Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to thirty nine,
Speaker 1: episode one of Days Stay Induction of by Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's shared consciousness. And it is Tuesday, May thirty
Speaker 1: one two, which of course means that it is the
Speaker 1: last day of May. Oh yeah, good riddance. If if
Speaker 1: I had to say what actual day it was, if
Speaker 1: we were going to really celebrate it, it would be
Speaker 1: World Parrot Day. Yeah, I mean that would be like,
Speaker 1: that's that's for the That's like the people who go
Speaker 1: out drinking on New Year's Eve and New Year's is
Speaker 1: a big deal for them, Like every day's Parrot Day
Speaker 1: for me. And yeah, like you know, it's a there's
Speaker 1: a lot of weird ones. Actually, on the thirty first,
Speaker 1: it's also necritizing Fasciitis Awareness Day above been there, don't
Speaker 1: work around with that, and also Speak in Complete Sentences Day.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a thing like my grandmother would have
Speaker 1: told me about. No, I don't think I will is
Speaker 1: that a complete sentence could be depends on the coup,
Speaker 1: I don't think Yeah, no, that is nah. Do you
Speaker 1: remember the remember the trend? I feel like maybe this
Speaker 1: trend has like started to feel silly at this point
Speaker 1: where we will blame the year and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: not you eighteen, you've taken David Bowie away from me.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was ten, but you yeah, you know
Speaker 1: that was a big year. Yeah, I'm sorry to join
Speaker 1: in before David David Bowie died of cancer, had nothing.
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like I'm seeing less and less
Speaker 1: of the two is a bad one, you know, thanks
Speaker 1: a lot two. I think I think we've started to
Speaker 1: realize that it might be creeping fascism problem that we
Speaker 1: have more more soaps. I'm just blame in the year. Anyways.
Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien, a k a'b. Dude everywhere, Man,
Speaker 1: dude everywhere. Man drank the Baja Blast, Man breathe the
Speaker 1: Mountain dew Airmen Solda, I've had my share, man, I've
Speaker 1: dude everywhere. I drank Mamy Burr's Code Red, Flaming Hot,
Speaker 1: Major Melon Game Fuelberry Blast, b two Doves, Legends, park
Speaker 1: an't Vulgeared, live Wire, Sweet Lightning, Purple Thunder, Orange Storm,
Speaker 1: Tropic Spike, Frost, Button Typhoon, Cherry Burs made a great
Speaker 1: fruit punch kick Start black and cherry thrashed apples sold
Speaker 1: at Kroger. I've dude everywhere man. Uh. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Blake Rogers. Great work on your part, especially love closing
Speaker 1: it out with sold at Kroger where Johnny where Johnny
Speaker 1: Cash said I'm a killer, which is which is a
Speaker 1: great little aside after listening a bunch of states as
Speaker 1: being like, I'm a killer. I That's that's why I'm
Speaker 1: traveling to all these states to just sold at Kroger.
Speaker 1: The perfect punctuation when we're what are we talking to? Amy?
Speaker 1: That was Amy? Right? Yeah? Amyas? Yeah? Oh you know.
Speaker 1: And I forgive me if the person came with a K,
Speaker 1: because I felt like when I was talking, I was like, look,
Speaker 1: you've been everywhere, man, and then when we got into that,
Speaker 1: I'm man, okay, I feel like I put something out
Speaker 1: there and then we got this wonderful Yeah yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it was. Sorry. I did you like because you
Speaker 1: did like throw something? When I said thanks to Blake
Speaker 1: Rogers for that, did you wanted me to thank you too?
Speaker 1: Blake Roger's been stealing my moment flow for fourteen years,
Speaker 1: and you said you've had enough of this ship than
Speaker 1: featuring Blake Rogers, thanks for featuring on the Miles Gray track. Miles, Honestly,
Speaker 1: I may be having a fever dream because I know,
Speaker 1: I look, I talked so much all the time. I know,
Speaker 1: I was just talking about that Johnny Cash song to somebody,
Speaker 1: so I look, my brain is mushed. So whatever, it's
Speaker 1: all right, you know, like I've dude everywhere. Anyways, I'm
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined as always by my co host
Speaker 1: Mr Miles Greg Ban ban ban ban ban ban bang
Speaker 1: bang bang bang bang bang. When the taste of this
Speaker 1: ship is a little strange, it's toxic. No need to
Speaker 1: check that day when it's it's like ammonia, you should
Speaker 1: trust your brain. I'm gonna eat this shrip even though
Speaker 1: that is toxic. Burn ran around, down and round. Okay.
Speaker 1: Shout out to t v Z Burner at TVZ Burner
Speaker 1: for that wonderful Britney Spears toxic inspired ak Because yeah,
Speaker 1: when I bought some shrimp that was in the sun
Speaker 1: too long, I I was one. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: believe that it had gone bad, even though the stink
Speaker 1: on it was burning my nose hairs out. So again,
Speaker 1: don't eat it, don't test it. You know, just be safe,
Speaker 1: practice food safety. Yeah, and your your body was telling
Speaker 1: you one thing, but you were also a you know,
Speaker 1: grew up as an athlete, so you you've learned to
Speaker 1: ignore your body and just listen to your mind and
Speaker 1: your spirit. And you gave it when just downing that
Speaker 1: shrimp that smelled like ammonia. What I do is I
Speaker 1: cut the little plastic bag that it's in first, drink
Speaker 1: all the juice at the bottom of the bag. Then
Speaker 1: I go on to cleaning than cooking it. But it's true.
Speaker 1: Just like my old fourth grade pe teacher used to
Speaker 1: wear that shirt that said pain is weakness leaving the body. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: That's that's my whole thing to mind over body, bro,
Speaker 1: mind over body. Well, we are thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: once again by one of the very faces on Mount
Speaker 1: Zeitemore Uh. He co host the podcast The Worst Idea
Speaker 1: of All Time. He's one of the funniest stand up
Speaker 1: comics doing it. He's one of your favorites. He's one
Speaker 1: of our favorites. The hilarious and talented guy magom Hello
Speaker 1: sort I lifted the little little early with the I
Speaker 1: couldn't hold back when you boys can talk to me is,
Speaker 1: but I'm still here and now I've got permission to
Speaker 1: take the microphone and say whatever I think, and fellas,
Speaker 1: I think some pretty nuts stuff, So good luck, good luck,
Speaker 1: all right, crazy, I'm feeling absolutely bonkers. Boys, can I
Speaker 1: ask you this? How the bloody hello? Yeah, I've got
Speaker 1: every time you're on right like for the past few years,
Speaker 1: it's like always at these moments where guy from New
Speaker 1: Zealand is just going, hey, y'all all right over there,
Speaker 1: that just kind of feels yeah, yeah, I've got a
Speaker 1: broad picture of what's hitting in America is not great,
Speaker 1: but how how a Miles and Jack, I'm compartmentalizing sometimes
Speaker 1: you go to oh yeah, yeah, um, I mean you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's so funny. A few people like reached out
Speaker 1: to me like, hey, man, I don't I keep watching
Speaker 1: the news right now, and part of me, I feel
Speaker 1: like it feels good to talk and express what I'm
Speaker 1: going through out loud so people can hear what's happening
Speaker 1: and maybe, you know, inform some people and that keeps
Speaker 1: me running and also just I feel like other than that,
Speaker 1: I don't know, to be honest, I'm kind of at
Speaker 1: a loss for words to actually are articular, accurately articulate
Speaker 1: what I'm going through at the moment. I'm I'm kind
Speaker 1: of on a knife edge, but leaning towards the optimistic
Speaker 1: and I'm bad. Oh well, I appreciate your honesty. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like shit physically, mentally, spiritually, That's where I'm at.
Speaker 1: But you know, I got some sick kids at home,
Speaker 1: so that's kicking my ass a little bit. And now
Speaker 1: they're on the men, so we'll see, we'll see. Maybe. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you gotta um you want to get those kids healthy. Hey,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you boys, I'm in the shape of
Speaker 1: my god damn life. Oh yeah, what shape is that? Well,
Speaker 1: it's sort of just the cumult of shape of brought
Speaker 1: on after thirty three years of hard living and fast rocket.
