Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to forty four,
Speaker 1: Episode one of Dr Daly's II Guys, Stay of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a
Speaker 1: deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it's Tuesday, July.
Speaker 1: Everybody in the United States is feeling that long weekend
Speaker 1: end of the long weekend, first day back. I don't
Speaker 1: know about everybody listening, but I just feel great at
Speaker 1: that point. I'm always just like, yeah, no, I feel terrible.
Speaker 1: So hopefully we're recording this before the long weekend, so
Speaker 1: hopefully you can, you know, via osmosis take some of
Speaker 1: their long weekend vibes. My name is Jack O'Brien, a
Speaker 1: K drink do until I die. Let's chase that sugar. Hi. Oh?
Speaker 1: That is Nicki Minajes Starships repurposed to describe my weekend,
Speaker 1: which is going to be a slam and dudes, hell
Speaker 1: yeah slam and uh Matt Slam and mountains of dow
Speaker 1: there you go. Yeah, yeah, probably not. I might have
Speaker 1: like half of the mountain dew. I feel terrible. My
Speaker 1: my body shuts down if I drank too much mountain dew.
Speaker 1: At this point, Yeah, but I'm forty one hey, uh goes.
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined by a very special guest
Speaker 1: co host as mentioned not on The Ones and Tuesdays
Speaker 1: on the Ones and fuck use the King of Sting.
Speaker 1: Don't let that last name fool you because he's a
Speaker 1: bad man. It's DJ Daniel good Man DJ Daniel a
Speaker 1: k A. Gonna eat twenty hot dogs this weekend. That's
Speaker 1: the plan. I was gonna say hot dog hangover, but
Speaker 1: since we've already broken the fourth wall over recording on
Speaker 1: Friday and it's not actually Tuesday, well shooting, yeah, I
Speaker 1: plan on eating those hot dogs. You got the got
Speaker 1: a little sweat, that dusting of sweat. I guess the
Speaker 1: above your lip when you're like, oh she a missing
Speaker 1: of sweat as the brow that only the addict knows
Speaker 1: when they when they are about to score their big
Speaker 1: hot tops. You nailed it. But also speaking of Mountain dews,
Speaker 1: I was at the I was at the Old Write
Speaker 1: Aid yesterday and just happened to be perusing the fridge
Speaker 1: department and found the lone single bottle of Mountain du
Speaker 1: Baja blasts. And did you see the other blasts that
Speaker 1: they've added they only had? I mean, I've seen them.
Speaker 1: I've seen them on the internet because you know, I
Speaker 1: stayed perusing for New Mountain Dubaba Blast Snavers, but I
Speaker 1: saw the Lone bottle, and you know I blasted off,
Speaker 1: did you know? Of course, of course, And you know
Speaker 1: I didn't go to bed till like two in the morning.
Speaker 1: But that's how it goes. When you drop I feel
Speaker 1: I I feel good for like fifteen minutes afterwards, and
Speaker 1: then I crashed and can't get out of bed for
Speaker 1: a couple of days. But I have taste tested both
Speaker 1: New Baha's Blast. I think we're gonna indeed, I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna attorneys General. We're gonna attorneys General blah blah blast.
Speaker 1: I think that's the only right way to do it. Well, Daniel,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
Speaker 1: by former games industry project manager turned full time content
Speaker 1: creator from Northern Ireland, and you can find her on
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio whatever that podcast Boss Level, or you
Speaker 1: can find her on Twitch flying through the Cosmos. Please
Speaker 1: welcome psych Hello, I'm so exciting to be here. I'm
Speaker 1: Psyche a k A. I guess I have to have
Speaker 1: an A k so on Twitch because someone once called
Speaker 1: me that, but I think they were trying to insult
Speaker 1: me and didn't realize that I actually took it as
Speaker 1: kind of a compliment. The Gayest Witch on Twitter, gayest
Speaker 1: Witch on Twitch. He said, I quote, you are the
Speaker 1: biggest gayest woman I have ever seen, and you kind
Speaker 1: of look like a witch. Nice. It's like, thank you.
Speaker 1: That's like three most in one, but in there like
Speaker 1: the biggest, the gayest. Yeah, that's pretty impressive, right it is.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm impressed. Take my crown please, that's fine. How
Speaker 1: is Northern Ireland? What's the what's the weather back over there?
Speaker 1: It's really really wet. I love the fact that I
Speaker 1: can look at my like little weather thing on my
Speaker 1: desktop and it has like rain coming, and that's what
Speaker 1: it says right now. But the other day it was
Speaker 1: like rain, sunshine, rain, sunshine, rain, on and off. It
Speaker 1: ended up selling because it just could. But it's just
Speaker 1: like never mind, forget all the time. Like that's just
Speaker 1: the ways. That's amazing. That's my brain sounds about right,
Speaker 1: And I mean, hopefully it doesn't inhibit your ability to
Speaker 1: celebrate Fourth of July this week? Here your favorite all
Speaker 1: of it. You know what's funny you say that, but like, actually,
Speaker 1: I think we might have some America in neighbors because
Speaker 1: Fourth of July we moved into this house like two
Speaker 1: years ago. My first Fourth of July. I never noticed
Speaker 1: it's coming, obviously because it's not celebrated here, but we
Speaker 1: have people setting off fireworks, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: four and then I looked at the date and I
Speaker 1: was like, I think we do actually have some American neighbors.
Speaker 1: It's also illegal to set off fireworks here, but they
Speaker 1: do it anyway. That was my next That was my
Speaker 1: next question. Yeah, you need to have a license. Nobody
Speaker 1: does apparently need nobody cares either, so it's still happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: still in the United States, where which is so dry
Speaker 1: that a single misplaced firework can just set the whole
Speaker 1: country on fire. But we got we still got to
Speaker 1: do it, you know, I still got to do it.
Speaker 1: That's the way it is. Just blow shut up kids
Speaker 1: in the middle of the street in Los Angeles, California,
Speaker 1: just blowing things up, setting off car alarms. It's great.
Speaker 1: The one time I experimented with big fireworks was when
Speaker 1: I lived in Missouri. I was picking my friend up
Speaker 1: at the Kansas City Report driving back, and I had
Speaker 1: like turned off part of my brain that notices these
Speaker 1: things because I was living in the middle of Missouri
Speaker 1: and was just like, yeah, that's Missouri. But my friend
Speaker 1: was like, Hey, we've passed like forty warehouses that all
Speaker 1: advertise like having the biggest, cheapest, best fireworks. Should we
Speaker 1: like do something with that? And so we got a
Speaker 1: bunch of fireworks, set them off in a park in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night, will very drunk, and it
Speaker 1: was one of the most fun things I've ever done
Speaker 1: in my life. So I will, like our younger listeners,
Speaker 1: don't just remove this from your brain. But like I
Speaker 1: had always looked down upon the fireworks culture, and then
Speaker 1: I did it, and I was like, oh right, because
Speaker 1: you're not things up and it's awesome. Exactly. Get to
Speaker 1: make your own little bit as learnment film. All right, Psyche,
Speaker 1: We're going to get to know you a little bit
Speaker 1: better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners
Speaker 1: a couple of the things we're talking about today. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about something that you're probably not familiar with, Psyche,
Speaker 1: but that I probably need to get familiar with. And
Speaker 1: DJ Daniel as well Water wars. They're not not like
Speaker 1: a fun squirt gun themed birthday party, but like actual
Speaker 1: wars over water are coming to the suburbs of Arizona,
Speaker 1: and I think the rest of the country will soon follow.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about that way that this is
Speaker 1: all very patriotic and Fourth of July themed, We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about that way the country is getting worse. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the Republicans getting Google's permission to spam
Speaker 1: everyone just like gives ruin your inbox. So that's what
Speaker 1: one way the country is getting worse. And we're also
Speaker 1: gonna talk about some pop culture. We're gonna get to
Speaker 1: like maybe half of that. I don't know, it's a
Speaker 1: silly it's gonna be a silly episode because skip to
Speaker 1: the pop culture part we'll find yeah, yeah, we might
Speaker 1: just get directly to the pop culture thing. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about our our our Top Gun Maverick by
Speaker 1: the two most notable movies I've seen so far this
Speaker 1: year that are are are probably my favorite movie I've
Speaker 1: seen so far this year. Top Gun Maverick America's favorite
Speaker 1: movie that they've seen so far this year. So I
Speaker 1: just want to talk about those all of that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first, Psyche, we do like to ask our guest,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history? Okay, I have Okay,
Speaker 1: do you want to know the most recent or do
Speaker 1: you want to know the most telling about me as
Speaker 1: a person. They're both kind of telling about me as
Speaker 1: a person, and I'll probably tell you both. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Okay, So my most recent that I
Speaker 1: think is kind of interesting. I googled what is the metaverse?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like I know what the metaverse is?
Speaker 1: But then I kind of felt like it almost feels
Speaker 1: like it's just a synonym for cyberspace, and I thought
Speaker 1: that can't be all there is to it. There's got
Speaker 1: to be more to it. And then I googled and
Speaker 1: I did a lot of extensive research, and really it
Speaker 1: comes down to that kind of is there is to it?
