Crashing Out on the Last Day of Tiktok | The WarmUp - Too Many Tabs Podcast - Too Many Tabs with Pearlmania500

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Too Many Tabs with Pearlmania500
Episode: Crashing Out on the Last Day of TikTok | The WarmUp
Release Date: January 18, 2025

Introduction to The WarmUp Podcast

[00:31] Host 1 welcomes new listeners to a special free edition of their sister podcast, The WarmUp. This segment serves as an explainer for existing followers who might be unfamiliar with the new format.

Host 1: "You are following us now in the too many tabs universe. We wanted to send a big shout out and a hello and a welcome on this special free edition of our sister podcast, the Warmup." [00:31]

[01:06] Host 2 humorously describes the process of onboarding listeners to The WarmUp, highlighting their dynamic as a husband and wife duo adjusting to adult conversations away from their usual parenting-focused interactions.

Discussion on TikTok's Potential Ban

The core of the episode revolves around the impending ban of TikTok and its repercussions on creators and users alike.

Host 1: "Today, we're assuming, is the final day of TikTok." [03:15]

Emotional Impact on Users: The hosts delve into the emotional rollercoaster experienced by TikTok users as the possibility of the platform's shutdown looms.

Host 2: "People were in denial for so long, like, this isn't gonna happen. And then it was, like, really into anger." [05:11]
Host 1: "There's this movie that had John Candy in it... they must kill the landlords as the proletariat will rise." [12:31]

Personal Anecdotes: Host 1 shares a heartfelt story about discovering a long-lost cousin through TikTok, emphasizing the platform's role in connecting people.

Host 1: "TikTok is how I discovered lost family." [06:05]

Societal Reflections and Terminology

The conversation shifts to broader societal issues, critiquing outdated terms like "First World," "Second World," and "Third World," and their implications in modern contexts.

Host 1: "The Second world was just like, yo, the enemies. That was it." [16:34]

Critique of Racism and Redlining: They discuss systemic racism, redlining, and the creation of HOAs, highlighting how these institutions were historically designed to enforce segregation and economic disparities.

Host 1: "We have an episode about redlining, which is... the federal government used to sequester black people into certain neighborhoods." [09:25]
Host 2: "You're paying extra for the racism." [09:53]

Data Privacy and Social Media Giants

A critical examination of how major tech companies, including those behind TikTok's potential ban, manipulate data and stifle competition.

Host 1: "The argument... they knew this was the only way they could get rid of the competition." [20:31]
Host 1: "Cap Cut was designed for people to use, not for Paramount Studios... they couldn't innovate to keep up." [20:31]

Transition to Lighter Topics: Birds and Book Club

To balance the heavy discussions, the hosts introduce lighter topics, including a potential bird-themed YouTube tier list and their monthly book club segment.

Host 2: "I wanted to do a tier list of birds, just like owl versus woodpecker versus cardinal." [27:05]
Host 1: "Our book club episode is 'Bored Gay Werewolf' in Brat Summer Green." [27:04]

Closing Remarks and Future Episodes

As the episode wraps up, the hosts encourage listeners to engage with their content and tease upcoming topics, including further discussions on societal issues and the emotional aftermath of TikTok's ban.

Host 1: "We're trying to keep the vibes up. Stop trying to bring them down." [29:54]
Host 2: "We will be back tomorrow. Sunday." [29:35]

Notable Quotes

Host 1: "TikTok is going away now. Possibly, Maybe. I don't know." [03:30]
Host 2: "People were going through the stages of grief." [05:11]
Host 1: "Elon Musk... has a streamer body now, baby." [09:19]
Host 2: "You're paying extra for the racism." [09:53]
Host 1: "We live in hell." [25:53]
Host 2: "We have to make the silly billies and the best out of it." [25:59]

Conclusion

This episode of Too Many Tabs with Pearlmania500 offers a multifaceted exploration of the impending TikTok ban, weaving in personal stories, societal critiques, and lighthearted segments to provide a comprehensive and engaging discussion. Through candid conversations, the hosts shed light on broader issues while maintaining their signature humor and warmth.

