Welcome to roasting the brologarchy, a special spinoff of the high and low podcast where we go over the most cringe-worthy and horrifying news of the week, and I roast the idiots responsible.

This time, it's been a little bit more than a week. So we have a lot to cover, but I'm going to try to stay very focused on just a handful of

topics. There's a lot out there that are nothing burgers, just absolute distractions. Like the

reflecting pool on the National Mall, that's a story people are talking about it a lot, repainting

that. Do I believe that to be yet another grift where it's an overinflated cost, a contract, a no-bid

contract he gave to a friend of his

just to give him money or move money. Yeah, I do. We see that for what it is. We move on. The ballroom grift, no one's going to have to pay a cent. Not one's sent. It's going to be all paid for my donations. And now we're asking for a billion dollars. We all saw what that was this man is a grifter grifter's going grift there's another one so instead i'm going to start

this pod by talking about just something that's we're asking for a billion dollars. We all saw what that was. This man is a grifter. Grifter's going grift.

There's another one. So instead, I'm going to start this pod by talking about just something that my

brain keeps focusing on, which is the concept of co-opting something, then corrupting it.

And what I mean is when a negative force see something positive that is a threat to it. They wisely, instead of challenging it,

instead of trying to eradicate it, they absorb and neutralize it. And we see this happening

time and time again in American history. It's happening right now all around us. And I think the

reason this is in the front of my mind is because last weekend was Mother's Day.

Now, for us, for the common person, when you think about Mother's Day, you think about like,

oh, I got to get my mom some flowers. It's a day to what? It's a day to tell your mom that you

appreciate her. But that is not what Mother's Day was supposed to be about. Even in 1941 when it became a national holiday,

this was President Woodrow Wilson, called it Mother's Day and dedicated it to, quote,

the best mother in the world, your mother. Aw, that's so sweet and nice. Still not what the day

was supposed to be about, though. There's two women that get credited back in like the

1860s to 1870s for really establishing Mother's Day. The first is a woman named Anne Reeves Jarvis.

Her mission, she's from West Virginia, and her mission was, I want to try to get women together

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