On this episode of Thick & Thin I talk about what it's like to be a grown-up dad and how it's different than being a kid in a daycare center. I also talk about how a grown up dad would react to Michael Cohen s revelation that Trump was planning to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. And I talk a little bit about my own dad growing up in the 70s and early 80s and how he would have reacted to the news of the day. I also discuss the fact that a grownup dad would have no idea that his dad was gay. And finally, I give my thoughts on the Trump Tower conspiracy theory and why I think it's a good idea to have a statue of a woman in New York City that has a lot of statues of women in it. I don't know what else to say, it's just what you need to hear to get the full picture of what's going on in the world of the world's most powerful man in the real estate industry and why it's good to be an adult in the 21st century. Enjoy, and tweet me what you think! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - My dad would never have gone to a bar in his 20s or 30s. 4:30 - What would your dad do when he was a kid? 6:40 - What's the difference between a dad and a kid who grew up in a working class family? 8:15 - How a dad should be? 9:00 | My dad grew up? 11:20 - How gay is your dad? 12:30 | How gay? 15:00 16:20 | What would a dad do? 17:40 | What's a dad look like? 18:15 | When would your Dad come across an article like that? 19:40 22:30 21:00 Is your dad come across a piece of news article? 26:00 Can you believe this shit? 27:10 | What s going on here? 29:00 Are you gay? 32: What s your dad's reaction to this story? 32:00 What sis your dad s reaction to something? 33: What would you think of this? 35:00 Do you know how gay this whole thing is? 36:00 + 33:10 37:20 39:00
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00:00:01.000Being permanently suspended from Twitter is good for your mental health.
00:00:06.000One thing I've learned from it all is that I'm a 48 year old and I'm reading the musings and missives of children.
00:00:16.000Like all these, you know, female comedy writers who got affirmative action to some job at SNL or something and you're reading their opinions of Trump.
00:00:28.000He'd be with people he worked with, he'd have lunch with a client or something, and then he'd go, maybe on the way home, he'd stop by the pub, if he had no men's clubs, and have a drink with maybe some blue-collar guys or guys that didn't exactly have his same job.
00:00:44.000I'm talking about my dad, which, who was middle class, although he grew up working class.
00:00:49.000So, the biggest variance you'd have wouldn't even be male-female.
00:00:52.000It would be middle class, working class.
00:00:55.000Like a working class guy might, on his way home, go to a pub and then there's some suit there and then they talk for a little bit.
00:05:10.000Um, not that they get molested, but that they get falsely accused.
00:05:13.000So, the way he got in trouble at West Point is he goes in there, and, uh, they investigate, they say, this woman says you sexually assaulted her, you were making out with her against her will, he goes, that's not true, I have evidence, blah, blah, blah.
00:05:23.000We went to this bar on June 6th, and we were there with these people, and they saw me, and they saw us making out, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:05:28.000I don't know the exact details on what his proof was, but he was exonerated.
00:05:31.000Then he goes back the next day, and he goes, oh wait, sorry, I said June 6th, I meant June 10th.
00:07:57.000And this sort of myth that everyone's starving... I met this guy
00:08:01.000Uh, in Times Square, I was doing my MOS, and he's doing push-ups to stop bullying, and his contention is that, um, that kids in school bully because they're hungry, and if they had free lunch programs, or free breakfast programs, sometimes that's the only meal they get.
00:08:15.000And I think, yeah, sometimes it is the only meal I get, because their mom is too lazy to make them breakfast.
00:08:21.000I did an article about this on Tackymag.
00:09:42.000It's so impoverished up where he is that when a corrections officer walks into a restaurant, he's like a rapper.
00:09:49.000Like, people wait on him hand and foot, and there's people being super polite, and, you know, he gets his food before everyone else, and... Because he's one of the only jobs there.
00:10:37.000And then Mark Ruffalo's takeaway is, we don't want to risk poisoning the water.
00:10:41.000Even though 90% of our gas comes from fracking all over America.
