Taylor Swift, gas station sunglasses, and straight guy sinister energy

Taylor Swift, more Michael Jackson, Björk, gas station sunglasses, office siren, gay guys being 38 going on 18, straight guy sinister energy, and so much more

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I don't like this. I don't like this. I don't like this. I don't like this. Podcast hello. Hello, all my little droplets. What do I call you guys? What do I call you people? What do I call you folks? What's your name? Jackheads? I feel like Jackheads. I feel like Jackheads is more civil than Jack Offs, which doesn't feel civil at all. It doesn't feel respectful. And yeah, I hear you in the background saying, we name ourselves, you don't name us. It's lame to name us. Well, guess what? I'm lame. I'm lame, and I don't see anybody taking the initiative. So if nobody else is gonna do it, I guess it's up to me. Jackheads? I think it's sort of like blackheads, I guess, or there's sort of a pimple connotation. I'm okay with that. We can be a pimply people. I was a pimply person when I was young. I still have to use medicated, well, I don't have to use, but I choose to use salicylic acid medicated face wash to not get acne. That and a good retinol. That's what I do. That's what I do. Little jackheads, what do you do? How are you? Are you good? Are you great? Are you hot? I don't just mean like sexy. I mean are you physically hot? It's hot in New York City. I know that. I know I'm not there either. And it's cooler here, but it's still hot to me. It's in like the 70s and it's humid. Which I know. If you're down there, you're yelling at me. You're yelling at me. It's way hot down there. Well, that stinks. Too bad for you. I don't like the heat at all. Stay safe. It's gonna be really hot. Like hitting a hundred. Hitting a hundred, man. Not into that. I don't know, Celsius. We're not doing Celsius. I was happy to see. Sorry, I'm doing a little laundry. I was happy to see that on Twitter people are coming around to the thing that I've always thought, which is that metric system is lame and has nothing to do with the human body, so it's hard to intuit what the sizes are. So de well, I don't know, I guess that is the imperial system. Demetrify yourselves. You know, you're more than just scientific quanta. You are an embodied person. A gorgeous, hot, embodied person in multiple ways. And in multiple ways, because I've checked, you're all hot. Welcome to Jack Lila. I think maybe, you know, Jack, maybe Delilah pushes sort of emotional wellness. I feel like Jack Lila can push kind of trash. Just you're hot. You're hot, you're sexy. Everybody wants to jump your bones. Everyone's jonesing for a jumping from you, unless you're underage, in which case. Turn off this podcast. No, do what you want. Do what you want. But I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the adults in the room. Everyone's Jonesin' to jump you. You're exactly where you need to be. Somebody was telling me that recently, and it really helped, because I was getting stressed. I was getting stressed about life. I was just feeling a bit overworked with, you know, family and writing this book and existential pressures and work and blah blah blah. And somebody, good friend, good friend who I ran into Angel Boys with, the same friend, said, You're exactly where you need to be. You're exactly where you need to be. And it really it took a weight off. So I'm gonna tell you that. I'm gonna pass that bit of wisdom on to you. You're exactly where you need to be. And I need to take off my shirt. One second. Thank you for bearing with that bit of dead air. Uh it got sweaty. It got sweaty for me because the laundry coming out of the dryer, it's hot. Made me hot. And so I took off my shirt. There, I said it. I did it. Sumi. Sumi, Sumi, Sumi. You're beautiful. How are you? How are you doing otherwise besides the temperature? What's going on in New York City? What is going on in New York City? There's a lot going on in New York City these days, huh? Mom Donnie Stan. Mom Donnie Stan. The Knicks. The World Cup. Taylor Swift's wedding? Question mark. Do we think she's really getting married at Madison Square Garden? I don't know. I don't know, fam. I don't know, Jackheads. I thought it was just a diversion that she was gonna have this whatever supposed planned spectacle outrage. And that she's actually gonna get married somewhere else. You know, throw people off the scent. Who knows? My other friend, another friend was telling me, no, no, no, she's corny enough to do this. She's corny enough to do this, and honestly, go off. Go off, sis. I hope she flies in on Beyonce's flying car that almost killed her. Hope it doesn't kill her. And I hope that she does build this castle. And I hope she sings. I hope she dances. I hope she twirls. I hope there's like indoor fireworks, animatronic things. Go off. Do your big one, Taylor. Do your big one, Taylor. Why not? You're rich. You're cuckoo. People either love you or they hate you. You have nothing to lose. So just do whatever the F you want. I guess, you know, shutting down that area on a holiday weekend, people traveling in and out of Penn Station could be me. Could be