Unraveling Political Intrigue, Tom Brady's Word Choice, and Childhood Imaginations

Could a politically-charged rumor shake the foundations of an election, or is it merely today's headline fodder? Join me on a journey through political intrigue and media spectacle as we dissect an "October surprise" that targets Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, with stories spun around a supposed past romance with high-stakes international implications. Is there any merit to the New York Post's account, or is it a clever ruse with little effect on the voter psyche? Let's navigate this tangled web and question the role such sensationalism plays in the political narrative.

Switching from politics to the world of sports, I tackle the backlash Tom Brady faced after his seemingly offhand comment during a Fox Sports broadcast. The term "spaz" erupted into a broader conversation on language sensitivity and the responsibilities of public figures. As a counterbalance to these weighty topics, I share a light-hearted exploration of my childhood attempts to conjure an imaginary friend. Guided by media and societal cues, I ventured to create a companion from the ether, only to find imagination's boundaries more rigid than expected. Reflect on your own childhood fantasies as we ponder the societal scripts that shape our creative endeavors.

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Chapters

• 0:00 October Surprise and Tom Brady Controversy
• 12:28 Imaginary Friend Childhood Memories

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:19

Well, hello, good morning. We have three topics for you. Welcome. My name is Carol. This is my podcast where I remark on glamour, pop culture and front page news.

Speaker 1: 0:29

All right, october surprise? Probably not. All right, um Walls' October surprise is no shock, but will it shake the swing states? This has been a couple of times now reported from the new york post, and this is a new one, uh, written yesterday at night at 11 o'clock at night. From yesterday. Polls have razor thin margins in the seven states. That'll swing the vote count next month and is if, on cue, a narrative shaping story emerges. That may or may not be true, but let's, let's us know how little swing state voters know about the man who could have ultimate proximity to the presidency. All right, so they already start off the uh article with may or may not be true, but they're going to tell us about it anyway, and so therefore, I have to bring it to you.

Speaker 1: 1:30

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz allegedly had a big secret romance with a Chinese communist official's daughter. Does this surprise anybody? Would it surprise? It does me, because we all know that he doesn't really like women. All right With rough rough? Not, I don't know that for sure. With roughly a week before the election, jenna wang made the bombshell allegation. She and the democrat had a passionate liaison that started in 1989, with love making to the strains oh my god, you've got to be kidding me with love making to the strains of george michaels, careless whisper, only to end in long-distance disillusion, with talk of marriage and wang's relocation to america, ending in recrimination.

Speaker 1: 2:17

Who wrote this? Oh, there's another article out there that goes into it a little bit more seriously. It's also by the New York Post. Oh my gosh, timing is everything on a story like this. And this is the classic October surprise, a trick-or-treat bag. That makes us wonder how, after walls as many years in politics, this smoking gun materializes now. Think of it. Coach went to china a few months after the brutal subjugation of martyrs for freedom in tenement square, which begot, begot, mass arrests, a crack, crack down on media and protests and the end of oh, okay, whatever. And he courts and sparks someone born into part party loyalty.

Speaker 1: 3:08

Allegedly, I think they're writing this as a this is like not true, but they're going to report on it anyway. They're kind of reporting that the story's out there but they're saying it's not true. I think that's how I'm reading this. I could be wrong. She says walls compelled her to sleep in his compartment on a train. Then, if she's to be believed, they wrote each other for years before it became clear on his 1992 return they weren't going to get married.

Speaker 1: 3:37

What does this mean, if anything? Does it mean walls has was cultivated by someone who very easily could be an agent, a foreign influence, with blackmail material held on him until it time to use it? Many of us have ex-girlfriends or boyfriends, sure, but how often are they able to make narratively plausible cases about clandestine relationships with communists? A passionate love affair? Wang made her despair and feel like a prostitute. Or was he simply a young man on the make? No, hon, that was, I hate to say this. No, hon, that was you making yourself feel like a prostitute. Look, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta own up to our mistakes. Uh, you know, mm-mm.

Speaker 1: 4:23

Whatever the answer ultimately is, the song remains the same. It's a sour note. All right, you can go read more about that if you like. It's a long article. Well, I say long, it's, you know, fairly long and involved. But also there's another one out there. All you got to do is go over to the new york post app, type in tim walls and you'll find both of those articles about his supposed affair with this daughter of a chinese official, whatever, okay, it's not. It's not gonna tear anybody up, all right. It's just not gonna have an effect that some people want it to have. It's just it's. It's stupid, it's. It's a non-story, I think. But so if it's a story at all, all right. We are going to move on to the next story, a little bit lighter in content. Let's see when is my X file. Okay, here we go.

Speaker 1: 5:22

Tom Brady sparks outrage with offensive term on Fox broadcast. Again from the New York Post, tom Brady raised some eyebrows with his commentary while calling the BillsSeahawks game on Fox Sports on Sunday. Brady, who was in his first season of his 10-year $375 million contract with the network, was discussing the growth of Bills quarterback Josh Allen when he said the two-time Pro Bowler previously played like a spaz before he became more controlled under center. Sometimes he played like a spaz, like a grade schooler on a sugar high, brady said on the broadcast towards the end of the first quarter while Buffalo had a 7-0 lead over Seattle. But now he's controlled. With the chaos he's like a storm coming into town and you don't want the storm coming into this town, a storm coming into town, and you don't want the storm coming into this town.

