Bonus Episode 49 PREVIEW: The LA Transit Mass Delirium Incident

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  Ooh, look at that thermal paste.

• 0:03November Kelly?

  Mmm, num, num, num, num, num, delicious.

• 0:06Speaker 00

  They try to eat it, but it's because they don't want you to become strong.

• 0:09Justin Roczniak?

  Well, it's, it's, it's just, it's just Heilman's mayonnaise, right?

• 0:13Liam McAnderson?

  It's not just Heilman's mayonnaise, it's Heilman's mayonnaise and a little bit of dill.

• 0:17Justin Roczniak?

  Oh, okay, that makes a lot of sense, yeah.

• 0:20Liam McAnderson?

  The thermal paste is to smear it, right, on your, by that.

• 0:23Speaker 00

  No, I think, I think you smear the thermal paste, right?

• 0:26Liam McAnderson?

  Oh, I like to be a slutty little bagel.

• 0:28November Kelly?

  To my bagel with the little syringe they give you with the gum.

• 0:31Liam McAnderson?

  That's antisemitism.

• 0:35Justin Roczniak?

  Uh, but, you know, as, as long as they don't scoop the bagel, they, that, that is, that is disgusting.

• 0:41November Kelly?

  That's horrifying.

• 0:42Justin Roczniak?

  That is a disgusting thing.

• 0:43Liam McAnderson?

  The legitimate reasons to scoop a bagel.

• 0:46Justin Roczniak?

  Uh huh.

• 0:46Liam McAnderson?

  Which are that tummy hurt.

• 0:48Speaker 00

  Wait, why is that a legitimate, I don't see the connection, because tummy hurt, and bread hurt tummy.

• 0:53November Kelly?

  I would, I would sooner, I would sooner die of stomach ailment than, than lose my dignity.

• 0:58Liam McAnderson?

  All right, well, you know what, talk to my wife, who makes me get my bagel scooped.

• 1:01Justin Roczniak?

  Oh my god.

• 1:02Speaker 00

  Ever critique her.

• 1:03November Kelly?

  It's a brutal thing.

• 1:04Liam McAnderson?

  Tummy hurt, and when I eat too much bagel, I poop a lot, but that's not the point. The thing we're here to talk about, bring up, bring up.

• 1:11November Kelly?

  The thing, the thing we're here to talk about is.

• 1:12Liam McAnderson?

  Is my dad, because the one time I had a female body inspector t-shirts and FBI female body inspector Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

• 1:20November Kelly?

  Uh huh.

• 1:20Liam McAnderson?

  Uh, back when I ran that parties in Myrtle Beach, don't worry about that. Uh, okay. And then my dad made me throw it out because it was a, it was not, it wasn't that it was like offensive, he's like, oh, this is kind of funny. He's like, that's really misogynist, and I was like, I got, as, as Noah put it up, outwoked by my dad.

• 1:35Speaker 00

  Oh, I thought you were gonna say because you were supporting a law enforcement agency and he was like.

• 1:41Liam McAnderson?

  I believe, I believe it was both, I believe that it was both, and he was like, that's not funny, like, because my dad, I told her to dox my dad. My dad set up a fake, uh, church in the sixties to try to waste the FBI's time.

• 1:56Speaker 00

  Wait, hold on. What type of Protestant was it?

• 2:00Liam McAnderson?

  I forget, but they they bought they bought frocks and stuff and then they would go around Yukon Laws campus trying to exercise the exercise the military recruiters.

• 2:09Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 2:12Speaker 00

  Oh, my God. Was it tax exempt? Surely must have been.

• 2:16Liam McAnderson?

  You gotta not ask me questions.

• 2:19Speaker 00

  Okay, sorry. Let us all let us all follow the liturgy of Liam's dad's church by counting down from three and then clapping.

• 2:28Justin Roczniak?

  Oh, yes. Three, two, one, mark. Okay, good.

• 2:35Speaker 00

  Damn near. I'm delayed, I think.

• 2:37Liam McAnderson?

  I think actually you were on time and Nova was late, but if I say anything.

• 2:40Speaker 00

  Why? No, I was fine. Fuck you.

• 2:42Liam McAnderson?

  I I have been introduced to the concept of time stolen.

• 2:45Speaker 00

  Uh huh. Ooh.

• 2:46Liam McAnderson?

  It was actually my wife. It was actually my wife. I this is not complaining. So think about my wife, right?

• 2:52Speaker 00

  All right, Borat, let's go.

• 2:54Liam McAnderson?

  She has no concept of how long things will take. Like, she knows what an hour is, right? But she's like, oh, you gotta leave like.

• 3:02Speaker 00

  Intellectually.

• 3:03Liam McAnderson?

  Right, right. But like, time, like, just enters her brain and then comes out in some sort of like 7/11 slurpy sludge.

• 3:10Speaker 00

  Mm hmm. Uh huh.

• 3:12Liam McAnderson?

  And and she's like, oh, you gotta leave like 7:15. I'll be there at like 7:30. And she's like, aren't you glad you left early? No, I could have been snuggled up all comfy cozy. But no, here I am at the doctor's office.

• 3:23Speaker 00

  Toasty cinnamon bun.

• 3:25Liam McAnderson?

  I am a big toasty cinnamon bun.

• 3:28Speaker 00

  Saying this more and more. Yeah. Introduce the fucking podcast. How about the mess?

• 3:33Liam McAnderson?

  We're gathered here.

• 3:34Justin Roczniak?

