Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to twenty seven,
Speaker 1: Episode three of their Daily Like Guys, it's a production
Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. This is the podcast where we
Speaker 1: take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Wednesday,
Speaker 1: March nine, which of course means it's National Barbie Day.
Speaker 1: Get your Barbies out, you know, I honor Barbie every day,
Speaker 1: but that's it's good for other people, for the non
Speaker 1: real Barbie heads to exactly. Yeah, and more importantly, it's
Speaker 1: more importantly National Crab Meat Day. Yeah, and it's spelled correctly.
Speaker 1: It's spelled like crab meat. So not not an imitation
Speaker 1: imitate like m E E T like it was a
Speaker 1: track meet or something. But isn't that what they do
Speaker 1: to like let you know that it's imitation? Yeah with
Speaker 1: ye yeah, well this is no imitation celebrate. This is
Speaker 1: celebrating the real National crab Meat Day. Do you make
Speaker 1: new big crap fans? Yeah, crap you like a soft
Speaker 1: shell crap. I don't think I funk with soft shell
Speaker 1: crab other than like when it's deep fried and sushi rolls.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean, like in a roll. Okay, I
Speaker 1: could just eat a deep fried crab like a fucking hamburger. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you're a stronger digestive system than I did.
Speaker 1: I do you know I eat like I'm the kind
Speaker 1: of guy eat shrimp tails. I do it all. I
Speaker 1: eat the whole exoskeleton, all that. Do you eat the
Speaker 1: apple whole like the the lad would almost do that?
Speaker 1: Like I think I've told you about this. Like my
Speaker 1: earliest memory of driving my dad's truck was having apple cores.
Speaker 1: Just the whole thing was littered with apple cores, but
Speaker 1: like the thinnest point. And I'm like, you must have
Speaker 1: eaten had seeds too, and you were just bring fitting
Speaker 1: him out. I don't know. Do you eat the bone
Speaker 1: and ap and a piece of pred chicken like that
Speaker 1: dude for the Patriots? Tuft? No, but I've seen my
Speaker 1: friend's dad would eat the marrow out of fried chicken bones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that, a little bit of chicken merrow on. You're
Speaker 1: not done until it's hollow. All right. Well, my name
Speaker 1: is Jack O'Brien a K. It's been a while since
Speaker 1: I had coats spaghetti eos. That's courtesy of Christie alm
Speaker 1: Gucci Main and I'm thrilled to be joined as always
Speaker 1: buy my co host Mr Miles Grab But I may
Speaker 1: meet five hundred miles, and I may meet five hundred more,
Speaker 1: but you'll still be the Miles that eight Cookies and
Speaker 1: Cream with Steven Or Okay, shout out to see the
Speaker 1: b g BO on the discord. Yes, you picked up
Speaker 1: what I was putting down. Jalil White put me on
Speaker 1: the cookies and cream. And I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: my love for family matters or that. I think it's
Speaker 1: just actually a good flavor of ice cream that you know,
Speaker 1: extends my love to this day. Still trying to figure
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah, I mean, I know, like at least
Speaker 1: a couple of people who like cookies and cream ice
Speaker 1: cream and never ate it with Herkele, So it might
Speaker 1: be it might just be the ice cream doing the work,
Speaker 1: but it could be. I also felt like it was
Speaker 1: a thing where like you went to like a even
Speaker 1: like when you're in an elementary school, like in social
Speaker 1: like structures are still forming, Like there's like a cool kid,
Speaker 1: like dude, that kid likes cookies and cream. That's what
Speaker 1: they had at his birthday and you're like, oh, ship, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's right their moms. So with today's guest, I
Speaker 1: get to ask him about my example of that, which
Speaker 1: I think is a regional delicacy to Dayton, Ohio. But
Speaker 1: we've talked about it a little bit before on the
Speaker 1: on the show. But we are thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: in our third seat by a hilarious comedian who you
Speaker 1: know from i f C Sci Fi WTF with Mark
Speaker 1: Marin and his podcast Meat and Paranormal You. It's the
Speaker 1: brilliant and hilarious Ryan Singer. Hey, I don't have a
Speaker 1: song prepared for my A k A today, but can
Speaker 1: I just talk about the apple thing for a second.
Speaker 1: The apple have you? Have you ever seen the videos
Speaker 1: about how to properly eat an apple and how you
Speaker 1: can eat the whole thing and you don't even really
Speaker 1: realize that the core is part of it. If you
Speaker 1: eat the apple from the bottom up, it changes. It's
Speaker 1: like that, you know, It's like one of those videos
Speaker 1: where you see like a banana eating up you know,
Speaker 1: what we would consider to be upside down for the
Speaker 1: first time. And then how the top stem part is
Speaker 1: kind of used as a handle by animals in nature
Speaker 1: and they eat the banana from the top and the
Speaker 1: us the top to to sort of start the peel,
Speaker 1: like it's easiest to split it from there, but you're
Speaker 1: saying that it's actually not easiest to split it from there.
Speaker 1: Though it's easier to split it. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of banana experience built over the past couple of years,
Speaker 1: and it's very easy to split from the bottom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if you and then I've tried the apple thing.
Speaker 1: Even though I know it works, I still don't eat
Speaker 1: an apple that way all the time. I kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, I kind of I just love going in
Speaker 1: from the side. But what you do is you you
Speaker 1: just twist off the twist off that little stem up
Speaker 1: top and then just boom, you just go from the bottom.
Speaker 1: I guess you could probably even go from the top,
Speaker 1: but I think it's I think it's more effectively if
Speaker 1: you go from the bottom. And then you do have
Speaker 1: to spit the seeds out or you just swallow them.
Speaker 1: And you know, hope that the myth from childhood isn't
Speaker 1: true that you know, uh, an apple tree will start
Speaker 1: growing inside of your body, and which I always thought
Speaker 1: would have been pretty cool. But yeah, but that ship
Speaker 1: only kills like twenty to thirty people a year. So
Speaker 1: like you don't have to worry about that. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: massive apple tree exploding up from yourself, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: what the what is it? The biggest thing is like
Speaker 1: that little bit of arsenic Yeah, but like it's again,
Speaker 1: it's like a lot of a lot of ship that
Speaker 1: you have to eat like a wheelbarrow full to really
Speaker 1: Like when I try to loose in it off red
Speaker 1: bull mm hmm. It takes a lot actually, and I
Speaker 1: didn't get there. I just had terrible stomach pains. Do
Speaker 1: you guys when you speaking of bananas? Last root question?
Speaker 1: Do you when you eat a banana, like, do you
Speaker 1: ever eat that like soft little like auty belly button
Speaker 1: at the bottom. It's not soft, actually, it's like kind
Speaker 1: of hard, you know, like I've seen it referred to
Speaker 1: as the bananas, but do you know, I mean it's
Speaker 1: like at the very tip there's like a little like
Speaker 1: kind of blackish like streaky. It almost seems like if
Speaker 1: bananas like it's almost like d vanning a piece of
Speaker 1: shrimp like that. It looks like it has like a
Speaker 1: little vein of ship going through it. Yeah, I eat
Speaker 1: the whole banana. I mean I eat the whole banana.
Speaker 1: You even eat that part. Yeah, I eat the whole.
Speaker 1: I mean, I but I'm I don't think I'm unique
Speaker 1: in this way. But you know, bananas are you know,
Speaker 1: top three for me when it comes to fruit. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I love it. I mean, and part of
Speaker 1: that might be because banana pudding is you know, the
Speaker 1: you know, it's in the Hall of Fame Greatest Desserts
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. Banana cream pie also in
Speaker 1: that Hall of Fame dessert on that mantle. But so, yeah,
Speaker 1: I you know, I hate to waste any good banana,
Speaker 1: although I recently found out that you know, bananas are
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're very productive when you need to,
Speaker 1: you know, if you need to make yourself use the
Speaker 1: bathroom apparently. So it's like, and I was like, why
Speaker 1: am I in the morning? Why is the morning always
Speaker 1: like kind of rough for me? When I'm just chucking
Speaker 1: coffee and eating a banana for breakfast and a cigarettes? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I go through three four cigarettes? Yeah, half botty wine.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have a Buster bar when you were
Speaker 1: a kid in Dayton? You know, I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: a buster I'm I have not had a Buster bar.
