 Hello, folks. Hopefully this is working. It appears to be working. Looks like we have an acceptable connection, a little bit of a delay. Hang on a sec. Let me make sure that everything is working. Not a lot of people watching yet, so it's cool. Okay, it's working. Hopefully you can hear me and you can see me okay. Brian says it's working. Very cool. Okay. Hey, I think that this is the first time in the humanist report history that I pulled off a successful launch of a live stream. And I apologize for doing this like impromptu. I wanted to like say I plan on going live tonight, but then I thought what if I changed my mind. So I decided to just like make it be impromptu. Lot of our Twitch regulars here, which is awesome. Very excited about that. Hello, everyone. So cool to see everyone. I know the last time that I went live on this channel was in February of this year, so I don't do this very often. But I figured I thought it would be a good idea to test out the live streaming software that I'm using or the new software that I will be using for dystopian times. And I really like it. It's super easy, makes it very simple. So here's what we're going to be doing today. Seems like, okay, yeah, we're good. Not a lot of people watching yet, but people kind of trickle in, I'm assuming. I'm going to be doing a Q&A. Don't know how long I'll be here. Probably won't be able to get to every single question that's asked, but I want to do a Q&A. Everything is on the table. You can ask me anything. This is in celebration of the six-year THR anniversary. And yeah, I will answer or try to answer all of your questions, but full disclosure, if I see a question that I don't want to answer, I'll just pretend like I didn't see it. So try to get things answered or ask questions rather that will get answers by not making them stupid or offensive. That's like a general rule. But yeah, I'm excited to do this kind of random live stream for those of you who missed it. I just put out a couple of videos on YouTube one about Louie Gohmert, another about anti-vaxxers. So definitely check those out. Okay, folks, let's see here. First question. Raw material says, will you do a video game stream? The answer is yes, I do them every single Thursday at 7pm PST. Over on the Twitch channel and we have some of our Twitch users and one of our Twitch mods here. So yeah, I will most likely be playing the new Ratchet and Clank game. I can't talk. I just filmed, so like I've already wasted all of my brain energy, but I will be filming probably or streaming Ratchet and Clank. If I can figure out how to do that. But yeah, video game streams are definitely a thing. Okay, so let's see here. Davos says, can I sign up for mod here as well, like I did on Twitch? Yeah. How about this, send me a DM on Twitter or a message on Twitter letting me know what your YouTube username is and your Twitch username is. And then we'll talk via DMs. Thank you so much. We have Josh McCurdy saying congrats on the six year anniversary. Really, really appreciate it. It's hard to believe that I've been doing this for six years, but it's been six years. It feels like it's gone by really fast. But I enjoy it. Coolest job that I've ever had for sure. Seltzerbot says, Gomert video was pretty funny. Thank you. I thought it was funny as well. He is just very stupid. Twitch stream always buffers for me. Where's that comment? So what I like about the software that I'm using, in fact, that's not even software. It's just a web application. I can like highlight your comments and put it up on the screen. Boom, just like that. And it's really, really cool. Like, I think this makes Q and A's super, super easy. Really excited to use this. It's working seamlessly. I shouldn't have like filmed. Or streamed after I filmed because I feel like I'm going to be making word salad, but that's okay. We'll roll with it. Okay, so let's get to the official Q and A's. Shockweed is here from Twitch. Very cool. Hey, I just joined, but when will you stream on Twitch again? So I'll be live on Twitch tomorrow at 7pm PST. Every single Thursday I do a Twitch stream. Usually the first hour is politics or like a special thing that I want to talk about. Last week I did my coming out story. And then the second hour is more casual. I usually play a video game or I'll talk to someone. Last week I spoke with Jeff Waldorf. Really fun conversation. Every single Thursday, 7pm PST. I'm going to try to stream more on Twitch, but that's kind of like later on down the pipeline when I have a little bit more time. Mark Smith says, I like your reporting from London. Doing a good job. Thank you so much, Mark. I really, really appreciate that. It's so great to have that positive reinforcement every once in a while. It really feels good. Thank you so much. Okay. Here's the first official question I think that we got. Well, I guess the last one was a question, but this is like part of the Q and A officially. Chris Grant asks, is it true? You have extra toes on both feet and they are webbed. Unfortunately, that is false. If that were true, I would be really excited about that because I feel like that would give me some advantages swimming. But then again, it doesn't really matter because I don't swim that much, but unfortunately it's false. It's false. Honest reporting. Great beard. Thank you so much. See, these are the kinds of questions that will definitely get highlighted. In fact, that's not a question, but it's a comment that I definitely appreciate. Okay. How much have you thought about moving to other countries and where would you go? I haven't put much thought about moving to other countries, but in the event I were to actually consider it, it would be Canada because it's the easiest. It's just right there north of the border. But if I had to choose like what country I'd want to live in, maybe the Netherlands, New Zealand, somewhere in Scandinavia. But most likely, if I ever moved to a different country, it'd be just Canada since that's the easiest. But I don't have any plans on doing that. So let's see here. Dovel, if you reach out to me on Twitter, just like tweet at me, and I'll try to remember to check my mentions. If not, we'll make sure that you get mod status here as well for sure. Hey, we have Tara Rebecca, another Twitch viewer. Where are the dogs? The dogs are in another room sleeping currently. I usually, whenever I have like the studio lights on and whatnot, I don't invite the dogs in here because I'm just afraid that they're going to like knock something over. And when I'm streaming on Twitch at the other end of the studio, like all the lights are off. So it's like if something falls down while I'm live, it'll be less obvious. But right now, if they knock something over, they just bump a light. You'll probably like see it. And sometimes they'll start like playing and wrestling in here. And it's distracting. So I figured I'll just like, we'll bring them on Twitch. And I have a special dog camera on Twitch for those of you who don't know. Just being a joker, you're awesome. Chris Grant, I really appreciate that. Seltzerbot asks, Mike, have you heard of an upcoming game called Paralyze? If so, what are your thoughts on it? I have not heard of this, but I will have to check it out. Okay, serious question. What are your top three political influencers or philosophers rather and intellectuals? It's really hard to just like narrow it down to three. But if I had to, I'd probably say Stephanie Kelton, Richard Wolff and Noam Chomsky. But then again, it's hard because I could swap out Cornel West with one of them. I don't know. I don't know. It's hard, but maybe those first three that I named. Okay. Will Trump ever face trial slash prison? Doubtfully. I'm not saying that it's not going to happen, but we don't usually hold elected officials accountable in the United States. So I'm just going to like default to saying probably not. But if it happens, I'd love to see it. Spencer Snyder asks advice to people new to YouTube having a tough time breaking through. You know, right now it's very difficult to break through on YouTube. It kind of feels like unless you have a big platform that you've already built up before they've changed the algorithm, making it on YouTube, making it however you want to define making it on YouTube. It's kind of tough, honestly. If you speak to a lot of like the YouTubers who have 100,000 plus subscribers, we're all kind of experiencing the slum currently. And we're not really moving when it comes to subscriptions. Views are pretty low across the board. Like for this channel, I'll see my subs jump and then it'll start to decline. And what I think is happening is that they're, and this is just speculation, but YouTube is constantly purging old accounts. So if your account is inactive for at least six months, they will purge that and then that'll count as you losing a subscriber. But what's happening is that since the election is over, since the algorithm has changed, since they don't really recommend these types of political channels as much as they used to, I think that a lot of folks are stuck on the number. Like Kyle Kalinsky has been stuck on like 967. Vosh is stuck on not or 351. I'm stuck on 364, 365 or something like that. Like the reason why we're stuck is because we're not gaining new subscribers faster than the rate that YouTube is purging old accounts. I think that's what's happening. So it's hard enough to make it if you're a bigger YouTuber, but to break through now is really, really tough. My only advice for you would be just be persistent and keep posting. Keep being active because eventually if you're doing good work, it's going to get recognized right now. The algorithm kind of gives you