Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season to episode four
Speaker 1: of Days Like Guys Stick production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's share consciousness. Today we'll be talking about things
Speaker 1: happening outside of America a little bit, but always from
Speaker 1: ignorant s American point of view. In my case, it
Speaker 1: is Friday, February. My name is Jack O'Brien. A k.
Speaker 1: You're in in my glass. Just you're in in my glass.
Speaker 1: That is you're you are in my heart. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's you'll you'll be in my heart as the
Speaker 1: original name. That's courtesy of Radio Georgio. I just wanted to,
Speaker 1: you know, it's good to be reminded, on this day
Speaker 1: of war and hell around the world that we still
Speaker 1: live in a country where people drink their own peak
Speaker 1: to combat a disease that is not combatd by drinking
Speaker 1: your own anyways, I am thrilled to be joined as
Speaker 1: always by my co host, Mr Miles Miles Gray just
Speaker 1: completely gobsmacked with all the news. So and a K.
Speaker 1: A is just just a guy, uh living in hell
Speaker 1: with everybody else and looking at the countless horrors that
Speaker 1: abound or hit day on NoHo. You don't to keep
Speaker 1: it light. So yeah, oh sorry, This day afore which
Speaker 1: I hate to hate to make a joke, but it
Speaker 1: is natural clam chowder Day. Wait, that's what I was
Speaker 1: referring to. What are you the suffering around the world.
Speaker 1: I was referring to National clam Chowder Day. No specific,
Speaker 1: it's not New England or Manhattan. On this day, the
Speaker 1: clams chowder unite with one another. Very non specific. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's the clam chowder Lobby's attempt
Speaker 1: to bring in unity. If we can't take goddamn lesson
Speaker 1: from that, you know, I don't know what. I don't
Speaker 1: know what. All right, Well, Miles ere thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined by a hilarious and talented podcaster, comedian writer. He's
Speaker 1: the founder of the nationally renowned stand up institution Chatterbox
Speaker 1: Comedy Night, one of the hosts of the monthly comedy
Speaker 1: show Worship. You can Read the Bible with him on
Speaker 1: his podcasts and or YouTube show Read the Bible with Me.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Steve Hernandez. You know you kids don't remember this.
Speaker 1: I'm a little older than you guys, but uh, you
Speaker 1: know now, there's clam chowder everywhere. It's accessible pretty much
Speaker 1: anywhere you go. But I'm telling you, I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 1: When I was growing up, you had to be down
Speaker 1: at a Newport beach. You had to be at the
Speaker 1: beach's by the beach when there was one, you had
Speaker 1: to be over at the Ruby's. Pierre, are you going
Speaker 1: to be by the pirates of Caribbean to get a
Speaker 1: clam chowder bread ball? But you know, I'm a clam
Speaker 1: chowder has come so far and so have we Fellas.
Speaker 1: I'm really happy to be here. It's been so so long.
Speaker 1: And you know, what a day to bring on the
Speaker 1: sex Bible guy, right the beginning of World War three.
Speaker 1: Let's bring the sack, the polyamorous Bible guy on, and
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be able to walk us through
Speaker 1: all this stuff. Yeah, everybody who think, oh this was
Speaker 1: just a coincidence, No, we planned, We said what happened.
Speaker 1: We actually coordinated with Putin's people and we were like, so,
Speaker 1: what's this thing going down? For real? All right? We
Speaker 1: gotta get big bring and what do we need more
Speaker 1: at a time of war than sex and the Bible?
Speaker 1: You know? So escape together. I do feel like people
Speaker 1: funk a lot during war, right, that's not that's not
Speaker 1: just the movies. You're laying it on the line. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I've been you know, when the start of
Speaker 1: the pandemic, the war, these intense times you're really pressing in.
Speaker 1: I know you two have been in long term relationships.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. When we me and my wife shut
Speaker 1: the door, we pretended to be strangers and we were
Speaker 1: just go we were getting grimy and their fellas. Uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yesterday the day I was just to forget that I
Speaker 1: know your dad, well, okay, forget that time that we
Speaker 1: held each other to your aunts like battle with cancer.
Speaker 1: Forget all that strangers. Let's get grimy, and I feel
Speaker 1: like that's that's the next step to do it with
Speaker 1: all of this horror that you know we're facing in
Speaker 1: the world today. Yeah, I mean there it is, all right, Steve.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners what
Speaker 1: we're talking about today. Uh, we're obviously going to be
Speaker 1: talking about Russia invading Ukraine and the kind of all
Speaker 1: out war that appears to be happening over there. We're
Speaker 1: gonna come in with a little good news about Jerrymander
Speaker 1: maps taking els back back here in the US, and
Speaker 1: then we'll talk about some really good news. Law and
Speaker 1: Order is back to so ever gone. Yeah, bro, it
Speaker 1: got the original Law and Order got canceled in Oh
Speaker 1: oh that's wait. But aren't there like they're they're multiple
Speaker 1: law and Orders. They're still out there, right, yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: I think right all that all that, there's the new
Speaker 1: one where with like Italian mob I think it's called
Speaker 1: the Crime Unit or something like that with mobsters. But
Speaker 1: this is the original. You know, they're still fighting Italian mobsters.
Speaker 1: And they brought it back. It's the and they brought
Speaker 1: that the that one guy back. I don't I've never
Speaker 1: seen one episode of the show, but I am aware
Speaker 1: of this. My wife is obsessed. So they brought I
Speaker 1: think his name stand Stadler back or whatever, and it's
Speaker 1: just straight Italian mob and it uh. I have seen
Speaker 1: two episodes of that one, and it's actually pretty funny.
Speaker 1: So it's Stadler from Stadler and waldorff Rint he's fighting Krunk. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna talk about that. I had no idea.
Speaker 1: By the way, that Law and Order had been canceled
Speaker 1: in twain ten. It does seem like it never left.
Speaker 1: But they've brought back the original. The ripped from the
Speaker 1: headlines original and the first headline they ripped was it
Speaker 1: was an interesting one, So we'll talk. They kind of
Speaker 1: made up their own. But it's about the murder of
Speaker 1: Bill Cosby. So yeah, well fan fixed in there. Anyways,
Speaker 1: all of that, plentymore, probably mostly that, actually, but before
Speaker 1: we get to all all of it, before we get
Speaker 1: to it all, Steve, we do like to ask our guess,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history. I searched Jeff
Speaker 1: Daniels because I took my dad to get a colonoscopy yesterday,
Speaker 1: and uh, my dad is a recent convert liberal. Since
Speaker 1: Trump came into office, my dad hates no one more
Speaker 1: than Donald Trump since he called Mexicans rapists. And my
Speaker 1: dad is obsessed still to this day with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: But he's a pretty new liberal guy, so to him,
Speaker 1: it's like Joe Biden is still like a good guy,
Speaker 1: and uh Donald Trump is still the bad guy. And
Speaker 1: uh so my dad yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, my
Speaker 1: dad's still mad at Trump even though he's lost in
Speaker 1: everything that's how my dad was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I saw this? Really, I saw this guy on this
Speaker 1: stage give a really interesting speech and this somebody said,
Speaker 1: why is America great? And the first person said, oh,
Speaker 1: you know this thing, and then the second person and
Speaker 1: then the third guy was like, we're not. And my
Speaker 1: dad's just telling me about this clip and then he's
Speaker 1: like he said, I'll find it for you. He's like,
Speaker 1: i'll find it for you. I'll send it to you.
Speaker 1: And he sent it to me and it was simply
Speaker 1: a clip from the news rooms room. Yeah. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I had to google Jeff Daniels because I was like,
Speaker 1: what the like, I had no remember the name of
Speaker 1: the show? Said back the clip of him from Dumb
Speaker 1: and Dumb, and I'm like, I have another clip of this.
Speaker 1: Uh that's what I Honestly, where were you sending him?
