Speaker 1: Hello Internet, and welcome to Season to forty nine of
Speaker 1: The Daily Zeitgeist. It's also episode one, just so you know,
Speaker 1: because it is a Monday. It's a production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio, and this is a podcast where we take
Speaker 1: a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Monday, August eight,
Speaker 1: eight two. Oh yeah, it's a fantastic day. You say, well,
Speaker 1: what is August eight? And if my browser wasn't going
Speaker 1: to crash all the time, I wouldn't be able to
Speaker 1: reference this material much quicker. In fact, it has lait
Speaker 1: out this crashing again. Oh there it is. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: a nash. It's International Infinity Day, not the car, National
Speaker 1: CBD Day, National Dollar Day, National Frozen Custard Day. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like frozen custard, International Cat Day. I like cats.
Speaker 1: I like frozen custards, CBD whatever, I go. You the
Speaker 1: why what about you, Daniel? You like any of those cats,
Speaker 1: frozen custard, all good things. How about sneak some zup?
Speaker 1: What is that? Sneak some zucchini into your April sports Day?
Speaker 1: See this is when those really this is really getting
Speaker 1: to be too much. You do not need all these
Speaker 1: national days. Well like every day should be one day.
Speaker 1: If we're gonna give it a day. This is the
Speaker 1: custom national day complex that we're seeing, industrial complex at
Speaker 1: work in front of our eyes. Okay, who am I?
Speaker 1: I am Miles Gray a k a. The Lord of
Speaker 1: meger shim at day o NoHo uh. Don't have my
Speaker 1: singing voice on this morning, so I keep it to
Speaker 1: my youthual monikers. But who am I joined by? Well
Speaker 1: you kind of heard me evoked his name a second ago.
Speaker 1: It is Daniel Goodman. But who is he? He is
Speaker 1: a fantastic host, He's a fantastic producer, he is a gamer.
Speaker 1: He's on Twitch. Honestly, he's the man who even got
Speaker 1: me on Twitch. I'm not I'm gonna keep it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep it one thousand with you. The only reason
Speaker 1: I do Twitch is because of Daniel. Okay, all that
Speaker 1: to say, please welcome to the day, Daniel good Man,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having met Mr Miles. There
Speaker 1: is a pleasure to be back. Is DJ Daniel a
Speaker 1: k A. Lanuel As my favorite Rocket League player is
Speaker 1: currently fighting for their life in the World Championships, and
Speaker 1: I'm just praying little Daniel wins it all. And look
Speaker 1: people know you from the scropes podcast stuff what are
Speaker 1: the stuff? You've got? Some game? You know? You know,
Speaker 1: producing a podcast called boss Level, also here on the
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio network, also producing the One Upsmanship podcast,
Speaker 1: doing a little production work on the show Tongue Unbroken,
Speaker 1: an excellent show about language revitalization. Indeed, is couldn't show
Speaker 1: he's gonna be on the show? I think pretty soon?
Speaker 1: Is he really fantastic? He's what? What a fantastic guy
Speaker 1: and what a fantastic product. Go listen to all the
Speaker 1: podcasts I'm working on that Welcome to our show. I
Speaker 1: occasionally appear on that sometimes what did you ever call him? X?
Speaker 1: I should like? I don't know if because I'm like
Speaker 1: all more like, yo, what's up? People don't know I'm
Speaker 1: throwing up like the BRONX, like the rough Rider X
Speaker 1: right now exactly. They they can't see a podcast a
Speaker 1: classically visual medium, but yeah, you know they excess and
Speaker 1: the XS is truly in the air right now. In
Speaker 1: a shout out to X to the you yeah, and
Speaker 1: go listen to the Tongue I'm broken into great podcast
Speaker 1: colsted all the podcasts, and then come watch me on Twitch.
Speaker 1: Sometimes shout TV, SLUSHDJ Underscore, Damn. Okay, we'll do plugs later. Okay, look,
Speaker 1: we'll do thanks. You know, don't don't don't be don't
Speaker 1: be breathing up all the plug error immediately. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: keep going. Who do we have in our third seat? Well,
Speaker 1: we have basically a legend in the podcast game. This
Speaker 1: is somebody who's had pretty much any position you've had
Speaker 1: in what she would describe, and I think most of
Speaker 1: us would describe as big podcasting. Maybe you heard a
Speaker 1: w n y C where a lot of the Goat
Speaker 1: podcasts emanate from. Maybe you heard a Stitcher where a
Speaker 1: lot of our friends have shows on that network as well.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know her work from I don't know, Revisionist History,
Speaker 1: The Dream, or Bad Blood. If you mess with Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Holmes please. Oh and also I would be remiss to
Speaker 1: not mention her latest show, Shameless Acquisition, target about podcast
Speaker 1: acquisitions in which the aim is to sell out as
Speaker 1: quickly as possible and have the show acquired, which I
Speaker 1: think is a very noble pursuit. Please, welcome to the microphone,
Speaker 1: Laura Mayor. Thank you for having me. You know, I
Speaker 1: never had like a wedding reception and I feel like
Speaker 1: I just got introduced as my own couple. Did you wait,
Speaker 1: you referenced a partner a spouse here? I got married,
Speaker 1: But we didn't. We just we got married at Staten
Speaker 1: Island Borrow Hall, Okay, and then I did a podcast
Speaker 1: the next day. But we didn't do a party. We
Speaker 1: never did a party. And we're like, we'll do a party,
Speaker 1: We'll do a party. We never did a party. The
Speaker 1: only reason to get married is did to do a party? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was it because a pandemic? No, this happened like ten
Speaker 1: years ago. Oh wow, let's throw a party for free?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for free, for as long as I want, right, yes,
Speaker 1: any time. Yeah, he'll bring all the equipment, he'll bring
Speaker 1: all the people, bring the p a. He'll bring a
Speaker 1: sub war for what you say you have like a
Speaker 1: forty in sub you can bring, yeah, an industrial sub.
Speaker 1: I'll be there with all the sound. Also, like, I
Speaker 1: have a bunch of friends who have kids who are
Speaker 1: like twelve thirteen, So can you like, how are you
Speaker 1: good at? Like can you get a bar butt mitz
Speaker 1: for dance floor going? Oh? Yeah, I mean you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't know. That's Daniel and I. We used to
Speaker 1: moonlight as bar mitzvah pump up dancers. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. They'd be hiring people with high
Speaker 1: energy to go to these bani mitsvas. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean because I respect the culture, but yeah, you
Speaker 1: would go up turn ups. Daniel would do like a
Speaker 1: back flip and ship I would do some fired dancing,
Speaker 1: and then they would ask us to leave because we
Speaker 1: weren't hired by the people throwing. But well that's what
Speaker 1: would happen at my wedding ceremony ten minutes after or
Speaker 1: ten minutes excuse me, ten years after. So thank you
Speaker 1: for volunteering your your labor for absolutely that's not like
Speaker 1: most pleasure. Yeah, I just had a wedding, and so
Speaker 1: the best part was the dancing and not the like
Speaker 1: the the vows of stuff. I definitely got emotional, but
Speaker 1: I'm a dancer, you know. The love part was okay,
Speaker 1: the love dancing. The love parties infinite. The love part
Speaker 1: is all. The love party is just your day to day.
