Bitchy History - TDWS： Effed-Up Friday With Professor Meredith!

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Daily Whatever Show. It is Fucked Up Friday. I am

00:00:09.640 Lawrence Winterman, and I'm joined at the start by our guest today, Professor Meredith. Hello,

00:00:14.900 Meredith. Hi there. Hi, everybody. I haven't done a live in a while, so happy to be back doing this.

00:00:20.600 Excellent. Excellent. Well, hey, so you're a first-time guest here. Welcome. Dana will be

00:00:27.520 joining us at any moment. Here she is. Oh, my God. She's going to be mad that I'm already 0.99

00:00:31.900 live. Hi. Here we go. Hello, Dana. Hi. Hello, Lawrence. Hello, Professor Meredith. I can't

00:00:40.180 really be mad because I am late, and I apologize. Some mornings are just like this, but it's

00:00:47.200 so good to see you. I wore a shirt in your honor. Oh, yeah. We're wearing matching shirts.

00:00:54.740 It's amazing.

00:00:55.040 Oh, my God, that's amazing.

00:00:57.460 So Lawrence also is a bit of a T-shirt maker,

00:01:01.800 and I don't think I told him the story that last time we were on air together

00:01:06.420 was for Fine Feminist Hour with Zulfina from The Feminist Lens,

00:01:13.320 and Meredith was wearing that shirt, and I was like, I need that shirt. 0.68

00:01:16.360 And she's like, hold on a minute.

00:01:17.520 I'll have it on my site in, like, ten minutes.

00:01:20.180 And she did.

00:01:21.640 Oh, my God. 0.65

00:01:22.860 Wait, Meredith makes T-shirts also?

00:01:24.740 I love you already.

00:01:26.520 Yeah, it's always throwing together little things

00:01:29.420 from funny stuff I've said in different posts

00:01:32.120 and stuff like that.

00:01:33.920 Some of them get picked up, some of them don't.

00:01:35.880 This one's done pretty well.

00:01:36.840 I think it's my bestseller right now.

00:01:38.280 Nice, I love it.

00:01:40.460 I very much love that idea.

00:01:42.360 I started a little t-shirt shop on Shopify as well

00:01:46.320 just because I was like, I mean, I can design things

00:01:49.120 and also there are t-shirts that I want to exist

00:01:53.320 that don't currently exist.

00:01:54.740 Honestly, there's so many in my shop that I designed specifically because me and my sister were like, that would be a cool shirt, and it didn't exist.

00:02:02.200 And so I would make them just so that we could buy them for each other.

00:02:05.780 Absolutely.

00:02:06.600 I'm wearing one that says official flag of anti-fascists, and it's the American flag. 0.97

00:02:11.700 Nice.

00:02:12.740 So, you know, I've since seen others that are like this, but this is the one that I designed, so I get it.

00:02:18.040 great yeah what what i love about your t-shirt shop meredith hint hint laurence is that there

00:02:23.560 are girl cut shirts women cut t-shirts on t public you can pick them up but they um i'm here to tell

00:02:30.760 you they run really small like i have pretty big boobs but this is an extra large uh it's so small

00:02:38.920 so i might be a double xl i also got two of the um in my crone era t-shirts in two different colors

00:02:46.520 and i want a third because i want to get it in black but i think um anyhow if you all go 0.60

00:02:53.100 um to t public it's bitchy history right or if you're on my if you're on my bitchy history

00:02:59.320 sub stack there's a link at the top that says merch and it'll take you directly to the store

00:03:03.060 so yeah my mom my mom bought the crone era shirt for herself uh so it was nice she she bought one

00:03:09.880 she's wearing it out in public the other day she sent me a picture oh my god i love it i have the

00:03:14.600 hot pink one and kind of like a soft brownish lavender i know i hear you kira can you hear my

00:03:20.340 dog freaking out for treats i don't i need i did not grab them in my hurry this morning and i need

00:03:25.940 to go do that it's funny yeah because she's right she's conditioned yeah she's like you've only been

00:03:32.960 doing this once a week i can't miss my chance amazing amazing meredith uh after this we're

00:03:40.080 going to have to talk t-shirt shops uh i think i need to switch or add something because the

00:03:45.700 the folks that i work with now don't offer really good women's cuts which is um obviously a huge

00:03:51.620 frustration it is a thing so i'll give you i'll give you all the tips on the ones i use excellent

00:03:56.980 i love that all right are you going to get treats or um yeah you two um here we'll do like the

00:04:03.300 cocktail hour thing um i guess the t-shirt shop would have been the big one of like

00:04:08.720 Lawrence, Meredith, you each run t-shirt shops. Discuss. I'll be two seconds.

00:04:14.160 We were bonding over the sad state of global politics, including the election of Nigel Farage in the UK and the fact that Germany, there is a state, a province of Germany that is about to elect the far right neo-Nazi party into state government.

00:04:35.120 Oh, no. Where in Germany?

00:04:37.980 I think it's Southeast.

00:04:40.420 Yeah, it's usually, I don't want to say this is a person from the South in the U.S., but it's usually the South.

00:04:46.480 I don't know why it's usually the South. 1.00

00:04:49.660 Yeah, you're not wrong.

00:04:53.840 Meredith, the last time you were on, and I don't want to have you disclose anything you don't want to disclose,

00:05:00.320 But I I know that you you're in academia and you're in school and you were worried about funding and things.

00:05:08.920 And it seems like things have come together for you pretty well since we spoke last.

00:05:14.700 Yeah. Yeah. And because I joined a couple of minutes late, I don't know if you've introduced yourself to everybody yet and said, like, hi, all.

00:05:21.540 i'm for i i'm professor and dot dot dot um but you are one of my very favorite feminist writers 0.89

00:05:30.620 out there um how tell give us the update on on your academic status and anything else you want 0.99

00:05:36.980 to tell the fine folks on sub stack about yourself well thesis it made thesis number two was submitted

00:05:42.960 on the second so that's good uh that was the the deadline was the third so i you know skated it on

00:05:49.740 in there honestly it was done a few days before that I was just waiting for feedback on the

00:05:53.760 from my advisor uh I figured the paper was fine I just you know so I needed that one last little

00:06:00.120 bit of like reassurance that somehow I hadn't written a horrible paper I don't know why I

00:06:05.820 still need that but um so that's done there's a lot riding on it you know it is yeah it's a big

00:06:11.600 thing so and you think that like after doing one master's the second master's would be easier but

00:06:16.960 somehow it's not it's still nerve-wracking regardless uh and once that's graded i'm going

00:06:22.620 to put out some of the so i what i did for my project was uh video essays and then there's a

00:06:27.340 creep an essay that goes along with it to kind of explain my methodology uh but those those

00:06:33.040 videos will eventually be uploaded as separate paid subscribers on my uh my sub stack um i'm

00:06:39.660 kind of waiting for grading to happen before i start uploading anything though because i don't

00:06:43.460 want to jump the gun on that uh yes that that's gone good uh i start my phd in october uh along

00:06:51.460 with the i'm working at the uh the american library which is a a library here in norwich

00:06:57.620 that has a uh it's kind of a living memorial to a uh a american force that were that worked here

00:07:06.600 in norwich during world war ii um so kind of have uh have that going on i've kind of worked with

00:07:12.340 them as a as an american historian who comes in and talks to people and works with events at the

00:07:18.000 at the library and i'm doing that as part of my my phd funding so they they've given me i was very

00:07:23.860 very grateful i went in i applied for it and they immediately gave me a three-year uh like fellowship

00:07:31.720 with them essentially to do this work uh and they they give me 10 000 pounds a year uh which will

00:07:36.920 cover my my housing and my uh you know utilities and things like that for the for the time period

00:07:42.860 that i'm here and uh i'm still having to pay my tuition how do i have my tuition's not covered but

00:07:48.060 only i'll work that out as i go um but yeah having a dream sorry yeah getting paid to do

00:07:56.280 that research it's so much fun i'm really excited i had a meeting there uh at the library yesterday

00:08:02.640 to kind of talk about what our goals are for the projects and stuff that we're gonna be doing

00:08:05.780 And we might be doing some things like maybe some movie nights where I talk about pop culture and America and things like that.

