Oops All Third Rails with Kristin Chirico | The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi

[@AnotherBrownAjah]

This has gotta stop. People honking at me for fully stopping a stop sign. I've gotta stop, you've gotta stop, this has gotta stop

[@Joeljaboy]

@quack9000 you don’t need driver’s ed to take the test, nor do you need 100% accuracy to pass. That’s where you see the biggest difference between drivers

[@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr]

you live in a city

[@erbbbs]

Today I was tailgated by a cop and they made a face at me for fully stopping…

[@anagutierrez8455]

​@@Joeljaboy my drivers test required a 95% accuracy to pass and I still get people that cut people off and purposely drive slow in the fast lane,break checkers,ass riders,no turn signals I had a massive fit when I was drunk the other night because my brother was driving my car without turn signals and making fast turns that my car CANT DO IT WILL LITERALLY FLIP OVER and he's just driving like he didn't feel the car tip

[@queenofzenk]

​@@erbbbsthey were probably trolling for tickets.

[@kitchenandjorn]

So I would be remiss to not correct this because it's been bothering me: Iroquois comes from the Algonquin word for rattlesnake, not the Anishnaabe word for snake, I MESSED UP I AM SORRY

[@Zzz2x]

You gotta make shorts on KZbin . I watched this whole episode because the shorts he posted with you. Just subscribed. You’re beyond wonderful. Super hilarious and talented

[@sarahm7086]

I didn’t know you were native!! Thanks for your care and knowledge and for sharing! I am excited for this hopefully future era of the internet where we acknowledge Indigenous peoples much more

[@Aelffwynn]

​@Zzz2x Kristin and Jen's Trader Joe's videos are the best. Pure fun. I was happy to stumble upon this video, too. She started learning about her heritage a while back and it's great to hear her discuss more.

[@jessicahawks3223]

You are amazing! Love you!❤

[@stormieo4252]

The shorts brought me here, the mount Rushmore clip had me cracking up 😂 Also the amount of Zoom calls I've been checked out of but still have to make sure I'm muted every five minutes is a lot. Stressful experience while I try to make my dinner or pee lol

[@thedarknessofnana]

Lol me too! I was glad I stayed for the whole podcast. I actually loved seeing Kristin Chirico on Buzzfeed when I used to be hardcore into watching their drinking games episodes (or was that Cut? …idk I binged both Buzzfeed and Cut back in 2015-2017. Definitely remember seeing and following Kristin back then, tho).

[@stormieo4252]

@@thedarknessofnana I just recently found Kristen and Jens new channel- Kitchen and Jorn. I have only really watched their more life update type of videos but it was fun. Buzzfeed and Ladylike were so huge when I was younger, it was a good trip down me memory lane.

[@lemon4087]

Same but the fact that this has NO TIMESTAMPS is killinggggg meee😢😢😢😢

[@julianamarques1828]

​@@lemon4087right, i was hoping some angel in the comments would have made some 🤡

[@dayzedandconfuzed]

sameee i love kristin so i was like oh i gotta watch this

[@cruztastrophe]

Positive note: this is the laughing-est episode I've ever seen. It's the funnest one yet. Debbie Downside note: My paternal grandmother's dad (or maybe his dad?) was taken and given to white people. My sister did a big genealogy deep dive on our family and found an ancestor from the Trail of Tears. My dad's cousin was associated with a reservation. But my dad wasn't super connected to that ancestry and I'm half Mexican on my mom's side, so it feels disingenuous for me to say I'm connected to that side since the Mexican side is "closer". My dad's side is from the rural midwest where it's common for people to be half, quarter, or eighth native (depending on the generation), but everybody is functionally white due to their ancestors being taken or forced assimilation back in the day.

[@raeorion]

My grandmother was also taken and raised in a residential school in Canada. Just remember, their goal was to extinguish our ancestor's culture! It's good to start researching, try connecting to any living family, possibly go meet your tribe, it's great to learn about the rich cultures that are still surviving despite the genocide (we survived!) 💕

[@emilyhayes9987]

They tried to steal our grandparents' heritage from us, go out and find events (sweat lodge, pow wow, beading class or smth) and reconnect. You deserve to know your heritage and our ancestors deserve to know the colonizers couldn't keep that heritage from us

[@FukaiKokoro]

I'm not sure my ancestry exactly but my great grandfather lived in a reservation in Oklahoma and I've heard there where ancestors of mine in the trail of tears as well. I'd Def like to check it out more. I think I'm going to look into it.