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Host 1
Hello to all of our new followers, listeners, subscribers, or whatever it is, Patreons, whatever it is. You are following us now in the too many tabs universe. We wanted to send a big shout out and a hello and a welcome on this special free edition of our sister podcast, the Warmup. I know this is very confusing, so that's why I've brought in an explainer expert. Somebody who knows not only how to explain things to somebody, but. But who can also hold your hand and make sure that this is a smooth transitional process. Mrs. Pearl Mania.
[01:06]
Host 2
I'm going to onboard you. Onboard the onboarding. So, no, the Warmup is a podcast that we put on the Patreon every week, usually the middle of the week. Because that's when we record the actual episode.
[01:17]
Host 1
Yes.
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Host 2
And what we do is we sit down across from each other, look each other in the eye, because it's the first time we've done that probably in a week. And we're getting used to talking to each other like adult humans.
[01:27]
Host 1
Yeah. And the reason why it's been a week, about a week since we've spoken to each other is because we are not normally people. No, normally we are parents. Exactly. Exactly.
[01:38]
Host 2
We're functioning on a different level. But we got childcare. We're in the recording room.
[01:43]
Host 1
Yep.
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Host 2
Okay.
[01:44]
Host 1
And we're ready to go. And we're. And we're freewheeling on the warm up. More so than our normal podcast, two minute taps.
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Host 2
What's it called? We don't have anything laid out.
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Host 1
Yeah. We don't have anything laid out about it. And really what this is just a moment, like she was saying, for, for us to just kind of have them chats.
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Host 2
Yeah. Just.
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Host 1
And they get a little loosey goosey.
[02:00]
Host 2
Used to talking about the silly billies.
[02:02]
Host 1
Yeah.
[02:02]
Host 2
Instead of being like, where's the last of the formula?
[02:05]
Host 1
Yeah. All those different things are. Nobody wiped down the, the, the, The The. The thing that's. I didn't even have the words.
[02:11]
Host 2
It's literally just anything in the house. Anything in the house.
[02:13]
Host 1
Listen, if you ever be. If you ever are become parents or you've ever been a parent, you know that. You know exactly what the thing is.
[02:19]
Host 2
Yeah, exactly.
[02:19]
Host 1
You didn't wipe down the thing. And then both of you, like, I'm sorry. I meant to do it last time.
[02:23]
Host 2
Oh, Jesus.
[02:24]
Host 1
It's probably my fault.
[02:25]
Host 2
It's fine. I love you. Anyway.
[02:26]
Host 1
Oh. See? And that's what the pod and that's what Getting Warm is about. Too Many Tabs is our podcast where every single week one of us does research on a topic or reads a book and explains the entire thing to the other one. And to get ready to do that, we have to just kind of have a yap session. But so let's us start that yap session right now by me playing our theme song, Getting Warm Toast.
[02:56]
Host 2
So what are we talking about today?
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Host 1
Well, okay, so today.
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Host 2
Well, there's nothing important happening in the next 72 hours.
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Host 1
Nothing at all?
[03:01]
Host 2
Nothing weird, crazy? Nothing out of the ordinary?
[03:04]
Host 1
No, no. Today is January 18th, 2025. We're currently recording at 3:30pm on the east.
[03:10]
Host 2
3:33.
[03:11]
Host 1
Okay. When we started. When we started it was 3:30.
[03:14]
Host 2
When we started it was 2:30.
[03:15]
Host 1
Okay. But then I discovered a bunch of technical issues now. But basically one of the reasons we're doing this extra special free edition of our Patreon podcast, the reason why we're doing this is because today, we're assuming, is the final day of Tick Tock.
[03:31]
Host 2
Oh my God.
[03:31]
Host 1
And so there may be more people coming over and then listening for the first time. And we want to make sure that we.
[03:40]
Host 2
From here.
[03:42]
Host 1
You okay, Sarah McLachlan?
[03:44]
Host 2
I just picturing sad puppies.
[03:45]
Host 1
Oh my God. Remember the other day when we actually watched tv?
[03:48]
Host 2
Oh my God. That's where it came.
[03:50]
Host 1
Yeah. No, that's exactly where it came from. Hold on. All right. Okay, so TikTok is going away now. Possibly, Maybe. I don't know. There's actually. It's, it's. The things that have been coming out are so nuts because if you've. I'm a creator on TikTok, obviously you guys know that, and that's might be where you know me from, but like the emotional whiplash we have been running under the assumption since whatever it was in 2020 when Trump passed the executive order, that TikTok was going to be banned. That TikTok was going to be banned.
[04:22]
Host 2
Yeah.
[04:22]
Host 1
And then when the bills kept coming up, I was like, I fought really hard, and a bunch of other people did, and we. We called Congress and. And they got postponed.
[04:30]
Host 2
Yeah.
[04:30]
Host 1
And we're like, we're safe. We're good. And then when a bunch of other different stuff happened, we kept being like, all right, we're just pushing it. They were kicking the can down the road. And then when it got signed, we're like, yeah, there's a court case. There's this thing, the Supreme Court. And so the last week since the Supreme Court case happened has been every three hours, a different news source or somebody from a back room telling the world it is or isn't going to happen. And we don't even have a time stamp.
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Host 2
Yeah. I also think there's a really interesting thing about, like, people that use Tick Tock going through the stages of grief that I've been witnessing, like, as an outsider, because I'm not a creator on Tick Tock per se. Like, I'm in your Tick Tock sometimes.