00:08:13.580 So I'm really excited to get started with them in October.

00:08:17.180 So, yeah.

00:08:18.040 Meredith, what is the first master's then and what are you getting now?

00:08:22.400 Yes, my first master's was in global and colonial history.

00:08:25.300 And I wrote it on Star Trek, which doesn't seem like it goes together, but somehow I made it work.

00:08:31.360 Oh, my God.

00:08:32.460 And it was like, Lawrence, you're going to love Professor Meredith.

00:08:34.960 and honestly she's not wrong like you're my people yeah my uh i wrote my first 20 000 words

00:08:43.540 give or take on uh how the how star trek dealt with political issues of their and social issues

00:08:49.980 of their time uh which was really a fun project to do which i've got a bunch of videos on my

00:08:54.360 substack about it can i just admit that the inner nerd toxic masculine trope that lives within me

00:09:01.000 was like only 20 000 words oh i could have written so many more my thesis advisor had to be like

00:09:08.040 calm down this is you're already over your word limit like you can't do anymore and this one i'm

00:09:13.700 doing um gender studies uh so my and my thesis and this one was on 1950s sitcoms so talking about

00:09:20.200 how they like structured femininity and how how it was taught to people who watched these in the

00:09:25.860 1950s. It's a really fun set of videos that I managed to make out of that. Is there a section

00:09:33.440 on Ricky and Lucy's separate beds, despite the fact that they were clearly married and pregnant

00:09:38.640 on air? Oh, yeah. So I had to very much had to pick my corpus really small because I don't

00:09:46.860 understand it. But at the university I'm at right now, my word limit is 12,000 words for this. And

00:09:54.440 uh and so i had to really really limit what i did i only looked at two two shows and a few

00:09:58.960 episodes of them which i did father knows best uh and the donna reed show so i kind of analyzed

00:10:04.880 about like eight episodes over over the course of three videos and uh and kind of discussed

00:10:10.240 different ways that they were training girls to behave and training women to think that being

00:10:15.640 housewife was the the best thing they could possibly do uh i sent i sent the videos to my

00:10:21.300 mom to watch and she was like me and your dad are just watching these and we're so angry

00:10:25.980 it's terrible terrible stuff uh in those videos and yeah father knows best is a uniquely horrible

00:10:34.960 experience i've written articles about it before in the past it did a paper at a conference a couple

00:10:40.060 of years ago uh about 1950s nostalgia and how the right wing is so obsessed with it uh but father

00:10:46.060 Knows Best is a series that makes me want to drink. And I'm not a drinker, but I want to drink

00:10:51.260 heavily when I'm watching that show. Can I admit that, like, it was on constant reruns when we

00:10:57.920 were growing up, right? Like, it was absolutely available. I've never watched a single episode.

00:11:03.040 Like, every time it came on, I was just like, it must have been, like, the little queer boy in me

00:11:09.460 that was like there's nothing here for me which there's not right the guys aren't hot and they're

00:11:16.100 not teaching me anything valuable right it's not there's nothing of value really in the show it's

00:11:22.560 very like it's very heteronormative it's very boring it's very by the numbers oh there's an

00:11:29.000 there's a somebody makes a mistake it's usually the girl trying to have uh dreams outside of

00:11:34.060 being a wife and mother autonomy how dare you have to say one of the episodes i did was um

00:11:39.420 it's horrible episode called betty girl engineer uh and uh spoiler alert she doesn't decide to 0.55

00:11:45.380 become an engineer because everybody makes fun of her about it and then she decides to go on a date

00:11:49.180 with an engineer instead because that's that's much better oh my god why would you become an

00:11:54.500 engineer when you could date one that's oh my god oh my god yeah oh my god yeah we just like

00:12:01.100 Lawrence and I are old enough, right, that that was on in the background. And I watched like the

00:12:06.780 Brady Bunch. I watched The Monkees. There were older shows and reruns that I did watch, but

00:12:11.900 the Donna Reed show and that one and even Leave it to Beaver, like that stuff just seemed very

00:12:17.340 old-fashioned and icky. And so I don't have any frame of reference, but except to say I have no

00:12:22.880 doubt with a title like Father Knows Best that that's, ugh. This seems like a really good time

00:12:28.260 to transition to my next timely question which is you know what this is going to be probably 0.98

00:12:34.820 uh we lost Gloria Steinem yesterday loss I don't like that word she passed away at the age of 92

00:12:42.420 yesterday and I imagine that news was as huge in England as it was here um you know her influence

00:12:50.500 was known around the world I would love to hear your thoughts and reactions to her life as like 1.00

00:12:58.260 the next wave feminists after me like I I came of age as a little kid while she was still like 0.99

00:13:04.820 her her peak at her growth era um how did she influence you and what do you think her legacy is 1.00

00:13:13.120 I mean I think that obviously her her legacy is a bit it's limited in its own way because of the 0.96

00:13:20.300 era of feminism that she was coming from right it's that second wave feminism feeding into third

00:13:26.260 wave feminism which becomes very individualistic it's very american centric um and all of those

00:13:32.500 things right so there's lots of criticisms that can be made but i think so much of the criticisms

00:13:37.980 of gloria steinem come from a place of of privilege looking back right like oh we would

00:13:44.480 have done better we could have done better it's like she's working from a very limited set of of

00:13:49.660 of uh resources at at her time right she's coming of she's coming of age in this beginning of the

00:13:56.080 second wave feminist movement and creates the first like feminist magazine that that has

00:14:01.780 widespread appeal to people and i love i love so many of the covers of miss magazine from the early 0.73

00:14:07.600 from the early days of that magazine so many good ones uh i used to put them up in my class

00:14:12.940 in my classes i had them on my slides when i taught women's history um and uh yeah i think

00:14:19.220 that she had a huge impact right it's something that i talk about with students when i talk about

00:14:24.680 cultural and historical context uh where it's one of the things that always bring up is star trek

00:14:30.840 the original series where you're talking about miniskirts right and everyone calls the original

00:14:35.420 series sexist gene roddenberry has his problems trust me i know um but the miniskirt in the

00:14:41.760 context of the first of the first series of star trek was also a feminist icon at that time and

00:14:49.100 laura steinem is part of that right so your people are going out and protesting in a miniskirt 0.96

00:14:54.300 because that's feminine liberation at that time um so however you feel about it then it's 0.56

00:15:01.320 you know it's a part of our history uh and i think that that i i really liked glorious item

00:15:07.760 and i like how much she pissed people off and that is makes me pretty sad she had a long life

00:15:13.440 but it's very sad for her to be gone it is and do you i haven't read critical pieces of her i what

00:15:21.740 I've seen on social media is while there are a lot of critical people speaking about her now and

