Chapter 1: What unique perspectives does Kal Penn bring to the conversation?
Ready? One, two, three. Patriots, gay-triots, they-triots, black-triots, brown-triots. Sorry, I swear to God, you guys, I'm sober. All of the fascist, Nazi, MAGA psychopaths can do what, Pumps? Fuck off. That's a good one.
That was a good one. It's a long fuck off because I really want them to fuck all the way off.
How great would it be if there was a trend that started with people like, you know, how they're watch legal observers to the ice people, if they just started like in a la pump style, just like doing their arms like an ego going fuck off.
off yeah and we could make it yes i would love it what have you had it with kate what i've had it with is when you are a subscribing paid member to a news service or a magazine and you've paid the money
And then they pop up ads, like you push down, like you scroll up to read the rest of the article and an ad pops up and you have to hit the X mark, which I always invariably end up going onto the page of the advertisement. But my whole thing is if I hadn't paid for a subscription, I completely get it. Like that's how they make money. That's how they stay afloat. I'm in.
i've paid for this subscription and now instead of just having the normal ads you have the trick suck ads where you think you're pushing x to get out but really you're going to their site so i've had it with that i've had it they're double dipping it's a total double dip i will say this i agree with you the pop-ups the constant unsolicited advertisements and when you're on a page
These things are popping up without your consent. Right. You know, it's ruining the scrolling experience. And so I oppose that. Now, when it comes to like certain articles, there were these journalists, real journalists have done like incredible investigative journalism. In order for these journalists and these non-fascist media outlets to make money, they have to put stories behind a paywall.
Right. Totally on board with that. I get that.
Yeah.
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Chapter 2: What are the hosts' frustrations with subscription services?
they behave very well so i'm gearing up the dogs and i'm like ready and they're i mean they're like you know they're ready to go i'm like one two three jump and then they bang right into the heels of this woman who's just on her phone i was like you've got to move like you have all of these people coming up and i'll tell you one thing
I'm really digging about New York culture versus Oklahoma City culture is you can say very sincerely, what are you doing, man? You got to move out of the way. And that's not considered rude in New York. It is a reality-based statement that is appropriate to the situation. In Oklahoma, if somebody did that, they would, it would be considered rude.
And so if I were in Oklahoma, I have to go, sorry, you need to, you know, I'd have to like tiptoe around. This person is the norm violator. This person is the one clogging the escalator. So whatever statement is ejected at them, is projected at them,
is warranted because they're creating an obstacle, endangering the lives of other human beings at the airport, endangering the lives of people's pets, and all around just being narcissistic, selfish assholes. And the lack of escalator etiquette is just something that I could go on and on about for quite some time.
Well, I'll tell you what, everything kind of always boils down to the lack of self-awareness. When people are on escalators, there's a higher duty of care because you're going up and people are behind you. But your duty of care, you can't hurt everybody. If you just want to stop yourself, that's fine. But the stopping on the phone, I see it all the time.
I see it in airports, primarily, where you're walking and somebody like stops to check their flight or a text or something. And it's like people are moving and airport is not a, you know, stop and smell the roses type place. It's we're going from point A to point B, we don't need a lot of gawking and stopping and reading your fucking phone. And I will say,
I have caught myself doing it before and I immediately am like, oh my gosh, I got to stop. You know, if a text comes in and I'm looking at it, I'm very, so I know that it's really easy to do. And so I really try to stop, step out of it. But here's the thing, the older I get, the more New York I become because I just don't have time to fluff people over stupid shit.
Especially if I don't know him, I'm never gonna see him again. I don't care if you think I'm nice. I don't care if you think I'm a cunt. I just don't care. Just shut the fuck up, move on. We're not doing this.
Yes, airport hallways should be treated like a roadway, a highway. If you're on the highway, you don't stop in the middle of the road to check your phone, to check your Instagram notification, to take a phone call. You don't do that. You pull over to the side or you exit. The same thing needs to be with all
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Chapter 3: How do cultural differences affect escalator etiquette?