Speaker 1: 6:18

The term spaz is shortened form of the word spastic, which means clumsy, stupid or losing physical, emotional control. It is used in some circumstances to describe medical conditions. All right, here we go. How else would you describe so? Can he use the word clumsy? Can he use the word stupid? And can he use the term losing control, losing physical or emotional control? Can Tom Brady use those, since that's what spastic means? What difference does it make what word he uses? You people out there that are so extra, ultra sensitive need to grow up. Come on sticks and stones, stones. You're not in grade school anymore. Grow some, grow some thick skin, my goodness, if that's gonna hurt your family. Who is in charge of all this anyway, about our language? Who is in control and and says who can say what to whom, about what? I hope tom brady does not apologize for this.

Speaker 1: 7:17

Let's read on because, uh, there's more. Not necessarily about tom, but about the word spaz. It is offensive to some as it is considered to be an ablest, ablest, ablest slur used for jokes and metaphors to dehumanize those with disabilities. So we can't joke around anymore about anything. Now, I'm not saying joking about disabilities is wrong, but who says that spaz was used in a joking form for people with disabilities? Somebody brought that upon themselves to do that. Brady was the subject. Okay, the spaz comment was uncalled for. Someone wrote on x, another said it was highly offensive to people who have physical disabilities, as well as their loved ones. Oh, shut up others. Uh, defended brady and explained the seven-time super bowl champ meant no harm by the time. Okay, we're going to read on. I'm trying to find. Oh, here we go.

Speaker 1: 8:17

Some famous singers have faced backlash for putting spaz in their lyrics, including Lizzo. In 2022, the four-time Grammy winner removed the word spaz from her song girls after being called out by disability advocate and writer, hannah Devaney Devaney whatever her name is. So, yeah, there you go. So there's one person, hannah Deviney. She's an advocate and writer for people with disabilities and she called out Grammy winner Lizzo about her lyrics for having spas in it, and Lizzo took it out. Lizzo took it out. Okay, that's just insane. So now Tom Brady, instead of saying he was kind of playing like a spaz, he has to say he was playing clumsily. What difference does it make? What, what, what, what, oh God, now I sound like Hillary. What, what word he used? You people need to grow up. Come on, quit being so sensitive out there. That's your problem.

Speaker 1: 9:24

All right, we're going to end with this other story Slimy orange alien egg pods discovered in river and they're spreading rapidly, just in time for Halloween. We're going to get a little spooky story. It's giving sci-fi nightmare Just in time for spooky season. A bizarre slimy orange bag, said to resemble a glowing dinosaur egg, has been pulled from a river and they have pictures of it and it is quite large and it is freaky looking. It looks like it's glowing in the dark. It looks like it's a glowing egg of something I don't know. It is bizarre. It's bizarre looking. You have to go look at this at the picture, and while scientists say they know what it is a colony of bryozoans, slimy little hermaphrodites that cluster together to create a dinosaur egg-like pod they're puzzled as to why the creepy crew was literally hanging out in a canal in holland.

Speaker 1: 10:27

The phenomenon does not normally occur. In the netherlands, a local ecologist and nige told ad the big bag is formed by several animals together. At a certain point they form a colony and different colonies can then stick together again. A bag can become two meters. However big that is, who knows it could be a football field size. Who knows how big that is? It could be two inches, who knows in diameter. The bag then attaches itself to something.

Speaker 1: 10:57

Volunteers found the grotesque blob clinging to a floating island in the canal. Experts say that colonies can grow up to nearly seven feet in diameter. Oh, that's big. You can go finish reading that. I had to look up what all that meant and I still don't know what it is. But you can see a picture of it and if I came upon that I would freak me all the way out. Y'all need to go look that up. Look at this picture. It's crazy. Maybe I'll screen grab it and put it out there for you so you don't have to go look it up.

Speaker 1: 11:37

All right, that's mainly all I have for today, and now we need the question of the day. We have one week until we vote. Y'all One more week. Have you early voted? That is not the question of the day. Let me know you. Did you early vote and what do you? Do you think early voting helps? Why do you think? Uh, people should vote early. That's my question. But that's not the question of the day. We need a silly question of the day. Hang on, all right, here's the question of the day. I need to lead up with it on sunday.

Speaker 1: 12:03

Yes, I'm 57 years old and I watched the kids' show cartoon movie called Inside Out. Not only did I watch Inside Out, but then after that I watched Inside Out Part 2. Yes, I did all by myself. I don't know why I wanted to do it. I think I heard some people talking about it a while back, how good it was. But in the first movie they have an imaginary friend.

Speaker 1: 12:28

So that's my question to you have you ever had, when you were growing up, an imaginary friend? If so, tell me about your imaginary friend. I need to know I didn't have one, although I think I tried to create one because I thought I should have one. I don't know if I watched a movie, a show or sitcom, somebody had an imaginary friend, thought I should have one. I don't know if I watched a movie, a show or sitcom, somebody had an imaginary friend. It's like how come I don't have one? So I think I tried to create one and it didn't last. But like a day, I just couldn't use my imagination enough to come up with something. All right, did you have one as a child, an imaginary friend? All right, gotta go. Thanks for listening, bye.