00:10:47.000But he's worried about his water supply.
00:10:49.000So to make sure his water supply is 101% guaranteed, he punishes all these poor people in that area and says, no, you can't have an industry up here.
00:11:10.000And now that all the conservatives are gone and all the fun people like me and Milo, it is particularly egregious.
00:11:15.000And there's all these rules out now, like you can't compliment Proud Boys, for example, or I think Milo, or that gets shut down.
00:11:23.000So even if you say, I'm a liberal, but I don't know, they should get a break, you're shut down.
00:11:27.000So now the echo chamber is quadruplified.
00:11:33.000And you end up with a lot of weird anti-Semitism, like Laura Loomer yesterday.
00:11:37.000She handcuffed herself to the front of the building and yes, it was bombastic and a little bit clumsy at times, but at least she's out there doing something.
00:11:49.000So much of Twitter is people literally sitting on their asses telling other people that they're a joke.
00:11:57.000The more, the less you accomplish, the more you trivialize others' accomplishments.
00:12:04.000And, through the silliness of it all, it was pretty effective.
00:12:08.000She was the number one story on Twitter, and then the number two story on world Twitter.
00:12:11.000So, number one story in America, in all of Twitter, on a platform she's banned on.
00:12:15.000And her contention was, uh, this is kind of anti-Semitic, the way you let Hamas on, and you let, um, Farrakhan on, and you censor Jews when they seem a little grumpy about Islam.
00:12:31.000And, um, boy, this app's getting real political.
00:12:35.000And then, above her head, one of Sabo's guys built this big sign that said, that had her last two tweets, and it said, not banned for hate speech.
00:12:46.000And the not banned, by the way, he cut off the top of his finger when he was putting this up, because they tried to open the door, and then he tried to shove the door, and then they slammed it shut, and his finger was in there.
00:12:55.000So the tip of his finger is hanging by a thread.
00:12:59.000So anyway, he puts up this billboard, and it's two tweets, and the first tweet was Farrakhan, and it said, I'm not an anti-Semite, I'm an anti-termite.
00:13:20.000Laura Loomer's last tweet, which was, isn't it ironic how the Twitter moment used to celebrate quote-unquote women LGBT and minorities is a picture of Ilan Omar?
00:14:14.000You might as well be a Hasidic Jew and carrying a big sign that says, I like cheating on my wife.
00:14:21.000That goes out of the religion's rules.
00:14:24.000Isn't it amazing, by the way, that Ilhan Omar won, and she's the first Muslim in Congress or something, and they go, who'd she lose to?
00:14:33.000Oh, another Muslim, Keith Ellison, who pictured himself carrying the Antifa handbook, smiling, and beat the crap, allegedly, out of his girlfriend.
00:14:45.000But that didn't go anywhere, by the way, because he's DNC and it wasn't a juicy story.
00:14:49.000That wouldn't make it to the Twitter moments.
00:14:52.000But the only way that that woman was up against probably the worst candidate, you could have an anarchist wife-beater.
00:15:03.000And I think she won because she's Somalian and they have, what, 80,000 Somalians in Michigan?
00:15:10.000Anyway, so I thought that was an interesting juxtaposition.
00:15:13.000And people can laugh at her, but it became the number one story in the country.
00:15:17.000And then what she did that was smart is she sat down and did a very reasoned periscope.
00:15:23.000And I realized, by the way, when I was looking at the laughs, I'm looking at a bunch of liberals and kids and babysitters and fucking children and comedy writers and stand-up comedians.
00:15:31.000And I'm getting their take on anti-Semitism and the threat of Islam.
00:19:58.000Jesus Christ, these people, they're not even political beings.
00:20:04.000You'll notice when you look at, you see some article about, you know, white nationalists taking over and you click on that guy's caveat, his canon, not caveat, his canon, and you just see like 500 articles, um, all about the exact same thing.
00:20:20.000Sometimes they're all about the exact same person, but you think you just have your little niche and you just go to work.
