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Speaker 1: talented Joel Mon. Oh my god, Monday, were getting ready
Speaker 1: for the new week. I'm sure it is. Wait Wick,
Speaker 1: how are you Joel. I'm gonna go bleed D and
Speaker 1: D today and I'm really going to attend to Slay Dragon.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna get it all out of my system.
Speaker 1: That's That's how I'm going to process what this week
Speaker 1: has been. Where out of mercury retrograde. Thank god, it's
Speaker 1: a new day. It's a new day. I've been on
Speaker 1: the edge of my seat waiting to get out of
Speaker 1: mercury retrograde. Listen, listen, even if you don't know what
Speaker 1: it's happening to you all the time and it's tand by,
Speaker 1: but no more tech issues were good Now I passively
Speaker 1: believe in like I have evidence to suggest that that
Speaker 1: stuff is real, and I it just doesn't agree with
Speaker 1: my brain, so I just don't do the research. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, if you guys say, if you guys
Speaker 1: tell me that it's important, then that it's a good
Speaker 1: thing that we're out of mercury retrograde. Let's do the
Speaker 1: office party. I'm bringing my tarot cards. I have a
Speaker 1: movie deck tarot cards. They're my favorite. Well, you try reading,
Speaker 1: it'll be great. Oh yeah, what's your what what like movies.
Speaker 1: Give me an example of this. One is the Emperor.
Speaker 1: It's the Godfather, you know the class Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we got Bridley its strength. Oh that's dope. Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Garthdays have like a pat of butter on his desk
Speaker 1: and stuff. Let's see, let's look at it. I think
Speaker 1: that's just a gold cigar box, is what it's giving. Okay,
Speaker 1: but yeah, we'll have a good we'll have a time
Speaker 1: and we'll read your try I'll find out where your
Speaker 1: moon is. It'll be great. I have a tarot deck
Speaker 1: behind me as well. It's like a weird I swear,
Speaker 1: I do wait, does stop? That's that's the one I
Speaker 1: just pulled today. I don't know if you can see it.
Speaker 1: What is this card? It's it's the chariot oh going
Speaker 1: the illumination tarot deck, like a desert themed tarot deck.
Speaker 1: My wife isn't all this stuff, so I am too,
Speaker 1: and I think it's very cool. I just really like
Speaker 1: the art on the shout out to your wife love
Speaker 1: he already Well, Joel, We are thrilled and fortunate to
Speaker 1: be joined in our third seat by a very funny
Speaker 1: stand up whose Netflix half hour in season three of
Speaker 1: the stand Ups is just so fucking funny. We both
Speaker 1: had the privilege of watching it at thirty six. Is
Speaker 1: the fun fact he is the youngest comedian to ever
Speaker 1: perform on stage at the Grand Old Opry. You've seen
Speaker 1: him on Fallon Kimmel, last Comic Standing. He's torn all
Speaker 1: over America this year, and you mustn't miss him if
Speaker 1: he's on a stage near you. It is the hilarious,
Speaker 1: the brilliant Dusty sled. Okay, we're having a good time.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys having me. Man Ah, we are
Speaker 1: having a good time. We are thrilled to have you.
Speaker 1: What a wild podcast. So much has gone on already.
Speaker 1: But the wildest thing to me is that you said
Speaker 1: it was season two twenty three. Is that correct? That's correct.
Speaker 1: We every week is a new season for all, Okay,
Speaker 1: so we we like to make it easy on ourselves
Speaker 1: to really set new set new records and a number
Speaker 1: of seasons. That's unbelievable. Never heard of that in my life,
Speaker 1: but I get it. You know, it's still too many
Speaker 1: podcast We've still done way too many podcasts. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the season thing is a little misleading. Okay, Well, I'm
Speaker 1: into it. But yeah, and I don't know a lot
Speaker 1: about mercury retro grade. But I am ready for jane
Speaker 1: Ruary to be done. And uh, January is a wild
Speaker 1: month for me. Last year I ruptured my appendix during
Speaker 1: this time. I'm ready for it to just be gone.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is gone, right. I was just gonna,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I have good news for you, man,
Speaker 1: We're out of there. But I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know about the planets, but I mean I'm
Speaker 1: aware of them. I don't know what they're up to,
Speaker 1: but I'm happy that we're out of that. Whatever that
Speaker 1: period is, I'm happy it's gone. January terrible month, dark times,
Speaker 1: horrible if you've got the seasonal depression. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and I think that I do, which is why I
Speaker 1: like the South, and which is why I guess California
Speaker 1: is good because it's just sunny most of the time.
Speaker 1: I'm ringing the South. We have a few cold, cold months,
Speaker 1: but the sun comes back quick and it feels good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love the heat. I always say I like the
Speaker 1: heat so much that if it's not hot, it's cold,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Yes, I do. I can't
Speaker 1: because you can't. Uh you know, I feel like cold
Speaker 1: seeps into a place that he can't. You're like cold
Speaker 1: to your actual bones. That's not fun, that's terrible. And
Speaker 1: a lot depends on like like southern California is just
Speaker 1: not designed for anything other than eighty degree weather. Like
Speaker 1: the walls are just would like wooden slat and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so it gets cold quick if it's not hot. So
Speaker 1: I think that's a that is an accurate statement. Are
Speaker 1: you in southern California right now? Dust, No, I'm actually
Speaker 1: in Asheville, North Carolina, which is very nice, but it's cloudy.
Speaker 1: I'm right in front of a window, trying my best
Speaker 1: to get some light in this dark hotel room. I
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time than just a sad hotel room,
Speaker 1: and they're all sad to me. And I don't know what. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been to so many hotels. They're all sad now,
Speaker 1: even the nice ones. I find, the nicer the hotel,
Speaker 1: the sadder it is. Yeah, at least a rundown hotel,
Speaker 1: you expect it to be sad, but when you walk
Speaker 1: into a nice place, you're like, oh, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be happy, and then it's not right. They have the
Speaker 1: lighting right, but yeah, but everyone's still like fuck you man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but it makes me happy to get out
Speaker 1: and do comedy. I spend half the day in my
Speaker 1: hotel room sad, and then I go all right, now
Speaker 1: it's time to bring some happiness. There you go. So
Speaker 1: you're down there doing shows in Asheville. I did a
Speaker 1: show last night, I opened for Fortune Feamster and uh
Speaker 1: we had a great time. And then tomorrow I'm on
Speaker 1: my way to Atlanta to do a show with Jeff Foxworthy. Wow,
Speaker 1: see cover you run the gamut. I'm all over the
Speaker 1: place all the time. My schedule makes no sense. I'm
Speaker 1: flying here and driving here and this and that. It
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. But at least I get to
Speaker 1: fly a little bit. I'd like to say I make
Speaker 1: airplane money now. And you know you're not driving across
Speaker 1: states to get to gigs. Real great does have a
Speaker 1: question for you? Do you find because it seems like
Speaker 1: your audience could spend a lot of different types of demographics,
Speaker 1: is there like a certain type of person that's your
Speaker 1: typical fan? I don't think so. I mean I find
Speaker 1: that if people have ever been poor in their life.
Speaker 1: They love my comedy about it. Yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I've got some weed, you know, And I also was,
Speaker 1: you know, spent about eight nine years as an alcoholic,
Speaker 1: and uh so lots of people have struggled with that
Speaker 1: sort of thing, so they relate to that. Now. I
Speaker 1: got several jokes about weed and about how weeds too
Speaker 1: strong now, and I think people are I think they're
Speaker 1: really relating to that. I'm afraid to give my parents
Speaker 1: weed for that exactly. They're like, I don't know, maybe,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh no, where would we start you?
