Adam and guest co-host Atif Myers discuss Customs and Border Patrol’s detainment of a family on their way to the hospital seeking treatment for their 7-year-old daughter, a pair of laws in New Mexico meant to fight ICE and AI both, a creative means for fighting Trump at national parks, and so much more!
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TRANSCRIPT
Adam Tod Brown: [00:00:00] Well, hey everybody. Welcome to In Your Area, a podcast about local news from around the country that is not getting the attention it deserves. I am your host, Adam Todd Brown. Joining me is guest co-host. This week a Tiff Myers is here.
How’s it going, man?
Atif Myers: Oh good. I was hoping you’d say, oh, guest host. Oh, nobody.
Adam Tod Brown: Uh, yeah. It comes and goes with what podcast I’m on.
Atif Myers: It’s my favorite fucking thing.
Adam Tod Brown: this doesn’t have an official host. I don’t have an official co-host for this.
Atif Myers: Oh, okay.
Adam Tod Brown: whoever is on is just my defacto co-host. I say that more to humiliate my current co-hosts like Jeff and Connor and things like that, you know.
When I’m doing a pod that Jeff or Connor would normally be on. Then I say my co-host this week, my favorite co-host of all no co-host.
Atif Myers: Yeah, that’s the best. Yeah. It’s a fun bit. I’m sure all three of [00:01:00] us enjoy it.
by the way, props to the John Hinckley interview.
Adam Tod Brown: Hey, thanks. Yeah, it went well. We weren’t able to keep him on the phone as long as we wanted to. ’cause we had a lot more questions. Most of them about Jodi Foster, but we didn’t get to him. I kind of chickened out on one question I wanted to ask him, because there’s a thing in the book where he talks about Jodi Foster winning an Oscar for the Accused, which was like
1988, and he’s like, I like to think maybe she won that Oscar because of the attention she got from what I did.
It’s like, all right, dude, the six movies she released immediately after what you did all bombed. Do you want to take credit for that too? Is that your fault or is it just the Oscar? I haven’t listening yet, [00:02:00] but is he mad that she’s gay?
we didn’t really talk about Jodi Foster much.
Atif Myers: Should’ve been like, yo, you mad? She’s gay, dog. You wasted that fucking shot.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah it was interesting. Hink. Hinkley is the fucking chasing Amy of assassins.
that’s kind of why I agreed to do it. How many actual fucking political assassins or attempted assassins are you gonna get to talk to?
Atif Myers: No few.
Adam Tod Brown: they’re either in prison forever. Or they die at the scene where they committed the crime. And this guy’s just out trying to play acoustic guitar gigs and getting turned down, which, come on, people Let [00:03:00] John Hinkley play a fucking show at your venue
anyway, this is gonna be a really upbeat episode. there’s lots of things happening in the world and they’re all a fucking bummer
Atif Myers: I think when people know I’m on it, it’s not gonna be a fun one. They’re like, oh fuck tips here. It’s not gonna be good.
Adam Tod Brown: I mean, we’ve had you on some fun stuff sometime I think maybe, I don’t know.
Atif Myers: I don’t think so, I think we make it fun, but in general it’s like, this is a fucking bummer. It’s
Adam Tod Brown: Well, here we go. A Tiff Meyers, minister of Sadness in the booth for this week’s episode. First story, I want to talk about Second Amendment types and right wingers have been getting a lot of heat for all of a sudden being way less [00:04:00] gun than they have been historically because of the shooting of Alex Pretti, the murder of Alex Pretti, the
Atif Myers: Yeah. He was, Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: Pretti.
Atif Myers: In public, just a public fucking execution of the most. Non criminally, maybe worst case scenario for cops to murder, right? A fucking upstanding white guy who’s defending a lady.
Adam Tod Brown: It really does feel like a test that a lot of right wingers and Second Amendment types are failing right now because this is absolutely, what they have always argued they need their guns for is, well, what if there’s a tyrannical government that turns on the citizens [00:05:00] Hey motherfuckers, that’s happening right now.
That has happened and now you’re like, don’t bring guns to a protest.
Atif Myers: Yeah. There were brown people murdered before him by ice, by eight others, right. No one gave a fuck. They murdered this guy. People give a fuck. It’s fucking sad. But also those fucking bootlickers are not raising a protest because ice is kind of being their boot,
if you know what I’m saying.
And it’s like upholding like white supremacy. So they’re kind of cool with it. And they just wanna let this slide
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah, feels like now they think they need guns to protect a tyrannical government
Atif Myers: exactly.
Adam Tod Brown: to fight one. And yeah, bootlickers is the perfect word for those motherfuckers, but that side of the fence has not been [00:06:00] completely silent. Case in point, LA’s top federal prosecutor. A guy named Bilal Asli, even though he just goes by Bill for some reason.
I don’t know why he wouldn’t want to go by Bilal as a MAGA prosecutor, we’ve talked about him on the pod before. He’s a real fucking fuck face.
Atif Myers: He is a fuck face.
Adam Tod Brown: so much so that he posted this on Twitter after the execution of Alex Preti. If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you end quote and reminder, these are the people who think a woman who got shot, literally trying to storm the capitol with hundreds of other people deserves military honors at
her funeral.
But this guy, legal, concealed carry, [00:07:00] all the permits, everything. I don’t know anything about guns, but. whatever hoops you gotta jump through. it. And now they’re like, no, you should be killed in the street.
Atif Myers: Also when he was shot, he was disarmed the cops took his gun away already.
Adam Tod Brown: Yes.
Atif Myers: it was holstered. They grabbed it out of his back and they just took it and they just capped him like right there. I looked Bilal Essayli, Lebanese descent, of course he goes by Bill to fucking blend in with the whites.
Shame on you own that shit. come on, dog. There’s also lots of January 6th motherfuckers who are working for ICE now.
fucking, uh, the proud boys are Latino, is [00:08:00] working for ice.
Adam Tod Brown: Tario. Yeah.
Atif Myers: Yeah. Yeah it takes a lot of goddamn gall to start clutching your pearls about protesters with guns. Now, if you’re on the right,
and
they’re also parading around at, fuck Kyle Rittenhouse.
Adam Tod Brown: even Kyle Rittenhouse,
Atif Myers: They’re parade. The right is parading him around to be like, this is our guy. You remember after he fucking killed those people and they’re like, this is our guy. And he went on a podcast run.
