Solutions From The Multiverse
Hosts Adam Braus (@ajbraus) and Scot Maupin (@scotmaupin) meet up each week where Adam brings a new idea to help the world and Scot picks and prods at it with jokes and questions. The result is an informative and entertaining podcast that always gets you thinking.
Solutions From The Multiverse
Solving the Democratic Party: A Children's Bill of Rights | SFM E94
What happens when a routine visit to a CrossFit gym turns into a saga of bans and baffling expectations? Join us as we recount the comedic chaos of our fitness journeys, topped off with a sprinkle of multiverse madness. Scott and I unravel the peculiar world of gym culture, sharing laughs over the highs and lows of our workouts. We also dive headfirst into the concept of multiverse travel, imagining encounters with our alternate selves and comparing our lives to those of other "Adams" scattered across the cosmos.
In an alternate universe where the Children's Bill of Rights took center stage instead of the Build Back Better plan, everything changes. We explore this parallel reality where Democrats rebranded themselves as the ultimate champions of family values, winning bipartisan support and reshaping public perception. From permanent child tax credits to ambitious climate measures, we humorously dissect the political and social ramifications of prioritizing children's welfare. What if society genuinely placed children's rights at the forefront? We muse over hypothetical rights for kids, reflecting on how these changes could transform our world.
Our journey doesn't stop there. We venture further into the implications of progressive child welfare policies in this alternate universe. Imagine rent support linked to having children, slashing poverty rates, and completely revamping societal attitudes toward family life. We draw thought-provoking parallels to our own political landscape, touching on themes from "Children of Men" and even toying with the wild idea of state-subsidized plastic surgery to boost population growth. This episode is packed with humor, insightful political commentary, and whimsical multiverse speculations that promise to entertain and engage.
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Well, hey, scott, hello, good to see you Good to be seen. Thank you, you looking fit as per usual, Thank you.
Speaker 2:Very fit. We're a couple of fit people now yeah.
Speaker 1:I've been doing some squats. I've been doing CrossFit again.
Speaker 2:You've been eating your vegetables, you've been doing.
Speaker 1:CrossFit yeah.
Speaker 2:Again A little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did CrossFit during COVID and then it sort of stopped because I got banned low-key. Then I went to. Then I found another gym where I was not. No, we're going to glaze over that. We're going to glaze over getting banned from CrossFit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, cool, cool, cool. Not interested at all. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Sure, there's no story whatsoever.
Speaker 1:There really isn't. Oh yeah, I was just doing the moves. I was too strong for CrossFit and they were like you have to leave.
Speaker 2:You did one push-up and they were like it's perfect, it's perfect, it's everything you don't need to be here anymore.
Speaker 1:Please leave, you're banned.
Speaker 2:You're dismissed. You're done. You've reached the end of fitness. We refuse to train you anymore.
Speaker 1:Would you train us?
Speaker 2:You're like I didn't come here for that.
Speaker 1:They're like then you have to go because you make us look bad. I wish it were something that positive. It was more like I was weak and I had this wrist pain that I thought was carpal tunnel Turns out it was tendonitis and I've since cured myself. But back then I had this pain in my hands and just weakness. And also I'm just like very tall, and just taller than like everybody and so they were.
Speaker 1:They were saying like, do the moves a certain way right, and I like didn't feel safe, like I felt I was gonna injure myself if I did them the exact way that they told me. So I just would like modify what they would do very little modifications, but like like we were supposed to put the bar above our heads and do a squat. I couldn't do that, so I put the bar on my shoulders and did the same squat and literally when I did that, one of the coaches came up to me and said if you're not going to do the moves the way I tell you you can't come to any of my classes anymore. Just don't come to my classes, which I thought was bizarre.
Speaker 2:Okay, an extreme it's the one I yeah.
Speaker 1:So when I went and told like the boss type person, like hey, this coach like totally disrespected me and like told me that I couldn't adjust the movements for like my own safety, he literally sided with the coach. He was like, well, if that's what the coach said, then yeah, I guess you can't sign up for any of her coat, any of her classes anymore, and and she taught classes like three times a day, so there was only like two other classes each day that I could have gone to.