00:15:26.700 I'm like isn't this so what women get even from other women that when they die it's like they

00:15:32.180 didn't do feminism right it always is yes and um as you were just talking about mini skirts in that

00:15:40.400 era and that it was very much seen as an empowered thing I'm like oh my god it's like wap feminism

00:15:45.120 for another era right people are going to look back at you know what was it seven eight years

00:15:51.200 ago when WAP came out, the song, and how that was very much seen and still is as like a feminist

00:15:59.780 statement. To be like, what? I'm going to sing about my wet ass pussy. I'm a woman. I can do

00:16:04.220 whatever I want. I hear it and I'm very conflicted about that song because I'm like, weird how your

00:16:09.920 brand of feminism is exactly like what the patriarchy wants you to do. Be highly sexualized. 1.00

00:16:16.320 also i hear your point that women can come and date so they do and say what they want to sell

00:16:22.060 their records yeah and the miniskirt back then was a far milder version of that and exactly just 0.99

00:16:31.080 a miniskirt but on you her right on michelle nichols a black woman and attractive you know 1.00

00:16:37.100 very beautiful black woman um in a position of of power like she's not getting she's not getting 0.99

00:16:44.160 coffee she's not you know uh you know of course you have human rand you've got rand with her 0.98

00:16:50.440 beehive hair and and she's the one bringing coffee and stuff like that so you've still got issues

00:16:54.340 but you have michelle nichols like playing this character who is entirely

00:16:59.100 in in power in her position right uh and that that meant so much to so many people not just

00:17:06.780 not just women of course but women of color specifically it's always my favorite thing

00:17:11.560 from Whoopi Goldberg talking about how

00:17:13.720 the first time she saw Nichelle Nichols

00:17:15.540 on

00:17:16.360 TV playing Uhura

00:17:19.080 that she came out and was like, I was like,

00:17:21.420 Mama, Mama, there's a woman, there's a black woman on TV

00:17:23.560 and she's not playing a, like, she's not playing a maid.

00:17:26.200 Which is a huge thing.

00:17:27.520 And then Whoopi Goldberg goes on to be in

00:17:29.180 The Next Generation as well, which just

00:17:31.500 makes it even more impactful, I think.

00:17:33.620 I know.

00:17:35.660 Dana and I have a very, very

00:17:37.380 soft spot for Next Generation.

00:17:39.680 You can bring me on and we can do a whole episode

00:17:41.480 of me just waxing poetic on star trek that's perfectly acceptable i'll do that yeah honestly

00:17:46.360 that sounds great we should do that though i can only come in for the next gen part because i i

00:17:50.920 did not watch the rest of it but i i love next gen and as an aside and then we should get into

00:17:57.800 fucked up friday conversations um i went to trivia with my kids this week for the second week in a 0.69

00:18:03.000 row the only times we've ever gone um just getting it in under the wire before my eldest leaves for 0.55

00:18:09.480 college the first week we went we came in dead last literally last place it was so hard because

00:18:16.440 if you don't know trivia you just don't know it right like right but a quarter of this competition

00:18:22.680 is visual it's like eight images and last week it was all things that started with k we only got

00:18:29.400 kumquat we got the other seven all wrong this week they all started with l and we got every one of

00:18:35.000 of them right but the thing i am most proud of is the second one in the square i was like

00:18:40.320 i know that one that's locutus of borg amazing it was finally trivia playing to my strings and

00:18:50.660 the whole table looked at me like and i'm like it's next gen it's always perfect i love that i

00:18:56.260 had that happen in my first year of grad school where we were doing like a student mixer thing

00:19:01.160 and we had the same thing and they were like i think it was pictures of historical figures like

00:19:06.500 as young men uh young men and young women like could you identify them and uh we got through it

00:19:11.880 and i was like it's stalin i know because young stalin was hot and it was like losing their mind

00:19:18.340 why did you know this i did not know that very specific historical fact that uh people the

00:19:25.180 American newspapers found Stalin distressingly attractive as a young man, apparently.

00:19:31.740 Really? Did you know this, Lawrence?

00:19:34.380 No.

00:19:35.780 Googling your pictures of young Stalin.

00:19:38.100 Right, seriously. Excuse me while I go Google some pictures of young Stalin.

00:19:42.940 He did nothing for me. I just knew historically that he would have been considered attractive,

00:19:47.240 and I'd seen the picture because of that. And I was like, ah, it's Stalin. I know who it is. 0.64

00:19:52.440 Objectively speaking, that is an attractive man.

00:19:54.520 like apparently I don't know

00:19:56.480 even if I'm not trying to do it

00:19:58.320 that's not

00:20:00.020 my thing but I know empirically

00:20:02.460 speaking somebody thought he was

00:20:04.520 hot oh my god that is so

00:20:06.700 that's perfect

00:20:08.220 you're making the case for a gender diverse

00:20:10.760 and sexual

00:20:12.100 orientation diverse team right 0.96

00:20:14.720 you needed your gay BFF 0.97

00:20:16.520 there to be like oh no he's hot girl 1.00

00:20:18.260 we know what's going on here

00:20:20.560 oh my gosh 0.98

00:20:22.780 I am going to shift gears here because it is Friday, which means it is fucked up Friday here on the Daily Whatever Show. 0.83

00:20:32.120 So for those of you who may be new, first of all, let me say, please go like, subscribe, follow Professor Meredith if you are not already. 0.91

00:20:42.220 because her writing is amazing and especially if you're a feminist killjoy as we all are

00:20:49.800 she will make your day with every story so please go please go subscribe please go click the little 0.99

00:20:55.980 heart button this is me practicing to be an influencer go smash that heart because when

00:21:02.020 you do that signals to substack that cool things are going on here and that other people should

00:21:05.980 come in and um and follow along you'd think they'd pay attention to the very active chat happening

00:21:12.280 they don't seem to the heart seems to matter like art better they do like the heart uh with all that

00:21:18.020 said um it's fucked up friday and that means um we are about to have our weekly news game show

00:21:27.240 competition i suppose um i didn't get to ask beforehand because i was late this morning but 0.87

00:21:33.140 Meredith, have you prepared a story that you want to talk about?

00:21:36.660 Yes, I actually...

00:21:38.520 You don't have to present it yet.

00:21:40.120 But one of them is more personally horrible.

00:21:43.620 The other one is horrible generally.

00:21:45.140 So I'll go and do either one of them or both.

00:21:49.200 Fabulous.

00:21:49.820 We have each then prepared a story to talk about.

00:21:52.940 We are going to pitch it to you, our audience, and say,

00:21:57.340 this is a story maybe you didn't hear about this week.

00:22:01.080 if the Trump administration is good at doing anything, it is flooding the news cycle

00:22:06.520 with so many horrors that we can't all stay on top of every story. So what we're at the beginning

00:22:13.660 of doing this, Lawrence, I feel like we were frequently talking about like what the dominant

00:22:17.160 story of the week was. And now I feel like we're more often bringing up a story that perhaps you

00:22:22.720 missed. But either way, we are each going to present something that we think is a particular

00:22:27.480 horror and when we're done we're going to ask you our live audience to vote for which story is 0.94

00:22:34.440 indeed the most fucked up story of the week any questions yep story time at fucked up friday that's 0.90

00:22:42.340 right dar we've reached that that part of our um that part of our show um meredith we like to ask 0.98

00:22:50.200 our guests if you would like to go first second or third um we used to always say go first because

00:22:56.560 We thought it was polite.