[@person-iw8qj]

you could probably enroll in cherokee nation if your ancestor is on the dawes rolls- everyone in the trail of tears’ name was put on it and their families for the next few generation

[@arturintete2461]

Or… everyone is functionally white because they’re white…

[@monicakriete]

coming here from a lil bitty tiktok clip to find out i get TWO HOURS of Kristin? what a shocking gift!!!

[@adi_Iastname]

as a disconnected Romani person i rlly enjoyed this podcast episode and everything kristin had to say !

[@Me-wx1mt]

russell yelling “ITS A HEARTY MEAL YOU EAT WHEN YOU’RE COLD” followed by a rant about chicken pot pies and dead silence from gianmarco and kristin had me crying

[@lilaculots]

"you look like you wouldn't know when chicken pot pie season is" is such a specific insult

[@Me-wx1mt]

@@lilaculots 😭

[@enricolabarile]

For the sake of truth, when Gianmarco was talking about that Italian symbol "that looks like a svastika", that actually is italian, specifically sicilian. It's a trinacria, a type of triskeles.

[@GaryDunion]

And Kristin is right that the three legs is also an Isle of Man symbol (I think they call it a triskelion) but it doesn't have the face on it like Sicily's does. Also the legs are in full plate armour!

[@sarah.s.flanagan]

yeah it's on the flag 😊 "No matter how you throw us, we will always stand" My grandmother is Manx, her parents emigrated to the US

[@PokhrajRoy.]

It’s so nice to see Kristin on the podcast! Awesome person with great earring collection.

[@kitchenandjorn]

😂 real ones know

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@kitchenandjorn A-them

[@unseriousghoul]

I like the small couch. It forces you two to snuggle up to each other. It's cozy. 😭💀

[@mayhem875]

1:26:57 we need to talk about what happened in American history early on because not all kids get to choose when they learn. When you’re black you learn about racism the second you step out your house, even sooner. Kristen’s mother learned at 6 when she was stolen. How our nation was founded hurts children every day, the only children we’re protecting by holding out on the truth is white children, and even then those white children will grow up, learn the truth, and have to unlearn everything they thought they knew

[@yunglynda1326]

this!

[@naxp42]

I love Kristin so much, she's so naturally funny, and you can tell she's used her sense of humor as a way to make sense of how fucked up the world is, and that's really special to me. 🥺

[@bumpty9830]

Props to your audio engineer for keeping the background noise out of the recording. I can't hear a thing.

[@embees99]

The timing of this podcast coming out made it extra interesting to me because one of the professors at my university recently got in trouble for falsely claiming that they were a Native person and I was taking their class when I found out about the accusations against them. I think the conversations about who "counts" as native are really interesting because that can get so complicated and as someone who isn’t native it's obviously not my place to gatekeep that. My hope is that the professor genuinely thought they had native heritage their whole life, but there's no way I can know their true intentions and it really sucks if they were just taking advantage and profiting from a false identity. I really appreciate the balance between heavy topics and humor in this episode. I remember watching some buzzfeed videos with Kristin in them and I thought she was super funny, so it's great to see that she has a successful career after buzzfeed now!

[@QTpatootie95]

Any white person who grew up with white culture and has a small percentage of native blood is making a mockery. I, like all white people, have familial claims to native blood and even look native but i choose to not further insult native communities by forcing myself in - any white person with a small percentage of native blood would only be the product of historical rape, its really gross to continue the bastardization of their community because you want to feel special 🤦‍♀️

[@1234cheerful]

Yes, at a certain point Buzzfeed was just holding her back.

[@jacklandismusic]

I really love the vibe being created by Gianmarco’s one rolled-up pant leg and Russell’s one rolled-up sleeve.

