Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to forty, Episode four.
Speaker 1: Up there, Daily guys, stay introduction to buy Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's share consciousness. It's Thursday, June nine, which of
Speaker 1: course means that it is six nine. Thank you, if
Speaker 1: that's all we need to really talk about. We're trying
Speaker 1: to move past four. We're all about six nine. We're over,
Speaker 1: We're over for twenty. Now is the time to celebrate now,
Speaker 1: it was the time to sixty nine. But June nine
Speaker 1: is also Donald Duck Day. Yes, probably sixty nine pretty
Speaker 1: easily because now we're in pants. Yeah that that's always
Speaker 1: my issue with it is, uh just how long it
Speaker 1: takes to get the dang pants on. So for the
Speaker 1: six ninety uh well, my name is Jack O'Brien aka
Speaker 1: bah bah bah bah bah Blast, bab bab bah Baha blast,
Speaker 1: oh Baha Blast. I drink them way too fast. The
Speaker 1: doctor says, I need to stop, but I just can't
Speaker 1: quit your baha blast bay byah bah bah blast. That
Speaker 1: is courtesy of Rumhand McDuck. Okay, rumhand hitting me with
Speaker 1: U and it's been a while, which I think he
Speaker 1: was just saying like, it's been a while since I've
Speaker 1: done the thing you can't hit me with. It's been
Speaker 1: a while without that song being in my head as
Speaker 1: I enter into your AKA just Future raf rumhad McDuck. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co
Speaker 1: host Mr Miles gros Lady. I've been I've been counting trees.
Speaker 1: There are so many now, Dad, I can see but
Speaker 1: before lazy looking? What's so hard? Yeah, no more context, baby,
Speaker 1: I'll be looking far. Okay. Shout out to Josiah on
Speaker 1: the discord for that one Republic themed a K because yeah,
Speaker 1: this laceing got me counting trees from that was something
Speaker 1: that you claimed you I was from across the Columbia
Speaker 1: River Gorge. I would like watch this one. I feel
Speaker 1: like you're like, your improvement is site is so profound that,
Speaker 1: like you, your brain doesn't even know how to brag
Speaker 1: about it talk about You're like, I can like count
Speaker 1: trees now, I don't know, man, you know what it was.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I could see like all the different kinds
Speaker 1: of rocks on the ground. You're like, is that a
Speaker 1: thing we were all missing out? Not necessary? Apparently, maybe
Speaker 1: that's it. Maybe I just don't understand as somebody with
Speaker 1: not great vision, I just don't understand the joys of
Speaker 1: counting trees. I wish you could see through my eyes
Speaker 1: and the Columbia River, just for one day, you'd be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Wow, look at those trees. There are
Speaker 1: forty seven of them. Was thrilled to be joined in
Speaker 1: our third seat by very funny comedian an actor who's
Speaker 1: one hour special Jeremiah Watkins Family Reunion is streaming on
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime right now, and who is voicing the Joker
Speaker 1: on DC Superhero Girls, among many other places you may
Speaker 1: know him from. It's Jeremiah wat Cania papaa yo. Thanks
Speaker 1: for having me, guys. It was very hard for me
Speaker 1: not to jump in yet. On the Baja Blast song,
Speaker 1: I was feeling it. I was tiping with it, and
Speaker 1: I was ready to start doing the falsetto part of
Speaker 1: the Beach Boys Baha Blast part. You want to do
Speaker 1: it again? We totally can just hit us with a
Speaker 1: falsetto one time, just to give the people a damn. See.
Speaker 1: That's what it would be like if this show was
Speaker 1: hosted by somebody with vocal talent that was beautiful, Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It was everything in my in
Speaker 1: my fiber to to stay restrained because you hadn't introduced
Speaker 1: me yet, so I didn't write jump in for for
Speaker 1: next time. Just jump in, just go for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got those pipes. We we welcome a backup performance
Speaker 1: that completely overshadows us. Thanks a lot. That's a character
Speaker 1: back the background. The background background completely is outshining the
Speaker 1: main act. Like just back, like just goes to karaoke
Speaker 1: all the time, blowing their partner out of the water. Um.
Speaker 1: Speaking of vocal talent, I think this is the first
Speaker 1: time we've had somebody on the show who played the
Speaker 1: Joker in any respect other than a unreleased Jared Letto
Speaker 1: episode that was deemed too twisted by by us. But
Speaker 1: welcome the legal team at I heeart. That's that's cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a cool. Uh cool accolade for me. That's great.
Speaker 1: I like that. Please put that in your Twitter bio
Speaker 1: right now, mind, I'll put that. Yeah, the first one
Speaker 1: Daily side guys to play the Joker and about Yeah,
Speaker 1: how has the experience been for you? Have you had
Speaker 1: to like get into a dark mind sleep? Well, I
Speaker 1: would say not at all uh for since it's an
Speaker 1: animated kids show. Um, you don't have to go too
Speaker 1: deep as as far as you know the method acting
Speaker 1: or anything. That is so funny if you did, though, man,
Speaker 1: oh no, if I was in the voiceover booth and
Speaker 1: I just like have like, you know, the black circles
Speaker 1: around my eyes and full makeup and everything, and they're like,
Speaker 1: you don't, we're not filming you. You don't. You don't
Speaker 1: have to do that, right, We're good here, man, I
Speaker 1: need to do that. Well, that's awesome. We're thrilled to
Speaker 1: have you back, and we're gonna get to know you
Speaker 1: a little bit better in just a moment. First, we're
Speaker 1: gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we are
Speaker 1: talking about today. We're gonna talk about the big mainstream
Speaker 1: news story worry from yesterday, the right wing wave has
Speaker 1: come to California. California rebukes left. So so we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about that. The d A in San Francisco was,
Speaker 1: you know, convincingly recalled, and the amount of media that
Speaker 1: has been the amount of attention that has been paid
Speaker 1: in the national media to the District Attorney of San
Speaker 1: Francisco is surprising and yet instructive, So we'll talk about
Speaker 1: where that attention comes from, where the story comes from,
Speaker 1: why the story exists that way, all that ship we'll get.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll talk about the big media event of this evening,
Speaker 1: which is the primetime Fuccory Circus, the January six committees
Speaker 1: primetime debut, and and what what's in store there. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the TikTok propaganda campaign for the main
Speaker 1: stream democratic establishment that's happening. You know, they're paying influencers
Speaker 1: to be excited about Joe Biden's infrastructure bill and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, all that plenty more. But first, Jeremiah, we
Speaker 1: do like to ask our guest, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history? The really boring one that I had
Speaker 1: to do was a ten ninety nine? How to download that?
Speaker 1: So just like bad adult stuff where it's like it's
Speaker 1: really boring, where you're like, oh man, I don't want
Speaker 1: to be doing this right? How to fill out ten
Speaker 1: in preview? Yeah? Also, where is free and not to
Speaker 1: charge money for this? I remember once I downloaded an
Speaker 1: image of a ten ninety nine that had someone's info
Speaker 1: on it because I was so bad at like finding
Speaker 1: the thing that I just like photo shopped my own
Speaker 1: info over it because I couldn't. I was like, I
Speaker 1: think so high or something. I just couldn't find a
Speaker 1: blank PDF of one. Dude, They're hard to find. I
Speaker 1: still am in search of it. I didn't like I
Speaker 1: change the keywords so many freaking times, and I still
Speaker 1: can't find one that's just like a blank t it's all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's now on the I R S honey pot website.
Speaker 1: I went on i RS dot gov even then there, dude,
Speaker 1: it's a mess. I I still couldn't find it on there.