a little bit of, I don't know, makes you feel like the work you're putting out isn't going to amount to anything. Nobody's going to see it. And I felt like that when I first started out, but just be persistent and eventually I think it will pay off so long as you're actually doing good work and you're trying. Jose Pina asks, how stupid can it be get with the Q&A? Oh, oh, trust me, this can go off the rails in so many different ways. So again, in the event a question is asked that I don't want to answer, I'm just simply going to pretend like I didn't see it. So that's the easiest way. Secret, that's the way that all streamers deal with questions that they don't want to answer. But I feel like there's most, like most things I am willing to answer. So, I mean, the threshold for something that I'm going to actively avoid is pretty high. Carlos asks, do you think there is opportunity for a third party in this country? It's kind of a loaded question because there's already third parties that exist. Quite literally, there are hundreds of third parties around the country, different parties in different states. If we're ever going to have a third party that actually is effective, that's actually capable of winning, that's electorally viable. What we have to do first rather than prioritize on starting new parties is we need a movement for electoral reform. I'm talking about a multitude of things, ranked choice voting. We need a multi-member districts. We need a proportional representation system. I mean, multi-party systems and presidential systems are not super common. I mean, it kind of depends. But really, Duverger's law almost always holds and that is if you have a first past the post, majority and want to take all system, you're probably just going to have two parties, a two-party duopoly, and they're going to kind of like be around the center. Now in the United States, the center is shifted to the right and we're trying to change that. But if we really want third parties to be effective, and I do, because why else would you support something like that? You have to focus on electoral reform. Now, that's not to say that if we don't get electoral reform, third parties are completely useless because I do think that they are useful in organizing people. For example, the Green Party, a lot of their members do great work just organizing. They did a lot during the net neutrality years, not the Ajit Pai years, but the Tom Wheeler years during the Obama era. So third parties can be great for organization. They can be great for channeling grassroots energy, but I think the ultimate goal is to make them viable. And to do that, you have to get electoral reform first. And I wish it were easier. I wish that there was a better answer to that, but unfortunately, that's not the case. And a third party wouldn't be the end all be all because we live in a capitalist system. A late-stage capitalist dystopian society. And in the event we get electoral reform, we do everything and we finally elect multiple members from the first, third and fourth party. I mean, they're susceptible to corruption just like the Democratic and Republican parties are. I mean, the Democratic Party used to be a party of the working class. So, you know, there's no easy answer to that question. But here's what I will say. I want third parties to exist. And in order to make them viable, we have to have to have to have to focus on electoral reform first, unfortunately. So we have our first super chat. This is from Hector Palomeras, who says Native Americans won against the Keystone Pipeline. I saw that. Very, very excited about that. Between that and the ruling from the Dutch court that basically ordered a royal Dutch shell to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030. I feel a little bit of optimism when it comes to climate change. Not a lot, not a lot, but a little bit, a little bit. Okay. Mike, why did you change your intro noise? You know, there's no good answer to that. Updating the graphics in the show, like all around. Usually once a year, especially during non-election years when I have a little bit more time to work on the show, I'll do things like this. I just felt like the old intro was a little bit dated. And I just quite frankly, I needed a change. And since I made that intro, my skills have improved a little bit when it comes to editing. So I thought I could make something cooler. And I really like the new one. I hope that you guys like it as well. Let me know what you think. By the way, I just have to point out, we have 131 people watching and only 67 likes, folks. We can get that number to 69. Can we not? Oh, we passed 69. The moment is dead. Okay. So now let's bump up the likes to 144 as many likes or as many viewers as there are likes. Let's do that, folks. Let's like this video. Come on. Come on. Or like this stream, I should say. Thank you all. Thank you all so much for the likes. I appreciate it. Look at men. You all delivered over 100. Thank you all so much. So we have from Jay Ward, just because I watch and enjoy a lot of your content. Thank you so much. That means so much. You don't have to send any money. Just saying that you enjoy it, just watching the content that in and of itself is all I could ever ask or hope for. And let me just say this. Times are tough, right? So if you want to support independent content creators. The best and easiest thing that you can do if you don't have money is to like every single video and comments. Trust me. It sounds insignificant, but that does wonders for the algorithm. YouTube really judges like how often they'll recommend your videos based on the amount of engagement you're able to activate on your channel. So I'm trying myself like sometimes I'll watch videos and I'll not like it. I try to like every video now. But you know, it's it's. I'm not perfect. But if you can like videos, that really helps content creators. No matter who you're watching. It's just the easiest thing. But really, thank you so much, Jay Ward. So Carlos sends $5 Carlos. Thank you so much. No question. If I missed it, let me know. I think I might have answered a question from you, but thank you so much. I really appreciate that. Comrade. Okay. Okay. Yes. As a sec, Mara says, feed the algorithm. That's the thing about these, these YouTube channels. The algorithm now is based so much on engagement on watch time. So you kind of have to like grow at the times. This goes back to that question about how do I get my YouTube channel off the ground? I don't think about these things because I just try to put out a content that I think is good. And I try my best to not think about the analytics because if you really focus on like what's going to boost for your engagement, you're going to drive yourself nuts. But if you really like want to feed the algorithm, making people watch your videos till the end or watch more of your videos, like spend time watching your videos is the best way. But I mean, look, there's a, there's only so much time that we have, right? So just liking it is, it's good enough. I think Katie says, oh, there it is. From this gay kids wallet to yours. Well, thank you so much, Katie. Thank you so much. Gay pride. Gay pride. I'm very excited about it being pride month. But also I'm excited in general because I like summer. And I just like seeing the sunshine. So it's a, it's a great mood. Sir Fappington, beautiful name sends in 699 asking, should the CIA and the FBI be abolished? Easy answer to that. Yes to both. Yes to both. 100%. Not going to happen, but should it? Absolutely. Okay. Oops. I accidentally clicked on someone who disagrees with me. Quick. Hide the comment. Okay. Okay. Back to controlling the narrative. All right. So what do you mean? It sends a $5 super chat saying happy pride month made. Thank you for all your great work. And thank you for being you much love from Australia. PS love the new intro. Thank you so much. And thank you for saying that about the new intro. I really appreciate it. You know, first of all, you're super kind. Second of all, when, when I'll change something, there's a little bit of this period of uncertainty where it's like, are people going to like that? So I don't know if you noticed, but I started to put a banner around the YouTube thumbnails and nobody really said anything. So I'll take that as evidence that they like it. Usually people will only tell you if they dislike something. And so I've gotten a lot of great feedback about the intro, not much about the new thumbnails, but, um, you know, thank you. Thank you. I really appreciate that. Okay. I feel like I missed. No, I didn't know. Okay. So we're good. We're good. Got through all the super chats. Very efficient. Okay. So Nia asks, how on earth have you managed to keep on top of all the news coming in this year? It must have been difficult, but I really appreciate your commentary. Well done. Thank you so much. I appreciate your comment. Um, basically my answer to that is I don't keep current with the news. I have to select which stories I want to talk about. And it's tough because sometimes there's so much that happens in a week. And I want to talk about everything, but I just can't. I have to force myself to focus on a couple of stories. Um, and yeah, I mean, look, I'm, I'm one person. Um, this is basically a two man crew. I produce the content. Um, my husband is my full time editor for the videos, but that's it. So we put out as much as we think we can before going nets. So, um, I do my best like short answer. I don't know why I needed to like answer that super long and, and Rambly. Um, okay. Daftrax says, is Marjorie Taylor Greene a 2024 Republican candidate? Um, I don't know. She'll be a 2024 Republican