Speaker 2:Did they high five and call you yeah, I guess, yeah, right, look at this, look at this wimp.
Speaker 1:So today I thought we'd do something a little differently, scott, I thought I'd bring you along on my journeys through the multiverse.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, yeah, I could open the portal. It is summer, so it's time for vacation, that's right.
Speaker 1:Well, we're not going to go anywhere, we're going to be exactly where we are.
Speaker 2:You just said you were going to bring me along.
Speaker 1:I know, but technically we'll be physically latitude, longitude in the same coordinate Technically.
Speaker 2:if you say you're going to bring me somewhere and I say I'm ready to go, and you try to correct me and you're like we're not going anywhere, I'm going to get a little persnickety.
Speaker 1:You're confused, it's okay. It's your first time traversing the multiverse.
Speaker 2:All right, so bringing me nowhere, go ahead. What are you doing? Same latitude, longitude, sure, different universe, so that counts right. Same latitude, same longitude. Latitude different attitude yeah, exactly yes, is that what we're doing? Attitude yeah, okay, so what?
Speaker 1:we're gonna do is we're gonna go to in this other universe and then, uh, we're not gonna. I I've already asked, I've already been there, so I know what the solution is. Okay, and I've asked the other adam to just leave us alone because it'd be too confusing to have two adams talking. And, uh, you know, you don't want that.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no. Have you seen time cop?
Speaker 1:I think you could get a real stick and his life is like not good, so we don't want him around like that. Adam screwed up his life completely, so we don't want him around like that. Adam screwed up his life completely, so we don't need him around now you're saying not like this one, no, this adam, I'm like a middle of the pack, adam. There's other atoms who are like way, like successful and like, oh my god you're average.
Speaker 1:There's like atoms, who are like way down. Yeah, I'm like average adam, i'm'm average in some ways You're the mean Adam.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I'm a nice Adam.
Speaker 2:But like no in a math.
Speaker 1:No, I'm saying in a math way. No, I'm very nice, no, in a math you're the mean Adam. I've made a few choices as an Adam that put me in the middle of the pack let's just put it that way A few.
Speaker 2:A few real middle of the pack choices. Yeah, real.
Speaker 1:Okay, so let's go through the portal and then I can sort of tell you about that universe. I guess maybe this isn't the right universe to do this with, but let's try it and maybe we'll do it in the future more when it's more.
Speaker 2:All right, I'm in hey what's that big glowing? You don't have to make that noise. We walked. No, I do have to make that you. For you, it's new, yeah mandatory.
Speaker 1:Okay, so in this universe, uh there, the the what's different about this universe is, among other things, that, um, a few years ago, when in our universe it's very similar universes, the only thing is different is that a few years ago, when our democrats were trying to do the build back better plan, remember, that yeah, this universe.
Speaker 1:Instead, their democrats did a bill of rights for children Okay, and because they did that, it was a massive success politically because they were able to get even Republicans some Republicans to join it. Because the Republicans wanted to seem pro-child Okay, and they were able to get. Politically, they were able to win elections because of the success of being a pro-child, pro-family party. They were able to wrestle away from the Republicans the perception that the Republicans were pro-family and instead now the Democrats are clearly the most pro-family party in this universe. Ah yeah.
Speaker 2:Interesting episode of Sl universe. Ah yeah, interesting episode of Sliders. Okay, exactly so. So what is it we can talk about it.
Speaker 1:What is in the Children's Bill of Rights?
Speaker 2:would be the obvious first question that I would have.
Speaker 1:Well, first of all, congratulations everyone here.
Speaker 2:Yes, good job, so great.
Speaker 1:All the children are protected and safe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, How's that climate change going? Oh, still the Okay cool.
Speaker 1:Well, good luck with that no, so they actually were able to include climate change in the challenge of the Bill of Rights. Well, they were able to, in addition to what's been done with the IRA right, the inflation reduction.
Speaker 2:Irish Republican which has right the the inflation reduction.
Speaker 1:Irish republican, which has a lot of yeah, you got to keep those separate which has a lot of provisions for climate change stuff not as much as we need. They were able to add even more into the through the children's uh bill of rights, because children have the right to to fix the climate of and right now we don't let them environment there.
