All right, it is episode one of our new podcast, Lowest Behavior. I'm Jamie. I am a Hugo, also known as Nip, also known as Young Nips, also known as the Mouth of the South. It's nice to be here.
Yeah, thank you everyone for joining us on our first episode. It's a little different podcast, or maybe it's more like every other podcast where we don't really have a set thing that this podcast is about, right? Like some podcasts are like about pop cultures, some are like about politics, some are about very niche genres. For us, we're just here to share with you our thoughts and in a low risk behavior.
In a low gain trouble for this. Yeah. Keeping it low risk because it's a podcast and it can be more low risk than a podcast. Right now it is November 6th, or if you're our Oceana friends, it is November 7th.
Yeah. So I live in Australia. I moved. Why don't we go back to the beginning?
Right, like from the top. I met Jamie. It was Thanksgiving weekend. I think it was Thursday.
No, like 15. Yeah. Yeah. I was a young, impressionable boy.
And then Jamie picked me up at the bus stop in Japan. So I just transferred over to Japan. And then I get out. I'm like, no way.
This dude looks all right. And he goes, do you like Dr. Pepper? That wasn't me.
That was your squad. You guys asked that collectively as a unit. And I go, oh, Dr. Pepper?
That's what these dudes are about. All right. I guess that's an 80. That's cool.
I'm here to make my country proud. I guess I do like I have to like Dr. Pepper. What's funny?
I don't like Dr. Pepper anymore. I'm not a fan. I think I didn't really drink Dr.
Pepper that much. And it was just kind of like a thing that you did at the time. It's like smoking cigarettes or doing blow. It's like if everyone else is doing it, you got to do it too.
Again, it's a low-risk behavior. Exactly. So does. And then yeah, we just we.
I think where we bonded really was. We've been through hell together. We've done it all. We've been up.
We've been down. You remember what that guy, I don't know. Maybe he got like drunk and pissed in public. I'm not sure.
Either way, we were like stuck on the ship. We couldn't leave us like eight o'clock. And we were playing video games. And I think we were just like saying our favorite things to each other.
It was like that seeing a stepbrothers. You know, bears, beets, bats are like that. And then we both said we'd sleep with John Stamos, low risk, and everything was just right. You know John Stamos is clean.
Yeah, definitely. He looks like a nice dude. He's a funny belly button. Funny looking belly button though.
Yeah. And we did some shit together for like three, four years. And then we became the dream team at one point. We were the combat's finest.
America's finest. America's finest. That's right. You remember the door where it's like, in God we trust all others we track.
Yeah. That's pretty dumb. Pretty dumb. Yeah.
And now it's 2020, almost the end of 2020 actually, which seems weird to me is November. Yeah. And we just decided to get this podcast game going. Yeah.
We hope that we can have some cool people, some geniuses on. We don't want any normies. I guess that's the word. I don't think that's been the word for years now.
It's just the one that popped in my head. It's the word. I hope we get on the Joe Rogan level. And Kanye West is like, I want to be on that.
I want to talk about the low risk. Just have like a bipolar stream of consciousness on our podcast. Like, you know, I think we should stick to talking about Kanye West positively because I'm being serious. You know, that one song that he does, there's like, I think today I thought about killing you.
I think that's one of the best pieces of poetry ever written. I don't really, it's not like a full-on song. You know, it's more like, like, I was into it the other day. It's more just like a spoken word type of thing.
Yeah. That's only the new dress. I'll argue it was probably one of the best songs ever made. And I think it's a great song, great poem, great piece of art in general.
Did you see Kanye what he gave to Kim for her birthday? Well, he gives that woman a lot of stuff. She said, look, hashtag blessed. What'd she give?
She got a hologram over dead father. No way? With her father's voice and everything. Like, and she looked at others.
You have a chance. It's one of the most, so weird. I don't know how I feel about it. Yeah, technology's crazy.
Technology's scary, crazy. I mean, they did another thing like that too. You remember the Sandy Hook shooting? I think I was back in 2014, 2015, 2013 maybe.