Speaker 1: I don't know, are living in fast walking the Guy
Speaker 1: Montgomery story at least that auto biography. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get to know you a little bit better in
Speaker 1: a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna talk about the gun control situation
Speaker 1: in these United States. We're gonna talk about RHN de Santis,
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk herschel Walker we're gonna talk about why
Speaker 1: Israel doesn't let people have guns until they're twenty seven,
Speaker 1: and why the US doesn't let people rent cars until
Speaker 1: they're twenty six, and then why what that's not just
Speaker 1: a coincidence. I don't think we're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: n f T Show with Seth Greene the clip at
Speaker 1: all I did. I watched it this morning, the like
Speaker 1: animated show it. We're glad, I'm we'll get your reaction
Speaker 1: to it for the NFT based hybrid live action animation series.
Speaker 1: Sethen Finally, yeah, like I'm like a regular cartoon but
Speaker 1: worse exactly. That's right. But before we get to any
Speaker 1: of that bullshit guy, the important thing is we like
Speaker 1: to ask you what is something from your search history?
Speaker 1: And this guy is a real sick, real sick puppy,
Speaker 1: so I can't I can't fucking wait to hear what
Speaker 1: his answers to this one. Um, you guys are gonna
Speaker 1: believe this, But legitimately my most recent search history, which
Speaker 1: was what I looked up at twelve thirty last night,
Speaker 1: it is a six thirty a m in ZiT to
Speaker 1: l a time, and that was to make sure I
Speaker 1: was here punctually on time, and I was. And that's
Speaker 1: just the sort of demented stuff I look at. I'm
Speaker 1: a big time fiend, you know. You know I can't
Speaker 1: sleep until I know bodcast what the difference between Canberra
Speaker 1: and Dublin is. You know, that sort of stuff keeps
Speaker 1: me up. But no, that's what I said. I want
Speaker 1: to know when different people in different countries can reason,
Speaker 1: we communicate with each other. You go on vacation to
Speaker 1: those hotels that have the different clocks from different parts
Speaker 1: of the thing, but you don't, you don't leave the
Speaker 1: lobby looking at that ship. I got teddy to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, Jack, I take my own clocks. You
Speaker 1: can't risk of these days. Too many ChEls were lying
Speaker 1: on people having smartphones. I take twelve clocks. I put
Speaker 1: them off in every lobby. People hate it, but it's
Speaker 1: nice for me. Yeah, it's it's funny though, you know
Speaker 1: what you you know when you go to places that
Speaker 1: have that like old school like world clock set up
Speaker 1: where it's like New York, Paris blah blah blah, but
Speaker 1: then like the minute hands are fucking not matching and
Speaker 1: you're like, what are y'all doing? Like what's even the
Speaker 1: fucking point, Like, the basic thing is that it's the same.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna check if it's like, what is it
Speaker 1: plus g mt or whatever? But get the fucking minute
Speaker 1: hands aligned or this is just an insulting body looking.
Speaker 1: I'm torn right now because obviously the real mate wants
Speaker 1: to bully you Miles for hearing about the seconds hand.
Speaker 1: But the character I've created, who is the time zone fiend,
Speaker 1: is on your side. I'm staying Hicky Man, you gotta
Speaker 1: get these sickens lined up. It's just it's like the
Speaker 1: seconds and the minutes when they're not for me, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I because I know what's going on, But then it's
Speaker 1: just I'm like, I'm not stupid. Well, this is accurate.
Speaker 1: In addition to twelve o'clock, so I also always travel
Speaker 1: with twelve double A lithium batteries ready every time. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they don't let me bring them on passenger playing. The
Speaker 1: clocks are easy to get across the international borders. It's
Speaker 1: the batteries ship And what what did you find out? Like?
Speaker 1: What time is it where you are right now? Guy?
Speaker 1: For the for the fellow time zone fiends out there,
Speaker 1: we're we're recording this on were talking seven am in
Speaker 1: z T tomorrow and for you, it's twelve pm yesterday.
Speaker 1: I'm traveling, get you hit around that. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: a great night, do anything like me, You're gonna have
Speaker 1: the night of your life. What was it? Like? What
Speaker 1: was this? Was this guy? What is something you think
Speaker 1: is overridden? I'm sure you have this in America? Maybe line?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, maybe len. I'm just never know
Speaker 1: if it's maybe line or not. Like maybe it is,
Speaker 1: but like that's the whole thing. Is that, like maybe
Speaker 1: she's born with it? Yeah, well maybe it's us. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe before you launched the advertising campaign, do the research
Speaker 1: find out because born with it, you've got no business
Speaker 1: putting your name in the mix. People come out and
Speaker 1: they're like, just to clear the record. I was born
Speaker 1: with this, and mabelne put me without my permission in
Speaker 1: these ads. I was born with I used maybe line
Speaker 1: from time to time, but rist assured with are they
Speaker 1: put the makeup on for the ad? I was still
Speaker 1: fucking gorgeous. Oh my god, is Maybel? I feel like
Speaker 1: is Mabel Lean on the decline? I feel like that
Speaker 1: only activates like my old like geriatric millennial brains. But
Speaker 1: I mean no, they still exists. But I feel like
Speaker 1: there's so many new companiesn't it. I feel like that
Speaker 1: also might be in part because that's I feel like
Speaker 1: that's maybe it has I still see the slogan, but
Speaker 1: maybe historic like you know, terrestrial television advertising campaign and
Speaker 1: in your life now you're probably less slightly to come across,
Speaker 1: right style of advertisement. The one place that I watch ads,
Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs, I feel like has a dearth of
Speaker 1: maybe len ads I've always noticed, so it is an
Speaker 1: interesting advertising ploy to be like it could be us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I admire the honesty or maybe a the the idea
Speaker 1: that like when you do something right, they don't know
Speaker 1: you did anything at all, you know, right m M
Speaker 1: is the altruism that's like pure altruism. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: an anonymous donation right right right, Or it's some makeup
Speaker 1: that's like really subtle, you know, like you guys probably
Speaker 1: can't tell I'm wearing mabele in right now? What? No,
Speaker 1: I couldn't I assume to do a bom with it? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: now I see it. That's your secret. Oh, I've got
Speaker 1: so many secrets. I will never tell any of my secrets.
Speaker 1: What Guy is something you think is underrated? Now underrated
Speaker 1: for me is it's not all of Facebook, which I
Speaker 1: think is probably a knit bad even though me and
Speaker 1: Mark go way back. But Facebook memories, I love of
Speaker 1: that stuff. It stores all of my um digital memories.
Speaker 1: I found a Stetus update this morning. It's the only
Speaker 1: reason I checked Facebook is to see what I was
Speaker 1: seven years ago ago. Cast guy. That's right, Guy Montgomery
Speaker 1: is at a party and they the bottom says that's
Speaker 1: all for today. That's my only memory ever made on
Speaker 1: this day was fourty years ago. I was at a party.
Speaker 1: And I wish I'd use more descriptive language because I
Speaker 1: can't remember a single detail that's based on a check
Speaker 1: in where you said at a party and that that
Speaker 1: was it. It wasn't a check in, and I'd never
Speaker 1: smartphone in two thousand and eight. It was either a
Speaker 1: party I was hosting, or I went onto someone's laptop
Speaker 1: and posted this. I got really into posting very boring,
Speaker 1: banal stand us updates. And you know the other thing
Speaker 1: I do is I'd like to check my historic standus
Speaker 1: updates for any um, you know, any crazy stuff I
Speaker 1: was doing like I think. I up Facebook sixteen years ago.
Speaker 1: I had no idea I was going to leave a
Speaker 1: digital footprint up until now. You know, we had no
Speaker 1: conception that everyone was going to be able to look
Speaker 1: at everything we ever wrote. That's crazy, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: I saw what mine was May eight because you know,
Speaker 1: back then it would say Miles Gray says, like the
Speaker 1: format was almost like this person said, and it was
Speaker 1: like Miles Gray says, fight apathy or don't. Yeah, my man,
Speaker 1: now that's a good gear. See. I was in my
Speaker 1: bag in two. I was at a party. You were
Speaker 1: fighting empathy but indifferent to what other people were doing whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, we were living our lives. I have not
Speaker 1: been on Facebook in an extremely long time. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get the I get the smartphone, like the Apple memory,
Speaker 1: these updates that are like remember this good time? Oh
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, And it's never like the sad music. It
Speaker 1: looks like a few and they yeah they play with
Speaker 1: a Georgantia tune. Yeah, but like it's all it's all
Speaker 1: open source music. Can't they just like use the music
Speaker 1: from my phone that they know what I like? Can't
Speaker 1: they use YouTube? Can't they use that one? Santa Barbara.