Speaker 1: Like the fucking the the ex lax violent shooting seemed gift,
Speaker 1: But no, no, it was just I was just to like,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm like yelling at my dad
Speaker 1: about stuff, and he's going like deaf. He wasn't printing
Speaker 1: for years and so he's very he's hard of hearing
Speaker 1: him with the masks. It's near impossible. So I'm like
Speaker 1: yelling at him in public and people think I'm like
Speaker 1: abusing my poor dad. But uh yeah, I mean, but
Speaker 1: you know, i'd, like I said, I'd rather have him
Speaker 1: on this side than the other side. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people have parents where they're they're staunch Republicans still,
Speaker 1: so I'm glad this thing, but I mean, this poor guy, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not fellas. If you're a man out there, make
Speaker 1: sure that you get a lot of friends, that you
Speaker 1: maintain your male friendships because you're gonna get older and
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have any friends. The next thing you know,
Speaker 1: your your kids yelling at you at the v A
Speaker 1: and everyone's wearing masks. Right yeah, oh man. The maintaining
Speaker 1: your friendships things, that's that's for real. I feel like
Speaker 1: that is like a thing like where some of my
Speaker 1: older male relatives, like in my life, I'm like, how come,
Speaker 1: how come Auntie has all these friends over but there's
Speaker 1: nobody here. Well that's why. I mean, you know, you
Speaker 1: think it's cool like to be a wife guy. You see,
Speaker 1: these guys are just like wife guys. And yes, it
Speaker 1: is great to treat your wife with love and respect.
Speaker 1: But if you don't have you these male friendships. Then,
Speaker 1: like my dad, you know, I worried about the poor
Speaker 1: guy my dad goes. I think he goes days sometimes
Speaker 1: without talking to anyone. And I'm just like, goddamn, like
Speaker 1: what I yell? I mean that's I told him the
Speaker 1: other day. I was like, you gotta get some hobbies. Man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a life for at least ten or
Speaker 1: fifteen more years and you can't go out like this
Speaker 1: man you got. And he's like, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll get a job, and I was like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: I mean, I hire you dead. You know, he's a
Speaker 1: workaholic his whole life. And then even now he said,
Speaker 1: why do I remember even a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: why do I friends? I have you guys his kids?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, ye, give me a break. I don't
Speaker 1: want the responsibility for you all the time. I love you.
Speaker 1: I can call you once a week and hang out
Speaker 1: with you every other week. But yeah, this poor fucking guy.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's he's a charming guy. If you
Speaker 1: guys were to meet him, you guys would love my
Speaker 1: It sounds like he needs a podcast, you know what.
Speaker 1: My dad is so funny and if he had the
Speaker 1: ability to like be himself on the thing, but he
Speaker 1: just clams up. But he's a hilarious guy. He considers
Speaker 1: him sounds like a ladies man still. Uh yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and he is a good looking Mexican guy for like
Speaker 1: being sixty seven. He like could probably pool like you know,
Speaker 1: someone twenty years younger, if that's a pulling thing. But
Speaker 1: he is also like like just weird in the head too.
Speaker 1: He's very that stuff is very important to him. Every
Speaker 1: like I swear to you every other year, he'll say,
Speaker 1: you know, I would never sleep with one of my
Speaker 1: son's ex wives or girlfriends. And uh and I, you know,
Speaker 1: I We're just like watching a TV show and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, that's good. I didn't think that. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: That was not even in the plot. The no, it
Speaker 1: was on the table. Nobody's talking about this. And he
Speaker 1: was just I want you to know that I would
Speaker 1: never that do that to one of my sons. And
Speaker 1: I thank you for that day. Yeah wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: you got opportunities for that. I'm not saying nothing. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying you don't got to worry about me. If
Speaker 1: you you don't need to be. This is the real
Speaker 1: thing he does too. I wish I was joking about it,
Speaker 1: just out of nowhere. You're watching like Abbott Elementary and
Speaker 1: he's like, you know, I would never sleep with my kids,
Speaker 1: ex wives or girlfriends. You're like, I'm sorry, what they'll
Speaker 1: tell some story from a movie like I saw it
Speaker 1: on this movie and I just I think that's a
Speaker 1: dastardly thing to do. And I was like, Okay, was
Speaker 1: your dad super religious? No, he only brings up God
Speaker 1: when it's convenient, whenever my polyamory comes up. But besides that,
Speaker 1: he's fine. I mean he he loves God like a Mexican,
Speaker 1: you know, like just when it comes up, and least
Speaker 1: like like big like things. Yeah, alright, fellas, if you
Speaker 1: if you need a friend, I mean it sounds like
Speaker 1: Steve's dad wild ride charming, motherfucker. Just keep your keep
Speaker 1: your wives or significant others close. Yeah, if you're not
Speaker 1: his sons, I would be concerned. Okay, because only our
Speaker 1: girls are off limits. The rest of you guys, forget
Speaker 1: about it. I want to think where it's like, even
Speaker 1: though this is I'm this is my stoner random like
Speaker 1: I'd watch your show where your dad is in someone's
Speaker 1: ear on a tender date and just navigating. You do
Speaker 1: not want to hear this guy's opinions on I just
Speaker 1: it's my favorite kind of content is someone with an
Speaker 1: earwig in getting fed lines and with an older ladies man.
Speaker 1: I can I imagine some of those takes we do
Speaker 1: talk about sex sometimes that he'll he's still he's so
Speaker 1: old school. He still thinks like good sex is the
Speaker 1: longer you have it. So it's like, oh no, Dad,
Speaker 1: He's like yeah. One time, going about an hour and
Speaker 1: a half, I was like, just I was like, that
Speaker 1: woman had a t I well there, you know, speaking
Speaker 1: of people aging, people who need things to do. Some
Speaker 1: some of suggested putin is he's facing his eventual demise
Speaker 1: and choosing to u invade countries to make himself feel
Speaker 1: alive again. I think mainly that's been suggested by us
Speaker 1: on this podcast, but just just a theory. We're thrown
Speaker 1: out there. What is uh? What's something you think is overrated? Steve?
Speaker 1: I think Disneyland is overrated? I know, I know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's just there. I was just there. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, I'm like and it continues to be overrated. Okay, sure, sure,
Speaker 1: I I've always hated that place. If anybody grew up
Speaker 1: poor going to Disneyland, Uh, it's like one of the worst.
Speaker 1: It's great that we got in, sure, but I just
Speaker 1: have so many going back there. I have so many
Speaker 1: like bad memories and like real like deep down like
Speaker 1: hurts and stuff. But I just remember, like eating a sandwich.
Speaker 1: Used to you have you used to have to leave
Speaker 1: the park and he would like have to eat your
Speaker 1: food like by the car. I just remember eating like
Speaker 1: a wet sandwich and looking like some rich family slamming
Speaker 1: hot dogs with the souvenirs and stuff. I just feel
Speaker 1: like they're always taking advantage of you. They're always trying
Speaker 1: to squeeze every bit of money off of you. Jack,
Speaker 1: I bet you take your family there. I bet you're
Speaker 1: dropping And this is no joke. You're probably dropping fills
Speaker 1: if you were to take their family there for one
Speaker 1: that sounds about red. I have not taken them. Yes,
Speaker 1: you gotta wait, you know, until they until the kids
Speaker 1: deserve it, right, Yeah, yeah, I say, I I do
Speaker 1: the Tom Hanks and saving Private Ryan, and I take
Speaker 1: them all the way there, and then I say, no,
Speaker 1: you gotta earn it. Wait, and you're dying from a
Speaker 1: gunshot wound. Yeah, for some of you, I feel like
Speaker 1: it just like adds impact to the same if I
Speaker 1: pretend like them, and then your kid ages fifty years
Speaker 1: before your guys looking at you like Matt Damon takes
Speaker 1: by the Haunted Mansion, know at the Singing Bears that
Speaker 1: just by that. Okay, Mr O'Brien. Uh No, But we
Speaker 1: did go recently. Julia was like, my mom wants to
Speaker 1: go for a birthday and I was like, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: She's like, they're paying for everything. I said, let when
Speaker 1: do we do it? Yeah? Did you see any of
Speaker 1: the New Ship? I went on the New Star Wars? Right?
Speaker 1: I mean it's bad. The whole thing is bad. The
Speaker 1: thing that is um it was fun, but you know,
Speaker 1: we're men now. So the idea of waiting for seventy
Speaker 1: five minutes for like a three minute ride, and we
Speaker 1: did a couple of those, like back to back. It's
Speaker 1: just like, what what are we doing? And her parents
Speaker 1: are you know, like sixty seven, they're great shape, good
Speaker 1: looking older people. Uh and then her sister. You know,
Speaker 1: I got this beautiful white family and me and we're
Speaker 1: just like standing in line for seventy five minutes in
Speaker 1: a row for the cars ride. I was like, give
Speaker 1: me a break. The saddest thing though the former Autopia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: carside it was kind of cool, But we didn't have
Speaker 1: any kids with us either. So it's one thing. If
Speaker 1: you're taking kids, you're living through them, and that I
Speaker 1: think is what it was heartbreaking. Two because you see
Speaker 1: all these families, like a lot of working class families
Speaker 1: or whatever, and you know they're just trying to be good,
Speaker 1: like good parents taking their kids to experience this thing,
Speaker 1: but it's so wrapped in like capitalism and buying things
Speaker 1: that it's just like, oh, this is our idea of
Speaker 1: tradition is we're just gonna get wrapped in this thing
Speaker 1: where we all keep getting taking advantage of generation after generation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go and buy the useless plastic items that you'll never
Speaker 1: use again. I saw a cholo yelling at its toddler.