00:22:57.580 We find that maybe there's a confirmation bias of, like, whichever one goes last is most likely to win.

00:23:04.040 It's always possible.

00:23:05.780 I'll go in the middle.

00:23:07.040 Let's go smack dab in the middle.

00:23:08.260 That seems reasonable.

00:23:10.600 I love it.

00:23:11.800 Lawrence, would you like to go first or would you like me to go first?

00:23:14.580 I don't know what your story is.

00:23:15.880 I usually do.

00:23:17.240 Yeah.

00:23:17.980 I'll go first.

00:23:19.080 I do also want to say I've got to split, like, 12 minutes early today.

00:23:23.380 I have to run, get a blood draw done.

00:23:25.660 And before we get started, I just want to present this.

00:23:30.480 There he is!

00:23:32.200 Oh my god, he is hot.

00:23:34.640 That was the exact picture that was used in that quiz show as well.

00:23:40.520 Lawrence would.

00:23:43.080 Absolutely would.

00:23:44.740 I feel like he's a hybrid of both of our types right there.

00:23:47.580 I mean, him and Pete Hexeth, I feel like I could change world history if I could just get him and Pete Hexeth for a really hot three-way. 0.99

00:23:55.660 I still think you need to print t-shirts, Lawrence, that say, like, hate, fuck, Hegseth. 0.99

00:24:07.260 That would be funny. 1.00

00:24:08.520 It would be funny, but here in Fort Wayne, Indiana, that would also probably get me killed.

00:24:13.120 Probably.

00:24:13.960 Probably.

00:24:14.580 Fair point.

00:24:15.360 Here in Seattle, you might sell a lot of t-shirts.

00:24:18.060 Right.

00:24:18.660 And it would probably get me a date.

00:24:22.080 Right?

00:24:23.440 Undoubtedly.

00:24:23.840 All right, Lawrence, you go, especially since you have to leave early.

00:24:26.720 Let's move along.

00:24:29.420 Yeah.

00:24:29.820 All right.

00:24:30.220 Here's mine.

00:24:33.100 This could be easy to miss, but in case you don't know, the White House launched a video arcade yesterday.

00:24:38.740 That's not a joke.

00:24:40.260 It is an actual arcade at arcade.gov.

00:24:44.120 So on the domain name that our federal tax dollars keep online, there are now five games that you can play.

00:24:51.900 One of them has you playing a Border Patrol agent running the Rio Grande

00:24:58.320 and awards you points for arresting human beings.

00:25:02.880 I'm just here to say, I'm a kid of the 80s.

00:25:06.780 I know what a video arcade is supposed to be.

00:25:11.040 I went to Aladdin's Castle in the mall with my pocket full of quarters.

00:25:15.020 I can't tell you how many times as a kid.

00:25:17.980 And yes, Missile Command explicitly was blowing up cities.

00:25:20.900 like we we all remember that uh you know oregon trail was about dying on your way uh on your way

00:25:27.780 out west pac-man was about eating dots right back man is about eating dots which you know was

00:25:34.180 clearly a drug reference um you know but now there is a game a tetris clone called build the wall

00:25:43.620 and it asks you to hold the line against the coming horde.

00:25:51.100 Horde.

00:25:52.360 The people of the horde are explicitly brown in the video game 0.99

00:25:58.460 and they basically operate like zombies 1.00

00:26:02.500 and you are supposed to keep them out at all costs.

00:26:07.840 So, you know, the White House says this is a culture of fun and winning.

00:26:12.120 It is their alternative to the dark socialist vision Democrats have for America, and they couldn't even steal competently because they have ripped these games off from very common games like Tetris and many Nintendo games.

00:26:29.840 The government of Japan, it's so explicit, the government of Japan has formally objected twice.

00:26:37.340 And, yeah, it is basically, you know, a dehumanizing abomination dressed up as a video game.

00:26:46.980 We were talking about policy as TV shows in the 50s.

00:26:52.520 here's policy as video games

00:26:54.780 trying to

00:26:56.760 teach the younger generation

00:26:58.320 cruelty by having

00:27:00.420 fun and winning by

00:27:02.340 arresting little characters

00:27:04.220 on your screen that are explicitly

00:27:06.500 brown.

00:27:08.420 Yeah. Oh my god.

00:27:11.200 That's pretty horrible.

00:27:13.000 I mean, it was a horror

00:27:14.520 when you were like, the White House

00:27:15.720 has video games.

00:27:19.580 I own video games

00:27:20.660 of any kind. Like, why?

00:27:22.520 what what but of course that's what this white house would put out as a video game that is

00:27:27.740 abhorrent that is that is jaw up on the ground it's sadly it's i'm not even surprised because

00:27:38.280 i'm so like cognizant of the fact that the government's done this before like they've

00:27:42.560 privately encouraged video game uh you know video game creation for things you know along the lines

00:27:48.880 like air force uh involved military involved call of duty is a whole other thing um where it's all

00:27:55.900 propaganda based it's all very right wing and so i'm not even surprised but somehow i'm still

00:28:01.620 surprised you know what i mean right it's like i do shocking but not oh my god yeah we're at that

00:28:08.920 moment of history where like we we think we can't be surprised uh and then we are by the depravity

00:28:15.060 and the just sheer grossness that they continue to manifest every freaking day are they also um 0.98

00:28:22.240 never mind that's gross but sorry i will just say like are they raping and pillaging the women 0.92

00:28:27.720 during these war times too in the video games do you get extra points along the way if they are

00:28:32.320 they're also women honestly right like are there are there children in cages and ice facilities in 0.67

00:28:37.980 this video game who are somehow mysteriously ending up pregnant um right you get bonus points

00:28:44.040 for that probably maybe like an additional life yeah probably extra food tokens or gold tokens or 0.75

00:28:50.220 whatever you get I don't play a lot of video games obviously but I think I'm gonna vomit now

00:28:56.320 a bit of a problem okay that's a solid entry Lawrence like uh Meredith you gotta add an act

00:29:04.620 to follow here and if you want to say both of your stories quickly that's okay I'll do both

00:29:08.920 really really quick the first one it's sort of kind of related it's mostly upsetting for me

00:29:13.740 because i moved an entire country to and now i'm still in the same country as milo yanapolos because

00:29:20.100 he's been he was arrested by ice and deported to england i'm like why i can't escape these people

00:29:26.300 uh but i find it very funny that now he's really mad and also being like oh i was never actually

00:29:31.720 ex-gay i'm still married to a man and it's like and now i don't like trump because i got arrested

00:29:36.280 and of course it's just because he got arrested he's the quotes from him of like i had no idea 0.99

00:29:42.620 the brutality I cried I was so scared it's it's like I just don't have enough enough fuck you's 0.98

00:29:48.540 in my like I'm playing right yeah my main story that is horrifying uh is it it's uh like mail-in 0.99

00:29:58.320 ballots uh doesn't feel it doesn't feel like a big story but I'm horrified because right now

00:30:04.540 Trump is moving this whole thing to the Supreme Court as to whether or not mail-in ballots are

00:30:09.500 going to be allowed how this is going to affect the midterms we don't know um mail-in ballots

00:30:15.800 have actually started going out to people but nobody has any idea how those are going to be

00:30:19.500 affected by this executive order uh and honestly it doesn't matter because the entire point of this

00:30:25.380 is to make the midterms um something that they can that the republicans can argue are fraudulent

00:30:31.940 that's the whole point of this it doesn't matter what happens with the supreme court case they will

