As if Tim Walz giving out free tampons is a BAD thing!? - Episode 50

50 FRAKKING EPISODES! YASSSS!

To celebrate, I TRIED live streaming... keyword, TRIED.

This week I'm joined by Nikki Smith the Death Doula, Landon Reid aka June Rogers and Zach Borodkin to talk about the latest goings-on in politics!

So, it's essentially 58 minutes of us talking about how much conservative politicians suck in comparison to the absolute legendary push from the Left!!

Takeaways

• There is excitement and hope for the future of American politics, particularly with the potential for a blue wave and the opportunity to elect a woman of color to a higher office.
• Voting locally and supporting citizen-led initiatives are important for bringing about change.
• We all express admiration for Tim Walz and Kamala Harris, highlighting their moderate positions and ability to connect with voters.
• The conversation emphasizes the need for real truth and snarkiness in political discourse, as well as the importance of countering conservative talking points.
• We discuss the challenges and frustrations of advocating for equal rights and fighting against Republican policies in states like Ohio. The hosts discuss the challenges of making change in the political system and the frustration with voting for the greater good.
• We highlight the importance of addressing the issue of Israel and Gaza and the need to listen to both sides of the argument.
• The conversation touches on the prevalence of antisemitism and the impact it can have on political decisions.
• We advocate for the legalization of medical aid in dying and the right to die with dignity.
• We end the conversation with a game of Cards Against Humanity and express their desire for more diversity in future episodes.

As of September 2024, Transcending Humanity is now known as Vanesstradiol! Episodes will be much more sparse from here on out, but I hope to continue bringing you quality content!

Transcript

Vanessa: 0:20

Tech, your Gen Z though you know,

Landon: 0:26

hello, teenage Baltimore. Exactly back to the corn and Colin show.

Vanessa: 0:33

Okay, now I don't think that's working. This is so fucked up. What is happening here?

Landon: 0:45

Roz who's our next caller on the line for the DR Fraser crane show.

Vanessa: 0:52

I don't know what's going on here. Hi, Zach, welcome back.

Nikki Smith: 0:57

Well, now says it's recording. Yeah,

Vanessa: 0:59

I'm I'm digging into the YouTube thing right now. And okay, it says excellent connection. And okay, now we're on the right one. I have to get this link again, and then we can get started. I'm sorry. Thank you for your patience. I know it's a pain in the ass. Um, could share up a link. I know, I swear I sometimes know what I'm doing, but not when it comes to this. So I guess it's probably easier on Tiktok anyway, it's time to restart that. Are you all ready? Yep, okay. Welcome back to transcending humanity. This is episode 50. We are trying and keyword trying, a live stream of this. And I don't really know how well it's gonna work, but in the end, there'll be a recording anyways. It already died on us once stopped recording out of nowhere, so we'll see what's going on. I'm Vanessa, aka Vanessa Adele, as a reminder to views and opinions of everyone on the screen are their own and not their employers. If they're not self employed, and Patreon, send us money. Merch shop you can get my shirt. Um, and today, we're going to be talking about politics and all the absolute wild, fun, amazing things that have been going on in American politics lately. So let's get started the VP pick. What do you all think about him? I kind of love him.

Landon: 2:47

I love him, and here's why I feel he is the prime example of the Father everyone didn't lose to Rush Limbaugh, he gives off that Bernie Sanders dad quality, like he feels like he should be a dad in a sitcom from the 90s. Yes, and I feel that's what we need right now in the whole way of when Kamala became the nominee, how I didn't realize how hopeless the world had become, and it was like, there's hope. It was so, yeah, I'm excited. Yeah,

Vanessa: 3:29

same me, yeah.

Nikki Smith: 3:30

He's totally giving off Midwest dad vibes. Sorry, no, it's

Zach: 3:35

fine. If anybody knows history. He gives me Henry Wallace lives. Henry Wallace was the Secretary of Agriculture under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and almost became the Presidential Nominee right before FDR died in 1945 but he gives off Henry Wallace lives because, not because he's super liberal or conservative, but he's willing to evolve on his positions because he sees the times as they are, and not through an ideological lens. He got an A rating from the NRA, and then Parkland happened, and now he gets an F rating from the NRA because he said, This isn't right. We need sensible gun reform. So he's willing to evolve on his position. And that is, I think, something the Democrats have been missing, really, since before I was born. So I think it's great to see this, this, this change for for the country, and I am ready to do this in the next three months.

Vanessa: 4:50

Agreed, agreed. Nikki, go ahead. Then I remember that we need to do something after you talk. I

Nikki Smith: 4:57

was just saying he's like, totally got this Midwest dad vibe. And I love it. And I I appreciate that. I think I was reading today, he's the first person since, I think, Carter, who has not had a law degree or not been a practicing attorney to be our vice presidential nominee. And I love that. I don't know. It's just nice to see something a little bit, you know, somebody. That's not fitting that same like stamp,

Vanessa: 5:23

yes, yay. I just remembered that I haven't had everyone to introduce themselves. I have these four people on here and Zach, there's a lot of feedback going through your mic. So when you're not talking, can you please mute yourself? And so let's do round robin with introductions, Landon, tell us who you are.

