Emily (3:15)

Yeah, I could not agree more. I. The amount of frustration that we have had with robots in the era just before AI is really about to take off has been maddening. So I imagine these frustrations are only going to exacerbate unless the robots get smarter, which maybe they are, I don't know. But we're going to get more of this, not less of this. I know.

Pumps (3:42)

And the thing is, is I suspect that the robot is better at technology than me because 90% of the human population is. But what is so infuriating, if I'm going to get hung up on and sent to the website, why do I have to be on the phone for four minutes waiting for my option to show up? Just tell me, hey, bitch, I'm not going to help you. Go to the website. Click. At least then I'm not 10 minutes in, so frustrated that I'm just like, you know what? I don't even want the damn thing. Forget it.

Emily (4:13)

I don't want it. I know, I know. It's so frustrating to. It's not customer service. It's customer disservice.

Pumps (4:22)

It is.

Emily (4:22)

They do their customers a disservice that you cannot call and solve a problem because they're just constantly cutting jobs to enrich the profits. And I just wish that we would ramp up customer service a little bit more because then you have angry customers, and then you end up having no customer because then you're like, screw it, I'm going to discontinue the service because I hate these people and I hate this robot. Right.

Pumps (4:48)

That's exactly what I did.

Emily (4:50)

All right, so I'm just gonna go into what I've had it with. And you went on about this at length last year when your youngest son was a senior, and this year my youngest son is a senior. And the amount of senior activities is unbelievable. This is the most celebrated generation I have ever seen. And right now, I'm going to do a dramatic reading of a list of items that were texted in a parent group. Me not to the seniors that are 18 years old. But to the parents, wherein the parents have days long multi message group me back and forth, back and forth, thumbs up, Harding liking commenting about activities in which their child needs to take the lead on. But this is just something that I received. Upcoming senior activities, Senior sunset, Senior skip day, Senior parade, Senior slideshow, Senior staircase photo. Mind you, all of these are different dates, okay? Senior recognition and awards. Senior finals, baccalaureate, senior banquet, graduation rehearsal, graduation, graduation party and lock in. This, sadly, is just the tip of the iceberg because my son, like yours, plays sports. So then what's not on this list is the basketball banquet, the soccer banquet, the tennis banquet, the events for those. I myself hosted a really fun party for the boys tennis team before their state tournament wherein I hired hibachi guy to do hibachi because I don't know how to cook. But it is so bad that around the first of May, I thought, you know, I think I'm really going to have a cry and listener. I cry maybe once annually, maybe maybe once every two years. And I thought, I can feel it. I can feel it coming up. I'm gonna have a good cry. Roman's gonna graduate. I'm gonna cry. I'm gonna be happy for him that he's leaving the nest. But I'm also gonna be sad at the same time that it's a formal closing to our little family unit that Josh and I created. After going through these list of activities and the feedback from the parents on those activities and this torturous group, me that I'm involved in, I don't even know that I can cry at the graduation other than sit there and think, how long are we going to drag this thing out? It is just too much. Too many activities. And these kids, like, what is left for them after this? What is left when you have in the month of May, 50 obligations and it's your parents are having conversations about a staircase photo. Why is that even typed up? And even in the eyeballs of a parent when we were younger, back in our day, that was just something that was internal done in the school. Hey, everybody, get at the staircase. We're doing a staircase photo. I probably never even mentioned it to my mother, right? Same the fact that the parents are in on this. Let me tell you what happened one day, that senior slideshow. So we show up for. That's in the middle of the day, right? Josh and me. I'm telling you, they drug this thing. I was 45 minutes long of song, you know, like dramatic kind of songs about, you know, ending things. And Joy and all of this, the time of our lives, that kind of stuff, you know. And we're sitting there looking at these photos going through and there's some parents in there and it's at 1:15. And I just thought at the end of it, I shouldn't be here. This is something the kids should be doing during their school day to celebrate themselves. The parents should come to the graduation 100%. But all of this other stuff is torturous. And I love my child, but here's the problem. Even my child doesn't want to go to these events. So last night, that was the senior banquet. He is seniored out. And there was an Oklahoma City Thunder game. And I said, raymond, are you going to the senior banquet? He goes, no, I'm going to the game. One of the Western Conference finals, Mom. I will always remember that. The senior banquet, along with all the other 40 dinners I've been to the last three weeks, I'm not going to remember at all. So even the kids are not wanting to do these activities yet. The parents are having long conversations about arrival times, departure times. Attire.

Pumps (9:41)

I was going to say attire.

Emily (9:42)

Why aren't the kids texting one another to figure out what they wear? Why is a mother figuring out the outfit that her 18 year old needs to wear while at the same time this same generation of mothers and fathers say of these kids are worthless. Right? You can't have it both ways.

Pumps (10:02)

Well, here's so many things about that, because I was there last year. And what's so amazing to me is if you put truth serum in all of these parents, they would say these activities are for the kids. And in my mind I'm like, these activities are for the parents. The kids don't give a shit. The kids don't give a shit if you're at the senior slideshow. They don't give a shit if you show up at the senior picture. Frankly, they don't want you there. But all of these parents have just made this like being a senior in high school is the most monumentous achievement that any child will ever do in the history of the world. And it is so aggravating and so stupid. And this is what I told my daughter because she was on the cheer team and they once date and so we had to get all these rings and have photo shoots and do all this crap. And I told her, I said, here's the thing about high school. The minute you walk out the door, you're done. You never think about it again. You don't long for it again, it's like in the past, see, you wouldn't want to be ya. And it's like, it's the parents that are keeping the kids all like, oh my gosh, it's so sad you're going to college. Are you fucking kidding me? You get to live on your own for the first time. Tell me one teenager that's sad about that, right?