Speaker 1: You know that song that that that's like the one
Speaker 1: youtuo song that I can't get off of her Majesty's
Speaker 1: phone that plays We're plugging in. Yeah, yeah, no, that's yeah.
Speaker 1: I've had that song play randomly many a time that
Speaker 1: it sounds like they was starting Barbara and and it
Speaker 1: lost confidence. The harmonies are too challenging, the just speaking
Speaker 1: out from behind his space. I can't do it. No,
Speaker 1: or Bono's it's like Midway, He's like, hold on, stop,
Speaker 1: stop man, I think we're in over our skimes. We
Speaker 1: can't do this. This is gonna go on every single
Speaker 1: ample phone in the world. You imagined recording an album
Speaker 1: with the white of that hanging out of you, it's
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna hit this or yeah, but then how bad
Speaker 1: those albums are? You like, Wow, yeah, you don't give
Speaker 1: a funk. But right so you can see it goten
Speaker 1: they hid. Yeah. Yeah, I can't please everybody. That's what
Speaker 1: I've always said that they certainly pleased me. That's still
Speaker 1: the only I thought a lot of people were mad
Speaker 1: about it. I was like, now I have music on
Speaker 1: my phone and I don't need anymore. And that's that's
Speaker 1: to this day. The only album on my phone and
Speaker 1: it and it Songs of Innocence. I think it's that album,
Speaker 1: but then that that's that album, but you're you're leaving
Speaker 1: out the punchline man. Songs of Experience comes later and
Speaker 1: you're like, what wait what I trusted you? Y? What
Speaker 1: the Edge? What I loved Songs of Innocence? Is he
Speaker 1: the Edge or Edge? He's the Edge? Right? Either? Why
Speaker 1: you know you got a bit here a great same nickname.
Speaker 1: He's ow It's embarrassing, Yeah, right, he's the Is there
Speaker 1: a seat somewhere around? Yeah, He's take a load off? Oh,
Speaker 1: he is the Edge? Okay? David Howell Evans. Is there
Speaker 1: another one name person that is that has a the
Speaker 1: at the beginning of it? The Weekend? Yeah, the Weekend,
Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost, yes, the Father, the Son, maybe depig
Speaker 1: three brother. I do feel like they would have maybe
Speaker 1: the holy ghosts. That's how they would of addressed the
Speaker 1: actually actual ghost version of Jesus. But I don't feel
Speaker 1: like they called him the Sun when he was walking around.
Speaker 1: But I do feel like the Edges friends call him
Speaker 1: the Edge, and the Weekend's friends call him the Weekend,
Speaker 1: which is fun like in the early bands, everyone. Evans
Speaker 1: was given the nickname the Edge by members of the
Speaker 1: Lipton Village surrealist street gang, to which Bono belonged. The
Speaker 1: nickname is commonly believed to be derived from the angular
Speaker 1: shape of his head. Damn, so he was bullied an
Speaker 1: flattering like childhood nickname. Right, it's like yo and oh
Speaker 1: and shout out to the guitars of my band J Boy,
Speaker 1: his boy, we love you. If I had if I
Speaker 1: had just gone by me off like the entirety of
Speaker 1: my life, like pretty clear. But credit to your childhood bullies. Oh,
Speaker 1: it was a lot of them. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: clever bullies out there, guy, I know if any that
Speaker 1: used their powers for good. M hmm, like bullying a
Speaker 1: different kid, like, like, what about this asshole over here?
Speaker 1: This guy just told me had his first wit dream
Speaker 1: last night. Embarrassing. Oh, Evan, you did, yeah, man, cool him.
Speaker 1: That's great. That's growth, man, that's growth. That's awesome man.
Speaker 1: Well that's cool man, It's it's totally normal. Man. I
Speaker 1: don't feel ashamed or embarrassed, you know. I'm like Jack
Speaker 1: me hof over there, his mom made his lunch. What
Speaker 1: do you like making school lunches? Jack? I don't. I
Speaker 1: do not like it. We we have a metal like grill,
Speaker 1: like it's a lunch it's a lunch box that goes
Speaker 1: inside the lunch box that separates the food out into
Speaker 1: different things so you can like put more like whole
Speaker 1: foods in there without them getting all mashed up. And
Speaker 1: it's the hardest thing to wash in our household, you know, man,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad finally we're using the dad He's like
Speaker 1: guys playform to talk about this because we got some
Speaker 1: made by a company called Smuggle. Got the plastic pull out.
Speaker 1: I can't get this thing out. I gotta wage a
Speaker 1: button knife and they just to get this thing out
Speaker 1: to clean it. It's embarrassing to clean. Really. Yeah. They're
Speaker 1: not like just one piece that you could just do
Speaker 1: a top top top door dishwasher type ship. It's sweet, sweet, mild, sweet, innocent.
Speaker 1: They have like a door hinge on them, you know,
Speaker 1: mind mind do and then uh, they're like a weird
Speaker 1: shape and they're also a weird size, so like they
Speaker 1: don't fit in the sink necessarily like in a way
Speaker 1: that makes it easier to wash. So you gotta know
Speaker 1: about Jake Miles, is this guy's got a tiny little
Speaker 1: thing and the lunch boxes his kids. Have you seen
Speaker 1: have you seen Kim's house? But they're how they're sinks
Speaker 1: where you can't tell where the water goes or that
Speaker 1: it's a sink. Even that's that's sort of how we
Speaker 1: modeled our sinks, and so that that does make dishes
Speaker 1: doing the dishes because it's somewhat difficult. That way, we
Speaker 1: can sess out any time travelers who know how to
Speaker 1: use this future technology. That's the literacy tests, like in
Speaker 1: Demolition Man. That's right, you know you knew how to
Speaker 1: use the shell. Yeah, we have the three shells as well. Yeah, okay, good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just gotta we're not. We like to keep our
Speaker 1: bodies clean. We use the three shell and I like
Speaker 1: to solve problems, like to get my kids ready for
Speaker 1: the real world. Man, Well, shout out to your Bento
Speaker 1: box dividers. I just remember, I mean I remember being
Speaker 1: a kid. I hated my food touching, but there were
Speaker 1: no options. It's like, here's this one tupper where everything
Speaker 1: will go inside and you will eat. Yeah. Well, the kids, well, Miles,
Speaker 1: the kids won the food sept Now damage born in
Speaker 1: the wrong era yet again, Yeah, if only could be
Speaker 1: a child today with this outlook on our converture, Like
Speaker 1: I just I Mine was just a brown paper bag
Speaker 1: with like smaller like sandwich bags full of stuff that
Speaker 1: would occasionally leak out. But yeah, I don't know. Mine was.
Speaker 1: Mine was a series of brown paper bags and there'd
Speaker 1: be a big bag, and then there'd be a several
Speaker 1: smaller bags until I get to the tiniest big no
Speaker 1: bigger than you know, thumb now, and it would say
Speaker 1: check the rubbish bin by the gates, and then you know,
Speaker 1: the scavenger hunt. And by the time I found the lunch,
Speaker 1: we were back in the class. I was starving. They
Speaker 1: created new one every day. That's so, you know, God
Speaker 1: bless my parents. There's so many scavenger hunts. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: only had lunches up until like elementary school, and then
Speaker 1: my parents like my funk, I just eat the eat
Speaker 1: the like prison slop they give you in there, and
Speaker 1: that's that's what the kids want, that's what that's what
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I would eat. See kids, I
Speaker 1: was like, damn, your mom has time to make that.
Speaker 1: That's cool. I'm gonna eat this like styrofoam tray of
Speaker 1: like old iceberg, lettuce, old bread they call croutons, and
Speaker 1: ranch dressing. I was chef salad day. I was amazed
Speaker 1: that kid's mom had time to make that lunch as well,
Speaker 1: because I was so busy pork in her. Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: come on, I'm just feeling, man. I told you, I'm feeling.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling that sprazy ideas. That is a great I
Speaker 1: can't believe your mom made you your love. I love it,
Speaker 1: all right, well, I love it. I truly love that.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back and as we are wont to do
Speaker 1: in this country. Um, when the something unthinkable and get
Speaker 1: very thinkable because it's all in Irish short term memory.
