No One is Illegal on Stolen Land

Let's dig into the sh*tstorm of what's happening in LA right now. Below are some resources and orgs you can donate to to help <3 AND REMEMBER NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND!

https://www.immdef.org/

https://oia.lacounty.gov/kyr/

https://www.esperanza-la.org/

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Hello. So in this episode, you might notice that the microphone is a little weird. Matt decided to lose his brain cells yesterday when we were filming. This episode and didn't press the record button through the microphones, so it sounds a little bit funky. So please, if you just bear with us, we say some pretty serious things, but also quite funny things and I just feel like you'll really enjoy this episode. Please enjoy. And sorry. Good afternoon, good evening. Good morning. I would say good morning, but it certainly is not one, but it could, it's not a good morning, but it could just be a normal morning. I was quoing. What's her face? What Nancy There? Huh Nancy Pelosi, when she got on the stage that one time to do some press conference thing and she went, I would say good morning, but it most certainly is not one tick tack toe. A winner. Exactly. She said the darnedest thing. Guys, we're talking politics today. We don't do that. This, that what? Yeah, we do. We don't do it that often. No, we don't. If we go back through, we chat shit so much. We don't talk about politics that often on this podcast, but we want to. What the thing is, is that like when we are with our friends, sure. We have the conversations that we're having on this podcast generally anyway. Mm-hmm. Like this is the kind of shit that we talk about with our friends all the time. We're talking about like our like, like stories and we're trying shit and we're like being weird. But other times we're having really deep conversations about like shit's going on in the world and right now the shit that's going on in the fucking world, you guys, it's a lot. I mean, at, at a dinner table, I have a pimple. Oh, come on. Inside. Like my moth tattoo has like a little bit of the thing missing and there's, I can see it, there's pimple right in the middle of the, the bit of the tattoo that there is not. Tattooing it, and it's right in the center of the moth and there's a, a pimple right in the middle of that. I don't wanna talk. Stop popping your pimples. Stop it. Stop it. Ow. Stop it. Stop popping your pimples. Leave them. You're in a scar and there's gonna be a little scar inside of the moth. Anyways, at the dinner table, we talk about everything. We goof around, we talk about silly shit, but we can also talk about politics because that's what a gym table's for. You just chat about everything that's happening, and right now the things that are happening in California and LA specifically are crazy, fucking atrocious. My mom, my mom actually text me. Well, she WhatsApp me and she was like, are you, are you okay? Mm-hmm. I turned on the news. My mom hates the news'cause she just hates to be sad. Well, she also thinks San Francisco is right beside of la No, but she's like, you know, they, they're, they're, they're saying it's California specific. Yeah. The whole thing. So, yeah. So it's the whole state is on fire. It's not, yeah. Yeah. But I mean, yeah. It's a crazy time. It's been a crazy time since the beginning of this year. Mm-hmm. Because we have a, a fat piece of shit, Cheeto. In the White House. Don't I? I think we need to stop insulting Cheetos like that because I thought you were gonna say stop insulting people like that. No, the Cheetos. I need to stop insulting the Cheetos. That was crazy. The Cheetos are, Cheetos are great. Donald Trump is not crazy work. You guys. Let's, let's dig into what is happening currently. Not that we're like news broadcasters or anything, we just have like some thoughts, especially as me an immigrant. Being an immigrant is a crucial part of our story together. Being immigrants has been. Exactly, yeah. Because we've both been immigrants to multiple countries, and my parents are immigrants who live in a different country. Everyone is an immigrant. Everyone's an immigrant. everyone is a fucking immigrant. No one is illegal on stolen land. Tea named the episode. Period. Yeah. So you guys, I don't know, it's crazy. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like this happens and it has been happening for so long. Like you, you, you turn on social media and there's all of a sudden, every like six months or so, there's huge crazy fucking shit storm that happens. And it takes a world by storm more often than that. It's crazy. And it feels like that you, we are currently living through another historic. World event. Mm-hmm. And we keep living through like these crazy historic world events. I think it's important, especially with people that have a platform, and I know we don't think generally, we've done enough in the past to discuss all, even just not even. Bring to light.'cause the light is shining fucking brightly. You're not opening your eyes, you're an idiot. sometimes it's like, what can, what can you say? Like, when you, I don't know, like sometimes it feels point, not, not pointless, but like as an influencer, as someone with a platform, as people with platforms, it feels like there are so many people speaking out online. It's like, what does my voice, I think one of the most, most important things for people to like see though with their favorite creators and their, their favorite influences. And celebrities is, do you support the causes that I support? Mm-hmm. Because if so, then I know that I can align myself with you as a person. We do this with brands all