Speaker 1: That's what When I was a teenager, I used to
Speaker 1: like to smoke weed with people for the first time.
Speaker 1: It was a real joy to me. And now I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: if you've never done it, I don't want to be
Speaker 1: I'm not introducing you to this drug. Now. Get to
Speaker 1: answer questions about whether you hate them or not for
Speaker 1: an hour. Yeah, it used to be a fun, happy plant.
Speaker 1: Now it's drugs, you know what I mean? Write in
Speaker 1: time for it to become legal approachable by parents of
Speaker 1: all ages. I got buddies doing dabs and I'm like,
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem like weed to me. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that is, but if you're lighting weed with a torch,
Speaker 1: I saw somebody had to plug their ball into a
Speaker 1: wall to heat. I was, I don't need it to
Speaker 1: be that hot. This generator here so we can get
Speaker 1: hot in my day. All you need it was a
Speaker 1: bick and and poll. Okay, yeah exactly. We used to
Speaker 1: put ice in the bong to cool the smoke down.
Speaker 1: Now people are lighting it with the torch. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this doesn't seem right. Yeah, that's that's aggressive. All right, Dusty.
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 a
Speaker 1: couple things we'll be talking about later on in the show.
Speaker 1: Somebody representative Mark Walker, who I am not familiar with,
Speaker 1: but he looks like he He has a picture of
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney taped to his mirror and he's just like that.
Speaker 1: That's his inspiration when he gets dressed in the morning,
Speaker 1: does his hair. Anyways, he posted a picture of himself
Speaker 1: at a waffle house, and there's just some things about
Speaker 1: it that kind of come off as false or like
Speaker 1: not authentically, like this man really likes waffle house as
Speaker 1: much as he wants his constituents to believe he does.
Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about that. We might even
Speaker 1: talk about whether pillow Fa is going to be an
Speaker 1: Olympic sport and why it absolutely should be. The average
Speaker 1: man can compete. Get ready Olympics here, I'm ready. Maybe
Speaker 1: should be the only Olympic sport. All of that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first, Dusty, we do like to ask our guests,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history? Oh? You know,
Speaker 1: I was looking at some things and these were all like,
Speaker 1: of all the things, that was the hardest one for me,
Speaker 1: because you were like, what's something that would tell people
Speaker 1: about you? But you know what, I've been searching a
Speaker 1: lot of fruit trees I brought. I bought some land,
Speaker 1: about a little bit of land, and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: build an Amish cabin on the land, and I'd like
Speaker 1: to get a little bit an orchard. Sounds fancy, But
Speaker 1: what I'd like to do is just plant some fruit
Speaker 1: trees and then let them grow and then I can
Speaker 1: just go out and eat fruit right off the tree.
Speaker 1: That's what the dream, That's what I'm into. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what I like about the country, and just you know,
Speaker 1: it's like you just can grow things. I grew a
Speaker 1: little bit of stuff this year. I grew, you know,
Speaker 1: and I got into it. You know. I always say
Speaker 1: if I had to live off of what I grew,
Speaker 1: then I would be dead. But wait, are you looking to?
Speaker 1: Are the cottage core? Oh? I don't know what that is?
Speaker 1: I could be into. Okay, the cottage core is a
Speaker 1: category on like Instagram, and it's like just aesthetically beautiful cottages.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get into that. Yeah, cottage I'll find that.
Speaker 1: I'm I love that. I mean, I'm all about it.
Speaker 1: I'm all about just being able to. I got into
Speaker 1: this thing. I watched a documentary called Earthing. It's where
Speaker 1: you just walk around on the land barefooted and you're
Speaker 1: you're They say that we're electrical beings, you know, and
Speaker 1: so we connect to the earth and we ground and
Speaker 1: it takes out a lot of inflammation and and it
Speaker 1: resets us. I don't know if it's true, but I'm
Speaker 1: into the idea that you could potentially heal your self
Speaker 1: by just walking barefooted. Again. I don't know if it's true,
Speaker 1: but it's easy to try. I feel like there's definitely
Speaker 1: a calling back to the land for a lot of
Speaker 1: people like in the pandemic. I mean, there's so many
Speaker 1: guests on the show who are like, no, I moved
Speaker 1: back south, got a little land and growing things. This
Speaker 1: is the story we've heard a couple of times. It's
Speaker 1: something I've certainly can I don't think I could survive
Speaker 1: in a not city space. I have a d D
Speaker 1: And like, how am I gonna keep everything together? You
Speaker 1: gotta remember to like pickle your stuff and then label
Speaker 1: the jars. It's just never gonna happen for me. But
Speaker 1: I really admire everybody who's doing it and getting out there.
Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, I'm going to build a
Speaker 1: space that like both replenishes me spiritually and also sort
Speaker 1: of allows me to invest in the space that is
Speaker 1: my own instead of, you know, I don't know, an
Speaker 1: apartment with six other people. I agree with you on
Speaker 1: both of those things, because I like being around where
Speaker 1: stuff is going on. Like I grew up kind of
Speaker 1: in the country, and it's like I just remember dreaming
Speaker 1: of like I'd love to be around some people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: take me to a museum. And my wife grew up
Speaker 1: in the country in Canada, and like she said the
Speaker 1: same thing. She's like when I was growing up. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to be around people. And she moved to
Speaker 1: Toronto for ten years and loved it, And so I
Speaker 1: want a little bit of both. If if it's manageable,
Speaker 1: I want to escape to the cottage core, you know,
Speaker 1: and just get out there in his cottage corps. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the core of cottage. I just want to get out
Speaker 1: there and just here the birds, and it's cottage core,
Speaker 1: like hardcore music is a thing. Is cottage core music?
Speaker 1: Just like Taylor Swift that basically that's not what I
Speaker 1: would be listening to out there, Taylor Swift for the
Speaker 1: girls in the city who sort of sometimes think about
Speaker 1: the country. But yeah, I think the cottage core would
Speaker 1: be more like traditional bluegrass. You know, you might get
Speaker 1: some guitars have been in there. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: it's much more we're making our teethes from scratch, like
Speaker 1: we picked our different te leaves and we're budding it
Speaker 1: with berries. And it's very much about like that old
Speaker 1: stove at your gramma had and fixing it up and
Speaker 1: now it looks nice and it's it's somewhat modern but
Speaker 1: very reminiscent of a time where it's just peaceful and glorious,
Speaker 1: and we're getting our Laura Ingles Wilder on and it's
Speaker 1: some old man sitting on a stop playing guitar for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like a guitar in a way you didn't think
Speaker 1: he could play. It's just magical. Butterflies are landed on
Speaker 1: his shoulders. Yeah, that's what I mean to jug music.
Speaker 1: I have a D D two. I feel like i'd
Speaker 1: have Yeah, I was just trying to picture, like what
Speaker 1: a orchard would look like, and I feel like I
Speaker 1: would have one corn, like not a cornfield, one corn corn,
Speaker 1: you know, like a stock of corn that would give
Speaker 1: me one piece of corn on the cob for the
Speaker 1: year and then one a delicious day. That would be right,
Speaker 1: that would be worth it. There's a thing that people
Speaker 1: are getting into they call the food forest, where where
Speaker 1: what would normally be a regular forest is a forest
Speaker 1: of fruit trees and instead of ivy, it's grape vines.
Speaker 1: And that's what I want to create. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: telling it's great. And my neighbors have this like ancient
Speaker 1: lemon tree. They're like, it's extremely old and it bears
Speaker 1: so much fruit. They give us a whole like target
Speaker 1: bag full of lemons, and they're like, could you use
Speaker 1: all this something? I will make so much lemonade. Don't
Speaker 1: even it's amazing. It's it's I've dreamed of fruit trees forever.