Landon: 5:48

Hi, I'm Landon. I am a drag queen over on Tiktok. I do Story Time Live. So yes, I'm that radical leftist drag queen that they've been warning you about out to indoctrinate the children with Dr Seuss. So if you want to follow me on Tiktok and Instagram and YouTube, it's and mayhem ensued in some variation thereof.

Vanessa: 6:15

Landed stuff is amazing, especially check out the creepy conservative men slipping into his DMS because they think he's a woman. Exactly. Zach, you're up,

Zach: 6:33

yeah, so my name is Zach Brodkin. I've been on this podcast before, so it's great to be back. Congratulations Vanessa on landing a, J, O, B, finally. Oh, I didn't I self employed? Oh, well, congratulations on on breaking out. Thank you, because fuck the job hunt, right? But I'm a disability rights and voting rights advocate. I've done work with both voting rights advocates and disability rights advocates, and have blended the intersection of the two together. So that's the work I do, and it's good to be back.

Vanessa: 7:20

Well, thank you for being here today. And Nikki, Hi,

Nikki Smith: 7:26

I'm Nikki Smith. I am in Columbus, Ohio. I'm a death doula and a grief coach. I work with the dying in their families, and I'm super I've been on Vanessa's podcast before, and I'm super excited to be here now to talk about stuff I never talk about politics. I know, right? I tend to keep it off my podcast and out of my life as much as I can. So I'm actually crazy excited for this. Yeah, I don't blame you at all.

Vanessa: 7:56

It's, I mean, this podcast is goes between political and not political. I I really don't know if there is an actual theme for transcending humanity anymore. I mean, the first year was all trans stuff, and now it's just a little bit of everything. Like I recorded episode 51 yesterday, and it was with a YouTuber that I listened to while I edit photos. So but we have kind of a little mishmash of people here today, so hopefully we can have some varied views on things. I'm pretty sure we're all fairly leftist. And yeah, so Tim waltz, waltz, waltz, waltz, waltz the tampon guy, what is talk about stupid conservative talking points, like they're giving him a hard time for supplying tampons students.

Landon: 8:54

My favorite thing about all of him and how the Conservatives always go straight to name calling, and it's not working, because we're just reclaiming it and like, hey, tampon Tim, that's nice. He gave tampons away. That's a good thing. And I saw the clips of the Conservatives ranting, and they were basically making a commercial on why I would like this guy on eight he he thinks that weed should be legalized, and he wants to give children free school lunches. And it's like, these are good things. These are, these are good things. You seem out of touch. Yeah, I

Zach: 9:38

love that, because he was on an interview, a couple of interviews, actually, where he just said, oh, you know, I'm such a monster. I give I gave kids free breakfast and free lunch. They gave paid sick leave and paid parental leave to people. Oh, my God, I'm still horrible person. So How

Unknown: 9:56

dare you not.

Zach: 9:59

He's, he's a Midwesterner, but he has the attitude of a New Yorker, because he's just like, Okay, you want to call me a socialist. You want to call me whenever a communist. Go ahead, I'm going to do what I'm going to do, because I got things done with a one seat majority. What have you done?

Vanessa: 10:16

Exactly? Fucking burn. Hmm, like he's that he's very moderate, and he should appeal to a lot of Americans. I would hope that he would true Republicans. I think he will appeal to not the Maga, but they're too far fucking gone. But, I mean, he's a veteran, he's a parent, he's a gun enthusiast, and he's just, yeah, he's just an all around decent guy, and he has great comedic timing. I don't know if you've watched any of his videos with his daughter, hope, uh, there's one where they're at a amusement park, and he's, he's talking about getting, like, getting some sort of food with, with meat and stars, like, I'm a vegetarian. And he's like, Well, Turkey. Then he's like, she's like, Turkey's meat. He's like, not Minnesota, it's not so,

Landon: 11:11

that's so My Big Fat Creek wedding. Okay, yeah,

Vanessa: 11:16

wonderful. So that was the big exciting news that just popped out. What has everyone thought on Kamala

Nikki Smith: 11:29

as a childless cat mother? I'm very excited.

Landon: 11:37

I always liked Kamala, so I'm I'm excited, and the absolute chaos of whoever is behind her social media, like they understand how to market it and how to brand it, and how to just be a chaotic, hot mess, like it is clearly run by a Gen Z person. This is there's no other explanation. It is run by a Gen Z person, which

Vanessa: 12:05

is smart you want Gen Z running your social media. I actually donated to her campaign today. It's the first time I've ever donated to a presidential campaign in my life. So 25 bucks, but hey, it's 25 bucks, so yeah, then I immediately turned off the the text message notifications to stop all that spam, because I hate that. Zach, what's, what's the general kind of feeling? You're still in New York City, right? What's, what's the vibe there over all this,

Zach: 12:37

um, I mean, people are gravitating toward her. They really, really, they really, really, really like her. And, I mean, let's be real, it's New York, so she's gonna take, she's gonna take New York just because it's, it's New York. I think Biden would have taken New York if he was still the nominee, but that's how New York tends to tends to lean. But let's also remember that conventional wisdom died ever since 2016 so even if we think the world isn't ready for a woman of color to wish him the presidency, we're probably going to be wrong. So I think it's funny how we're on the the 50th episode of transcending humanity, when we as a nation are actually looking at the opportunity to transcend humanity and elect a woman of color to a higher office.

