Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to eighty seven,
Speaker 1: episode three of Day I Guys Day.
Speaker 2: Production of My Heart Radio. This is a podcast.
Speaker 1: Where we take it deep dive into America's share consciousness.
Speaker 1: And it is Wednesday, May seventeenth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Yes, Big Day, National Idaho Day. Also for all the
Speaker 2: all y'all with the high blood pressure, especially hey black
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Speaker 2: because man, I've had to recently be aware of mine.
Speaker 2: It's also National pack Rat Day. Shout out the pack rat,
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Speaker 2: Oh, and Graduation Tassel Day.
Speaker 1: I don't know why that.
Speaker 2: Has its own day, but must be from Big Tassel.
Speaker 1: Just the Tassels is who we're honoring today.
Speaker 4: You have your Tassel?
Speaker 2: You did you?
Speaker 1: Did you save any of your grand the afternoon after
Speaker 1: I graduated? Yeah, I don't think I hung onto that.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I don't think I until you just said
Speaker 1: that that that was something people did.
Speaker 2: Well. You always see people, I mean, people who like
Speaker 2: are sentimental about that kind of shit.
Speaker 1: You don't not like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: For me, I'm like, just get rid of all the
Speaker 2: evidence that that ever happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I still wear hat graduation hats just as a
Speaker 1: fashion statement. I think it's a cool look. But anyways,
Speaker 1: my name is Jack O'Brien aka. I can ride my
Speaker 1: bike with no handle bars, no handle bars, no handlebar.
Speaker 1: I didn't change this part because it's the fact about me,
Speaker 1: not to brag it just when I ride my bike.
Speaker 1: I can ride my bike with no handle bars, no
Speaker 1: handle bars, no handle bars. Yes, it's me, jacko b ak.
Speaker 1: Mister never played no d my thighs or take a
Speaker 1: true trunks and Miles has a pair just like me
Speaker 1: that is crazy. A fighter of the night man on
Speaker 1: the discord. Uh. Yeah, shout out to being able to
Speaker 1: ride your bike with no handlebars. Shout out to my
Speaker 1: friend who gave me the and one nickname ob one
Speaker 1: play no d yit always always appreciated. Shot out like
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool Uh, and I'm thrilled to be joined as
Speaker 1: always by my co host, mister Miles Brush.
Speaker 2: It's Miles Gray AKA.
Speaker 5: All I want to do is ride around Lambele's though
Speaker 5: I can afford the pukah shells on my neck like
Speaker 5: it's the early as Kid. I has winter through someone
Speaker 5: because the hairlines lost me.
Speaker 2: When I'm ordering fries, I do like them, soggy. Shout
Speaker 2: out to at right to post, because you know what,
Speaker 2: I love Clips. I love the Clips and I love
Speaker 2: the second album. Folks, hell hath no fury?
Speaker 1: Very underrated?
Speaker 2: He has no fury. Folks definitely does not. But yeah,
Speaker 2: shout out to you for that deep cut man.
Speaker 1: That's a real that's a real Clips fan right there,
Speaker 1: featuring ab Liva. Mine was by Flobots. The song is
Speaker 1: called Handlebars and I had never heard it before, but
Speaker 1: get shot. Yeah, are you similiar? Is that?
Speaker 2: Wait? Flowbots is the band that did that song.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so it's called hands. Oh I thought you
Speaker 1: said like the AKA was submitted by like someone. Yeah yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it was submitted by Fighter of the Nightman. Oh right, okay,
Speaker 1: Classescord AKA submitter submiss. Uh. Well, we are thrilled to
Speaker 1: be joined oh yeah by a very funny podcast host,
Speaker 1: a talented rapper, my first co hosts of all time
Speaker 1: in the podcast space.
Speaker 4: M hmm.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite writers actors made some of the
Speaker 1: great videos at Cracked. I'm thrilled that he and Abe
Speaker 1: yesterday's guest our team year to make a new film
Speaker 1: called Papa Bear that you can find out about and
Speaker 1: contribute to. We will talk about that and link off
Speaker 1: to it in the footnotes. Please welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1: They're brilliant, the talented Michael Sweat Sweat Okay, I.
Speaker 4: Would swallow my pride. I would chock him the rands,
Speaker 4: but the lack thereof would leave me empty inside. I
Speaker 4: would swallow my doubt, turn it inside you. I don't
Speaker 4: find nothing but faith in nothing. Want to put my
Speaker 4: tender hard in a blender's just been around.
Speaker 1: Too beautiful Oblivion rendezvous.
Speaker 4: Then I'm through with my eagles swaying. Its hard to
Speaker 4: fit on the birth certificate.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, yeah, but you did. But it is what
Speaker 1: you're also known as.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I love that because you guys are on
Speaker 4: top of Twitter, so I'm sure you know and are like.
Speaker 4: The wider Cracked diaspora has kind of gotten. I think
Speaker 4: Cody like, I think they're aware of Cody and talking
Speaker 4: them about. But Eve six's official Twitter handle damn spit
Speaker 4: mad Ship and they're really good at it, like they Yeah,
Speaker 4: donks a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always like fun. I remember like when it was,
Speaker 2: especially during the Trump administration. I was like, wait, dude,
Speaker 2: the eve at Eve six.
Speaker 1: I think it happened live on the show. We were like, wait,
Speaker 1: Eve six, that can't be, like I believe damn it. Yeah, Flames, Michael,
Speaker 1: how how are you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm doing so so well and not in the fake
Speaker 4: podcast way really bad, then really good. I didn't even
Speaker 4: intend to talk about this, but I'll plug a thing
Speaker 4: because it came out Monday. I do a series called
Speaker 4: Tales from the Pit, where I usually interview people about
Speaker 4: mental health challenges. We flipped It and Sore and Bowie,
Speaker 4: our dear friend Sore and Bowie, hosted and interviewed me
Speaker 4: about I recently went through what's called an intensive outpatient program,
Speaker 4: which used to be called the Looney Bit, and learned
Speaker 4: a bunch of new skills that now I think like
Speaker 4: there is a honeymoon period and I have reasonable expectations,
Speaker 4: but I'm still in the glow of like I feel
Speaker 4: like a mind jedi, Like life is just a state
Speaker 4: of mind, and I'm great. Ever since I went to
Speaker 4: to this program. I'm great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's great to hear. Man, that's awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: iop I did one of those.
Speaker 4: Yeah you know me, Yeah, oh yeah, I did.
Speaker 1: One of those. Yeah, back when I was stopping drinking.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, And it was it was very beneficial.
Speaker 1: I took two weeks off from Cracked, and yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was hard to make that initial commitment, but it was. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I learned a lot of life skills and one of
Speaker 1: the best things I ever did for myself, and.