Adam Tod Brown: but they also the right kind of not really disassociated with Kyle Rittenhouse, but he just never really took off as a right wing
Atif Myers: He wasn’t charismatic, he was dumb.
Adam Tod Brown: And now he’s even posting on Twitter like, no, can’t just shoot someone because they show up at a protest with a gun. It’s like you did,
Atif Myers: That was his whole
Adam Tod Brown: yeah, you did that exact thing.
[00:09:00] But the NRA of all places recognized the bullshit in Bilal Essayli’s tweet and responded with this. This sentiment from the first assistant, US attorney for the central District of California is dangerous and wrong.
Responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law abiding citizens. And even there, I’m like, what kind of investigation? What do you need to see? We need to know the names of the people involved. But beyond that, what do you need to see?
What else do you need to know? It’s on [00:10:00] video. You see them walking away with his gun before he gets shot.
Atif Myers: Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: I don’t know what there is to investigate, but they’re right. I mean, in the spirit of what they’re
Atif Myers: Theory. Yeah. I know his parents also got George Floyd’s lawyers to go up against ice, so
Adam Tod Brown: yeah,
Atif Myers: but yeah when the NRA is making like halfway decent points, you are like, dude, you all have lost the fucking plot.
Adam Tod Brown: yeah. And I think they’re realizing it, but it also feels more like they’re pulling back to appease Democrats and
just to try and get Democrats to be like, all right, we’ll just reform ice. mm-hmm. It’s not gonna work. It’s not gonna fucking work, pal.
Atif Myers: No
Adam Tod Brown: And so then Bill Essayli. [00:11:00] Double down.
Atif Myers: Bilal, We’re calling him Bilal
Adam Tod Brown: Bilal Essayli double down on his bullshit and said, my advice stands if you value your life do not aggressively approach law enforcement while armed. If they reasonably perceive a threat, and you fail to immediately disarm, they are legally permitted to use deadly force. End quote. It’s like, all right, tell that to Cleven Bundy. remember him, he was the white supremacist, I think in Oregon, and there was a big land dispute, and it turned into a standoff where his group had fucking snipers just openly pointed at federal agents.
And at no point did a federal agent go, well, that guy’s pointing a gun at us. We should probably shoot him. They just let it be a standoff.
Atif Myers: Yeah, because they’re white.
Adam Tod Brown: Right. Well, I mean, this guy was white [00:12:00] too. It’s just
he’s standing in the way of them rounding up people who aren’t white.
Nick Fuentes called him a fucking race trader. what?
Atif Myers: he Latino?
Adam Tod Brown: Nick Fuentes probably.
Atif Myers: It’s Fuentes.
They were all up in arms when the Black Panther party was coming out with guns to protect protesters and be like, we need to be armed. And they’re like, why are these people with guns at protests? they fucking need him.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. Yeah, obviously. And so after he doubled down on that, another gun rights group jumped in to criticize Bilal a little bit more. Here is a quote from the gun owners of America. We condemn the untoward comments of US Attorney Essayli. Federal agents are not highly likely to be legally justified in shooting concealed carry licensees who approach while lawfully [00:13:00] carrying a firearm.
The Second Amendment protects American’s right to bear arms while protesting a right. The federal government must not infringe upon and quote so at least some of the gun groups are getting it
But it is frustrating that more of them aren’t being more vocal about this, because I feel like there were gun rights groups that were more up in arms about Philando Castile getting shot than Alex Pretti, which good, but I mentioned that because, I mean, Philando Castile was a black man.
So for the gun rights groups to get up in arms, then. Not get up in arms now. It’s weird. It’s weird. I feel like [00:14:00] it’s just people being scared of Trump.
Atif Myers: Yeah,
Adam Tod Brown: I think that’s all it comes down to.
Atif Myers: that’s fair. And they’re kind of just doing like the bare minimum to be like, we see this is bad, but we don’t want to piss off that fucking oaf in the White House.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. When the NRA should be like, it is go time, everybody, this is what we practice for. This is our Super Bowl. Let’s fucking do it. But nah, they’re just being like, oh, let’s wait for an investigation. All right. NRA,
Atif Myers: it’s pussy. It’s pussy
Adam Tod Brown: all right. Next story. Sports
Atif Myers: sort of
Adam Tod Brown: just barely, sports. The Ohio State University. Had a pretty unfortunate sex abuse scandal involving an athletics department doctor named Richard Strauss Carried on for [00:15:00] 20 goddamn years, 1978 to 1998. He abused at least 177 male students during that time, and the school is alleged to have known about the abuse as early as 1979
Atif Myers: That is like a new student every month at a school year.
Adam Tod Brown: yeah.
It reminds me of the Larry Nassar thing, the team USA coach in between the time the FBI was tipped off that he was doing that, and when they finally arrested him, he abused something like 150 more girls.
Atif Myers: Also an Epstein buddy.
Adam Tod Brown: Larry Nasser.
Atif Myers: Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: Oh, that’s not a surprise.
Atif Myers: they found a letter that Epstein sent to Larry Nassar about Trump, where he was just [00:16:00] like, the only difference between him and us is that he is president right now.
Adam Tod Brown: yikes.
Atif Myers: Yeah. But I dunno.
Adam Tod Brown: Larry Nasser is involved in one of my favorite tennis stories, if
you can believe it. He was watching Wimbledon in prison and Mirra Andreeva was playing, and Mirra Andreeva is a Russian player. She, I think is 18 now, but at the time would’ve been like 15 or 16, and he was watching Wimbledon with a bunch of other inmates and made some sort of creepy comment about really wanting to watch Mirra Andreeva, and one of his fellow inmates fucking stabbed him over it.
Atif Myers: Good.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. fucking feel good story of the summer right there. I was happy to hear that. So back to this fucking [00:17:00] creep. When Richard Strauss was finally found out and suspended in 1996, he kept abusing students at an off-campus clinic until 1998. So naturally, there is a core group of former OSU students who are highly sensitive to sexual abuse allegations, and that group of students recently put pressure on the school to change the name of a practice field at the school’s athletic center. Why? Because it’s named after billionaire and notorious Jeffrey Epstein, associate Les Wexler.
Atif Myers: Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: A Strauss survivor named Steven Snyder Hill filed paperwork requesting an investigation and the removal of Wexler’s name and got this response from the school. It is essential that a request provides substantial documents and information to support the claims regarding the individual [00:18:00] at issue so that the committee may make an informed recommendation as to whether a full review should occur.