Speaker 1: The last time it happened, like the mass killing and
Speaker 1: you holiday of fucking ten year old children, well I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people start to say, well, why
Speaker 1: does this only happen here so frequently? And you know
Speaker 1: I I am I do that every time. So there
Speaker 1: was an article in the New Yorker was looking at Australia. Guy,
Speaker 1: are you familiar with Australia? Have you those bases? Yeah?
Speaker 1: They make us feel so teeny tiny, and they tease us.
Speaker 1: They say you should join that country, and we say,
Speaker 1: we got a pretty good thing going on, thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Australia had a match shooting in then the government
Speaker 1: passed gun control laws, and this article kind of emphasizes
Speaker 1: that they have similar like gun nut culture. The president
Speaker 1: had to go and wear a bullet proof vest to
Speaker 1: meet with like the Second Amendment supporters, their equivalent of
Speaker 1: the Second Amendment supports. But they did the thing that
Speaker 1: like that small group didn't want them to, and the
Speaker 1: results are conclusive. You know, there's been three like technically
Speaker 1: three mats shootings in the twenty five years since then,
Speaker 1: and you know it was like a the biggest one
Speaker 1: was a farmer who like killed his family of six people.
Speaker 1: So it's it's not these situations where somebody goes into
Speaker 1: a school and because they're having a bad day and
Speaker 1: have access to a military's worth of weaponry. And not
Speaker 1: only did they like add stricter gun laws, they confiscated
Speaker 1: they bought back six fifty thousand dollars worth of guns.
Speaker 1: Not only did mass shootings go down guns six d
Speaker 1: fifty thousand guns, which I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: in America would be like that's that's that would be nothing.
Speaker 1: But it actually wouldn't be nine million firearms in this
Speaker 1: country right now. Three hundred ninety million. Is that more
Speaker 1: than people? It's about Yeah, I think it is more
Speaker 1: than people. Two guns for every guys. It's kind of
Speaker 1: the math here. It's and it's an obscene amount. That's
Speaker 1: like six d okay, and then we're like Jesus six hundreds,
Speaker 1: like three hundred almost four hundred million. Yeah, it would
Speaker 1: It's not enough, it wouldn't be enough for America, but
Speaker 1: it would be a start. And also Harsher firearm was
Speaker 1: the one that jumped out to me because you always hear,
Speaker 1: you know, gun industry people and then people who don't
Speaker 1: realize they are speaking on behalf of the gun industry
Speaker 1: because they've just swallowed the propaganda hole always point to Israel.
Speaker 1: And because Israel has they have a lot of guns.
Speaker 1: So this article points out Israel, a country that American
Speaker 1: gun enthusiast point to as another heavily armed democracy, has
Speaker 1: much stricter gun control laws than the United States does.
Speaker 1: To buy a gun there, you need a government license.
Speaker 1: The requirements for obtaining this license include satisfying a minimum
Speaker 1: age limit, twenty seven years old. For anyone who hasn't
Speaker 1: served in the military national service, passing a gun safety
Speaker 1: test and obtaining a letter from a doctor that you
Speaker 1: are sound of body of mind. Many applicants in Israel
Speaker 1: are turned down, and even those whose applications get approved
Speaker 1: are in most cases limited to purchasing a single handgun
Speaker 1: with a limit of fifty bullets. And then you know,
Speaker 1: it goes on to say Salvatore Ramos, the shooter in
Speaker 1: uve All Day, Texas, legally purchased to air fifteen and
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy five rounds of ammunition just days
Speaker 1: after his eighteenth perth day. And the so that that number,
Speaker 1: that that age of seven, keep like stuck in my
Speaker 1: brain because it kind of seems random, but it's it's
Speaker 1: obviously not like the The other thing that I know,
Speaker 1: like that sort of time of life from is like
Speaker 1: when you can start renting cars and you know that
Speaker 1: it's just like they they know that people like we.
Speaker 1: They have studies in Israel, and we have those same
Speaker 1: studies based on behavior of people and above them below
Speaker 1: reaching their mid twenties. There's evidence that says it is
Speaker 1: dangerous to give people under twenty six life ending technology.
Speaker 1: And you can tell we know it too because when
Speaker 1: it makes a company more profitable, as in like insurance
Speaker 1: companies and rental car companies, they use it. But when
Speaker 1: it does the opposite and makes them make less money
Speaker 1: and may like even even though it kills you know,
Speaker 1: a classroom of innocent children, like, they will find a
Speaker 1: way to block the legislation. Right, It's it's wild because
Speaker 1: you know, like you're saying, there's steps in Israel to
Speaker 1: get a firearm. In the US, it's like a U eighteen.
Speaker 1: All right, here there's this like very quick background check. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's your bang bangs, like like in Japan for example, Right,
Speaker 1: there's so many like it's gun violence is nearly unheard
Speaker 1: of in Japan. But like the steps, they're like you
Speaker 1: have to join the shooting club, Then you take a
Speaker 1: firearm class. They have to pass a written exam, and
Speaker 1: then they have those like around three times a year. Again,
Speaker 1: you get a doctor's note that says you are able
Speaker 1: to do this. You can't have a history of any
Speaker 1: drug abuse. You have to apply for a permit to
Speaker 1: take firearm training. Then you describe in a police interview
Speaker 1: why you need a gun. Then you pass a review
Speaker 1: of your criminal history, your gun possession record, employment and
Speaker 1: involvement with organized crime groups. And then you go to
Speaker 1: the next step, which is applying for a gunpowder permit.
Speaker 1: You take a one day training class, pass a firing test,
Speaker 1: obtain a certificate from a gun dealer describing the gun
Speaker 1: you want. Then you buy a gun safe and an
Speaker 1: ammunition locker that meets the regulations. Then you allow the
Speaker 1: people to the police to inspect your gun storage. Then
Speaker 1: you have to pass another background review, then you come
Speaker 1: buy a gun. Wow, that's twelve steps in between. That's
Speaker 1: like wanting it and getting it as a good system.
Speaker 1: I remember I went to a Walmart. I was visiting
Speaker 1: a friend in Huntington, West Virginia, and it was one
Speaker 1: of the most jarring experiences I've seen, just like it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's just like there's bull toys and and
Speaker 1: fled with rafts and stuff. Then you hit the gunpot
Speaker 1: and it was just like it's Sontio. We don't really
Speaker 1: see guns here. We obviously we had a horrific terrorist
Speaker 1: attack on March fifty nineteen, and we had a we
Speaker 1: had a similar repeal after was to what you're described.
Speaker 1: In Australia, we have there's a band or all semi
Speaker 1: automatic like military grade with and a buy back scheme,
Speaker 1: and it's still too fresh to you know what, you know,
Speaker 1: the full impact. Of course, not every gun that is
Speaker 1: going to be compliant with the government mandate, but it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's the it's the effort and it's the education.
Speaker 1: But what they've got in Japan, the number of blocks
Speaker 1: and like checks they have in place, just how discouraging
Speaker 1: they make it. It makes a lot of sense, like
Speaker 1: because there's there's a connection between what it means to
Speaker 1: own a gun and what's possible when someone owns one,
Speaker 1: whereas here it's just like no, man, it's like a
Speaker 1: fucking car, dude, you need that. Go get there. I
Speaker 1: don't care whatever you do with that, but you can
Speaker 1: have That's a product you can buy here. And it's
Speaker 1: all built on history because those um, those old fellas
Speaker 1: they wrote it down a long time ago, but they
Speaker 1: were they were holding like those guns with the pointy
Speaker 1: sticks on the end of them. By yeah, and everyone
Speaker 1: should have one of these, if only for the stick,
Speaker 1: you know, But is it's so good for like the
Speaker 1: up gbage when you're walking somewhere right for community service.
