I believe that it was both.

And he was like, that's not funny.

Like, because my dad, I'm sorry to dox my dad.

My dad set up a fake church in the 60s to try to waste the FBI's time.

It's a really odd.

What type of Protestant was it?

I forget, but they they bought uh they bought frocks and stuff, and then they would go around Yukon Law's campus trying to uh exercise the priest, exercise the military recruiters.

Wow.

Yeah.

Oh my god.

Was it tax exempt?

Surely.

Must have been.

You gotta not ask me questions.

Okay, sorry.

I think that's a good question.

Let us all follow the list of

William's dad's church by counting down from three and then clapping.

Oh, yes.

Three, two,

one,

mark.

Okay, good.

Damn, I'm delayed.

I think.

I think actually you were on time and Nova was late, but if I what the fuck, why?

No, I was fine.

Fuck you.

I have been introduced to the concept of time stalin.

Uh-huh.

Who's actually my wife?

It was actually my wife.

This is not completely.

So the thing about my wife, right?

Let's go.

She

has no concept of how long things will take.

Like, she knows what an hour is, right?

But she's like, oh, you got to leave.

Intellectually.

Right.

Right.

But like, time

just enters her brain and then comes out in some sort of like 7-11 slurpee sludge.

And she's like, oh, you got to leave at like 7:15.

I'll be there at like 7:30.

And she's like, Aren't you glad you left early?

No.

I could have been snuggled up all comfy, cozy, but no.

Here I am at the doctor's office.

I'm a big toasty cinnamon bun.

I am a big toasty cinnamon bun.

Saying this more and more.

Introduce the fucking podcast.

How about the men?

Shut up.

We are gathered here.

We are gathered here today at the Church of Liam's Dad to do the podcast called There's Your Problem.

All one word.

I can't do another episode with Joe Classen in it.

We're doing it again.

Catholicism.

Someone DM'd us asking to do Mormonism.

And if I can get Jordan from Brigham Young Money on here,

that'd be fantastic.

The thing is, then you would have to have the FBI shirt back

because that would be like half of the episode.

Surely I could just get one online.

Female bronze plates inspector.

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not looking for female body inspector t-shirt on.

No, Google it right now so that all your Instagram ads are that for like

the way the way the way that you woke up.

Los Angeles,

the way that you wokeify it is that you get like femboy body inspector, and now nobody can get mad at you because it's not misogynistic.

So Los Angeles actually are real.

Can we sell a femme body inspector shirt?

You can't give me a shirt idea every episode, but yes.

Yes, I will make that up.

Can you make that up along with the We Are Going to Kill You shirt?

Yeah.

Along with that, and along with the Pennsylvania Dutch Air Force, yeah.

No, I've got a main shirt.

The shirt that I have, the Boeing to Die shirt, which I have almost accidentally worn to the airport three times.

Three times.

And welcome to

advance are running the asylum.

It's a podcast about engineering disasters

with slides.

I'm Justin Rozniak.

I'm the person who's talking right now.

My pronouns are he and him.

Okay, go.

I'm November Kelly.

I'm the person who's talking now.

I have not yet begun to drink.

My pronouns are she and her.

Yay, Liam.

Oh, buddy.

Yay, Liam.

Hi.

My name is Liam McAnderson, which is now legally by name as of last Friday.

Woo!

Right.

Yeah, shut up.

I already say my friends are here now.

And with us, we have a guest, returning guest, although not guest champion.

Yeah,

I think you podium, but you're not quite there yet.

No, that's fine.

I mean, I don't need to be, you know, I don't need to be number one.

I just want to

share.

Just beating Gareth like a piper.

I would never do that to Gareth.

I would also not do that to Victoria, who once picked me up in an Acura NSX from a bar, making me look extremely cool.

Wait, wait, wait.

Noah, real quick.

First gen or second gen?

You'd have to ask her.

It was an electric one.

It was electric.

It was a highway.

Yeah, fancy one.

Fancy one.

Yeah.

Hi, my name is Noah Sora-Sykes.

My pronouns are he, him, his.

I am a community organizer in the great city of Los Angeles, California.

My job changed since the last time I did this podcast.

So now I do it professionally.

Frequent consequence of being on this podcast.

Correct.

Yeah, it's either your job or your gender, and my gender remains the same.

Give me a minute.

See how we are at the end of this.

Yeah, exactly.