I personally do not have the maturity or the constitution. to directly confront the grunting and farting and sharting from fellow gym patrons sans sound barrier. I hope you make lots of eye contact while you're raw dogging. Okay. Next, 9479. Next, 9479. I just want to say, number one, thank you for calling me a psychopath. I appreciate that. And I mean that sincerely.
Because the last thing I want to be in this Nazi fascist country that we live in is a non-psychopathic fighter. Secondly, the whole gym thing, like in the phones situation at the gyms are horrific. The grunters that you are talking about, I'm one of them. So I'm like, and here's the deal. I go to this gym in New York, you guys, and it is all these hot gay men everywhere.
So of course I'm on cloud nine because that is like my happy place. Being surrounded by gay men, like takes me back to college, all of my best adult friends, gay men. And so I look around and, you know, gay men are groomed, they have great outfits, they have great bodies.
This little trainer of mine, she's this little young whippersnapper and she comes across as super friendly and super congenial, but she is like a diabolical psychopath that has like, she just rigorously trains me and she's like, she'll stack on more weights. And I'm like grunting. I'm like, or I'm like, fuck my life.
And I look around and I see everybody with the earbuds in and I support the earbuds, but there is a nuance to my psychopathy. If you have your phone with you so that you can hear something, no problem. Here's my fucking problem. You got some asshole, some hot gay guy, of course, doing, let's say, leg presses.
And so he's on the machine, bogarting the machine, and then he's going to take a 30 second to 60 second break. Next thing you know, he's on Instagram. Next thing you know, he's like, well, who is this bitch tagged here? Next thing you know, who follows?
And then we're down a rabbit hole that is 10 minutes, which I relate to because I do the same fuckery on Instagram all the time, which is why I don't get on. social media in the gym. And if that means I am sanctimonious or I am on the moral high ground or I am a Serena Williams style grunting hypocrite, I will own it. I will bask in it. I will bathe in it.
But it is the trying to do two things that shouldn't be done at the same time. You cannot do leg presses and do reconnaissance on Instagram in between leg presses because you never know once you start a reconnaissance mission on social media to figure out who this bitch is, who her friends are, do they follow anybody, any of the Trumps, and you're trying to get the deep, dark bottom of something.
I relate to this. I enjoy this. It's a hobby of mine. I do not do Instagram reconnaissance missions in between leg presses or bicep curls.
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Chapter 4: What are the challenges of tipping in the service industry?
And the cross-contamination of it would seem to cheapen the reconnaissance mission.
Absolutely.
It would be such a flippant thing to do in between bicep curls that I'm going to conduct this very important investigation in the middle of the gym when somebody's waiting on the leg press machine. I wouldn't cheapen the toxic... Absolutely none of my business reconnaissance mission that I'm on. I would keep it pure and dignified in its toxicity. Yes. I would keep it toxically pure. That's right.
No cross-contamination. All right, Kylie, what else? Okay, I've got a very interesting news story. This says, in Denmark, offices banned small talk for a week. Burnout rates dropped to record lows. Finally. One, it began when this HR director, Sophie, noticed her team seemed exhausted by noon. She said they weren't overworked. They were overstimulated. Endless chatter, fake smiles, yada, yada.
The first two days that she set this up were uncomfortable. People didn't know what to do. They reached for words like caffeine. But by midweek, the office grew quiet, calm, even focused. Productivity rose 23%. Absenteeism dropped and employees started taking breaks alone. It felt weirdly peaceful, one analyst said, like we remembered what concentration feels like.
Good for her. What a great idea. How innovative. I like it.
I like it too. I think that if we didn't have a profession where the number one top thing that we have to do is small talk, I would institute the same policy. And I've had it podcast and I have news. Unfortunately, said policy would cause us to go bankrupt and lose our loved, beloved, coveted listener.
