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SLAP the Power - a dynamic new show from SLAP the Network that aims to weave artistry into advocacy through the raw power of music, comedy, movies, visual arts, and beyond.
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Pardons, Pac-Man, and the Power of Creative Change
What if presidential pardons are less about justice and more about favoritism? Join us as we dissect the controversial use of pardon powers in the U.S., spotlighting President Joe Biden's pardon of his son and contrasting it with Trump's pardons of January 6th rioters. Our resident artist, Asia Nakia, offers her perspective on using creativity for social change, while we navigate the troubled waters of LA Animal Services following a key resignation. The call for compassionate leadership in animal welfare rings loud as we explore how to transform these challenges into solutions.
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SLAP the Power is written and produced by Rick Barrio Dill (@rickbarriodill) and Aja Nikiya (@compassioncurator). Associate Producer Bri Coorey (@bri_beats). Audio and Video engineering and studio facilities provided by SLAP Studios LA (@SLAPStudiosLA) with distribution through our collective home for progress in art and media, SLAP the Network (@SLAPtheNetwork).
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We have to talk about it because everybody else is talking about it and it's ridiculous. The pardon powers in this country have been abused since the beginning of this country. And yeah, yesterday Joe Biden, he pardoned his son. Nothing compared to Trump letting out the January 6th rioters, especially the people that you know did harm to police officers. All right, the world may not need another podcast, but it can definitely use a slap. Welcome to Slap the Power, the show that lifts artists who use their powers for positive progress. I'm Rick Barrio-Dill and I'm Asia Nakia. That's right On the show. Today we touch base with our resident badass artist who's using her powers for positive progress Asia Nakia, and we're leading off with Paws for Progress today on our furry fighters, rachel and Alan, as well as the general manager of LA Animal Services stepping down. So lots of stuff going on there.
Speaker 3:Yes, and then we're going to go into Joe Biden and the fact that he pardoned his son, hunter Biden, after vowing not to do the very thing he said he just did.
Speaker 1:I know Everybody's got their take on this, and we do too, but it's still worth talking about and chopping it up, because on one level it's astounding, on the other level you'd probably do it for your people. So that's just the place we're at, and then a little later we're going to catch up with our Gen Z correspondent, asher Freidberg, with a new edition of Make this Ish, make Sense, asher. He refused to give us any context today. You know, kind of just like a Gen Zer he's like no, I'm not even going to tell you.
Speaker 1:But I'm going to tell you we're going to have to make it. Ish make sense, so stick around for that.
Speaker 3:And then we've got the wonderfully articulated comments from Elon Musk about fighting population decline, even though he has children that he doesn't want to claim anymore.
Speaker 1:And we touch on martial law being enacted for six hours in South Korea, and now impeachment proceedings have begun against the president and we ponder can we do that here? Is it possible? We'll find out. Asking for a friend? We'll find out. Uh, asking for a friend.
Speaker 3:And then, a little later, we've got our, our most favorite little segment here two scams and a slap where we take three batshit crazy events, two of which are fake and one which is real, and we have to figure out which one is actually the truth. And today I am reading to Rick, and you are going to have to decide which one is the slap in the face.
Speaker 1:That's right. I'm in the hot seat today along with you, the listeners.
Speaker 3:But first we're going to talk about some huge news here in LA. We just heard that the general manager of Los Angeles Animal Services just resigned yesterday. This is huge news. I mean, we've been talking about the LA like shelter crisis, you know, almost in every episode because it's just so hard hitting and devastating. And now here we. Here we are again. We've got a chance. The mayor is now scouting for this person that will take over this job. I mean, I am I'm like on edge, trying to figure out who is going to be the next candidate. Is this person going to make a difference? I don't know, but I'm going to be watching this like a hawk.
Speaker 1:Is that a gig that you know? Are there? What's the list on people that are actually perfectly suited for this gig? I mean.
Speaker 3:the issue with hiring shelter directors and the issue that animal services is under a government body is that they always go for people within the government because they like people that know the lingo. They like people that know how to work in the city environment. All of those things are great, but we don't need that right now, like we need someone to come in that has been working in every aspect of rescue. We need somebody that is brilliant on the streets. We need someone that understands you know how shelters run and operate. We need someone that understands the you know spay and neuter crisis that we have. We need someone that's really in all of these different pockets, not just someone that's come up through the government tiers and needs their next administrative job which is what happens 99% of the time and that's just not working.
