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But yeah, we’re doing a best, worst and weirdest of 2023.
Kind of wrap everything up.
It’s been a pretty crazy year, Annie.
What do you think about everything that’s gone on so far?
1:48
What is your condition at the end of 2023?
Well, I feel like a lot happened this year and I can’t remember any of it.
I feel like these last three years have kind of blurred into like one giant ball of trash.
2:13
Totally.
Well, you know, I mean, whatever.
I’m ready for the new, the new year, some new energy.
Let’s bring it.
What about you?
I feel like if this were a video game like my health meter would be blinking on like the last little bit and that I need to power up really bad.
2:34
But similarly to you, it seems like everything from 2020 up until now has been like some kind of like weird trance lights trance like state of just trash and weirdness and things getting weirder when you didn’t think they could.
2:53
And a little nihilism mixed in there.
But yeah, I guess I’m just really tired.
Yeah, I feel the same.
Tired.
I think that’s everyone.
We’re all tired. 100 percent, 100%.
3:13
I’m like, let’s, let’s, let’s move on, people.
It’s time.
All right, Well, Annie, do you want to kick us off here with one of your favorite things from List of Best, Worst and Weirdest?
3:31
All right.
Well, I will start.
Not political.
I think it was a good year for rock’n’roll.
Depeche Mode and Queens of the Stone Age came out with fantastic albums and it’s nice.
3:50
It was nice to hear like the whole concept throughout an entire album and like to, you know, they’re both pros and they’re both like still at the top of their fucking game even though they’ve been doing it.
4:09
I mean, Depeche Mode, it’s been in it for 40 years and like we would, you know, we went to the concert, but that album they made just was so Depeche Mode and but yeah, it’s so fresh.
So that was great.
4:25
And Queens of the Stone Age is an amazing band.
They were somebody that I didn’t like them at 1st and then I saw them live and I was like, Oh my God, I get it.
4:41
And since then I just like go through these phases and I love the new album Times New Roman.
The name of the tour is The End is Nero and I just like love everything.
Oh my God.
4:58
Me too.
I love that girl.
I have to, like, credit you with getting me into Queens of the Stone Age, ’cause, like, I will always go see them live, ’cause they’re like a great show.
But I was never really into them.
And then I started listening to them this year and I’m like, damn, they really are good.
5:17
I just don’t think I was ready to receive Queens of the Stone Age.
They’re just a fucking rock band.
Like, they’re straight up rock band.
They’re not like Post Prague, like, you know, like you can’t add a bunch of fucking like, little miniature genres in front of their name.
5:36
They’re a fucking rock band and I like that about them.
They bring out energy and they’re so much fun, so.
Yeah, definitely.
And Homie’s voice fucking fantastic on that album, you know, it’s nice, he sings like.
5:56
It’s nice to hear like a male voice singing and like, it’s not, there’s no screaming and it’s not like this like pretty like pop voice.
It’s just rock’n’roll and I fucking love it, Yeah.
6:12
I really like it too and it seems like Josh Hammy has gotten out of his kicking photographers in the face for no reason.
Please.
So I will drink to that.
So seems like he’s going through a rough time there for a minute.
6:29
Yeah.
No, I have to agree.
I feel like a lot of more rock centered stuff is having a moment right now and I’m enjoying that.
I’m very much so enjoying that.
So I have to say, yeah, definitely, definitely best of 20/24/2023.
6:46
Jesus, where are we?
Where are we, Annie?
We are in outer space.
Awesome.
Nah, totally.
I agree.
And I can’t wait to listen to the new record.
I haven’t listened to them, but I think they’re going to be playing around here sometime soon.
7:05
I’d like to go see them again, but concert tickets are like $8 million nowadays, so.
Yeah.
All right, well, I would like to add 1 to the worst list and I am going to go with pants.
7:24
Annie, I am about to send you a bunch of pictures, OK?
And I would like you to take a moment to let me know how you feel about these after you receive them.
Like, I don’t understand what this fit is supposed to be.
7:49
Like the fit of pants.
I don’t know who pants are made for.
And like, there’s so many different body types.
But like, a lot of these pants that you just sent me would look terrible on most people.
8:10
Oh my God, you just got the last one.
Oh, which one was that?
The blue pants with the pink and black stripe and the stars.
8:29
Yes, so I got some gift cards for Christmas and I have been looking for some new clothes.
I just need some basics and I wanted a new pair of pants and apparently like we just don’t do pants, normal pants anymore.
8:48
I don’t know what the fuck is going on.
We have we have denim sweatpants with racing stripes and the elastic fleece.
We have fleece hot pink fleece cargo sweatpants.
9:05
So if you could combine.
Baggy.
Baggy leather is having a moment.
I feel like if you’re wearing leather, it should not be baggy and it should not have fleets in it.
I just don’t understand.
9:22
I don’t understand.
And then we’re getting into some more like unique denim looks.
So we have some yin Yang pants where like one leg is black and the other is white with the corresponding dots.
And then we just have like the Janko style, like raver pants that are super shiny with like glitter.