me. It is not out of the realm of possibility that I would travel in and out of Penn Station that weekend. I do it regularly to come upstate. So that's like less than stellar. I don't are they gonna close down Penn Station? Or I guess they just close off Madison Square Garden. I guess it's the whole thing, is you can secure Madison Square Garden and make it very private if you want to. That seems. But then it's like everybody knows what's happening, so and I assume there's gonna be, it's like a spectacle, so surely there would be other ways that you could have a private ceremony if you wanted to. What would Michael Jackson do? What would Michael Jackson do? We already know how I think that Michael Jackson is a touchstone. You cannot consider the aughts without Michael Jackson. You can't, even if he was past his prime, supposedly, he is the shadow looming in the background of all this. Of all this, of Taylor at Madison Square Garden. You have to think about Michael Jackson. You have to think about Michael Jackson. A scale of celebrity the world has never known and may never know again, because it was still during the time of monoculture. Before everything started, you know, splitting off and everybody had their little niches. Everybody knew Michael Jackson. Every he was the star. Period. He was the star around the world. Everybody knew who he was. He where did he get married? Did he get married? He got married at Neverland, probably. He probably got married in Neverland. Uh and I feel like he would have gotten married at Madison Square Garden. This is this is this is a spectacle. This is the Society of the Spectacle. Sumi Gidebord. I like it. I like it. Do people still read Society of the Spectacle? That was one of those books. That was one of those books we had to read. Is it a book, even? I don't even know. Essay? It's very like intro to performance studies class. I haven't read it since then. Is it good? I don't know. I did not revisit it when I was writing about reality TV. It seemed a little on the nose. It seemed a little on the nose. And okay, no, the real reason I did not revisit it is because a lot of that kind of French continental philosophy is not that helpful. I think we already talked about this with Baudrillard. Didn't really use a lot of Baudrillard in my book. Because a lot of times you read those essays and you're like, huh. What exactly are they trying to say? I get the vibes. I get the vibes, and you know, especially as it went on, it started becoming about more semiotics and sort of become a monster that fed on itself. But to like actually like cite something and and it's hard. It's hard with that stuff because it's so nebulous. So no. Sorry, Mr. Debord. Debord. What does board mean in French? Is he of the board? The bored people? Is that what we should call you guys? So sorry, no, I didn't cite him. Taylor Swift. Go off. Do your big one. I am. I'm not even gonna say my Taylor Swift apologist. I'm a Taylor Swift fan. Suck it. I don't care. I don't care. Sumi, Sumi, Sumi, Sumi. In the words of Bjork. Bjork was a big Michael Jackson fan. I don't know if she still is, but that red carpet where she wore the Michael Jackson dress, she loved butterflies. Remember how last episode I was talking about butterflies? Guess what? She loved butterflies. There's some interview. I'm a huge Bjork head. I used to be really a huge Bjork head, starting from when I was like 13, for its solid, like 20 years. Super, super into Bjork. I'm still into Bjork, but you know, the more recent music isn't as listenable, which is not bad. If you want my old stuff, buy my old mixtape, in the words of the late, great Nicki Minaj. So I say go off and explore. You gave us pop music at a caliber that nobody else has done. Videos, themes, concepts, sounds, noises, performances. Huh, we're live shows. Go and be weird and noodle around. Push boundaries. Maybe in 30 years everybody will be catching up to you yet again. Yet again. But you, Bjork. Michael Jackson fan. I don't know how she feels about him anymore. I haven't checked in. Again, I've fallen off a little bit on the Bjork train. But I still see her. I still value her. In some ways, she's sort of like still a person who's like the artist, an artist, a capital A artist in my mind. Is Bjork. I think she really influences me because she makes pop music, but she makes art. She doesn't try to say that pop music needs to be elevated into art. She's always just seen pop music as an art form. You know, she always saw what Michael Jackson was doing as an art form. It's unlike Lady Gaga, who had art pop and was being ironic and was approaching pop music as lowbrow, that she was going to turn into highbrow. Bjork wasn't playing around with the brow crap. No offense, Lady Gaga, but I was never a fan of that Lady Gaga maneuver. Bjork was always just treating what she did as an art form, and she was going to be as good about it as possible. She was just going to make the best music that she possibly could and devote her whole energy and intelligence to it. And she made, she continues to make really good product. And that's always something I admire. I do. I really, really do. As I'm working on my book, my