  We are gathered here today at the Church of Liam's Dad to do the podcast. Well, there's your problem.

• 3:39Liam McAnderson?

  All one word.

• 3:46Speaker 00

  I can't do I can't do another episode with church Latin.

• 3:50Liam McAnderson?

  We're doing it again.

• 3:54Liam McAnderson?

  So DM does ask you to do morbidism. And if I can get Jordan from Brigham Young money on here, it'll be a hell of a time.

• 3:58Speaker 00

  That'd be fantastic. The thing is, then you would have to have the FBI shirt back. Because that would be like half the episode.

• 4:05Liam McAnderson?

  Surely I could just get one online.

• 4:07November Kelly?

  Female bronze plates inspector.

• 4:09Liam McAnderson?

  I'm not, I'm not, I'm not looking for female body inspector T-shirt on Google right now.

• 4:15Speaker 00

  No, Google it right now so that all your Instagram ads are that for like three years.

• 4:19November Kelly?

  The way, the way, the way that you woke up.

• 4:20Speaker 00

  So Los Angeles, you ever heard of this?

• 4:22November Kelly?

  Woke up fire is that you get like femboy body inspector and now nobody can get mad at you because it's not misogynistic.

• 4:29Speaker 00

  So Los Angeles.

• 4:31Liam McAnderson?

  Can you sell, can we sell a femboy body inspector shirt?

• 4:34November Kelly?

  You can't give me a shirt idea every episode, but yes, yes, I will make that.

• 4:38Liam McAnderson?

  Can you make that up along with the, we are going to kill you shirt?

• 4:41November Kelly?

  Yeah. Along with that and along with the Pennsylvania Dutch Air Force. Yeah.

• 4:47Speaker 00

  And the shirt, the shirt that I have, the Boeing to die shirt, which I have almost accidentally worn to the airport three times.

• 4:57Liam McAnderson?

  Three times.

• 4:58Justin Roczniak?

  Welcome to.

• 4:59Liam McAnderson?

  Roz.

• 5:00Justin Roczniak?

  Well, there's your problem.

• 5:02Speaker 00

  It's me. Invites are running the asylum.

• 5:05Justin Roczniak?

  It's a podcast about engineering disasters.

• 5:08Liam McAnderson?

  Not if I can help it.

• 5:08Justin Roczniak?

  With slides. I'm Justin Roczniak. I'm the person who's talking right now. My pronouns are he and him. Okay, go.

• 5:16November Kelly?

  I'm November Kelly. I'm the person who's talking now. I have not yet begun to drink. My pronouns are she and her. Yay, Liam.

• 5:23Liam McAnderson?

  Oh, buddy. Yay, Liam. Hi. My name is Liam McAnderson, which is now legally my name as of last Friday.

• 5:30Justin Roczniak?

  Hell, yeah.

• 5:31Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah. Yeah. Shut up.

• 5:37Liam McAnderson?

  I already say my pronouns are he and him. And with us, we have a guest, returning guest, although not guest champion. Yeah, you're, you're, I think you podium, but you're not quite there yet.

• 5:47Speaker 00

  No, that's fine. I mean, I don't need to be, you know, I don't need to be number one. I just, I'm happy to share.

• 5:53November Kelly?

  Tonya Harding.

• 5:55Liam McAnderson?

  Just beat up Gareth like a pipe.

• 5:59Speaker 00

  I would never, I would never do that to Gareth. I would also not do that to Victoria, who once picked me up in an Acura NSX from a bar, making me look extremely cool.

• 6:11Liam McAnderson?

  Wait, wait, wait. No, real quick. First gen or second gen?

• 6:14Speaker 00

  Uh, you'd have to ask her. It was an electric one. It was electric. It was a hybrid. Yeah, fancy one. Fancy one.

• 6:20Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah.

• 6:20Speaker 00

  Uh, hi, my name is Noah Saris-Sikes. Uh, my pronouns are he, him, his. Uh, I am a, uh, community organizer in the great city of Los Angeles, California. My job changed since last time I did this podcast, so now I do it professionally.

• 6:35November Kelly?

  Frequent, frequent consequence of being on this podcast.

• 6:38Speaker 00

  Correct. Um, yeah, it's either your job or your gender, and my gender remains the same.

• 6:45November Kelly?

  Give it a minute. See how we are at the end of this.

• 6:47Speaker 00

  Yeah, exactly. And, um, also just before we start, because of that job, I have to say that none of the opinions I am about to espouse are the opinions of my employer and rather are my personal opinions as a resident of the city of Los Angeles, California. Let's go Dodgers, baby. We love the Dodgers.

• 7:04Liam McAnderson?

  No, no, don't fuck you and your deferred payments. Why would you have the most money? Why would you have the most money?

• 7:12Speaker 00

  Yeah, I was at the game where Shohei Ohtani did the 40-40 and I'm like, I'm sorry.

• 7:17November Kelly?

  I, I, I'm still not over being, being lightly outwoked by being told the pronouns are he, him, his, because I didn't include like the third one. I didn't include a hers.

• 7:27Speaker 00

  And then also, uh, Imi's, uh, and, uh, I would say in Spanish, it would be el.

• 7:33November Kelly?

  Uh huh. Great. Thank you.

• 7:34Speaker 00

  Add that.

• 7:35November Kelly?

  Mm hmm. I'm gonna, I'm gonna call Liam's dad to outwoke all of us.

• 7:41Liam McAnderson?