the time. Mm-hmm. Like it's pride month and we're like, okay, we're not gonna work with this branch because they donated money to, uh, the Republican campaign or whatever the fuck. Mm-hmm. So we are like, maybe we're like that to some people. Mm-hmm. And people wanna know, do you support Palestine? Yes. Do you support immigrants? Yes. Do you support trans people? Yes. Mm-hmm. Do you support. Any marginalized fucking community like a billion times? Yes. Mm-hmm. And it's just important for people to know that. But I think specifically with like what's happening in la, it hits very close to home for us. Since you are a green card holder. And it's people telling to stop saying that online though, like I said it, I said it and someone in the comment section was like, don't don't say specifically what your like actual immigration status is. Yeah. It's a little dangerous at the moment. Yeah. But I think it's not just, not even just green card card holders and undocumented people and people with, um, certain statuses in the us It's also citizens that are being caught up in this. Like you see crazy citizens being detained. You see people at these protests who are citizens and might have the right paperwork. I start taking them in and saying their paperwork is fake, even if they're US citizens. Crazy. Like it's not just, it's not, it's not just undocumented peoples. It's everyone. Yeah. And that's the scary part. No, this is the, this is the problem. So this is my issue. Sorry, this, sorry guys. This is gonna be a bit heavy. This is my issue. This is my issue. Mm-hmm. Fucking annoyed. I'm fucking annoyed. Let me lighten up a bit. Let me talk about some serious topics whilst also being like myself and like not, I'm getting angry, but at the same time I'm like. I don't wanna be like yelling through this entire episode. I'm just annoyed that yell. We like live here and like we chose to live here and I'm so fucking glad that we did because mm-hmm. The life that we've been able to live is the life that I've always dreamed of. Mm-hmm. But also the lives that all of the people who came here legally or illegally or not, nobody is fucking illegal. Mm-hmm. cause you know what? It's not fucking crime. To be undocumented. It's not a crime. It's not, it's not a crime. It's not a crime. It's not a crime. You're just here without papers. It, it's not a crime. You're living at a federal level. You fucking idiots. And you have a family and you work and you pay taxes. And this is the thing. It's like you pay. Yeah, exactly. And here's my, here's my issue with it. Like there are these people that are now in power and they hold all of the power. And there are people who had no. Foresight or, uh, what's the word I'm looking for? Just like, what do the Christians, wherewithal. Wherewithal. Oh, wherewithal. Wherewithal. Wherewithal. I'm gonna find every, and that one reason in every episode is to bring back my favorite word, wherewithal. The wherewithal. Mm. Did you think I used it right then? I, we can say it mean it means everything. You know what I mean though? Means whatever you want. Right. The wherewithal to consider other fucking people. Mm-hmm. Crazy work. Yeah. So. I just think I, there was, so, there were so many people who were like so loud and proud about their vote for Trump when he won the election and they're like, he's not gonna do all these things that he says he is gonna do. And then tho those people have been like drastically impacted by like, say, tariffs or like mm-hmm. Other things that are happening. But tho those are also the kinds of people who just like, don't give a shit unless it's happening to them. Mm-hmm. And so, unless like. They need an abortion. Mm. And they wouldn't get one. They're pro-life, so they wouldn't get one. But unless they needed one, all of a sudden now it's their problem. Mm. And they're like, oh my God, I didn't think about that. But now it is something that, an issue that I'm facing, but I don't get how you can have that mindset. I really don't understand that. There was someone in our comments today on your video. She was like, she voted a Republican for most of her life. And'cause she was only thinking about herself. Yeah. And then she started voting liberal, she voted, voted more democratic. Okay. And she, because she's thinking about other people now. Yeah. And I, I thought you were gonna say, someone says something. No, no, no, no. I was gonna beat them up. I've, I personally, my mindset has always been I'm, I'm voting and I'm doing things and I'm thinking about other people. I'm also thinking about myself for sure. But there, like, why would I, I, I don't underst send people who voted for Trump and voted for people. To be like normal, normal families and normal like dads and moms and kids who were being detained and deported just for not having the right documents. Yeah. I, I can't believe that ICE exists as a thing. Is it explained to me? I don't know when ICE was created. I don't need to know when. Please explain to me. It's not like a, what, it's just like a separate organization, right? Yep. It's a separate federal agency. I am mad. So I'm mad. So basically, you guys, if you didn't know I'm mad. Um, what the fuck is ICE? And why are they so annoying? I don't know who, which president made ice. I actually don't know history, but ice. It'd be actually fun to, fun to know. fun. Should I look that up? Do you know what I Yeah, you look it up. Whilst I tell you my first, my first experience, I'm, I'm new to the country. I moved here two years ago. What the fuck is ice? I was watching Orange is a New Black. When it was like, you know, having, its. Huge moment. And there was one season at Orange's New Black