00:30:37.120 use this as an excuse to try to say that the midterms are not actually valid uh and try to

00:30:43.480 just you know overturn those if they don't like the they don't like the results try to overturn

00:30:48.080 them so uh i'm quite horrified by that obviously i mail i i don't do a mail-in ballot i do an

00:30:54.160 online ballot because i'm living in another country and lines aren't even sent in and you

00:30:58.400 know all of that but um yeah it's not not a good situation for us to be in uh at all very cognizant

00:31:06.340 of how it's going to make this entire midterm election a mess and it doesn't matter it feels

00:31:12.700 like it doesn't even matter how how the vote goes because they're just going to make whatever claim

00:31:16.360 they want uh about it that's not me saying not to vote vote vote vote but i'm just it's very

00:31:24.440 draining to have to deal with this constantly over and over again uh and you have people not

00:31:29.740 know if their mail-in ballots are even going to be accepted it makes the whole thing very

00:31:33.120 very strenuous for people so make sure your mail-in ballots do get counted check in on that

00:31:38.120 stuff and uh and check to make sure that if you need to go in and vote again if something goes on

00:31:44.000 like this is something everyone should be very cognizant of paying attention to yes and to your

00:31:50.040 point the election is what 60 59 days away like ballots have gone out in some places already

00:31:58.460 or if they're not they're going out in the next week like they can't reprint them or not send 0.71

00:32:03.980 them at this point it is going to be absolute fucking chaos my my biggest concern is that they 0.55

00:32:09.460 will say they're just not going to count them and the people who have already sent them in which 0.96

00:32:12.560 tend to be democrats tend to vote early right um and vote with the mail-in ballots and then if they

00:32:19.500 say well we're just not going to count those i'm very worried that people won't know that they need

00:32:23.720 to keep an eye on this and go in and vote again or deal with this in person uh and because they'll

00:32:28.820 just they'll just think i voted it's fine it's all over and midterms are always bad for turnout so

00:32:33.980 i'm shaming i'm shaming everyone right now vote in the midterms because if you start if you don't

00:32:38.900 vote in the midterms you're you're screwing us all over like drives me insane vote vote vote and

00:32:45.120 washington state has been mail-in ballots forever i just got my new driver's license in the mail it

00:32:49.340 came just fine we believe the mail for everything else trump votes by mail he votes absentee in

00:32:54.760 florida like the hypocrisy of it is insane and you're right it is simply to wreak chaos so that

00:33:01.700 people don't believe the results if they want to contest the results and can i add one more thing

00:33:07.640 yeah it's going to the supreme court and we are not i think aggressively enough thinking about

00:33:15.260 and talking about, Kavanaugh and Thomas and Alito and Gorsuch

00:33:23.000 and maybe even Roberts are all corrupt enough that they know

00:33:27.700 that their only chance of not being possibly impeached

00:33:31.640 and maybe even prosecuted is to basically let Donald Trump 0.99

00:33:35.880 get away with whatever the fuck he wants to get away with. 0.94

00:33:38.880 The conflict of interest is so real in the case of especially Thomas. 0.99

00:33:45.260 Uh, it's just so disheartening.

00:33:48.360 It is.

00:33:49.160 And I, yeah, like I said, people aren't thinking about it.

00:33:51.840 I think about it all the time.

00:33:53.080 Like every single day I'm sitting here thinking about it, but you're right.

00:33:55.640 People don't.

00:33:56.380 It's one of those things that kind of gets shoved to the outer edges of what,

00:33:59.340 there's so much else going on. 0.90

00:34:00.540 Like you said, they put so much crap out constantly that it's very hard to keep 0.94

00:34:04.940 focused on the important stuff. 0.98

00:34:06.580 Uh, unfortunately, cause that's their, that's their whole strategy.

00:34:09.500 So.

00:34:10.620 Yep.

00:34:11.900 Yep.

00:34:12.340 I was just thinking here in Seattle, I'm trying to remember the language, but our mayor is very

00:34:18.020 liberal. She's kind of our mini Mamdani out here. And people put in, like they're protesting or 0.89

00:34:24.580 it's like a recall wish. And then it's like, oh, are we just going to keep doing this? So even when

00:34:29.380 people get voted in, they're going to be like, vote of no confidence. Or I wish I could remember

00:34:34.340 the language around it. But great. So we just have this to look forward to a bunch of crybabies

00:34:39.460 every election cycle and our side doesn't do it we're just like peace out we lost

00:34:44.580 right it's all the rules too much and i'm not saying like that we should do exactly what

00:34:50.560 they're doing but maybe we shouldn't be as rule bound on this if they're going to play dirty we

00:34:54.260 got to find our own way to play dirty uh don't know what that what that looks like at this point

00:34:59.100 but we can't let them set the rules be equally assertive right like be be as assertive opposing

00:35:07.260 the recall measure, whatever it is.

00:35:09.820 Yeah, exactly.

00:35:11.020 There's a good question here from the Mad Philosopher Society.

00:35:13.920 That's a great username. 0.99

00:35:16.080 It's a stupid question, which it's not. 0.99

00:35:18.260 But are those ballot drop boxes, like at the local community pool run by USPS, should I 1.00

00:35:23.580 avoid dropping my ballot in one of those boxes?

00:35:25.880 What about taking your mail?

00:35:27.840 Those are the better choice.

00:35:28.700 They are the better choice.

00:35:29.600 Those are run by your local county election office.

00:35:33.280 uh and so i will say the one thing that makes me nervous is part of the whistleblower plot that 0.78

00:35:40.540 came out uh in this week because this week is super fucked up uh is um people have had the

00:35:47.300 idea of setting those boxes on fire right which you could imagine if it's packed full of ballots 0.96

00:35:52.880 and somebody throws an incendiary device all those ballots are lost they don't even know because they

00:35:58.260 haven't been counted yet or scanned or anything they don't know whose vote was in there that got

00:36:02.340 lost uh so you know i i like i think be as paranoid in this situation as you can possibly

00:36:12.200 imagine if there is a way for you to drive to the elections office and hand it to somebody

00:36:17.140 i honestly i or vote in person i mean i i know we don't want to give into this

00:36:23.100 but like give into the fear-mongering because there's nothing wrong with mail-in voting but

00:36:27.220 if there is a way for you or for you to like take your family members to vote and vote in person

00:36:33.300 i do recommend that in this particular this election if it's possible i don't even know

00:36:38.820 if it's possible here is it lauren it is there's some states it's not possible yeah but yeah

00:36:44.140 washington state is all vote by mail but there are still select polling places where you can

00:36:49.700 go early and vote in person what we don't know 60 days out is you know like does king county

00:36:56.480 department of elections have enough of those in-person voting locations open and available

00:37:01.660 uh that you know a working person could go during reasonable hours right right and a big big problem

00:37:09.560 is like places like georgia where they've closed down certain voting areas especially in majority

00:37:14.780 uh districts that are people of color uh things like that and you know all you can do is try to

00:37:20.720 be as active in your community as possible to offer to get other people to the polls as well

00:37:25.320 if they were voting in person because that's it's i mean i would do it if i was still in the states

00:37:30.040 but uh it's it's a big thing you can you can try to like organize to get people there if they have

00:37:35.600 to drive or they have to you know take off time for voting try to make it possible as much as you

00:37:41.480 can because it's very important yeah i um i live in fort wind indiana uh this is not a vote by mail

