Are We Great Yet?

So are we supposed to start the podcast? Ready? One, two, three. Patriots, gay-triots, they-triots, black-triots, brown-triots, and all of the triple-Trumpers and anybody on the planet that actually still supports Trump can do what, pups? Fuck off! Welcome to America's Top DEI Podcast. podcast, trying to change the minds of voters one episode at a time. Poms, what have you had it with? Okay. What I've had it with are people that trap you with a text and then immediately call you. So they know you have your phone in your hand. So if you ignore it, you're just like the biggest dick on the planet. It's like the minute the bubbles start, then they call you or the minute it gets delivered. They call you. And I just, I don't, I'm sure it's my codependency, but I'm just like, I can't ignore it at this point because they know I have my phone in my hand and I'm typing to them. Hey, yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. I think I both hate this and do this. I think this is one of those where I've had it with it, but I also participate in the grievance because sometimes I have to tell somebody something and you know, it's hard to get tone in text. Like sometimes when I'm writing out a text, I notice I'm like using four exclamation points. And then I'm like, backtrack, backtrack, backtrack. Am I really that enthusiastic about this? And then I just put the period and then I'm like, does that make me sound like a cunt? You know, is it one exclamation point? So sometimes if I text somebody something and then they respond, I'm like, I have to tell them in person. Like I want the voice to voice contact, but I too have been in this trap where somebody has texted me and I just want to respond really quick to clear out my text, you know, texts that need to be returned. And then I get zapped with the call. And depending on how much I like the person, will I answer? If it's a person I absolutely a hundred percent don't want to talk to, I have no problem with saying, so sorry, can't chat right now. Can only text. I would say that's, I hadn't thought of that, but I will say this about you because I thought about that. You and I kind of do that sometimes, but here's the difference. You can call and say, Hey, do you know where the red lipstick is? Yes. Okay. Bye. Like it's not prolonged. The problem with these people is they're the prolongers. They want to talk about superfluous shit. If it was just a question in and out, let's do this. I don't care, but it's never the people that are efficient. It's always the people that just prolong everything. Have you ever found yourself like, I'll be getting a lot of texts like a Sunday and I'm like, I'm going to pretend like I'm not using my phone today. And so I'm like, not responding to the text thinking I'll respond to them like much later in the evening because I don't want to get involved in a belabored texting and it's stupid shit. Somebody sending me something and then the conversation goes on and I don't really enjoy text conversations at all. I don't get any joy out of belabored text conversations. So I'm ignoring like five text messages, right? So then I get over to Instagram and it's like, here's a video of Rafa Nadal winning the 2022 Roland Garros. And I'm like, double tap. Here's Punch the Monkey fighting back. And I'm like, double tap. And it's like, and here's the resistance and somebody making fun of Trump. and I'm like double tap and they've all been posted within an hour. And then I'm like, oh shit, everybody knows that I'm not returning the texts that I'm over liking shit on Instagram. And I'm so busted. And that's the thing about the smartphone anonymity and, uh, avoidance is damn near impossible. No, I agree. I don't do that because I, uh, when I'm doing all that tap like i'm sometimes i can't i just have to hit the heart like the double tap still escapes me but yes i do that while i'm trying to ignore people here's what i hate and this happens to me all the time with my ex-husband i will send a text it will be ignored but then there will be a text stream with one of my children and it's rapid response so i know i'm being ignored why are you texting your ex-husband about like okay this is what i paid for tuition or whatever like the reimbursement oh we're just talking about old times and love but you know you know that he like that particular person enjoys more than anything having some drama where there is no drama yeah and so he's dying for you to say why didn't you text me back he's dying i know i just which back in the day i would have but now i'm just like no no no no you're right it's just it's he's trying to lure me in so that's a little bit of growth yeah little yeah i think i think that the final coup de gras and the growth would be to have your children text and say you owe mom excellent hey by the way mom said a complete blackout of all communication like a total block yes if anybody deserves a total block from you it's that m ever no no question about it but i I think it would be a show up at my door. Oh, God. Can you imagine anything worse than that? I really can't. No. I really can't. We're in the middle of a Trump presidency. Listener, that's how bad. That situation is. It's so undesirable. It's the torture. Oh, God. That's something. All right. welcome oh no i need to tell you what i've had all right i've had it with my husband misgendering my french bulldogs so for years he misgendered my cat kitsky the late kitsky she died as everybody knows after a long lifelong battle with asthma and diabetes and she lived to 18. um so kitsky is a girl, Josh, for the entirety of her life referred to Kitski as he, him pronouns. And so my husband and I just went on vacation together and we took our dogs because our children are in college. And I just, honestly, dogs are fantastic to travel with. And he kept calling Cha-Cha who is female, him and he, he, him pronouns. And I'm just like, she's five. We've had her for five years. She is a girl. Like you need to use the correct pronouns with our dogs. And the same thing with Tabby. He'll be like, she needs to take her medicine. I'm like, we've had him for 10 years and the misgendering. And it's like this, I don't, I don't understand what it's about. I don't know why you would want to misgender a dog or a cat. It's just so bizarre to me, but he does it all the time. And I can tell that, you know, I can tell that the dogs don't like it. They're very offended. When I first got Tilly, I kept calling her him or he. And my daughter came on. I mean, she was on me every second about the misgendering. And I've gotten really, I mean, I don't do it anymore. I'm like, how are my boys and my girl? But if I said, come here, boys, no, you're not misgendering her. And I was like, okay, okay, okay. So I was going to say with Josh, it was a new thing. But the evidence suggests this goes on a long time. There's really just no excuse for it at this point. What's your excuse for misgendering? Because I had two boys. So like the first month that I had Tilly, I kept referring to like, as him, like, I need to take him outside. And it was like, you know, just in the very beginning saying it. Yeah. I don't know what, I don't know what Josh's deal is. Um, other than we did make it to Mexico, uh, on this trip and, uh, you know, he has just such prolonged hypochondria. Um, yeah, we didn't have any ear issues. Headaches seem to have subsided. He did get some rogue blood test recently. And there was some marker in the number of something. Okay, like this seems a little a little low. So of course, he's on chat