9:44
And I feel like those last two are very like 90s looking.
Yeah.
And I could see like a 20 year old wearing them, but that’s it.
I mean, maybe they’re like, I don’t know, I just want some fucking pants, man.
10:06
I want pants that don’t have, like, a stretchy elastic waistband on them.
I don’t want, like, sweatpant denim Like, I just want fucking pants pants in 2023 suck.
I hate them.
And I bet you most of these don’t even have fucking usable pockets.
10:24
I.
Like glitter.
I like leather.
I like loud things.
So if I’m telling you that these loud pants are ugly, it’s because they are the fucking worst.
Also we have these like flamenco dancer style flares that are back in style but they’re like floods.
10:45
So like they’re super short flares with an exaggerated bell bottom and they’re like spandex with like waffles.
And I’m just like, Jesus Christ, none of none of these pants look good.
Where do you guys go to buy normal pants?
I don’t think they exist anymore, but pants are in my trash can for 2023.
11:05
I feel like clothes shopping has gotten so much harder because there’s not the stores that like there used to be.
Everything’s online and every single like company has a different way that they measure for some reason, like you never know what you’re gonna get.
11:28
And yeah, it’s annoying.
It’s I feel like it’s really hard to shop online, especially since the pandemic, because you can’t just like search for things that you’re looking for easily anymore.
11:44
It’s all results from Temu or Cider or Boohoo or what is the other one that always has?
Like Sheen or.
Whatever.
Yeah.
And like you have, like you can’t find regular stores as easily, so it’s like you don’t know where you’re buying from.
12:06
Most of these like sites have irregular size charts where you like if you’re a size 8, you’re actually a 4XL because these are made for like people in another country that are not the size of the average American.
12:26
So it’s like there’s a weird conversion, like it’s all fast fashion, so like none of the sizes make any sense.
Like amongst each other there’s like nothing.
They all fit differently.
You never know if like what you’re going to get is going to resemble the photograph like.
12:43
And I feel like that’s everything on Amazon now and it’s everything that’s on online.
And you have to like really dig or go to places that you already know exist to like find stuff that isn’t being made by slave labor in another country like to God knows what standards.
13:03
So I just yeah, yeah, it’s it’s already hard enough.
And now we have like all this shit to deal with and then yin Yang pants and baggy leather.
I’m just going pantsless in 2024.
Here’s to no pants, no pants.
13:20
New year, no pants.
I don’t know, man.
Well, Speaking of Speaking of no pants, let’s talk about DeSantis only because I feel like we’re, we have some fashion, some fashion to talk about here.
13:46
So this is in my best of the year, The DeSantis.
Is it a heel boot question?
The memes, first of all, were wonderful.
14:03
Whoever did that meme of the drawing of his foot in the boot should win an award, ’cause every time I see it, I laugh so hard I watch him walk across the stage and I’m like, I bet his feet hurt real bad, you know?
14:18
And you know he’s wearing lips like, of course he is.
Which also reminds me, did you see Trump’s toe pillows?
What?
So he leans forward and supposedly they put these pillows and he puts his like toes on them to make it so he doesn’t lean forward so much.
14:51
So I don’t know what’s happening with the footwear of our political men, but I enjoy it and I enjoy all the memes from it.
My God, yeah, Desantis’s cowboy boot situation is really weird.
15:08
First of all, I live in Texas and that man should not be wearing cowboy boots.
That man has never seen a ranch in his life and that is not how Or Crocs.
I think Crocs would be more appropriate.
Guy totally should be wearing Crocs.
15:30
So yeah, and that’s like not what cowboy boots are supposed to look like.
The like, the toe is so curled up because there is nothing in it.
And I’m like, what?
What are you trying to message to everybody about your cowboy boots?
That you’re like, a fun, mavericky rebel?
15:46
Because it looks like you’re kind of maybe just a vain bitch.
It’s a little weird, I don’t know.
And he’s wearing it with a suit a lot of times.
Like, I like when I see like a a Texas dude in the cowboy boots, ’cause he’s usually wearing jeans and the hat.
16:07
Like, it’s the whole thing.
The Santas is just wearing a fucking suit and these boots and it looks weird.
It doesn’t make any sense, which I guess is Florida in a nutshell, but.
It is so weird.
16:24
I wonder if like Greg Abbott ’cause you know, they’re like bugs, right?
If Greg Abbott was like Ron, since I can’t walk in these, I would love it if you would.
Oh my God.
16:42
Hot Wheels handing over the heeled boots.
Here you go.
Good luck on their presidential race.
Oh my God.
Oh, I’m going to hell for that.
I just want to let everybody know that like, the only person that I would make fun of for being in a wheelchair is literally our our governor in Texas.
17:08
Only because I he’s a garbage person that I I don’t think would be nice to other people in wheelchairs.
So.
But yeah, fuck him, dude.
Greg Abbott wheels so that you can run DeSantis.
17:25
Oh my.
God, I should.
Stand either of them?
Yeah dude.
So I really said on DeSantis and all of his weird isms that there is not a video that exists of this.
17:42
But I just need to read to you like what this is.
