Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three, twenty six,
Speaker 1: Episode three.
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Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America share consciousness. And it is Wednesday, February twenty first,
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Speaker 1: On it, honey honey, honey based cinnamon roll that's always
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Speaker 1: My name's Jack O'Brien, AKA, let's talk about checks, baby,
Speaker 1: Let's talk about airport greed. Let's talk about all the
Speaker 1: pretzels and bagel chips that we eat.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about checks. That's courtesy of.
Speaker 1: Fighter or the nightman on the discord talking about the
Speaker 1: airport checks mix price Index mix. The economists has the
Speaker 1: big the big mac price index.
Speaker 2: Well, the people have.
Speaker 1: The airport checks mix.
Speaker 2: Price Index Mix.
Speaker 1: There we go, documenting how greedy corporations can get when
Speaker 1: they've got us right way. They want us folks not
Speaker 1: able to shop around for our checks mix like I
Speaker 1: do on the outside. When I'm not an airport, I'll
Speaker 1: go to like three four locations comparing checks mix prices
Speaker 1: before I finally pulled the trigger.
Speaker 2: But the airports they got, You're like, let me go
Speaker 2: check and then you try and haggle, you like you
Speaker 2: know over at Hudson Bay they got it for a buck.
Speaker 2: Lest I don't. Can you do a price match or no?
Speaker 2: All right, no.
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 1: mister Miles Gras.
Speaker 2: It's mister three oh five thick thighs, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. I'm down here in Miami Florida and it's great.
Speaker 2: It looks like the movies. I gotta say, they really
Speaker 2: they really nailed it, Miami. You really make it look
Speaker 2: like the movie. So it's not like those other cities
Speaker 2: you go to. You're like, this isn't like the movies.
Speaker 1: This is exactly the segment we should remember. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the segment we should remember to do in the future.
Speaker 1: Like biggest difference movie to reality versus like ones that
Speaker 1: live up to the hype. I agree, Miami looks exactly
Speaker 1: like you're expecting it to. I feel like I am
Speaker 1: coming to you from the location that might be the
Speaker 1: opposite end of the spectrum.
Speaker 2: Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Hollywood is not h the looks on
Speaker 1: the tourist's face, those German families walking down Hollywood Boulevard.
Speaker 2: Spirit's broken. No, we've sold you vapor where I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Where it's like like you look out like in Miami
Speaker 2: the Bay, like there's people just flying on jet skis
Speaker 2: like laughing. Like I feel like, you know, you open
Speaker 2: the door to a business and like the Miami sound
Speaker 2: machine is like playing and you're.
Speaker 1: Like, okay, right right where Stefan is like just welcoming
Speaker 1: you to the restaurant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's people doing Timballei solos on every corner. It's
Speaker 2: it's really it's energizing. It's electric down here. If you
Speaker 2: want to.
Speaker 1: Get a T shirt that says Hollywood Boulevard on it,
Speaker 1: though Hollywood is your place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that one hoodie that says cal Ifornia like
Speaker 2: broken on three lines with the bear in the middle.
Speaker 2: They got those two for every man, Like fourteen different
Speaker 2: shops per block. So you know what else is wild?
Speaker 2: So many, so many places down here. Lean into the
Speaker 2: Miami Vice color scape, you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 2: you will see the turquoise with the pink just popping
Speaker 2: off like in like a lit fountain, a lit palm tree.
Speaker 2: It's wild? How much like and I'm guessing because like,
Speaker 2: you know, Miami it's all about cocaine and shit like
Speaker 2: how that like that's part of the ethos or like
Speaker 2: the aesthetic of the city. It's like, hey, man, we
Speaker 2: don't we get it. Cocaine did a hell of a
Speaker 2: lot for this town, and we will honor it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, how much of the Miami Vice color
Speaker 1: palette was influenced by reality versus you know?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How much is Miami vice, but I do they are
Speaker 1: making wise decisions, like the time the Miami Heat had
Speaker 1: a uniform that was designed in that color palette. It
Speaker 1: was kind of one of the dopest NBA uniforms.
Speaker 2: Of all time.
Speaker 1: Anyways, enough bullshit, Miles, Yeah, we're thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: again by one of our very favorite first time guests,
Speaker 1: a very funny comedian. You've seen places like their stand
Speaker 1: up special Gentlemen Elf on Netflix. Internet flickers is what
Speaker 1: I call it, but other people shorten it to Netflix.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Their comedy has hundreds of millions of views on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Their stand up has been described as slick, silly brilliance
Speaker 1: with effortless charm that lets them get away with murder,
Speaker 1: and as as of the last time they were on,
Speaker 1: they hadn't yet cashed in the murder chip being away
Speaker 1: with murder. Hopefully we'll have a development though. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be our first question. Just to prepare you. Please welcome
Speaker 1: back to the show. The brilliant and hilarious dance fall.
Speaker 3: Hi, Hi, Hi, guys. I wish I could do the
Speaker 3: same thing you do, the yelling into the mic, the
Speaker 3: leading away. I'm like, I'm have some coffee I'm trying
Speaker 3: to work on my energy here.
Speaker 2: We're the ones, We're the ones working through stuff.
Speaker 3: On Mike now it And have I have I yet
Speaker 3: cashed in on the murder? No, but I'm thinking about it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: these NYPD, I mean, the main thing, the main thing
Speaker 3: keeping me from killing a cop right now is the
Speaker 3: pressure to write a manifesto. Quite frankly, I don't want to.
Speaker 2: Have It's like, you gotta have a manifesto.
Speaker 3: Writing's hard, writings hard. I'll do anything to procrastinate, there's Yeah.
Speaker 2: There's nothing more horrifying for a writer than to look
Speaker 2: at that blinking cursor on a blank new document. You know,
Speaker 2: where do we go from here? Where do we do?
Speaker 1: Wonder in the cosmic scheme of things, how many murders
Speaker 1: are prevented by procrastination?
Speaker 3: You know, it's got to be a fair few.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. There's like a you know, like Chris rockbit
Speaker 2: about how like they just need to make bullets more
Speaker 2: expensive and that'll help. It's like it's like I would
Speaker 2: kill you, but I need like a little bit more
Speaker 2: time to afford these bullets. And then yeah, probably do
Speaker 2: some time think about it, and then you go on
Speaker 2: with your day.
Speaker 1: And here's where in years past I would have gone
Speaker 1: off on a forty five minute tangent about the British
Speaker 1: coal gas study.
Speaker 2: A better man now so seven years to say, go.
Speaker 1: Google the British cold Guest study and find out why
Speaker 1: that Chris rock bit would actually work, would actually lower
Speaker 1: homicides and suicides. But Dean, we're thrilled the high back.
Speaker 2: How have you been, aside from not doing murders?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, not during murders is starting to take
Speaker 3: a toll. How have I been? I've been I think like, uh,
Speaker 3: the collective consciousness, losing my mind a bit, witnessing a
Speaker 3: genocide in real time. You know, personally I was gonna
Speaker 3: be like, life is good, but how can anything be?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm I'm there, yes, and I can't stop
Speaker 3: thinking about it or talking about it.
Speaker 2: And you're not heartened by those like very like lightly
Speaker 2: optimistic stories. You're like, well, behind closed doors, Joe Biden
Speaker 2: does not like wouldn't it ta oh?
Speaker 3: He he called Bebi a motherfucker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you're like, and what ceasepire or we
Speaker 2: just get this. It doesn't like them though, you know.
Speaker 3: I am heartened though by the idea that this is
Speaker 3: we are witnessing the collapse. We don't need to wait
Speaker 3: for things to be different. This is what it looks
Speaker 3: like when capitalism collapses and colonialism hopefully is on its
Speaker 3: way out. It's just a question of building the new future.