Speaker 1: And I was a bit disappointed, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: do I still kind of just not get it or
Speaker 1: like what's going on there? Yeah? I think you're right
Speaker 1: about that. That's all it is. We've had these spaces.
Speaker 1: We've had these spaces for decades, but no, it's like
Speaker 1: a space where you can exist with an avatar and
Speaker 1: like be yourself, but like with a costume on it,
Speaker 1: like second second life, play second life, where like I
Speaker 1: literally remember, I'm so sorry this is kind of inappropriate,
Speaker 1: but I remember the most like formative memory I have
Speaker 1: a second life was this random person who clearly had
Speaker 1: too much time and too much money came up to
Speaker 1: me and gave me a helicopter and a gun, and
Speaker 1: the health cooper was super cool. The gun fired let's
Speaker 1: just say, weird representations of Genitalia out of it, so,
Speaker 1: which is a very second life thing to happen, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, much less acceptable in first life people helicopters
Speaker 1: and guns that fired dicks. Yeah, that pretty much literally
Speaker 1: I I, and I, of course, being I was quite innocent.
Speaker 1: I hadn't really spent I spent some time on the internet,
Speaker 1: but like not a ton of time on the internet.
Speaker 1: The first thing I did with the gun was I
Speaker 1: fired it and it just started firing out this stream
Speaker 1: of dicks, and I was just like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do with it. So I feel like I
Speaker 1: I googled it. The reason I actually googled it was
Speaker 1: because I'd had multiple companies had approached me and had
Speaker 1: clearly they've learned that the metaverse has a bit of
Speaker 1: a bad reputation, and they were approaching me about these
Speaker 1: interesting opportunities and they were not being very specific about
Speaker 1: what it was, and then halfway through the email chain
Speaker 1: they would kind of produce that by the way, it's
Speaker 1: on the metaverse, and I'd be like, oh, no, okay, Google,
Speaker 1: because like what's going on here? So that was that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's always when you when you read
Speaker 1: companies like pr like and like all the stuff they're
Speaker 1: talking about, like the official strategy and like what we're
Speaker 1: doing and uh, what our company's footprint is this coming year,
Speaker 1: and the media landscape they love. They're excited about the metaverse.
Speaker 1: I don't. I haven't met a single person who's like,
Speaker 1: actually it's pretty cool. It's like better than you might think, Like,
Speaker 1: not a single one. I've met people who will ride
Speaker 1: for literally anything, who are like, actually Dave Matthews bands
Speaker 1: like secretly one of the best bands, but they will
Speaker 1: not ride for the I can't find the person who
Speaker 1: rides for the metaverse. Zeit gang. If you are out there,
Speaker 1: if somebody is like, you know, like people were too
Speaker 1: hard on the metaverse, let us know. But I do
Speaker 1: think it just completely and unequivocally sucks, and it's just
Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg is frozen at the peak of his success
Speaker 1: and fame and is like wait a second, like he's
Speaker 1: still interested and impressed by things that would have been
Speaker 1: more pressive to people like in the year two thousand eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm truly I'm really open minded. Like if someone can
Speaker 1: come up with a really great use case for it
Speaker 1: or like some reason I should care. I am so there.
Speaker 1: I'm totally fine with that. I will completely revise my opinion.
Speaker 1: But no one has been able to do that so far.
Speaker 1: So I'm just sitting here going right. And I feel
Speaker 1: like they wouldn't even let somebody hand you a helicopter
Speaker 1: and a gun fires dicks, Like it sounds like you
Speaker 1: were a child at the time and it was like
Speaker 1: a grown up who did that. It was a middle teenager,
Speaker 1: so still a child. Maybe they shouldn't be allowed to
Speaker 1: probably should think So I'm not going to complain about that.
Speaker 1: Maybe I should. Should I tell you my second one? Yes? Yes, So.
Speaker 1: I do a lot of writing outside of like streaming
Speaker 1: and gaming and stuff, and one of the probably vast
Speaker 1: descriptions of me as a human being and probably why
Speaker 1: I'm definitely on a list somewhere. I frequently google weird
Speaker 1: stuff because I'm writing something. And one thing I googled
Speaker 1: once and my partner yelled, m He's like, you can't
Speaker 1: just search for things like that? Was I'm any stab wounds?
Speaker 1: Does it take to kill a person? Like? Obviously I
Speaker 1: don't want to know for me, but like, I mean,
Speaker 1: is it a case of it like it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if you get like fifty three in the foot, is
Speaker 1: that going to kill you? Or does it have to
Speaker 1: be in somewhere vital? You know, I need to know
Speaker 1: these things for writing purposes. It's not like a very
Speaker 1: video game logic to the human. It's like fifty three
Speaker 1: strikes doesn't matter where I hit them. I may play
Speaker 1: too many video games. Yeah, right, you get it. I
Speaker 1: just I wish we could like cut to the last
Speaker 1: person who googled that and they're just like standing there
Speaker 1: with a bloody knife in their hand, just being like hmmmmm,
Speaker 1: they're not wait where I saw? I'm at twenty three
Speaker 1: right now? I need amid? Yeah? All right, what is
Speaker 1: something you think is overrated? All right, look we're coming
Speaker 1: to well we're already at the end of Pride Months,
Speaker 1: so speaking, is a bisexual person Rainbow capitalism. Pride Months
Speaker 1: just ended, and literally you could see from the thirtieth
Speaker 1: of June into the first of July, literally in real
Speaker 1: time watching corporations changing their like profile pictures back to
Speaker 1: their like standard picture instead of it being like their
Speaker 1: Pride picture or whatever, and that just I don't know,
Speaker 1: it feels kind of like you're expected, as a queer
Speaker 1: person to just give them a high five for like
Speaker 1: a gold star or something and let them just off
Speaker 1: with not caring about queer people the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: and that's nonsense. Japer overrated really annoys me. Do they
Speaker 1: have like an interestition in between where they're like, enough
Speaker 1: of that ship and go back. So weird because I actually, okay,
Speaker 1: not to give corporations too much credit, but because like
Speaker 1: I hate doing that. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: did see a really good example where Intel, for anyone
Speaker 1: who doesn't know, tech company known very well for their processors,
Speaker 1: and also there was another company I've forgotten who it was,
Speaker 1: but um they made the Intel made a tweet where
Speaker 1: they basically said, we don't like at the beginning of
Speaker 1: Pride Month, we don't need to change our profile picture
Speaker 1: because we've had a Pride profile picture all year round.