Speaker 1: You don't want to see a cholo yelling as toddler
Speaker 1: and just over what what the tyler do? Come on?
Speaker 1: Toddler was like talking back to him. The toddler was
Speaker 1: like yelling at him. The dollar was yelling at him.
Speaker 1: He goes no, you broken or something. Tyler was literally
Speaker 1: and the troller was like, no, you broke it, like yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was like this portolo, like what is the
Speaker 1: crolo doing? Saving up for this? And he's yelling at
Speaker 1: his toddler and the wife said like, go get away
Speaker 1: from to the dad, like go walk over there. And
Speaker 1: I saw the dad get a sugar free monster. How
Speaker 1: sad is that he just stood a lot? I mean
Speaker 1: I was just waiting in this thing and I watched
Speaker 1: him get a sugar free monster, lo pounding, a sugar
Speaker 1: free monster, working his ass off to take his family,
Speaker 1: just to be berated by his toddler. I went to
Speaker 1: that haunted mansion. It's not scary. I don't even know
Speaker 1: if it was ever. I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: ever scary. Guys gonna say, I don't think that's contested. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're from you know, I'm from an abused home. Long
Speaker 1: pictures are not scary. To mean, you know what's scary
Speaker 1: my mom getting back with my dad when I was little.
Speaker 1: That was frightening fellas. You know what's scary fellas at
Speaker 1: the time my dad lost his wallet. That was scary.
Speaker 1: But let's capture that in a haunted managion huh, and
Speaker 1: insisted he knew where it went. Spoiler, it wasn't eight.
Speaker 1: You know, that was near thirty five years ago. And
Speaker 1: I'm not forgetting that one by it if you will.
Speaker 1: What is what's something you take? Is underrated? Are you guys?
Speaker 1: A list members at oh AMC the fourth time that
Speaker 1: ship came up this week? No, I'm not. I've I
Speaker 1: haven't been to a theater since pre pre Panda River.
Speaker 1: We'll get your get your sturdy mask. You still haven't
Speaker 1: been in the movies? No, you don't like movies that much.
Speaker 1: I yeah, that's that that would track. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't like going. I my love of going to the
Speaker 1: movie theater died in around there. I realized, like when
Speaker 1: I started working, it's interesting, and now I'll watch it
Speaker 1: at home, though, like I'll take movies in at home,
Speaker 1: but the theater experience. I think it also happened is
Speaker 1: I used to get free parking passes to CityWalk because
Speaker 1: I grew up in North Hollywood like in like this
Speaker 1: like one mile like this radius where Universal would send
Speaker 1: you free parking passes. So in those days, I'd always
Speaker 1: be like I'm there, I'm there, I'm there that dialed bag.
Speaker 1: I got crushed by working life and then yeah, it
Speaker 1: became more about weed and staying at home. I love
Speaker 1: the A List. I've got a group of people used
Speaker 1: to have a movie podcast and we developed like a
Speaker 1: movie club out of it. But if you're an A
Speaker 1: List member, it's something where it's nine a month from AMC.
Speaker 1: There's various AMCs around our area and you can go
Speaker 1: three times a week, and it's something Bucks is like
Speaker 1: the cost of two tickets basically, but it's something in
Speaker 1: the crew. What you just say, Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: doing that, and I'll go I have a vest but
Speaker 1: now and uh, I can go to the grove without
Speaker 1: paying for parking and and uh and universal it's only
Speaker 1: five dollars with this thing. So you'll catch me, catch
Speaker 1: me with my girl at city walk, you know, but
Speaker 1: the city walk I won't vest. But the city walk,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, it feels too crazy, But I
Speaker 1: do go on the freeway with it and stuff. I
Speaker 1: just I haven't vest bent to city walk yet. I
Speaker 1: should say, but uh, do you guys share, like do
Speaker 1: you share a membership or no? No, we each have
Speaker 1: a membership. You could resume I don't know the soda
Speaker 1: and share the soda. We each have to have the ticket,
Speaker 1: but I go with different people. I have a bunch
Speaker 1: of people I go with all time. And you'll just say, hey,
Speaker 1: let's go tonight at ten o'clock. After the die down
Speaker 1: of everything. You know, luckily we don't have kids yet,
Speaker 1: that's gonna end shortly, pretty soon. I can feel I
Speaker 1: can feel feel her, you know, lord, she shakes her
Speaker 1: fist at me. She wants this baby soon. So that's
Speaker 1: gonna be ending soon. But me and my girl will
Speaker 1: go to city Walk on a Monday night. Miles, do
Speaker 1: you remember what a fucking do you remember what a
Speaker 1: treat like city Walk used to be when you're nineteen
Speaker 1: years old, Like what a date destination? And now me
Speaker 1: and my girl go there on a Tuesday night, ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: We don't have to pay for the ticket. We'll buy
Speaker 1: some concessions. I'm just looking at her beautiful eyes, and
Speaker 1: you know, everything is romantic and closure. You're you're not
Speaker 1: sponsored by a MC because people are gonna think we're
Speaker 1: running a si op. Looking every couple of days, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's great. Other people, other people have brought
Speaker 1: this up in their Underrated or something. People keep talking
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, people have mentioned it for conjunction with
Speaker 1: that or like movie We talked about movie Pass and
Speaker 1: someone brought up Jackies brought up his love for movie
Speaker 1: Pass or a list. But yeah, I get it. It's
Speaker 1: it's like the movie Pass that actually works and you
Speaker 1: can Yeah, and it's not going away. It's not going away.
Speaker 1: So movie Pass, we all knew that was going away,
Speaker 1: but but this thing is not going anywhere. And like
Speaker 1: I said, it's great to be in the movies when
Speaker 1: we're in the middle of lockdown and stuff. I remember thinking, Man,
Speaker 1: I would do anything to be at a movie right now.
Speaker 1: And so, well, I love this. It's affordable, I don't drink,
Speaker 1: I have nothing else but movies and food. Uh, and
Speaker 1: so I absolutely love it and I recommend everyone to
Speaker 1: get it. And then you can go see a movie
Speaker 1: with me for free essentially. Oh yes, and you can
Speaker 1: get that a Cola Freestyle machine. You know they do,
Speaker 1: they do have the freestyle. I'm I'm a Do you
Speaker 1: call it the COVID Cola Freestyle? I think that was
Speaker 1: a slip, because you do you do start thinking about
Speaker 1: COVID whinger up there and there's just like you're like
Speaker 1: residue from the past twenty people were just licking it
Speaker 1: to get the flavor out of the little button. It's
Speaker 1: probably fine. Do you know? There was a time though,
Speaker 1: when they first opened up the movies where you couldn't
Speaker 1: get your own drink, so for like maybe six months.
Speaker 1: So there's like a worker there and you had to
Speaker 1: tell them on the freestyle what you wanted. Give me
Speaker 1: a break, let me get let me get a what
Speaker 1: was that, Let me get peach ginger out. I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I just just regular. Then man felt bad
Speaker 1: like anything that wasn't like a regular drink, Like you're like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I getting nasty with that thing. Like just
Speaker 1: do a coke zero and then ruin any calorie saving
Speaker 1: but put loading it up with cherry syrup and there
Speaker 1: you go. There you go. They don't have diet cherry coke.
Speaker 1: They do have cherry coke. That's what That's not what
Speaker 1: I'm getting, Miles. I'm going to the I'm going to
Speaker 1: the coke zero and then I am adding the cherry syrup.
Speaker 1: And as a little kick, Yeah, I p dog of
Speaker 1: the freestyle machine, you know, spring a little bit of
Speaker 1: that stuff in there. For people outside l A who
Speaker 1: don't know what Universal City Walk is, it's like a
Speaker 1: it's a combination mall theme park, right like it feels like.
Speaker 1: And when it opened it had like weird references, like
Speaker 1: there was a store that kind of like was a
Speaker 1: nod back to the future, but then became the Billabong store.