Speaker 3: That sort of thing brings me hope. But it's a
Speaker 3: lot to ask from a person so anxious that I
Speaker 3: literally have to take anxiety meds before I give my
Speaker 3: five pound HuaHua her anxiety meds when we travel, so
Speaker 3: because I'm afraid of overdosinger. So to ask this mind,
Speaker 3: this anxious mind, have hope for a new future, it's.
Speaker 1: Hard, but we like that you are using the airport
Speaker 1: oxygen mask rule when giving yourself.
Speaker 3: Absolutely you got to take care of.
Speaker 2: You to go first, or you could take care of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're like, uh oh, my shit just got
Speaker 1: right and I went too hard on the ANXI.
Speaker 3: That's so funny. I pulled down the oxygen mask just
Speaker 3: mid flight, just just for a little bit of.
Speaker 2: Just pop it open. They should offer that.
Speaker 1: I feel like an airline, you know, they're they're getting
Speaker 1: competitive and very weird ways.
Speaker 2: I feel like they might as well on demand oxen
Speaker 2: like Hey, man, if you just want to vibe out,
Speaker 2: just fucking here rather than have to do cold just
Speaker 2: I already pictured Dan. You got like a fucking screwdriver
Speaker 2: on you, and you just popping the fucking mask out
Speaker 2: from the top. If the cabin pressure changes, give me
Speaker 2: this fucking O two listen.
Speaker 3: I can see it too. And I my girlfriend lives
Speaker 3: in LA, so I do a lot of cross country flights,
Speaker 3: and I recently just had the most beautiful stereotypical experience.
Speaker 3: The guy sitting next to me was reading a book
Speaker 3: that looked like it It didn't look like a best seller.
Speaker 3: It looked like a little self published kind of book,
Speaker 3: and it was about like how to be a good actor.
Speaker 3: We were flying from New York to LA and he
Speaker 3: was highlighting passages and it melted my heart. It felt
Speaker 3: so stereotypical and amazing, which is to say, I feel like,
Speaker 3: if anyone's just trying out oxygen on a flight, it's
Speaker 3: the people going between New York and l A.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, wow, that feels like exactly, sounds like such
Speaker 4: a grifty Amazon book, you know, how to be a
Speaker 4: good actor.
Speaker 2: It's like I read an Actor Prepares and all these
Speaker 2: other seminal texts for acting, but I need that one
Speaker 2: how to be? How do I get good at it? Though?
Speaker 1: Just just bottom line it for me here, Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't need all that nuance from the fancy acting teachers.
Speaker 2: Just bottom line it. Can you?
Speaker 1: If you can't put it in bullet points for me?
Speaker 2: Fine? But could we like do a four dummies? I
Speaker 2: think that the real life version is did you grow
Speaker 2: up in New York or Los Angeles? No? I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know. They've got a rich parent that can
Speaker 2: maybe bank roll a film for you. I don't know
Speaker 2: one of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good luck to you. He was highlighting more than
Speaker 3: he wasn't highlighting, and it love that. It was incredible.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've been on that. I've done that, So isn't
Speaker 2: it sort of fucked up? Though? To like as you're doing,
Speaker 2: you're like, man, what's the fucking I'm basically saying, this
Speaker 2: whole goddamn chapter is good.
Speaker 3: That's me and screenshots at the moment, I'm just like
Speaker 3: screenshotting and everything. I'm like, this resonates, this makes sense
Speaker 3: that I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 1: Never going back to this stuff, going to be puzzling
Speaker 1: over this one.
Speaker 2: What's your last one, what's what's one of your recent
Speaker 2: screenshots you can you can share.
Speaker 3: With with Oh my gosh, that's a good that's a
Speaker 3: good question. Oh goodness, this was just something I wanted
Speaker 3: to go back to. Literally, my last screenshot is the
Speaker 3: billionaire Resnick family has been lobbying for years to start
Speaker 3: a war with Iran because Iran is in competition to
Speaker 3: their pistachio business. The US is such a dystopian shithole
Speaker 3: that it's being pushed pushed toward World War over a
Speaker 3: snack food with a headline that says California pistachio billionaires
Speaker 3: funding is Israel's occupation regime. And this comes from doctor
Speaker 3: understore cabral on Twitter. I think via Instagram this is
Speaker 3: not something I follow, but I was like, this is
Speaker 3: what's going on. This is interesting. I haven't heard about
Speaker 3: this before.
Speaker 2: Whoa American? Stuart Alan Resnik.
Speaker 5: Then goes to the top, I know, the top being pistachios. Yeah, wait,
Speaker 5: what Resnic is? The wealthy is from the United States.
Speaker 5: Resnic and his wife Linda Resik bought the Franklin Mint
Speaker 5: in nineteen eighty six and sold it in two thousand
Speaker 5: and six.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, Hey, but we got oh, so this is
Speaker 2: the same family behind wonderful like pistachios, palm, like the pomegranate,
Speaker 2: wonder Fiji water wow. Wow Wow.
Speaker 1: They're the only people who are allowed to officially declare
Speaker 1: something wonderful, right and exactly?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man and the UCLA Bruin all right, well
Speaker 2: see kle Bruins, go Bruins.
Speaker 1: All right, Dan, we're going to get to know you
Speaker 1: a little bit better at a moment. First, we're gonna
Speaker 1: tell the listeners a couple of things we're checking in
Speaker 1: with in the Zeitgeist. We're gonna check in with the
Speaker 1: c I T conspiracy theory, how popular it is, like,
Speaker 1: what what people are thinking. It's it just passed a
Speaker 1: big one in the in the polling, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: check in with that. We're going to talk about Navalny,
Speaker 1: Putin's main foe, Alexi Navalny's mysteriously mysterious death in prison.
Speaker 1: It's not, I guess, not mysterious, suspicious, but not The
Speaker 1: mystery is pretty.
Speaker 2: It's what mannled, what manner of murder occurred, how did
Speaker 2: he get murdered?
Speaker 1: He died of sudden the you know, the Russian authorities
Speaker 1: announced the cause of death as sudden death syndrome, which
Speaker 1: sounds like the title of a movie in which Stephen
Speaker 1: Segal plays a doctor who gets loose, like when terrorists
Speaker 1: take over his hospital.
Speaker 2: Like, sudden death syndrome is wild, Wasn't That's a Van
Speaker 2: Damn movie? Right, sudden death, sudden death, but sudden death
Speaker 2: s Sorry, Yes, he needs to be a doctor. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well that's also Peter Hyams. This is the person who
Speaker 2: did time cop. I'm familiar with his work.
Speaker 3: Can it be a syndrome? I feel like syndromes are ongoing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know the definition.
Speaker 1: I was uh, I was surprised that this was the
Speaker 1: thing that they weren't saying through peals of laughter, you know,
Speaker 1: they reported it and people were like, which is a
Speaker 1: term that is used occasionally to describe, you know, cardiocy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or it's like the thing the cops say, like
Speaker 2: what we've talked about in previous episode is excited delirium,
Speaker 2: where they're like, yeah, that's how, that's how that person
Speaker 2: died in custody just because they were just too too
Speaker 2: you know, uh, innocent in our custody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll talk about that. We will talk about
Speaker 1: New York just took a big hit. Yeah, the both
Speaker 1: the dumbest guy from Shark Tank and the guy from
Speaker 1: who made Dilbert have said that they are are going
Speaker 1: to take their business elsewhere, thank you very much, new
Speaker 1: York because of the Trump finds. So we'll just check
Speaker 1: in with New York see how they're doing, and then
Speaker 1: we'll get our immediate answer on how they're doing. Because
Speaker 1: the NYPD has a dance team that appeared on local
Speaker 1: news shows that I had a hard time believing was real,
Speaker 1: but is in fact real. It's a real thing that
Speaker 1: they spent spent money on. There are uniforms and anyway.