Vanessa: 13:34

I see what you did there. I see what you did there. So Nikki and I are both in Ohio. Nikki is in a much bluer area of Ohio and Landon, you're stuck in Texas, right? Yeah,

Landon: 13:49

I am, hopefully not much longer. How,

Vanessa: 13:52

like, how are you surviving right now with all this,

Landon: 13:55

I don't go out.

Vanessa: 13:57

I don't blame you. I don't blame you every time I go out. Now, I remember a story that I think you told on the last time you were here, where you were done up as June Rogers at a hotel or something, and then someone asked you if you're trans, and you're like, No, I'm a tall and I've been waiting to use that now rather, because I'm kind of moving away from my trans identity and embracing more the lesbian identity. Since I'm people tell me I pass I'm like, whatever. Okay, I believe you. So I want to start using that because it's fucking brilliant. But you pop in my mind quite often with that. So I don't know if that's creepy or or not.

Landon: 14:40

That was one of my proudest moments, though, because it was just like it came so quickly, and also how quickly the guy backed away, tail between his legs when I said that, just the No, I'm a tall

Vanessa: 15:00

so what is, what have you all been working on in in prepping for the election? And I know Landon's been doing a lot of makeup tutorials for conservative guys, and Landon, maybe you can talk about that. But

Landon: 15:20

yes, I call it Queer Eye for the Maga guy, where I a liberal, am reaching across the aisle to help conservative men achieve the makeup routines of their favorite conservative politicians. I got the idea after watching the drag show that was the RNC, because I don't think these people realize how much makeup they're wearing, like it is so much. And the thing is, if you can see makeup on camera, that's a lot of makeup, like makeup does not want to be photographed. You have to really take it on. And when I can see where your transition is and how much contour you're wearing, that is a thing. And so I've had a lot of conservatives complain about it and how I'm just being so mean and nasty. And I'm like, these men say Men shouldn't wear makeup. I'm pointing out these men are wearing a lot of makeup, and I'm doing a step by step tutorial of how you can do it, and if you disagree with it, what did I do wrong? Exactly.

Vanessa: 16:27

They're pretty fucking good, too. I watched the matt gates one. I'm like, wow. Landon just now Matt gates. So everybody, I have noticed a definite turn in the left, leftist, liberal, whatever you want to call it community, since Kamala was announced to be running and Joe stepping back, and are you All seeing like this? All of a sudden, like, influx of hope and positivity. Let's touch on that. Nikki, what? What are you seeing lately? Like, what's giving you the warm fuzzies?

Nikki Smith: 17:13

Yeah, all this is giving me I feel like, okay, first of all, I prior to Biden dropping out and Kamala take jumping in, I was just mentally preparing myself for the worst. I've been doing that. I've been telling all my friends. I'm like, I hope we're all in the same concentration camp together. This will be great. Let's bring glitter and like, that's just where my head has been. So this is gonna happen, and all my friends are going to be murdered, and, or can I say that out alive? Whatever? Who cares me too. Like, you know, I'm like, this is just what's gonna happen. And I swear to God, if we have a repeat of 2016 I'm gonna sorry, yeah. And that's just where my head has been this entire time. And now, like, I don't know, it feels better. I hate to say that, because I was, I was like, all in with Biden, gonna vote for him, excited about him, everything else. But then it's, I don't know, the vibe just has totally shifted since it's like people are actually, I feel like people were, a lot of the leftists I know were a little like, with Biden coming in again, yeah, we're not, like, in love with the dude, like he's great, better than the alternative. But I feel like there's a lot more love for Kamala. Like, if she's got more energy,

Vanessa: 18:40

it's everything is so completely different, and I just love it. Yeah, like, I, I don't agree with Joe and a lot of his politics, but I do also admire what he did to step back. And I kind of wonder how long this has actually been planned. I have a feeling it's been planned for quite a while. I remember hearing back like late 2023 early 2024 rumors of Michelle Obama stepping in for him, and that didn't happen. But yeah, like, I'm I wasn't really surprised, and he timed it fucking brilliantly to do it right after the RNC went out of that, oh, I know. And now the Republicans are grasping at straws. They're like their main attack and Kamala is her laugh, and main attack on Tim is tampons. Meanwhile, we have a rapist, fucking criminal and a fucking couch fucker, though, from what I understand, it wasn't actually in this book, but he's couch fuckers. So

Landon: 19:53

that's another thing we have Tim waltz to thank for. He's the one who came up with Republicans are weird and how mad they get

Nikki Smith: 20:04

at that. They call that we're the snowflakes guys, yes.

