Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season two thirty two,
Speaker 1: Episode four of Hi Guys production of by Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's share consciousness. It's Thursday, April fourteen, which of
Speaker 1: course means that it is National ex Spouse Dead. Yep,
Speaker 1: shout out, give a little hello. How you going to
Speaker 1: the ex spouse in your life? I guess this sounds
Speaker 1: it sounds like, you know how, because all these things
Speaker 1: are made up by people, and it's just you can
Speaker 1: tell by the way this holiday is written, it's by
Speaker 1: a haunted divorcee because it says very few marriages and amicably.
Speaker 1: Each year on April fourteenth, National Ex Spouse Date encourages
Speaker 1: those who have dissolved the marriage to forgive their former
Speaker 1: spouse and move beyond any anger of bitterness that may remain.
Speaker 1: And even those that do aren't free from angster regrets. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I cheated on you with your sister, but like have
Speaker 1: some forgiveness and like very few marriages and amicab like
Speaker 1: that's let's just start that out. Like, don't behold made
Speaker 1: to some crazy made up standard when I think there
Speaker 1: are only two successful marriages in the history of human kind.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well, if you go back, you said. The
Speaker 1: person who created it, Reverend Ronald Coleman of Kansas City,
Speaker 1: created this holiday in seven as a way to dissolve
Speaker 1: the bitterness that has often associated with divorce, and it's
Speaker 1: inaugural year, he handed out buttons that read I'm okay
Speaker 1: your history. I'm okay your history. So it's for people,
Speaker 1: probably for people who are holding onto the pain of
Speaker 1: a divorce, got it, you know. I like it from
Speaker 1: the perspective of you're the person who has guilt from
Speaker 1: doing the other person wrong, and like you need to
Speaker 1: let it go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that's sounds
Speaker 1: It sounds like his heart was in the right place.
Speaker 1: But the way the way it's been co opted as
Speaker 1: tend to be the wording also sounds like we're celebrating
Speaker 1: the expose, which are like yay my ex husband or
Speaker 1: wife or a partner or whatever, rather than like, hey man,
Speaker 1: let go of the pain day anyways, shout out to
Speaker 1: uh bullshit holidays everywhere in this one in particular, my
Speaker 1: name is Jack O'Brien a K. You got the ZiT
Speaker 1: one baby that's actually came while I was out last
Speaker 1: week and we were just talking about Pepsi diet Pepsi
Speaker 1: and and that ad campaign. But that came out last
Speaker 1: week to me from at Bohemian Rap city spelled City
Speaker 1: spelled like City City. Yeah, they spelled it like City Bank.
Speaker 1: So maybe this is a soft pitch for like City
Speaker 1: Bank to all the sponsor a revival of reps I
Speaker 1: think it's coming back with Big Tig. Oh really yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. We had talked about that. I believe if
Speaker 1: there's something happening and we will see Big Tig back
Speaker 1: in it, will they be doing freestyles in the basement
Speaker 1: liking it's heyday? And will City Bank be involved? The
Speaker 1: question on all our minds. Will Will mayor Eric Adams
Speaker 1: be there? Thank you well, I'm thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: as always by my co host, Mr Miles. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: Miles Grays celebrating the earliness of the Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: season coming straight down. Lankershim boulevard is here day? Oh
Speaker 1: no ho um yeah, just didn't have time to check
Speaker 1: out the ak, so just going with my tride and true.
Speaker 1: Is that a winding boulevard? Lancershim kersh is pretty straight on,
Speaker 1: pretty straight on it was winding because of you know,
Speaker 1: the North Hollywood like that. It's pretty gritted up. We
Speaker 1: have some fucking weird intersections, but nothing where it's like, yo,
Speaker 1: what the funk is that? Straight up to well Miles.
Speaker 1: We're thrilled to be joined by a hilarious writer, comedian,
Speaker 1: podcast host, one of the best followers on Twitter, formerly
Speaker 1: the man behind House of Highlights, the founder of a
Speaker 1: creative studio follow Through which makes sneak this and a
Speaker 1: bunch of funny ship funny sports content. Has also gotten
Speaker 1: upcoming NBA podcast with My Heart and the NBA called
Speaker 1: Running the Break. It is the brilliant and talented c J.
Speaker 1: Taller Donna. What is up, guys, man, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good, it's been a minute. We were just catching
Speaker 1: up before the call, but before the potting. Yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 1: it feels this. I'm always looking for the thing that
Speaker 1: is the marker that the pandemic is kind of over.
Speaker 1: It's never gonna be fully over. This is this is
Speaker 1: one of those I think, except we're on zoom and
Speaker 1: not in a studio, and yeah, it's not over. But
Speaker 1: to see you, guys, it's great to see the last
Speaker 1: time we had you on was in person though, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was in person, and the stories I thought were
Speaker 1: dark and it just got darker and darker. Look at
Speaker 1: that ends to be this country. What was new with you, man? Uh,
Speaker 1: not much as new aside from a human being that
Speaker 1: we're going to be responsible for in the coming days.
Speaker 1: So gonna be a father with fellow former I Heart
Speaker 1: podcast host Mecan Gaily. Um, So we're just yeah, we're
Speaker 1: just we're getting ready for that, very very excited. I'm
Speaker 1: excited for Megan to hopefully feel relief, even though she
Speaker 1: says it's not gonna come for a while. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: gonna be a father. So that's that's primarily what I'm
Speaker 1: really excited for. Work stuff, Yeah, staying busy. Yeah, is that?
Speaker 1: Who are we looking at? Behind you? What's that? What's that?
Speaker 1: Bullets Jersey back then? So this is uh, we got
Speaker 1: a Wizard's um Jordan alternate throwback. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: Washington Bullets throwback, but it's when Jordan's yeah, awesome, man.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna get to know you a little
Speaker 1: bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our
Speaker 1: listeners a couple of the things that we're talking about,
Speaker 1: I mean, right right up top, two more freaking weeks
Speaker 1: of masks on planes? Are you serious? Bro? Are you serious?
Speaker 1: Come on ever come off? As the Drug Reports headline stated,
Speaker 1: this is people. People are still still real mad about
Speaker 1: masks on planes. I'm surprised that two weeks is the
Speaker 1: time frame they're talking about. That seems a little short
Speaker 1: for people who have to take multiple flights a day
Speaker 1: as part of air crews. But so we'll talk about that,
Speaker 1: We'll talk about Don Jr. We'll talk about just a
Speaker 1: little check in with a copaganda of the past few days.