Speaker 1: Neither side of the aisle seems psyched about this one.
Speaker 1: So we'll get to that plenty more. But first DM,
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guests, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history?
Speaker 3: Oh, the literally most recent thing? Because I knew this
Speaker 3: question was coming and I was pleased to know, I
Speaker 3: can actually say the most recent thing was last night
Speaker 3: around three am, I was googling Sopranos, last episode, the
Speaker 3: season finale of Sopranos, serious revisiting series finale. That's right,
Speaker 3: season six finale, series finale. I needed to read about
Speaker 3: the theories. This is the second time I've seen it,
Speaker 3: but I was recently revisiting Sopranos on a flight from
Speaker 3: New York to LA They have the first three episodes
Speaker 3: of season one, and I was like, let me bookend this,
Speaker 3: let me watch the final episode again.
Speaker 2: Is that Jet Blue that was on Delta? Oh I
Speaker 2: was on one f or maybe it was I was.
Speaker 2: I was on Jet Blue, And there's like it was
Speaker 2: just so funny. You say, like we only had the
Speaker 2: first three episodes of the season. I get it. It's
Speaker 2: just to get you through the flight. And I was
Speaker 2: starting to watch The Curse the Nathan Fielders show, and
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've, if if either of you
Speaker 2: have seen the show, but there's some there's some gratuity.
Speaker 2: There's some interesting frontal nudity in the first episode that
Speaker 2: was not censored in the thing. And like that person
Speaker 2: sitting next to me in the flight like kind of
Speaker 2: broke their necks saying like, what are you watching over here?
Speaker 2: It's Nathan Fielder's prosthetic penis. Just don't it's not real.
Speaker 3: It's oh wow, that's an incredible thing to be watching
Speaker 3: on a flight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, Victor just said bad show
Speaker 2: to watch the public. Yeah, noted producer Victor. I feel
Speaker 2: like they should market thusly. That's wild that they have
Speaker 2: it as like exclusive to Delta show with full frontal
Speaker 2: joke joke, nuded to check it out? Yeah what uh? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 3: Overrated at the moment? I mean, this isn't even a
Speaker 3: joke answer. I would just say overrated at the moment
Speaker 3: is kind of like a feeling of hopelessness and a
Speaker 3: dedication to quote peace as it as it refers to
Speaker 3: being apathetic. I'm thinking of, you know what, I'm thinking
Speaker 3: of former white spiritual ish girlies on Instagram calling for
Speaker 3: peace for everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think I think when we're witnessing a genocide, we
Speaker 3: have to get out there and agitate and vote with
Speaker 3: our energy and attention and actions. You know. Just kind
Speaker 3: of sitting back and having peace in your heart for
Speaker 3: all beings is not good enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that's because I think, Yeah, inevitably, when you're like,
Speaker 2: well what do I do about oppression, and you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't I gotta do all that. Let me just
Speaker 2: let me just send a ViBe's postcard out to the
Speaker 2: inner more like emoji based what do I do about oppression? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is there an that's kind of my media of choice
Speaker 1: direct action?
Speaker 2: Really, when I just read up on that, I.
Speaker 3: Was like, yeah, peace fingers and in every shade that
Speaker 3: emoji offers, you should be good enough exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a rainbow piece, you know, truly, what is something
Speaker 1: you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Underrated? Listen? I also knew this question was coming. I'm
Speaker 3: being in the moment, but you mentioned this off the
Speaker 3: top of the show. I was gonna say corn checks,
Speaker 3: which is what I had for breakfast. I think they're simple,
Speaker 3: they're basic, they're gluten free, which is important to me,
Speaker 3: and they feel like little blankies on your tongue. The weave,
Speaker 3: the waffle weave of a corn checklievable.
Speaker 2: But you brought up I was like, whenever the sensation
Speaker 2: everyone in my mouth, it's not to let that thing
Speaker 2: chill on my tongue. It's like crust these little I
Speaker 2: think this, the crunch of it is one of the
Speaker 2: most satisfying ones of the cereals.
Speaker 1: I take each and everyone like a Eucharist wafers.
Speaker 3: Yes, but even if they get a little too soggy.
Speaker 3: They're just sweet little blankets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a kind of a late sweetness to
Speaker 1: corn checks. Also that you know, it's not it's not
Speaker 1: like that's not by sweetened cereal.
Speaker 2: It's that's not my mistake. Taste good on purpose.
Speaker 3: Or there's engineers and scientists that know the perfect ratio
Speaker 3: of crunch and sweetness.
Speaker 1: That is what our greatest scientists are doing. Like for
Speaker 1: a while there they were working on the Manhattan Project,
Speaker 1: they moved to the moon landing, and then since then
Speaker 1: they've just been making food taste as good as possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that one, it's a mushroom cloud of flavor, Dude,
Speaker 2: in your mind, how the mouth feel, the mouth feel exactly? Kaboom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe capitalism isn't all bad, right, it's bringing us
Speaker 3: these snack foods.
Speaker 2: Hey, your words, your words, your words, not ours. I'm
Speaker 2: glad we got glad we got you there though, glad
Speaker 2: we got.
Speaker 1: Very good at inventing Baja blast. And you know, giving
Speaker 1: dorrito nacho cheese flavored doritos, the great experience that they
Speaker 1: give you where you just can't stop eating them. It's
Speaker 1: bad for you in the long run, but you know
Speaker 1: it will kill you, but you'll have that like one
Speaker 1: moment of like vaguely dissatisfied bliss where I think I
Speaker 1: have to keep eating these forever and.
Speaker 3: Sciences exactly what it is, vaguely dissatisfied bliss. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: try to remember this as I'm just housing snacks Joe's.
Speaker 3: Usually those guys, those scientists are on top of it.
Speaker 2: They instead of death. Yeah, yeah, you know, but the
Speaker 2: Trader Joe snacks some of them like they hit just
Speaker 2: enough that you're like, oh, these are okay, but not
Speaker 2: quite as good as other things. Sometimes I'm like, you
Speaker 2: found the exact middle Trader Jos. I don't know how. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, their peanut butter filled pretzels are so much better
Speaker 1: than the ones that you get anywhere else. I gotta say,
Speaker 1: Trader Joe's. Really they figured it.
Speaker 2: Out, yep, but they haven't figured out our phone number
Speaker 2: for those free peanut butter pretzels. So you work on that, tj.
Speaker 1: I am do have it out. I'm just waiting, and
Speaker 1: Trader Joe's is an unspoofable number, so I will believe
Speaker 1: you if you call me in.
Speaker 2: Hello, I'm calling from Trader Joe's. I need your Social
Speaker 2: Security number in order to send you some free stuff.
Speaker 2: If not, I will transfer you to the CIA, who
Speaker 2: will arrest you.
Speaker 3: The number just comes up, Joe Trader.
Speaker 1: It's me Miles Big News.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you back up, baby, you just pick up the
Speaker 2: phone like this. That well, well, been waiting for your
Speaker 2: call a long time, you son of a bit. You
Speaker 2: know what.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm changing my underrated underrated is answering any
Speaker 3: phone call?
Speaker 1: Well well, well, well, well look who came crowl in
Speaker 1: the back.
Speaker 2: I didn't have this on my Bingo card or maybe
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: Oh god, the Bingo card off of the Bengo cards.
Speaker 2: Please.
Speaker 1: By the way, I do feel like I did a
Speaker 1: bad job and rushed past the three Am Sopranos last
Speaker 1: episode googling a little quickly.