Yeah. Horrible tragedy. Horrible tragedy. One of the parents that lost their child.
Dude, Sandy Hook was in 2012. That wasn't 20. I have my parents at the time anymore. Continue, continue.
Yeah. One of them. So they did a similar thing that Kanye did, where they kind of made like a deep fake hologram over their dead child. And apparently, they're going to use it for gun control legislation advertising.
So it'll be like, my name is so-and-so, and I died in Sandy Hook. This could have been prevented if there was actual gun control or something like that. And then it's like, but it's not actually him. It's just the hologram that was designed with another company and the consent of their incident.
That's probably what's going to happen is after each one of us dies, they're just going to upload. They're just going to turn everyone to holograms. They never really die. Can you imagine?
I hope not. I can imagine that you die. And some like, Alt-Rite group, right? It's just like looking at the archives.
I've done people that don't have any more rights. And they're just looking. And they're just looking. And then they see you.
And they're like, this dude looks like he could be a good spokesperson. Look at him. And then that's what you become. Yeah.
And that's what you remembered at. They'll be like, that Jamie guy? Super racist. Alt-Rite.
Neo Nazi. Court person. I think that's why I decided I'm just going to have myself cremated so they can't access my biometric data or whatever after I'm gone. I'm just going to throw my body to a furnace or something.
Because you're right. I think the problem. I mean, this kid probably was like about like six or something. Now he has to like, he lives on as like a spokesperson for going to like on control groups.
Or Connie or Kim Kardashian's father. Low risk. Yeah, I wonder if like you can't talk to them. They're just a hologram.
Like I'm sure you shouldn't have AI or anything like that. No. I think from myself in the Kim Kardashian one is that it gave like a very specific speech that was done well. And then I think outside of that it's just nothing.
Well, I'm not 100% sure I'm not there. No, Kim Kardashian thing too was the on Twitter. She made a for her birthday as well. She like happens everyone to go like an island for the party.
And she's like, I know it's been a rough year and not everyone can get what they wanted. But I'm so glad I. Oh yeah. Like they practice social distancing and they got an island so they can pretend life was back the normal.
I'm like that. I saw that. Well, you know, I think if people are rich, they all do the same thing, you know, or majority of them would. It's just like, yeah, this is I don't know if this is in the best case.
I'd say rich people like there's Bill Gates rich who like still works in the same group. He's like 99. You got like Zuckerberg rich that's watching us as we speak. Yeah, it's like, I don't know.
It's like the just different people have different like different aesthetics to them. You know, it's like Donald Trump and like is a apartment and Trump Tower is like everything's made out of gold. Like as that kind of rich, you know. So imagine what Kanye West could do for us.
Keep it positive. If he if he ran for president. No, do you like it feels in the podcast like baby steps. Yeah, that's crazy.
Which one do you think's more likely to happen? Kanye West become a president or Kanye West the parent on low risk. I want to say, Connie became president. Yeah, me too.
That's what I mean. I mean, he already. I think if things I don't see him becoming president this decade, I think maybe 2030 is a shot. Ten years, okay.
I think he needs to wait a little bit and you know, wait for like the American political machine to like beat itself down to then I think the world will be ready for it. Dude, I woke up and it's still the American election. And I'm even pretty tired of it. You know, like just like I start paying it.
I check the news in the morning when I wake up and then I don't. I mean, I get bombarded with it. No matter where I go, like Twitter is on their Facebook. It's on their and I remember when Twitter used to be funny.
Twitter used to be the best Twitter just disappoints me these days. Twitter is got the best names. It was amazing. It was funny.
People hate each other, but it wasn't funny. It was like a healthy sort of interaction. And now it's just that election this election that Twitter turned into the complaint department for the American dream. Like it's just a bunch of people complaining and said like the void about how much America sucks, but they're knowing they're listening.
It's not like it was like a representative from America. Like your call is very important to us. See, like Twitter also makes me think a lot like me saying that it's annoying and that I'm tired of it and all this other stuff. Right.