Speaker 2:We just don't let them fix the climate today we don't care about.
Speaker 1:I mean, we don't care about children because the the republicans cosplay is caring about children and the democrats say that they pay lip service to caring about children. Sure, but then neither party actually like commits really to protecting children. And so if the democrats actually did it, because the children have no rights adam, they don't vote.
Speaker 2:They don't have any right. Don't vote. Nobody's giving them a bill of rights and so we don't have to protect them, right? Is that where you're?
Speaker 1:going, yeah, but it turns out that there's this latent or even sometimes very publicly clear uh value in american political. You know people that they really care about children, baby boomers who are old. They care about children, their grandparents, their parents themselves almost or if you care about this. You know beloved the, you know political people love the suburban vote. Right, they want this suburban middle class vote. Suburbanites all have kids. They care about kids. They want their kids to be protected they all have kids.
Speaker 2:Let's not, let's not say they necessarily care about those kids, but they all they do all have kids. They're a part of their lives.
Speaker 1:The children are part of their lives and they might want their children to be like easier to deal with well, they definitely want the kids were safer and better provided for, right then it would be better.
Speaker 1:So one thing that this Bill of Rights did was it made permanent the child tax credit, which was so popular during COVID. This became part of that bill, which was a huge boon and win for Democrats, because it otherwise would have been a huge loss. Like in our universe, people got given that tax credit under Trump and now they got it removed under Biden. So for them, it felt like actually Biden took away their tax credit for children, so it reinforced this idea that Biden was behind. So that was one thing. The other thing is, yeah, they were able to put in climate change provisions, because it's a right of children to have a climate that's predictable and livable and not just like a Mad Max barren wasteland full of refugees. Right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because one of the rights in the Children's Bill of Rights will be like you have to get the climate right. That's now your job is to fix the climate for us, the older.
Speaker 1:Yeah, obviously we couldn't do it, so the children have to go and do it, yeah, instead of the old people. Yeah, we couldn't, obviously we couldn't do it. So, so the children have to go. Yeah, do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, instead of the old people doing it turns out, the climate is made of tiny spaces that need small hands and and little arms to reach in and fix it snow piercer. Is that what you're, snow piercer?
Speaker 1:it's snow piercer, snow piercer uh-huh Totally, they could have called this the Snowpiercer Act. The SPA, very pro-SPA group here.
Speaker 2:So okay. So what else the right to freedom of?
Speaker 1:speech. Is that in there? Well, that's already there. We already have that from the First Amendment. Also there's nothing about children in particular that they need that. Their speech is usually quite garbled actually, oh okay, so they probably don't need.
Speaker 2:Do they have the right to bear arms as children?
Speaker 1:They do have the right to bear arms? No, they don't. But what's important is gun control, because not gun control for the hunter in Montana who wants to own a bunch of guns, but gun control as it pertains specifically to the rights of children, which currently the greatest cause of death among children is gun violence. That's the highest cause of death among people under 18, which is bananas. I mean that's completely bananas, right? I mean you and I don't have to argue about that.
Speaker 2:It's depressing. We both agree already, right, of course.
Speaker 1:So in this bill, democrats very carefully crafted gun control measures that would only affect Americans, children being affected by gun violence. It wouldn't affect any kind of you know whatever militant crazy people who like guns, gun nuts who are having their guns. It wouldn't affect them at all.
Speaker 2:It just affects children being affected by gun violence which is very hard to argue against even as for gun supporters, some people are not, but it's very universal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's pretty universal. So these were able to be passed and so schools shootings are, in this universe, are at an all time or not all time low, but are going down. They're going down because for a year now already, two years now already, there's already been these provisos that prevent the things that lead to gun violence among children For example, to have funding for red flag programs in schools where schools can register if they detect red flags for gun violence among the students, and then the students who get three red flags, the police show up at their door and confiscate all the kids' guns or assess the access that child has to guns. That's a thing that research has shown can dramatically reduce gun violence in schools is these red flag laws, and so this provided the money for there to be red flag laws across the whole country, for example.
Speaker 2:Sweet.