Speaker 1: But it's a big existing condition. Exactly, thank you, exactly
Speaker 1: exactly you pinpointed it. But it's not having everybody together
Speaker 1: and watching your dad turn up to like future you
Speaker 1: know that feels like a moment. You know, he was like,
Speaker 1: what is this? I'm like future, It's like okay, I
Speaker 1: mean I'm in my scumbag era like, hey, let's go
Speaker 1: all right, Lord, we're gonna get to know you a
Speaker 1: little bit better. But first we're gonna tell people what
Speaker 1: we're talking about today. I just want to let people
Speaker 1: know Darth Vader has entered the chat. And by Darth Vader,
Speaker 1: I mean Dick Cheney. He's got something to say about
Speaker 1: this old Trump thing. Good, good to see, good to
Speaker 1: see the devil himself reappear. Then we'll talk about, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Warner Brothers, Discovery, HBO Max stuff that's been going on.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of us have been like, that's
Speaker 1: my favorite service right now, though, how can I get
Speaker 1: high and go from watching Batman the animated series, to
Speaker 1: Aquitine Hunger Force, to Princess Mononoke to Boondocks in one go,
Speaker 1: in one place. That's HBO Max. Anyway, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: their CEO because looking at this man and the comparisons
Speaker 1: that are being made to Jack Donneghy from thirty Rock,
Speaker 1: you'll begin to understand what might be happening there and
Speaker 1: what what's coming down the road. Then gotta check it
Speaker 1: with hip hop my first love because Hennessy has been
Speaker 1: usurped and all must hail Cosa Migos as the most
Speaker 1: referenced liquor brand. Now there's a really interesting piece from
Speaker 1: Hannah Jurgis in The Atlantic sort of analyzing this shift
Speaker 1: from Hennessy to Cosa Migos and like there's even like
Speaker 1: looking at genius, like rap genius, like lyrics, like doing
Speaker 1: analysis of lyrics you can see like the moment where
Speaker 1: like the two paths like intersect and one's going down
Speaker 1: and the other's skyrocketing, which is very interesting. And we
Speaker 1: might even talk about some of the stuff like public libraries.
Speaker 1: But first we got to ask our guest, Laura Mayor
Speaker 1: in New York right now, what is something from your
Speaker 1: search history that is revealing about who you are? Well,
Speaker 1: so I have a kid, which is relevant because when
Speaker 1: you have a kid, all you do is just, at
Speaker 1: least in my experience, is you look up like rashes
Speaker 1: and be like is this a normal rash or is
Speaker 1: this a problematic rash? And the problem with that rabbit
Speaker 1: hole is, you know, the Internet doesn't show texture. They
Speaker 1: don't the Internet does not stop you from looking into
Speaker 1: rashes for like twenty minutes, forty minutes whatever, and so
Speaker 1: um my most recent my kid has a rash just
Speaker 1: because she's a white girl. She's got a rash. All
Speaker 1: white girls have. It could be anything. It's always nothing.
Speaker 1: So I have been looking up rashes and I have
Speaker 1: a great new business idea, which is I think that
Speaker 1: someone should start a website that's just called normal rash
Speaker 1: dot org. It needs to be a nonprofit and it's
Speaker 1: just like she has pictures are just like, this is
Speaker 1: just a normal rash, nothing to worry about, and then
Speaker 1: you go to it and then you stop looking up rashes.
Speaker 1: This is I think that's genius in the sense that
Speaker 1: like you're inverting the our relationship to medical information because
Speaker 1: normally what we're doing is we're trying to say, like
Speaker 1: the Internet is like, well, here's the worst ship that
Speaker 1: can happen, and we're like, I don't know. That takes
Speaker 1: most of those boxes. I think that's it, and versus
Speaker 1: being like how much do I have in common with
Speaker 1: this thing that is actually benign or not as intense
Speaker 1: or something I can clear up like with whatever. I
Speaker 1: think it's a very interesting inversion of energy. Yeah, anytime
Speaker 1: I can google something and not walk away thinking like
Speaker 1: I need to amputate just everything. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: have one now. Normal rash dot org would have no
Speaker 1: doctors involved, No doctors, vibes doesn't matter. Just yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm only going to a vibe doctor these days, that's all.
Speaker 1: And they're so many of them you just text. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like my high blood pressure, I don't know, you're
Speaker 1: calling it white coat syndrome. That's because your vibe is off.
Speaker 1: As a doctor. When I'm near you, my blood pressure
Speaker 1: goes off. That's why I can't come here. I need
Speaker 1: a vibe, yes, exactly. The other thing is like, why
Speaker 1: aren't all the like Web three con artists like promising
Speaker 1: this to us as part of Web three, Like you said,
Speaker 1: like your monitors should be able to have textures. So
Speaker 1: you're like, let me touch this on the screen, and
Speaker 1: then you're like, wow, yeah no, that's not how we're
Speaker 1: really now, we're really getting technological with it. I like this.
Speaker 1: I mean every time all the stuff they promised, I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's not interesting to me. Like let me smell wearable
Speaker 1: are the coolest things to me? Right? And then it
Speaker 1: would allow for my other greatest idea, which is a
Speaker 1: reality show called America's Next Top Textile, which is just
Speaker 1: that people make textiles and then you you decide which
Speaker 1: one is the best. That's how I feel like watching
Speaker 1: Top Chef because you can't taste the food. It's like
Speaker 1: looks good. But America's Next Top Textile with feeler vision, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go, free ideas and smell vision. You know.
Speaker 1: I remember, like my mom and grandmother love to so
Speaker 1: like my grandmother like pretty much only made her own
Speaker 1: clothing rule and so I remember as a kid we
Speaker 1: go to like Joeanne Fabrics and stuff for like other
Speaker 1: fabric places. I remember all the time like I would
Speaker 1: just take a big thing of fabricies go like because
Speaker 1: I just wanted to see the factories. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I feel that that's honestly popping up in a can
Speaker 1: of tennis balls. Same ex Pop it open, just take
Speaker 1: a deep breath. Also side note, feel a vision. If
Speaker 1: Fila ever makes sunglasses, feel a vision, need to do it. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a collapad waiting to happen. Dan, what I say
Speaker 1: about giving away free ideas, Man, I'm just sorry. They
Speaker 1: just pop out of my head and I can't do
Speaker 1: nothing to stop. Hey, Mrs Phila call us, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. We got ideas, Laura. Let's move on.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is underrated? Under it? You
Speaker 1: know what jumping rope? Jumping rope like as an exercise,
Speaker 1: as an art. I call it pounding twine sometimes in
Speaker 1: my little day because I jump rope five days a week.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I'm not that rope, pound that twine
Speaker 1: and it's all you need. I got into it during
Speaker 1: the initial COVID lockdown. Yes I knew. The next question
Speaker 1: is do you do CrossFit? Shamefully? Yes, I do do CrossFit.
Speaker 1: I do Olympic lifting and all that other kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: That is my only hobby. You can hit a pull
Speaker 1: up too, I saw that on your Twitter. I can
Speaker 1: That's a chin up, but I'll take it. I put
Speaker 1: up so harder. I can't do that yet but soon,
Speaker 1: he look soon, just give me another five years. You
Speaker 1: can do it. I'll take it. I'll take it. Never mind. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can do like doing workouts on the fucking crosswalk
Speaker 1: sign like. I've seen your videos. I've seen your TikTok
Speaker 1: street workout again, Fila where are you. I will put
Speaker 1: shoes on while and I do that now I do
Speaker 1: a barefoot But the pounding twine is great for cardiovascular health.
Speaker 1: They could help with your white coat hypertension. Just saying.
Speaker 1: It's also a really good rabbit hole. The fall down
Speaker 1: on the internet because some people are like incredibly good
Speaker 1: at jumping rope and wild stuff like just and it's
Speaker 1: it's it never gets old. I find it very soothing.
Speaker 1: I could stay away from Reddit jump rope talk, however,
Speaker 1: because it's a very competitive environment and I just want
Speaker 1: to get to stay away from Reddit. It's a double sword.