Speaker 1: They're just literally life giving you lemons here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but the best way possible. You're like, this is fresh, girl, lemon.
Speaker 1: We have a lemon. It's the best thing. Because squirrels
Speaker 1: fucking hate lemons. That's like the most important thing about
Speaker 1: lemons is that squirrels hate them. So, like every other
Speaker 1: food just gets eaten the second it like hits the
Speaker 1: point of ripeness. The squirrels have like a series of
Speaker 1: alarm bucks and they know exactly when everything's gonna get
Speaker 1: ripe and just eat that ship. But lemons they don't
Speaker 1: funk with. And so, yeah, you bountiful lemon harvest around
Speaker 1: the clock in in our backyard, which is nice. My
Speaker 1: one issue is, so we just tried to get low
Speaker 1: quat trees because one of our friends had a low
Speaker 1: quat tree and my kids were in their yard and
Speaker 1: they started eating them and they were just like so good,
Speaker 1: They're really delicious. And then so I ordered some low
Speaker 1: quat trees and got them shipped in the mail. It's
Speaker 1: a cool product or a cool like service they offer.
Speaker 1: But they come and they're like to they just look
Speaker 1: like two branches they like put in the ground and
Speaker 1: there they seem like they're about seven years from having
Speaker 1: a low quat. Like if we could, if we could
Speaker 1: get some sort of tree speeding up technology, I think
Speaker 1: that would be like we just want to scare and
Speaker 1: like helping get up there. I feel you. I feel you.
Speaker 1: I mean when I think about, like thinking an apple
Speaker 1: tree from seed to actually getting fruit, it's like a
Speaker 1: ridiculous long time and at least a decade. Who has it?
Speaker 1: I don't. I know. That's why what I am trying
Speaker 1: to do is get the fruit trees out there now
Speaker 1: and then forget about them. You know, not forget in
Speaker 1: the sense that I don't take care of them, but
Speaker 1: but forget they're out there, and then, you know, and
Speaker 1: in years to come. Because I'm always like that's what
Speaker 1: happens in my head. I go, oh, if I plan
Speaker 1: it now, it'll be ten years. But it's like, had
Speaker 1: I done this ten years ago, I would already be
Speaker 1: eating apples off my tree. Yeah, my grandfather planted apples
Speaker 1: and pears and figs and where my dad lives. And
Speaker 1: my dad went out there and bulldozed all the apple
Speaker 1: trees down. What he was like, I got tired of
Speaker 1: cutting grass around them. I gotta say the book, the
Speaker 1: book The Giving Tree is pro tree propaganda because it
Speaker 1: suggests that trees are just giving and giving and you
Speaker 1: just you know, forget about them and take and take.
Speaker 1: But it's really the opposite. For for a long time,
Speaker 1: you got to take care of them, and they're not
Speaker 1: giving you ships and you know, I'm taking care of
Speaker 1: loquat trees. Yeah, it's the taking Tree for quite a bit.
Speaker 1: It's also the saddest book in the history of the world.
Speaker 1: Once you're a parent, you realize it's like a metaphor
Speaker 1: for parenthood. Oh, that was gonna say. That seems like
Speaker 1: what kids are like. You know, as the kids, they
Speaker 1: just take tech tech, and then they get older and
Speaker 1: hopefully they start to give. Yeah, well there's some debate
Speaker 1: about that too. I got some I got some family
Speaker 1: that I hope they don't listen, but I got some
Speaker 1: family that's uh, they're they're takers. Yeah, they're takers. I
Speaker 1: think we all do all right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll come back and find out what you
Speaker 1: think is overrated and under it all right, and we're
Speaker 1: back and Dusty, we do like task are guests. What
Speaker 1: is something that you think is overrated? Well, I feel
Speaker 1: like I gave it away in the beginning, but I
Speaker 1: was I I thought of it, and then I brought
Speaker 1: it up and and when when we weren't ready for it.
Speaker 1: But I think what's overrated is nice hotels. But I
Speaker 1: have a deeper explanation. I don't mean I don't want
Speaker 1: to be in a motel six or a red roof in,
Speaker 1: but I mean the fancy I mean, unless you've got
Speaker 1: unlimited money supply, the fancy hotel way overrated. You get
Speaker 1: in there, no one's that nice to you. They charge
Speaker 1: you for everything. You pay so much for the room,
Speaker 1: and then you get up to your room, and then
Speaker 1: you gotta pay for WiFi, you gotta pay for coffee.
Speaker 1: There's no free breakfast, not that the breakfast that's free
Speaker 1: is ever any good, but they they make you pay
Speaker 1: for everything. And then usually if you want to park
Speaker 1: a car, it's another fifty bucks a night. And I'm
Speaker 1: give me a good in between. I'm gonna country in
Speaker 1: in sweets right now, and it is. It is not
Speaker 1: that nice, but I slept so good. And I also
Speaker 1: feel like no one looks at me suspiciously. I look
Speaker 1: like that I should be at the country and in sweets.
Speaker 1: Everybody's like, yes, he belongs here, and it's okay. But
Speaker 1: if I'm in a nice hotel, people wonder what I'm
Speaker 1: doing in there. I like a nice hotel. Like when
Speaker 1: I was film critic, you know, studios would fly you
Speaker 1: wherever and put you up and then be like, you
Speaker 1: have a two D fifty day per d m bam,
Speaker 1: that's room service, baby, that's amazing. Like, I agree with
Speaker 1: you that I've never been to a really great hotel
Speaker 1: where the bed was better than an average hotel. They're
Speaker 1: not spending money on extreme actresses. Your sleep is definitely
Speaker 1: not better. A lot of good hotels have great rooms
Speaker 1: that are sky high prices, and then every other room
Speaker 1: is average without of you, and they're like, here's a
Speaker 1: whole Yeah, you're paying for the right to stay in
Speaker 1: the same building as that really nice hotel. Is that
Speaker 1: really really trying to impress your lift driver if they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're saying here, yeah, man, it's great. Two second high
Speaker 1: of like, man, somebody thought I was really doing it here.
Speaker 1: Otherwise they're basic, you know. It's like I do believe
Speaker 1: that they're overrated. But also like when I filmed Netflix
Speaker 1: in New York City, they put me up in a
Speaker 1: hotel and every day I sat in a chair and
Speaker 1: drank coffee and looked out the window at the city,
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is pretty nice, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. This is a little better than the Country.
Speaker 1: And in sweets right now I'm looking at a parking
Speaker 1: lot in some woods. Different, it's different. I don't mind
Speaker 1: the free breakfast at the Country and in sweets with
Speaker 1: the cinnamon raising bagel with cellophane on it. Sometimes they
Speaker 1: have the conveyor belt toaster, and also the snack packs cereal,
Speaker 1: the little cereal snack packs, because I never liked the
Speaker 1: cereal in the thing where you twisted and then it
Speaker 1: just falls out into Yeah, that's always a little bit
Speaker 1: stale frash. Yeah. Yeah. And sometimes you just get a
Speaker 1: big dump of sugar, which is always what I'm looking for,
Speaker 1: and it sweetened cereal is like that last like chunk
Speaker 1: at the bottom like frost, and many weeds when you
Speaker 1: crunch them up. I like to crunch up a few
Speaker 1: and put in the bowl that way. At the end,
Speaker 1: there's just some sugar bites. Yeah, and it doesn't destroy
Speaker 1: your mouth when you try and eat it exactly. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is underrated? I think black coffee
Speaker 1: is underrated, right, And this is like I go to
Speaker 1: the Starbucks all the time and I get it. If
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of those drinks are very tasty
Speaker 1: and it's great, but it's like in the morning, people
Speaker 1: are basically getting a milkshake to start the day, or
Speaker 1: people are drinking a Red Bull or Sparks. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the names of them are. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of crazy energy drinks where I'm like, a good black coffee.