Emily (11:27)

But then it gives these poor kids like the burden of being responsible for their parents sadness, right? At a time where their parents should be like, I'm so gonna miss you, but this is your next step, go spread your wings, fly. The amount of independence you're gonna enjoy is so fun. These kids have this burden that they're leaving their parents in shatters. And I just think as a nation in Trump's America, we need to discuss this. Like this is psychotic. The stuff that I just read to you, that is psychotic. That is not normal. That is an unsustainable level of celebration.

Pumps (12:05)

Absolutely.

Emily (12:05)

It is ridiculous. They should graduate from high school now. If the students themselves want to do a bunch of these activities, they need to plan them, they need to have their own group meet, they need to figure out what to wear, they need to figure out what time to show up, they need to figure out how they're going to get there and how they're going to get home if they can't drive, et cetera. The parent involvement is a nightmare. Every administrator will concur with what I'm saying, every school teacher will concur with what I'm saying. And then you have the current administration, especially like in our state, you say parents need to control their kids education. No, they don't. If you want to control your kids education, homeschool them, do your senior sunset, sunrise, staircase, photo, circle jerk at your house. But dragging us all through this when you yourself want to be ass deep in at the high school is weird as shit. And it's psychotic. It is totally psychotic. And I have these candid conversations with my kids about it. I'm like, this is out of control. And I'll do a dramatic reading from the group. Me and both of my kids are like, oh God, those kind of moms, they know it. They know how annoying and obnoxious it is and nobody talks anybody off the ledge. So I was so elated when it was Game 7 of the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Denver Nuggets. And I said to my son, the basketball game starts at 2:30, but your baccalaureate is at 4:00pm he goes, what's a baccalaureate? I Go. I think it's like a graduation thing that is at a church, like a church graduation. He goes, we're not religious. We never go to church. So why would I go to that? I'm going to game seven, right. So I couldn't wait to go into the group me and I wrote I don't know who I need to report this to but the Welches are rolling the baccalaureate because we are going to game seven. I got about two likes on it on that comment. Right. I'm sure there was a ton of side texting.

Pumps (14:08)

Can you believe oh that the Welches are not going to baccalaureate because there's.

Emily (14:14)

A set of Bible moms up there though my kids school is secular. There's kind of a group of Bible moms. I'm sure they were just wound up like cheap clocks. But then something magical happened. About five or six other moms side text me that had my phone number. I'm so glad you put that in there because we wanted to go to the game as well. And I'm like, then go to the game. The kids don't want to go to this. It's boring. It's awful. It's, you know, this is, it's too much. We've been already been to 95,000 celebrations and we're not even to graduation date.

Pumps (14:46)

Right.

Emily (14:47)

So yeah. So we missed out on the baccalaureate have zero regrets because game seven was such a blast so far. Remember that forever Baccalaureate snooze fest made a great decision for our family prioritizing sports over the church which I think could help a lot of Americans. And then Roman himself did not even go to yet another banquet because he's like, mom, I've been to like seven banquets already when he tech and the sports stuff. So I've had it. We need to quit celebrating people. Parents don't do for your kids what they can do for themselves. Buying prom tickets, deciding what they're going to wear, what the attire is that's on them. If they show up to an event underdressed, that is a life lesson.

Pumps (15:30)

Been there, done that.

Emily (15:31)

That is a life lesson that they learn. They show up in shorts and a T shirt and everybody else has on khakis and polo shirt. Then they learn, oh, I should have texted my friend. These are the lessons these kids need to learn. And so when you read these reports that Gen Z is depressed and anxious and all of these things, it's the parents fault and the school for enabling the parents to have this much involvement and Donald Trump and all of these Right wing MAGA politicians for expanding. They say that they're for limited stuff, for making parents this unhinged all the time. They feed this toxic narrative. And we're not raising independent autonomous citizens.

Pumps (16:15)

Well, that's how they want it.

Emily (16:17)

I know. Welcome to I've had it. I'm Jennifer.

Pumps (16:20)

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Emily (16:23)

She is the beaver. Let's check in on Kiki the Magic Lesbian.

Kiki (16:30)

Kiki the Magic Lesbian. That's what everyone's been calling me now in the DMs.

Emily (16:33)

Yeah, it's a good one.

Kiki (16:34)

So it's good it's catching on. Today I'm going to skip reviews because I got an email on a topic that we need to discuss. So I'm going to read that for you now. And they write, Emily writes. You know what? I've had it with the crunchy Mama movement, which is like the Maha Mama movement full stop. These women are out here acting like sunscreen is radioactive sludge while they slow roast their toddlers under a UV death lamp. Quote, I don't put chemicals on my kids. Girl, your kids are chemicals. You're made of chemicals. Water is a chemical. Oxygen is a chemical. Your overpriced adaptogen latte chemicals. Your body, one big squishy bag of them. What they're really saying is, I don't understand chemistry, but I trust vibes over cancer prevention. And the kicker? The natural sunscreens they praise still chemicals, just with friendlier names. Meanwhile, ultraviolet radiation, literal sun poison, is cooking your skin cells like bacon. But sure, skip the SPF and manifest your way through melanom coma. Then it's quote, I only feed my kids food from the earth. Okay, but the earth also makes arsenic. Your raw milk isn't medicine. It's a bacterial gamble with splash of delusion. They treat seed oils like CIA mind control, but will slather their babies in beef tallow whipped with rose quartz energy. Your kid just wants a granola bar, but he's gnawing on a dehydrated yam. Because seed oils are the new Satan. Make it make sense. It's pseudoscience in a linen dress with a moral superiority complex and an Amazon cart full of anti vax books. It's not just cringe, it's public health sabotage dressed up as gentle parenting.