I can see Twitter being like, um, must be nice to have that sort of privilege where you can just say that you're annoyed and it's like, OK, dude, I can't win. Sorry. I feel that way. Oh, well, I'm just going to shut up now.
Or yeah, you'll get into like an argument over like what the best, what the best like acronym to refer to people of color is or stuff like that. Like, I don't know, man, I just work here. I don't even work here, actually. And you know, that's that's on enough scrub.
Yeah, I can't get it. I feel like can't get no from me. That's right. I feel like that's America and our relationship with Donald Trump right now.
He just grabbed. Yeah, he's not loving it. It's super low energy. Let that man go.
You know, I think this is the way he wanted to go. Thanks. He's fine. But he's also known as a buster.
Yeah, I don't because I don't think Donald Trump wanted to be president. He just wanted to be on TV more and he is on TV more, but they just hate him. They just like he thought he'd be like, or they love him. Well, I think everyone's turned out like everyone's like jumping ship.
It looks like like people were like protesting Fox News. Like Republicans were Twitter sensor. Him now. Oh, yeah.
No, he he lost out. And so now he doesn't want to be president. He also doesn't want to lose because the biggest losers in America are one term presidents, hands down. You're one term president.
You're a loser. Like you're a bigger loser than someone who ran in loss. Like let's look at the one term presidents of recent memory. George H.W.
Bush total loser in our minds, but he wasn't a loser because he was also CIA director. That's like one of those powerful positions in the world. Richard Nixon, another one. Oh, Nixon's an interesting one because he can't see everyone doing the Nixon thing.
Yeah, he ran. He won and then couldn't believe that he won. So he had to cheat to figure out if he won or not. And turn it into a one term president.
All right. Now do we want to talk about the greatest of all time? FDR. Drop mic drop mic.
More than two terms. What's up? What's up? Yeah, it's true.
Let's see. It's great. Do you remember anything from the Obama and the John McCain presidential election? A little bit.
When they were respectful of each other. I miss I miss the part where they just sucked each other off on stage. That was very low risk, bro. Low risk.
Yeah. I mean, people always talk about how they want to bring that civility back and I think it's just gone. Right. Can you really be civil again after Donald Trump?
I don't know. I mean, right. And it's like that's what a lot of people are talking about right now. You know who you are.
Everyone's super divisive, super angry, super aggressive. Like people don't forget. Yeah, they're like elephants. Can I think like the Trump style of politics is still really appealing to people?
Like I don't like it would be interesting to see who runs in 2024. I mean, Trump could run again if he wanted to. But I think it'd be too old at that point. But I don't know.
Maybe he could look at Biden. This isn't his Biden's second time running. This is his third time running. It's their time running because yeah, it wasn't the first time that it was on.
They like brought back like some college paper that he wrote or something like accused of a plagiarism. I'm sure you know better than I do. Yeah. Yeah.
So that did happen. And he ran and he yeah. So they did find out they did find out that he did in college. But he was like a freshman.
He was like 20 something or about, you know, late teens or whatever. But what really killed him in ADA was that he he gave a speech that turned out to be plagiarized from a British politician. And like it was very plainly plagiarized because he like essentially told a family story that was the other. Oh shit.
So it was a definite plagiarism. It wasn't like there's some similarities man. And then you didn't run again from almost 20 years later in 2008. And then became Obama's vice.
And I think if he ran in 2016, he would have won. It was close enough in 2016 that I think he would have won. He almost lost this one. It was pretty close, but I think he won.
But now I think I think him winning is like the funniest outcome in some respects because he's like, I mean, he's like career politicians want to be president in his entire life. He's ran three times. So a man accomplishing his dreams is funny to you. Well, no, he gets it.
But his brain is just mush. There's nothing there. Like he has to take like so many for so much Adderall to keep him. So you think he takes Adderall, dude?
I want to know what his drug cocktail is because there's something in there like like the Trump versus Biden debate. That wasn't a debate. That was just a huge advertisement for dementia medication. And I think of the Biden medication one out.