Speaker 1: There's a part in the article where it just kind
Speaker 1: of casually says, like, but Australia, like the Australia also
Speaker 1: has strong gun culture and individualism, but they have a
Speaker 1: government that is responsive to public opinion. And like it's
Speaker 1: just like kind of an aside of like there, but
Speaker 1: they're different because they have a government that is responsible
Speaker 1: to public opinion. And I don't know, it does feel
Speaker 1: like the thing that I'm seeing left out a lot
Speaker 1: of to a lot of in a lot of the responses,
Speaker 1: the Steve's curse speech, the Biden speech, the countless articles
Speaker 1: that I'm reading, you know about the problem and what
Speaker 1: if anything can be done, and you know it's the
Speaker 1: fifty senators and we're just they make it sound like, well,
Speaker 1: if you repeal that filibuster, were one law away from
Speaker 1: being like other countries, but and and can I just
Speaker 1: could be instead? American has got it through the hit.
Speaker 1: Other countries are good. No one is looking to America
Speaker 1: and being like, yeah, you know, historically of course, but
Speaker 1: now it's like it's like Aaron Tyre lives, We're watching
Speaker 1: America is like the glossy sort of cable TV version
Speaker 1: of it, and the last so many years, even though
Speaker 1: obviously there's been going on forever. It's been like watching
Speaker 1: the Good teat behind the scenes making of documentary and
Speaker 1: it looks horrible and you're like, I think it's canceled.
Speaker 1: I think America getting canceled. Right, It's honestly, it's just
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Well and yeah, to that point too, like
Speaker 1: our whole history is based off of shoving people away
Speaker 1: from where they are with guns. That's kind of like
Speaker 1: the the genesis of how America like what America is?
Speaker 1: It's like how I want this man, I got guns,
Speaker 1: get out of here. Also, further to what you're just saying, Jack, like,
Speaker 1: because you know, you say, Australia's political machinery is responsive
Speaker 1: to popular opinion, and obviously America you pride yourselves as
Speaker 1: the best unit to Marxi anything like who is because
Speaker 1: from what I can see, no one in America who's
Speaker 1: politically sated, Like is there anyone anywhere along the political
Speaker 1: spectrum who is pleased by the way that you know,
Speaker 1: things are running things are conducted, because all I see
Speaker 1: are like, obviously you've got the old right and people
Speaker 1: who are just furious with the concept of cultural wars.
Speaker 1: And then you've got all of these liberal people who
Speaker 1: are just subset by the like just how ineffectual you know,
Speaker 1: the the Democratic Party are like there appears to be
Speaker 1: no actual course of action that can create impactful change
Speaker 1: on virtually anything. You aren't like that. So the detail
Speaker 1: that seems like it's missing from all the reactions is
Speaker 1: you aren't allowed to make a change in modern America
Speaker 1: if it doesn't help make company's money, like, if it
Speaker 1: doesn't help make rich people who work at big corporations richer,
Speaker 1: and like that feels like a very like it's something
Speaker 1: that would outrage people if that was included, and all
Speaker 1: those responses is like and it's all goes back to that,
Speaker 1: but there's just something about that point that feels like
Speaker 1: kind of un serious. I think that that's how it
Speaker 1: is judged in America's it's un serious to be like
Speaker 1: the dang corporations. You know that that feels like a hippie,
Speaker 1: a hippie thing, sure, but it's it's it's exactly what's wrong,
Speaker 1: and that's why it's so also just fucked up to
Speaker 1: just see like in a in a description of like
Speaker 1: what do we do to leave that very potent element
Speaker 1: out of the discussion, that this is all of our
Speaker 1: every everything that almost felt like in in our recent memory,
Speaker 1: especially that it could have brought change. The reason is
Speaker 1: the reason it gets curtailed so hard is because companies
Speaker 1: look at it, they say it's gonna undercut their profits.
Speaker 1: They send an army of lobbyists in to to try
Speaker 1: and fight back. That's why Obamacare started as something I'm like, oh, ship,
Speaker 1: this kind of resembles something like socialized medicine in the beginning,
Speaker 1: and then very quickly just seeding to health insurance companies
Speaker 1: so we didn't and then gets stuck to the people
Speaker 1: who are are like perceived as leftist or progressive, as
Speaker 1: like the failure of Obamacare is like, well, you guys
Speaker 1: try it, and like that's it. It's like not really,
Speaker 1: we well they didn't really try. Yeah, they didn't try,
Speaker 1: like the entrenched in money. Yeah, the industry wrote the bills.
Speaker 1: But you know, like the standard explanation for for this
Speaker 1: is like there's something different about our people, our conservatives,
Speaker 1: our Republicans, or like our will well us not having
Speaker 1: the will. I think a lot of people do that
Speaker 1: to themselves they're like, I just don't like but I
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the truth the differences. We don't
Speaker 1: have a government that is designed to reflect the will
Speaker 1: of the people for the past at least twenty years,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't act on behalf of the people. Like
Speaker 1: straight up, you can understand every decision that has been
Speaker 1: made in the country as designed to make corporations the
Speaker 1: most money possible, like, and human lives get in the
Speaker 1: way of that sometimes, but what it's worth, Jack, you
Speaker 1: know who works corporations people m M, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: But there's like that. So this is the thing that
Speaker 1: I keep trying to get back to, is there's something
Speaker 1: about the messages like it short circuits I I don't
Speaker 1: and I kinda want to hear from you guys, like
Speaker 1: well when we say things like this that it's like
Speaker 1: this whole thing is caused by the government only listening
Speaker 1: to corporations, Like it sounds unrealistic and I don't know,
Speaker 1: like it doesn't and and people like we don't have
Speaker 1: a thing, like we don't have a recourse, we don't
Speaker 1: have like a government that listens to the people, and
Speaker 1: so it feels like hopeless and unrealistic. And like you're
Speaker 1: not a grown up when you when you say when
Speaker 1: you add that part, like I think that's why like
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr didn't Steve Kerr is a basketball coach, by
Speaker 1: the way, guy who mentioned, yeah, I just didn't know
Speaker 1: if like that. It seems crazy that like our best
Speaker 1: statement yet and like most straightforward when has come from
Speaker 1: a basketball coach. But you know, but he didn't even
Speaker 1: he wasn't like and this is because like our entire
Speaker 1: system is designed to make massive corporation like only listen
Speaker 1: to mas of corporations. It is like capitalism in the
Speaker 1: strict sense of like it only listens to capital and
Speaker 1: like they served that instead of those dead kids. But
Speaker 1: like that feels like when I say things like that,
Speaker 1: I want to like make fun of myself and be like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: the capitalist system. Man, that's that is so like kind
Speaker 1: of reductive and dispersing because it's like it's a is
Speaker 1: a circumstance now and just to look at it, you know,
Speaker 1: by any metric, it is at a point where every
Speaker 1: there should be no self regulating in terms of everything
Speaker 1: should be on the table. Every possible conversational point or
Speaker 1: reason should be like put forward and treated with the
Speaker 1: same level of I mean, you know, respect or interest,
Speaker 1: because I understand the instinct to be like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like you feel like a hippie or whatever. But
Speaker 1: it's like, what what is the turning point? What is this? Like?
Speaker 1: How many opportunities have there been for a flip for
Speaker 1: impactful reflection or change? Like if it just keeps happening
Speaker 1: and you, you know, and you feel sheepish about articulating
Speaker 1: the reasons why you believe it's happening, It's just it
Speaker 1: doesn't make any like it's it's honestly, it's it's it's um,
Speaker 1: I mean, i'm I'm, I'm not across the entirety of
Speaker 1: what's saying because it is literally unwatchable and you know,
Speaker 1: obviously feel so badly for America and Americans and especially
Speaker 1: the families and of those children stuff. But it's just
Speaker 1: like it's it's too demoralizing, and America seems itself so much.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, it is such a touchstone culturally
Speaker 1: and internationally, but it's like it's I can't it's it's
Speaker 1: it is, it's unwatchable. It's just too it's too dispersing,
Speaker 1: it is too upsetting. Yeah, and I think it's hard
Speaker 1: because right and we're the most propagandized fucking people on
Speaker 1: the planet, you know, like, we can't to the point
Speaker 1: where Jack, you even think you are describing the situation,
Speaker 1: You've are like you've internalized the propaganda about speaking out
Speaker 1: about a corporate ocracy, you know what I mean, where
Speaker 1: you're like, man, now, I sound like one of those
Speaker 1: people that corporations have, you know, smeared to look a
Speaker 1: certain way to protect their power. And it is really
Speaker 1: disheartening when you look at, Okay, well, the media can't
Speaker 1: do it because it's owned by corporations. You're not going
Speaker 1: to hear this unless it's on like sort of more
Speaker 1: fringe or like marginalized like places where news is discussed,
Speaker 1: not in the mainstream, So that message isn't getting out
Speaker 1: to people. And the people who are used to describing
Speaker 1: the news can't articulate it because they're too entrenched in
Speaker 1: it to really see it. And to your question, guy
Speaker 1: who has sayd it the donor class politicians, they're they're fine,
Speaker 1: They're actually fine. If that's why they everything is so
Speaker 1: hollow that comes out because they're the The will of
Speaker 1: these people is not really aligned with outcomes for delivering
Speaker 1: for the constituents, to deliver for the donors. There's MPR.