Speaker 1: It's soothing to drink, but all so you feel awake
Speaker 1: and you never need anything. You're never like, oh, I
Speaker 1: gotta get some cream, I gotta get some sugar. It's
Speaker 1: just it just comes out like that. And I love
Speaker 1: a good black coffee. Yeah. The problem with black coffee
Speaker 1: is finding a coffee that is brewed correctly. And I
Speaker 1: feel like, because if I go to Starbucks, it's split
Speaker 1: on how good is my coffee. Literally, any drink gonna
Speaker 1: be but specifically coffee. They don't really care. You could
Speaker 1: go to a like like groundwork, Yes, yes, okay, So
Speaker 1: like these upscale coffee places are maybe you're gonna hit
Speaker 1: like eighty five percent time, you're pretty good, but you're
Speaker 1: still not gonna hit that like perfect cup of coffee.
Speaker 1: My friend figure it out, like she got the big
Speaker 1: coffee craft and she weighs her ground beforehand, and she
Speaker 1: buys him from an independent distributor and that is really
Speaker 1: good coffee. And I feel like it's ruined me for
Speaker 1: all other black coffees. I can't go back to, you know,
Speaker 1: my folgers in my little pot. It's just it's not
Speaker 1: hitting anymore. Drug You might as well treat it like
Speaker 1: one and weigh it out and do all that ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Folders is out. There's no fault. You cannot drink Folders.
Speaker 1: And every time I got a Starbucks, I got a
Speaker 1: black coffee. Every time my first step I go, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to hurt you. I want to give you.
Speaker 1: I do love that. When you were referencing energy drinks,
Speaker 1: you you mentioned sparks. I think you and I might
Speaker 1: have been drinking too much around the same time the
Speaker 1: recent industry, because I think that's one gone. But that
Speaker 1: was a orange soda energy malt liquor combination. That okay,
Speaker 1: that did get me through many long nights. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: probably had a few of those. I mean I used
Speaker 1: to do the Yeager bombs that they called them. That
Speaker 1: was the Yeager and red Bull that you would choose those.
Speaker 1: What was up with our generation being like we need
Speaker 1: energy drinks with our liquor. I once got lost for
Speaker 1: several hours on a FOURD Loco, and by lost, I
Speaker 1: mean I drink a can of for Loco. Told friends
Speaker 1: I was going for a walk and the dead of
Speaker 1: night and came back thinking I had gone around the block,
Speaker 1: and they're like, it has been hours, where were you? Like, No,
Speaker 1: I just went around the look that's definitely not like
Speaker 1: you come back. They're all holding hands like the human
Speaker 1: sweep for Like that sounds like a flour logo and
Speaker 1: a hit of acid. You know. I don't think we
Speaker 1: were doing acid that night, but we might. I think
Speaker 1: the thing that about our generation that made that switch
Speaker 1: is that we learned that cocaine was not healthy for you.
Speaker 1: I think previous generation just like did cocaine like it
Speaker 1: was a vitamin that just helped help be a little
Speaker 1: Just do a bump in the bathroom. It's fine, yea, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes sense, that makes sense. You could always do
Speaker 1: adderall and drink, but it always made me like a zombie.
Speaker 1: I would do I get drink all night, but I
Speaker 1: never felt drunk, and I was just like a zombie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to drink to clean because I drinking helped
Speaker 1: me deal with boredom. And so I just drink and
Speaker 1: do really boring ship And that's how you know you
Speaker 1: should stop drinking, folks. One other thing, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the milkshake thing with the coffee in the morning. Like
Speaker 1: I I we talked I think last week about how
Speaker 1: coffee mate, which is something that I was consuming at
Speaker 1: the rate that like most families go through like gallons
Speaker 1: of milk. I was drinking so much hazel nut coffee
Speaker 1: mate for a long time and it apparently so the
Speaker 1: context was a story about foods that we have in
Speaker 1: America that are banned in other countries, and coffee mate
Speaker 1: is not only banned in other countries, it should be
Speaker 1: banned here according to like the laws. It has like
Speaker 1: stuff in it that is like yeah, I know, this
Speaker 1: like goes directly into your arteries like this is there's
Speaker 1: so many that that that are banded other countries that
Speaker 1: were like eating like you eat like it's healthy, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Mountain Dew is the one that I will
Speaker 1: not give up. But this is devastating. Someone find us
Speaker 1: a hazel nut flavoring that won't kill us. Hazelnut coffee
Speaker 1: is everything. I think it's the fact that like it's
Speaker 1: basically chemically like lab produced lard is the problem. It's
Speaker 1: not not the hazel coffee. Yeah, it's not. It's not
Speaker 1: the hazel nut of it all. It's the yeah, disappointing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a little disappointing. And I have switched to Macha,
Speaker 1: which I do recommend as annoying. Is that makes me
Speaker 1: if you don't mind feeling like you have the flu
Speaker 1: for like three weeks once you are off coffee and
Speaker 1: onto something that's sly less caffeinated, I've had probably like
Speaker 1: fifty fewer panic attacks. So yeah, highly recommend. And it
Speaker 1: also looks cool, like it looks like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it looks magical. It's like break green kind of cool
Speaker 1: to drink something break green. Right now, man, you get
Speaker 1: that little brush and circle in the morning. I love
Speaker 1: anything that has a process to it. It's a great
Speaker 1: way to start your day. Yeah, it really felt like
Speaker 1: the coffee Mate conversation made us all a little sad.
Speaker 1: My grandma drinks coffee, damn it. Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: has like it's such a classic, you know, like I remember, Yeah,
Speaker 1: any institution ain't church that you got the big like
Speaker 1: silver thing of coffee, silver like chest of coffee, and
Speaker 1: then next to it the coffee mate. They really one
Speaker 1: of the more trusted things in my refrigerator that turns
Speaker 1: out are like, oh my god. No. Anyway, speaking of
Speaker 1: things that make doctors say, oh my god, no, waffle house.
Speaker 1: So this dude, representative Mark Walker, I like intentionally did
Speaker 1: not look up who he is, because again I didn't
Speaker 1: want to make myself said, but he's like a politician
Speaker 1: of some sort. And he did a Instagram photo opera,
Speaker 1: I guess it was on Twitter, and it's just a
Speaker 1: picture of him in a suit at a waffle house
Speaker 1: and in the caption is it's not for the fan
Speaker 1: of heart or d C elite, But there is nothing
Speaker 1: like late night waffle House on the campaign trail. He
Speaker 1: couldn't look more like he just got out of a
Speaker 1: makeup chair in this picture, suit pressed, just hair perfect,
Speaker 1: and his waffle house order sucks. It's just white toast,
Speaker 1: plain hash browns, plain disc of eggs, one sausage patty.
Speaker 1: And can we also talk about how uncomfortable he looks
Speaker 1: in this booth. It feels like he's this is dirty
Speaker 1: and I need to leave him. He's right by the door,
Speaker 1: which is the worst place you can sit in a
Speaker 1: waffle house, clearly a novice. You can get all of
Speaker 1: the foot traffic, that cold blast of air. That's you
Speaker 1: want to be in the back booth near the teenagers
Speaker 1: or couple that's fighting. That's where you sit and you
Speaker 1: get your entertainment with your meal. I don't believe it.
