Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to thirty nine,
Speaker 1: episode two of Guys Stay production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's share consciousness. And we've been told Miles, Uh,
Speaker 1: this particular episode, we're not allowed to make each other laugh.
Speaker 1: We're too funny. Yeah, but like we have a sound
Speaker 1: situation happening, and yeah, the super producer, Justin was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fine, except when you guys are so freaking funny
Speaker 1: that you make each other freaking laugh so hard, and
Speaker 1: then it's it's a mess. And so he was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I've asked you this before and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask it again. Can you can you please try and
Speaker 1: be just slightly less funny, just try and rein it
Speaker 1: in a little bit. We can do that. We can
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah. Anyways, it is Wednesday, June one. Oh
Speaker 1: yeah you know what that is? Oh yeah, go airfoot Day.
Speaker 1: Let your feet wide from not wearing shoes. That's all me.
Speaker 1: I love your feet get wide? Is that was that?
Speaker 1: Is that like part of the write up of National
Speaker 1: Barefoot Day, I felt like makes it makes your foot wider?
Speaker 1: Oh that was just you editorializing yeah, going barefoot for
Speaker 1: long enough to make your feet look and feel big
Speaker 1: because you know you're not containing them. And I think
Speaker 1: I was always just a barefoot child all the time. Anyway.
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Speaker 1: on that. I was at an event where someone was
Speaker 1: choking and needed assistance. Go get the training, you guess. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you get the training. Because when I say trained or
Speaker 1: when I say learned about, I'm like, watch a like
Speaker 1: a nineties comedy, like I sitcom that had a himlick
Speaker 1: seeing I'm like say, I know exactly. Um, well, anyways,
Speaker 1: my name is Jack O'Brien a K. I got energy.
Speaker 1: You got that white wine energy. Hey, at least Joe
Speaker 1: Biden treats us better than our enemies. Got that MPR
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Speaker 1: our favorite guests, the brilliant, the talented, ever learn everyone. Um,
Speaker 1: it's so wonderful to be drawing through today, listeners. I
Speaker 1: do need to let you know that it is I'm
Speaker 1: taking responsibility for quiet voices today. UM. I am recording
Speaker 1: from my work office, and I forgot the correct uncle. Um,
Speaker 1: so that this feels like MPR content to graving, just
Speaker 1: a gentle recording today. I told all my coworkers that
Speaker 1: I was on a very important phone call and to
Speaker 1: not not gone. Well. It's also probably a good thing
Speaker 1: that we're keeping our voices like this so that it
Speaker 1: sounds more like work call and less like me screaming
Speaker 1: or something like that. You know, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to scream. When you guys were talking about
Speaker 1: Barefoot Day, I was like, oh God, I should be
Speaker 1: taken today off. This is a personal day for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm really trying to keep my voice quiet, Like I
Speaker 1: love this ship. This is like my favorite conceit of
Speaker 1: an episode ever. We're doing it because it's because of NPR,
Speaker 1: and we were joking, We're like, what if we just
Speaker 1: did a whole NPR episode. Maybe this is the one
Speaker 1: organically just to just so we can lean into this
Speaker 1: a bit. Maybe we'll just go a little bit believe
Speaker 1: now Ever, you you like to go barefoot pretty frequently?
Speaker 1: Is that is that the deal here? Well, I grew
Speaker 1: up trash. Um, I grew up I think your listeners know.
Speaker 1: I grew up in a small town. We know about
Speaker 1: the goat man. We addressed it earlier during that Um.
Speaker 1: You can walk into the dollar store and the gas
Speaker 1: station without shoes on. You know, it's just one of
Speaker 1: those communities. It's a barefoot community, not out of you know,
Speaker 1: people think barefoot communities. Were talking granola tree huggers, hippies.
Speaker 1: This one is just foot loops and trash and it's
Speaker 1: just stayed with me ever since. It reminds me of
Speaker 1: my favorite book, Hill Billy Elogy. That's that's my favorite book.
Speaker 1: Have you have you read? Have you heard about this? Ever?
Speaker 1: I've heard you see? Isn't it now on a network?
Speaker 1: Isn't it a Netflix movie? Now? Yeah, it's a It
Speaker 1: was a It was an Academy Award attempt swinging a
Speaker 1: miss for all categories except for Glenn Close, Glenn Close,
Speaker 1: the great talented Glenn Close. And if you're just joining us,
Speaker 1: we are on the daily Zeitgeist. You're joined by Ever
Speaker 1: Maynard uh, and we're talking softly. Doesn't NPR do that
Speaker 1: a lot like Reset constantly? I guess that they are
Speaker 1: a radio stations, so they kind of have to do that.
Speaker 1: But and also, yeah, Ever is not in any imminent danger,
Speaker 1: just recording from you. I would like to say, I've
Speaker 1: at a workplace. Yes, I'm in danger. I'm recording a
Speaker 1: podcast at work. All right, Well, maybe our listeners can
Speaker 1: let us know how how they like this. That's new vibe.
Speaker 1: I myself am fucking with it. It does feel like
Speaker 1: I'm about to go to bed um justin Sorry for
Speaker 1: the laughter there. If you just want to mark that
Speaker 1: down and completely and cleanly excise it so we could
Speaker 1: if maybe we could just go from me talking about
Speaker 1: Hillbilly elegy forward to this moment. I mean, they should
Speaker 1: have known that was going to be whatever you put
Speaker 1: close in the movie. You need to step it up.
Speaker 1: You gotta step jd vance. The author is gonna be
Speaker 1: in charge of Ohio pretty so, so that's exciting. We're
Speaker 1: being yeah, he's uh, he's one of the good ones.
Speaker 1: Every being sarcastic. I was like, who is this? Listen
Speaker 1: to this. I want the Republican primary in Ohio. He's
Speaker 1: going to be the Republican center. But he's one of
Speaker 1: the good ones. Came on NPR and MSNBC every once
Speaker 1: in a while, so a lot of fun, a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. You know, I cut you off. You know
Speaker 1: that's okay. For my birthday this past weekend, Happy birthday,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. I allowed myself to get super
Speaker 1: wasted and I went to go talk to these cuties
Speaker 1: and we're chatting, and then somebody just started to canvas
Speaker 1: at me. They were like, are you voting? And I
Speaker 1: was like what, I'm drilling? Why don't I was like, please,
Speaker 1: please don't canvas at me. I'm very drunk. And she
Speaker 1: wouldn't let it go, and she was like, well, you
Speaker 1: still need to vote, and I said I I'm going
Speaker 1: to vote, and then I'm just to get her off
Speaker 1: my bag. I told her I was going to vote
Speaker 1: for Caruso. That what you want to fun she wanted
Speaker 1: to say. I was like, where the fund is this place? Hey, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you gotta vote for Rick Caruso. What I'm drunk? Okay?
Speaker 1: Are you voting for Rick? Do you like to grove?
Speaker 1: You hate unhoused people? Then of Los Angeles to be
Speaker 1: the grove. I was like, I need more grove in
Speaker 1: my life, and I need more cops, and she was
Speaker 1: like you being serious. I was like, I'm drunk. I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about this. I am incapable. And
Speaker 1: then she got like offended when I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: tired of everybody knocking on my door. One little historic
Speaker 1: an anecdote from the early elections of America. What one
Speaker 1: of the top strategies that politicians would do is have
Speaker 1: voting parties where they would compete to throw the sickest
Speaker 1: party that got the most people ship faced, and then
Speaker 1: everybody would vote at those parties. I think they made
Speaker 1: that illegal, but but it sounds like a good strategy.
Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure. Yeah, that's real. George. George Washington
Speaker 1: was a big fan of this form of you're talking
Speaker 1: George Washington? Yeah, have you heard of him? He was.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. Who the hell gives? Oh, he's
Speaker 1: the best. I feel like my MPR take would be
Speaker 1: that George Washington is is our greatest president? May oh yes,
Speaker 1: I mean, who could forget one of the most whimsical
Speaker 1: figures in our entire history. We had a did George
Speaker 1: Washington have a big but you know what? Peg teeth?
Speaker 1: Peg teeth? Yeah, let's go. Let's go with Let's say
Speaker 1: that it extended on down to his leg like that
Speaker 1: scene where the robotics take over the person's face in
Speaker 1: Superman three. One of the most terrifying movie moments of
Speaker 1: my young life. When I saw that happened with him,
Speaker 1: and would it started in his teeth and then would
Speaker 1: just exbanded through his body and took over his land
Speaker 1: to under our fashion, we will just perpetuate the myth
Speaker 1: that his teeth were made of wood and not extracted
Speaker 1: from the mouths of slaves. Anyway, we have a wonderful recipe.
Speaker 1: How do you guys know so much about George Washington?
Speaker 1: Because it's just like one of those shitty myths you know,
Speaker 1: where it's like, man, his teeth, his teeth are made
Speaker 1: of wood, and it's like his teeth were ripped out
Speaker 1: of slaves mouths. What. Yeah, it's just like one of
Speaker 1: these you know, those nice things we tell ourselves to
Speaker 1: go to sleep at night that this country was we
Speaker 1: meant by wood. That's what that was. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: we thought that. Wow, George Washington can get fucked. Fu
Speaker 1: you George Washington and moving parties. That's really fun whisper
Speaker 1: in an office setting. Ever, we're going to get to
Speaker 1: know you a little bit better, and I'm m at first,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're
Speaker 1: talking about today. We're gonna talk about Canada. They seem
Speaker 1: to see what's going on with assault rifles and have
Speaker 1: decided to, uh, this case, this can't be right, take action,
Speaker 1: huh by arresting children. He's going up up north, good one,
Speaker 1: good one. Meanwhile, in America they are arresting children and
Speaker 1: parading the children's faces on posting their mug shots publicly
Speaker 1: to send a message. So that's that's where George Washington move. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's all about messaging and branding. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio freaking out about the NBA and the Miami
Speaker 1: Heat because they advocated for a gun reform. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about Top Gun Maverick, which had a big weekend
Speaker 1: at the box office US broke the record for the
Speaker 1: biggest Memorial Day weekend box office and is basically one
Speaker 1: long recruiting ad for the Navy. Now I do have
Speaker 1: to ask, would you happen to know what the previous
Speaker 1: record holder was? Of course, of course we do. It
Speaker 1: was Seven Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates of the Caribbean,
Speaker 1: dead Man's Chest or Stranger Tides, Bitter Sweet weekend for
Speaker 1: Johnny Depp, bitter Sweets? Okay, what the fun? That's probably
Speaker 1: some ship's say like he was actually did you see that?
Speaker 1: She was? He's he was saying what's going on this weekend?
Speaker 1: Or over the weekend? He was at some show and
Speaker 1: he's singing, margin gay what's going on? Like, oh no,
Speaker 1: please exit from our consciousness any depth of the beloved
Speaker 1: actor seen here performing a spirited rendition of Marvin Gaye.
Speaker 1: What's going on? We'll leave you with that. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back Stephen. I was trying to get I was
Speaker 1: trying to come up with an MPR name and I couldn't.
Speaker 1: Audie Cornish is that? Yah? And Audie Cornish will be
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Speaker 1: some whimsical chimes played in the background with a with
Speaker 1: a sentient bitcoin and like what before we get to
Speaker 1: any of that ship though, ever, we do like to
Speaker 1: ask our guests, what is something from your search history currently?
Speaker 1: Most recently my search history was how do I make
Speaker 1: my audio techno work? By my work with a headphone
Speaker 1: thing in Zoom? That was the search with the headphone thing.
Speaker 1: I didn't know, didn't know the word chad, just the
Speaker 1: headphone thingum scrambling when I was putting up Little Kid
Speaker 1: at work. And then Zoom tricks, zoom tricks like I
Speaker 1: had the producer called me, uh, call me to just
Speaker 1: shout out to the super producer, Trisia, what's ta good luck?
Speaker 1: Good luck? Good luck with this one? Trisia, what why
Speaker 1: are we being into? Trisia didn't work? No, I mean
Speaker 1: just for our listeners. I have Zoom on my phone,
Speaker 1: like I'm making a phone call and then I'm staring
Speaker 1: at a like a blank computer screen, and then I
Speaker 1: and then I have a microphone plug in to a dongle,
Speaker 1: and my headphones is plugged into a microphone. So real, Amateuri.
Speaker 1: Today you said you have a new computer that doesn't
Speaker 1: have a headphone jack. It's the new Matt. It's a
Speaker 1: mad they don't have a fucking headphone jack. No, I
Speaker 1: don't think if they have a phone jack them in
Speaker 1: the screen like on the other corner. Now, yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like that's pretty standard, the headphone jack erasure. But
Speaker 1: because I had the bad a thing to plug it in,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, so actually looking at my MacBook from like
Speaker 1: three or four years ago, there is jack. So maybe
Speaker 1: we should maybe we should take a quick look make
Speaker 1: sure I feel everyone there is a whole. But I
Speaker 1: don't think it's big. Oh do you have like a
Speaker 1: quarter inch headphone cable or something? I got? I got
Speaker 1: no headphone cables. I'm wearing my over the ears because yeah,
Speaker 1: I ran over my um, I ran over my AirPods
Speaker 1: this weekend. I think this has accidentally given the show
Speaker 1: a great vine. Um And I'm just going to take
Speaker 1: a small sip of this buttery shard and ask you
Speaker 1: mattery shardoney and I'll ask you, what is something you
Speaker 1: think is overrated? Um? Right now I'm screaming at George Washington.
Speaker 1: I think he is overrated. I think his shitty little
Speaker 1: voting parties and his teeth are very overrated. I think
Speaker 1: American history it's overrated. I think they're lying. I think
Speaker 1: it's full of lies. Wow, this is why people, this
Speaker 1: is white people buy guns. This is a This is
Speaker 1: a very incendiary take on George Washington Tame Morning Show
Speaker 1: because we love George Washington, one of our founding fathers.
Speaker 1: But that is true. His teeth were not made of wood,
Speaker 1: and and and maybe it's time we do accept that
Speaker 1: as a country. I refuse my watch. It's always like
Speaker 1: the plush pull of the host is like you're about
Speaker 1: to get like you're about to figure it out, and
Speaker 1: you're like, I refuse to believe that American imperialism is
Speaker 1: the cause of That doesn't sound like the George that I.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I have been told about in
Speaker 1: numerous books with the gold behinding that are illustrated with cartoons. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was his wife Martha that made the flag? Right?
Speaker 1: Was that it Martha? That's I think it was Susan
Speaker 1: b Anthony. They made the flag with the circle at
Speaker 1: all the stars? Am I wrong? Am I wrong? Ross?
Speaker 1: Wasn't it? Let's Ross? That was a trick I played
Speaker 1: on both of you. I know very clever. You think
Speaker 1: I get a funk about fuck Betsy Ross? Whoa whoa?
Speaker 1: But I have in our morning show. I'm sorry. You
Speaker 1: can't back. You can't come up to me talking about politics.
Speaker 1: I'm drunk my birthday. What is something you think is
Speaker 1: under raining? Ever, Duke's mayonnaise. I'm being very sincere right now.
Speaker 1: I tried Dukes manaise for the first time in my life,
Speaker 1: and it was so good. I've never loved man naimes before.