Speaker 1: There was like they're like Panasonic just had like an
Speaker 1: absolutely useless storefront to show off like the three D
Speaker 1: O gaming system, but you couldn't buy ship in there.
Speaker 1: I remember I was like, yeah, this place is fucking weird.
Speaker 1: It is the Church of Capitalism, Like they have all
Speaker 1: the like big theme chain restaurants. I look recently for
Speaker 1: the first time, I gotta got some Taco Bell, but
Speaker 1: it was like a really nice taco Bell experience. Nice talk,
Speaker 1: it's very nice talk about you end up pain about
Speaker 1: I've figured out about it fifty maybe a dollar more
Speaker 1: per item, but but they really daily out here. It
Speaker 1: looks nice though, I mean, like the real fat soft
Speaker 1: taco It looks like the pictures, but you do pay
Speaker 1: a premium for it. But you know, when you're at
Speaker 1: City Walk, you spare no expense and if you have
Speaker 1: an a list, it's virtually free. Alright, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll come back and talk about Ukraine. Wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, Steve's wearing a disguise. Rip it off. It's
Speaker 1: Nicole Kidman, I do it? How weird is that? All Right?
Speaker 1: Before we go to break, we do have to talk
Speaker 1: about that, which now it plays before every movie. She
Speaker 1: is not watching any of those movies, you know, with
Speaker 1: the amount of rapture that she's portraying. She's a good actor,
Speaker 1: but it is just such a strange. It's too highbrow, right,
Speaker 1: it's high brow mixed with like she's watching Creed too.
Speaker 1: They changed out the movies that she's watching, and the
Speaker 1: newest one she's watching it's Spider Man Multiverse. And I
Speaker 1: always in my head, I'm always picturing going, wow, a
Speaker 1: black spider Man. How this wild upside? That's wild? She's
Speaker 1: somebody a reporter told her. Did you see this thing
Speaker 1: going around where a reporter told her that the kidnet
Speaker 1: commercial is like caught on and like people on the
Speaker 1: internet love it? And she said, is that real? And
Speaker 1: they're like, yes, it's actually a pretty big thing. And
Speaker 1: she said, you gotta admit the movies aren't pretty magical though,
Speaker 1: So I like better actually that it's not like this
Speaker 1: forced together thing where they're just like trying to do
Speaker 1: a highbrowed thing and then replace like the because it
Speaker 1: feels like like one of those Oscar like you know,
Speaker 1: coming back from the commercial of the Oscars where Nicole
Speaker 1: Kidman's like watching Sound of Music and like like cinematic classics,
Speaker 1: but they just like replaced it with whatever the latest
Speaker 1: box office hits are. But I like it better that
Speaker 1: she is the autour behind it and she's just like
Speaker 1: really that basic and just really is like movies though,
Speaker 1: am I Right? That's why I'm into him. She did
Speaker 1: the She Goes Heartbreak really does go good in a
Speaker 1: place like that, right, you know, And she's like sometimes
Speaker 1: you could just go to the movies that cry, you know.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it's like, oh you thought that was
Speaker 1: written for me. Hell I remember when I saw Joe
Speaker 1: Inconsolable bicyically, oh man, that he really every movie, Because
Speaker 1: that's that's also like kind of the vibes that Tom
Speaker 1: Cruise gets off, right, is he just like fucking love? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So like you know there was that thing where he
Speaker 1: went on well some late night shows, like the movies
Speaker 1: are great? Am I right? And everyone's like this is
Speaker 1: such cynical bullshit, But I actually believe him. He's just
Speaker 1: like that's what they first bonded over. How stoked he
Speaker 1: wasn't like he went to the British like premiere with
Speaker 1: the match to see what's the Christopher the movie? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's just like, yeah, we thought that was all
Speaker 1: like for show, but that's just him at every movie.
Speaker 1: He's like out here at Despicable Me three, just like
Speaker 1: losing his mind. Oh my god, this baby is a boss.
Speaker 1: He's like, Wow, magic in front of our eyes, folks.
Speaker 1: All right, Nicole, it's him and Nicole Kid. In the
Speaker 1: first day, they're like, say, your three batteries not including exactly.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, those little robots and stuff helping him out.
Speaker 1: She says batteries not included. He says short circuit robot waves.
Speaker 1: Uh fuck. Alright, this is definitely what I needed after
Speaker 1: the mainlining news for the past. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll come back and talk about the war.
Speaker 1: And we're back, and I mean, I don't know how
Speaker 1: much we need to summarize for people. Putin announced a
Speaker 1: Special Military Operation Sian and I think people most people
Speaker 1: assumed he was going to go after, you know, limited
Speaker 1: regions that he had been talking about, and as of
Speaker 1: Thursday morning, it appears that it's just he's trying to
Speaker 1: invade all of Ukraine. Yeah. Yeah, and like real, a
Speaker 1: lot of fourth, a lot of bombs being dropped, missiles
Speaker 1: being fired at places that aren't military targets. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you know, this is this thing has been along, there's
Speaker 1: so much tension in that region for so long, and
Speaker 1: it gets to this point and on some level, a
Speaker 1: lot of people are like, Okay, well, the logic that
Speaker 1: Putin puts out is that he's he's pushing back against
Speaker 1: the expansion of NATO. Doesn't like the idea of NATO
Speaker 1: bases and like nuclear arms or any kind of military
Speaker 1: installations just dotted along the border of Russia. But when
Speaker 1: you also hear the way he talks about Ukraine, it's
Speaker 1: also you also hear that he has a very much
Speaker 1: like imperialistic idea of of you know, cobbling together or
Speaker 1: reclaiming some identity of like a Russian empire. Because of
Speaker 1: the way he talks about you know, Ukraine doesn't really
Speaker 1: even have a right to exist, which is not true
Speaker 1: at all, um, but that rhetoric sort of shows like
Speaker 1: the dimensions of sort of what he's sort of going after.
Speaker 1: And well, there's plenty of awful takes on the internet
Speaker 1: right now, my goodness. I think the thing that people
Speaker 1: really need to sort of broadly understand is that, you know,
Speaker 1: this is a situation where the people of Ukraine are
Speaker 1: now caught in a power struggle between Russia and there
Speaker 1: you know, specifically Pudent's desire to reform what was lost
Speaker 1: when the Soviet Union dissolved, but also NATO and the US,
Speaker 1: because they're one and the same, especially when you think
Speaker 1: of that NATO was created by the U S and
Speaker 1: Western allies specifically to fight communism after World War Two.
Speaker 1: That there's also this idea that you know, the NATO
Speaker 1: is trying to stick up for this idea of human
Speaker 1: rights and the US is backing that and the sovereignty
Speaker 1: of borders, and many, many people point out the contradictions there,
Speaker 1: like the Secretary General of the U N Terrorists was saying, like,
Speaker 1: you know, this is completely goes against the UN Charter.
Speaker 1: And you know, when many people point to the fact
Speaker 1: that you know, whether that was NATO bombing Yugoslavia and
Speaker 1: then late nineties or Bush's invasion of Iraq, that idea
Speaker 1: has not been really respected globally, not by NATO or
Speaker 1: the US. And this is now just putting regular people
Speaker 1: directly in the line of fire, and it's going to
Speaker 1: kick off a terrible humanitarian crisis, and we're just sort
Speaker 1: of now watching it sort of trickling in real time,
Speaker 1: and it's like really bizarre way where everything is on
Speaker 1: social media and you're getting you know, there's loads of
Speaker 1: like old war clips that are circulating and then ones
Speaker 1: you actually do see what's happening on the ground claimed
Speaker 1: to be like footage of what's happening right now. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: And that's just kind of the surreal nature of a
Speaker 1: of a war being fought in two in the age
Speaker 1: of like the internet and social media. But you know,
Speaker 1: the right now, it sounds like or most people feel
Speaker 1: like that all of this is at the moment Putin
Speaker 1: needs some kind of optics when to be able to
Speaker 1: cease any kind of further military action. Now, whether or
Speaker 1: not he's even interested in seizing that as a completely
Speaker 1: different question, and I'm not even equipped to begin to
Speaker 1: speculate on that, but a lot of people suggested, you know,
Speaker 1: he needs some guarantee that Ukraine will be someone is
Speaker 1: going to be neutral, will definitely not be part of NATO.