[@JulianDalloway]

The whole story about Kristin's mother and her heritage is so fascinating. Will definitely read the book when it comes out

[@danielmcandrew979]

She’s said it so much more succinctly than me. “It’s worse to have to reprogram later” is exactly why conservatives are always up in arms about teaching history correctly. They only get what they want half the time because the two thirds of adults not in their camp are on the fence h til and unless they learn about the truth of all kinds of history, so the opposition to limiting who can vote, and taking away other rights always is less together than it could be

[@StormCrownSr]

She wasn't considered enough of a person to be kidnapped, she was stolen. Jesus that is grim.

[@bumpty9830]

From my experience of one round of layoffs, the aerospace industry works pretty similarly to the way Kristin describes her BuzzFeed layoff. The layoffs--although to protect the feelings of the managers, they used the acronym "RIF" for "Reduction in Force"--were announced well before it was announced who was going. I was lucky enough to be in a union with a "retention rating" system in the contract, and I knew I was pretty safe, but I had a mathematician colleague (without union protection) with _over four decades at the company_ who got a pink slip. It was great for morale, as you can imagine.

[@britty23]

My favorite moments on the podcast are when Russell gets mad and starts yelling at Gianmarco 😂

[@mzgloriad]

But also get me a boyfriend that looks at me the way Gianmarco looks at Russell.

[@reykomi6327]

1:04:58 What Gianmarco means isn't the coat of arms of the Isle of Man, it's the symbol of Sicily, it appears both in their flag and the coat of arms. The face in the middle is Medusa's head. The Isle of Man one only has the legs.

[@kitchenandjorn]

I knew I was gonna get SOME fact wrong but full disclosure I did not predict it would be that one

[@reykomi6327]

@@kitchenandjorn Nah, it's fine. This was a fun episode!

[@allisonfarrell7968]

It’s both, actually!

[@rnickey9333]

Such great chemistry. I can’t believe you two just met Kristin for the first time - sooooooo good! I laughed, I cried (from laughing), I learned. It was 90 minutes well spent!

[@Kpracn0va]

My wife’s Attikamekw-Abishinabeg and she hates it every time they call her “algonquin”, before justifying it by saying “well it’s the way we say it in our language!” But she’s not comfortable with it, so stop! To me, every time I’ve heard someone say that to her face, I always remember my mom saying “that’s like calling me the n-word and justifying it”.

[@conwelld]

I cannot stop laughing at Russel's anger about eating a chicken pot pie in July.

[@IDGAF_AboutYourLuckyCharms_238]

I definitely thought the Buzzfeed segment was interesting I always wondered how they randomly came up with ideas and this makes sense. One thing is that for Native Americans most of the tribes have laws they make on what they consider to be a tribal member and some require DNA tests because it affects what your eligible for benefits wise from the tribe and State or Federal Govs. Like I believe some get free college like she said but others also have housing and tax benefits and some receive income from tribal businesses that is divided among members.

[@adamg.6615]

dna tests are actually never a requirement! but I think what you're confusing with is the concept of blood quantum, which isn't actually a measure of one's dna but actually the measure of one's relatedness to someone labeled as "full-blood" on enrollment documents, it's not actually a statement on how much "Native DNA" you have as early on BIA agents labeled anyone brown enough as "full-blood"

[@IDGAF_AboutYourLuckyCharms_238]

@@adamg.6615 Thanks for the correction not sure if any require DNA tests but maybe my terminology is wrong but I have not looked into every tribes requirements which are unique but yes lineage or relatedness is a method used to determine tribal membership which determines how related you are to someone from documentation basically like your birth certificates from each generation are consistent. Which may be the case here my mother was adopted by her step father and issued a new birth certificate. But her original birth certificate from her biological father she also has. I believe it is similar to how European nations determine citizenship for those who are eligible but haven’t claimed it like me where my Grandfather was an alleged illegal German immigrant after WWII to the US and Id have to prove he was my grandfather to get German citizenship through my father.

[@gilly_axolotl]

Knowing Kristin's mom was stolen makes me all the more happy that she's found out about her tribal connections

[@Aaaaaaaalonika]

I didn’t fucking know I needed to see this pairing in my life so badly until now.