So this is from Yahoo Finance, like from March of 2023.
I don’t know if this is for realsies or not.
Apparently it’s been disputed, but who fucking knows.
17:59
But it says The Daily Beast reports that during a private plane flight 4 years ago, Ron DeSantis enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert by eating it with three of his fingers.
According to two sources familiar with the incident, David Plouffe and Sarah Longwell joined to discuss how the Florida governor’s awkwardness could impact the 2024 race.
18:23
How the fuck do you do that?
Well?
This man can’t even smile like that.
He’s such a creep.
He’s just a creep.
I Can you imagine sitting on a plane and seeing the Governor’s like chocolate pudding?
18:45
I know it’s that like, do you think he, like, made it into a spoon and do you think he, like, dropped it into his mouth or do you think he like?
It’s like a.
Like, yeah, how would you do that?
19:02
And like the fact that it’s like 3 fingers specifically is even weirder.
I feel like if I was going to eat pudding with my fingers, I’d probably use two fingers.
But if I feel bad for his wife, I know.
Right.
Maybe he was just trying to give, like, well, yeah, I was going to say maybe he was trying to give the pudding the shocker.
19:26
But that’s still only two fingers.
Do you?
Know he’s doing it like a one of the, you know the like a bucket, definitely a.
Bucket.
Like if I was seated on a commercial flight and I don’t know if this was a commercial flight, whatever they just said.
19:48
But if I was on a commercial flight for the guy that was wearing curly ass like elf boots like that it was like finger banging pudding.
I would try and find an air Marshall.
I would be like this guy is having to bend like it needs to be removed from this plane.
20:07
Something is not right.
But I guess in the future, DeSantis is the Air Marshall.
Oh, man.
All right.
Well, now that you have that visual in your head, what do you have next for worst of the year?
20:32
There’s so many to choose from.
I mean, I feel like it goes without saying and it’s this is not going to be all political, but I feel like the Republican dystopia nightmare is definitely worst of 2023.
20:54
And I feel like that is a many headed hydra that there’s so many different issues that, I mean, we just do like a whole podcast episode just on that, but.
Let’s feel like, so we got Kevin McCarthy that actually.
21:12
Was my best of but anyways yes best and worse but continue.
So we have the changing of the guard a few times.
We have how incompetent they are.
21:30
And haven’t they haven’t passed any laws like they have passed the least amount of bills of any Congress we’ve ever had.
I guess they said this is the least productive legislative branch since the Great Depression.
21:45
That certainly said something.
Yeah.
Oh.
I had George Santos in a in my best, but I also have it in the worst for this because how does somebody, there’s layers to this.
22:08
First of all, how did somebody like him get elected to begin with?
That’s fucking crazy.
Two, he’s been ousted, but we have somebody who’s about to go on trial.
Menendez, he’s about to go on trial and he’s still there and he’s part of the Democratic Party.
22:29
Why isn’t he being ousted?
You know, what kind of precedent does that set?
Like what examples are we trying to make out of these people?
Obviously George Santos is a con man, but like we are we accepting some level of cons and not others?
22:52
You know, I think that’s like this question of whether or not it was right to oust him has not really been talked about.
And like, I don’t know if it’s a good or a bad thing, but, you know, should he have been convicted first?
23:10
But it brings me back down to the whole question of how did he get there in the first place?
Yeah, I mean, I definitely have questions about the different paths that were taken in both of those cases.
23:27
I mean, the Democrats have been wanting to get rid of the Menendez guy as well.
It was the Republicans that were like, we don’t need to do anything about this.
But I’m like, what is, why are they choosing to deal with those two issues so differently?
I’m curious, like, why those decisions were made.
23:43
So if anybody has insight on that, I would love to hear it because I’m sure there’s some kind of reason for it, but I don’t know if it’s a good reason or a bad reason.
It is interesting though, and I wonder, I feel like the Menendez guy, I don’t know if they’re just going like straight to a trial because he had obviously, like he had some way with more severe shit going on and just George Santos being like a bitch that loves porn and an inch and Botox.
24:20
So it’s like where they just like, we’ll deal with him this way because of a decorum thing and then we’ll deal with this guy because he needs to go on trial.
I don’t know, but it’s fucking the whole thing is weird.
And yes, how the fuck did he get there?
24:36
Like, I have no idea how he got there, but yeah, it’s just very fucking bizarre.
But anyways, that’s just one ahead of the hydra.
Annie, would you like to continue with more?
Well, let me go to my list here.
24:56
Oh yeah.
We have a lot of issues going on in the world.
We have the warship going on.
We have a lot going on with immigration, ’cause it’s a lot of people coming here and we’re just acting like it’s not happening.
25:18
But what?
What has this Congress focused on?
Impeaching the president?
I don’t.
Or having this inquiry about it.
This has been going on for over a year.
I’ve watched their inquiries, things and like there’s nothing happening.
25:38
Like, can they focus just a little bit, that’s all.
I mean, the Congress is so inefficient, it drives me insane how inefficient they are.
It’s.