Speaker 2: Did you did you find a theory?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 1: I feel like this is another Like you know, the
Speaker 1: Internet has wrought so many bad things, but one of
Speaker 1: the highlights was Early Days Soprano's final episode, and then
Speaker 1: everybody immediately analyzes it like every every shot like it's
Speaker 1: a Renaissance painting, which it kind of was.
Speaker 2: Well, did you find anything new? Not new?
Speaker 3: You know, maybe new to me because I hadn't really
Speaker 3: gone down that rabbit hole before. I have purposely not
Speaker 3: read anything by David Chase. I'm kind of saving that.
Speaker 3: I get weird like that. I'm like, I'm saving. Let
Speaker 3: me see what he has to say later. One theory
Speaker 3: I liked was that the member's only jacket guy. I
Speaker 3: don't remember. Tony's at the diner with his family. There's
Speaker 3: a guy that comes and sits down, and people were saying, listen,
Speaker 3: if he's really the assassin, He's not sitting there trying
Speaker 3: to expose his face and let everybody remember him, Like,
Speaker 3: why is he sitting at the diner counter for five
Speaker 3: minutes before all this happens so that people can recognize him.
Speaker 3: One theory that I thought was interesting was that he
Speaker 3: just happened to show up at that diner and was
Speaker 3: maybe a family member of somebody that Tony or Tony's
Speaker 3: people had whacked. So it was kind of a spontaneous thing.
Speaker 3: He just saw an opportunity, so he took him in
Speaker 3: and at the bar to gather his courage, went to
Speaker 3: the bathroom, came back, made it happen. I thought that
Speaker 3: was a great idea. I also had not considered some
Speaker 3: people were saying that Carmela Carmela gave Tony up because
Speaker 3: she picked the restaurant. I hate to believe that when
Speaker 3: I refuse.
Speaker 2: To Hey, I mean, I mean this sound like not
Speaker 2: like he was the best partners, you know, but you
Speaker 2: liked it. You like to romanticize that sort of like
Speaker 2: mob marriage thing where it's like, yeah, till the fucking
Speaker 2: wheels come off.
Speaker 3: I probably do, and I can flate. Unfortunately, I can
Speaker 3: flate Tony Soprano with James Gandolfini, who you cannot help
Speaker 3: but love that act. Yeah, like his choices are unbelievable.
Speaker 3: He just has to be the most emotionally in tune
Speaker 3: person to be able to act like that. I just
Speaker 3: love him. So I know I'm supposed to hate Tony Soprano,
Speaker 3: but I kind of can't because of that is in
Speaker 3: the sweet face. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The Members the Members only jacket, I think is
Speaker 2: the most interesting, like sort of one where you really
Speaker 2: think about it, because that's a reference to Eugene ponte Corvo,
Speaker 2: who is the guy who like hung himself after he
Speaker 2: was trying to cash out and move to Florida, and
Speaker 2: like then the Feds are like, dude, there's no way,
Speaker 2: like you have to stay it. And remember he was
Speaker 2: showing his wife like there's that whole thing where he's like,
Speaker 2: this is the house for us, babe, and then he
Speaker 2: like tried his life. Life tragically ends and like a
Speaker 2: lot of people, that theory is like because Eugene was
Speaker 2: a member's only wearing Mobster that it's like, this is
Speaker 2: the thing coming back. That's like, that's the more interesting one.
Speaker 3: I didn't rewatch the whole series, but now that you're
Speaker 3: saying that, I'm like remembering that that that happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Miles is up on his on his literature.
Speaker 2: Yeah all right, never heard of you know these other weirdos,
Speaker 2: Like uh, I don't know. It was that one book
Speaker 2: he kept trying to get me to read Jack about
Speaker 2: the Ravens or something. I'm always trying to get you
Speaker 2: to read Edgar Allan.
Speaker 3: One poem now about the Ravens.
Speaker 2: That catcher in the ride. Whatever missed me with that? Dude.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: I we'll talk about some of the ship that is
Speaker 1: happening in thesegeist We'll be right back. And where back
Speaker 1: we are and the CIA, the conspiracy theory that Taylor
Speaker 1: is a PSIOP for the CIA to get Joe Biden
Speaker 1: elected is gaining popularity Seemingly. It sounds like this poll
Speaker 1: actually raised its profile just by asking people about.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it's interesting because this Monmouth poll asked, quote,
Speaker 2: this is the question, do you think a covert government
Speaker 2: effort for Taylor Swift to help Joe Biden win the
Speaker 2: presidential election actually exists or not? With only three response
Speaker 2: options exists, does not exist, or don't know. Eighteen percent
Speaker 2: said exists, does not exist, seventy three percent I don't
Speaker 2: know nine percent. Two percent of respondents said I have
Speaker 2: never heard of Taylor Swift, so good for you, but like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is about the most surprising detail here. Yeah what no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: know what you're talking about. But apparently so. But as
Speaker 2: it breaks down by party, it's thirty two percent of
Speaker 2: conservatives are like, yep, yep, there's definitely some kind of
Speaker 2: thing going on. There's some kind of plan here with
Speaker 2: the government and Taylor Swift. It's just to compare. I
Speaker 2: think they were asking about other conspiracy theories. So if
Speaker 2: eighteen percent of total respondents said this this thing absolutely exists,
Speaker 2: only ten percent were flat earthers. So this is picking up.
Speaker 2: This is bigger than flat earthing right now.
Speaker 1: So that wasn't ten percent of the people who thought
Speaker 1: Taylor swift that is total of the population flat.
Speaker 2: Ten percent, Yeah, flat earthers, or like a larger pull
Speaker 2: about conspiracy theories. Ten percent was about where the flat
Speaker 2: earth theory went and in this one we got eighteen
Speaker 2: sent But I think you know, the thing with poles
Speaker 2: like this is we have no idea like how actually
Speaker 2: like bout it about it people are when it comes
Speaker 2: to how intensely they hold this belief. Because it is
Speaker 2: worth noting that forty two percent of the people that
Speaker 2: said they did believe this was a thing had never
Speaker 2: heard of this theory prior to being asked in the pool.
Speaker 1: But that almost makes it way scarier because it's such
Speaker 1: a convincing conspiracy theory to a certain mind shape that
Speaker 1: all you need to do is be like huh and
Speaker 1: they're like, yes, sir, till the day I die, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3: I need to interject, do we think it's completely insane
Speaker 3: to believe this? Because I wouldn't I personally, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: put anything past the CIA. And we know that they
Speaker 3: that the US government uses Hollywood at times to put
Speaker 3: the messages out there that they want the American people
Speaker 3: to believe.
Speaker 2: I think right now it's hard to see what the
Speaker 2: what pro Biden messages to Taylor Swift is putting out.
Speaker 3: Absolutely and what a horrific choice we have.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but I think you know more than that.
Speaker 2: It's I don't know, because it all started with this
Speaker 2: like stupid right wing thing where they completely misinterpreted a
Speaker 2: presentation by someone who is loosely affiliated with the Department
Speaker 2: of Defense that they're like and that means the CIA
Speaker 2: is doing this because it's like a hypothetical about how
Speaker 2: celebrities can use social influence, like there could be social
Speaker 2: media influence campaigns, but the other hypothetical characters in this
Speaker 2: presentation were like Taylor Swift and like John Snow from
Speaker 2: Game of Thrones, and like they can leave that part
Speaker 2: out in their analysis.