[05:12]
Host 1
Yeah.
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Host 2
But, you know, people were in denial for so long, like, this isn't gonna happen. This isn't gonna happen. And then it was, like, really into anger. People were pissed. And then there's, like, this bargaining phase. We're like, oh, maybe this will change it. And so watching everybody go through the phases of grief, and now, you know, tomorrow it could go dark.
[05:33]
Host 1
Yeah.
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Host 2
And it's like everybody is just, like, out of their minds.
[05:37]
Host 1
Every. Yeah. And it's been one of those, and.
[05:39]
Host 2
A lot, for good reason. A lot of people created companies. A lot of businesses have employees.
[05:45]
Host 1
I found a long lost cousin through Tick Tock.
[05:47]
Host 2
That's true.
[05:48]
Host 1
We've never even really talked about it, but I have a cousin, and I didn't know. We didn't know. We didn't y'all. We didn't know. TikTok is how I discovered lost family. So my family came over at that time. It was the Russian Empire in, like, around 1910. Three brothers fled an area.
[06:06]
Host 2
Yeah.
[06:06]
Host 1
And they came over here, and they all went to different parts of the United States.
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Host 2
Yeah.
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Host 1
My grandfather and the one brother had, like, somewhat of a connection. The third brother, though. I don't know why. They just didn't fucking talk. They said, bye, and he moved to. Around Michigan somewhere.
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Host 2
Yeah.
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Host 1
And then one day, I'm scrolling through TikTok, I see this guy. He's kind of funny. I'm like, that's kind of funny. Oh, my God. We have the same last name. That's pretty weird.
[06:27]
Host 2
Kind of looks similar.
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Host 1
I don't. Fuck. I liked it. You know, I subscribed and then he messaged me. He's like, I have a question. I'm like, what? He's like, did your grandfather. Did your family come to the United States through Baltimore? And I'm like, what? And then we start talking and it's like, yeah. And then I talked to my dad and we looked at each other like, he doesn't have red hair, but he has a red beard.
[06:45]
Host 2
Yeah.
[06:45]
Host 1
And then, like, I eventually, like, met his sister at a thing. And his name is Zach Perlman.
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Host 2
Who that sister? Mom. Incredible.
[06:53]
Host 1
We met the mom, too. We met her at a different event.
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Host 2
So nice.
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Host 1
But Zach Perlman, you guys may know.
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Host 2
Yeah.
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Host 1
From a Key and Peele sketch. Because he played a A Ron. I am cousins with a A Ron from the Key and Peele sketch. I did not know. I did not fucking know that until TikTok. But also on top of that, for all the other obvious reasons, like, I've made so many friends through TikTok who are actual, like, friends. Like texting friends.
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Host 2
Yeah.
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Host 1
Not. Not DMs.
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Host 2
No.
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Host 1
We traded phone numbers.
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Host 2
That's right.
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Host 1
We texted. We've had meals together. We've met IRL in the meat space.
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Host 2
Stop saying meat space.
[07:30]
Host 1
No, I am. I am a millennial. I'm a 40 year old millennial, man.
[07:34]
Host 2
And that's what we've always called millennial. You can just tell. I can just tell. You're wearing a V neck T shirt.
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Host 1
Yeah, I know.
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Host 2
Of course you're a millennial.
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Host 1
I'm so mad that they don't make them anymore because every time I go out, I will say, okay, real fast. I do look fatter in V neck T shirts. V neck T shirts were designed for a less gutty pearl mania.
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Host 2
Okay.
[07:54]
Host 1
All right. And so remember how I bought that one?
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Host 2
I'm not going to comment on your body. Okay.
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Host 1
No, that's fine. I will. Let me body check myself. I learned that term on our podcast Too many tabs. You can listen to that episode. It's about what's her name with the ukulele.
[08:06]
Host 2
Oh, with the ukulele Apology began with a C, right?
[08:10]
Host 1
Yeah.
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Host 2
I forget her name.
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Host 1
Yeah, I can't remember what her name is, but she did the uk. Remember the bad ukulele. Guys, remember on Tick Tock, when she did the bad ukulele? She did it on YouTube. But, man, did we bring it all over to Tick Tocks.
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Host 2
Colleen Ballinger.
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Host 1
Colleen Ballinger.
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Host 2
Yeah. That was crazy.
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Host 1
Yeah. We have an episode about that. It's. It's in there. It's in the archives. But yeah, I've. I bought a T shirt and it's actually one of the newer cuts that are more. It's more stylish.
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Host 2
Yeah. It's got the bigger shoulders. It's a wide cut.