Vanessa: 20:08

Did you hear what he said when he challenged JD Vance to a debate and he said, It's if you can get up off the couch? I. Fucking brutal.

Zach: 20:24

He's measured, but he also just, he doesn't care what people think. You know, too many liberal politicians, they are measured in their speeches, and they tiptoe the lines, and they don't realize it, but it pisses a lot of voters off when they do that. And till what he said about what he said about a woman's right to choose, he just basically said, you know, we have a golden rule, rule, mind your own damn business, like, Thank God you are being so deliberate. That's what people want. And it was ironically, what attracted to what it what attracted voters to trump the first time, because he was deliberate. Tim walls is deliberate, and voters love that. They don't want some scripted politician who's going to give them a word salad. They just want somebody to state the obvious and then do what they have to do. That's why there's such a resurgence, because voters finally can take a deep sigh, we got a guide who's one of us,

Vanessa: 21:30

yes, someone that's not afraid to do the occasional kick, someone in the nuts. You know, because you have a good point like the left has traditionally always tried to take the higher road, and you can take the high road while still being snarky. And we are seeing this right, yeah, exactly Landon, and we're seeing this right now. And we know it fucking works, because the left is also big on real truth. The right likes to fake truth. We like some real truth we don't. We can see right through when people are being fake. So I think that's one reason that I'm so intrigued by all this and excited by all this is because there's actual they're finally not holding back as much. I mean, you know, they still are but and they have answers to things and quips like now they're start, they're starting to be worried about Tim and how he looks older than he is, because he's 60. Kamala is 59 and he looks older, and he just spins out right back around, saying, Hey, I've worked in a lunch room at a school for 20 years. You don't leave that job with all your hair and fuck yeah. So I

Landon: 22:51

I saw a video on tick tock, just because on my burner account that I go on to watch conservatives, because I don't want it to mess up my for you. Paige, I saw one guy ranting about how un presidential Tim Wallace is because of a photo of him and his wife and their teenage children. And he and his wife were all dressed up, and the teenage children were like, in sweats and pajamas, and it's like, this was clearly a photo taken right before the parents went to some event like that. Is you're saying they're unpresidential because of that. We've seen Melania do soft core lesbian porn. Like, do we want to play unpresidential families,

Vanessa: 23:42

we've seen Ivanka giving her father a lap dance. Like, yeah, I It's the double standards are like they still want to go after all, like little things like comma having a relationship with a guy in California years ago. Who cares? Nobody cares

Zach: 24:10

about that. Like, how young exactly that was going on. That was like, what 2025, years ago? More audience, dude, see the 90s,

Vanessa: 24:20

and in the meantime, hello Epstein, and it's,

Zach: 24:26

I just want to see I just, I just want to see Kamala debate Trump, Prosecutor against criminal. I want to see walls debate Vance and just run them over more

Landon: 24:42

than a debate with Trump, I would love to see them go up and ask basic like third grade civics questions. How many seats are there in Congress like Mr. Trump? How many seats are there in Congress?

Vanessa: 25:02

Do the best seats?

Landon: 25:04

You just have to tell us like you just have to give us a number. How many congressmen and

Nikki Smith: 25:10

I know numbers, you don't know numbers. I'm going to tell the President that.

Landon: 25:14

And then, and then, then Kamala. How many? How many same question? And then her to go like, it would be so funny.

Vanessa: 25:24

It's yeah, the comparison between the very fact that there is currently even the remotest chance of Trump getting elected when there is a candidate as amazing for the entire country as Kamala and Tim, like a lot of their policies should be pretty Republican friendly, and that's why you're seeing a lot of Republicans for Kamala coming up, and you hear about down in Florida, in the villages where they're having their little golf cart parades for Kamala. And I honestly don't think the polling this year is gonna mean shit. I mean, it generally doesn't mean much anyways, but things are so different. I really this is the first time I've actually legitimately felt that there's gonna be a blue wave on the at least at the top of the ticket, but I'm hoping all the way down, too, because one thing that people need to remember is, yeah, the presidential election is important, but the entire ballot is important, and a lot of the Damage is being done. Yeah,

Zach: 26:40

please vote local, because the states are laboratories of democracy, and the state and federal government work in conjunction with each other. So all the all that money that's going to come from the federal government for things like high speed rail and school lunches, the states are going to need to dole out that money. So you have to vote locally, not just governor, not just for city council person or town hall, but school board. You have to vote as local as possible. And another thing I really like about this is they're, they're mentioning project 2025, like, there's no tomorrow, yeah, and Trump cannot run from it anymore. He just he cannot. He cannot. I think it was found that he actually took a private plane ride with the actual author behind project 2025 a couple of years ago, so now he definitely can't distance himself from this. But yes, keep mentioning project 2025 just keep mentioning it along with what you're going to do. But keep mentioning project 2025 because product 2025 is really the end of the end of our democracy, not as we know it, but the end of democracy in general. So for all that is good, keep mentioning product 2025

Landon: 28:15

I saw a tweet, well, I saw a meme of a tweet because I'm not on Twitter, and I don't know if it's true, but I hope it is Margaret Atwood saying, I think I'm gonna have to sue project 2025 for plagiarism, because this is my book. It really is.