Speaker 1: MPR got the leak of nr A meeting after Columbine,
Speaker 1: and like we talked about it last week, but the
Speaker 1: one of the like quotes was one of their you know,
Speaker 1: executive saying we're we're in deep ship on this deal,
Speaker 1: talking about like Columbine being a bad look for them.
Speaker 1: And that's so it's not nobody is licking their chops
Speaker 1: and sayinging like great, like now there's a mass shooting,
Speaker 1: and like shareholder prices are going to go up. Like
Speaker 1: nobody's like making that leap in their brain. They're going
Speaker 1: into corporate meetings and like using business euphemisms to have
Speaker 1: that conversation. But that is what runs every single important
Speaker 1: decision in the country. All right. The other thing we
Speaker 1: just look at, right, because this whole game of American politics,
Speaker 1: to the reason there's so much money is because it
Speaker 1: used to be really hard to like finance your campaigns.
Speaker 1: But when you rely on lobbyists, a lot of that
Speaker 1: work's done for you. So you're beholden to them and
Speaker 1: you kind of know where your allegiances lie. When you
Speaker 1: have to say things out loud about what is happening
Speaker 1: in the country, like, for example, I just want to like,
Speaker 1: I'm just I just want to make sure I have
Speaker 1: this right that Roy Blunt has not tweeted. Roy Blunt
Speaker 1: is a Democratic senator from Missouri. He's received money from
Speaker 1: the n r A. He hasn't said a thing. Mhm.
Speaker 1: He's a Democrat, Okay, and you go on, you go
Speaker 1: down the list. Herschel Walker, who just won his senatorial
Speaker 1: primary in the state of Virginia for the Republican primary
Speaker 1: to be a Senate candidate. He is one of the
Speaker 1: many recipients of the family that owns Daniel Defense, which
Speaker 1: is the company that manufactured the assault rifle that was
Speaker 1: used last week. And they are big GOP donors, and
Speaker 1: a lot of the families and the people behind these
Speaker 1: firearms manufacturers. They're stepping in to fill the void of
Speaker 1: a lot of standard n r A donations because those
Speaker 1: have began to dwindle. But the people who are behind
Speaker 1: these companies still know what the game is, which is,
Speaker 1: we cannot put any money on someone who is going
Speaker 1: to try and limit people's access to buying our products.
Speaker 1: There's no value like so basically there's no integrity because
Speaker 1: everyone who's in politics is the is either like they're
Speaker 1: just doing it as a as a as a means
Speaker 1: to an end of making money and absolutely and is
Speaker 1: like say staying solid to protect your position. So you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: because we put the possibility of profit, we attached it
Speaker 1: to a lot of even occupations that shouldn't have it, right,
Speaker 1: like think about how much money cops are paid, like
Speaker 1: what I'm compared to around the world, or even things
Speaker 1: like because of our medical system comes highly profitable and
Speaker 1: lucrative not just to like be an administrator, but to
Speaker 1: actually practice medicine too. Like I've I have like cousins
Speaker 1: who live in Japan who are in the medical field,
Speaker 1: and they're like, yeah, I was thinking about being a
Speaker 1: doctor there because the money is so good. But I think,
Speaker 1: like it's okay, Like I'll make my like normal, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not like they're not that they're distraught into destitute.
Speaker 1: But it's so different that we also have like what
Speaker 1: we're we're motivated by the completely wrong things. And that's
Speaker 1: only you know, echoed back to us from our media
Speaker 1: and what we see in terms of who rises to
Speaker 1: power and who stays in power. So we have really
Speaker 1: fucked up modeling around this. And I just want to say, like,
Speaker 1: when you have people like this who are taking money
Speaker 1: from the gun lobby, they there there, you know that
Speaker 1: they're going to stand side by side with you when
Speaker 1: these moments come and people say, Okay, you senator or
Speaker 1: you candidate person, you gotta know this is bad, right,
Speaker 1: tell us, like show us where you're at. And then
Speaker 1: they say, like this, so let me just play this
Speaker 1: clip of herschel Walker who this was his immediate response
Speaker 1: after the shooting when they say, well, what are we
Speaker 1: gonna do? Uh? And this was you know, this is
Speaker 1: our latest entry to the talk about gun violence without
Speaker 1: saying gun reform challenge. Am I in my mind it
Speaker 1: was schiel Walker and athlete was herschell Walker is running back?
Speaker 1: I thought it was a oh yeah, that's right. He
Speaker 1: was running back. Very and very famous in the state
Speaker 1: of Georgia. You know, so I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know comparable person for you, but yes, in that area,
Speaker 1: it has a lot of name recognition. Okay, so here's him,
Speaker 1: you know, this is here's here's what I propose and
Speaker 1: not and already people know as a cave he is
Speaker 1: her herschel Walker is far from an example of high aptitude.
Speaker 1: See that as a person will in that weapon. You know,
Speaker 1: Kaneka able, you know, and uh you know, And that's
Speaker 1: the problem that we have. And I said, what we
Speaker 1: need to do is look into how we can stop
Speaker 1: those things. You know, he talked about doing a disinformation
Speaker 1: What about getting a department that can look at young
Speaker 1: men that's looking at women that looking at the social media?
Speaker 1: What about doing that looking into things like that, and
Speaker 1: we can stop that that way. But what I understand
Speaker 1: the would that guy just said, that's because he's been
Speaker 1: paid to not say anything except we need gun control.
Speaker 1: So you just sent this football player who smashed his
Speaker 1: head a hundred times into an improv show where he
Speaker 1: has to play a senator who comes up with an
Speaker 1: alternative to taking guns away and making it sound reasonable.
Speaker 1: I saw a clip of Tied Cruiz talking about doors.