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Host 1
It's a wide cut. When I first put it, I felt ridiculous. But then I saw myself in the mirror. I'm like, oh, you don't look fat in this. Oh. I was like. Because it drapes from the neck.
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Host 2
Yeah, drapes from the neck.
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Host 1
It doesn't drape from the body, so it's not pulling as tight. And I was like, oh, V necks were for when you thought you had the Anderson Cooper cut.
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Host 2
Yeah.
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Host 1
Right. You got that Anderson Cooper Buggin in Lebanon cutting a video from a hurricane site type of deal. Like, that's the Anderson Cooper V neck, right? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I got a streamer body now, baby. I got a streamer body. What's. What. What am I doing with this body? I'm sitting. What am I doing? Oh, where do you live? Do you live in the city where you walk everywhere? Hell no. We live in the suburbs. We gotta drive to everything.
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Host 2
Walking everywhere. I don't know why someone would build the suburbs.
[09:24]
Host 1
I know why they built it.
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Host 2
I know why they didn't.
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Host 1
We covered it in an episode, actually.
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Host 2
Redlining episode.
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Host 1
We did. Oh, my God. This is becoming a preview. We have an episode about redlining, which is. And the federal government used to sequester black people into certain neighborhoods.
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Host 2
Yeah.
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Host 1
And to. And to make other areas whites only food deserts. Yes. And a bunch of other different reasons. It's a great episode. You can listen to that one.
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Host 2
Also. I think I scream about hoas a lot in that.
[09:46]
Host 1
We do. We scream a lot about HOAs because HOAs were also designed because of racism. You're paying extra.
[09:52]
Host 2
You're paying extra for the racism.
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Host 1
Yeah.
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Host 2
And you don't even get to pick out your color, your garbage cans.
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Host 1
No, that's what I mean.
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Host 2
Like.
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Host 1
Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah. I hate it when they're like, you can't have this type of fence. And I'm like, I could up a fence wherever I want. It's my property.
[10:03]
Host 2
Yeah. When we. What do you mean?
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Host 1
I know you. Listen, this is P. For those of you guys who don't know. Mrs. Pearl Mania. Big on her. What Liberties. She loves a liberty I love.
[10:13]
Host 2
And I don't like when they're taken away. No, she doesn't I don't like this tick tock band.
[10:16]
Host 1
Yeah. Because they're taken away our liberties.
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Host 2
I have a right to download any app I want. Okay. You guys can't come together on anything else so much.
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Host 1
So then when they said, don't give your data to China.
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Host 2
Oh, bet I did.
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Host 1
The first person in this household that downloaded Red Note, sitting across from me at this table right here, I was.
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Host 2
Like, what's going on?
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Host 1
And can I tell you, she spent the last week of the TikTok ban. I'd say she probably spent 60% of that on Red Note being like, look at this snack.
[10:42]
Host 2
Oh yeah. Because you get to pick what you want to look at.
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Host 1
Yeah.
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Host 2
And snacks was a selection.
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Host 1
It just.
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Host 2
Can you imagine?
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Host 1
Not food. No, no, no, no. Because meta Mark Kuckerberg and all these other fuckers. All these other fuckers, whenever they're like, oh, here's some ideas, they'll just write food.
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Host 2
Yeah, no, and.
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Host 1
But on this one they were like, snacks, do you like dinner or do you like snacks?
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Host 2
They had dinner, they had restaurants, food prep, recipes, and then one that was just called snacks. And I said, let me get in there. That's what I want to be.
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Host 1
Because you love what you love cats, you love snacks, and I love naps. That's you.
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Host 2
That's my favorite thing is.
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Host 1
And guess what they have on Red Note. They have all those things. They had a squirrel that I've never seen before. I thought I knew every squirrel.
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Host 2
The flower squirrel with the little ears. It's so crazy cute.
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Host 1
It was the cutest squirrel I've ever seen. And it was just sitting there. Just.
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Host 2
I like how half of TikTok got radicalized in two days towards communism by being on Red Note.
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Host 1