GPT, which by the way, listener, Josh and I both canceled our chat GPT. And I filled out the survey as to why I canceled it. And I put Sam Altman is a fascist collaborator because there was an other. Good for you. And I put Sam Altman is a fascist collaborator. And I joined Anthropic, who's fighting with the Department of Defense, and I'm now a Claude user. But this was before we fired ChatGPT. And listener, everybody should boycott ChatGPT because Sam Altman is a pussy and a fascist collaborator. But anyway, so it's something about kidneys or something. And he brought it up once and I kind of just side-eyed him. And we went through eight days in Mexico without any hypochondria, but something terrible happened. So, you know, Josh has been working out like crazy. Like he works out all the time, lifts weights all the time, drinks creatine, protein powders, all that shit. Right. And he looks really good. I mean, he's just turned 57. He looks the best he's looked. I mean, looks fantastic, sober, clean living the whole nine. So we're walking down the beach one day and this couple, a rather older gentleman with a younger weekend tryst, it looked like on his arm. And he kind of says to Josh and this guy had on like a swim top cover up. So that's not super proud of his, like a rash guard. He wasn't super proud of his upper body. I would say I could, cause she was in like a skimpy little bikini and he walks by Josh and he goes, I think maybe you ought to work out more, bro, because Josh was still built. So it was a compliment, right? Did he take it there? Immediately he took it that way. He immediately picked up what they put down. And since that incident, I've had to relive that story five times with five different people. And he starts it off by saying, why don't you ask Jennifer what the guy said to me on the beach? it's like it's like it's like passing the narcissism like he he wants to be a narcissism but he wants to be a narcissist but he wants to pass it to me for me to bring up so i've had it with that i've had it with the misgendering we are doing better on the hypochondria front so that's growth i'm really happy about that and i just wish that nobody would give josh a compliment anymore. And it's not that I'm a mean person, which people can make an argument for that. It's that I have to live with the aftermath of that compliment. He doesn't just say, oh my gosh, thank you so much. That's so nice. And that's it. That's it. It's over. That compliment lives on. I mean, just two days ago, he brought it up. He was in New York visiting me and he brought it up to a girl at the gym. My chef Jennifer, tell me, tell you what the guy said to me on the beach. And I was just like, why don't you shut the fuck up? How about that? How about we shut the fuck up? It was two weeks ago. Let's move on from it. Here's the deal. The minute you said the guy said that, I knew exactly what you were thinking. Because it's true. Like, it really is true. Reliving it, bringing it up. That's kind of funny that he's, now he's brought you in to be part of the narcissist instead of just saying, oh yeah, this guy said I looked great and super built. Now you're a part of it. That's an interesting twist. It's just to torture me. I mean, it's just, I mean, the, the, cause then he dies laughing because he knows he's doing it to be provocative of a reaction for me that it's just like, shut the fuck up. And then he's dying laughing. All right. Welcome to I've had it. I'm Jennifer. I'm Angie. Uh, Kylie, how's it going? It's going good. okay before we move forward um i would like to mention listener kylie today has on a fleece jacket with it looks like a little doily lace style trim very cute super cute very lesbian chic um the last two to three times we were on this stream three times we kylie looks like a million bucks she's in this like uh silk chiffon blouse with this tie on and each time we run out of time and we're unable to film i've had it and she looks like a million bucks right so then the next day she like puts on the same outfit because she wants all the gay triots the less triots the black triots the brown triots the patriots even fucking maggot she wants everyone to see how spectacularly cunty her outfit is. And each time we're unable to film the episode due to time restraints, scheduling restrictions, et cetera. And so have you given up on the outfit? Yes. Yeah. I refuse to put it on today, but only because I was worried it would mean something would go wrong. Like every time I put that shirt on. The third time was pretty humiliating. I was putting it on. I just was like, the episode's not going to happen and I'm going to look like a loser sitting in my outfit for the third time. And so I was like, I'm not fucking putting it on today. And look, we're filming. But it really is. It's so good. And it will make it to air. It's a great outfit. You look great in it. You look really fucking great. You would, you would break the, uh, lezzernet. The lezzernet. I really would have. I really would have. Break the leather net. I mean, it would be like, I think it could be a really good positive thing for lesbians, that outfit and it on the World Wide Web. The third time I had it on, I don't know about you, but when I repeat an outfit, I like it a little bit less each time. Totally. First time I felt just the hottest I've ever looked. Seth even threw me a compliment. Second time I was like, okay, we're going to get this in there. Third time I sat there and I was just like, this is fucking ugly. I hate this. I hate it. Yeah. I really hate that about me too. I have that same affliction and it's so stupid. Like if I wear something, then I'm like, well, I've already worn it before. And that's just so shallow and pretentious. And I just have to, I came to terms with the fact like 20 years ago, just like, you're just shallow and pretentious, Jennifer. You just are both of those things. Like you just need to accept it. Like you are shallow, you are pretentious, you are fall prey to the worst pitfalls of capitalism just and i've been to a lot of therapy and on a lot of various different issues that's just not something i've been able to really fully rectify yet is the uh shallow pretentious nature in my character i really haven't i've tried i really like things i do like i like clothes i like i really like those things and i wish i could be one of these people's like it doesn't matter what I wear. Pumps used to be like that for years. She'd be like, I don't care what I wear. She never cared. She'd show up in a robe in public, a robe and slippers never gave a fuck. And I was just like, I just like clothes. I just love fashion. I love it. I love all different facets of fashion. Yeah. One of my things is when you were saying that, like, I don't remember what I wear. I'm afraid I'm on the opposite spectrum. I feel like I wear the same thing over and over and over again because I just don't remember. So just call me out on that if you notice it, because I'm kind of starting to think I wear the same thing over and over. I've started to wear the same thing over and over. I've started to, because I moved to New York and I didn't move all my clothes. And so I've been trying to embrace the, like this, I've probably worn 10 times and I'm just like embracing it. Like I'm going to wear the sweater a bunch this season and that's just the end of it. But I do feel better. And I do feel like a better person when to wear something new each day. And that's a fucking terrible admission to make. It's really terrible, but I'm just going to own it. Like I'm 51 years old trying