Speaker 1: But also in exchange for that, they have to fully
Speaker 1: retreat and pull their they're all of their military infrastructure
Speaker 1: and manpower out of Ukraine to begin to get any
Speaker 1: kind of concession like that. But you know, the last
Speaker 1: thing that's needed is an military escalation because the only
Speaker 1: thing that like, it's the people of Ukraine that are
Speaker 1: gonna pay dearly for increased the military incursions in that, like,
Speaker 1: in their country. But it's just a very you know,
Speaker 1: you're my heart goes out to all of these people
Speaker 1: watching people have to say that all I gotta fight
Speaker 1: for my country or whatever. Is harrowing. And the flip
Speaker 1: side of that too is that this is happening all
Speaker 1: over the world, and you know, if we're just in
Speaker 1: a moment where this part of the world is getting
Speaker 1: the most attention, but it's yeah, it's difficult. Yeah. Robert
Speaker 1: evans Uh and Jake Hanrahan from Cool Zone Media where
Speaker 1: they have two interviews with people on the ground in Ukraine,
Speaker 1: like journalists who have been kind of following this, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just you know, first of all, the the analysis
Speaker 1: that was coming from their side just kind of being
Speaker 1: a little bit closer to it than me, which would
Speaker 1: it would be hard to not be closer to it
Speaker 1: than me, because I am dumb as ship about this
Speaker 1: sort of thing. But the their theories that Putin wants
Speaker 1: to do shockunaw blitz Creek type thing, get the Ukrainians
Speaker 1: to surrender quickly and then get a peace treaty installed
Speaker 1: his own leader. It's like regime change and occupation being
Speaker 1: the end goal, which is what a lot of people
Speaker 1: were afraid of. It's also interesting that like the shock
Speaker 1: and awe type thing like this, it feels very much
Speaker 1: like we're watching another country do what the US did
Speaker 1: has done many times, but specifically in Iraq. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and I've and I've seen people you know, on the
Speaker 1: internet talk about the US is does this all the time,
Speaker 1: and and a lot of people like you don't start
Speaker 1: with this what about is um? It's not a what
Speaker 1: about is um? Like many things. Yeah, you know, the
Speaker 1: US has a very well defined history of you know,
Speaker 1: regime change, and I'm just hoping seeing it happen like
Speaker 1: when it's not the US and not tied up in
Speaker 1: some massive, like jingoistic like cultural bombardment campaign that we
Speaker 1: get at home, what like seeing it and being like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's also what they said when we launched
Speaker 1: what we're supposed to be precision laser peacekeeping mission. Right, yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: we will indiscriminately destroy a country. Yeah. But even leading
Speaker 1: up to this, it does feel like the US media
Speaker 1: has been pushing for US to go to war. Correct,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean the people they have on as
Speaker 1: pundits are like people who are like directly had a
Speaker 1: hand in, you know, negotiating with the Soviet Union and
Speaker 1: how to like change their economy. Are from like think
Speaker 1: tanks that have had a huge hand in like steering
Speaker 1: the policy of many other administrations. You're like, well, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. These people
Speaker 1: like have a like serious bone to pick with the
Speaker 1: like with Russia, and that's all they see. And I
Speaker 1: get that, Like, you know, they're in a moment where
Speaker 1: on paper, most people don't like the idea. They're like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: why is this sovereign nations borders being breached like this
Speaker 1: and being invaded. That's not good. But on the other
Speaker 1: side of it, to you know, whether or not the
Speaker 1: US is fighting with physical bodies in Ukraine, is still
Speaker 1: feeds the military industrial complex in the form of military aid, right,
Speaker 1: which means here are some explosives, here are weapons systems
Speaker 1: that still kind of keeps that machine going. And yeah,
Speaker 1: there there isn't There aren't many people who are saying, like,
Speaker 1: we need to figure out how to avoid at every
Speaker 1: cost having like blood being spilt in Ukraine because again
Speaker 1: the people there that are going to suffer dearly. It's
Speaker 1: then that's like that emphasis is not really present except
Speaker 1: until the actual war begins, and then they will try
Speaker 1: and use like images of people being harmed in things
Speaker 1: to try and increase the saber atom. Right. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: there's some wild details just from you know, people on
Speaker 1: the ground, like the journalists Jake Hanrahan was interviewing, you know,
Speaker 1: woke up. I guess it was Thursday morning, KIV time,
Speaker 1: and like herd explosions. It was like looking online was like,
Speaker 1: now this can't be true. Like opened his window and
Speaker 1: he could see the highway and it was just like
Speaker 1: jam packed with people fleeing the city and had to
Speaker 1: take an uber to a safer location like with his family,
Speaker 1: like but like fleeing to the countryside, and an uber
Speaker 1: is a pretty wild like image. And then he Jake
Speaker 1: had also talked to he had been in Ukraine four
Speaker 1: days ago and was, you know, working with militia members,
Speaker 1: documenting what they were going through and how they were preparing.
Speaker 1: And he was speaking to somebody who they you know,
Speaker 1: they're obviously outnumbered, but he was talking to a militia
Speaker 1: member who's in a taxi with a gun like going
Speaker 1: to fight, like just being in a taxi like on
Speaker 1: the on the way to a battle. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: other detail that kind of came out more in the
Speaker 1: Robert Evans conversation which is in UH on his Daily
Speaker 1: show it could happen here, is he like how politically
Speaker 1: monolithic Ukraine is, which they they're like a socialist nation
Speaker 1: by constitution. Because there's like a lot of conversations coming
Speaker 1: up about like Russia being like their Nazis and then
Speaker 1: people pointing out like, actually they're more Nazis on the
Speaker 1: like pro Russia kind of right wing side of this battle.
Speaker 1: But it does seem like this journalist who is Ukrainian
Speaker 1: was saying that like they are compared to it's hard
Speaker 1: for somebody in the US to wrap their mind around
Speaker 1: how like politically monolithic they are as a country, like
Speaker 1: their political their elections become more personality contests because they
Speaker 1: all basically are like, yeah, no where socialist country. We
Speaker 1: believe in the same policies. Yeah, the same policies. So
Speaker 1: that's how you get a comedian to be a Ukraine
Speaker 1: and John Stewart to be their president. But I mean
Speaker 1: kind of same here, you know, pretty monolithic and that
Speaker 1: no one wants to help anybody, So there are some
Speaker 1: things we can all agree on. Yeah, don't fucking help nobody,
Speaker 1: all right, now you can have this TV star or
Speaker 1: this spooky mummy which you like. But yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: also like this is kicking off so many different things,
Speaker 1: right because a lot of people say, we're the people
Speaker 1: of Russia, and based on what you're seeing on the
Speaker 1: internet reports, there are a lot of anti war protests
Speaker 1: like popping up in Russia, which is would come at
Speaker 1: a tremendous cost to those people because Putin is since
Speaker 1: Navalny was arrested, and even beyond like descent isn't treated.
Speaker 1: They're kindly for decades like this is what you prepare.
Speaker 1: This is why you kill people who criticize your You know,
Speaker 1: if you have long term plans to do some ship
Speaker 1: like this, that is what going to be wildly unpopular
Speaker 1: with the people. Like that's that. Now all that ship
Speaker 1: starts making sense that he's a murderous authoritarian dictator, like
Speaker 1: really helps him do whatever the funk he wants, I guess.
Speaker 1: But you have Russian pop stars, Russian movie stars, people
Speaker 1: speaking out against not critical, not being directly critical, but
Speaker 1: a lot of the Russia, as you said earlier, Miles,
Speaker 1: so a lot of the Russian people are against this.
Speaker 1: This is really about one group of men who are
Speaker 1: insistent on this power move. But I do like the
Speaker 1: way you framed at Miles, Putin is not crazy for
Speaker 1: not wanting NATO and nuclear stuff to to be right
Speaker 1: next to his country. If someone tried to put nuclear
Speaker 1: warheads and stuff at the borders of our country, we
Speaker 1: would be upset as well, right yeah, yeah, right, And
Speaker 1: and I think people also aren't really looking at the
Speaker 1: history of like NATO and NATO expansion because again for
Speaker 1: from from his perspective, he's like, oh yeah, they they
Speaker 1: all ganged up together to to kind of be an
Speaker 1: oppositional force at the end of World War two, to
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, this is part of the Marshall Plan.
Speaker 1: We have to stop the spread of communism. Part of
Speaker 1: that is to create this organization. So there it's like
Speaker 1: this manifestation of a like a group of countries that
Speaker 1: are sort of diametrically opposed to you. So when you
Speaker 1: already have that, you know under that's what's bubbling under
Speaker 1: the surface, like Okay, maybe we can get this country
Speaker 1: in and we'll get this country and they're like they're
Speaker 1: trying to pull up and that's something that they don't like.