Speaker 1: We don't see the point in changing it just just
Speaker 1: for June, which I thought was quite nice, and like
Speaker 1: Xbox has their Pride controllers and they were actually like
Speaker 1: super vocally arguing with people in their comments on Twitter
Speaker 1: about like people who are saying, well, nobody wants to
Speaker 1: see this, and they were like, yeah, nobody wants your
Speaker 1: opinion in it. You still felt the need to express it,
Speaker 1: So like, I like that they're doing that. Again. Don't
Speaker 1: want to give corporations too much credit because obviously it's
Speaker 1: still for money, but I still think that's pretty cool
Speaker 1: and it's nice seeing things like that. But you you
Speaker 1: see the difference where you just watched them ticking off,
Speaker 1: like everyone's changing back to normal. It's just wild. I
Speaker 1: think there's definitely kinds of engagement, like you're saying, this
Speaker 1: engagement that definitely positively supports the message because there's you know,
Speaker 1: the pure rainbow capitalism. It's just like buy our shirt
Speaker 1: because we put a rainbow on it. But then there's
Speaker 1: the let's use this as an opportunity to spread good information,
Speaker 1: to promote you know, creators and promote you know, people
Speaker 1: who are company sponsors that deserve an extra light. There's
Speaker 1: there are ways to go about it that despite it
Speaker 1: being in the umbrella of Rainbow capitalism, at least you know,
Speaker 1: participates in the support of the history of the month
Speaker 1: and like why it is happening and why it's important
Speaker 1: versus just you know, kind of what you're saying so
Speaker 1: that intels them that the Xbox is doing that. I
Speaker 1: also saw Bungee doing something similar to the creators of Destiny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bungee like just really going in on being like Destiny
Speaker 1: and Bungee Games are for everybody. People like we don't
Speaker 1: need this, and they're like, we don't need you. Is
Speaker 1: kind of the that's that's that's the way them being
Speaker 1: a lot more active and also having some of these
Speaker 1: companies that actually go out of their way outside of
Speaker 1: June two actively promote people that are LGBT here I
Speaker 1: Plus for examp Ball or like outside Black History Month,
Speaker 1: promoting black content creators and people that they work with,
Speaker 1: and not making it be a boy like this person
Speaker 1: is a minority. It's more this person does cool ship
Speaker 1: and we don't get to see it enough and that's
Speaker 1: really really cool. So there are companies doing well, and
Speaker 1: then there are companies that are just not making any
Speaker 1: effort whatsoever. They've got like a scheduled thing to change
Speaker 1: their profile picture and a scheduled thing to turn it
Speaker 1: back off against What is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna probably tell you too much about myself, but
Speaker 1: I think going to lunch or dinner solo, I think
Speaker 1: it's super underrated. I need alone time to recharge. And
Speaker 1: I think there's this really weird stigma about like not
Speaker 1: going places on your own. And when I when I
Speaker 1: worked in the games industry, I used to be like
Speaker 1: my brain was constantly active, and having even just like
Speaker 1: a forty five minute break where I could go and
Speaker 1: treat myself to something nice to eat and just spend
Speaker 1: time with myself was really really powerful. And I think
Speaker 1: that goes for things like going to the movies. But self,
Speaker 1: everyone I did, I'm like, I think it's great, and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, well, if I want to go
Speaker 1: see a movie and my partner doesn't want to go
Speaker 1: on whatever, like I'll goo by myself, I think it's great. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: I've like recently realized, like I need to start scheduling
Speaker 1: because I'm the same. I don't know is there like
Speaker 1: official psychological literature on the like introverts need to be
Speaker 1: alone to recharge, because it definitely feels true for me,
Speaker 1: but it feels that way. Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's anything actually official or if because I know a
Speaker 1: lot of the resources that are related to like introvert
Speaker 1: versus extrovert or kind of problem. Right, Yeah, they're all
Speaker 1: like from some company that created it to be like
Speaker 1: better capital drunk. But yeah, I I have realized that,
Speaker 1: like I need to make plans. Like I had a
Speaker 1: thing where we like went with another family on like
Speaker 1: a road trip for a weekend, and I was like
Speaker 1: never alone for the whole weekend. And then I came
Speaker 1: back and like the whole week I was just like
Speaker 1: dead and had no energy. And so now I'm like realizing,
Speaker 1: like I need to like actually not just be like
Speaker 1: notice it, but to actually like plan around it and
Speaker 1: like have like you know, set some alone time aside,
Speaker 1: even if it's just like an afternoon or whatever. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: full support on that one. And also on a very
Speaker 1: like not brain helpful but just kind of scheduling helpful
Speaker 1: way easier to get into restaurants. Let me just say,
Speaker 1: you want to if you want to go to if
Speaker 1: you want to go to a busy place, go by yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's incredible. You want to sit at the bar of
Speaker 1: the sushi place. Easy, new roman spot, get that loop,
Speaker 1: get that single spot. It's great, the sushi spot. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking they're gonna want to talk to me. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I wanna do you have anything like back by the
Speaker 1: bathroom facing the wall. All right, let's take a quick break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back. We'll talk about some serious stuff and
Speaker 1: then I get to some pop culture stuff and we're
Speaker 1: back and yeah, so there's a New Yorker article. I
Speaker 1: have to talk about it. Every time I read a
Speaker 1: New Yorker article, I I just it gives me a
Speaker 1: sense of pride that is built into me from when
Speaker 1: I was much younger. And I've noticed that I just
Speaker 1: do this every time. I'm like, oh, well, read that
Speaker 1: New Yorker article. Is better be a story on the daily.
Speaker 1: But anyways, it was a compelling article that you know,
Speaker 1: we've talked about the crumbling water supply in the United States,
Speaker 1: how much it comes from the Colorado River. Uh, in
Speaker 1: the Southwestern United States, and there was an article like
Speaker 1: I have, you know, tried to imagine what that's gonna
Speaker 1: look like in my own you know world and neighborhood.
Speaker 1: And this article does a really good job of kind
Speaker 1: of telling us it's a you know, neighborhood in Scottsdale, Arizona,
Speaker 1: where people like they basically like can't get water they're
Speaker 1: the normal way. So people either have water delivered on
Speaker 1: a truck monthly if they can afford it. Um, some
Speaker 1: have spent tens of thousands of dollars drilling wells. And
Speaker 1: the article actually opens with this person talking about how
Speaker 1: their neighbor just got done putting a nine hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty ft dry hole in like, which means they drilled
Speaker 1: nine and sixty feet into the ground and there was
Speaker 1: just like no water down there. But yeah, and then
Speaker 1: you know, so then some people like organized like water consortium,
Speaker 1: and then everybody like people started with like criticizing them.
Speaker 1: It's mostly looks like you know, sniping on Facebook and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But the details that jumped out to
Speaker 1: me are just, first of all, it's not changing, Like
Speaker 1: after all the discussions that this writer had with like
Speaker 1: this planned community of people and like how they already
Speaker 1: have way too many people in this area. Like they
Speaker 1: were driving down the communities mostly unpaved roads and like
Speaker 1: saw dozens of new houses under construction. Like people are
Speaker 1: just you know, we're we're just we're gonna keep driving
Speaker 1: in the same direction until the car we're in is
Speaker 1: engulfed in flames at the bottom of the ravine we
Speaker 1: just drove off of. Like that's just the American way.
Speaker 1: There will be fireworks in the trunk, so it'll look
Speaker 1: cool as hell when it happens. But and sick and
Speaker 1: then there's just like a lot of faith in the
Speaker 1: old way of doing things and like that, well, the
Speaker 1: old bones of the system is is going to work
Speaker 1: out for us. There's still people like putting in like
Speaker 1: offers on all these houses that are being built, and
Speaker 1: they're like, well they're not going to let a community
Speaker 1: and like one of the most wealthy towns in Arizona
Speaker 1: like go without water. It's like, well, there's not gonna
Speaker 1: be water for you guys, What the funk are you
Speaker 1: talking about. It also just feel like a good metaphor
Speaker 1: for like a couple of the like we're we're facing
Speaker 1: a similar thing in a couple of important places, like
Speaker 1: a broken system that is only getting more broken, but
Speaker 1: we're like too afraid to abandon, like the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm like just digging deeper and deeper
Speaker 1: into the like completely dry sand, searching for the energy
Speaker 1: that used to be there, and coming up dry. It
Speaker 1: just felt like this is a story about right now
Speaker 1: in a community in Arizona, but it's a story about
Speaker 1: kind of everything in America right now. This reminds me
Speaker 1: so deeply of like the idea of procrastination and that,
Speaker 1: like you know, I think we convince ourselves sometimes that
Speaker 1: like getting the task started as harder than the actual
Speaker 1: task itself, And unfortunately, the longer we wait on stuff
Speaker 1: like this, the bar for that task just gets higher,
Speaker 1: and the task itself does get harder. And it's a
Speaker 1: just needing to get started kind of thing that seems
Speaker 1: so difficult for like you said, a German her enterremrinity
Speaker 1: to really get going, I mean, like any politics in
Speaker 1: this country. But like it's it's just um, these kinds
Speaker 1: of things, Like you said, it's not going to change.
Speaker 1: The old way is not going to come back, And
Speaker 1: I think the sooner that people start to understand and
Speaker 1: accept that we could get over that initial procrastination hurdle
Speaker 1: and actually maybe start to make progress because if we
Speaker 1: just keep going this way, like you said, fireworks, revene explosions, fireworks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how's ah, how how does it look from northern Ireland?
Speaker 1: So it's weird. I I feel like I can see
Speaker 1: parallels in some ways, not granted, not with something like
Speaker 1: water as an example. Whenever, this is so weird. But
Speaker 1: the only time I've ever experienced like trouble having actual
Speaker 1: water was in two ten. We had a really really
Speaker 1: bad snowstorm. And like Ireland doesn't tend to get like
Speaker 1: particularly extreme weather, but we had really like a blizzard.
Speaker 1: My roof like was leaking everything. We had people running
Speaker 1: their water twenty seven to try and stop the pipes
Speaker 1: from freezing, which obviously is a problem. And in Ireland,
Speaker 1: a place that rains literally all the time, we started
Speaker 1: to run out of water and our water supplies were
Speaker 1: really like dwindling super super fast. So we had water
Speaker 1: rationing and we had trucks coming in delivering water. We
Speaker 1: had I lived in a village at the time, and
Speaker 1: a truck came in delivered water and people could go
Speaker 1: down and collect water at that because it was just
Speaker 1: in the center of the village. And I still remember
Speaker 1: my friend at the time who lived like in the
Speaker 1: countryside having to get water from like a stream, and
Speaker 1: I was just like, what is happening? Like this country
Speaker 1: it rains all the time and then suddenly there's a
Speaker 1: snowstorm and now we have no water. What is going on?
Speaker 1: Because obviously that's not how it works, and infrastructure is
Speaker 1: actually like not built for X then it can't provide
Speaker 1: what it's supposed to provide anymore. So from from my perspective,
Speaker 1: I see this and I think I do think it's wild.