Speaker 4: They actually worked. I went in really skeptical, like, my
Speaker 4: pain is so deep and unique, it won't work on me. Yes,
Speaker 4: and other guys were like, no, it will if you
Speaker 4: give it the time. I'm at the end of the process.
Speaker 4: It totally worked. And I thought it wouldn't work. And
Speaker 4: now I'm the guy at the end going you'd think
Speaker 4: it wouldn't work.
Speaker 1: But right, get some other skeptical young in aka could
Speaker 1: be somebody in their like fifties but coming in all
Speaker 1: skeptical and ship. Yeah. Anyways, awesome man, We're going to
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the
Speaker 1: things we're talking about We're going to talk about some
Speaker 1: GOP investigations that I guess they've maybe been looking looking
Speaker 1: forward to on on Fox. I was not aware of them,
Speaker 1: but they're actually starting to bear fruit.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, baby, I mean we're fucked, and by
Speaker 2: where I mean the Joe Brandon crime syndicate is fucked.
Speaker 1: I actually didn't see this story until just now, so
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what they thought, what they've dug
Speaker 1: up for us. And then Rudy Giuliani is she's being
Speaker 1: sued for sexual assault, and just all sorts of grewsome details,
Speaker 1: but also you know, enlightening details about how he was
Speaker 1: thinking about his role within the Trump administration, such as
Speaker 1: admitting to selling pardons for two million dollars on tape.
Speaker 1: On Wax, we'll talk about Paris, which is as recently
Speaker 1: as like a decade ago, not a very bike friendly city,
Speaker 1: even though you know, people riding a bike with a
Speaker 1: baguette in a bag is one of the international symbol
Speaker 1: of Paris. But yeah, it was actually a very polluted,
Speaker 1: a car choked city fairly recently and is now doing great.
Speaker 1: They've cut their emissions by twenty percent. They've made their
Speaker 1: city way more livable one of those one of those
Speaker 1: happy stories that I like to check in with her.
Speaker 1: I want that, I want that. How do I get
Speaker 1: to there?
Speaker 2: Ye?
Speaker 1: But before we get to any of it, Michael, we
Speaker 1: do like to ask our guests, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I had to dig back a little bit, but
Speaker 4: I discovered something, and then I scared myself by going
Speaker 4: what was that and reclicking it. It's the words our
Speaker 4: Prisoner fall Out. And there's this old sixties show that
Speaker 4: only ran for one season and was beloved in that time,
Speaker 4: like how some people loved Firefly as it was, you know,
Speaker 4: dying called the Prisoner. I mainly knew it from Simpson's references,
Speaker 4: like the island is guarded by a giant plastic ball
Speaker 4: that smothers you. I knew that already.
Speaker 1: Oh bo, I remember that from like, yeah, the pretty
Speaker 1: episode where Homer goes on the island.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when he's mister X journalist and yeah, So anyway,
Speaker 4: that is the premise. I think it's magooin So anyway,
Speaker 4: the premise is just that a guy's trapped on a
Speaker 4: wacky island. It's super surreal and trippy, and he's trying
Speaker 4: to escape and a primordial terror of mind that still
Speaker 4: shakes me to my core. Was one night I was
Speaker 4: really young and stayed up way too late and was
Speaker 4: watching random tapes and I remember it was a high
Speaker 4: eight tape. My dad had a high eight player. This
Speaker 4: is like a thing that's not VCR, that's not like
Speaker 4: so obsolete. People have probably not heard of it.
Speaker 1: It's not even Betamax.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like we'd watch Rocketdood'll do on High eight and stuff.
Speaker 4: So he had this high eight tape. There was a
Speaker 4: documentary about great sci fi shows and it showed the
Speaker 4: last episode of The pri and the last episode of
Speaker 4: The Prisoner. Just this out of context scene is this
Speaker 4: guy going I will not be stamped, spindled or mutilated.
Speaker 4: I I I I I I I I And then
Speaker 4: like his face rips off and he's this guerrilla monster.
Speaker 4: And I'm like seven years old, and I like ship
Speaker 4: my pants round out of the room. And I was
Speaker 4: fascinated with that scene forever, and I've been trying to
Speaker 4: find it forever and I finally figured out it's the
Speaker 4: final scene of The Prisoner.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: But I was always just like, what's that III monkey man?
Speaker 4: Right about? Well? Is that Charles Yeah, you finally unlocked it.
Speaker 1: Wow. We always talk about the impending conflict that we're
Speaker 1: all going to die in as World War III on
Speaker 1: the daily. All Right, I can't wait a great joke.
Speaker 2: Wait, howcome it was a how come it's like a
Speaker 2: monkey bio weapon for what's going on? Like without a
Speaker 2: huge reak.
Speaker 4: You'll understand how trippy and phoned in sixties TV was
Speaker 4: so then in that I was about in the context
Speaker 4: as stupid as hell. So then he rips off the
Speaker 4: monkey face and it's his own, it's himself, and this
Speaker 4: is the mysterious evil guy that they've been milking the
Speaker 4: whole series. Who's it going to be? It's him? And
Speaker 4: he just starts laughing and laughing, and our guy teams
Speaker 4: up with a little person, Butler kills everyone with machine
Speaker 4: guns and like gets out, and that's then. I don't
Speaker 4: fully understand the context, but I don't think it would
Speaker 4: make it better if I did.
Speaker 1: Man, you didn't stick around for the important payoffs. Everyone
Speaker 1: with machine guns help you so much?
Speaker 4: Kid? Yeah, thank god he's dead.
Speaker 1: I love a good Scooby Doo mask reveal and then
Speaker 1: second mask, you're just covering under two layers of masks,
Speaker 1: and that they went through the trouble of just building
Speaker 1: a mask that would go on top of a mask
Speaker 1: that was a perfect replica of their own face that
Speaker 1: they had been wearing against.
Speaker 4: The mission impossible Latex.
Speaker 2: Then oh wait, so it reverted back to his original.
Speaker 1: Face, right?
Speaker 4: And then the implication I think is who knows who
Speaker 4: that is? Like, it's open to interpretation. It might not
Speaker 4: be you know, they don't dig into it.
Speaker 1: You're like, now I'm playing it's me.
Speaker 4: He beats them to death of a fire. Exting was
Speaker 4: sure if I recall, Okay.
Speaker 2: Now I need to wats just last episode out of context? O, man,
Speaker 2: what is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 1: Michael?
Speaker 4: Right now, all the shows that everyone loves come on.
Speaker 4: I don't need to rail too hard about it. But
Speaker 4: I haven't gotten to in public yet. But I was
Speaker 4: watching Succession like everyone and a few episodes ago, even
Speaker 4: though it's so close to the end, I just am
Speaker 4: so bored enough by it that I'm like, yeah, but
Speaker 4: it's literally not worth my time. And I just walked away.