to do what I can do. But if every day I put on a brand new outfit, I'd be fucking invincible. I just, I don't know what I couldn't tackle. I really don't. Like if I could have somebody come like, here's your new outfit of the day And then come and take it after that I be like good riddance See you later And That just a horrible I mean I telling you i really shallow and pretentious i really am it a horrible character defect horrible jen you fixed so much i just think like let's let you have this one yeah i just i think of all the character defects i'd rather have that than a lot of the ones i have i mean oh i have a lot of others too this is just one that's been consistent my whole life. There's this, that movie, uh, we watch it every Christmas. I think it's called the family man and it has, um, Nicholas Cage and tail Eoni. And so it's kind of like a Charles Dickens thing where he goes and he gets a glimpse of what his life would be like if he wasn't this rich hedge fund, prick, blah, blah. And so he goes to the mall and he tries on like a Xenia suit. And he puts it on. He goes, it's amazing how much better of a person I feel like I am wearing this suit. Just like a, it's like horrible. And I completely related to his character. Like, I totally get that. Like, I feel like a better person in a great fucking outfit. I feel better. Not only do I look at it. It's so terrible. It's just so fucking awful, but I totally have it. I would argue that I'm a better employee. I work harder. My brain is sharper. I feel smarter. I feel better. It's true. I understand. I totally get it. Okay. In lieu of a review, I have an email that a distraught listener has sent us. They have a grievance. And it says, Dear Jennifer and Pumps, a month ago, all my office colleagues had to do a color personality test and then discuss why we are the way we are. No surprise to me, I'm a thinker, not a cheerleader. Last week, we all had to do a team building activity where we took a personality test. And guess where I ended up? Same result. Today, I just got an email invite to another team building event that is an escape room. Not two weeks ago, I said to my coworkers that I'd rather shoot myself in the head than do an escape room. I'm 65. I'm looking to retire in a couple of years. In the 43 years that I've been a working professional, I've done every color test, personality test, ropes course, icebreaker, team building, morale building, how to manage a team, two truths and a lie, potluck, lunch and learn, trust exercise, not to mention office door decorating contests, pumpkin carvings, chili cook-offs, and birthday parties. Can I just work? I don't have enough time left in my career to learn anything new. I don't care about other people's personality, color, because clearly they don't care about mine. Please, I've had it. That's a nightmare. I have so many questions about that. That is just such a nightmare. You hear these stories about all these just exhausting, team-building, bullshit things, and then what your color is. And it's just like, go to work, do your job. Sometimes you like people at work. Sometimes you don't like people at work. You know who the superficial people at work are. You know who the real ones are. And you just navigate through it. And that just is what it is. There's no need to have all of these circle jerks. It's just such a miserable experience. And I would say in a work environment, I'm far more a thinker than I am a cheerleader. Far more. Like I'm always more thinking than I am cheerleading because I find a lot of cheerleading so superficial. I find it just like this feigned bullshit support instead of, especially in a work environment, everything just needs to be business. You just have to cut through all of the superficiality of feelings and get to what are we doing here? What are our objectives? Let's get them done and then go live our real lives outside from this job. That's what my whole question is. Like, why would they want to spend all this time on that kind of shit? because it seems like a thinker would just be exactly what you wanted. We're not fucking around. We're going to do our job. We're going to leave all these activities. I think it's like, uh, makes it harder to work. I don't, I just don't understand why anybody would do this. Well, I think in her and the emailers point, she has no choice. No, I know, but as an employer, why would you want all this? Because you get these focus groups that come in and do all this bullshit stuff. And I think this comes from, I'm telling you, this all starts with gender reveal parties. Whenever they started the gender reveal parties and we started celebrating humans in utero, then we started inventing a lot more activities to do. We started inventing kindergarten graduation, preschool graduation, lower school graduation. I mean, like all of this shit to where it just, it builds and builds and builds to where the whole life is just a superficial house of cards. And then you're doing trust falls and color stuff at work. Nothing means it means nothing. If her color would have been a completely different color, she still has the same fucking job with the same set of employees. All of this has to do with over celebrating, overthinking, over analyzing, not being efficient. This is an inefficient society. Yeah, I agree. Okay. And I've got a new story for you. Jen, you just came back from Mexico. You were talking about your dogs. There's a lot of new paperwork you have to have. and so there's this story going viral this woman that went to an airport with her dog and then I'll let the video play it'll explain it we're back with a dog left alone at the airport in Las Vegas video shows the woman leaving the golden doodle mini poodle at a JetBlue ticket counter earlier this month authorities say she didn't have the right documents to travel with it as a service dog she is now facing animal abandonment among other charges the dog now known as JetBlue is at a rescue facility awaiting adoption. And I have a good news update before you respond. The dog was adopted by the officer that rescued him. So I saw this online and I just can't imagine that you would leave your dog at the airport. And I watched the video multiple times and the woman has a Stanley-esque style cup in her hands at the ticket counter. And I think that if you go back to our first episodes and look at the case that we're making for what is a precursor to fuckery, what is a precursor to making horrible life choices, what is a slippery slope to MAGA, what is a slippery slope to being a dog abuser. You can go back to doing trust falls at the office. You can go back to the inception of this podcast and it is gender reveal parties, Stanley cups. And there's this through line to all of these things that I oppose fundamentally. And so I just felt so bad for JetBlue. And I'm so glad that JetBlue, number one, I'm glad that JetBlue was left because JetBlue needed a new owner. But I just think about how her feelings must have been hurt at the airport. and I'm so glad that that officer found her and adopted her. And I saw a picture of the officer with his family and he has like kids and, you know, doodles are like so family oriented. But if you, if you look at that video, she clearly has a thermos Stanley cup style beverage in her hands. I just, I just eagle eye hawked that out. Do you see it, Kylie? Oh yeah, it's orange, right? Yeah. She's got a big, yep. First thing I noticed right out of the gates, I knew that, I mean, right when I saw it, I was like, she's got a cup in her hand at the airport. Not supposed to have