Speaker 3:So who would be a good candidate? Me, you, I would. You know that is something that I would love to tackle, but really it needs to be someone with a rescue mindset. It needs to be someone that understands the ordinances, the laws that are in place, the laws that need to change, how we can best reach out to our community with low-cost spay neuter clinics, um, how we can put an end to the license and intact licenses. So there's so much involved in it. But I just I am like fingers crossed. Let this be the positive change that we need to move LA forward. I mean, 76,000 animals this year have been killed I'm going to stop saying euthanized, because it sounds pretty and it's just not and it's not acceptable.
Speaker 1:76,000 nationwide, no 76,000? In Los.
Speaker 3:Angeles, in LA, in LA, 76,000.
Speaker 1:Acceptable 76 000 nationwide, no 76 in los angeles, in la in la 76 000 we are not even done with this year and this number is from november.
Speaker 3:We have a whole entire month to add to that number. That's horrible.
Speaker 1:It's horrifying yeah, when we, when we first started regrouping for this um new season and you coming out to la, one of the things you said to me was this is a solvable problem and, uh, I love the fact that we're bringing this up because it actually is an opportunity to hopefully, uh, you know, put people in this, in the flow of this opening and this vacuum that's being created, to fix the problem, because that is an insane number, that's a ridiculous number, it's an unacceptable number absolutely so, uh, yeah, everyone nominate asia nikia to to fix this problem in la, because she would know how to do it.
Speaker 3:If the mayor wants my resume, she's welcome to it but yeah I mean but at least get the right, if you get the right person. And then we get some of the rescuers here on the streets, people that are working in Compton and Skid Row and dealing with the low-cost spay-neuter clinics that are at their max, that appointments are full constantly. Get some people on the ground that know what they're talking about, that really have the animal's best interests at heart. I mean, that's what it comes down to.
Speaker 1:Well, I guess keep an eye here. We will definitely keep everyone posted on this one, absolutely, and you know that's incredible. 72,000 is just an incredible and unacceptable number, so let's do something about that. Moving on, pause for progress how is what's the update with our girl, daisy, slash Rachel and, of course, alan the newbie, but tell us about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean our girl really, um, rachel slash Daisy. Um, we like Daisy much better. Um, daisy has been just going through it. I mean we've been getting you know estimates and quotes and you know, will we have to amputate her front leg? Can we save it? I've been talking to orthopedic surgeons. I've been trying to fundraise. I mean we had a number at 6,000. Now we have a number at 4,500. That's the best I think we're going to get in this area.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and for those that don't know or are just kind of picking up on this. We keep you updated on the Slap, the Power site, as well as Compassion Curator and Compassion Kind. Right yeah, we're at 24 hours to basically get this girl some legs. Man, we need some legs for this girl, she's so adorable. Check it out on Instagram, you know there are. You know we could do 45 people doing, you know, $10, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we would be there.
Speaker 1:We would be there, yeah, so make sure to check it out. Check it out on our site and get involved. You know what is the open rate for a kidney, I think, or.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I mean, I'm literally you know. Next show I might be a new version of myself which, thank goodness for our audio listeners, they won't see a change.
Speaker 1:Maybe on dialysis.
Speaker 3:Dialysis. But, yeah, I mean, I'm literally like Googling how I can find money for this little girl to get some legs tomorrow, I mean and everything that comes up in the top 10 on Google is only fans. All it says is only fans only fans, only fans, only fans, only fans, yeah, yeah. And then there's arrangements.
Speaker 2:Oh, and selling feet yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean you selling feet, yeah, I mean you can you? Can you, you can sell your?
Speaker 3:yeah I mean, I treated myself the other day to a pedicure and, um, the lovely woman at the uh nail salon was telling me about how her friend is paying her rent, selling her feet pictures and and on snapchat of all places. I didn't even know that that was a thing anymore.
Speaker 1:I did not know either. That's incredible. I mean yeah, I mean, can we get legs?
Speaker 3:on Snapchat.
Speaker 1:Right, sure Well, you can convert feet to legs. That's what I'm thinking. It's like a one.
Speaker 3:It's like got a correlation, you know it's a correlation, you got one more correlation Feet cell legs.
Speaker 1:No, come on, but she is, Daisy is adorable. We got to make this happen and, yeah, it's one of those things where the pause for progress we need to fix this girl's pause for sure.
Speaker 3:We do, we do.