Not just.
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Host 2
And you and I were like, have you seen this fucking squirrel?
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Host 1
But also not. But also not just communism, like Maoism, like, like that is so crazy. But it also is like, exactly clear. There is. There's this movie that had John Candy in it, which it's about like Peace Corps people in like, I want to say like the 60s or something like that. Like, they go to someplace in Southeast Asia, okay, And they have to build this bridge. And it's like a bridge over River Kwai type of thing, but it's Peace Corps people. And somehow like the members of like the Chinese Communist army, the Red army, capture John Candy. He's like, I'm a red blooded American, you'll never turn me. And then it just does like a swipe and he's in the full Red army garb. And he's like, we must kill the landlords as the proletariat will rise. And you're like, what? And they're like. And like the guy is. The guy who brainwashed him is over it. He's like, this guy's so. Because again, a convert is the most annoying person.
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Host 2
Yeah.
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Host 1
It's so good. It's happened so rapidly. It's the funniest goddamn thing.
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Host 2
So funny.
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Host 1
It's the fun. I.
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Host 2
Okay, wait, I want to preface this.
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Host 1
Yeah.
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Host 2
It's not fun. Funny that people are weeping on the Internet, finally understanding the inequity.
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Host 1
Yes.
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Host 2
And the fact that like food prices and housing prices and our health insurance. Like, I like that anger and range. I absolutely understand. And I agree with them on. Yeah, it is funny to me that it only took 48 hours to bear witness to kind Chinese people explaining to them, yes, hey, this how the rest of the world lives. And they were like, holy. But the. The funniest thing to me personally is that I. I already had those thoughts in my mind. So I was scrolling past all that because I was like, red pandas. They have so many cute red pandas.
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Host 1
I love a red panda.
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Host 2
I literally just was looking at red panda videos.
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Host 1
I kept getting served guns.
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Host 2
Everybody else, Mine was.
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Host 1
Mine was the most beautiful guns. I'm not even into guns, but they're.
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Host 2
Like, this is the most beautiful, ornamental.
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Host 1
And bold, very intricate designs. And then they're like, you think those are cool? Check out these pocket guns. I'm like, pocket guns. And there was this one where this guy. It just has a series of like these little. It's like, it looks like a business card. And he's like a transformer. It's a gun. And I'm like, whoa, that's cool. You can't even post that on TikTok. No, that's actually against community guidelines.
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Host 2
You'd be in trouble for that.
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Host 1
But on Red Note, they're like, no, no, no. Hey, no, no. We're communists. We fuck with guns.
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Host 2
And I was like, yo.
[14:04]
Host 1
But also, I think I posted about this in a TikTok. And the part that I find funny is that the United States federal government and the argument that Mark Zuckerberg and these other billionaires have used as to why TikTok needed to be silenced is because that it was pushing propaganda, specifically propaganda that was being used by the Chinese Communist Party and that it was pushing people towards communism. And that was pushing people. And this whole thing, everything that's happening that's evil in the World they have said has been due to TikTok. Right. And that we had to protect our fucking data. And what happened? The line. The hammer came down. The line came down. And what did the American people do? We said, oh, bet you told me I can't do something. You told me I can't give my fucking data to China. Yo, fuck you, dude. Yo, Chinese dude here. Yo, what you. Yo, why is your corn cheaper? Yo, why is your corn cheaper?
[14:57]
Host 2
We make corn.
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Host 1
The corn's from Iowa. What the fuck? That's Nebraska corn. Like, that is so wild. But also, there was. And again, I mentioned this, the other part that caught me off guard. And again, I have to. I have to remind myself I have been lucky in my life in that I have been able to travel internationally and also been educated in world history.
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Host 2
Yeah.
[15:17]
Host 1
And was taught how to look at the rest of the world. Like, how to actually literally see it, where to go to on Google Earth, haven't I? Like, sometimes every now and then I get bored and I'm like, what does Mongolia look like?
[15:30]
Host 2
Yeah, like.
[15:30]
Host 1
Because I've heard of Mongolia, but, like, you can go on Google Earth and just. I click down streets sometimes.
[15:35]
Host 2
Yeah.
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Host 1