Vanessa: 28:38

For those that aren't familiar with Margaret Atwood. She's the author of Handmaid's Tale, and, yeah, we are not. I remember. I remember hearing her say she's like you people, you weren't supposed to take my book as a playbook. It's not supposed to be literal and, oh, it's just crazy. But with there's so much good coming out from the left now to just counterpoint up, just the the straws at the right are grasping behind left and right, and I think that we finally have the power to create some change. And because there's still scary things happening in Ohio, a federal judge, Nikki's nodding. She knows that I will talk about a federal judge just upheld HB 68 banning care for trans youth, banning youth sports and all sorts of other things. And I don't know if it's true or not. I heard somewhere where the judge said, you know, if you don't like my ruling, then get out there and vote. But I don't know if that's true or not, but I wouldn't be surprised, because that's something a cocky ass fucking Republican judge would do. So like, this is going to hurt kids desperately bad, and it's frustrating. I I don't know if you all know I'm a I'm part of a group called Ohio equal rights, and we're working on a pack to we're we're a pack working on a citizen led ballot initiative to ensuring equal rights in the Ohio constitution. So. Yeah, and y'all, it is so hard to get this off the ground. We cannot get money. We have all these people that are like, we really love what you're doing. Let's do this. Let's get on it. But no one is willing to actually help us get off the ground. And without money, we can't make it happen. About a citizen ballot initiative cost 10s of millions of dollars, and that's the only way that we're going to be able to make change until we can finally vote these fuckers out. Ohio has a citizen led initiative right now to end gerrymandering in the state and put district drawing of district in the hands of the citizens. And the Republicans are already freaking out about that. They're trying to introduce their own to counteract it, but the Republicans maps have been struck down as unconstitutional over and over and over again, so they're desperate to hold on to power, and we have to do everything we possibly can. So look up what's going on in your state. If you're in Ohio, support groups like Ohio equal rights, if you can, other states I'm sure, have a lot of same things. And as Zach said, you start at the very lowest tier of elected officials, because that's where they get their starts. When I ran for office, I started higher. I started with the Ohio House, because that's where I was needed. Normally, I would have started with school board or something like that, because that's where you get your foot in the door. So we we can make some change here, but it's going to be hard. So what else is on people's minds?

Landon: 32:04

One thing about kamala's announcement that made me quite excited was I was so very tired of seeing leftists saying they would not be voting for Biden over Gaza, which is horrible. It is a genocide. Israel is committing a genocide against Gaza. Guess what? Trump also supports Israel. Okay, so let's get that clear. The genocide will continue if it was Biden or not, and it will be so much worse in America, if Trump is re elected, it was just reminding me of the frustration I felt when it was Hillary and I couldn't vote and everyone, like all of the women who were saying I can't vote for Hillary because of how she treated Monica like I'm a girl's girl, so I can't be voting. I'm abstaining from voting, or I'm voting third party. And then the crying from these women when Hillary didn't win the day after, when they realized it's like but you couldn't get your hands dirty. Sometimes you have to make decisions for the greater good, even if they aren't perfect, and a lot of leftists are too scared to do that because they just don't want to get their hands dirty.

Zach: 33:27

Why? I'm glad she picked Josh Shapiro, because that would have been, oh yeah, one of her biggest mistakes if she had picked Josh Shapiro for VP instead of Tim. Tim walls, and by the way, Shapiro said he didn't want to leave the governorship anyway. But, you know, i It seems, from what I've read, that walls, who is also pro Israel, is willing to move a couple of inches because he said, you know, Jewish students need to feel safe on campus. Okay, good point, but we should also listen to the protesters, because they have a point. So it's a far cry from the rhetoric that's been out there against the the protesters who are against the genocide in Gaza. So it's not perfect, but I will take it, considering I'm one of the ones who's been down to DC multiple times.

Vanessa: 34:31

Yeah, actually, I was listening to a local news podcast. They were talking about Tim and his views on Israel and Gaza, and I believe that they read a quote from him that kind of aligned with what I how I feel, where it's like what's happening. Israel has every right to defend itself, but the way that they're defending themselves is not in line. It's it's against human rights. It is. It's a horrible thing that's happening you. It's not anti semitic to be against what is against Israel's response to Gaza. It. He is anti semitic to go after them because they're Jewish. But two things can be true. They can be doing something wrong because something wrong happened to them, and that, that's the big that's the big issue with all this, it's just frustrating, because I know we all feel helpless when it comes to the situation in Gaza, there's just not much that we can do. And anytime we talk about it, people start slapping us in the face with anti semitism. And you know, the people that are going after us for saying we're anti semitic are the same people that are anti semitic themselves. Like Josh Shapiro is Jewish, and you know that, had he been on a ticket, all these people that are pro Israel going on about people upset about the genocide being anti semitic will be like, Well, I don't know if I want to vote for him, because he's a Jew. So it's, I can my dad's dead, but I can just hear him in my head, because he hated Jewish people. He was so anti semitic, and he would just be going on and on and on and on and on and on and on about it. So, but it's a Nikki your face. You are making the face of faces. What's on your mind? Girl,