  Uh, you've ever been cursed at in Spanish by my dad? Cause that's a thing that's happened to me.

• 7:46Speaker 00

  That's awesome. Your dad's so cool.

• 7:49November Kelly?

  Curses in Maoist Spanish.

• 7:51Speaker 00

  Liam's dad, there is a caucus for you in DSA. It's called Red Star.

• 7:56Liam McAnderson?

  My dad was mad at Occupy when they were in Philly because he said to me directly, "These kids are pussies. Where are the riots? Where are the cops?"

• 8:07Liam McAnderson?

  He was mad that they weren't non-peace, weren't non-peaceful enough, I believe. Yeah, that they were non-violent, right? Yeah. No, no, no, we didn't riot at Pratt and Whitney. We rioted in the field next to Pratt and Whitney.

• 8:21Liam McAnderson?

  Right, actually, get the goods, kids. So here's Roz to ruin my good time.

• 8:25Justin Roczniak?

  What you see on the screen here is a large highway with a lot of traffic.

• 8:30Liam McAnderson?

  It's your butt.

• 8:32Justin Roczniak?

  The Walt Disney World monorail.

• 8:36Speaker 00

  Yeah, basically.

• 8:37Liam McAnderson?

  Oh, cool. Are we going to Epcot?

• 8:39Justin Roczniak?

  I need a, I need like sort of a Spanish guitar riff here.

• 8:43Liam McAnderson?

  We don't have one. We gotta have one somewhere. Leaving, leaving a demo for this, yeah.

• 8:50Justin Roczniak?

  La Sombrita.

• 8:52Liam McAnderson?

  Oh, cool. I see it's doing effective work there.

• 8:55Speaker 00

  Yeah, I just wanted to say, a Los Angeles politico, who I will not name, once said to me, "Yeah, what we needed was a sombrera," which is...

• 9:08Speaker 00

  It's true.

• 9:09Liam McAnderson?

  This is 61 fucking slides.

• 9:11Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, but some of them are just like gags.

• 9:13Liam McAnderson?

  YouTube in real life. Me too.

• 9:16Speaker 00

  I hope so. I yearn for this.

• 9:18Justin Roczniak?

  We're gonna, we're gonna all go to Los Angeles and we are going to... Can't say that on YouTube.

• 9:23Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah, me and Victoria are gonna swing by in the NSX. We're gonna reverse Tanya Harding your ass. Yeah. Yeah, with me perched on the roof like a game of Call of Duty Warzone.

• 9:33Speaker 00

  30 years from now, Sofyan Stevens makes a song about me because of a terrible biopic.

• 9:40Justin Roczniak?

  We're gonna, we're gonna build, we're gonna build a contraption or, you know, an infernal machine of some kind.

• 9:46Speaker 00

  Yeah, it's funny you're saying this. I'm not the one holding up the pot. I'm, I'm, I'm...

• 9:51Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah, but I get paid to do this.

• 9:52Speaker 00

  That's true. I'm volunteering.

• 9:54Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah, but...

• 9:55Speaker 00

  Community member.

• 9:55Justin Roczniak?

  Today, we're gonna talk about transit in Los Angeles, but first we have to do the goddamn news.

• 10:09Justin Roczniak?

  All right. So, uh, earlier this week on Monday, uh, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, uh, canceled a grant for the otherwise fully privately funded, uh, Texas Central Railway, uh, a high-speed railroad from, uh, Dallas to Houston, so that people from Dallas can escape it and go to a place with culture. Um,

• 10:33Liam McAnderson?

  True. Real.

• 10:35Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah. So this is, uh, it saved the taxpayers a whopping $60 million, which I think is 20 cents a piece. Um, you know, and, and this is, this was a grant to M-Track to sort of keep this project that's been going on for several decades alive. Cause they, they got through most of the permitting. They got most of the design done. That was all financed privately. Essentially, M-Track brought on Andy Byford, you know, legendary New York City,

• 11:04Liam McAnderson?

  Rail genius.

• 11:04Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah. The train daddy, as they called him.

• 11:06Speaker 00

  Adventure of the Byford Dolphin.

• 11:09Justin Roczniak?

  Yes. And, uh, you know, he managed to keep this project on life support until they could find new private investors, cause the old investors got spooked by a bunch of lawsuits that the company won. Um, so,

• 11:23November Kelly?

  Investors hate winning, it turns out.

• 11:25Justin Roczniak?

  It, it turns out, yeah. Well, the big dispute was they had, um, in order to sort of, they did something clever to make this project happen, which is someone went through a bunch of old, uh, old documents at the Texas State Archives and like, hmm, someone had a charter for an interurban railroad back in like 1890, uh, from Dallas to Houston. And, uh, the company just never built any track. And then they tracked down the owners and then they bought the charter for like 20 bucks. And, uh, you know, all of a sudden, oh, we're a real railroad and we've been afforded all these privileges, like exercising eminent domain, having our own police department, all this other crap.

• 12:06Liam McAnderson?

  Sorry. What was that second one?

• 12:08November Kelly?

  This is, this is like the Crusader Kings thing of like forging a claim on somewhere. It's like, you, you wait for the, you know, your fucking court archivist to scheme long enough and sooner or later you are Duke of Central Texas.

• 12:22Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 12:23Liam McAnderson?

  Isn't this how, uh, correct me if I'm wrong, the Pennsylvania, uh, back asked their way into DC or Baltimore?

• 12:30Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah.

• 12:30Liam McAnderson?

  By just buying someone else's charter and just saying, yep, that, I don't know what you're talking about.