Speaker 1: I want to pay for the premium pdio and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: it's just it's a free form. What is happening only
Speaker 1: a year for ten ninety nine? Me filling this out
Speaker 1: tells you I owe you money? What are we fucking doing? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there's a literature course at like, you know,
Speaker 1: Brown or like one of those cool schools that always
Speaker 1: has the silly courses the right wing media likes to
Speaker 1: make fun of. But I wonder if they're they're the
Speaker 1: gender politics of Harry Potter. Look at these assholes. They
Speaker 1: pay so much money for this, But I wonder if
Speaker 1: anyone studied the grammar and syntax of uric. Google searches
Speaker 1: like and that like there is an assumed language that
Speaker 1: Google and like computers speak like based on nothing really,
Speaker 1: but yeah, like you were like ten, how to download there?
Speaker 1: Right right? And yeah, I don't know where my assumptions
Speaker 1: come from on that, but I do feel like we
Speaker 1: all are operating from the same batch of assumptions. I
Speaker 1: feel like for me, I think of how like early on,
Speaker 1: like in the days of like Alta Vista search or whatever,
Speaker 1: that was like the use quotation marks like plus signs
Speaker 1: between words to bring back the exact thing, and then
Speaker 1: when asked Jeeves came out. I remember Asked Jeeves was
Speaker 1: like the search engine that was like basically styling itself
Speaker 1: as like just fucking ask a question. You don't even
Speaker 1: got to do this stuff like what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: like this shorthand search engine speak. We're asked you was like,
Speaker 1: how do I know if my baby will have red hair?
Speaker 1: You know type of things, and that's how it would respond,
Speaker 1: how do I know my wife still loves me? You know?
Speaker 1: Common please, But even then I would have entered it
Speaker 1: as how do I know baby have hair? Red hair?
Speaker 1: Slash wife still loves Yeah, like you know, if it
Speaker 1: really is good size? Huh, just asking Jeeves man, that's
Speaker 1: between me and Jeeves. Is there a standard? But all
Speaker 1: that to say is I think that's where I feel
Speaker 1: like I had to shed the ask Jeeves habits to then,
Speaker 1: Like I think in the era of like using the
Speaker 1: like search engines of the late nineties early two thousand's
Speaker 1: was like, don't put in inappropriate like words that don't matter.
Speaker 1: I had something that happened to me that happens all
Speaker 1: the time in movies. Happened to me today for the
Speaker 1: first time in my entire career of using the Internet,
Speaker 1: I put a search into Google and received your search.
Speaker 1: Then my search quotes review did not match any documents suggestions.
Speaker 1: Make sure all words are spelled correctly. Try different keywords now.
Speaker 1: That always happens, like in movies to like build up
Speaker 1: the suspense when they're like one armed man and like
Speaker 1: type that in and it's like you didn't receive anything
Speaker 1: on this, and then you have to be like one
Speaker 1: armed man, curly hair, and then you get response. But
Speaker 1: this was I thought the Internet was big enough that
Speaker 1: every search, but it was basically just a book title
Speaker 1: in quotes followed by review and usually they'll into it
Speaker 1: like what I was after, and they did not. They
Speaker 1: were just like, I feel kind of cool that you
Speaker 1: stumped the internet a little bit kind of and also, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a good feeling. I always do it, just
Speaker 1: like acting out stuff I want to see, like Kendall
Speaker 1: Roy sixty nine ng with Goku from Dragon Ball right,
Speaker 1: and it's like what we usually when did you mean? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Usually when I searched something like that, it's just like,
Speaker 1: are you searching for Kendall Roy Goku again? Did you
Speaker 1: mean Roy? Six? No? Meand'm a kindall guy, Kendall boy Jeremiah.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated? I mean there's
Speaker 1: a lot of shows and stuff right now that that
Speaker 1: I feel like are overrated, the Net, some of the
Speaker 1: Netflix dating shows I feel like, are I have kind
Speaker 1: of swept the Nation with My wife watches it all
Speaker 1: the time, The Ultimatum and then the one the precursor
Speaker 1: to that, Love is Blind but like it's so it's
Speaker 1: just like kind of like garbage that like we're eating
Speaker 1: like they were eating, but like it tastes good momentarily
Speaker 1: and then it's just like junk food for for TV
Speaker 1: and it's it's obviously it's one of those things that
Speaker 1: I think it is very overrated h at the moment.
Speaker 1: But I catch my wife watching and then I'll find
Speaker 1: myself lingering a little bit, and then I'll have to
Speaker 1: leave the room, like no, no, I can't watch this.
Speaker 1: It's it's like too much. What that's their expectation that
Speaker 1: early on in a relationship that's not gonna work. Why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love trash the trash on the television, But I
Speaker 1: think the thing that bums me out is I feel
Speaker 1: like that's like some of the for all this stuff
Speaker 1: that Netflix is making. That ship is like yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's the new TLC, the re Discovery Channel. But yeah,
Speaker 1: when they announced that, they're like kind of rejiggering their
Speaker 1: whole approach and they were like, we're not doing vanity,
Speaker 1: Like so they specifically should on Martin Scorsese, Adam Sandler, right,
Speaker 1: they said no, no more Hube Halloween like those like
Speaker 1: those examples they used the Irishman costing a D seventy
Speaker 1: five million, and then I think they said Hube Halloween.
Speaker 1: Even though that was like pretty successfu, I felt like
Speaker 1: his whole deal was a lot honestly, Huby Halloween, I
Speaker 1: felt like was one of the better ones that I
Speaker 1: had seen in a minute. Because I watched I end
Speaker 1: up watching most of those Sandler films. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: always curious. I'm like I've always been like a huge
Speaker 1: Sandler fan, and like, obviously there's missus and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but you kind of got a factor in, like when
Speaker 1: it's a big miss it's just not for us, it's
Speaker 1: for fans. It's like very like family oriented, where he's
Speaker 1: like I made this picture deal whatever like eight picture
Speaker 1: or whatever it is with Netflix. This one is going
Speaker 1: to be exclusively for the families, and the next one
Speaker 1: is going to be the one that I venture out
Speaker 1: is going to be more creative. I actually want to
Speaker 1: see his um his hustle hard movies that's coming out.
Speaker 1: That looks really interesting. That's scene with Anthony Edwards. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I am now realizing because I'm bad at Google, I
Speaker 1: I didn't fact check this, but I think the Hube
Speaker 1: Halloween thing was a meme. I think that was a
Speaker 1: bit that somebody was doing because they made the one
Speaker 1: that they said was like a vanity project they won't
Speaker 1: do anymore. Was the Irishman, which was like prestige and expensive,
Speaker 1: and somebody replaced it with Hube Halloween and I was like,
Speaker 1: even that is nothing safe really like I didn't even
Speaker 1: bother But anyways, my original question, which was well informed
Speaker 1: and in no way based on bad Google skills, was
Speaker 1: have they commented on that sort of thing, the lower
Speaker 1: brow like reality TV, like is that is there space
Speaker 1: for that in the future of Netflix, because it sounds
Speaker 1: like they were like, we're just going big with like prestige,
Speaker 1: blockbuster dumb movies. It's the opposite. You you do a
Speaker 1: localized reality shoot with like, you know, like contained shows,
Speaker 1: like if you think of like the real production aspect
Speaker 1: of it, like Love Is Blind is like a contained thriller.