End quote. tough to fucking punish the powerful even at this low level.
Yeah. ’cause you gotta assume if he’s got his name on a practice field, he’s probably given them money still.
Atif Myers: Yeah. A stupid amount of money.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. They don’t stop calling,
looking for booster donations. At least that’s what I hear from people who went to college.
Atif Myers: no, they don’t. I did that job once, my freshman year to call up boosters and ask for money.
But you just call up alumni and be like, can you gimme money for our school? And a lot of ’em are like. I fucking hate that college. I ain’t giving you shit. it’s the most normal people, I didn’t have a good experience.
Fuck that school. But that dude was donating a fucking field. Yeah.
[00:19:00] yeah. could he take it back? You think to
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah, I wonder you would think if that’s what he gave them the money for, or did they just name it after him because he gave them a huge donation. In that case then they could probably just change the name.
Atif Myers: I wonder what field it’s, does it say what field it’s for?
Adam Tod Brown: no. It’s a practice field, so
Atif Myers: And the Woody Hayes Athletic Complex, but it’s like, what if it’s like the women’s field hockey field? You know what I’m saying? It’s just something awful.
Adam Tod Brown: yeah. Would not surprise me. so the guy who made this request, he said he did not find OSU shooting him down. Surprising at all. Here’s a quote, [00:20:00] os u’s decision to continue associating with Les Wexner is not surprising. For eight years, the university has chosen to fight the survivors of sexual assault.
It harmed rather than accept accountability. This is not caution, it is arrogance. What is especially galling is OSU claim that our request was declined due to a lack of evidence. OSU has itself been a barrier to that evidence. While Wexner has evaded subpoenas for an institution with a documented history of suppressing evidence to cite its absence is absurd.
Atif Myers: Bro, it’s also, it’s the football practice field facility, so it’s not even like
a fucking low level team. It is their fucking pride and joy of Ohio State named after this fucking guy.
Adam Tod Brown: yeah, that’s gross. They should
Atif Myers: That is,
Adam Tod Brown: change it,
Yeah. Is Les Wexner gonna make a fucking stink if you change it? I doubt it. also how is that good for recruiting? yo, [00:21:00] this is named after a pedophile come play for us.
and you would think if they went to Les Wexner and were like, look, dude, your name has some unfortunate connotations attached to it. Now we need to change the name of the practice field. Sorry.
what’s he gonna do I feel like he would be fine with it. change
Atif Myers: be like, yo, you’re in some shit right now. We gotta fucking, we gotta hide this.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. There’s no reason he wouldn’t go along with that. Well, I mean, I don’t know. He’s a
Atif Myers: He is an ego and he probably doesn’t think he did anything. He’s like, I’m not formally tried. I’m gonna sue you now for wanting to change his name, I don’t know, acronym it at least to like the LW field. Like
Adam Tod Brown: yeah, and people are just gonna be like, what’s LW mean? Oh, un uncomfortable. [00:22:00] Yeah. The Ohio State. I like that they got smoked in the fucking college football playoffs this
year.
Atif Myers: get fucking smoked.
Adam Tod Brown: I was happy Indiana won.
Atif Myers: I know you wore, you were room for him. Heavy
I
Adam Tod Brown: I mean, they are proof that. With enough hard work, with the right talent and with
an infusion of NIL money from a
billionaire, you can accomplish anything.
Atif Myers: And like 30 year olds
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah
Atif Myers: They had a fucking super old team.
Adam Tod Brown: yeah. They had a team. They didn’t have a collection of good players. They had a fucking, those motherfuckers had been to war together playing at James Madison University Best college football team in history, and none of them are gonna go to the NFL. Probably.
Atif Myers: because they’re too old to be with. Too old to draft. I’m sorry. They’re already older than a lot of our [00:23:00] players. We can’t do this.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah, I remember Who, what was it? Stetson Bennett, the Georgia quarterback. That was like
Atif Myers: 29 or something. Yeah, yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: Chris Mad Dog, Russo did a fucking rant about that and was like, he should be married with a mortgage. He shouldn’t be playing football with 18 year olds. Pretty accurate.
Atif Myers: It is fucking accurate. Yeah, you’re gonna draft them, have ’em for fucking four seasons.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. So here we go. I feel like these next two stories are actually not,
Atif Myers: No, they’re fun.
Adam Tod Brown: yeah, they’re, I mean, they’re not necessarily fun, but
Atif Myers: Okay. Up uplifting. Good.
Adam Tod Brown: it’s Good.
news. Yeah. Yeah.
W we have talked considerable amounts of shit about New Mexico here on this network,
but it’s okay. I used to date a girl there [00:24:00] and I spent a bunch of time there, so I’m basically a resident
Atif Myers: I was there once when I first drove to, from Maryland to la. We stayed in New Mexico for a night, first place I’ve ever seen Juggalos in real life,
Adam Tod Brown: That’s not surprising.
Atif Myers: my friend and I were in a strip club in Las Cruces and saw Juggalos playing with the punching hard machine as opposed to talking to strippers.
Adam Tod Brown: Well, of course, yeah. Jeff one time in Albuquerque, because at the same time I was spending a bunch of time in Albuquerque. Jeff was also sort of dating someone in Albuquerque and was spending a bunch of time there too. He one time saw a guy get hit by a car and then that turned into an altercation and the guy got stabbed after getting hit by a car.
Atif Myers: That sounds awesome.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah that sounds very neat. [00:25:00] But hey, this week we are not here to make fun of New Mexico.
We are here to praise New Mexico for a goddamn change, at least for a goddamn change, for reasons that don’t involve the food, which
is fucking stellar
in New Mexico. The Tex-Mex, listen, I went to a breakfast buffet and they had enchiladas.
Atif Myers: And cheap.
It was so cheap,
Adam Tod Brown: New Mexico is very, very cheap. And
Atif Myers: man.
Adam Tod Brown: I mean, here’s the thing.
I actually like New Mexico a lot. It’s just a lot of the people I met. I don’t like that much anymore. And even when I say that, I mean like three of the people I met every, everyone else is fine. New
Mexico’s great. It’s
Atif Myers: Yeah. That’s enough to make a [00:26:00] decision.
Adam Tod Brown: pretty fucking wild place otherwise. But New Mexico is making some good moves in a political sense lately.
Up first, a bill to ban local governments from contracting with ICE to detain migrants. The Immigrant Safety Act just cleared its first house committee. I’d be surprised if we don’t see more laws like this getting passed around the country.