Emily (18:09)

I've had it. This is brilliant.

Pumps (18:12)

The best thing I've seen in a while. That is amazing.

Emily (18:17)

It's so true though. I think all of this. People start to believe that they know more than science and then that catches on. And then there is this new peer pressure that has started. And it's so much more powerful than any other peer pressure we've ever seen. And that is the peer pressure of mom talk or the momosphere on social media. And somebody has to go on and grandstand that they have their, you know, organic vegetable garden and they do this and they mash the food and they do all these things. And because she's a real mom that loves her babies and doesn't give them chemicals, et cetera, and then you have people that you know, or maybe not, they're younger, you just get so much wiser as you get on the wall. My God, I've got to do that same thing. It's just this unsustainable bullshit. And it's just the fact that, like, people think RFK Jr right, and Joe Rogan are somehow scientists, they're health experts. It's just, it's wild. And it's still, it always makes me go back to any, like, medical doctors that are triple Trumpers. How, how do you vote against all of the years that you've dedicated, dedicated your life of peer review, data, studying results, et cetera?

Pumps (19:39)

Well, I just think it goes back to, everybody's an expert on everything because facts and expertise are completely nullified in Trump's America. The dumber you are, the better they like you. So this to me is so gross. But it reminded me of a story when my kids were. I had this one mom in one of my kids class, I can't remember, and she was going to like, change the dietary restrictions at school lunches. Like, they needed to be completely overhauled. We needed to do all this stuff. So she calls me one day and she's like, I mean, do you know what's in hot dog? I mean, comet cleaner is in a hot dog and goes on and on. And I just said, here's the thing. I appreciate that you want great meals for the kids at school. That's wonderful. But I'm a hypocrite if I bitch about hot dogs at school. Because if my kids are willing to eat a hot dog and I don't have to cook, then that's a win for me. And I'm going to take it every time. Like, how does anyone have enough time to educate themselves and be an expert on sunscreen and willing to just throw their kid out there without sunscreen? And that is so dumb, I can't wrap my head around it.

Emily (20:55)

Well, if you. All of this too is. There's just such a political slant to it because Michelle Obama had a whole like, let's move program and it's about kids. It was like combating childhood obesity, which was on the rise and getting in this modern era where we sit a lot more, we're a lot more idle, emphasizing exercise and healthier food choices. Fox News, all of the right wings had stage five meltdowns and hers was actually based on real science. Real, like, if you exercise, these are the benefits to it. If you eat healthier choices in school lunches, these are the long term benefits of it. Now, they're all in on this, but it's junk science. But isn't that everything with Trumpism is the whole thing just built on a total lie? The entire movement is all based on greed and grifting. Absolutely. And all of this, all of this Maha stuff is all grift and it's like, buy this sunscreen instead of this. I think it's like, you know, a lot of these people in Trump's administration had these podcasts. That's their be like, you and I being in the presidential administration, we're wholly unqualified. Right? But Dan Bongino, or whatever it is, he only got in front of Trump's orbit. It's not because he has any sort of skill, because he had a podcast. That's it.

Pumps (22:17)

And had his lips on Trump's ass. The whole podcast.

Emily (22:19)

That's it. But on all of these podcasters websites, Alex Jones, Bongino, Kash Patel, they sell all these supplements and all of these rackets. So it's just a greedy grift is all it is.

Pumps (22:35)

I saw on my feed because sometimes I'll bounce over to Truth Social if I just want to see how crazy the world is. They're still advertising Ivermectin on Truth Social. And then I read an article today that measles in Texas is up exponentially because people are smarter than vaccines. And it's so insane to me that you would risk your child's life and go against science. Like the guilt of that. I didn't get my kid vaccinated because they said on Facebook it wasn't good for them. And so now I'm burying my child. How do you live with that guilt?

Emily (23:14)

Here's the thing that I think is just to segue like my. I've had it where with this one, you have these teachers who are trained professionals. They're not trying to regender your child. That is a myth. They're teaching facts and textbooks. They are trained to do it. They are not Paid enough. And then you have this line of just triggered parents that are, you know, wound up highest kites on Fox News and right wing media that go in there with these conspiracy theories in their brain and you know, just lay into all these people. And the same thing is happening to medical doctors, right? You have all of these people who are juiced up on Fox News or Ben Shapiro or Dan Bongino or whatever, Robert F. Kennedy, all these quacks, total nuts laughed out of the scientific community. Hands down, the United States of America compared to other first world countries gives these fringe quack science worlds more oxygen than other places do. And something is going to have to change if we make it through this fascist regime to where when people are talking about a junk science that it is labeled as such on the screen. This information has not been peer reviewed. You know, if you're talking about not putting sunscreen on a child and that it's better to, you know, have vitamin D, I'll tell you, I'll tell you a prime example this. I'll never forget it. So it was during COVID and I went, I think I was getting Botox, all right? And we're talking maybe like six weeks, six months into the lockdown. And I really needed it. I hadn't had any in like six months. It was a medical emergency. So I go in and my main girl couldn't do it. So it was like her nurse and I had a mask on because I was just getting it like in my brow and my forehead. Well, the nurse had her mask on and she was asking me like if I was going to get the vaccine. And I was like, oh yeah, I'm totally going to get the vaccine. And the question she asked me was a leading question because then she goes, oh, I'm not. I just want my immune system to pop. And she started like moving her body, body like this. She goes, I just want my immune system to pop. She had the syringe in her hand and I was like, oh my God. She goes, yeah. You know, I go to the grocery store and I don't wear a mask because I'm like, just give me all this stuff. I want my immune system to build up. And I. She had had to have a mask on in this room.