[@dulaman9791]

Fun fact: the native people in frozen are actually heavily based on the Sàmi people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola peninsula of Russia. They went through a very similar history to that of the peoples of Turtle Island

[@kitchenandjorn]

Yeah I pivoted off that point because you truly cannot get me started about Frozen 2 being a deeply radical movie about reconnecting Natives and decolonization that also works as a trans metaphor - we would have been there for days

[@dulaman9791]

@@kitchenandjorn yeah i understand! Also love your videos

[@kitchenandjorn]

@@dulaman9791 thank you 😊

[@nephrotoxick8]

​@@kitchenandjorn❤❤❤❤

[@00MzAngel00]

@@kitchenandjornwell now I want that video

[@sroycze9284]

hey is it just me or is gianmarco is a more sophisticated version of michael scott?he seems so normal most of the time but in some moments i can see his inner scott shining through (russell channels his inner Jim in those moments) love your content,Russell and Gianmarco❤ i am a new listener to the podcast from india and am binge-ing all the episodes!

[@JP_doesitall]

“My dad sees me more than you.” JFC was a damning accusation 😂

[@SunDuckling]

i haven't laughed that hard in so long, thank you for the emoji color discussion. 1:38:26 i genuinely laughed so hard it felt like and out of body experience.

[@TASHITE]

There was a Native (body wash) advertisement during the native heritage discussion. Peak American!!😂

[@BubonicPlague1347]

In my family’s case , my great grandmother was 100% native but my grandma / dad / me , cannot get benefits because my grandma was born before the first tribal census and they say you have to have family born on the reservation to claim benefits even if you have native blood.

[@lizcoddington4421]

All third rails is my adhd motto 😂 Great episode y’all

[@lizcoddington4421]

PS - Kristin has the BEST laugh

[@Joeljaboy]

honestly I would rather hear “sorry I don’t have cash” than hearing “sorry, I only have a 50 and I’m not that generous”

[@FAB13]

LOVE HER. Gonna watch this in the morning 😎

[@kjb0313]

"Oops all third rails" - I love Kristin and was so happy to see her here. So freaking funny.

[@EviePontecorvo]

I am SO unchill about how excited I am for Kristin to be on the podcast. I love their work so much!

[@italocanadian69]

This is actually my FIRST episode of the podcast and LOVED IT!!! I am hooked that's for sure. BTW Gianmarco I am REALLY digging the ONE -LEG sexeh show...BWOOOF!!! 👍😍🤘

[@Zzz2x]

‘If somebody asks for money, they probably need it, so I usually just give it to them’ (not a proper quote) I hope nobody takes advantage of her amazing heart. I will do the same thing, but I don’t have money either 90% of the time.

[@losttimewoods]

love that there was near equal passion and also no segue at all between talking about the naunce of performative activitsm versus just being upfront that you need to continue your income as a content creator, and chicken pot pie. the type of conversation i relate to and would love to be a part of. 10/10 no notes

[@gemule]

1:06:52 Thanks Russel for acknowledging it is insane, as a parent i really needed that

[@marinaj5902]

omfg russell and kristins laugh combined is giving me endorphins

[@vhead612]

01:34:30 when Gianmarco is like “FAILED ALLY!” lol after Russell was so nervous to say the wrong thing in the beginning of the discussion. He was finally relaxed enough to go out on a limb to be an ally 😂

[@BitterBrew.]

By far my favorite episode! The chemistry of you three together is amazing.

[@KNosk826]

The derision "is lance bass backstreet?" Pure gold!

[@grey6703]

i met you at the end of your dec 29th philly show and mentioned how you were much better in person (still not a read 😭 lmfao) but i forgot to mention how much i love the podcast! thanks for signing the tote and towel and for a great show! your opener was also fantastic, loved him

[@CatyBee]

Russell - maybe google "how to assign Host to someone else in a zoom meeting"? Gianmarco - I hope the comments about your physical presence don't bother you! I try very hard not to comment about anyone's physical appearance (good or bad), but I have commented about the "Soresi Lean" and how engaging it is to see how comfortable you are in your body and how you use posture to emphasize your point and demonstrate your interest in a topic. I haven't seen negative comments about it - just that it's iconic and really engaging - but regardless, please do let us know if it bothers you!