Speaker 1: You lurk, but don't it's good to lurk as good
Speaker 1: as I treated as a one way thing. There's only
Speaker 1: a couple of subs I engage in it. Y'all will
Speaker 1: never know. But and then sometimes they get weird in there,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I gotta go, I gotta yeah. It's
Speaker 1: always me like going. I just I'm in our conservative
Speaker 1: and I'm always playing Devil's advocate. I'm like, well, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean like, I feel like libraries are good,
Speaker 1: even if there are drag queens in there, and then
Speaker 1: they're just like and then your phone just blows up
Speaker 1: forever and then you have to flush it down the toilet.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna stay there. I stay there and all
Speaker 1: they try and ban me, wants to create a new name. Sorry,
Speaker 1: when was the last time you all jump rope? Just quickly,
Speaker 1: I know we're moving on. I'm not great at it,
Speaker 1: but I did do it, like a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: someone how to jump rope around and I was just
Speaker 1: kind of just doing it. But I'm I'm not going
Speaker 1: to skip. Yeah, Daniel, I think it last time it
Speaker 1: was over over three years ago. Most certainly. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of the last time I was in a
Speaker 1: gym specific. Oh, that's definitely seen them. I've seen them
Speaker 1: hanging right and I don't even like, okay, let me
Speaker 1: hit a jump. Yeah, but it's been it's been a minute.
Speaker 1: But big big fan of of the rope, big fan
Speaker 1: of the twine. If you are a pounding twine, sounds
Speaker 1: like a blast and a half. Yeah, it's that like
Speaker 1: a that sounds like a great TikTok channel, Just like
Speaker 1: compiling the best like jump rope videos. And I don't
Speaker 1: mean to make more work for people out there, but
Speaker 1: I mean I thought about it. I thought about it,
Speaker 1: that's all. I used TikTok for Yeah. Wait, so how long?
Speaker 1: Like what's the session for you? Like, what's the workout
Speaker 1: for you? How long are you jumping? Well, So I
Speaker 1: do it in intervals, and I usually do it at
Speaker 1: the end of my lifting. Everyone should know that I'm
Speaker 1: a Petit don't look like I lift weights, but I
Speaker 1: lift weights very in a very dedicated manner. For like
Speaker 1: the five last five years, with the exception of being pregnant,
Speaker 1: I've been putting picking up weights and putting them down
Speaker 1: at least three or four days a week, so I've
Speaker 1: been pounding the plates. So regardless, I end all of
Speaker 1: my sessions with like a ten minute interval, one minute on,
Speaker 1: wo minute off, so it's five minutes of jumping and
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really bad at it, but I'm really devoted.
Speaker 1: So I'm working on stringing together as many double enders
Speaker 1: as possible so I can really feel like I belong
Speaker 1: in the boxing ring, which is my ultimate goal, probably right,
Speaker 1: because that seems to be where media is going, like
Speaker 1: that's what everyone that does. That was big on YouTube now,
Speaker 1: So yeah, punch and ship. So yeah, So I do
Speaker 1: an intervals I used to start at longer rest. I
Speaker 1: would do thirty seconds on forty five seconds off. But uh,
Speaker 1: that's the way I suggest, and it's a good cheap
Speaker 1: way just to get the get those knees moving, that
Speaker 1: heart pumping. I had a friend who was doing that
Speaker 1: and they were just doing I remember They're like, I'm
Speaker 1: trying something new. I'm like, I'm just doing sit ups,
Speaker 1: push ups and jumping rope and like they ended up
Speaker 1: looking like a dude from the sixties. Ship. It was like,
Speaker 1: you look like a picture of my dad, like when
Speaker 1: there was less processed foods in America. Very interesting, very
Speaker 1: interesting regiment. The thing that I'm always like in awe
Speaker 1: of people who jump rope is when they get started,
Speaker 1: because I get lost on TikTok jump ropers, and when
Speaker 1: they do like that ship to the side, like casual
Speaker 1: side and they're like in it, I'm like, what the
Speaker 1: how the fund did you do that? How do you
Speaker 1: make that trip? How do you do that? How do
Speaker 1: you let go of the rope. It's so personal too,
Speaker 1: like everyone's got their sweats that they've determined at some
Speaker 1: point in their jump rope process. I currently have known none,
Speaker 1: but maybe maybe I should start with a should come
Speaker 1: up with a creative kind of intro to my jump roping,
Speaker 1: and that that will just really allow things to click
Speaker 1: and pretty danced. Like I think maybe that's why even
Speaker 1: though it's like exercising, you can see that there's like
Speaker 1: a technique because even like when you watch boxers do it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, how rhythm rhythm is a dancer? As
Speaker 1: we were once told Laura, what is something you think
Speaker 1: is overrated? Probably graduate school. I didn't do it, but
Speaker 1: as I'm doing this show about like business a couple
Speaker 1: of years right like at the beginning of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I'm gonna be I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to business school. And so I bought all these books
Speaker 1: and then I signed it for a class on zoom
Speaker 1: to learn how to pass the class, and I made
Speaker 1: it two weeks and I was like, I don't care
Speaker 1: about this. I don't want to go to there, like
Speaker 1: I can't do it, uh, and so instead, but I
Speaker 1: didn't and I got a refund. I got a partial
Speaker 1: refund on the class due to I don't remember, but
Speaker 1: I didn't tell my husband, who at that time was
Speaker 1: just downstairs because we were just in the house that
Speaker 1: I had stopped doing the class, and so it's sort
Speaker 1: of like those businessmen who have gotten fired from their
Speaker 1: jobs but still leave their house to go to the
Speaker 1: office all day. But I was doing that for like
Speaker 1: five to six hours a week every weekend. I love,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't know it, and he's going to listen
Speaker 1: to this podcast. So I wanted I wanted to save
Speaker 1: an exclusive. Yeah, I love Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: revealing those kinds of dark seas about on this show.
Speaker 1: Monday's Dinner about to be interesting. Yeah right, You're like, huh,
Speaker 1: so what were you doing? What? Well, I legit looked
Speaker 1: into downloading snood on my computer. I started playing the
Speaker 1: SIMS again. I am not kidding. Yeah, I made a
Speaker 1: town in which I named everyone my first and last name,
Speaker 1: and then I just and everyone looked the same, and
Speaker 1: I just let everyone like it just totally went to hell.
Speaker 1: And I did that for a number of weeks, and
Speaker 1: then I was like, I'm good at it. I'm good
Speaker 1: at NBA class now, and everyone was like okay, And
Speaker 1: then I took the test. I had a friend who
Speaker 1: did that when my first year of college, like one
Speaker 1: of my like homes, he was going to this community
Speaker 1: college and he fucking hate he just he's one of
Speaker 1: those people's not out for academia, but like followed the
Speaker 1: progression of high school, you go to college. But really
Speaker 1: for him, he's like, I'll just take over my dad's
Speaker 1: real estate business. You know. Like it's kind of like
Speaker 1: not not much motivation with academia because like you can
Speaker 1: kind of tell you, like, I'm pretty sure this is
Speaker 1: how my life is gonna be anyway, so like fuck it.
Speaker 1: But he gave up on college so quick. But when
Speaker 1: he was living at home, he was doing the same
Speaker 1: ship where he stopped going like after the third week
Speaker 1: and had to do a whole fucking year okay of
Speaker 1: leaving his house, and then he would go to the
Speaker 1: Ralph's parking lot. He's fine, he's fine, he's doing he's
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I'm sure I got up to all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff in the Ralph's parking lot. Oh he
Speaker 1: slept because he would just like he would like party
Speaker 1: with us and we'd be like, yeah, we got class.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh right, right right, And then what he
Speaker 1: would do is be like, yeah, I'm going to class,
Speaker 1: like and just drive up the block and just leaving
Speaker 1: the Ralph's parking lot. We see are you turning right
Speaker 1: into the lot? I can see your car from the house.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. I was in the Ralphs of my mind
Speaker 1: during that period of time. Look, we've all, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we've all done the pretend to go somewhere
Speaker 1: thing at some point. Maybe not for the most nefarious reasons,
Speaker 1: but you know we've all done it. Yeah there, you know, Look,
Speaker 1: deception of bounds. Okay, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back to talk about the dark sith
Speaker 1: Lord of politics. Dick Cheney's return turned right after this,
Speaker 1: and we're back. Do you hear that? Do you do? There?