Speaker 1: It was so good that for my birthday somebody gave
Speaker 1: me a pound of Dukes Mannis they measure that in wait?
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is like. Don't get a
Speaker 1: couple of pounds. I don't. I don't know what to
Speaker 1: do with it. But I've got a big, old, big
Speaker 1: old jugget Dukes. What's okay? What's I've heard a few
Speaker 1: people talk about Dukes mayonnaise. I know it's like a
Speaker 1: the Southeast thing. Typically hear it coming out of the Southeast.
Speaker 1: Is it just is it Is there a flavor to it?
Speaker 1: Is it just manaise? It's just creamy. It tastes kind
Speaker 1: of like butter. Oh wow, Now I can't believe I'm
Speaker 1: talking about this odd dot com that it's got twang.
Speaker 1: That's fun. It sounds a little bit like something from
Speaker 1: Hillbilly Eligier, your upbringing. Ever, I was just curious does
Speaker 1: the twang figure into your highest steam or does it
Speaker 1: feel reduct subtle twang? I'll say this, it's a subtle twang.
Speaker 1: And if you love a nice chardonnay, it goes well.
Speaker 1: I would say it's some Shardona mannaise. Then now you're
Speaker 1: speaking my language. Now the chardonnay mannis that's so funny.
Speaker 1: This is actually this week's sponsored recipe from Dukes Mayonnaise
Speaker 1: and sutter Home Chardonnay. You're going to take a class
Speaker 1: of shutter Home a sutter Home and you're going to
Speaker 1: just take a dollar of Dukes mayonnaise, put it in
Speaker 1: the glass and mix that up together for a wonderful cocktail.
Speaker 1: You know I had that Monday for a Memorial Day.
Speaker 1: Oh you did. M M Maiden a Mayo sardon sard
Speaker 1: and lovely shardonaise by the pup keeping smooth. It does
Speaker 1: make me gag a little bit, but I'm the white
Speaker 1: says it's good for me. I love that twine, though,
Speaker 1: God to love that twin. I feel like it would
Speaker 1: be very on brand for NPR hosts too, both love
Speaker 1: mayonnaise but not want to admit that they love man.
Speaker 1: You know, they have to love it, and like they,
Speaker 1: I feel like they have to be, Like I love
Speaker 1: a chardonnaise. People say the Apperall Sprits was the drink
Speaker 1: of last summer, but it's really the chardonnaise. I love
Speaker 1: mayonnaise and all of its forms, and it's my blood type.
Speaker 1: Welcome the NPR. You're just we are talking about the
Speaker 1: new um hit scardonaise. It's so hard for me not
Speaker 1: to cackle right now, trying to just be very professional.
Speaker 1: They're like, ever we were listening in on your work,
Speaker 1: call your tongue about it, George Washington's slave teeth and
Speaker 1: then you pounding shardon chardon man chardonnays like plural or
Speaker 1: is that a hybrid shardon a man's I think it
Speaker 1: speaks for itself. That's what I was talking to my
Speaker 1: doctor about me. My hoals habits. Yeah, that's you said.
Speaker 1: That was a privileged conversation. Sick fuck, what do you
Speaker 1: want it? It It is a privileged conversation because we are
Speaker 1: speaking in the hush tones of NPR. And welcome to
Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. And if you're just now
Speaker 1: joining us, we are about to throw to an edge
Speaker 1: and take a break, after which point we will reset
Speaker 1: one more time and tell you what your list exactly
Speaker 1: in our ranking of the best GOP senators based on
Speaker 1: biceps or conference. After that, and we're back. And I
Speaker 1: was told by one of our producers that they kept
Speaker 1: falling asleep to the to the dulpha tons of miles boring. Ever,
Speaker 1: and I, speaking as an NPR hosts like, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna go further into it, into a deep So let's
Speaker 1: let's dig into what is what's happening, what the fallout
Speaker 1: has been on two sides of the border. You got
Speaker 1: your America, United States of America, and then you got
Speaker 1: your Canada, which is a different country that just wants
Speaker 1: to be America, United States but better or something. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: So what what are they doing? They trying to redesign
Speaker 1: their flag to be red, white and blue and so
Speaker 1: they're just red and white, or the maple leaf is
Speaker 1: now going to look like the seven seven seven howit's
Speaker 1: or artillery canon. But no, they have justin Trudeau has announced,
Speaker 1: you know what, we're gonna do things a little bit
Speaker 1: differently and we need to take the safety of Canadians seriously.
Speaker 1: So basically they are banning the sale of handguns what
Speaker 1: is and by that, they're basically saying that you can
Speaker 1: no longer like procure a new handgun. So it's going
Speaker 1: to be like you can't trade, you can't buy, sell.
Speaker 1: They're just saying, you know what, the market on handguns,
Speaker 1: it's capped. That's it. If you've got one, fine, Also,
Speaker 1: if you have an assault rifle, you need to come
Speaker 1: by and we'll buy that ship back from you because
Speaker 1: nobody we're not doing that anymore either. And you know,
Speaker 1: this has all been part of a you know, wider
Speaker 1: campaign in Canada to curb gun access and and curb
Speaker 1: gun violence. After a gunman, you know, how to kill
Speaker 1: twenty two people in rural Nova, Scotia like in and
Speaker 1: that was a moment. It's like, oh, this is this
Speaker 1: is something that has to be addressed. And the wild
Speaker 1: thing is hearing you know how the prime ministers just
Speaker 1: talking about it about gun violence. Uh, and this quote
Speaker 1: is gun violence is a complex problem, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, the math is really quite simple.
Speaker 1: The fewer the guns in our communities, the safer everyone
Speaker 1: will be. Okay. Part of like my you know was
Speaker 1: my only response. I know, because are fucked up propaganda.
Speaker 1: American brains are like okay, but now, also tell me
Speaker 1: about the people screaming at the Prime minister because it
Speaker 1: means end of the world because gun buy back, Like,
Speaker 1: where's that part, Where's the part where he has to
Speaker 1: acknowledge that it's it's not a good idea because these
Speaker 1: people hate it. It It was just ah, it's it's truly
Speaker 1: something wild to hear a line like that when meanwhile
Speaker 1: we have people talking about it's not that we need
Speaker 1: less guns, we need less door mm hmmm. I think
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's wrong. Sorry that the pool, the gravitational
Speaker 1: pool of the NPR voice has has made me realize
Speaker 1: why they do it. It just it's very outraged, like that, right,
Speaker 1: you can't be outraged until you're so. It's like the
Speaker 1: thing where where you go walk around with a big
Speaker 1: smile on your face and like that's supposed to make
Speaker 1: you happy. Like there's that like feedback loop. Have you
Speaker 1: heard that? Like like it doesn't work right. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a completely illogical way of dealing with things.
Speaker 1: But you can't be It's also I think very American,
Speaker 1: very American. We're just gonna force our damn souls into
Speaker 1: the right ship so you can get through this one
Speaker 1: more time. Ever, you still joining us from the offices
Speaker 1: of MPR. I am. I was just saying, every time
Speaker 1: I try to make myself happy by smiling, I just
Speaker 1: look like a jackass. Like it's like a forced smile. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like so eared to ear. That's almost like are you distressed?
Speaker 1: You're like, I am happy, nice to meet you, just
Speaker 1: smile with tears rolling down your face. Yeah, nothing is wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm not stressed about anything. Been getting good news and
Speaker 1: any bad news is a practice to to deal with it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Where it's like like with Buddhism,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure like a lot of other religions where
Speaker 1: it's like if you stop resisting, the pain will go away.