Pumps (25:50)

Yeah.

Emily (25:50)

And I was like, you don't wear a mask to the grocery store. And she has no. And I mean, and people like, you know, walk away from me, but I kind of always look at them and I'm like, I want the germs. I want, I want the Immunity building properties of the air of this grocery store. She's real unhinged. And I remember just thinking, oh my God. And she was like, you know, we don't know what's in that vaccine. And I was like, I don't know what's in this poison you're about to inject into my forehead, but I don't give a shit. I want these wrinkles gone. I don't care what's in the COVID vaccine. I want it because I trust the decades long virology and immunology experts that have studied such a thing. And I also know that I had grandparents from the greatest generation where you know, each, each grandparent had like nine or 10 siblings. All four of my grandparents had a couple of siblings that died due to diseases that have since been eradicated because of the advancement of modern medicine and vaccinations.

Pumps (26:49)

It's crazy how people are totally ignoring that. And I don't know if it's ignorant of history or it's just the empowerment of stupidity, but you know when you go to like a cemetery and you see the pre vaccine little bitty headstones of babies and you think that was before. I mean there's a distinct, the data is very clear. Yes. Like they're not dying anymore. This is the mark.

Emily (27:18)

A lot of measles was eradicated in the United States, not in Texas anymore. But here's the weird thing about the vax movement. It started off on the left, it started off in San Francisco and it was like the crunchy liberal people that didn't want chemicals in their body. Right. And I remember there was a little outbreak, I can't remember if it was measles or something, but this would have been back probably in, during the Obama era and there was a little outbreak in like San Francisco area, like crunchy liberals, wealthy liberals that were like, we eat organic, you know, we're not going to get vaccinated. And they quickly learned after this outbreak like okay, we're going to get vaccinated. And then it swung. This movement has swung from the left to the right. So some of these fringe issues are not even so much maga, even though it's fun to blame everything on them, is that are these fringe issues the luxury of living in an industrialized world where you can, you have the luxury of, of having access if you're wealthy to healthcare and thinking, ah, maybe I won't get vaccinated where if you live in or another, you know, India, developing nations and you can get a vaccine where you've seen people die of aids. You've seen it happen. You've seen people you love die of these viruses. And somebody says, I can give you this shot, and you're going to have an immunity for it, and you won't get it, nor will it kill you. You're racing to the front of the line to get that. And so it's a really weird. It's a really weird thing.

Pumps (28:56)

It's so weird. Okay, I was just thinking. I've said it a thousand times during COVID you were like, why don't they just have a Facebook hospital out in the parking lot of hospital. That was one of my favorite things. I got so tickled. What if with all of this stuff that we have going on, okay, so you say, I, this nurse of yours, I'm not getting the vaccine.

Emily (29:16)

I want all. All the immunity.

Pumps (29:18)

But then you have to check a box, right? Then I'm not getting vaccinated. Therefore, I don't believe in science. Therefore, from this point forward, I will not seek treatment from medical doctors, shamans, all that swing for the fences. You can go do all, you know, sound baths, all that treatment. You can have all the webmd you want, all the Facebook, you want, all that stuff. Do you think that would stop people if you had to sign up? Do you think they'd say, I'll sign up?

Emily (29:46)

No, because, I mean, it's. I. I think there's a dissonance involved in all of this where somebody, you know, like, I can't. I remember when Facebook, you know, started, everybody was a researcher. Oh, yeah, she went to high school with, you know, and they're conducting their own research on certain things. So stupid. You know, these people are dumber than a box of hot rocks. But, you know, it's a really interesting question to pose because it's, you know, there's freedom. You should have medical freedom. But then what are the moral implications of where if somebody doesn't want to get vaccinated, and then we have these measles outbreaks and sudden deaths. I don't know how to handle that in a free society. I'm over my skis on the moral implications of how to execute that. However, I do think you fundamentally have to embrace education and the endorsement of facts, and that has dissipated and is going to continue to dissipate under the current administration. Because his goal is to shut down the department of education. Right. This episode of I've had It is brought to you by booking.com booking yeah. From vacation rentals to hotels across the u.s. booking.com has the ideal summer stay for absolutely anyone, even those who might seem impossible to please. Whether you're booking for yourself, your partner, your picky teens, or your sleep light early rise mom, you can find exactly what you're booking for on booking.com I personally just booked a trip for my sons and I to go to New York City and I found the perfect hotel in the perfect location and we were able to tackle the city with enthusiasm and convenience. And I just absolutely love this site. If our family can find their Perfect stay on booking.com anyone can find exactly what you're booking for. Booking.com booking yeah. Book today on the site or in the app. All right. Everybody's trying to get their hands on Ozempic or wegovy and it's such a hassle. You have to negotiate with your insurance provider and that shouldn't be something you worry about. This is why pumps loves ro so much.

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Pumps (33:11)

Your niece stares constantly into your eyes, like locked.

Emily (33:15)

I'll even be at an airport and there's some baby just, I mean, just staring at me. And I'm just like, these babies like to stare at me. So I am just tickled pink to see this report.

Pumps (33:26)

Finally vindication.

Emily (33:27)

Finally look at faces they find pretty.

Pumps (33:31)

Well, I've never noticed that a baby stares at me, so that's not a good omen for me. It's not a good sign.

Emily (33:37)

I mean, my little, two little nieces, my two little nephews and the one niece, I mean, they're just, I mean it's, it's intense eye contact. I'll tell you what, my dogs do the same thing. All right, next up. This is so crazy. We have to talk about this. Okay. Facebook allegedly detected when teen girls deleted selfies so it could serve them beauty ads. This is what puts money in all hours pockets. So Mark Zuckerberg's company, Facebook, think about if you're, you see these teen girls on Instagram, which Facebook owns Instagram, and they post a selfie and then they feel insecure about it and deleted. I bet this happens a lot because that generation is so risk adverse. Meta knows they have done this and then starts sending them beauty ads. That is so diabolical.