Speaker 1: It seems to be a lot of people to about
Speaker 1: how you need to schools should only have one door,
Speaker 1: or I mean most of him. But I saw another
Speaker 1: club of a policeman talking about a door. But like
Speaker 1: his Tied Cruises, whole the way that he got around
Speaker 1: mentioning the word guns. It's like, well, you know there
Speaker 1: was a door open. School should have one door, and
Speaker 1: you have armed police officers outside the door, and he's
Speaker 1: you know, this is his pitch if there's a fire, yeah,
Speaker 1: that door. I just cannot I cannot fathom the concept
Speaker 1: of just removing any other entries and exits from a
Speaker 1: building instead of acknowledging that there might be a gun problem. Well,
Speaker 1: this is why, this is why it sounds so absurd,
Speaker 1: because you have people who know better and some who
Speaker 1: are just so ideologically aligned with the n AL right
Speaker 1: that they they agree whatever. But that that's why it
Speaker 1: sounds like you're like, what was that? That's not a
Speaker 1: real thing. That's because they could be like I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't say we gotta restrict the flow of guns,
Speaker 1: So I gotta try every other thing. I'll say it's God,
Speaker 1: there's a lack of a two parent household, say it's this,
Speaker 1: it's but, but it's not if it's the guns every time, right,
Speaker 1: and RHN de Santis was the governor of Florida. Darling
Speaker 1: of the n r A. He said nothing this whole time,
Speaker 1: nothing Because again, when you're when you get hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars from the gun lobby. If they make
Speaker 1: it really clear what's expect it's expected of you when
Speaker 1: the talk of scary gun reform emerges to find something
Speaker 1: how how impactful would it be for any of these
Speaker 1: people who have taken donations like that Democratic Daisy was
Speaker 1: the name? Roy Blunt? M What if anyone just stepped
Speaker 1: out of line and said, um, obviously we've got a
Speaker 1: massive gun problem and we need to regulate this. You know,
Speaker 1: we need to put some chicks and balances in place
Speaker 1: with respect to firearms, Like would that have any either
Speaker 1: power or in terms of advertising some sense of backbone
Speaker 1: on his body? Would it? Would it be worth anything?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, you know, I think what
Speaker 1: they're usually what the cycle is is if you go out,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're if you're taking big money from
Speaker 1: a lobbying group and you start talking spicy and suddenly
Speaker 1: you're biting the hand that feeds. Typically the thing you
Speaker 1: can expect is like they get together and they're either
Speaker 1: gonna make sure you don't get any donations or they
Speaker 1: they will primary you. So next time videos of you
Speaker 1: wrestling with your cousin or when I killed for those
Speaker 1: videos to get out there. I absolutely warmed on that
Speaker 1: guy's never threw somebody across the room so hard. But like,
Speaker 1: that's the fear, right, is that if I step out
Speaker 1: of line, I'll have to I'll have to work harder
Speaker 1: to fundraise because the thing lobbyists do is that what
Speaker 1: do you think donations? Yeah, step out of line. What
Speaker 1: are you fucking doing if you're not doing anything, get
Speaker 1: out of the way, if you're just sitting around, getting
Speaker 1: to work anything about the biggest issue in America, just
Speaker 1: and that's the thing. But that's the logic is but
Speaker 1: then I'll have to work harder to raise the millions
Speaker 1: of dollars to be competitive against some other corporate backed
Speaker 1: candidate who can buy who can just blow me out
Speaker 1: of the water with airtime buys. And that's that's the
Speaker 1: thinking of it. So and then you do see people
Speaker 1: who come in there like I'm actually here for the
Speaker 1: real ship. But they get snuffed out so quick, they
Speaker 1: get primaried so quick, because, like Jackie were saying last time,
Speaker 1: the immune system of our country is to purge any
Speaker 1: progressive leftist representation immediately. Like how did get so funt twice?
Speaker 1: He's overwhelmingly popular and there is an overwhelming desire to
Speaker 1: see something like that Like this, people see that this
Speaker 1: is important and a problem, and they that's why, that's
Speaker 1: why I'm so worried that this is gonna lead to fascism,
Speaker 1: because the they won't let anything leftists happen. And the
Speaker 1: only other alternative because the current system isn't working on
Speaker 1: behalf of the people. And people aren't dumb. They recognize
Speaker 1: that they are going to go with whatever the alternative is,
Speaker 1: and so far the only one that is kind of
Speaker 1: coordinating and not being batted down is fascism because America
Speaker 1: is cool with much cooler with fascism than they are
Speaker 1: with leftism or yeah again all that propaganda. You say
Speaker 1: the word socialism and half the country is like no.
Speaker 1: But it's really like the fact that the New Yorker
Speaker 1: article like the way they describe the problem is that
Speaker 1: America has like a rule that allows for minority groups
Speaker 1: of politicians to intervene in just like the broadest most
Speaker 1: like down the middle terms like both sides can intervene,
Speaker 1: but like that is never how it happens. It only
Speaker 1: is done by small groups to intervene on behalf of
Speaker 1: the industries and like the fact that that messaging isn't anywhere.
Speaker 1: It's just like not seen as a thing you can
Speaker 1: say in in America. It's so fucking wild. Hm. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: talk about n f t s. A mountain dew and
Speaker 1: we're back and quick update from the world of n
Speaker 1: f t s. I'm not I'm not watching the markets
Speaker 1: that much, but I am watching trash their Ponzi schemes.
Speaker 1: Right there, I say that I just paid seven dred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand U S dollars for a j pig
Speaker 1: of a parent. To her, is that I gotta ripped off?
Speaker 1: Hold on, what, No, you bought a You bought a
Speaker 1: hyper link to a picture of a parent you don't
Speaker 1: even own the parent you want to link, directing you
Speaker 1: to a parrot. That's right, And I talked to me.
Speaker 1: So Seth Green, the fantastic actor you may know as
Speaker 1: Dr Evil's son or maybe from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Speaker 1: or whatever you know from the nineties. He's such a
Speaker 1: cool guy that he bought one of those Nazi board
Speaker 1: Ape Yacht Club n f t s like a common
Speaker 1: Jimmy fallon, And I say Nazi because the people behind
Speaker 1: these n f t s they seem bigly into Nazi
Speaker 1: ideology and semiotics. I've I've talked, we've talked about this
Speaker 1: in the past before, but just to just to bring
Speaker 1: that to Botle's attention one more time. Like the black
Speaker 1: and white logo that the project has, like is their
Speaker 1: main logo has an ape skull with eighteen teeth in it.
Speaker 1: Eighteen big number for Hitler lovers because it's alpha numeric
Speaker 1: code for Adolf Hitler, A being the first letter, H
Speaker 1: being the eighth. And you know what else has a
Speaker 1: black and white logo with a skull that has eight
Speaker 1: they're eighteen teeth. The fucking s S Waffen Unit, which
Speaker 1: was the ss IS Combat Unit. That's their design too.
Speaker 1: And you look at the two you're like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're like no, it's just like a whole It's
Speaker 1: like a fucking weird coincidence. There's that, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But anyway, South Green bought one of these last year,
Speaker 1: and part of the deal with these n f T is,
Speaker 1: like I guess you buy the like intellectual property rights
Speaker 1: of the image so you can exploit it however you want.
Speaker 1: You can make a shirt poster or even develop a
Speaker 1: fucking sick ass hybrid animated live action show. Well now
Speaker 1: you have my interest, yes, but Jack, the unthinkable happened. Okay,
Speaker 1: I just want to This is a This is from
Speaker 1: Seth Green talking to Gary V who's another total YouTube
Speaker 1: con artist at like this this this event that was
Speaker 1: like last week. He said, I bought that epe in
Speaker 1: July one and have spent the last several months developing
Speaker 1: and exploiting the IP to make it into the star
Speaker 1: of this show. Then days before his name is Fred
Speaker 1: by the way, days before he said, to make his
Speaker 1: world debut, he's literally kidnapped. Now what happened was he
Speaker 1: got fish scammed by like going to like a fake
Speaker 1: website that he thought was another n f T site,
Speaker 1: and they basically got into his crypto wallet, stole this
Speaker 1: n f T and then sold it to some other
Speaker 1: person for two grand. So because of that, Seth Green
Speaker 1: is no longer the intellectual property rights holder to this
Speaker 1: board ape like you know, fucking design. And he's like
Speaker 1: so bummed because like, I have this whole show that
Speaker 1: I was trying to make, bro, if you could get
Speaker 1: it for me, and right now he's saying he's gonna
Speaker 1: try and go to court to like rectify this. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing with crypto and all, this ship not
Speaker 1: a lot of regulations, and it's so wild West that
Speaker 1: a lot of people speculate that the guy who bought
Speaker 1: the crypto from the hacker would probably have has a
Speaker 1: higher chance of winning a lawsuit if he sued Seth
Speaker 1: Green for going forward with this show. Then he would
Speaker 1: try and get his ape back from this guy, say
Speaker 1: Sith Green's oposite. Twice, once because his cool drawing of
Speaker 1: monkey got stolen from the website, once because he developed
Speaker 1: a like a show idea to start his his monkey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what if, um, like curious George, that's probably the show
Speaker 1: with the monkey, and I'm pretty sure that was just
Speaker 1: a drawing to begin with. What if he just went
Speaker 1: ahead with the show and removed all of the really
Speaker 1: bad parts where it's it's expensive. Well, okay, this show,
Speaker 1: I just want to let you know. It's called white
Speaker 1: Horse Tavern was the name of the show in which
Speaker 1: set Green voices for this like ape character whose name
Speaker 1: is Fred and he's a bartender. That's a place in
Speaker 1: New York. By the way, there's a lot of white
Speaker 1: Horse taverns, but I think this is the one in
Speaker 1: New York. Actually yeah, it's filmed in New York. But
Speaker 1: someone needs to tell It's Green that no one this
Speaker 1: is not intellectual problem, Like he can make this show.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, so well, but it stars Fred and he's
Speaker 1: not going to change the character's name like Fred. Think
Speaker 1: about what that would do to Fred's self confidence or
Speaker 1: the animation style, which is something which doesn't make you
Speaker 1: want to poke your eyes out here. Let me let
Speaker 1: me just play a couple of seconds of this trailer
Speaker 1: because Seth Green played it like after admittings, like and
Speaker 1: it guy's stolen. But you guys, this is how cool
Speaker 1: this show could have been. And it's like a fever
Speaker 1: dream in some crypto bro's head. I'm excited. So he
Speaker 1: just got off a subway and he's like walking down
Speaker 1: to and then it just looks like like stock footage
Speaker 1: of people on dates, like from a dating website. Some
Speaker 1: guys at a bar trying to get a drink. Gary
Speaker 1: V makes a cameo appearance. Who's Gary Big. He's like
Speaker 1: this wealth prosperity dude on YouTube. Okay, I can't watch.