Speaker 1: But you talk about how um, the old ways aren't
Speaker 1: working anymore and that you kind of need like get
Speaker 1: past that before you can start moving forward. And that's
Speaker 1: definitely something that like I can see a kind of
Speaker 1: mirror image of that in Northern Ireland in our politics,
Speaker 1: because we have like a I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: into it in depth, but there's we have a very
Speaker 1: interesting there's many many parties in Northern Ireland, but there
Speaker 1: are two in particular who just cannot work together because
Speaker 1: they have a power share government. They can't work together,
Speaker 1: so they just don't get anything done, which means that
Speaker 1: there's tons of things happening, like bits of things are
Speaker 1: falling apart, and like at the moment we can there's
Speaker 1: some supplies we cannot get because of various like customs,
Speaker 1: checks and stuff, and they just can't get together to
Speaker 1: agree on something so that we can move forward and
Speaker 1: get it done. Yeah. The thing I feel like I've
Speaker 1: seen and I've I've read about in situations like the
Speaker 1: snowstorm you're mentioning, is that when people are put into
Speaker 1: those crisis situations, like they surprised themselves and like the
Speaker 1: community around them surprises them with like how well people
Speaker 1: come together and just like fill the whole and do
Speaker 1: the thing that needs to get done so that people
Speaker 1: have water. And that's that's something that like, I I
Speaker 1: guess I I didn't have kind of associated with this
Speaker 1: story in my mind, but I do think like that
Speaker 1: is once everybody's willing to just be like all right,
Speaker 1: well that's dead, Like now it's on us, like what
Speaker 1: do we what do we do now? I think we're
Speaker 1: going to surprise ourselves with like the creativity that we're
Speaker 1: able to come up with. But I do think people
Speaker 1: do surprise you in a crisis situation for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's as hopeless as sometimes it
Speaker 1: feels like. It. Just we eventually are going to come
Speaker 1: to the point where it's like, well that is no
Speaker 1: longer there, right, like that water, water infrastructure or Democratic
Speaker 1: Party no longer works, no longer can work. What what
Speaker 1: do we do now? Yeah, well, let's talk about another
Speaker 1: thing that American capitalism is ruined, and that is email.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's basically like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: want to ask the question, like what can't capitalism ruin?
Speaker 1: Is there anything that is not going to be ruined
Speaker 1: by capitalism? Nothing? Like? So basically the latest development is
Speaker 1: that like Google was banning, was like, you know, identifying
Speaker 1: political ads and sending them them who spam filters and
Speaker 1: Republican by the name of Dr Ronnie Johnson, who you
Speaker 1: might remember. I think that's Ronnie Jackson. Jackson, he might
Speaker 1: remember the guy who gave everybody drugs in the White House,
Speaker 1: Like was the was the dealer for like I think
Speaker 1: both the Obama White House end and the Trump White
Speaker 1: House and uh Dr Field did, Yeah, he was Dr
Speaker 1: Field Good that was his nickname. And then he I
Speaker 1: think he got drunk and wrecked a government vehicle at
Speaker 1: a secret service going away party. But like Trump was like,
Speaker 1: we want him to head the v A, I think,
Speaker 1: and everyone's like, wait, why what do you mean that that? Guys, like,
Speaker 1: basically you are a drug dealer? Why would why would
Speaker 1: he had the v A. He doesn't have any sort
Speaker 1: of like mass administrative experience. And then he got drunk.
Speaker 1: I think, like just part of him was like, oh man,
Speaker 1: I'm and wearing my head. I better do what old
Speaker 1: Dr Ronnie Jacks does when he's in over his head
Speaker 1: and get drunk and wreck a government vehicle. And so
Speaker 1: that that was the end of all that. So he
Speaker 1: was relegated to taking a job as a U. S
Speaker 1: congressman and got elected in made headlines for claiming that
Speaker 1: the Amicron variant was a conspiracy concocted by the Democrats.
Speaker 1: And he was also noticing that his emails that he
Speaker 1: kept sending out to the people he was trying to
Speaker 1: get to give him money, we're getting spent sent to spam.
Speaker 1: And so he went on a rant about how Google's
Speaker 1: Gmail was actively suppressing Republican emails and sending them to
Speaker 1: the spam folder. Which he claimed was a form of
Speaker 1: election interference, and like a new North Carolina State University
Speaker 1: study actually did find Republican emails were more likely to
Speaker 1: go to spam folters in Gmail than other services like Outlook.
Speaker 1: But it's less a conspiracy and more that Republicans send
Speaker 1: a lot of bad spam, like which which was known
Speaker 1: like just Trump's campaign has sent out emails like mislead
Speaker 1: using misleading subject lines that read as a message from
Speaker 1: friends or family, and like subject lines that appear to
Speaker 1: be an email bounce back notification, like just all the
Speaker 1: like phishing tactics. Just go hard, as hard as you
Speaker 1: can to get as much money from these people as
Speaker 1: you can. But the Democrats do this ship too, Like
Speaker 1: there was a I was just gonna say, yeah, the
Speaker 1: Democrats just sent out a final notice made Democrat membership pending,
Speaker 1: made Democratic membership pending, Like well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I don't remember signing up in the first place. You
Speaker 1: have seventeen missed messages to renew your Democratic membership, bro,
Speaker 1: this is your final notice to renew your membership before
Speaker 1: tonight's critical, critical end of month deadline. That is from
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. Yeah, it sucks. But anyways, they sued
Speaker 1: Google to be like, you're doing bad stuff and Google
Speaker 1: is like, all right, I don't know whatever, fine we
Speaker 1: we uh. So basically now they can apply for it's
Speaker 1: a bill that seeks to make it illegal for email
Speaker 1: service providers to automatically put campaign messages into the spam
Speaker 1: folder pilot program for political parties to bypass bypass spam
Speaker 1: detection systems. So yeah, it's just like, because they are powerful,
Speaker 1: the Republican Party is able to reach out to Google
Speaker 1: and get them to let let let them like ruin
Speaker 1: your inbox, you know? On this this this really feels
Speaker 1: like kind of a like a weighing of a weighing
Speaker 1: of priorities thing for Google here, because I know we've
Speaker 1: all seen those like Senate hearings or whatever where they're
Speaker 1: basically grilling is it is it Sundar Pacha, who's the
Speaker 1: CEO of Google, basically grilling him on So it does
Speaker 1: my phone know where I am? Right? If I go
Speaker 1: ship on the other side, is it gonna know that
Speaker 1: I'm sitting with with my with there are friends on
Speaker 1: the left over here, And he's like, you you have
Speaker 1: to turn on location services, Like answer the question and
Speaker 1: it feels like this, this whole like spam thing. I
Speaker 1: don't think they necessarily or Google necessarily sees it as
Speaker 1: a problem like what you're saying. They're just like, yeah, fine, whatever,
Speaker 1: just send your damn emails. It doesn't matter because you know,
Speaker 1: it all just mixes in with every other email that
Speaker 1: people are getting. Like I I every day, I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm unsubscribing to list I didn't even know that
Speaker 1: I was on. And then three days later I'm getting
Speaker 1: another email from that same thing, and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: you needed to allow ten days for that unsubscription to
Speaker 1: go through, so we'll keep sending you emails for the
Speaker 1: next ten days. And it's like it just keeps piling
Speaker 1: onto the point where it's like I have like two
Speaker 1: or three emails that I need to check per day basically,
Speaker 1: I mean like there's there's more. This is personally email
Speaker 1: work emails are different, but there's like three actual personal
Speaker 1: emails that I need to check a day maximum, out
Speaker 1: of the maybe thirty or forty that I get. And
Speaker 1: it's just it just it does not feel like a
Speaker 1: problem too. Maybe to our our email providers, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: don't feel like because we're not their constituent, the corporations
Speaker 1: of their constituent. They're there to keep things moving smoothly.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's it's just bad. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: just interesting to think about, like all the technologies that
Speaker 1: capitalism has ruined. Like email was useful and a great
Speaker 1: idea for a few years and then it got flooded
Speaker 1: with spam, and like it's just like an arms race
Speaker 1: between like marketers and the technology companies to like, you know,
Speaker 1: keep it from making their product unusual unusable. But then
Speaker 1: the big technology companies eventually get worn down where they get,
Speaker 1: you know, so successful that they have friends in high places,
Speaker 1: you know, I were I used to work for a
Speaker 1: website that, like may wrote articles list articles that were
Speaker 1: full of content and we're not like did not have
Speaker 1: ads that were like following you around and tracking which
Speaker 1: direction or eyeball was looking. And now like anyway, it's
Speaker 1: to the point that like when I read articles, not
Speaker 1: on just like random websites, but on like news articles,
Speaker 1: it's like they have the most deceptive ads that are
Speaker 1: like there to trick you into clicking on them at
Speaker 1: all costs, like even at the cost of continuing to
Speaker 1: read the article you were there to read like it's
Speaker 1: just it's all broken, and it's yeah, it's all it
Speaker 1: just is the evolution of all technologies that seems like, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't know. I mentioned this on
Speaker 1: my stream the other day because I I feel maybe
Speaker 1: I'm just really cynical, but I feel like social media
Speaker 1: as a whole has changed so very very much from
Speaker 1: like when it first started. I feel like I don't
Speaker 1: really understand. And I don't think it's just because I'm
Speaker 1: getting older, because I feel like that's the immediate like
Speaker 1: jump too, is that oh yeah, as you as you
Speaker 1: get older, social media makes less sense. But like, I've
Speaker 1: been on social media since its inception and I just
Speaker 1: feel like, no, I like, I don't understand Instagram anymore.
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't know what it wants for me.