00:37:47.340 state, I have to go to a polling location. Um, you know, I, uh, I, I got used to the convenience

00:37:55.220 of voting by mail, but in this instance, I think maybe voting in person is, uh, is the safer thing

00:38:01.860 to do. And this election, yeah. You know, to, to Meredith's last point, if you want to truly be

00:38:07.500 furious at any one of us could have used this as a fucked up Friday story as well. Um, it, go watch 0.94

00:38:13.720 video out of texas uh where i think it's houston uh it's one of the bigger cities houston or dallas

00:38:19.480 um the county uh elections district changed the number of polling locations and specifically

00:38:27.480 purposefully with intent eliminated all polling locations inside a predominantly

00:38:33.480 black neighborhood and that is not an accident 0.66

00:38:37.320 rage fists i'm enraged constantly it's a it's a great blood pressure uh it is not but that's 0.88

00:38:48.360 why we have the show because we're misery loves company we're also just sort of keeping track of

00:38:54.960 the devolution right like we didn't yes the boiled frog thing every week we touch base to be like 0.71

00:38:59.820 these fucked up things are happening lawrence i know you're gonna need to go i want to at least 0.65

00:39:03.580 share what my story is and get started before you need to leave um and i feel like i'm slightly 0.91

00:39:09.500 cheating because these are stories that i put up on the daily whatever show this week and it's also

00:39:14.360 a story that you have like a sister story to professor meredith so maybe i'm biasing a little

00:39:20.520 um i'll put the essay in the chat it's called good news nobody died bad news that's not how

00:39:27.300 food safety works. And I have written about this twice in the last week. This is the second story

00:39:35.000 and it links back to the first one. The first story was a week or so ago, Chump made a big 0.80

00:39:41.480 announcement about like beef has gotten so expensive. I can't do his accent like wash can,

00:39:47.220 but Lawrence is better at it too. He was like, we're going to bring in 300,000 pounds of beef

00:39:52.500 because our farmers don't have

00:39:56.800 because of Biden, they don't have cows

00:39:58.920 so we're going to import beef

00:40:00.980 and the reporter said, cool

00:40:03.160 Mr. President

00:40:04.960 from where? And he said

00:40:07.300 I don't want to tell you that

00:40:09.160 that may not be the exact quote

00:40:13.080 but it was basically, I don't want to say

00:40:14.920 was his answer, hold on

00:40:16.440 I don't want to say was the quote

00:40:18.620 and I say in the article

00:40:21.000 which is not traditionally how meat works like they have to disclose it's on the packaging and

00:40:26.560 so there were all these theories going around of like oh it's the wild mustangs they're killing

00:40:30.720 we're eating horse meat or uh oh argentina who we love uh just sent a whole bunch of tainted meat to

00:40:37.240 china which they turned away at the border because it has some antibiotic in it that i am not going 0.60

00:40:42.820 to go find the name of but it's linked to deadly blood path like blood disorders china saw the 0.99

00:40:48.740 slightest trace of it was like fuck you no and turned it all away interject and say tainted meat 0.99

00:40:53.320 is the best cover of that soft sell song you're right if only we had musical talent we could cover 0.99

00:40:59.820 it it's called chlor chloram femicol it's an antibiotic that's been banned in animals since

00:41:12.780 1995 because of the link to serious blood disorders okay so that happened and then a

00:41:18.520 few days later I find the next story which is thankfully Florida and Texas turned away almost

00:41:25.120 30,000 pounds of Argentine beef but we turned it away because we never inspected it there are like

00:41:34.260 three levels of inspections I explain it more in the story there are three levels of inspection

00:41:38.840 that food coming into our country has to go through for safety reasons and the third one

00:41:46.040 which is the food safety and inspection service fsis they just skipped that step and it all went

00:41:55.080 to shelves and so then there was a giant recall um it might be a good time to try out vegetarianism

00:42:04.360 if you've ever been inclined or made it might I suggest ground turkey we eat that a lot in my

00:42:08.940 house it's better for you and it's not although who knows what's going on with that either

00:42:14.000 so your your related story professor Meredith here is called grocery shopping as Russian roulette

00:42:20.120 um it's your most recent one and I don't want to make you championing for me to win this but you

00:42:26.120 if you want to talk about your essay it was really you watching from the safety of England and you're

00:42:32.480 yes i was your family is watching like no lettuce no eggs no beef no blueberries

00:42:39.180 everything's dangerous everything even the like processed food is dangerous fresh food is

00:42:45.320 dangerous it's crazy my family i'm from arizona uh and so my family is still living in phoenix

00:42:50.220 and the you know it's i'm watching these recalls go out and i'm very cognizant of the fact that

00:42:56.460 just because because it's been recalled doesn't mean that there isn't other stuff that hasn't

00:43:00.520 been caught yet because i know uh like that as i point out in the article that like during the

00:43:05.360 last couple of years the the fda uh the usda have been doing about five percent of the inspections

00:43:12.400 that they are supposed to be doing and unfortunately like i point out in there that

00:43:16.820 you think that businesses would not want to kill their consumers but they don't care the the cost

00:43:23.720 of that is so diffuse for them they don't think about it in the long term uh they think about it

00:43:29.600 in the cost of i made an analogy in the article about like a butcher who's competing with another

00:43:34.820 butcher who's realized that soap costs money and he can save money and by not cleaning his tools

00:43:40.680 not buying soap okay well now you've you know sure somebody might die but what's the likelihood that

00:43:46.480 you're going to be held accountable for that if no one's doing inspections if no none of this

00:43:51.600 gets traced back to you you're not going to suffer for it at all uh and so you've made your money

00:43:56.700 your quarter one quarter two quarter three profits look great for your stockholders and that's all

00:44:01.160 that matters and you cannot trust the the the rational uh self-interest or the hand of the

00:44:09.160 market to handle this because we never could that's why we have that's why we have inspections

00:44:13.960 because yes food was killing people and we can't get rid of these systems this is why libertarianism 0.99

00:44:20.260 is fucking dumb people who are like every man for himself it's like no literally no you unless 1.00

00:44:25.420 you're planning to go hunt all your own food and grow all your own produce and never go out to a 1.00

00:44:29.920 restaurant like yeah the profit uh laissez-faire capitalism has no interest in spending more money

00:44:37.520 okay laurence is gonna need to go good luck it was amazing having you on the show i can't wait

00:44:42.220 till you're back on the next time dana don't forget to ask our question at the end i oh she's

00:44:46.600 been on the show once before but i could ask it again oh okay i think i already asked but

00:44:51.000 call me later bye love you mean it bye so that that means that um we have a competitive advantage

00:44:58.760 meredith because lawrence's cute face will not be on screen right now it's going to be one of us

00:45:03.380 oh no oh no that thing happened where i lost you i cannot hear you so this happens with streamyard

00:45:10.480 when people come or go with me about 25 of the time it is not you i hate to do this to you i

00:45:16.940 have to leave and come back there's no other way to fix this so um talk some snarky feminist theory

00:45:23.920 i'll be back in 30 seconds i'm so sorry oh scream yard yeah so uh i haven't been writing as much on

00:45:32.640 my substack lately but i am getting back into it now that my uh my thesis has been submitted um so

00:45:39.180 you're gonna have some fun stuff to look forward to uh i'm gonna i'm doing some pieces on uh lgbtq

00:45:45.180 and uh representation in film and i'm also working on a few other things i'm writing a piece about

00:45:51.740 gloria steinem right now actually uh which should be really really fun and yeah we're gonna have a

00:45:57.800 good time on the on the pod on this i'm also gonna start doing my own podcast episodes not

00:46:02.340 that i'm trying to take the daily whatever shows thunder here uh but i will be getting some new

00:46:08.520 some lives going on the on bitchy history as well so that's gonna be really fun i think

00:46:13.720 uh and yeah i've got a really fun piece coming out right now about um uh after mid-century

00:46:21.780 advertising about uh stewardesses so that's what we're doing today yeah i am looking forward to

00:46:29.380 seeing that i am so sorry that i had to just do that this is um we think it's an iphone problem

00:46:35.080 because lawrence joins from his laptop and i joined from my iphone and it only happens to me

00:46:39.640 and it only happens about 25% of the time at exits and entrances.