Speaker 1: So it's like, hey, no bad news, I accept the
Speaker 1: bad news. I stopped resisting the bad news and suddenly
Speaker 1: there is no more bad news. And this segment is
Speaker 1: of course brought to you by Dukes. Um no more
Speaker 1: bad news. I mean, that would feel like a segment
Speaker 1: that they would have on in here. It's like a
Speaker 1: next stress management technique. And they're like, and the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is we have to accept what's happening around us,
Speaker 1: right is when we resisted that we feel on that discomfort.
Speaker 1: So we just accept everything is terrible and trust the
Speaker 1: politicians to do everything. All your all your cares will
Speaker 1: go away, okay, except the gun violence around you. It's
Speaker 1: that simple, you know. I like to go back to
Speaker 1: George Washington stories when I have to illustrate a point
Speaker 1: I want to make. But also another great American, Ever Maynard,
Speaker 1: the inventor of Chardonnay's, has often said, do you think
Speaker 1: I would have invented this if I were happy? So
Speaker 1: I feel like could have come up with this, could
Speaker 1: have come up with this ship. Look how happy A
Speaker 1: look at this tomorrow? Anyways. Meanwhile, in the United States
Speaker 1: of America, the n r A held their convention where
Speaker 1: Donald Trump right off the names of the children and
Speaker 1: you know, victims of the yu've aalde massacre and then
Speaker 1: also for good measure at the end, dance a little
Speaker 1: jig on stage. It's it is everything feels like lazy
Speaker 1: satire at this point. But so that happened, and then
Speaker 1: the police arrested. The police in Florida arrested a ten
Speaker 1: year old who like had said that he bought a
Speaker 1: bunch of assault rifles and was going to do a
Speaker 1: do a school shooting essentially, and the you know, they
Speaker 1: interviewed him, found out that he was making false threats.
Speaker 1: I don't think he had the guns that he was
Speaker 1: claiming he did, and they proceeded to arrest him and
Speaker 1: publicly release his mug shots. And they first of all,
Speaker 1: I saw people like posting about this approvingly, like on
Speaker 1: on social media. It's just like, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know people. It just feels like cass like signal and
Speaker 1: noise all like blended together into just indecipherable kind of
Speaker 1: slurry as that this is a kid that needs like
Speaker 1: mental health resources and this is only going to make
Speaker 1: it worse, Like this kid needs like, yeah, counseling therapy,
Speaker 1: but instead we're just like burning him at this stake,
Speaker 1: real dragging him through the town. You know what I mean, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is not cool, Like this is only going to
Speaker 1: further traumatize this kid. And it's like, yeah, this kid
Speaker 1: did a fucked up day and we should be taking
Speaker 1: threats seriously. But at the same time, this is also
Speaker 1: like a red flag that this kid needs help. So
Speaker 1: the sheriff, who is prides himself as the tough on
Speaker 1: crime sheriff, made a statement. I'm just going to read
Speaker 1: from it because again, it does it does feel like
Speaker 1: it's just bad like satire that's two on the nose.
Speaker 1: But you know, it certainly feels like the police are
Speaker 1: doing the like, you know, the thing where like a
Speaker 1: bully gets beat up and then comes in and immediately
Speaker 1: starts picking on the smallest kid in school just to
Speaker 1: you know, prove something to themselves or whatever, salvage their
Speaker 1: reputation and sense of self. But so the sheriff said,
Speaker 1: this student's behavior sickening, especially after the recent tragedy. Making
Speaker 1: sure our children are safe as paramount, we will have
Speaker 1: law and order in our schools. My team didn't hesitate
Speaker 1: one second, not one second to investigate this threat. So
Speaker 1: that is like a veiled reference to the Uvalde police,
Speaker 1: you know, waiting outside the school while the shooting was
Speaker 1: taking place. Right now is not the time to act
Speaker 1: like a delinquent. It's not funny. This child made a
Speaker 1: fake threat and now he's experiencing real consequences. We don't
Speaker 1: wait one second. We investigate every threat as if it's
Speaker 1: real and well, well, Marseillna acknowledged that the boy is
Speaker 1: only ten years old and his brain isn't fully developed.
Speaker 1: He explained that making faith fake threats still have real consequence,
Speaker 1: So he's going back to that fake threat real consequences
Speaker 1: thing like a tough love school principal. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it sounds dangerous, right, Yeah, that that one seems a
Speaker 1: little less clear. It's it's wild, how like everyone's kind
Speaker 1: of using this to differentiate them. So was even known
Speaker 1: in the same group, Like, we have no problem jumping
Speaker 1: to conclusions and brutalizing a ten year old child because
Speaker 1: we take threats seriously. The kers in that other place,
Speaker 1: you're completely the point. Can we describe this photo of
Speaker 1: this sheriff with the cops behind him? Yeah, for the listeners.
Speaker 1: So there's a big I'm gonna call him buff Daddy
Speaker 1: sheriff and he's wearing a half sip sweater pulled over
Speaker 1: and it's slightly buttoned down, but it's kind of like
Speaker 1: an army green and it's kind of gold star, huge pecks,
Speaker 1: chisel jawline, huge, huge pecks, great arms, big pecks on guys,
Speaker 1: Gregory Pecks. It's Gregory Pecks and he's kind I did
Speaker 1: have to look up to make sure it was not
Speaker 1: Gregory Pecks, the porn star. Yeah, not Gregory Pack. Gregory Pex. No,
Speaker 1: I'd imagine there would be a guy named Gregory Pecks.
Speaker 1: Oh god. So then there's three SWAT team members on
Speaker 1: his left and three regularly dress cops on its right,
Speaker 1: and they're all like, yeah, we're going Daniel Craig movie,
Speaker 1: you know, like kind of like tough guy looks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like you're a ten year old. They're armed to
Speaker 1: the hilt. Oh yeah. The SWAT Team members have the
Speaker 1: masks over their faces, and then the officers are doing
Speaker 1: their best to flex well also keeping one hand on
Speaker 1: one of their weapons. They're in a sad flying v
Speaker 1: of like no confidence and using gun to look tough.
Speaker 1: The three people who are like masked and ship it.
Speaker 1: Really it's like it shows you all they gotta do
Speaker 1: is like, oh, ship man, we spend so much money
Speaker 1: on this crap and never use it. Y'all line up
Speaker 1: so they can at least see that we're dressed like
Speaker 1: the video game characters from look kind of half out
Speaker 1: of shape. I am gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I'm getting back into shape, but I feel like I
Speaker 1: could lift and outrun these people. The chief, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: worried about his cardio. Honestly, he definitely is the steroids
Speaker 1: and a lot of pre work out. Oh yeah, the
Speaker 1: parts are ridiculous when he goes to the squad rack
Speaker 1: people get away, I mean and throughout all that time too.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if you read any of like
Speaker 1: the weird quotes coming out of the fucking n r
Speaker 1: A convention of people like with their weird takes trying
Speaker 1: to defend, you know, like just this indefensible situation and
Speaker 1: like some people this guy is talking the Texas Tribune,
Speaker 1: like there's this this one line in this article he said.
Speaker 1: They described like people who are attending the n r
Speaker 1: A convention. They described feeling ostracized for their beliefs and
Speaker 1: not just those on guns, for their refusal to get
Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen vaccine, for their objections to gay people
Speaker 1: serving as teachers, for their belief in disciplining children through spanking,
Speaker 1: Like what, like the dinosaurs feel bad that we've completely
Speaker 1: moved on, Like it's just our dinosaur culture though, please.
Speaker 1: I ad anos culture in Portland's. And I went there
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago for some gigs and I
Speaker 1: was staying her left and these guy's like, have you
Speaker 1: ever been to Dallas? Foreign words? And he was a dinosaur, right,
Speaker 1: and but it was Portland, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: mean it's okay, it's a little conservative. He goes, m
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking to move somewhere where people respect the law.