Speaker 1:And other things too, but specifically, everything was just to try to protect children from guns. So we can help the climate, we can put in provisos to protect children from gun violence, and then children also suffer. We can keep the child credit, which reduced child poverty by 50%, but we need to get child poverty down completely. We need to eliminate child poverty entirely in order for it to have this Bill of Rights. So we have to get rid of that other 50% of child poverty down completely. We need to eliminate child poverty entirely in order for it to have this bill of rights.
Speaker 2:So we have to get rid of that other 50% of child poverty. We want rich children.
Speaker 1:Well, we want healthy children, for sure, I don't know Super rich, like richy rich style. That's what you're hearing. Yeah, blank check.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they can't get their wallet closed because it's full of so many dollar bills.
Speaker 1:yeah, those type what kind of bling do these children have? I mean, what are they? I guess like pop pokemon, uh bling, maybe some am I dating myself now. Are kids still doing pokemon?
Speaker 2:do kids have their right to wear bling and the new bill of rights and the kids bill right, one of the main bills.
Speaker 1:That's one of the main things.
Speaker 2:That's the every kid gets a grill just like kanye grill, full, full, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so okay, so we have to get rid of the other half. Okay, go ahead. So wait, so this is cool. You showed me this really cool place. I assume I have to go home at some point to my universe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're we. You don't want to meet you here.
Speaker 2:He's very successful. This you said in this universe. He's like lambos and just lambos crazy I think if you see a tiny human, how does he fit inside?
Speaker 1:they make custom lambos for him that fit his enormous body. Wow that is important. Oh my gosh custom ibo. I think if you stayed in this universe we'd have a ripley scenario. Have you been watching ripley on netflix?
Speaker 2:no, I have not it's.
Speaker 1:It's a retelling of the movie, the or the book the talented mr ripley. So it's oh yeah, so you would. This would definitely be a ripley scenario. You would be like, well, hey, mr maupin, and he'd be like you, look just like he put a bag over his head.
Speaker 2:I thought it was going to be a Ripley scenario where the other me opens his mouth real wide and then another tiny mouth comes out and then that mouth opens up, not just a mouth, a whole other Scott head, a tiny little Scott head. And then that mouth opens up. It's like ah, I think we're talking about different Ripley's, I think that's possible.
Speaker 1:I think that tiny little Scott head would open up his mouth and be like oh hey, man, you want to go do some.
Speaker 2:Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Speaker 1:No, the tiny little Scott head would just say bro he would say bro Bro bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, and then I would eat you. That's a different Ripley, that's the alien Ripley.
Speaker 2:That's the alien Ripley. Talented Mr Ripley.
Speaker 1:Yes, which is very good on Netflix I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:It's black and white, ms Ripley. Honestly, I'm being more progressive. Yes, you can talk about mr ripley if you want to talented very good.
Speaker 1:It's black and white. Is that it's good? It's good. I think it starts out a little bit the cinematography. They kind of were kind of wrangling I think how to do it right in the first episode. But then it settles down and gets really good after nice, yeah, they still.
Speaker 1:They still sometimes make it a little bit too sharp and you can kind of tell that it's like digital and they just made it black and white, but but they often muddy it up enough so that it so that it it looks good. So yeah, but okay, so yeah so what are we gonna do?
Speaker 2:we have to go back to our universe. In our universe, people don't care about children.
Speaker 1:Wait, you said this republicans steal a lot of votes from the republic, but democrats, by convincing people in the american public that they actually care about children because they hate trans people or something like, they don't actually do anything to actually help children. They don't increase funding for children's lunches or increase funding for children's education right or increase funding for children's care or their health care or their child care.
Speaker 1:No, they don't do any of that. They just say trans people are dangerous for your children, okay, which somehow then makes them seem like they're they're the moral, like children protectors. It's very strange what?
Speaker 2:so you said, this all started back at the build back better time. What, yeah, what are we talking? Is that?
Speaker 1:so that was 2020, 2020, and they were trying to. So our world did build back better, their world did, or universe did child human yeah, children's bill of rights. So they came forward and biden so it's not too late, and it's only been four years bernie and biden both went out and they both said we are presenting the. You know, biden presented it first and then bernie presented it after they used the.