Speaker 4: And there's been a couple like that, and I'm worried
Speaker 4: that I'm I'm falling out of touch. As they say,
Speaker 4: but I can't stand shows without dynamics. And it's like
Speaker 4: every scene is it's like always Sonny in Philadelphia without jokes.
Speaker 4: And I know people who said Arrested Development without jokes,
Speaker 4: but Arrested Development was structurally complex. Succession is like I
Speaker 4: wonder if they'll fuck them over at the end of
Speaker 4: the scene. I wonder if they have the fairy's intent.
Speaker 4: I wonder if they're gonna end up yelling at each
Speaker 4: other saying something horrible they can't take back. I think
Speaker 4: I had the same thing with Game of Thrones. You
Speaker 4: gotta have a lot of dynamics for me. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: forget I should have written more than all the shows
Speaker 4: everyone loves, because there was another one that I had
Speaker 4: a whole cracked style thesis about. But you know what,
Speaker 4: you're not my boss anymore. I don't have to do
Speaker 4: that to refu content.
Speaker 6: Dad.
Speaker 1: Is it Barry? I like Barry? I know, I like
Speaker 1: you would like Barry. Actually, yeah, and I like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was fully Oh, Ted Lasso,
Speaker 1: that's the one. Ted Lasso sucks. I always out it has.
Speaker 4: I think it's interesting that Barry went from season one
Speaker 4: has the highest proportion of jokes to ship is real
Speaker 4: and then it's like smoothly Season two is more real, real,
Speaker 4: real real. I'm pretty sure Bill Hayter is trying to
Speaker 4: hop permanently too. I'm gonna direct like real ship now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It feels like this is I can't wait for him,
Speaker 1: and this is the first time I've seen that transition
Speaker 1: somebody going from like TV and like directing so many
Speaker 1: TV episodes so well that I'm now just and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are now like eagerly awaiting
Speaker 1: what his first film will be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Wifie count Jordan Peel. But it was directing sketches.
Speaker 4: It's not real as as I will now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like watch it like from Key and Peel. I
Speaker 1: wasn't then waiting for ye.
Speaker 6: Whoa, You're like, yeah, yeah, now I I will allow
Speaker 6: you to talk about succession but ted laugh though, I
Speaker 6: mean that is dramatallurgically everything that happens on that is
Speaker 6: necessary to quote Jeremy Strong.
Speaker 4: Sure, show's perfect, and there's got to be some kind
Speaker 4: of Uh. I'm just nostalgic goggles only because I really
Speaker 4: like Bill Lawrence, the show runner. I've looked up to
Speaker 4: him for a long time. I really like Scrubs, even
Speaker 4: though there's like, I mean, as you get older and older,
Speaker 4: he's not immune to highly problematic shit if you go
Speaker 4: back and watch Scrubs. But I still love a lot
Speaker 4: of the techniques. A lot of modern sitcoms use the
Speaker 4: techniques he developed in Scrubs. And I don't know, maybe
Speaker 4: I'm just a sucker, but I watched Ted Lasso and
Speaker 4: I'm like, man, if this was a Scrubs, I'd be
Speaker 4: laughing out loud instead of just going these people are nice.
Speaker 1: This is nice. It's nice because everyone's so nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why.
Speaker 4: Hey, maybe you need that energy or power to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm allergic to it. I just can't when I
Speaker 1: see it, I'm like, oh, it's too nice for me.
Speaker 1: Like I'm a lost cause don't like, don't cry for
Speaker 1: me because I'm already dead and dead lass, I ain't
Speaker 1: breaking through. What is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 4: I forget what the hell I had. But as soon
Speaker 4: as you did know wedding bars, a wedding planning, fuck that, Yeah,
Speaker 4: my weddings and swill days. Who gives a shit?
Speaker 7: Flow by, more importantly, the flowbots, bro, there's so easy
Speaker 7: highly slept on They're like a rap version of rage
Speaker 7: against the machine ethos wise, like all they rap about
Speaker 7: is have capitalisms bullshit.
Speaker 4: The farther we go forward in time, the more everything
Speaker 4: they say rings true, Like and Braiden Rise, there's a
Speaker 4: war going on for your mind. Same thing, Good Soldier.
Speaker 4: So many great songs, really eloquent lyrics, great flow, like
Speaker 4: rappers with really melodic flow, and like the roots are like,
Speaker 4: I mean, I always love live band with live drums
Speaker 4: doing rap with like a horn section. You don't get
Speaker 4: that a lot, right. The flowbots are great?
Speaker 1: Wow, there we go. I mean, I don't think you
Speaker 1: even needed to mention that day a great flow after
Speaker 1: people heard me my AKA but yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 2: The robots, what do you think?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 2: So, I mean, but your wedding, Just to touch on that,
Speaker 2: as somebody who was married in the last year, you're
Speaker 2: you feel good, you're nervous. Yeah yeah, yeah, let it listen,
Speaker 2: let it let the camera catch that. But I know
Speaker 2: the feeling when you're just like less than two weeks
Speaker 2: out and all your for me. All I thought about
Speaker 2: was like, how is this event going to go down?
Speaker 2: Not so much of like the marriage itself, but the
Speaker 2: actual wedding and the shit gonna be where it needs
Speaker 2: to be. Are people gonna like what they? And I
Speaker 2: did my head and until somebody, like a family member
Speaker 2: was like, was like, you look fucking tense as fuck.
Speaker 2: What you need to do is act like a guest.
Speaker 2: Don't act like a fucking host at your wedding. And
Speaker 2: that was the best advice I've received in the lead
Speaker 2: up of to be able to, like on the day,
Speaker 2: just put everything else out of mind and just switch
Speaker 2: to being like, I'm a guess at this wonderful thing.
Speaker 2: But are you Are you close to feeling like that
Speaker 2: or is it still kind of.
Speaker 4: Like, oh yeah, I feel that entitlement. That's great advice
Speaker 4: that I have gotten and taken to heart because I
Speaker 4: feel like we did our work in the prep and
Speaker 4: that we're both workaholics, so we took X. We went
Speaker 4: extra extra, so like the gifts for the bridal parties
Speaker 4: are pretty specific and elaborate and will be like surprising
Speaker 4: delights that took a lot of extra work. I know,
Speaker 4: no one attending. I think most people attending will not
Speaker 4: hear this. No, some will, Oh well, we shot a
Speaker 4: full like cracked caliber sketch to unveil at the wedding.
Speaker 1: We start in with.