Speaker 1: I don't like I don't know what to put. I'm
Speaker 1: constantly plagued with ads, and it's half the time it's
Speaker 1: stuff that's like creepily relevant to me, and then the
Speaker 1: other half it's like, I don't even know why you
Speaker 1: think I would want to see this, so I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't really feel like I understand how to engage
Speaker 1: with it, it's not the same as it was before,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. That's what the best and brightest
Speaker 1: minds of the past twenty years have been working on
Speaker 1: is making making Twitter and well, I feel like Twitter
Speaker 1: like is the thing that has saved it is that
Speaker 1: they suck at marketing and like the ads aren't like
Speaker 1: ever relevant and so they're easy to skip. But like Instagram,
Speaker 1: you know, the best and brightest minds, instead of like
Speaker 1: building our infrastructure, rebuilding or fixing US infrastructure or infrastructure
Speaker 1: around the country, they go into marketing work for these
Speaker 1: massive you know, technology companies and find ways to market
Speaker 1: like that's that is the big evolution of the past
Speaker 1: twenty years is like marketing has gotten way better for brands,
Speaker 1: not for you. It has taken away our free will,
Speaker 1: but that minor pesky thing, good old free will. I
Speaker 1: also feel like we're kind of in an arms race
Speaker 1: of efficiency in that like email used to be good
Speaker 1: because it was quick and it was like I can
Speaker 1: send you a letter over the internet. But nowadays it's
Speaker 1: like you're competing with slack, with discord with text messages
Speaker 1: about like getting messages to people, and so there's this
Speaker 1: like need to make your email so urgent. It's like
Speaker 1: you're saying, it's like you have to sign up now urgent,
Speaker 1: Mr blah blah blah blah blah. So it's like email
Speaker 1: is quickly losing relevance at all, and it's like these
Speaker 1: kinds of I mean, I guess it's it's interesting to see.
Speaker 1: I mean, I will say, you know, I'm I'm typing
Speaker 1: stop into my phone so often these days from whatever
Speaker 1: political text messaging that I'm getting being like, hey, this
Speaker 1: is Nancy Pelosi and we really need to talk and
Speaker 1: just like stop. But it's it's like as they look
Speaker 1: for new venues to kind of like grab your attention
Speaker 1: in this kind of like market of instantaneous interaction, it's
Speaker 1: like emails really phasing out. And so I think the
Speaker 1: spam thing is almost kind of in that last desperate
Speaker 1: attempt to hold onto this kind of archaic technology. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and maybe yeah, just like the last think that's
Speaker 1: probably also what's happening is Google is like, well, nobody
Speaker 1: fucking use a Gmail anymore. Sure, whatever, We're we're working
Speaker 1: on a new technology where you know, in two years,
Speaker 1: will be recording this podcast over zoom and Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: will join and started join the chat. We see we
Speaker 1: have a really really great thing in Northern Ireland. I'm
Speaker 1: not even like I realize again I signed so cynical,
Speaker 1: But in Northern Ireland we're so behind. Like businesses are behind.
Speaker 1: Politics is behind. We don't use email here like we
Speaker 1: obviously we use email for like online communication, but I
Speaker 1: mean like our political parties don't use email. They don't
Speaker 1: use social media, they don't have a website. Half the time,
Speaker 1: they're really behind. It's so weird, Like I it's something
Speaker 1: as simple as like having a business that you want,
Speaker 1: like my hairdresser or my tattoo artists. I want to
Speaker 1: book something and they take all of their bookings through Facebook,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't have a Facebook anymore. Got
Speaker 1: rid of it a long time ago. Like can I
Speaker 1: call you or email you or something? Do you have
Speaker 1: a website with a contact like not? No businesses here
Speaker 1: have that. And like political parties, I still get just
Speaker 1: leaflets through my mailbox. I don't get a digital I
Speaker 1: still get, yeah, get leaflets, but they also yeah, I
Speaker 1: just think they don't know email exists. Trying to presental
Speaker 1: I swear I know that that's like it goes against
Speaker 1: the fact that I'm always arguing with people that yes,
Speaker 1: in fact, in northern and we do have the internet
Speaker 1: and electricity and cars, because some people seem to think
Speaker 1: we don't. But like at the same time, businesses and like,
Speaker 1: as far as the government is concerned, it's really like
Speaker 1: stuck in the past. I don't know why. It's bizarre.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you might be leap frogging certain technologies,
Speaker 1: like maybe we don't have email, but then it's like,
Speaker 1: but we have the next thing after TikTok. Already we
Speaker 1: had cell phones that we call the mobiles, but like
Speaker 1: we had SMS messaging before the US did, like whenever,
Speaker 1: which is really weird because you guys had like pages, right,
Speaker 1: we had pagers, and we didn't have right, we've had
Speaker 1: we've had some stuff, so we didn't have pages or
Speaker 1: anything like that, but we had SMS messaging like really
Speaker 1: really super early on. And I still remember when I
Speaker 1: met like my online friends in the US and I'd
Speaker 1: be like, because I used live journal or whatever, and
Speaker 1: I'd be talking to them and they didn't have SMS
Speaker 1: messaging or that they knew of it because it was
Speaker 1: something that existed, but like it was quite expensive, so
Speaker 1: they just didn't have it. They used their pager instead
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I always thought, why is it that,
Speaker 1: like Northern Ireland was ahead of something technologically speaking, yet
Speaker 1: we still can't use email, Like what is that they
Speaker 1: we're definitely doing the thing, but well, okay, we'll see
Speaker 1: what the next technology is that pops up. You could
Speaker 1: be like, actually, no, I'm kind of glad that we
Speaker 1: skipped email from whatever. That may be. Right, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back. And we had the option between you know,
Speaker 1: a third straight story about just the way that America
Speaker 1: is devolving and falling apart, or we could just move
Speaker 1: over to the fact that it's the midpoint of the year,
Speaker 1: which means that we get a bunch of year in
Speaker 1: Culture in Review lists coming out best movies of the
Speaker 1: year so far. So we're gonna do a little year
Speaker 1: in Culture in Review and review years so far in
Speaker 1: culture in Review in Review. I love how we've added
Speaker 1: that to the list of like, okay, it's not just
Speaker 1: the best films of two it's the best films of
Speaker 1: the first six months. We gotta have it, gotta I'm
Speaker 1: with it. Hey, I support it. I added a whole
Speaker 1: section about video games of this, so I'm gonna yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean it's so the main thing, Like I was,
Speaker 1: I I just feel woefully behind on TV. I am
Speaker 1: more of a movie bitch. I just think it's more efficient.
Speaker 1: You get the whole thing in a single go. So,
Speaker 1: and I've been really enjoying a couple of movies. I'll
Speaker 1: talk about our are Are maybe later if we have time.
Speaker 1: Nothing but good things. So the TV show, the streaming
Speaker 1: shows list, Like, the only thing I've really watched so
Speaker 1: far is severalths which have y all watched that I haven't.
Speaker 1: I've heard really really good things about it, but I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet. So enjoyable. The I I watched
Speaker 1: like The Staircase. It had a strong start. I had
Speaker 1: seen the documentary. I fell off for you know, no
Speaker 1: good reason after like three or four episodes. I just
Speaker 1: I was basically in it for the part where Colin
Speaker 1: Firth eats Tony Collette's ass, And once that happened, I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, I get it is Staircase, the
Speaker 1: one about the opioid epidemic? Or am I remembering wrong? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: this is so there's a great documentary called The Staircase,
Speaker 1: and it is this French filmmaker goes and covers the
Speaker 1: story of this local politician novelist who is accused of
Speaker 1: murdering his wife. His wife's death is just very, very
Speaker 1: strange and confounding. She has found at the bottom of
Speaker 1: a staircase. Blood is all over the place, but she
Speaker 1: her skull is not fractured the way it would be
Speaker 1: if somebody like beats someone to death. And but he's there,
Speaker 1: you know, he says, he comes in finds her after
Speaker 1: just like sitting in the backyard for a little while.
Speaker 1: It's very suspicious. He is one of the strangest humans
Speaker 1: ever captured on film. The husband just like all sorts
Speaker 1: of weird ticks. I was like, why would you ever
Speaker 1: make a dramatized version of this? And then they did it,
Speaker 1: and Colin First is incredible at capturing him and like
Speaker 1: makes it like slightly more accessible than the documentary because
Speaker 1: he is so like that you could just like like
Speaker 1: watching a minute of this person is like, well, I
Speaker 1: don't know how I feel about human existence now because
Speaker 1: he's so like strange and like hard to wrap your
Speaker 1: mind around. Um. But anyways, all of that to say,
Speaker 1: I just learned that. So the movie the documentary, the
Speaker 1: thing that is most notable is that you cannot tell
Speaker 1: if he did it or not. Like you you can
Speaker 1: have your suspicions, which I have. I still change back
Speaker 1: and forth, like years after seeing it. But I always
Speaker 1: liked this one theory, which was that an al did it,
Speaker 1: which I've heard. I thought, you know, I've never seen
Speaker 1: the DOCI series, but I've heard of that, So it
Speaker 1: sounds it sounds so dumb that, like I feel like
Speaker 1: that is the thing that kept people from letting that
Speaker 1: reality in is that like basically she has all these
Speaker 1: cuts on the back of her head that like don't
Speaker 1: really make sense, and also an owl feather in her
Speaker 1: like blood matted hair, but like they don't really even
Speaker 1: like explore it in the trial, they like devote maybe
Speaker 1: fift twenty minutes to it. In the documentary. I assumed
Speaker 1: that this like very serious dramatic thing HBO series with
Speaker 1: a list actors, was just going to breeze right past it.