Speaker 3: I guess yeah, the more I'm reflecting, I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: when we look at what's actually happening, like what Biden
Speaker 3: put on social media during the Super Bowl, that absolutely
Speaker 3: horrific red laser eye just like we planned it, Chief
Speaker 3: saying like completely tone deaf disgusting, horrifying that that that's
Speaker 3: that same campaign does not seem capable of, you know,
Speaker 3: the kind of more machinations exactly.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I mean, like it depends on what we're
Speaker 1: talking about, right, Like, if we're saying that Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: was creating a lab, like, I feel like that is
Speaker 1: the implication a lot of the time is that Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift has created a lab and like that they are
Speaker 1: shoving her down people's throats to try to get Joe
Speaker 1: Biden elected, Like and that feels like they're underestimating how
Speaker 1: popular Taylor Swift is and how like Yeah, that there's
Speaker 1: but if if they're just saying, like Taylor's the Biden
Speaker 1: campaign would love to use Taylor Swift's influence to help
Speaker 1: them get elected. That's true of every politician who has
Speaker 1: ever existed. And it feels like they are just discovering
Speaker 1: the cuntce of advertising for the first time. Like in
Speaker 1: a lot of cases, like they're just like what syop.
Speaker 3: And automatically ruling themselves out. I mean, who's to say
Speaker 3: that these hard right wingers couldn't have captured the heart
Speaker 3: and mind of Taylor Swift if they tried, you know, what.
Speaker 2: I mean, right, yeah, exactly with their draconian policies. Aren't
Speaker 2: bringing the girls to the yard. Oh that's weird, shocking, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because it's But it's funny too because like conservatives earnestly
Speaker 2: would be like, that's fine because we have Ice Vanilla
Speaker 2: Ice and Ted Nugent and you' and Kid Rock and
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, so maybe you really do. I mean
Speaker 2: from that perspective, they do think of like, well, we
Speaker 2: have our people who also are really cool that you know,
Speaker 2: have have the people's ears. But this one does feel
Speaker 2: like to your point, Jack, like, I don't it's I
Speaker 2: don't know what exactly it is. Is it the paranoia?
Speaker 2: Is it that Taylor is now just like the physical
Speaker 2: embodiment of the right wings suspicions that maybe they're the baddies?
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, when it's like, no, it can't be.
Speaker 2: It's Taylor. It's Taylor. That would be the reason that
Speaker 2: and anything that you know that would make Trump lose.
Speaker 3: We also can't underestimate just good old fashioned misogyny. It's
Speaker 3: baked into every criticism of Taylor Swift, some of which
Speaker 3: are legitimate, but it's it's always there.
Speaker 2: I wonder like is there an act that you like?
Speaker 2: When I think about it, right, because a real op
Speaker 2: would seemingly be like this thing, like I don't know,
Speaker 2: they're not that fucking popular, but why the fuck are
Speaker 2: they everywhere? Like I don't even know anybody who fucking
Speaker 2: likes this shit. I feel like the pussy Cat Dolls
Speaker 2: maybe could have been a CIA were like for a while,
Speaker 2: like all right, we get it, but like ye'all are
Speaker 2: still here or there's certainly industry plants for sure.
Speaker 3: Sorry, can you remind me of a pussy Cat Dolls song?
Speaker 2: I know I've heard those buttons babe, uh you know buttons?
Speaker 2: Remember that one?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, look no Nicole Shirtzinger you know was the was
Speaker 2: like the head one. And then there was car meet.
Speaker 2: There's a lot you know, you'll weren't there. I was there, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was like I think I was maybe old for
Speaker 2: it or something. It just missed me. And don't you
Speaker 2: that was their big don't you wasn't? That was okay?
Speaker 3: That was them that got.
Speaker 1: My as I gotta say, was the bot can confirm,
Speaker 1: can't confirm it was alive that but yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know we Chancellor Rapper maybe chance was I was caught
Speaker 1: up in the early chance the rapper stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well you know, he's part of the Chicago
Speaker 2: political machine too, so you know, don't don't, don't take
Speaker 2: your eye off the ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a weird, like it's kind of weird
Speaker 1: how predictable it was that Trump's supporters would turn on
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift because it does feel like they we we
Speaker 1: live in like a too like a bye polar like
Speaker 1: power world, like what like in the eighties it was
Speaker 1: the US and Russia. I feel like we are now
Speaker 1: in the Trump Swift era and they just they're the
Speaker 1: only ones who can exist. Like they're going to battle,
Speaker 1: like wage the stupidest battle on one another. And I
Speaker 1: don't like the mega folks's chances. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: they they do seem willing to do very stupid things.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe a remake of Red Down, but Red Taylor's
Speaker 2: version don wow, I don't know, just saying the materials there,
Speaker 2: folks just speed into fucking chat GPT and it'll shoot
Speaker 2: out a script that which can make they'll ship.
Speaker 1: Out an entire film with dead eyed cats roaming a wilderness.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyways, we're giving them too much good material.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, that's free. Moving on to a tragedy.
Speaker 1: Alexia Onney, person foe of Vladimir Putin, stood up to
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin, was jailed for standing up to Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 2: No, it was nineteen years for extremism. Oh right, that's
Speaker 2: he's too extreme for nineteen years. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He has died while in prison after being like moved
Speaker 1: to a you know, super heavy what's it called, like
Speaker 1: lock up prison, like heavy secure, high security prison like
Speaker 1: up in the above the polar circle, like they're just
Speaker 1: Arctic circle. Anyways, nailed that that description of what's going
Speaker 1: on here. But yeah, his mother was told that the
Speaker 1: cause of death was sudden death syndrome, which is a
Speaker 1: vague term for different cardiac syndromes that cause sudden cardiac
Speaker 1: arrest and death. But I think there's near universal suspicion
Speaker 1: that he was poisoned, since that seems to be how
Speaker 1: Russia does their business for the most part. And adding
Speaker 1: to that suspicion, his mother must wait fourteen days to
Speaker 1: receive her son's body as authorities conduct a chemical examination,
Speaker 1: which fourteen days also helps to be about the amount
Speaker 1: of time that it would take for traces of one
Speaker 1: of their favorite nerve agents to poison people with, to
Speaker 1: disappear from his body.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's that sudden sudden death syndrome that
Speaker 2: you know he's been you know, he's been claiming. He's like, dude,
Speaker 2: they're they're gonna fucking they're gonna do something here, And
Speaker 2: it's wild, Like a ton of people, there's like seem
Speaker 2: to be like an outpouring of grief for people in
Speaker 2: like from people in Russia who I think were probably
Speaker 2: taking a risk laying flowers at like a memorial site.
Speaker 2: But then like the fallout too is really wild too,
Speaker 2: because then you know his wife, who's like his widow,
Speaker 2: who has now sort of said like I'm going to
Speaker 2: help continue his message his work because a lot of
Speaker 2: people are like this is like this is a pretty
Speaker 2: powerful moment for the opposition to Putin's government. Like then
Speaker 2: she was like temporarily blocked on Twitter after she said that,
Speaker 2: and then I was like, what the fuck's going on?
Speaker 2: But again, obviously Elon Musk seems to seems to have
Speaker 2: an eye on Russian interests at times, like when he
Speaker 2: was you know, changing like the Starleak satellites that were
Speaker 2: at one point helping the Ukrainian military, and he's like,
Speaker 2: let me just kind of pause these for a second.
Speaker 2: Let this opposition army catch up really quick. But I
Speaker 2: think the one thing the Internet can agree on, at
Speaker 2: least on the wacky side of it, is that maybe
Speaker 2: it wasn't Putin and maybe it was the fucking COVID vaccine,
Speaker 2: Because there are a ton of people who are now
Speaker 2: just being like this, this is the one from this
Speaker 2: like quote unquote nurse who has like a blue check
Speaker 2: on Twitter. The West is blaming Putin for Alexi Navalny's death.