candidate, but 2028, like after Trump is out of the picture, I could see it. I mean, she's the future of the Republican party. Uh, there was a poll. I don't remember which company conducted the poll, but it was out of Georgia and Georgia Republicans are absolutely thrilled with Marjorie Taylor Greene. They love her. So it's not like she's some anomaly. She is the new face of the Republican party. Unfortunately, that's scary, but, um, it's a, it's possible that she is a president one day. Yeah. Okay. Big question. What if a corporate Democrat went rogue after they've been bought and support a progressive idea? I mean, look, it's, it's totally possible. Um, don't expect to be wowed by them on every issue, but sometimes corporate Democrats, they do get it right. So, um, I'll give you an example of my governor in Oregon, Kate Brown, she came in bank rolled by Comcast as corporate as you could possibly be. And I thought, Oh my God, like this net neutrality issue, she's going to be one of the bad Democrats on this issue, but actually she was one of the first governors to sign net neutrality into law in this state. And we have net neutrality because she did that. So sometimes corporate Democrats surprise you more often than not, they disappoint you, but sometimes they do kind of like go rogue and it's really nice to see, but they never go rogue on every single issue. Unfortunately. Um, I don't necessarily think that they betrayed us. I'd say it's the latter. I think that they're just very, very weak. Although I will say that AOC's contributions to corporate Democrats from her courage to change pack. I actually do view that as a betrayal. I don't think that that's acceptable at all. Um, if you're taking in grassroots money, I think you have no business giving that money to corporate Democrats. Um, so hey, I'm going to give you an example. I'm going to give you an example of a business giving that money to corporate Democrats. Um, so it's a little bit of both for AOC. Yeah. I think that what she did there is a bit of a betrayal. Does it mean that I'm like throwing her away and I'm done with her and I'm canceling her? No. But I think that ultimately the answer is they're mostly weak. Like the system has a way of beating you down. And I think that the squad is no different. Like with time, it tends to what's the right word for me, right? I mean, AOC was protesting inside of Nancy Pelosi's office, uh, on day one. And then she was, you know, constantly taking shots at her Democratic Party colleagues. And now, you know, she still does that from time to time. She still speaks out. She condemned Kamala Harris's terrible remarks, uh, to Guatemalans. But I mean, overall, I think she is a little bit more reserved, um, less vocal now. But that's, it's not honestly surprising to me, to be honest. Politicians, they, they have the tendency to disappoint you, right? I mean, if, if Bernie were president in a better world, if Bernie Sanders were president, I always thought how long until I'm disappointed with Bernie Sanders. It's just you elect the best politician you possibly can and then you keep organizing inside, outside strategy. That's, that's the only thing that we really can do. Okay. I saw a super chat. John Barlich says, I can accept you being gay, but not being Italian. Well, John, I have phenomenal news for you. I am not Italian. So I don't know what's wrong with Italians, but, um, I'm Portuguese. I'm not Italian. So, um, that is great news for you, but Italian people are cool. So, um, do better, John, but thank you for the $2. I appreciate that. Um, okay, okay. Hey, Mike, love your show. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thanks for your answer. No problem. Thank you for the question, boom, boom. Okay. So Kurt Goisen with a $5 super chat asks, what's the most impactful reaction you received from your coming out story? Thanks for sharing. Love the show. Keep it up. Oh man. There was a lot of really great reactions to it. Um, I didn't read all of the comments. Um, but I think that the best reaction is that it helped them with their own coming out story. And that's really what I wanted. So when I was younger, um, like when I accepted myself before I came out, I watched so many coming out videos on YouTube and they're just not as popular anymore. Uh, but they are super helpful. Like it helped me plan my coming out process. So I basically wanted to do that, put back into the world, or put back into YouTube what I got out of YouTube. Um, and that's, that's basically it. And part of the reason why I think that coming out videos aren't as prevalent now is thankfully because coming out isn't as much of a thing, especially for younger generations like zoomers. I mean, all of us probably know at least like one zoomer who doesn't come out. They just like bring home their same sex, you know, um, partner. And that's it. Um, although that hasn't changed with, uh, trans people, you know, they still come out, non-binary people still come out. But I want coming out to not really be a thing. Like I think that's the goal of every single LGBTQ plus person, just make it a thing of the past where we just like be who we are. And it's not this big event. We've still got, you know, ways to go. Okay. So, uh, John Barlich says with another $5 super chat or it was $2 last time, but $5 now. So you say, okay, you're cool. Thank you. Thank you. But I have a question. Who would win in a fight, Bernie or Trump? Um, that's tough. You see, I think that if I say Bernie, it's going to be a little just because you're a Bernie bro, but I think objectively speaking, Bernie Sanders has a lot more stamina. Like we all saw the the gif of him like running through that airport. I think Bernie has a lot more stamina, Trump is out of shape. Um, I think that Trump probably is less coordinated. I think that Bernie would probably win overall, but I'm guessing that Trump is taller. No, actually Bernie's Bernie's pretty tall too. I think Bernie probably, but I don't know if that's wishful thinking because I'm a Bernie bro. Who knows? But I'm going to say Bernie. That's who had bet on. Okay. So, uh, Laura Nicole 84 says, I'm Italian. How do we stay optimistic with Biden at the helm? I love how you prefaced it with I'm Italian. Thank you. Yes, pushback. Pushback against John being anti-Italian. Um, so how do we stay optimistic? Oh, that's a really hard question. Um, I don't know. Okay. This is not a good answer, but this is just how I stay sane, right? Because I'm not the most optimistic person in the world lately. I feel like I'm a lot more doomer if you compare like what I say now to 2015, 2016 era, humanist report videos. Um, I distract myself. Um, if I think about all of the bad things, it really drives me nuts. So when I'm done, you know, doing the podcast, yes, I still stay engaged. I still tweet. I still read news stories because you can't really like check out entirely, but I make sure that I dedicate a lot of time to just like self-care playing video games, watching movies, watching anime, playing with my dogs, just really trying to distract myself because I mean, regardless of who the president is, even if Bernie Sanders were the president right now, it would be really difficult to be optimistic. And I'm just being honest because I mean, we see what's happening with, you know, Joe Manchin, Kirsten Sinema, the filibuster, you know, the senate parliamentarian, all these bullshit excuses, they would still exist in a world where Bernie Sanders was the president of the United States too. Um, maybe there'd be different obstacles, but it's still, you know, we'd be dealing with media attacks. So there's always going to be a lot that gets you down. Being optimistic is hard, but just try to tell yourself that the struggle is part of the process, like even if we get to a world where, you know, we have a multi-party system and we have Medicare for all and, you know, we have, uh, seized the means of production, there's always going to be societal problems, politics is always going to be inherently divisive, I don't believe in the utopia, but just know that struggle is part of the political process, and if you feel the struggle that means that you're paying attention, and I get that's a bit of a cliche, right? If you're not if you're not enraged, you're not paying attention, but it is true, it is true. Okay, hang on, hang on. I will answer the non super chat questions, but I do want to make sure that I get to those, because if you're giving me money, I would feel really bad if I missed one. Having said that though, you do not have to give me money to, um, to get me to answer your question. I'm not a politician. Okay. I don't do these, uh, private fundraisers. So we have Sam. Sam says, yo, Mike, what up? It's Sam. I love you, Sam. Happy Pride Day. I genuinely enjoy your coming out story on Twitch. Keep doing your thing. God bless. Thank you so much, Sam. Sam, you are just, you're amazing. Uh, for those of you who don't know, uh, Sam is a regular to our monthly Patreon live chats. So Sam and I have known each other now, literally for years. Um, we see each other once a month and, uh, without Sam, I wouldn't know about, like, most of the movies to watch. Like, I wouldn't know what to watch. He kind of keeps me in the loop there. So Sam is, uh, awesome. Okay. I think I missed, yeah, I did miss one. Okay. So Gabe Hunkin asks, I had to screen-record your meme laugh clip that had Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor-Green in it that had me dead for a bit after seeing it. LMAO. Yeah. Um, I'm not going to lie. Like, I'm one of those weird people that laughs at his own jokes and it's insufferable to be like that. But after I, like, was editing that, and