Speaker 1:Hopefully we can stir this up for you. All right, and we're back, as promised, our resident Gen Z expert here, asherher Fried. Is it Asher or is it? I'm still. We're still working it out, right.
Speaker 3:I thought it was it's Asher, it was.
Speaker 1:Joe, no, yeah, he's here make this ish make sense, asher and, as usual, he's coming up from the trap door underneath the table for those that are, and there he is for those that are listening. At home, he lives under the table, under the pod table.
Speaker 4:There was another guy down there.
Speaker 1:What? Oh my God, what was his name? Did you, I mean?
Speaker 4:I think his name was Asher, was it? That might have been it. Okay, I think his name was Asher, was it? That might have been it. Okay, that's who.
Speaker 3:You're getting confused, the confusion I mean like sometimes I worry about, like what's going on under the table.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, I know, sure, yeah, that's why I'm always wearing pants. All kinds of yeah, that's why I'm always wearing pants. That's great. Yeah, no, that's that's smart, because you don't know what, uh, what could pop up from underneath the the uh pod table here. No, this week it is uh, it's alan, and no asher. What do you got for us? All right, make this ish, make sense. What is it you refused to tell us. Just like you know, you're steadfast in your ideas. You're always right, gen Z gotcha. Okay, what is it?
Speaker 3:Zero context. Zero context, that's okay, let's move forward, Go ahead.
Speaker 4:This better be entertaining. Okay, they're definitely entertaining this week. So I've got two issues for you. The first one is a trailer for an upcoming TV project. I want to see if you guys can guess what. It is all right.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love this game Okay.
Speaker 4:So what did you?
Speaker 3:guys think that was a trailer for Like end of the world type.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Like alien invasion. Yeah, slash new dinosaur age with massive bugs. I don't know Something like that.
Speaker 4:So I'll give you guys a hint. It's based on a classic video game.
Speaker 3:Think classic Mario Kart.
Speaker 4:No, but that's actually as fair a guess as what the answer is.
Speaker 1:Donkey Kong no Dig Dug.
Speaker 4:Pac-Man, it is the Pac-Man go me.
Speaker 3:I don't even know games. That was Pac-Man.
Speaker 4:This is a new I believe it's a new Amazon limited series. It's going to be called Secret Level and there's going to be episodes. It's an anthology series Amazon limited series going to be called Secret Level, and there's going to be episodes. It's an anthology series where each episode is going to be based on a different video game franchise. I know three of them One's Pac-Man, one's going to be Mega man, one's going to be.
Speaker 4:Warhammer and they're doing these anthology series right now, but the internet at the moment is talking about this crazy Pac-man trailer that looks nothing like pac-man pac-man's a yellow ball, yeah runs around eating ghosts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I didn't see any ghosts in that one or yeah, pac-man, but how does he deal with hr though eating all them ghosts?
Speaker 4:yeah, I could see that being an issue going forward today.
Speaker 1:Sure, in this, in this climate, in this pc world, yeah, we eating all them ghosts. Man come on, yeah, okay, so, so, so make it make sense. Ask you, how, how make that ish make sense, how, why, what?
Speaker 4:so a lot of people are kind of iffy. Some people are like very against him, like what is this? You're just using the pac-man ip to try to create something new. What is this? I don't understand why you would take a yellow ball and try to change into a almost looking like a, like a legend of zelda character, just a little bit yeah but it's kind of hot.
Speaker 4:Then the other opinion. The other opinion which I, you know, I kind of see that too is we complain all the time about people making boring adaptations of things. Things are just one-to-one or just not even that where it's just lazy just sticking pages onto screen. You got to give them some credit. They are taking some real creative liberties with Pac-Man. We don't know what's going to happen yet, but I'm going to watch it. I want to see what's going on with this Pac-Man. I kind of respect the fact they're trying something really weird.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, hey, I mean, that's where we got to go now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, it's seems far-fetched. Yeah, um, and if they're trying to, you know, pull on the nostalgia from pac-man. I don't know where that fits in, but sure I mean?
Speaker 1:I mean scraping the ip barrel boy, you're just going around scooping it out I've been hearing it with music lately.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no, you think a tetris movie one came out like two years ago already.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah wow, well, all right and, as promised, uh, pivoting a little bit, but make this ish makes sense. Asher elon musk all right, elon. He's been habitually claiming that people aren't having enough children to sustain the world population. Uh, extreme birth weight collapse is the biggest danger to human civilization thus far, says the. I guess he's president-elect, right, president-elect Musk. So make that make sense.