[@davedave7818]

Thank you so much, not only for the laughs, but for teaching me so much about Native culture that I had known very little about.

[@danielaterra3271]

I admire Kristin so much ❤ love her, love her channel. Great episode

[@sarahm7086]

Research the 60s scoop! Research residential schools! Research treaties and reserve histories! Research the indian act! Research missing and murdered Indigenous women! There’s so much more! And then research the beautiful things, the spirituality and the lessons, the resilience, the joy, the communities.

[@juliah653]

Oh my god my first place was also a 200 dollar a month literal closet! It was in a bathroom that was in a bedroom. Felt a lil like living in Narnia, if there was no ventilation and it didn’t turn into anything magical

[@elduderino007]

1:43:08 What is described here is, in the Midwest, a murderable offense. There is one word that soup with a hat should be referred to: sin.

[@urieldaboamorte]

17:43 the autistic experience also 20:34 the camera panning on them with very concerned looks for 3 hours while Kristin just talks lmao

[@logangreenwood362]

Haven’t watched a full episode till this one, she just cracks me up.

[@MusicizmahQueenSBed4]

I really appreciated the thoughtful discussions they had in this episode. However, the passion and anger that was unleashed during the chicken pot pie bit was one of my favorite things.

[@CancellerPalpatine]

Mom was also "chosen" from her native family in the sixities. Its complicated. The adopted are the only parents/grandparents left. Shes always struggled with her identities.

[@ElevatorLasagna]

Been combing through back episodes. They’re always a good time; Kristin is *amazing.* I paused more than once because I was laughing too loud to hear what was said next

[@blu_heron]

I’m rewatching this episode for the third time because I love it so much and I’m happily surprised to see that this is the third most watched episode of those pod.

[@aimeebrown-borges]

I love Kristin and I love you guys on the downside so of course I had to check this episode out!

[@remicou8420]

1:08:50 the word in french would be pronounced EE-roh-kwah, with the signature french voiced uvular fricative in place of the r. i did not however know of the origin. all i knew is that it is wildly generic and bundles together different nations that even have differing languages.

[@noafroman1]

Your KZbin shorts campaign is working well Guy's 👌

[@madisongracemusic]

I freaking loved her on the buzzfeed stuff she was my favorite in every video she was in!!!

[@renaissancewoman3770]

This was a great episode, thanks everyone! The discussions were super interesting.

[@emel3925]

The baseball bat story had me crying laughing 😂

[@abnormalizeit]

The JOY I felt hearing her talk about indigenous peoples.

[@person-iw8qj]

i’m so happy you brought on a native! i love yall

[@TheForeignersNetwork]

This episode had me cracking up, Russell and Gianmarco should read a map sometime 😂

[@Djinnerator]

On the Grand Canyon part, he was right though. It's in Nevada. But it's also in Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. It's a quadpointe.

[@healthycathy9782]

@@Djinnerator”quadpointe” thanks for the new word! Being English my second language I have never seen this word before!

[@AlwaysAndForever7]

As soon as he said “I was in Philly” I was like “oh god” 😅

[@snappylobster3118]

I went to college in Philly, the homeless folks there are something else...

[@WhateverRandomness]

"We just go in circles till I lose interest" was one of the most relatable statements I've ever heard 😅

[@MaxximusP]

Okay so I am a huge nerd (and I am autistic) and I feel it pertinent to comment six months after this was posted that Google Images was NOT created because of the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake superbowl, it was created due to a demand for photos of Jennifer Lopez's green Versace dress in 2001

[@RandolphWashingtonJr]

This was one of my favorite episodes!

[@calledalaska]

when kristin and russell are wheeze-laughing at the same time 🥹🩷 i love this podcast

[@laurawolfe6100]

omg!!! My worlds coming together. I love this. Happy Tuesday 😁

[@sofiajacobs8002]

kristin is extremely good-natured lol. loved this episode thank you for sharing!