• 12:35Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah, they they bought a charter to build a railroad to Port Tobacco, Maryland, which they were allowed 20 miles of branch line. So at a place called Bowie, Maryland, the main line branched off very abruptly towards Port Tobacco. And then there was this little branch line to this little known place called Washington DC.

• 12:59Liam McAnderson?

  I've heard of this.

• 13:00Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah. Maryland is also where Six Flags is. Oh, yeah. Yeah, with their lot of. So anyway, this has been in development hell for a while. A bunch of NIMBYs did a bunch of lawsuits against it. Mostly a bunch of people who say they're small family farmers and own, you know, a trillion acres. Yeah, a ranch roughly the size of Rhode Island. Exactly, exactly. So then this this $60 billion grant that the Secretary of Transportation has so graciously seen to cancel to save us the the taxpayers money was there to facilitate about $40 billion in private funding.

• 13:38Liam McAnderson?

  Oh, so he's stepping on corporations' rights.

• 13:41November Kelly?

  Well, some of that some of that funding could have been woke is the thing.

• 13:44Justin Roczniak?

  That's a good point.

• 13:45Liam McAnderson?

  Get in there, dad.

• 13:46November Kelly?

  The money had pronouns.

• 13:48Justin Roczniak?

  He did also say today, however, while criticizing California High Speed Rail, you know, this is a wasteful government boondoggle. Why doesn't private industry step in and fund it?

• 13:59Liam McAnderson?

  Well.

• 14:00Justin Roczniak?

  I don't know.

• 14:01Liam McAnderson?

  Cheese, I don't know.

• 14:02Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah.

• 14:04November Kelly?

  So it's cool that Elon Musk put Sean Duffy in one of the fallout like bomb collars. Or he just is minded to be like this anyway.

• 14:13Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah, exactly. And this is this that the Texas Central Railroad, I'm sure could be a whole episode on its own. It's just disappointing to see, okay, you know, this thing was so close to happening. And then it just gets curb stomped by a fucking moron from reality television.

• 14:29November Kelly?

  It's so funny that they had done the hard part, but the hard part was not building anything.

• 14:34Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah, no, I was getting through. It was winning every single lawsuit that got thrown at him.

• 14:39Liam McAnderson?

  Incredible.

• 14:40Speaker 00

  Are you tired of winning? It turns out, yes.

• 14:43Justin Roczniak?

  Apparently, yes, they are.

• 14:46Liam McAnderson?

  Suffering from success.

• 14:48Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah, so. DJ Khaled. Uh, there will be no high speed rail, public or private, uh, in the United States, except for Bright Line West, but that's, I don't know. I think they might also do something stupid to that. Pretty soon, because they're relying on, uh, low interest government loans for that one. So, you know, who knows? Anyway, that's my first rant. My second rant is in other news.

• 15:15November Kelly?

  See, I'm, I'm, I'm like trying for the phrase. I'm like, I'm inadvertently like clicker trained, but for the phrase, in other news, and that's what makes me hit the thing.

• 15:26Speaker 00

  You're just walking down the street and somebody on the phone is like, in other news, and suddenly you're like,

• 15:30November Kelly?

  I dive for my mixer to try and find the thing.

• 15:33Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah, like saving Brian. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

• 15:35Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah. Absent new funding from, uh, the state government, which may or may not happen. We're about to lose about half of SEPTA.

• 15:43Speaker 00

  Yeah, we're off to get skull fucked.

• 15:45Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah.

• 15:45November Kelly?

  Geez.

• 15:46Speaker 00

  Sorry.

• 15:48Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 15:49November Kelly?

  It's like that song from Hail Season, No Trains.

• 15:51Justin Roczniak?

  We have this sort of, um, every couple of years, we have a huge budget crisis at SEPTA, the Philadelphia Transit Authority. Where, you know, they have to come out with the big scary map that says, hey, I mean, if we don't get the funding we want, uh, we're going to have to do all these horrible cuts. Um, this time around, they have essentially decided, all right, we're going to cut about half the bus routes. That's not shown on this map. Uh, we're killing our trolley in North Philly, the 15. Uh, we're killing the subway Broadridge spur. The number 10 trolley, um, and every regional rail line that uses M track. Cause I guess they have to pay a big lease to run those, something like $60 million a year, which is pretty crazy.

• 16:37November Kelly?

  Trying a lot of different tactics to get you to buy a Tesla.

• 16:40Justin Roczniak?

  And then also, um, also a big, uh, big fare hike is in the cards. Um, you know, this is, again, this happens every couple of years. Usually what happens is, you know, eventually legislature caves and they're like, yeah, we'll give you slightly less than you asked for. And then, um, You still wind up with permanent service cuts, but you know, this is, I don't know that it's starting to get sick and tired of this happening every couple of years.

• 17:09November Kelly?

  It's cool. It's cool. I didn't know this. I didn't know SEPTA operated like the, the federal government. We way you just get like shutdowns and then it limps forward a bit, you know?

• 17:17Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that, that's sort of how we work. This is every time Noah texts me to complain about Los Angeles transit. I'm like, damn, you people are like building new lines and stuff. Holy shit. I would simply. We're struggling to keep on, hold on to the ones we got.

• 17:34November Kelly?

  You're like the kid drowned at the bottom of the pool and the meme.

• 17:39Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah.

• 17:39Speaker 00

  Look, I would simply pass a half cent sales, sales tax like four times. All right. It's fine.