Speaker 1:Bernie was included a lot in it, but also right-wing children protector people were included in it, you know right people who say I stand for my family values and children, and they even put things in there that maybe are a little bit more kind of right wing, like money for churches to provide care to children, like child care, and it's like, oh, I don't know, the left-wing people might not be super happy with like churches providing like christian child care, but they still put it in there because they wanted to create that we're going to help children in a right wing and a left wing way, so it's very kind of open-minded interesting, okay, so how do we start?
Speaker 2:we?
Speaker 1:we have to rally those forces well wait, I gotta talk about one more thing they did. That was really smart because the child tax credit which in covid gave gave like something like eight hundred dollars or some. No, something like three or,000 or $4,000 per kid per family per year back through a tax credit and the projections were that that would reduce child poverty by 50%. So if they made that permanent, child poverty is still 50%. We need to get it to zero. So this provision also identified key things that keep children in child poverty, which has to do with homeless, rent, support.
Speaker 2:They're bad at gambling probably.
Speaker 1:Being bad at getting. Yeah, this is. Children's gambling lessons is a key proviso.
Speaker 2:They make foolish bets and you're like you, child Fools, you absolute child Fools.
Speaker 1:What are you doing? That's right. So, for example, uh, uh, rent support is one of the best ways to keep people housed. So people generally who become unhoused generally, uh, they become unhoused because they're living paycheck to paycheck and then something happens and they have to pay for that and the rent is a huge chunk Right.
Speaker 1:So what they did was say it we should provide this for everyone. But because the Democrats wanted to create a children's bill of rights. If you have a child, there is a federal rent support money you can get, and all you have to do is send in.
Speaker 1:I need to pay my rent and I have here's my children. You know, you know. Here's my proof I have children. I don't here's my bank account. I don't have any money. I need to make rent. Can I get the rent support? And they put you on the rent support for a year, no questions asked, because keeping the child homed is so important and that child has a right to housing. They must, you must, support the parent who has children with the rent support. But it's not like welfare. Oh, you just have kids, you just get money, because that creates what the right wing considers welfare, welfare queens and stuff.
Speaker 2:But it does seem like an attractive offer because you basically get a year of free rent.
Speaker 1:No, it's not free, it's just subsidized. How do you mean subsidized?
Speaker 2:It's just like if your rent is, you know, a thousand bucks a month, you're, you'd get 300 bucks it's not, it's not like free rent, yeah oh, well, then I would want to do that too, because I could do better if, if you could qualify for it, you get it how would I qualify?
Speaker 1:because I'll do this you'd have to submit. Well, it's not, it's on this. Well, in our universe it doesn't exist. We want it though. So what would I do hypothetically? I don't know exactly, but I know that I read the book Evicted, which is quite a good book about homelessness, ok, and at the very end of that book he solutions Like. The whole book is just kind of like poverty pornography, like he just describes people, super, super poor people living in horrible conditions.
Speaker 1:But then at the very, very, very, very end he actually says, like in 25 pages. At the end he's like, okay, here's actually what we could do to solve homelessness. And one of his key things he said the number one thing that he recommends is this rent support. And so it's. It's been done. This is a problem that's already been solved. How it operates, how exactly it works it's all been solved and it works really well to keep people homed and it doesn't create welfare queens, it doesn't create bad incentives or whatever. Nice. But now we're going to just limit it to just children, because it's the rights of children to have a home. The deadbeat dad yeah, yeah, might be a deadbeat. We're not going to try to keep deadbeat dad. Should we make the child live by themselves, like in their own place? Yeah, little little kid homes, little, oh, like those tiny houses they haven't, because for a kid that's a huge house.
Speaker 1:Tiny house, tiny house for children tiny house for children, little tiny house villages for time and then their parents can like visit them uh-huh, if they live, if they're cool enough.
Speaker 2:But these kids are like rich they're not in the poverty zone anymore, Right exactly.
Speaker 1:And then the same thing for food stamps, and the same thing for, you know yeah, food stamps.
Speaker 2:Necessities and education support yeah, necessities.