[@rebeccatomlin3916]

Stoked for this before even listening

[@amandaevesloane1200]

This entire episode is amazing! One of the funniest and most educational ❤

[@Soudrah]

I love watching these it really adds to the laughs when i can look over and see the super small couch

[@gpigfan2013]

I think it gets even more confusing as a Latina. There's more discourse when in the Southwest there is a bigger Hispanic population. In the olden days it was seen as better to be Mexican than it was to be indigenous. That identity gave you more jobs, you still faced discrimination but at least you got paid. My family was originally from New Mexico in our pueblos but because of war and being later acquired by the US moved to Colorado because our reservation didn't have enough resources to survive at that time. We identify as Mexican but we were originally native and we had to rediscover our identity.

[@y.m.or.4053]

And it changes from place to place because I had an ex bf who said he IDed as half native because it was better to be Native than Mexican

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

Many Mexicans are native Americans.

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

@@y.m.or.4053most Mexicans are half natives

[@Aaaaaaaalonika]

12:03 Hey! Hold on now! You’re telling me I could have been getting *paid* to stay in the closet all these years?!

[@gilly_axolotl]

Holy shit, 2 hrs is usually way too long for me and I get bored but this went by in a snap. Pls bring Kristin back again

[@dayzedandconfuzed]

1:27:42 my sister is named orpha and one of our last names is foster and her entire life ppl have been like “oh haha orpha like orphan and foster like foster child” which is just insane bc she is neither and it’s just not actually her name ? like ppl are just crazy about names

[@SynthiaVan]

OMG this was so funny, I want it to keep going! Kristin was hilarious! "That's where the mountain was" killed me. 👍🏻

[@white_isnt_a_race2338]

Three branches of US government was directly modeled after Native American government

[@NecroBurt]

1:04:00 native heritage discourse

[@taylors445]

Thank you!🙏

[@aravae165]

My white-as-paper landlord uses (exclusively) the darkest skin tones for emojis. It's so deeply uncomfortable.

[@CharmChampion]

I hate that there isn’t a neutral/yellow version of the gesture people. 🤷🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ fr

[@zabmcauley5647]

This makes me appreciate Facebook's blue thumbs up

[@elliemo22_2]

The baseball bat killed me, I couldn’t stop laughing for like 5 mins straight

[@RTdances]

the collab i never expected! great conversation

[@anutripathi6155]

This one was the best episode!

[@xlogophile]

This bit was fantastic and had me laughing out loud "why is the grand canyon in nevada?" "well it's not, it's in arizona"

[@bobobojan]

A soup with a hat is an Uncut Chowder

[@aarongibson4910]

It’s a cobbler

[@bobobojan]

@@aarongibson4910 I'm gonna gobbler the cobbler

[@mariapaz6379]

kristin is just so funny! i just want more of her 💕💕

[@TheJsyve1]

Gianmarco! You're the only straight male comedian I wanna listen to... it's fun having a fake crush on you as a gay man 😂😂

[@tibby7709]

Youre my favorite comedian. You deserve such a huge career m

[@TheRavenfish9]

This episode had me rolling! You three were so funny riffing off each other. Kristin is the best guest!

[@bumpty9830]

Instead of taking KZbin more seriously, maybe take 9-5 jobs LESS seriously. I used to design bombs for the US military industrial complex, and I shouldn't get any respect for that. People working for banks and insurance companies shouldn't get respect for that either. Even doctors spend a lot of their time doing paperwork that helps deny healthcare to poor people. _If anything we should be forgiven_ for our day jobs and celebrate the rest of our lives. Maybe after capitalism more of us can be proud of our work.

[@nephrotoxick8]

I just had to comment , I wholeheartedly agree but never could have put it like that so thank you!!!

[@bumpty9830]

Thank you, @@nephrotoxick8, that means a lot. I recommend the channel Revolutionary Blackout Network for more of this kind of perspective. I'm not involved with them, just a fan.

[@hansolohansolo]

This. 👏

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

100000%

[@glomgotmisselhammer8081]

love kristin, love y’all. keep it up boys ♡

[@isthisafebrezecommercial5700]

Ohhhh I’m goodness a person I love on a podcast I love!

[@arcaneboy]

Has the Yeshiva Boys Choir Marriage Proposal pillow always been a thing?

[@blancaesquivel8375]

One of the best episodes!! I cackled!!