But anyways, you know, he's his brain is gone, but he's finally president. But you can't enjoy it. Like he's just going to be like pushed around by his handlers or whatever. Or, you know, he's not really going to be president in the same way that he would like even under Obama, you know.
And so it's like he finally gets to enjoy it, but he can't actually enjoy it to the full amount. And he's just going to go down down. Like it's just down here. Like no one gets better at that age.
You know, you just add more health complications. So in that aspect, it is kind of funny. And that was in my mind. And like, I mean, I guess it's kind of awkward, but you know, I mean, Trump is kind of the same tragic figure where he's always like searching for happiness, but he could never find it.
Like he tries to go into business. It's not fulfilling enough. He goes to the TV. He realizes that he can't be the biggest TV star.
He's not president. He comes president. Everyone hates his ass. Like just roasts him on TV all the time.
Like all the talk shows, like all the networks that he used to be friends with when he was just a television star. Hate him now. Like all the late night TV shows and stuff like. Yeah, but for all those people that hate him, you got to think about all the people that love him.
I don't think he cares about that, really, though. Like I think he's more concerned. I mean, I could be wrong, but I don't. I kind of feel like he hates his base and some aspects like the people that you think so.
Well, so in the past, do you think he hates a little punk? I don't know. That's a little thing. I actually he upgraded him.
He's a little pimp now. Yeah. Can you imagine that? Little rebranded him.
speech. But maybe that's what that's what keeps him relevant is that he changes his name to a little pimp starts over. You know, a president blessed me with this name, president executive order. What makes names from the white trapping from the White House?
That'd be like a great. I hope he does something like that. Trap hat. I think something white house trapping.
I don't know, dude, something cool like that. I'm sure they could do a lot with that. But anyways, he so he had these big rallies and like states that were getting filled with snow and he would like you would have the rally and like, you know, tens of thousands of people would show up and then they would all get stuck in the snow and like be freezing to death and he would just get on Air Force wouldn't fly off like you would have bothered to say he's like both these people and like the police would have to like try and organize like rescue efforts for people that would go like, oh, people really like that's much or Trump's base. And so you have all these old people stuck in the snow and Trump's like, see you bitches and gets on Air Force one and goes to the next rally.
Like, so I'm just gonna say that. A little risk probably doesn't have a presidential candidate. And I mean, it's too late now, you know, like whatever happens is gonna happen. We can't do anything from here.
I didn't go for the next election. Who do you think? Oh, well, I think I'm the Republican. I can't say for the Democrats for sure, but the Republicans, it's probably gonna be between like some more mainstream Republican and then Trump again or his children.
You know, I think Adam Sandler, the Republican president. Yeah, I think it would, you know, like world relations would probably get better. They'd be like, Adam Sandler, very approachable guy. Very funny.
He's played, I mean, don't mess with his own hand. He played an Israeli super soldier or something like that. And they'll be like, let's just forget. That's my boy.
Let's just pretend that's my boy never happened. Everything will be good. The reason Adam Sandler makes movies is he really does it to hang out with his friends. Yeah, that's a genius, dude.
Yeah. And then everyone said, oh, I put out a great movie like a on the James Yep, fantastic movie. I thought on Punch Rock Low was pretty good. Spam English was also really good.
Never saw those. Yeah. Well, I'm not saying that we just endorsing them for president. So you probably should watch that.
I watched like Happy Gilmore, a great movie, Waterboy, a great movie, Big Daddy, a great big, I want to pick Daddy another day. Like it's still a really good movie. Yeah. The one where he's the son of the devil.
You remember that one? Was that a little Nikki? Yeah, a little Nikki. Yeah.
Where they have a there's the movie, they're down in hell and they're showing all the people in the titular and Hitler's punishment is a pineapple has to go inside and just inside of them. That's hilarious. Yeah. I think it would be a nice break.
I think it would make sense to like if you look at the trajectory of US presidents, it's like, all right, George Bush, Obama, Donald Trump, but one of the other. You guys are going to buy it in there. Yeah. And then it's like, Oh, it's been happiness.