• 17:46Justin Roczniak?

  No, no, that, that's, uh, that. Can't do that. We did this. We did this. We did the soda, the soda tax.

• 17:52Speaker 00

  What? Do you have Pennsylvania?

• 17:54Justin Roczniak?

  That may eventually fund one rec center. It was for pre K. It was for pre K, man.

• 18:00Speaker 00

  Hold on. Do you have like Pennsylvania Howard Jarvis?

• 18:03November Kelly?

  Who the fuck is Howard Jarvis?

• 18:05Speaker 00

  Sorry. This is something we will get to later in the episode, but Howard Jarvis is probably one of the Californians with the highest body counts. That I can currently think of because of the.

• 18:15November Kelly?

  Stiff competition.

• 18:16Speaker 00

  Yeah, we'll get to it. Anyway, sorry. That's for the Californians. Um, my, my new adopted people, I guess.

• 18:24Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah. So, yeah, we're, we're in, we're, we're in pretty shitty state at the moment. The one thing I will say is that I would imagine if they are trying to cut the paoli local up here, um, the old R5, um, someone's going to make a big stink in the legislature. Yeah, let's hope. You know, cause there's enough rich and powerful people up there that they're gonna, they're gonna have problems with this. That's still a, a fairly wealthy, you know, computer train, you know, that, that's a lot of, there's a lot of, uh. Mainline scumbags. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Horrible WASPs.

• 19:00November Kelly?

  Yeah, you can't do this to the nice train.

• 19:04Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah, exactly. Oh, well, everyone who takes SEPTA as a criminal, just fucking do us a favor and jump. Well, yeah, this is where the white collar criminals live. Yeah.

• 19:13Liam McAnderson?

  Sorry.

• 19:14November Kelly?

  Yeah, I'm against subway expansion because I don't want white collar criminals to have access to different parts of the city. You could just get like a subway train full of guys who are there to like embezzle from you, you know?

• 19:28Justin Roczniak?

  Help by being embezzled.

• 19:32November Kelly?

  But just like a train full of the guys who like made the Joker pop off like that, you know?

• 19:38Speaker 00

  The embezzling of Pelham 123, thank you.

• 19:40Liam McAnderson?

  Oh, I'd fucking watch that movie.

• 19:42November Kelly?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 19:44Justin Roczniak?

  So yeah, this is a, this is a whole kettle of fish here. I guess we'll, we'll see what happens. These cuts don't go into effect until like, uh,

• 19:51Liam McAnderson?

  July?

• 19:52Justin Roczniak?

  December or something. The cuts start in July, but the, the big cuts don't happen until sometime in winter.

• 19:59November Kelly?

  You, you think, you think the power grid will still be running then?

• 20:04Justin Roczniak?

  Well, I mean, it depends on which parts. I, I mean, if, if Safe Harbor Dam is still running, there may be, there may be a national, there, there may be a national blackout, but the 25 hertz generators at Safe Harbor Dam will still be running because they're on a separate circuit from everything else.

• 20:23Speaker 00

  That's crazy. Ideally by then, uh, President Scheinbaum will have initiated the Reconquista, thereby re-adding California back to Mexico and we'll be fine. So, uh,

• 20:34Liam McAnderson?

  No, but you're going into the sea.

• 20:35Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah.

• 20:36Speaker 00

  No, not the sea.

• 20:38Justin Roczniak?

  That's a lot of circuit breakers to install.

• 20:41Speaker 00

  Not the sea. That's where we dump our trash.

• 20:47Speaker 00

  And car batteries.

• 20:48Justin Roczniak?

  That's where the, that's where the batteries are.

• 20:50Liam McAnderson?

  What's a pirate's favorite computing language?

• 20:52Speaker 00

  C, C++?

• 20:55Liam McAnderson?

  You're supposed to say R.

• 20:56Speaker 00

  Uh, I forgot about that one.

• 20:58Liam McAnderson?

  And then, and then I answered, no, it's, it'd be the sea.

• 21:01Justin Roczniak?

  It'd be the sea, yeah.

• 21:03November Kelly?

  I, I, I still think Pearl is a better answer, but go on.

• 21:06Liam McAnderson?

  Pearl.

• 21:08Speaker 00

  Why are they all not?

• 21:09Justin Roczniak?

  What's a, what's a pirate's favorite element?

• 21:12Liam McAnderson?

  Argon?

• 21:13Justin Roczniak?

  No, it's gold.

• 21:20November Kelly?

  Treasure chest full of useless argon.

• 21:25Liam McAnderson?

  What am I supposed to do with this? I would divide this into pieces of eight.

• 21:32Speaker 00

  Finally, the argon diplo.

• 21:35Justin Roczniak?

  All right, all right. Jarring shift in tone. In other news.

• 21:40November Kelly?

  Yeah.

• 21:42November Kelly?

  The slide is 25 hours long. Yeah. Where do you, where do you want to start? My, the UK Supreme Court just fucking detransitioned my ass today.

• 21:51Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I heard about that one.

• 21:54Liam McAnderson?

  All these ghouls throw every single last one of them.

• 21:58November Kelly?

  I'm, I'm relying on Devon.

• 22:01Justin Roczniak?

  That's gonna be a long bleep.

• 22:02Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah. I don't give a fuck. Sorry, Dev. Love you. But, uh, yeah, no, I, oh, man, this, this is like a 10K rant where it's just like, uh, the president of El Salvador, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, sorry, Devon, I'm getting my money's worth. Uh, everyone who works for ICE, uh, no, it's not coming for the live shows. I can say whatever the fuck I want.