Speaker 4: Pretty ambitious special effects and a full orchestral score and shit,
Speaker 4: and had a crew out there two days of shooting
Speaker 4: and some other surprises. So like, we went hard and
Speaker 4: there's costume changes involved, and uh, you know, some of
Speaker 4: the actors you helped bring up Jack are involved in
Speaker 4: some performance pieces happening through housing. So we're doing a
Speaker 4: whole day of bullshit. And I would say on top
Speaker 4: of what I would call normal wedding planning. I mean
Speaker 4: the sketch was like one hundred hours of writing, shooting,
Speaker 4: and editing easily. So now that it's done, no, I
Speaker 4: fully feel entitled. I'm like on the day, it's I've
Speaker 4: earned Like I'm king now. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: I made a playlist for my wedding Okay, so yeah
Speaker 1: that was that was something. Big gifts I got for
Speaker 1: my wedding party were tank tops with the local beer
Speaker 1: logo on it that I got the day before.
Speaker 4: I know, we go way too hard, hence the nervous breakdown.
Speaker 4: It's like the manufacturers that I can't stop doing cool
Speaker 4: shit all the time.
Speaker 2: It's keep it cool.
Speaker 1: Do they have like a program for that where they're
Speaker 1: where they're like, all right, you're you're in this room
Speaker 1: with other people who just can't stop doing cool shit.
Speaker 4: All too much ice cream and you get an ice
Speaker 4: cream headache. That's where I like to use man. I
Speaker 4: won't like it, but in IOP one of the last things,
Speaker 4: because you like present at the end what you've learned.
Speaker 4: I did it in the form of a wrap freaking
Speaker 4: nerd and the people were like one guy and then
Speaker 4: they all respond like with affirmations, and one guy was like,
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm, you know, on the ground floor
Speaker 4: of like this great talent. Man, you're gonna be famous.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, don't say that. That is why I'm
Speaker 4: fucking here. That's fixation. That's what I'm trying to let go.
Speaker 4: That's like I just completed AA and you're like, you're
Speaker 4: gonna get drunk, dude, I see it.
Speaker 1: Be the funnest drunk guy ever.
Speaker 2: I can't wait, Hollywood, b.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I bet you'd be a blast drunk man.
Speaker 1: We should go down.
Speaker 2: I love to get fucked up with you, man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: come back and talk about some news stories and we're back. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So this was news to me.
Speaker 1: The Republicans have been working on some investigations, eagerly anticipated investigations.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess, yeah, I guess it's not news.
Speaker 1: They're always like, oh, man, what about Hunter Biden? Laptop though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what about Hunter Biden?
Speaker 4: What about what about?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about what else? What else?
Speaker 1: What about what? Yeah? They took the mic at the
Speaker 1: open mic. Yeah, they took the mic at the open mic?
Speaker 2: Did that one our house?
Speaker 1: And they're like, uh, what about uh? What about you guts?
Speaker 4: Does hot pockets a bit a lot?
Speaker 1: So, yeah, like what they find, miles, what did they unearthed?
Speaker 2: We've heard the threats, you know, in the lead up
Speaker 2: to the mid terms, and then after the mid terms
Speaker 2: when they to control the House, they're like, oh, just
Speaker 2: fucking wait, because we're gonna bring the fucking hammer down
Speaker 2: on Joe Brandon. And they said they're all kinds of
Speaker 2: reports and things about how he took money as VP
Speaker 2: and swayed foreign policy. The thing is James Kormer of
Speaker 2: the uh, the chairman of the Oversight Committee of Kentucky,
Speaker 2: doesn't have shit, and he's doing the like investigation equivalent
Speaker 2: of when you try to rob a liquor store with
Speaker 2: a banana in your coat pocket, being like I got
Speaker 2: that thing on me, don't be and someone's like, man,
Speaker 2: get the fuck out of my store. And that's kind
Speaker 2: of what's happening right now. As the Republicans go on news,
Speaker 2: like people are like even their own media is like, huh,
Speaker 2: but what's the fucking evidence? Man, Like I thought you're
Speaker 2: gonna fucking embarrass this guy. They're saying stuff like this
Speaker 2: is gonna end Joe Biden's presidency. So as he's been
Speaker 2: saying things like many people have been going around to
Speaker 2: Fox and you know, giving little interviews. He recently confused
Speaker 2: the fuck out of a few Fox News hosts when
Speaker 2: he said he had the goods but can't show anyone yet.
Speaker 2: And then our Senator Ron Johnson, he was on Maria
Speaker 2: Bartiromo's show, and then this is what he said about like, well,
Speaker 2: like do you have evidence? He's like, yeah, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: here's the thing about evidence.
Speaker 1: The classic legal strategy of here's the thing about evidence.
Speaker 3: And money came from China and other adversarial countries, by
Speaker 3: the way, not just China, but going into these ll
Speaker 3: seas and then from there the money went from the
Speaker 3: LLCs to various Biden family members.
Speaker 2: What can you tell us about that?
Speaker 3: What were they getting paid for?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Where the receivers again on the bank records. You're not
Speaker 8: going to see bribe to change this policy. You have
Speaker 8: to infer what's happening here. You look at the bulk
Speaker 8: of the evidence. You have to follow the money and realize, so,
Speaker 8: what did this Biden family member do to earn that
Speaker 8: amount of money? I mean, that's what we did with
Speaker 8: Hunter Biden and Ukraine.
Speaker 2: I mean, what did he I don't know if you
Speaker 2: cut that. He just said you have to infer what's
Speaker 2: happening here, right, And then at the end of it,
Speaker 2: he's like, you're not going to necessarily get hard proof.
Speaker 2: Is how he wraps up this very long winded sound
Speaker 2: by and Maria Maria Bartiromo's like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: Okay, Then we have another one where Comber himself goes
Speaker 2: on Fox and Friends, very friendly environment, and Steve Doocey's like, hey, man,
Speaker 2: like you're laying this thing out about all these bribes
Speaker 2: and stuff. Where's can what the like? But evidence? And
Speaker 2: here's again just this very dissatisfied Fox News host.
Speaker 9: Sources between twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen, and your party,
Speaker 9: the Republican investigators, say that that's proof of influence peddling
Speaker 9: by Hunter and James. But that's just your suggestion. You
Speaker 9: don't actually have any facts to that point. You've got
Speaker 9: some circumstantial evidence. And the other thing is, of all
Speaker 9: those names, the one person who didn't profit is so
Speaker 9: there's no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally.
Speaker 10: Well, if you look at the laptop and the emails
Speaker 10: between the president's and his associates, they went to great
Speaker 10: links to hide Joe's involvement.
Speaker 2: They this like weird fucking merry go round has been
Speaker 2: happening for the last fucking week, where even they're like,
Speaker 2: what you're saying that shit's going on, but you're not
Speaker 2: showing us anything that's going on. And I just have
Speaker 2: to say, this is continuous again, this is like never ending.