Pumps (34:35)

So diabolical. So it's like they're thinking they took it down because they didn't think they were pretty enough. So we're going to sell them shit that makes them think they're prettier.

Emily (34:44)

Right? Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. And so then you, then you have to ask, okay, how did Mark Zuckerberg go from being a left wing person, you know, or somebody identified as a more liberal supporter of politics than a MAGA supporter, how did he go from that and how did he swing all the way to being in Char Trump's first two rows of his inauguration? How'd that happen? Well, here's what happens. Greed. So these people would. They have these incredibly powerful companies and when it comes time for the government to institute some consumer protections on them, like stopping this kind of shit or making sure the algorithms are less addictive, not more addictive, or you know, the targeted ads, there's some government regulation over that so that their product has longevity, so that maybe in the short term it's less money, but in the long term it's a safer imprint on humanity than what this heaping pile of dog shit is. Well, that's not good enough for them. They, it has to be immediate, it has to be now. And so you have all of these billionaires that are greedy and Trump enables their greed and lies to the public and says that they want unregulated, that they want these regulations removed. You heard Jeff Bezos say it's going to be great to have all these regulations removed. Motherfucker. You have like $400 billion, right? Who is regulating you? Jeff Bezos? Who is regulating you? Mark Zuckerberg. And aren't these regulations like for the long term of your company when you, when your obituary is written, do you want it to be his invention completely ruined all of humanity and didn't care about human beings. All he cared about was own personal profit. And I guess that's what they want.

Pumps (36:38)

Well, it's obviously what they want because they're like 10 deep in Trump. I mean, they have kissed the ring. Jeff Bezos, particularly with Democracy Dies in Darkness. No democracy dies on Jeff Bezos watch. I mean, he. And again, we go back to this. If I were a 400 billionaire, I would do something good. I would want to help people or I would just want to spend my money, sit on my yacht and do my own thing, going and destroying poor people and taking money away so that I can have more from poor people. I hope I wouldn't do that. I just don't think I would and wouldn't.

Emily (37:22)

You want your product. If you have a product used by billions of people worldwide, billions, Facebook, Instagram, billions of users, do you want your product to have been an instrument for good and help and human advancement, or would you want it to be an instrument for human destruction? And they consistently show that they would rather have the destruction. Mind you, all of these people had banned Donald Trump, rightfully so, rightfully so, from being on social media because he incited an insurrection and it was dangerous and people died and they tried to overturn democracy and they had crystal clear clarity on this. But then as it goes on, they see that the Biden administration and Congress are hauling their asses in in front saying, hey, what's going on with these algorithms? What's going on with this? What's going on with that? And we need oversight. You cannot have unregulated, unsupervised capitalism because it causes damage to civilization. Zuckerberg in particular, with these messaging apps and musk with Twitter are causing generational damage to humanity. You have a generation that grew up with these cell phones in front of them. They are depressed. Higher suicide rates, higher addiction rates, higher anxiety, all of these things. Because as a parent, you cannot gauge who is helping, who is in their ear, right? You don't know what algorithm they're down. But these media companies, if they truly cared, could set up on their own. We are going to have age verification if the person is under 14. This is the level of algorithm that they get. And only this type of stuff, they don't want to do any of that. And it's just like these mega churches, they want to get people young, get them indoctrinated early, get them hook, line and sinker. And it's just such a damaging component to what's happening to our kids generation. And the fact that you have this powerful product and it never occurs to you, you know, it could cut profits. But I already have $400 billion right?

Pumps (39:43)

How much more money can I spend?

Emily (39:44)

You know, maybe I should be the ringleader on the regulations and work hand in hand with Congress to make sure we're delivering a safer product for future generations. But nope. And that's why they raised to Donald Trump, because they're like, hey, here's a million dollars for your inauguration. You're so hot. Makeup looks great today. And he's like, yep, no regulations for you.

Pumps (40:04)

Right?

Emily (40:04)

And then that's the end of it. And it's just this really damaging thing. And, and also within that movement, the algorithms are rigged to support the owners political preferences.

Pumps (40:15)

Absolutely.

Emily (40:16)

Yeah, right. All right, next up, we have a story. Female frogs fake their own death to avoid mating with males. They don't like this behavior observed in certain European frog species. Of course, they're European, of course, is used as a last resort when females are overwhelmed or harassed by multiple male males during breeding season. This discovery sheds light on a hit on the hidden dynamics of mating behavior in the animal kingdom and adds a fascinating twist to natural selection. It also reveals that some female animals have evolved unique defense mechanisms to retain autonomy in the mating process.

Pumps (41:04)

I applaud the female frogs faking their own death. When I was married, there were times I would have faked my own death to avoid sex, but they beat me to it.

Emily (41:14)

Let's dive into that. You really never liked having sex with your husband? I remember that decision before we got married.

Pumps (41:20)

I did.

Emily (41:22)

So was it wedding night that it turned?

Pumps (41:26)

I mean, probably, you know, after that, but it just, you know, I think what happened was after I got married, I realized there's really not a whole.

Emily (41:35)

Lot to like about him.

Pumps (41:37)

I'm not crazy about him. I. I don't think he's that cute. He talks too much. He's the yak mouth. And I'm stuck because I had to have a great big wedding and nine bridesmaids. Yeah, that was what I did.