And also, just before we start, because of that job, I have to say that none of the opinions I am about to espouse are the opinions of my employer and rather are my personal opinions as a resident of the city of Los Angeles, California.

Let's go Dodges, baby.

We love the Dodges.

No,

fuck you with your deferred payments.

Where would you have the most money?

Where would you have the most money?

Yeah, we spent a lot of the game.

When Shahea Tani did the 40-40, and I'm like, I'm sorry.

I'm still not over being lightly outwoked by being told the pronouns are he, him, his, because I didn't include like the third one.

I didn't include that.

I'm sorry.

And then also, Emis.

And uh i would say in spanish it would be el uh-huh great just to be able to add that

i'm gonna call liam's dad to outwoke all of us yeah

uh so you've ever been cursed at in spanish by my dad because that's a thing that's happened to me that's awesome your dad's so cool curses in maoist spanish liam's dad there is a caucus for you in dsa it's called red star

uh my dad was mad at occupy when they were in philly because he said to me directly,

these kids are pussies.

Where are the riots?

Where are the cops?

He was mad that they weren't non-peace, weren't non-peaceful enough, I believe it was.

Yeah, that they were non-violence, right?

Yeah.

No, no, no.

We didn't riot at Pratt and Whitney.

We rioted in the field next to Pratt and Whitney.

Direct action.

Guess the goods, kids.

So here's Roz to ruin my good time.

What you see on the screen here is a large highway with a lot of traffic.

That's your butt.

The Walt Disney World monorail.

Yeah, basically.

Oh, cool.

Are we going to Epcot?

I need like sort of a Spanish guitar riff here.

Do we not have one?

We got to have one somewhere.

La Sombrita.

Oh, cool.

I see it's doing effective work there.

Yeah, I just forgot to say a

Los Angeles Politico, who I will not name, once said to me, yeah, what we needed was a sombrota, which is

it's true.

This is 61 fucking slides.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but some of them are just like

YouTube in real life.

Me too.

I hope so.

A year and for a second.

We're going to all go to Los Angeles and we are going to show.

Shan say that on YouTube.

Yeah, me and Victoria are going to swing by an.

Yeah,

we're going to reverse Todd Yaheart of your ass.

Yeah.

Yeah.

With me perched on the roof like a game of Call of Duty Warzone.

30 years from now, Sophieon Stevens makes a song about me because of a terrible biopic.

We're going to build a contraption or, you know, an infernal machine of some kind.

It's funny there's things that should be.

I'm the one holding up the pot.

Yeah, but I get paid to do this.

That's true.

I'm volunteering.

Yeah, but

today we're going to talk about

transit in Los Angeles, but but first we have to do the goddamn news.

All right.

So earlier this week on Monday,

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy canceled a grant for the otherwise fully privately funded

Texas Central Railway.

a high-speed railroad from Dallas to Houston so that people from dallas can escape it and go to a place with culture um true real

yeah so this is uh

it saved the taxpayers a whopping 60 million dollars which i think is 20 cents a piece um

you know and and this is this was a grant to amtrack to sort of keep this project that's been going on for several decades alive because they they got through most of the permitting They got most of the design done.

That was all financed privately.

Essentially, Amtrak brought on andy buyford you know legendary new york city genius yeah trained as they call it inventor of the buyford dolphin yes

and uh you know he managed to keep this project on life support until they could find new private investors because the old investors got spooked by a bunch of lawsuits that the company won um

so investors hate winning it turns out it turns out yeah well the big dispute was they had um in order to sort of they did something clever to make this project happen, which is someone went through a bunch of old

documents at the Texas State Archives and like, hmm, someone had a charter for an interurban railroad back in like 1890 from Dallas to Houston.

And the company just never built any track.

And then they tracked down the owners and then they bought the charter for like 20 bucks.

And,

you know, all of a sudden, oh, we're a real railroad and we've been afforded all these privileges, like exercising eminent domain, having our own police department, all this other crap.

Sorry, what was that second one?

This is this is like the Crusader Kings thing of like forging a claim on somewhere.

It's like you wait for the, you know, you're a fucking court archivist to scheme long enough, and sooner or later you are Duke of Central Texas.

Yeah, exactly.

Isn't this how,

correct me if I'm wrong, the Pennsylvania backass their way into DC or Baltimore?

Yeah, they were buying someone else's charter and just saying, yep, I don't know what you're talking about.

Yeah,

they bought a charter to build a railroad to Port Tobacco, Maryland,

which they were allowed 20 miles of branch line.