Speaker 4:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:How does Gen Z feel?
Speaker 4:about that oh man. Well, Gen Z is pretty split these days. We're not as unified as we once were. We are by no means a once Monolith?
Speaker 2:No, of course not. We are not a monolith, of course not.
Speaker 4:We means a one monolith, yeah we're not a monolith, of course not. We used to be a little more of one, I would say. But we have divided more and more. But with elon I mean part of me. Look, I myself could probably do some more research about overpopulation. But also, I was born in 1999. When I was born, the population I think we were at six billion people watch your feet.
Speaker 1:That was such a good bragging prince song too, I went straight to the Prince song.
Speaker 3:Yeah sure.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I've got people like it's 1999. And then, since I've been alive, we've already gone up 2 billion people. I don't feel like we're in a danger right now of underpopulation. If anything, I'm worried about overpopulation. There's people starving, there's homeless people. We don't. I mean I'm sure somewhere we have the resources to help everyone, but we clearly aren't doing it right, so why bring more people into it? No absolutely.
Speaker 3:What do I think this is? I could go on for days about this. I think that that statement on his Twitter is one of the most dangerous statements to possibly put out into the world when we are dealing with climate.
Speaker 1:That's saying a lot from history.
Speaker 3:I mean, yeah, but it is a huge, huge statement, and I mean there's a lot of followers of Musk that are going to take that seriously and think we've got to be on some mission of baby making, which is absolutely ridiculous considering that we have not enough resources right now. Nobody's even talking about the fact that we are going to face water wars in the next 20 to 30 years. The water scarcity, our ground level water levels I mean we are really at a breaking point. I mean literally at a breaking point with climate change, and now we have Mr Trump coming on board, which will probably put us backwards even more. So the last thing we need to be doing is putting more children onto this planet, and I'll take it a step further from there. We have 370,000 children in foster care. Where do those kids go In?
Speaker 1:the US.
Speaker 3:Yeah, in the US, and then we're talking about all these abortion rights and things that are coming up. Now we're going to have a plethora of children without homes, and now we're telling people they should be having more children. Let's take care of what we have. Let's try to at least make use of the resources that we have that we're already like overusing every single day. So no, I'm not. I'm not buying the Elon Musk statement, and I think it's I could be wrong.
Speaker 1:Allegedly, allegedly, your honor, but doesn't he have kids that he don't even know their names or doesn't even aren't they like decimal names?
Speaker 3:yeah, four, six, seven, I don't know dead to him.
Speaker 1:That's right. He made a comment that's like right, yeah, his um, I believe he has a.
Speaker 4:I want to say he has a trans daughter and essentially made a comment saying that the liberal woke virus killed her and he's giving advice about having children. I'm like you are the last person to give advice. Your own child's constantly slamming you online. That's not good.
Speaker 3:We have millions of children starving all over this planet. I am not about it at all and people are getting smarter and resources are getting more scarce and families are doing more planning. I mean this is a good piece of news. You should be putting a lot of thought into having a baby. You should be putting a lot of thought into who's having kids and what we're putting out into the world.
Speaker 1:So I think the numbers. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. No, you're good, but I think the numbers actually do sort of bear out that we are at a place where the economics don't sustain it for most people, and I think, in the same way that that sort of decides elections, it also decides people's you know, what they're going to do with their families, and their resources and stuff. But yeah, it's a crazy time. So you know, I don't know. That's why we got the furry kinds, you know the four-legged kinds. They need homes too.
Speaker 3:I mean, I'm all about us just adopting more fur kids. Yes, Amen. And the children that are still looking for homes, that need homes. So yeah, absolutely ridiculous statement. I'm not about it.
Speaker 1:Not about it. Nope, hell, no, all right, and before we let you go, asher, you had an update for us on Jaguar, which their Couture ad was something that we highlighted last time, trying to figure out what the fuck were they doing.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so we know what the fuck they were doing now. Okay, so they have a new car out, the Type 00 or Type 00. I'm going to show you guys real quick. It'll be on the screen. Okay, this is the new car.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, okay.
Speaker 4:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:That's a Jaguar.
Speaker 4:Yes, so these are the new Jaguars. They're electric. Wow, I mean, I'm not going to lie, I'm not like a big car person and I am not mad at that at all, I think it's an interesting style. My thoughts on this building off of last week is that-.