cups at the airport. And if you're traveling with your cup and you're pouring your water out in the trash can, then you're filling up your cup on the plane. It's just too much. Stop with the performative hydration. I knew that dog was fucked. The moment I saw that cup and a dog on a leash, I fucking knew it. I knew it. Also, if I'm in an airport and something's wrong and my dog can't come with me, I can't go on the trip. That's it. Question. Think about this. She took her cup and left her dog. She took the cup and left the dogs and everybody thinks I'm a raving lunatic calling out the Stanley cuppers and the performative hydrators. But think about that. She had a choice. the cup, leave the dog. She left the dog. She took the cup. I bet you, you know what? I bet you that bitch is still dehydrated. You know who I think also probably started out with a cup? Kristi Noem. I bet it started with a cup. I was just going to say that. Yeah. Look where that ended up. Look, that dog got off easy, JetBlue. Yeah, you're right. No question. There's no question. Oh my God. So I read this story. We need to dive into this for IHIP News that, okay, you know, there was the story about christy gnome um and the uh uh jet and they the blanket left on the jet yes well some loose lips sink ships are leaking a story that something far more embarrassing was left on the plane than the blanket and so i'm thinking since she christy gnome the department of homeland security cosplayer she's screwing cory lewandowski even though they're both married and bible thumpers and all this shit right i bet it's a bit i bet it's a bag full of sex toys or something that's what i thought when you said that i was like butt plugs butt balls dildos yeah all of it you know what i bet she i mean this is pretty graphic but i'm just gonna go and say it because fuck it we're in trump's second term um i bet she pegs cory one hundred percent Don't you think she's the pegger? Yeah. Yeah. I bet that's her. I bet she shot a dog. So I bet then when it gets to. I'm a big he woman, all that. Yeah. 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Wrap yourself in luxury with Lola Blankets. All right, listener, now it's time for a guest. I'm going to say hello to him. and then pumps is going to engage in one of her hard hitting interviews and I'll dismiss myself, but I want to make sure I say hello to him. You've seen his videos all over Tik TOK and Instagram, amassing billions of views and building one of the most engaged audiences in country music with 3.6 million Tik TOK followers and 1.3 million on Instagram, which is more than us, which really pisses me off because we're old and competitive. Uh, Brian has captured the attention of major media from Rolling Stone to Don Lemon to none other than I've Had It. And we would like to welcome Brian Andrews to I've Had It. Brian, how are you? Good. How are you guys? Good. I am so excited to be here. I'm so happy to have you. So excited to have you. You know, you're really kicking ass on social media. Yeah, trying, trying. Let me ask you that. So you're a country singer. yeah there was a country song that they they sang at the um other the MAGA Super Bowl yeah that it was like I got it kiss my fish yeah oh yeah I know what you're talking about I've had it with that fucking bullshit too yeah absolutely that it's like I want to mow my yard yeah drink my beer yeah the whole the whole premise of the song really is not like that crazy it's basically just saying you know i want to be left alone but my problem with that is like you know you don't get to say i just want to be left alone and wipe my hands clean when you see all this shit is going to shit finally you know i mean like if you know it's the premise of i just want to be left alone is what everybody wants but you don't get to say i just want to be left alone when you see and support the people who are now intruding on other people's lives. So when you see them not being left alone, you ought to be able to stand up and say, hey, that's bullshit. Well, and I would argue before I kick this interview to pumps, Brian, because I've got to bounce. But they say they want to be left alone, but they want to jump all up in trans people's lives, gay people's lives, queer people's lives, drag queens people's lives, what books people can check out from the library. So they actually don't want to be left alone. They just want to be all up in other people's shit. And that's what pisses me off about the hypocrisy of that type of white person. Yeah, exactly. It's a, it's the, uh, you know, like I said, you, you don't get to just wipe your hands clean and be like, Oh shit, they're really messing with other marginalized communities and everything. I didn't really want that, but this looks a lot worse than I thought it was. So I'm just going to pretend like I didn't have nothing to fucking do with it and stay over here in my lane. And that's bullshit. You don't get to do that when you ask for this. Right. Okay, Brian, you and I, I feel like we're separated at birth. Our backstory is so similar in our journeys growing up. So, and I'm in Oklahoma, you were raised in Missouri. Both my folks are from real small towns and my grandpa on my mom's side worked for General Motors for 30 years. So he was a union Democrat. And my dad grew up in a household where they were farmers and worked and stuff. And a lot of farmers back in the day were always Democrats because they, you know, Democrats helped out the farm. So they I come from a Democratic family, but I just grew up in a town where pretty much nobody is a Democrat. You know, I mean, like especially in the last 16 years. I mean, it's like I know I know people that agree with me on a lot of things and like pretty much everything really. and when if you were to ask them point blank like hey was you can you consider yourself a liberal or a Democrat They say oh no I an independent even though everything they stand for and like their values align with being on the left they will still say I an independent because they just do not want to be associated. It's so taboo to be associated with being a liberal or a leftist or a Democrat in a small town that, you know, they just won't say I'm a Democrat. Well, people, I feel like on the coast don't understand how much religion is tied up with being a Republican in a place like Oklahoma or Missouri, like Bible Belt area. It would be like a sin almost to be a Democrat. I mean, I was raised super conservative, super Republican, super, super churchy. Mm hmm. And what I what I have found out is all the teachings that I was taught about Jesus and how he handled people and how he accepted people and did for everyone. What I grew up with was that was the message, but we do the opposite. Yeah. And we're able to sit and judge other people and the dissonance that I had. And I think it's so important to have a MAGA-coded person like you, like I'm MAGA-coded, a person like you that comes in and talks about that so openly and with such conviction. So I've seen several interviews with you, and I was just blown away. So if you'd kind of address that for me. Yeah, I think, I mean, even in a small town now, you run across people, especially in my hometown, I'm sure that if you ask them, like, you know, why do you vote Republican? And, you know, one of their deep rooted issues is like I vote Republican because I'm supposed to because I'm a Christian. Right. So like Christianity is very closely correlated with the conservative party, which for me is weird because it seems like the further. It's it's true for both ways, the