Speaker 2: But according to autopsy results of Navalny, cause of death
Speaker 2: is a blood clot in the heart. Doctor suspect it
Speaker 2: was caused by the Isser vaccine. Apparently Navalney was vaccinated
Speaker 2: four times. I don't think a doctor ever said that
Speaker 2: at all, But that's like, that's just where we're at now.
Speaker 2: People just like, oh, that guy died suddenly, Yep, COVID,
Speaker 2: COVID vaccine, COVID vaccine. Yeah, there are the ones who
Speaker 2: are saying like it was the spot Nick one that
Speaker 2: was made by the Russian government, that wasn't an mRNA vaccine.
Speaker 2: It's fucking all over the place.
Speaker 3: She somehow had access to this information as well. You'll
Speaker 3: find it was a blood clot. That's what the doctors
Speaker 3: are saying.
Speaker 2: O my sources ay was a blue check as someone
Speaker 2: who just created this story for the purposes of this tweet.
Speaker 2: It occurs that the Pfiser vaccine is the official cause
Speaker 2: of death.
Speaker 1: It's being said, most notably by me right here, that
Speaker 1: it was a blood clot caused by the Pfizer vaccine.
Speaker 1: Trump also weighed in on Navalny's death on truth Social
Speaker 1: in a like truly incoherent even for him. He was like,
Speaker 1: Navalanne's death is really making me think about how they're
Speaker 1: out to get me. It's like you're don't they You're like, bud,
Speaker 1: he's what killed No, no, no, But it forgets that part.
Speaker 2: Forget that part. What I'm saying is it's real freaky
Speaker 2: out there, and you know, who knows if so, maybe
Speaker 2: people don't like my sneakers. If Lubaton sues me for
Speaker 2: copyright infringement about my sneakers, that's kind of like I'm
Speaker 2: getting naval need, which which is the evolution of the
Speaker 2: sneaker thing. Now it's people pointing the fact that lubit
Speaker 2: like they're because those sneakers that he unleashed on our
Speaker 2: eyes over the weekend are red bottomed, and.
Speaker 1: Some of our feet you're not gonna say, all right,
Speaker 1: but they're just not very comfortable.
Speaker 2: Let's just say they're they're not true to size, as
Speaker 2: the homies said on the message boards.
Speaker 1: And uh, you guys will notice that I'm being lit
Speaker 1: from below by a golden glow like the pulp fiction
Speaker 1: briefcase that has nothing to do with any any shoes
Speaker 1: that I happen to be.
Speaker 2: Wearing or not wearing. Yeah, boy, oh boy, oh boy,
Speaker 2: No boy, the sneakerhead.
Speaker 3: I can't say that I am, although I did read
Speaker 3: like a year ago, I got some Asukas is that.
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Do you say? Ax?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, Tiger like Tiger is also.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a sub brand of aces.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I am talking to a sneakerhead. I'll just
Speaker 3: tell you that these like yellow high tops caught my eye,
Speaker 3: captured my heart, and a shot in Melburn. I had
Speaker 3: to get them, and I'm I always received compliments on
Speaker 3: these shoes. What I hold back from saying every time
Speaker 3: is these are my coolest shoes. But I could see
Speaker 3: how someone could become a sneakerhead. If I'm gonna put
Speaker 3: on cool shoes and walk out and have people notice
Speaker 3: not just the shoes but me and project these qualities
Speaker 3: of fashion onto me, I see how that.
Speaker 1: Could happen as someone with low self esteem. I can't
Speaker 1: recommend it highly enough. Getting like a couple of nice
Speaker 1: pairs of sneakers. There's a nice initial investment, and then
Speaker 1: you no longer have to have a personality, you know,
Speaker 1: just that there.
Speaker 3: It does make the outfit pop. My my issue is
Speaker 3: that I can't. I don't keep them as fresh as
Speaker 3: I feel like they should be.
Speaker 1: Cats.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know, I'm not taking care of them when
Speaker 3: I get home. I'm not like not wearing them on
Speaker 3: the street and putting them off get inside places. I
Speaker 3: feel like that's how people do it.
Speaker 2: They I remember, they really those the yellow ones. They're
Speaker 2: called the Mexico sixty six is the yellow with the black.
Speaker 2: They really became popular because it killed Bill when Uma
Speaker 2: Thurman's character was running them in the Kill Bill like stuff.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that. I just feel I need to
Speaker 3: tell you mine are yellow with yellow. There's no black.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, yellow yellow and yellow, yellow and yellow.
Speaker 3: Actually they're the Trump shoes. They're gold.
Speaker 2: Actually they're gold. Hold on yellow. Yeah, those are the
Speaker 2: Trump seekers.
Speaker 1: Oh well also, oh, just you know, not to make
Speaker 1: it one sided, because Trump commented on Navalny also before
Speaker 1: he died in I think it was his last letter
Speaker 1: or one of his last letters to a friend commented
Speaker 1: on Trump.
Speaker 2: And you know, Navalney not.
Speaker 1: Somebody who scares easily, like at the time in a
Speaker 1: Russian prison, being imprisoned and guarded by like the most famous,
Speaker 1: powerful murderer in the world. So I'm not someone who
Speaker 1: scares easily. Described the prospect of a new Trump administration
Speaker 1: as very scary.
Speaker 2: So it's okay, you know, so.
Speaker 1: Mutual admiration society. I guess you could say Navalni liked me.
Speaker 2: He living alone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's wrong. I feel like I need to interject.
Speaker 3: I want to confess something to you both. I don't
Speaker 3: have much to say about this other than for sure
Speaker 3: he was poisoned and what a world, Yeah, what a world.
Speaker 3: But this is all reminding me. I'm like, I'm in
Speaker 3: my head, like what do I have to say about Russia?
Speaker 3: And I will tell you briefly about the time I
Speaker 3: very accidentally insulted a member of Pussy Riot. So they
Speaker 3: were here in New York in December. I have a
Speaker 3: Russian journalist friend. He got us VIP tickets. We're hanging out.
Speaker 3: I met a lovely member of Pussy Riot called Olga.
Speaker 3: She introduced herself because we were waiting for a minute
Speaker 3: with our names on the list, and she thought she
Speaker 3: had inconvenienceduff. So when I met her, she extended her
Speaker 3: hand and she said, Hi, it's me dumb cunt Olga,
Speaker 3: because something had messed up. And I was like, this
Speaker 3: is hilarious. This woman has a great sense of humor.
Speaker 3: They absolutely rocked the show. It was incredible. It felt like, honestly,
Speaker 3: it felt like they were teaching us as Americans, like
Speaker 3: how to dissent, how to rebel, this is what you
Speaker 3: do when your government gets really extreme. It was an
Speaker 3: incredible show. We're hanging out afterwards, and somehow, at some
Speaker 3: point during the evening it came up Olga said something like,
Speaker 3: you know, in Russia, I would be considered fat or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know how that came up. We're what We
Speaker 3: were in a neuber on the way to a strip club,
Speaker 3: and I was like, Oh, that's wild. She's just like
Speaker 3: a very normal sized person. Later in the night, I
Speaker 3: banked this comment. I banked what I thought was her
Speaker 3: sense of humor, and I and I made a joke
Speaker 3: that did not land, and I go, wow, I can't
Speaker 3: believe here, I am partying with the fattest woman in Russia.
Speaker 3: And it was listen, if we shared the same sense
Speaker 3: of humor, she would absolutely hilarious. You're taking what I said,
Speaker 3: You're yesanding it, you're cranking up the extreme. Of course
Speaker 3: this isn't true. I introduced myself as a dumb contac actually,
Speaker 3: so this all makes sense. It fell completely flat. And
Speaker 3: then I was like, I gotta, I gotta get out
Speaker 3: of here.
Speaker 2: You just jumped through a window. The window.