• 22:23November Kelly?

  It's true. It's true.

• 22:25Liam McAnderson?

  JK Rowling, all these people, all these ghouls.

• 22:30Liam McAnderson?

  And every single fucking one of them.

• 22:32Speaker 00

  May I add, may I add, it is very important to me that in the coming, sort of, uh, shall we say, years of lead, that somebody at some point, uh, JD Vance and feeds him his own before him in the back of the head. So.

• 22:48November Kelly?

  Do we, do we know, do we know what a?

• 22:51Liam McAnderson?

  I, I. I don't think we should. I think we, I think we get him with a, my dad's $5 out from Walmart. Use that.

• 23:01Justin Roczniak?

  That may have already happened.

• 23:06November Kelly?

  That's why he looks like that. Someone's still able to get an orchiactum.

• 23:10Justin Roczniak?

  So, yeah, um, well, yeah. Where do we start with the horrors?

• 23:15November Kelly?

  El Salvador.

• 23:16Justin Roczniak?

  El Salvador is pretty bad. Um, they're, they sent, uh, a bunch of guys down there to the Gulag that they have down there. Who have done no crimes.

• 23:26Liam McAnderson?

  Not that it matters.

• 23:27November Kelly?

  People got out of the Gulag.

• 23:28Liam McAnderson?

  Right.

• 23:29November Kelly?

  Nazis got out of the Gulag. They sent, they sent like Vafanas S guys back from the Gulag. Whereas the point of this is that they will not send back a completely innocent man.

• 23:39Liam McAnderson?

  Right. He's disappeared.

• 23:40Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah. So.

• 23:41Speaker 00

  Uh, Kilmar Abadigo Garcia.

• 23:44Justin Roczniak?

  Right. And then, uh, there was a senator who went down there today.

• 23:47Liam McAnderson?

  Van Holland from, uh, Van Houn from Maryland.

• 23:50November Kelly?

  Yeah.

• 23:55Liam McAnderson?

  This is the best we can fucking do. Like, again, from lamp posts, every single last goddamn one of these ghouls from a fucking lamp post. I am gonna make it look like Miracle on 34th Street in this bitch.

• 24:07Justin Roczniak?

  I believe they're sending down.

• 24:09November Kelly?

  Giant male sex.

• 24:12Justin Roczniak?

  They're sending down a delegation from the House of Representatives sometime in the near future to go, I don't know, argue with the prison guards.

• 24:21November Kelly?

  AOC can get another like barbed wire photo up.

• 24:24Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah, I think the, uh, the, the, the, some court today is like trying to hold the administration in contempt, like criminal contempt.

• 24:34Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah. It's gonna be the same thing as the Indian Removal Act. The judge has made, they've made their ruling not let them enforce it.

• 24:39Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah. Well, they might be a little bit better at enforcing it this time because there's, you know, there's, we might see like an armed standoff between like US Marshals and, um.

• 24:50Liam McAnderson?

  JD Vance with the heart attack gun.

• 24:54Liam McAnderson?

  Done. We'll pay you extra for this.

• 24:57Speaker 00

  Must use the Havana syndrome, Ray, for one last job.

• 25:01November Kelly?

  And to be clear, this deportation unilaterally to the El Salvador like forever prison is something that is wrong to do to people who are guilty.

• 25:11Liam McAnderson?

  Right. Exactly. I wanted to say.

• 25:12November Kelly?

  Absolutely no clue that like any of them are. We know that at least like a bunch of them aren't. And there's no due process whatsoever. There's no sort of like. Constitutional settlement left unless there are like some kind of consequences for this that make sure that it can't happen again. And I don't see that coming out of like, uh, anything other than, uh, Liam, your thing.

• 25:39Liam McAnderson?

  Oh, oh, from Lampostia.

• 25:40Speaker 00

  Yeah. Also, if there's another democratic president, um, now as, as a, as a socialist, I am against imperialist interventions in Latin America.

• 25:51November Kelly?

  Of course.

• 25:51Speaker 00

  However, an anti-imperialist intervention in Latin America that ends with Naid Boukela's

• 26:01Liam McAnderson?

  Like a big festive kazoo.

• 26:03Speaker 00

  Yeah. Or like, you know, they just, they using his decorated Christmas tree, things of that nature.

• 26:10Liam McAnderson?

  Oh, we're gonna get, this is, this episode.

• 26:12November Kelly?

  Yeah. I'd say, I'd say, I'd say it's a shameless plug, but it is a shameful plug. But if you want to understand a bit about Naid Boukela and how he got that way, uh, there's a bunch of stuff you can read, but we just did an episode of No Gods No Mayors about him.

• 26:27Justin Roczniak?

  I just, I just listened to that. It was really good.

• 26:30Speaker 00

  Yeah. You can check out the podcast. Well, Mayor is your problem for that.

• 26:33Justin Roczniak?

  Yeah.

• 26:35Speaker 00

  Thank you. I, I didn't use that on the episode I was on and it's been festering in my mind until I got it out.

• 26:40Justin Roczniak?

  One of the, one of the things that like, I thought was kinda, you know, particularly bizarre about the situation is that the way the deportation flights are set up, it's like, okay, they, they shackel you to your seat. So if there's an emergency on the plane that requires an evacuation, you just die.

• 27:02Liam McAnderson?

  That's a feature, not a bug.