Speaker 1: I don't Yeah, maybe it's not regional. Maybe it was
Speaker 1: just the cool kid in my elementary school served at
Speaker 1: a birthday party. What's what's Is it like a chocolate bar?
Speaker 1: Or is it? Ah, it's ice cream? Ore like the
Speaker 1: melted ice cream refrozen is one of the ingredients. Chocolate
Speaker 1: Oreos and peanut butters, peanut butters ad and sorry peanuts
Speaker 1: not peanut butter. Oh this is from Dairy Queen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Dairy Queen like made a themed dessert, but
Speaker 1: I think it started in the uh in the trenches
Speaker 1: of American potluck. It's a it's a classic that I
Speaker 1: was really into when I lived in Dayton. Well, I
Speaker 1: can tell you that I've I can tell you why
Speaker 1: I've never had a Buster bar because I just got
Speaker 1: into Oreo cookies about fourteen months ago. Wow, I was
Speaker 1: never into the you know, I didn't, I didn't enjoy.
Speaker 1: I tried to avoid chocolate desserts of all because because
Speaker 1: it's not a big fan of chocolate unless there's a
Speaker 1: lot of peanuts or peanut butter involved. So Oreo cooking.
Speaker 1: My girlfriend loves Oreo cookies and then she also, I'll
Speaker 1: buy them, and then she's she's like, I'm not eating
Speaker 1: these and then I'm like, well, I guess I'll I
Speaker 1: guess I'll you know, take one for the team, and
Speaker 1: I'll just you know, house the whole package. But I
Speaker 1: guess I'll take forty for the team. Yeah, for the team.
Speaker 1: And so then I've just kind of, I guess, grown
Speaker 1: to like them. But I mean, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it's just sugar, you know. So I'm just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll just eat sugar. Like, you know, baked
Speaker 1: potatoes are just kind of edible spoons for all the
Speaker 1: other things you like. Awesome, man, how have you been?
Speaker 1: We We got deep into food and fruit talk immediately
Speaker 1: without checking in with you. How what was good? Man?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm doing okay. I'm trying to actively
Speaker 1: transform my brain from COVID mindset into I guess life
Speaker 1: is going to be happening again, at least on some level.
Speaker 1: Like I went to a restaurant last night for the
Speaker 1: first time in a while where they didn't check they
Speaker 1: didn't even check vax card, which I mean I walked
Speaker 1: in there with a mask on and everything, and they
Speaker 1: didn't even check vax card when you sat down. And
Speaker 1: I was just kind of like and I had that moment.
Speaker 1: I'm like, do I need to call the health department
Speaker 1: on these book you know? And I'm just like, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe just trying to be a person, right, and and uh,
Speaker 1: because my girlfriend was getting upset with me. She's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you never want to take me out anywhere.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I'm a cheapskate, I'm frugal and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But I'm like, but it's like
Speaker 1: not even on my top five things of like, oh
Speaker 1: what should I do today? Like it's not even top five,
Speaker 1: Like I should go out somewhere right, or go do
Speaker 1: something in the world. And so I'm trying, I'm like
Speaker 1: trying my best to get like back into that mindset, like,
Speaker 1: oh it's okay. I mean, I'll go play pickleball with
Speaker 1: somebody's of mine out here on the West Side. And
Speaker 1: she doesn't consider that a date. Just watching you play pickleball, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean while you were working, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: stack in that cheddar. I'm out there with the guys,
Speaker 1: you know, with your with the pickleball crew. There are
Speaker 1: a bunch of comedians who started playing about a year
Speaker 1: and a half ago, and it's so fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: pickle ball is so fun. But so I've been doing Okay,
Speaker 1: I've been you know, I'm actually I've been so busy.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've been busier during the you know,
Speaker 1: this pandemic than I was previously, just because I was
Speaker 1: launching an app and three of my cousins who live
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, and I launched an app called Crystallize E
Speaker 1: y E s all one word, and it's a crystal
Speaker 1: identification app that is trying to focus and bring attention
Speaker 1: to ethically sourced crystals. And it's like all automated. It's
Speaker 1: like shazamne for crystals. For crystals, that's right, you don't
Speaker 1: get those conflict czies. Yeah, And it's and it's difficult,
Speaker 1: I mean, and it's such a it's an unregulated industry
Speaker 1: as far as crystals go. I mean, obviously there are
Speaker 1: mining regulations all around the world and they differ like
Speaker 1: the United States. If you're buying crystals that are mined
Speaker 1: in the United States, you can pretty much feel good
Speaker 1: about it. Right. But then, you know, especially before the
Speaker 1: Teleman took back Afghanic control of Afghanistan, like you didn't
Speaker 1: know if because there's a lot of crystals that come
Speaker 1: out of after understanding it was such a you know,
Speaker 1: it was always changing, the landscape was always changing. That
Speaker 1: the talentman takes control of this area, this mine, and
Speaker 1: then they lose it, you know, a month later. So
Speaker 1: it's so it's it's really difficult to kind of try
Speaker 1: to stay on top of it, but especially when you're
Speaker 1: trying to you know, maintain a career and stand up
Speaker 1: comedy that went away and trying to restart that and
Speaker 1: then run a podcast and all this other stuff. So
Speaker 1: but it's to keep you busy. Yeah, yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: been well worth it, and uh, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun trying to navigate that text space, I
Speaker 1: suppose is what it is. Damn very cool man. All right, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to know you even better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell the listeners a couple of the things
Speaker 1: we're talking about. We're gonna check in with that other
Speaker 1: truck conboy. We'll get convoys. The future is convoys all
Speaker 1: the way down. So yeah, we'll talk about like where
Speaker 1: they're at, what their struggle is currently, you know, some
Speaker 1: of their ideas, why they didn't end up disrupting the
Speaker 1: state of Union all that ship and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: and this is no bullshit, why the new Batman, the Batman,
Speaker 1: way to Woke, Way, way to woke, get out of
Speaker 1: here with billionaire helping people come on, all of that plentymore.
Speaker 1: But first Ryan, we do like to ask our guests,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history? Well, I don't
Speaker 1: think this will disappoint you, at least I hope. I
Speaker 1: recently one of my last goocal searches was the connection
Speaker 1: between Bigfoot and the occult. Yes, and this is where
Speaker 1: this is where this is. I just real quick story.