00:20:26.000You're almost like you make fun of the working class, but you're a factory worker.
00:20:29.000You just keep churning out the same article again and again and again.
00:20:35.000Anyway, um, so on a more intellectual and adult note, I thought I'd check in on academia.
00:20:43.000And holy mothballs does my heart go out to young men and young women, sane young women, in college today.
00:20:53.000Holy, like it was bad when I was there.
00:20:54.000When I was there, our philosophy professor Marvin Glass was the head of the Canadian Communist Party, but um,
00:21:04.000He also told us that it was okay to have an abortion up until a year after the baby's born.
00:21:18.000Because, you see, a monkey, anything you say that you would define as human, like, oh, it can recognize people, it can love, it can do this, a monkey can do that up until around 11 months, 12 months, then the baby starts being better than a monkey.
00:21:55.000I took a lot of feminist classes in class, believe it or not, like the singer, the fucked up, but it wasn't because, um, I was interested in feminism.
00:22:03.000It's cause it was the only thing that was sort of like controversial and interesting and they wanted to debate.
00:22:13.000But one of the women's studies classes, he said, all right, feminism is predicated on the assumption that women are systematically and seriously oppressed.
00:22:21.000If you don't believe that, then you can't be in this class.
00:23:09.000I'll recognize that in, um, in Southeast Asia, but it's not a given.
00:23:15.000And I remember someone had bigger balls than me and they brought that up and they said, I don't see evidence.
00:23:21.000And then he got all pissed off and he maybe even kicked him out of the class.
00:23:24.000I remember there was another time in class, he was talking about how porn is wrong, which I now agree with, but, um, he showed some to the class and it wasn't too graphic, but you could tell, you know, they're about to get down to it.
00:23:39.000This is how young you are when you're in college, how totally naive you are.
00:23:43.000And this is why you shouldn't be on Twitter, because it's girls like this.
00:23:45.000She said, I don't know if that's really the best example, like, maybe if they were good-looking, like, you had some, like, greasy faggot up there.
00:25:35.000Dressing up in blackface, making fun of blacks is obviously wrong.
00:25:39.000But there's a whole swath of European blackface, like Black Pete, or at Santa's Helper, or there was the minstrel show, the great black and white minstrel show that was on TV in Europe and Britain up until the 80s.
00:25:53.000It was not sophisticated, but I don't think it was like, haha, these black people are losers.
00:26:00.000So we're very unscientific about this.
00:26:01.000Like, we just go Asian person, gong, boom.
00:26:04.000But I could see Chinese people finding this funny.
00:28:02.000Where other people over here, a male and a female, having some fun banter, and they get in trouble, even though both of them are totally happy with this scenario.
00:28:11.000You know, at Rebel I had no, there was no HR for the longest time, and it was men, free to prey on women with no recourse outside of the law.
00:28:24.000We laughed our fucking balls off and made tons of really good jokes.
00:28:27.000One of them I did, which is probably sexual harassment, I would undo my pants, my belt and everything, and then I would walk by and I would just drop them and go, oh god damn it, this belt!
00:28:37.000And then awkwardly pull out my pants like I was super embarrassed.
00:29:50.000Um, so yeah, all of this monitoring and this don't do this joke and get this person kicked off Twitter and it just, it makes everything less colorful, less fun.
00:30:09.000And it reminded me of when I was in school, but in a totally different way.
00:30:13.000When I was in school, my dad said he'd help me out, he'd pay half or something, which is stupid because it was only $3,000 a year in Canada, and I had a job, but I took the $1,500, and he said he'd pay half if I take math.
00:30:28.000So I took Calculus and Algebra in college.
00:30:31.000Dude, it's like being a professional boxer if you don't box.
00:30:36.000You just sit up there and get battered with numbers.
00:30:38.000And if you're not a math person, which I'm not, it's just hell on earth.
00:31:47.000He was just down here visiting and the guy is just, he gets, like, it's like old men are like chicks in that you're drinking with them, everything's going fine, and then something sets them off and you just go, uh-oh, this isn't going well.