Atif Myers: Do you think Cali’s gonna do it?
Adam Tod Brown: They should, but no.
Atif Myers: Yeah,
Adam Tod Brown: Gavin Newsom is Nazi Light at best.
Atif Myers: he is.
Adam Tod Brown: you saw he went on Nick Fuentes podcast and walked back calling Ice.
Atif Myers: No, not Ben Shapiro.
Adam Tod Brown: Oh, Ben Shapiro. Sure.
Atif Myers: Ben Shapiro. The Zionist not the white supremacist. You gotta get your fucking yeah, he did. And he was just like, oh, you know he’s like the most corporate of corporate Dems
Adam Tod Brown: [00:27:00] Yes, and he will be a great choice in 2028, if you want all of the government’s aggression and anger pointed toward homeless people instead of immigrants. That’s all it’s gonna be. He’s like homelessness. Nazi is Gavin Newsom. I remind people all the time when the Supreme Court issued that ruling that basically made sleeping outside illegal.
That was a court case from Oregon, but Gavin Newsom when the Supreme Court passed that ruling, he was the first governor that was like, fuck yeah. Everywhere in California, clear out your homeless encampments.
Atif Myers: bro.
Adam Tod Brown: but
Atif Myers: No,
Adam Tod Brown: he had a boner for it, for sure.
Atif Myers: again, he’s Eskimo bros with a Trump
Adam Tod Brown: Oh, is he?
Atif Myers: one of the Trump’s son’s wife is [00:28:00] Gavin Newsom’s ex-girlfriend. they’re Eskimo bros,
Adam Tod Brown: Oh, yeah. See that? How does that happen if you’re not a little fas?
Atif Myers: right? Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: because Yeah. I can’t picture her dating a super duper liberal and then pivoting to Trump Jr. People don’t do that.
Atif Myers: Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: that way.
Atif Myers: Gilfoyle.
Adam Tod Brown: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I’ve heard of her.
Atif Myers: Yes. She’s a Fox News anchor,
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Atif Myers: married to Newsom and now with Trump, Jr.
Adam Tod Brown: Yikes. So. This is a quote from Speaker of the House, Javier Martinez, New Mexico should not be in the business of for-profit detention of innocent people. We’re going to move quickly. We’re going to move swiftly. We’re going to move those bills out of the house within the first 10 days or so. End quote, only gripe I have with that statement. [00:29:00] We’re going to move quickly, we’re going to move swiftly. Those are the same thing. You’re quickly, that is just, you know, that’s
Atif Myers: Well.
Adam Tod Brown: You’re saying the same words.
Atif Myers: Also, to be fair, the for-profit prison for innocent people, we should probably be against for-profit prisons in general. You know, but it’s kind of too late for them at this point.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah.
That would be a real fucking landmark law if that passed. No more
for-profit prisons. Then I feel like the government would just be like, fine, no more prisons. We’re just letting everybody out. That
Atif Myers: And they’re gonna join ice.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. So this is another quote. We basically need to say, not in New Mexico, not in our backyard.
We’re not gonna stand for it. We have data that shows that ice activity is less [00:30:00] when they don’t have a facility to detain people nearby. so our hope is that ice activity will decrease, which again, in turn creates safety for our communities, our neighbors, our families, and our friends. That is Representative Eleanor Chavez. And the main opposition to the bill seems to stem from the fact that the ice detention centers that are there currently are located in small towns, and they kind of drive the economy of those
towns. And to that, I say. Fuck those towns.
Atif Myers: yeah,
Adam Tod Brown: Find an economy that isn’t built around the Gestapo. You know, make it a fucking Amazon distribution center.
I don’t give a shit,
just not an ice
Atif Myers: Well,
Adam Tod Brown: facility.
Atif Myers: it’s, but it’s god damn. What a sad state we’re in, where it’s like, how can we bring money to our community? Like in the [00:31:00] eighties, it’d be a fucking break dancing party. And now they’re like, we need to be Nazis.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah, and I mean, it feels like it kind of makes good business sense. Every right wing comedian I know who got canceled and fucking complains about it, does more shows and more podcast appearances and shit than anyone else I know. There is absolutely a aftermarket for, oh, I’ve been canceled. I’m just now gonna go to the side that will rally around me for being canceled.
So there’s obviously money in being a Nazi.
Atif Myers: now see, now you got my brain rolling about which like, open mic comedians I know would join ice. I’m just saying, trying to fucking figure out like who would I, oh, I know. I got a, I got one. I don’t know if I’m not gonna name ’em. [00:32:00] He hit a lady
He’s a weird fucking guy, but he hit a lady with metal water bottle
Adam Tod Brown: Jesus
Atif Myers: Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: the fuck. Yeah. He sounds like someone that would join ice. For
Atif Myers: He would join ice.
Adam Tod Brown: So yeah, small New Mexico towns find another way to make money.
Atif Myers: yeah. Get creative Break
Adam Tod Brown: shit down. Break dance party. Why are there not more? Yeah.
Atif Myers: Fucking Breaking Baby. That was a whole landmark [00:33:00] movie. Come on, you can do this.
Adam Tod Brown: [00:34:00] but hey, let’s keep talking about New Mexico because as if that other bill isn’t enough. New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torres and State Representative Linda Serrato introduced a proposal to regulate AI and DeepFakes the Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act,
Atif Myers: Wow.
Adam Tod Brown: AI two A, they’re calling it, it seeks to establish a comprehensive [00:35:00] framework for overseeing generative AI and AI slop content
Atif Myers: Thank God
Adam Tod Brown: yeah.
Did you see Darren Aronofsky has a whole AI movie coming out
Atif Myers: was that who made the AI movie with famous people?
Adam Tod Brown: I’m not sure there’s a trailer. He’s got an actual movie coming out that was made with ai. It’s called 1776, and just looking at the trailer, it looks like ai, someone on blue sky pointed out one of the houses has fucking vinyl siding on it, and it’s supposed to be 1776. I don’t know if they had that in 1976.
Atif Myers: it looks awful.
I just don’t get the fucking I get the point, but I don’t get the point. I don’t know. It’s trying to fix problems that don’t really exist
If that makes sense.
Adam Tod Brown: yeah. [00:36:00] If you need AI to summarize a three paragraph email for you, just whatever you’re doing, stop and do something else. Yeah.
especially if that’s like a work thing
and you need ai, if you. Creative in any way, especially if you’re a writer and you’re letting AI write for you, you’re a fucking clown.