Speaker 1: So so we're gonna talk about that plenty more. But first,
Speaker 1: c J, we do like to ask our guests, what
Speaker 1: is something from your search history. Guys had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun with this because it just realized and this
Speaker 1: is in the first time, But I'm trying to find
Speaker 1: the longest iPhone cord that like actually works, that's a
Speaker 1: long iPhone cord because I usually just type us in
Speaker 1: the Amazon, but now I was like, I gotta hit
Speaker 1: the internet streets, I gotta go outside that giant corporation,
Speaker 1: and I gotta find the longest iPhone cord. Like with
Speaker 1: it's like because I just I'm a person who lets
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys are like this, but
Speaker 1: you let your phone die, and I just again, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be a father. I can't be having that. But
Speaker 1: also so when I'm home and I'm I'm chilling, I
Speaker 1: just need I can't be losing jewice while I'm at
Speaker 1: home with some outlets nearby. But I also need to
Speaker 1: move freely with it. So trying to invest in the
Speaker 1: longest I've found that's worked for me has been twelve feet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love to find. I think that would be a
Speaker 1: game changer. Okay, you know be wild though is they
Speaker 1: make you know how like back in the eighties and nineties,
Speaker 1: people had that kitchen phone that had the long chord
Speaker 1: on it so you could and like take that ship
Speaker 1: through half the winding one. It's like bring that back
Speaker 1: as an iPhone. Yes, so you're like, yo, it coils
Speaker 1: back up. It's right there. If I need to fucking
Speaker 1: take it on the go, I can. That was like
Speaker 1: chord has like kind of completely gone away, Like what
Speaker 1: the what? What? What is the pasta version? The pasta
Speaker 1: equivalent of I was gonna say, it's like a curly fry. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the curly yeah. And I feel like that was
Speaker 1: like the basis of so many eighties movies scenes where
Speaker 1: it was like a parent on the go who had
Speaker 1: to like run around to every room in their house
Speaker 1: while still being on the corner right kitchen phone, or
Speaker 1: like a great scene where it's a parent trying to
Speaker 1: get the kids out of the house while they're on
Speaker 1: the phone and everyone's like limboing around the cord and
Speaker 1: ship and it's like, I'm sorry, and you get twisted
Speaker 1: up in it. The scene ends where they run just
Speaker 1: too far and get yanked yeah, and it's like parenting
Speaker 1: is hard, and then the phone goes in the oatmeal
Speaker 1: and you're like and the dog goes like this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But why do we think that, like that was a
Speaker 1: pretty efficient chord. The fact, I mean, I guess it
Speaker 1: got tangled a lot, but the fact that it could
Speaker 1: stretch but generally would like take up less space seems
Speaker 1: like a benefit, like a beneficial design. We have so
Speaker 1: many chords in our life. I don't have a single
Speaker 1: one that has shaped like that. Well, maybe because like
Speaker 1: a power chord, it's hard to coil a power chord
Speaker 1: and like have it go through like that constant stress
Speaker 1: and then it probably gets fucked. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: playing engineer here for a second, but yeah, that's that
Speaker 1: could to me the only be the only reason, right.
Speaker 1: I just feel like we became anti chord over the
Speaker 1: last two decades. Yeah, like we we just we ditched
Speaker 1: the basics, the cord of it all, and it's like
Speaker 1: just the spring recoil was great. Yeah, absolutely, Well look,
Speaker 1: Zike Young, if you know where to get a even
Speaker 1: a fucking a thirty footer, h's j up because I'm
Speaker 1: at I'm with you, like I'm at that phase two.
Speaker 1: I'm like I plant chargers around my house, so like
Speaker 1: by my couch now, I gotta fucking twelve foot or
Speaker 1: like just peeking out the cushions. So if ever I'm
Speaker 1: on there, I can be like, fucking I can charge
Speaker 1: right here. Open the freezer. There's a charger right there
Speaker 1: under the sink. I got one, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: You never know? Yeah, the don't let your phone run
Speaker 1: out thing has something been something that I've become religious
Speaker 1: about since having kids, because first of all, like there's
Speaker 1: the obvious stuff. You don't you want to be able
Speaker 1: to capture a precious moment, and you want to always
Speaker 1: have have your phone ready if there's like an emergency. Well,
Speaker 1: it's also like something that you don't hear as much
Speaker 1: as like there's a lot of downtime, like especially in
Speaker 1: the early days, like that you're both like constantly doing
Speaker 1: something and also very bored a lot of the time.
Speaker 1: So it's good to have that thing there just in
Speaker 1: case you need to in case you need to scroll
Speaker 1: while the baby's does. And I spend probably on average,
Speaker 1: since my kids were born, like two hours a day
Speaker 1: like just waiting for them to fall asleep, like just
Speaker 1: sitting next to them them waking up. I'm bad at
Speaker 1: sleep training, but that's you know, just waiting with them
Speaker 1: as they fall asleep, so you're not doing anything. I'm
Speaker 1: not neglecting them. But I like, yeah, let me ask
Speaker 1: you this about being a new parent. Is there a
Speaker 1: lot of like is this normal googling? Um? Like, I
Speaker 1: feel like one of the biggest fears every every new
Speaker 1: parents tells me it's like they check and see if
Speaker 1: their kid is breathing every you know, five seconds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is really scary. I still I still struggle with like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they like I'm not a person who has like intrusive
Speaker 1: thoughts of like my own safety and stuff, but with kids.
Speaker 1: With our kids, it's definitely a struggle and there's just weird,
Speaker 1: weird stuff that comes out of their body. Should my
Speaker 1: babies head be spinning around? You know? My babies belly
Speaker 1: button d as big as their head? Yeah? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I need my phone to be charged to Google. Youngest
Speaker 1: had a thing coming out of his belly button that
Speaker 1: was like, well, this can't be good like that. That's
Speaker 1: that seems like most of his body like that seems
Speaker 1: like that most of his body weights in there, and
Speaker 1: the doctor was like, nah, it'll go away. We're like,
Speaker 1: there's no way this is going away this child and
Speaker 1: then the body just swallowed it up as he grew.
Speaker 1: It was he didn't throw it, like, we didn't actively
Speaker 1: watch it as it like sucked it in like Linguini,
Speaker 1: but like like here goes, here goes, here goes Oh
Speaker 1: my god. Also, just an alternative if functionalities all you're
Speaker 1: looking for in the long chords is extension cords underrated.
Speaker 1: You can always get you can get a fifty foot extension.
Speaker 1: They're just dragging around with you. If you want exactly
Speaker 1: trade orange, you know, like you're on a construction site.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, just right in the middle of your mid
Speaker 1: century home, just hit thick orange, white and black and
Speaker 1: you know brown. Have I talked about the time when we,
Speaker 1: like I just moved to Missouri and my wife wanted
Speaker 1: to like be eco conscious and so and we had
Speaker 1: a yard like this was like our starter home. And
Speaker 1: in Columbia, Missouri, and everybody, no matter how small your
Speaker 1: yard was, had a riding lawnmower. And we we bought
Speaker 1: an electric lawnmower that needed to be plugged in the
Speaker 1: whole time, and so that that was a crash course
Speaker 1: and extension cords. I mowed through like three of them,
Speaker 1: and any time I was out there, I was I
Speaker 1: looked like I was just doing some vacuuming because it
Speaker 1: was like such a slight and you have like you
Speaker 1: have one hand and I'm having the one hand on
Speaker 1: the cord doing it back and forth and like to
Speaker 1: the point that people would stop and like look at me,
Speaker 1: and it was they thought it was cute. I mean
Speaker 1: it was at that point. Your gardening looks more like
Speaker 1: being like an encourt NBA cameraman were like when you
Speaker 1: got the camera and then you got the cord wrangler
Speaker 1: behind you doing a lot of whipping it around to
Speaker 1: make sure neighborhood kids are jump roping, like holding your
Speaker 1: arm real highs. Keep it away. Yeah, what is something
Speaker 1: that you think is overrated? Sita? I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys are TikTok heads like myself and I might
Speaker 1: be oldness, might be like late, but that Tom's diner covert,
Speaker 1: do you guys notice? And maybe I should have linked it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is a gray Eat song, and then these like
Speaker 1: two Hosier wannabes come in and they do like this
Speaker 1: hiccup singing, and then it's become like the you know,
Speaker 1: the the process of TikTok songs, at least our Sounds
Speaker 1: is like, Hey, everyone who wants their video to go
Speaker 1: viral will make it their background music. So now my algorithm,
Speaker 1: my feed is just every single category of a viral
Speaker 1: video with this awful cover behind it, and I just
Speaker 1: and then I saw it. It's like on the Billboard
Speaker 1: charts or on the Spotify charts, and I just can't
Speaker 1: escape it. I can't even imagine trying to bring Hosier
Speaker 1: level like to the like that is supposed to be
Speaker 1: just like that that they seem like they're at the
Speaker 1: opposite ends of like intention from the artist from the vocalist.