Speaker 1: All of it is happening mostly in like one location
Speaker 1: at first, and then it branches out, so like production
Speaker 1: costs are a lot lower than trying to make you know,
Speaker 1: like al Pacino look nineteen. So yeah, I was. I
Speaker 1: was like, Albert, I was just saying, Albert Nero was
Speaker 1: what it was about to come out of my Now,
Speaker 1: I'm like all the Alba's Pacino albs, But I think
Speaker 1: and that's I'm sure in that from their perspective, Like financially,
Speaker 1: they're like, man, this this ship gets a ton of
Speaker 1: views and it costs a fraction of Like that's the
Speaker 1: whole thing with Tiger Kings and stuff like that. Like
Speaker 1: relatively in the grand scheme of Netflix shows, the budget
Speaker 1: for those shows is so so cheap, and then there's
Speaker 1: so many eyeballs on it where they're like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is what people want. We're going to get feeding of
Speaker 1: it for sure. I think that's why they came up
Speaker 1: with the ultimatum follow up so quickly, is because they
Speaker 1: saw the spike and how popular that first show was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they I think it's one. Yeah. Once they smell like
Speaker 1: blood in the water, they have no problem, Like alright,
Speaker 1: seventeen more of those things. Yeah. Also the actual derivation
Speaker 1: of al Alfredo Alfredo James Pacino the coolest possible answer
Speaker 1: for the coolest possible weird old man. What is something,
Speaker 1: Jeremiah that you think is underrated? This is a food
Speaker 1: that I I'm on, I'm I've I've eaten it for
Speaker 1: years and I'm very curious if either of you have
Speaker 1: ever tried it. But it's it's a peanut butter and
Speaker 1: pickle sandwich. Okay, have you ever had it? No, I've
Speaker 1: heard of I've heard of that combo, but I've never
Speaker 1: had it. Yeah. I think it's just like we've been
Speaker 1: doing this show long enough, the enough freaks have come
Speaker 1: on here and talk about the reaching the gospel. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I I hear good things. Dude. It's very underrated. Somebody
Speaker 1: can say it's disgusting, but I feel like it's very good.
Speaker 1: The the the dill mixed with the the peanut butter,
Speaker 1: just the contrasting of of the juice with the very
Speaker 1: dry peanut butter is very good. Interesting. Wait, so how
Speaker 1: do you when you make it? Are you do you
Speaker 1: do the bread? Would you put the peanut butter on first,
Speaker 1: and then pickles on top? And then peanut butter on
Speaker 1: both sides and then pickles laid down on one side
Speaker 1: and then smack them together? Eating? And any specific like
Speaker 1: right now in my in my refrigerator, I think I
Speaker 1: have like Tony packles, like hot and spicy pickles, slices.
Speaker 1: Is there a specific kind of pick you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Like is the brine that's interacting with the
Speaker 1: peanut butter. That's a good question. Actually, I met a
Speaker 1: guy that at the Farmer's Market through pickles. He has
Speaker 1: a stand there that I actually became friends with just
Speaker 1: because the pickles were so good. We started. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: called Kaylin and Kaylin at the at the Farmer's Market
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles like by third, like on Fairfax. Literally
Speaker 1: game changer. I can't eat pickles the same way anymore
Speaker 1: because there's so much better. And I've eaten it like
Speaker 1: Delhi's across the US, in and out of country all that,
Speaker 1: but like, there's something about these pickles that are just
Speaker 1: so good. Wow, and it's still exclusively is the one
Speaker 1: you're riding. You have not tried the sweet pickles. There's
Speaker 1: a kosher one. I'm I'm all right, sweet pickles in general, Um,
Speaker 1: all right with me. He's got a honey mustard one
Speaker 1: that is mind blowing. Then there's a blazing sour. He's
Speaker 1: got like twelve flavors that literally I didn't even know
Speaker 1: that there were combinations of pickles like this, so like
Speaker 1: it kind of opened my eye to the pickle worlds,
Speaker 1: like I've been missing out of this for all these years.
Speaker 1: Is crazy. And you don't have to thin slice the pickles.
Speaker 1: You're you're just doing a thick stock, just a thick stock. Well,
Speaker 1: there's there's spears. Or what I do sometimes is I
Speaker 1: cut the holes and halves and put it like that
Speaker 1: on you know what I mean, cut it right down
Speaker 1: the middle. Yeah, put one whole pickle and the halves. Yeah. Ye,
Speaker 1: and then and then that's plenty of pickle to peanut butter.
Speaker 1: Pickle pickle disks as opposed to pickle spears. Right, No,
Speaker 1: he's going down. Oh wait your I'm I go long ways?
Speaker 1: Think two strips yeah yeah, two strips, wow, okay yeah.
Speaker 1: Spreading it open, yeah, there it is. We're talking pickles
Speaker 1: dog klenkalen pickles dog you know, spread it open right? Wow?
Speaker 1: That's yeah. I mean I haven't had it. It doesn't
Speaker 1: sound good to me, but peanut butter is a versatile food.
Speaker 1: Like I the more things that try with peanut butter,
Speaker 1: the more like it's it's almost always good. I've ever
Speaker 1: had peanut butter on a burger before. No, it's really
Speaker 1: really good. I used to get this peanut butter and
Speaker 1: jelly burger at this comedy club and hunting the Beach
Speaker 1: that they no longer have it on the menu, but
Speaker 1: it was so good and it's it's just like kind
Speaker 1: of random where you're like, that shouldn't taste good, but
Speaker 1: it was amazing. You no longer have it on the
Speaker 1: menu because you are the only person who has ever
Speaker 1: ordered it, and it might I know, I saw a
Speaker 1: right up. I think in the take out a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, they were talking about, like we need
Speaker 1: to talk about peanut butter on a burger. It's really
Speaker 1: saying like it's subtle and it works because it's like
Speaker 1: savory and it's like creamy. It's not really doing much
Speaker 1: to be like what the fun is this? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't put like you don't put the mayonnaise and
Speaker 1: stuff on top of you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: you trade them out. You're not putting all of it
Speaker 1: on there. So it's it's trading out one condiment for another.
Speaker 1: Peanut butter as savory condiment. Yeah, that's interesting something I
Speaker 1: will have to explore at a future date when I
Speaker 1: am braver and have a stronger stomach. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: you with like peanut butter and sardines and like stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Was that? I know, that's the thing that
Speaker 1: some people mentioned that to me. I've done like peanut
Speaker 1: butter and honey and peanut butter and banana. Those are
Speaker 1: pretty stock. Oh yeah, those are things to do. I
Speaker 1: like all that stuff and even peanut butter with um
Speaker 1: you know that marshmallow nutter. Yeah, ye stuff. I had
Speaker 1: that once when I like there was just like kid.
Speaker 1: I knew it was from New Land and like I
Speaker 1: had it at his house and that's when I was like,
Speaker 1: what the fund is this? And I had no idea
Speaker 1: they even made its fluff. You never had it? Like,
Speaker 1: whoa New England? I love it said, yeah, from New
Speaker 1: England in it from England. Well that New new you
Speaker 1: never had of us. Oh love your babes down in
Speaker 1: Milking mass See you later. I'll see you down by
Speaker 1: the dock. Yeah, New England. Let's meet at the market.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the right wing wave, baby wave, and
Speaker 1: we're back. And so on Tuesday, the day of the
Speaker 1: elections in kel for knowther some democratic primaries, the top
Speaker 1: story on Drudge, which regrettably still one of the most
Speaker 1: popular news sources in the US, if not the most popular.
Speaker 1: Like they only measure by page views, but Drudge is
Speaker 1: just a single page with links, and it like outstrips
Speaker 1: major publications in page numbers, which is crazy. So their
Speaker 1: number one headline with pictures was like California right word
Speaker 1: earthquake coming, which they were basing on. You know, former
Speaker 1: Republican billionaire Rick Caruso was running for mayor. Some people
Speaker 1: thought he was going to get so many votes that
Speaker 1: he would just win outright, because if you get over,
Speaker 1: you're the winner. No runoff in November, it's just over.