Emily (41:52)

So last night, Josh, we were at that Thunder game and they're playing the Oklahoma City Thunders, playing the Minnesota Timberwolves. And on the Minnesota timberwolves is this 7 foot tall basketball player named Rudy Gobig. And he's tall and he has like this beautiful color of skin. It's like a cappuccino color. And he has like a very chiseled face. And he's. We're sitting kind of behind the visitor bench and he does his arms up like this and he's like flexing his muscles like stretching. And I'm like, I don't know, 30 inches away. From him. I mean, I just went, oh, my God. Well, Josh, like, hits. He's like, oh, do you think he's cute? I'm like, you have to think he's cute, right? I mean, that is a beautiful human being. And a top all of that off. The height, the muscle tone, the chiseled face. He's French dream. So I got my eyes on him all night, right? I'm totally in the tank for the Thunder, but I'm watching Rudy Gobert. At one point, he dunks, and I had my. It just kind of had him, you know, he was just on my punch list of things to keep an eye on throughout the game. Thunder victory. And Rudy Gobert, right? Multitasking, walking, chewing gum at the same time. So he does this great dunk, and I see, you know, his biceps, and I inadvertently kind of clap.

Pumps (43:12)

I'm not clapping for their team. I'm clapping because he's hot.

Emily (43:16)

And Josh was like, did you just clap? And I'm like, yeah, a little bit. But he was like, you really like that Rudy Gobert? Well, the idea that I found Rudy Gobert so attractive turned Josh on. So Josh is grabbing my ass all night. But it was. You know what? It was kind of fun. We've been together 25 years.

Pumps (43:35)

Little grab ass every now and then.

Emily (43:37)

In public, though, and he goes, mama likes Rudy Gobert. He kept saying, mama's got the hots for Rudy. Okay? I'm just going over everything about him and the fact that I know if I were to talk to him, he'd have a French accent. 10 out of 10, no notes, right? Very attractive human being. And isn't it. It isn't that the weight should be in a relationship. Like, I think he's hot. Josh is my best friend and my partner. I'm not going to go Rudy Gobert. I mean, if I had the opportunity, I'd add. I'd ask permission or maybe I'd ask forgiveness. I don't know. We'll get to that on another podcast. But. And Josh is the same. Like, when he sees somebody attractive, we can just talk about it, right? And. And I just. The whole. The whole, you know, mating for life, which I believe in monogamy. I think it's the healthiest thing for me personally. Some people have open relationships, and I don't think. I think I would. It would trigger bad things in me, jealousy, envy, if I was in some sort of open relationship. I think gay men are much better at that.

Pumps (44:35)

Right.

Emily (44:36)

Than a woman would be. But it's fun. It's fun to have crushes. And so do you have any little crushes?

Pumps (44:43)

I do. Okay. One thing I was going to say, the reason Josh can giggle and have fun about it is because Josh is secure in who Josh is. He does not have to run around telling people he's an alpha male. He is very secure. And I think that's a huge difference in men these days. Some men are just triggered and so worried about everything because they're so insecure.

Emily (45:07)

They would immediately form a contrast in their mind. Like if I was with a person whose default setting was jealousy and was emotionally immature and I said I was attracted to Rudy Gobert, most white men would immediately think he's seven foot tall.

Pumps (45:23)

Right.

Emily (45:24)

We're talking stallion dick. Oh God, we're talking dick. We're talking like the size, the scale of this thing would be staggering. And so a lot of men would probably take issue with that because they would start comparing themselves to Rudy Gobert. In our case, Josh was able to. I mean, I was just like. He was like, do you think he saw. No, I like was like, you've got to think he's hot.

Pumps (45:47)

Right?

Emily (45:47)

This is a gorgeous human being. I mean, and, and, and we did. Josh and I did kind of have a conversation. I was like, I bet that that is really large. I mean just, it just would have to be.

Pumps (45:59)

That's what I always like, okay, he's seven feet tall, his arms are longer, his feet are bigger, his heart's bigger, his skull's bigger. It just stands to reason. That's why my six foot floor drops to the floor has not failed me yet.

Emily (46:14)

That. But how devastating would it be if you were a, an NBA, let's just say NBA player. And it's like you're six, four or taller. Okay, let's say you're about six six, which I would say probably be around an average height in the NBA. And you have a teeny weeny.

Pumps (46:33)

That would just be terrible. Imagine having sex. Imagine like you're dancing, you've had a few cocktails, you're feeling great, Right. He hits on you six, six. You're thinking, oh, this is going to be, we're going back, we're getting a hotel room, we're doing it. Da da da. And he's three inch slim. What if, I mean, it would just be so shocking.

Emily (46:53)

Yeah. And then that, and then that guy would just be, I mean he'd be caused a death spiral.

Pumps (46:58)

He, he would know it.

Emily (47:01)

Yeah.

Pumps (47:01)

He would know that it was just a complete disappointment. There's no way he couldn't.

Emily (47:06)

Yeah. I mean, well, because it would be on loop. It would be every single time.

Pumps (47:11)

Time.

Emily (47:11)

Yeah.

Pumps (47:12)

Oh, gosh. That would be.

Emily (47:14)

Yeah. Yeah. Oh. I mean, do you think Rudy Gobert's hot?

Pumps (47:18)

A. He's hot. Yes, he's hot.

Emily (47:20)

You should have seen. You weren't sitting. You were sitting in the section next to me. But I was just, I mean it was. I was looking at the bench because there's like Anthony Edwards and they have really big. They were right. They're a big team. And we had really like. I could hear their conversations and stuff. So it was really cool. So I was just all in on watching them. And he just does this like flexing his biceps, such stretching. And he kept like his arms were like that for like a minute or so. He's done some sort of exercise. And I was just like.

Pumps (47:47)

What is happening?