further I get into my faith, the further left I get and the further I get into like my values, the more religious I get. Right. So, I mean, because I think to me, Christ was a brown skin socialist who loved immigrants and, you know, was feeding the poor, healing the sick. You know, I mean, like the whole the whole premise of Jesus was that, like, everybody's supposed to be taken care of. Right. But what you see in the Republican Party specifically, I think, in the United States is that, like, it's very individualistic. So in their mind, it's like, well, why should I have to pay more in taxes if, you know, somebody else that's lazy and doesn't want to get a job just needs health insurance or, you know, SNAP benefits or whatever? Why should I have to pay for that out of my check when I get up and go to work for 60 hours a week? And on the paper, that seems like logical, but it's not. I mean, like these people are willingly paying more for privatized health care and private health insurance and things like that so that people can't get access. Right. to healthcare. So that's what I'm saying. Like they're willing to pay more out of pocket. So only they can have health insurance when, if they just wouldn't pay for, or if we just had a program like single payer healthcare, they would end up paying less for insurance or in taxes for insurance, you know, like, uh, for healthcare and everybody else would be able to have access to healthcare too. So the, the mindset is really backwards to me because it's like, I just don't understand how you're willing to actually pay more. So people will be able to die versus paying left or less and have the same access to all the healthcare you need. And people will still be able to go to the emergency room and not have to file for bankruptcy. You know, here's the thing, the person that you describe, like lazy, why should I have to pay for it? That was how I grew up, but in a very, very religious household. And that screws with your mind, all the mixed messages. is um okay i have to ask you i forgot because jennifer always does it brian andrews phenom what have you had it i have had it oh i sent these i can't remember um i've got them here yeah let me christians and country music yeah that's that's a big thing for me because like i feel like i'm you know i'm a christian myself and i feel like as a christian it's my responsibility to call things out when I see them, you know, so like, especially in country music, it's like this so close correlation. And you see it all the time. Like a vote against Donald Trump is a vote against God and shit like that to me is just, it's blasphemous. Right. I mean, like you're, you're not, first of all, like the conservative party is ultra good at being like, Oh, a vote against or a vote against Donald Trump is a vote against God. and then they'll come out and say, well, Jesus doesn't have a political party. Right. And it's like, yeah, but you just used him as a weapon to prop your political party up. So like when I feel that's what people come at me all the time. They're like, oh, well, you're using Jesus for your side too. And I'm like, no, dude, I'm just using Jesus as a defense because you used him as a weapon first. So I'm just using him as a way to say, hey, if you're going to use Jesus as a weapon, Jesus wouldn't do this. You know what I'm saying? So, I mean, for me, like that's where, especially like in country music, it's ultra conservative and ultra like the not just the audience, but even some people in the industry and everything are very, very religious. And that's OK. I don't have a problem with people being Christian. I have a problem with people like using Christianity to shield them from accountability or to bury their head in the sand when it comes to like what's happening in the world and things like that. I think that's the big thing right there. Like you see, not just in country music, but everywhere, like in the Pam Bondi or the congressional hearing she just did. Right. Jared Maskewicz asked her, you know, like, you know, what are you doing with the Epstein files and all this stuff? But then he goes on a tangent or he goes on to describe like the Trump Bible and holds up the Trump Bible and it gets a laugh and stuff like that. And so what she does is she doesn't all while wearing a big cross around her neck. She says, well, I'm not even going to dignify that with a response because you just made fun of the Bible. And so in that moment, that's why people don't like Christians. Right. That's why they have a bad view of Christians, because she used her Christianity right there as a shield to hide herself from accountability. No, I completely agree. And I also like for me, having grown up that way, lived that way as an adult for a long time, I was able to take the entitlement of I'm special. I'm judgmental, wrapped in being white, wrapped in being upper middle class and say, well, that doesn't apply to me. I don't have to think about those things. I can I get to bury my head in the sand. I get to claim no responsibility because I have a personal relationship. It's kind of like Christian narcissism. And so do you see that a lot? Because I was that person, Brian. Yes. Yeah, it's absolutely. You see it all the time. And like, that's the that's the thing. Like a lot of people, even if they're just like voting for Donald Trump or like propping up some of the ideologies or policy or whatever like that, but they don't really they don't really like support that guy or they're not really that in tune with politics or anything like that. or they don't pay attention to politics that much. They'll literally say that, you know, like, well, all I know is Jesus is the way, right? And I have a problem with that because it's like, yeah, okay, you can say Jesus is the way all you want, but Jesus calls you to be interactive with the world around you, right? You know, so like he calls you to like call other people out when they're using certain things to be weapons against people, or enact bad policy or, you know, like to feed the poor and heal the sick and things like that. So Jesus literally doesn't want you to bury your head in the sand and say, oh, well, he's the way, you know. And I know so many people that are like, well, if people would just accept Christ into their heart, this world would be so much better off. And I'm like, if everybody buried their head in the sand the way that you do this, it would be a lot more of a shitstorm because they'd be able to do what that's the problem we're in now is that people don't care about politics enough that they're able to just enact whatever policy they want and people are not paying attention, right? So like marginalized communities are being hurt first and then eventually it comes for everybody and it's too late to speak out because there's no one left to tell. Okay. So I have to ask you, okay, here's your Brian Andrews, you're a country music singer, your views, a lot different than what the stereotype is for country music you come out and say this is how I feel you write songs about it you had to be scared that you were putting your career at risk my guess yeah yeah I definitely was I mean especially being like when I've I mean even now but especially when I first started talking about it you know three months or four months ago like I had never really talked about politics before. I mean, I had touched on it really, but nothing crazy. And so when I, when I really started diving deep into it, um, I was very, I guess just, I knew it was a risk. Right. So I knew that like, but I also knew that