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Hello the Internet, and welcome to

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this episode of I Trends

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twenty twenty four. Four

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more years, four more

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years. Just thought i'd keep the energy

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going that we had before we started recording.

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We'll talk a little bit more about it tomorrow.

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But back at your psych you were saying,

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you really, Oh thanks, Scot my

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years old.

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He's literally so old. I

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just I guess, as

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as a woman of color in this country, I don't

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know what it's like to have that type of power and

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to aspire to that type of power. It

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has never been modeled for me. So

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I just don't get the idea of

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not wanting to rest. You know, you get

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to a certain age and don't you just want

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to spend time with your grandkids, just

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be home. Yeah it does not work.

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Nope, what about that age says

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I want to be president again?

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Oh come on, man, I tried that, Jack, You're

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in the Trump administration is a boring

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man. I guess so Jill

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got on my nerves, kept

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falling off my bike. Yeah,

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it's wild. It'll be interesting

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to see if he survives

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long enough. Literally a little

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dangerous. With the alternative

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being you know, it didn't really

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focus on whether Kamala Harris is going to be his running

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mate. But that is a pretty important

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question because he's so old.

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When he got sworn in, he was already the oldest

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person who's ever been president. We're four

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more years. Obviously, people

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are doing more stuff at older ages

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than they have historically

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been able to. But I

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don't know. It's just got a bad feeling

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about this one. The news that's trending

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now beyond Joe Biden is

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people are bidding a

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fond farewell to Harry Belafonte,

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rip to a

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real one. He passed away at ninety

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six from congest heart failure. Just

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kind of going back through his

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life. I knew he was an activist.

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I didn't realize that he supported

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Fidel Castro and Hugo

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Chavez and like, you know, he was real.

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He was like a true socialist,

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bankrolled nineteen sixties initiatives

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to bring civil rights to black Americans,

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campaigned against poverty. There's

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a cool story our writer jam was pointing

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out. There's a documentary called

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The sit In. Harry Belafonte hosts

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The Tonight Show. Apparently, like at the

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height of the popularity

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of The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson

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had to take a week off and had

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Harry Belafonte host The Tonight

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Show for a week. He's a hugely

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talented singer, actor, performer,

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so it makes sense. But also that

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week he had on guests such as Martin

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Luther King Junior, Bobby Kennedy.

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Just months before they were both a sad

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Martin Luther King Junior towards the end of his

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life was very much focused on, you

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know, poverty and fighting poverty.

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It's wild that this happened. It

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was like a rating success. Yeah,

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and it's just been completely

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memory hold. I think it's the thing

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that we talk about a lot on here that I always

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say is that like America is allergic to socialism.

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And I don't think it's necessarily the people

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themselves that are allergic to socialism. It's

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the institutions. And so even

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though a lot of people watched this and took

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it in like, there was no echo,

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there was no follow through because

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I'm sure it was just completely rejected

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by the mainstream media of what, Yeah,

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this never happened.

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Systems at large that stand

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to fall apart if we were to

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gather together in socialism. So yeah,

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that's incredible. I definitely want to check that out

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it seems to be on peacock.

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Seems to be on peacock. But

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yeah, it also reminds me of like when Bernie

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was having success then like

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these artificial barriers that stand

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in the way of people's interest

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in socialism just kind of rise

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up and then it's like, yeah, see, you can't

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you can't do that in America because

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people don't have the appetite. And it's like do they

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not or is it just like institutionally

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and structurally built to keep

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any sort of idea of socialism

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at Bay. Yeah,

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people are unhappy.

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There's been some changes at McDonald's

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apparently they're they're introducing in

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certain select markets out west more

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onions seem to be the thing, which

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is just a wild Like I'm

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sure it just like taste tested well

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in their you

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know, laboratory kitchens or whatever.

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But they're they're putting onions on earlier in

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the process, so like grilled onions

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factoring more heavily in all

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of their burgers. And I

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don't know, like onions were the thing

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that I hated the most about

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food when I was a kid, Like I

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was just like, no, fuck onions, Like keep onions

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away from me. And this is like wow,

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right, like you you always

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liked onions.

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I've always been team onions since I was

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like a baby. I love onions

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to this day. I'll eat them raw cooked,

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saute, however you want to give them to me,

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I'll eat them whatever type. I'm gonna

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eat them.