Speaker 1: But apparently after I stopped watching, they go in heavy
Speaker 1: on the owl theory really and like show you a
Speaker 1: recreation of the crime. If the owl head did it,
Speaker 1: and I'm so excited. So now that that is something
Speaker 1: that I'm very excited about all of which to say
Speaker 1: the staircase that watch the docuseries and then watch the
Speaker 1: HBO show if you if you feel like it. I'm
Speaker 1: clearly going in on that because that sounds like it's
Speaker 1: something that's right up my alley. I do find true
Speaker 1: crime really interesting, but the oil theories got me sold.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's a bunch of I mean, we Owned
Speaker 1: the City has been on my list for a long
Speaker 1: time that I just need to But like a prehistoric
Speaker 1: planet which is like Planet Earth but with dinosaurs, which
Speaker 1: like that. That's also something I can watch with my kids.
Speaker 1: David in my life is a little David edbroom. And
Speaker 1: then there's a movie called Neptune Frost. I feel like
Speaker 1: I've done a decent job of like seeing all the
Speaker 1: movies I wanted to see. There's this new movie called
Speaker 1: Neptune Frost that looks really cool. It might be shown
Speaker 1: at your local art house theater. Go watch the trailer
Speaker 1: and if you're anything like me, you will you will
Speaker 1: want to see it. But yeah, I think my favorite
Speaker 1: movie the Years are Are Are But the worst person
Speaker 1: in the world also very good. It's like, you have
Speaker 1: you heard of our So I hadn't, and then I
Speaker 1: looked it up earlier today and you know, it's really stupid.
Speaker 1: There was a there was like a picture from the movie,
Speaker 1: and I became completely convinced that the name was not
Speaker 1: urr r. It was like like you had like an
Speaker 1: animal in it and they were looking at each other,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, maybe the maybe I'm misinterpreting
Speaker 1: what it's called. And then I was like, no, you're
Speaker 1: being stupid. It is, but it looks like it looks
Speaker 1: like it's really really good. It's something that I had
Speaker 1: not heard of, like at all. It completely passed me by.
Speaker 1: Same and same. But I have heard nothing but incredible things,
Speaker 1: people saying, like rejoicing in the theater. I've seen a
Speaker 1: Twitter video of like people lighting off fireworks at the
Speaker 1: conclusion of the movie, like like there's the only sparcelers
Speaker 1: into a movie and we're just like it was like
Speaker 1: someone was bringing a bottle into the club and you
Speaker 1: had like all the people following in the realm of sparklers.
Speaker 1: But it was the end of the movie in an
Speaker 1: actual movie theater. It was so it really makes you
Speaker 1: want to see it, but I'm not gonna lie. I
Speaker 1: also hear it's three hours long. It is three hours long.
Speaker 1: I watched. I watched it on my laptop, and the
Speaker 1: two things that should be wildly diminishing to the effect
Speaker 1: of a film, and my immediate response was just like
Speaker 1: exuberant joy, energy. And I also had this feeling like wait,
Speaker 1: like everybody who works in movies needs to watch this,
Speaker 1: and then like, I don't know, maybe all of Hollywood
Speaker 1: should just take a year off, like and just be
Speaker 1: like I just watched this a couple of times more
Speaker 1: and just like be like, oh oh wow. It's just
Speaker 1: like such a leap forward in what an action movie
Speaker 1: can be, which is like one of my favorite genres
Speaker 1: of movies, and it's also a musical and a historical
Speaker 1: period piece. It's like bos Lerman's Romeo and juliet Inglorious
Speaker 1: Bastards and Braveheart. We're putting a blender and like and
Speaker 1: also like some Crouching Tiger because the action like does
Speaker 1: new things with action that like you haven't seen that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure every action movie is going to try and mimic.
Speaker 1: But it was like, yeah, they put all those movies
Speaker 1: in a blender and came out with something that's like
Speaker 1: much better than any of them, and I like this.
Speaker 1: I also, I think it's way better than Top Gun Maverick,
Speaker 1: and I really liked to Maverick. I really liked Maverick. Actually,
Speaker 1: I was surprised. I liked the original Top Gun, but
Speaker 1: like my partner was super into the original Talk Gun
Speaker 1: because like he's a real plane nerd, Like he loves
Speaker 1: jet and it's always been like a jet nerd. So
Speaker 1: we went to this and he was like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I want to go see this because like
Speaker 1: what if what if they what if they do the
Speaker 1: Tom Cat dirty, I'm not going to be okay with it.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my god, you can't talk
Speaker 1: like that about a plane. So we went to the
Speaker 1: called tom Cruise. Maybe we do, but we went. So
Speaker 1: we went and we were like, um, we just have
Speaker 1: to we have to just sit down and see it.
Speaker 1: And I loved it. I was really surprised that I
Speaker 1: liked it so much. It was really really good, and
Speaker 1: like I think a lot of people, some people have
Speaker 1: said that it was kind of like cringe or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I was like, like, did you see the original
Speaker 1: talk like it was pretty cringe, but like it was good.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I know, I thought Maverick was great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: could have been gay like it, like the even leaving
Speaker 1: the original like that, that was one of the more
Speaker 1: notable undertones, slash overtones tones of the first Uh, and
Speaker 1: they kind of took it out of this time. I
Speaker 1: needed more sweaty bodies playing volleyball. Yes, but alright, I
Speaker 1: I seed the floor at this point because I have
Speaker 1: some takes on games, you know, I bet you I
Speaker 1: think these people are alrdy hearing me talk game well
Speaker 1: well from my Twitch stream, o G Well, it's as
Speaker 1: as awesome of the year as it has been for
Speaker 1: television and film already. It has also been a banger
Speaker 1: year for video games, and for a couple of reasons,
Speaker 1: one of which is that, you know, of course, during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, there was a lot of pushing back of
Speaker 1: video games that were supposed to come out in one
Speaker 1: and we are kind of hitting a excess of games
Speaker 1: that are like, okay, finally ready for release, but also
Speaker 1: titles from companies that are very storied, like from Software
Speaker 1: who's famous for you know, the the the Souls game,
Speaker 1: Souls Born games from Gorilla, who made the first Horizon
Speaker 1: Zero don uh and from game Freak, the people behind Pokemon,
Speaker 1: like big companies, finally releasing the next chapter of whatever
Speaker 1: they were working on coming out in two and feeding
Speaker 1: people so many great games, some of which I am
Speaker 1: completely incapable of completing, as contrary to Psyche, who is
Speaker 1: a master and who's destroying all of them. But just awesome,
Speaker 1: awesome games that are coming out, and so you know,
Speaker 1: name off the bat, a couple that came at this here,
Speaker 1: Elden Ring, Horizon, Forbidden West, Pokemon Legends, Archais, and even
Speaker 1: smaller titles, smaller ish titles like Teenage Mutant Inta Turtle
Speaker 1: Shredder's Revenge, which is just a nostalgia overload, this awesome
Speaker 1: new game Neon White, which is like a first person
Speaker 1: shooter speed running game, and Tunic, which is this really
Speaker 1: cute kind of like Zelda style game but with an
Speaker 1: awesome Fox character and has kind of like tilt shift
Speaker 1: animation style. But like Psyche, what are you feeling about games?
Speaker 1: Is here? So far? I am really really thrilled because
Speaker 1: I have been a person who has never in my
Speaker 1: life been able to complete a Souls Born games like
Speaker 1: Dark Souls or Secio or blood Born, I've never finished one.
Speaker 1: I get frustrated really easily. I'm not like a ridge gamer.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like I played Dark Souls
Speaker 1: three and I got to a point where I just
Speaker 1: got super super frustrated and couldn't finish it. Elden Ring.
Speaker 1: I finished and it took hundred and thank you, a
Speaker 1: hundred and something hours, and I did it all on stream,
Speaker 1: and I really really loved it. And I was actually
Speaker 1: really genuinely surprised that I was so into I expected
Speaker 1: myself to play it for a while and then just
Speaker 1: get like kind of burned out on it. But it's definitely,
Speaker 1: at least at the moment, my game of the year. UM.
Speaker 1: I think Think did a really really great job with it.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling described the game to people who haven't played it,
Speaker 1: like us to check like I think. I think, like
Speaker 1: UM a hardcore game where you have to go it's
Speaker 1: very punishing, you have to fight your way through bosses
Speaker 1: that get increasingly difficult, but there's like a really great
Speaker 1: underlying story. It's open world, so you have a lot
Speaker 1: of places to explore, and it was really really beautiful
Speaker 1: and like there's a story something with Soulsborn games that
Speaker 1: isn't like the lore is really fun and interesting, but
Speaker 1: they tend to hide it in like item descriptions or
Speaker 1: like a weird little hidden location that you find and
Speaker 1: then you find out the lower about a character or whatever.