Emily (47:50)

You've realized the amount of women that are in this place, right? Not to mention the gay men that were probably witnessing that as well. I mean it was just a sight for sore eyes. Let me just say that.

Pumps (48:01)

Yeah, I wish I would have paid attention. Okay. Because I'm gonna really be on him in pregame.

Emily (48:06)

Pay attention. Look at him at the pregame. Because I firmly believe listener. Just because you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't read the menu. Agree. I think it's perfectly normal to talk about people that we find attractive. And I think sometimes in the over corrective left, sometimes there's a movement to take away these fun things. Talking about if we think guys are hot men talking about if they think women are hot and not, you know, we all know with men it can go really raunchy really fast. But just the attractiveness of people. I think it's a very normal thing to discuss.

Pumps (48:49)

It's appreciative. But have you had those friends in your life? Because I've had these friends in my life younger. But when you. When they might say, you know, well, my husband said that they thought Jennifer Aniston was hot. And that really hurt my feelings. And I'm like, like that's not about you. That has nothing to do with you. Like you thinking Rudy Gobert is hot has nothing to do with Josh. That I.

Emily (49:11)

It would be weirder if I said he wasn't hot. It would be a million times more bizarre had I not noticed be he's seven foot tall, gorgeous, lean, muscular Frenchman with a chiseled facing a little, you know, probably three or four day growth.

Pumps (49:31)

I'm sure it was Groomed to the nine.

Emily (49:33)

Jesus. I mean, this man is gorgeous. We should all celebrate how attractive he is now. I don't know. Maybe he's a piece of shit in his personal life. I don't know. I'm gonna do a deep dive on it later tonight with ChatGPT. I mean, I don't know, but I mean, in that moment. But I agree with you, Pumps. I have had these girlfriends that get jealous because they're husband or partner finds some celebrity like Giselle, who doesn't find Giselle attractive. I'll tell you what. I have a story. So I have this girlfriend, and her husband is so psychotically jealous. Like, she went to a concert, like a rap concert. I think it was Kanye west before Kanye west was a Nazi. Like back when he.

Pumps (50:17)

Long time ago, when he wrote Gold Digger, okay.

Emily (50:22)

And on her, she was super excited to go. And before she went, her husband, like, Pre accused her of wanting to fuck Kanye and they got in this huge fight. Now here's the situation with that. None of that has anything to do with the wife or the husband, I mean, or Kanye west, who is a Nazi and I'm not. This was 15 years ago. But anyway, he would. I mean, he, like, was psychotic about it. And I remember her telling me about the story, and I just thought, thought, that's crazy. Like, that'd be like me going to the next Thunder game and Josh Pre accusing me of Gobert, which really would be a compliment to me that I.

Pumps (51:01)

Sent him, that he would see you on the sidelines and say, you're mine tonight. Like, I'm all in. If that happens. If somebody, like, is on stage. And like, in my high school days, it would have been Rick Springfield. If Rick Springfield was on stage in 1980 and he said, you, babe. I would have said, said, I'm there.

Emily (51:20)

You would have hit it.

Pumps (51:21)

I would have hit it immediately. But that's just. That's so weird to me. Like, people don't understand. Like, that's about that.

Emily (51:30)

What about you and your ex husband? Could you tell him that you thought people were hot?

Pumps (51:33)

Absolutely. And he would tell me it wasn't.

Emily (51:35)

Weird at all, that I just think that's a normal, healthy thing. Now there's going to be people on here and say, I think that's disrespectful. And I just think saying that's disrespectful is unrealistic. It's unrealistic that as human beings that have a tendency to lean towards the aesthetic in all things, all things, architecture, art, you know, interiors, literature, film, et cetera, that we wouldn't lean towards when you see other people. And I just think it's. I mean, I'm sure. I think it's healthy. I mean, I think it's a healthy thing to say. And so, I mean, it was. I think it excited Josh that I was so smitten with Rudy Gobert. He was like, oh, my lady still gets all turned on. You know, she's grabbing my ass. When we'd stand up and the Thunder would make, you know, they'd make a dunk or something, he'd pat my ass, and I love it. Yeah. So we had a little bit more sexual tension between us that night, which made it even more fun, all thanks to the Frenchman, Rudy Gobert.

Kiki (52:34)

Jen, I actually have some really bad news for you. Rudy Gobert is a famous, like, anti Covid vaxxer, and he's also a big supporter of RFK Jr. No.

Emily (52:45)

You know, this kind of makes sense, because I remember when Covid first started, there was a Thunder game, and he. It was Rudy Gobert that tested positive. And then that's when the shutdown happened, right? Yeah.

Kiki (52:59)

And he went on a press conference, and to be a dick, he, like, patted every single mic on the table so that everyone would get Covid.

Emily (53:07)

Oh, my gosh. I should have known this. All right, I'm going to retract my crash, and I'm in the market for a hot. Another hot Frenchman or Italian. So if you know of any, let me know. All right? So do you and Anna have, like, joint crushes or.

Kiki (53:25)

We have joint crushes, but we also have our own lists, and it's very well known, and we'll, like, tease each other about it. Be like, oh, your girlfriend's gonna be in that movie, and that's why you want to go see it.

Emily (53:34)

Okay, who are your. Who's your crushes and who are Anna's crushes?

Kiki (53:38)

Okay, I have an interesting one. So one of my biggest crushes is Zoe Kravitz.

Emily (53:42)

Oh, yeah. She's a babe.

Pumps (53:43)

Beautiful and great style.

Kiki (53:45)

And one of Anna's biggest crushes is Lisa Bonet, her mother.

Emily (53:49)

Oh, that's interesting.