So fucked up that they’re like, yeah, we got to impeach Biden.
25:56
They can’t find anything to impeach him on, and that’s insane.
And then on top of that, they’re like, well, we can shut the government down.
We don’t need to, like, fund anything.
It’s insane to me.
26:12
It’s like hello, like you’re here to.
I guess you have to do a job.
Now that’s like what going and being in the legislative branch means.
Like you need to make laws.
You need to fund things.
You have to like show up to work every day.
26:31
And these people, they take more vacations than like anybody I’ve ever seen.
So it’s just like, fire them all, fuck them, fuck them all.
I’m so mad.
At all of them.
And like you, then you have all the Supreme Court shit that’s been going on.
26:53
Clarence Thomas, why are you still there?
When are we going to get rid of these lifetime appointments?
Like they’re supposed to be the ones holding other everybody else accountable, but like, nobody holds them accountable.
27:10
Why?
This doesn’t make any sense.
Like our country is like not functioning at all and it’s it’s ridiculous.
And then they want to go around and be like, you need to vote for me, ’cause I’m going to fix this and that.
27:26
No, you’re not.
You’re all fucking lying and you’re all just taking your paycheck and not doing shit.
So when they say nobody wants to work, it’s really them none of them want.
Yeah, none of them want to work.
It’s so insane to me.
27:44
Yeah, I agree.
And yeah, it’s fucked up, man.
They’ve had some, like, really bad rulings too, in addition to the fact that they’re just corrupt as fuck and like, have no code of ethics.
Or rather, they all signed a code of ethics that’s unenforceable.
28:01
I mean, the amount of money like that these people get paid by people who’ve had things in front of them, like, oh, I have a case for this, that and the other thing in front of me.
And I don’t think it’s bad to take money from this guy’s boss.
28:18
It’s fucking crazy because people are all crazy.
Like, I want to abort the Supreme Court, Abort the Supreme Court.
I want them gone.
Fuck them all.
28:35
I mean, obviously we need a Supreme Court, but I we don’t need this, this, whatever, this, this situation is right now.
And I am so pissed because, like, there’s so many reasons that we should be in an uproar about all the multiple things that have happened to get the Supreme Court that we currently have.
28:58
And we’ve done nothing about them and the Biden has done nothing about them.
Like, I’m very angry.
We’re just like, Oh yeah, we hope that they use their, you know, great judicial minds to rule fairly on this one.
Well, guess what?
29:13
They’re not going to.
Well, and I mean, the Supreme Court has made a lot of bad decisions forever.
But when that happens, it’s up to Congress to make laws like abortion.
29:32
Part of our worst list is the abortion laws that have been enacted in all the states this year.
And The thing is, we have 40 years where we could have made a law saying this is a legal medical procedure, and they didn’t do that.
29:56
So they could use it as a way to scare you into voting for them.
And then they act all surprised when they got changed.
Like the Supreme Court, you know they’re going to rule based on the Constitution and legal precedent.
30:17
States rights have always been like an issue in America.
So if you want something to stay as a freedom, it is up to the US federal government to enact laws.
30:34
You can’t leave something like a medical procedure up to the fucking states.
No, I agree.
People have done absolutely nothing about it.
And in all of the cases where they’ve brought this to the people and let the people directly vote on it, it’s been overwhelmingly supported that people still want to have safe access to this.
30:57
And I don’t know, was it in Ohio recently where they voted to allow access for abortion in the state of Ohio?
And the Republican lawmakers tried to say, well, that doesn’t count.
And enhance.
It, yeah.
31:13
Every time, every time a state has voted on it, the Republicans are always like, well, that’s not right.
Meanwhile, in Ohio, they’re like prosecuting a woman who had a miscarriage.
And it’s like we’ve said this before, this is not, this is not about the rights of the unborn, this is about controlling women and that’s. 100 percent, 100%, It’s so fucked up and so sad.
31:48
And just seeing like all the women that are having to like, you know, they claim here in Texas that you know there are medical exemptions, right?
And that those are clearly outlined and the courts have been kicking this around and they’ll be like, well here are the medical exemptions and then the doctor will be like, well this qualifies and you have to go to a court and then the court is like we approve this.
32:15
And then our fucking attorney general, our impeached attorney general is like, no, you can’t have that.
And we had to have somebody like leave the state to get an abortion girl.
There have only been 35 abortions performed in the state of Texas this year.
32:34
Like, that’s insane.
It’s not, you know, when people are.
It’s not that we’re like pro abortion.
It’s pro rights.
If you need it done, you need it done.
32:53
Who am I to say no, you’re not allowed?
Because I believe in a sky daddy.
Because it all comes back to God.
If you’re just looking at this from a medical perspective, it’s a medical procedure.
And like, it’s.
33:11
I don’t understand what politicians are getting to decide what we can have for healthcare.
I can’t even have children anymore.
But I still so upset that like, the younger women can’t do it.
I mean it’s terrifying for people who do have like any kind of issue where they’ve had a miscarriage or they have a pregnancy.