Have some
fucking self-respect. Have you not seen how shitty everything AI does is?
Atif Myers: I mean, in the work aspect. Everybody who uses it is just deeply uncreative people who are like, oh, you should have your AI formulate your thoughts and create a PowerPoint. I’m like, this PowerPoint takes fucking 20 minutes. Like it’s fine. I’d rather know what the fuck is in it than not be fucking surprised.
And they’re just like, you should have an AI recorder [00:37:00] on your meetings. no, ’cause I don’t want you to get my fucking information for what I’m saying in the meetings.
Adam Tod Brown: And why would you need AI to record a meeting? You can just record it.
Atif Myers: Well, yeah, I don’t know, if you’re at the point where you’re having a meeting with a customer and you fucking aren’t paying attention to ’em, then you’re fucking doing a bad job of selling shit.
And creatives who use it are so fucking annoying. Or Ugh. I just, I wrote down a log line and I wanted to see if AI thought it was good.
Who gives a fuck what AI thinks?
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. have some fucking confidence?
When I was writing for Cracked all those years, I didn’t get to run my jokes by people. I mean, I could have, there was like an editorial staff, but I wasn’t gonna trust them [00:38:00] to know more than me if my shit was funny. I just had to have faith in what I was doing and trust that I was good at it. I feel like people are
losing that.
Atif Myers: yeah, ’cause AI just takes the median of shit. You’re looking for the most average uncreative answer to that idea,
which then goes against you being a creative. If you’re just looking for the average, then it’s not a creative thing.
Adam Tod Brown: My whole theory about AI is that the actual purpose is to train us to accept mediocrity.
Atif Myers: Yeah,
Adam Tod Brown: Because then you don’t need actors anymore. You don’t need musicians anymore. you have their image uploaded to the cloud. AI can just access that and make average ass movies, and there are more people in this country and [00:39:00] world than I think we want to accept.
Who would just be like, yeah, it’s fine. Remember when there were actors? There aren’t anymore, but I still watch movies.
Atif Myers: you probably haven’t experienced this ever but I remember I’d be at companies and we’d have a sales meeting, but then the manager would make us read certain parts of a PowerPoint out loud, right? Just to get team involvement. But the amount of adults who couldn’t read well.
Was fucking frightening.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah.
Atif Myers: It’s fucking frightening.
it’s crazy.
Adam Tod Brown: before I started writing and doing comedy, I worked in insurance for 10 plus years, so I was in offices that whole time, and there are some motherfuckers out there, man,
Atif Myers: Yeah. I’m like, this guy’s a top rep and he can’t even fucking read a paragraph. What the fuck is going on?
Adam Tod Brown: I had a boss at one job who [00:40:00] did not know how to forward emails, and I finally had to say something because at one point. We all got this email where we had to click this long ass URL in the middle of the email and instead of forwarding it to us, she printed it out and put it on everyone’s desk. And I was like, you want us to type that URL in?
I was like, I will show you how to forward a fucking email. What the fuck? It’s
Atif Myers: And these are like Fortune 50 companies. I’ve worked at
like high level fucking companies. Yeah. And it’s like these motherfuckers can’t read.
Adam Tod Brown: I was working at Blue Shield, I was working at fucking Blue Shield at the time. Yeah. I was working at Johnson Controls, which is owned by like Atlas Holdings, who they own everybody,
yeah.
Atif Myers: you know? It’s fucking staggering, bro. So yeah, they would like AI slap, I’m [00:41:00] glad there’s a law against us.
Adam Tod Brown: This bill would require mandatory digital markers in AI generated images, audio and video. Would provide free tools for verifying the authenticity of content, would allow the Attorney General to enforce penalties against violations. This is a quote from Raul Torres. This legislation addresses a rapidly evolving technology that holds immense promise, but also poses real dangers when misused to deceive or harm individuals.
New Mexicans deserve protections that promote accountability without stifling innovation or free speech end quote. So this goes directly against Trump’s wishes. ’cause he has said, any states that pass laws to regulate ai, he will cut funding to those states. And again, it’s ’cause the Nazis want you to accept mediocrity.
Atif Myers: Yeah, and to control every aspect of media.
Adam Tod Brown: [00:42:00] Yeah. The. TikTok sale that happened recently. If anyone is still using TikTok after that, you’re a fucking crazy person. They sold that shit to Larry Ellison, who has publicly said several times in his perfect version of the world, AI would be used to monitor social media and turn the country into a surveillance state.
Atif Myers: Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: now that guy owns TikTok. And an article just came out in tiktoks new terms and user agreement.
Atif Myers: It just says agree.
Adam Tod Brown: Well, not just that, but they’re tracking gender identity sexual orientation, citizenship status. okay, what do you think? They’re tracking all of that for.
Atif Myers: Yeah, I deleted it from my phone. I should probably just delete my account.
Adam Tod Brown: I don’t have it on my phone anymore. I think I set up [00:43:00] an UN Pops account back in the day, but I don’t think I have a personal Who knows?
Atif Myers: also this AI thing’s also they’re fucking taking all the fucking ram for the shit that’s already tanking. They’re losing $15 billion a year. just so fucking dumb.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. And we talked a couple weeks ago about this report that came out that was like, actually the environmental impact of AI isn’t as bad as we thought. And one, you dig into the report and all they’re saying is, well, compared to all the pollution in the world, AI is just like a drop in the bucket. But then you read the report more and they’re like, unless you live by one of these data centers, then it’s a dystopian nightmare.
You’re gonna be [00:44:00] fighting for resources and water and things. It’s hell on earth. But in the big scheme of things, it’s not that bad. And then you read even more sponsored by Google. So
Atif Myers: of course.
Adam Tod Brown: Google is paying scientists to tell you AI isn’t that bad. And it is a total fucking technicality.
Atif Myers: They should also ban fucking dudes getting AI girlfriends.
Adam Tod Brown: Oh yeah. That’s a nightmare.
Atif Myers: I see ads in articles of just dudes being like, oh God, I traded my real girl for an AI girl, and she just does what I want. you’re just an incel
who just can’t handle an independent person.
Adam Tod Brown: and I feel like that’s the kind of thing that. You know, the Trump administration would be like, no, that’s innovation. Of course, we can allow people to have AI girlfriends because once the right gets it [00:45:00] in their head that a thing is good, they will just go to any lengths to defend that thing.