I just go on Google Maps and just go and follow. Go down this different way. And so, like, there's a lot of people who believe that if you cross the border into Mexico, everything goes into Sepia town. There's a lot of people who believe Africa is huts and they don't know, like, how built up. Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, all these are like. There's these incredibly huge, massive cities that are, you would think are equal to Columbus, Ohio. Yeah, Actually, they surpass Columbus, Ohio. Honestly, yo, my apologies to everyone in Columbus, Ohio, but you live in the Third World. Okay. You live in the Third World. By the way, while we're at it, the Second world, by the way, I know some of you. First world, Third world is weird. Where's the second? The Second world is communism. Just so you know. Just so you just so you know. That is the definition. The first world is capitalist countries develop. And this is under the definitions. The first world is developed, capitalist countries.
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Host 2
Yeah.
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Host 1
The Third World, we're supposed to be developing nations, which in reality means places that we strip all the resources from.
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Host 2
Yeah.
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Host 1
And then the Second world was just like, yo, the enemies. That was it. That was their communist enemy. Like, that's how we viewed it in. During the Cold War. That's that terminology. That's where it comes from. And so when people are seeing a nation like China that has Been demonized for so long, and that is currently being demonized at a rate. That's crazy. Yeah, It's. It's making people. It's. It's like. It's a gateway.
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Host 2
Yeah.
[17:08]
Host 1
Very much into, like, the reason there was a South park episode years ago about how the reason why pot's a gateway drug. Pot isn't a gateway drug because, oh, my God, I smoke pot. And then. You know what? Let me try cracking. Yeah, no, no parts. A gateway drug because they told you that marijuana is the worst thing in the world and that if you smoke pot, you're going to put a baby into. Into a microwave.
[17:26]
Host 2
Oh, okay. I don't remember them saying that.
[17:28]
Host 1
No, no. If you go back to like the 60s and the 70s propaganda, especially before, right before we were born, they got crazy with like the anti weed especially propaganda in the United States. Pot is a gateway drug because the people were telling you, the government, your parents, everybody was telling you that it's this horrible thing that if you ever smoke it or if you ever touch it, it's going to destroy your life. Right. And then you did, and nothing bad happened. In fact, cartoons were funny and you discovered the wonderful world of butterscotch crimp.
[17:58]
Host 2
That's a regional delicacy.
[18:00]
Host 1
So then. So then you go, oh, we'll try. Okay, that wasn't so bad. So maybe they're lying about something else. And then you try some. Some other stuff.
[18:09]
Host 2
Yeah.
[18:09]
Host 1
And before you know it, you're going deeper and deeper down because they tried. They were. They played too far out in the goalie. Yeah, they were too far out. And you got right past to be clear.
[18:17]
Host 2
This is not us saying, do drugs, don't do drugs. Everything's fentanyl now. Don't do it. Okay, okay, guys. Allegedly, okay.
[18:26]
Host 1
That's an allegedly button. We invented that because every now and then we got to hit that button.
[18:31]
Host 2
I don't know why we needed an allegedly button. Is it Big Fentanyl going to sue me?
[18:36]
Host 1
I don't know.
[18:36]
Host 2
Big Fentanyl is going to come in.
[18:37]
Host 1
I don't know what big fat betterhelp.
[18:39]
Host 2
Wants to sue me, but not.
[18:40]
Host 1
Okay, all right. We do have an episode that Better Help got. It's funny because it's actually funny because Better Help never got mad about that episode. They got mad about what I said about them on TikTok because I said that they were collaborators with the Israeli government.
[18:54]
Host 2
Prove us wrong.
[18:55]
Host 1
Which they were. And then Snopes wrote an article about it. I legit. I have a Snopes article about me it's been TikTok has been. This has been on TikTok. This is by the way has always been about TikTok. Back to red Note though. I find it just so fascinating though of like how badly they fumbled this month moment. Yeah. Because across the board it has been. It's never been more apparent of how the tech bro overlords, the. The techno king, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and others and Even Google and YouTube have pushed so hard for this TikTok ban because they knew the way to get rid of competition. Most people viewing this way, they knew this was the only way they could get rid of the competition. They couldn't innovate to keep up. Cap Cut is the absolute best editing software I've ever used as as a non editor. I know there's a lot of people out there who, you know, they have different editing softwares they prefer. Cap Cut was so intuitive. Why? Because it wasn't designed by an engineer and it wasn't designed for an editor. If you're good at Adobe Premiere, if you're good at editing software, you already were taught those baselines. So what? Changing the user interface is going to be harder for you. Right? So Cap Cut design one because they know most people aren't fucking editors. So I was able to just squeeze an overlay. Let me push this in here. Cut this real easy. People got really good at making TikTok edits and cap Cut edits because it was designed for people to use, not for Paramount Studios and anyone being paid by David Zaslav over at HBO Max.
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Host 2
Whoa.
[20:32]
Host 1
This was all like. That was a big thing because everybody knew when reels first rolled out it didn't have the editing software built in. When YouTube shorts, YouTube shorts until recently did not even have captioning built in. Cap cut. And TikTok has had captioning for almost three years now. And good captioning no less. I didn't have to actually change that much at the beginning when I was changing a lot of my captions there was for two reasons. One, I was hide the curse words. Hiding the curse words. Gotta hide the curse words and the insults because at.
[21:03]
Host 2