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I love them now. But it's just

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for a food thing that's like sowed

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down the middle, like broad like

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to to be like our big change is

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gonna be like going real onion heavy.

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Well, it does seem that they want

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to cook the patties on the

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same grills as they cook the onions,

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and actually cook the onions, because I don't know. Every time i've

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been to McDonald's they are chopped

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white onions like they're not They're raw, they're

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not cooked. So I guess they're trying to cook

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the onions a little bit to get some flavor. But

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I guess some of the complaint not only has been the flavor,

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but maybe the cross contamination with onion

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allergies. I did not really

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think about that personally, as someone who

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gobble gobble gobbles onions, I did

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not think it was that common of analogy. But I guess when you

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go to somewhere like McDonald's, where a the

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food feels pretty artificial as it starts.

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You're not anticipating a food allergy when you

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walk into that type of environment.

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Yeah, so yeah. People who aren't

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fans of onions are like, it's just harder to get the

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onions off now. But

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they're saying it in a very measured way

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because it's on social media, so they're

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saying, uh, this is fucking

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disgusting.

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I'm t more onions. I want to. I mean,

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I try not to eat

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fast food. Luckily, I live in New York where it's like

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you're not running into fast food anywhere.

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You know.

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I love to cook, but I am a sucker

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for McDonald's. I am, you know.

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I grew up in the South, in

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the pit of all fucking fast

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food, and I will eat

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a you know, spicy McChicken and

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a spicy or not a spicy a whatever

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mcdouble put those things together

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makes a colloquially known mcgang

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bang. Yeah, fucking love that shit, and

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I might have to go get one just.

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I feel like that's hurt my jaw.

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It is not good for you in every facet

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of the way you eat it.

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How it feels going down the

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aftermath. None of it's good, but

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it feels good on the taste buds, and that's what matters

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to me.

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Feels good on them taste buds. There's

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new polling that suggests that the

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Mega movement is wildly unpopular,

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which I don't know. Well, we'll see,

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but the polls can't

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be it all mean yeah, exactly.

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It says that only twenty four percent of people

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are really on board for this. Just

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twenty four percent of Americans have positive views

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of the movement, while forty five percent voice

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negative views. The forty five percent

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number seems low to me, like that as

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wild.

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It does seem low.

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That was the focus of Biden's like announcement

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video is what's your alternative

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these guys? And it does seem

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like the popularity of the Mega movement

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is less than we thought

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during the mid terms, But we will see

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because it's like it underperforms at

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the polls, like with actual votes

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when it comes to anybody who's not

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Trump, but then it overperforms

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when it's Trump. He always gets more votes than

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anybody's expecting. So we

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have that to look forward to. Rematch

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rematches are reallys fun sequels are always

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fun. All right, let's take a quick

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break. We'll be right back, and

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we're back, And a

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couple horrible pieces of news.

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There's a Texas school district

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that has voted to place armed civilians

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in schools.

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Love it, Yeah, I mean it says

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they would be school marshals, So think

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like, like you know, flight marshals.

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Yeah, yeah, in essence, take the

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place of the hired off duty officers.

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They will not wear uniforms, but they will carry

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a concealed handgun and be a

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school district employee. According

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to the school board documents review by The Chronicle.

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Yikes, Like that almost feels

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worse because it's like, you,

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like, the students and the staff, are

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they going to be no, like notified who the

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marshal is. I think that's kind of

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like the point of a fire marshals that like you don't know who they

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are, but like they're not a cop, so

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they're just like a civilian dressed

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like a gun employee with a

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gun who could go row. Yeah.

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Just always want to introduce a person with

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a gun to your children's

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school day as much as possible.

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Love it.

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And then there's been like a

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battle taking place between the

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college board and right

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wing activists, and the right

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wing activists are getting their way. They

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are getting changes made to the

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ap African American Studies course

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after critics say the agency bowed

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to political pressure and removed several topics

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from the framework, including the Black Lives Matter

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movement, slavery reparations,

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and queer life. So but yeah,

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one of the things that I think a lot of people

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have fallen back on is like, well, it

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seems like young people have socialist

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values and like gun control

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values, since they had to like come up at a time

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of like, you know, now

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marshals in the school, like armed

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marshals in the school, and like having

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a safe room in your classroom, like

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seems like a good idea. So the

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right is really seems to be laser

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focused on finding ways

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to adjust that and churn

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out more right wing fascists.