Ignoring history. Anything else? look at Japan. You’ll see what AI girlfriends and things of the, like can do to a population. Japan is in a fucking crisis right now because of shit like that. Japan and China both are having like birth rate issues. Their populations are old as shit and it’s ’cause they won.
Had all these restrictions in place about, you know, how many kids you could have. China did, Japan didn’t,
but. Now it’s all coming back to bite them. And then you add that China especially was way ahead of the game when it comes to AI companions and
girlfriends and shit. yeah none of your dudes want to get [00:46:00] married because they have AI girlfriends who don’t expect them to do anything.
Atif Myers: they got a sexy tamagotchi. Like they’re not fucking doing anything. It’s what it is.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. I cannot imagine. I mean, I don’t know. People are lonely, I guess.
Atif Myers: I can imagine but also I don’t know, I like a person
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. if they ever got advanced enough, but in a way that couldn’t kill me, I would have a robot to just do my bidding around the house. That’d be fine. ’cause I don’t want a slave, like I don’t want. I mean, I guess you could pay ’em then. They’re not then they just, they’re just staff.
I guess that’s different, but Yeah. I don’t wanna boss a person around,
but a fucking robot but that’s what they’re made for. That’s what initially they’re made, you know what I’m saying? Like [00:47:00] the Jetsons, that was like the ideal. They had a fucking robot lady,
Atif Myers: but like, yeah. And now they’re just like, no, we need these tamagotchi broads to fucking make sure you don’t do anything, but they’re also not gonna do anything for you.
Adam Tod Brown: right? Yeah.
Atif Myers: Like,
Adam Tod Brown: a fucking nightmare.
Atif Myers: no, it really is
Adam Tod Brown: Should also be abolished along
Atif Myers: it’s,
Adam Tod Brown: ice.
Atif Myers: it’s one of those things where it’s like it should be regulations. You let these fucking nerds who like have never had game, any social skills, try to fucking run the world and like it’s not good.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. It’s real bad.
Atif Myers: Yeah. Also that’s coming from a nerd with no game or social skills.
Adam Tod Brown: You have no game. I’ve heard the stories. I think you’re
Atif Myers: that
Adam Tod Brown: I think you do. All right,
Atif Myers: I did all right. I had a good run. I was like Chris Johnson. [00:48:00] It was a good run. It wasn’t a long run.
Adam Tod Brown: so let’s talk about this next story.
Atif Myers: It’s fucking fucks.
Adam Tod Brown: While ICE is out here, getting all the name recognition or
Atif Myers: fucks.
Adam Tod Brown: running rough shot over the Constitution and whatnot, let’s not forget they have accomplices. I’m specifically talking about customs and border patrol, who are, I think kind of the brown shirts to ices black shirts, sort of Nazi Germany had the brown shirts and the black shirts, and eventually Hitler had to get rid of one of them as like a PR thing because they were getting. Too violent and causing too much problem. I don’t know if any of this sounds familiar to anybody, but
Atif Myers: It’s new to me.
Adam Tod Brown: eventually
he was. like, oh man, they’re too much. We need to replace ’em with the black shirts. And that was the SS. And they were so
much worse. [00:49:00] And I say CBP is the brown shirts to ICE’s black shirts because we’ve been blaming a bunch of this shit on ice.
But it was CBP that shot Pretti
and cause you know how close Minneapolis is to the border. I don’t know if they were patrolling the Canadian border at that point. I don’t know why CBP was all the way up in Minneapolis, but who knows? But again, they’re the ones that shot Alex Pretti was CBP and it was also CBP.
On January 16th, who arrested Johendry De Jesus Crespo, Dariany Seth Gonzalez de Crespo, and their 7-year-old child.
Atif Myers: Jesus.
Adam Tod Brown: Bad enough already. Even worse, the parents were on their way to Adventist [00:50:00] Health, Portland Medical Center to seek treatment for their daughter at the time of their arrest. How, how the fuck do you do that as a person?
how do you go, oh, you were on the way to the hospital with your kid. Mm-hmm. You’re going to a detention center in Texas instead.
Atif Myers: I don’t know. They just have honestly, no ethics and morals or empathy or anything. To relate to people. They’re just like, oh, I’m doing my job, and they don’t give a fuck.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. know. It’s not
sad, but it’s just something to think about how these motherfuckers don’t realize like cannon fodder. when shit starts really going down in terms of [00:51:00] holding this administration to account, so much of it is just gonna be, oh, well that was these rogue ice agents.
We told them to just go after
the criminals and the bad people and they just went rogue. Sorry, you’re seeing it in the upper levels of the administration where now Christie Nome is. I just did what the president and Steven Miller told me, and Steven Miller’s like, we didn’t fucking tell her to do that.
You kidding me? they’re starting to split. So
eventually it’s gonna be a thing where they start looking for people to point fingers at, and it’s gonna be these ice agents. So many of these motherfuckers are going to be in prison.
Atif Myers: I hope so. I fucking pray. ‘ And also I wish the motherfuckers to try like both sides. It also go to jail. Fucking have a fucking stance. You cowards. Right, right. Like [00:52:00] just these fucking fence sitting fucks to be like, oh well we don’t know. What were they speeding? Go like, oh, it’s like fuck.
Trying to fucking take their fucking kid to the hospital. And then they got fucking arrested and then sent to Texas.
Adam Tod Brown: yeah,
Atif Myers: Fuck them.
Nah man, fuck ice
Adam Tod Brown: there’s no justification for any of this shit.
And if you’re. One of these people who, is trying to justify any of this? You’re just a fucking bootlicker. have a spine recognize that this government is bad for all of us. we’re so far past trolling and, oh, I voted for Trump to own the Libs motherfucker.
We’re all gonna be in camps pretty soon. Fucking grow a spine, get your shit together.
Atif Myers: Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: Ugh.
Atif Myers: So, man, see, not a fun episode with me.
Adam Tod Brown: [00:53:00] well, I mean, it’s not your fault. You didn’t pick the topics.
Atif Myers: That’s true.
Adam Tod Brown: This is all my doing.
Atif Myers: It’s true.
Adam Tod Brown: So yeah when we’re saying fuck ice, don’t forget. Customs and border patrol also big problem.
Atif Myers: It’s fuck. It’s just like these motherfucking, they’re just inhumane fucks.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah,
Atif Myers: Just have a little bit of human decency.