Speaker 1: Is there a chill in the air? Do you hear
Speaker 1: someone's respirator box going? We all talk about George Bush too,
Speaker 1: and how bad he was her He was a stupid
Speaker 1: Let's let's be real, Donald rumpsfell, Dick Cheney and the
Speaker 1: whole gang behind him. It was really pulling fucking strings.
Speaker 1: And anyway, speaking of that, we got to talk about
Speaker 1: Liz Cheney, right, Liz Cheney is having a bit of
Speaker 1: a chain of soance, a bit of a revolution and
Speaker 1: or evolution, and how we view her, But because of
Speaker 1: her role in the January six Committee, a lot of
Speaker 1: people like, oh my god, yes, without being like hold on,
Speaker 1: she was basically a Trump rubber stamp up until that time.
Speaker 1: And the only thing was she just thought the Big
Speaker 1: Lie was a bridge too far. Now, whether that was
Speaker 1: because of her own opportunism, because she is a political creature,
Speaker 1: or actual moral scruples tb D. But I'm just saying
Speaker 1: the bar is pretty low for us to be like
Speaker 1: on the floor exactly. But yeah, she's she's effectively put
Speaker 1: herself along with Adam Kinzinger and the I guess they
Speaker 1: are in touch with reality Republicans group. But sadly because
Speaker 1: of her you know, lack of excite men for the
Speaker 1: Big Lie in overturning an election, this means that she
Speaker 1: has been in the crosshairs of Maga world. She's been
Speaker 1: you know, called everything under the sun or rhino whatever.
Speaker 1: She's getting primarried is getting pretty heated. And but luckily
Speaker 1: for Liz Cheney, she's got a scary dad. Now, how
Speaker 1: much her scary dad can do is yet to be
Speaker 1: you know, clear to us, But it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a good thing sometimes when you're running in the Republican
Speaker 1: Party and you can be like, my dad is fucking
Speaker 1: dick war crimes Cheney. Okay, well are you serious? He's
Speaker 1: the fucking god of this fuck up party. Like let's
Speaker 1: go and yeah, he dropped an ad. What do you
Speaker 1: think would you? Does that make you feel good to
Speaker 1: have Darth Vader is your dead? No? Okay? Yes? And
Speaker 1: because Skywalker technically okay, I guess technically, you know, when
Speaker 1: you're weighing the positive, you're you're weighing the positive negatives
Speaker 1: in your own personal party right there. You'd hope that
Speaker 1: that name has some weight to your people. But the
Speaker 1: way that it's it's leaking into the Democrats being like
Speaker 1: you know, she's actually dealing with right thing, it's just, oh,
Speaker 1: we're doing this again again when we're rooting for the
Speaker 1: absolute worst people, and it's just like, please please don't
Speaker 1: applaud them for doing absolutely one tiny et bt thing
Speaker 1: and slightly correct. Yeah exactly. We're acting as if like
Speaker 1: Micrometer off the ground is like like ascending into the heavens.
Speaker 1: We're like, no, no, no no, that's you're still I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for like a bad viral tweet where someone calls let's
Speaker 1: chaney a girl boss, in which case I'm just done.
Speaker 1: I'm just done because it feels like that sort of vibe.
Speaker 1: Yesification exactly, Yeah, we want to avoid that. But her dad, dude,
Speaker 1: I mean of you know, always the evil ones lived
Speaker 1: the longest. That's just sadly like the rule of our universe.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, he cut this ad where he's just
Speaker 1: looking straight down the barrel of the lens and he's
Speaker 1: coming for Donald Trump. And again he's old and he
Speaker 1: has like evil, old white guy energy toppy ship. So
Speaker 1: it's not gonna sound like, you know, the most epic slam,
Speaker 1: but instructive nonetheless, to see where Darth Vader lands on
Speaker 1: all of this. Here we go. Let's hear a little bit.
Speaker 1: And our nation is two dred and forty six year history.
Speaker 1: There has never been an individual who is a greater
Speaker 1: threat to our republic than Donald Trump. But he tried
Speaker 1: to steal the last election, using lies and violence to
Speaker 1: keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him.
Speaker 1: He's a coward. A real man wouldn't lie to his supporters.
Speaker 1: He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it.
Speaker 1: He knows it, and deep down I think most Republicans
Speaker 1: know it. Lynn and I are so proud of Liz.
Speaker 1: All right. So he goes on now pivots to being like, look,
Speaker 1: let's change is the goat. I hope you vote for her.
Speaker 1: I'm going to vote for her. Blah blah blah. But
Speaker 1: he's coming out and he's like he's a coward, he
Speaker 1: knows he's wrong, blah blah blah. I just love the
Speaker 1: fucking irony of this man being like he used deception
Speaker 1: and violence to stay empower. I'm like, sir, sir, he
Speaker 1: asked me, Yeah, he's sticking. See when I first saw
Speaker 1: that ad like part of me was like, we're sure
Speaker 1: he's not dead, right, Like he's not dead because that's
Speaker 1: a little it's a little ghostie Like it's like have
Speaker 1: you ever had that experience when you you know, something
Speaker 1: happens and you're like this just feels off and you
Speaker 1: think like am I asleep? Or am I dead? Or
Speaker 1: they dead? Like that's the one of us. Someone's dead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good way to hide the puppet hand in the back room.
Speaker 1: Good good, good good fault. I mean, yeah, the energy
Speaker 1: doesn't have like their shame, grumbling snarkly like Dick Cheney,
Speaker 1: of like the ox that you know, we we enjoyed.
Speaker 1: But look he's been through a lot. Didn't he kill
Speaker 1: his friend on a hunting trip? So look he's something
Speaker 1: like that? Also, are we are? Is the is the
Speaker 1: jup anti glasses? Now? Is like, is there like an
Speaker 1: anti glasses thing? Because Dick Cheney very famous, look with
Speaker 1: those glasses and just deciding not to wear them right
Speaker 1: now me thinks cowboy had no glasses, is like, look,
Speaker 1: you gotta really kind of actually, you know, I gotta
Speaker 1: bring in the sponsor Lasi. He actually got the same
Speaker 1: procedure done I did, and look you see him better
Speaker 1: than he was before the glasses, So shout out to Lacey. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I can see how it's
Speaker 1: only certain people write in the GOP that wear glasses.
Speaker 1: It's like you do that if you're either what I
Speaker 1: call them is I'm sorry glasses is what we see
Speaker 1: is you will deploy I'm sorry, glad. This is any
Speaker 1: This is across those political spectrum, there's there. They are
Speaker 1: very there's a very specific look, especially men adopt where
Speaker 1: suddenly they are bespectacled individuals and they're like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it was such a lapse of judgment and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: or like you see motherfucker's pull up in court for
Speaker 1: their trial and you're like, oh no, you got glasses now, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, glasses on. So you know it's soft instant.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're legal scholar, I guess you can
Speaker 1: claim the classes. But yeah, it's it's it is really
Speaker 1: something to watch, like Dick Cheney try and be like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm agreeing with Dick Cheney, but this is
Speaker 1: two and my brain has been hurting for ages now,
Speaker 1: so it's you did you dead? You sure you're alive?
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure. Yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: could have been a deep fake to like, if Liz
Speaker 1: Cheney is as diabolical as her dad, I would be like,
Speaker 1: at one point, she's like, you are known, you are
Speaker 1: no longer useful unless second they bring out your corporal
Speaker 1: existence from my own, you know, fucking advantage. So who knows.
Speaker 1: I actually liked that version better. Yeah, that tracks more
Speaker 1: with the Cheney family that like Liz is actually she's
Speaker 1: actually the horrible one. She really truly the whole time.