Nikki Smith: 36:48

no, I just I have a very vivid memory of a Thanksgiving dinner at my house with a certain relative going on an anti semitic rant at the table, and I, my family is, is they're pretty right leaning I'm the definitely a black sheep. But even they were like, Dude, shut up. Oh my god, that is not the place for this. And anyway, that was fun. And

Vanessa: 37:21

how about this whole boxer situation? Oh, go ahead. Zach,

Zach: 37:23

yeah, but I just wanted to say, you know, going way back to the 2000 election, when Al Gore chose Joe Lieberman, you know, you could say what you want about being hanging chads, say what you want about the situation in Cuba, and how voters in how, how, you know, Hispanic Republicans were the factor that gave Bush the White House the Supreme Court. But I do think there was this. There was a segment of people who were pretty silent back then because there was no social media that didn't want a person of Jewish faith that close to the White House, and I thought that was a factor in why Laura lost, and had Kamala chosen Shapiro for VP, I think that would have been a major factor that would have that would have played into this, this election, especially now With social media being so out there as it is, the anti semitism that would have come from it all it, it would have, it would have hampered her campaign. And, you know, we don't know what the results going to be in November, but would have had a pretty clear indication of where it was going to go going forward. So I just wanted to add that it was probably a better, a better choice on on her part, and I

Vanessa: 38:50

wouldn't be surprised if she considered that, and it's horrible. You have to consider that like, what, what someone's response should be when someone says, oh, that person's Jewish, the response you should give to that is, who cares? It has no effect on you. Has no effect on me. Religion and faith are that's your own damn business. So I love

Landon: 39:15

pointing out to evangelical Christians, Muslims and Jews have the same God as you and the number of them that argue and say, No, it's like,

Nikki Smith: 39:27

well, I would like to say that I I appreciate a very different Jesus than most people do. I appreciate a Jesus that hung out with the hookers and actually gave a shit about other human beings, and was not white, by the way. Put that out there. Yeah,

Landon: 39:46

the liberal socialist, Middle Eastern, Palestinian, Jewish refugee from the Bible. He was awesome. Book Club sucks.

Nikki Smith: 40:02

He doesn't have children. He never had children, by the way. I don't know if they if

Landon: 40:07

child weirdo, childless weirdos,

Vanessa: 40:10

plus a bunch of guys wanting around in the desert. Yeah, married to a sex worker, hang out with a bunch of guys.

Landon: 40:19

Was conceived out of wedlock. Mm, hmm. Vastly, it's just

Vanessa: 40:24

all the things, and the Jews don't believe that he was even the Savior. Yet, all these Christians are going on all about Israel, so I don't fucking get it. I hear a kitty. That's mine. That's Nikki's kitty. I was when I heard the word hanging, Chad, it just made me laugh, because I'm like, I had mine removed. It doesn't hang anymore. So that's a trans joke. Speaking of trans this bullshit going on with that poor boxer out of Algeria, right? What the fuck it's so maddening, like I was about to join, I'm getting my real estate license back, and I was about to join a brokerage called Real, big surprise, right? Real, real brokerage, and there's a major, like, a big player in the local in the Northeast Ohio real estate, who is a part of real and she shared a fucking Daily Mail article where they called her a biological male. And I got fucking pissed. I immediately reached out to her broker, and then I went through all the people that were commenting on her posts and reached out to their brokers. And the thing that pisses me off is, I know the fact that I contacted the brokers, nothing's gonna fucking happen, but it's they're sharing fucking hate speech. Be careful. Those of you looking to hire a realtor, do your research on them. Look them up on social media, see what they post, because there are a lot of fucking bigoted realtors out there so, but she does not deserve the hate that she's been getting. Yeah, and I, my heart just aches for her. I'm hoping that she's just saying, fuck all these people I'm just gonna keep on fighting, which apparently she is, and from what I understand, she won. So good. Have Have you all seen a bunch of bullshit going on in your circles, too, that you just want to reach through the screen and beat people with your microphone?

Landon: 42:35

Well, on the boxer, my favorite thing is the people who argue that gender is not a complex spectrum, and the same people who will argue intersex people are not real. And then you go, but this and so it doesn't come down to the genitals. It comes down to the chromosomes. But chromosomes can be a vast array of things. And then they'll go, No, they can't. And then you go, but you just said they could. And it's and then it's like women who are intersex with X Y chromosomes have, in rare cases, been known to be able to give birth. So either gender is a very complex spectrum, or it's your limited two thing binary, in which case this is not an issue for you.