So at a place called

Bowie, Maryland,

the main line branched off very abruptly towards Port Tobacco.

And then there was this little branch line to this little known place called Washington, D.C.

I've heard of this.

Yeah.

Maryland is also where Six Flags is.

Oh, yeah.

I went there a lot of time.

So, anyway, this has been in development hell for a while.

A bunch of NIMBYs did a bunch of lawsuits against it.

Mostly a bunch of people who say they're small family farmers and own, you know, a trillion acres.

Yeah, a ranch roughly the size of Rhode Island, right?

Exactly, exactly.

So then, this $60 million grant that the Secretary of Transportation has so graciously seen to cancel to save us the taxpayers' money,

was there to facilitate about $40 billion in private funding.

Oh, so he's stepping on corporations' rights.

Some of that funding could have been woke, is the thing.

That's a good point.

The money

he did also say today, however, while criticizing California high-speed rail, you know, this is a wasteful government boondoggle.

Why doesn't private industry step in and fund it?

Well,

I don't know.

Geez, I don't know.

Fantastic.

So, I mean, it's cool that Elon Musk put Sean Duffy in one of the fallout like bomb collars.

Or he just is minded to be like this anyway.

Yeah, exactly.

And this is this, that the Texas Central Railroad, I'm sure, could be a whole episode on its own.

It's just disappointing to see, okay, you know, this thing was so close to happening.

And then it just gets curb stomped by a fucking moron from reality television.

It's so funny that they had done the hard part, but the hard part was not building anything.

Yeah, no, it was getting through.

It was winning every single lawsuit that got thrown at them.

Are you tired of winning?

It turns out, yes.

Apparently, they are.

Yes, they are.

Suffering from success.

Yeah.

So

DJ Cowen.

There will be no high-speed rail, public or private, in the United States, except for Brightline West.

But that's, I don't know.

I think they might also do something stupid to that pretty soon because they're relying on low interest government loans for that one.

So, you know, who knows?

Anyway, that's my first rant.

My second rant is

in other news.

See, I'm like

for the phrase.

I'm like, I'm inadvertently like clicker trained, but for the phrase in other news.

And that's what makes me hit the thing.

You're just walking down the street and somebody on the phone is like, in other news, and suddenly you're like, Yeah, I dive for my mix.

Yeah, like Savi Pride, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

Absent new funding from the state government, which may or may not happen.

We're about to lose about half of SEPTA.

Yeah, we're about to get skull fucked.

Yeah.

Jeez.

Sorry, no trains.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

So like that song from Hail Season, no trains.

We have this sort of every couple years, we have a huge budget crisis at SEPTA, the Philadelphia Transit Authority,

where, you know, they have to come out with the big scary map that says, hey, I mean, if we don't get the funding we want, we're going to have to do all these horrible cuts.

This time around, they have essentially decided, all right, we're going to cut about half the bus routes.

That's not shown on this map.

We're killing our trolley in North Philly, the 15.

We're killing the subway Broad Ridge Spur,

the number 10 trolley,

and every regional rail line that uses Mtrack, because I I guess they have to pay a big lease to run those, something like $60 million a year, which is pretty crazy.

Trying a lot of different tactics to get you to buy a Tesla.

And then also,

a big fare hike is in the cards.

You know, this is again, this happens every couple of years.

Usually what happens is, you know, eventually the legislature caves and they're like, yeah, we'll give you slightly less than you asked for.

And then

you still wind up with permanent service cuts.

But,

you know, this is, I don't know,

starting to get sick and tired of this happening every couple years.

Cool.

It's cool.

I didn't know this.

I didn't know SEPTA operated like the federal government, where you just get like shutdowns and then it limps forward a bit, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that's sort of how we work.

This is every time Noah texts me to complain about Los Angeles transit, I'm like, damn, you people are like building new lines and stuff.

Holy shit.

I would simply pass it.

We're like struggling to keep on hold on to the ones we got.

You're like the kid drowned at the bottom of the pool in the memes.

Yeah.

Look, I would simply pass a half-cent sales tax like four times.

All right.

It's fine.

No, no, that's that.

We'll do that.

We did this.

We did the

soda tax

that may eventually fund one rec center.

It was for pre-K.

It was for pre-K, man.

Hold on.

Do you have like Pennsylvania Howard Jarvis?

Who the fuck is Howard Jarvis?

Okay.

Sorry.