Speaker 1: I had Ryan on. I forget what the theme was,
Speaker 1: but it was one of our first live Cracked podcasts
Speaker 1: at UCB Theater and it was the format was that
Speaker 1: co host and I would like sit there and different
Speaker 1: people would come out and like pitch a story word
Speaker 1: to us on the prompt and then we would talk
Speaker 1: to them about it. And Ryan had me going with
Speaker 1: this like story that was like so compelling, and it
Speaker 1: was a mystery I think, like unsolved mysteries, like was
Speaker 1: like part of the thing, and it like kept heightening
Speaker 1: and heightening. I'm like, what the fuck, Like where is
Speaker 1: this going to end? Then he was like, and then
Speaker 1: they smelled ammonia, which is a common scent associated with sasquatch,
Speaker 1: and I my face just like fell. But I think
Speaker 1: it was it was like Halloween was like that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah. But so you're a believer and I
Speaker 1: want to hear all about it. Yeah, well I've been
Speaker 1: you know, I do paranormal investigations as well. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm currently working on like a dock series about that
Speaker 1: that ties into a I just filmed an hour long
Speaker 1: comedy special at an old haunted school in Middletown, Ohio. Actually,
Speaker 1: and so you know, I have a theory that and
Speaker 1: it's not an original theory by the way, but I
Speaker 1: do think that all paranormal phenomena is connected through the
Speaker 1: foundation of consciousness whatever that even really is, right, So
Speaker 1: I think that if you if you, if you dive
Speaker 1: into believing, you know, making a choice to believe that
Speaker 1: consciousness connects everything in the universe. You know, it's like, well, okay,
Speaker 1: well how can you tap into that? And you know,
Speaker 1: through a cold ritual and old cold knowledge there basically
Speaker 1: our handbooks trying to tap into you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: changing the world around you through will and through intent
Speaker 1: and you know, so and so there are there's a
Speaker 1: lot of evidence as far as people have written anyways,
Speaker 1: let's say it like that when it comes to using
Speaker 1: vehicle to contacts intrust reals. And then there's also a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, writings from people who are talking
Speaker 1: about how magic or what people would consider be magic
Speaker 1: is the same. There are so many parallels between that
Speaker 1: in parapsychology and what they're trying to do in parasychology
Speaker 1: to measure you know, psychoconnetic abilities and people. So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: well there's two of the big three. You've got, you know,
Speaker 1: paranormal abilities, you've got aliens. So you know, where's you know,
Speaker 1: let's find a connection between using the occult to try
Speaker 1: to connect with sasquatch and so that's what So that's
Speaker 1: been my mission the last couple of weeks is has
Speaker 1: anybody been writing about, you know, using like old occult
Speaker 1: knowledge or rituals when trying to establish contact with with
Speaker 1: these creatures that many called big foot. So it's it's
Speaker 1: not enough to just go WHOA, that's actually that's actually
Speaker 1: from that that noise is actually very specific to the
Speaker 1: law of one which was channeled by just As, like
Speaker 1: six pages of just loud yelp noises you know from thought.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know that is I've never done that
Speaker 1: out in the woods, by the way, but yeah, you
Speaker 1: haven't lived then, brother. It does look like it's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. I you know, I have been on
Speaker 1: the top of a mountain and you know, roared like
Speaker 1: a lion before just too you don't release does yeah,
Speaker 1: as one does. So so that's kind of like the
Speaker 1: rabbit holes I've been going down as of late. I
Speaker 1: really love the possibility though that like that what you're
Speaker 1: pursuing somehow, That's like that was the secret. They just
Speaker 1: got to look back to this occult stuff. Dude, I
Speaker 1: got big Foot to show up a fucking dragon. This
Speaker 1: ship is crazy. I just started to think a millionaire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I mean, the the the idea. Wait, so you're
Speaker 1: saying Crawley, like when he was writing about dark like magic,
Speaker 1: that he basically matched the big Foot call that people.
Speaker 1: Well no, that was I was totally But there is writings.
Speaker 1: There is writings from Crowley, and I'm no expert on Crowley,
Speaker 1: but there are you know, rituals that he's laid out
Speaker 1: or that he laid out that will take you to
Speaker 1: these right, what is it? It's a E T H
Speaker 1: E R. I always say either I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's right or if it's ether. How you pronounce that?
Speaker 1: But these different dimensions, right, and there's rituals for each
Speaker 1: specific Like there's all these different dimensions, these ethers that
Speaker 1: you can go to and where it is basically saying
Speaker 1: you know the way it is. It's like, this is
Speaker 1: how you communicate, and this is how you you know,
Speaker 1: summon aliens, and there's and what's interesting is there's this
Speaker 1: like really large, you know, character that shows up at
Speaker 1: least on one of these dimensions. And she's described as
Speaker 1: being huge, like just this giant, powerful force that is
Speaker 1: overwhelming with all kinds of just every sensation you can imagine.
Speaker 1: She is exuding this energy, right, And many people are
Speaker 1: fearful when they encounter this entity because it's just so
Speaker 1: overwhelming and so powerful, and you know, and there's also
Speaker 1: you know, so I'm trying to also figure out, well,
Speaker 1: what's the connection between psychedelics as well, because so many
Speaker 1: people talk about encountering this powerful female presence and energy,
Speaker 1: you know, in this other dimension when they're doing these rituals,
Speaker 1: and so many people talk about their experience with d
Speaker 1: m T when they go in and they see this
Speaker 1: powerful female presence, right that is also there that is
Speaker 1: often described as like she's the all knowing, she is
Speaker 1: the everything, right, So are they seeing different versions of
Speaker 1: the same person or entity or energy or whatever we
Speaker 1: want to call it, you know, doing vehicle ritual and
Speaker 1: then doing you know, psychedelics and then you know, so
Speaker 1: what's the connection there is? So it's just fun trying
Speaker 1: to figure out all these different connections. And I think
Speaker 1: consciousness is, you know, is what connects at all. And
Speaker 1: maybe the occult is like kind of a key to
Speaker 1: get into those doors when you know, because I believe
Speaker 1: some people are just naturally born with the ability to
Speaker 1: access these things more than others. Mm hmm. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: even if you like approach it from an angle of
Speaker 1: like all the stuff is really interesting because the documenting
Speaker 1: like the collective unconscious or like how we connect with
Speaker 1: like you know, other humans and culture and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I find I find that stuff very interesting. And the
Speaker 1: fact that when people go in there there's a strong
Speaker 1: like feminine energy and like you know, presence makes sense
Speaker 1: because when you like look at the history of our species,
Speaker 1: the better half of our species at running things and
Speaker 1: like doing you know, taking care of each other has
Speaker 1: been held down and systematically exploited and held out of
Speaker 1: positions of power. Like for I feel like if somebody's
Speaker 1: just like approaching it, like like an alien seeing humanity
Speaker 1: for the first time, like that would be the first
Speaker 1: thing they'd be like, Wow, women are much better at
Speaker 1: all this ship than men and also are held out
Speaker 1: of being able to demonstrate that, like very explicitly and purposefully. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing you gotta understand alien about it? Right, okayen?
Speaker 1: Now that's cool, ship man. I always love to hear
Speaker 1: where you are in your journey. Well, i'll tell you
Speaker 1: just as a little teaser. The um. I've been going
Speaker 1: back to the school to do paranel investigations multiple times,
Speaker 1: and I did something called CE five Protocols, or at
Speaker 1: least a version of it, which is Dr Stephen Greer,
Speaker 1: who's kind of at the forefront of disclosure as far
Speaker 1: as like trying to get you know, disclosure about UFOs
Speaker 1: and aliens. He's got these protocols that you can use
Speaker 1: to get close encounters the fifth kind, which is human
Speaker 1: initiated sightings and or contact. And so I was like,
Speaker 1: I want to do this stuff because I believe it
Speaker 1: goes aliens, bigfoot, all this stuff are connected through consciousness.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a real difference other than the
Speaker 1: mask they're wearing. So I want to do this alien
Speaker 1: stuff inside a very you know, a famous inside the
Speaker 1: paranormal community, haunted location where people are constantly going all
Speaker 1: year round. Investigators are drawn to this place. So I
Speaker 1: was like, this is where I'm at, So I want
Speaker 1: to use alien contact stuff here. And then we're getting
Speaker 1: voices through these boxes, right. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people think this is all, you know, pretty cookie, but
Speaker 1: and it tells us to go east. I'm east. I'm
Speaker 1: used to go out and I look east and there's
Speaker 1: one star in the sky. It looks like Proceon, but
Speaker 1: it might be serious. So I go back a few
Speaker 1: months later, which was about a week and a half ago,
Speaker 1: and I'm asking very specific questions now about are you
Speaker 1: from pro Con? And nothing happens. Then I say are
Speaker 1: you from serious? The dog star? And then the devices
Speaker 1: in the room that are supposed to measure like you know,
Speaker 1: e M F readers and things like that, they start
Speaker 1: going bonkers, which for a paranormal investigator it's like, well
Speaker 1: that's confirmation, right, I mean, because they're doing nothing. And
Speaker 1: then literally as soon as I finish the word dog Star,
Speaker 1: they go full on blast and so I'm like, we
Speaker 1: are communicating with et s right now or some kind
Speaker 1: of intelligence or entity. So it was incredibly exciting, and
Speaker 1: so now it's like, well, where does the conversation go
Speaker 1: from here? If at all? You know, That's that's the
Speaker 1: exciting part about doing something like this. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: now I can you know, try to get this conversation going.