Speaker 1: And that's what elden Ring does, and I really really
Speaker 1: liked it. I think they did a really great job
Speaker 1: of not kind of like shoehorning you into like a
Speaker 1: very linear path, which is great for some people and
Speaker 1: not so great for others. It just happened to be
Speaker 1: great for me because it meant like a do whatever
Speaker 1: the heck I wanted, which I really liked. I think
Speaker 1: we've got so much to do this year, and we've
Speaker 1: got lots to look forward to as well. It's really cool,
Speaker 1: very much a lot to look forward to. Another note
Speaker 1: on elden Ring, that thing is worth mentioning is that
Speaker 1: was the game that was touted as a collab with
Speaker 1: George R. And Martin who was just coming off wild,
Speaker 1: relative huge roller coaster of success that was Game of
Speaker 1: Thrones but never heard of. Yeah, not that, but but
Speaker 1: the success. I think there's definitely, you know, an advancement
Speaker 1: and the storytelling and from software games with elden Ring
Speaker 1: partially helped by George rr Martin. So I think that's
Speaker 1: just worth mentioning in terms of accounting for the awesome
Speaker 1: success of that of that game, even though I literally
Speaker 1: can't get past the first ten hours of that game
Speaker 1: and I'm just putting it down because I'm getting upset.
Speaker 1: But another another piece of games industry success that I
Speaker 1: want to highlight is the proliferation of subscription services like
Speaker 1: Xbox Game Pass. I think that, you know, you could
Speaker 1: look at another subscription service and be like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to pay for another Hulu, Netflix, whatever. But I
Speaker 1: think the value that you get out of something like
Speaker 1: Xbox Game Pass when games are sixty to seventy dollars
Speaker 1: flat and and there, and in certain parts of the
Speaker 1: world even more expensive than that, Like paying ten dollars
Speaker 1: a month to have access to Triple A games and
Speaker 1: also indie titles, gives you the kind of like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I can try this game for a little
Speaker 1: bit if I wasn't planning on playing it because it's
Speaker 1: included in this thing that I paid for us a
Speaker 1: monthly and for indie games that, like you may have
Speaker 1: never even considered or heard of, Like just as an example,
Speaker 1: that teenagement Ninja Turtles game that I was just talking about.
Speaker 1: It's like twenty five dollars on Steam and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I beat the campaign, which is like sixteen levels,
Speaker 1: took me like three hours, three hours before where there's
Speaker 1: an indie game that is a like massive franchise that
Speaker 1: is like how did they have they pull that off?
Speaker 1: So you know what what basically what happens is like
Speaker 1: smaller companies let me let me pull up home, let
Speaker 1: me pull up in the film of the past four
Speaker 1: years as Rise of Skywalker, that little indie company exactly.
Speaker 1: So um, the developer is this company called Tribute Games,
Speaker 1: which is this company out of Montreal, and they make
Speaker 1: these kinds of like you know, basically like sixteen bits
Speaker 1: arcady looking games, but they wanted to recreate the the
Speaker 1: very traditional uh t management Turtles like arcade game, Like
Speaker 1: there's that, you know, it's a classic cabinet game right
Speaker 1: next to the Simpsons game. You have your four sticks,
Speaker 1: you have your kick, you have your jump, you have
Speaker 1: your your I don't even I think that was it.
Speaker 1: I think it was kick and jump where you're you're
Speaker 1: punching your jump, where your two abilities that you had overall,
Speaker 1: and people would just dump quarters into those games over
Speaker 1: and over and over, and they had such appeal that
Speaker 1: like Tribute decided to grab onto that nostalgia and take
Speaker 1: the I P and bring it back in this awesome
Speaker 1: package that's like super consumable, super fun to play. You
Speaker 1: can play it with six people out of time, which
Speaker 1: kind of gets a little crazy on the screen. But
Speaker 1: my main point is that it's twenty five bucks on Steam,
Speaker 1: and I think there's a lot of people who look
Speaker 1: at what would be a three hour investment of time
Speaker 1: and be like, I don't really think that's worth bucks.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to something like for something they guys,
Speaker 1: such a god game over here. But like when you
Speaker 1: have Xbox game Pass or a service like that also
Speaker 1: not sponsored content, just throwing it out there that you
Speaker 1: you know, you are more open to trying these kinds
Speaker 1: of things out. And you know, after the Xbox and
Speaker 1: Bethesda game presentation, when so many of those games were
Speaker 1: like day one on game Pass, you look at that.
Speaker 1: And for those who are unaware, Microsoft owns Xbox, they
Speaker 1: recently acquired Bethesda, which is a game company or a
Speaker 1: game developer, and they did a presentation called this thing
Speaker 1: called Summer games Fest two where they showed the next
Speaker 1: year or two years of video games that are coming out,
Speaker 1: and basically after every trailer it said day one on
Speaker 1: game Pass, pretty much like I would say of the games,
Speaker 1: Day one on game Pass, which means that if you
Speaker 1: are a subscriber to game Pass, you have everything that
Speaker 1: you want to play for the next year is just
Speaker 1: at your fingertips the second it comes out. You don't
Speaker 1: have to pay anything extra. It's just like, yeah, play
Speaker 1: this awesome game, go for it. Didn't they even confirm that,
Speaker 1: like Starfield is going to be I think said day
Speaker 1: one game for anyone who doesn't know Starfield is like
Speaker 1: for me as a person who plays space games a lot,
Speaker 1: I saw also as obsessed with Skyrim, I saw this
Speaker 1: as the Skyroom in space kind of idea, and when
Speaker 1: this is the perfect game for me. It has everything
Speaker 1: I need, Like you can you can fly your spaceship,
Speaker 1: you can build your own spaceship, you can build bases
Speaker 1: on planets, you can fly around in space, you have
Speaker 1: an RPG as well. I thought this was amazing, and
Speaker 1: then they were like day one game game Pass for
Speaker 1: like ten bucks a month. That's wild. That's amazing. It's
Speaker 1: it's an it's an amazing service. And I think, you know, again,
Speaker 1: I think there's definitely ups and downs to the subscription
Speaker 1: model of video games for sure, um and that some
Speaker 1: smaller companies might not be seen with the revenue that
Speaker 1: they would like. But but while the subscription service itself
Speaker 1: gets more people to play their games, it's definitely like
Speaker 1: a give and take for sure, but it allows people
Speaker 1: that access, and I think access is the thing that
Speaker 1: gets people to contribute more to the games in general.
Speaker 1: And just like how many are coming out, you know,
Speaker 1: gamers are eating as as as as they say, games
Speaker 1: are definitely eating right now they are. It's like you
Speaker 1: do you do you use Xbox Game Past? I do, Um, well,
Speaker 1: I'm subscribed. I wouldn't say I use it a ton
Speaker 1: in a minute, because especially because I've been playing so
Speaker 1: much elden Ring up until like two or three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: I that was literally the only game I was playing.
Speaker 1: But I do think it's great and I've had it subscribe.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people in my community on Twitch
Speaker 1: that would talk about like, you know, oh, this game
Speaker 1: just came to game Pass. There's a game I'm actually
Speaker 1: playing right now. I'm going to tell you what it.
Speaker 1: It's also it comes as like an underrated thing for me.
Speaker 1: Vampire Survivors is so freaking good. It's like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like two dollars or you get it in game Pass.
Speaker 1: And I just got a Steam deck recently, and I
Speaker 1: thank you. We have two in our house, which is
Speaker 1: just a really really dangerous situations. Two of us are
Speaker 1: sitting at like two o'clock in the morning on the
Speaker 1: Steam deck playing Vampire Survivors for four hours in a row,
Speaker 1: just recharging the steam deck, and because it's so addictive,
Speaker 1: but it's really really fun, and I feel like I
Speaker 1: keep talking about it to people and they're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I've googled it, like like it looks like
Speaker 1: a really super retro game, and I don't really think
Speaker 1: the game plays for me. And then the next day
Speaker 1: someone says, oh my god, I hate you. I stayed
Speaker 1: up until like three o'clock in the morning playing Vampire Survivors.
Speaker 1: It's really really fun game. I love. I love having
Speaker 1: video games described to make like described, what is it? Like? Geo,
Speaker 1: you guys are amazing sorry, anyway, like that like high
Speaker 1: concept stuff where I'm like, that's really cool. It's like
Speaker 1: you play as a person who's trying to survive wave
Speaker 1: upon wave of like vampires and bats and zombies and
Speaker 1: creatures and stuff that just keep spawning at you. And
Speaker 1: you pick up items, and as you level up, you
Speaker 1: get like a random selection of items and you can
Speaker 1: pick whatever ones you want, and then you like equip
Speaker 1: six weapons and six successories and they completely change how
Speaker 1: you like attack stuff around you. You literally just have
Speaker 1: to move. You don't attack anything, you just move, and
Speaker 1: it's so weirdly fun. Like I remember the first time
Speaker 1: I played it, I was like, what the funk? I
Speaker 1: can't attack? I don't understand, but it's so good. I
Speaker 1: don't know how to describe it other than that it's
Speaker 1: just wild and very very overstimulating, but very funny. There's
Speaker 1: there's a style of there's a style of a game
Speaker 1: called a roguelike, and the idea of the game is
Speaker 1: you're playing the same kind of game over again, but
Speaker 1: each time you rest are in it, you get another item,
Speaker 1: or you get a little bit stronger, or you just
Speaker 1: have more information about how the game goes and it's
Speaker 1: a style of game that has, you know, many different versions,
Speaker 1: like you can think like Enter the Gungeon or Binding
Speaker 1: of Isaac or something like that. But a game like
Speaker 1: Vampire Survivors is taking that form and changing it ever
Speaker 1: so slightly. And again, I think this all contributes to
Speaker 1: the whole access to indie games and the access to
Speaker 1: smaller developers that things like Xbox Game Pass or Steam
Speaker 1: give you where it's like, hey, you know, we don't
Speaker 1: it's about the concept of the game. Like if you
Speaker 1: look at a game like Vampire Survivors, which is just
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter, wildly popular. It is, as
Speaker 1: Psyche said, a two dollar game that it's like he
Speaker 1: also mentioned is very like low graphical fidelity. It's not
Speaker 1: a super great looking game, but that's not the point.