Adam Tod Brown: they don’t that’s problem. And yeah, back to the thing about them being, you know, kind of expendable. I mentioned this on the last episode of in Your area, think about Pete Hegseth getting in front of all those military generals and being like, we don’t want any fatties, we don’t want any black people.
We just want strong white Aryan men.
And now look at ice. It’s a bunch of fat people, bunch of black [00:54:00] dudes. for some reason they’re okay with you being ice, but not being actual military. You should fucking think about why that is. If you’re considering joining Ice.
Atif Myers: that’s an excellent point. ’cause ICE is just trying to make this administration’s ethnostate and they’re getting minorities to do it.
Adam Tod Brown: Yep. Yeah, and it’s, I think it’s because they know at some point when it really comes time to answer for this, they’re gonna be like, it was these fucking rogue maniacs we hired that were doing all this. We, wanted them to just get the criminals.
Atif Myers: That’s why the bonus doesn’t really kick in until four or five years, the administration’s gonna be over and they’re gonna be like, nope,
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah.
Atif Myers: you weren’t, even a good say. Yeah, no,
Adam Tod Brown: I didn’t know that. I didn’t know the bonus doesn’t kick in for four years. That would be a deal breaker for me if I
was joining ice. It’s like this administration’s not gonna be around in [00:55:00] four years. You kidding me?
Atif Myers: Yeah. No,
Adam Tod Brown: You think the Harris Newsom ticket is gonna pay you your fucking ice bonus?
Only if you go out and round up homeless people? Probably.
Atif Myers: it’s god damn.
Adam Tod Brown: All right, so this last story isn’t bad either.
Atif Myers: No, this one is like maybe the whitest story you’ve ever posted.
Adam Tod Brown: It is, it’s this is the white resistance in action, 100%. There is this thing called the America the Beautiful Pass, and it is basically a pass that gets you into any of the 63 national parks in the United States. I was today years old when I found out you have to pay to get into national parks. It’s like, how does that work?
Can’t you just parachute into that motherfucker? If you want to it’s a park. They got a door. [00:56:00] there a fence around it? Just
Atif Myers: there there is like an entrance, but like you could just walk in and fucking just dip out into the woods, like you can get off the trail.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah, you would think so. A California woman named Shannon Prindle was dismayed to find that the 2026 version of the America the beautiful pass a big ass picture of Trump’s face on it. They used to just be scenic vistas from the various parks of the world, and now it’s got Trump’s fucking angry demented mug on the
front.
Atif Myers: Next to George Washington. So it’s George Washington and then Trump.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah, that perfect pairing. What’s the ETA on him trying to get himself added to Mount Rushmore?
Atif Myers: [00:57:00] Oh, I think another six months.
Adam Tod Brown: I would not be surprised at all. legitimately if he issued an executive order and was like. Put me on Mount Rushmore. And here’s the thing, it’s South Dakota. They’d fucking do it.
Atif Myers: They would do it immediately.
Adam Tod Brown: The guy who made that I believe was kind of a fucking racist.
he carved a bunch of American president’s faces into the side of a mountain in fucking indigenous country.
Like of
Atif Myers: Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: course, that’s sending a message and put it there to be cool.
Atif Myers: Oh man.
Adam Tod Brown: So these park passes, Shannon Prindle was even further dismayed to find out that the Department of Interior issued a notice saying that covering Trump’s face on the pass in any way would cause the pass to be voided.
So you can’t just put a K-pop demon hunter sticker over Trump’s face and call it good. They [00:58:00] will cancel your America the beautiful pass, and you’ll have to sneak into national parks through the woods with me in a tiff. So Shannon Prindle came up with a workaround park pouches. They are custom sleeves for carrying your park pass that cover Trump’s face, but in a way that doesn’t alter the card itself.
So you won’t get your card voided for putting it in a park pouch.
Atif Myers: you break down this like aggressively white story is the best.
Adam Tod Brown: I mean it’s white for sure,
like, and it’s like executive level white. I certainly am. Am not buying a national park pass.
Atif Myers: no, I know. It’s like the i the fact that a, I mean, we didn’t know this existed or [00:59:00] I never knew that you had to get a pass to go to a fucking park. Stupid. Like there this fucking, this ho this homeless people living there.
Did squatters and fucking sasquatch like, but the fact that she was like, she saw this and was dismayed, but then the fact that like the government was like, you can’t fuck with this.
Said you gotta work around.
Adam Tod Brown: yeah. This is the
Atif Myers: It’s,
Adam Tod Brown: Trump administration became too much for her,
Atif Myers: yeah. She was just like, oh, I don’t care about ice. I don’t care about the fucking, the getting rid of the Department of Education. I don’t care about all the human rights errors. But she’s like, what the fuck? My park passed, she’s white enough to buy a pass to the park, and was like, they fucking took this from me.
Fuck. Damn.
Adam Tod Brown: but also just the fact that she wants to cover up Trump’s face kind of speaks to her probably knowing a little bit about politics and [01:00:00] not being
Atif Myers: I know. I know. I was giving her a bad faith take. This was more or less like the straw that broke her camel’s back. Where she’s like, I’ll always have my parks, and she’s white enough to get a fucking park pass.
Adam Tod Brown: are you gonna go to all of them in a year? All
63.
Atif Myers: no,
Adam Tod Brown: And if you got that kind of cash to travel like that, why are you worried about the admission cost?
Just let land your helicopter somewhere that security won’t see you.
Atif Myers: I mean, how much can a park cost, like fucking five bucks If they stop you, I feel like you could just run in and go into the woods
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah,
Atif Myers: hide
Adam Tod Brown: yeah. Or you could just be like, I’m sorry, I was out walking and didn’t realize I’m in a paid area of the earth right now.
Apologies.
Atif Myers: oh my god.
Adam Tod Brown: these park pouches, they are cheap. They’re $12. [01:01:00] You can choose from a bunch of different designs or you can design your own and 50% of the proceeds go towards supporting US national parks.
Atif Myers: you should make your own out of like trading card sleeves.
Adam Tod Brown: I wonder what would happen if you tried to order one, but just wanted to put Trump’s face on the pouch too,
Atif Myers: I need a bigger Trump piece.
Adam Tod Brown: that just an way bigger picture, like a closeup of his nasty ass teeth or something. Just two trumps on the park pouch.
That wouldn’t not be funny if you placed that order or if you just put the JD Vance on it
Atif Myers: it is 12 bucks. It’s fucking 12 bucks for something that would upset this woman.