Speaker 1: And then there has been a longstanding campaign to recall
Speaker 1: the district attorney in San Francisco, who is somebody like
Speaker 1: I'm aware of because I live in California and I
Speaker 1: follow you know, progressive like actually progressive politics, but I
Speaker 1: did not know that like conservatives, like he is a
Speaker 1: household name with conservatives, because there has been a longstanding
Speaker 1: media blitz to publicize basically every crime that happens in
Speaker 1: San Francisco and then talk about how like reformist d
Speaker 1: A has lost the city, has lost control of the city.
Speaker 1: So he was recalled. Crusoe didn't get enough votes to
Speaker 1: win out right, so he did get the most, but
Speaker 1: damn near forty million dollars, like he tried to win
Speaker 1: it on Tuesday, he tried to get that fifty plus
Speaker 1: one to be like it's over because he's spent forty
Speaker 1: million dollars. That comes out to three hundred eight dollars
Speaker 1: per vote, not like when you when you run it
Speaker 1: past what that's pretty good return, man. I gotta say
Speaker 1: there's people in in you know, boardrooms right now talking
Speaker 1: about how that's pretty good return. Not bad, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean like that that I think the goes to
Speaker 1: show you how like sort of strategically, how he thought
Speaker 1: I can maybe take advantage of low turnout blow people
Speaker 1: out of the water with all this like you know,
Speaker 1: messaging and having Katie Perry and Snoop Dogg, who barely
Speaker 1: live in the city be like, yeah, we love Rick
Speaker 1: Caruso and have it all work out. But it didn't.
Speaker 1: Didn't seem that way, didn't didn't get him across the
Speaker 1: finished still way too many people voted from them, yeah,
Speaker 1: and did get them. The Progressive Reformist district attorney in
Speaker 1: San Francisco recalled so the drudge headline today, California rebukes
Speaker 1: Left is one of the red ones. There's like always
Speaker 1: a couple of red ones that's like this one's hot,
Speaker 1: everybody's clicking on it links off to an NBC News article,
Speaker 1: and because of the misconception that the you know, establishment
Speaker 1: media has a left word bias as opposed to a
Speaker 1: status quo inequality bias, which is the truth. Uh, It's
Speaker 1: the kind of story that I think for a long
Speaker 1: time had me thinking like that the case like progress
Speaker 1: and like leftism is good in theory and impossible in practice.
Speaker 1: Like I I thought that, like when in my twenties,
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, but you know, like I used
Speaker 1: to work for ABC News, like the National like ABC News,
Speaker 1: and like at that time that was my thinking was
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, you can't really do it because like
Speaker 1: people and you know, from actually having some time over
Speaker 1: the past decade, like following the news closely and being
Speaker 1: familiar with how mainstream media myths are perpetuated and like
Speaker 1: the mainstream media myths that kind of come up over
Speaker 1: and over again, I've like kind of realized that like
Speaker 1: they are leaving out the most important acts first of all,
Speaker 1: the types of crimes that are being like over indexed
Speaker 1: in national news, and that basically everyone was like our
Speaker 1: you know, they're on the rise out of control in
Speaker 1: San Francisco are actually at near historic lows, but the
Speaker 1: media and business interests have contributed to like a mass
Speaker 1: panic and basically converting everybody's dissatisfaction with the way things
Speaker 1: actually are because of inequality and you know, our failed government.
Speaker 1: They've like converted that into fear of this this type
Speaker 1: of crime. Yeah. I think when Chase a boutine like
Speaker 1: comes out and becomes d A and then says you're
Speaker 1: into decarceration out loud, your fate is almost sealed. Like
Speaker 1: with Mike, very powerful interests coming in to just say, well,
Speaker 1: let's not do that, because what we need is someone
Speaker 1: to maintain the status quo, not start to tip the
Speaker 1: balance of power in any kind of other direction. And
Speaker 1: you know that that whole I mean, like we have
Speaker 1: a problem in California, just like the idea of recall
Speaker 1: elections is fucked up because all it takes is someone
Speaker 1: with a lot of money to get something like that. Going.
Speaker 1: Same with our ballot propositions, Like while some are good,
Speaker 1: you have others like the one where you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's Prop twenty two or uber is like yeah, man,
Speaker 1: they're not. They don't need fucking rights or benefits, right
Speaker 1: vote for that because we've got a couple of people
Speaker 1: being like I love the gig economy, you know, and
Speaker 1: like that we have these sort of mechanisms within the
Speaker 1: state for this kind of stuff. But just to underscore
Speaker 1: like what the like this d A did basically with
Speaker 1: by being a progressive d A single handedly like united
Speaker 1: like landlords, Republicans, big tech and everyone sort of against him.
Speaker 1: There's like this group, the Allied Group Neighbors for a
Speaker 1: Better San Francisco and San Franciscan's for Public Safety. They
Speaker 1: put in six and a half million dollars into the
Speaker 1: recall election, and like that's money coming from real estate developers,
Speaker 1: Like six grand from like a local real estate developer,
Speaker 1: like you know, this one Democratic strategist said Bodin. Bodine
Speaker 1: is quote the unfortunate recipient of all of the anger
Speaker 1: from the investor class in the billionaire class, right, And
Speaker 1: I think that is more of I think that is
Speaker 1: the point, more than like they're rebuking it because of
Speaker 1: these like fake pumped up headlines about like crime waves.
Speaker 1: The same thing is happening in l A where they're
Speaker 1: trying to paint everything you see on Foxes about Venice
Speaker 1: Beach and it's like, oh Venice, ah, gods fucking wild. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there is, like we have we have issues with our
Speaker 1: with like, uh, the unhoused people and trying to find
Speaker 1: places for them to live because we have also have
Speaker 1: a ton of residents who don't want any like actual
Speaker 1: housing built near them. So there's that going on. But
Speaker 1: there is another instance where they try and say, this
Speaker 1: superliberal place has these fucked up problems, therefore, don't do
Speaker 1: anything that these places have done. This message it's brought
Speaker 1: to you by the landlords who want to keep your
Speaker 1: rent so high your eyes bleed. Yeah, that's the thing
Speaker 1: that I like. It has nothing to do with the
Speaker 1: validity of the ideas. It has to do with the
Speaker 1: strength of wealth in in this country and how entrenched
Speaker 1: the corporate interests and also the police are in the
Speaker 1: mainstream media. Yeah yeah, I'm going to it from thinking
Speaker 1: like the mainstream media is you know, a left leaning
Speaker 1: but still like kind of mainstream democrat mouthpiece too. Thinks
Speaker 1: like it's really like police state propaganda over and over again,
Speaker 1: and it's it's consistent, which which also makes it incredibly difficult. Like,
Speaker 1: and I think a good point that you know has
Speaker 1: been made is that like we we shouldn't think of
Speaker 1: the panic that is happening around crime and the in
Speaker 1: housed community as just like an aberrant, you know, moral
Speaker 1: panic as much as it is we are in a
Speaker 1: failed state that is experiencing the consequences of years and
Speaker 1: years of mismanagement and just being having the interests of
Speaker 1: wealthy Americans and the their partnership with the police outstripped
Speaker 1: the interests of the people, and like people, you know,
Speaker 1: there are really awful consequences of that, such as like
Speaker 1: the unhoused community and the fact that like we don't
Speaker 1: have a better answer for mental health than we do
Speaker 1: because nobody funds that ship. All they do is fund
Speaker 1: the police. Yeah, I you know, every time, there's always
Speaker 1: going to be a convenient like hey, look over there,
Speaker 1: it's that thing. It's not inequality, you know when everything
Speaker 1: again all experts talk about it's like so much of
Speaker 1: this is tied to people not having access to it,
Speaker 1: being like laden with debt to have to live in
Speaker 1: cities where you know, the median income is like a
Speaker 1: fraction of what the median rent is and those are
Speaker 1: all the things working on people at once. But then
Speaker 1: it's just very easy to go, it's this one guy
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Isn't that like a big deal when
Speaker 1: we're we completely do every single person to disservice by
Speaker 1: not broadening the conversation to like the actual things, just
Speaker 1: like with just how Republicans are doing it with gun control.