Speaker 1:The ad campaign.
Speaker 4:I don't think that ad campaign did a great job prepping this car out. I think they were.
Speaker 1:You and I are talking about it now, though.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we are talking about it.
Speaker 1:So maybe it did work, Maybe it worked.
Speaker 4:But it might be the kind of thing where I hope people buy the car.
Speaker 3:So you're thinking like it created buzz, but we'll see how many people actually buy this car let me see how much this car is going for yeah, yeah, I mean they might have not put a price out yet it's cute.
Speaker 1:That is that is I would drive that it's cute.
Speaker 4:I wish they had put this car in the commercial last week, because I personally would have been happier if we had found out that they were doing some sort of clothing line or fashion, because then it would have made what they did last week make more sense, yeah, and feel a little bit less. I don't want to say that it was taking advantage of anybody, but it definitely felt like they were I feel what you mean.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was just something about.
Speaker 4:It just didn't quite hit for me, the fact that I can't see a lot of connections between the models they chose and these cars, aside from the fact they were all wearing pastels. That's all I could think of, and there were no cars. Hopefully we find out later that they have some kind of plan that you know incorporates fashion, you know style.
Speaker 1:It's interesting it's interesting because I, I, I, they, you know it was so odd that it became a thing and I think nowadays you kind of have to. Nowadays it feels like you. If you're sitting in a room you're like, what can we do to promote our new car? You really like no idea. Is, you know, left enough? Like no idea is crazy enough.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's true, that's like the brilliance of marketing campaigns, you know.
Speaker 2:Mad men and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, go crazy thinking up these, yeah, these.
Speaker 3:Super Bowl commercials. You know, People are always talking about them because they leave an impression on you, no matter what that impression is. But I do feel you on.
Speaker 1:Feeling duped.
Speaker 3:Feeling a little duped and feeling like maybe you're utilizing people from different backgrounds and genders and all kinds of different humans to promote a car in a cheesy kind of way, and I wanted it to work.
Speaker 4:I was rooting for them. I thought it was a really cool commercial. I just feel like then look, I don't. I think that they might've been rushing out this announcement of the car because I know that there was a leak that revealed that. So, for all I know, in the next few days maybe by the time this goes up we're going to find out there's also going to be a Jaguar clothing brand. But as of now, their hand was sort of forced to be like okay, this is the Jaguar plan.
Speaker 1:But you know, if there is a clothing brand again, that's chef's kiss right there, because I think that's great yeah.
Speaker 3:But if it's just for the new car model I just look it about it, but is it successful in the fact where, a year from now, we're like, oh, that was stupid, like, or that was a smart move, we don't know, maybe or maybe we'll see all of those same characters in the commercial on ads on the freeway, and you know, that would be, uh, like beautiful articulation and extension, yeah, if we start seeing those commercials, with those humans that were so beautifully put on their, on their commercial, um then maybe it'll make sense, you know,
Speaker 1:yeah maybe they got a rollout plan. Yeah, yeah, you know, everybody gets a free jag really smart and we're just getting too soft. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:So what we said last week was right, though, that they were definitely leaning to have a less traditional masculine look, and you know these cars are definitely. I would say more, more gender neutral looking, you know, depending on what kind of car you're looking for. I'm assuming that's not going to just come in those two colors, but pastels yeah, the pastels are nice though but, they'll get dirty.
Speaker 4:They'll get dirty fast yeah, yeah, but cool looking they are cool but you know look at least they were accurate and trying to say like, yeah, we're not going to be doing the classic, original jaguar style. Like I don't know if you guys saw there were ads from like past few decades where it's been a little bit, it's been a little cheesy, you know. It's like there's this one ad it might be on the screen, I'm not sure where it's like this pussycat can't be tamed and it's a picture of the jaguar crawling through the woods or something you know it's a different cheesy what year?
Speaker 4:was this oh my god, 70s, maybe, maybe, don't quote me on that.
Speaker 2:I was just looking at Twitter. It makes a little sense. It's been 100 years.
Speaker 4:Jaguar started in 1920, and now we're in 2025. So if they want to try something new, try it now, and if it doesn't work, go from there.
Speaker 1:That's what we say. That's what we say here. I like that. I do All right well, when we get back from the break, two scams and a slap and we also finish off with dissecting martial law in South Korea, and it might be some advice for us moving forward. Yeah, we'll see you after the break.