Pumps (53:51)

And I'll add myself in that. Lenny Kravitz is one of mine.

Kiki (53:54)

There you go.

Emily (53:55)

Lenny Kravitz. Yeah.

Pumps (53:56)

They're a hot family.

Emily (53:57)

They are a beautiful family, and they all have an incredible amount of sex appeal.

Pumps (54:01)

1 million percent true.

Emily (54:03)

So does Ana lean towards liking older women?

Kiki (54:05)

Not usually. Usually that's me.

Pumps (54:07)

Me.

Emily (54:07)

Okay. You like an older woman. Okay. Who's number two on everybody's list.

Kiki (54:11)

Cate Blanchett's a big one.

Emily (54:13)

Yeah.

Pumps (54:13)

Okay. I don't want to give Jennifer any credit, but when the kids were little. So I'm Saying this was 20 years ago, probably. Cate Blanchett won an Oscar or she was nominated.

Emily (54:25)

She was all over the place.

Pumps (54:26)

She was everywhere. Every time you turn on the tv, she was there in every magazine. Everyone knew Jennifer and I were friends. I had. And I.

Emily (54:36)

This.

Pumps (54:36)

It's like vinegar coming out of my mouth. I had so many people that didn't know Jennifer, but that I knew that would say, you know what? Last night I was watching whatever and Cate Blanchett, Jennifer looks just like Cate Blanchett. And I was just like, oh, my God. Well, then it filtered around to. People were telling her, and I just, ugh.

Emily (55:03)

It was a rough patch for it. It was a rough patch. It was a really, really rough patch for pumps to go through that. Yeah. It just. It enraged her.

Pumps (55:12)

Yeah. But Cate Blanchett also has sex appeal.

Emily (55:15)

Yeah, she. You know what the thing about Cate Blanchett is? She is such an incredible actress. She just exudes intelligence and confidence, which is inherently sexy.

Pumps (55:28)

Agree.

Emily (55:28)

I mean, yes, she is an incredibly sexy woman. Incredibly. And I think. I mean, it depends on, I guess, what people are attracted to. But if I were a lesbian, I would want. Let me think about Kylie's list. I. Cate Blanchett would probably be. If I were a power lesi. I mean, I would have to go right to the top to, like, a power Leslie. That's why, like, our friend Renee Stabs. She hangs out with all those power lesbians, you know, and they're always doing power lesbian things. And it's just like this. They're all attractive, so sexy, and they have this, like, confidence.

Pumps (56:03)

Okay, who's your top crush? Jennifer.

Emily (56:06)

Okay. Top celebrity crushes. I mean, for a long time, I mean, I always thought, and still do think Barack Obama is incredibly attractive, sexy, all of the things, and no disrespect to his wife. This is the. Just because you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't read the menu. You know, for me, I'm 5 foot 10 inches tall, so the height is a huge factor in many, many celebrities are tiny, tiny. And when I've met them in person, they're. I mean, they're barely to my shoulder. And that's just an incredible turn off for me. No disrespect to any short men watching the podcast, but as a tall woman, I want to feel and you like to work. I want to feel. Yeah. I like to wear heels, and so I want to feel smaller than the person with whom I'm attracted. Yeah. And maybe that's, you know, a female, but I do, I like, I like a man that's taller than me. But I mean, you know, I think that, that I love Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal. As far as actors go, I'll tell you who I'm really liking lately, and I'm afraid he might be short, and I don't want to know, but I just, I think he's hot as. Is that Pedro Pascal.

Pumps (57:12)

Yes.

Emily (57:12)

And he is speaking out for.

Pumps (57:14)

Yes.

Emily (57:15)

Gay rights and trans rights in just such an unapologetic way. And I think that's an incredible turn on.

Pumps (57:21)

It's so sexy.

Emily (57:22)

Yeah.

Pumps (57:22)

Who's your favorite girl? Cry.

Emily (57:24)

Oh, my gosh. Favorite girl crush.

Pumps (57:27)

I'm trying to think of mine.

Emily (57:29)

I just, I think there's so many beautiful women in the world and I. When I see a beautiful woman, I, I mean, I'm just like, I'll be like, josh, look at how gorgeous she is. I mean, I think women are the prettier of the two genders.

Pumps (57:41)

Absolutely.

Emily (57:42)

You know, I just think when you see a woman that's all pulled together and super self confident, there's a sexiness about that, a sex appeal about that. But I mean, on the spot, it's hard for me to name.

Pumps (57:52)

I know. I was thinking, too. It's hard to name on the spot.

Emily (57:54)

I mean, I'll, I'll circle back, we'll scramble the jets the next episode, and we'll report on our. You know what? Here's what we do. We make a. A non gender list of people that we're attracted to, and it can be men and women combined. And we'll report back. And Kylie, I want your input humps. I want yours. And I'll make mine. And then our listeners in the comment section can give us yours, because we need to normalize finding each other attractive in a respectful way.

Pumps (58:22)

Agree.

Emily (58:23)

You know, we can't. That's just a normal human thing that's fun to do with your girlfriends. And we should do it with our podcast guests because we can't just talk about Trump all the time. We're gonna go crazy. All right, listen. Life is a lazy season of shit sandwiches written by myself and my much older best friend, who is not bitter at all anymore about my Cate Blanchett days. It's called Life is a Lazy Susan of shit Sandwiches. Order it now. Our link is in the bio bio bio. In all seriousness, it is a very good feel good book and pumps and I get really raw about all of the fuckups that led us here to this very moment on this podcast. All right. Please subscribe. Like engage in all of our content and engage in other left leaning media platforms. It's more important than you realize that we build our own silo here that's based in facts and humans humor and intelligence and pumps.

Pumps (59:18)

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