Listen before I was you always getting reported for bullying.
[21:05]
Host 1
I was getting reported a lot. I was getting reported a lot. At one point they pulled down one of my videos for sexually harassing Ben Shapiro.
[21:14]
Host 2
Was that the one we were talking about? His lip filler?
[21:16]
Host 1
I. No, it was a different one where I was. Honestly, it didn't age well. I Was defending Lizzo. No, it was because of the. She played a flute, a crystal flute. And Ben Shapiro made a whole big deal about it. And I called him a. A. A non. Kosher penis.
[21:32]
Host 2
Okay. Yeah.
[21:32]
Host 1
Shrimp dick. Yeah, that's the word I used. But so because of that I learned. I was like, oh, if I change these because. Because I knew on.
[21:40]
Host 2
Wait, didn't Lizzo get vindicated? I think the lawsuit, like, everything clear.
[21:43]
Host 1
I don't know if she's been. I don't. I don't believe she's been vindicated yet.
[21:47]
Host 2
On a podcast with Kiki Palmer. But it was only a clip because I'll stop and watch anything with Kiki Palmer. I see Kiki Palmer on TikTok. I'm stopping. I want to see what's going on.
[21:55]
Host 1
You love a Kiki.
[21:56]
Host 2
I love Keep. And so I, I saw her and Liz are talking about. I would have to look into it. I don't know for sure.
[22:02]
Host 1
Yeah, I would say it's one. It's been time. Yeah, it's been. It's just been so much time. And so a lot of that story kind of like fell off and it just kind of sits in the background.
[22:13]
Host 2
Lizzo was the. The queen of Tick tock.
[22:15]
Host 1
She was for a very long time with the music.
[22:17]
Host 2
Oh, my God.
[22:17]
Host 1
Yeah. No, she was really, really killing it. And like Barbie came out and all that stuff. Like, they really cut the legs out of the rest of that Barbie summer for her. So, like when Barbie was up for an Oscar, like any of this. And so Barbie summer, there's a lot of that lawsuit which, like, she admitted to, like, going to the club and all that stuff. I know.
[22:34]
Host 2
I don't want to get it.
[22:35]
Host 1
Okay. We don't have to. We don't have to go that deep into it. Yeah, no. Okay. Not like a banana, but. Okay. But that was part of the lawsuit. Look it up.
[22:43]
Host 2
No. Okay.
[22:43]
Host 1
Okay. What? I don't wanna. I'm not trying to send a hate mob to Lizzo. I follow her on Blue Sky.
[22:48]
Host 2
Perfect.
[22:49]
Host 1
Which I've been on for a while. I like Blue Sky.
[22:52]
Host 2
Yeah.
[22:52]
Host 1
You hate it.
[22:53]
Host 2
I don't hate it. It just doesn't.
[22:54]
Host 1
It's not as intuitive, it's not as fun.
[22:57]
Host 2
But I also never was a Twitter girly. No, I never did Twitter. Really?
[23:00]
Host 1
You always hated me on Twitter.
[23:01]
Host 2
Yeah.
[23:01]
Host 1
You always, like, stop looking at Twitter. And I was like, whatever. But then. But then that was the one thing. Honestly, that's what it was. That's what it really came down to. The End of the day for us, for our marriage. Blues and blues guy. Tik Tok mixed the, the. Now the immediacy of Twitter.
[23:18]
Host 2
Yeah.
[23:18]
Host 1
With the silliness of like YouTube and what old Facebook was.
[23:23]
Host 2
Yeah.
[23:23]
Host 1
It took those two things and it mashed them together and it, it did it in a really, really, really good way.
[23:29]
Host 2
Yeah.
[23:29]
Host 1
And it annoys me that instead of American companies trying to actually ask a creator or user of TikTok what they actually like about it or trying to study it to like make something close to it, hire you stolen everything else.
[23:49]
Host 2
Hire a spy to get employed at TikTok and steal the algorithm. Like, are we not hiring spies anymore?
[23:56]
Host 1
Yeah. Instead, what do you do? You had to run to the fucking daddy government, you big bitch. Oh, look at me. I'm Elon Musk. My grandfather was a Nazi chiropractor in Canada.
[24:07]
Host 2
There's an episode about that.
[24:08]
Host 1
Yeah, we do. It's called Elon Musk, racist grandpa. There's. Listen, we've. We've learned a lot.
[24:12]
Host 2
Yeah. We've been doing with you guys. Yeah.
[24:14]
Host 1
Our listeners and our new listeners. You're gonna learn a lot with us too. And we're really happy doing it. We do.
[24:21]
Host 2
It's not all about learning.
[24:22]
Host 1
We do. But let me. The one thing I, I dropped off earlier was talking about with Tick Tock is like the, the emotional whiplash. Because it's like every three hours while we're recording this, I'm literally getting texts from people who are telling me like, different. It's at midnight. It's gonna be at 8:30. It's gonna be this time. Like what time? It just done.
[24:38]
Host 2
It's done.
[24:38]
Host 1
Right. And Donald Trump is now being listed as the possible savior, which is very funny. It's very funny that we've gone full circle from the problem he started to him being the one to fix it.
[24:52]
Host 2
Yeah. I don't think he's. I mean, I don't think he's going to faith in him at all.
[24:55]
Host 1
But what he said, apparently, according to Pop Base.
[24:58]
Host 2
Oh, that's trusted resource there.
[25:00]
Host 1
Donald Trump has told NBC News that he will, quote, most likely, unquote, give TikTok a 90 day extension to avoid a ban when he takes office. Quote, if I decide to do that, I'll probably announce it on Monday. Quote, if I decide to do that. Because again, classic promo.
[25:16]
Host 2
I want a promo for his inauguration.
[25:18]
Host 1
I want you guys to know that this is, this is. Stay tuned. We are back into 90s reality TV living well.
[25:29]
Host 2
That's what this man trained him very well.
[25:31]
Host 1
We have an episode about.
[25:32]
Host 2
We have an episode about how they're besties.
[25:34]
Host 1
Yeah. And about how. About how the wwe. WWE created Donald Trump. And actually.
[25:38]
Host 2
So that's why he's dropping a promo for Monday.
[25:40]
Host 1
Yeah, he is. And this is very Vince McMahon coded.
[25:43]
Host 2
I can. I can I just say I cannot believe that the inauguration is going to be on Dr. Martin Luther King Day.
[25:50]
Host 1
I can. Because we live in hell. I can believe it. Just because we live in hell.
[25:53]
Host 2
Day of service. I can't.