Speaker 1: I don't, but yeah, I mean I've been to the
Speaker 1: waffle house more times that I can count, and I
Speaker 1: don't know that I've ever taken a picture of myself
Speaker 1: in the waffle This may be a first. Like certainly
Speaker 1: they're like world Star videos and like people pulling out
Speaker 1: cameras when like a fight starts, but usually that's out
Speaker 1: in the parking lot. But you get the sense from
Speaker 1: this picture that there's somebody behind the camera with like
Speaker 1: one of those like lighting umbrella things, like it looks
Speaker 1: like a professional photo shoot down to him looking like
Speaker 1: me like when I was six years old, like getting
Speaker 1: my picture taken. It serious, Like he just looks like
Speaker 1: something stuffed stuffed him into that suit. I can't see
Speaker 1: the picture. But also it's like, who's going to the
Speaker 1: waffle house in a suit? It's like even if you've
Speaker 1: been working all day, you know, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: imagine there's a tie. I would say, pop off the tie,
Speaker 1: lose the jacket unbuttoned a little bit. So he does
Speaker 1: have an unbuttoned he did. He did get that note
Speaker 1: from this consultant, and uh is not wearing a tie,
Speaker 1: has his collar opened down one button. But it's also
Speaker 1: like sitting very stiffly, and you know what, you're not alone.
Speaker 1: Our listeners can't see the picture either, So that's that's
Speaker 1: a good reminder. Well, that's the best thing that you
Speaker 1: can do on a podcast, to just talk about a picture.
Speaker 1: The waffle house is so fun though I went into
Speaker 1: I met a guy from New Jersey once I was
Speaker 1: working with him and he said he had never been
Speaker 1: to the waffle house, and I was like, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: let's go right now. And I wanted it to be
Speaker 1: a good experience because he had never been. And I
Speaker 1: walk in and there's an older atress there and she's like,
Speaker 1: welcome to waffle House and I was like, how you doing.
Speaker 1: She's like, I'm tired and I could use a cigarette.
Speaker 1: But people keep coming in here outside perfect. This is
Speaker 1: exactly why here, see, and I feel like it's a
Speaker 1: comple I take a real issue with the statement like
Speaker 1: it's not for anything after that is incorrect. Waffle Houses
Speaker 1: for everybody, Okay, this is our version of the British pub. Okay,
Speaker 1: everybody can come in here at the same time and
Speaker 1: get treated to the exact same terrible service. Maybe you'll
Speaker 1: see the people in back fighting. That's my favorite. Okay,
Speaker 1: if the cooks are fighting, you know you found the
Speaker 1: best waffle house because for whatever reason, their food is better.
Speaker 1: Who who hasn't been like if you haven't mental waffle house,
Speaker 1: either because you just don't live in proximity of one,
Speaker 1: or for some reason you've deluded yourself into thinking that
Speaker 1: you're better than waffle House. And I don't think there's
Speaker 1: that many people out there who doesn't like late night pancakes.
Speaker 1: It's like one of God's gifts to the world. It's perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially when you're drinking. I mean there's not I mean
Speaker 1: I I used to drink and drive all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm not promoting it, but I'm saying, you're driving a
Speaker 1: long and you're like, oh, I could get in trouble.
Speaker 1: Let's pull into the waffle house. Soak up some of
Speaker 1: this alcohol here, have a good time, yell with the
Speaker 1: other people in there. You know, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: great time. Nobody at the waffle house is ever like
Speaker 1: I don't think you should drive. They're like, get out
Speaker 1: of here. Yeah. In college, I lived in the gahborhood
Speaker 1: known as Boys Town in Chicago. When we were walking
Speaker 1: distance from an eye hop and you know, two am pancakes,
Speaker 1: fifteen gay kids in their club gear, like it's I
Speaker 1: feel like all my best memories are from that, like
Speaker 1: parking lot, like Kane smoking, trying to figure out like
Speaker 1: when the next party is. Yeah, yeah, that's an institution.
Speaker 1: I remember when I could smoke cigarettes inside the waffle house,
Speaker 1: and that was that was a real time period that
Speaker 1: I enjoyed. I mean, I quit smoking now so I
Speaker 1: wouldn't enjoy it now. No, No, as a smoker, I'm like,
Speaker 1: let me smoke in here, if you're fortunate enough to
Speaker 1: spend six hour We're just in a booth talking about
Speaker 1: nothing in chain smoking, while your weader is very upset
Speaker 1: at you for taking up too much of their time.
Speaker 1: It was a moment. It's a moment in history. And
Speaker 1: uh again, I wouldn't want to go back, but I
Speaker 1: do sort of miss it. Yeah, now only the guy
Speaker 1: at the grill is allowed to smoke. Everybody else has
Speaker 1: to go outside. I used to work at a Western
Speaker 1: sizzle and I don't know if you know what that is.
Speaker 1: It's like a Golden Corral without all the class, you know.
Speaker 1: And and we used to you know, you had smoking
Speaker 1: sections in there and I would wait tables and you
Speaker 1: just passed through this like smoke filled area and we
Speaker 1: would smoke cigarettes while we rolled silverware. You know. That's
Speaker 1: how I learned to smoke without using my hands, you know.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's a great time. I don't know that
Speaker 1: story is nowhere, but it is a good job. I
Speaker 1: could never master not getting a bunch of smoke in
Speaker 1: my eyes. It was hands were necessary in the most
Speaker 1: impressive skills watching old lady like fight her cigarette and
Speaker 1: like French exhale and like count up all her money
Speaker 1: at the same time. Like this man, she's a pro,
Speaker 1: She's been through some stuff. She has a really mind.
Speaker 1: The smoke in her eyes. Yeah, it's just a second
Speaker 1: hit that you're getting. That's the second entry point right there.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that the closing one eye is also so
Speaker 1: you got it out on one side of the mouth
Speaker 1: and then that eye is closed while you're still able
Speaker 1: to do your job. So I wanted to just put
Speaker 1: this in the conversation. It's definitely it's up there. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it enters the pantheon, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about some other celebrity moments where they are
Speaker 1: trying to get like cred and clearly revealing themselves to
Speaker 1: be robots or just like living on a different planet.
Speaker 1: So you've got this person's idol. I'm assuming Mitt Romney,
Speaker 1: who in a speech said, my favorite meat is hot dog.
Speaker 1: By the way, that is my favorite meat, and then
Speaker 1: he followed that up by my second favorite meat is hamburger.
Speaker 1: And everyone says, oh, don't you prefer steak. It's like,
Speaker 1: I know steaks are great, but I like hot dog best,
Speaker 1: and I like hamburger next best that sounds like a robot,
Speaker 1: and don't high technology trying to come up with a sentence.
Speaker 1: And the only one of those three that he knows
Speaker 1: how to like pluralize and like actually use correctly is steak,
Speaker 1: which is the only one he's ever actually eaten. And
Speaker 1: then the other ones, he's like, I love hot dog.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's fine, hot dog. No one's favorite
Speaker 1: meat is hot dog, right. Hot dog is not a meat.
Speaker 1: It's many things, but even it's like it could be beef,
Speaker 1: that could be poor, it could be chicken, but that's
Speaker 1: no one's favorite. I love a hot dog, but there's
Speaker 1: no way if you're like a hot dog, you don't
Speaker 1: love a hot dog or a steak. I'm like, I'll
Speaker 1: give me a steak or a hot dog, or some
Speaker 1: rice and broccoli. I might go, you know what, I'll
Speaker 1: take the rice and broccoli. You know, hot dogs way
Speaker 1: low on the list, and I'm I'm a fan of
Speaker 1: it of a hot dog, not all of them, right,
Speaker 1: And hamburger is also such a strange way to describe hamburger.
Speaker 1: My favorite meat is hot dog and hamburger. You don't
Speaker 1: know what those are. You've never used that word out loud,
Speaker 1: it would seem it's fun when politicians try to relate.