Speaker 1: And I was like yeah. He was like, I'm tired
Speaker 1: of all this graffiti. And it's like it's not right.
Speaker 1: There's graffiti of this damn artwork everywhere. Rocket go somewhere
Speaker 1: where you can just walk into a Starbucks with an
Speaker 1: assault rifle, right, Yeah. There's another person who like also
Speaker 1: said like the kid could have had a bat and
Speaker 1: could have done just as much damage, but they're trying
Speaker 1: to attack guns. And it's just it's wild to even
Speaker 1: hear the people that are there, because I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw the images from inside the convention, it
Speaker 1: was sparsely attended, like a lot of people protesting that
Speaker 1: attended the video where the guy like addressed the president
Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, he was like, thank you for
Speaker 1: your thoughts and prayers. Right, He's like, people have said,
Speaker 1: Waynelpier did nothing after Sandy Hook, after Vegas, after Parkland,
Speaker 1: after you like just goes fires off the list, And
Speaker 1: like you can tell people were getting uncomfortable because it
Speaker 1: was like it had the tone of someone being critical.
Speaker 1: And he's like and yet they don't see what he
Speaker 1: has done. He's like, I want to thank you, Mr
Speaker 1: lot Pierre for your thoughts and prayers because they you
Speaker 1: did offer them kind of ship. But yeah, like it is.
Speaker 1: It is a very interesting moment to see even the
Speaker 1: people who are fully n r A brained, like the
Speaker 1: best they can do is say stuff like a bat
Speaker 1: would have been just as bad, or the reason why
Speaker 1: people are doing this is because we're teaching our kids
Speaker 1: that America because a bunch of crap, as one guy said,
Speaker 1: and I just feel like that logic is it's starting
Speaker 1: to wear thin for some people when you just kind
Speaker 1: of see the repeated horrors, like over and over and
Speaker 1: over again, and then here people be like, we need
Speaker 1: one we need one door. Right, So the door thing
Speaker 1: is that there were too many doors and one of
Speaker 1: the too many of them were left open. Is that
Speaker 1: there thesis. But then just in general, if you have
Speaker 1: one point of entry, you can control that, and it's
Speaker 1: a choke point. So if someone were to enter and
Speaker 1: they were untowards like you can get it, like stop
Speaker 1: them right there at the point of entry. There's no
Speaker 1: other place to monitor. It's just the one door. Again,
Speaker 1: unless there's a fire at that door, in which case
Speaker 1: a much more common event that Yeah, so but you
Speaker 1: know this is this is kind of like I think
Speaker 1: you can tell from the outrage from the people even
Speaker 1: outside of the convention center where the n r A
Speaker 1: thing was happening. Is it's just like that at a
Speaker 1: certain point, it's like this sounds so so utterly ridiculous.
Speaker 1: When most people would be like if someone's like the
Speaker 1: person is shooting people, like I wish that person didn't
Speaker 1: have the capability to shoot people like at will. That's
Speaker 1: that usually is like the easiest way to solve a problem.
Speaker 1: But hearing all this other like you know, redirection and nonsense.
Speaker 1: I think it's just just making people more furious. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was reminded while driving around over the long weekend
Speaker 1: and seeing a Blue Lives Matter like sticker on the
Speaker 1: back of someone's car, Like there are people who not
Speaker 1: just the police, but the people. There are people whose
Speaker 1: identity is based on the idea that police are heroes.
Speaker 1: And so I'm assuming those are the people who are
Speaker 1: like sharing this story about arresting a tank. Like the
Speaker 1: the social media I saw on this was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but like Bernie Sanders just wants to eliminate student debt.
Speaker 1: Nice tryasshole, like the at least some people are doing
Speaker 1: something about the problem we have, like commenting on the
Speaker 1: story about the ten year old being arrested, and it's
Speaker 1: just yeah, it's there's the recency bias that we've talked
Speaker 1: about before about like where your town will never be
Speaker 1: more prepared for the snowstorm that happens after the one
Speaker 1: that they needed to be better prepared for. And then
Speaker 1: you know, the police and the people who's who have
Speaker 1: Blue Lives Matter like on their social media accounts are like,
Speaker 1: you know, they are wounded right now and like this
Speaker 1: is this is what we get as a result, and
Speaker 1: it's it's wild like it truly is just something that
Speaker 1: I feel like will will. We're getting many moments with
Speaker 1: that belong in that like End of and Stages of
Speaker 1: Human Civilization Museum with Jimmy Fallon, Paris Hilton interview interview
Speaker 1: about board games. I I do have something to say
Speaker 1: into offense of blue Lives Matter, and it's more the
Speaker 1: sheriff's lives matter. Um. Over the Memorial Day weekend, which
Speaker 1: also happens to be my birthday weekend, I was at there, yes,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I'm drinking my shartonnais, and I
Speaker 1: saw a sheriff's helicopter doing tricks in front of the
Speaker 1: buoy in front of me, because the helicopter landing pad
Speaker 1: was directly kind of off to my left, and every
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, the helicopter would take off and do a
Speaker 1: new trick. And I gotta say, I've never wanted to
Speaker 1: waste more tax dollars. I wanted to see more tricks.
Speaker 1: And I was like, this is about ten dollars a minute,
Speaker 1: and that's yeah per trick. Literally, they were just I
Speaker 1: don't think I've seen helicopter tricks. What do helicopter. It
Speaker 1: looks like they're about it looks like they're about to
Speaker 1: fall out of the sky. And I was like, everybody
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, the helicopter is gonna fall
Speaker 1: into the ocean. And then they go psych or they
Speaker 1: would just flash straight up like nose up and then
Speaker 1: dive bombed down and do some kind of role it. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it was very cool. Wait and this was like in
Speaker 1: a law enforcement helicopter. Yeah, they would wait. There is
Speaker 1: a there is like a crisis of confidence happening with
Speaker 1: all police forces across the country, and they are tricks.
Speaker 1: Tricks you do. I feel like they're doing what I'm
Speaker 1: doing right now, like where they're at work and they'll
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, yeah, I just have a phone call
Speaker 1: to make in my office. And instead the podcasting, but
Speaker 1: it's like a fast podcast, like we're on the trol in.
Speaker 1: Instead they're like doing their own memorial like welcome the
Speaker 1: Sick Tricks with Rick. You can hear that road or
Speaker 1: in the background, what's going on? What's going on with
Speaker 1: the Miami heat thing though, So that was a wonderful
Speaker 1: pivot from ever made here. Um the whole thing that's happening.
Speaker 1: Thank you for keeping the show moving on the whole
Speaker 1: other side of this, right is like something that that's interesting.
Speaker 1: There's this op ed in the Washington Post who was
Speaker 1: written by Phiel Greg Sargeant talking about, like, you know,
Speaker 1: the effectiveness of athletes and their advocacy right now, because
Speaker 1: it just seemed like pointed something interesting out was that
Speaker 1: when sports teams get involved, like conservatives can't handle it,
Speaker 1: Like they just cannot handle athletes or teams having an
Speaker 1: opinion on policy, and it's always like just shut up
Speaker 1: and play sports ball. And and I think it's like,
Speaker 1: I think there's just something interesting about like that insistence,
Speaker 1: because it seems like one of the biggest the reactions
Speaker 1: that got like the most attention last week was Steve Kerr,
Speaker 1: who's a basketball coach, and his like outrage about it.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are like, oh, wow, this is interesting,
Speaker 1: Like wow, look at this coach had something to say
Speaker 1: about it. Then the San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler,
Speaker 1: he told reporters he wouldn't stand for the national anthem
Speaker 1: until he felt the country was actually like moving in
Speaker 1: the right direction, because he said, like what he's seen
Speaker 1: is this not good at all? And this drew a
Speaker 1: lot of criticism, but then it was quickly followed by
Speaker 1: like other teams airing messages of support for like gun reform,
Speaker 1: like the the Yankees and ship like that, and so
Speaker 1: the heat before their game they had like a you know,
Speaker 1: pro gun reform message, and like Marco Rubio was like, like,
Speaker 1: just stay out of it. But I think there is
Speaker 1: something interesting just pointing out like how much how pressed
Speaker 1: the politicians get when athletes talk about this stuff, because
Speaker 1: it does feel like they occupy this space in our
Speaker 1: popular culture where like, you know, clearly athletes of color
Speaker 1: when they protest to this point have has been seeing
Speaker 1: like your radical black or you know, personal you say,
Speaker 1: like how do you like Kaepernick? Like where was the
Speaker 1: support when like Kaepernick was protesting? You know, yeah, not much.