Adam Sandler. Yeah, I can see that. I think I'm saying there is a Republican too. So that'd be pretty.
I don't know. He's a political leanings, but yeah, I think I just read on his Wikipedia. Oh, and it's Jewish too. So he fits it like identity role to like the first Jewish president.
Wow. Wow. Yeah. You know, like we, someone should get in contact.
Let's look up Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler, if you're listening, we'd love to be on your campaign team. Yeah. And he's really good at basketball.
Do you know that? Yeah. I think just like he's really good at sports in general. Adam Sandler is a good athlete.
I mean, yeah, I don't know. He's PT. Yeah. I mean, he's 50, but that doesn't mean anything really.
That's both manstrings at that point, dude. Yeah. Like he's on a second limb. Yeah, like the water boy and the longest yard.
I'm pretty sure that was all him. There was no body doubles. All him. Oh, his performance in on the gym was I think one of maybe his greatest.
I mean, he was hilarious. Like he, he captured like that dramatic field, you know, like I was on the edge of my seat that entire movie. I feel like I was more stressed out. I feel like I was more stressed out during exams than I am during this presidential election.
Oh, completely. Because those words were coming out of my mouth. I thought I was thinking like that Twitter thing again, like someone's going to be like you fucking privileged, sir, sir, heterocyst male pieces of that. But privilege alarm is going on.
Yeah, they're just like in my mind. And I think that's what Twitter's done to me. You know, like it's being connected all the time to like thousands of people. Yeah.
I was going to think you said, Ricardo, so who cares, dude? I was more stressed out doing on coach Jameson, his presidential election. Yeah. I was I was stressed out in the beginning of the election.
And then when I saw Trump lost Florida or one Florida, I mean, I moved back into not being stressed. I don't know the reason for that, but I immediately cracked a beer and started drinking. Yeah. And I don't know if I feel necessarily stressed because I'm pretty safe.
I'm in Australia. Australia is great. It's a good time over here. Have you ever been to Bunnings?
You haven't. Have you ever had a sausage sizzle? Even though the sausage sizzle is your missing out. It's amazing.
It's they give you you go to Bunnings, which is like a Home Depot. And then on weekends, I think it's on Sundays because I go every Sunday. You go there. And for $2.50, you can get a piece of bread with a sausage on top and you put some tomato sauce or barbecue sauce, you can ask for onions if you want to.
And it's amazing. It's really good. And we just don't have those things. Like an Australian hot dog.
It's I guess you can call it like an Australian hot dog, but it's a snag. What is like an actual sizzle? It's like an actual piece of pork, not like the mystery meat that's a hot dog. I think so.
I want to say so. You know, they're pretty good about stuff like that here. What's the Mexican food situation in Australia? You know, restaurants and stuff.
I work at a Mexican restaurant and I tell everyone that goes out of the food. Great. But obviously I'm just trying to make business. Yeah, it's more like Texan accent or anything.
And yeah, like they try, you know, I'm not going to put them down. They try, but it's not. I take when you like that. Yeah, I've met a couple dudes that like make Mexican food and like they go to like the farmers, my green stuff and they're like actual Mexicans and they make some pretty good tacos and I've been doing a lot of cooking to do like my cooking games on point now.
But I don't know if I'm ready to like make it for other people. Right. Just make it at home. And it's all good, dude.
I'll show you some photos after the podcast. You're actually pretty proud of myself. There's a there's a Mexican restaurant that I would go to a lot. It's like, like, the reason I don't go anymore is just because I ate too much of it.
You know, like diminishing returns. Like, you know, you eat too much of something, you know, it's like less good each time. That would happen. Yeah.
Well, I was eating it like once a week, at least for months, you know, it was really good. Yeah. Look up. You look like a burrito kind of dude.
I am a burrito kind of dude, but they're great. They're tacos at their soft shell tacos. Yeah. Yeah.
They're all good. I mean, I don't think they're like a bad thing on the menu. I mean, it's like it's it's been around for a while. I think like 1987 and it's like the same owners and like, like authentic Mexican food.