I always watch back the videos if I do the editing. Like, my husband does most of the editing, but if I edit and I did edit that video, um, I'll watch it back just to make sure that everything is correct and nothing's out of place. That actually made me laugh, like, legit. Like, I was almost in tears. Uh, these dumb memes, I used them too much. I overused them, you could say, but they still make me laugh. And these weird Joker laughs that conservatives keep doing, just, just know I will continue to save them. I will download them and I will use them in as many videos as I possibly can. Okay. Davel says, thoughts on the Peruvian election, the leftist. Pedro is a reactionary, unfortunately, on cultural issues. Yeah, so I am not going to speak out of turn. I need to do a lot more research before I speak on this, but I have basically heard that there is a leftist and the leftist is reactionary and I've also heard that the right-wing opposition is claiming election fraud. Um, that's as much as I feel comfortable saying because unless I really do a lot of research, I don't want to speak on that. I don't want to inadvertently misinform people, but uh, basically your assessment is what I've heard and I will be looking into it. I'm not sure if I'm going to do a segment on this on the program. Perhaps I'll talk about it tomorrow on Twitch, but yeah, I am aware of that. Um, so yeah, Occam's Phaser asks, do you think there's any chance that we get weed legalization with Biden in office or anytime in the next few years? So, I don't think Biden is going to budge on this. He is a drug warrior and I just can't see him budging. Like when they did the Unity Reform Commissions, which were cringe by the way, um, that was like one of the few issues that he refused to budge on. So I don't think it's going to happen. Will there come a time in the United States where cannabis is legal in all 50 states? Yes, I do think that that's the case. Um, will it be within the next few years? Um, probably not. It's, it's hard to say like originally I thought that pot would be legalized through the Supreme Court as marriage equality was. But now with the 6-3 conservative majority, I'm not so sure. But I do think there will come a time. I mean once the cat's out of the bag, you can't put the cat back in the bag. And what I mean by that is we have multiple states now. What is it basically like most Americans because California and New York have legalized pot, can just walk into a store and legally purchase pot. And to me it's inconceivable as an Oregonian who's been able to do this since 2014 or 2015, which is when it went into effect. To think that I couldn't just walk into a store and buy cannabis, to me is absurd. It's absurd. So, um, I think that eventually it's going to happen it's still going to take a little bit of time. Okay, let me see. Let me see here. Okay. Seltzerbot with a $5 superchat. Thank you so much. Slightly non-political question. That's totally okay. You don't have to ask political questions. Not at all. If you want to ask me something stupid about like video games, that's cool. Um, okay. But do you think Earth will avoid two degrees Celsius of warming due to climate change? Um, probably not. I wish that that were the case. That that were not the case I should say. Probably not. I think that what's going to happen is most likely human beings will survive climate change, but we will likely see catastrophic climate change. And I say that because currently at this rate, we're not moving fast enough. We're not taking the action necessary to get it done in time to stop catastrophic climate change. I feel that because I don't want to be doomer, but I don't see it. But if I'm proven wrong I will be very very happy. Sam says, speaking of movies you should watch a quiet place too. I will. I'm not going to see it in theaters, but when it comes out I will, um, I will stream it. Although I have to watch the first one again because I don't remember much about the first one. John Barlich says, did we go or asks, did we go from white boy summer to gay boy summer? Um, yes, absolutely. If by summer you mean enjoying the sunshine while staying inside and playing video games and watching movies? Definitely. Okay, I just, uh, I saw Super Chat but it, where is it? There it is. There it is. Okay. So Nature Boy with an $11 Super Chat uh, says been watching Humanist Report for years, but especially appreciate the random comedic content lately. Keep trusting your instincts and all the best. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. You know, I try to make the show entertaining and, you know, sometimes I try to be more creative because it gets a little bit boring and stale from my standpoint, just like doing the same thing, reporting on the same type of news stories and this like dry way. So I try to, you know, inject some comedy and stupidity sometimes into uh, into the show. So I'm glad that you appreciate that. Wow. Mike, I spent a week in jail in 2019 for an ounce of weed. It's, that is insane to me. That's insane to me. In 2019. Jeez. Daniel Huberman asks, would you want to debate Ben Shapiro? Um, sure I debate Ben Shapiro, I guess. Although I don't know because now that I think about it, that's a lot of work to prepare for a debate. I'm not really like a debate bro. I don't know that I'm quick on my toes. So would he possibly like out talking point me? Maybe, but would I do it just because I try to get him to say whop? Yeah. It's worth the effort. Ice asks, opinion on destiny. I think he's based and logical. I used to like destiny. Um, I already like, I knew that he was a centrist, but I liked that he debated right wingers and I think that he converted a lot of people to not be right wingers. But to me now I don't follow destiny. Whenever I hear of destiny, he's just attacking leftists. He's attacking Vosh. He's attacking the serfs and I'm just okay. It's just, it's like he has a personal vendetta against the left and that's really unfortunate because I think that he could be very, very effective at converting right wingers but now he's kind of dedicating all of his energy to punching left and that disappoints me. But I mean what are you going to do about it? Michael Cuomo says, hey Mike did your grandchild progressive voice help you set up the live stream? No I have not heard from my grandson progressive voice in quite some time Sahil, if you're watching this give your grandparent a call, okay? I don't know what's going on. I hope that you're doing well. My grandchildren, they're all in college now so I don't hear from them very frequently but I did get this live stream up and running on my own so my grandchild progressive voice will be very, very happy to hear that. You might not believe it though, you might not believe it. Okay I want to make sure I don't miss super chats so I'm going to scroll up okay so Katie with the $5 super chat says did you see what Jesse Lee Peterson said about women turning into men if they have an O? Right wing men scare me to be honest if they have an O um so I didn't see what he said but turning into men if they have an O what does the O mean? Oh hey, speak of the devil progressive voices here, how's it going? Thank you so much, thank you so much um so I don't know, I'd have to look into this I'm not sure what he said is it a typo? I don't like the word that I'm thinking of I don't want to say it, don't send a super chat to like clarify just like you can put the comments on screen I think I feel like I know what you're talking about okay okay okay orgasm did you see oh my god, I hope that my mom isn't watching did you see what Jesse Lee Peterson said about women turning into men if they have an O? so if it is the case that women will turn into men if they have an orgasm then that is very based because that means that there's more there's more men for the gay people we're about converting as many as possible that's the gay agenda um okay Jeanine Cox with a 499 super chat I'm kind of disappointed you do not have magneto powers, I think we are hitting new stupidity levels in this country I agree, like if I had magneto powers that would be incredibly awesome but yeah I think that you're right like okay there's been this long standing stereotype about Americans that were stupid and reactionary and just like belligerent and that's true like it's true but I feel like we're devolving and even like people I know I feel like who have always been kind of reactionary right wingers I feel like they're devolving too and I'm not discounting myself I'm just melting a little bit I have brain rot from covering politics too much I think you're right and for those of you who don't know what Jeanine is referring to is the video we put out on the anti-vax lady at the hearing in Ohio that was like trying to stick a key to her chest and she's like see this is evidence that I've become magnetized and the key was brass but it's it hurts my brain okay Narfator says hey why is it always called late-stage capitalism was there a capitalistic system that went down to compare happy pride month from Germany keeping great hey thank you so much I really appreciate that so basically the reason why it's called late-stage capitalism is because we're in the final stages of capitalism before it ultimately implodes and eats itself and we're kind of seeing that process it is already starting to eat itself like when capitalism starts it isn't that bad like at the beginning I mean capitalism does bring a lot of prosperity even if it is very exploitative you know there was a time in you know American society where a middle class could grow but eventually capitalism becomes big all the competition and innovation that we were told is going