that was kind of dedicated to like immigrants and undocumented people. Mm-hmm. And they, they were, they were showing all these ice raids and like people were in, even in the prisons, got like separated and they were being deported. And it was crazy to watch. Mm-hmm. Because I had no idea that this existed at that level. But that was my first like. Visualization of like ICE as an organization. It's horrible of mass terror. Well, I also, every time I see an ice agent or an ice raid and they're all ugly, they're all ugly. They're all ugly, right? Every time I see them like doing these horrible things, like dragging, like tearing families apart and dragging people away into vans, I'm children. Who are these people and what, like what, how, how do they, are they just doing their jobs? I don't know. Are they just normal people doing their jobs? I don't know. Do they believe in this? Are they just like, they just need some, like, like do they just go home to their families and you're like, oh my God, how, Hey honey, how your, how was your day? Day work? Yeah. Oh my God, they're so good. I ripped a 4-year-old away from its mother. What the fuck? You freak how there are so many words. There are so many curse words. Like just, you can let them out in this podcast in my fucking mouth. You can let them out. And I'm just like, I just don't know how to say them all without offending so many people. Here's a little history lesson so we can all be on the same page. I'm mad, I'm mad. Ice was established as part of a major reorganization of the federal government in response to the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, the attacks exposed weaknesses in US border security and immigration enforcement prompting a restructuring to better coordinate national security efforts.'cause it was Okay. So it was because of nine 11 concerns, security concerns. Right, right. And that's when the Department of Homeland Security was formed as well and ICE was part of that. they're sending people to Libya, they're sending people to El Salvador, they're sending people to Guantanamo. And there are people like, they're, we don't even know where these people go. They just like fall off the face of the earth. Like Hilmar Brady Garcia. Yeah. Yeah. You know about him. Yeah. Yeah. So he just got back, but now they're charging him. Oh, were you fucking joking. So they, we got him back. He got, he came back. But now they're charging him with these false claims of human trafficking, and they have him in detention again in the US because they're trying to get him on something. crazy to make themselves like, look, yeah, don't look, but they're making up shit. Yeah. Yeah. It's like crazy work. We're fully living in the end of this regime, or like the beginning of a new regime, a dic, a dictatorial regime. And it's crazy that we're seeing this happen in real time. it's just probably for us specifically be having these conversations because like, I've been an immigrant in Germany, I've been an immigrant in Canada. I'm white obviously, so I, it's a different experience, Immigration is, is a key part of our lives. Do you know what I find so crazy? Like I, every since, since the beginning of this year, or even like, actually towards the end of last year, every single time I come back into the country now, I'm like terrified because I'm always, I don't know if you know this about me, you guys, every single time I, well, it used to happen a lot more often than it does now. Every time I come into the country mm-hmm. You go through immigration mm-hmm. And passport control yeah. I have my green card and I have my passport and I show it to them and it has all my information on it, and they just like scan it. And sometimes they get to go through, sometimes they say, go into the little backroom and the, that little backroom only has brown people in it. Mm-hmm. And I just sit there with my fellow brown people and we're just waiting. And there was one time, I think it was, I think one of the first times we went out of the country and came back in. I was just sat in there for an hour. You can't use your phone, you just have to sit there in silence. And it's the ugliest room full of the ugliest members of staff. Mm-hmm. For, okay, I'll Beit they're not the problem. I get it. I get it. It's the system. Mm. It's a system that's fucked up because why is my name being flagged? Oh, because I'm a, I have an Arabic name. Okay, I have an Arabic name. Let's flag this person. He's brown. you're a legal, permanent resident of this country. Like they all, like you have the paperwork. It's, it's, this has never been like, this has never been like a such a big problem now. Like you shouldn't be afraid of coming into the country. I know like you are a resident of the country and there are people who having, who are having their green cards revoked. For speaking out against the, against the crazy work, against the administration and their policies and it's bonkers. That's crazy work. it's just like I experienced this like airport immigration. fear mongering. Mm-hmm. From like my perspective, pretty much every single time I'm in an airport mm-hmm. Ever, like ever since I started, like actually first, the first time I moved to North America, started happening in Canada, where anytime I would fly out of the country, I think it was just out of the country. It was, yeah. They would. Stop me. This is at I, not even immigration. This is at like check-in. Yeah. They wouldn't, I would never be allowed to check in on a flight ever online. Ever. In four years of living in Toronto, I was not able to check in online for a single flight. Yeah. So we had to go to the airport and because we still care. You