Speaker 1: Definitely a take, you know. It's like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like they're not gonna go viral covering it like the
Speaker 1: Smooth I don't even know who the original artist is,
Speaker 1: so like, yeah, they're in their raspy their raspy voice,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, okay, this is jarring. And then
Speaker 1: some people were like, it's so jarring. I like it,
Speaker 1: and I should put a trick shop video the sounds
Speaker 1: of this. Let's let's listen to it really quick, so
Speaker 1: we have an idea of it justin I'd imagine we're
Speaker 1: not going to put in the show, but just for
Speaker 1: our reference. Ah, alright, I just don't know if they're serious. Alright,
Speaker 1: we're back. We just listened to it in the month.
Speaker 1: It like, what the fun is Tom Waits is ship
Speaker 1: coming in here? The the original feels like it is
Speaker 1: like the artist is disappearing like that. That feels like
Speaker 1: that's what that song is about. That artist is just
Speaker 1: appearing from the boredom of like the situation, and that
Speaker 1: cover is being like fucking look at me right right now,
Speaker 1: my emotions. Watch me take liberties with this, and it
Speaker 1: feels it Before I even argue, he is looking out
Speaker 1: the window like it sounds like a coffee house open,
Speaker 1: like prank, Like everyone is just trying to mind their
Speaker 1: own business and persons like I'm gonna turn this place
Speaker 1: upside down. And it's just all of the flame from
Speaker 1: his stomach upright. The reaction of the other patrons in
Speaker 1: the coffee shop, they're like, okay, can a little trumpet?
Speaker 1: That's okay? And they're like, oh when it starts iron
Speaker 1: in the morning and they're like, what the funk? And
Speaker 1: then you get hit with that. Yeah, I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is this This coffee shop has gone downhill Tom's Diner?
Speaker 1: What happened to you? Yeah, it's funny. I was just
Speaker 1: talking to producer Beck the the day I was at
Speaker 1: the fucking liquor store. Do you ever see this ship
Speaker 1: where people start bumping TikTok tunes out their car like
Speaker 1: it's fucking you know, the summer of O two and
Speaker 1: where the party at with jagged Eggs just came out
Speaker 1: like that's the ship I see right now. I was
Speaker 1: at the liquor store this woman, but I'm not joking,
Speaker 1: Like thirteen mini shooters of flavored vodka got in her Honda,
Speaker 1: her Honda CRV, rolled the windows down to start playing
Speaker 1: that one track from TikTok goes that one. She was
Speaker 1: black you want to bumba out her fucking car. Let
Speaker 1: that ship cook, and then slow motioned out of the
Speaker 1: parking lot like we were like, yo, there she goes
Speaker 1: drink it in Wow, that's um you want so? And
Speaker 1: is the song starting right where the TikTok like videos
Speaker 1: start using it? Or has she gone and done the
Speaker 1: research found the song and it's just like playing the song,
Speaker 1: that's my question. Okay, yeah, like almost like oh yeah,
Speaker 1: like I funk with this, but like she had the
Speaker 1: vibe of someone who, like by osmosis, kept hearing it
Speaker 1: because someone else is using TikTok or she's so TikTok brained,
Speaker 1: like I've fallen into that ship to her, like I'm like,
Speaker 1: I really liked this song and then I'm listening to
Speaker 1: it very quietly in my AirPods. What is something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated? M This one might just be me,
Speaker 1: but the Fly on the Wall podcast, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to promote other podcasts and other networks. But David
Speaker 1: Spade and Danna car Let's just this off nek SNL
Speaker 1: Nostalgian History. The podcast is here for that. David Spay,
Speaker 1: Dana Carvey, they just talked about SNL and and we're
Speaker 1: like losing some some big comedians, I feel like in
Speaker 1: the last few months, and so I'm like, we're really
Speaker 1: cherishing hearing David Spade talked about behind the scenes of
Speaker 1: Joe Dirt and so it's truly my one escape and
Speaker 1: I'm like recommending it to everyone, and not many people
Speaker 1: are really enjoying the recommendation, but um yeah, I just
Speaker 1: I'm I'm finding it a lot of fun to listen to.
Speaker 1: So that's my underrated selection for today. That's do we
Speaker 1: ever talk about the development team on this podcast, Miles,
Speaker 1: because that's one that I think we knew about a
Speaker 1: while back before it launched, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be great, Like listen to these two
Speaker 1: dudes talk to each other is a lot of fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, And that's just such a good format because
Speaker 1: like some things just don't have like the kind of
Speaker 1: like director's commentary or something you'd like on the DVD
Speaker 1: or some ship like I would listen to like a
Speaker 1: oral history of like in Living Color, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, like imagine that ship. Well that's so if
Speaker 1: you if this, if you guys passed on this, the
Speaker 1: Living Color one is some like you guys got to
Speaker 1: get a move on on it. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: we passed on it as did not got to have
Speaker 1: have the budget with financial might but worth it. Uh,
Speaker 1: what have you learned anything? Like? Because I I kinda
Speaker 1: like I've read The Life from New York and all,
Speaker 1: you know, the oral histories and used to like basically
Speaker 1: listen to podcasts like a genre of podcast was like
Speaker 1: listening to comedians tell stories about their SNL trials basically
Speaker 1: for a while there. So I mean just the I
Speaker 1: like hearing more about like SNL character movies are such
Speaker 1: a thing in the past. Um, and there were like
Speaker 1: attempts that were you know, more recent than we recall
Speaker 1: or like knew about so like even today that the
Speaker 1: Bill Hayter episode dropped, and um, hearing like the possibility
Speaker 1: of like a Stefan movie would have been incredible. But
Speaker 1: then like then Dana Carvey started talking about the Hans
Speaker 1: and Franz movie and like they're all The biggest hurdle
Speaker 1: for all of these is that, like, yeah, you take
Speaker 1: Hans and Frans out of a gym, it does not work.
Speaker 1: You take step On behind like they're like Melany and
Speaker 1: and Hater. We're saying that Steffon didn't work as a sketch.
Speaker 1: It only could be at the update death. So but
Speaker 1: every that's how we all know the success of these
Speaker 1: characters and taglines like can can Lauren make a movie
Speaker 1: of it? And for the most part no, because like
Speaker 1: even the ones that came out and no one liked,
Speaker 1: even though I loved the Ladies Man movie so funny
Speaker 1: because that was that hit DVD when I was like
Speaker 1: a freshman in college and that was a that was
Speaker 1: heavy rotation, as was d Roxbury and then I mean
Speaker 1: McGrew the movie. I think it might be the movie
Speaker 1: that most like shouldn't have worked, and like the gap
Speaker 1: between how well it should have worked and how well
Speaker 1: it does work. The largest might be mcgrouber personally a
Speaker 1: big fan of that movie. Well, that has such a
Speaker 1: specific perspective even for it to be like a really
Speaker 1: condensed kind of quick sketch, like you knew how to
Speaker 1: like extend that, whereas, like to your point about steff On,
Speaker 1: like that was more of a bit between Molaney and
Speaker 1: Bill Hayter to get in the crack at the desk,
Speaker 1: and that was like the fun of it. We were
Speaker 1: also kind of witnessing, So it's a little bit hard
Speaker 1: to like transpose that too. Yeah, like mc grouper was
Speaker 1: able to if they had decided in in general, let's
Speaker 1: make a really good action movie parody, you know, and
Speaker 1: like they were able to do that, plus a lot
Speaker 1: of very sketchy elements, but like stuff on, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, what what sort of format can you
Speaker 1: can you use um to carry out ninety minutes? And
Speaker 1: I don't know, right the yeah, I mean mc grouper.