Speaker 1: There was a little like a Deblasio thing at one
Speaker 1: point where he's talking about if you get you know,
Speaker 1: if you you can get a free hamburger, and then
Speaker 1: the way he's biting it, it's like, have you ever
Speaker 1: eaten a hamburger before? He was like, it's too rich
Speaker 1: to hitch for the hamburger talk. Yeah, you know, he's like,
Speaker 1: he seems a little surprised, what's happening. He's like any
Speaker 1: French fries. So many celebrities do the same thing where
Speaker 1: it's like they're trying to relate to people and it's
Speaker 1: like it may not even beat your fault. You've just
Speaker 1: been too rich for too long. It's not my fault.
Speaker 1: You have everything, you know, you gotta stay at the
Speaker 1: country and it sweets once in a while. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: add on the list Garth Brooks joining Facebook, but it's
Speaker 1: not it's probably not in the same conversation. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have anything to do with food. It's just his Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen the video of him announcing that
Speaker 1: he's joining Facebook, I highly recommend you watch it. That's
Speaker 1: another person. He's been rich for at least thirty years,
Speaker 1: and it's, um, how do you live in reality? Like
Speaker 1: I'm on Facebook now and it's like, well, that's been
Speaker 1: around for a while, and yeah, I mean it was, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was early in the Facebook run. But it was
Speaker 1: just the strangest thing. It's not even worth talking about
Speaker 1: because it's like you just kind of have to watch
Speaker 1: it to watch, like him addressing the camera and his
Speaker 1: like stage presence in the sense you get that like
Speaker 1: this is take number seventeen and I don't know he
Speaker 1: but like he also seems to want to fuck you
Speaker 1: in the video, like he like looking at the Anyways,
Speaker 1: I think my all time favorite is when Gwyneth Paltrow
Speaker 1: claimed that she was going to try and live off
Speaker 1: twenty nine dollars in groceries for a week because that
Speaker 1: is what families on Snap i e. Food snamps and
Speaker 1: her words have to live on for a week. And
Speaker 1: so she posted a picture said, this is what twenty
Speaker 1: nine dollars gets you at the grocery store. You know
Speaker 1: what families on snap I have to live on. And
Speaker 1: it's like one of the things that she has in
Speaker 1: there is seven lines, but seven lines she has buck
Speaker 1: choyucks lines just not making the collies. It's not making
Speaker 1: the cut. It's like, clearly an Arawan. Also like she
Speaker 1: would not be able to buy that much bucks. You're
Speaker 1: buying your favorite meat hot dog. All right. You gotta
Speaker 1: explain what aarjan is to the folks who are right
Speaker 1: not here, and to me, it's a super charged like
Speaker 1: Whole Foods. So it's like, but what if Whole Foods
Speaker 1: was more expensive? Is basically what air one is, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just super fancy. It's a grocery store trying to
Speaker 1: be a farmer's market, you know what I mean. They're
Speaker 1: like adjacent, but they don't have to like put up
Speaker 1: stalls every week. The ladies love it. I haven't been
Speaker 1: to one. I just found out there's one in the valley.
Speaker 1: Apparently parking is great, so get it if you love it.
Speaker 1: What I like about this is there's no Her tweet
Speaker 1: doesn't say if it's like, oh, this is not enough
Speaker 1: food or you know, we could be doing more. There's
Speaker 1: no like call to action based off She's just like,
Speaker 1: you could buy this for twenty nine dollars at a
Speaker 1: grocery store. Thank you. I've been to a grocery store.
Speaker 1: I know, Like, what was the point of boasting this?
Speaker 1: It's one line for for each day of the week,
Speaker 1: so that you don't get scurvy. Right, you can have
Speaker 1: it with your one egg for breakfast with a tortilla.
Speaker 1: And she's got black beans and rice, a single hallopenio
Speaker 1: and a single sweet potato. You're children are starving, is
Speaker 1: what she's saying. Yeah, she got enough black beans of
Speaker 1: rice for a week if she hadn't bought seven fucking
Speaker 1: lines and back Troy. But yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: that that lasted her. Her week long experiment lasted less
Speaker 1: than a week. He's like, I'm a human, look at me,
Speaker 1: Look at me, guys. It's not her father. She was
Speaker 1: born rich. She doesn't know shocked that you can buy
Speaker 1: milk for so cheap. She's like, it's only five dollars,
Speaker 1: My god, amazing. What could have been nana possibly cost
Speaker 1: seven dollars? I forgot what the guess is arrested development. Also,
Speaker 1: she has one tomato in there, just a single head
Speaker 1: of garlic. Guys, Yeah, yeah, yeah, And Gwenny is not
Speaker 1: flavoring her food. I mean, as you read off the list,
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's honestly not bad for twenty nine bucks.
Speaker 1: It's not. I mean, I'm okay, We've got quite a
Speaker 1: bit of you keep adding things. I'm like, okay, because
Speaker 1: I can't see the picture, I'm like, pretty good, grosser glass,
Speaker 1: I should take her shopping with me because I need
Speaker 1: to help, right, Yeah, it does feel like she might
Speaker 1: be like bragging about how much she was able to
Speaker 1: get for her See, that's a much more interesting post
Speaker 1: all the stuff that only can you believe it? Supermarket sweep.
Speaker 1: If ceverbodies would just say call us idiots and stuff,
Speaker 1: I think that'd be more fun. They're like, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean if they're like, we can do it,
Speaker 1: you can do idiots. Yea, all right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll come back and talk about Olympic pillow
Speaker 1: funny and we're back. And so last year at the
Speaker 1: Olympic Games that I don't remember, like I don't remember
Speaker 1: them at all, Like I did know. We were too
Speaker 1: traumatized to four memories at that time, which is why
Speaker 1: I think we have to stop having big events. And
Speaker 1: people are like, oh have I'm like, I still think
Speaker 1: it's I'm not caught up in Tokyo and they had
Speaker 1: they had them already, and uh yeah, I do a
Speaker 1: daily news show. I definitely talked about them. There's probably
Speaker 1: hours of me talking about these Olympics. I don't remember
Speaker 1: them at all. Anyways, there's there's more Olympics starting right now.
Speaker 1: I remember one thing that and I don't remember what
Speaker 1: country it was in. I don't even know what. I
Speaker 1: don't know anything about the Olympics, but I know that
Speaker 1: whatever country it was taking place in, there was a
Speaker 1: person competing that was from the country, and there was
Speaker 1: no one in the arena to cheer for them. And
Speaker 1: I just thought, you work your entire life to make
Speaker 1: the Olympics. You're the hometown hero, and no one can
Speaker 1: cheer for you. It's so sad. It's a hollo experience.
Speaker 1: And yeah, we must stop until we can have them
Speaker 1: safely bananas. Yeah, I mean, it's so sad. It's like
Speaker 1: I made the Olympics and it's like a pep rally
Speaker 1: with no one to cheer. What's the boy, right, Just ye,
Speaker 1: there's just no one there, just an echo of the
Speaker 1: sound of vapory tearing. Yeah. So one of the things
Speaker 1: that sounds like all three of us missed. Is that
Speaker 1: a German pentathlon coach literally punched a horse. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that which I didn't know there was a horse riding
Speaker 1: portion of the pentathlon? Is that the one that where
Speaker 1: you shoot guns too? Or their guns involved in the pentathlon? Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not an athlete. I have no idea what a
Speaker 1: pentathlon is. I wonder why one man punching a horse
Speaker 1: canceled an entire event though that's really we're okay, we're
Speaker 1: looking it up. What is a contest featuring five events?