This is something we will get to later in the episode, but Howard Jarvis is probably one of the Californians with the highest body counts

that I can currently think of because of the stiff competition.

Yeah, we'll get to it.

Anyway, sorry.

That's for the Californians,

my new adopted people, I guess.

Yeah.

So, yeah,

we're in pretty shitty state at the moment.

The one thing I will say is that I would imagine if they are trying to cut the Paoli local up here, the old R5,

someone's going to make a big stink in the legislature.

Yeah, let's hope.

You know, because there's enough rich and powerful people up there that

they're going to have problems with this.

That's still a fairly wealthy, you know, commuter train.

You know, that's a lot of, there's a lot of main line scumbags.

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Horrible wasps.

Um, yeah, you can't do this to the nice train, yeah, exactly.

Oh, well, everybody takes Septa as a criminal, just fucking do us a favor and jump in.

Well, yeah, this is where the white-collar criminals live, yeah.

Sorry,

I'm against the subway expansion because I don't want white-collar criminals to have access to different parts of the city.

You can just get like a subway train full of guys who are there to like embezzle from you, you know.

Help by being embezzled,

But just like a train full of the guys who like made the Joker pop off like that, you know.

The embezzling of Pelham 123.

Thank you.

Oh, I'd fucking watch that movie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, yeah, this is uh, this is a whole kettle of fish here.

I guess we'll, we'll see what happens.

These cuts don't go into effect until like uh

December or something.

The cuts start in July, but the big cuts don't happen until sometime in winter.

You think the power grid will still be running then?

Well, I mean, it depends on which parts.

I mean, if Safe Harbor Dam is still running,

there may be a national blackout, but the 25 hertz generators at Safe Harbor Dam will still be running because they're on a separate circuit from everything else.

That's crazy.

Ideally, by then,

Presidenta Scheinbaum will have initiated the Reconquista, thereby re-adding California back to Mexico and we'll be fine.

So

you're going into the sea.

No, not the sea.

That's a lot of circuit breakers to install.

Not the sea.

That's where we dump our trash.

And car batteries.

That's where the batteries are.

What's a pirate's favorite computing language?

C.

Just say R.

Oh, I forgot about that one.

And then, and then I answered, no, it's it be the sea it be the sea yeah

i i i still think pearl is a better answer but go on pearl

why are they what's what's a what's a what's a pirate's favorite element arm

no it's gold

treasure chest full of useless argon

what am i supposed to do with this

i would divide this into pieces of eight.

Finally, the Argon De Blue.

All right.

All right.

Jarring shift in tone.

In other news.

Yeah.

Break off.

His life is 25 hours long.

Where do you want to start?

The UK Supreme Court just fucking detransitioned my ass today.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I heard about that one.

All these ghouls throw

every single last one of them.

I'm relying on Dev.

That's going to be a long bleep.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't give a fuck.

Sorry, Dev.

Love you.

But yeah, no.

Oh, man.

This is like a 10k rant.

We're just like,

the president of El Salvador, Donald Trump, Elon Musk.

Sorry, Dev, I'm getting my money's worth.

Everyone who works for ICE.

Nova's not coming for the live show, so I can say whatever the fuck I want.

It's true.

It's true.

Just drowning.

Just bleep the verbs, please.

Every single fucking one of them.

May I add, may I add, it is very important to me that in the coming sort of, shall we say, years of lead,

that somebody at some point

JD Vance and feeds him his own before him in the back of the head.

Do we know what I

is?

I think we should feel it.

I think we get him with a

my dad's $5

from Walmart.

Use that.

that may have already happened

that's like he looks like someone's still able to get an orchie actomy

so yeah um well yeah where do we start with the horrors um

el salvador is pretty bad um they're they sent uh a bunch of guys down there to the gulag that they have down there who are for no reason not that it matters people people got out of the gulag right not

got out of the gulag.

They sent like Vafan S guys back from the gulag.

Whereas the point of this is that they will not send back to completely innocent man.

Right.

He's disappeared.

Yeah.

So

Kilmar Aberego Garcia.

Right.

And then there was a senator who went down there today.

Yeah, Vin Holland from Vinha from Maryland.

Yeah.

And only just elected officials got out of the way.

Yeah, just

like this is the best we can fucking do.

Like, again,

from lampposts, every single last goddamn one of these ghouls from a fucking lamppost.

I am going to make it look like Miracle on 34th Street in this bitch.

I am there.

They're sending down a delegation from the House of Representatives sometime in the near future to go, I don't know, argue with the prison guards.