book, which is sort of a pop, pop book, sci-fi. And you know, I've been feeling a little stuck. I think I've been feeling a little stuck with it because I've been like, what's the tone? What's the tone with this? Because every time I like descend into my little comedy, because you know I have little comedy bits. Shocking. Little comedy bits in my writing. Comic moments. And I'm always like, well, what am I doing here? What am I doing here? This isn't gonna win a Pulitzer. This isn't gonna get a Nobel list. I'm not gonna get a booker nod for this. But why not? A. A why not? No one wants to win a Pulitzer. Nasty. Nasty, nasty board. Nasty board on the Pulitzer. I said it. What's her face in the New York Times? Formerly of the New York War crimes. What's her name? That horrible woman who's Pamela Paul? Nasty, nasty transphobic woman. We don't like her. Anyway, so whatever. She was like the president of the Pulitzer board or something. Um I don't know. I didn't look into it. Someone just told me that, so we don't care about the Pulitzers. But yeah, Bjork, kind of inspiring to just be unafraid to do like a pulp novel, if not a pop novel, and just make it the best it can be, and not really worry about it being highbrow. We're not gonna worry about that. We're just gonna worry about using our gifts. Our gifts as jackheads as best we can. And then just make stuff. But it is a little unnerving. It is a little unnerving because I don't feel like I can fall on the crutch of like literary fiction, the literary fiction crutches. Sort of serious tone. I can't fall into that. You know, and sort of deep psychology, deep psychological motivations. I can't really fall. I mean, I can fall into it. I can't rely on it, I feel like. I don't like to rely on it because it doesn't feel authentic to me. It doesn't feel authentic to me, but it doesn't feel authentic. Well, okay, let's get away from the idea of authenticity. But it doesn't feel profound or insightful to just focus on psychology and sort of these bland, these bland ways. Sci-fi is so fun because you get to think about bigger things than psychology. You get to think about history and cultural movements and technology and all these different things. More than just did they actually love each other? What did he make his father proud? All that kind of stuff. Which you know, you can also do that in sci-fi. It's in there. What is love? What is love is a is a big theme in my book, actually. So Bjork, Michael Jackson, inspirations. Not the pedophilia, alleged, or whatever. I don't know what happened I don't know what happened there. I don't know what happened there. I guess most of us don't. Prayers up. Love and light to everybody. Let's not be glib. No, I'm a Taylor Swift fan, though. I am a Taylor Swift fan. And do I think she's like a Bjork level talent? I don't. Well, I mean, let's not pit woman against each other, eh? Not at the Woman of Music Conference that is. I don't like this podcast. Um so let's not do that. But she's, I think, here's my thing. Here's my thing. Fight me, sue me, call in, still waiting. Taylor is good at like a Cole Porter-esque pop song. That kind of clever little pop song. And it's catchy, and you can hum along to it, and she's good at creating a scene, creating a theme, and coming back to it. A little turn of phrase, nothing too much. You know, it's very, you're the top, you're the Eiffel Tower, you know, you're the top. It's Cole Porter tease. That's how I feel. And that is a skill. That's a skill. You can't write a song like Cole Porter. I mean, maybe you can. I don't know. Sorry. Shame on me. You take that back. Maybe you can, maybe you do. And I love that about you. I can't. I think most people can. I think that's a huge skill and a huge talent. Does it mean that Cole Porter is like Beethoven? I don't know. I don't, I don't, I don't know. I don't know. Highbrow, lowbrow. He doesn't have to be, though. He's doing his own thing. It's his own lane. And I think that Taylor is doing that. And I don't get the hate. I don't get the hate campaign. I'm sorry. I'm bored by it. I'm bored by the hate campaign. I am. I think she has clear, obvious talent. Her songwriting is, her pop songwriting is undeniable. Sorry about it. Is the public persona nails on a chalkboard? Yeah, but here's the thing. She's a tryhard, and so am I. So am I. You're listening to evidence of it right now. So I sympathize with her little tryhard behavior where she sometimes just needs to do a little bit less. Like I probably don't need to be doing this podcast, but I'm a tryhard. I'm a tryhard, so is she, and I support it and I see it, I identify, it resonates. Certainly not gonna hate on it. And I like the music. I like the music. Most of it. Obviously, there's misses. There's huge misses, there's spectacular failures. And it's like, why did you put this on an album? It's just so, it's corny, it's corn soup, it's corn jumbo, it's corn gumbo, it's all that. But again, it's something like go off. Do your big one, put this out there, be like, yeah. This is gonna get them. This is gonna shock them. It's like, no, it won't. No, it won't. It's gonna make them cringe. Um, I hope she's not racist. Is she racist? I