On this episode of the WDFA Podcast, the crew talks about the dangers of Halloween and the joy that comes with it. We also talk about some of the weirdest things we grew up with growing up in the south and midwest.
00:30:49.560As far as Ari is concerned, for someone that you want to have with you all the time, just pick someone that you enjoy being around and someone who's professional.
00:39:06.640Who takes their girlfriend to the Grand, gets in a fight at the Grand Canyon and to make up for it, takes them down to a hooker house in Tijuana.
00:39:41.800And so, and I don't think that bothered her.
00:39:44.380We're fine from this whole experience.
00:39:46.540Nothing affected our relationship from this.
00:39:49.160I think mainly though, because I was keen enough and I picked up on the fact that she didn't really want me to do it and she didn't really want to see that.
00:40:49.580Why don't you lead us into a couple of news categories?
00:40:52.240First category, speaking of, you know, sex, semen-contaminated flutes might have been given to children.
00:41:00.780So, the California school officials warn that several school districts in Southern California, there were a flute donation, musical donation from this man, I guess, who started an organization called Flutes Across the World.
00:41:36.540Like, it's like when you walk into a motel or a hotel or an abandoned building, you know, when you find a stray dog, you know, like, you could go look on the YouTube, man.
00:41:48.060There's people out there spending way inaccurate time with animals, you know?
00:41:52.660It's like, there's semen on everything.
00:47:57.580I liked him, you know, I like checking in with his life to see what's going on.
00:48:02.000And I like having a couple of news segments that I don't have to think about and prepare so it can be kind of fresh to me.
00:48:09.180But let's get into some of your calls.
00:48:12.980We had a lot of great calls about the NFL and a lot of great calls about the sitting, taking a knee, the national anthem issues.
00:48:24.460And I thought a little bit more about it over this past week.
00:48:28.600And I think everybody did because it's something that's, you know, that's in the air, you know.
00:48:33.220And certainly in the past few years I've found myself thinking a lot more like what are my thoughts innately and feelings innately towards people that are different than me.
00:49:24.680You know, I understand it's for different things.
00:49:26.300But it was just, this is the first year that I really felt like it was, you know, it just seemed, because if you, if you, it almost started to make it so that the awareness stuff is starting to lose some of its effect.
00:49:42.840That's what I felt like, because every week and every day, if you keep saying, oh, this is about awareness, this, this batch of cupcakes is about Black Lives Matter.
00:49:55.440This, this, this casserole is for DACA repeal.
00:50:01.840This, if every, if every, it just, it gets to be overwhelming so that nothing is for anything.
00:50:09.260Because if you're saying that everything is something, then nothing is for anything.
00:50:12.840You know, it's like, it just wears it out.
00:50:14.840And I think people are starting to get worn out.
00:50:18.560And I've noticed from different friends of mine that, that they're just, there seems to be this vibe that people are just tired of hearing constantly about blame.
00:50:31.340You know, if you want to blame white people forever about the issues of the world, then you can start in Britain.
00:50:37.040You know, the civilization, humanity, civilization apparently began in Africa and Egypt, I think.
00:50:46.340So if you want to go all the way back to there, keep on going.
00:50:51.000We can keep cruising through the history books.
00:50:53.980And you want to blame it on two organisms in a desert that got hit by lightning?
00:50:58.820Or you want to blame it on two monkeys that met in the woods?
00:51:01.940Or you want to blame it on Adam and Eve?
00:51:03.780I mean, at a certain point, you're just going to keep, like, at a certain point, we just have to look at where we are.
00:51:10.920And we have to look at what role we are also currently playing in our own problems.
00:51:16.980Because that's some of the issue that I start to have personally is, well, yeah, I know that there's, I know that there's issues in America where there are racial injustices.
00:51:27.400I know that some people are, don't have as good of opportunities as other people.
00:51:32.840I think that most people want to fix them and are happy to find ways to do that.
00:51:40.020But if someone just constantly just yells, everything is wrong, everything is wrong, at a certain point, they're not helping, I don't feel like.
00:51:50.900They're not helping to be part of the solution.
00:51:52.840So I guess I'm just trying to be a little bit more solution oriented, you know.