Speaker 1: The sketch though, let's let's remember was making fun of
Speaker 1: a single trope from the show Mcgiver that like no
Speaker 1: other show really used that much. And then it was
Speaker 1: just it was the same ship over and over like
Speaker 1: and that was the joke. And then they turned that
Speaker 1: into like the best kind of over the top parody
Speaker 1: of an action movie I think of their time personally,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean who who knows, But that's that's
Speaker 1: amazing that they tried to make a Stefan movie. I
Speaker 1: would have liked to have seen what they came up.
Speaker 1: You would you watch a ninety minute him just saying
Speaker 1: this place has everything, and he goes build, All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. And
Speaker 1: we're back, and you know, the the media has announced
Speaker 1: that we're gonna be wearing masks on planes for two
Speaker 1: more weeks, and they are reacting like children have been
Speaker 1: told like that they have to I don't know that
Speaker 1: that their birthday has been delayed by two weeks, Like
Speaker 1: it's just that it's never gonna come off. Then what
Speaker 1: the fuck? Like Mike, like the My response to two
Speaker 1: more weeks is, wait, how the funk is they're going
Speaker 1: to ever be like a busy travel industry with flight
Speaker 1: crews flying multiple times a day, jammed into a small
Speaker 1: tube with people not wearing masks, Like how how is
Speaker 1: that going to work? And we have two weeks to
Speaker 1: figure that out? But everybody else's response seems to be
Speaker 1: like fucking kidding me, guys. I want to look at
Speaker 1: the bright spot of this, and it means two more
Speaker 1: weeks of people being taped to their chair like that,
Speaker 1: it got it got so crazy like these Karen videos that,
Speaker 1: and like airline people are like flight attendants or whatever
Speaker 1: having to fight people by taping them to their chair
Speaker 1: and taping their mouth shut. Like we've gotten to that
Speaker 1: and that's okay. Yeah, and so yeah, like I'm never
Speaker 1: not going to wear a mask in a flight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too, say I, I like not get it not
Speaker 1: being sick and free time I get off a plane.
Speaker 1: In my mind, the mask can come off when therapeutic
Speaker 1: drugs are so good that like if the second you
Speaker 1: have COVID you can just go get like tailing all
Speaker 1: COVID and then it's like it's really like that. But
Speaker 1: until then, like I really it's it's really difficult to
Speaker 1: like feel safe knowing especially on the plane. You know,
Speaker 1: you're I get that the air is circulated and like
Speaker 1: transmission rates are not super high on airplanes and ship
Speaker 1: like that, but it's like, well, I guess the positive
Speaker 1: to CJ's point is I'm looking forward to three weeks
Speaker 1: from now because then maybe we don't need them anymore.
Speaker 1: Is that to do when they say, all right, two
Speaker 1: more weeks, okay, then it will be figured out by
Speaker 1: the third week, like they got this, they got that.
Speaker 1: That's the implication here, which I like, but the I
Speaker 1: guess it's an A p article is saying the mask
Speaker 1: manday is the most visible vestige of government restrictions to
Speaker 1: control the pandemic. There's been a slight increase in cases
Speaker 1: in Reese weeks driven by this new strain, and because
Speaker 1: most positive tests are at home tests, it's not we
Speaker 1: don't know how many people are testing positive, so the
Speaker 1: numbers aren't going on the only time we're gonna know
Speaker 1: how severe this wave is is when people start dying
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks, and hey, maybe we should
Speaker 1: wait for that. And the majority response seems to be like, no,
Speaker 1: the masks are fucking chin diapers. Fuck you okay, and
Speaker 1: like what ah man, people have too much energy, uh
Speaker 1: and they're putting in the wrong fucking place. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that. Well, speaking of energy in the wrong place,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Donald Trump Jr. Yeah, what's what's going
Speaker 1: on with this man? And you? So we every act
Speaker 1: like every week we get these cool text leaks. You know, Oh,
Speaker 1: guess who was telling Mark Meadows about q and on
Speaker 1: this week? Or guess who was begging him to fucking
Speaker 1: overturn the election. Well, last week we got just like
Speaker 1: the such clear, like even more clear evidence, as if
Speaker 1: like existing between November and January six wasn't enough to
Speaker 1: be like they are fucking are they're trying to do
Speaker 1: some ship we we have now we got the fucking receipts.
Speaker 1: So well, even if that matters, because I think most
Speaker 1: people are like, what's the do O J doing here?
Speaker 1: But the recent drop has to do with Mark Meadows.
Speaker 1: And this time though, he was getting messages from the
Speaker 1: president's oldest son, Key Bumps. So key Bumps is texting him.
Speaker 1: This is two days after the election. Key Bumps is
Speaker 1: texting Mark Meadows saying this is what this is exactly
Speaker 1: the Texas quote. It's very simple. We have multiple paths,
Speaker 1: we control them all. We have operational control, total leverage,
Speaker 1: moral high ground. Podus must start second term. Now, that's
Speaker 1: like just making like he feels like he is in
Speaker 1: US and do order like the apparatus of the US government, right,
Speaker 1: or he's like that friend when you before you go
Speaker 1: out to the club and he's too funked up on drugs,
Speaker 1: or Alcon's like yeah, man, and then we're gonna go
Speaker 1: in there and we're gonna get these bitches, man, and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna party with him, and you're like, okay, man,
Speaker 1: thank you. Just it's just somewhere else that's not reflecting
Speaker 1: the reality of the situation. Let's be real, we're gonna
Speaker 1: sit in this room and then complain about life by
Speaker 1: ourselves as single men. But now this plan that we
Speaker 1: see that he had, quote unquote, we saw it all happen, right.
Speaker 1: The primary goal was just so chaos and swing states
Speaker 1: and lean on the secretaries of state to not certify
Speaker 1: the results or try to get their own slate of
Speaker 1: sham electors, which we saw like in Arizona, or like
Speaker 1: these group of Republicans are like, we are the real
Speaker 1: people certifying certifying the election in the courts of like
Speaker 1: please get the funk out of here. And since that
Speaker 1: didn't work, we saw what plan there's you know, step
Speaker 1: two was, or their fall back, fallback plan was, which
Speaker 1: was to try and get the Congress to nullify the
Speaker 1: results and get Pence to you know, do the thing
Speaker 1: that he couldn't do. So honestly, this doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: people who really believed that the election was being stolen
Speaker 1: and they were writing like acting out of like righteous
Speaker 1: morality to try and like fight this off. It's all
Speaker 1: clear of here, they're using burner phones. This guy's like,
Speaker 1: we control everything, total leverage. We can make it all happen.