still can't check in for an international flight International from the us. Oh yeah, you're right. You still can't do that. Oh yeah, I can. I can always check myself in. Oh yeah. But you can't. I forgot. So guys, I can't check in for international flights online. That's crazy.'cause I need to have like extra documentation checks at the Apple because your name is the John Smith of Arabic cultures. Yeah. Crazy. Like, what the fuck? That's crazy. It's not even, it's not even, it is like, it's just a common like surname. It's a really common surname, but it's crazy that that can't just be like fly. I've always questioned like why I can, you know what they do flag so I know what happens. Um, it's happened to me so many times, like there have been times where we've been at the airport at the check-in and we are at the check-in desk for an hour that one time. I know. So, mm. Post COVID, we got married and then we were going on like a little honeymoon esque thing where we were going on a trip out of the country. We called it a honeymoon for the first time'cause we were allowed to travel. Yeah. And. We, yeah, we went to Europe. We were like, let's have a little Italy, Greece trip. And we were at the airport two and a half, three hours. It was three hours before our flight. Before our flight. I remember being at the airport for five hours in the end. Yep. We were at the airport three hours before our flight and the lady at the check-in desk couldn't check me in because she was trying to like get people on the phone to like verify my documents'cause she the person at checking desk. Has to then call a supervisor or this person, or that person mm-hmm. To like run all my information through a different database that she doesn't have access to. Mm-hmm. And then they can verify whether or not I am a threat. And so that one time she, it took so long, they couldn't verify me because she couldn't get hold of the right person. I missed my, we missed our flight. We literally missed off flight to Italy. And I was like, well, okay, so you're putting me on a new one. Oh, they already had our bags too. Yeah. Oh yeah. They checked our bags. They took them away. Now I don't let my bag out of my side unless I have my boarding pass in my fucking hand. Then I don't let my bag out on my side. We meant to go to baggage claim and pick up our bags, which took another two hours to get off the plane. Mm-hmm. yeah, we were at the apple for five hours and we went back home and I was like, well, that was a waste of. Time. Just put a little to go back. Sticky note. Just, just to go back about your name somewhere. I know. Crazy. But then I found out like a couple years later, maybe through like someone else at a different, think it was Mexico. It's North America. It's North America. Mm-hmm. Happened to in Amsterdam. When we got, when we were going through, it's happening in Amsterdam. It's new in Europe. It's new in Europe. That's crazy. So when I used to live in Berlin, I used to check it. I, everything was so fine. Yeah. Everything was fine. In Dandy. If I'm flying out of. Amsterdam.'cause we tend to, like when we go to Europe, we tend to fly into Ship Airport. Yeah.'cause it's easier connections. It's because I'm flying out of Europe into the US again. Yeah. So they do the checks. If I'm flying from like the UK, actually no native in the UK anymore.'cause it's not part of the eu. Yeah. It's just a different system now. Yeah. It's all fucked. But I think in the continental European Union, yeah. I can, I'm fine. Yeah. Like the shagging zone. Yeah. Yeah, you're fine then. But yeah. And now all of a sudden I, I was in Mexico trying to fly home here, I think, and then the woman was just like, I'm so sorry. I was like, you are fine. Mm-hmm. It happens. Mm-hmm. also I go to the airport and I look cute as fuck, like, and they can take obviously one look at me and be like, you, I'm so sorry. You're not a threat. I'm so sorry. You're absolutely stunning. Human being. I'm so sorry to keep you diva. How dare we do that to you? How dare you. It happens to, it happens to so many people who like to just, just regular, regular people. It just happens to us, and I'm like, well, it's just, it's really, it's really scary. Like it's scary for you, but like whenever they take you away, customs and borders, I'm like. Have, are you gonna come out of the door again? Are you just gonna be taken away? Are you gonna be sent to an El Salvadorian prison? That's crazy. Like this is happening to normal people, like everyday people. It's not out of the, it's not outta the realm possibility for you to enter that door and mean that to never see you again. It happened to Hasan Pega? Yeah. Yeah, you told me about that. That's crazy. Yeah. Hasan got, um, he got taken to the back rooms and he was questioned about What do you do? Yeah, what do you do? I'm a streamer. And he's like, oh, what do you stream about? He's like, oh, I, I game and I talk about like, you know, politics and shit. And he's like, what do you think about Trump? And I'm like, you can't ask them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You cannot ask that. You cannot ask about someone's political affiliations. Be and, and, and, and keep them from coming into the country because of that. Yeah. What would I say? I'd be like, I, you would lie, I would prefer to not answer that question. You would have to lie. Yeah. I'd lie. You say, I don't wanna talk about my politics. I love lying. I just, I'm like, diva. It's just not the time for politics. Like, I don't really love to talk about politics. I don't really love, actually, we just met, let's not talk about politics just yet. Take me out for dinner though. Literally. It's