mean, aren't we all? Aren't we all check your privilege? Check your privilege. Yeah, I mean, I'm a fan. I'm sorry, I'm a fan. No, why am I sorry? I'm not sorry, I'm not apologizing. I don't know if I'm gonna say I'm a Swifty. See, this is also the thing, is I've encountered friends who are kind of Swifties. And I do recognize that there is a gap there, so I can't I can't appropriate that label. I don't think I am. Like there's all these like conspiracy theories and stuff. Oh, I should ask my Swifty friend if Taylor's actually getting married. Duh. She's on like the TikToks and etc. Not on TikTok. I've gotta be getting on TikTok. No, I'm a Taylor Swift fan. Mad respect. Mad respect upon that name. What's my favorite album? I mean folklore. Folklore is so good. Sorry, we don't have to get into this. I know you're gonna turn it all off, but I'm not apologizing. Hashtag unapologetic. This is Pitter Powder. This is Pitter Powder. Or when are we gonna make Jack Lila happen? Everybody, just putting that out there. If you hear of anything, like a public access radio or can just yam, yam around, and people can call in, let me know. Truly let me know, because that would be a dream. I would love to set that up. I could probably find that. I bet I could make that happen if I really made a concerted effort. You know what I appreciate? You, potentially, if you're the people who left me five-star ratings on my podcasts on Apple, marvelous. Marvelously done. I appreciate that. I see you, I saw it accidentally. It is nice. It's nice. It's nice. I appreciate that you did that. I do not read anything about me. This is something that I've fallen into with my book. Don't read interviews of me. I don't read things that I'm quoted in. I don't read reviews of my work. It's none of my business. It's none of my business. To quote RuPaul, what you think about me is none of my business. And I really think there's wisdom to that. But if you think I'm five stars, I love that. I love that, and I love you. I cherish you. Alright, with that out of the way. How about our first? I don't like this. This is what you've all been waiting for. I don't like this, and I can't believe that we're still doing this. Gas station sunglasses. I know, I hear you moaning or rolling your eyes and being like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not still doing that anymore. But yet we are. And yet they endure. And obviously, if you are at a gas station and you're buying sunglasses, go off. Do your big one. That's fine. They will persist. They endure in the hellscape. That's fine. We don't care. I have multiple pairs of gas station sunglasses. I'm not above it. I have running sunglasses. Not the really big ugly ones, but like whatever. I got them on Amazon, they're polarized lens. From my running, for my running. I have outdoor sunglasses for like the water, if I'm uh, you know, kayaking or paddle boarding or what have you. If I'm on a boat, if I'm on a dock, I have those water sunglasses. And those are in the the gas station sunglasses. Less genre, I would say the broader family genre. But it's the thing where it's like you're wearing like a suit, you're a gay guy, you're on Instagram, you're wearing a suit, and you have gas station sunglasses on. Oh, it's a look. It's not, it's fine, it's fine. Love and light. Love and light, but I think we gotta put it away with like the camo trucker hat, the camo cargo shorts. Again, I have all of this stuff, and I will continue to wear all of this stuff because well, not the camo, not the camo, uh, not the military camo. I don't wear military camo or anything anymore. I think, especially in the age of ice, it's a little like, what are you doing? What are you doing? We're kind of not doing this anymore. And also just the military. We hate it. I don't like this. The US military already been there. We've already covered that ground. We can cover it again. We'll cover something similar today. Um, I think I think we can let it go. I think we should let it go. What did it represent? You know, I think it I associate it with COVID, COVID times. It's high low, obviously. I mean, whatever, like Blenciaga has their version now. The if Balenciaga has a version of it, put it away. Put it to rest, mama. It's done, it's cooked, especially postdemna Blenciaga. No, let it go. Let it go, let it go, let it go. And I think most people have. I think most people have. So I'm just beating a dead horse. I'm beating a dead horse, which is animal. Well, I guess it's not animal cruelty because the horse is already dead. But it doesn't need to be done. It's a waste of energy. I know, I know, but I still see it. So it's what's going on? I still see it, I still see it, I still say what's going on. What is the alternative? I don't know. I have a huge head. Here's some Jack Lore. Hashtag Jack Lore. Jack Lore moment. I have a double XL head, so I have to get double XL hats. I have to get special hats to fit my head. Sunglasses, same deal. So actually, like performance wear, active wear sunglasses are better because they do come in sizes like that, bigger sizes. I can't wear like little like Gucci frames. Also, like my ears are all akimbo. One's high, one's