Speaker 2: Maria Bartiromo is like, hey, comber Man, you gotta come
Speaker 2: with it, Like you're telling us about this, Where the
Speaker 2: fuck are these people you said they got people who
Speaker 2: are like can attest to this, You have whistleblowers and
Speaker 2: all this other shit. Where are they? And again, uh,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's not it's not a great not a
Speaker 2: great show from James Comer.
Speaker 3: More important potentially here, and that is this cover up.
Speaker 3: You have spoken with whistleblowers, You have spoken, You also
Speaker 3: spoke with an informant who gave you all of this information.
Speaker 3: Where is that informant today? Where are these whistleblowers?
Speaker 10: Well, unfortunately, we can't track down the informant. We're hopeful
Speaker 10: that the informant is still there. The whistleblower knows the informant.
Speaker 10: The whistle blower is very credible, and all we're asking
Speaker 10: the FBI.
Speaker 5: They've now switched to Oh, man, I don't know where
Speaker 5: the whistle blower was here.
Speaker 1: Oh actually he's just going to the back.
Speaker 2: They're incredible, so credible. And just lastly, just what I
Speaker 2: wrapped up because Marie Barberome was just like, hold on, bro,
Speaker 2: what you just said that the motherfucker's missing? Like what's
Speaker 2: going on?
Speaker 1: Then again, not a great answer, but it's fantastic just
Speaker 1: in the context of that this person probably doesn't exist.
Speaker 3: Hold on a second, Congressman, did you just say that
Speaker 3: the whistleblower or the informant is now missing.
Speaker 11: Well, we we're hopefully we could find the informant.
Speaker 10: Remember, these slefts are are kind of in the.
Speaker 11: Spy business, so they don't make a habit of being
Speaker 11: seen a lot or being a profile or anything like that.
Speaker 11: Spy business have basic information with respect to what the face.
Speaker 1: That Joe Biden when he was all right anyway, So
Speaker 1: well we've got to expect miles them to go on
Speaker 1: the hostile grounds of Fox News and stand up to
Speaker 1: the scrutiny that they always reserve for. Wait, no, actually
Speaker 1: that those are the soft pulse. He's taking big pauses
Speaker 1: like he's on delay, like he's coming to you from
Speaker 1: the Middle Easter or some SMA centauri.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, they're in this spy business, so they don't
Speaker 2: really they're not really high profile. That's not relevant really,
Speaker 2: Like that's like asking like, well, who are these people?
Speaker 2: Then you can be like, they're not really high profile people,
Speaker 2: But to say, like where are they, They're like, well,
Speaker 2: they're spies, so they don't really like hang out places.
Speaker 1: Yeas like what you're saying.
Speaker 2: So it's a very It's one of the shittiest diversionary
Speaker 2: tactics I've seen, because like, I mean, I think they're
Speaker 2: what they're really trying to do they want. They're running
Speaker 2: like the twenty fifteen sixteen playbook all over again, where
Speaker 2: they're trying to get like a year out, get some
Speaker 2: really good scandals to stick, like they would have with
Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton. But apparently they don't have misogyny on their
Speaker 2: side this time. And there's just I don't know, they're
Speaker 2: they're just they're scrambling now. And you have Marjorie Taylor
Speaker 2: Green who's like followed up that interview and is like,
Speaker 2: they're not missing, actually we know where they are.
Speaker 1: And it's like, what the fukay? Sure? You just didn't
Speaker 1: want to tell you that because my dad's actually a cop, right,
Speaker 1: and yeah, he's not well, speaking of misogyny on their side,
Speaker 1: and people actually saying the thing that you want to
Speaker 1: catch them doing, which doesn't appear to have happened here,
Speaker 1: you know, you're just gonna have to infer things on
Speaker 1: that story. On this other one, it sounds like less inference.
Speaker 1: So Brudy Giuliani is being sued for sexual assault by
Speaker 1: a former employee for ten million dollars over allegations of
Speaker 1: sexual assault and harassment, wage theft, and other misconduct. The
Speaker 1: plaintiff was hired in twenty nineteen with the salary of
Speaker 1: one million dollars per year, which later turned out to
Speaker 1: be a sham, and the sexual harassment and abuse began
Speaker 1: almost immediately. Rue Giuliani, by the way, is on tap
Speaker 1: saying that he wanted her the victim in this case
Speaker 1: since the day he interviewed her. Just horrible, damning, gruesome
Speaker 1: details about what he did to this person, but also
Speaker 1: just you know, recorded alcohol drenched rants that include sexist, racist,
Speaker 1: and anti Semitic remarks, claimed that he could commit crimes
Speaker 1: because he has immunity, and admitting and admitted to selling
Speaker 1: gardens for two million dollars with Trump. Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then that split it. They could split the money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, money he and Trump would split.
Speaker 2: It's just it's really fucking wild. I mean, like, I
Speaker 2: think he met her over Facebook and then offered this job,
Speaker 2: and I was like, it's a million dollars a year,
Speaker 2: but you know, I'm going through this really acrimonious divorce,
Speaker 2: so I can't really pay you immediately all the money
Speaker 2: and strung her along like this, while also being like, well,
Speaker 2: since you're my assistant, you can record everything, and also
Speaker 2: I can help represent you in a case against an
Speaker 2: ex boyfriend that you're trying to sue, who like also
Speaker 2: mistreated you. Apparently, so he was like he was, he
Speaker 2: was going in at every angle to try and manipulate
Speaker 2: this person.
Speaker 4: Man, a gaslighting, money laundering rapist. If he committed a
Speaker 4: public shooting, he would truly be America's mayor. Right, that's
Speaker 4: all of our four quadrants, dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, completely, they're really covering it all. Never paid
Speaker 1: her claims because of his divorce, specifically told her not
Speaker 1: to cooperate with the FBI. And again, you can do that.
Speaker 4: I'm getting divorced, and I'm sad. I'm sad.
Speaker 1: Yeah this week, that's right, But.
Speaker 2: Don't cooperate with the FBI either.
Speaker 1: I did not know that demanded that she work naked
Speaker 1: in a bikini or in short shorts with an American
Speaker 1: flag on them that he bought for her. Over the computer.
Speaker 1: He asked her to remove her clothes on camera, often
Speaker 1: called her from his bed where he was visibly touching
Speaker 1: himself under a white sheet.
Speaker 2: This is from a seventy page complaint too. This is
Speaker 2: like a tip of the iceberg. I think most people
Speaker 2: are only like reporting on a fraction of everything that's
Speaker 2: in this thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, demanded oral sex during phone calls from high profile
Speaker 1: friends and clients because it made him, quote feel like
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. And if you remember that scene with him
Speaker 1: on camera pulling down his pants and bore at two,
Speaker 1: that scene is specifically referenced in the lawsuit, and they
Speaker 1: even included a screen grab from the movie noting that
Speaker 1: he acted in a similar manner with the plaintiff. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just.