Speaker 1: It's single moms weedorn the fucking gut what like. So
Speaker 1: when I think each you know, for whoever is in power,
Speaker 1: there's always a convenient explanation or redirective like outrage to
Speaker 1: some other thing rather than like where it needs to
Speaker 1: be directed. I mean, like because like the way they
Speaker 1: came after Chase of Boudine, it's almost like he said,
Speaker 1: he came out and he's like, and I will build
Speaker 1: fully intact guillotines in front of the homes of every
Speaker 1: tex CEO and landlord or in the city. No, he's
Speaker 1: just saying we have a problem just throwing people in jail.
Speaker 1: We don't. We're not interested in like rehab rehabilitating people
Speaker 1: in any way, because it's just that we've created this
Speaker 1: whole other industry of just being like, I don't deal
Speaker 1: with the failures of our society, just monetize it by
Speaker 1: putting them in a prison and because someone comes along,
Speaker 1: It's like that seems like a terrible way to look
Speaker 1: at humanity and how to treat people that you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's very easy too then to do this very
Speaker 1: disingenuous thing to be like they're soft on crime. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And like the article reads when when you're reading it,
Speaker 1: like one of the things that I'm realizing, like my
Speaker 1: brain is sort of questioning, is like, well, how can
Speaker 1: like the right be this smart and like have all
Speaker 1: these different like things coming together to take down like
Speaker 1: this one d a or like any leftist idea. And
Speaker 1: it's because like that is the easy thing to do
Speaker 1: in America. It it goes with the grain of the
Speaker 1: myths around that American exceptionalism, American individualism. And you know,
Speaker 1: I've talked about it as like the like American immune
Speaker 1: system attacking anything that is like remotely left leaning because
Speaker 1: that is like America has traditionally been allergic to that.
Speaker 1: But that is exactly what we need. There's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with the ideas in the programs when they're used well
Speaker 1: as they have been in the distant past. It's just
Speaker 1: that we have let these systems of wealth and media
Speaker 1: and police just completely overrun things and we're it's completely
Speaker 1: out of balance, and so it's going to take sustained,
Speaker 1: persistent movements. It's it's not going to be like one
Speaker 1: person unfortunately. And yeah, I mean, I think again it's
Speaker 1: the status quo is what benefits everybody in power now
Speaker 1: and we're again we're looking at a thing where people
Speaker 1: are crying out for health, air, for all these other things.
Speaker 1: And if yeah, in fact, anything runs a foul of
Speaker 1: like the you know, the systems of profiteering and things
Speaker 1: that exists like this just not it won't happen in
Speaker 1: that sense. So uh, yeah, don't believe the hype about this.
Speaker 1: It's just a very it's a very easy thing. I
Speaker 1: think again, because like even on MSNBC you just had
Speaker 1: James Carvill, like crip walking on like this guy's grave.
Speaker 1: He's like, this is the thing you gotta understand. In
Speaker 1: San Francisco, they don't like this kind of stuff. They
Speaker 1: don't like to disorder. I was, I was in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles for the l s u u c l A
Speaker 1: football game, and the homeless people they were just out
Speaker 1: of control and they don't like disorder like and that's all.
Speaker 1: It's like very ease, like just this talking point that's like, sure,
Speaker 1: no one likes disorder, but to then say that, to
Speaker 1: then not offer a solution is so fucked up, because
Speaker 1: then it should be like, okay, if that's how do
Speaker 1: you create order? Because order isn't just clubbing people in
Speaker 1: their heads and throwing into a patty wagon and sending
Speaker 1: him to jail. Like creating order is saying, oh, here's
Speaker 1: a this looks like disorder, this looks like something we
Speaker 1: can solve, So speak about that. Speak about how you
Speaker 1: can actually put people in houses or any kind of
Speaker 1: like real substantial shelter that allows them to get a job,
Speaker 1: to get the kind of mental health they need, because
Speaker 1: to just there's just like this very reflective thing to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, you know, people are unhoused because like
Speaker 1: they're bad, right, and so there's no humanity offered to
Speaker 1: someone who like, mind you many people like this statistic
Speaker 1: people are constantly parting and saying out loud, which is
Speaker 1: most people are closer to being unhoused than they are
Speaker 1: to being like wealthy by stretch of the imagination. So
Speaker 1: if we can't extend that empathy to unhoused people, like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be locked in these like really barbaric system
Speaker 1: like cycles of just dismissing human suffering. Is like, well
Speaker 1: that's their fault now, dude. I refuse to let that
Speaker 1: information in because I am on my horizon grind mentality,
Speaker 1: and I just like to you know, mind over body,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna just like stay on the grind and
Speaker 1: keep my focus on being a millionaire. And that's where
Speaker 1: it ends. Yea. I don't know if you've ever heard
Speaker 1: of the secret, but well that's what was interesting about
Speaker 1: Like when the pandemic was at its height, with the
Speaker 1: like there was no homeless on the street for a
Speaker 1: while because they were we figured it out basically, do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like they're they were put
Speaker 1: in hotels, they're putting different housing and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: so to try to flatten the curve of what was
Speaker 1: going on. So like it's it's like we're as soon
Speaker 1: as we got out of you know, the high numbers
Speaker 1: were back to not having you know, sympathy for for
Speaker 1: people who are without homes or or without a job
Speaker 1: or without a job. Yeah, there's a lot there's so
Speaker 1: many people without a job right now. Especially there's so
Speaker 1: many people that just stopped working, that went on unemployment
Speaker 1: because they were making more money like off of their
Speaker 1: job that they didn't really like. And now they're in
Speaker 1: a weird place because now they've been without work for
Speaker 1: a long time and now they need to get jobs.