Adam Tod Brown: But here’s the thing, I don’t wanna upset Shannon. She’s on the
right side of history.
Atif Myers: She seems well-intentioned,
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. She lives in la so she’s [01:02:00] probably pretty
progressive.
Atif Myers: her on a podcast,
Adam Tod Brown: Oh, I’m sure we could. Yeah.
Atif Myers: you can Yeah. Be like, yo, what the fuck? Like how many parks you go into. How did you even know there was a park pass?
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. I had no clue. I assumed you could just roll up to a national park and walk right the fuck in.
Atif Myers: I remember Survival Camp at International Park and we didn’t pay anything.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. But now that I think about it, when I lived in South Dakota, I was on a date with a native American girl, and
Atif Myers: Oh,
Adam Tod Brown: we went to Pipestone, Minnesota, and Pipestone is called Pipestone because there is a quarry where indigenous people would use the stone from this quarry to make pipes for, you know, the ceremonial smokes
Atif Myers: Sounds pretty cool. Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: and whatnot.
And we went to this park and you did have to pay to get into that. She got in free because she [01:03:00] is indigenous and she just
showed her tribal ID and they were like, but you white man have to pay.
Atif Myers: They don’t have a get one. They don’t have a, you could bring in one, like a plus one for these indigenous
Adam Tod Brown: he did actually let me plus want it.
Atif Myers: Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: dude. Just I’m with an indigenous person. I shouldn’t
have to pay. But yeah, we had to pay, we had to pay to get in there. It was actually very cool. ’cause we like, we went in and she was like, you don’t have any loose tobacco on you, do you?
And I weirdly did. I was rolling my own cigarettes at the time. And she took the tobacco and did this fucking ceremony with it. It was cool as shit.
Atif Myers: that sounds awesome.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah. I would’ve paid to see that date didn’t work out, but
Atif Myers: No,
Adam Tod Brown: we had fun.
Atif Myers: the most romantic place.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah.
Atif Myers: Was this, her idea was just date her idea.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah, of course it was her idea.
Atif Myers: Okay. I don’t know, man. [01:04:00]
Adam Tod Brown: How would that have looked if I as a white dude was like, I don’t know where you want, you wanna go to the indigenous rock quarry a state over?
About that?
Atif Myers: I was dating like a East Indian person. I’d be like, yo I’d be like, yo, it’d be like after a couple dates before I was like, yo, you, can we go get some Indian food? Is that fucking, is that weird? And they would be like, at least you waited a couple dates white guys open with that.
Adam Tod Brown: Yeah, I could see that.
Atif Myers: And I’m like, I just like Indian food. But Yeah, I’m worried that would’ve been my opening too. ’cause I fucking love Indian food. That’s my
Adam Tod Brown: f
absolute favorite food in the world. Hey, we got something in common. I
Atif Myers: Yeah.
Adam Tod Brown: Chicken vindaloo into it. Love of vindaloo. I
fucking love Indian food so much though. God. it’s the best. [01:05:00] [01:06:00] So yeah, we’ll link to park pouches in the show notes. Go buy one you fucking tree huggers.
Atif Myers: Dude, I mean,
Adam Tod Brown: Dorks.
Atif Myers: need a tea. I might get you one of, just Trump
Adam Tod Brown: Do they have one for presidential libraries? Because I
would,
Atif Myers: the custom.
Adam Tod Brown: well, the park pouches are custom. I mean, do they, can you buy a pass for presidential libraries? Because
I
I fuck with the Reagan library real hard.
But just be, just because they have interesting exhibits in there is a killer fucking hummus place Very close to there.
Atif Myers: Did you ask Hinkley if he’s ever been?
Adam Tod Brown: No, but Connor McSpadden did during the interview say we should start a petition to get his book stocked at the Reagan library.
Atif Myers: Yeah, you [01:07:00] should.
Adam Tod Brown: Which, I mean, it is an important piece of the Reagan story. So,
Atif Myers: One of the biggest pieces,
Adam Tod Brown: yeah. So that’s our episode. We did it. Park pouches. Get yourself one. Come meet. Me and Tiff when we’re on tour this summer hitting our National Parks tour.
Yeah, we’re gonna buy our America the beautiful pass, put a fucking sticker over Trump’s face, and then challenge motherfuckers to void our pass.
Atif Myers: you grow. I am playing with the Park Pouch website and you can just add in whatever picture you want. It’s just like right now I’m using my big ass face in it, so.
Adam Tod Brown: Oh no. What have we done Shannon Prindle? She’s gonna get the worst fucking park pouch orders, but hey, 50% of the proceeds go toward national parks. So
Atif Myers: Oh my gosh.
Adam Tod Brown: the good with the bad, Shannon. But also, all jokes aside, [01:08:00] thanks for fighting the good fight, Shannon, even in the
dorky ass granola way that you are. So that’s our episode. We did it a tiff. Thank you so much for doing the pod.
What.
Do we have to plug before we get outta here? There’s a bunch of new stuff coming to the network soon. I keep saying that, but I had to have a toe lopped off and it kind of derailed my plans, but I’m back
track.
Atif Myers: on a new platform yet? What’s
Adam Tod Brown: Not yet. I’m still working on a new platform to
get away from Spotify, but we’re gonna have some new subscription levels, things like that.
Atif Myers: What?
cool. Oh
Adam Tod Brown: Doing a cool thing. What do you wanna
Atif Myers: well check out the podcast that I do sus stories. I talk about comic books. There’s a Patreon, three tiers. The, you fuck with Me Tier where you gimme a dollar cause you fuck with me. There’s a $5 [01:09:00] tier where you’re a subscriber and you get extra. You get a bonus episode, early episodes, extra content.
Then there’s the witch blade tier for 20 bucks. And I send you count books
Adam Tod Brown: Why is it called the witch blade tier?
Atif Myers: Because I always joke about witch blade and how it’s just nothing but titties. But I thought I couldn’t think of a better name for a tier. once you call something the subscriber for suss stories you can’t beat that.
Adam Tod Brown: No, that’s, yeah, that’s good word play. That’s very solid word. Play.
Atif Myers: So the witch blade, they always make witch blade jokes. Call it the witchblade. I send you books.
Adam Tod Brown: Very nice. I think that’s it. Let’s get the fuck outta here. Tiffs, say goodbye.
Atif Myers: See ya
Adam Tod Brown: Goodbye everybody. We love you.