Speaker 1: But it's then I think that's the unfortunate aspect, especially
Speaker 1: of like the the issue that he's drawing attention to,
Speaker 1: which would put a lot of people off to be
Speaker 1: like there's not a racism problem, but right now with
Speaker 1: gun reform, to have people say, I fucking think it's
Speaker 1: awful that children are dying needlessly. Now try and come
Speaker 1: for me for that, and a lot of people are
Speaker 1: just like like I want to be like, what do
Speaker 1: you soft? And you don't like needless child death? But
Speaker 1: it puts it puts them in a very odd place.
Speaker 1: And I think aside from like the crisis of confidence,
Speaker 1: there's also just like they don't know what to say anymore.
Speaker 1: And you know, this sort of opened was just kind
Speaker 1: of pointing out like how much more you know, like
Speaker 1: normalizing athletes can do, because there are there are groups
Speaker 1: of like rigidly minded voters who are like, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: if anyone who's a Democrat says anything like I'm instantly
Speaker 1: turned off. Now hold on. This baseball player also doesn't
Speaker 1: like it. Okay, maybe that's maybe I'm not so soft.
Speaker 1: I like it. I mean the NASCAR does it to anyone?
Speaker 1: NASCAR does Yeah, I mean we'll we'll see where if
Speaker 1: it reaches that point. But it is interesting to just
Speaker 1: to see, like, you know, I think just the more
Speaker 1: like outward rejection of like just kind of being like
Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers and being like, no, this is this
Speaker 1: kind of sucked up. Although I do feel like it's
Speaker 1: very cool. My only concern is like with how incrementalism
Speaker 1: is in this country that the new normal is just
Speaker 1: to be like this is messed up, whereas before it
Speaker 1: was just like thoughts and prayers. Yeah, and now they're like,
Speaker 1: this is messed up. Don't ask me to do much more,
Speaker 1: but it is messed up. The heat message is remarkably
Speaker 1: like from the year for the first half of it,
Speaker 1: like they do a moment of silence. They ask everybody
Speaker 1: to like honor the losses of the families who lost
Speaker 1: children and you know, their memory, and it is like
Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers, e. And obviously it's silent because they're
Speaker 1: doing a moment of silence. But then when they give
Speaker 1: everybody a phone number to call to prep put pressure
Speaker 1: on their local politicians to pass gun control reform, like
Speaker 1: the crowd like really, you know they it shouldn't be surprising,
Speaker 1: but the crowd really like gets behind it and like
Speaker 1: starts cheering almost uniformly, like there's almost uniform approch approval,
Speaker 1: and like, I don't know that that does, like I
Speaker 1: feel like that's a good thing. Florida, Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: which is probably Marco Rubio was like, what the fuck
Speaker 1: is going on? Yeah, Marco Rubio not happy. I mean,
Speaker 1: I I don't know, this is something I've always wondered, right, like,
Speaker 1: tragedy touches every person, regardless of your political ideology, and
Speaker 1: I know sometimes it's may be easy to wait, easier
Speaker 1: to explain in a way why something may have happened.
Speaker 1: But on some level, I'd imagine if you're a human,
Speaker 1: even though you maybe you know maga to the to
Speaker 1: down to your bones, that you may have experienced loss
Speaker 1: in your life and for a moment where like that's
Speaker 1: awful to like lose a child, and that's I do.
Speaker 1: I am aware of that sensation, and to then hear
Speaker 1: someone be so shitty in the face of it, like repeatedly,
Speaker 1: like maybe the first forty times it was like easy
Speaker 1: to hide it. But there is something I think, just
Speaker 1: like everybody was talking last week, like we all were
Speaker 1: talking about moments, we were just breaking down just by
Speaker 1: not even because like we're like there was something different
Speaker 1: about this one. It's like I feel like we're collectively
Speaker 1: reaching this like tipping point where it's really difficult to
Speaker 1: kind of keep being like that, Okay, well, maybe it'll
Speaker 1: be a while to the next one and we can
Speaker 1: figure it out in the interim. It's going to be
Speaker 1: like tomorrow, I know that sounds bad, no, and I
Speaker 1: think that's I think the reaction of Paul Petitians is
Speaker 1: one thing. But I just think for for people like
Speaker 1: we can't we're not going home taking away like millions
Speaker 1: and donations from interest groups to like stay in office
Speaker 1: because like help soothe our work. What do you think, Yeah, oh, man,
Speaker 1: Miles is in the fucking pocket of big mail, or
Speaker 1: as they call it, in the jar. But like, but
Speaker 1: it does. It is one of those things where like
Speaker 1: the response, like it the ship is the tricks don't
Speaker 1: work on people anymore. It's like, how are you going
Speaker 1: to look at that and not say something that's more
Speaker 1: substantive Now again, but with how incremental things feel, it
Speaker 1: may just push the thing the goalpost just a couple
Speaker 1: of inches. Where now the responses and thoughts and prayers,
Speaker 1: it's like, what are they doing in Washington? Also here
Speaker 1: your donations in Washington. But that's just like the new
Speaker 1: phase of the game. I don't know, it's it's hard
Speaker 1: to know until we really kind of get on the
Speaker 1: other side of it. I think all pressure, any any
Speaker 1: pressure anybody can apply is great, you know, on the
Speaker 1: on the sports front, and I'm wondering if Canada is
Speaker 1: doing the thing like a good parent where they just
Speaker 1: like model the good behavior. They don't directly tell the
Speaker 1: kid to do it, but they're just like when the
Speaker 1: kid is having a temper tantrum, they get calmer and
Speaker 1: they like bring it down here and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: what so you know, sometimes I get angry too, but
Speaker 1: they're really the only way. Big smile on my face
Speaker 1: when I get angry and a giant glass of shardonnaise
Speaker 1: close by, suddenly I'm not angry more. We've done it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I mean, like, you know, just
Speaker 1: like when when we did our show Being Canada, like wow, healthcare,
Speaker 1: They're like, look no dental, no mental, and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: we got nothing. So that's cool. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I think or it could just we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: what's their end game here? It's there they take care of.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's about us, if I
Speaker 1: had to guess, it's about us now I'm saying about them.
Speaker 1: They're trying to say fuck you to us right now
Speaker 1: and really think what we can do, and look what
Speaker 1: you can do, but you're not doing it. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: Well let's take a quick break, we'll come back. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about a movie that has some good ideas of
Speaker 1: what we can do to Canada, and that is Top Gun.
Speaker 1: And we're back and Top Gun Maverick broke the record
Speaker 1: for the biggest Memorial Day weekend box office, previously set
Speaker 1: in seven two seven seven. Does that is that a thing? Anybody? Yeah?