00:46:45.080 That, you know, it's totally fine. We had a little problem when I first,

00:46:48.440 when I first joined in and we got it sorted at the beginning too.

00:46:52.520 You're amazing. You're hired.

00:46:54.360 I think I kept them all. I kept everybody entertained briefly.

00:46:59.320 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is so embarrassing that I had to just, you know,

00:47:02.760 leave our guests to go fend. But I figured this part would be very hard if I couldn't hear you.

00:47:07.640 you. If it had only been like one minute left, I might have been like, I can't hear you, but let's

00:47:11.520 go. So to our audience, this is the fun part. Let me navigate back. Let me navigate back over here

00:47:20.840 to the window so I can see where everybody is voting. Uh-oh, I think when I opened StreamYard,

00:47:29.120 it i moved away from the from the chat i'm coming back in and uh the hard part is um

00:47:39.140 substack also didn't this is weird substack did not um i accepted the invite and it didn't

00:47:46.280 register so i am not showing as being in the live today there it is okay yeah so if y'all

00:47:53.240 aren't subscribed to me you have to go find me if you want to and i would love if you would but um

00:47:58.740 i'm not linked up at the top but do subscribe to lawrence and especially to professor meredith

00:48:03.700 because good people to read and listen to all right here i am and um oh my god shayla the 0.56

00:48:11.620 most fucked up story is that stalin was hot i mean you know i does that do i technically win 0.74

00:48:17.220 that one because if because i was the one who brought that up maybe i still win that was 0.97

00:48:23.140 maybe you still win because that was man that was some eye candy this morning i i like that

00:48:28.260 All right, here's how this works. It gives you conflicting feelings because it's like

00:48:31.460 terrible human being. Weirdly attractive in his youth. That's how Lawrence feels about Pete Hegseth.

00:48:37.620 He's like, I think he's hot. And I'm like, ew, he's gross. And he's like, would hate fuck. And 0.97

00:48:42.420 I was, that's when he said that I was like, okay, you need to print t-shirts that say would hate 0.99

00:48:47.140 fuck Hegseth because that's funny. Is that alliteration or assonance when it's an H? 0.98

00:48:52.740 Look, ask Lawrence. If he doesn't want to put it up, I'll make it and put it on my shop. That's

00:48:56.420 fine. Right? I'm not worried about it. I'm living in another country. What are they going to do to

00:49:00.940 me? Right? Oh, that must be so liberating. All right. Let's come to a vote. So if you want to

00:49:10.000 vote for Lawrence's fucked up story about, oh my God, I'm now blanking what it was about. Oh, 0.99

00:49:16.400 the video game that the White House has released a video game that encourages young boys or whoever 0.99

00:49:23.320 wants to go play video games to shoot immigrants brown people trying to get in the country the 0.99

00:49:30.780 white house has released this as a fucking video game put lawrence in the chat meredith do your 1.00

00:49:36.760 last pitch if you want to vote for if you want to vote for uh the fact that the white house is just 0.99

00:49:42.980 trying to screw up our midterm elections in whatever way that they possibly can to muddy

00:49:47.240 the waters or for my you know sad sad fate of it now living in the same country as mila yanapalos 0.99

00:49:53.240 again, you know, put Meredith in the chat. And if you want to vote for the denigration of our 1.00

00:50:01.660 food safety inspection in our country, and particularly in the tens of thousands of pounds

00:50:09.200 of mystery meat that seem to be hitting our grocery shelves now, put my name in the chat.

00:50:16.840 oh and the chat froze just to make things even more fun here on uh oh my god hang on a second let me

00:50:28.840 i gotta fully admit if i was voting i'm not sure i'd vote for my own like i'm not i'm not sure

00:50:33.560 the the i mean mine is bad certainly i'm not even saying that but in in full full openness

00:50:39.800 like i think lawrence's story might want to vote for i know do you have do you have the chat open

00:50:45.640 because Substack is open.

00:50:48.140 Can you see who people are voting for?

00:50:49.840 Because I am trying to navigate back to Substack

00:50:52.560 and I can't get the page to load.

00:50:56.260 I've got a lot.

00:50:57.280 I've got quite a few for Lawrence.

00:50:59.820 Honestly, that's kind of an even split in a lot of ways.

00:51:03.360 But I do think Lawrence has the most numbers coming in.

00:51:07.220 Yeah, we joke that we've got Pricewaterhouse in the back,

00:51:10.560 you know keeping a tally of um all of the votes coming in i sub stack is not letting me in

00:51:19.180 i kind of feel like i should um once this is over like close my computer and go like

00:51:25.580 sit in a grassy field for the day lay down i've got a very cool creepy uh 19th century

00:51:32.920 cemetery near me that i can go and take walks in uh so i might do that later oh my gosh that

00:51:39.480 sounds beautiful. Do you know the author Libby Grant? She is on Substack? She does. She live

00:51:46.320 streams from the cemetery sometimes and from the fields of sheep. She lives pretty close by to

00:51:50.940 where I live. She lives on one of the San Juan Islands out off of Seattle. I don't know if

00:51:57.040 you're familiar with this part of the world at all, but a little bit. Yeah, it's not too far

00:52:00.960 away. She did come into Seattle a month or so ago and we hung out and she is a delight. We had so

00:52:06.640 much fun. But you saying, I was like, you should go live stream from the peaceful cemetery. Okay.

00:52:11.420 If I can get signal out there, I might do it. Yes, it's beautiful. Okay. I just got back into

00:52:18.440 the, into the chat. I see no votes yet. I just see it saying Dana didn't pay her sub stack feels.

00:52:25.540 I'm not sure what that means, but maybe I didn't, I don't know. I, it's like, I'm waiting to see if

00:52:34.140 Their resident, the Daily Whatever Show has USPS whistleblower lawyer special in three minutes.

00:52:39.360 Oh, yeah.

00:52:41.240 Yes, our resident legal consultant, Ann P. Mitchell, is going live in three minutes with the USPS whistleblower.

00:52:49.360 She texted Lawrence and me late last night and was like, I'm sorry, I'm going up against the Daily Whatever Show.

00:52:54.140 It's the only time that they could do it.

00:52:56.220 And I was like, it's okay.

00:52:57.840 But she's going on right after us.

00:53:00.500 And she's like, you guys sometimes run late.

00:53:02.280 And I was like, it's okay.