I felt this way and, you know, like I didn't want to alienate anybody that I already had in my audience, but at the same time, like, who am I going to alienate people that already don't listen to my music? You know what I mean? I was a small enough artists that it was like i can i can pave the road that i'm building right now and so for me i think it was a little bit easier than maybe you know like some of the bigger artists if they feel this way and stuff like that because they really have built these giant fan bases and everything and they actually will be alienating people but i knew that if i felt this way i wasn't alone right from a small town and things like that and you know you see the blue dots and or blue dots and red states and stuff like that everywhere. And, you know, even in my small town, there's a lot more Democrats than you think there are. So, you know, I mean, it was weird, but at first, but as soon as I got into it, I was like, you know what? Fuck it. I don't care no more. Because, I mean, I can't, it was too late for me to start speaking up anyways. Right. You know what I'm saying? And so, like, I can't, you know, if I would have cared or if I had spoke up like I do now, before the election, maybe we'd have had a different result. And so like, that's a guilt that I bear, you know what I mean? And, uh, I'm not going to make that fucking same mistake twice in a lifetime. Well, so what's interesting to me, it's quite the contrary. You have blown up like every corner of the internet. You, is your face with your views. So when you, I'm sure you have trolls and haters, of course you do. Yeah. but how when you found out that then now you have i think your song went like number one on every platform it was an i can't charge by the reaction yeah i was i mean it was uh it's a pleasant surprise right and that was like the first time i'd ever made billboards so i mean it was it was pretty insane but i mean with every that was a very weird moment because i hadn't experienced like like mass scale um like cheers but i also hadn't experienced mass scale like hate right so like at the like for all the you know i had an nbc article and huff post did an article and like uh you know billboard and everything like that it was all good and then i turned my face and it was you know fox news doing an article and you know some of these huge talking or talking heads on Twitter and stuff like or X or whatever. Seeing that, it was just very eye-opening because I also started getting the DMs and everything like that. It's hard to not look at that stuff. Now that we're getting into it more, I'm about to drop the song on Friday called Are We Great Yet. I don't give a fuck no more. If they're going to talk their shit, they're going to talk because here's the thing. I used to think like, damn, these people really are some of these people really are coming for me you know i mean and like it sucks because like i i want music to feel like an inclusive thing but for so long country music hasn't been inclusive right so that that was my main goal you know anyway it's like if they're gonna fucking cut the gate off fuck you i'll be able to fucking gate right next to it you know i mean so for me it was uh you know i just had it was something i had to do and like i don't give a shit like i said when i come out with this song uh are we great yet i've been in nashville for the last week and a half writing protest songs so i don't give a fuck you know what i mean it's it is what it is and and i think like i said it's too loud for me to ignore and this is my road in country music i'm gonna build this bitch brick by brick because country music used to stand up to injustice and like i think that's why you've seen such a positive reaction to like this whole movement anyways is that you know there's there's people that have stopped listening to country music as a whole because right that you know the artists in it or whatever like the ideology behind it and everything like that that are now coming back to it and you know because they're like oh shit not everybody's like that in country music you know i mean so i don't know for me it was a a cool experience because i was like well fuck them you know i mean it was just like finally like cuffs off like who gives a shit we're just gonna fucking say how we feel and it worked. And like, that's what I'm most proud of, to be honest, is that, you know, I was able to take a chance on something and it worked, you know, and it was able, I was able to just authentically be who I am, you know, and how I was raised and everything like that. And, you know, the parents I had, you know, were just great. And they've been there 100% of the way. Like, I think when I was first putting out the older I get, I was like talking to my dad and he was, I was like, I don't know if I should put this out. And he was like, well, would you rather not make it because you just weren't good enough and people just didn't like your music or whatever? Or would you rather not make it because you said something like you spoke the truth and people just weren't ready to hear it yet? And I chose the latter and it worked out because people were ready to hear it and they've been begging for it, to be honest. Okay, I have had it. I've had it with people using religion as a hall pass to control everyone else's lives. I've had it with politicians pretending the Constitution is optional when it comes to church and state. The First Amendment is actually very clear. The government does not get to pick a religion or force one on the rest of us, period. But right now, Christian nationalists are trying to shove their beliefs into public schools, into laws, into courts, and we are not doing this. The Freedom From Religion Foundation is one of the few groups actually fighting back. They take these cases on, they enforce the constitution, and they protect everyone's freedom of conscience, not just one group's. This isn't anti-religion, it's anti-forced religion. If you're also done with this nonsense, join them. Visit ffrf.us slash fight or text the word fight to learn more and join. Text fight to 511 511 and help protect a country that belongs to all of us because honestly enough is enough. Go to ffrf.us slash fight or text fight to 511 511. Message and data rates may apply. Okay, we're going to play our world famous game had it or hit it oh my god welcome to had it or hit it i would hit it i hit it every day sometimes twice a day so the first thing i'm going to ask you about is and this is i know the answer to this but ice uh yeah had it had it up to fucking here it's unbelievable like we're breaking our own laws yeah no it's insane i mean to see to see even people condoning it that's this is what fucking rubs me so raw is that i'm from a small town and i see like all these like oh don't fucking touch my guns like don't tread on me guys all the fucking time but when they see the federal government shooting people in the fucking streets of their own fucking cities, they ain't got a fucking thing to say. Again, it's the hypocrisy. So basically it boils down to as long as it's our guns and we're shooting the people that we hate, then we're for it. But if it your guns and you one of the people we hate you don get to have the same rights I mean that at the end of the day And here the deal Brian I believe for me and I as a Christian I was able to you know growing up until I deconstructed my faith I was able to do that to people. It doesn't look pretty on you, but it looks pretty on me. And I'm entitled to have more. And I look back on that and