Speaker 1: By Pirates of the Caribbean movie, so on, one thing,
Speaker 1: one overwhelming aspect of the of the demographics of the
Speaker 1: Top Gun to audience old old fun Yeah, makes sense
Speaker 1: as as already Jam put it. This is basically the
Speaker 1: Avengers end Game of dad movies, but of ticket buyers
Speaker 1: were thirty five or older. And fuck you man, I'm six.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm old. I think it's old compared
Speaker 1: to who usually goes to the movies. Also, I like
Speaker 1: that there's just a blanket demo thirty five and up.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what about thirty five to forty five like
Speaker 1: the homies? You know? Yeah? Then would be like and
Speaker 1: then the old folks, you know what that is. That's
Speaker 1: fifty five and or whatever it is, But whatever, that's fine.
Speaker 1: The thirty five and old is just you would be
Speaker 1: what one year younger than the actual film. The original
Speaker 1: Top Gun is if you were third. Yeah, that seems
Speaker 1: about right. We know that people were like still horny
Speaker 1: for like top tun movies. Like I was, I was
Speaker 1: really interested to see how this movie does. And I
Speaker 1: found out over the weekend. But I was, yeah, I
Speaker 1: was curious. I was like people, it did seem like
Speaker 1: growing up, every single like TV Entertainment Center had a
Speaker 1: copy of the VHS of Top Gun. Oh yeah on
Speaker 1: it just it was mandatory and now you know, so
Speaker 1: it's still about like they're in Air Force school and
Speaker 1: they they're just saying repeating the final class, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's air Force school. It's like Harry Potter for
Speaker 1: Air Force and now instead of being the cocky brash
Speaker 1: Harry Potter. But I guess that even though Harry Potter
Speaker 1: wasn't cocky brash, he would like instead of being you're
Speaker 1: the best, but you don't believe in anything, you beat
Speaker 1: you at it. Now, Tom Cruise teacher, he's he's snake now.
Speaker 1: And so he comes through and Miles Teller, who is
Speaker 1: you know, Whiplash guy. He is Goose's son, and so
Speaker 1: he is trying to reach Goose's son to make him
Speaker 1: less of a wild card Tom Cruise, Oh sorry, Tom
Speaker 1: Cruise's character can be wild and Goose's son can be
Speaker 1: a wild George yea, um, but so it starts to
Speaker 1: make more sense. The the idea that, like the plot
Speaker 1: of the first movie, was like, you may be talented,
Speaker 1: but he's too wild and needs to be brought in
Speaker 1: line with discipline. It's like reverse Footloose, where it's something
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, these kids are too wild, and the
Speaker 1: good the happy ending is when he starts following orders
Speaker 1: and uses his dancing to spread the message of the church.
Speaker 1: Top Gun was basically written by the Pentagon. Like the
Speaker 1: pet The filmmaker's whole idea was like, what if we
Speaker 1: had access to aircraft carriers and the Pentagon was like, sure,
Speaker 1: but we are essentially writing the story. They had actual
Speaker 1: story control and cast the military, and the most positive light,
Speaker 1: they changed Goose's death to an injector seat malfunction instead
Speaker 1: of a mid air collision. Did that happen like in
Speaker 1: the first movie? Or yeah, so Goose dies in an
Speaker 1: ejector seat malfunction spoiler alert and sorry if that was
Speaker 1: too too late on that, but we val Kilmer no dude,
Speaker 1: that's iceman. I don't know is is Anthony Edwards right
Speaker 1: from the Minnesota Timberwolves. I might have that wrong. It's
Speaker 1: either Anthony Edwards or Carl Anthony Town. So there's a
Speaker 1: goose and an iceman, and then Tom curs because that's Maverick. Okay, Maverick,
Speaker 1: that's it's Anthony Edwards. It's Anthony dyder Mark baby and anyways,
Speaker 1: it what it is weird that he does from an
Speaker 1: injector or seat malfunction. Seems kind of random, but that's
Speaker 1: because the Navy made that edit because they didn't want
Speaker 1: it to reflect real things that were happening in the
Speaker 1: Navy where during training missions people were dying from mid
Speaker 1: air collisions, and they just made it like a random
Speaker 1: thing that doesn't often happen. So the important takeaway here
Speaker 1: is that the Navy set up recruitment stations in movie
Speaker 1: theaters where Top Gun was playing and reportedly saw a
Speaker 1: fient bump in enlistments following the film's release, and people,
Speaker 1: you know, more like sociologist type. The critical community thinks
Speaker 1: that it had an important role in making people feel
Speaker 1: more rara about military like adventurism. Reagan's like policy of
Speaker 1: like we'll use our great military to fix it and
Speaker 1: invest in star wars, like the lasers, the space lasers.
Speaker 1: And then there was a story about like recruits who
Speaker 1: signed up after succumbing to Top Gun fever being very
Speaker 1: unhappy with the realities of the military. So it's kind
Speaker 1: of wild because I'm going to read you a quote
Speaker 1: from somebody who was against the idea of doing a
Speaker 1: sequel to Top Gun. They said, I want the kids
Speaker 1: to know that's not the way war is. That Top
Speaker 1: Gun was just an amusement park ride, a fun film
Speaker 1: with a PG thirteen rating that was not supposed to
Speaker 1: be a reality. That's why I didn't go on and
Speaker 1: make Top Gun two and three and four and five.
Speaker 1: That would have been irresponsible. That quote is from Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1: He went on instead to make The Be Born on
Speaker 1: the fourth of July because he felt guilty about how
Speaker 1: Top Gun was being used and he wanted to make
Speaker 1: it so that so like his career was being used
Speaker 1: to show the realities of war. Oh, he really did.
Speaker 1: That was that was the reason people speculation. But he
Speaker 1: openly said that, like he wants people to not believe
Speaker 1: that Top Gun is the way it actually is mm hmm.
Speaker 1: It's just propaganda. Fun. Man, it wasn't supposed to be Relax,
Speaker 1: nobody's taking everybody knows this propaganda fun. Yeah, come on now,
Speaker 1: So I didn't make That's why I didn't already Okay,
Speaker 1: can we drop the propaganda bit because it's not propaganda,
Speaker 1: it's just fun. Basically we do. I mean it should
Speaker 1: be noted like a lot of this probably isn't gonna
Speaker 1: make it into the final episode because every episode of
Speaker 1: Daily He's like guys does go to the Navy for
Speaker 1: a final edit. They just like want to make sure
Speaker 1: that what we're saying is like accurate exactly. I guess,
Speaker 1: like to their vision of hell, the world is Hellove
Speaker 1: Major Collins, thanks for listening. If if you think that
Speaker 1: like that is kind of retrograde and like wild that
Speaker 1: like that was happening that they were sending recruiters to
Speaker 1: movie theaters in six and like actually getting people to
Speaker 1: sign up to put their lives on the line. They
Speaker 1: are doing it again over this weekend. They first of
Speaker 1: all had special advertisements playing before some screenings, and there
Speaker 1: have been military recruiters and theaters awkwardly hanging around next
Speaker 1: to the concession stands. I mean talk about a waste
Speaker 1: of taxpayer money. Seriously, Well, the toys, the little jet
Speaker 1: fighter toys that they have on their table, those at
Speaker 1: they don't look cheap. Ever, so maybe your text what
Speaker 1: dollars are being used properly. I'm going to be very
Speaker 1: vulnerable with you guys right now. I never thought I
Speaker 1: was smart enough to join the Navy and to drive
Speaker 1: an airplane. That's the only reason why I would never
Speaker 1: join the Navy or there force. M I believe believe
Speaker 1: that out. Yeah, I was just self belief. I was
Speaker 1: like I could, I could never figure out how to
Speaker 1: you do not good at math. It's so funny you
Speaker 1: said that. Ever, I couldn't read when I began flight
Speaker 1: flying a fighter pilot or a fighter and n Uncle
Speaker 1: Sam believed in me. I was just like you. I
Speaker 1: couldn't add, read, or write or know my own name.