to happen it starts to go away as companies begin eating itself eating themselves I should say you know merging to where we just have a handful of companies in charge of media of a bunch of things so that's why I believe it's called late-stage capitalism because it's going to implode and we're watching like we're on that march towards the cliff it's eating itself as we speak and what's happening is a result of capitalism imploding hopefully I explained that correct I feel like I kind of like word salad at that but I hope that that is acceptable so John says I would like to apologize to the Italians thank you John that's really great like we're making progress on this stream I offended you guys got good food and money a Mike I love your coming out that thank you so much I really appreciate that I'm glad that you you enjoyed that I'm not going to lie it was a little bit embarrassing to talk about that because I never talked about that before but I think that it was it was necessary just given how important coming out videos were for me alright so we have hey we have the serfs times happy anniversary who has your favorite beard on the left well thank you so much first of all for the $5 super chat who has your favorite beard on the left I'm going to have to say bow the fifth column because this is longer than mine and we we judge how good a beard is based on how long they are and so for me I couldn't actually pull off a beard that long but I think that he does so I'm going to have to say bow shout out to bow best beard in all of progressive politics I believe we got through no no we didn't get through all the super chats let me find let's see there we go okay so I'm working with this or I'm starting with the serfs and I'm scrolling down from there progressive voice yes so it's the running meat like we have to maintain the meme that you're my grandson because you always helped me with the live streams like I think it was the last live stream where I I launched it but the bit rate was too high or something like that and so it was glitching so I had to turn it down I don't know like you helped me before and so it's like this running joke that I have and some of my viewers have that basically you're my grandson because I'm a boomer and I need you to help me with technology okay so E with a $5 super chat keep it up bro have a beard on me all the best thank you so much I really appreciate that I will have a beer on you thank you pillar of balance says I hope I can find someone who makes me laugh as much as Mike makes himself laugh yes I actually created a meme about this very thing that made me laugh a lot so yes yes absolutely but death is making the left more effective um I I don't know what he's doing lately I think that if he like encourages the left to do more grassroots canvassing and organizing and he's leading by example that's great and I commend him for that but I think that it's I don't like to me and I don't I can't really speak a lot about destiny because I don't watch um I don't watch his content um and I only hear about destiny whenever he attacks like someone I like like he's been attacking Lance from the serfs lately and the serfs so don't do that um but like to me it seems like he's genuinely like hostile towards the left like he has to spend data against the left but I mean that could be a misrepresentation I just don't I don't watch destiny like I'm not familiar enough with his content to make any sort of like conclusion but um yeah if you watch him and you think it's good then that's awesome for me it's not necessarily like my cup of tea um although I will say um like whenever he argues with right-wingers I've I've loved all those videos um I saw a video from last year where he was confronted by a Trump supporter in real life when he was canvassing for um the two Democrats in Georgia uh Raphael Warnock and John Osip and I thought that was entertaining so I mean I'm not saying like destiny bad altogether but I just I don't like that he attacks the left but I mean I'm sure if he watched my content he'd have a lot of disagreements with me and my methods so I mean you know you're never going to agree with someone 100% of the time but um he could win me back if he just like stops attacking leftists who are great okay so Silhouette sends a $5 super chat and that is what is that oh my god I'm blind my forehead is so greasy um it's a happy face okay it's a happy face emoji I need new glasses I need new glasses holy shit I'm blind I can't see that um okay I admit I don't know why but like the chat jumps for me and I'll be caught up and then it'll jump but I don't think I've missed any super chats okay here we go so Sean F have you heard about Biden's DOJ blocking California from phasing out private private prisons whatever happened to Biden's executive order um yeah so to that last part I'm not sure but uh to your question I have a video going out tomorrow it's already edited and I think that it's available for patrons um it goes up at 8 AM maybe 10 AM I want to say um and this is about Merrick Garland being a terrible DOJ basically it's a long standing tradition in the United States for the Justice Department of an administration to kind of adopt all of the legal positions of the last administration and even though Trump used the Justice Department as his own like personal like defense arm of government Merrick Garland is still doing all the Trumpian things like he's literally defending Trump from a rape defamation case so yeah there's there's a lot to be said about that definitely check out that video that goes up tomorrow because it is um I kind of go into this and it's it's not necessarily because Merrick Garland is corrupt um you can argue he's stupid but part of this is because of his like really antiquated legal philosophy and judicial philosophy um and he's very like traditionalist in that sense where he has to do what's always been done so since you know it's standard practice to do what the last administration did legally that's what he's doing and uh it's part of the reason why our country uh sucks okay so Mover Bob says don't sell yourself short but not intended his is great and long but a bit crazy but yours is clean without context nobody would know what this is in reference to but for those just tuning in this is uh this is about beards and I said that uh both the fifth column has the best beard but you could uh construe this in a very very bad way but thank you Bob thank you I really appreciate it I didn't even need to point that out but I just felt like it was on my heart so I had to say it um okay I'm David Serabi with a $5 chat and no comment thank you so much progressive voice says Mike what are your thoughts on the hill rising and crystal ball and Sager leaving um I don't really watch the show enough to um have any like strong thoughts on this but I will say that I probably will not be invited on the hill because the one time that I was invited on the hill it was because crystal ball wanted me on but um the new hope well actually Ryan grim is okay um but the problem with like me going on the hill is that they're on the east coast and so like to go on the hill I have to get up at 4 30 in the morning and um that's like about the time when I'm going to bed uh so it's very difficult and I know that you'd say stay up why not just stay up but then it's like that I'm staying up later than usual I just fucked up my schedule having said that though um I um I probably won't be going on now but I think that crystal crystal ball is the star like crystal ball made that show she built it to what it is and the new conservative sucks ass on there like she was like complaining about blue's clues doing gay pride um just silly so I love crystal ball crystal ball is based but um Ryan grim is cool too but the conservatives that they get are not based in my opinion wow so we have secular talk hey Mike just checking in I don't think that's Kyle right because Kyle um Kyle would be verified right let me check I'll check that I'll click on it no I can't click on it shit is that actually I don't think that's actually Kyle if it is Kyle then hello Kyle okay let me see okay Jason Gill with a 499 super chat happy pride month do you think our politics will advance in our direction in a significant way in our lifetime over the course of our lifetime yes I do think that um I want it to happen sooner but over time yes short answer yes so I think that that is cause for optimism not that this is guaranteed but over time I do believe things will change for the better unfortunately they may get worse before they get better because climate change is going to do a lot of damage to the human race but um I do think so that is not the real Kyle I'm his twin brother imposter do you think Sager is fascist uh no I don't think I don't know that Sager is fascist I don't know enough about his politics I do think he's stupid though like he doesn't support legalizing cannabis I don't know if I still don't know if he was joking about that I don't like Sager's politics if he's a fascist probably not he does have some authoritarian tendencies though like he was defending Trump using the military to crush black lives and other protesters um so I don't like Sager um I don't like his politics I should say that as a person I mean I'm sure he's lovely but I don't like Sager's politics so to be clear ok Mari with a 999 super chat thank you so much Mari dear Mike your coming out of the video was excellent it's one of my favorites thank you for sharing your story the whole point about power dynamic shifting with time was so on point keeping awesome thank you so much thank you so much yeah that was something I really wanted to say because it