Speaker 4: Like so weirdly it's a screen grab where borats sixty
Speaker 4: nine y with the naked back guy on floor at
Speaker 4: the convention hall.
Speaker 1: Like, whoops, he's just a big boorat man.
Speaker 4: I guess sorry, I shouldn't have left putting all the
Speaker 4: evidence in order to of my why to get that
Speaker 4: person out of the court room. Clear this room.
Speaker 2: The other thing is too, like I said, he's representing
Speaker 2: her against like in a domestic violence suit against an X,
Speaker 2: And he basically said, I'll pay you three hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars if you waive your legal rights against your like
Speaker 2: abusive X. Because it's like it's messing up, like you're
Speaker 2: distracted from having sex with me, Jesus Christ, Like it's
Speaker 2: fucking terrible. Yeah, and like just been on top of
Speaker 2: it all too. The other thing that's probably making like
Speaker 2: other people sweat around DC is she had access to
Speaker 2: like all of his email.
Speaker 1: His emails. Yeah, he was like, you're my assistant, so
Speaker 1: you have my email. You're basically my email account now
Speaker 1: controller of he's out.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, maybe those will be useful for you in
Speaker 2: a lawsuit down the road. But yeah, like I'm fucking everyone,
Speaker 2: every single Trump family member, uh, like the Trump lawyer
Speaker 2: j Seculo, Kelly Conway, of Michael mccasey, Jeff Sessions, fucking
Speaker 2: the the Ales family, like every fucking every like anyone
Speaker 2: who has been to an orbit of the Trump's in
Speaker 2: that administration.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got it, all recordings, emails.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll see. What's his defense though, is he
Speaker 2: he's innocent?
Speaker 1: He's denied the allegations because Mayor Juliani's lifetime of public
Speaker 1: service speaks for itself.
Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, I mean just seeing himself, Yeah, watching
Speaker 2: him service himself in public in films, like yeah, okay, sure,
Speaker 2: and like there's a lot I mean, yeah this again,
Speaker 2: seventy fucking pages is like the complaint and like this
Speaker 2: is only like most It sounds like most journalists are
Speaker 2: like it's so fucking bad it's like not even worth
Speaker 2: talking about, like aside from like the real nuts and
Speaker 2: bolts of this case, but yikes.
Speaker 4: Also important the parts that Juliani's lifetime of public service
Speaker 4: speaks for itself. And he will pursue all available counter claims.
Speaker 4: I don't hear it, know, it's not even no not
Speaker 4: a denial.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, let's take a quick break, we'll
Speaker 1: come back. We'll talk about some more hopeful news. And
Speaker 1: we're back. And uh, there's another kind of hopeful thread
Speaker 1: from the guy we talked before about this guy, Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas did a thread about how the Netherlands went from
Speaker 1: being this traffic choked you know, just it looked a
Speaker 1: lot like America, Like when you look at pictures of
Speaker 1: the Netherlands and the fifties and sixties, they took a
Speaker 1: bunch of funding from developers and filled in like their
Speaker 1: waterways with cement to build highways, and shit, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a real mess. And now they are known
Speaker 1: as a place that has very low emissions and is
Speaker 1: very bike friendly and pedestrian friendly, and it can happen
Speaker 1: for cities in the modern world. And so he has
Speaker 1: another threat about Paris, and this one is actually a
Speaker 1: even more condensed timeline. All takes place basically in the
Speaker 1: last ten years, and their strategy was basically go big
Speaker 1: on bikes. They put those free rent to bikes everywhere
Speaker 1: around town, basically bird before the tech industry quote revolutionized
Speaker 1: the final mile problem. They actually just put those bikes
Speaker 1: everywhere so anybody who needed to get somewhere could just
Speaker 1: swipe and hop on a bike and get where they
Speaker 1: needed to go. They got rid of a bunch of
Speaker 1: parking in twenty twenty. They announced they'd be removing seventy
Speaker 1: two percent of street parking for cars to accommodate cyclists
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and closed some of the biggest like
Speaker 1: busiest roads and streets and highways and turn them into
Speaker 1: bike highways. One case, they turned it into like a
Speaker 1: bike highway and a beach. There's like a on the
Speaker 1: sin like there used to be or the sind there
Speaker 1: used to be like big highway right alongside, and they
Speaker 1: just filled it in with sand and like a small
Speaker 1: land for bikes. And I love it, like a great
Speaker 1: place to hang out.
Speaker 2: It looks like a like a mini version with the
Speaker 2: Venice boardwalk. Yeah, so strange to see you like that,
Speaker 2: but hey, yeah, more space for people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they And there's just a lot of like great
Speaker 1: side by side pictures of like you know, what New
Speaker 1: York City looks like today in a lot of places,
Speaker 1: or what La looks like all over the place, and
Speaker 1: like side by side with just these like great little
Speaker 1: walkable communities, and like they've already cut emissions by twenty
Speaker 1: percent in just like nine years of taking these like
Speaker 1: passing this legislation. Also every change just like makes it
Speaker 1: a less horrible place to live and also addresses like
Speaker 1: one of the issues. When I was talking about the Netherlands,
Speaker 1: people were like, well, but how are people going to
Speaker 1: get around? Like one of the things the Netherlands did
Speaker 1: was try something called car free Sundays. People, Right, well,
Speaker 1: but that does that's not Sunday communities that like don't
Speaker 1: have access to bikes or any any of that stuff.
Speaker 1: But if you put other options in place, hopefully affordable options,
Speaker 1: then it does start to seem more doable. And obviously
Speaker 1: it's not a complete, like fix to the problem, but
Speaker 1: a lot of just like small changes and trying things
Speaker 1: out and disincentivizing people and businesses from building their lives
Speaker 1: and businesses and communities in a way that requires people
Speaker 1: to drive around angrily in our cars eight hours a
Speaker 1: day can be a huge win and can have these
Speaker 1: incremental changes where everybody suddenly stops feeling like this is
Speaker 1: inescapable a world built four cars by sentient cars. I
Speaker 1: feel like, is that's a thing that we can't even
Speaker 1: like imagine our way out of. I s like, I
Speaker 1: think part of the appeal of post apocalyptic movies is
Speaker 1: that they offer the first like walkable communities most people
Speaker 1: can realistically imagine in the United States because all the
Speaker 1: cars are just gone. Not the driving dead. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not the driving dead, I tell you that damn much.
Speaker 2: I think ever since we saw it happen in New York,
Speaker 2: just like in the beginning of the pandemic, yeah, la
Speaker 2: fucking please. Yeah, And like you see it in some places,
Speaker 2: but it's mostly in the unincorporated parts of the city
Speaker 2: where like their small city councils can just decide unilaterally
Speaker 2: to be like, yeah, let's shut that part down, just like.