Speaker 1: Some guy after I saw screening a top gun, said hey,
Speaker 1: you want to have fun, sign the squiggle line on
Speaker 1: this paper. Next thing that you need to be able
Speaker 1: to read is target locked. Next thing I know, I'm
Speaker 1: baby man, she sucked, but I don't. Yeah, it's wild
Speaker 1: that I like in your mind, you're like I just
Speaker 1: don't think I got it. It's not anything else to
Speaker 1: do with it. That's und a feeling. You're like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I got it. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think you know. It just seems like, I mean, you
Speaker 1: gotta be somewhat smart to drive a fighter jet, right,
Speaker 1: they go real fast and you gotta know physics, and
Speaker 1: look if they get's like if any lisurgeons also are
Speaker 1: like the fighter jets and surgeons have the most like
Speaker 1: overlap of like any two professions in terms of like bullshit,
Speaker 1: you know, personality test. But I think it's I just
Speaker 1: think it's like confidence and self assuredness are the things
Speaker 1: like you can't just be constantly questioning everything you do,
Speaker 1: which is how I disqualified myself at the moment. And
Speaker 1: if you're flying right, can you have and then you
Speaker 1: just explode? You're like, well, I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: not fighter pilot mentality. But again, if you have your
Speaker 1: fighter pilot driver's license, please let us know. Is it
Speaker 1: hard to drive that thing? Yeah, I'll just be shocked
Speaker 1: and fascinated. If there is a listener to the Daily
Speaker 1: Zygeist too, also is a nable aviator that really like,
Speaker 1: are they still making newer planes. Oh they are speaking
Speaker 1: of tax dollars. That is what the entire U. S
Speaker 1: economy is propped up by. Yeah, is make new weapons
Speaker 1: of death. Have you seen the new F twenty two Raptor?
Speaker 1: It's that thing. Good luck mhm and we actually have
Speaker 1: the designer here for an interview. We're going to throw
Speaker 1: to Audie Cornish's. Now, your name is Dave Martin and
Speaker 1: you work for Lockheed Martin and your relation there well
Speaker 1: actually yes, Mr Luck Martin failed h ever rejector seated
Speaker 1: and there was a malfunction and the big old miss Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Everett as always a true pleasure having you
Speaker 1: on the daily Zeitgeist. I appreciate your patients and um
Speaker 1: the text heavy of your team for helping you set
Speaker 1: this up. We we have the best team. We all
Speaker 1: made it work. We can't can't speak for the hosts,
Speaker 1: but great, the team is great. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you all that good stuff? Currently I'm recruiting naval
Speaker 1: officers outside of the Yeah, um, y'all can follow me
Speaker 1: on all socials at remaindered e v R R M
Speaker 1: A I in a R date again, listeners, I'm so
Speaker 1: sorry I'm so sorry. I think that if I had
Speaker 1: to listen to this voice like that, I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: I would want to slip my own throat. I want
Speaker 1: to be honest. Avoided all costs, avoided all costs A
Speaker 1: trigger warning, but no, Yeah, thanks, thanks so for having
Speaker 1: me always have a blast on this podcast. Mm hmm,
Speaker 1: I wonder yeah, and and is there any work of
Speaker 1: social media that you have been enjoying ever? Maynard? Lisa worry. Um.
Speaker 1: I believe her handle is at least a curry on Twitter.
Speaker 1: So there's this whole big thing I guess of like
Speaker 1: ray Freeze posting their guns, like laying them out in
Speaker 1: the design. And there's she like quote tweeted this army
Speaker 1: officer and it's a girlfriend and they've got guns all
Speaker 1: over their bed like it looks a little porny, like
Speaker 1: it's like sixty porn. And Lisa was like, like defending
Speaker 1: what they don't even own a bed frame some phrase
Speaker 1: of that. I should pull it up. But it's so
Speaker 1: fucking funny. It's just a drag because like these like
Speaker 1: on this a person's tweet, on this couple's tweet, it's
Speaker 1: like where we are at a fand on our nation.
Speaker 1: You don't even own a bed frame. It's literally like
Speaker 1: a mattress on the ground and two horny people. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: this picture is wild. It's like something this woman is
Speaker 1: like in a sports brawn underwear, the dude shirtless. So
Speaker 1: many guns all over the round and what you DoD
Speaker 1: was what? So they said, I guess it's just one
Speaker 1: of those tweets, and she treated, what property? Are these
Speaker 1: two protective? They don't even have a bed frame? That's good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think about that many chuckle a lot. It
Speaker 1: really makes me get cool. So yeah, all right, Miles,
Speaker 1: where can people find you? And what is a tweet
Speaker 1: you've been enjoying? Oh well, let's see. You can find
Speaker 1: me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. If
Speaker 1: you like basketball, checkout Miles and Jack Got Mad Boosties
Speaker 1: the other podcast. And if you like fiance, check me
Speaker 1: out on four twenty day fiance say, alright, a tweet
Speaker 1: I like is from Rachel McCartney at Rachel m Comedy
Speaker 1: tweeted this is this is like a screen cap of
Speaker 1: her talking to some other woman on Tinder. He says,
Speaker 1: I love Tinder and this is how it starts out
Speaker 1: and she's talking to somebody from Argentina. So the English
Speaker 1: a little brook and it says, are you famous? Ha ha?
Speaker 1: You looks like a comedy show star. I'm from Argentina,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if you are live. Rachel response,
Speaker 1: ha ha ha, I'm absolutely not famous except a tiny
Speaker 1: bit on Twitter. Uh. The sargent tinny woman response, I
Speaker 1: don't use Twitter. Rachel says, you're better off. The woman responds,
Speaker 1: so it's funny. I'm a happy art so it's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm a happy person in general. Rachel response responds, brilliant.
Speaker 1: You never see that anymore, to which the Argentine says,
Speaker 1: Twitter is for angry person truth, truth, let him know,
Speaker 1: truth dot com, slash social ship or whatever that truth
Speaker 1: that read, truth that ship reach. You can find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. Tweet I've been enjoying
Speaker 1: is from Sarah j At Try Sarah Jay Tups, Try
Speaker 1: Sarah j Tups. One of the oceans should be sweet.
Speaker 1: That's it. I just agree with that. If we're gonna
Speaker 1: have all these salt yess oceans, what if got it
Speaker 1: in there at oh Man, especially one of the cold ones,
Speaker 1: it was just gatorade. Frost all up there, Come on.
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Speaker 1: note where we link off to the information that we
Speaker 1: talked about in today's episode, as well as a song
Speaker 1: that we think you might enjoy. Miles of the song
Speaker 1: do we think people might endray? Uh? This is a
Speaker 1: group called The Sorcerers, and I'm not sure when or
Speaker 1: where they're from. I suspect they're a modern band who's
Speaker 1: playing like old school kind of like afrobeat kind of stuff. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you like like Bludos band or like anti ballast, like,
Speaker 1: you'll definitely like this track. This track is called Summoning
Speaker 1: the Monkey God and it's the forty five edit. Uh.
Speaker 1: And this is the Sorcerers just really good. U like
Speaker 1: instrumental and like afro beat kind of stuff, but it's
Speaker 1: got like more like it feels like a Spine movie
Speaker 1: theme song, so shocking it up. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you heard my on point the Harry Potter reference, but
Speaker 1: you said you don't know where they're from. I said,
Speaker 1: quidch which makes it that's the Harry Potter thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: well now you have to explain it to me. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make you. It's it's the sport. It's the sport
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