it would have helped me to know this going into my coming out process like from me um I felt like you know if you come out and you get rejected that's the way it's going to be for the rest of your life it's just this constant state of misery and rejection but everything is temporary I mean when you're younger it kind of feels like that but eventually you know as you grow older as the people who once rejected you grow older and more isolated their kids grow up you know move out go to college they start to get a little bit lonely and they start to want to like rekindle the relationship that they had with you and then you're going to be in a position to where it's like actually I don't accept you so uh you know it's good to know that because the power dynamic issue is something that we haven't really known to look at because you know um millennials I think are like what I want to say like they're the first they're like one of the first generations to really openly embrace lgbtq plus you know um acceptance gen gen x to an extent as well but like I think that millennials did a lot to like shift the overton window and so like when we all came out 10 years ago we didn't know about power dynamics then but we're old enough now to where we can kind of see you know uh the importance of it so thank you for saying that I'm glad that that was uh on point I hope that it helps out young people so uh blam jam 23 with a $5 super chat says hey mike you have the best outro music what is the you know the thing closing song from it's hilarious um thank you I appreciate that so um all of the beats are made by one of two people either lord magnus who has a youtube channel definitely check out lord magnus he makes really good beats and he splices in like modern music samples and it sounds incredible and the other person is raw heats so they don't put the uh like the lyrics or the samples from Dave Rubin and uh joe biden in I splice all of that in myself so it's not necessarily from anything I made it specifically for the outro but I am glad that you like it because I do enjoy making them and um yeah they uh people love them apparently so I will keep doing it okay let me see okay when did that one well we have Ben Shapiro in the chat oh my god Ben how's it going Ben what are you like what are you doing here you're just watching the humanist report like are you a fan like have you been watching for a while do you want to debate um will you say WAP for me Ben big fan big fan I think I missed the super chat oh we have uh Ben Shapiro calling out progressive voice as well he's on to us progressive voice okay so uh Henry Volt 35 I like that name with the 50 dollar super chat oh my god that's that's uh that's a lot wow thank you so much that's that's so generous wow I'm like taking it back by that thank you so much uh you know what I don't get far right lunatics far far right lunatics are taking steps to get into congress but besides they're not a lot of people I heard of are stepping up to take on the democratic party establishment figures we can't let mansion and cinema get re-elected in 2024 yeah I agree with you 100% um I don't know when Kirsten cinema is up are they both up in 2024 um one thing that really was illuminating for me is um what was I gonna say I literally just lost you know thought oh okay so uh Lee Carter who was running for governor in Virginia he put out this tweet that um was really sad to me but it made sense that like the last four years that he was serving in the Virginia House of delegates he was miserable like he was constantly bombarded with um death threats harassment um and for this reason I think a lot of folks don't want to step up I mean look at Ilhan Omar she is the only member of congress who wears a hijab and she gets constant death threats so I mean if you're unique if you're socialist if you're a little bit further to the left of the overton window you are a target and not a lot of people want to put themselves out there and and on top of that running for congress is no easy feat it's hard like all of the candidates I talked to like the common thing that they all say is it is draining like it sucks the life out of you so running for congress is a tremendous sacrifice and not wanting to run for congress myself I understand why people wouldn't want to do that um but yeah I do agree with you that we need more people to run for congress to challenge corporate democrats 100% um and thankfully you know more progressives than ever have been running since 2016 but it's still not enough because we need to run in every single race if we want to have a chance at winning so it's it's tough but again thank you so much I love the name Henry Volt that's super clever and thank you so much for the $50 super chat that is incredibly kind thank you so much okay uh oh Ben Shapiro says facts don't care about your feelings you know what Ben fuck off fuck off come on the humanist report and say that to my face Ben face me he probably would he wouldn't care I want to make sure I I don't think I I think I got all the super chats alright so we're to the phase now where I will look up the non super chat questions oh we got another one did we yes we got another one Colton at Starbucks with a $5 super chat just for fun not political what is one thing we have too much of and one thing too little of in America looking forward to your new formats thank you so much I really appreciate that oh that's tough one thing we have too much of one thing we have too little of oh that's that's gonna make me think this is the first question where I feel like I'm really stumped um let me think about that so too little of is uh I don't know because I everything that I want to say is like political and I'm trying to keep it non political so too much of we have too many Q and on supporters I'm just gonna go political because that's all that my brain can do and we have not enough progressive lawmakers no that's that's such a lame cop out answer I'm sure they give a better answer but I don't know too much religion that's good menu frog says too much religion I agree with that too much religion too much bigotry too much stupidity um too little of I don't know what we have too little of what's something that I said I wish we oh you know what too little of ps5 nobody can get their hands on one nobody can get their hands on one we need more ps5s in America I feel like that's like the perfect answer to that question is it not not enough bidets yeah um where would I see that the problem with bidets is that even though it makes sense like doesn't it just like spray shit everywhere I mean maybe that's like too much pressure but um I don't know not enough chips way too many guns that's a good answer to chip shortage okay I'm going through I will most likely end the stream relatively soon here I may do another q&a at some point in time because these are always fun but make sure you get in your questions uh before I go I don't know when uh maybe like 30 minutes not enough Mike figurados we have too many Mike figurados one is like more than enough now I'm just kidding no there actually are a lot of Mike figurados in the world it's relatively common name believe it or not I'm just aiming to be the best one okay John Harrison asks is it too late to force the vote on progressive agenda how can we hold progressives accountable uh I mean I don't know if it's too late to um what did I just do oh okay no we're still live right yeah we're still live I almost crashed this entire fucker um okay no I don't think it's too late to force the vote on the progressive agenda I think that the next window of opportunity uh assuming that there's going to be a vote on Biden's infrastructure bill is then uh will progressives do that probably not we're getting a lot of indications that they're like not going to do that holding progress progressives accountable um I think that you have to understand where the source of power is when it comes to progressive leadership and the chairs of the congressional progressive caucus uh that is uh Pramila Jayapal she's the chair and then we also have mark poke and although I think he's a former co-chair um and so they really set the standard and since Pramila Jayapal in my opinion is like the one who's not really like issuing directives but she is kind of communicating to the squad that they should take a more reserved approach they're kind of following her lead obviously I think that if you like get Pramila Jayapal to leave the charge maybe but then again like that's kind of a cop out answer for the progressives because any one of them can technically be a leader all it really takes is one right like if one of them stood up to the Democratic Party establishment I think that the others would follow suits um I don't know though it's a tough question right I think it's never too late to force through the progressive agenda but um in terms of holding progressives accountable um you know it's hard to say as well because really if it's your representative definitely like constantly email them and give them phone calls but um for like the elected progressives like members of the squad Ilhan Omar I mean always you can you can give them a call you can try to put pressure on them externally but really I wonder how effective that is compared to like putting pressure on people like Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinem I really think that you have to try to do both but I mean we have limited resources so I'm not sure it's a tough question right um you know I'm disappointed with progressives their weakness their inaction um I'm not really sure but yelling at them on twitter hasn't been working so I think that we need like a new strategy I