00:53:03.960 try not to we'll try well we will try not to and you should all hop over because that's going to be

00:53:08.120 riveting and because anne is brilliant i always feel a lot of comfort after listening and getting

00:53:12.680 her official legal opinion on things um because it's great lawrence is the winner i'm going to

00:53:17.400 just call it that lawrence is not here i think lawrence had the the had a solid number in the

00:53:22.280 in the chat i was seeing his name pop up a lot so i i'm not even mad about it because that one

00:53:25.960 like i think i would have but i think if i was voting i would vote for that one too because that's

00:53:29.160 yeah it's it's it is a horror that the yeah and it speaks I mean we open talking about Gloria

00:53:37.560 Steinem and her passing and what that means like her ethos that I very much am aligned with is

00:53:45.360 that the culture and our cultural and relational influences are what move our politics yeah I mean

00:53:53.100 that's what I that's one of the things I'm going for because I agree with that entirely which is

00:53:57.680 Yes. Almost all of my work deals with popular culture.

00:54:01.180 Like I'm doing medical dramas for my PhD because it's such an important,

00:54:06.160 like that's the culture moves how people think about things,

00:54:09.720 how they think about what's acceptable for gender, about healthcare,

00:54:12.700 for race, all of those things. And yeah, that's,

00:54:17.140 it's one of the most fucked up things that they have that the white house has 0.99

00:54:21.160 done lately. So I completely agree. He should win. He should win that one. 0.99

00:54:24.900 Yeah. They have captured our young men.

00:54:26.480 it like I weep for my daughters I'm taking my daughter tomorrow to college on the east coast

00:54:31.720 we're flying out and uh I will be with her there for a week and um I'm so excited for her to launch

00:54:36.800 into the world and I'm also just like wow you've spent your whole life in a blue bubble here in

00:54:41.380 Seattle and uh what awaits my brilliant like very headstrong powerful child both of my children as

00:54:50.920 they enter the world i'm like godspeed my my little babies i've got my i've got two nephews

00:54:57.640 and they're young enough that they're you know not so much on the social media and things like

00:55:01.260 that but i have a lot of conversations with my sister about the uh factors of you know internet

00:55:07.600 the internet algorithm and all of those things uh this is terrifying it's terrifying i think both

00:55:12.760 of my nephews are sweet little angel babies who would never do anything wrong and they've been

00:55:17.700 raised very well but you know it is always that concern of what of what the internet and what

00:55:24.120 social media and what this kind of stuff is going to do to them so and when the highest level of

00:55:28.840 government is putting their stamp there not just their stamp of approval they're actually releasing 0.58

00:55:33.460 this as like this will be fun kids yeah and they're dehumanizing brown people they're dehumanizing 0.88

00:55:40.240 immigrants um it's so dangerous it's tragic and it's dangerous and it's disgusting so

00:55:46.760 So, Lawrence, congratulations if you're listening from the drive. 1.00

00:55:50.460 You have won, but in reality, we have all lost because this is, we lose our, yeah, elections

00:55:59.000 are now up for question, no matter what happens in either direction, unless they have a landslide

00:56:06.960 win, the election is going to be contested.

00:56:09.940 We cannot safely go to the grocery store anymore, but we cannot keep, I'm not like raising my 0.55

00:56:15.660 own chickens and cows it's here in the city it's not gonna happen does that my sister does that

00:56:20.540 good for her but i don't get most people don't have the space or skill for that so i i could not

00:56:26.260 murder i well anything probably but a cow i did like you can buy like i'm not vegetarian and my

00:56:34.740 family isn't and but like you can buy like a you know an eighth or a sixteenth of a cow that's like

00:56:40.180 a thing people do here you like split it with people so they they so you're buying the meat

00:56:45.120 directly from a local farm and uh it's pretty expensive but i was like wow maybe i should like

00:56:50.640 get a deep freeze and make sure we know exactly where it's coming from right now because

00:56:57.760 before we close out rose in the chat wanted to know what our matching shirts say

00:57:01.280 uh and rose this is a shirt from my from my merch store you can find it on

00:57:05.440 bitchy history.com uh it says well the patriarchy isn't gonna itself uh

00:57:09.840 i feel like we should hold on um i need to do this there a little bit lower uh we should do 0.79

00:57:19.240 this for like the screenshot you know that we can put with okay so on the count of three we wave

00:57:24.300 one two three with our shirts um i love this t-shirt i get a lot of funny looks when i wear

00:57:32.180 it and i get a lot of like yes i carry i wear this one and then i also i made myself a tote

00:57:36.920 bag with it on it as well and I take it grocery shopping and it's uh it's quite it's quite fun

00:57:41.400 because it looks I love it I know I think it's funny that the way um you all should go check out 1.00

00:57:48.040 bitchy history on t public first of all because your t-shirts are amazing this is the women's 0.96

00:57:53.340 one of the women's cuts extra large and it you know I I have a big rack but this is I think it's 0.96

00:57:59.360 extra funny that to read it you have to really stare at my chest that looks very huge in the

00:58:04.180 shirt. I was debating placement for a long time, but I was like, you know what? This is where

00:58:08.920 people are going to look because people are horrible. So I, you know, I think I might order

00:58:13.900 like a triple extra large just so I can get one that's not quite so tight, though. I do think

00:58:19.780 that the, um, that, that that's a funny irony of like, I'm yelling about the, the patriarchy and 0.99

00:58:26.460 also being like, okay, but stare at my tits. It's funny. It's a funny duality. The world is a weird 0.99

00:58:31.840 place on that happy note y'all please go listen to ann p mitchell go talk to her usps whistleblower

00:58:39.260 i'm going to listen in as i get ready for my work day meredith thank you thank you thank you we are

00:58:44.040 definitely let's have that star trek episode i'm serious you and lauren absolutely i can only weigh

00:58:49.800 in at the at the next gen ones but i really know the next gen ones bring me on anytime i've got

00:58:55.640 an open schedule right now so you know oh my god i love it i love it and what did you say your next

00:59:01.100 work is going to be about because it was something really good and my memory went poof uh medical

00:59:05.060 dramas how medical dramas treat women uh who are seeking abortions and uh and reproductive health

00:59:12.440 care basically is that your dissertation or is that your next essay coming to substack

00:59:16.140 oh no that's my dissertation coming up and my next uh my next essay coming to substack i am

00:59:20.980 working on an article about uh 19 like mid-century advertising about uh stewardesses uh and how

00:59:28.380 specialized that was during the age of aviation. So that's really fun. And I've got a couple more

00:59:34.040 I'm working on as well. So I'm trying to get back into the cycle. I kind of ran out of time to write

00:59:39.460 in August. So I'm trying to get back into it now. We totally get it. Lawrence and I took,

00:59:45.820 you know, we're only on one day a week right now. So that's going to continue a little while longer

00:59:49.440 because I'm going to be, you know, taking my kid to school, but it's restorative. Sometimes you

00:59:54.280 have to go live your your real life so thank you so much for making the time for us thank you to

00:59:58.680 everyone in the chat you've all been amazing we love you mean it go enjoy your fridays and your

01:00:05.000 weekends have a great day bye i need to go end it in stream yard since lawrence is not here uh oh

01:00:12.040 stream yard crashed so we might be stuck here for a moment while i okay get back in in order to end

01:00:18.360 this has just been i'll see if there's anything interesting in the comment and the comments

01:00:21.960 to comment on we're still going live uh yeah the pit is an amazing medical show i'm obsessed

01:00:27.480 with it uh it's not my it's not my dissertation corpus but it is an amazing show so i need to go

01:00:33.580 watch that one all right i am back in stream yard and i can end the show now officially

01:00:37.260 bye

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Bitchy History - September 05, 2026

TDWS： Effed-Up Friday With Professor Meredith!

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