Speaker 1:Healthcare is already pretty well protected for kids through Medicaid not medicare but medicaid, which is for poor people but it's also for children, so you can. So pretty much children have already pretty much free health care through socialized health care, through medicaid cool. But this bill went, goes further and beefed up those supports for children and medicaid. It gives the kids steroids so there's like extra health.
Speaker 2:They're gonna be children ripped.
Speaker 1:That's what children are gonna be lifting cars and we're walking around this universe and we are just very impressed with the, the, the, the guns on these children, not not handguns we remember we've already removed the handguns from children but the biceps, the triceps, yeah, I've got my own team of like x-men that I carry with me to like take care of any sort of a situation that arises. They have 3D deltoids front deltoid, side deltoid and even that back deltoid. I mean those shoulders are impressive.
Speaker 2:We're talking like a full-on Stephen Platt drawing like Prophet Fritz Wright in his heyday pouches everywhere, pouches, pouches. Reference makes sense to very few people, but if you get it, these kids have pouches, they have pouches?
Speaker 1:Yeah no, these kids are ripped and that's largely because of this bill giving them strength training.
Speaker 2:But yeah anyways.
Speaker 1:OK, so that drove child poverty in America. Projected to drive child poverty in America down to zero Good housing, no childhood poverty. Improve their health care and then child care, universal child care. So a child who doesn't get adequate child care isn't healthy, isn't safe.
Speaker 2:And a family that doesn't have child care sometimes can't have someone work a job and hold down a stable living.
Speaker 1:So it includes universal child care and it includes maternity and paternity paid leave. Look at that, because the child has a right to the parent, not the parent has a right to paternity and maternity leave. That is not the right way to do it in America, because in America, people don't care about the parents. They think the parents are just dirtbags. They don't care but people. They think the parents are just dirt bags, they don't care, but people care about children. So what you say is this is a child, this is the children's bill of rights. The child has a right to their mother being there for the first six months of their life. The child has a right to their father being there for the first six months of their life. Therefore, each mother and father deserve, fifth, you know, six months or whatever it is.
Speaker 1:I think six months would be a minimum six months paid maternity, paternity leave use it or lose it, can't transfer it, the father can't transfer to the mother, blah, blah, blah. So that's the children's bill of rights it would. They made compromises. They got whittled things down. They wanted more gun control that got whittled down. They wanted more health care that got whittled down. You know, it went, got whittled down, but by and large they made child, they eliminated child poverty and they made children, childhood in america safer, healthier and and and better and now their streets are overrun with children.
Speaker 2:It's horrible. They don't know what to to do. These children need to be stopped. People are running into them on their cars everywhere, because they're just flooding. They can't control it. How?
Speaker 1:can you miss them? I mean, how can you not hit them?
Speaker 2:Yeah, child infestation Okay.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So we need something. How are we going to fix? Well, I guess it's not our universe, right, they have to make another law.
Speaker 1:Yeah Child bill of fewer rights. Well, it's more like increasing the rights to hit them with your car. That's what they do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's this universe, though they're weird here. You just need a yeah, you need an automobile bill of rights. Yeah.
Speaker 1:The car has the right.
Speaker 2:Self-defense.
Speaker 1:Self-defense against small children.
Speaker 2:The two-ton automobile has. Okay, yeah, actually this is a bad topic.
Speaker 1:This might sell lucy k's never mind, I won't say lucy k's joke about murdering. No, this is bad. This is actually bad, see, because people don't like murdering children this is why you use the children's bill of rights, particularly bad right now. This is bad. Oh really, did children just get hit by a car?
Speaker 2:no, but there were recent children stuff oh no, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't watch the news, it's okay, so I'm just ignorant anyways. Yeah, so this is what they did. Isn't this clever? So the democrats not only did they get across this raft of policies that support a sort of freer, safer form of life for children but they also established themselves unequivocally as the party of children and families, by extension families, and that lets them then cruise into political debates across America, in suburban areas, in rural areas as well as in urban areas, where they already dominate. They are mopping up because of that.