Speaker 1: A little nook over here.
Speaker 2: But God, what I would give to have like just
Speaker 2: a couple streets like the where they prioritize bike traffic.
Speaker 1: It would be oh just it would make my fucking life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a couple around me. I'm in Emoryville, Oakland
Speaker 4: area in the Bay and there's like a street that
Speaker 4: you can get around on with bikes. You just made
Speaker 4: me remember, like way back at the beginning of the pandemic,
Speaker 4: where like maybe this will be the tipping point for
Speaker 4: some societal changes we need, like universal healthcare or more
Speaker 4: walkable cities because people are gonna be or like if
Speaker 4: they don't go to a building, maybe we don't need
Speaker 4: those buildings. That's like, it's so funny, funny to look
Speaker 4: back and realize the major changes. No, now we just
Speaker 4: hate each other about masks and like there's a bunch
Speaker 4: of new conspiracy theories about viral mind control and shit.
Speaker 1: Uh and a little work from home.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's my thing is I work from home
Speaker 4: all the time. Ever since pandemic hit and all my
Speaker 4: jobs went remote, I barely ever drive, which is nice.
Speaker 4: But I also barely ever actually have reason to go outside,
Speaker 4: which is not nice. Right. Uh, So I'm on the
Speaker 4: I'll be honest. When I do get outside, I like that,
Speaker 4: like if everyone was walking or riding their bikes. I'd
Speaker 4: be like, there's too many people walking right.
Speaker 1: Now, right, you know what I mean, New York.
Speaker 4: What I really want is for other people to not exist.
Speaker 4: That's what I want.
Speaker 1: The real part of movies that people like, yeah.
Speaker 4: Or all segues one or the other that was supposed
Speaker 4: to do it. It was going to chase the way
Speaker 4: cities were built.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they had the like again, it's like
Speaker 1: the thing that bird scooters came in and everyone was like,
Speaker 1: these are revolutionary, and it's like a lot of people
Speaker 1: have had this idea, it's just now venture capital decided
Speaker 1: to fund it in the form of these dumb scooters
Speaker 1: that people just leave all over the place. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean New York has the rentable bikes and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's just you need to like do that at scale
Speaker 1: and also get rid of all of the traffic that
Speaker 1: makes it so that like, oh yeah, bike around requires
Speaker 1: you to take your life into your own hands.
Speaker 2: I feel like because in La, the tourists like, I'm sorry, tourists,
Speaker 2: because there's bird scooters around doesn't mean it's fucking safe
Speaker 2: for y'all. No, Because I all the time see tourists
Speaker 2: like in the most dangerous fucking roads, being like, oh
Speaker 2: I love this town. I'm on a bird scooter and
Speaker 2: like people are flying by them like forty fifty miles
Speaker 2: an hour and shit yea, and it's like it's it's
Speaker 2: giving the impression that there's infrastructure that would keep you safe.
Speaker 2: There's like also this like little stretch on the one
Speaker 2: ten going into downtown that I see people like right
Speaker 2: this narrow sort of sidewalk like right next to a
Speaker 2: freeway and it's not it's obviously not in the like
Speaker 2: on the freeway, but like when I see that, I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, Like these people are fucking like daredevils.
Speaker 1: Like riding a guard scooter down the four h five
Speaker 1: with a map open in front of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like just convert, like just start off
Speaker 2: with a couple fucking streets, like two streets per neighborhood
Speaker 2: like that are like the main thoroughfares, Like just give
Speaker 2: us a little fucking bike action, please.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Me went a decent amount of money on a
Speaker 4: bike for the first time in my life while I
Speaker 4: was at crack, just because I was like, I'm only
Speaker 4: like three and a half miles from the office. I
Speaker 4: should commute back and forth every day. Only did it
Speaker 4: for like four days before I seriously felt like, yeah,
Speaker 4: but if you die, what's the point of this? Like
Speaker 4: there was no every day I got going through. I
Speaker 4: got a multiple like people screeching, honking, there's nowhere for
Speaker 4: you to be, or go on the sidewalk and people shout,
Speaker 4: you know, on the sidewalk like what want? Yeah, get
Speaker 4: and get a car, motherfucker is the implication.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to die on clover Field you want,
Speaker 1: But yeah, in America, it's like boring shit, like the
Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce that is secretly really powerful, or the
Speaker 1: real estate industry that you know, even though this would
Speaker 1: be good for the real estate industry, I just feel
Speaker 1: like there are massive capital infused powers that are making
Speaker 1: it so that these things that would make everyone's lives
Speaker 1: better would help at least do a little like maybe
Speaker 1: make a small dent in the problem with climate change
Speaker 1: and all I think small dent in the actual you know,
Speaker 1: it's only reduced emissions by twenty percent, that's still significant
Speaker 1: significant nine years. But also just like mentally, like seeing
Speaker 1: a mayor come in and like make these changes in
Speaker 1: a single decade, I feel like has to give people
Speaker 1: hope and like, you know, make it feel like there's
Speaker 1: a world where hyper capitalism and whatever gets you from
Speaker 1: one transaction to the next as quickly as possible with
Speaker 1: as little friction as possible. Like that that ethos doesn't
Speaker 1: have to run the world, which I think is hard
Speaker 1: to imagine for a lot of us who have like
Speaker 1: grown up in the world since like the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 1: You know, Jack, that's what that's why you just got
Speaker 1: to embrace the apocalypse man, and hope that comes right right,
Speaker 1: because I can't imaginely easier to imagine the end of
Speaker 1: the world than the end of castle.
Speaker 4: Blow it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you, know.
Speaker 1: That it happens. It happens.
Speaker 4: I feel like there's two forces that have gotten us
Speaker 4: in trouble, that have just gotten out of control ever
Speaker 4: since interchangeable parts are invented. We're like, oh, wow, it's
Speaker 4: amazing when shit gets more efficient. Everything should just always
Speaker 4: get more efficient, until we're producing so much that shit
Speaker 4: is just spewing out of robots twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 4: And then the other one is like we all is
Speaker 4: the branding idea, Like, you know, there's great books to
Speaker 4: read about it. But mad Men covers it fairly well.
Speaker 4: The origin of the realization that oh, we could just
Speaker 4: sell the idea of something or package stuff, or instead
Speaker 4: of saying this is what the product provides, we can
Speaker 4: say cool, people use this product way more effective. And
Speaker 4: then the news was like, we can do that too.
Speaker 4: So I just feel like those two impulses have really
Speaker 4: screwed us up.
Speaker 2: Like P. T.
Speaker 4: Barnum and interchangeable parts guy, the cotton gen guy whoever it.