Speaker 1: And then, as human beings are always like well why,
Speaker 1: well what do you want to say? Like what why?
Speaker 1: As opposed to you know, sometimes maybe just meeting someone
Speaker 1: is enough to have an impact on us, but we
Speaker 1: always want to be like why did I meet that?
Speaker 1: You know, we're always looking for meaning? Right? Did you
Speaker 1: ask them what they thought of the band dog Star?
Speaker 1: Kiana Reeves fronted that would have been That's just like
Speaker 1: I would have been riffing. I would have been like, oh, ship,
Speaker 1: what do I say? What do I say? You think about?
Speaker 1: Are going totally? I totally forgot about that. I did
Speaker 1: ask them what they thought about, you know, serious x
Speaker 1: M right as far as their royalties for They're like
Speaker 1: they're going to go the way of x M radios
Speaker 1: really took a big swing on satellite radio. Don't think
Speaker 1: it really a thing. More interested in podcast to be honest. WHOA, Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: That was just your search history. We're you know, we're
Speaker 1: learning ship. Let's go deeper. We'll be right back and
Speaker 1: we're back and Ryan, we do like to ask our guests,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is overrated? I think something
Speaker 1: that is extremely overrated is the quote unquote hustle. And
Speaker 1: you know everyone talks about you gotta hustle. You gotta
Speaker 1: hustle to make it. You know, that's the most important
Speaker 1: thing in life, is the hustle. You know, don't stop.
Speaker 1: You're on the grind. You gotta get it done at
Speaker 1: all costs and sacrifice it all. And as someone who
Speaker 1: you know, really bought into the hustle for years and
Speaker 1: was you know, you know, uh, as a result of that,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty isolated. As for from my own personal life,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's a product of you know,
Speaker 1: being in Western society and capitalism is you know, the
Speaker 1: end goal is the accumulation of material things, and in
Speaker 1: the hustle leads to that. But so it's realizing that,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the pandemic made everybody kind of
Speaker 1: pause the hustle at least in some ways. And I
Speaker 1: know for me it was like, Okay, this is actually
Speaker 1: a time for me to reflect on what is truly
Speaker 1: import in my life. And you know is the hustle
Speaker 1: is the hustle a lie? And I knew intellectually that
Speaker 1: it was a lie, but actually integrating that into the
Speaker 1: way I operate, into the way I think it was
Speaker 1: a whole different ballgame. And it's it's it's still a
Speaker 1: process that I'm in the early stages of. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the hustle just leads to a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: VH one behind the music. I mean, nobody was ever
Speaker 1: happy when they got it all. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like how many of those did you have to
Speaker 1: watch as a kid to realize like, oh, okay, becoming
Speaker 1: super famous and becoming extremely wealthy doesn't make these people happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah right. I Meanwhile, the rest of us are watching
Speaker 1: these stories and being like, well, if that was me,
Speaker 1: I'd be pretty damn happy. And it's like we just
Speaker 1: don't learn until we, you know, burn our hands on
Speaker 1: the stove. Yeah, it's kind of reminds me just like
Speaker 1: when I was like reading into like positive psychology, you know,
Speaker 1: more than just like traditional psychology about like how do
Speaker 1: you opt like how do you psychology like optimize people's
Speaker 1: like you know, well being rather than like diagnosing deficiencies
Speaker 1: or problems using psychology, And like a lot of this
Speaker 1: stuff too, just talks about like just really simply it's
Speaker 1: simple things of like having to reframe how you look
Speaker 1: at this like process of becoming happy because to your point, right,
Speaker 1: living in Western civilization under capitalism and everything that's marketed
Speaker 1: to us is like can you get this? Can you
Speaker 1: afford to go here? Do you have these things? And
Speaker 1: we are caught in this thing of like, Okay, when
Speaker 1: I get to this place, then I will be happy
Speaker 1: because I need its conditioned. It's conditioned on the acquisition
Speaker 1: of those things or status or whatever, versus merely saying
Speaker 1: can I start being happy first and then let that
Speaker 1: dictate wherever I'm going, Like to really emphasize within myself
Speaker 1: that that is the most important thing, not really communicated
Speaker 1: to like the comparative analysis that I think makes most
Speaker 1: people like absolutely nuts, especially in the age of social media,
Speaker 1: and how you you know, from there figure out how
Speaker 1: do you make that work for yourself to the point
Speaker 1: of being like, why do I toil for this other
Speaker 1: thing more than emphasizing that me being happy is actually
Speaker 1: the most important thing and figuring that out first is
Speaker 1: like the way to do it. Yeah, for sure, And
Speaker 1: I love I love that positive the idea of emphasizing
Speaker 1: the positive. Yeah, I will say you up top of
Speaker 1: your you know, saying overrated. You did quote I don't
Speaker 1: know if this was intentional, the exact speech I give
Speaker 1: air team right before we start recording back to you said, listen,
Speaker 1: you guys, you gotta hustle, you gotta grind, and like
Speaker 1: you did it with the same intonation that I do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was a coincidence. But you
Speaker 1: make some good points. You make some good points, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna maybe add an addendum where I say, unless
Speaker 1: you don't want to do that, So what does it
Speaker 1: all mean? I'm kind of figuring out right now. To
Speaker 1: give me a second, what if something you think is underrated, underrated,
Speaker 1: and this is something that this is a hill. I will,
Speaker 1: you know, stand on oatmeal raisin cookies. Meal raisin cookies.
Speaker 1: I hear so much. It's it's like an orchard of
Speaker 1: shade thrown on oatmeal raisin cookies. And I will eat
Speaker 1: even a bad oatmeal raisin cookie because that's how good
Speaker 1: oatmeal raisin cookies are. And I'm not sure if it's
Speaker 1: the raisin, which is I think a pretty divisive, you know, fruit,
Speaker 1: and it can go a lot of different directions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and but the oldmeal raisin cookie is just so dark good.
Speaker 1: So I agree occasionally love me an oatmeal raisin cookie.
Speaker 1: I will say your credentials as a cookie appreciator. It
Speaker 1: could be from some listeners in in question because you
Speaker 1: just found out about orioles fourteen months ago, for the record,
Speaker 1: what the record, your honor, But I do I yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think they're definitely underrated. I think it's
Speaker 1: probably a result of America being like se diabetic or
Speaker 1: pre diabetic people on so we're our blood just like crabs,
Speaker 1: as much sugar as possible, and they're cookies that are
Speaker 1: like more efficient at delivering it. But I mean the
Speaker 1: sugar cookie an all time classic. Yeah, I mean talk
Speaker 1: about serving it right up on a plate for you.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want sugar, here's a sugar cookie. Sugar.