33:36
That is, it’s like anytime you’re pregnant now, like I can’t imagine being like Oh my God, what if like I miscarry and now I have to like deal with like not getting the medical treatment to deal with that.
If my body can’t handle it on its own And having to have AD and E or, you know, an abortion for to remove the non living fetus because it’s already, you know, passed on.
34:04
Or like have a miscarriage on my own because of a medical condition.
And then have somebody, you know, accuse me of tampering with a corpse because I didn’t deal with like the fetus the right way when my body naturally expelled it like that.
These are the kind of things people are dealing with and like they keep playing this game.
34:24
It’s like hot potato where it’s like it’s in the legislature, then it’s in the Supreme Court, like the state Supreme Court, then it’s going back to the attorney general, and then everybody’s kicking it back to the doctors.
And the doctors are saying we need more guidelines.
They want people to be terrified.
34:40
And I feel like we should just do Alyssa Strada and have a fucking sex strike.
That is what I want.
Show them who controls this world.
Sex strike, Sex strike.
34:57
Well, you know, these politicians, if their daughters or their wives, their mistresses, if they need an abortion, they’ll get one, ’cause they have money and they’ll stay under the radar and it’s whatever.
35:13
But like everybody else, if you’re poor, you’re fucked and you’re just saddled with another kid or a kid that you don’t want, or you’re stuck possibly dying or watching this baby die in front of you that never could live to begin with.
35:35
That there’s so many things.
The abortion thing is such a personal issue, it just makes me so mad that idiot politicians are deciding what is OK.
Yeah, I feel like too.
Like pregnancy and starting a family.
35:53
And like anything that goes along with that is like very personal emotional issue.
And I have a problem with the fact that, like, it’s it’s so scary.
First of all, being pregnant is more dangerous than having an abortion.
And let’s just point that out.
And if you’re pregnant, I can imagine you’re very scared about all kinds of things, even if you want the baby.
36:17
And then having to deal with, like, Oh, my God, am I going to get pulled over because I’m driving out of state and they’re watching the highways now, You know, am I going to get arrested because somebody suspects I’m having an abortion even though I’m just going to, like, visit my friend or whatever?
36:37
Like, having to worry about, like, the pregnancy not being successful and, like, getting, you know, thrown in jail for God knows what?
Like, it’s too much.
It’s too much to just put on people like men.
You’re not, like, not all men, but, like, the men in power do not understand how a woman’s body works.
36:57
But doctors do, and they shouldn’t be making decisions about this for people because I wouldn’t want a politician telling me whether or not I can have my appendix removed.
Why would you tell them that they can’t have health care?
37:13
I don’t understand like.
Well, and also remember, the way that that law in Texas works is by somebody snitching on you.
So you have your nosy neighbors, bad family members.
37:32
There’s all kinds of people who can cause a lot of trouble and if they want to call and snitch on you, that’s how you get arrested and that is fucking Nazi Germany, so.
37:50
Dude, 100% it.
Just the fact that we’re like turning people against each other is so sickening to me.
But anyways, yeah, that is like all filed to like the hydra that is the Republican dystopian nightmare.
38:10
I mean we can talk about this forever, but honestly, like we need somebody to come and slay the hydra and you can’t just chop off one of their heads cause two more heads are going to pop up in one place.
So we need somebody smart that can actually like talking, do the job.
38:30
So yeah, down with the Republican Hydra in 2024, for real.
Well, let’s switch it into a little something, a little bit more lighthearted.
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So I’m going to say my best for 2023 slash weirdest piece of news is the aliens.
We need to talk about the aliens.
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I feel like I am a loving living in this moment where it has become so mainstream for people to believe in aliens.
And I have been on like a YouTube alien like kick for like the last six months.
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Just like like listening to stories of people’s alien abductions and like all these theories and stuff like that.
I’m like, I’m here for it.
I don’t know if I believe in any of it, but I am.
I am open minded and yeah, I want to know more.
39:42
Me too.
I I have always believed in visitors, and I believe that the government already works with them.
I do think, though, that most of the stuff that we’re seeing is government technology.
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I don’t think the government is that willing to be like, hey, there’s extraterrestrials like visiting us all the time.
If there, if you know like I I just feel like it’s a cover up for like technology that the government actually has, which kind of bums me out.
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But also, I’m like, the aliens are still coming.
You know, they’re coming here somehow.
Yeah, I just think it’s so cool.
Like, who knows?
Like if there’s aliens or not, But if there are, I like, have been having so much fun imagining what they’re like.
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I’m just like, yes.
And I’m loving that.
Like, the Earth is literally on fire right now.
Like, shit’s fucked up.
Things are weird and things are fucked up right now.
But like, there’s aliens, man.
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Like, everybody’s talking about it.
I fucking love it.
I’m like, I did not expect like, 2023 to be this weird, but I’m loving it.
I’m loving it.
I also thought that when we found out about aliens, we would be more excited.
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But like, I think we’re we’re just so overwhelmed with all the information, all the.
Time.
Of course there’s aliens and.
Exactly.
I think that’s what adds to, like the extra weirdness about all this is that we’re like, well, yeah, and then there’s aliens like.