I mean, I think the one thing that I'm missing is like a super burrito. Is that like a soap, anything? Or not a super burrito California burrito. The California burritos.
I'm missing. I was like, crazy. There's a place here and it is a like a California. I would say like other places, try them, but hit or miss, you know, hit or miss.
There is a place here called Guzman and Gomez. I remember when we first came to Australia, I saw it and I just thought it was funny because it wasmen and I didn't go in there. Guzman is this force of nature that we know who goes by a lot of names, but Guzman, I feel the same says, I love you. And yes, I didn't go, but I went there once and they have like a California burrito.
And I go, okay, I'm going to try it. And it wasn't as good, but it was a good. It was better than nothing. You know, that option is always there now if I want one.
Yeah. It's just hits differently. I don't know. It's good.
I remember when you showed me it back in like 2016, it was one of the best things I'd ever eaten. Like from, yeah, in terms of like Mexican food or like that type of food, you know? Yeah. burritos are amazing.
Love them. Yeah, there's not really, I don't know. I mean, Portland, there's a lot of food, but the issue is that a lot of shit is closed down right now. Dude, you're in Portland and from everything that I see, it looks like Portland, Oregon, specifically, is a war zone.
I mean, like people can't see the podcast, you know, zero. So for the most of us that are listening, Jamie is in what appears to be a bunker. Um, when those are boarded up, um, man, these doors has like seven locks. Um, I see firearms in the background.
I'm not, you know, I saw them when we first got on another mini, um, in the background mind, I just like, I don't know what he needs those for. I never knew a little bit concerned, but they're there. Yeah. And, um, he's got this weird revolutionist hat thing going on.
I mean, yeah, I wish they could see you right now. Yeah. I wish they could see your conditions. What does it say Friday, I think Wednesday night is like applying to an attack.
On a last Wednesday night, it was, uh, it was pretty interesting. The, uh, the National Guard was here and, uh, they were trying to hide. Yeah, just here to chill. No, the, uh, uh, essentially what happened was the National Guard, the Oregon State Police and the Portland police, like combined to make, I think they called it like a united front was the official name of their, uh, organization.
Um, a task force. Yeah. And essentially, uh, to stop the protesters and, uh, it wasn't pretty, I mean, like, if you walk out, you walk out of my apartment right now, um, well, my apartment specifically, all the glass, um, let the doors and the windows all have plywood in front of them. Um, but not, but interestingly enough, not the first floor apartments, those are not plywood.
It's just the entrance to the lobby. Um, and then most of you, if you walk outside, well, you see like our businesses boarded up, most of the Mario. So everything's closing. Not just the windows are boarded up.
Um, would you say it's a good downtown? It's like more of the, uh, where all the shops are, you know, I don't like there was an entry areas. Is it like a purge style situation where people are just like getting ready for it? Like everything's boarded up.
They're just waiting for that. Simon to go off. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's like, I don't know, it's hard to explain. Like it's gone so many ways.
I don't, I don't think the violence is going to get super bad. I think it's going to die out, especially now that Biden's one, it's kind of like a pressure relief valve for like America. I think of Trump one, it would have been worse. Um, but Biden, I think, I think the one reason that a lot of people would have provided it is because I don't think America could have taken it, having Donald Trump as president for a long time.
I mean, it looks like from, from where I met in beautiful country of Australia, it looks like America was ready for Donald Trump as president. You know, like some people here were all, uh, but Donald Trump's a good business man. Like that's what people throw around. Like he's a good businessman or something.
He's a, the main reason I'm like, America is suffering right now. Like, well, not the main reason, but one of the reasons I think about is that we just have like fail sons, like fail sons of fail sons, uh, leading everything. So like each generation here, like, I feel like politicians or businessmen, um, they just get worse and worse. Like, um, Fred Trump, Donald Trump's father essentially created a politician.