Speaker 1: We have multiple paths, we control them all. I just
Speaker 1: didn't I mean, I'm not following this too closely, but
Speaker 1: didn't Trump a few weeks ago admit that the election
Speaker 1: wasn't stolen and then like everyone sort of didn't care,
Speaker 1: like was like cool, And then now I feel like
Speaker 1: he got bored of like looking sane for a minute,
Speaker 1: and then it's now back to this. I feel like
Speaker 1: if he had said that, that would have been I
Speaker 1: don't know, nothing he says is really that much of
Speaker 1: news anymore, aside from like when he's like trust trying
Speaker 1: to be like this is the best candidate for this state.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's clear that he's he's trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what the funk to do too, because I meanwhile,
Speaker 1: you also hear him he's like begging Ron to Santists
Speaker 1: to not run for president, and Loki being like, it'd
Speaker 1: be great if you can announce you're not going to
Speaker 1: run against me, and then I'll endorse to you. How
Speaker 1: about that, Donald Trump Senior. Yeah, yeah, yeah, not key
Speaker 1: bumps Joe. Donald Trump sr Uh is out here like
Speaker 1: begging to santists to be like, let's do some tip
Speaker 1: for tap, Which will be interesting how that plays out,
Speaker 1: because it'll you know, you'd love to see De Santis
Speaker 1: and Trump just rip each other apart and see who
Speaker 1: comes out. But either way, we're looking at a very
Speaker 1: very stinky situation. And the wild part is despite those texts,
Speaker 1: key bumps lawyer is saying, uh, look, quote after the election,
Speaker 1: Don Jr. Received numerous messages from supporters and others. Given
Speaker 1: the date, this message likely originated from someone else and
Speaker 1: was forwarded. So this is this is essentially a soft
Speaker 1: affluent defense, right, Oh yeah, this is people were saying
Speaker 1: stuff to him. You can't you just gotta let understand,
Speaker 1: like he's just repeating what he heard and he's a
Speaker 1: real dipshit. You're honor my client, who is a fucking
Speaker 1: angel child from heaven. There's no way that could have
Speaker 1: been his eight ball or whatever it's called. Of cocaine
Speaker 1: in the car. It must have been in there from
Speaker 1: a previous occupant. Now, can we go to the golf
Speaker 1: course you're on or we're gonna lose our tea time.
Speaker 1: Like it's like you like, it really does have that
Speaker 1: like let me just say this, you'll agree and we
Speaker 1: can move on. But a lot of people have pointed
Speaker 1: out though, like this main story about these texts was
Speaker 1: a story that was breaking from the New York Times,
Speaker 1: but they put that ship all the way back on
Speaker 1: page A fifteen mm. Whereas like you know, many people
Speaker 1: like I remember Hillary's emails being like above the fold
Speaker 1: on the front page. But you got this guy out
Speaker 1: here being like we got all the fucking paths man
Speaker 1: and control the leverage roll like let's do this and
Speaker 1: at But anyway, the New York Times stays taken notes,
Speaker 1: is there any scenario on the horizon where like this
Speaker 1: investigation prevents him from running again? In four? Like what
Speaker 1: have people talked about? Like what? So let's say just
Speaker 1: they keep finding like just closets full of smoking guns
Speaker 1: like this just like opening doors and getting like buried
Speaker 1: by smoking guns, like it's fucking Scooby Dook cartoon. What
Speaker 1: is like the best case scenario for the future of democracy?
Speaker 1: Uh my god, that's a hard one to know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure if he's like actually indicted and convicted. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just think he's like we saw during his presidency,
Speaker 1: like he was so absurdly committing so many like crimes
Speaker 1: or like you know, impeach and whatnot. But like these
Speaker 1: rules are so loosely written and they have just all
Speaker 1: the money in the world to hire these weird ass
Speaker 1: lawyers that they will find a path to run. And
Speaker 1: it's just like it makes me feel like this whole
Speaker 1: thing is like all this stuff is fake, all these
Speaker 1: structures are like and it's just it's a dark it's
Speaker 1: a dark thought or like path I go down to
Speaker 1: my brain. Yeah, it's it's hard, right because there's nothing
Speaker 1: that constitutionally bars someone even if they're convicted. You could
Speaker 1: run for president from jail. Yeah, technically, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So the other thing people say is like
Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment maybe because that's the same thing they
Speaker 1: were trying to get Madison Cawthorne on, which is like
Speaker 1: you know, if you were sucking around and like because
Speaker 1: you know that's all after the Civil War, being like
Speaker 1: you know, if you're working around an insurrection, you can't
Speaker 1: hold office. That's disqualifying. That is more clear, and its wording.
Speaker 1: But again, I'm not a legal scholar or constitutional scholar,
Speaker 1: but from my understanding, there aren't many things I'd imagine
Speaker 1: if he were in jail, you know, he'd probably still
Speaker 1: run from I don't know, that would be even more wild,
Speaker 1: you know. But the short and there is it all
Speaker 1: looks pretty bad, and I think is a very clear
Speaker 1: indictment on how terribly this country is set up to
Speaker 1: prevent things like this from happening. Because everybody's kind of
Speaker 1: in on a scam on some level, within some you know,
Speaker 1: vertical or silo of the government. So we're not good
Speaker 1: at actually being able to like legally keep people out
Speaker 1: of office unless, like you know, there's a real concerted
Speaker 1: effort from most people in d C. I feel like
Speaker 1: there's so many things where we went from like I think,
Speaker 1: I think the you know, New York Times reading public
Speaker 1: in New York Times reading and believing public went in
Speaker 1: the last ten years from like it can't happen here
Speaker 1: to like it could happen here, just like so many
Speaker 1: different things could happen here, and probably more easily than
Speaker 1: in most other countries. Right. Well, yeah, and their Democrats,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, like you look at the people
Speaker 1: who are the people who support the Times, you know,
Speaker 1: because they went more to like a subscription based moll
Speaker 1: for their business. It's the same kind of kind of
Speaker 1: person who's like a well to do or like people
Speaker 1: someone earning a decent living who's liberal living in a city,
Speaker 1: and so it's just kind of running away and like
Speaker 1: and you see how they're trying to bring younger people
Speaker 1: and like that's why they bought Wortle or they bought
Speaker 1: the Athletic and trying to be like, yo, we do
Speaker 1: other stuff too. But I mean until like the editorial
Speaker 1: perspective changes, like they're gonna just I don't I don't
Speaker 1: see them expanding their audience most of time, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there is good reporting, and then you have to you
Speaker 1: juxtapose that with some of the awful fucking takes that
Speaker 1: are in there too, and you're like, I don't even
Speaker 1: like this ship is like hitting twenty of the time. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back and we're talking about the story. We're
Speaker 1: gonna skip because it's still gonna be here in a while,
Speaker 1: but it's it's just too crazy. Then we then we
Speaker 1: just started talking about how we need to talk about it. So, uh,
Speaker 1: there's an l A p D thing. Well, we'll get
Speaker 1: to the it's just a copaganda update. There's a bunch
Speaker 1: of good ship being done by Alec Karrick Santis on
Speaker 1: the New York Times and how their coverage of the
Speaker 1: subway shooting just really they used that as a as
Speaker 1: a way to feed into all these these bullshit capaganda narratives.
Speaker 1: But we wanted to today talk specifically about this l A.