Vanessa: 43:29

It's like the you don't typically, yes, someone assigned female birth is going to typically have 2x chromosomes. Someone signed male birth is typically going to have x y. But that's not always how it works. A quick Google search can verify that, but people don't know how to do that, and it's it doesn't matter, really. In the end, all these people that are going on about chromosomes? Have they had their crimsons checked? Are they sure that they are have the chromosomes that they think they do? Because it's like one in 20,001 in 80,000 don't I

Landon: 44:12

feel like, if this is what the conservatives want, just just to make sure sports stay legitimate. Every person in America should have to get a karyotype test and report that data. That would make me laugh so hard.

Vanessa: 44:37

So we are about 45 minutes. Does anyone have anything else they want to get out there before we do Cards Against Humanity? I

Nikki Smith: 44:44

do do it. Thank you. So this has come across my my feeds recently. Actually, this is a few weeks ago, but this is in my realm of world. But medical aid in dying right now is only legal in 10 states which it's great because more and more states are starting to put it on their you know, on on a bill to pass to have it legalized in their states too. However, there are two states right now actively fighting to change their state constitution to never allow medical aid in dying, and one state that currently has it legalized. It is fighting to reverse it and make it illegal again, and that is pissing me off today. So everybody should have the right to die with dignity if they so choose. You know,

Vanessa: 45:31

legally, like we put our animals down,

Nikki Smith: 45:35

no but we did not do that for our parents or our grandparents or spouses, which and being in the line of work I'm in, I get to watch people die horribly all the time. It's awful.

Landon: 45:49

Yeah, yeah. And the thing with like it is one of those, if yes, some rules need to be put in place around it. Absolutely, I agree, but when you're dealing with somebody who, let's say, they're on hospice, and everyone knows they're slipping away, and they know they're slipping away, and everyone in the family has rallied around for them to say their final goodbye, and it's a wonderful time, and that would be the time for them to go while they're still with it, and knowing what's going on, and being able to have the real final goodbye, as opposed to having two, three months of them just dragging it out, because death is not quick. No, people think it is, and then it isn't,

Nikki Smith: 46:38

and there's gasping and choking that can happen. I will say that for anybody listening. I'm sorry, no, I

Zach: 46:46

just said shout out to Jimmy Carter, yeah,

Nikki Smith: 46:49

right. If anybody lives in those states where it's not legalized, Oregon and Vermont, remove their residency restrictions, they will take people from out of state. So there you go

Vanessa: 47:01

to Oregon. In Vermont, it's, as she says, You should be able to die with dignity, 100% dignity that we're not just suffer. So

Zach: 47:13

death is not equal in the in terms of the process that the body goes through as it's dying. Death is not equal in that sense, or the functions of the body aren't equal.

Nikki Smith: 47:28

Hmm, that's an interesting question. Diane

Zach: 47:32

Feinstein, a lot of people say that she was actively dying, but I'm asking if, because there's our portrayal of death in popular culture, and then there's what actually happens, and I'm asking if what actually happens varies from person to person.

Nikki Smith: 47:55

Yeah, oh yeah, it does very much. So yeah.

Zach: 48:00

So you could be, you could be, like, healthy one day and then dying the like, like gasping the next,

Nikki Smith: 48:11

yeah. I mean, I mean, it depends on what you're dying of. But even so, like, I've watched how many people with cancer die, and everyone has had a very different death. So

Zach: 48:20

I'm just, they're all honestly just thinking about natural causes, but Okay,

Nikki Smith: 48:24

gotcha, yeah, yeah.

Landon: 48:29

All I'm gonna say is I am going to create a Living Will when I'm older, and I want to have it very clearly stated that once I'm no longer cognitively with it, and I'm on hospice. Stop giving me water. Just stop. Because all the water is doing is going to prolong it out.

Nikki Smith: 48:52

And you can do that. That is legal anywhere. It's called voluntary, stopping eating and drinking, V Sud, that is legal whatever you want, and you can put honey, fill out your living will now. First of all, everybody just do that. I was waiting for you to say that you're welcome if you're over 18. Fill that shit out. You can do that now. But yeah, you can absolutely spell that out in your will that you would like to withhold food and water. Yes, you can. Thank you.

Vanessa: 49:18

That's good. Thanks

Nikki Smith: 49:19

for coming to my TED Talk,

Zach: 49:24

for us to actually like transcend properly, because I have a feeling AI is going to play a huge role in how we die, if we die at all, or can we transfer our consciousness to something else while our body goes I mean, it's, it's fantasy now, but I have a feeling in the next couple of decades, it won't be or there will be something like it. Yeah,

Vanessa: 49:57

I don't get it.

Nikki Smith: 49:58

I guess we'll see. I don't think

Vanessa: 50:00

I want to live forever, though. No, me neither. I'm

Nikki Smith: 50:03

good, yeah,

Vanessa: 50:06

okay, Cards Against Humanity. Time, since there's four of us, I just I pulled four cards at random. And so how this works is we each get a black card that says something. On it, and then we come up with our own kind of white card answer to it. And it can be raunchy, it can be clean, just whatever, just as a way to, you know, do a little bit of a laugh at the end of the show. And so who wants to go first?