Cool.

AOC can get another like barbed wire photo.

Yeah, I think the

some court today is like like trying to hold the administration in contempt like criminal contempt

yeah it's it's gonna be the same thing as the indian removal act the judge has made it that they've made their ruling not let them enforce it yeah well they might be a little bit better at enforcing it this time because there's you know there's we might see like an armed standoff between like u.s marshals and um jd vance with the heart attack gun

dye we'll pay you extra for this the republic

uh must use the havana syndrome ray for one last job

and to be clear this deportation unilaterally to the el salvador like forever prison is something that is wrong to do to people who are guilty right exactly i want to have absolutely no clue that like any of them are we know that at least like a bunch of them aren't um and there's no due process whatsoever there's no sort of like constitutional settlement left unless there are like

some kind of consequences for this that make sure that it can't happen again.

And I don't see that coming out of like

anything other than Liam, your thing.

Oh, oh, from Lamposia.

Also, if there's another Democratic president.

Now,

as a socialist, I am against imperialist interventions in Latin America.

Of course.

However,

an anti-imperialist intervention in Latin America that ends with Naib Bukele's

like a big fest of kazoo yeah or like you know they just they using his

uh decorate a Christmas tree things of that nature oh we're gonna get this is this episode yeah

I'd say

I'd say I'd say it's a shameless plug but it is a shameful plug but if you want to understand a bit about Naeb Bukele and how he got that way uh there's a bunch of stuff you can read but we just did an episode of No Gods No Mayors about him.

I just listened to that.

It was really good.

Yeah, you can check out the podcast.

Well, Mayor's Your Problem for that.

Thank you.

I didn't use that on the episode I was on, and it's been festering in my mind until I got it out.

One of the things that I thought was kind of

particularly bizarre about this situation is that the way the deportation flights are set up, it's like, okay,

they shackle you to your seat.

So if there's an emergency on the plane that requires an evacuation you just die that's a feature not a bug yeah

flight attendants on those flights for what

like well a lot of them have been refusing to uh to to fly on them that was in a robust article i was completely completely shackled about to be taken to the like torture disappearance prison and they hand me the little like block cookie and i'm like cheese thanks already like this has helped love it trying to get like one of the mini bottles of wine what's the uh what's it what's the delicious ginger cookie they sell on American flights that I like?

What, the Biscoff?

There we go.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All human beings are entitled to due process and a biscuit.

I believe that.

I think they should amend the Constitution.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Schools from lampposts.

Every single last goddamn one of them.

These people are not your friends.

You don't owe these people.

a scrap of dignity.

You owe each other a scrap of dignity.

And like, if you do get a Democratic president, right,

yeah, if you're ever allowed to vote again, and if you're ever ever allowed to have a free election, and a Democrat wins that election, then that Democrat almost certainly keeps the El Salvador program going, but puts a human face on it.

You know,

we're going to dress them all in skins.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It'll be minimalist brown prison uniforms in the disappearing prison.

Yeah.

Or it'll be Obama and Guantanamo Bay again, where it's like, well, obviously this is horrible.

We're going to look into closing it for like eight years and then, you know,

I mean, not to be sitting on the right side of history with Harvard.

not to be an optimist.

But unfortunately, the only thing that's getting me through this is an unshakable,

the unshakable knowledge that, of course, the eternal victory of Marxism-Leninism is at hand.

But I also think that, like, I do think that average people are so fucking mad about this, like, generally.

God, yeah,

like that.

Those senior citizens yelling at Chuck Grash.

Oh, so I can just stop paying my $1,200 fine.

Okay, asshole.

Yeah, no, I mean, like, people are so mad about all this shit.

Like, I don't think you can really.

I do think while a lot of the shitty stuff will kind of pass into a democratic administration, I think, like, this stuff,

you can't really continue.

I mean, the amount of people who are at their fucking limit in terms of what they were tolerate, were tolerating.

I mean,

I will believe when I see, and by see, I mean somebody start ice agents.

I don't like

absent that it feels like this is just gonna be like baked in now whatever happens.

So

you know how about the Mets, huh?

Imagine like Dodgers.

My dad

trust deferred money.

Okay, well I'm sure your dad is a lovely man.

I have nothing but respect for him.

Here is your great son.

It's not the fucking point.

Go Philly.

Well, my dad said anytime there's a lull in a conversation, you can just say, how about the Mets?

And somebody's going to have an opinion that that's true.