low, one's coming, one's going. So it's hard. I can't I can't be spending all that money. I'll lose them, I'll break them. So I do appreciate a cheaper technical sunglass. I do. I'm there with you. I'm there with you. I don't know what the alternative is, the drugstore sunglasses. I think it's just like if you're wearing like a nice outfit, like I get it for casual shirt, whatever. You're you're going out and about, but if you're wearing like a button-down, though I say that I wear button-downs with them, I'm sure. So I don't know. If you're getting dressed up, it's just something about it, it is a little annoying. The the blue-collar cosplay, the sort of straight boy, it's going along. Well, no, I don't know. Everybody, every gay guy wants is 38 going on 18. My 38 going on 18 theory, I don't know if that quite applies here, though I think there is something of like the 18-year-old boy from 20 years ago wearing like Y2K Oakley's, camo, cargo shorts, and like a trucker hat. That is the vibe that for a while a lot of those gay guys were pushing was sort of like they're gonna, they're 38 going on, 18. Now I guess 20 years ago was 2006, so I guess we're aging out of that. Like the PukaShell necklace era, I think, is already gone by 2006. That Y2K is already gone by 2006. So whatever 38-year-olds are nostalgic for for being 18 now, I suppose, is the thing, if my theory is true. You know, it's 36 going on 16. It's that general thing where they're kind of stuck. Those gay guys who get kind of stuck there. They want their bodies to look like 18-year-old bodies, the whole thing where it's like, yeah, you want that adolescence. You want to go to college and fuck. I don't know. I guess because you didn't. I didn't really either. I didn't really have a lot of sex in college until my senior year. And then it was with my boyfriend. But then we had quite a lot of sex. Um, but I yeah, so I get it. I get I get the appeal. I get the, you know, you haven't fully matured, you haven't fully grown up, you're kind of stuck there, you gotta do some work to get past that. I hope we're doing that. I don't know where we go past that though. You know, 38 going on 39. What are the sunglasses? What are the sunglass options? I don't know. I don't know. So I hold space. Um and send me send me some ideas. Pinterest boards, no, don't. Okay, okay. Pinterest boards actually brings me to my next I don't like this rant. I don't like this. Office siren. It's done. Let it go. Let it go. Let it, I see you. Let it go. Let go of the office siren. Love and light. I know, I know, I know. I think there's some jackheads who got down with some office siren shenanigans. And I get the appeal. And listen, listen, listen, listen. I'm gonna back it all up. I'm gonna back it all up because if Office Siren is authentically you, then go off and do it. My thing with Office Siren is when it's part of creating a Pinterest board for your identity, which I've never done and I've only slowly recently learned that people are doing. But like Pinterest boarding looks for fashion and outfits and things. And I'm starting to realize that this is how everything is getting so homogenous. Like it's just not reacting to Instagram, it's also actively using existing media to create yourself in a calculated way. And that's lame. And that's lame, and that's boring, right? It just gets repetitive. If you're basing your own identity off of what other people are doing and already exists and is already curated and is already being presented and sold to you, then what are you doing? No, give me something fresh. Give me you, take big swings, take big misses, but wear things and buy things and celebrate things that reflect something about you, I think. Just experiment, just experiment and have fun. And it's so if you really are, if you are an office siren, if you are an office siren, or if like you're into that, if that is part of your persona and your life and your interests and it evolves from that, then I'm down, then be office siren down boots. But if you're just opening up a Pinterest page and getting like a blue button down and like some wireframe glasses. Sorry, champ. Sorry, champ, I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it, but love and light. Love and light to you. This is the thing, this is the distinction. Love and light for you. I'm buying you. I love you, I adore you. I think you have more to offer than that. And again, if you just are an office siren, and I'm sure there are office sirens out there, then cosign. Cosign, love it. Who doesn't love an office siren? I don't work in an office anymore. And I mean, I don't know that that's ever been my thing, but um, you know, it seems fun. Seems fun, and I guess what are we trying to do there? We're trying to be sexy? We're trying to be sexy and an office worker? We're making laptop jobs sexy. Okay, okay, I get it. We're not at least fetishizing blue-collar or straight people or something. So that I that's a step up. That's a step up. We're accepting what we are, maybe. We're office workers and we're trying to sexify it. So I get that. I get that. No shade, no shade. But I don't know that like the Pinterest bordification, you know. I think there's other things you could do. I think you can within those parameters do other things and have fun, and I don't think I don't think you need to be doing something so repetitive. So formulaic, I guess, is what I'm saying. Though it's a good look. It's a good look. I guess to a certain extent I do like it. So I don't know. So I don't know. You do you. You do you. Um I I I don't like. I don't like this next thing. I don't like this next thing. Genuinely don't like it. And there's an energy. I was, it's not the sinister energy. It's not quite the sinister energy that I discussed in an earlier episode that we all talked about. Um which is like the Charlie XX, the Terence O'Connor kind of sinister energy of like low vibrational, cynical. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what's going on there. That but that sort of sinister energy, influencer, Instagram influencer, all calculated, dead in the eyes. That's the sinister energy, but then there's I think there's a sinister energy, the straight guy sinister energy, which is much worse. Which is much, much worse because it brings with it the threat of violence, physical violence, which you know, I don't I don't know that physical violence is always worse than other kinds of violence. I mean, in that context, like in the interpersonal, like someone throwing a punch is necessarily always worse than other things that people can do. Anyway, so uh but that is an added dimension of straight guy sinister energy that you have to watch out for. And where the straight guy sinister energy jumped out to me is on Vanderpump Villa, where you know I have my king, Hagen Bach, respect upon his name. He's the only gay guy, and there's a lot of straight guys, and there's a this weird thing happened this season where like this straight guy chef who is like roided up or peptide it up, is you know he's some weird little French guy, weird little French man who like balked and beefed up and got tattoos in a motorcycle and is now trying to be a man. It was him, his little, I don't know if it's like a sous-chef or a line chef or a line cooker, whatever, who's like I guess people are online calling him a pick me guy. Pick me, not pygmy. A pick me, like he's trying too hard to be a nice guy, but he's actually really an asshole. And when this woman rebuffs his advances, he becomes like a bit of a nightmare man and starts trying to tear her down, and he goes from being like the nice good guy to like just being totally wounded, and the whole nasty guy was just performative. And there's a couple other people, there's a straight couple, and they're all white, this whole little gang of all white people, and they get really sinister. They get really sinister, and they turn against everybody else in the group, and they have each other's backs, and they they're this weird little angry gang of slighted straight men who seem to be resenting the rest of the cast, which is female heavy, more diverse, there's black and white people, as there's a gay guy on the rest of the cast, and they're all the rest of the cast is more having fun, is more lighthearted, more bubbly, you know, sassy moments, sure. Hagen, King Hagen get sassy, but lighthearted and fun. And they seem to just be enjoying things a bit better, and this other group is just angry, resentful, nasty little, nasty little nellies, and it's just ooh, it's not good. And this energy I've encountered in real life, it's in real life where like a straight guy starts like getting into a fight, or like, you know, confrontational with you, and he's like, hey, what you keep it moving, yeah, turn around, walk. It's like that kind of like, you know, when straight people, they feel straight guys feel threatened, and they're insecure, and they just want to get confrontational, they want to prove something. It's bad. It's bad, and I feel like there's so much of it in the world today. You know, it's very Trumpy, it's very MAGA. I don't know. Hopefully, it's on the decline in New York. New York, again, there's so much happening in New York. There's elections, I don't even mention that. There's elections with the democratic socialist one. That seems good. It seems good because everybody can now be on fuck Israel every day. All day, every day, and the more people who can say that the better. But these weird MAGA people. This weird, sinister, straight eye energy. I don't know. It's bad. It's bad. That's where I've identified it. That's where I pinpoint it. If I continue to spot it, I'm gonna let you know. I'm gonna track it. I'm gonna track it. But it's malevolent. It's a malevolent evil force. It's worse than anything that we've discussed. Well, no. It's not worse than Israel. But it's it's bound, it's in there with Israel. It's sort of an Israeli energy, perhaps. You know, that's sort of that's sort of uh quick to fight, quick to be the victim, just aggressive, violent. And of course, you know, I'm sure I'm not saying all Israeli people, I'm I'm characterizing the nation, the national mood of the country. It's it's just it's it's it's a sinister straight guy energy. It's a sinister straight guy energy that we're gonna track. But yeah, so it's worse than pretty much everything