Speaker 3: It was all going so well. I felt so cool
Speaker 3: for a minute, partying with the members of Pussy RYA.
Speaker 2: It sounds so much like mine. That's crazy. I can't believe.
Speaker 1: I don't see they're like, you know, going to strip
Speaker 1: clubs with Pussy Riot together.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's about right. I think some
Speaker 3: some part of me just had to tank it, you know,
Speaker 3: let them see you're not cool enough to hang You
Speaker 3: can't you can't actually read the room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was actually the interesting theory about that New
Speaker 1: York magazine financial analyst who got scammed and everybody like
Speaker 1: read the piece and we're like, this still doesn't really
Speaker 1: make sense that she went through all this and eventually
Speaker 1: people were just like, now I think she like like
Speaker 1: part of her new and just like wanted to tank
Speaker 1: her life to like make it more interesting or something
Speaker 1: to like she was just like, I think too much money, right,
Speaker 1: like some part of hers like actually.
Speaker 2: Have fifty grand cash next to me. I can just
Speaker 2: put in the shoe box and see if a car
Speaker 2: actually shows up, that'll be Yeah, this story, oh you
Speaker 2: got to read the cut.
Speaker 1: Financial analyst who put I think it was fifty k
Speaker 1: in a fifty k in a shoe box and gave
Speaker 1: it to scammers. It's it got a call from Amazon.
Speaker 2: Amazon said someone's abusing your identity, and then they got
Speaker 2: a call from the FTC, the Financial Trade Commission, who
Speaker 2: then gave a badge number and is like, I'm you're
Speaker 2: in trouble, but now I gotta I gotta bump this
Speaker 2: up to the CIA. And then the CIA person's like,
Speaker 2: fifty k a shoebox, a white escalator, pull up, just
Speaker 2: roll down the window, put it in and move on
Speaker 2: with your day and everything is done. And they did.
Speaker 3: That's incredible. I do need to read this. That's incredible.
Speaker 3: That's that is. That is a feeling like you want
Speaker 3: your life to be a movie. You're definitely asking for
Speaker 3: drum Yeah, because there no way that's real.
Speaker 2: There's no way, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: The personal finance columnist for the New York Magazine's cut.
Speaker 3: Tell you what she might have been though, sneaker head.
Speaker 3: There she was with fifty thousand and a shoebox, a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff to have ready.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hang on to my shoe boxes, I will
Speaker 1: tell you that much.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: Like these, even though they're beat to ship, I might
Speaker 1: resell them on the market for you never know, dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's let's take one more break and we'll
Speaker 1: come back and close it out.
Speaker 2: And we're back. We're back.
Speaker 1: And this this has the record for me for the
Speaker 1: video this year that most I had the most time,
Speaker 1: most difficult time, believing like it just doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: it could be true. Like just so, the NYPD has
Speaker 1: a dance team. They appeared on a local news show
Speaker 1: performing a routine to flow Riders Club can't handle Me,
Speaker 1: presumably because they thought that the track was about clubbing
Speaker 1: peaceful protesters.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: One of like the performance is like that that is
Speaker 1: wild enough, right. It's like, yeah, I can't believe that
Speaker 1: YPD is a dance team, but they are a mess,
Speaker 1: Like they are not together at all. It seems like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like a sketch, Like yeah, yeah, it feels.
Speaker 2: Like a Nathan for you bit like to get people
Speaker 2: on the news, like just to pretend you're the NYPD
Speaker 2: dance team and just see if like a local news
Speaker 2: station would bite because the my god, it's like so
Speaker 2: low energy. I mean, the performance has like this eerie
Speaker 2: feeling like oh yeah, these are like people like state
Speaker 2: sanctioned murderers dancing enjoyment.
Speaker 3: This is what dance looks like when it's done by
Speaker 3: soulless people. Yeah, and like I'm an abolitionist, but I
Speaker 3: believe everyone on that dance team should absolutely be jailed
Speaker 3: for life after those rhythm in that performance.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So they like the way that some of them
Speaker 1: aren't even attempting the move, Like it's not that they're
Speaker 1: like out of sync with one another. Many of them,
Speaker 1: are not do not appear to be aware of what
Speaker 1: the others are doing that they are performing in public.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can we give them nineteen years for under extremism
Speaker 3: crank up the energy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The clip went viral and was condemned by both sides,
Speaker 1: the left for obvious reasons, you know, criticizing the NYPD's
Speaker 1: inflated budget, while on the right they were upset to
Speaker 1: see NYPD officers like doing anything that wasn't like attacking
Speaker 1: migrant invaders, right for five whole minutes, right, yeah, just
Speaker 1: like not violent enough for their police. But it somehow
Speaker 1: managed to make the National Review care about excessive police
Speaker 1: budgets for a brief fleeting moment. They had the headline
Speaker 1: defund the police dance team, So like the first half
Speaker 1: of that sentence they had it, Yeah, but then just
Speaker 1: kept going.
Speaker 2: And that's it. But what they have there's so many
Speaker 2: clubs though too have like within the NYPD. I guess
Speaker 2: you have to have these little groups in order to
Speaker 2: keep people's heads out of you know, having like introspective
Speaker 2: thoughts about the work that they do in their places.
Speaker 2: Right maybe yeah, yeah, just anything too.
Speaker 3: And yeah, honestly, if you are already in the NYPD. PD,
Speaker 3: please join a club, stay out of the house. We
Speaker 3: don't need more domestic violence in your house. So everything
Speaker 3: you can do, please stay out of your house and.
Speaker 2: Off the street. Job. They've got a paintball club, they've
Speaker 2: got that last club. They're contemplating a knitting circle. So
Speaker 2: they can't be that bad. They do shit, you're you're
Speaker 2: a normal non murderer would do. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, when this went viral, they went into crisis
Speaker 1: mode and one of the members of the dance team
Speaker 1: and the Deputy Commissioner of Communications went back on that
Speaker 1: same TV show days later and stressed that no taxpayer
Speaker 1: money is being used for the team.
Speaker 2: No really, Yeah, so who paid for those uniforms those
Speaker 2: us to made uniforms that was actually funded.
Speaker 1: Have you not bought NYPD cookies? They're like girl Scout cookies,
Speaker 1: except they're pieces of broken glass in them.
Speaker 2: Yea that they're literally they're they're they're old manhole covers
Speaker 2: punched into cookie size shapes. Yeah, it's on these, but yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, the the obvious problem with them being like
Speaker 1: this is just a harmless way to blowsome steam is
Speaker 1: that you know, like that the the NYPD Chess Club
Speaker 1: is not making TV appearances like this is obviously copaganda
Speaker 1: to make cops look friendly and a rhythmic, but you
Speaker 1: know like kind of.
Speaker 2: Ah, look at the look, look at the they dance
Speaker 2: like my aunt, Yeah, look at it.
Speaker 3: Fell did not feel so much like iof tiktoks like
Speaker 3: we've seen like female soldiers kind of dancing horrifically off beat.
Speaker 3: It just I had not seen anything like that until recently,
Speaker 3: and then to have these two examples so close to
Speaker 3: each other, it's like, what are we doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really reminded me a lot of the like
Speaker 1: a lot of Israeli propaganda.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hand in hand, and I'm proposing to the NYPD,
Speaker 3: go ahead and take it. You want to capture the
Speaker 3: hearts and minds of the people, put out a cab yourself.
Speaker 3: You go ahead and start saying a cab lasterix. All
Speaker 3: cops are ballet dancers. Show me the ballet dance team.
Speaker 2: Let's go yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: On their chokeholds would be so good.
Speaker 2: All cops are belly dancers.
Speaker 3: Wow, break dancers. We could keep going.