Speaker 1: What is she doing to that poor old man? Okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on to the Warner Brothers Discovery plus HBO
Speaker 1: Max gotta go fiasco right right, Look, I've I know
Speaker 1: a few people who had things in the in the
Speaker 1: works at HBO Max. I feel like a lot of
Speaker 1: people did. There was a lot of momentum going. It
Speaker 1: seemed like HBO Max from my perspective, was so far
Speaker 1: are doing the best out of all the streaming platforms,
Speaker 1: like in terms of stream war content. I was like,
Speaker 1: y'all got a lot of the stuff I'm into, like
Speaker 1: the rehearsal, all those animated things I've talked about, the
Speaker 1: HBO Catalgs, Warner brother Cat everything. They got so much stuff.
Speaker 1: And then suddenly, like things started happening like weeks ago,
Speaker 1: right where like suddenly certain deals weren't happening, and they're
Speaker 1: not necessarily top like major talent deals, but I could
Speaker 1: begin to hear like in the entertainment space like oh
Speaker 1: this thing folded. Oh this thing I'm oh, they're not
Speaker 1: gonna do this anymore. Oh wait, this whole department is gone.
Speaker 1: And I thought something was going on. And then the
Speaker 1: last week we really began to see the extent of it,
Speaker 1: because I think the big thing that everyone was talking
Speaker 1: about was the canning of the Batgirl film. And you know,
Speaker 1: you're looking at that and you're like, the amount of
Speaker 1: money that was spent, how are what what? Dollars nine million?
Speaker 1: But the reason why is because it was a tax
Speaker 1: right down they said tax right off cannon to save
Speaker 1: money on taxes. So because of that, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: what what is going on? Our writer Jam was like,
Speaker 1: let's take a look at the new CEO of Warner
Speaker 1: Brothers Discovery. This man named David Zaslov, who was the
Speaker 1: head of just Discovery like Keg Boss, Shark Week, Discovery,
Speaker 1: that's their bag, that's what he does. And then he
Speaker 1: facilitated this merger and suddenly we're seeing significant layoffs all
Speaker 1: over the place. Just so you know, just for like
Speaker 1: Shepherd NG or quote unquote putting together the merger, Zaslov
Speaker 1: made two hundred forty six million dollars. Okay, do you
Speaker 1: know that that's actually more than the budget for Avatar.
Speaker 1: Just to give you a perspective, this fucking guy got
Speaker 1: the budget for Avatar for completely fucking up our content offering.
Speaker 1: And I know where we're talking like nine there there
Speaker 1: are many avatars coming down the pipe. The very first Avatar,
Speaker 1: the James Cameron film, the Seminole like VFX Blockbuster smashing
Speaker 1: to six million. He's getting that as just like a
Speaker 1: thank you payment for all of this ship. So it's
Speaker 1: it's always good to kind of put things into perspective,
Speaker 1: because I didn't even have to buy a lot of ticket. No, Like,
Speaker 1: the most I can conceive of is a million dollars,
Speaker 1: and that's only because the McDonald's monopoly game, Like that's
Speaker 1: the most money I can and then everything else like
Speaker 1: has to be in terms of like movie budgets or
Speaker 1: and now he just has to wear those three D
Speaker 1: glasses all the time. And then he's just like one
Speaker 1: of these spreadsheets makes sense. I'm firing everybody, right right,
Speaker 1: Avatar or is like new thing is like what if
Speaker 1: we did all our reports in three D innovating, innovating, innovating.
Speaker 1: I'm David. So this has been a whole fiasco, especially
Speaker 1: for the people who have been working for the newly
Speaker 1: merged company. Like he's forcing people to go back to
Speaker 1: the office. We all are very very well aware COVID
Speaker 1: is still a thing. We're still of a pandemic, just
Speaker 1: because the government has given up on helping people. Doesn't
Speaker 1: mean it's less of an issue for many people who
Speaker 1: are out there, especially if they're immunocompromised or live with
Speaker 1: other people. So I think most of us understand the
Speaker 1: the shittiness of someone who's like, yeah, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: back in all the time because I want Shark week
Speaker 1: or whatever. A lot of people who have been talking
Speaker 1: to like just journalists around about like this merger, they
Speaker 1: describe it as quote, you know, like with Zaslav at
Speaker 1: the Helm here, they say it's been described it as
Speaker 1: quote McDonald's has bought a Michelin Star restaurant and thinks
Speaker 1: they know how to run and it's a little it
Speaker 1: feels like a little generous on both ends to be
Speaker 1: honest with which they called it. They called HBO Max
Speaker 1: the Michilon Star restaurant right there. Yeah, we gotta work
Speaker 1: on we gotta work on that apple. Okay, So wait, wait,
Speaker 1: so who has a Mischilin Star? If you I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I want to go there with you. You're saying it's
Speaker 1: not what is a James Beard Award winner. We'll take
Speaker 1: We'll take that. I'm just saying their app is not great.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about user experience. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's
Speaker 1: what's are you? What's the who is the best front
Speaker 1: of the house as far as the streaming apps are concerned,
Speaker 1: I feel like a great question. I think I think
Speaker 1: you know what. Honestly, it feels like it's a taking
Speaker 1: from a little bit of everybody. It's your continue watching
Speaker 1: from Netflix, which just allows you to pick up where
Speaker 1: you left off from your five months of everything that
Speaker 1: you've watched. Like I was watching that and I did
Speaker 1: want to keep watching that. Thank you. It's your it's
Speaker 1: your television show browsing of Hulu, it's your selection maybe
Speaker 1: of HBO Max. But like nobody gets in right and
Speaker 1: to call any of them good. Let me just tell
Speaker 1: you something. The absolute worst to be fair as Paramount plus.
Speaker 1: Paramount plus is just absolutely but that's will crash if
Speaker 1: you pause. The fact that you pause a show and
Speaker 1: it shows you an ad for another show. What if
Speaker 1: I want to see something on the screen, What if
Speaker 1: I want to hate pause? You see that thing in
Speaker 1: the background. No, sorry, you have to see an ad
Speaker 1: for some other show on Paramount Plus. I was trying
Speaker 1: to watch players kind thank you, But yeah, I I
Speaker 1: totally agree. It's it's pretty fine, well we'll call it
Speaker 1: a food truck bought a chain restaurant. There we go.
Speaker 1: We'll about that. Okay, we'll just keep it very vague.
Speaker 1: What's beck arouldmos chiming in the chest? She said. Super
Speaker 1: producer back around said the way I couldn't finish a
Speaker 1: movie on Paramount Plus because it kept crashing exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: I haven't tried to watch like you know, old um
Speaker 1: a Real World road Rules, the Challenge and ship on
Speaker 1: there and that. Yeah, I've burned through that catalog. I'm
Speaker 1: not a tough are you. It's uh so have you?
Speaker 1: I will say what Paramount and and listen as someone
Speaker 1: who's trying to get themselves shamelessly acquired. I will take
Speaker 1: money from anyone. I'll take money from Dick Cheney. I'm
Speaker 1: going on the record. I'm just kidding. I want already did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's great at Venmo and he knows how to do
Speaker 1: drive it. Those payments come quick quick, you don't even
Speaker 1: need to send the invoice. But but I have watched
Speaker 1: the only show I've watched since my child has been born,
Speaker 1: which is like a long time ago, just like so
Speaker 1: much of the Challenge and that, like Real World back
Speaker 1: to basics, like the tech, like the twenty years after
Speaker 1: thing Paramount plus thank you for that, you know, thank you.