Speaker 1: P D story that dropped just yesterday warning residents that
Speaker 1: seventeen gangs are sending out cruise to conduct follow home
Speaker 1: robberies and the only source they site for and like,
Speaker 1: this is a crime that is definitely happening in l
Speaker 1: A in the in the past six months. I've heard
Speaker 1: of you hear about it. How I definitely don't suppose
Speaker 1: that with the overall statistic that crime is going down,
Speaker 1: prime is going down, that's you know, and I think
Speaker 1: that's the thing we would like. I think Alec points
Speaker 1: out really well in his thread. He's like, even even
Speaker 1: if you these things are reported, it's still adding to
Speaker 1: this fucking myth that the crime is crime rates are
Speaker 1: going up when we're experiencing fucking lows and the only
Speaker 1: source they say for the like this is a major
Speaker 1: problem side of the story as an l APD task
Speaker 1: force that presented this narrative at a press conference, and
Speaker 1: it is clearly politically motivated. And it's like they just
Speaker 1: call out the progressives by name. They call out a
Speaker 1: unconvicted person that they've arrested by name, being like this
Speaker 1: person has been arrested like three times, and they keep,
Speaker 1: you know, the d A keeps putting them back out
Speaker 1: on the street. But I just want to talk about
Speaker 1: the specific examples of the crimes that they are talking about,
Speaker 1: because the strategy here and has the strategy has been
Speaker 1: in l A for the past I'd say, you know,
Speaker 1: three months, four months has been to get the ultra
Speaker 1: ultra wealthy scared. That's so that they continue to push
Speaker 1: progressives out of politics and bring in your ricks con
Speaker 1: so and you know these people who are real estate
Speaker 1: developers who can just make l A more of a
Speaker 1: place where you can get rich, don't funk my money
Speaker 1: up party. Yeah. So they talk about one guy who's
Speaker 1: arrested on gun charges let go because they didn't have
Speaker 1: ship on him other than him having a gun still
Speaker 1: having hasn't been charged. They reveal his full name and
Speaker 1: his crimes are. He's tied to this, these crimes where
Speaker 1: they're robbing people who are wearing watches or carrying property
Speaker 1: worth more than the average Americans annual salary and two
Speaker 1: x the median income, which is thirty dollars. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna read directly. Adams, according to More, was involved in
Speaker 1: eight separate follow off robberies over a six month period
Speaker 1: starting last fall, including one in which two U c
Speaker 1: l A. Students were robbed of two watches. Me to
Speaker 1: watch it. Okay, just wait for this part and then
Speaker 1: watch worth nearly one and forty five thousand dollars. Funk
Speaker 1: out of here? Why, yeah, students, how why are you
Speaker 1: in college if you are able to wear a watch
Speaker 1: that yeah, worth that much? Exactly like, funk out of here, bro, Like,
Speaker 1: I know how you're in college because you're your resume
Speaker 1: on the water polo team was fucking lit even though
Speaker 1: you've never been in a pool before. But so, yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is a tale. Now again, this is a crime.
Speaker 1: I understand that's a robbery, but well we know we
Speaker 1: know this in the culture, or is just getting God. Yes, um,
Speaker 1: there's a most death song about this very specific thing
Speaker 1: that says, come on, now, what you expect got a
Speaker 1: month's pay check? Dangle linn off your neck? That's right,
Speaker 1: because people are rubbing their mints looking at you. Another
Speaker 1: line is Mr. Fashion that's down never lasts long. The
Speaker 1: harder you flash, harder you get flashed on. And that
Speaker 1: was a month's salary. A month's salary. I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody who makes what you expect, got a person's nine
Speaker 1: years worth of salary? Dangle lin off your neck? I
Speaker 1: mean that's a fucking you're you look you look like
Speaker 1: a mark. Maybe they're on their way to pay for
Speaker 1: their tuition with it, like they're on their way to
Speaker 1: the admissions office and being like, hey, we just want
Speaker 1: to jazz up. This really sour experience of paying six
Speaker 1: figure college tuition. So here's our chains worth that much.
Speaker 1: But right here, just here take that. I mean, this
Speaker 1: was this they got. They got like they got spotted
Speaker 1: at a club, right, wasn't that they are So it
Speaker 1: was a hundred forty five where two watches worth nearly
Speaker 1: a hundred forty five thousand dollars after leaving a club
Speaker 1: a second in which to foreign tourists were robbed of
Speaker 1: watches worth seventy three thousand dollars, and a third in
Speaker 1: which fifty one thousand dollars in property was stolen. So
Speaker 1: my question is, are they talking about this because they
Speaker 1: want the ultra wealthy to get scared and you know,
Speaker 1: get Rick Cruso elected, or you know, get gas going
Speaker 1: out of out of like the progressives out of politics,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, which seems to already be the movement.
Speaker 1: Or are they talking about this because these are the
Speaker 1: only crimes that they've actually addressed, because they only address
Speaker 1: crimes that affect the ultra ultra wealthy, would be my question.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I get it, you know, wealthy people
Speaker 1: should be scared. You just want to wear your bus
Speaker 1: down auto Mars to fucking you know the pet code
Speaker 1: and now you've got people. This town is a fun
Speaker 1: I have to like get a driver and a security
Speaker 1: guard to drive me around. That was the literal quote
Speaker 1: from a lady when an l a magazine article it's
Speaker 1: becoming Brazil. To be honest, I'm pretty soon going to
Speaker 1: have to just take a helicopter everywhere because the streets
Speaker 1: are so fucking dangerous it l A P. I mean
Speaker 1: we can get to l A magazine. That place has
Speaker 1: completely embarrassed itself. I follow the motherfucker's on Instagram. Every
Speaker 1: story they put out, they put when they're like Yavin
Speaker 1: Newsom hangs out with rushing aligarks and ship and you
Speaker 1: read the story like has nothing really to do with
Speaker 1: any of that ship and all they do or talk
Speaker 1: about these crime stories, which again are all there to
Speaker 1: ignore the basic fact first right that most crime is
Speaker 1: near historic lows in the country and also at that
Speaker 1: crime like across academic disciplines, crime, like the consensus is,
Speaker 1: crime is caused by inequality. It is not caused by
Speaker 1: a lack of police or more police, which seems to
Speaker 1: be the only argument being presented in the New York
Speaker 1: Times and the l A Times on these stories. It
Speaker 1: is fucking wild. It is unbelievable, Like it's straight up
Speaker 1: propaganda for the police, and it is the only perspective
Speaker 1: that is being presented in like what is seen by
Speaker 1: most people as like the the major like the all
Speaker 1: the reason that's fent to print, and it shows you, man,
Speaker 1: if you if you repeat it enough, it becomes fact.
Speaker 1: Just despite the fact like we're saying crime is down,
Speaker 1: but you keep saying, just look at all the shoplifting
Speaker 1: blah blah. Don't talk about why people even steal ship,
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, people don't steal ship because
Speaker 1: they have everything either. But and even sociologists like the
Speaker 1: way we stay off fascism is through like addressing inequality.
Speaker 1: But it's very like taking advantage of the clickbait. Like
Speaker 1: it's clickbait right almost like, hey, here's a direct correl aation.
Speaker 1: We need more guns, and we need that money to
Speaker 1: pay for guns and more cops, and like we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep like you you scare rich people. What do they do?
Speaker 1: They go and buy more security systems, and they like,
Speaker 1: we need more police surrounding our our neighborhoods. And it's like,
Speaker 1: but read past the headline, read like go search for
Speaker 1: it elsewhere from your like notifications you're getting from like
Speaker 1: you know, these very very like click baity type sites.
Speaker 1: And and it's just it's unfortunate that it hasn't worked
Speaker 1: in the last two decades. Why not try something else,
Speaker 1: Why not look just a little bit further that we
Speaker 1: need to stop funding the cops. Right, It's and I
Speaker 1: can't it's not journalism if you don't ask multi facinting
Speaker 1: you have a multi faceted approach to something like this.
Speaker 1: If you're just asking the police commission or what their
Speaker 1: take is, it's going to lead them to as Alec
Speaker 1: was pointing out right ship, like they're writing ship in
Speaker 1: the New York Times, or they're trying to say that
Speaker 1: because four thousand people were arrested in March that they're
Speaker 1: or declines in shooting incidences in January and February. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that is an argument that was linked off to,
Speaker 1: like so they some they summarize it as like a
Speaker 1: surge of arrests has led to like so the New
Speaker 1: York Times, like it's laundered into something that sounds reasonable
Speaker 1: in New York Times in the text of the New
Speaker 1: York Times. But then they're only go off to an
Speaker 1: article that basically makes the claim that a decline of
Speaker 1: nine homicides in March or sorry in January and February
Speaker 1: was the result of arrests made in March. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: let me and let me explain that because this guy
Speaker 1: was like, man, I'm I'm gonna fucking I'm gonna use
Speaker 1: my gun today. Actually, you know what, Nah, because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get arrested in a couple of weeks. So let
Speaker 1: me put let me put the let me put violence
Speaker 1: away today. What are what's how how are we supposed
Speaker 1: to process that? Yeah? And it's the you know, America
Speaker 1: is spend money on policing and on the caging of
Speaker 1: human beings at unprecedented levels in the history of the world,
Speaker 1: and we don't have unprecedentedly low crime. We are. Crime
Speaker 1: is low compared to where it was in the nineties,
Speaker 1: it's not unprecedentedly low compared to other countries that don't
Speaker 1: spend this much on policing and don't have like truly
Speaker 1: historic like bi historic standards like that. This is what
Speaker 1: the United States is going to be viewed as. Like
Speaker 1: thousands of years from now, they'll be like, oh that
Speaker 1: was that planet is going to be fun. You know,
Speaker 1: there will still be well they aliens. They'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: that was a society that like caged their humans like that.