Speaker 1: It is the one where you shoot the gun? Okay,
Speaker 1: involved punching at all or his dis guide. He just
Speaker 1: sat upset, so less you judge. I think the puncher
Speaker 1: was a woman. It was Kim Ason Er punched a
Speaker 1: horse ahead of the women's competition in August, So like apparently, yeah,
Speaker 1: there there's it's horse riding, gun shooting. What else like running, standing,
Speaker 1: long jump, discus throw, greco roman wrestling? But that was
Speaker 1: in the six versions? Horses can be aggressive? What was
Speaker 1: so competitors could not meet their horses until shortly before
Speaker 1: the horse riding portion of the competition began. I I
Speaker 1: don't know if that was COVID related. I don't know
Speaker 1: why they couldn't meet or if they normally can, but
Speaker 1: several riders struggled with their horses. One such rider was
Speaker 1: Germany's Anka Schlew and her coach tried to talk some
Speaker 1: sense into the horse by punching it in the face
Speaker 1: and did not work. The horse refused to jump, and
Speaker 1: so they decided to cancel that event from the Pentathlon
Speaker 1: on and are now talking about what they're going to
Speaker 1: replace it with. Me. To be fair, it has to
Speaker 1: be an unfamiliar horse. So you are riding a horse
Speaker 1: you have no experience riding. I don't It's not me
Speaker 1: condoning violence against horses, Okay, I don't think punching the
Speaker 1: horse would do literally anything except make the horse mad
Speaker 1: and possibly buck your rider, Like what was the point
Speaker 1: of it? But I am now fascinated that this has
Speaker 1: not become like a social media thing because it requires fencing,
Speaker 1: pistol shooting, freestyle swimming, show jumping on an unfamiliar horse,
Speaker 1: and then across country run. I need to know who
Speaker 1: has mastered all of these things enough to take it
Speaker 1: to the Olympics. I want to know what their daily
Speaker 1: life it's like, because I imagine you can never stop training.
Speaker 1: Like thing the Olympians like, if you're just doing like
Speaker 1: the hurdles, you're pacting hurdles every damn day, hours a day,
Speaker 1: getting that hurdle right. But you have to do find
Speaker 1: this is so much. It feels like the Olympic event
Speaker 1: version of like those Guinness World Records where the person
Speaker 1: just like made some ship up to do that would
Speaker 1: like that they could do because they were the only
Speaker 1: one who thought to do it. Maybe someone couldn't win
Speaker 1: each individual event event and they were like, you know what,
Speaker 1: but I'll challenge you to all of them. I'll challenge
Speaker 1: you to all of them. Grab bag grab bag it up. So,
Speaker 1: according to a recent Instagram post by the International Modern
Speaker 1: Pentathlon Union Athletes Committee, some of the sports that they're
Speaker 1: considering to replace the horse jumping show jumping on an
Speaker 1: unfamiliar horse, which does seem wildly specific, are less specific
Speaker 1: things like roller skating, which I kind of like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it would be a roller skating race
Speaker 1: or like a roller skating just like dance off bike riding,
Speaker 1: also drone racing. No, that's too far and I don't
Speaker 1: like that Olympics to be about physical strength only if
Speaker 1: they ride the drum, if they drive the ra if
Speaker 1: you just ride into the Olympic whatever opening ceremony is
Speaker 1: being like propelled by drones, that would be cool. And
Speaker 1: then finally pillow fighting, which people, some pentathletes were even like, wait,
Speaker 1: is that last one a joke? But apparently not. Pillow
Speaker 1: fighting is being considered a legitimate sport now and there's
Speaker 1: a league and everything. They just had the first pillow
Speaker 1: Fight Championships last weekend in Florida, so you know it's legit.
Speaker 1: The pay per view event reportedly featured hardcore swinging with
Speaker 1: special with a specialized pillow, and people who competed were
Speaker 1: m m A fighters, reality TV stars, bare knuckle boxers, mechanics,
Speaker 1: single moms, and veterinarians. Okay, I see what's going on here.
Speaker 1: Trying to take out some COVID aggression. Yeah, yeah, one
Speaker 1: a great way to take out some COVID aggression too.
Speaker 1: This is absolutely someone thinking about rating, right. So the
Speaker 1: the one thing I do remember about Tokyo is that
Speaker 1: they added skateboarding. X games gets tons of views every year.
Speaker 1: It's very exciting. It's an established sport, easy to get
Speaker 1: enough competitors in there. I wonder if I guess because
Speaker 1: it's one of five events in a smaller category that
Speaker 1: you could probably train, oh my god, training for a
Speaker 1: follow fight, but you could probably get enough athletes to
Speaker 1: be like, okay, that's the thing, like let's go. I
Speaker 1: want my Olympic medal. What I have to do? They
Speaker 1: have to wear these uniforms. Now, if you you can't
Speaker 1: see the picture, but I'll just describe. It looks like
Speaker 1: a terry cloth nineteen twenties bathing suit, and that's it.
Speaker 1: That's what it looks like. And then their pillows are
Speaker 1: like maybe silkcas if you remember that, like rock 'em
Speaker 1: not rockham socking robots. What are those pillow hand fished
Speaker 1: things that you were inflatable? Thank you, sock 'em boppers,
Speaker 1: that's what but in pillow form is what it looks like.
Speaker 1: But don't know what a stock bober is. I like
Speaker 1: that In the list of people they included mechanics. That's
Speaker 1: just funny. I don't know why, but they were like
Speaker 1: m m A fighters, bare knuckle boxers, mechanics, single moms.
Speaker 1: Anyone can do it. Anyone can get punched by a
Speaker 1: bare knuckle boxer. You know, maybe the veterinarians. Thing was
Speaker 1: like a play two horses to be like this one
Speaker 1: is gonna be so much easier for you guys the
Speaker 1: last one. But yeah, the mechanics is confusing, Like riding
Speaker 1: a bike. It does seem like the equivalent of like
Speaker 1: maybe if there was bike jumping, like you had to
Speaker 1: like jump a bike because it's like a a horse
Speaker 1: that you can't punch, or people won't get mad if
Speaker 1: you punch a bike, I guess. But this, like adding
Speaker 1: a combat sport that like presumably no pent athlete has
Speaker 1: ever attempted, is actually kind of fun. I'm I was
Speaker 1: about to criticize it, and then I realized that they
Speaker 1: should do that every Olympics. There should be a wild
Speaker 1: card fifth event that you can just like guarantee nobody
Speaker 1: has any experience in and throw it on on them
Speaker 1: like the day of the event, and see how the
Speaker 1: internet gets to vote. And my first pitch is pirate
Speaker 1: ship battle. You guys got instead of like cannons, you
Speaker 1: have like paintballs, but they're like giants that you put
Speaker 1: in a cannon, you know, so you're just getting splattered
Speaker 1: with paint because the ship most covered in paint loses done.
Speaker 1: And then I paintball is a pretty good idea for
Speaker 1: an Olympic sport. I was gonna say, if you lose,
Speaker 1: then it becomes a swimming event. You know, there you go,
Speaker 1: there you go. But so, pillow fighting championships have been
Speaker 1: a thing for a while in Japan, and the All
Speaker 1: Japan Pillow Fighting Championships were apparently inspired by pillow fights
Speaker 1: held by Japanese students on school trips. They apparently have
Speaker 1: school trip money in Japan for take their kids in
Speaker 1: school trips more than once. But the rules are it's
Speaker 1: like a team sport. Sounds like team dodgeball if you've
Speaker 1: ever played that or witnessed that, but with pillows, except
Speaker 1: it has like fun things like everybody starts in a
Speaker 1: sleeping bag, like you have to like when they blow
Speaker 1: the whistle, everyone's and like laying down under a comforter,
Speaker 1: and then you have to like run up, like jump
Speaker 1: out of bed, grab a pillows, start throwing it at
Speaker 1: each other, and when somebody yells the teacher is coming,
Speaker 1: then everybody like has to run back to their foot
Speaker 1: on pick up more pillows. And then there's a captain
Speaker 1: who you defend with a duvet in let's do it.