Speaker 1: But again, the part of that too is like, you know,
Speaker 1: I think the way we look at a lot of
Speaker 1: peacekeeping missions that we've gone these excursions before, we'll have
Speaker 1: like sort of the optics of like helping a group
Speaker 1: of people, but it's always at in like a larger
Speaker 1: aim of like Western capitalist powers. Like it's never a
Speaker 1: purely peace keeping thing. It's all about expansion of empire,
Speaker 1: whether but it's whose empire. And now you're getting to
Speaker 1: the point where they're butting up against each other, and
Speaker 1: and and and Ukraine has been unfortunately like a a
Speaker 1: part like a country that's just been caught in this
Speaker 1: tug of war over NATO expansion, and you know, and
Speaker 1: now it's unfortunately finding itself to be experiencing all the
Speaker 1: violent falloff from that. Yeah, it's important I think to
Speaker 1: keep in mind. Like I don't know if people saw
Speaker 1: that documentary Winner on Fire. We've talked about it before,
Speaker 1: We've taught Evans actually went and interviewed a bunch of
Speaker 1: the people who were involved in the like Auto Maiden thing.
Speaker 1: But that like this is where in two thousands thirteen,
Speaker 1: I think there was a pro Russia government backed Ukraine
Speaker 1: away from the West and economic progress and like independence,
Speaker 1: and like the people of the city like formed an
Speaker 1: impromptu like like military fort out of snow and like
Speaker 1: loose panels and scaffolding and ship they like just build
Speaker 1: a snow fort in the middle of the city and
Speaker 1: like use taxis and personal vehicles to create a cavalry
Speaker 1: on like fought and died until their president left office,
Speaker 1: so I do something. Click there's and then having since
Speaker 1: that time been at the center of this like slow
Speaker 1: boiled to war, you know, it's awful that it's it's
Speaker 1: come to this, but it feels like this is the
Speaker 1: sort of thing they've been preparing for for for a while.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, Yeah, I mean, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think most people looking at they're just horrifying, like, uh,
Speaker 1: is there a way for it to end? And it
Speaker 1: you know, from like what even the president says of
Speaker 1: of like what they're looking at militarily or like what
Speaker 1: Russia is doing there, like it looks like they're just
Speaker 1: trying to decapitate the capital to try and you know,
Speaker 1: get get a surrender. Yeah, and and see where they
Speaker 1: go from there. Now how you know what that what
Speaker 1: that process ends up looking like, I mean, who knows?
Speaker 1: And how long this goes for? Who knows? And because
Speaker 1: I think at the end there's just so many, so
Speaker 1: many moving parts. It's it's really just like one of
Speaker 1: those things like I don't even know what to say
Speaker 1: because there's so many things up in there there. The
Speaker 1: Ukrainian government said that the Russian forces had basically taken
Speaker 1: over control of the old Chernobyl reactor and there are
Speaker 1: a lot of nuclear power plants in the country, like
Speaker 1: what happens with an errant air strike and are is
Speaker 1: there going to be nuclear fallout? Is there going to
Speaker 1: be you know, there's so many fucking layers to this,
Speaker 1: but I think the most important thing is that people
Speaker 1: are in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and are
Speaker 1: able to accept the refugee inevitable refugees that are going
Speaker 1: to be looking to settle somewhere. So yeah, yeah, Europes
Speaker 1: usually pretty good about that, so we should be good there.
Speaker 1: I mean, nowhere is really good about it, to be honest. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, some countries have been pretty quick, like
Speaker 1: you know, like Ireland was like, hey, just there's no
Speaker 1: question since asked come through other countries to have just
Speaker 1: said please, just we get it, that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think they're always varying degrees of
Speaker 1: empathy when you look at a global crisis based on
Speaker 1: what the people involved in it looked like. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think that's why it's really important to also keep
Speaker 1: in mind that, like, while this is happening, there are
Speaker 1: many other places where the US is currently having a
Speaker 1: hand in the destruction of people's lives too, And it's
Speaker 1: an absurd notion to think that like there's any sort
Speaker 1: of righteous leg to stand on when talking about human rights.
Speaker 1: But all that to say that doesn't dissuade from the
Speaker 1: fact that the people of Ukraine are suffering, and that's
Speaker 1: just it's awful. Mhm alright, let's uh, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back, and
Speaker 1: so is law and order. We ad there. We came
Speaker 1: so close to the actual daily zeitgeis transition that CN
Speaker 1: ended today. It's like a viral tweet where they were
Speaker 1: showing like Kiev and like all like these air raid
Speaker 1: sirens going off, and like it was just like a
Speaker 1: static shot just to kind of like sort of let
Speaker 1: people sonically understand like what the vibe is. And then
Speaker 1: they do a hard cut to a fucking Applebe's commercial
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, dude, work on a better way
Speaker 1: to sell fucking beer and chicken. But yeah, hey man,
Speaker 1: but that Apple be Is commercial. Is that the one
Speaker 1: appropriated the cheers song? Um have you? Oh you you
Speaker 1: didn't watch the super Bowl or maybe I don't even
Speaker 1: think that was the super Bowl actually, but there's a
Speaker 1: there's an Applebee's commercial that creates a universe in which
Speaker 1: Applebee's is the place where every ready where, like your
Speaker 1: community goes to hang out with one another and everybody
Speaker 1: knows each other, and it's it's an interesting dystopian vision
Speaker 1: of of a weird world where Applebee's one the corporate
Speaker 1: fast food wars instead of Taco Bell, which is, as
Speaker 1: we know from Demolition Man, what's gonna inevitably happen. One time,
Speaker 1: I was in New York, like twenty years ago, and uh,
Speaker 1: I lost my phone or something like that, and some
Speaker 1: lady found it and they said, meet me at this
Speaker 1: McDonald's at some like McDonald's in Brooklyn. And I went
Speaker 1: to that McDonald's and the whole, like the whole neighborhood
Speaker 1: was there. There was like a neighborhood of like old
Speaker 1: black men playing cards and kids and families, and I
Speaker 1: was like, this is what it's all about. So to me,
Speaker 1: when I think of that, I do think there aren't
Speaker 1: some place cities where Applebee's is the place. If you
Speaker 1: recall on Friday night lights, they met at Applebee's all
Speaker 1: the time for like just Greek meetings, So I do
Speaker 1: think there are some cities. That was definitely true of
Speaker 1: my group of friends in like freshman year of the
Speaker 1: sophomore year of high school that we will go to
Speaker 1: the Applebee's down in Kentucky, and magically we would never
Speaker 1: have enough money. It was. It was truly like a
Speaker 1: reverse Jesus miracle, where it was like everybody would put
Speaker 1: in a certain amount and then you would count it
Speaker 1: up at the end and it would we would not
Speaker 1: have enough. But we usually got Applebee's late night too.
Speaker 1: But for that they had a pretty good happy hour.
Speaker 1: And I just don't I don't remember how bad we
Speaker 1: tipped them, those poor applebee workers as high schoolers. It
Speaker 1: must have been pretty bad. Yeah, we could still go
Speaker 1: in the back and use the cigarette machine to buy cigarettes.
Speaker 1: So that was that era that might still be true
Speaker 1: in Kentucky Applebee's. I don't know, alright, So Lauren Lauren
Speaker 1: or is back? I don't know. I think this is
Speaker 1: like a good case study and why our culture is
Speaker 1: like littered with reboots and retooling. The story is that
Speaker 1: like Dick Wolfe has been basically since it was canceled
Speaker 1: in two thousand ten, trying to get it like re
Speaker 1: booted or like really just started up again, and no
Speaker 1: one bought it until now. But like that the reason
Speaker 1: that he's able to spend ten years shopping this same show.
Speaker 1: Is that he is the creator of Law and Order,
Speaker 1: so he has clout and money to burn and can
Speaker 1: just kind of keep sitting on it, whereas most shows
Speaker 1: just get a single look basically. And then there's also
Speaker 1: the fact that you know jam and this piece points
Speaker 1: out that like that, it seems like NBC and like
Speaker 1: Net Network TV is trying to just bring the nineties
Speaker 1: back like fully, the at least NBC's nineties lineup. There's
Speaker 1: Law in Order, the recent Peacock reboot of The Fresh
Speaker 1: Prince of bel Air. NBC just announced their rebooting Quantum Leap.
Speaker 1: ABC is bringing back NBC's L A Law. L A Law. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Quantum Leap. I can kind of half wrap my head around.