• 27:03Speaker 00

  Yeah. They have flight attendants on those flights for what? Like, what the fuck?

• 27:09Justin Roczniak?

  A lot of them have been refusing to, uh, to, to fly on them. That was in a pro public article.

• 27:14November Kelly?

  Completely shackled about to be taken to the like torture disappearance prison. And they hand me the little like block cookie. And I'm like, cheers. Thanks. This is really like, this has helped a lot.

• 27:24Liam McAnderson?

  Trying to get like one of the mini bottles of wine.

• 27:26Speaker 00

  What's the, uh, what's the, what's the delicious ginger cookie they sell on American flights that I like? What? The Biscoff? There we go. Yeah.

• 27:33Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah, all human beings are entitled to due process and a Biscoff.

• 27:37November Kelly?

  Yeah, I believe that. I think they should amend the constitution.

• 27:41Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah, schools from lamp posts, every single last goddamn one of them. These people are not your friends. You don't owe these people a scrap of dignity. You owe each other a scrap of dignity.

• 27:51November Kelly?

  And like, if you do get a democratic president, right?

• 27:56Liam McAnderson?

  If we're ever allowed to vote again, right?

• 27:57November Kelly?

  Yeah, if you're ever allowed to vote again, and if you're ever allowed to have a free election and a Democrat wins that election, then that Democrat almost certainly keeps the El Salvador program going, but puts a human face on it.

• 28:09Justin Roczniak?

  Probably am.

• 28:11Liam McAnderson?

  We're gonna dress them all in skins. Yeah, yeah, I'll be minimalist brown prison uniforms in the disappearing prison. Yeah.

• 28:19November Kelly?

  Obama in Guantanamo Bay again, where it's like, well, obviously this is horrible. We're gonna look into closing it for like eight years and then, you know.

• 28:26Speaker 00

  I mean, not to be an optimist.

• 28:28Liam McAnderson?

  Side of history with Harvard.

• 28:30Speaker 00

  Not to be an optimist, but unfortunately, the only thing that's getting me through this is an unshakable, the unshakable knowledge that, of course, the eternal victory of Marxism-Leninism is at hand. But I also think that, like, I do think that average people are so fucking mad about this, like, generally.

• 28:53Justin Roczniak?

  Those senior citizens yelling at Chuck Grassley. That was great.

• 28:56Liam McAnderson?

  Oh, so I can just stop paying my $1,200 fine? Okay, asshole.

• 28:59Speaker 00

  Yeah, no, I mean, like, people are so mad about all this shit. Like, I don't think you can really, I do think while a lot of the shitty stuff will kind of pass into a democratic administration, I think like this stuff, you can't really continue. I mean, the amount of people who are at their fucking limit in terms of what they were tolerated, were tolerated.

• 29:23November Kelly?

  I mean, I will believe when I see, and by see, I mean, somebody starts [BLEEP] ICE agents. I don't, like, absent that, it feels like this is just gonna be like baked in now, whatever happens. So.

• 29:39November Kelly?

  You know.

• 29:39Speaker 00

  How about the Mets?

• 29:40Liam McAnderson?

  How about the Mets? I thought you liked the Dodgers.

• 29:43Speaker 00

  Uh, my dad trained me.

• 29:45Liam McAnderson?

  money. Okay. Well, I, I, I'm sure your dad is a lovely man. I have nothing but respect. I'm here as your great son. It's not the fucking point. Go Phillies.

• 29:55Speaker 00

  Well, my dad said anytime there's a lull in a conversation, you can just say, how about the Mets? And somebody's gonna have an opinion that that's true.

• 30:02November Kelly?

  That is true. That's gonna, that's gonna move things. Gonna move things on.

• 30:06Liam McAnderson?

  Well, we're hiding ghouls from lampposts, one.

• 30:11Justin Roczniak?

  Bye. I can't, I can't believe you're, you're making, you know, named,

• 30:17Justin Roczniak?

  violent threats against Mr. Met.

• 30:20November Kelly?

  I'm gonna. Mr. Met is spiritually an ice agent, even if he's not really one.

• 30:25Liam McAnderson?

  All right.

• 30:26November Kelly?

  And he might be. We don't know who's under there. We don't know what he does the other six days of the week.

• 30:30Liam McAnderson?

  We do.

• 30:31Speaker 00

  We don't know. We don't know Mr. Met. Okay. We don't know who he is. We don't know what he's doing. Who is he?

• 30:37Liam McAnderson?

  We're all doing Shiva's plugs. Uh, on 10,000 losses, my Philly sports podcast. Uh, we did rank Musk, Muskots, mascots by fuckability.

• 30:46November Kelly?

  Musk.

• 30:47Liam McAnderson?

  And Mrs. Mrs. Met could get it.

• 30:49November Kelly?

  Oh, Mrs. Met is, yeah, supremely.

• 30:50Justin Roczniak?

  Obviously, yeah.

• 30:51Speaker 00

  And he has a beautiful wife, Mrs. Met. Do we like Mrs. Met? And we do. And she's been very strong.

• 30:59Speaker 00

  Sorry, I just.

• 31:00November Kelly?

  Least, least fuckable. I know you've been over this, but like least fuckable mascot, obviously still Purdue Pete.

• 31:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 31:07Liam McAnderson?

  He hawks my drink.

• 31:10Liam McAnderson?

  The Providence Friar is pretty far up there.

• 31:13Speaker 00

  What about the Riz D? What about the Riz D? Um, mascot for the Nads? Are you familiar with the Nads?