00:51:59.020And also, what role do you play in your own problems?
00:52:03.320You know, like, yes, there's tons of problems in the black community.
00:52:06.440But there's also, some of those problems are problems that the black community needs to help solve for, needs to at least work together with other people to solve for themselves.
00:52:17.860You know, like, not everything is white people's fault.
00:52:21.800You know, if you are, you know, and I hate to use black and white just as the only example, but that's just like the biggest example that's going on right now.
00:52:32.100You know, but I just hate to see activism get diluted by being overused.
00:52:41.000And maybe that's naive of me to think that that's not even possible.
00:52:44.900And I'm open if that's the case, then I'm open to be corrected there.
00:52:49.020But I just hate to see, it's not like the boy who cried wolf.
00:52:52.920It's just like the wolf keeps crying boy.
00:52:55.840It's like the wolf just says boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, you know.
00:53:01.120And there's no, there's never any real communication between the boy and the wolf.
00:54:45.840Demanding patriotism from people is the sort of thing that the Nazis and the Soviets used to do.
00:54:53.600Now, if somebody feels a general dissatisfaction with their nation and doesn't think that their nation deserves patriotism from them,
00:55:01.840then I kind of support their right to do that.
00:55:04.100However, at the same time, I kind of think the whole kneeling for the anthem thing doesn't really send the message of a protest against police brutality.
00:56:27.040You know, some people look at America almost as like an airport, it seems like, for the rest of the world where you can come here and you can live here and you can shop here and you can get a hotel here and stay here.
00:56:42.060And then you can go back on to wherever, you know, you care about more.
00:56:45.980You know, that's – I think that's a vibe in some places.
00:56:50.340But I think you just have to find a place then that reflects a little bit more of your – of what you desire.
00:56:56.240Because then you can live in a reality that is a little more comfortable for you.
00:57:01.160I think it's – you still should recognize that there are these other realities out there though.
00:57:05.960But I don't think there's anything wrong with living in one where you think you're best suited for.
00:57:11.420All right, let's go on to another call here.
00:58:23.960Okay, so he's saying that these players, you know, if their owners are allowing them, the team owners are allowing them to do that, then, you know,
00:58:33.020and that's where they want to use their stance to show uniformity and take a knee, then that's where they can do it.
00:58:43.980I think if a lot of those owners started saying, you're not going to get a paycheck, you know, I wonder how those people would adjust, you know,
00:58:53.020because there's a lot of people in Los Angeles who, you know, were probably afraid to say that they were Trump supporters or were voting for Trump because afraid they would lose their jobs, you know,
00:59:03.700or in most of America or in different places and vice versa.
00:59:06.840I'm sure there were a lot of people, you know, in other places that were afraid to say that they were Hillary supporters or they would lose their jobs, you know,
00:59:16.500I think that we're at a point where people, you know, don't want to or can't, that we can't even be open to other people's perspectives and ideas, you know.
00:59:30.440I think if it's a dangerous perspective or idea, we can totally not accept it, but I think you still have to find ways to be able to hear it and to be open to it, you know,
00:59:41.840because you might learn, you might change your mind, you know, and change, I think, is always good.
00:59:48.100Even if you just change your mind a little bit and take a little piece of what they know or their perspective, you know.
00:59:54.440I mean, I'm grateful right here because I'm thinking about some different perspectives because you guys are calling in with them.
01:01:54.880You know, and that's up there, people, you know, they got men even breastfeeding children and people shaving their chest hair and making wallets out of them and all that kind of stuff.
01:02:04.880You know, a bunch of dream catcher addicts and people, you know, eating homemade cinnamon made out of their own, you know, skin flakes and flavors out of nature.
01:02:15.920But if you get outside of Seattle, not even far, Tacoma is a little more cowboy country.
01:02:24.120So they might have fish out there, but they call it water cattle.
01:02:27.220That's what they call fish over there in Tacoma.
01:02:28.920They call it water cattle because that's the livestock of that salty H2O.
01:02:58.300You'll get some polls of people that are going to boycott teams, and half of them are saying they're going to boycott the season and the team,
01:03:05.880and half of them say that they aren't.