Speaker 2:Cool. Well, I'm sure nothing would go wrong from a lopsided political structure, but we haven't had one in a while. Really it's been kind of, even though I feel like the demographic of the population is pretty lopsided, one-sided toward the other. Then it feels like the. I think the political thing is they always want to keep it, even for some reason, which is frustrating, even how Like they just wanted to always be like 50, 50, to be like nobody has a dominant they want it that way.
Speaker 1:No, democrats want to win, republicans want to win, they want to totally take over.
Speaker 2:I know both sides want to, but like it seems like they're, it seems like no, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know what I'm saying you think there's a smoke filled room full of lizard men. No, I don't think there's a smoke, but I'm saying like it.
Speaker 2:There's a feeling that it should be half and half, so that neither side can really just run the table on the other side despite there, just like there's going to be something wrong with giving too much power to either side. But but it's not representative.
Speaker 1:The Democrats ran the table for 20 years. I mean from Clinton all the way through, you know Clinton through Obama. They just rocked.
Speaker 2:Well, no.
Speaker 1:Clinton was George Bush in the middle, but for Clinton for eight years he had like super majorities and president and you know.
Speaker 1:So I mean there's been times where people have power and they have power when they better serve the people. That's the democracy. So when the parties find a way to communicate with the people in such a way that they can serve the people, then they win. And I think the Democrats especially are missing the boat here right now. On people's, I think we're starting to live in sort of the children of men. Have you seen that movie?
Speaker 1:Yes right now on people's. I think we're starting to live in sort of the children of men. Have you seen that movie? Yes, I think we're kind of in the children of men already, because the birth rate is so low among so many people that we're already starting to think of children like in children of men. Remember, we're like children and children of men were like these precious things that, like everybody, was like really careful with and cared about.
Speaker 1:I feel like we're getting to that. I mean, it's proportional, but we're kind of getting to that point, whereas a hundred years ago it was like children. They just work on farms and factories and like who cares? They're everywhere. Everyone has 10 children. Who cares? You know?
Speaker 2:like they're not precious, they don't have.
Speaker 1:It was a lot yeah, and they died right. But now it's like oh you know, people are only gonna have like one to three children, right, and three is like a lot already, so like one or two, so if a kid dies or if a kid's in trouble or anything, yeah much trouble and people now are also starting to get awake to the idea that we might not have an.
Speaker 1:So, whereas some parts of the world have an overpopulation problem, other parts of the world have an overpopulation problem. Other parts of the world have an underpopulation part of the problem and that's the case in some parts regionally of the United States and obviously totally in Korea and Italy and various places where the population is extremely falling off a cliff. I don't want to get into all the questions around that, but that's still something that this can speak to. I don't think you want to address that in this bill. There's no reason to. In America we have immigration and we have plenty of birth overall average over everyone, but I think it speaks to that issue. For populations who are concerned about that. You can say we're going to support children. We're going to make it easier to have children for people, make children's lives safer and better, which makes the parents less, you know, more comfortable having one more or two more children than what about?
Speaker 2:what about then? What about uh offering subsidizing plastic surgery? Okay for all young people.
Speaker 1:I'm saying in order to increase their sexual progress, their sexual desirability right, everyone's a super hot like okay a super hot hunky man or lady, well remember how we said we're gonna give. Remember how we're gonna give the weight, the weight training lessons, to the kids. That means, when they're older, already got it it.
Speaker 2:But I'm saying would you have more kids if like?
Speaker 1:You're hotter.
Speaker 2:Well, if your partner's hotter you know what I'm saying Like if both of you are hotter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, then are you just like Play this all the way out for me, scott?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm saying, then maybe you engage in the act which brings about the production of children.
Speaker 1:More.
Speaker 2:At a more frequent.
Speaker 1:No, I think people just do it the same amount, don't they? Hotter people?
Speaker 2:too hot? Maybe they do. I don't have a lot hard bodies. I don't take a lot of data on this hard bodies heaving in the night.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I don't know what the research says about that. We'd have to run a study, scott let's run a surgery, all right you don't need it, scott. You're beefy, you're strong and thin.
Speaker 2:Look at you? No idea, I want to have extra arms okay, well, that's not plastic surgery. That's one of those rat ear, like the ears like they put on the backs of rats. I want one of those on my back.