Speaker 1: This guy says a cookie eat that. It's funny. I
Speaker 1: think the way I remember as a kid, the way
Speaker 1: I looked at it was there was this arrow where
Speaker 1: the chocolate chip cookie was like the the King, you know,
Speaker 1: like whether that was a depiction in like a movie
Speaker 1: or something or media like fresh chocolate chip cookies out
Speaker 1: the oven. And my grandmother loved oatmeal raisin cookie is
Speaker 1: and she would always keep those at her house. So
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I always be like, can
Speaker 1: we have chocolate? Do you have any do you have
Speaker 1: any chocolate chip cookie? She's like, no, I got these
Speaker 1: oatmeal raisin cookies. And I was like, God, suck at all,
Speaker 1: like just these chocolate chip cookies. So my relationship with
Speaker 1: the oatmeal raisin cookie started off as like a conflict
Speaker 1: of being like, why can't you just have these cookies
Speaker 1: from my childish palette that I like? But over the
Speaker 1: years I have gravitated more towards just straight up oatmeal
Speaker 1: raisins in the cookie. They kind of I don't know
Speaker 1: they funk with me, but I do appreciate an oatmeal
Speaker 1: cookie like none other in recent years. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think the important aspect of an oatmeal cookie is it
Speaker 1: can't be cooked hard, right the like I think the
Speaker 1: beauty of an oatmeal cookie is that it has to
Speaker 1: be I mean, obviously, any cookie is better warm fresh
Speaker 1: out of the oven, I think. But although there are
Speaker 1: some cookies that don't even need baked. But the I
Speaker 1: think the key to the success of an oatmeal raisin
Speaker 1: cookie is it's not cooked to be, you know, real
Speaker 1: solid necessarily, it has to have some softness and some
Speaker 1: crumble to it. All right, Well, I for some reason,
Speaker 1: I think raisins always struck me as like too close
Speaker 1: to what if I ate a real squishy bug when
Speaker 1: only when they're in cookies though, a bug that lived
Speaker 1: a really long Yeah, like like those raisins look like bugs.
Speaker 1: Like I'll tell you. Being on the vine, you're like
Speaker 1: you're talking about Herbert Hoover. Put that raisin back in
Speaker 1: the bag. We used to put our pockets inside out
Speaker 1: called them Hoover flags for out broke we were because
Speaker 1: of that man. All right, Well, we've spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time getting to know you, which is great because
Speaker 1: you're a fascinating person. But we should get to some
Speaker 1: of the news stories of the day or of the week,
Speaker 1: one of which is the convoy, which I hadn't really
Speaker 1: been following this. I guess you guys spoke about it
Speaker 1: on the day I was out miles but they're they're multiple.
Speaker 1: There's so many fucking convoys right now. The one we
Speaker 1: spoke about on Monday was this very specific one that
Speaker 1: was meant to shut DC down on the day of
Speaker 1: the State of the Union, and we talked about how
Speaker 1: like twelve people showed up and not one of them
Speaker 1: was a truck and they didn't have a truck. Dude,
Speaker 1: there wasn't even a truck. And the guy at the
Speaker 1: dude who was like the organizer, was like, and you know,
Speaker 1: and I talked to some truckers and like they were
Speaker 1: gonna come. I don't know what happened, but it was
Speaker 1: gonna look like so cool, is what the guys. It
Speaker 1: was gonna really cool with some trucks there, but they
Speaker 1: didn't show up. And you know, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people this has become a really popular grift format
Speaker 1: now on the right because there's this other convoy that
Speaker 1: started out to like in California that was making its
Speaker 1: way across the country, and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people saw a lot of these like this footage of
Speaker 1: these like trucks going by their towns and be like,
Speaker 1: holy sh it, this is getting pretty big. They are
Speaker 1: definitely now numbering in about the hundreds of vehicles with
Speaker 1: numerous tractor trailers as part of this, and they they
Speaker 1: got into the Beltway area recently. But I just want
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about like what's sort of
Speaker 1: behind this. So far, they've breaked in around one point
Speaker 1: seven million dollars in loose donations, and it's being all
Speaker 1: these funds are being processed by a group called the
Speaker 1: American Foundation for Civil Liberties and Freedoms. The person who's
Speaker 1: involved in the organization like for the Freedom Convoy as
Speaker 1: well as this a f c LF group. One of
Speaker 1: these figures has been convicted of fraud in the past,
Speaker 1: but don't let that affect how you look at what
Speaker 1: this group is doing. And they seem to be made
Speaker 1: up of mostly like really confused, like dumb people because
Speaker 1: their goals are not clear and notably it's not rife
Speaker 1: with conspiracy theories unlike another convoy we'll talk about in
Speaker 1: a second, but their whole like mission statement is quote,
Speaker 1: the average American worker needs to be able to end
Speaker 1: run the economic hardships of the last two years and
Speaker 1: get back to business of making bread so they can
Speaker 1: pay their rents, mortgages and help jump start this economy
Speaker 1: to that. And it's time for elected officials to work
Speaker 1: with the blue collar and white collar workers of America
Speaker 1: and restore accountability and liberty by lifting all mandates, which
Speaker 1: is already happening. So what is the point, y'all? And
Speaker 1: that's where they're having a real crisis as a group.
Speaker 1: Like there are some people who are like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to get caught up. Some people are like, we
Speaker 1: don't want to go near d C. So let's just
Speaker 1: drive around the belt Way just to show people how
Speaker 1: many people are part of this. But the traffic was
Speaker 1: so bad that like their convoy kind of got split
Speaker 1: up by like other cars that weren't involved. And they're like,
Speaker 1: and they're getting frustrated because some people like we need
Speaker 1: to be doing more, Like they want to park their
Speaker 1: trucks like right up Joe Biden's ask, and other people
Speaker 1: are like, we can't get near DC because we're gonna
Speaker 1: get false flagged January six and it's gonna ruin the movement,
Speaker 1: so just stay out of d C. And it's it's like, huh, so,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what you're ends exactly are, but it's
Speaker 1: just kind of really funny to me that this group
Speaker 1: like that they saw January six as being bad or
Speaker 1: to be associated with it as bad. But then they
Speaker 1: use the logic of it's a setup to keep the
Speaker 1: cognitive dissonance going, and then that same logic is actually
Speaker 1: preventing them from actually doing any direct action in d C.
Speaker 1: So they're like, I feel like this is the best
Speaker 1: metaphor I've ever seen for conservatives in America, because they
Speaker 1: want to gesture towards being persecuted and the underdog, and
Speaker 1: they organize this big thing to get the government to
Speaker 1: end the COVID restrictions. The government is already doing that
Speaker 1: because they are on the side of big business, like
Speaker 1: that that's just naturally happening. And now they're like still
Speaker 1: doing the like this fucking mad Max and they're the
Speaker 1: bad guys like gesture towards but the government has already
Speaker 1: capitulated because they're on the same side as like the
Speaker 1: most powerful thing, the least persecuted thing in America and
Speaker 1: maybe world history, which is the interest of big business
Speaker 1: and you know commerce in the United States. But like
Speaker 1: they can't they're not happy with that, like symbolically and
Speaker 1: like from an image perspective, they need to act, find
Speaker 1: something to complain about. So hopefully they can switch streams
Speaker 1: seamlessly to whatever the funk their next thing is. I
Speaker 1: think they will because we all know the you know,
Speaker 1: the image of you know, the wall that starts bursting
Speaker 1: holes and you rushed to plug each holl and a
Speaker 1: new one pops open. Well, this is like the opposite
Speaker 1: of that, like the like they have. There's a source
Speaker 1: somewhere for this collective rage, right and you know, you
Speaker 1: know it's it's it probably stems from you know, lots
Speaker 1: of different things, entitlement, which is one of them. But
Speaker 1: they are the water behind the wall and the world
Speaker 1: is patching the holes, and they're like, well, we have
Speaker 1: to put this rage somewhere into a different form now,
Speaker 1: and so they pop a new hole to over here.
Speaker 1: And so now it's like, well, now we'll do the
Speaker 1: you know, truck convoy and then you know, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: the mandates are being lifted, and so that hole gets plugged,
Speaker 1: and now they're like, okay, now they're rushing to find
Speaker 1: a new hole to burst in the wall that will
Speaker 1: get plugged. It's just it's it's really wild because you know,
Speaker 1: there's and it's also like this we people have such
Speaker 1: a desire for a savior, right, whether it was Trump
Speaker 1: or you know other people. I know, for me, it
Speaker 1: might even have been borderline Bernie Sanders, right, And so
Speaker 1: it's like I want someone else to like save us
Speaker 1: all from this stuff, get control of this, yeah, instead
Speaker 1: of me having to really do anything about it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like Bernie will take care of
Speaker 1: it for me. You know what I mean, I can
Speaker 1: sit here and you know, watch baseball if they ever
Speaker 1: in their labor dispute, which is disgusting, but like, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's like where is all this displaced rage coming from?