bonkers. It's also bonkers that the US military is coming into la ah, the Marines. Ah, so they can't do anything until he, until he invokes the insurrection. Act like the Marines can't, like he can't have the military. Actually do anything. They can only guard federal buildings and federal things. They can't go and like help with the pro help quote unquote. They can't go and deal with the protests or do anything with the protesters. Okay. They can't do crowd control. They can't do things like that. Okay. The Marines can't, the National Guard can'cause of who was, who was shooting at people. I saw the ice. Oh, ew. ICE was shooting at people. I saw a, a clip of uh, I guess the Australian reporter. Yeah. Yeah. And he shot this Australian reporter in the back with a rubber bullet. You're not supposed to do that because ice, did you see? He literally turned around and aimed at her. It was crazy. She was just, she was microphone in hand. Speaking to the camera, she was shot. You can't, it's freedom of the press. Crazy. They arrested a CNN reporter yesterday. Crazy. A CNN, like a very famous CNN reporter got arrested regime for reporting the news. Uhoh, you guys, uhoh, uhoh Uhoh. Spooky fucking shit. But that shouldn't stop us from like, yes, it's dangerous. Yes, it's scary. Yes, it's whatever. But it shouldn't stop us from speaking out and going to do things. And even if it's not protesting, like speaking out and just being. Present. And, you know, using whatever platform you'll have or speaking to your family is just as important as being out there. Well, I think the most important thing is to, like midterm elections are coming up next year. Exactly. To really hold on until, yeah. Hold on, hold on. Jesus Christ. Hold on, hold on. Um, just like, exercise your right to vote. Like just vote. Yeah. But not in a stupid way. Do you know what I mean? Like, don't vote for a fucking idiot. Easy. It's kind of easy, like if you think about it, like, don't be dumb. Stop voting for these fucking, There's, there's a lot of things that we can do to help and voting. I I, people have, people have qualms about like, voting as how important it is, and I, I still think it's so crucial. Like, yeah, Democrats could be shit as fuck. But sometimes, yeah, it's what we have to do. We have to vote for people who might not, we might not agree with on every single issue, but they're going to help fight with us on the issues that are important. I'm mad. you pass that citizenship test and we'll have one more vote in California. It'll make a huge difference. That won't make a difference at all. California's getting redder. No, I hate that. It is. I hate that. It is. We need every vote we can get because people like, like Democrats and liberal people aren't, aren't voting in California. As much as this is my problem, I'm like, you are an idiot. Go outside of your fucking house, or you can fucking mail your ballot in. Go and vote. I and Bow go down to the library down the road. Go and bow fuck me. Go. And we mail go and fucking bow. Mm-hmm. Are you fucking Like all of this is happening. It's okay. I'm not, I'm like pointing fingers, but like, if. You are like looking at the news and you're like, oh my God, I can't believe all this is happening. And you didn't vote in the last election. Mm-hmm. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. Also, if you voted for Trump, I know you're not here and listening to this.'cause imagine if we have wouldn't any Trump voters here. You wouldn't be. I just like, no, you wouldn't be. I mean,'cause also catch me outside. Catch me outside. I'll catch you outside. I'll throw these hands. I just don't give a fuck. Mm-hmm. Listen, you are an idiot. Everyone else, I fucking love you. Thanks for trying. I also wonder how everyone outside of the US sees us. Well, my friends and my family are like, are you okay? Yeah, there's a new thing happening every day. Yeah. And I'm like, Mentally. No, these are the thing, like we would see that if this was a news story happening in a, in, in any other country. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I, we would be like, oh my God, that could never happen in the United States of America. Like this is something that only happens and like where governments are collapsing, like countries are dissolving. I think maybe our government's collapsing if he does the insurrection. Exactly. What does that mean? What does that mean? Uh. Then the military can come onto the streets and actually, Ah. And that's crazy work because ICE is not the military I'll also say that we are not. people know everything about protesting. We can't, I can't give you any advice on what to do at protests. I can, there are resources. Well, I can say that there are resources online that you can look up to help protests. Don't wear identifiable clothing that don't have your face uncovered. Bring masks. Bring goggles. They're like fucking throwing teargas out there Started fucking fire, didn't it? Fucking out. I saw someone through, love someone through a lime bike. Over the bridge and it landed on a bunch of cop cars. You're also throwing ice over the, over the bridge. I like that. Get him. What I will say about protests is like the 99% of these protests are nonviolent and we've seen that like they're really great community, community led, um, uh, organized protests. Yeah. And they're really great. There have been. Anarchists and there'll always be these anarchists extra. No, but it's not the same thing. Like I'm not saying it's the extra, I'm not saying it's the same thing I'm saying there are those, like the people who are burning way most. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. But at the same time, it's like you are being met with all of this violence from from these fucks who are shooting rubber bullets at just like citizens. Totally. And like in rebuttal, someone throws like a water bottle. No, no. That like it's not the same thing. No, I'm not talking about the throwing water bottle. I'm talking about the burning, the Waymo's and looting store. Which happened. Yeah, which happens, but that I'm saying that's 0.5% of the people who are at these protests not even 0.05%. Like the couple of people who, this is what the, this is what the Fox News and the conservators I know, totally. I know. They, they latch onto, which is one of the things that people are saying like, why these ice raids happened in LA at such an extent that they want these. They want this, these videos. Yeah. Yeah. And they want this, they want the burning waymo's, they want the Mexican flags waving. They want all of this, which is why they did this in la. Yeah. Which has like this, I think it's a, it's a majority minority city. So had they have more, uh, people, um, of color than white people and more undocumented people than any other city. So that's why they're having these ICE raids because they just want this, these optics for the Steven Millers of the world and the fucking Fox News hosts to be able to say, look. It's, these are the people we're trying to get outta this country. And I'm like, ah, yeah, let's not fo let's focus more So on the nonviolent side of the and like, which is like the majority of protests. Yeah. The vast majority. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I mean, I remember this from, um, when the mass protests for the BBL m when movement after George Floyd in 2020. 2020. That was five years ago. That's, yeah. That was five years ago, like this month. Pretty gosh, I think end of May. Yeah. That's fucked. Um, and again, all these protests were nonviolent, like peaceful protests, and we participated in as many as we could in Toronto. And all you saw in the news was like the one odd riot, the one odd like looting situation. But that's what they, they have gone to. Yeah. And that, because that's what makes the news.'cause a nonviolent protest is boring. Yeah. But like what I see on my TikTok feed. Yeah. And from videos of people at these protests. Yeah. It's like people dancing, like abuela is just like being, that's what we are seeing. Yeah. That's what we're seeing because we're on the right side of. The, of humanity. I'm also getting a lot of conservative people on my TikTok. Not, not a lot, but like a handful more than I would normally of on in your comments. No, no, no, no, no. On my for you page. Oh, I was gonna say of cons, like people being like, I'm rearing for a five. These ruder I'm rearing for, I'm rearing for a five. Yeah. But I'm getting, I, I, I fear there's like also a lot more people coming out of the woodwork, like conservatives and maga people coming outta the woodwork than there have before because it's. People feel more accepted in that. Right, I think at the beginning of like this, I'm gonna call it a regime. Mm-hmm. I remember when the election results first came out, I was like, huh, you guys, let me set you a scene. It's election night. We invite round a bunch of friends'cause we're like, we're in good spirits. We are cautiously optimistic. I made a charcuterie board with American Flags. Yeah. And we have like a like a thousand um, American flag. Pins. Pins, what are they called? Toothpick thingies. Toothpicks with American flags in'em. Yeah. Yeah, because I was feeling patriotic. I mean, we were all, we were all very cautiously optimistic and also it was the first time I've ever like witnessed like an election. Actually, we watched the last election in Toronto and I was like, woo, this is so fun. Great. Mm-hmm. Cool. Didn't really understand it. Now I understand the electoral college. Mm-hmm. Unfortunately. and then I was like, what the fuck is going on? What's going on? Um, I also decided,'cause you know, I'm crazy. I was like, what if, Hey, you guys, what if we all did a shot every time a swing state closed, just for fun to keep the mood and morale high. It wasn't fun. And we lost like every, did you least every swing story? Yeah. This year. That's really crazy. That is so crazy. Every single swing. So. By the end of the night. It was, uh, Wednesday night. Tuesday night? I don't know. Yeah. Tuesday, I think it was a Tuesday night. And I was like, yeah. It was like slowly, slowly, slowly. Like the 12 friends that we had, like, they just like kept leaving. They would just be like, I have to go home. I'm sorry. And, uh, I'm like, no, we can still turn this around you guys. Um, we started to turn the TV off and go for a walk around the, around the block. And I had my wine glasses'cause I was like, I don't feel well. Yeah. well,'cause I was expecting something so different. And with Kamel Harris being a Bay Area native, she's a Bay Area, right? Oakland. I was like the like I feel like the celebrations would be so like they would just the, we were imagining the after parties. I was like, yeah, it would be, this is like, let's pregame does this, pregame the election and then go out on a Tuesday night and like dance in the streets. Enjoy. Ah. And then America couldn't vote for a black woman dead. And I know. Fuck you. That's really crazy. I'm just like having a really difficult time. The most qualified woman to ever run for this fucking job. I'm just like confused.'cause like you guys. just go and vote. The midterms are so important. I remember when I was like starting to get a little bit more into like American politics when we lived in Toronto. Yeah. And I was like watching the midterms. Oh my God. I like worked at Nordstrom for like two weeks. I remember being in the break room and they're like, well, I think they were announcing or some stuff about the midterms was going on in the break room. And I was like. I'm really not following. I don't understand a single thing that's happening. Yeah. But it was in between Trump's presidency still. What year was this? This was 2018. So the, the midterms of Trump's first. Yeah. Term. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Democrats took over 2018. Yeah. And I remember watching that in the break room at Nordstrom 2018, and I was like, what's going on? It feels like it's a good thing. Yeah. But then it like helped. Change things. Yep. Because you can, if we have, like right now, they have control of every single branch of government, including the Supreme Court, which we can't do much about the Supreme Court unfortunately. but with Congress, if we win, if we, if, if the Democrats take over the Houses of Congress, at least in one of the houses of Congress, we can keep the legislation from actually going forward. Any, any negative legislation we don't want to have. Go for it. I guess that's the only hope we have right now, guys. the very d um, um, downtrodden. The trod are down. The way that your foot is Ben, right? That is the ugliest. What the fuck? He sat in this chair, his foot. He's got like his tos curled and his toe, his comfortable. He's on point. He's like, he's like wearing point shoes, but it's just his foot. It looks, it's comfortable. Your toes are so long. My toes are really long. Oh my God. Put that away. Put that away. I guess. Start a feet finder account. Put that away. I hope the camera's not pointing at your fucking feet. I've thought about making a feet finder account. Guys, did you know when Matt was like, Matt was like, um, getting started on Instagram? I think it was maybe in like our Toronto Times. Yeah, it was very early on and he had people, he had a, he had a. I think it was a Twitter account dedicated to your feet. It was one Twitter account that was dedicated to Mr. Ben Field's feet, Mr. Ben's feet. Am I still be there? Who knows? Mr. Ben Fields's feet. I think it was literally called that. And, um, just pictures of and no, like, because you used to like shoot, like Instagram content. I take like a picture in my living room with my socks off. As one does. Yeah, as one has. You know, feet and you want them to breathe. You want my, I want my dogs to breathe at home. I don't wanna wear socks all the time. No, I, why are you wearing socks now? Because in case that could be seen on, I don't want my feet out now. I don't wanna see. Don't worry. I'm, I'm purposely using my own discretion to not point the camera at your fucking feet. I'm traumatized. I'm traumatized from this feet, every single time. I can see them every day. They're fine. They're pretty feet every single time. My feet are fine. We're telling lies every single time. I would post something on Instagram, this one account on Twitter, which had followers. Yeah, I know. I don't know how many, but they had followers. Imagine it was me. It's actually me. It was probably you taking screenshots. They would take a screenshot of my fucking, um, Instagram post, like crop it down to just my feet. And then post that on Twitter. Yeah. You're fucking Al Toes all over the screen. Fuck. They're fine. See, this is what I'm saying. If I did a feet finder account, I would make so much money. Yeah. People like weird feet and like it's not, it's just my feet. The thing is I should do, you could be anonymous too. Look how cute my feet are are cute, but they're dry. I what? Your feet are dry. What? Your feet are dry. What do you mean they're dry? I just, I saw'em the other day and they were like crackly. Like, you need moisturizer. Hey, I do Also, the other day you were drunkenly putting them over a fire thought, oh, I think I burned my feet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I was at my friends. Listen, you guys, what was this episode about? Um, look, that's, that's the aftermath of that. That's the aftermath of that. It's like, it's like, yeah, you burnt your feet. Yeah, I know. I was, I got a bit stoned. Sorry. Like I was, I was at my friend's. Friends', kids' graduation party and there was a bunch of our friends from New York and East coast that came over and hadn't seen them in ages and I just like had such a fun day. We were like day drinking and then got like a little bit stoned towards the end of the day a little bit, having some pizza and it was like really cute and it was like a cute fire and it was like. It was giggly and fun and nice, and I, my feet were cold, so I put my feet close to the fire, not realizing that they were basically in the fire. I was like toasting. I was trying to, I was toasting my toes, like marshmallows. I was trying to tell him. He, his brain was, his brain was on Uranus. I was trying to tell this bitch to get his, the anus, not mine. What the fuck? His feet were. I could see the skin melting off of his bones. Yeah. Well, and he would not move his feet from the side because I couldn't feel it. Why the fucking kite? I was like, what are you doing? Anyways, fuck ice and fuck Donald Trump. Period. And that's all I've gotta say. Sorry, we had to talk about feet for a second during this episode about we just, you know, we have to bring it back, bring it back, and that's what a dinner table conversation is about. Yeah, it is about having these rough conversations really tough. You know, political, sometimes you gotta get political, but other times you can talk about Feet are also political. Feet are political. Cool. And that's what I've always said. Ew. Okay. Thanks