Speaker 1: The l A one was a little uncomfortable, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: To watch them not be able to grapple with like
Speaker 1: rape culture. I was like, boy, can anyone helps facilitate
Speaker 1: a real conversation here because it's not gonna be that
Speaker 1: TV screen or whatever they that was. So I'm sort
Speaker 1: completely this a way, if anybody saw that, for all
Speaker 1: the geriatric millennials out there, you already remember what had
Speaker 1: with David and Tammy, and like the two rippy situation,
Speaker 1: they revisit that in a not in a way that
Speaker 1: I felt was a complete disservice to everybody involved. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the challenge I came back because as people know, when
Speaker 1: d M passed away, I couldn't watch. I felt really
Speaker 1: bad and I stopped watching the challenge. And then because
Speaker 1: so many guests come on they're like, man, I love
Speaker 1: the challenge. I was like, you know what, I think
Speaker 1: I've I think i've there's been enough space and now
Speaker 1: I love it because it's what I call it, Geriatric
Speaker 1: Millennial Olympics is what the challenges keep it away from
Speaker 1: David's as love though you know, write it away exactly,
Speaker 1: keep it absolutely away. So back to David, right, they
Speaker 1: call him Jack Donaghy or people have been like, this
Speaker 1: guy's like Jack Donneghy Alec Baldwin's character in thirty Rock,
Speaker 1: because he's just so just like myopically only interested in
Speaker 1: the bottom line. He's like a pure capitalist. He doesn't
Speaker 1: even know what creativity is. He's just like, what is
Speaker 1: money doing now? And again, like we're saying that girl,
Speaker 1: that's a pure business decision. That's saying, oh, yeah, we
Speaker 1: can offset some tax ship off of that. So along
Speaker 1: with the school sequel that they also did the same
Speaker 1: thing too, So he's starting to see, Okay, that's not
Speaker 1: important because many people are like, you've got an American
Speaker 1: Dominican in the lead, you have a Filipino transactor and
Speaker 1: Ivrea Kino, like there's great representation for trans people in
Speaker 1: the Superhero feature. Hello, you also got Brendan Fraser, you
Speaker 1: got Michael Keaton, j K. Simmons. People were like, this,
Speaker 1: what the fun is going on? Like a slamdog? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then what's wild is? And then will you compare
Speaker 1: that to the fact that Ezra Miller is still out
Speaker 1: here cooking, because that's also a decision that Zaslav could
Speaker 1: have made. You're like, I'm sorry, who is who's in there? Hello?
Speaker 1: Who's in there? What are y'all doing in there? Isn't
Speaker 1: a bunch of spooky white sheets in there? Well? It
Speaker 1: might be actually because a lot of other people who
Speaker 1: have been critical of his like leadership style is that
Speaker 1: it is very white male at Discovery, Warner Brothers or
Speaker 1: this new company and just in general his his past, right,
Speaker 1: all six seats on the board are filled with white men.
Speaker 1: And he's told his friends in Hollywood as he was
Speaker 1: like putting this team together, like as the merger was happening,
Speaker 1: that he would hire the best people he would find.
Speaker 1: Gender and racial diversity, while a factor, would not be
Speaker 1: his top priority, he said for doing that like sort
Speaker 1: of like white supremacist thing of like it's really just
Speaker 1: it's really not about that, Like I'm just looking for
Speaker 1: the best people in best positions. Who's the best who's
Speaker 1: available for golf when I am available for golf? Right,
Speaker 1: Because it's really it's born out of laziness, like you're saying,
Speaker 1: Like what you're saying, Laura is not far off. It's
Speaker 1: like they will go golfing or on whatever the funk
Speaker 1: they want to do and then be like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: putting this thing together and guys like you know, like
Speaker 1: I'm actually about to leave my position. Bob like okay, great,
Speaker 1: you want to come on board here? Perfect? And now
Speaker 1: that CEO did funk all because all he did was
Speaker 1: just talk to the same seventeen people he's been talking
Speaker 1: to his whole life to then build this new company.
Speaker 1: And it's it's a pretty pervasive problem in all in
Speaker 1: like all industries are people who merely rely on their networks,
Speaker 1: their nepotism networks, and we get this sort of same thing.
Speaker 1: Discovery already had only thirty percent of their workforce were
Speaker 1: people of color, and just about of the senior literally
Speaker 1: leadership roles were people of color, which is the lowest
Speaker 1: share of any major media company. And again that's because
Speaker 1: his history has a history of quote long, his story
Speaker 1: of tapping people with whom he has deep ties, m
Speaker 1: not not much interest in a challenge or getting to
Speaker 1: know anything about any just just just going with the
Speaker 1: path of least resistance. Yeah, I mean, we just lose
Speaker 1: in the end, you know what. I mean because like
Speaker 1: completely we talked constants. I I talked constantly about how
Speaker 1: like when the people in marketing roles moved into development
Speaker 1: roles in the studios, and the development roles and studios
Speaker 1: used to be creators, which is why we got more
Speaker 1: creative original things like in years past and now because
Speaker 1: of like marketing business types accounting types that work in development.
Speaker 1: They're purely looking at spreadsheets and going like this make
Speaker 1: money this not go And if there's an anomaly, they're like,
Speaker 1: whoa that movie with people of color and it did well?
Speaker 1: If I may add to the if make money good conversation.
Speaker 1: Recently there was a spoiler alert. This is about video
Speaker 1: games Shocker from dj DANDLE. But they recently released a
Speaker 1: fighting game called Multiverses, which is a game that just
Speaker 1: takes place in the Warner Brothers universe, and every character
Speaker 1: that you can think of from Warner Brothers is available.
Speaker 1: That you got your Batman's got your Bugs Bunny, so
Speaker 1: you got your Shaggi's Harry Potter, you got your you
Speaker 1: got your Harry Potters. But more more over, what that
Speaker 1: game is is another avenue for micro transactions without having
Speaker 1: too much extra effort needed from original voice actors, animation,
Speaker 1: anything outside of just giving these characters that already exist
Speaker 1: new costumes. You're using I p that already exists, using
Speaker 1: voicelines that more or less already exists, and be like,
Speaker 1: let's just shell out a bunch of new costumes for
Speaker 1: these characters so people buy this game and and you know,
Speaker 1: or not even buy the game by all the costumes
Speaker 1: and just make us money just hand over doing literally
Speaker 1: nothing and not to make things spicy. But the same
Speaker 1: things happening in the podcast space too, which is like
Speaker 1: part of my whole like show, which is just the
Speaker 1: same risk averseness of looking at the things that have
Speaker 1: been popular in the past and just doing it over
Speaker 1: and over and over again, meaning you get the same
Speaker 1: makers making the same stuff and over and over again.
Speaker 1: Any kind of diversing and inclusion out the window, because
Speaker 1: you just go with whoever's in your in your network,
Speaker 1: and then you end up with the same kind of
Speaker 1: shows to listen to at all times, who's coming in,
Speaker 1: who's coming who what new audiences are going to feel
Speaker 1: like they're being which is wild because studios networks are
Speaker 1: like they act like the rug was pulled out under
Speaker 1: them when suddenly a new entity emerges that that gets
Speaker 1: everyone's attention. Like they don't realize how they're lulling everybody
Speaker 1: to sleep slowly, And all you're doing is creating the
Speaker 1: appetite for anything that is outside of the status quo
Speaker 1: that you're offering. Suddenly people are like, that's new, that's different,
Speaker 1: that's not the same thing, and they're like, what do
Speaker 1: we gotta do. It's like, you should have kept innovating,
Speaker 1: you should have kept taking risks. You should have just
Speaker 1: kept saying, let's try this, let's try that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: let's see what happens. And from there you learned so
Speaker 1: much more than just like being like, what are the
Speaker 1: top five shows in podcasting? Okay, we need six of each? Go,
Speaker 1: we need a recap show hosted by a murderer about
Speaker 1: true crime with someone who was on the O C Right,
Speaker 1: They're like, huh, what's Ben mackenzie up to? And he
Speaker 1: hates crypto crypto. I know he's like the crypto. We
Speaker 1: gotta get Ben mc. I keep saying that because his
Speaker 1: his Twitter feeds amazing anti crypto crusade. It's fantastic. I
Speaker 1: love it. I love it. Okay, now I support this podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. Hey, but you know Ben Mackenzie
Speaker 1: is a murder allegedly in this version in this pitch. Okay,
Speaker 1: is that's a joke? Okay, Ben, please don't know he
Speaker 1: has to be. But yeah, And I was just thinking
Speaker 1: recently to like just even that this the latest scandal
Speaker 1: that was talking about podcast host getting fifty thou dollars
Speaker 1: for for people to guess on their shows. Yes, did
Speaker 1: you read about that, Daniel? No, No, I read about it. Sorry,
Speaker 1: that was like a yeah, oh sorry, sorry that I'm sorry. No,
Speaker 1: he was in was it Forbes or one of the
Speaker 1: financial rags? Yeah, it was or something like that business something,
Speaker 1: but one of those financial people's rags. They came they
Speaker 1: they sort of unleashed this story about how like normal
Speaker 1: it's been for like these payola guest spots on like
Speaker 1: big podcasts. And I was like, oh, big podcasts, Okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense, that's why I No, I'm talking about money.