Speaker 1: What's the source of that? And you know, how do
Speaker 1: we fix that? You know, while they keep trying to
Speaker 1: while the rest of the whole world's trying to plug
Speaker 1: you know, burst new holes while we try to plug
Speaker 1: them simultaneously. And it's funny that you talk about, like
Speaker 1: what do we do with all this energy, because, like
Speaker 1: I said, there's another like I guess sect of this
Speaker 1: convoy or like adjacent convoy that's also going to d C.
Speaker 1: And these were people this is the Q and on one, okay,
Speaker 1: And this is a lot of there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people who are participating in this one. We're the same
Speaker 1: group of folks who were in Dallas waiting for JFK Jr.
Speaker 1: To fucking come back from the dead to proclaim Trump,
Speaker 1: you know, Supreme god Lord Leader, and it didn't happen,
Speaker 1: and all that was fucking prints playing the concert for them,
Speaker 1: the poor bastard right with Michael Jackson on drums or
Speaker 1: keys or something. You're gonna want to put Michael Jackson
Speaker 1: on drums for sure. Oh yeah, underutilized. So now these
Speaker 1: people are now putting all of their eggs in this
Speaker 1: truck or convoy basket. But they're all for these guys.
Speaker 1: They're sort of mythology and their motivation is centered around Ukraine.
Speaker 1: So this one is they're saying that they allege that
Speaker 1: what is happening in Ukraine right now is some as
Speaker 1: like a project, a collabo between Trump and Putin to
Speaker 1: secretly stop bio weapons from being made by Anthony Fauci
Speaker 1: in Ukraine. And so they're shelling all the bio labs,
Speaker 1: the secret bio labs in Ukraine to prevent Fauci from
Speaker 1: having these bio weapons, and they want to bring attention
Speaker 1: to that. But they're also in a convoy, so it's
Speaker 1: very low invasion. Yeah yeah, yeah, of course, of course,
Speaker 1: of course, because they don't know what it's real mainlinding,
Speaker 1: like they're they're mainlining like Kremlin propaganda and re like
Speaker 1: sort of contact ssualizing it to work with their you know,
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. I blame Marvel for all of this. I
Speaker 1: blame the success of the Iron Man franchise, uh the Avengers,
Speaker 1: and because I mean, these these like stories, these ideas
Speaker 1: are so comic book superhero style fantasies. And as someone
Speaker 1: who used to be really into conspiracy theories, you know,
Speaker 1: I can I understand and I can sympathize a little
Speaker 1: bit with like when something happens, it's like people who
Speaker 1: follow a false prophet, you know, and and that the
Speaker 1: day that they predict something's going to happen doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: The people who follow that prophet they doubled down as
Speaker 1: opposed to being like, oh, clearly this was all bs,
Speaker 1: I need to get out of here. But you know,
Speaker 1: they don't do that because we don't want to admit
Speaker 1: we're wrong. And it's just like, oh my god, are
Speaker 1: we were just that simple? I suppose double down themselves
Speaker 1: into a singularity. Oh my gosh. It's like it's like
Speaker 1: to think that that there is this, you know. And
Speaker 1: I think the problem with this is a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't understand that so much of the conspiracy theory
Speaker 1: talk and the you know, the banks and you know,
Speaker 1: the one World order, they don't understand like the you know,
Speaker 1: the anti Semitic origins of so much of this conspiracy
Speaker 1: theory lore that they buy into from the Protocols of
Speaker 1: the Learned Elders of Zion, which is such a bogus
Speaker 1: document that Henry Ford helps spread around. And and it's
Speaker 1: like they so when they talk about George Soros, man
Speaker 1: George Sorrows, and it's it's like, Okay, George Soros is
Speaker 1: a billionaire or whatever, But you know, it's like this,
Speaker 1: the origin of all this fear, anger and hatred, you know,
Speaker 1: comes from such a poisonous place and it just keeps
Speaker 1: bastardizing itself into new forms. And most of these conspiracy
Speaker 1: theories you know you mentioned, because I'll talk to them,
Speaker 1: and if you ever even mentioned the protocols, they've never
Speaker 1: even heard of them. Exactly. It's like, I want to
Speaker 1: be president, Well, wha what you think about George Washington?
Speaker 1: Who's that guy? You know? Is he trying to run
Speaker 1: against just like no, the first president? Right? Damn. But
Speaker 1: the one thing that's very American though about the other
Speaker 1: the trucker convoy, is they're really pissed that this that
Speaker 1: Ukraine is getting all the attention from the news. They're like,
Speaker 1: oh great, oh fucking war breaks out in Europe and
Speaker 1: that's all people are talking about, and like the humanitarian
Speaker 1: aid that's needed, what about our trucker convoy. And then
Speaker 1: they made some really salient points about like, well, what
Speaker 1: about what's happening in Yemen and all these other places?
Speaker 1: Is it just why do you pay attention to? Go on?
Speaker 1: He's like, okay, well yeah, right, just accidentally is backing
Speaker 1: the Saudi Arabian government in a really horrific war that's
Speaker 1: causing untold amounts of strife and we're not talking about that,
Speaker 1: You're like, when did you learn what it's in my
Speaker 1: telegram group talk about this stuff? Now? Yeah, it's it's unstoppable.
Speaker 1: It seems like that that reading that conspiracy theory, Miles
Speaker 1: that you just put forth about Fauci and Ukraine and
Speaker 1: that like you know, Trump and Putin are working together,
Speaker 1: like just it was so deflating because it was just
Speaker 1: so it was like, wow, this has metastasized like fifty
Speaker 1: times since I last even like checked in with it
Speaker 1: at a glance, and um man, it's it's pretty wild.
Speaker 1: I'm having a moment of clarity over here. You know,
Speaker 1: in the paranormal world, often people are are skeptical or
Speaker 1: argue against certain things, will say, well, you can't use
Speaker 1: something even more unbelievable to explain something that's unbelievable. And
Speaker 1: so when you examine this issue and like what are
Speaker 1: this these events that are happening right now about the
Speaker 1: you know, the invasion of Ukraine, it's like, well, why
Speaker 1: would you know, why is this really happening? And it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is like it's unbelievable right to a lot of us,
Speaker 1: And so it's like and then you then steps in
Speaker 1: the more unbelievable explanation to explain the unbelievable, like well,
Speaker 1: there's obviously secret labs over there that you know, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's like this idea of using something even further
Speaker 1: out on the spectrum of belief to explain something below
Speaker 1: it is is something that a lot of us will
Speaker 1: do in our lives for all kinds of thing. I know.
Speaker 1: I'm speaking for myself, you know, because I'm so involved
Speaker 1: in and interested in paranormal things, and it's easier than
Speaker 1: accepting the harsh real truth of our reality, like the pandemic,
Speaker 1: like it can't just be nature saying I am going
Speaker 1: to put you in your place. I Am going to
Speaker 1: really do something that you can't stop, you have no
Speaker 1: control over. And guess what, there's no real explanation for
Speaker 1: it that you can make of like as far as
Speaker 1: like ascribing meaning for um. And so instead of facing
Speaker 1: the truth as human beings of like oh man, nature
Speaker 1: is so powerful, we can't control nature, we say it
Speaker 1: was made a bunch of labs by you know, the
Speaker 1: by this foreign government because you know, blah blah it
Speaker 1: two psy ops and blah blah blah blah blah. It's
Speaker 1: a social experiment by the New World Order. It's like
Speaker 1: this crazier you know, examination of the cause gets created
Speaker 1: as opposed to just accepting the simple truth that like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is you know, we try to dominate nature. Our
Speaker 1: social status is dictated by how well we dominate nature.