you guys for listening. We will wait. No, we have the new segment that we created. What the fuck did, I can't remember the segment that we created. Uh, who do you Hate? Oh, that was a, that was the segment. That's a good segment. Was it? Is it called? Who do you hate? I can't remember. I have confirmed that the title of the segment is, what do you Hate the most this week? Yeah, let me just clip that audio and just include it on everyone. Okay. Because that was really good. Thank you. I can do better. Who or what do you hate? The mug this week? Yeah, both. Do you have a little list then? Let me have, let me do it one more time. I did, I did get a little lists then I did get a little, little bit of a list then. Are you okay? No. Okay. 3, 2, 1. Who the most that we, who the most. Just fucking say it. I don't care anymore. Just do it. Don't do it. You have to s it. Just do it. You have to sing it. 3, 2, 1. Who or what do you hate the most is weak. Yeah. Perfect Mine. I mean, is there anything else that I can hate? No. Besides Donald Trump. Trump, there's been like a hate campaign for every single Republican I've ever laid eyes on. I fucking hate the Republican party. That's good. That's just make it general. The Republican Party, I don't even care if you're a good Republican, you are complicit because you're standing beside of Donald Trump. If you support Donald Trump in any way. You are complicit in everything negative that is happening. Everything, even if he does one good thing, quote unquote, good thing, everything else, you cannot, you cannot stand by and be like, oh, I, I, I like his TCE boat. I don't care. I hate he's sending people to detention centers in Guantanamo Bay. Fuck you. Yeah, okay. Whoa. No. And I'm like, how do I add to that? I hate actually everyone. Okay. Yeah. What do you mean everyone's annoying me? Who? Everybody. Be specific. It can be everybody in the world amongst people. That's one of the rules of this segment. Oh, you can't just like hate everyone and everything. Well, you just hate an entire, that's every one of the Republican party. Yeah, that's true. I can't also say that. Oh, I can't. You could also say that. Yeah. But if I said like Trump or ice, that's boring. But that's who you hate right now. Yeah, you're right. Is there anyone else that you hate? That one ice piece of shit that shut the Australian reporter great because she was really sad after that. Well she actually like let out a little bit of a laugh in a, like a nervous laugh. And I was like, deep, get up. She was scared for her life. Yeah. I, yeah. I hope be too. Fuck. Um, you can hate that fucking Isaac for sure. I hate more people for sure. For sure. I hate more people. Come on, think Thinkink. God damnit. Think this should be easy. Who do I hate? You're full of hatred. I know, I know. Charlie Kirk. the one with the weird hair. He went onto the um, I think it was on Jubilee. Oh that one. How the fuck Jubilee? Do you know what? Yep. Guys, I dunno if you know this, but Jubilee asked me to like be on their like shows a couple times and I like went to LA and was on the one like, guess which one is. Not from the uk. They like had like the cutesy one. Yeah. The, when they used to do cutesy little cutesy little lady book videos rather than being like five conservatives versus one liberal. Yeah. Five. Yeah. And my one was like, Because um, we had to like, guess who was not British. Yeah. And it was like six of us. And one of the guys I got voted out quite early on actually. Yeah. Because they were like, you. you're fing right now. I was trying so hard to just like be myself and all of a sudden they were like, this just feels a bit suspicious. But everyone's accents were like British. And the one guy who was like so British was American crazy. Anyway, fuck Jubilee.'cause all they do is create these like clickbait videos and they just like incite so much like. De like not even, it's not even healthy. It's not healthy debate. They just cause fights and they just want people to like argue and it's for, there's no purpose behind it. No one changing their minds. No one's changing anyone's minds. They're like, this is entertaining. People love to watch, like mm-hmm. That people fighting. I think that's crazy. I could never turn that on and watch it like, and be like, this is entertaining. Yeah. They platform the worst people. Exactly. They platform the fucking worst people and they, the clips that are like the most like divisive, go the most viral and it's like, well, what the fuck is the point of any of this? Mm-hmm. For them to make money off of those clips. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're like monetizing their entire platform and Exactly. All, and they, they don't pay anyone to be honest. Nope. Don't pay anyone to be on it. And I'm like, oh, that'd be fun. A fun thing to do while we're in LA And they offered you to come back for some more. Didn't. Yeah. I was like, fuck no. Mm-hmm. You've pissed me off. Hate Jubilee. Well, I, we will, well, if you loved this podcast, then please give us a thumbs up, not a thumbs down. In the description, we're gonna list some places where you can donate, if you can, for these, for these ice raids and for to help the protesters and everything. Um, some resources that you can use as well. Um, and if you wanna leave us to five star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, that would be amazing. Would love that you guys. We'll be back next week with some more bullshit. Until then, stay safe, divas. Don't do anything that I wouldn't do. So the bar is very, very low. Be safe. It's spooky out there. Mm-hmm. Okay. And bug ice. Bye now. Hmm. And buck Ice. And fuck Ice. Bye.