that we've talked about on this podcast already. It is. It is, it is, am I am I gonna get in trouble for saying that Israeli energy is sinister? That the it's just weird. It's so weird to me, it's so weird to me that I can think that maybe I would get in trouble over saying that when the country is committing a genocide. Do you know what I'm saying? That like, oh, I should be worried about speaking ill in sort of a uh uh f uh joking way about Israel being evil when the country is slaughtering people, is committing a genocide. It's like we should be able to joke about how evil that country is in the same way that we joke about Nazis and how evil Nazis were about, how evil slave owners were. Like, we shouldn't, I sh and maybe I have no reason to fear, maybe there is nobody who's gonna jump to my throat, but I don't know. I'm always like, oh, is somebody gonna like clip this and send it to like an employer or something? And it's like, how is this possible that you that I should be worried about that? Why can't we say that? It's just it boggles, it boggles the mind. It boggles the mind, but it does seem like things are changing. Not this is not a political podcast. Well, it kind of is political. What isn't political? What isn't political, right? But um it does feel like things are changing. It does feel like things are changing. It does feel like so much establishment media, lame stream media is so out of touch with how much things are changing and how much people's opinions are changing. That's what's changing, and it's part of a bigger rejection, I think, of that fear-based sinister, straight guy energy. I think people are just like, no, man, like we're not down to live in reaction anymore and the fear and the aggressiveness. We just don't want that. Just be normal and make sense. And don't be so competitive and selfish and and and murderous and violent. Like, we just don't want that. We are all the other people in Vanderpump Villa, the happier people. Who sure are they flawed? They have their ups and their downs, but they're just kind of normal, happy people. And then there's the weird, sinister straight group that's like doing peptides and testosterone and motorcycles and tattoos, and is like, oh, you don't you don't love him, whatever, you're so mean to him. Like, oof, oof. Ooh, bad. Bad, bad, bad. The rest of us, the rest of us, it's all about the rest of us. It's all about the rest of us. We don't need them in that weird, nasty energy. And I think that's okay to say. I think that's okay to say. I hope it's okay to say. It should be okay to say. Imagine if I got fired for this podcast. If I got fired for I don't like this podcast, it could happen. It could happen. I don't think, I don't think it would. I think there'd be a warning, probably, for something. Unless I don't know. The crazier thing is that people have gotten fired over saying anything about Israel. Though now people are getting reinstated, I guess, which is good. It is it is wild. If I got fired for something, I'd want it to be for something a little more thoughtful, you know? Maybe I don't like this podcast. It's not uh No, I don't know. This is thoughtful, gosh darn it. This is thoughtful. I think this is thoughtful. Do you think this is thoughtful? I don't know. I think we're having thoughts. There's it's full of thoughts. That's me being glib. Being glib. I don't know. Is it thoughtful? Jack on Jack. A moment in the mirror. I'm looking at the man in the mirror.

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It's thoughtful, but it's not like, you know, structured thought. It really is just off the cuff. It's off the cuff. I really feel like the people calling in would really make this sing. We really need to get Jack Lila off the ground somehow. There's so much that I need to do. There's so much that I need to do. This is how I got in a bad mood is because I put too much on my plate. Not gonna do that. The book is going fine. I think I figured out the tone. It's gonna be comic. Surreal comic, maybe. No, it should be comic. Straightforward. Straightforward, just do it. Don't try to high-rap, don't muck it up. Don't tart it up. Oh, I was supposed to make a quinoa while I was doing this. Got distracted. Distracted by you, I love you, I adore you. I love to be distracted by you. It's always a delight. It's a pleasure, it's an honor, and it's a thrill. Not a thrill, but it's it's a pleasure. There's many different kinds of pleasures. They don't all be thrilling. That's fine. Worse or better than the other. But you're great. You're great. I love you. Takeaways. Wear your gas station sunglasses if you want to. Wear a blue button down in wireframe glasses if you want to. Listen to Taylor Swift if you want to, but don't be a sinister straight guy, which I think is fine. I think everyone's in the clear here. Sinister Straight energy is is the only is the is the only line that I'm drawing for us here, but I don't think I need to. Because I don't think any of us get down like that. I don't think any of us do, and I love that about us. I do. I love you. Love me. I love this podcast. And I love life. I don't like this. I don't like this. I don't like this podcast.