Speaker 1: And then there's just this giant hole in the resume
Speaker 1: of what were you doing between this? It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: are those collecting unemployments? Like, yeah, I think a global pandemic. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you seem kind of all right, Well I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: you don't seem trustworthy. Yeah, you're willing to open the story,
Speaker 1: willing to open the shop even if you have COVID no,
Speaker 1: because that's a that's a requirement of the job. Actually,
Speaker 1: all right here, let me crumple this resume up, alright,
Speaker 1: see you later, bro. Next. I do I do think
Speaker 1: that the guillotine should be brought back, uh, not for people,
Speaker 1: but for just items, like just to make them more
Speaker 1: dramatic if you don't like want them like around your place,
Speaker 1: just like guillotines, like instead of paper shredders, you know,
Speaker 1: just like putting. Honestly, you say that, but I have
Speaker 1: a feeling people would respond more to like private property
Speaker 1: being destroyed in a guillotine then and they're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, they're putting Amazon Prime boxes in the guillotine
Speaker 1: and their guillotine, and like, just I feel like the
Speaker 1: symbolism of that because the thing that you read a
Speaker 1: lot from a lot of like operatives and consultants political consultants,
Speaker 1: especially around like people in the finance industry, is they
Speaker 1: know their entire job is to keep the conversation from
Speaker 1: swaying into what about these greedy fuckers? That's like the
Speaker 1: whole whole thing is there's a whole messaging system built
Speaker 1: on people's heads not turning in that direction, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And that's the same thing about what
Speaker 1: you're talking about, this immunity that the American you know,
Speaker 1: society has to anything that is like progressive in terms
Speaker 1: of like meaning like the wealthy you don't get just
Speaker 1: like hoard all the money. And I think that is
Speaker 1: an interesting way of to kind of subvert the those
Speaker 1: sort of attempts and just be like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe I feel like guillotine and Amazon logo. People will
Speaker 1: start connecting that Jeff Bay source, Yeah, guillotine and the
Speaker 1: bird scooters. Maybe I would love that I do anything
Speaker 1: so much, Well, who does that sit. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I feel like billionaire since people like use that in
Speaker 1: replacement of like functional like public transport, this should be
Speaker 1: a sick art part you buy like a gigantic Giett
Speaker 1: Guillotina fucking Tesla cyber truck. Just I just saw a
Speaker 1: tweet of the video the cyber truck and I was
Speaker 1: just looking at that, like, I mean, I guess it's cool,
Speaker 1: but like, what what is this for? Like who is
Speaker 1: this for? Like, like, I mean eight year old me
Speaker 1: is stoked looking at it, being like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: like it's basically that card is for anybody who's gonna
Speaker 1: like who grew up to be a millionaire, Who's like,
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to be driving a real life Hot
Speaker 1: Wheels car, you know, I always wanted to be the
Speaker 1: bad guy from Robo Cop and this feels like he
Speaker 1: aligned more with my beliefs than actually robot cop. Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about what is on TV tonight, baby, and we're back
Speaker 1: and yeah, so pretty much every network will be airing
Speaker 1: the January six Committees prime Time. Can you believe they
Speaker 1: did that ship hearing tonight? The like kids say the
Speaker 1: darndest thing and the award goes to a giant list
Speaker 1: of yeah, a lot of nominees this year. They start
Speaker 1: calling out the bait, the buff babies from the sketch.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, everyone except Fox. Obviously Fox gonna be atting
Speaker 1: the coverage of this on on Fox Business. But they'll
Speaker 1: also so they'll like have not coverage of it on Fox,
Speaker 1: but they will have a two hour reaction special when
Speaker 1: the first round of hearing ends. But it's gonna I
Speaker 1: can't imagine what that reaction like. No, Hunter, Biden is
Speaker 1: a laptop. I'm sure smart and well constructed, like you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're good at speaking to their base.
Speaker 1: They absolutely are. Um And you know, to that point,
Speaker 1: Laura Ingram on her show on When or Tuesday Night,
Speaker 1: like they brought up the hearings and she had none
Speaker 1: other than teenage mutant Ninja Girbels a k a. Stephen
Speaker 1: Miller on the show to discuss like just to basically
Speaker 1: like laugh off the whole notion that like this thing
Speaker 1: is going to expose the Trump administration even further. But
Speaker 1: she does just let you know, like it's very clear, Oh,
Speaker 1: why aren't we playing it? Like why do we even
Speaker 1: have to fucking tell you guys know why we're not
Speaker 1: playing it? Stephen, what do you think this is gonna
Speaker 1: be primetime? They're all upset that Fox isn't covering it live.
Speaker 1: We actually do something called, you know, cater to our audience.
Speaker 1: Our audience knows what this is. We'll cover it. Well,
Speaker 1: there's just okay, so yeah, that's oh, we just something
Speaker 1: called catering schum hook and telling people only what they
Speaker 1: want to know because we're entertainment not a news then listen,
Speaker 1: we are a theater. We are live theater. At least
Speaker 1: she said that out loud, you know. And it's like
Speaker 1: the same thing when like MSNBC will be like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, Nancy Pelosi gets it so struck Schumer and
Speaker 1: like they have the same people like kind of pushing
Speaker 1: that thing, but catering to the audience. They know what
Speaker 1: this is because I'm telling them what this is. Don't
Speaker 1: look at that. Although I'm not sure how many, I
Speaker 1: feel people are going to be curious because they are
Speaker 1: going to have like, you know, real testimony, whether it's
Speaker 1: live or tape, and they can see people saying this stuff,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they'll be definitely a group of people
Speaker 1: who want to bury their heads even deeper into the
Speaker 1: Earth's like crust. But for some others, you know, who
Speaker 1: are kind of like what's what are they saying? WHOA,
Speaker 1: that's weird. Maybe that will be the audience where something
Speaker 1: I was. I don't know, don't for me, I'm just
Speaker 1: like not sure, Like I get the idea that more
Speaker 1: people need to understand like how much of a threat
Speaker 1: this is. But at the same time, like if if
Speaker 1: this is as serious as we all saw it to be,
Speaker 1: you don't you don't need to convince many people, like
Speaker 1: you don't need to convince them that you need to
Speaker 1: do like enforce the like the law, like that we
Speaker 1: will have the government overthrown like that. I don't know
Speaker 1: that seems like a decent argument. I don't know. Anytime
Speaker 1: it's mainstream Democrats first, mainstream Republicans, I don't feel great
Speaker 1: about the chance of the mainstream Democrats to have the
Speaker 1: effect that they are hoping to. The Republicans seemed to
Speaker 1: like be better at just grandstanding and you know, using
Speaker 1: asymmetrical like warfare on on the political level too, just
Speaker 1: you know, obstruct and fun things up and just make
Speaker 1: it I don't. I I don't have high hopes what
Speaker 1: we'll see where where it goes. I mean I do like,
Speaker 1: where do we think people's the public opinion on what
Speaker 1: happened is like minor dust up, I think, is what
Speaker 1: an NFL coach said at a press conference yesterday, But
Speaker 1: like somewhere between a minor dust up and and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was bad, but it's not. It's not that bad.
Speaker 1: So like in order to like make an impact, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to actually connect it to Trump, right you
Speaker 1: you well yeah, And like there's polling that's gone down
Speaker 1: pretty grist steadily since the beginning of the year that
Speaker 1: like less and less people think that the president was
Speaker 1: solely responsible for the rioting. Huh. And I get that
Speaker 1: there's probably more nuanced like maybe some people are like, well,
Speaker 1: it's like old people too, But to know that the
Speaker 1: main beneficiary of election being overthrown would obviously be the president,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's probably why they look at
Speaker 1: poll numbers like that and they're like, fuck, man, no,
Speaker 1: this guy was stilling everybody he could, like that, this
Speaker 1: ship had to go down. So yeah, but at that point,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like trying to explain like a NASA
Speaker 1: mission to like lay people. It's like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: do your NASA thing. Man, you're gonna convince me we
Speaker 1: gotta go to space. What the fund do? I know?
Speaker 1: You know at a certain level, like if you're there
Speaker 1: to safeguard this supposed dumpster fire of a representative democracy,
Speaker 1: then fucking do what you need to do. It's not
Speaker 1: like hey, can, hey should we are you guys cool
Speaker 1: with us and making sure I gotta make sure you
Speaker 1: see everything and you like it. Because the polls were
Speaker 1: so shook by poll numbers, we can't just be like,
Speaker 1: this is the right thing we need to do. I
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck what of the like the opposition
Speaker 1: party says, But the Republicans don't give a They don't
Speaker 1: like do focus group, they don't like put put out
Speaker 1: a weather balloon to see how something plays. Their weather
Speaker 1: balloon is like introduced a terrible bill that's like dehumanizing
Speaker 1: and then people go, oh my god, they go just kidding,
Speaker 1: it's like half that bad. And the Democrats do seem to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, lose lose their mission pretty quickly. If something
Speaker 1: if there's like a minor bump in the in the road.
Speaker 1: All right, well we'll see what we'll see how this
Speaker 1: all goes. As you can hear, my boys, I'm hopeful.