I am so ashamed of that behavior and the lack of empathy. But it just it's jarring to see so many people that support an agency that let's take out the murdering of U.S. citizens. They're piling people up. They're taking them to concentration camps. You hear story after story. They're not getting medical care. They have kids. Shitting in buckets. Shitting in buckets. They're on alligator Alcatraz. Yeah. They're selling merch. so it's like this movement is feeding cruelty and hatred in people yeah it's the it's the it's the point like that's what i'm saying we call these people bootlickers all the time right but they don't feel like bootlickers they feel like they're the fucking boot and they like it right yeah that's what i'm saying i'm trying so hard to get people in small towns to be like dude this is your fucking moment like this is what you've been saying don't tread on me for you know what i'm saying your grandparents didn't go run shine in these hills to say yee-haw fuck the law so you could get down on your fucking knees and fucking kiss their boots you know i mean like it's insane to me that these people are like condoning all this bullshit but like i said they they feel like since they voted for it they feel the power and they finally like being able to feel like they're higher up on the fucking totem pole than somebody but what i'm trying to drill into their head is that they ain't gonna write don't kill trump voters on the bullets they used to shoot us with right yeah so you're right on that okay how did her hit it the maga takeover of mainstream media uh fucking had it yeah i mean like that's that's how i feel like how how it feels watching mega take over um media and like spaces like the manosphere and things like that is how i felt watching like this ultra conservative movement and christian nationalism take over country music for the last 20 years you know what i'm saying so i mean like watching it happen everywhere now it's like okay everybody's kind of finally seeing what the fuck i'm seeing right you know because i mean in country music and i don't think it was necessarily all toby keith's fault but like he wrote these very ultra patriotic songs after 9-11 and things like that you know we'll stick a boot up your ass it's the american way type shit and i love those songs and i because I mean, after 9-11, everybody was so unified and everything like that. And it was just this moment where everybody could be like, we're strong. You know what I mean? They might've got us that day, but we're going to come back and beat their ass. Right. You know, but like the, the whole premise of like that movement has just been feeding this like, and stoking the flames of this movement. That's like, now we can control everything. We can have it all and we can make everybody do what the fuck we want you know what i'm saying so like with with country music i think it's gotten really like that's why you see the you know the al deans of the world's waving that american flag at these shows and saying if you don't like the way this country is get the fuck out of here you know or just leave and shit like that when in reality the reason i speak out about like the most american thing you can do is use your first amendment right to speak out against the injustices and things like that that you see in America. Right. So, I mean, I'm right. Like I'm, I'm, I feel like a patriot because I'm speaking out. I feel like a patriot because it's my responsibility as an American to hold up the idea of a land that was free for everybody in it. That's why I always say America 250 years ago made a deal with us that this land would be the freest place on the earth. And I'm here to make sure she holds up her end of the fucking bargain. i love it i love it okay how did her hit it billionaires had it i that's that's my number one fucking public enemy eat the fucking rich is it amazing to you when you get in the epstein files and then you hear shit like peter teal says and elon mas the shit he posts i'm like what is it with being a billionaire that just makes you fucking sociopathic they're they're the worst fucking people on the planet to have that much money and power and to fucking not help anybody with it is fucking insane and they'll go on these fucking tent like elon musk will be like oh yeah i sent starlink to ukraine or whatever to help people it's like great you did one fucking thing you could end world hunger right now yeah you know i mean like that that's that's the like people don't understand that's what i mean like people like conservatives like even in my hometowns and stuff like that they'll be like well you know they do work there for their money you don't think they should be fucking compensated for their money and i'm like maybe they should just work be worth like two or three billion dollars not fucking 700 like do you understand how much like that's what i'm saying to these people do you understand how much a trillion fucking dollars is you could buy every nfl team nhl team mob team and nba team twice and still have 200 billion dollars left over yeah it's crazy it's like at first i just thought it was uh you know like the submersible guys i was just like billionaires just get bored. But then they just get into this thing where they think they're smarter than everyone. And they think everybody should be subservient to them and their ideas. And Jennifer makes a great point all the time is that in the United States, we equate like smart and all the positive attributes to a billionaire. And I was guilty of that with Elon mesk like before you know like 15 years ago i would have said he's really smart because i didn't know i knew he had a you know a green car company so i was like okay great and now i'm like this is one of the most diabolical on the planet yeah literally all he does is hoard his money he's a white supremacist and totally hit sig hiles on a inauguration stage and then tells you it's a roman saluter autistic sim it's crazy what do you think about him showing up with with the black guy in the oval office i mean i didn't even see that to be honest with you i've pretty much tried to tune out elon musk as soon as i saw the uh the first post he made not too long ago about um he re he re-shared somebody's tweet that said something about like um when minorities become the majority white people will be like enslaved or some shit like that i was like This fucking idiot is literally out here just fucking peddling shit so that white people feel empowered to hate people of color even more. Totally. Here's my thing. What I want to scream about is when Donald Trump calls people of color racists and this whole regime is the most racist. Like you have a judge saying you cannot pull historical facts from federal buildings and parks because you don't like them. Yes. It's the whitewashing of history. That definition has never made more sense to me now. And it just it enrages me that people actually defend it. Yeah. I mean, here's let's just go through the fucking timeline here. Like Donald Trump was found guilty of like not renting to people of color in his apartment buildings. This is before he was even president. Then while he becomes president, says that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is bad for white people, shares a meme of the first African-American president and his wife on monkeys that is AI generated, and then tries to remove history from Philadelphia parks and museums talking about slavery. And you're trying to tell me this motherfucker ain't racist? This is what I mean. People are