Speaker 1: The point is they developed this gameplay loop that is
Speaker 1: so addicting and so fun that Psyche and your partner
Speaker 1: are staying four in the morning playing it on the
Speaker 1: Steam Deck. And also, for those not aware, the Steam
Speaker 1: Deck is a ice it's very similar looking to a
Speaker 1: Nintendo Switch, but you can play games from the library
Speaker 1: of Steam, so it's like having a computer in your
Speaker 1: hands that plays so many different games. At a really
Speaker 1: high quality, like it looks really really powerful, act it
Speaker 1: looks amazing. But yeah, so it's just like we we
Speaker 1: we are definitely in a renaissance of like indie games
Speaker 1: and titles, just having the access to people who are like, well,
Speaker 1: let me, you know, I'll check out this random game
Speaker 1: for fun because it's like small and it's you know, cheap,
Speaker 1: and it's really you know, takes two hundred megabytes or
Speaker 1: something like that, Like you download that, let's just pop
Speaker 1: it off. Takes three cyclis to download. I'll do it. Well,
Speaker 1: I couldn't have said it any better myself, you guys.
Speaker 1: Really what I love about these games and this year
Speaker 1: and Gaming Psyche, it's been a real leisure having you
Speaker 1: on where can people find you? Follow you all that
Speaker 1: good stuff. So, as you both mentioned earlier, um, if
Speaker 1: you would like to listen to me talk with three
Speaker 1: other wonderful people about games industry stuff and tex stuff
Speaker 1: and talk to people that we consider to be essentially
Speaker 1: the real life equivalent of video game bosses, We have
Speaker 1: a podcast called Boss Level l v L and you
Speaker 1: can listen to us on I Heart Radio and wherever
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts, and if you want to find me.
Speaker 1: I'm on a twitch as Psyche. I stream a lot
Speaker 1: of different things. I'm very very nerdy as I'm sure
Speaker 1: I totally didn't give that impression at all, but yes,
Speaker 1: you can find me on twitch as Psyche ps y
Speaker 1: c G and Psyche plays on pretty much on social media. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought in social I'm like such a gamer, but
Speaker 1: I thought it was boss and then some Roman numeral like,
Speaker 1: is there a tweet where some of the work of
Speaker 1: social media you've been enjoying? Yes? Actually, so this is
Speaker 1: just a standalone tweet that I saw the other day.
Speaker 1: I do not know the person who posted it at all,
Speaker 1: but it's really stood right to me. The person who
Speaker 1: tweeted it is called Farah underscore Loon, and they said
Speaker 1: recovering people pleasers will be like I'm in my villain
Speaker 1: era and it's just politely drawing healthy boundaries. I felt
Speaker 1: really personally attacked by that, really struggles. That's funny. That
Speaker 1: one was a big one for me. I've really enjoyed that,
Speaker 1: and I keep coming back to it and just having
Speaker 1: a little laughed myself. Yeah, that is I am a
Speaker 1: recovering people pleaser. I don't think I'm even recovering one day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of one days. Yeah, that's why I should I
Speaker 1: should just say I I am I and identified people. Please,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think i've identified the tools yet.
Speaker 1: Super superproducer DJ Daniel. Where does people find you? Follow you,
Speaker 1: hear you all the good stuff? And what is the
Speaker 1: tweet you've been enjoying? Well, I just copy pasted into
Speaker 1: the chats that everybody can see it because there's a
Speaker 1: visual part to it and I want you both to
Speaker 1: be able to see that visual part. But before we
Speaker 1: do that, you can find me on all parts of
Speaker 1: the internet at DJ Underscore Daniel d A n L.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitch Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays
Speaker 1: playing video games, dungeons and dragons, building computers, whatever the
Speaker 1: hell you want. And yes, please listen to the Boss
Speaker 1: Level podcast on iHeart Radio app or wherever you listen
Speaker 1: to podcasts. It's great podcast. We've really awesome guests and
Speaker 1: and frankly, the if the past couple of weeks we've
Speaker 1: had our hosts doing their own Q and A is about,
Speaker 1: you know, their own their own journeys into the streaming
Speaker 1: world to content creation, but also the stuff they used
Speaker 1: to stream, so it's not just you know, kind of
Speaker 1: you know, big picture advice about you know, getting into
Speaker 1: and finding what you want to do, but also very
Speaker 1: like nuts and bolts, like what do we use to
Speaker 1: get it done? So I think it's full chock full
Speaker 1: of incredible information. So check out the Boss Lettle podcast
Speaker 1: on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Apple Podcast or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcast. And the tweet that I
Speaker 1: enjoyed is actually like a response to somebody else talking
Speaker 1: about Mitch McConnell. And I think that the original tweet
Speaker 1: is from Hassan Abi or from Yes saying I want
Speaker 1: to be a percent microplastics and breathe only Cole. Thank god,
Speaker 1: this goatus is stopping the communist federal agencies like the
Speaker 1: EPA from taking minimal action on p f A S
Speaker 1: and CEO two pollution. Obviously that is sarcastic tweet. But
Speaker 1: the tweet that I liked that was response to that
Speaker 1: was Mitch McConnell celebrating his dubs the past few days.
Speaker 1: And it's the weird hand monster from Pans Labyrinth, And
Speaker 1: when you look at it, it's like, look like they're
Speaker 1: doing that. It looks like the throwing up a dub.
Speaker 1: But also that mouth is like exactly Mitch McConnell's mouth,
Speaker 1: Like it really looks like him, and it's really gross,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, yeah, that's that really is what
Speaker 1: he looks like. He is a demon monster from Pans Labyrinth. Anyway,
Speaker 1: shout out that is from at Milano Cookies, which I
Speaker 1: also love. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore. O.
Speaker 1: Brian tweet I've been enjoying. Jamie Climate tweeted the hashtag
Speaker 1: don't look up miss the part where the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: says we can't stop the asteroid because that power wasn't
Speaker 1: written into the constitution in David East tweeted me, good night, Darling.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to be able to fall asleep next
Speaker 1: to you. My girlfriend already rotating like a kebab to
Speaker 1: ensure maximum do Bay theft. And then Jason Pargeon, author
Speaker 1: of Days at the End, tweeted, question, go to Google
Speaker 1: image search and look for a desk ornament and if
Speaker 1: you do, and he said, do you get a bunch
Speaker 1: of Nazi stuff at the top as the top results?
Speaker 1: And sure enough, yeah I did. Yeah, is that shopping
Speaker 1: or images? Holy crap? Images images for desk Ornament. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's so wild. Yeah, it's very strange. Anyways, that's uh
Speaker 1: if he went very viral and some people were like,
Speaker 1: oh ship cracked lives and stuff, and yeah he's been
Speaker 1: out here tweeting interesting stuff like that. Oh he stays,
Speaker 1: Jason stays tweet. He hits, he hits the he hits
Speaker 1: the nerves sometimes at John Dies at the End, which
Speaker 1: is his very popular novel. Um. You can find us
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Speaker 1: post our episodes on our foot no to the information
Speaker 1: that we talked about in today's episode, as well as
Speaker 1: a song that we think it might enjoy. Uh. DJ Daniel, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: for well, I have a song for you, totally for sure.
Speaker 1: Actually I absolutely have a song for you. So there's
Speaker 1: an artist that I really like. His name is Fred Again.
Speaker 1: You can look him up on the Spotify or the
Speaker 1: you know, all the all the stuff, and he just
Speaker 1: released a song that's a collab with Leave with Artet
Speaker 1: called Jungle. Fred to Get is an awesome artist. They
Speaker 1: have produced an album called Actual Life, which was kind
Speaker 1: of like a postal service style album of collecting recordings,
Speaker 1: voice recordings and just like random samples from friends during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, people who were stuck at home, and then
Speaker 1: produced an album out of it. And I say it's
Speaker 1: postal service style because you know, those guys got started
Speaker 1: by just sending each other exactly the origin story and
Speaker 1: then sending stuff from the mail. He received a bunch
Speaker 1: of samples and recordings for friends turned into this awesome album,
Speaker 1: Actual Life, which you should also listen to. But the
Speaker 1: recommendation is the song Jungle by Fred Again, so in
Speaker 1: away that one. Al right, well. The Daily Zye is
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