Speaker 1: Is this real rules or do you just create that?
Speaker 1: Right now? That's that's a Japanese game that is established
Speaker 1: and has been for a number of years that we
Speaker 1: are choosing to turn our back gone in America for
Speaker 1: some reason and just doing there isn't a boxing ring,
Speaker 1: which is dumb boring, Like that's so much less exciting
Speaker 1: than like, here's literally a team event and the ability
Speaker 1: to defend in a dodgeball. So that's revolutionary. Okay, you
Speaker 1: can only defend in dodgeball if you're good at bouncing
Speaker 1: the ball off the ball already in your hands, and
Speaker 1: eventually you have to throw that ball, so you own's
Speaker 1: a temporary defense like strategy. But the idea of using
Speaker 1: an entire comforter to protect your team captain chef's kiss
Speaker 1: man that we've got real game like stats in here
Speaker 1: now it because like you could just be like the
Speaker 1: sickest with the comforterary. You could just be doing all
Speaker 1: sorts of wild ship. Imagine multiple people using comforters and
Speaker 1: now you don't know where the captain is. You got
Speaker 1: to figure it out, you gotta break it down. Your
Speaker 1: captain can be moving in secret, getting ready to like
Speaker 1: nail the other team's captain. This is very This is thrilling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's thrilling. I would absolutely watch this level of pillow
Speaker 1: fights at the Olympic. The Olympics should be more fun.
Speaker 1: It takes itself away too seriously. They're like, we're gonna
Speaker 1: start in Rome. We're gonna run a torch around like blah,
Speaker 1: We've seen it. It's it's good, it's fine, it's whatever.
Speaker 1: But if you really want to get spicy, like bring
Speaker 1: me a paintball championship, I want the actual school level
Speaker 1: pillow fights. I want to see pirate ship battles for sure.
Speaker 1: Just you get that one for free. You don't have
Speaker 1: to pay me anything. I just would the benefit of
Speaker 1: watching grown people paintball. But with pirate ships, is that
Speaker 1: the thing you just made up? Or is that that
Speaker 1: came home from my brain? I would invest money and
Speaker 1: I would absolutely be a ship captain and it it's
Speaker 1: D and D but a whole like extra level of it. Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 1: The entrance it was either Greece or Rome. They would
Speaker 1: like fill up like stadiums with water and have like
Speaker 1: military ship battles in front of people Like that was
Speaker 1: list wait to get a historical context. Jack, I'm putting
Speaker 1: that in the pitch that you guys have already done this.
Speaker 1: We're just modernizing it for it. Let's yeah, American gladiators
Speaker 1: of of the Olympics with pirate chips. American gladiators is
Speaker 1: fun and the Olympics could use some of that. I
Speaker 1: miss American gladiators. Also, the most fun I've ever had
Speaker 1: was both like having a pillow fight that I was winning,
Speaker 1: getting a lot of clean shots in and then got
Speaker 1: like knocked out clean by a pillow like that. Sometimes
Speaker 1: pillow fights are very violent. Yeah, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to compete in it. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: in any event. I don't like me and hit. I've
Speaker 1: been punched many times. I don't want to be hit
Speaker 1: by anything. Yeah. Yeah, let's do it. Do a fun one, guys.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Dusty, it's been truly a pleasure having
Speaker 1: you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you
Speaker 1: and follow you? Well, I really appreciate you guys having me.
Speaker 1: My website is Dusty slay dot com. All my social
Speaker 1: media is at Dusty Slay. I'm on Instagram, Twitter, face Book, TikTok.
Speaker 1: Very fun stuff and um, and that's yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: you can find me there. I'm there, you know, posting
Speaker 1: videos and stupid pictures. There you go. But it's a
Speaker 1: good time. And is there a tweet or some of
Speaker 1: the work of social media you've been enjoying. I don't
Speaker 1: you know. Uh, there is a thing on Instagram that
Speaker 1: I've seen recently and I don't know, I may have
Speaker 1: forgot what it's. What it's. Oh, it's called good News
Speaker 1: Underscore movement, and it's just positive stuff. It's good things
Speaker 1: happening to people and people having good times. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's fun. I mean that the internet
Speaker 1: can be a real negative black hole of death, and
Speaker 1: when do you find something that's good news? It it
Speaker 1: feels fun. But it's like I was thinking about videos,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I consume so much content that who
Speaker 1: even can remember a thing that they saw. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would recommend and if you're really looking for something
Speaker 1: on the internet, pop over to Netflix. Watch The Stand
Speaker 1: Up season three, episode five. Watch all of the episodes,
Speaker 1: but watch mine. I would say watch mine first and often,
Speaker 1: but do watch the others because everyone's very funny on there.
Speaker 1: It's a great season. Yeah, Brian Simpson's on earlier this
Speaker 1: week and last week, and we've had Naomi Paragin on
Speaker 1: before and yeah, just all their an incredible line up. Joel,
Speaker 1: where can people find you? And what is the tweet
Speaker 1: you've been enjoying? Well, y'all know me. I'm Joel. Monique
Speaker 1: can find me all over the internet. Actual Monique. It's
Speaker 1: j O E l E M l N I q
Speaker 1: u E my internet. My tweets have been so serious,
Speaker 1: but um, this is listen. It's a niche tweet. You
Speaker 1: have to know the people involved. But someone said Max Wolf,
Speaker 1: I can't say his handle. It's a lot of it's
Speaker 1: a lot happening there. But someone said Lynn with Field
Speaker 1: may always play evil, but she has never played broke.
Speaker 1: And I know that's right, and that's true. If you
Speaker 1: all know who limit fee of this always plays bad bitch,
Speaker 1: always has money, and I really respect that out of
Speaker 1: an actor, just being like, listen, I don't have to
Speaker 1: have the largest roles, but I'm just never playing broke.
Speaker 1: In aspiration way to set goals for your life, Lynn,
Speaker 1: you did it? Lynn Winfield, where where do we know
Speaker 1: Lynn Winfield from? If you watch a lot of black television,
Speaker 1: you know Lin Winfield from everywhere. Let's let's pull up
Speaker 1: some of n Yes, she did, uh she ty Perry's
Speaker 1: I'm a Da Family Reunion. She did the Justine Baker Story,
Speaker 1: which I think was a TV movie back in nine one.
Speaker 1: And yes, she played the mama in dream Leaf, which
Speaker 1: if you like church drama, which I do, Uh, you
Speaker 1: can enjoy that. It's it's she listened. Lin Wifiel holds
Speaker 1: it down for the black community. We love her all right.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscorel Brian
Speaker 1: uh tweet, I've been enjoying, Hannah Black tweeted interviewer, can
Speaker 1: you explain this gapp in your resume and meet? It
Speaker 1: was then that I carried you. That's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I also like that you you said if you enjoy
Speaker 1: church drama. I had not heard that genre of film before,
Speaker 1: but I'm into it. Yeah, it's it's a strong one.
Speaker 1: Southern Baptists like black, messy family running the church, lots
Speaker 1: of people getting saved from their sins. Someone's definitely cheating.
Speaker 1: There's a cheating husband wife scandal in there. Somewhere. A
Speaker 1: kid gets off drugs. I used to work at Western
Speaker 1: Suze line on a Sunday. So I'm very familiar with
Speaker 1: my own version of church drama and it's three o'clock
Speaker 1: Mass went way too long. We are hungry right now?
Speaker 1: I know the energy? Yeah, oh right. Well, you can
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