Speaker 5:Hi, I'm Anjali Bhimani and I'm Julia Bianco and we are so excited to be bringing you our new creative baby, the Character Select Podcast. I've wanted to save the world since I was four.
Speaker 4:There has been no character like him up to that point, and there really hasn't been a character since.
Speaker 5:Every episode of Character Select, we're going to be taking fantastic video game performances and talking about what makes them tick, what makes them exciting as players, as performers, as sound designers, as casting directors. That was, I feel like I've been ambushed.
Speaker 2:I was going to be on a podcast to talk about a video game.
Speaker 5:So there's a big old love fest here. That's how we start this, and you're just going to have to deal with it. Recognized by the 2013 edition of the Guinness World Book of Records, gamers Edition, as the most prolific female video game voice actor in the world.
Speaker 2:You know it's a special project when you hold on to the people you created it with. Careers are born by being in the right place at the right time.
Speaker 1:where you can't control the right time, but you can control the right place we have to talk about it because everybody else is talking about it and it's ridiculous. The, the pardon powers in this country have been abused since the beginning of the this country and yeah, yesterday joe biden, uh, he pardoned his son, hunter biden vowing not to for essentially his whole re-election campaign, his whole presidential campaign, and he, you know, hunter, had been uh convicted for lying to a gun dealer, lying on federal screening uh form about his drug use and possessing a gun, despite restrictions for people addicted to drugs. And it is true that for most people, first offenses and stuff like that, this is not something. It is true that he was the center of a political witch hunt. It is true that he would be going to jail.
Speaker 1:It's largely a a trad. It would be a tragedy of justice nothing compared to trump letting out the january 6th rioters, especially the people that you know did harm to police officers. It was something like 100 and something police officers that day, on january 6th, that were injured and uh, several died. And you know to think that those you know you're he's just gonna use, they're gonna use the fact that biden did this on the way out and I, I like what I saw online about this and I and I think I heard love it saying or something, but it was basically his fuck it pardon yeah I'd never thought about it, but I think about it.
Speaker 1:he, he thought he could win and then now he's getting blamed for where we are. He knows that you know, the mayor mccheese is going to be in charge of the department of justice coming. You know, let's be honest, the Hamburglar is going to be the Department of Treasury. And so you know, fuck it On your way out. But the thing that is messed up is that in his statement he gave him for the pardon. He gave him 11-year pardon, Like blanket pardon, Going back to 2014. I'm all for the fuck it pardon if you would have like blanket pardoned. Think of everybody that Trump has said and his people have said that they're going to go after when they get in. You know, Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know Anthony Fauci, you know anybody from the FBI. They want to go after Jack Smith, right, and so give pardons to those people. You know, give blanket pardons to those people. First it just looks bad man and he's done so many good things it is. It's frustrating and at the same time, you know, I think you take most people nowadays they would do it for their children.
Speaker 3:I mean it's their kid, you know it's your child. I mean we have to be able to separate ourselves, but also understanding the position that they're in. But at the end of the day, they are human. Well, most of them are, yeah, Most of them are human.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but like Trump pardoning his son-in-law's dad or himself, or Paul Manafort, who was literally talking to Russian intelligence with data figures for Trump, like that kind of stuff there shouldn't be pardons. But Trump pardoned it and we just gloss over the pardon now. And it was always one of those things where I was frustrated that they let off you know, george Bush. I was frustrated that they let off people in the financial crisis of 2008. Like how are people not getting? And it just almost it just solidifies a sad reality that there's just too there are that sort of that kind of political White house crimes and stuff like that. It, I don't know, it just feels it's kind of depressing in in some way, even though you kind of understand that he did it yeah, and.
Speaker 3:And then I think about you know more than half of our incarcerated. You know people are innocent yeah we've got people on death row and manslaughter that have been proven not guilty time and time again, and we just let them continue on with their jail sentences. So it's just frustrating because it's like it's just always a game. Why does this one get away with it and why does this one not?
Speaker 3:If we have a rule or a law and this is what it is, thank you like you can't make things wishy-washy, like it makes it very hard for people to understand and then it creates a very slippery slope yeah for anybody that wants to do crime or, you know, break those laws like I don't understand it.
Speaker 1:So I it's, it's, it's depressing a little bit, and you know how about, uh, you know, do a blanket pardon, pardon of everybody that is, you know, convicted of nonviolent marijuana crimes. How about do that? Do a blanket pardon for all nonviolent marijuana offenders federally, on your way out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you want to impress us. Do that. And all nonviolent students just trying to pay their student loan debt, like myself.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That would be a really great pardon.