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It all seems like it's part of a plan

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of like we gotta do

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some work on this generation, you

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know.

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Yikes. Yeah, that's

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my views.

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Tucker Carlson, as we mentioned

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the past couple of days, fired at Fox

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News, but apparently welcome on

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Russian TV. This is something

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that yeah, I mean, he his

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show was always just heavily

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featured on Russian TV

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State TV because he's you know,

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constantly making America seem like

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the worst place on earth, like in

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ways that tie in nicely with

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Russian propaganda, and so

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RT the broadcast are formerly known as Russia

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Today, which is banned in dozens

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of countries because of its

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you know, it's just straight up propaganda. But from their

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English language Twitter account, Monday tweeted,

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Hey, at Tuger Carlson, you can always

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question more with at RT underscore

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com. So makes

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sense guessing he's not going

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to take that job. He'll probably

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find it like a podcast

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on Joe Rogan's network or whatever

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from which to fuck shit up. But I

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also, you know, in thinking about

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who is going to replace him, I

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was like, there's got to be like a shitty replacement

12:11

that I'm just not thinking of. And somebody

12:13

was like, oh, Jesse Waters, this is going to be the next

12:16

Tuger Carlson, and that makes sense. Yeah,

12:18

that guy's been just the worst for

12:20

many years and is young

12:22

and a misogynist and racist

12:25

and smug and feels

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like he's definitely gonna get

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the job, So we'll say The Cut

12:32

released their New York Girl issue,

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So the cut used to be New York Magazine.

12:37

Yeah, and that they're the ones

12:39

who did the etiquette rules

12:41

where they started off with you don't have to

12:43

read every one of your friend's novels,

12:46

so like that just to give you an idea of

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like who who they are and how

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down to earth they are. So what

12:54

is their analysis of like who

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New York's it girl is? Or

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I guess they named one hundred and fifty one

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women who captured the city's attention.

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They named over I think a century,

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so since like the nineteen twenties, all

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these different it girls of New York and as I

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was kind of like perusing the story,

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but I feel like they kind of purposely broke

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it up into like a bunch of different articles

13:18

to make it a little bit confusing and

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maybe not highlight the fact that there

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weren't a ton of women of color, Like

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as I went through the main article, that was like

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the highlights they kind of gave you, like only

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from like the fifties to today

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in these kind of grouped decades,

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like they're like fifties to seventies, you know, seventies

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and nineties, nineties to early

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ATS, early ASA today that was like one article

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and then they have another article that starts from like the

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twenties, and another article that starts

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like today. So it was a little all over the place.

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But as I was skimming all of it, I kind

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of was like, what I

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of the beholder, is it to be a New York a girl? Which

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is I guess the interrogation that the articles

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trying to push of what does

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it mean to define a New York City girl

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and what that definition has changed over

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the years. And to me, it is a

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socialize obviously. It is the Paris Hilton's

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of the world. It is someone who has like

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a natural chrisma, who's very beautiful,

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very vivacious moving through the

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world, has an aura about them that just

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gets them in the door, and then they become something

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just based on their look, but not necessarily

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has to be a model or whatever.

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I did notice there was, you know, the woman

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a color, the highlighted. I feel like, we're like obvious,

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like very very famous women. Whereas

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I feel like I, as someone who enjoys

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and digests a lot of pop culture, did

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not recognize a lot of these white women. I was like, some

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of them very obvious. They did highlight Paris

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Hilton. They highlighted a couple other models

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that were very famous in the sixties and seventies. They

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also highlighted like mcjagger's wife and things

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like that. But I'm like, I feel

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like, why is it like Grace Jones, who's

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obviously so incredibly famous outside of being

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like a New York girl, and

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Patricia Cleveland also very

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famous outside of being a New York a girl, Like why

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aren't there more beautiful black and brown women?

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And also I saw no brown women, like,

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no Latinas, no other

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like ethnicities. It was like only black

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girls or white girls. It was so

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crazy. I was like dumbfound it because

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New York is such a diverse place, and

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I just feel like they're

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talking about a very specific scene that

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doesn't highlight the true culture. I

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think that is Noeva York. So

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give me a read. I'm very intrigued

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on your thoughts and your opinions on maybe

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the diversity or the lack of diversity. But

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yeah, and I mean, all the women are beautiful.