• 31:19Liam McAnderson?

  The Riz D mascot?

• 31:21Speaker 00

  Uh, no, but I would like you to Google. I would like you to.

• 31:24Liam McAnderson?

  Are we talking about scrotty? God damn.

• 31:26Speaker 00

  Yeah. Scrotty.

• 31:28Justin Roczniak?

  What the fuck?

• 31:32Liam McAnderson?

  So, uh, the Rhode Island schools.

• 31:35November Kelly?

  I mean, definitionally fuckable, right? I, I feel like we're getting a little bit off topic here with of the horrors, right?

• 31:42Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah. Back to the horrors.

• 31:43Justin Roczniak?

  No, no, I, I, I am supporting, uh, Zhongshu Huge Horse Baseball Club this year.

• 31:49November Kelly?

  Yeah.

• 31:49Justin Roczniak?

  Of course, yeah.

• 31:51Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah. I, uh, I. Like monetarily?

• 31:53November Kelly?

  I, I, I am supporting the People's Liberation Army this year if they attempt an amphibious landing in El Salvador to liberate.

• 32:00Liam McAnderson?

  I'm seeing the shine bomb. Come, uh, come over there, we'll direct you.

• 32:05Justin Roczniak?

  Um, yeah.

• 32:06Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah, I've been hanging these schools from lampposts, uh, but, uh, before we get, is that it for news? I mean, yeah.

• 32:13Speaker 00

  If we're doing shameless plugs, if we're doing.

• 32:15Justin Roczniak?

  I continue to get mad.

• 32:17Speaker 00

  Get organized, um, you know, have a plan, meet, uh, talk to your friends about organizing, scream at your elected representatives as much as possible. Talk to your friends on Signal, uh, join an organization, it doesn't have to be DSA, but I mean, I, that's the one I'm in.

• 32:33November Kelly?

  IWW, baby. You know you want to. Just, just get some letters, you know?

• 32:38Speaker 00

  Get some letters, you do get cool jackets and shirts out of that, but then also, you know.

• 32:42Liam McAnderson?

  We'll say.

• 32:42Justin Roczniak?

  Get a lawyer, buy a generator.

• 32:44Liam McAnderson?

  If you feel comfortable doing so, learn how to shoot a gun.

• 32:47November Kelly?

  Mm-hmm, absolutely.

• 32:48Speaker 00

  It's fun.

• 32:48November Kelly?

  But, uh, by the way, uh, I, I will say, one of the kind of not for the last time shameless indictments of, uh, like, the American labor union movement is Kilmar Brogo Garcia, union man, he is a union member. Um, and his union is standing by him, but that's about it. None of the others seem to really give that much of a fuck.

• 33:14Speaker 00

  I think like a, like a roofers' union or like a steel, I don't know, I've seen a couple of unions.

• 33:18Liam McAnderson?

  Fitters Union, I think said something, yeah.

• 33:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, threatened some sort of labor actions, but yeah, I mean, it's not great.

• 33:23Liam McAnderson?

  Not a good enough. Um, the other thing is, uh, oh, I had something for, oh, the, the helicopter crashed into the Hudson, we know.

• 33:30November Kelly?

  We'll get to.

• 33:31Liam McAnderson?

  Well, yeah, we're sorry.

• 33:33November Kelly?

  Helicopter, never ever get in a helicopter.

• 33:35Liam McAnderson?

  50,000 movie parks looking for a place to crash.

• 33:37November Kelly?

  I, I, I do appreciate that helicopters as communists have seen the direction that the fascists want to go and have decided to start like killing rich people first. Um, so, you know, I appreciate that.

• 33:47Speaker 00

  Yeah, the, you know, why not?

• 33:50November Kelly?

  Um, it's very, it's very sad or whatever.

• 33:54Speaker 00

  I have to remain unfortunately optimistic about the American people.

• 34:00Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah, if I don't, I'll kill myself. Exactly.

• 34:02Speaker 00

  Yeah, so, you know, we continue to fight.

• 34:06November Kelly?

  I mean, it's like, it's like, you know, the old leftist line, right? Like, my enemy is not the American people. My enemy is the American government and about 20% of the American people, which I think I could probably take them.

• 34:18Liam McAnderson?

  I, yeah, oh, yeah. You stand on my shoulders. We'll fuck some people up. I have a shameless plug. So I have a coworker who shall remain, she shall not remain nameless, but her grandson will because he's the minor. He is looking, we are looking to raise money for him to have, this is a, can we, can we shift the, can we do the next slide? So I don't have to look at this while I try to be good.

• 34:41November Kelly?

  Yeah, sure.

• 34:44Liam McAnderson?

  I, I was saying that not to, not to ignore the issue of the day, but because the.

• 34:47November Kelly?

  I got you. I got you. I got you.

• 34:50Liam McAnderson?

  We are raising money so we can get him a handicapped van. He has rare genetic disorder. He needs transportation. Handicap vans are stupid expensive because you have to basically reverse engineer them. That link will be in the show description and the amount helps. We are very grateful for it. Thank you very much. The other thing is, by the time this goes out, I should have gotten a promotion.

• 35:12November Kelly?

  Yay.

• 35:13Speaker 00

  Yay.

• 35:14November Kelly?

  Congratulations.

• 35:15Liam McAnderson?

  Yeah, thank you.

• 35:17November Kelly?

  You finally made the co-host after years of like apprentice host.

• 35:21Speaker 00

  You're not an independent contractor anymore.