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And then we just move on to like the next story.
And I’m just like, wow, this is, this is like a multiple stages of emotion that we’re all processing at the same time.
And now we’re just like accepting of anything that will happen.
41:51
I mean, it wasn’t that long ago that, like, you were called crazy if you believed in aliens.
Right.
I think like that.
That was before that congressional hearing, so not that long ago.
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But I mean, who knows?
We can all be wrong.
I would like to think that the aliens are real.
I would like to think that they don’t mean us any harm.
But I do sometimes listen to some like Coast to Coast.
And I know a lot of that stuff is like totally out there.
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But I love when they’re you get the real crazy people on there that are talking about the alien council and the news from the alien council and like what the alien council is saying is going to happen next.
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And that is something that I like guilt listen to because I’m just like this.
It’s literally just some person that’s that is an authority on the alien council talking about like what the aliens talk to.
And apparently there’s multiple kinds of aliens that meet up at the alien council and they talk about all kinds of things.
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Yes.
So anyways, take us to your leader.
Yes.
I want to know about all the things.
So yeah, take us to your leader.
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I’d like to meet your alien council.
I need to catch up on some coast to coast that sounds amazing.
It’s just really weird.
I fall asleep listening to it sometimes, and I will like, wake up.
43:41
And it has been playing for hours, ’cause I didn’t realize I started a playlist.
So, like, Lord knows what I’m listening to when I’m asleep.
And yeah, it’s it’s laughably bad.
That’s great.
43:57
I love cocaine.
Yeah, totally, man.
Totally.
But yeah, I love that.
So we have one for the aliens.
Yeah, I feel.
Like, I feel like, you know, part of the reason we want the aliens to be real, I think is like the very real struggles of living on planet Earth.
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And granted, like, I think a lot of people want to like believe in aliens because they want to believe that there’s something that could save us or fix this.
When in reality we’re like probably causing a lot of our own problems.
But I feel like something that comes down to like the day-to-day kind of shit and just like the all around like bad government that we’re having.
44:47
And I feel like when I think about bad city government, I think Annie, you know a thing or two about bad city government.
So what’s next on your worst for 2023?
The New Orleans Sewage and motherfucking Water Board.
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So the New Orleans Sewage and Water Board is the biggest mess ever.
I will put links up to some articles to really give you all the information.
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Let me tell you, they were having sex parties and they are not testing the water like they should be.
The pumps are always fucked up.
45:49
Every time it rains it floods.
And just on a personal note, let me let me tell you something.
My bills won’t say.
Average a hundred 120 bucks at most.
One time it was $150.
46:07
We had a leak.
Whatever.
We fixed it so three months ago and I got a bill for $300.00.
This is double the biggest bill I’ve ever had.
46:23
I’ve been in this same place for three years now.
So you know, Rudy calls, they’re doing an investigation.
Who knows what’s happening with that?
Then the next month I get a regular bill.
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It’s about 100 bucks.
Last month I got my bill and it said that they owe us $292.00.
46:55
So I didn’t have to pay anything this month.
What in the fuck is happening?
How hard is it to come out here, open the thing, look at the numbers, write it down and do an appropriate bill?
I do not understand what is happening here and why I can’t get a job with these people.
47:22
It sounds like I get paid to do nothing but go to sex parties and just make excuses for reasons that things aren’t working.
It sounds great.
It’s it’s wonderful.
I don’t know.
This shit is so weird here.
47:39
And like, I mean, I’ve been here for 20 years.
It’s always kind of been shitty.
But we’re like, at a new level of shitty.
And the fact that they’re not testing our water really fucking scares me, ’cause like we live in a place with a lot of oil refineries and like a lot of water boil advisories.
48:05
I mean, there’s some of the other parishes really have a hard time too.
It’s not just New Orleans, it’s the state of Louisiana, which we’ve talked about before.
So I think that is, this is not only a New Orleans problem.
48:23
I mean, this is an America problem.
We have a major problem with our grid and you live in a place that has a lot of grid problems.
Oh my God.
So yes, America is definitely, from what I can see and have problems in the future with the grid, just generally speaking.
48:48
But I live in Texas, home of the Ercot Freedom Grid, which is like all of the most dysfunctional bullshit that you could imagine in a public utility with absolutely 0 regulation or government oversight.
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The ERCOT Freedom Grid, just so you’re aware, is not attached to the regular grid of the United States.
It is all run privately in Texas.
Yay capitalism.
It is supposed to be super efficient and less expensive for the consumer because it’s so super efficient and like based on market and demand, these bitches cannot keep up with power demand.
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First of all, we had in 2021 an ice storm that fucking like destroyed everything in Texas.
People were without power forever.
And we don’t have like gas appliances in Texas.
49:50
Some places do, but it’s mostly like electric heat, electric ranges, electric, everything.
And we had sub freezing temperatures.
People’s roofs were caving in.
There’s no insulation here and like no fucking power.
And the reason that we had no power was because ERCOT, well, in addition to the ice that took down power lines, but ERCOT couldn’t provide power because they decided not to winterize anything, which they were advised to do.