Yeah, that's right. But here's the thing. Small talk is exhausting. And here's the funny thing is I can have the exact same small talk conversation with, because I don't remember it. I don't remember what I said last time. So then I go to, if I see somebody again, like a week later, all my small talk things have already been used because it's just, I just act like it's not happening.
I just void it from my mind. Even though I know you're going to say, you say that, but you're the worst at it. I know I am.
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Chapter 5: How does the podcast address the impact of political policies on marginalized communities?
I know it makes me sound more grievancy.
The pettier the better.
That's sort of how I felt about it. And I'll give you the first one. Okay. this idea of manifesting something and it's usually said with um i think what we all call like instagram influencer voice this year i'm manifesting um that i'm going to i'm putting the energy out there i'm like guys i think that's called coming up with a plan Right. I think that's right. Or it's the opposite.
It's I put the energy out there and I manifested it and nothing happened. Like, well, because you didn't put it's the plan and then the action behind it. Right. So anyway, so that's like a big pet peeve of mine is like either you're talking about planning or you're talking about luck. It's one of the two.
It's one of our longtime grievances. There's this woman.
Oh, is it really?
Okay. Yeah, there's this woman on Instagram. And this was like right when we first started the podcast. And I'm like looking at Instagram, looking at influencers to like come up with content. And this woman, she has like a Birkin bag and a Rolls Royce. And she pulls up to the plane and her husband has a matching Rolls Royce. And it's this big, giant, like private plane.
I mean, like big fucking Gulfstream, right? And she writes in the comment section, like, I manifested this life. You know, hashtag Gulfstream, hashtag Birkin, hashtag Rolls Royce. And I just thought, are you kidding me? And here's the problem. It's kind of like, okay, I get one narcissistic nut job. I get that.
Right. Yeah.
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Chapter 6: What insights does Kal Penn share about his career journey?
I just recently, my youngest son graduated and I decided to flee the Bible Belt. I'm a Bible Belt refugee. Yeah. Awesome. But were you able to participate in his... Did you campaign for him? Did you go to his inauguration? I went to his watch party and it was just electric.
Oh, awesome. Yeah. You know, I... I helped him from the time that he ran for State Assembly. I was really honored to kind of give him a hand with some fundraisers and a few events and things like that. And I was also really floored. Like, look, you're asking the most biased person in the world. I've known him since he was 14 and he's the reason I got one of my favorite jobs.
So just clamp that little nugget as you will. But he texted me a few years ago when he was an assembly member and was on a hunger strike with the New York City taxi workers for debt forgiveness. And he was just like, hey man, will you come down and just sort of say hi to the
The folks are on the hunger strike with me, you know, would sort of help with morale and we're hoping to put a lot more pressure, whatever. And I was like, oh, you're actually on a hunger strike. Like I read your Twitter that said you were doing it, but you're like actually living there for this. Yes, of course, I'll come by.
And I had texted a guy I knew in Mayor de Blasio's office at the time and just doing one of those things privately. That's like, hey, I'm going to go see my friend who's on a hunger strike. Maybe somebody from the mayor's office could come out and that would kind of help get this taken, put a little pressure if you can privately.
And the response I got was like, yeah, we're aware of the hunger strike. Obviously, we're not doing anything about it. There's not going to be any debt forgiveness, but thanks for letting us know that you're going. I was like, well, that's gross. And then I go.
It was very inspiring to see Zoran with all the taxi workers and cut to a few weeks later and they achieved this debt forgiveness plan against all these odds. And I was just so proud of him and was following all of his, whether it's his human rights advocacy or this free bus pilot program.
You saw this with the Trump video in the Oval Office, but he definitely appreciates, there are plenty of people who may disagree with him on policy or tactics or anything, but he's not afraid to actually have a conversation. a friendly is too trite of a word, but like a human conversation with somebody about shared goals and things like that. And I just feel like, who does that anymore?