Speaker 1: Was, Eli Whitney, Yeah, but all the.
Speaker 4: Way through to like write the conveyor belt, and then
Speaker 4: McDonald's like, we've applied it to everything, how can we
Speaker 4: make this more efficient, lower cost, et cetera.
Speaker 2: And now parts reminds me of playing Civilization when you
Speaker 2: get to that technology in Civilization replaceable parts. Sid Meyers
Speaker 2: freaks out there. But oh, the thing I was gonna
Speaker 2: say is like, I guess the only thing you could
Speaker 2: do is like maybe trick the commercial real estate industry
Speaker 2: because they're suffering right now, is to be like, what
Speaker 2: if we turn the streets around all your commercial buildings
Speaker 2: into like walkable areas, so naturally people will fucking come
Speaker 2: through there.
Speaker 4: Because they ran out your bottom floor for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, stuff, people will at least move towards there because
Speaker 2: you've you've created the infrastructure for people to move into
Speaker 2: that area, and maybe that will do something, but they're
Speaker 2: probably just.
Speaker 1: Completely you know, I don't know. They can't they can't
Speaker 1: be changed. I mean that we had, like LA had
Speaker 1: one of the largest rail lines, like just miles and
Speaker 1: miles and miles and miles of you know, electric railcars
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the twentieth century, and then cars
Speaker 1: and tire companies came through and had their way with it, and.
Speaker 4: We've abandoned it to the morlocks. Yes, no, what ever
Speaker 4: goes down there, that's true.
Speaker 2: Man, it's always a bummer to see, like when you
Speaker 2: come across the old LA railway like infrastructure, when you're like,
Speaker 2: what the like, you'll you like trip over like an
Speaker 2: old fucking you know, like piece of train track.
Speaker 4: Writer. If you've been NYC enough, you'll see like a
Speaker 4: sign with a subway map and you'll go, oh, is
Speaker 4: some kind of New York City themed thing going on? Oh,
Speaker 4: that's right, we have a subway. Never mind, that's right.
Speaker 1: Well, Michael, what a pleasure having you on the show.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you follow you and find out
Speaker 1: more about Papa Bear.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I refrained from name dropping it so far, but
Speaker 4: I'm working on a film called Papa Bear based on
Speaker 4: the hilarious point a true story of when my dad
Speaker 4: came out as a gay furry when I was seventeen.
Speaker 4: Fun fact, his real persona is cyberbar and cybernetically Enhanced Bear.
Speaker 4: But as screenwriters, we thought that was like a hat
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Speaker 1: No one's going to believe that.
Speaker 4: But the goal beyond just exploding some myths about furry
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that link will be in the show notes,
Speaker 1: so you just like open the damn app that you're
Speaker 1: listening to it.
Speaker 4: I wonder what the click through is on people who
Speaker 4: read the show notes in their app and click a link.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's unbelievably high. Is there a work of media
Speaker 1: that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 4: Oh? Media? Oh, I will say I wanted to say
Speaker 4: this in Act one, but I didn't find a good
Speaker 4: spot to slip it in. But I think Coomer Comber,
Speaker 4: whoever we were talking about the pundit in Act one,
Speaker 4: is still doing good work from his point of view
Speaker 4: in the sense that it is a marketing thing. It's
Speaker 4: just about repetition. It's the Coca Cola version of it
Speaker 4: doesn't matter if the follow through is and it's not true.
Speaker 4: And here's why you said it a thousand times. And
Speaker 4: that leads me to a piece of media I'm liking,
Speaker 4: which is Foundation. I'm a big hard sci fi nerd.
Speaker 4: If you are as well, and if you watch the
Speaker 4: expanse and you're like, this is good but not scratching
Speaker 4: that itch of like very intellectual sci fi, Foundation is
Speaker 4: super good. And there's a character named Empire in that
Speaker 4: who says the line related to this, which is they're like,
Speaker 4: but that's not true, and he's like, but we'll just
Speaker 4: have every galactic news source repeat it until the error
Speaker 4: is made of it and there's nothing else to breathe.
Speaker 1: Good luck, Foundation, good wow, Miles. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Is their work? Amedia, you've been enjoying h Man.
Speaker 2: You can find me on Twitter, Instagram, and I haven't
Speaker 2: posted it anyway at Miles of Gray. If there's ad symbols,
Speaker 2: as I usually say, follow Jack and nine on our
Speaker 2: basketball podcast, Miles and Jack on mav Matt Lusty's where
Speaker 2: you can hear at least we're gonna recap Game one
Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals by the next episode and also check
Speaker 2: me out. On four twenty d fiance was Sophia Alexandra
Speaker 2: where we talk about ninety day and love is blind
Speaker 2: but really high if that's if that makes it any
Speaker 2: different for you. This is a tweet from ify at
Speaker 2: Iffy wady Way. He just quoted someone took a picture
Speaker 2: of like a Mickey Mouse thing with like the Viewmaster
Speaker 2: Mickey Mouse, you know toy and he put ah, yes,
Speaker 2: dissociation training wheels.
Speaker 4: Those were the day amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, the amount of time.
Speaker 2: I remember there was one I had of just like
Speaker 2: California landmarks and I would just look at the Golden
Speaker 2: Gate like I would lay on my back, just look
Speaker 2: into the sun and just tell your.
Speaker 4: Parents are screaming at each other in the back. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: just seagulls, that's all.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I never loved you, and I'm like click and I'm
Speaker 2: at the Golden Gate.
Speaker 4: Bre I just saw that, dude, and Tim Medows and
Speaker 4: Carl tired to improv. They're fantastic if you Yeah, what
Speaker 4: a crew tweet.
Speaker 1: I've been enjoying. Furbie Hancock tweeted process fud was literally
Speaker 1: designed for you to eat. Organic is just some crap
Speaker 1: they found on the ground somewhere, just good, good nutrition advice.
Speaker 1: But I think that is how my brain worked for
Speaker 1: large portion of my adult life. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: the scientists have approved this with all their technology. You
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Speaker 1: as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles,
Speaker 1: what is a song that you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 2: I think you know, since we were talking about just
Speaker 2: rapping bars and things like that, Bars Simpson is the
Speaker 2: track that we're going to go out on by Sunny
Speaker 2: Jim m F Doom Jay Electronica.
Speaker 1: Just a great, good, good old rap song.
Speaker 2: But I just love I love when anyone makes a
Speaker 2: Simpson's reference, and like the album art is fantastic. It's
Speaker 2: like a Homer just like on his back drunk and
Speaker 2: the album is called White Girl Wasted. But anyway, check
Speaker 2: out this track, Bars Simpson, Sunny, Jim MF, Doom Jay, Electronica,
Speaker 2: put it through your speakers well.
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