Speaker 1: I'm optimistic. Y'all got this. Let's talk about what TikTok
Speaker 1: being sort of interwoven into the into the political sphere
Speaker 1: a little bit. There's just this article Advice that is
Speaker 1: focusing like on this like like wave of TikTok videos
Speaker 1: with like messaging around like accomplishments from like the Democrats
Speaker 1: and like the winds of the Biden administration, like what
Speaker 1: what what? What's going on here? They're like there's like
Speaker 1: one where there's like this Tesla fan like influencer on
Speaker 1: TikTok who's just kind of being like, man, thanks to
Speaker 1: the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, there'll be more EV charging stations,
Speaker 1: so I fuck yeah Byron, shout out to you. Or
Speaker 1: another where there's like a black influencer who's like, you know,
Speaker 1: elated about the nomination of Katangi Brown Jackson to the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. And all of these videos like as they
Speaker 1: were like looking at them, they're they're a product of
Speaker 1: this company called Vocal Media, where they describe themselves as
Speaker 1: an influencer marketing partner that specializes in influencer campaigns for
Speaker 1: progressive and nonprofit causes. They said, this company has been
Speaker 1: training and paying influencers to promote their clients causes in
Speaker 1: a series of videos that are generally not marked as
Speaker 1: sponsored content. And I think this is kind of where
Speaker 1: the issue is because there's already a huge issue on
Speaker 1: social media, especially TikTok, where the platform does little to
Speaker 1: enforce its like rules around disclosing paid partnerships, like especially
Speaker 1: with political especially with political posts. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: initially a lot of the focus has been on groups
Speaker 1: like Praguer you or like Turning Point USA, these like
Speaker 1: hyper conservative groups that they're just spewing a bunch of wacky,
Speaker 1: hateful ship. But I mean, like these ads are no
Speaker 1: different Like if you are look that's you're just swapping
Speaker 1: out left or right and you're having people put in
Speaker 1: just like, oh, I'm being paid to further along like
Speaker 1: I was a specific political perspective without revealing to you
Speaker 1: that I'm being paid to do this, Like this isn't
Speaker 1: because I feel that, yeah, it's a pretty slimy way
Speaker 1: of of doing politics because it comes down to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of podcasters and stuff like that
Speaker 1: we have to do like ad reads and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But it's pretty apparent when we go into the ad
Speaker 1: reads that it's a company that is a sponsor of
Speaker 1: the show. It's we're literally saying this is sponsored by
Speaker 1: so like to slide it in like that. Like that's
Speaker 1: when you know, that becomes a scary thing, Like all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, people are inundated by different influencers and
Speaker 1: before they know it, like they're getting wrong information maybe
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So yeah, it's yeah, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, and I get that they're like moral causes,
Speaker 1: so you're like, well, they're not talking about homophobia. But
Speaker 1: what we're talking about is just this like ability for
Speaker 1: moneyed interests to like convince you that these influence people
Speaker 1: that you follow the truth, you know, whatever supposed trust
Speaker 1: that's built with like a social media person that you follow,
Speaker 1: like that's being leveraged to tell you something like, hey,
Speaker 1: be complacent with what's happening right now, don't agitate for
Speaker 1: too much change because it's all good. Because there might
Speaker 1: be more electric vehicle chargers down the road. I don't know,
Speaker 1: And I think that's like kind of a wild thing.
Speaker 1: And when you look further, Advice was talking to the
Speaker 1: people at this company. They were you know, they found
Speaker 1: that some of the people that were like speaking on
Speaker 1: behalf of the company, like they have ties to you know,
Speaker 1: really substantial democratic like opposition research firms like power House
Speaker 1: oppo research firms, like the kind of people who dig
Speaker 1: gird up like on other Democrats if they're too progressive,
Speaker 1: Like they did the same thing like like this the
Speaker 1: guy who started this firm smeared Anita Hill in the
Speaker 1: early nineties even and at the time was like a
Speaker 1: Republican and then like in two sixteen like had also
Speaker 1: like spread the like lies about like Bernie Sanders having
Speaker 1: these like FEC violations, which that were like fake too
Speaker 1: that like later like these are not even real. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is basically the same kind of underhanded ship. But
Speaker 1: you know on the democratic side. And I think this
Speaker 1: like Vice articles going on to say like if this
Speaker 1: is if misinformation is a big problem to democrats, then
Speaker 1: you have to like really look at this, like genuinely
Speaker 1: and objectively to say is it right for people to
Speaker 1: you know, come like go out using their social social
Speaker 1: media influence to then cape for like saying, hey, climate
Speaker 1: change isn't that bad. I mean, we're gonna do something
Speaker 1: about it, but don't get all mad about it. And
Speaker 1: I think that's where things get a little bit murky.
Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, that's a good detail in this Vice article.
Speaker 1: One of the videos was a disgusted Taylor Swift influencer
Speaker 1: in the fall of blaming then Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn
Speaker 1: Younkin's former company for buying Taylor Swift master tapes and
Speaker 1: then the only indication that that was sponsored. But that's
Speaker 1: like such a roundabout way to like be like, so
Speaker 1: don't vote for him because he bought he bought her
Speaker 1: massic tastes. The Swift video contained a logo for votes
Speaker 1: Save America, a crooked media project promoting progressive but or
Speaker 1: outreach which does at least suggest a partnership of some kind.
Speaker 1: So that was the only time that like the a
Speaker 1: partnership that this was like part of some political messaging
Speaker 1: was was indicated at all. Yeah, I think also just
Speaker 1: like such a weird strategy. Yeah, and it's just gross
Speaker 1: though again, like that the people who need to reinforce
Speaker 1: the status quo, like it's a full core press, like
Speaker 1: you're not fucking safe anywhere, Like we'll we'll be all
Speaker 1: over your bus, benches, will be in your TikTok. You
Speaker 1: won't know who's fucking saying what and who's being paid
Speaker 1: from who. Like it's just it's just a very disorienting landscape,
Speaker 1: especially when we're at this point, like we're saying that
Speaker 1: the inequality and the societal ills that people are facing
Speaker 1: right now require like real, real substantial shifts in our policies.
Speaker 1: If more than anything, people have to understand that the
Speaker 1: status quo is absolutely an untenable situation. But then when
Speaker 1: you have money pouring in on all sides to sort
Speaker 1: of like you know, bolster the arguments or the perception
Speaker 1: that everything's okay and it's gonna get figured out. Just
Speaker 1: vote for whoever in the fall or in this case,
Speaker 1: like you know, the Joe Biden will help out, then
Speaker 1: it really it. All it does is sort of reinforce
Speaker 1: this idea of complacency. Like when we're saying what we're
Speaker 1: in such an era of urgency, and I think that's, yeah,
Speaker 1: it becomes really insidious when, especially when it's not being
Speaker 1: you're not being transparent about like any other time, like
Speaker 1: that's how the FEC works. Like you have to like,
Speaker 1: if you get any kind of monetary or material benefit,
Speaker 1: you have to disclose that. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: they found a neat loophole I guess a TikTok to
Speaker 1: be able to be like, well, they don't enforce it,
Speaker 1: so let's just play over here. And it's almost like
Speaker 1: this isn't the time to be to be replacing Facebook
Speaker 1: and Twitter and like social media outlets that we've already
Speaker 1: found and like known to be extremely toxic and harmful
Speaker 1: with a more seamless version of Facebook and Twitter where
Speaker 1: like you don't even click on anything. It is just
Speaker 1: injected into a stream ind of your into your veins.
Speaker 1: And it's like they were like, all right, so we
Speaker 1: get it smoking is bad for you. So what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do is we're just going to put invisible cigarettes
Speaker 1: spook everywhere you go. Like that's it's gonna be way
Speaker 1: more addictive, way harder to even notice when you are
Speaker 1: smoking or what that the toxic stuff is being put
Speaker 1: in there, right, I don't know, but or maybe not.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's fun. We'll see remind computer, remind me in
Speaker 1: ten years, where are we at TikTok bad? Is I
Speaker 1: like start googling things like Yoda TikTok bad? Is it
Speaker 1: TikTok um? Well, Jeremiah, truly a pleasure as always having
Speaker 1: you on the daily Zeitgeist? Where can people find you? Follow? You?