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Congrats women, You're beautiful.

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It's like New York magazine, like hipster

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editors, like Miss America pageant. It

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feels like for.

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The Yeah, and like at the end when

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they did this separate article about like then, what does

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it mean to be an itck girl now? Because it is kind of a word

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that's been thrown around TikTok like all the time,

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like oh my god, like in your era,

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trying to be an it girl in New York and

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it's like just like more like fun and silly and goofy

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nowadays, Whereas back

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then though, it was like what does it mean to be like

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an icon? Like you're at Studio fifty

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four, you are like in the scene,

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you are being invited to these parties. It is.

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It was way more elusive. I think back in the day,

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to be like a true it girl was like being

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a supermodel, you know what they considered

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like you know, the Naomi Campbells of the world. But

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even in their coverage of today's it girls,

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I felt like there weren't that many. Like

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it was a little diverse, but

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not as divers as I think it could

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be. And I especially think women of color

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are the forefront of what it means to be an IT girl in

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the city. Like we drive fashion,

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we drive culture, we drive movements,

16:44

and I think a lot of white

16:47

women, especially today with TikTok

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steal from black women's trends,

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so I just thought more black

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and brown women could have been highlighted. Yeah,

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that's my take.

16:58

Here you go. And finally, there's

17:00

this video that's making the rounds of

17:02

this guy whose real name is

17:04

Nicholas Alaverdian. He

17:07

faked his own death in America,

17:09

moved to the UK, adopted

17:12

just the worst fake British accent,

17:14

changed his name to Nicholas Rossi, and

17:17

like put a gas mask over his face to like, I

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don't know if it was like him trying

17:21

to deal with the fact that he has a

17:24

bad English accent, but

17:26

it's just an amazing So he like went and

17:28

did he did an interview with news

17:30

group that's like what do you say to people who

17:33

say you are clearly this guy and

17:36

this is all bullshit? And at

17:38

one point he's like, if

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I was that guy, would I be able to

17:42

not stand up? And he like tries to stand up

17:44

and then like falls backwards. It's

17:47

like an amazing unintentional

17:50

comedy performance. If

17:52

you've ever witnessed a four year old lying

17:55

and it just like kind of becomes amusing, that's

17:58

what's happening. And they're just like doubling

18:00

tripling down too. Yeah, this

18:03

is that, but it's okay to laugh. At the

18:05

end, he sums it all up by saying that's a

18:07

right low blow.

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Which.

18:09

Yeah, he's dressed like a cartoon

18:12

of an English person. He's

18:14

got a bow tie like.

18:16

A little like little

18:18

round glass little yeah.

18:20

Yeah, it's like, you

18:22

know, community theater level. Okay,

18:25

you have to put together an outfit out of

18:27

air, proper room that make you British

18:30

guy.

18:30

I cannot get over how

18:33

he like falls into his wife's

18:35

arms and he's like Hellen, like he

18:38

just he's like so upset

18:40

at the question that they're asking him that he's

18:42

just like Hellen. And then she's like

18:45

all right there, all right there. And

18:47

it is I mean, it

18:49

is very funny. I mean, obviously he's being accused

18:51

of very serious cribs, but it is hard not

18:54

to laugh. Yeah at this man. Like

18:56

you can tell he's not using the mask like

18:59

it's there, but there's no movement

19:01

of air happening like

19:03

it's on.

19:04

But he's not inhaling any of it. But he is

19:06

like doing like a weird like quick breath

19:08

thing to make himself sound like he's hyperventilating,

19:11

which is then like steaming up his glasses.

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I think his wife is like having a hard

19:16

time believing him at

19:18

the various.

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Point best that she can to stand beside

19:21

him.

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But it's hard, yes, But like

19:23

just the audacity of his bullshit

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is truly, truly incredible,

19:28

in a great metaphor for America at

19:31

this stage, so worth checking out. We'll

19:33

link off to it in the footnotes. That

19:35

is going to do it for us this afternoon.

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We're back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show.

19:40

Until then, be kind to each other, be kind

19:42

to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't

19:44

do nothing about white supremacy, and we will

19:47

talk to you tomorrow. Bye bye,