Nikki Smith: 50:35

I'll go first. Okay, Nikki,

Vanessa: 50:38

your card. Mm, there we go. They I'm gonna read it, then hold it to the camera, because I can't do both. They said we were crazy. They said we couldn't put blank inside of blank. They were wrong,

Nikki Smith: 50:53

so we're crazy. They got blank inside of blank. So we're crazy. We cannot put, Oh man, I'm usually quick with these, like, could shoot, I mean, there's the obvious, but there's there's the dirty answers, but what's the fun on that? Going blue isn't always the I wasn't always the best option is always the best. They said, We're crazy. We couldn't put our ashes into space, but they were wrong, because we can't do that. Now, that's not very interesting, but there you go.

Vanessa: 51:41

No, but it's true. It's true. Good job, good job. Nice clean one. Nice clean one, keeping the G rated in this fucking show. Fuck Shit ass. Fuck Bitch. Fuck yeah.

Nikki Smith: 51:55

I have a picture right in front of me that says, damn it, shit, fuck crap.

Vanessa: 52:00

That's yeah, I think we all need that. We all need that. Yeah, that's pretty epic. Okay, who's next?

Landon: 52:08

I'll go.

Vanessa: 52:10

June Rogers. What ended my last relationship?

Landon: 52:16

Bill Nye, the Science Guy. I

Vanessa: 52:22

uh, fucking Bill Nye always fucking shit up. Come on, come on.

Landon: 52:26

He said the earth wasn't flat. And then he was all like, Bill, now the Science Guy says it's round. I was like, the earth is flat. Flat, super flat.

Vanessa: 52:36

Have you seen that, the documentary, and that guy that, like the Flat Earther, that, like, strapped himself into a rocket like multiple times to shoot himself up off the ground and to show that the Earth was flat. And, of course, he wound up dying natural selection, it's, it's classy. Zach, you're up next. I never truly understood blank until I encountered blank.

Zach: 53:14

Interesting. I never truly understood the human conditions like countered Maga, shit,

Nikki Smith: 53:30

yeah, you win.

Vanessa: 53:31

Yeah, I think you win. I don't even know if I can go, but that's yeah. I'm kind of speechless, but that's very true in my card follow up to that's kind of topical war. What is it good for?

Landon: 53:51

Genocide? Genocide.

Vanessa: 53:53

Yeah, I was just gonna say titties, because that's my internet. So, yeah, exactly, everyone. I everybody loves tits. Yes, everybody loves tits. So with, you know, I've been over this over and again, over and over again on the show. You know, there's some people that don't like tits on themselves, but they still like tits. So, yeah, all right. Well, closing thoughts, anybody?

Nikki Smith: 54:28

Go Team Blue?

Vanessa: 54:34

Definitely go team blue. So for the listeners and watchers, you can find land and read on Tiktok and Instagram and YouTube, too, at me him and soon, with his persona, June Rogers,

Landon: 54:51

America's most eligible housewife.

Vanessa: 54:54

Mm hmm, which is fucking epic Nikki. It can be found at Nikki to death doula. And she has a podcast called Good grief, which I was on, so it means that it was amazing. And, Zach, do you have anything publicly that you want to throw out there for people that you're involved with?

Zach: 55:12

Um, I mean, I'm on LinkedIn, so you can find me there. And you can find what I'm doing on LinkedIn as well. But as I said before, I'm involved with trying to get out the vote and protect the right to vote and promote civic engagement to students. So finally, doing that,

Vanessa: 55:40

which is good and important, and it's fun. You bring up LinkedIn, because since I stopped my job hunt, I've, like, barely been on LinkedIn at all, because I was just so burnt out from it. I've I've picked up my own business and just started running with it. And last month I did almost $8,000 in sales, when my typical month is about 1500 so I'm happy. And so yeah, thank you. We had. Do you all want to guess how many people we had watching this live stream? Oh, oh, zero. Nikki, zero. Not a single fucking person watched it. Yay. We did we win the internet? So thank you. Do

Nikki Smith: 56:33

we get the booby prize? Because I like boobies?

Landon: 56:36

Yeah, I don't

Vanessa: 56:40

want to get banned. But, you know, I am perfectly if you want to see my titties, just ask and I will text you a picture of my titties and whatever else I show everybody in my bits. Like, hey, almost everybody I know see my pussy. So, yeah, anyways, I'm venustrati. All this has been Landon Nikki and Zach for episode 50, our 50th episode of transcending humanity. We're still going, and I'm looking for a guest. I'm almost out of guests for upcoming episodes. I really want to focus on the bipod community, other than this call right here. This has been a very white show, and I think in the little bit of nuts, yeah, yeah. So the diversity,

Landon: 57:33

what can you do? You're welcome. We

Vanessa: 57:35

have a lot of diversity on this call, though, so which is fun, but yeah, I I'm trying to really get into the humanity part. And I recognize, as a white person that I have no idea what it's like for people not of this pale complexion. And I really want stories and stuff like that from a wide range of people, not just this. So thank you everyone for joining us. This is a long sign off and see you next week, episode 51 will be with Klaus Van Hollen low of YouTube, quasi fame. So toodles have uh, stop recording. I almost hit the wrong button.