Speaker 1: That is what is there, Like what is noteworthy about
Speaker 1: the United States? They didn't see the fundamental sickness of
Speaker 1: their culture that they invest more in car storl technic
Speaker 1: and death generating technologies than the well being of their
Speaker 1: own people. And then we're curious as things began to degrade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fuck anyway, I mean, I guess we might as well
Speaker 1: talk about the New York Times side of it, because
Speaker 1: there was a shooting in the Brooklyn subways, and the
Speaker 1: New York Times quickly made that a thing. So the
Speaker 1: headline started as several people shot in Brooklyn subway station,
Speaker 1: that those are the facts. It was quickly revised to
Speaker 1: shooting in subway station heightened simmering fears about public safety,
Speaker 1: becomes an article where they talk about Eric Adams, the
Speaker 1: new mayor, defending returned to broken window policing that has
Speaker 1: been debunkedly, thoroughly, repeatedly debunked. The lead article on the
Speaker 1: shooting did not mention that the US as an outlier
Speaker 1: and the availability of guns, or poverty or inequality or
Speaker 1: lack of mental health care, or that the New York
Speaker 1: the NYPD had just added more cops to the subways,
Speaker 1: just because those would seem to be the relevant facts
Speaker 1: which shooting happens. Did they mention that like there weren't
Speaker 1: a lot of death or there wasn't like any deaths
Speaker 1: because people like New York citizens were applying tourniquets to
Speaker 1: the victims. Like where were the cops saving anyone? It
Speaker 1: was just like, well, I can't believe this happened. The
Speaker 1: cops just some worry. It's like, oh no, New York
Speaker 1: citizens are saving each other in these situations because we're
Speaker 1: all like no longer able to depend on on the police,
Speaker 1: so we all have to have our plans in place ourselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think I mean that, if anything, that only
Speaker 1: hurts the police when people realize that on their own,
Speaker 1: you know, when they're like, oh yeah, y'all really don't
Speaker 1: do ship at all for us. You know, Like I
Speaker 1: get sometimes people feel safe when they see that squad
Speaker 1: car or something and they feel sketched out or something.
Speaker 1: But that's not actually, that's not that's not how we
Speaker 1: derive our safety. That's not where are That's not the
Speaker 1: source of our stability as as people at all. Like
Speaker 1: I've been in movie theaters where there's a police officer
Speaker 1: or security guard right when you go to a movie
Speaker 1: like on a big weekend or whatever, and I never
Speaker 1: go to the and like, hey, that cops gonna save me.
Speaker 1: I look at that exit and like how fast can
Speaker 1: I run out of there if anything. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: that's my instinct now, right. Anyways, the yeah, it really
Speaker 1: does seem like, I don't know, a concerted effort. I
Speaker 1: don't I'm still of course, yeah, but like, is it
Speaker 1: is the thing driving this, the fact that the paper
Speaker 1: like is involved in some like back rooms deals. Is
Speaker 1: it just that they depend on the police as sourcing
Speaker 1: and like the if it bleeds the leads dynamic like
Speaker 1: makes it so that that is their most important source.
Speaker 1: Like that makes sense to me, But this is it?
Speaker 1: Like it to this point that has always been my explanation.
Speaker 1: Like the media the police are you know, in a
Speaker 1: handshake deal and like that is why we get basically
Speaker 1: the police digest in in our papers and and on
Speaker 1: the local news. But this like feels concerted, Like this
Speaker 1: feels like they're getting editorial like guidance, right, And I
Speaker 1: think really just it all boils down to the fact
Speaker 1: that people will not stand up to the police. Ever,
Speaker 1: mayors can't do it it, like no elected official can
Speaker 1: do it. So how the funk is a newspaper going
Speaker 1: to do it? And I get that, Like it starts
Speaker 1: off with this sort of like you know, mutually beneficial relationship,
Speaker 1: but like, give me a scoop, I'll write, you're skewed
Speaker 1: version of this reality. But I think now it's like
Speaker 1: almost like reflective, like they're so there's such a habit
Speaker 1: to not really examine what the role in the of
Speaker 1: like policing or the waste of money is that it's
Speaker 1: like I just will default right to yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: We'll go with whatever you got. And I think the
Speaker 1: other hard part about it is when you have just
Speaker 1: in general, a lot of people who are ascending to
Speaker 1: journalism in these places, they're not as connected with the
Speaker 1: reality of like what working people like people in poverty,
Speaker 1: what life is like if that, you know, I think
Speaker 1: they just view it as like, yeah, because poverty is chaotic,
Speaker 1: that it's like and then these people are so it's
Speaker 1: just you don't know what's going on out there, and
Speaker 1: we don't really need to examine that further to understand
Speaker 1: human beings. Will just take it from the perspective of
Speaker 1: more carcer role technology, more spending, more prison and that's
Speaker 1: the solution. Yeah. They lead their story about the shooting
Speaker 1: with saying that the shooting is reminiscent of a string
Speaker 1: of other incidents in recent years, and they don't say
Speaker 1: which things are. They don't say up to your reader,
Speaker 1: protect your into a trend when the thing that is
Speaker 1: noteworthy is that this is not, you know, a thing
Speaker 1: that happens very often, right, Yeah, zoom out more, you know,
Speaker 1: like ask why we have so many people who are
Speaker 1: you know, in terrible situations, whether they have lack of
Speaker 1: mental health support, end up becoming a doomsday profit on
Speaker 1: YouTube where they're like talking all kinds of wild ship
Speaker 1: and you're like, mmmm, as is just not enough cops?
Speaker 1: Not enough cops? Also, you should be given a gun
Speaker 1: at the turnstile and heading into the subway. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm straight up Jesus. Yeah, well, we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. We'll see what kind of genius solutions we
Speaker 1: see coming off after this. Because now a lot of people,
Speaker 1: especially in like New York twitters, do you hear that
Speaker 1: everyone's talking about like, oh now they got cops everywhere
Speaker 1: in the subway, like even when they're there, it wasn't working,
Speaker 1: like and and it's weird because a lot of the
Speaker 1: tone from people does feel they're like what the fuck
Speaker 1: is this all for? Yeah, you know, we have all,
Speaker 1: you couldn't it took you this long to catch them
Speaker 1: for these three specific cameras stopped working with all this
Speaker 1: tem like nearly eleven billion dollar budget. Mhm alright, c J.
Speaker 1: Before we let you go, though, I want to I
Speaker 1: do want to hear a little bit about what running
Speaker 1: the brake what like and just NBA fashion from your perspective,
Speaker 1: Like where are we are we at a high point?