Speaker 1: I'm on board for Quantum Leap. That feels like a
Speaker 1: premise that was a solid be when they when they
Speaker 1: did it, but could could be like a plus like
Speaker 1: sci Fi if you nail it, sure man, But l
Speaker 1: A Law man, fuck it? Bring who was even in
Speaker 1: fucking l A Law. That's one that like, I never
Speaker 1: I think I was just a little too young. What
Speaker 1: do you got what's his name, Corbin something? Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was on L A Law. Damn you old Man. Quantum
Speaker 1: Leap was good. I remember you could watch that with
Speaker 1: the family, So that's like a good family show. And then,
Speaker 1: of course, I don't know if you remember the final
Speaker 1: episode where he meets Got Do you guys remember that? No,
Speaker 1: never watched it too, like the point where I was
Speaker 1: fully on board with all the lord, or at least
Speaker 1: I knew how it ended. I was like, oh that
Speaker 1: shows on the last couple of seasons started kind of
Speaker 1: going a little crazy. They started making these movies. I
Speaker 1: think he was Lee Harvey Oswald at one point that
Speaker 1: they did like a two hour one of those. But
Speaker 1: then he finally he still shoots JFK and shoots Jackie.
Speaker 1: Take the both out. Yeah, Right after he shoots Jackie
Speaker 1: in the head, he goes, oh boy, was really Oh boy?
Speaker 1: Was that his catch friends? Oh Boyah? He would whenever
Speaker 1: he would hop in at the end of an episode,
Speaker 1: he would hop into the new thing and he would like,
Speaker 1: you know, he would be in a crazy situation, he'd go,
Speaker 1: oh boy, and then it'd be like oh boo, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh just l a law had They apparently had a
Speaker 1: like one of those roles of like launching a ton
Speaker 1: of careers kind of how like people like Law and Order,
Speaker 1: You'll see like so many people been in Law and Order.
Speaker 1: L A Law seems like the same thing is on Cheetle,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Tambor, David Swimmer, James Avery, Shadow, Uncle Phil C. C. H. Pounder,
Speaker 1: Kevin never Mind, Carrie Ann Moss. There's been a lot
Speaker 1: of the spaceman's eve been up to then asked me again, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that one feels even more impressive because
Speaker 1: like what I feel like a Law and Order gets
Speaker 1: gets away with like being named as like launching all
Speaker 1: these things because they have forty different guest stars in
Speaker 1: every episode, so like everybody's been in that. I've been
Speaker 1: in a couple episodes Law and Order, you know, like
Speaker 1: I didn't believe that anyone who comes from New York
Speaker 1: and says, hey, I was actually in an episode of
Speaker 1: Lawn where I'm like that there's a very high probability
Speaker 1: that you were, even if you were like a dead body.
Speaker 1: Like there are a couple of actually, there are a
Speaker 1: couple episodes that are about me, but they don't know
Speaker 1: they're about me, So we'll just leave it at that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've only seen one episode of the suite you. I
Speaker 1: was at my mechanics there was getting an oil change,
Speaker 1: and I just couldn't believe how much they bring up rape.
Speaker 1: They just bring it up all the time. I know
Speaker 1: that's what the show's about, but I see saying that
Speaker 1: word like twenty times in an hour. I was just like,
Speaker 1: I cannot believe how much people love this show. Right,
Speaker 1: that almost became a meme, right of like I Steve
Speaker 1: talking about rape. I feel like that was like like
Speaker 1: the there's almost like a super cut of him saying
Speaker 1: You're like something about him saying it and talking about
Speaker 1: it in the way that TV characters do where you know,
Speaker 1: have to be where the writer has to like feel
Speaker 1: like they've done something clever, and so like there's like, well,
Speaker 1: let's put a button on this description of the horrific
Speaker 1: act that he's just witnessed. But anyways, the the other thing,
Speaker 1: like I've heard big claims made about like culture ended
Speaker 1: in the nineties and everything everything since it's just recycled.
Speaker 1: But I like seeing this story. He makes me think
Speaker 1: more that it's just that the way that the culture
Speaker 1: is going, there's so many more and like now there
Speaker 1: are a thousand places to watch something as opposed to
Speaker 1: you know, forty major cable channels, and the only way
Speaker 1: for them to consolidate all those audiences again is by
Speaker 1: giving them the stuff they won't loved or at least
Speaker 1: watched because it was the only option. Like it just
Speaker 1: like that, that's kind of obvious. But I've just heard
Speaker 1: more and more people being like the nineties was the
Speaker 1: end of culture and the peak of culture and everything
Speaker 1: everything since then. It's like, no, it was just that,
Speaker 1: like that was a time when we had fewer options
Speaker 1: and it's a numbers game. Yeah. And also as someone
Speaker 1: who wasn't even alive in the nineties, they'd be like, no,
Speaker 1: culture started in some other time. I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a weird thing to say, like unequivocally, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I think my nineties nostalgia
Speaker 1: or like the reason I like look back at it
Speaker 1: or even like regress with like the ship that I
Speaker 1: watch is mostly it's like escapism because I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I literally didn't know how complex shi it was
Speaker 1: back then, and this reminds me of that mindset that
Speaker 1: and and you know, a lot of people, as much
Speaker 1: as we we like to turn to TV and these
Speaker 1: things to be compelled and for it to be thought provoked.
Speaker 1: I think most people do watch it because they want
Speaker 1: the comfort that comes with with just being reassured, and
Speaker 1: so a reboot stuff like this, it makes complete sense
Speaker 1: that they're they're betting that people just want to forget
Speaker 1: about this fucking pandemic and war and terrible economy and
Speaker 1: all this bullshit. Yeah right back when I could like
Speaker 1: the cops on TV, right, Yeah, exactly. I was just
Speaker 1: gonna say. On the other hand, reasons why they might
Speaker 1: not like it is it's just another cop show, and
Speaker 1: apparently the first episode, in order to address the fact that,
Speaker 1: you know, people, people have found out that cops are
Speaker 1: often really awful pieces of ship, the cop partners don't
Speaker 1: get along anymore. Oh yeah. So Anthony Anderson is like,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm glad that there are cell phones with cameras
Speaker 1: because it encourages police accountability. And his partner and this
Speaker 1: is a quote, says, I speak my mind probably about
Speaker 1: things that shouldn't speak my mind about, but it's just
Speaker 1: how I'm wired. Oh fuck off. Yeah, the new one
Speaker 1: did that too, where that that that guy who came
Speaker 1: back I forget his name. He's the one that all
Speaker 1: all the girls like. He's older, he's bald, kind of buff.
Speaker 1: He was also in that maloney Yeah yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he like apologizes for his sins. So part of these
Speaker 1: new Cops shows is they try to like acknowledge that
Speaker 1: the ways in which cops have been bad in the past,
Speaker 1: so that you can see that, oh, you know, they
Speaker 1: really are trying to be rehabilitated, or they're trying there
Speaker 1: are really aren't good cops. Still. The only good cop
Speaker 1: is a fat Anthony Anderson. So unless he puts on weight,
Speaker 1: unless he puts on the old Anthony Anderson. Wait, I
Speaker 1: don't need him in his huge head and his thin body. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just this thin body and this huge head.
Speaker 1: Yeah miss the old Anthony. Huh. Another way they're trying
Speaker 1: to be relevant to two is giving us a mystery solved,
Speaker 1: involving a mystery to solve involving the murder of Bill Cosby.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not like literally Bill Cosby. It's Gil Crosby.
Speaker 1: I think the name is let me see here. Oh.
Speaker 1: Henry King, an incomprehensibly famous singer accused of raping dozens
Speaker 1: of women, and so he's found murder. He gets out
Speaker 1: of prison on a technicality similar to Cosby, and then
Speaker 1: it is murdered, and Anthony Anderson closes the cold open
Speaker 1: by saying, and this is again a direct quote, every
Speaker 1: victim deserves respect, even the ones that raped forty women. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's how that's how they end the cold open. They
Speaker 1: just both sides that ship. Don't even say that, like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, alright, long hard what happens they catch them?
Speaker 1: They catch it. Sounds like they're both sides of it.