That's true.

That is true.

That's going to move things.

Going to move things away.

While we're hanging ghouls from lampposts, one too.

I can't believe you're making

named

violent threats against Mr.

Met.

Mr.

Mett is spiritually an ice agent, even if he's not really one.

And he might be.

We don't know who's under there.

We don't know what he does the other six days of the week.

We don't know.

We don't know Mr.

Mett.

Okay, we don't know who he is.

We don't know what he's doing.

Who is he?

Who does it?

We're all doing shameless plugs.

On 10,000 Losses, my Philly Sports podcast, we did rank

mascots, mascots by fuckability.

And

Mrs.

Matt could get it.

Oh, Mrs.

Mett is, yeah, supreme, obviously.

And he has a beautiful wife, Mrs.

Mett.

Do we like Mrs.

Smett?

We do, and she's been very strong.

Sorry, I I just

least, least fuckable.

I know you've been over this, but like least fuckable mascot, obviously, still Puru Pete.

Yeah,

what about the RISD?

What about the RISD

mascot for the NADS?

Are you familiar with the NADS?

The RISD mascot?

No, I would like you to Google.

I would like you to

go to Scrodi.

God damn it.

Yeah, we're with Scrody.

What the fuck?

So, okay, the Rhode Island schools.

I mean, definitionally fuckable, right?

I feel like we're getting a little bit off topic here of the horrors, right?

Yeah,

I am supporting...

Jungshu Huge Horse Baseball Club this year.

Yeah, of course.

Like monetarily?

I am supporting the People's Liberation Army this year if they attempt an amphibious landing in El Salvador

Come over there.

We'll direct you.

Yeah, I mean, hang these ghouls from lampposts.

But before we get, is that it for news?

Do we want to be able to do that?

Yeah, if we're doing shameless plugs, if we're doing shameless plugs,

get organized,

you know, have a plan, meet,

talk to your friends about organizing, scream at your elected representatives.

Talk to your friends on Signal.

Join an organization.

It doesn't have to be DSA, but I mean, that's the one I'm in.

I WW, baby.

You know, you want to.

Just get some letters, you know.

Get some letters.

You do get cool jackets and shirts out of that.

But then also, you know,

get a lawyer, buy a generator.

If you feel comfortable doing so, learn how to shoot a gun.

Absolutely.

By the way, I will say, one of the kind of not-for-the-last time shameless indictments of like the American labor union

is Kilmar Obrego Garcia, union man.

He is a union member,

and his union is standing by him, but that's about it.

And none of the others seem to really give that much of a fuck.

I think like a roofers union or like a steel.

I don't know.

I've seen a couple unions.

Bitters unions said something.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Threaten some sort of labor actions, but yeah, I mean, it's not great.

Not good enough.

The other thing is, oh, I had something for, oh, the helicopter crashed into the Hudson.

We know.

We'll get to.

Yeah, we'll get to that.

Never get in a helicopter.

Never, ever get in a helicopter.

50,000 movie parts looking for a place to crash.

I do appreciate that helicopters as communists have seen the direction that the fascists want to go and have decided to start killing rich people first.

So, you know, I mean,

yeah, the, you know, why not?

It's very sad or whatever.

I have to remain, unfortunately, optimistic about the American people.

um yeah if i don't i'll kill myself exactly yeah so um you know we continue to fight i mean it's it's like it's like you know the the old leftist line right like my enemy is not the american people my enemy is the american government and about 20 of the american people which i think i could probably take them i've yeah oh yeah uh you stand on my shoulders we'll fuck some people up

I have a shameless plug.

So I have a coworker who shall remain.

She shall not remain nameless, but her grandson will because he's the miner.

He is looking, we are looking to raise money for him to have this is a,

can we shift the, can we do the next slide so I don't have to look at this while I try to be good.

Yeah, sure.

I was saying that not to not to ignore the issue of the day, but because the charge.

I got you.

I got you.

I got you.

I apologize.

We are raising money so we can get him a handicap accessible van.

He has a rare genetic disorder.

He needs transportation.

Handicapped vans are stupid expensive because you have to basically reverse engineer them.

That link will be in the show description.

Any amount helps.

We are very grateful for it.

Thank you very much.

The other thing is

by the time this goes out, I should have gotten a promotion.

Yay.

Yay.

Congratulations.

Yeah.

Thank you.

You finally made the co-host after years of like apprentice host.

You're not the independent contractor anymore.