Speaker 1: Like obviously the high point is like Larry Bird and
Speaker 1: his kind of thing, but like it's mostly gonna be
Speaker 1: Larry Bird and um and Josh Kiddy um, the modern
Speaker 1: day Larry Bird. No. I mean it's like we we've
Speaker 1: seen in the last few years how NBA and sports
Speaker 1: coverage has gone past the xs and os and the
Speaker 1: wins and losses, um so, and into like the league
Speaker 1: fits and the hey what you know, the tunnel entrances,
Speaker 1: and the coverage begins when a player is walking out
Speaker 1: of their bus in the car and walking into the
Speaker 1: arena from Russell Westbrook to the Kyle Kuzma too shy
Speaker 1: gillis Alexander like those guys, and so we we kind
Speaker 1: of thought, you know, there hasn't been daily coverage of
Speaker 1: that and like the trends and sort of like the
Speaker 1: trend watch and what's going on off the court. So
Speaker 1: Running the Brake Is is sort of your weekly coverage
Speaker 1: UM co hosted by Alex Wong, who is a really
Speaker 1: great NBA journalist out of Toronto. UM wrote the book
Speaker 1: cover story. But yeah, we're we're sort of adding that
Speaker 1: dedication and commitment to that sort of pop culture in
Speaker 1: fashion and trend coverage to the NBA. What is there
Speaker 1: a trend that you're excited about the Is there a dress,
Speaker 1: like somebody who's fits are like extra dope, like the
Speaker 1: new to the league or that's new to the league.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm trying to think who I
Speaker 1: really like it was on the come up, you know,
Speaker 1: because the heavy hitters we see him every time, the
Speaker 1: one this guy is like very close to being at
Speaker 1: the top of the list, Jordan Clarkson. I mean I
Speaker 1: had like a little bit of a bias towards him
Speaker 1: because he's half Filipino. But like I've really think in
Speaker 1: fashion in general, skinny jeans do not wear skinny jeans anymore.
Speaker 1: But like and so Jordan Clarkson has just like very
Speaker 1: much very baggy and like almost just like extreme norm
Speaker 1: core to you know, just I think he was just
Speaker 1: recently wearing, um, the Camel Joe windbreaker. Like do you
Speaker 1: guys remember the Camel Joe sort of swag and merch
Speaker 1: from back in the day where people would collect like
Speaker 1: the yeah, the camel box office cigarette boxes and they
Speaker 1: were making like legitimate merch. So he's been kind of
Speaker 1: like I think he's like built a collection of this stuff.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I mean I know myself as like
Speaker 1: a vintage street where collector. I went on Deepop and
Speaker 1: eBay and started looking for that stuff. So I think
Speaker 1: he's he's there's guys who can sort of like dress well,
Speaker 1: and I think that's like sort of dictated by a
Speaker 1: lot of fashion people out there, But like Jordan Clarkson
Speaker 1: is a guy who I think is sort of like
Speaker 1: leading those movements. I think Russell Westbrook has like led
Speaker 1: those moments, uh and movements and and p J. Tucker
Speaker 1: in terms of the type of sneakers and it's just
Speaker 1: not like the most expensive stuff. It's you know, what's
Speaker 1: the story behind some of these pieces? And I hope,
Speaker 1: like you know, running the Break, we can kind of
Speaker 1: just get super super in depth on stuff like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, also, you know, I don't every single one
Speaker 1: of my Filipino friends. They weren't caught slipping out here
Speaker 1: with fashion. So yeah, what's Jalen How's Jalen Green's fashion?
Speaker 1: He feels he seems he doesn't seem like he's taking
Speaker 1: big swings, but here he dresses all right, he's getting there.
Speaker 1: I mean. The funniest thing about Jalen Green's fashion, and
Speaker 1: and I think we'll get into this, like the business
Speaker 1: aspect of it is that he signed with Adidas. But
Speaker 1: he's clearly a guy who like loves air Forces and dunks,
Speaker 1: and so now he has to wear these bape shoes
Speaker 1: that are are essentially air Force yeah bass like air
Speaker 1: Force bootlegs and knockoffs. And so it's a it's a
Speaker 1: trend that I really love where these these young players
Speaker 1: were like clearly Nike heads growing up, but then they're
Speaker 1: signed that they want like, oh man, I love leaning
Speaker 1: sportswear man. Yeah, could so honored to be rocking their shoe. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's one seeing these guys just trying
Speaker 1: to like figure out how to how to keep repping
Speaker 1: that stuff. So yeah, I think it's gonna be episodes
Speaker 1: like that, covering, covering the silly, and and and not
Speaker 1: so serious, but with that sort of very like in
Speaker 1: depth focus, right analysis. Yeah, nice man's wearing off light
Speaker 1: ones in this old picture that better be prepre deal
Speaker 1: pre deal. All right, well, such a pleasure having you.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff? Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah at c J Toldano on Twitter, um at follow
Speaker 1: through l A is the company, and then yeah, I'm hosting.
Speaker 1: I mean, this comes out on the fourteen today, so
Speaker 1: I'm hosting NBA Twitter Live for t n T on
Speaker 1: their Twitter, NBA on TNT on Friday for the playing finals,
Speaker 1: and then you know, yeah, and then watch out for
Speaker 1: this little baby monster that Megan and I are creating
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, congrats, that's cool man. That the plan
Speaker 1: has been super exciting. That the first two we were
Speaker 1: last night as we record this, and those are both
Speaker 1: really fun games. Okay, maybe I'm glad the Wolves are
Speaker 1: in Glade, not like pre playoff. That's how you know
Speaker 1: the playoffs are about to be great. That Patrick Beverley
Speaker 1: is like creating storylines, not even the postseason just yet.
Speaker 1: Is there a tweet or some of the work of
Speaker 1: social media you've been enjoying. Um, let's see here. I
Speaker 1: I dropped a link in there. It's just classic sort
Speaker 1: of ship posting. It was I mean, it hates it.
Speaker 1: It's almost like reading back someone's joke. But I think
Speaker 1: it was pretty boy navy. How do they know an
Speaker 1: animals extinct? Like? Or how do you? How do they
Speaker 1: know an animals extinct? Like? You looked everywhere? He probably
Speaker 1: delivered in his brain a little bit better. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go, Miles, Where can people find you? What's
Speaker 1: the tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter? Instagram at Miles of Gray,
Speaker 1: y'all know about mad Boost. These probably know about four Fiance.
Speaker 1: He'll come through to those wonderful podcasts. Um let's see
Speaker 1: a tweet. I like this one from at p j
Speaker 1: Evans Nice book Too Bad. It was all plagiarized from
Speaker 1: the dictionary. I love that concept. And then uh, and
Speaker 1: then just this one kind of made me laugh because
Speaker 1: like I remember a lot of the theater kids I
Speaker 1: would hang out with high school and just beyond. But
Speaker 1: this from Natalie Curnett at Nollie Pops tweeted, it's actually
Speaker 1: bad luck to say mac book inside an office you
Speaker 1: have to call it the Scottish laptop anyway for all
Speaker 1: the Shakespeare theater. Alright, let's see tweet I've been enjoying
Speaker 1: lamps tweeted at sea turtles tread paper straws. They would understand.
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Speaker 1: to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
Speaker 1: as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 1: Miles of the song. Are we sending people to go?
Speaker 1: We're gonna send you off. You already know. I love
Speaker 1: Hiatus Coyote. The Mood Valley and came out a while back,
Speaker 1: and now they have a remix album called Mood Very Int.
Speaker 1: Do you see what they did there? Man? It's all
Speaker 1: remixes from that album, and this one is the first
Speaker 1: track on that album. It's the remix of their track
Speaker 1: Blood and Marrow, but the remixes by Strow Elliott and
Speaker 1: we've we've we've gone out on some Strow Elliott before,
Speaker 1: like in the past. But yeah, this is a really,
Speaker 1: really fantastic remix of an already fantastic track. So Blood
Speaker 1: and Marrow the strow Elliott remix. It got the the
Speaker 1: official hey who's that's that? Who's that? What's that you play? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Approved Stampard. There it piqued his curiosity. All right, well,
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