Speaker 1: But you just didn't get you didn't get my my venmo. No,
Speaker 1: although super super And I did say the second that
Speaker 1: article came out, she's like, you know, I've been doing
Speaker 1: that with all your guests, right, And I was like
Speaker 1: that's fine to you, Like, hey, I mean at least
Speaker 1: these guests are chill, so fuck it. Like if they're
Speaker 1: paying you to get to the door, fine, great, But yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a very um It's just it's wild how money, access,
Speaker 1: proximity to power is just like can just are like
Speaker 1: the forces that are creating a lot of the content,
Speaker 1: and again they fall into these cycles of like lack
Speaker 1: of creativity, and then you have two people with just
Speaker 1: a different idea and then all the attention moves there
Speaker 1: and we'll just keep ping ponging back and worth. It's
Speaker 1: really about consistency. You know. He meant to that. All right,
Speaker 1: Well that's that's all I'm gonna say about consistency. What's
Speaker 1: your favorite show on HBO, Max Dan, I'll go, I
Speaker 1: mean the rehearsal right now, Okay, Cessational It's grabbing my
Speaker 1: attention at every possible moment. Okay, Laura favorite favorite anything?
Speaker 1: What's something you'll miss on Hbomeric mean, I hate to
Speaker 1: say it, but my answer is the rehearsal. But but
Speaker 1: I do think that I saw some I know I
Speaker 1: saw a meme that was like the plan bankrupt HBO Max,
Speaker 1: because he made the most expensive pilot that they've ever Greenland,
Speaker 1: and as they should have, and they used that alligator lounge,
Speaker 1: you know that in more than an episode. That's the
Speaker 1: way to spend some dollars. But I have a long standing,
Speaker 1: like nine year long theory about Nathan Fielder, which is
Speaker 1: that he is able to control the temperature in the
Speaker 1: room in a way that no one else can, that
Speaker 1: he could use his powers for evil. But I like
Speaker 1: in the rehearsal that we see his flow chart for
Speaker 1: all of his normal conversations, and it's made me want
Speaker 1: to do that. Yeah, that's that's the jokerification moment. Should
Speaker 1: that be the takeaway? Right? You know what's interesting? Or
Speaker 1: just like I'm a huge Nathan Fielder fan, and I
Speaker 1: was just thinking of how Finding Francis the last episode
Speaker 1: of Nathan for you, sort of is that jumping off
Speaker 1: into the rehearsal, because if you remember, he sets Bill
Speaker 1: up to do a rehearsal with an actress to get
Speaker 1: him prepared to meet his like long lost love. And
Speaker 1: even though that was way more dramatic and like a
Speaker 1: little bit goofier, I was like, I just think about
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, like this, I'm pretty sure. This
Speaker 1: is when the gears begin for his next concept of like,
Speaker 1: oh this can go if I have like a real
Speaker 1: budget rather than begging Comedy Central. Can I take my
Speaker 1: last like the budget from my last four episodes and
Speaker 1: make one mega episode. I sees you, Nathan, I sees you.
Speaker 1: What about you, Miles? What's your like? Said? Wow, I can't,
Speaker 1: I can't can't get enough of it. I mean I
Speaker 1: can't and crash my sign on going on a hundred
Speaker 1: miles an hour, and then we'll go up right on
Speaker 1: the arable status. That's my fucking miracle status is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And then just honestly, all the animated stuff, I really like.
Speaker 1: It's amazing that you can get Miyazaki like Studio Ghibli stuff.
Speaker 1: You cant Aquitine Hunger for his like Batman the animated series.
Speaker 1: There's so much good. I don't know. They just they
Speaker 1: have like the best, most dialed in library. And it's
Speaker 1: a shame to see how they're going to tighten the belt.
Speaker 1: And one ends up on the ground. So we'll see.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. Let's take some
Speaker 1: SIPs a Henny, because it's the last ones we're ever
Speaker 1: going to take. Because hip hop is going in a
Speaker 1: new direction, y'all, and it's costing the girls. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back. Yeah, we're back. Last week I mentioned off handedly,
Speaker 1: we were talking about that Saudis sports washing op, the
Speaker 1: l I V Golf Invitational that happened like a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks back that no one went to and tickets
Speaker 1: were available. They went from seventy five dollars pre sale
Speaker 1: to a dollar on stub plus five dollar fees. And
Speaker 1: the whole thing of that tournament was like, we want
Speaker 1: to appeal to young people. It's like the new edgy
Speaker 1: golf tournament. I'm like, fuck that fun golf courses, get
Speaker 1: this ship out. My face is never gonna work. But
Speaker 1: the thing is, I was just being like if, just jokingly,
Speaker 1: I was like, if you want to turn it up,
Speaker 1: like where's the cosamgo set? And that's just fine. Whatever.
Speaker 1: Then Hannah Georgis on The Atlantic writes this article about
Speaker 1: like the way what the name of it is? I
Speaker 1: just want to read this. George Clooney's tequila is taking
Speaker 1: over Wrap all of a sudden. It seems like cosam
Speaker 1: Migos is name checked in every song, and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is so it was subtle but true. I'm like,
Speaker 1: in my mind, I'm like, we're on cosam egos though,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like that that that shift has been happening.
Speaker 1: I think many hip hop fans or fans of culture
Speaker 1: have observed over the last few years that the tequila
Speaker 1: made famous by George Clooney and Randy Gerber has become
Speaker 1: one of the most like referenced products in rap or
Speaker 1: just youth like youth culture in general. When I was
Speaker 1: a younger man, uh, you know, in the late nineties,
Speaker 1: it was all about Henny Alaza, Chris Stall, Gray Goose, Belvetiere,
Speaker 1: Hypnotic White, Hennessy if you know about that, Okay, and
Speaker 1: you know, like I think at that time those are
Speaker 1: like are now like now it's like Asa Spades do
Speaker 1: say and things like that, Like those things have always
Speaker 1: kind of been in the consciousness, but many of those
Speaker 1: like came and went and Nate then Hennessy has always
Speaker 1: kind of been this mainstay. But as Hennessy's name checks
Speaker 1: started to decline, Cosa Meagles was going all the way
Speaker 1: up and she and in this article, Hannah points out
Speaker 1: that in is like a major turning point when Jaden
Speaker 1: Smith featured on Young Thugs Track Sin and said Cosa
Speaker 1: Meagles got me spinning, And that was like the first
Speaker 1: because Jaden has a lot of attention, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like he's not just seen as a rapper.