Speaker 1: Like do you have a good lawn? Do you have
Speaker 1: a nice looking yard? Because if you don't, you're letting
Speaker 1: you're letting nature take you over. And that's not how
Speaker 1: we define status here, because we're human beings and we
Speaker 1: control nature. Right, So it is this whole worldwide consumption
Speaker 1: of grief and world news on an individual basis is
Speaker 1: just really a lot to handle for any simple person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for me, I don't take care of my lawn, but
Speaker 1: I do just play my mastery over nature by just
Speaker 1: like having lots of animals and bird traps all over
Speaker 1: my front lawn and then mocking the birds and animals
Speaker 1: once I catch them, and people still don't respect it.
Speaker 1: I want to see a squirrel convoy outside your your driveway,
Speaker 1: just circling your drive coming. They're coming. Let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll come back and talk about how
Speaker 1: the batman ties into what we were just talking about
Speaker 1: and we're back and I still haven't seen The Batman.
Speaker 1: Have you guys seen The bat Yeah, yeah, it's I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be one of the first movies
Speaker 1: to pull me out to end my streak of not
Speaker 1: going to the movies because I feel like now like
Speaker 1: between you know, like for me, I look at like
Speaker 1: the pandemic is like, all right, we're between peaks, Like
Speaker 1: this is that little bit of time you can do
Speaker 1: something until the next wave and then it's, you know,
Speaker 1: back to being safe. But yeah, I'm I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to it. I've heard some good things. Super producer Justin
Speaker 1: has seen it, says it's amazing. I'm excited to see it.
Speaker 1: But Ben Shapiro, less excited, has seen it. Apparently we
Speaker 1: don't know about that actually, because he tends to just,
Speaker 1: you know, approach everything is. How is it going to
Speaker 1: let him stand on a soapbox to look a little
Speaker 1: bit taller and also preach to us about whatever the
Speaker 1: funk he wants to preach about. But this is there's
Speaker 1: a trend happening right now, both from your Ben Shapiro,
Speaker 1: the Daily Wire, and YouTube commentators who are all saying
Speaker 1: that the movie is to woke because It has a
Speaker 1: line that mentions that the fact that Batman's a privileged
Speaker 1: billionaire who inherited billions of dollars, which the fact that
Speaker 1: they expect you not to like that, that it's weird
Speaker 1: to mention it, as opposed to not mention it is strange, right,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like again taking the alien test. You're
Speaker 1: an alien who comes to Earth and you watch this
Speaker 1: movie and one of the people is like wealthier than
Speaker 1: any human in the history of the you know, for
Speaker 1: most of the history of the human civilization, is just
Speaker 1: like inordinately wealthier than anybody else in his town and
Speaker 1: is the main character, and like you don't mention that,
Speaker 1: seems like you would be like, that's that's fucking weird.
Speaker 1: But the fact that somebody who is talking to him
Speaker 1: references it is funny or is like outrageous to them,
Speaker 1: which is funny to me. And then there's also like
Speaker 1: Batman's relationship with police, like there complaint with it seems
Speaker 1: to be that like the there is a but there
Speaker 1: are like corrupt, bad white police and like here I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna read from the thing woke politics affecting the Batman.
Speaker 1: All the bad characters are white men. Falcon, Penguin, Riddler,
Speaker 1: Commissioner Chief d a ignorant, rich white boy, Bruce Wayne.
Speaker 1: But all the good guys are black Gordon, Catwoman mayor
Speaker 1: nice work Hollywood. Bruce Wayne is the is the protagonist
Speaker 1: of the movie. They threw They threw him in with
Speaker 1: the bad guys and another tweet and Batman. There is
Speaker 1: one line of racist dialogue and there was no need
Speaker 1: for all of that. It was pathetic and woke, but yeah,
Speaker 1: transparently racist criticism to try and make that because there
Speaker 1: are good characters they're black, that it's the movie is racist. Well,
Speaker 1: a people's point to the fact that the line of
Speaker 1: dialogue that quote white men running Gotham City, They're like,
Speaker 1: what the funk was that? Even the point of that,
Speaker 1: It's like, what look around, look at the fucking's, look
Speaker 1: at the c suites of all the fucking companies, look
Speaker 1: at the fucking makeup of most of the leader political leadership.
Speaker 1: What what you're selling me? This isn't reflecting a real, measurable,
Speaker 1: quantifiable reality. But okay, but you better not make Spider Man,
Speaker 1: you know, not a white guy. You know, like this
Speaker 1: whole idea you pick and choose who should be what
Speaker 1: color right, like as far as like what changes the
Speaker 1: lore of comic history and all this other kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: And it's just it's just the hypersensitivity of someone who's
Speaker 1: you know, taking a piss on someone else's lawn and
Speaker 1: being like, I'm not pissing. I'm not pissing over here.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, You're think is out And like there's
Speaker 1: there's critiques of the movie coming from the other direction
Speaker 1: that seemed more reasonable to me, like that white, white
Speaker 1: vigilante breaking the law while the police look the other way,
Speaker 1: which is basically the premise of the movie. It feels
Speaker 1: like a bad, badly timed commentary after a decade where
Speaker 1: we saw George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse and a mod
Speaker 1: are Brey's killers and people taking selfies with the guys
Speaker 1: storming the Capitol Building. But I guess like there's a
Speaker 1: critique of Dark Knight Rises and like compliments of that
Speaker 1: movie from the right because they say that like Banes
Speaker 1: Mob are supposed to be Occupy Wall Street. But it's like,
Speaker 1: well that's like it's not. First of all, they don't
Speaker 1: really look like Occupy Wall Street, and second of all,
Speaker 1: like it could just be them putting a character and
Speaker 1: who has a legitimate or giving the bad guys a
Speaker 1: legitimate complaint, which is that there's like massive inequality like
Speaker 1: that doesn't it's not a movies are not written as
Speaker 1: like epic slams that ultimately are making fun of a
Speaker 1: single target. They're like taking ideas from the culture around them.
Speaker 1: The one thing that I found notable about like how
Speaker 1: this movie interacts with the zeitgeist relates to the story
Speaker 1: we were just talking about, which is the Riddler character,
Speaker 1: who I guess like a lot of people are saying
Speaker 1: it seems like an in Cell q and On esque
Speaker 1: figure peddling online conspiracy theories. But we find out early
Speaker 1: on that the Riddlers theories are basically totally accurate, which
Speaker 1: that that feels like one where it's like all right,
Speaker 1: like that's there's no two ways about like figure that
Speaker 1: that's just like we we don't want to be send
Speaker 1: in that message maybe right, like what kind of day
Speaker 1: sex mackinesse and like if you played that logic, that
Speaker 1: would be like and then Dr Fauci came out with
Speaker 1: his hands up from the secret bio lab in Ukraine, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's what would happen in comic books, right,
Speaker 1: that is like to point, like I think that's when
Speaker 1: you interjected with that, like they they've just read too
Speaker 1: many comic books, or that you blame Marvel when they
Speaker 1: were talking about Fauci, like being in a several lab
Speaker 1: in an apartment building, and that's why, like the bombings
Speaker 1: are happening there. Like that is the plot of if
Speaker 1: you're rewriting it to like make it and we're interesting
Speaker 1: comic book plot like that, And you know, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it is the only way for
Speaker 1: someone to rationalize supporting such a character, you know, whether
Speaker 1: it's Trump or whoever else, right, I mean, because in
Speaker 1: the face of all evidence, one must find an extraordinary
Speaker 1: reason to keep buying in. And so I think it
Speaker 1: kind of proved, you know, kind of shows you know,
Speaker 1: the level one must go to manufacture and or create
Speaker 1: a reason to keep supporting you know something, whether Tim
Speaker 1: or anybody else when it when things start going down
Speaker 1: these roads. And my favorite critique is, like, good job, Hollywood.