So it's been exciting. And yes, went to inauguration, it was so cold, but a really special morning.
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Chapter 7: How does the conversation highlight the importance of action over thoughts and prayers?
And I'm sure that he went in and flattered him in a way that, that Trump responds to, like you see, um, Anybody who wants to get something from Trump has this psychological profile. What's so crazy about this whole thing, Cal, is the president of the United States is the easiest motherfucker on the planet to manipulate. Like, if I wanted to manipulate him, I could go, you know what?
i think your hair looks great and honestly i don't care what stormy daniel says i bet your dick is bigger than obama's yeah hook line sinker he'd be in you have the easiest on the planet to manipulate but i do think there is a very important component to what zoran did um in taking on the billionaire class and more than anything he's able to walk into the white house in a way that schumer
and uh hakeem are unable to do is he walks in with full-blown conviction he has conviction he stands up if he sees an injustice he stands up to it immediately if he sees or hears somebody do something that is racist he stands up immediately he doesn't sit on the side and percolate no exactly all of these other democrats are just there's no conviction it's all exactly
It's either for show or it's somebody as awful as Kristen Gillibrand who doesn't even show up or comment. Totally. She's like agreeing with Trump on all this. Yeah, let's continue to fund this nonsense.
It's just... So it is very... I'm not foolish about how difficult the next four years will be for him, but I am hopeful that the new leadership style with a lot of the coalitions that Zoran has built is... It's exciting. It's hopeful. It's hopeful at a time where there's not a lot to be hopeful about.
If only he were born in the United States.
Honestly, it's going to be refreshing to have somebody who can't be president in an office like this because so often people are like, oh, I can't make this choice because I'm going to run for president one day and it's limiting.
That's a great point.
Yeah.
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Chapter 8: What final thoughts do the hosts have about the future of the United States?
ICE can be fixed. No, I think it's clear that it's past that point. I keep going back to this because we have to remember who funded it. I hope people on the left, lawmakers, are feeling that pressure.
I hope so, but I don't think that Chuckles or Hakeem are going to do a goddamn thing about it.
You bring up a very important point, and it is that most of these Republican laws, whether they are abortion bans, the Kavanaugh rule, which apparently Justice Kavanaugh, the whining, snot-slinging, crying beer drinker during his confirmation hearings, you know, men are not emotional, therefore fit for office. He doesn't like that this has been called the Kavanaugh rule.
And so I wanna always bring it up and rub that in his face that he is the one that wrote the affirming opinion on such a racist piece of shit legislation and his name should always be linked to that. But the poor are attacked first. From our home state, Oklahoma, there's an abortion ban.
And if Pumps has a daughter, if her daughter were pregnant for whatever the reason, it's nobody's business but her daughter's,
they would have the money to fly to california to colorado to a safe space and the poorest people get hit the worst by all of these republican laws and at the same time these are the family values the jesus people the moral high ground the lord this the thoughts and prayers and there to me and i'm just going to say it and i've been saying this on and on and on again maga is a death cult
It is just all of their policies, all of their actions lead to death. The dismantling of the EPA, the dismantling of the FDA, the vaccine rescheduling, Mr. Brain Worm, piece of shit, RFK Jr., the abortion bans, the ICE raids, the concentration camps, Alligator Alcatraz, CCOT, and others. It all leads to death.
None of this helps anybody. There's another budgetary fight that's coming up now in the next few weeks. We saw the last time Schumer was like, the Affordable Care Act doesn't matter enough. Let's go ahead and open up the government. Now we've got that fight again, plus the ICE fight, tack on abortion, human rights, obviously young people who happen to be LGBTQIA, on and on and on.
My boyfriend Josh is from rural Mississippi. He talked to young white kids in rural Mississippi and the access points that they have for healthcare education that are being cut off as well. I hope That anybody who is, I don't know how many actual, aside from like in AOC, Bernie, et cetera, there are.
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