Speaker 1: Speaking of breakdancers, Another thing that people were pointing out
Speaker 1: is that the idea of a NYPD dance team is
Speaker 1: pretty wild because just a decade ago, the NYPD was
Speaker 1: cracking down on rogue dance teams by treating them as
Speaker 1: if they were violent street gangs, which at least one
Speaker 1: expert called total madness. But they yeah, like you know
Speaker 1: that if you ever lived in New York, like sometimes
Speaker 1: there would be dance crews that would come on the
Speaker 1: subway times do often amazing routines that and then like
Speaker 1: ask for money and you were obligated to give to
Speaker 1: them because like some of the dancing was so fucking cool,
Speaker 1: and that YPD was like, that's actually terrorism. You need
Speaker 1: to never do that again because and it turns out
Speaker 1: it was just because they wanted to have a monopoly.
Speaker 2: On they were a rival dance.
Speaker 3: Crew, right, I didn't know about them criminalizing dance, but
Speaker 3: it makes sense. I mean, it checks out. There's nothing
Speaker 3: more fun than running into showtime when you're on the subway. Anybody, anybody,
Speaker 3: anybody trying to make that experience more pleasant or more
Speaker 3: full of art and skill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is wild though, too, Like because this team,
Speaker 2: they this dance team has been appearing like in they've
Speaker 2: been around now, like they had two local news appearances
Speaker 2: prior to this. Then there was a New York Times
Speaker 2: like puff piece on them and you're like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is a full court pr press thing of like
Speaker 2: let's just let's try and get the mood up around
Speaker 2: the and YBD, look at them, dance, look at them now?
Speaker 3: Just are there literally no better dancers? Like there's god I.
Speaker 2: Used to yeah, there there has to be. I think
Speaker 2: these are only people that are willing to debase themselves
Speaker 2: like this to this level to be like, look I
Speaker 2: dance like I'm I like to dance, but I'm not
Speaker 2: letting people know I'm a cop like that. Like it's compared.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, the good dancers are keeping it low profile.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I mean it's funny because this has been
Speaker 2: like a sort of I think this was sort of
Speaker 2: like an organic copaganda trope that emerged over the years.
Speaker 2: Like in the beginning, there were just like truly like
Speaker 2: I guess spontaneous things are like a cop is like
Speaker 2: at a local thing and like oh this cop can
Speaker 2: do the and people were like wow, Like I remember
Speaker 2: like fifteen years ago you'd see it youd like pop
Speaker 2: them at your ass up. But you know, what I mean,
Speaker 2: and then eventually I'm doing like, oh shit, like let's
Speaker 2: create a fucking whole squadron of them. But they can't dance,
Speaker 2: so they just.
Speaker 1: Didn't have it that night, all right, They just didn't
Speaker 1: have it that night. That's all right, that's okay, they'll
Speaker 1: be back another day. Like I feel like they must.
Speaker 2: That must have been the.
Speaker 1: Conversation that happened after where they were just like, oh man,
Speaker 1: well that wasn't our best look. But I mean it's
Speaker 1: on a local news show that like twelve people watch.
Speaker 2: It's no big deal.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll live to dance another day and whoops.
Speaker 3: You know what's horrible is some of those people are
Speaker 3: probably feel more publicly shamed for dancing badly than they
Speaker 3: do for being a cop. Obviously, but if that's what
Speaker 3: it takes to get people out of the forest, let's
Speaker 3: let's go there.
Speaker 1: You go, Well, Dan, what a pleasure're having you as always?
Speaker 3: Oh guys, so much fun?
Speaker 2: Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 3: Guys? It's Dan underscore Smith on Instagram, Twitter. I can't
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Speaker 2: Wow, there you go. Amazing. That sounds great.
Speaker 1: And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Do you know what?
Speaker 3: I'm going to just generally recommend the Instagram presence of
Speaker 3: comedian Mohanned el Shiki. And you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: send to your producer his name, because you should have
Speaker 3: him on. He's incredible. Mohand oh have you Oh good,
Speaker 3: good good, You're on top of it.
Speaker 1: You know this guy.
Speaker 3: He's been keeping me sane. And also recently, in the
Speaker 3: past few weeks, I've discovered on Instagram Timmins Lisa that's
Speaker 3: the user name, and she overdubs videos like she'll do
Speaker 3: any like Noah Tishbee or Kamala Harris and uh speaks,
Speaker 3: gives them new Uh you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 3: I said, what am I saying? Mystery Science Theater two
Speaker 3: thousand sort of vibes or two thousand sort of vibes.
Speaker 3: And it's very very funny. And she managed manages to
Speaker 3: make some of this horrific stuff really funny. So I
Speaker 3: recommend both of those people.
Speaker 1: We will link off to them in the footnotes. Where
Speaker 1: can people find you? Is there a working media you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Fine me on the at base platforms at Miles
Speaker 2: of Gray, like basketball, check on Miles and Jack on
Speaker 2: mad Boosti's he like ninety day fiance, check me out
Speaker 2: on four to twenty day fiance. A couple of tweets
Speaker 2: I like, first one. Just this tweet from the Hill
Speaker 2: just reads like fucking just I can't believe it's real.
Speaker 2: It just says Senator Warren. Elizabeth Warren says the Rock
Speaker 2: would be in her dream. Blunt rotation. That's the headline
Speaker 2: is that that's not real though, right, No, she was
Speaker 2: on Pod Save, and the Pod Saves dudes were like,
Speaker 2: all right, who's your dream blunt rotation? And it's like,
Speaker 2: that's good, glad. We're asking the fucking tough questions of
Speaker 2: a sitting US senator while you know, we're shipping off
Speaker 2: our tax dollars and transforming them into bang bangs. And
Speaker 2: another one is from just you know, Aaron rupar at
Speaker 2: at Rupar is just like a person who you know
Speaker 2: monitors stuff on Fox and posts it for all of
Speaker 2: us to laugh out on Twitter. But this one is
Speaker 2: from Newsmax and the anchor on Newsmax is asking Trump's
Speaker 2: lawyer Elena Haba, like, what what are you gonna do
Speaker 2: now that he's like properly fucked like with this civil
Speaker 2: fraud case, and just the vibe of her response to this,
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just gonna play this because you're like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is this is a very serious attorney. And just
Speaker 2: to set it up, this person on the anchor on
Speaker 2: news Max is asking like, what what are you going
Speaker 2: to do to appeal this? How are you gonna get
Speaker 2: Donald Trump out of this? So here here's the clip.
Speaker 2: What are your grounds on appeal?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 3: What aren't my grounds on appeal is a better question.
Speaker 2: Okay, m yeah, what aren't my This is very serious response,
Speaker 2: God him, what aren't my fucking Okay? Yeah, you're not
Speaker 2: debating your fucking step dad to take the car out,
Speaker 2: but hey, yeah, go ahead, yeah, what aren't my grounds
Speaker 2: on a field? Amazing?
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Speaker 1: In today's episode. It was the song that we think
Speaker 1: you might enjoy, Miles, is there a song you think
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is. I Look, I want to
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Speaker 2: already know they're a fantastic band. But they have this
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Speaker 2: they know how to make you respond to their music.
Speaker 2: And I was like, what's Kelpler twenty two But it's
Speaker 2: like a it's like an exo planet that potentially could
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Speaker 2: think is just kind of the vibele's like, oh man,
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Speaker 2: earth that could be covered in a super ocean. But
Speaker 2: people still don't know what's going but it's about two
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Speaker 2: get us there man, because yeah, we may have cashed
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Speaker 1: Keep for twenty two PEPs cashed, Humanity just turns to
Speaker 1: each other smoking up, Yeah, smoking weed cashed actually.
Speaker 2: Due yeah, throwing a new planet to smoke.
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