Speaker 1:That's the Supreme Court. I'm taking it too far now. I'm taking it too far on the pardons, but I'm just saying no, but I mean Supreme Court's like no, we can't help you guys with your student loan debt.
Speaker 3:But they can give away billions.
Speaker 1:Watch the pardons that are about to come. January 20th, oof, all right, coming up after the break we'll get into what's going on in South Korea and that part of the world that we need to pay attention to. It's martial law, it's, I don't know, getting rid of their president, and so we're going to tell you why that's relevant. And then Asia gets to ask me I'm in the hot seat with you, the listener, for two scams and a slap.
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Speaker 1:All right. Martial law was put in place in South Korea for six hours before parliament reversed the decision. Currently, impeachment proceedings are in place for Yoon Suk-yeol to eliminate anti-state forces, and the question is, why would he do this in the first place? And if you can be pushed back by parliament or you can be without even really having to get to the people? That was fascinating to me, because I think it's going to be required of us to uh deal.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of things that we thought help was coming and help is not coming, and so this story was really, really encouraging, I think, because it was. It was a problem. It was almost like what would be the equivalent of a constitutional emergency right, a constitutional crisis or whatever that we could have here you know really easily, and to know that it can actually get worked out by the people that are in charge. Now, I don't know what Vegas odds are on us being able to pull that off here, but it still is nice to know and to see it when something kind of works and the checks and balances you know show that yeah, okay, it can actually happen, you can hold, you can do this safety net?
Speaker 3:No, absolutely. I mean it gives you a little bit of hope and security that maybe those checks and balances can come into play. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1:We might need to do it here, just asking for a friend. It's not me. It's not me, it's my neighbor. My neighbor was wondering.
Speaker 3:Your neighbor.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my neighbor was wondering if we have to do something like that here. How does that go about happening? Give us the steps. So, if you know this, put it in our comments.
Speaker 1:I'll pass it to my neighbor Before we get out of here. Promised Two scams and a slap. Today I am in the hot seat. For those of you that don't know Two scams and a slap. This world is so batshit crazy that we have to pick which one of these things Is actually true. And the messed up thing is so many of these things. Nowadays you're kind of thinking they could all be true. So but give it to me. Give it to me. Today we're in the hot seat with you, the dear listener.
Speaker 3:Okay, first one A man claims to have invented a sleep deprivation alarm clock that wakes you up with disturbing news and facts.
Speaker 1:Okay. The second one, that's diabolical, okay.
Speaker 3:New York artist shoots a massive nude photo shoot on the iconic Story Bridge.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:And third, a woman finds her missing cat after an Instagram account starring her cat goes viral.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, On sheer, just on sheer, the balance of what it is. I want that to be true. I'm going gonna say that did the cat have an instagram account?
Speaker 3:no, oh man. So that one threw me because I was thinking like I mean charlie's a cat charlie's got a you know he's a best-selling author and he's got a.
Speaker 1:You know he's got a right instagram page so it could be possible.
Speaker 3:Cats and dogs are, you know, ruling the instagrams?
Speaker 1:so Dogs at least, Not necessarily so much cats.
Speaker 3:In your world. Yes, We'll say animals for children, Sure for everyone. No, the slap of reality is that the New York artist did a huge, massive nude photo shoot. Now, what's cool about it is that I mean, the visuals are really amazing. I mean, when do you see thousands of naked people on a bridge?
Speaker 2:I mean, did you see what I did last?
Speaker 3:weekend.
Speaker 2:We're not counting you going streaking you?
Speaker 3:streaking in Los Angeles bridges is not the same as we're going streaking.
Speaker 2:Come on, guys, we're going streaking.
Speaker 3:You guys might get lucky and catch Rick streaking, yeah, streaking down through LA, but no, no, but this was an actual beautiful display of the human body and it was just kind of I mean, it was really beautiful to see that they all are making the same shapes on the bridge you know laying, you know doing all of this stuff and it just looks cool from aerial.
Speaker 3:You know the photography that was done, yeah, and apparently it's on display for a couple months, but yeah just interesting you wouldn't think there would be a public nude display In this country, in this country, yeah, in New York, yeah, right On a bridge, yeah.
Speaker 1:But if you're going to do it, shout out to New York.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean pretty cool stuff.
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