Speaker 1: He has like a pop audience too, and he's like
Speaker 1: a California guy. So when he's like Cosa megost me,
Speaker 1: people were like what what, What's this? And now it's
Speaker 1: standard practice, Like you look around right now, K Camp
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, he said Cosa Megos to the head, I
Speaker 1: forgot what I said. Uh Smino from St. Louis, Cosa
Speaker 1: Mego's got me so honest, I'm sorry. H Brooklyn five
Speaker 1: year oh four and Cosamigo helped me get in the
Speaker 1: zone and this year alone. In this Atlantic article they're
Speaker 1: saying they're saying Cosa Migos has been referenced nearly one
Speaker 1: hundred times just in this year. If you look at
Speaker 1: Genius Analysis, that's fire. Everybody's looking for that check. They're like,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get that deal. But yeah, I mean Diaggio,
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to hollow at Diagio, you know, the
Speaker 1: parent company of Cosa Megos. If you see this chart
Speaker 1: and I put in from the Atlantic article. You can
Speaker 1: just see like where they intersect and like just as
Speaker 1: that Jaden Smith track comes out or quick Scroove, they
Speaker 1: say that's like one of the first mentioned from the
Speaker 1: game says that in this track quick Scroove, it's slowly
Speaker 1: going up and then suddenly like it's just explosive. Everyone's
Speaker 1: talking cos amigos And if you look now a lot
Speaker 1: of bars like they they'll have like you know, promotions
Speaker 1: around liquor, you know, like old club style, like hey
Speaker 1: come in for two to two, you know, one one
Speaker 1: for two. I don't know what the fun the deals are.
Speaker 1: I have been to a club so long, but I
Speaker 1: see the flyers because they're all over the ground. Um,
Speaker 1: but like they're they're moving away from like Hennessy or
Speaker 1: like champagne specials and more cos Amigos specials and just
Speaker 1: in general it's happening. And a few of like the
Speaker 1: hip hop analysts and sort of scholars that you spoke
Speaker 1: to in this article talked about just the general vibe
Speaker 1: shift and hip hop like we went from the golden
Speaker 1: era of like sort of you know, grimy like smoking
Speaker 1: squares in the concrete stairwell with the north face on
Speaker 1: type energy to now talking about sucking Jeff Coon's balloon
Speaker 1: dogs and fucking flog Ra with caviare as. Nas says
Speaker 1: that track blood on the leaves, like or whatever, Hm
Speaker 1: and Eve, sorry, that's like we're going to like it's
Speaker 1: always sort of been about name checking like lifestyle luxury brands,
Speaker 1: but there's something now where if you are even rappers
Speaker 1: are saying like they they're like rapping Costsa megos with
Speaker 1: lake Como and stuff, and they're just saying like there's
Speaker 1: just more of an elevated feeling now. And also like
Speaker 1: the way they talk about Costa Megos and the lyrics
Speaker 1: isn't just about like getting sucked up like it says
Speaker 1: if there's another quality to being drunk on Costa egos,
Speaker 1: which is true because a lot of like adult like
Speaker 1: strip clubs, they don't serve tequila. That's just like a rule.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because they say people turn up different on tequila. Huh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've been to a few places you don't never serve tequila,
Speaker 1: like in a strip club. I remember my friend's brother
Speaker 1: had a strip club in Miami and like it's a
Speaker 1: proprietor of yah yeah, and it was like saying that
Speaker 1: like a few, like a lot of places won't serve
Speaker 1: tequila just because they I think it's probably anecdotal, like
Speaker 1: bar talk, that they feel like tequila mixed with like
Speaker 1: h new did he? And stuff like it's just a
Speaker 1: weird combo. Now. I don't know how pervasive it is,
Speaker 1: but I also remember in Vegas that happened, and I've
Speaker 1: seen it happen in l A. But it could be
Speaker 1: also alcohol is being restricted is also like a racist
Speaker 1: thing too, Like you see like a lot of places
Speaker 1: in l A. They don't have hennessy for a fucking reason,
Speaker 1: or they don't serve like Johnny Walker because of certain cultures.
Speaker 1: It's it's really wild what you can learn from a
Speaker 1: bar when they're like we don't carry that, and you're like, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: I wonder why. I see you don't like people to
Speaker 1: wear hats in here, and you don't serve hennessy. I
Speaker 1: see what's going on and you need leather shoes. As
Speaker 1: someone who does not drink, I have a question and
Speaker 1: a and a cultural point to make. Number one, can
Speaker 1: you mix hennessy and tequila? What would happen? Would that
Speaker 1: be disgusting? A bunch of people would fight you. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've seen it happen. Yeah, what happened. They called it
Speaker 1: patrinnessy and it was a mess. Oh no, yes it was, yes,
Speaker 1: yes it really. It was like the summer for local,
Speaker 1: real kind of thing like okay, lots of slat boxing
Speaker 1: in the in the driveway. Okay, yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I think, yeah, I think it would be I
Speaker 1: think that would be seen as just a sign of
Speaker 1: disrespect or the source of terrible mistakes for sure. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the next time I um, for some reason I'm
Speaker 1: pouring to random liquors into a cup for someone who
Speaker 1: comes to my house, I won't do that. My other
Speaker 1: cultural My other point is I have seen I am
Speaker 1: a a watcher of the Real Housewives of Various Places
Speaker 1: and Cosamikostic for years and years. I know I have
Speaker 1: seen this from my dumb media really take over as
Speaker 1: the thing that everyone is asking for in the bar scenes,
Speaker 1: and I've wondered why. I have a feeling. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: also feels like the like millionaire industrial complex too, because
Speaker 1: it's like Randy Gerber and Cindy Crawford and George Cluney
Speaker 1: of it all. Because nexiest Man, especially to that general,
Speaker 1: you know, to that generation for whom George Clooney has
Speaker 1: been the sexiest man for decades. It's like, oh he's
Speaker 1: selling well, yeah, and then what's what's home? Girl? Lisa
Speaker 1: Barlow on Real Housewives of Salt Lake, she's trying to
Speaker 1: push her tequila brand. You're not going to trick me, Lisa. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm not buying it, So just keep your keep your
Speaker 1: nasty tequila. Waitful shots that Lisa Barlow every days, Barlow
Speaker 1: all day. Yeah, you have to think it's so much
Speaker 1: fast food in that car. Does she clean her car?
Speaker 1: I wonder, No, I don't care. You know that whole cast.
Speaker 1: I would look at them, I like it's going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. It's a definitely an interesting turn. But what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is I believe it isn't cultural dummy.
Speaker 1: I believe it. And as I searched, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm just like I need to make sure, like what's
Speaker 1: happening with with my tequila take? It seems like a
Speaker 1: lot of places do serve tequila, but please let me
Speaker 1: know if you're in a bar that does zeit. Gang.
Speaker 1: I know there's some servers out there are people that
Speaker 1: work in clubs and things like that, if you do
Speaker 1: know about things you don't serve or won't serve, etcetera.
Speaker 1: Because I'm always interested in that, because I it's you
Speaker 1: see it, like in l A Man, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of like racist bar ship that you can tell just
Speaker 1: by what Rick Caruso energy, Oh big, Rick Curtia exactly,
Speaker 1: that's what you shout out like the local l A g. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: don't shout out Rick Crusoe, Bro, I'm shouting out to
Speaker 1: people who get the joke. Oh right, right right, shout
Speaker 1: shout out you the conscious uh informed Angelino's or a
Speaker 1: very localized joke. And I apologize for all our listeners
Speaker 1: outside of this wonderful city ship. All right, Well, I
Speaker 1: gotta say, Laura, thank you so much for joining, Thank
Speaker 1: you for having me. I hope I rose to the
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Speaker 1: That's really helpful, Okay, I think Rob and I'll redact
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Speaker 1: a tweet that I've been liking is someone was talking
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Speaker 1: I could not find that exact tweet. You may know
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Speaker 1: you so much, my man. Um, where can people find
Speaker 1: you and follow you? Supports you? And what's a tweet
Speaker 1: that you like? Hey, it's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1: Great to see your face again, all of these faces. Wonderful,
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