No, he was a businessman. He created like the Trump organization, like the Trump casinos and Trump hotels, even all of that, but he created a lot of it. Um, and then you have, you know, Donald Trump who gets a small loan of $1 billion back in, you know, the 1970s or whatever. And small loan, small loan, small loan, which is probably like a couple of million at least now.
Yeah. I'm 1 million in the 70s. Yeah. Uh, but he starts like running the thing into the ground.
Like he started to see Atlantic city failed. That's why he got into TV was because it was more profitable for him to, you know, become a television star. But anyways, I mean, he becomes president, right? So, um, objectively kind of, you know, more successful, but then look at his children, like, look at, you know, Donald Trump Jr.
That's just on cocaine all the time. That's all that dude does. He goes on coke, he does cocaine and goes on fox news. Like that dude sucks.
Um, and it's like the same thing for, uh, another example from the Democratic side is, uh, I don't know if you're familiar with him, probably not, but it's a Joe Kennedy, who's the great, the grand nephew of JFK. Oh, I know. Like he's, he's rather young. It was me.
Like he's 30. Yeah. So he ran for Senate against another Democrat in Massachusetts and like Massachusetts is a democratic stronghold, specifically a Kennedy stronghold, the Kennedy's owned, they're like the Boston area for like at least 100 years. And so he tries to run for Senate.
Um, any each year he loses. And now because when you run for Senate, if you like, so, because of the congressman running and when you run for a Senate, you give up your seat. Like it, especially if there's like a point of no return where like, if you keep in the race, you give up your Senate seat or you give up your health seat. So he gets like the first time in decades where no Kennedy holds any political office in Massachusetts.
Yeah. So fail some he sucks, he lost like, how do you not? You know, when you put it like that, but like, they own some, that's the other three. Well, I don't find a fail son though, like, especially in politics.
There's one who like objectively hurts their, like families, political careers, you know, you know, Australian politics. Or better than American politics, you guys have to wait like seven hours in line to vote. Over here, you just go to the New York school, cast your vote. I'm having another sausage, dude.
And it's great. Oh, in order to watch, you can go by now. You know, I woke up today. And I woke up and lovely day by the weather's just started playing.
And then like it sounds out. It's a beautiful day. I'm just one for a walk. You know how happy you have to be to just go for a walk.
It was like that. You know, 500 days of summer. What's his name? Is a walk in a dancing.
So you make my dreams come true. It's a little bit of that for no reason, just because just waking up in Australia, you know, like, every day is like that. Yeah. Yeah.
Uh, I mean, here, I mean, I kind of, I kind of was in that mindset, like, but now that the weather's kind of gone to shit and they get super, it gets like dark around like five p.m. Here. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
I like savings as the worst. Yeah, it's becoming real, real do more hours here in, uh, good old Oregon. Do you guys do do like savings in Australia? We do.
I'm sorry. Do you know the deal? No, you don't know. Sorry.
Do you know what's going on in, uh, Nevada? Uh, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
I'm not really paying attention. But from what I can understand briefly is that they're just slow as shit counting boats. And, uh, yeah, it's just, we're just counting them. Apparently I don't know.
I don't really get it. I don't really understand why it takes like in Oregon, like, on election night, polls close at eight p.m. Pacific time. But if you're still in line, you still got the vote though, right?
That's what I saw. That's what I read. And only in some counties, only some counties. Right.
In Oregon, you get your ballot mailed to you and then you can drop it. So you can either put it in the mail and they'll deliver it or you can drop it off in a ballot box collection box. I dropped mine off in the collection box. And I think you could still turn in your vote by if you turn it in by APM.
No, no later, um, they got counted. Um, but pretty much what happened at APM was they immediately announced the results. And I think it right at APM, all of the West Coast went to Biden, but then you have like Nevada, like three days later, still counting votes, uh, Georgia, still counting votes. Um, so yeah, I don't really get it.
Like some countries that, uh, you know, have elections like this, it's pretty much within the same night, I think that they give. I mean, that's how it's been for most of American history, but it was like one of the largest, uh, voter turnouts in like over a hundred years. Yeah. How many, how many days has it been though?