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Whiles, but also I think they're
Speaker 1: kind of encouraging someone to murder Bill Cosy, So you
Speaker 1: can look at it like that too. Will still look
Speaker 1: into the crime, but be a lot easier to wrestle
Speaker 1: with this ship if you was just you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know, not here anymore. Yeah, yeah, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happens. So that's the thing, and that's
Speaker 1: always the thing with will never spoil it. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: never spoil an episode of law in order. It's never
Speaker 1: clear if they're going to catch the bad guy, or
Speaker 1: who the bad guy is, or how many bartenders they're
Speaker 1: going to have to interview. While wiping it while they're
Speaker 1: wiping down the bar, sliding them twenty Yeah, maybe I
Speaker 1: saw him. Yeah, I was just about to do. Realize
Speaker 1: I was just about to do. John Molaney has been
Speaker 1: on Law and Order, so I'll just stop. But if
Speaker 1: you haven't, John Lane has been on the business of
Speaker 1: these people who are being interviewed by homicide detectives and
Speaker 1: can't stop doing their jobs. I can't stop unloading the
Speaker 1: truck while they're being interviewed. Worth check it out. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a commentary on capitalism. It's like the worker work
Speaker 1: that didn't even stop to help a fellow slain human
Speaker 1: being because they gotta they gotta get these TVs onloaded. Poll.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, I hey, I gotta take my break.
Speaker 1: Came that close to cracking the case. Yeah, well, Steve,
Speaker 1: such a pleasure having you on t d Z. Great
Speaker 1: hanging with you fellas. Yeah. Where can people find you
Speaker 1: and follow you? You find me a big Herrn on Twitter,
Speaker 1: Hernia on Instagram. Please listen to my podcast and watch
Speaker 1: it on YouTube. Read the Bible with Me with Steve Fernandez,
Speaker 1: or talk about comedy, sex and yes, we do read
Speaker 1: the Bible every week so that's really fun if you
Speaker 1: are a former person that grew up in the church.
Speaker 1: If not, I don't see why you would have any
Speaker 1: interest in the Bible. That's me. Um well, I think
Speaker 1: the latest episode was called Sodomy stuff or just sodomy
Speaker 1: exclamation point. Yeah, a lot of people we actually are
Speaker 1: in we're covering the sodomy and go Mora stuff, So
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know that story. It's a
Speaker 1: pretty insane story and a lot of Christians point to
Speaker 1: that as an anti why why homosexuality is bad? But
Speaker 1: it's really just guys being guys. But we get into
Speaker 1: that in the newest episode, so check that out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't be lots of wife y'all. Yeah, is there a
Speaker 1: tweet or some of the work of social media you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying? Yeah, I love this. Diego Lopez. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys have had him on the show yet.
Speaker 1: He's a really funny comedian out of New York. He
Speaker 1: has a podcast called a Little Time Podcast with Michael Brushi.
Speaker 1: But he's uh, he's show funny and uh this one
Speaker 1: as a Polly guy. I really liked this one. But
Speaker 1: he did this last week. Yes, I'm Polly Paully gonna
Speaker 1: cry during Paddington three. But yeah, check out the this
Speaker 1: Diego Lopez. He's really funny. He's a great follower. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Paddington three, there's like apparently it's happening. So that's that's
Speaker 1: exciting for my kids and Caitlin Durante and film lovers everywhere,
Speaker 1: But absolutely Paddington three should cast Caitlin Durrante miles Where
Speaker 1: can people find you? Follow you? Uh? Find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. And then also
Speaker 1: four twenty Day Fiance, the other pod with Sophia Alexandra
Speaker 1: talking ninety day and many reality TV just trash heaps
Speaker 1: that we love to feast on. Some tweets a like.
Speaker 1: First one is from refurbished hooci at the Husky tweeted classmate,
Speaker 1: I got six kids and six dogs me not muted.
Speaker 1: I know itsmes crazy in there. That's great. Uh. The
Speaker 1: other one is from slick at d l I c
Speaker 1: J tweeted before my son got glasses. We were at
Speaker 1: something where a guy was speaking and my son asked
Speaker 1: if it was normal that the guy speaking looked blurry,
Speaker 1: and I said, yes, that guy is just a blurry guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have that resonates with me. Oh yeah, because your
Speaker 1: kid has glasses as glasses we're having to do so
Speaker 1: back in my day, you just patched the damn I
Speaker 1: that you could see out of to help strengthen the
Speaker 1: one that was bad. And now they have like eye
Speaker 1: drops that just keep that eye like you're a good
Speaker 1: eye blurry for like a whole week. So we're just
Speaker 1: we're starting to deal with that. Wait, that's a but
Speaker 1: that was a real way you could treat it, because
Speaker 1: I remember seeing like mad like you, I see kids,
Speaker 1: but I pass. Yeah, was that kid in a like
Speaker 1: a champagne uncorking accident. Yeah, it's kind of wild, like
Speaker 1: the way that I laziness or lazy eyes and I
Speaker 1: kind of have one the drifts a little bit every
Speaker 1: once in a while. But like the way it happens
Speaker 1: is one of your eyes becomes like so so much
Speaker 1: better than the other one that your brain is just
Speaker 1: like not fuck then the bad and it just kind
Speaker 1: of turns it off and and you stopped relying on it,
Speaker 1: and then that's when it just like stops really working.
Speaker 1: And so you know, we're that's what we're dealing with,
Speaker 1: is he has bad vision of one eye. So we're
Speaker 1: trying to get the bad eye strong again. I don't
Speaker 1: want to get bogged down in the details. I know
Speaker 1: we're still recording, but so can he see fine through
Speaker 1: the eye after you put the drops in? No, so
Speaker 1: we know it's fun up. So so the patch goes
Speaker 1: over the good eye, that's the thing is. And and
Speaker 1: so the blurry nous goes in his good eyes so
Speaker 1: that he doesn't rely on that so he can't see
Speaker 1: ship period. And then the idea is that like now
Speaker 1: both of the times are blurry. It really sucks. Is
Speaker 1: like you gotta put ankle weights on that week exactly,
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is, okay, and then he'll be
Speaker 1: you have a fifty vertical put ankle weights on the
Speaker 1: your weak leg and eventually it'll it'll pick up. And
Speaker 1: also you can't use your good leg. Fuck up, suck
Speaker 1: up anyways. Uh. You can find me on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Jack Underscore. O'Brien tweets I've been enjoying petty religion, tweeted
Speaker 1: I'd be a terrible therapist because I'd want you to
Speaker 1: show me a pick of the guy you keep crying about,
Speaker 1: and that just has to be The hardest thing for
Speaker 1: a therapist not to be like, all right, let me say,
Speaker 1: what are we talking about, or at least not like
Speaker 1: go instagram stock the person you're to try and like
Speaker 1: figure out. It's like, it's always it would all says
Speaker 1: be sad. It's always just some improver or something like
Speaker 1: this with that change the advice you give them, you know,
Speaker 1: and then Sore and Booie tweeted, imagine actually killing two
Speaker 1: birds with one stone. It would ruin friendships. You'd tell
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Speaker 1: in today's episode, as well as a song that we
Speaker 1: think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do we think
Speaker 1: people might enjoy it? So you just want to shout out,
Speaker 1: We've we've done some Thundercat stuff on here, but there's
Speaker 1: a Thundercast song that I like because, as someone who's
Speaker 1: black and Japanese, the idea of a dragon ball do
Speaker 1: rag appeals to me. If only I had the hair
Speaker 1: to necessitate the wave cap. But this track is called
Speaker 1: dragon Ball Do Rag by Thundercat. And again, if you
Speaker 1: don't know about Thundercat, really fantastic bass player. Rummer was
Speaker 1: also his drummer. His brother also a phenomenal drummer. And
Speaker 1: back in the day when they're at Fairfax High School,
Speaker 1: they used to be like the most feared like jazz
Speaker 1: ensemble in the school ever, where you had basically people
Speaker 1: who were like professional level musicians in high school. Uh
Speaker 1: so much respect to Thundercat, but this is dragon Ball
Speaker 1: Do Rag by Thundercat. Was there competitive jazz out here?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Wow? Oh yeah. Fairfax High School had like
Speaker 1: one of the best jazz programs hands down, And you'd
Speaker 1: be like, dude, the Brunner brothers because he's called Corey
Speaker 1: Brunner and his brothers Ron Bruner Jr. And it was
Speaker 1: like day it was like you almost there was no
Speaker 1: point in competing if they were there, because you're like,
Speaker 1: they're gonna fucking just blow everyone out. And you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of like seeing that kind of stuff when
Speaker 1: you're younger. Yeah, I thought the All Valley Karate Tournament
Speaker 1: was far fetched, But but for jazz jazz showdown. Yeah
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