just I don't know it's tough we're at this weird stage uh in American politics where we're trying to like recalibrate and figure out what we do going forward I mean I've been going through this since Bernie dropped out of the 2020 Democratic Party primary it's like okay now what like what's the path forward and I just I don't know and I think it's okay to admit that you don't know from time to time and with this answer it's kind of a tough question because I don't know uh you know it's definitely never too late to force through a progressive agenda but in terms of holding progressives accountable in a way that works uh you know the same way that we hold other lawmakers accountable but you know it's tough I just I don't know honestly and that's a shitty answer but um I just don't know what's gonna work right oops where to go there we go Alan says take my money well thank you so much who is that in your avatar I feel like I recognize that character but I don't know well thank you so much Alan either way okay so Scotty Jameson says hey Mike finally caught you live happy pride hey thank you so much I really appreciate that Scotty happy pride to you too why don't you want to answer want to answer me Iced I don't know what your last uh question was but type it out in the chat and I'll try to find it Mari Posa what's your favorite Pokemon who's your first starter also thanks for playing the new Poke Snap so I know not to buy it team Squirtle ha ha ha so I'm a team Charmander that's my favorite uh starter uh but favorite Pokemon it has to be Charizard because I'm I'm old school uh but yes don't buy the new Pokemon Snap it's boring it's bad Alan says I just want a shill cultist simulator that's it that would be awesome that'd be awesome okay the chats moving a bit fast folks so bear with me okay I watched your twitch stream about your coming out and it was great as a gay man I totally felt your stress of telling family also love your show keep it up thank you so much thank you so much yeah the feedback has been really incredible and I was I was worried about it um it was a little bit embarrassing disclosing you know all of these really personal details I don't know who for my family is gonna see it I don't know if the person who outed me is gonna see it um you know it's it's awkward right but I think it's something that needs to be said I think that my story can help younger LGBTQ people who felt you know suicidal thoughts who felt you know rejected so that's why I shared it and I'm glad it's having a really good impact on people thank you thank you for saying that I really appreciate the feedback let's see here Adam with $5 says might give me hope and truly inspire me to be a better person every time I watch your videos or Kyle or to it thank you so much I really appreciate that I really appreciate that I don't necessarily think I'm like the best role model role model in the world but I mean if you think I am that means so much to me I'm always trying to be better I think we're all flawed human beings but you know I appreciate you saying that thank you so much wow this is one I have to showcase of course uh Mike you're awesome I don't give a fuck what anyone says you're awesome well thank you so much wow I really appreciate it I'm down to share all the compliments thank you all so much let's see what's I saw one I was gonna highlight where to go oh here we go Brent says Mike do you play poker I don't play poker I don't really know how to play a lot of card games so I'm not I'm not a poker player I could learn but then I don't know who would play a poker with me Tyler Wakele says do you have an opinion on the TYT Aaron Maté be frequently um not really I've taught myself to like not feel pressured to respond to every single beef that's happening on twitter um not only is it a drain on my mental health but it just it doesn't do anything and these folks I mean they take shots at each other like you know Aaron Maté Jimmy Dore they attack TYT TYT attacks them they attack back it's like okay I need to stop engaging in this drama bullshit so um my opinion is that I'm staying the fuck out of that I'm the Homer Simpson backing into the bushes meme and that's been my stance on a lot of beefs and I swear to god like my mental health has been so much better because of it I'm trying to behave more on twitter and just shut the fuck up and the strategy is working it's working because I feel like I haven't lost um that much more brain cells I mean I'm constantly in a state of like losing brain cells covering politics but it's like slowed it's slowed oh that's fair thank you Corvair says why won't ice answer my question oh we have a little bit of a battle going on ice I do want to find your question I don't I don't want to like ignore your question I don't know what the last question was type it right now and I'll I'll look at it TYT started it yeah I I mean me has been shitting on TYT for like a lot of months isn't he part of that too I mean look I shouldn't I shouldn't speak on it if I don't know like all the details so I don't know I don't really care if I'm being honest I'm just I'm so tired of the drama on Twitter I'm so tired of it so not engaging in it is like the best thing that I can do Mike do you think we'll see Ethan in Resident Evil 9 I hope not because Ethan is stupid as fuck I hate Ethan he's so dumb he's so stupid I mean you get your wrist chopped off and you just like put it back on and then pour some alcohol on it that's like that's dumb Twitter is toxic that's my thing like I have really reduced the amount of activity on Twitter that I that I my Twitter activity I should say Twitter is just shit Twitter is terrible it's not a good platform I hate Twitter I use Twitter I kind of feel like I need to use it because it's a great like resource if you cover politics it gives you like a good like jumping off point but Twitter in general I just I don't enjoy it anymore what's your opinion on Hasan Piker Hasan Piker is based I fucking love Hasan Piker Ben Shapiro versus Milo in a boxing match who wins probably Milo because Milo I feel like he fights super dirty and break all the rules so I'm going to say Milo based on that yeah I avoid Twitter yes that is a smart strategy I try to not like doom scroll through Twitter like when I'm done when I finish like sharing like my shows and stuff like that and I do a couple of retweets of articles or like hearts some stories that I want to cover later then I try to like log off because it's just it's too much it's like draining how can we game with you so I usually just play it play like single player games I don't play a lot of multiplayer games so odds are you won't really be able to but if there's some sort of like event or thing where we could do like a multiplayer thing you'll find out on twitch twitch.tv slash humanist report I'll plug the twitch channel how about that okay so we have a question here from the humanist report what's it like being so fucking dope sometimes it's difficult but I like really try to like um I try to be dope that was stupid but I just it was on my heart okay now I see the chat going off the rails I see I don't know what the context is for this please Mike for us thirsty queens and then somebody asking me to strangle a monkey now I'm getting worried it was the dumbest things imaginable is on my heart my my humor is like a combination of dad humor and 10 year old boy humor the humanist report says fuck you right back at you fuck you okay anymore I need to okay I'm getting tired I need to end this soon let's take the last questions before um before I keep chatting with myself there's like hundreds of people in the chat and I'm chatting with myself I'm so I'm so stupid I swear here we go here we go Mike how is it living in the P N W Pacific Northwest is the Washington Oregon rivalry that's serious uh no it's not that serious we all love each other like I have so many friends in Washington and they're amazing people um yeah I I don't think there's a rivalry I think it's fake maybe there's like a rivalry with sports teams but that is a world that I'm not like involved in so I can't speak to that but yeah Mike told Mike to fuck off I did I did absolutely this is like the 2021 version of DS picked out chat does anyone remember that like I remember when I got my Nintendo DS there was picked out chat and you could chat with people but um of course there was never anybody to chat with so I just like chat with myself and I'd be like hi and then I respond to myself hi like how's it going like this is totally an unnecessary story but like that's kind of like always been my sense of humor to be stupid and random god I'm such a millennial such a millennial thing to do here's a good question Mike do you think the next elder scrolls will be a disappointment compared to Skyrim um I hope not I hope not if it's as good as Skyrim then I will be satisfied but Skyrim was incredible Nick V says how long has Mike been married I'm going on four years now actually so quite some time but we've been together for almost 11 years so yeah riding strong Coral and Boyce do you still laugh at Melania's mayonnaise not as much as I used to but it still does get to me in the right like setting and context Riley says have you covered the pro public a billionaire bombshell plus Biden admins shitty response I haven't seen Biden's response but I did cover that although I feel like that video wasn't like delivered to a lot of people so definitely if it's not in your sub box check on the channel because I did do a video it came out at 10 a.m. I think this morning or 8 a.m. it's going to be 10 or 8 like that's when videos come out every single day okay Cooth Elar says what PHC program were you