like, oh, well, racism doesn't exist anymore. It's 2026 bull fucking shit. I think it's worse. Yeah. And like people, that's what I'm saying. People, people don't want like people of color don't want you to be like a white apologist. They don't want you to come out here and like when JD Vance says that dumb shit, like, oh, you don't have to apologize for being white anymore. Nobody has fucking asked you to apologize for being white. They just want you to acknowledge that you are and that they might have a different experience in America than you have based on one thing, their skin color. Yeah. No, I and I'm super guilty of being raised in like I'm sure Missouri is the same way. It's very homogenous where I live. It's segregated. Growing up, I didn't realize how the difference in the treatment like police lawful, you know, like police stuff like over arresting, overcharging all of those things of the black community. because I was surrounded by the privilege of being white. Yeah, absolutely. Again, I'm ashamed of that. I'm ashamed that when those things came to my attention as an adult that I didn't stand up immediately because I just let it slide or didn't want to offend anybody, that kind of stuff. And it's like we're never, ever going to fulfill our goals as a nation if we don't acknowledge and attempt to repair the kind of racism that the black community has faced forever yeah exactly and it's really just like this is why i have an extreme problem with people who are willing to ignore history like or just like be like oh it's not like it was back then or whatever like the similarities aren't really there well and it's like yeah they fucking are and the problem with you not acknowledging that they are is that you're leading us right down the fucking path that led them there back then you know what i'm saying and so like for me you know i watched one of my creator friends um his name is judah on tiktok all the time uh his handle is both of these but he is a great he's an african-american creator and he said something right after the alex pretty shooting that really resonated with me because it's true and i'm guilty of this as well he said you know i just can't help but think that because there was mass outrage obviously after the the pretty shooting and the renee good shootings and stuff like that as there should have been but he's like i can't help but think that if we just would have cared this much when the victims were only black and brown i agree none of this would have happened and he's 100 right about that and i think about that quite a bit because i'm like dude that's so fucking true and like for me that's why i speak out on like it's especially during like black history month and things like that, because the current president obviously doesn't think that we even need a Black History Month. You know what I'm saying? So when I'm trying to educate myself about those things, I have to be able to speak out about the injustice that I see now, because I have to believe before I go to sleep at night or I won't sleep at night that I would have stood up back then during the Jim Crow era. Or, you know, when I watched if I was alive during Rosa Parks or things like that, I have to believe that I would have stood up then, too, and stood in solidarity with those people so that they could have the freedoms that they wanted and needed and were were they should have been given right from the inception of this country right you know and so that's what i'm saying like when i when i think of things i have to be able to reconcile it with myself that i i would have stood up back then because the truth is if i don't say nothing now when they're like trying to find a legal way to sit around these things and like trying to fool the public and stuff like that If I don't speak up now, then I don't think I would have been, you know? So I'm like, God. Yeah. I agree with you. How old are you? 29. See, I was not near as smart or wise or insightful. I'm 56 and I came to all of these things like so late in my adulthood. And I'm listening to you thinking how much better of a person would I've been if I would have pulled my head out of my ass at 29. But no, it was just shoved right up in that ass. Okay, last one. It's better late than never. Brian Adams. And then I want you to talk about your new song. How did you hit it, the United States of America? That's a hard one. Because I still have a lot of pride for this country. I think I've hit it because I think we're going to start seeing real patriots stand up. And I think we're going to start seeing people fight for the idea, like I said, of a land that is free for everybody in it. I think that, you know, as bad as this movement is, I think that our story doesn't stop here. You know what I mean? And, like, it certainly doesn't stop for me, you know. So I think that when I think about if people are going to start rising up and voting, we've already seen that in some special elections, you know, and things like that. So I think the pendulum is obviously going to swing regardless because it always does. But I think you're going to see one of the most massive swings we've seen in the last, you know, 40, 50 years because this shit is so crazy, right? I mean, we just we just bombed Iran to, you know, less than a week ago. And I know people in my hometown that were like, we don't need wars. You know what I'm saying? We don't need endless wars. We need to fix ourselves and stuff like that. So I think you're starting to see even like Republicans in small towns that are starting to go. Yeah, maybe this isn't the vibe. And, you know, not only that, but doing other countries bidding for them. Right. So, I mean, like, I think that's a big problem for a lot of conservatives. yeah so i mean stuff like that i think that i've i've hit it with america because i think or the united states because i think we're going to come back from this and i think it'll take a lot of work but for me like the way that i've been feeling shut out and things like that and and also in country music is that it's our time and i feel pride in the fact that i'm going to be able to use my platforms and, you know, try to organize people and get people together and unite together around the one common goal of a land that should be free for everybody in it. I love it. Okay. Tell us where we can find you people that are new to you. How do we find you? Yeah, you can find me anywhere you listen to music at Brian Andrews, like Spotify, Apple Music, all that stuff. But on social media, all my handles are at Brian Andrews Music. So just anywhere anywhere you uh get all your information or do your social media you know i know that tiktok is kind of you know it's been taken over by maga yeah yeah so uh which is so heartbreaking to be honest with you because i mean tiktok used to be like the uh video town square i guess you know like where people could just come on and like just literally just put a camera to your face and you're making content that somebody hasn't seen before, you know, and you can find your niche audiences and really build a community and stuff like that. But it feels like now it's so MAGA adjacent that it's hard. It's hard, you know, especially as a liberal country artist, you know, it's hard to make content on there. But I mean, Instagram, I think is doing a lot better. The problem is all these companies are owned by billionaires who have given money or support Donald Trump. Yeah. No, it's really scary. When you see the list of it, it kind of takes your breath away. 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