Speaker 1:I'm an audio a giant ear or a small one?
Speaker 2:oh, I want like a human size one, or you want like proportional, the rat's body the way it looks like on the rats that they graft them onto.
Speaker 1:Okay, apropos of this conversation, I just want to tell you, scott, that this will not increase your creation of progeny, though this will not increase the sexual Wait, the giant ear on my back part. I don't think that's like a thing. Right now that's not trendy. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying right now it's not the trend.
Speaker 2:Oh, I was thinking it would be really good to hear all the compliments for people talking about how cool my back looks, yeah, behind your back. Do you see this guy? He's got a giant ear on his back. That is really cool, like I wish I you know.
Speaker 1:So wait, the ear can actually hear too. It's not just like a form factor. Well, it doesn't obviously connect to my ear drums but it has like a membrane that would there's another inner ear in your back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's called a spinal cord.
Speaker 1:And is it proportional to the-?
Speaker 2:I assume that there would be a thin membrane.
Speaker 1:Just to the spinal cord, and the sound would vibrate the base of my spinal cord.
Speaker 2:Okay, At which point it would transfer up to your brain.
Speaker 1:I'm not a doctor, adam all right and you're not either. No offense, you're not whoa, now you're throwing everyone in your family has been not you. So hey, now that hurts, that hurts.
Speaker 2:I'm working hard towards my doctorate in ear drumology well, when you get done, then we can finally complete my back ear dream. Okay, I will, I will tell you once I have a degree in philosophy, then we can finally complete my back ear dream.
Speaker 1:Okay, I will tell you once I have a degree in philosophy, and then you can come over and we will install a rat ear on your back.
Speaker 2:Here's my big move. This is my big move with the ladies. I'll be like would you like me to lend you an ear? And they'll say yes, and then I'll pull my shirt off real fast.
Speaker 1:And I'll be like turn around.
Speaker 2:I'll be like Whoa Turn around.
Speaker 1:I'll be like they say size matters. So check out this big boy, and they're like oh, and then it's your, a giant ear back, and you're. If they're like, oh, my god, although some people might be sexually into ears and that, though, that's how you'd have that subculture just on lock, I would, you'd be like their god totally you'd be there slide up to lady.
Speaker 2:I'd be like do you like nickelback? And they'd be like you know, and I'd be like um, okay, well, I was, I planned, I was gonna, my segue was gonna go off of you say never mind, all right, I'll talk to you later, bye how about ear back? Yeah, that's where I was going okay, okay, scott, we did it.
Speaker 1:We saw the universe. So how was that? How was that? Traveling to the other universe? A little weird you know I don't mind, it's all the same.
Speaker 2:Do I get any frequent flyer miles? No, I guess not, because same longitude latitude, same longitude.
Speaker 1:Yep, you didn't travel a single mile, not even a single inch.
Speaker 2:It was not bad. I think we could do it here. We just have to start by positioning, like you say. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Children. You didn't bring up what I thought you would, which is, the Democrats can have a hard time being pro-choice and then try to claim that they're pro-children. I think the Republicans would try to rub their noses in that and say, oh, you're killing babies but then you're claiming to be pro-child.
Speaker 1:So here's the other provision I would add to this thing. So here's the other provision Cool, cool. Identify the causes of abortion socially, societal causes of abortion, right, and then actually put into this bill money to reduce those causes. So you're saying we're going to leave it legal and open and anyone can get an abortion. But what actually causes people to have abortions? Lack of contraception, lack of sex ed training, lack of ability to pay for another kid, which this would all help, so you could even tell the people who are pro-life. Hey, we agree with you. We think abortion is bad, but we don't want to make it illegal, but we do want to make less of it happen and therefore we have this whole part of this bill in there to reduce the number of abortions. We think this will reduce the number of abortions significantly. So I think you could actually still swing it. Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1:Anyways, we did it we did it All right. Sounds Anyways, we did it. We did it. All right, sounds good, we'll come on back, we'll do it again next week. All right, thanks everybody for coming along on the ride-along episode. All right, bye everybody. Thank you.