50:21
So do we have this problem resolved after one year?
No.
In 2023 we had the same problem with another fucking power outage, but this time there was a problem with demand, but it was mostly because all of our all of our power lines are above ground and like the utilities here are fucking like not managed well at all.
50:51
We had lots of lines down.
There was no communication between anybody.
So they called in like a bunch of different people from out of the area to help with these down lines, but like they’re not in the same communication software or anything like that.
51:07
So, like, one hand had no idea what the other one was doing.
Jerk and I didn’t have power for a week.
And we were lucky we got power after a week.
Like we were making coffee over the fireplace and like, eating cans of beefaroni like that we were warming up in the fireplace for a week.
51:30
Yeah, it was fucking crazy, dude.
Like the infrastructure here sucks.
But they so originally ERCOT was managed by a bunch of people like they have like ahead of the companies, and most of them were from Canada, not fucking Texas, not even America.
51:48
And they had an oversight board or a couple of oversight people that they hired after 2021 because they realized that these companies can’t be trusted to make decisions on their own.
She found a bunch of corruption and eventually got pushed out of her job and nothing has changed.
52:05
So now every time in Texas when it is over 90° they tell us to keep our thermostats at 85 or not use the air conditioning at all because we could have a massive power failure.
52:20
And when it’s cold we have similar issues and are getting warnings to like conserve electricity.
Just fucking bullshit.
It is ridiculous.
There is no reason it should be run this poorly.
And there’s like a lot of talking points about how it was like renewable energy that caused this is not true.
52:41
Actually, renewable energy has been what’s been saving our asses through the last couple summers.
But this is fucking crazy and I’m very worried about having another issue with like the grid going down in 2024.
I just really, I don’t like being without utilities.
53:02
I feel like we pay enough money here because when we had that big power outage in 2021, we all had to pay billions of dollars because they increased because of market demand and supply being so low and the demand being so high.
53:20
They charged us for that and then they passed it off to all the taxpayers and all the people that are paying utility bills.
They were.
I was like, so you get to make money off the fact that you didn’t do your job?
Yeah.
Like what?
In the actual fuck?
53:36
Like, it makes me really angry.
And they’ve done nothing to address it.
Like every, I swear to you, like over the summer, so many times we’ve had so many issues where they’ve been like, oh, you need to conserve power, turn your, you know, leave your thermostats at 85 and Greg Abbott will get on TV and be like, the grid’s running great.
54:00
We’re not going to run out of power.
We’re getting, like, all these text messages saying that we might run out of power.
And I’m just like hockey people.
You can’t even, like, provide basics.
That’s like, one thing I think is really difficult in this, like the South.
It’s like, OK to have water boils all the time.
54:18
Yeah, it’s OK to, like not have electricity pretty often.
And I think that’s fucking crazy, like.
It’s like they’ve never experienced what efficiency feels like and good.
Water.
Chicago, growing up, had good fucking water, man.
54:35
Dude, the water.
‘S just up there.
I drink it out that tap.
Water.
Chicago tap water tastes good.
I didn’t realize how gross water tasted like other places until I moved out of Chicago and was like, this is disgusting.
54:50
Like gross.
Like sometimes we get like a fishy smell in our water and they’re like, it’s clean.
It’s just from the muscles and we’re like, that’s great, That’s really comforting.
And, you know, and I feel like the entire American fucking system is in this.
55:15
Like it’s just crumbling.
And I know that, like we’ve had, you know, Biden did this build back better.
I don’t even know.
I don’t know where that money is.
I don’t know what happened to it.
I heard it past and that was it.
But I know that we’re super susceptible to cyber attacks.
55:34
I mean it.
What was it last year when all the oil shit was attacked on the East Coast and like from like New York to Florida, they couldn’t get gas.
And like these cyber attacks are real.
55:52
I mean, that is what the future of war is.
So the fact that we’re so vulnerable and nobody gives a fuck is terrifying.
And you and I just live it every day.
But people in the north, they don’t know what’s coming.
56:09
Yeah, they don’t.
And it’s crazy.
And like, I think I got really pissed because we got a new governor, not governor, mayor here last year and we had the fucking power outage from the ice storm girl.
56:25
We did not hear from that man for days, days.
And he’s been mayor before.
Like he was mayor for a while and then he wasn’t anymore.
And then he came back and ran again and said he wanted to be mayor again.
56:42
Dude, this motherfucker didn’t say anything to anybody for two days while this is going on.
It’s like a total fucking chaos out here, OK?
Like everything is covered in ice.
Nobody has utilities.
There’s like, burst pipes, like all kinds of shit is happening.
57:01
And then we finally get a response from our mayor.
And they were, like, the mayor surveyed the damage by helicopter this afternoon.
I was like, did you really have to get in a helicopter to, like, go look around and see how fucked up things are?
And that was, like, all we got from him.
57:19
He’s like, yeah, yeah, it’s pretty bad, right?
Of course it’s bad.
I’m like, thank you for your help.
And then they wound up, like, firing the city manager.