00:32:00.000Like, we're in one bar and they're blaring really loud American Ninja, you know, the obstacle course, and there's a kid in it.
00:32:09.000It's a kid's American Ninja, so it's for around 10-year-olds.
00:32:16.000And I go, Dad, one of the girls in the thing is on the show.
00:32:21.000So the whole family's here, like cousins, relatives, they're all here to celebrate, eat some fries, and watch their little girl do this super hard obstacle course.
00:33:50.000He goes, you know, we were away at a hunting vacation, a hunting camp and I got up, you know, they were drinking till the late wee hours and I got up in the middle of the night and I was walking past everyone and you know I sleep in the nude.
00:34:17.000The skin looks like someone's wearing a coat.
00:34:19.000And he goes, um, they looked at me and said, oh look, it's a wine bag.
00:34:24.000And it's still got the tap on the front.
00:34:32.000But I guess it was good having him there, watching him play Sudoku for five hours and then watch really loud rebel videos that woke up the whole house.
00:38:28.000This is what I've been trying to get to the whole entire show.
00:38:32.000The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and re-articulation brought the question of temporality.
00:38:49.000into the thinking of structure and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural identities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
00:39:19.000So I sat for about an hour trying to go through, because I had to look up almost every single word, for about an hour trying to figure out what the hell this lunatic was saying, and I think I kind of got
00:39:50.000And I bet if you did an essay with that, and you didn't have their same jargon, and you just said, uh, I think that black people are poor because of, uh, systemic racism.
00:39:58.000I mean, that's me trying to be normal.
00:40:01.000And, uh, I bet they'd go, you sound- you talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded.
00:40:08.000Let's start with just the fir- by the way, that was all one sentence, that paragraph, with barely any commas, so I didn't really know when to stop.
00:40:36.000So, the move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations, what she means there is that basically, like, let's say New York.
00:40:46.000Blacks are poor up in Harlem and the Upper West Side is rich because of structuralism, which means systemic racism, basically.
00:40:56.000So, rich people stay rich, poor people stay poor.
00:41:00.000And then she goes, in relatively homologous ways.
00:41:08.000It means similar in position, structure, and evolutionary origin, but not necessarily in function.
00:41:13.000And then she says, to a view of hegemony.
00:41:15.000Hegemony means leadership, dominance, especially in one country or social group over there.
00:41:18.000Okay, so this whole first part, the move from a structuralist account, capitals, understood social relations, to a view of hegemony, in which relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and re-articulation, all of that crap just means the rich stay rich and the poor get poor and it's structural.
00:43:24.000The idea of fatherlessness and it's this horrible cycle and the incarceration rate is a form of slavery.
00:43:31.000I can get pretty left-wing with you on that one.
00:43:35.000But then the last 800 words of the sentence take structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure.
00:43:47.000What the fuck is a contingent possibility of structure?
00:43:52.000Theoretical insights inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony.
00:44:46.000And then she would go, no, that's the structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways.
00:45:21.000And, uh, when you see this inequality, it ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy where people go, well, we can't put money or structure into the hood because they'll just waste it.
00:45:31.000And we're better at this kind of thing.
00:45:32.000It's actually an anti-communist thing.
00:46:05.000This one is much easier to digest, but it is still fucking total and utter jargon and deserves an F. If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline,
00:46:21.000Soon, the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudoscientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to normalize, italic formally, the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.
00:47:20.000Hey man, you got the uses of discipline, student repetition, and guilt.
00:47:24.000We have justifications, pseudo-scientific theories, superstitions, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as a desperate attempt to normalize, formerly the disturbance of discourse, of splitting that violates the rational and enlightened claims of the Annunciatory Modality.
00:47:35.000I mean, I've seen, when they had that show, what was it called?
00:49:43.000I like you more than a friend and try quitting Twitter for just two days and tell me if you don't feel your IQ sore and your stress level plummet.