Speaker 1: You mirrored society in some kind of way that art
Speaker 1: has been doing since the very beginning of cave paintings.
Speaker 1: You you showed us back what is happening around us.
Speaker 1: All well done? Well, I hope you're product. It's like,
Speaker 1: is that what not grid? Not all art is equal,
Speaker 1: I suppose when it comes to cultural commentary and you know,
Speaker 1: allegories and meaning and metaphors. But it's just like, what
Speaker 1: do you think is happening here? What do you think
Speaker 1: art is? What do you think you know? Movies are
Speaker 1: I just what do you think stories being told? And
Speaker 1: you know, in these visual mediums, do you think they're
Speaker 1: just supposed to be totally acting like a pandemic never happened,
Speaker 1: acting like injustices in real Yeah, well do you think
Speaker 1: stories have been Yeah? And I think it just shows
Speaker 1: the dedication for those groups of people to avoid confronting
Speaker 1: those realities, you know, like and the whatever they can,
Speaker 1: whether that's through dismissing, like saying like, oh, the reason
Speaker 1: why there's increased, you know, consciousness around inequality as it
Speaker 1: relates to like racial inequality in this country, it's because
Speaker 1: of critical race theory in the schools. It's not because
Speaker 1: it's enough human beings have witnessed it and are slowly
Speaker 1: arriving to a consensus like yeah, that's not good, but
Speaker 1: they're super yeah, and super invested and even to like
Speaker 1: to the point of like why some characters have to
Speaker 1: be white? I think those people aren't even willing to
Speaker 1: confront a deeper understanding for them where they feel that
Speaker 1: the most righteous figures in our world are white people,
Speaker 1: and so to to for it to not be a
Speaker 1: white person, that that's now somehow completely perverting the meaning
Speaker 1: of a character. If you're just saying broadly, this superhero
Speaker 1: stands for good in the face of evil, it could
Speaker 1: be interchangeable with sucking any living thing. But when you
Speaker 1: start tinkering around with how these people look and what
Speaker 1: that means to certain people, then it's a whole other thing.
Speaker 1: But now you changed everything. And then gen X, as
Speaker 1: a member of gen X, I'm you know, I'm like disappointed.
Speaker 1: And you know the gen X footprint. I mean, when
Speaker 1: we were kids, we ran around and be like, marijuana
Speaker 1: is gonna be legal everywhere. You know, all this stuff
Speaker 1: is going to be you know, better and better and better.
Speaker 1: And then gen X starts getting poisoned by the you know,
Speaker 1: the you know, having good stock returns and inheriting their families,
Speaker 1: businesses and things like that, and it just starts to
Speaker 1: become the same old story and yeah, but they do
Speaker 1: it with sarcasm. Bro like to see the Koch Brothers
Speaker 1: be this sarcastic as whole, Like I give a ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean like the fact that you know, guys I
Speaker 1: went to high school with are calling me a snowflake.
Speaker 1: It it really boggles my mind. And I and I
Speaker 1: do understand that, you know, them parallel dimensions, the multiverse
Speaker 1: is is more real than it's ever been in our lives.
Speaker 1: You know, we are living in different worlds, you know,
Speaker 1: fractured media, all these other these different experiences. We create
Speaker 1: our own bubbles, and so we are we do have
Speaker 1: totally different experiences of what reality is. And you know,
Speaker 1: trying to find the bridge too, to connect to people
Speaker 1: that seem more disperate than other from us is you know,
Speaker 1: a challenge that you know, quite frankly, is exhausting, and
Speaker 1: you know, it can be really difficult to try to
Speaker 1: keep keep up the good fight of you know, because
Speaker 1: you know, when you start, I don't know what you
Speaker 1: guys think about when you start, you know, all this
Speaker 1: chatter about like oh the you know, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: two America's soon, you know, we're just gonna split off
Speaker 1: into two Americas. And it's like it's so much easier
Speaker 1: to say that on the Internet than it is saying
Speaker 1: it to a person who believes different differently than you
Speaker 1: across the table or standing in a room with that person.
Speaker 1: You know, all this talk about civil war and all
Speaker 1: this other kind of stuff. It's so easy to put
Speaker 1: that on the Internet. But when you you know, like
Speaker 1: when I go to comedy shows in the Midwest or
Speaker 1: in the South and people think differently than I do,
Speaker 1: we're still all laughing at a lot of the same
Speaker 1: jokes hopefully, right if I'm doing job, and that whole
Speaker 1: idea of like everything is so boiled over to the
Speaker 1: point of breaking that that might be true on the internet,
Speaker 1: but like inside the device, it's so much easier to
Speaker 1: be divided. So and the pandemic didn't help because we're
Speaker 1: all forced to be inside of our devices, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like a virtual space that's harder to
Speaker 1: keep things right sized, you know, from an actual perspective,
Speaker 1: like thing you lose actual perspective, and also from a
Speaker 1: just mind perspective. But yeah, also it's interesting, like we
Speaker 1: talked at the beginning, how there's like no cultural imprint
Speaker 1: of the pandemic. We talked about that at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the Pandemic. We're like, why, Like it seems like
Speaker 1: this one is going to be all anyone's talking about
Speaker 1: for the next two years. Like there's no movie that
Speaker 1: I want to watch that's like showing people having to
Speaker 1: wear masks or like even acknowledging the pandemic, even like
Speaker 1: Station eleven was like hard for me to watch in
Speaker 1: the beginning because like, oh god, ship shutting down and
Speaker 1: people like scrambling in the chaos and the good Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was a different thing I've written before, even
Speaker 1: the pandemic. So I'd imagine like younger creative people are,
Speaker 1: this is probably a very formative thing that it will
Speaker 1: express itself and like art down the road that will
Speaker 1: be like holy shit, that's like that there there's that
Speaker 1: impression of the pandemic that we're getting now maybe a
Speaker 1: few years later. I mean, are we ever allowed to
Speaker 1: just have a little space between and take a breath
Speaker 1: right as opposed to all this is happening? Now? How
Speaker 1: can we how can we monetize this as an idea?
Speaker 1: It's like, can't we just give ourselves a break every
Speaker 1: once in a while and just go like, because it's
Speaker 1: all about the hustle. Did you not listen to my
Speaker 1: speech before we started recording? God, non hustling ass But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean to that point. So I always talking about
Speaker 1: the book The Plague by Albert Camu and he was
Speaker 1: born in so he was five when the you know,
Speaker 1: massive pandemic happened, and then you know, decades later he
Speaker 1: wrote the best novel about a plague in the modern
Speaker 1: world from that. But yeah, it'll probably take a while,
Speaker 1: So good point. All right, Brian, Such a pleasure having
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Speaker 1: And uh is there a tweet or some of the
Speaker 1: work of social media been enjoying Oh my goodness, gracious
Speaker 1: on TikTok, which took me a minute to get involved.
Speaker 1: Drennan Davis, who's a comedian, very funny guy. He's doing
Speaker 1: these cat videos where he's got these forecats and he
Speaker 1: has given them all personalities and names, and he's always
Speaker 1: filming them having conversations with each other on the house.
Speaker 1: It is. If you find Adren and Davis on TikTok,
Speaker 1: you can see what I'm talking about. It's it's bonkers,
Speaker 1: how good it is. It is. It is bonkers, how
Speaker 1: funny this stuff is. So that's the thing probably I'm
Speaker 1: enjoying the most right now on social media. Nice awesome man. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. Miles. Where can people find you?
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Speaker 1: just discovered Tetris. Came home to him boasting about scoring
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand points, cracked my knuckles and played the played
Speaker 1: for the first time in twenty five years, dropped seventy
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Speaker 1: What happened? Dude just fucking smashed my eleven year old
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