Speaker 1: Think you mentioned a podcast? Is it? Oh? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of podcasts. One it's called Jeremiah
Speaker 1: Wonders What it's called Scissor Bros. With my buddy Stevie Weeby. Uh.
Speaker 1: We do a lot of crazy challenges and stunts and
Speaker 1: stuff like that on that podcast. And then um, I've
Speaker 1: got a new series on YouTube called stand Up on
Speaker 1: the Spot where comedians go up with no prepared material
Speaker 1: as the audience for suggestions and then you have to
Speaker 1: create stand up on the Spot based off those audience suggestions.
Speaker 1: So the most recent one features Jess May Peluso, Todd Glass,
Speaker 1: Tony Baker, and Josh Potter as well as myself and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, jeremis stand up on social media across the
Speaker 1: board that that seems terrifying. I went and watched the
Speaker 1: beginning of like the latest episode and they were just
Speaker 1: like a s TVs. They's just like shouting things that
Speaker 1: you that that is a true high wire act. It
Speaker 1: really is as far as as stand up goes. It's
Speaker 1: definitely probably the hardest show in stand up comedy. But
Speaker 1: when it's pulled off, well it's it's really gratifying for
Speaker 1: not only the audience, but it is the comics as well. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. God speed to you and and those stand
Speaker 1: up comics. Jack just goes to all the shows to
Speaker 1: do like bad suggestions, the improviser's worst one food just
Speaker 1: being like I know whoa I mean, the best thing
Speaker 1: about the show is uh is sometimes that will trigger
Speaker 1: some some funny stuff just because based on how bad
Speaker 1: the suggestions are. And then also if it's really genuinely bad,
Speaker 1: I tell all the comics. I'm like, you just tell
Speaker 1: the audience like no, let's keep going, like give me more,
Speaker 1: Like it's not like an improv showers, Like the first
Speaker 1: thing I heard was this, and I that inspires some
Speaker 1: good stand up Yeah? Off of that? Yeah, exactly? Is
Speaker 1: there a tweet or some of the work of social
Speaker 1: media a TikTok I hear that's big that you've been
Speaker 1: enjoying by any chance, Jeremiah, Um, I have I got sucked?
Speaker 1: Into a wormhole on TikTok of cars being cleaned. Uh,
Speaker 1: that is like it's like an SMR type things. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know. I still don't fully understand why
Speaker 1: I like it. But it's old cars being restored with
Speaker 1: like like high pressure like power washers and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and then like leather being cleaned, and then like it's
Speaker 1: something about like wait, seeing something that's really dirty before
Speaker 1: and then restored to really nice and I'm like, oh man,
Speaker 1: and then I'm obsessed with the new season Stranger things.
Speaker 1: Those are the things that have been on my mind
Speaker 1: that Barry just watched the season finale. Barry as well,
Speaker 1: Oh I got one more episode of bari Yea. Oh
Speaker 1: guy's so good, dude. Hey, um yeah, the the I
Speaker 1: know the tiktoks you are talking about, because there's like
Speaker 1: a whole genre of like cars better basically when someone
Speaker 1: trades in their car to be sold on a used
Speaker 1: a lot and like you're just watching these like I
Speaker 1: know what you're talking There's like one where you see
Speaker 1: like a leather console go from like brown to white
Speaker 1: and you're like it's it's mind blowing. You're just like,
Speaker 1: how are how is that even I mean, obviously they're professionals,
Speaker 1: that's what they do, but that's just crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: And that's all from that subreddit. Oddly satisfying, you'd have
Speaker 1: he's been the one way they used the fair gun,
Speaker 1: the like massage gun on the floor of the car,
Speaker 1: like the carpet on the bottom of the floor, so
Speaker 1: they bring the dust up and then they so it's
Speaker 1: like their gun with a high power back next to it.
Speaker 1: And I watched that for like, it's so satisfying. It
Speaker 1: just pounds all the dust and dirt that's like stuck
Speaker 1: inside of the carpet like up and then the thing
Speaker 1: just like sucks it away, and I think very smooth.
Speaker 1: My ancestors were putting a rug on a clothing line
Speaker 1: and beating it with a stick, yeah you know, and
Speaker 1: now we're there a gun and vacuuming it out. I
Speaker 1: always thought the beating it with the stick was just
Speaker 1: them getting their anxiety and angst out for having to
Speaker 1: live in the earliest smash rooms, which is apparently there
Speaker 1: was a good reason for it. Miles, Hey, how are
Speaker 1: you doing? Where can people find you? And what is
Speaker 1: the tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter and
Speaker 1: Instagram at Miles of Gray. Check out the basketball podcast
Speaker 1: Miles and Jack got mad most and excuse me, I
Speaker 1: just burped, that's how wild that was an NBA podcast.
Speaker 1: We have Sarah Todd on this latest episode, beat reporter
Speaker 1: for the Utah Jazz, who was like, we gotta have Ronzi, guys,
Speaker 1: because she was she was super cool and like as
Speaker 1: we were talking, like afterwards, I'm like, that felt like
Speaker 1: a Zeitgeist guest. So yeah, check that out. And also
Speaker 1: four twenty day Fiance with Sophie Alexandra and I we
Speaker 1: do ninety day talk talking about that trash. Uh. Some
Speaker 1: tweets I like. First one is from at Chell BB
Speaker 1: Underscore and Chill tweeted We're the Daughters of the Bajas
Speaker 1: they couldn't blast and loved that one. Also another one
Speaker 1: where is it at oh Young Paric Young Perk Patel
Speaker 1: tweeted avocado should have different toys inside instead of the
Speaker 1: same wooden ball every time. That's great. I's love thinking
Speaker 1: that it's a wooden ball. You can find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Jack Underscore. Oh, Brian's tweets I've been enjoying,
Speaker 1: Aran tweeted on my third cup of coffee without eating anything.
Speaker 1: Why am I afraid? That's me every morning? And Shen
Speaker 1: the Bird tweeted, girl interrupting my sexting, Stop saying betwixt
Speaker 1: And then this was just a cool use of Twitter.
Speaker 1: Kelban tweeted, if anyone in n y C once forty
Speaker 1: dollars worth of Chippotle, it's sitting on the takeout shelf
Speaker 1: at the Broadway location in Chinatown. It's paid for and
Speaker 1: under my name Ryan. Why didn't look at the location
Speaker 1: before ordering and just made an absolute fool of myself
Speaker 1: and the Chipotle and Buffalo? I thought he was gonna
Speaker 1: be like in like Midtown or something, but Buffalo, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't go get that. So yeah, hopefully somebody got
Speaker 1: to preach pol And. You can find us on Twitter
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Speaker 1: talked about in today's episode, as well as a song
Speaker 1: that we think you might enjoy. Mile as a song
Speaker 1: do we think people might enjoy? Uh? This is a
Speaker 1: group called The Colors That Rise. They're a duo and
Speaker 1: this is a live version of a track called Polo
Speaker 1: one point two and their vibe. Man, it's just you know,
Speaker 1: I like stuff that feels like a computer suddenly like
Speaker 1: God sold and like trying to make music but only
Speaker 1: had it's like computer voice to do things, or it's
Speaker 1: it's machine learned aesthetics to do it. H So this
Speaker 1: has got like it's like sultry but you know, kinda
Speaker 1: I don't know how to describe it. It's like it's
Speaker 1: like vapor Wavy two. There's all kinds of just really
Speaker 1: interesting like analog and digital elements to it. So this
Speaker 1: is Polo one point too from The Colors that Rise.
Speaker 1: All right, I wonder if that is a like post
Speaker 1: nine eleven reference. The Colors that Rise probably not what
Speaker 1: you r s. So they're Europeans. They're from New England.
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