But I’m pretty sure he, I’m sure he sucked, but I’m pretty sure he was just like a sacrificial lamb.
I was like, you guys need to hire, like, a fucking restaurant manager.
57:37
A restaurant manager could have made this whole thing.
I was looking outside my window and I was like, wow, I see crews from three different companies.
I bet they can’t see each other’s tickets, and they don’t know each other’s phone numbers, so they don’t know where they’re going next.
Wow.
57:55
But it’s it’s just the incompetence of our leaders are disgusting.
I just, I didn’t.
I feel like when I when we talk politics and talk stuff like that, I feel a little Dumber afterwards because like, these people are so stupid.
58:15
They are stupid.
It’s called failing upwards and I’m tired of living in a world where, like, we are surrounded by people that just like fail upwards.
Speaking of failing upwards, well, in this case everybody failed downwards, but it was a big ride up to the top.
58:36
While it was good, do you guys remember like the month of submersible Titan submersible memes?
I was living for those memes.
Yeah.
But talk about it failing upwards and then downwards.
58:53
But yeah, that was, that was something, man.
That was wild, the fascination, because it was so weird.
First of all, you know, I we’ve been like bombarded by like plague and like war and all this fucking bullshit.
59:14
So to hear about this little submarine that this crazy guy with some money made and how it had these billionaires on there basically all going to see the Titanic, I mean, that was wild.
59:33
And it was terrifying.
It was interesting.
It it was kind of fun in a sick way.
I definitely enjoyed it.
It was one of the weirder things of 2023.
59:50
Yeah, I mean I think like the whole situation was just weird.
I mean they were using an off label PlayStation controller.
I don’t think it was even like PlayStation brand.
It probably came from Best Egg or I’m sorry Newegg or something.
1:00:08
And they were using that that to go down Like blew my fucking mind dude.
Like, blew my mind that people.
Can be so distracted by somebody with money and like proclaiming themselves to be an expert that they will let it override their entire like common sense and like higher reasoning portions of their brain and they’ll be like yeah I’m going to get inside this tin can that’s like controlled of the off label like off brand PlayStation controller and go to one of the most dangerous places in the world.
1:00:48
I was like, what the?
Fuck.
It was not.
Only crazy.
Not only was it a PlayStation controller, the actual thing was made out of, like, expired airplane parts.
1:01:08
And The thing is like.
You’re going fiber?
Yeah, you’re going into the ocean where like, there’s that tremendous pressure.
Why are you using like, airplane material?
1:01:24
It like it was so weird and people told him, dude, this is the wrong material to use to go to the bottom of the ocean.
Yeah, it was wild.
I mean, it made no sense.
And and he like, so when you texted me.
1:01:45
So there’s this tarot card reader that we both like.
His name is Anphrodite.
I love him.
Great tarot card readings on YouTube.
You should check him out.
But you texted me.
I was like, what do you think happened?
And you texted me What?
1:02:01
Girl, I’m still laughing about this.
I know that this came out way different than how it was intended, but you were like, I was listening to some tarot card reader, and the tarot card reader said that something broke.
I was like, yeah, I think.
1:02:18
Right.
I was like, obviously something is broken otherwise we wouldn’t be having this conversation and I was like laughing so hard.
I mean there was way more to it, that tarot card reading and like being like something like, but it was like a good reading.
1:02:40
It was really sad and kind of scary.
But I I just keep Every time I think of the Titan submersible, I think of you texting me and being like this tarot card reader I Apollo said something broke.
I could just see what I was doing.
I ripped a ball, says something’s broke.
1:03:08
Message was just.
Like I.
Think something is broken?
Oh my God.
And you know what else is crazy about this?
They fucking knew as soon as it happened that those people were dead, right?
1:03:27
And then like Canada sent out like their Navy people, we sent out Navy people.
So we wasted all these resources knowing that there’s no saving these people.
But on the news it was like time clock.
1:03:44
How much air do they?
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
They were 100% like living for that in the news cycle.
And then I was so pissed when I found out that everybody knew that those people were dead and like, James Cameron knew before anybody else.
1:04:04
Yeah, I was just like, so we’re spending all this money on this and we.
I was just like, this whole situation is fucked up.
I feel like people who have too much money sometimes dream too big.
1:04:20
Like it was an Icarus moment, but in this case he did not fly too close to the sun and he drifted too close to the Titanic.
And I was like, why are OK?
Yeah, that was weird.
And it seems like years ago that that happened.
1:04:38
There was only a few months ago.
It happened over the summer, I think as soon as Saturn went into Pisces.
Actually, the first time, which is super fucking weird, yeah.
So I guess we’ll not get into the symbolism there, but if you know, you know, so yeah, that’s pretty Wildman.
1:05:03
It’s pretty wild.
But I do think like for as weird as a submersible was, I feel like we have like weirder shit going on.
And that was a lot of weird for one episode.
So if you want to find out the rest, it’ll be to be continued in episode 2 of Worst, Weirdest, and Wildest of 2023.
1:05:27
In the meantime, y’all take care of yourselves and thanks for tuning in.
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