[25:55]
Host 1
We live in hell. We live in hell.
[25:57]
Host 2
Hey, listen. But we got to make the silly billies and the best out of it.
[25:59]
Host 1
We do. And that's what we're going to do with our special episode. Hand me that book.
[26:02]
Host 2
Okay.
[26:03]
Host 1
Because I haven't read it yet. Because you read it.
[26:05]
Host 2
Yeah. You know. Okay.
[26:06]
Host 1
I don't read it.
[26:06]
Host 2
The book club episodes of our podcast are we. We do. Most episodes are just a basic lure. I look up something or you look up something, and then we try to explain to each other. And we have a silly Billy fun time. Our ADHD is uncontrolled. There's no medication to help us with it. And then once a month, I read a book and then I explain that book to you. It's called Mrs. P's Book Club.
[26:27]
Host 1
Yep.
[26:27]
Host 2
There's a whole log of them. They're very funny. Some people say they're the best part of our podcast. I'm not like some people are saying that.
[26:33]
Host 1
Yeah.
[26:34]
Host 2
And this week I've decided, and you agreed, that the next 72 hours are going to be really fucking weird and harsh and anxiety inducing. So what? I said, fuck it. We're not going to do any episode about history or politics or any of that bullshit. We're into a silly book and we're going to vibe out.
[26:50]
Host 1
Yep.
[26:51]
Host 2
And it's going to be a long episode.
[26:52]
Host 1
And God damn, do we have some good vibes because. What's the book called? Bored Gay Werewolf.
[26:57]
Host 2
He's holding up the picture.
[26:59]
Host 1
That's it right now. Bored Gay Werewolf. And it's in Brat Summer Green.
[27:05]
Host 2
Yeah.
[27:05]
Host 1
This is. This book is gay. But let me tell you something. When you're done this, you will not be bored. I can feel it. Because you've actually been, like, pulsating. You've been wanting to tell me about this book for a while now.
[27:17]
Host 2
Show off my bookmark. Let's see what it looks like.
[27:20]
Host 1
Oh.
[27:21]
Host 2
Oh, it's got a tufty boy.
[27:22]
Host 1
A little tufty boy in it.
[27:23]
Host 2
It's a bird Bookmark I got at Longwood Gardens.
[27:25]
Host 1
Well, and also, you've. More important. You've been trying desperately to have me do a YouTube video about birds.
[27:31]
Host 2
I do. Listen, leave a comment. I want. Alex has been doing YouTube videos about Tier lists. We've been doing all these tier lists and writing them out together. Right. And I wanted to do a tier list of birds, just like owl versus woodpecker versus cardinal or whatever. Just like a picket. A selection of birds. And Tim, just try to be like, well, I feel like this bird's s tier. And then tell me why you think it's s tier. Okay.
[27:55]
Host 1
So. So. And here's the reasoning. And if I make it, this will be one of the things. I know nothing about birds. That's what's important. Right. Because there's Brennan Lee Mulligan from Dimension 20. He's big into birds.
[28:05]
Host 2
Yeah.
[28:05]
Host 1
Okay. I am. When it comes to birds, I'm a cash.
[28:08]
Host 2
Yeah.
[28:09]
Host 1
And when that casual. That casualness started during the pandemic.
[28:13]
Host 2
Yeah.
[28:13]
Host 1
When I bought a bird feeder because I needed to look at something that wasn't. Oh, no. Us. Like, we were just staring at each other one day, and I was like, I want to look out the window.
[28:22]
Host 2
Yeah.
[28:22]
Host 1
And I hung a bird feeder, and I put some seeds in it, and then suddenly birds started showing up, and I was like, oh, I like these birds. And then before I knew it, I had. This is. Mrs. Bead was like, he has a lot of opinions about birds. And I'm like, I don't.
[28:34]
Host 2
He's like, I like that tufty boy over there.
[28:36]
Host 1
Yo, I love me a bird. Okay? And maybe. Maybe I think.
[28:40]
Host 2
Leave a comment if you want to see a Tier list on YouTube of the birds.
[28:44]
Host 1
But right now, I'll do for you. Right now is we are going to end this episode.
[28:48]
Host 2
D tier, yo, Fuck a seagull. Pigeons. A tier. Maybe S tier pigeons are okay, because pigeons.
[28:55]
Host 1
I. You're wrong on both.
[28:57]
Host 2
Okay.
[28:58]
Host 1
I'm not gonna tell you my reasoning because I want people to want this video because I have my reasonings or why pj like, pigeons make me feel bad.
[29:07]
Host 2
Yeah.
[29:08]
Host 1
Because of the story of pigeons.
[29:10]
Host 2
But I love pigeons because Bert was my favorite Sesame street character, and he loved pigeons, and so I love pigeons, and I. I think we should appreciate them more. But that's. That's for. That's for a tearless.
[29:19]
Host 1
That's for a tier of my opinion. But we need to stop. We got to stop, okay?
[29:23]
Host 2
We got to get regular.
[29:24]
Host 1
We got to get the regular episode recorded.
[29:26]
Host 2
Child Care's got to go home.
[29:27]
Host 1
Yes. Thank you guys so much for listening to this episode of the Warm up from Too many tabs. We will be back tomorrow. Sunday.
[29:35]
Host 2
Yep.
[29:36]
Host 1
That's our January 19th at 5pm that is when we typically drop our episodes.
[29:40]
Host 2
Yeah.
[29:41]
Host 1
So look forward to that episode. It'll be up very shortly.
[29:44]
Host 2
Do the dishes, go for a walk.
[29:46]
Host 1
It's. It's perfect.
[29:47]
Host 2
If you have to go to work on Monday, listen to this. Don't do work.
[29:51]
Host 1
No, listen. If you have to go to work on Tuesday, listen to this. If you have to go to work on Wednesday, listen to this. You have to go to work on Thursday. Call out.
[29:58]
Host 2
Yeah, call out. Sick.
[29:59]
Host 1
Fucking be like, no. What do you have? I don't know. Fascism.
[30:02]
Host 2
Shut up.
[30:03]
Host 1
I'm. I'm sick with fascism.
[30:05]
Host 2
Okay.
[30:05]
Host 1
All right.
[30:06]
Host 2
We're trying to keep the vibes up. Stop trying to bring them down.
[30:08]
Host 1
Also, also download that woman Chi song and play that. But every time your boss is being. If your boss is like, I don't know, you guys gotta. Woman. She. She lied. You come. I don't know how the song goes, but it's incredible with that. Thank you guys so much. And let's.
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