Since everything, since like, you know, when people went out and voted, yeah, like three, four days. Oh, yeah. The election was Tuesday here. Um, so that was about three days ago.
So it's, uh, yeah, I don't know. It takes forever. It's a, it's like, we're just kind of like edging ourselves, basically. Very low risk.
Yes. Just like a collective edging. Yeah. For the, for the people that are listening, if any, I'm just going to say for the four people that are listening.
Hi, mom. Hi, dad. What, what do you want to explain? What the term you just used is?
Cause maybe they didn't get the joke. Uh, yeah. When you're, when you're, when the context, man, context is very important. I'm just going to say go to like urban dictionary.
I don't, it's not my job to educate you. I can't wait for all the time. Like when black, black, black, black, black, black, black, black, black. Where you going?
Okay. Okay. That's like slippery slope. It's it.
So like you had all these white people that like were like denouncing their privilege. Um, when like around like May, June of this year and you had all these like, uh, people of color, like, they're saying, like, teach me how to not be racist. And they're like, it's not my job to educate you. Like here's a book and they just send them like two dozen links of different books they should buy.
Do you think that's helpful? I like to read. Um, like a what like the, uh, one of those really popular was the life for agility book. That was going around or, um, did you get, did you read that one?
I don't know. Her that one marching and getting tear gas, but the black guys matter people to read that book. Nice. Yeah.
But yeah, I don't know. See, I, the, you're a better person for it. No, not real. I mean, it was a good thing, but like a better person, like you're not better than others, but like you feel better.
I mean, if I was going to say that I did something, you know, even if it was just, you know, like, yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean, everyone could be doing more. It's tough. Very tough.
You know, I think one of the, one of the things that I understood, but I think the, you know, Black Lives Matter as like an organization has a hard time, um, kind of articulating is like what Black Lives Matter really means because it seems like to people who don't understand, it always sounds like Black Lives Matter more. And it's just a black lives matter. The same as everyone else. That's a dumb argument.
Like you can tell people to like what that means. It's like, yeah, we just want everyone on an even playing field, but it goes straight over their head. And I think the biggest thing that they need to articulate better is that like Black liberation or like liberation of minorities directly translates into like a better quality of life for everyone. Yeah.
Yeah. I think for a lot of white people, they get scared because they think that they might like lose their place in the system, you know, like in the hierarchy of like of race, essentially. And like that's the problem in itself. Like, why do they need a higher place, you know?
Yeah. I mean, I think, well, I think the thing is that they look at like, they look at what people done to like people of color throughout history. And they're like, fuck, we're going to, at some point, we're going to have to like pay for this, you know. And so they assume what that looks like is just violence against them.
Like they think like a angry, you know, crazy mob of people are going to come and like take all their shit. Maybe that's true. I don't know. Depends on you.
And that's kind of interesting though, because like you look at places like Germany and obviously like they, they know what happened was wrong. They are in a sense like they feel shame, you know, like they and they're aware of the history. They know the wrongs. But do you feel like that ever happened in the States like that?
Never really happened. They never got that treatment. And I think that's why, you know, you get all this Southern pride. Yeah.
On the South Pole rise again. It goes. Yeah. Go to the flagship.
Like America is a nation of contradictions, basically. Like the biggest one was you had like the like go back to the founding fathers where you had like the founding fathers that were in slavery and then the ones that were pro slavery. And so you have the founding fathers that all men were created equal except for slaves. And they weren't hypocrites where they didn't feel critical about it.
I mean, I think some people recognize the hypocrisy, but it's like, so they had that written in there, but then they also had the three fifths compromise. I don't know if you're a few member of what. Yeah. So it's like, and what the Civil War, what really was it?
I mean, it was about slavery. It was about that that that fighting over that contradiction. And so, but like because of how the war ended with Lincoln being assassinated and then his vice president becoming president and his vice president was a terrible human being. You know, really was more of like a unity ticket where yeah, Andrew Johnson was one of the few he was from Tennessee and he was like one of the only like southern politicians to not go to the Confederacy.