in so back when I was in the program before I went on sabbatical I was in a public policy politics and public policy and it focused a lot on like governance neoliberal governance in particular and it was kind of soul crushing but yeah yeah politics and public policy do you think Katie Porter is the best chance option to replace Feinstein you know I'm not sure I think that if she ran she'd have a good shot um possibly yeah possibly oh my god Winston Winston from the twitch chat says will you make a Ted Cruz milk tonsil emote for twitch I don't know that I could do that to you all that'd be very gross maybe maybe I'm probably going to do it now we'll see we'll see I really shouldn't do that that would be disgusting but I feel like I would probably do something like that now that the idea is in my head I think it's made by day by highlighting my post you rule humanist report well thank you so much I just highlighted another one so now your day should be like doubly made okay I saw another question um oh here we go um oops I almost blocked you I'm so sorry um okay I highlighted your question didn't block you Daniel Huberman says hey Mike how do you feel about David Packman um David Packman is someone who I think I disagree with quite a bit but overall um he does really great reports on like machine um you know he's a bit more uh to my right but I still think that David um he has a really like good well-oiled machine his sense of humor is um I think it kind of like speaks to me but overall I mean David is a very nice person he was like the first person in all of indie media when I had like a thousand or two thousand subs that like reached out and it's like hey I see your show good job so he's very nice person yeah I mean I have uh David is back and forth yeah I mean I have my disagreements with him but like to even say that I have my disagreements with him kind of goes without saying because you can bring up any you know political commentator and I have my disagreements with them we're all super opinionated we all have our own political shows so that should just go without saying um but I think that a lot of people like just instinctively myself included say well I you know I like this person but I don't agree with everything they say because like if you don't specify that then they're gonna assume that you like agree with their worst take which is something that even I noticed myself doing just like instinctively in a way to people like I attribute a position to them but then I'll like catch myself and I'm like wait that's not what they said um okay okay folks I am uh we're winding down five more minutes and I'm gonna bounce but um let me go through Mike does rule for sure thank you so much Mr. Anderson also rules by the way Mr. Anderson another one of our twitch moderators um thank you so much to uh for your good work really appreciate it uh Occam's Phaser have you looked into GME since you reported on it earlier this year it's still crazy it could crash the economy I have not I have not really followed that story since then so I will have to check that out that's uh interesting honest hedgehog life have you gone to pride if so how was that experience I have never been to pride uh I am um a borderline agoraphobic extrovert so I like being around people but I also don't like being around large crowds of people because it makes me feel a little bit anxious um and leaving home especially after being in the pandemic has been tough but one day I'll go to pride and I think that would be really fun let's see uh yj tse are you invited to be interviewed on crystal Kyle's podcast I haven't yet I mean maybe at some point but I think that they are bringing on more like like a plus people like I'm kind of like D tier if I'm being like I'm just being honest I'm keeping it real no cap like I'm not a priority like if I was hosting that show with them humanist report would like be when we don't have anyone else on because I feel like well like I don't know what I would add to that um but sure I mean I'd go on anytime if they asked me to but I think that like the guests that they bring on are pretty interesting I don't watch all of them I like the one that they put out with Bosch that was really interesting I think they had a pretty good constructive conversation Moonborn unicorn thanks for the stream my fellow portlander hey thank you so much yeah Riley where is that Riley cool a pride parade not great during a pandemic yeah that's my thoughts I'm fully vaccinated I still like that doesn't take away my anxiety of being in crowds it's not that I'm like I have social anxiety because I actually don't have social anxiety but being around like large crowds of people makes me feel like really anxious and nervous and it gives me this weird sense of claustrophobia like if I were to go to a concert for example um it would be really really difficult for me to be around like that much people like I feel like I can't like get out and leave so that's kind of like my own little my hiccup I don't want to trigger panic attacks I try to avoid situations although I'm going to try to like push myself to to do more Jacob Carinthos would you ever do a debate panel like the ones Dylan Burns does on twitch well I don't know if I'm a lot to say this yet but I'm supposed to be on a Dylan Burns panel I don't know if it's next week or the week after I think it's next week I want to say um and I don't know what is uh is gonna like go down maybe it'll be a debate or something like that um if it is I won't be prepared for it but you know it'll it'll be fun either way I love Dylan Burns Dylan Burns is awesome um so to answer your question yes I will be on one of its panels okay okay marion says hey Mike how do you feel knowing Saturday marks five years since the pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando does it really wow I did not know about that wow that's uh that's shocking yeah I didn't know it was the five year anniversary seems like it was like a couple of years ago right but five years damn wow okay so folks I think that about wraps it up I don't see anymore well this is kind of a question would you be down to do a friendly debate with Vosh um here's what I'll say I actually was on Vosh's uh 24 hour charity stream we talked about video games but I don't know I mean of course I'm always down for a friendly debate uh with allies I feel like we agree on quite a bit I don't know where we would disagree um but yeah I am a huge fan of Vosh I think Vosh is super sharp super entertaining I love Vosh so uh definitely definitely always down to talk to Vosh okay I believe that that's it folks I don't see any more questions so are we good oh here we go last question okay last question nope that's not a question here we go this is a question okay what are some of your favorite movies um probably why did I pick this question because now I have to think oh I said your name correctly Amarian I just got correct um okay I bet I fucked it up then what did I say the first time oh no okay okay hang on focus favorite movies oh this is tough I shouldn't have picked this as like the last question yeah the matrix is good matrix is good I don't know that it's my favorite I don't think I have like a favorite movie but I have several movies that I really like I like Avatar of course everybody likes Avatar that's like a generic answer um I don't know maybe the pursuit of happiness with Will Smith I thought that was good um fuck I don't know folks what's a good movie I don't know I don't know I haven't thought about it I'm not like the biggest movie buff this is like the hardest question I've been asked all night why did I pick this it looked easy but then I pick it and it's like wait what's my favorite movies I don't know no that's not it I don't know now it's actually like you got me thinking shit all of them every single movie I did just watch something what was it it's not my favorite it was on Disney plus what the fuck was the name of that movie it was the dragon one what is that called oh my god I'm so bad with movies oh parasites good yeah I'd say that's one of my favorites what is the movie that I just watched the Super Mario Bros movie is incredible I don't know Raya yes Raya Raya and the dragon that's what I want that was actually really cute I like that okay I think I missed one more super chat and we will end on that note I have completely like thoroughly exhausted my brain power where is the super chat it like went away I'm trying to highlight it where did where the fuck did it go there it is okay okay Anzu Mizaki happy anniversary Mike thank you so much saw you on Vosh's stream it was Pog yeah that was really really fun I can't remember so Vosh uploaded like the three parts of his charity stream I think I'm in part two I want to say and we talked about video games and he recommended anime he recommended Castlevania not really an anime but I watched it and it was great so the recommendation thank you Vosh that was incredible great show yeah yeah absolutely that charity stream was incredible yeah alright folks well I feel like I'm just gonna ramble if I don't like shut the fuck up and force myself to end the stream but this was so much fun using the software super easy I'm rambling but yeah I will see you all later yeah take care everyone thank you so much thank you so much to the mods I really appreciate all the questions the generosity all the super chats thank you all so much I'll have to do this again but there will be regular live streams coming soon June 23rd for dystopian times I'll see you all later take care everyone I'll see you tomorrow actually on twitch twitch.tv slash humanist report I'll be live at 7 p.m. pst tune in take care folks