Speaker 1: So this is the thing with the n f T
Speaker 1: s and I'm an idiot, so I don't understand anything.
Speaker 1: But I never understood like owning them geneting is your
Speaker 1: profile picture on Twitter or whatever. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't really get there. But then when you talk
Speaker 1: about the intellectual property and how he's lost the rights
Speaker 1: and you comake the show anymore. This just looks like
Speaker 1: a bad show. Yes, the the ny f T part
Speaker 1: that block doesn't seem relevant to just make it. It's
Speaker 1: like who framed Roger Rabbitt. I don't I there's there's
Speaker 1: obviously something I'm missing. I can't conceptually understand what the
Speaker 1: issue is, the idea, man, like the whole thing that
Speaker 1: was exciting about it, sorry, the whole thing that was
Speaker 1: exciting about his friend. Do you do you have? Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you good? Do you wanna get this? I don't
Speaker 1: think you're from here, bro, So what do you know?
Speaker 1: People are? Fred? Man? Fred said, we got that one
Speaker 1: the lady from Orange. By the way, Yeah, when you
Speaker 1: put it that way, actually you're right. I'm sorry if
Speaker 1: you but it's truly like one of these it's so insular,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's like it's for the crypto community.
Speaker 1: Gary v is like has a ton of crypt like
Speaker 1: weird n f T s he sells. This is like
Speaker 1: at v Con, which is like a bunch of people
Speaker 1: who are into this like prosperity mindset. And again this
Speaker 1: is like the the allure of crypto for a lot
Speaker 1: of people, especially like the Reek read like the people
Speaker 1: that are even pulled in. Now it's like dangling the
Speaker 1: care to been like dude, this dude bot doge for
Speaker 1: like fractions of a cent and now they got like
Speaker 1: a ton of money. And those examples are put in
Speaker 1: front of people over and over and over again to
Speaker 1: be able to bring their like like their capital and
Speaker 1: put their dollars into this thing. So then the bigger
Speaker 1: people who have like so like millions in cryptos still
Speaker 1: that like are a liquid They're like I need more
Speaker 1: cash to come in so I can cash my ship out.
Speaker 1: And then f T is just like regularly normalizing the
Speaker 1: use of it all. And so it's just like it's
Speaker 1: also inward facing that like everyone outside it's like what
Speaker 1: really suspect to me? Because if I have two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars cash and someone has a picture
Speaker 1: of a monkey, and I say I'll say you this cash,
Speaker 1: it's a good deal. I'm like, wow, if it sunys
Speaker 1: a good deal, wouldn't you keep the picture of the
Speaker 1: monkey and I keep the two hundred fifty like which
Speaker 1: might have value, and I keep the right I don't
Speaker 1: I understand how people are pushing a hit with these transactions.
Speaker 1: Well again, because we see headlines like somebody bought an
Speaker 1: n f T of a tweet and it's worth millions,
Speaker 1: and we're like so half the time we're just not
Speaker 1: like willing to look into it enough. You're like, well,
Speaker 1: there's enough people talking about it, so it seems realistic.
Speaker 1: When people go watch the video, the leaked videos of
Speaker 1: this trailer, I guess for the thing, and just because
Speaker 1: none of them are at least the ones that I
Speaker 1: found aren't actually the video of the trailer. They are
Speaker 1: videos taken on people's phones at this like n f
Speaker 1: T conference, and there is laughter in the room in
Speaker 1: the I think I think it's a like of like
Speaker 1: the Vikings football stadium. There's laughter in the room that
Speaker 1: is like nervous and like fake and like chilled me
Speaker 1: to my core, like the laughter of the people who
Speaker 1: are like there and trying like have a lot tied
Speaker 1: up in this being funny in this whole world hanging
Speaker 1: together and having like some logical coherence to it. So
Speaker 1: maybe don't go watch it, but that like it is
Speaker 1: a it is an interesting new low. If you use
Speaker 1: an Apple, if you push control and then lift click
Speaker 1: on your mouth, you can downmode pretty much any image
Speaker 1: you want. You got him, you got him on and
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, the vibe in there was definitely like
Speaker 1: this captive audience, like like Mark Wahlberg and Boogey Knights
Speaker 1: and that Alfred Molina scene or he's just like coked
Speaker 1: out in his silk rob He's like, hey man, you
Speaker 1: want to listen this song? And they're like, what the
Speaker 1: fund is this place? Like that's how the trailer of
Speaker 1: you fully watch it, Anybody who knows anything about like
Speaker 1: just how a narrative would work, You're like, I can't
Speaker 1: follow this and I'm not sure how this is a
Speaker 1: trailer more than like loose scraps of dialogue that well, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the footage of the people at the tavern, it looks like, um,
Speaker 1: it's shot and grated. It like an head for bud
Speaker 1: Wise or something. It's like hanging out having a nice time,
Speaker 1: and then actually monkeys folks in and starts equipping and
Speaker 1: I think, I gotta, I gotta remotgage the half everything. Well,
Speaker 1: Guy as always truly a pleasure having you on the
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Speaker 1: it again, I create only the most premium content. Every
Speaker 1: tweet very thoughtfully curated. I choose letters, I put them
Speaker 1: next to other letters. I make words whole sentences, and
Speaker 1: the photos I put up, Oh my gosh, everything you
Speaker 1: want to see is in frame. Nothing you don't want
Speaker 1: to see is in frame. These things are perfect. Mhm.
Speaker 1: Is there a tweet or some of the work of
Speaker 1: social media you've been enjoying? Uh, there's a tweet. Actually
Speaker 1: the movie Really Laughed the other day. It's by a
Speaker 1: guy UK comic Alex Keeley at Alex Keeley k e
Speaker 1: a l y and it says hate. When I'm at
Speaker 1: a dinner party making a vaguely pretentious point to my
Speaker 1: group of friends, and then a Scandinavian or two director
Speaker 1: slowly zooms in on the face of my partner has
Speaker 1: begun to realize they no longer love me like they
Speaker 1: used to. Miles, Where can people find you with a
Speaker 1: tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter and Instagram
Speaker 1: at Miles of Gray. Uh, let's see a tweet that
Speaker 1: I like. Oh okay. First one is from Bandit at
Speaker 1: Kinky Bandit tweeted, I just know Amazon drafts be like
Speaker 1: this house again. I like neighbors like that. I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: like y'all are keeping Jeff up in space forever. Um
Speaker 1: Elana Penya at Elana Couvana tweeted, I wish this was
Speaker 1: a joke, but last night at the Olivia Rodrigo concert,
Speaker 1: the girl next to me asked how old I was,
Speaker 1: and I said thirty one, and she laughed in my
Speaker 1: face that I remember telling when I was like when
Speaker 1: I turned thirty, like telling someone who's like years younger
Speaker 1: than me. They're like, oh, okay, that's that's great, Like
Speaker 1: as if I said I had some kind of like
Speaker 1: terminal illness. Uh. And I a voice seeing those kinds
Speaker 1: of reactions come come back every time some tweet. I'll
Speaker 1: just go with a tweet that's not related to the news.
Speaker 1: Ben Flora's redemption or tweeted, kid at the park just
Speaker 1: told me it's her birthday today. I asked her how
Speaker 1: old she is and she said five and a half.
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