Congregation of We-Stories from The Reverend LordRifa
Congregation of We-Stories from The Reverend LordRifa
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It's the return of the Congregation of We! Today the Rev talks about politics, digestion, and Pride!
Also, hear the two new songs from the latest record from Lord Rífa, We Three and ANTIFA.
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SPEAKER_00Yeah, if you're a little bitch.
SPEAKER_02Hi. Welcome to the Congregation of We. I'm your host, critic, and savior, probably your enemy, the right Reverend Lord Reefa. For those of you who are calling in, emailing me, or even texting me, please call me the Rev. This is a program about hopes and fears. It's a place where we talk about art, politics, stupid stuff, and yes, of course, we talk about music. It's a place where I get to bombard you with my insufferable opinions about all things and then get to serenade you with sublime expressions of romance and beauty. I am sick to death of artificial intelligence art. Sick to fucking death of it. It's become so pervasive in our society that it's okay. Right? But it wasn't real. Y'all knew it was it was sort of fake, but AI then removes information from the actual creators and puts it into the hands of machines. Not that machines can do better, but the bulk of America does not care about better. They only care about now. What's happening now? How do I help myself now? So these musicians, I mean these musicians, because that's what I am, right? They're now calling up these places like Sono or Sonas and their Sono music it is, actually, excuse me. And they're, you know, they they think they're really gifted. When they haven't practiced two hours in their life. I find that very offensive and repulsive. Um and I think it's gonna change the way we view art in a terrible way. Because up until this point in time, even with MIDI, someone had to know how to play a keyboard to do it right. This is all out the window. All you need to do is chat GPT, write a little paragraph. Oh, gee, I want it to sound like uh Beethoven meets uh pretty prince or the guy from you know whatever. And that's what it comes out. And it's just it's disgusting to me. What do y'all think? Do y'all think that way? Y'all not think that way? Do you all like the idea of fucking uh AI art? Do you want it? Do you want that the some knowledge of mankind is put into a computer and that's telling you what is popular? I mean, obviously it's different because it was the sum knowledge of all of six AR guys before, now it's just the some knowledge of all humans, but I think that's a fucking update. It makes me crazy. Um and the rush to AI makes me crazy too, and the fear of AI makes me crazy as well. It's become the the beast in our basement. That's a really weird, like terrible idea. I mean, we were scared of commies before, but now I saw an interview last night with um Bernie Sanders talking about when uh AI then becomes self-aware. I mean, that's like you know, an old 1950s science fiction thing. Maybe that's true, maybe that's Terminator, maybe that's whatever, but it's more of who we can hate and who we don't hate. Um and that's that's also just another weird thing. Speaking of hating, we just had an election. Did y'all vote? So I voted. I voted for I I will tell you what I voted for. I'll tell you what I didn't vote for. I didn't vote for uh Mr. Hilton because he's a big put. And I didn't vote for Tom Steyer, because he's yet another billionaire looking to make a name for himself. And um I'm I am sick of AI and I'm sick of billionaires. Is that do they go together? In this economy they do because the bulk of our stock market is blasting because of AI. So it's Wednesday after election day in California, and the rest of the country, of course, and um we had open primaries today. Let me let's talk about that for a second. Open primaries, that's where you can have both Republicans and Democrats voting for each other in the same primary, which I think is a completely crazy thing to do. Like, why would we do that? Why I mean who who thought that was a very good idea? Who who thought it that being able to vote for the opposition or non-opposition or be there is some sort of real freedom of choice in that is not real. It's just about um, you know, uh taking away votes in a ranked choice voting system, which California has as well, and changing the numbers. And I think that's you know, incredibly stupid. And you know, I love this. I love California and I love San Francisco. It's the last bastion of freedom in the world, and um we are stupid sometimes. Utterly, utterly stupid because we think that ultimate freedom is the ultimate choice as opposed to just doing the right thing. And this was one of those moments where this was not the right thing. Because I look now at on my we're on cow matters and on the numbers of the polling today, and Steve Hilton, who not one Californian would really want for fucking uh governor, is now leading the pack in a ranked choice voting. He's not gonna win, that's never gonna happen, right? Because uh between Becerra and Dyer, there's more votes than that. And and Chad B and Chad Bianco, Chad um Oathkeeper. How is there an oathkeeper in a fucking race? I you know, I blame Porter, Mayhan, Villagrosa, and I actually liked Villagrosa. Thurman and then all the other puts who are in there. I'm using the word puts a lot today. I must have penis in my mind. Do I have penis in my mind? Do I look like I have penis in it? Happy pride! I'm feeling pride all the way across the board, so I keep using the word puts. For all of you who don't know, what do you mean to pray? What else is going on? Um the propositions which have just the most confusing in years. Um the most important one of all was um actually the one that got the most money was property.
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SPEAKER_02And property was about um if you if your CEO makes a hundred times more than the median salary in the company, he's gotta pay like a five percent penalty. And prompt D prompty is winning. No, it's losing. Prompt D is losing. Now the only thing people could say in Prompty, this is this is why I actually voted for it, actually, which is a terrible reason to vote, but it is why I voted for it, is because no matter who said boo on this, they had no reason. Oh, groceries are gonna be more expensive, gas is gonna be more expensive, everything's gonna be more expensive if we do if we pass this, but nobody could tell me why. There were no there was no information about why it would be more expensive, other than the logical thought which I had, which was the people who own the CEOs are gonna raise the prices because they're pissed, which is a fucked up thing. So we're gonna play some music now. This is um this is we three by Lord Riffa.
SPEAKER_03We share the same bed. We eat the same food, live the same lives, no all's the dead.
SPEAKER_05We sail on the sea, travel in brains in trucks and in cars filled with disease. We ran from the wind, the howl in the drown from fastest and people that wanted our heads.
unknownWe all from our face now we want the face of the light.
SPEAKER_04Oh, it's be trade. With three pariahs lover Taking the food from the table and mouth of the rich books we heard With three constraints in the crack We try to feel good in the dark when no one watches our backs What do you want from the people?
unknownWhat do you want?
SPEAKER_02So this is actually the third podcast, the first podcast we've had in ages because um we took some time off, and I promised you from the very, very beginning that it wasn't gonna be a regular thing. It was gonna be when we were in the mood, when we had something to say, or when we just felt like fucking with you. So right now, there are things to say, and um the most important thing is Trump farting himself. Trump shitting himself. I mean, is that a real thing? Do we all believe that? I mean, I just did an acoustical analysis with my engineers, and we decided that the reverb content of the fart was correct. The amount of juice to the amount of of air seemed to be accurate for behind being behind a post. So I think we say yes, he did shit himself. And also, mind you, all the responses in the video seem like people are like looking, not looking. And I think that's actually really good. You know, in the news is the uh UFC cage in front of the White House lawn. And on the White House lawn, tramping it. Um he likes it so much he wants to keep it. The news is ablaze with him talking about how, well, maybe we'll just keep it. It's like he compares it to the Eiffel Tower. I if Eiffel were alive, he'd jump off his own tower hearing that. I don't even know what to say about the cage match. It's guardians. Maybe guardian was the wrong word. Gladiators, that's the right word. Gladiators, pardon me. I'm old and I'm senile and I'm cranky, so I can say these things. Uh gladiators. He loves the idea of gladiators. He loves the idea of macho men fighting. He probably wants them uh they can't be fat, they can't be short and fat, they can't look like him, right? They have to be svelt, and they have to be uh hunky, right? All the people that are watching him from the service have to be that way as well. There's a there's a there's an edict they put out saying that you have to be height and weight proportioned, which God I love. That's just fucking amazing. So he wants to see people he wants to fuck. Right? And that's that's the whole thing behind it. Do we have the clip there that says that?
SPEAKER_00Quoted from the Military Times.com. The military described it as a high visibility event and provided a list of requirements for those selected to attend. Service members must meet a waist-to-height ratio of 0.55 or less, the document states. Troops must also meet their service-specific physical fitness standards to attend. The Pentagon introduced the weight-to-height ratio earlier this year as a means to evaluate the body fat of troops. The ratio, which is calculated by dividing someone's waist circumference by their height, replaced traditional height and weight tables as the primary measure of physical standards. The U.S. Marine Corps imposed a more strict measure, ordering their personnel to meet a waist-to-height ratio of 0.52 or less. A man's average height in the U.S. is about 5'7 tall with a waist circumference of 40.6 inches, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. That equates to a waist-to-height ratio of 0.59. The average height for a woman is approximately 5 foot 2 inches tall with a waist of 38.5 inches, making the waist-to-height ratio 0.61. Service members selected for the UFC matches should also be a, quote, genuine UFC fan, unquote. The document says commands were encouraged to select junior enlisted service members and junior officers.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so he wants young men who are in good shape and buff. He wants young men who are in good shape. Okay, is that not homooronic? This is Pride Month. I guess that's I guess that's great for him. He's showing his pride. I want to see him. Oh, he's showing his pride, he's farting in public. He's really just letting it let it loose, isn't he? Literally. Oh God. Can you imagine if you're his body man and you have to clean that stuff up? Okay, so our last cut today is uh this is Antifa from our last record, American Vault. In my streets. Never wonder why you can't find my name. Never doubt that it's all the one man shame. You troll all day, working that line. Walk around armed like that ain't no crime. You wanna about times all long gone by You Wellin' Up Fly down screamin' some bullshit lies, bullshit lies. That knock on your door sure sounds like a gun. You know, folks can only take so goddamn much even like a sucker. You know, I fought so hard. I'll never make bail. So that's it for this episode. Thanks for listening. If you want to contact us, please do www.lordrifa.com. Just hit the contact us button. The show is produced by Samantha Takizawa. The executive producer was Steve Levy for the City of Disc Productions. The Congregation of We is recorded, mixed, and designed by Samantha Takizawa and Buddy Saleman at Petrero Post Studios in our fair city, San Francisco. Until the next time, here at the Congregation of We, we bid you Sulla.