Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to twenty six,
Speaker 1: episode one of Dirt Daylies Like Guys. It's a production
Speaker 1: by Her Radio and it's also a podcast where we
Speaker 1: take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Monday,
Speaker 1: February two, which means it is the last day of
Speaker 1: Black History Month. And but also let me pull it
Speaker 1: up because it's the national calendar day. Oh, it's National
Speaker 1: tooth Fairy Day and National Public Sleeping Day. Wow, I
Speaker 1: don't know what that take a nap in public? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: unless you're on housed in which case that's illegal depending
Speaker 1: on the city, right, But I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know how they how do they want you to celebrate
Speaker 1: that National Public Sleeping Day is very accusing to me.
Speaker 1: It's a day for anyone and everyone to take a
Speaker 1: nap on a blanket at the beast. The part of
Speaker 1: the movie theater went on the movie theater. That's a
Speaker 1: there's a straight up waste of money. That sounds like
Speaker 1: a day that was come up by people who want
Speaker 1: to steal your lunch or your money, or they're like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, you're just take a nap in the park.
Speaker 1: Just the lobby of like lunch snatchers, Like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta get this thing on the on
Speaker 1: the counter. Man, people just sleep in. Yogi Bear came
Speaker 1: up with this steal your picnic lunch. Well, my name
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Speaker 1: don't know why, but on a Nintendo kick this morning,
Speaker 1: and we like to talk about how Americans got tricked
Speaker 1: into drinking their own peak by the pandemic trick. Trick.
Speaker 1: Just give me a reason. You know that you're just
Speaker 1: looking for a reason. Give me a reason. Man, there
Speaker 1: it is. I'm thrilled to be joined as always buy
Speaker 1: my co host, Mr Miles Yes, it's Miles Gray. I
Speaker 1: was wondering if this year was a leap year, and
Speaker 1: I realized it's not. I lost a bet and I
Speaker 1: should have thought about it deeper. But anyway, a K
Speaker 1: five dollars, Poor Miles Gray, you lost a bet with
Speaker 1: someone because you thought it was a leap here. I
Speaker 1: just kind of went in real hot with it, and
Speaker 1: I was just kind of in a mood and like,
Speaker 1: as I said, I was like, wait, had the fucking
Speaker 1: leap you know? I was like, yeah, it seems like
Speaker 1: an easy one to Yeah, And I remember and step
Speaker 1: by step Cody, the character on that show born on
Speaker 1: the leap year, so I remember when he was twenty
Speaker 1: years old. He's like, I'm actually only five. That's fucking
Speaker 1: tight man the right and killed it with that. Yeah, well, Miles,
Speaker 1: We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by
Speaker 1: the co host of the podcast Split Ends the Broadcast podcast.
Speaker 1: You may know her from the NFL Network or have
Speaker 1: heard her as the producer of The Gentle Nick and
Speaker 1: Rosenthal Vanity Project. It's Erica Tampass. Hey, Hey, what did
Speaker 1: I just pronounce your last name? How how we do? Okay? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know Tampos it is. Are you coming to us
Speaker 1: from l A? Okay? How about you guys? Same same? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Look at the home of the NFL champs. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: ms that the city could care less about. There, they
Speaker 1: opened up a store at the grove that's like championship gear,
Speaker 1: and I did see somebody walking out fully kicked it up. Nice.
Speaker 1: Who's your guys teams? I, if I had to pick one,
Speaker 1: it was it's probably the Raiders because when they were
Speaker 1: in l A. That's I had the most familiar connection
Speaker 1: to them. But over there and then I think and
Speaker 1: then the nineties, I was always like a Niners or
Speaker 1: Cowboys fan because of Dion and such. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: a Pats fan still m ish. Yeah, yeah, like from
Speaker 1: back in the Bledzo days and I don't know there.
Speaker 1: It's tough. I'm from New England, so I'm a die
Speaker 1: hard masshole in l A. Are the Pats her team?
Speaker 1: They are? Absolutely? Yeah, Well part of Massachusetts' from well
Speaker 1: technically New Hampshire, but I'm like forty five minutes outside
Speaker 1: of Boston, but it's my favorite part of the Massachusetts actually, right,
Speaker 1: So you don't live there, just outside of New Hampshire,
Speaker 1: you know, So you guys know Boston, you're familiar with Boston. Yes,
Speaker 1: you're actually gonna go outside of Boston and actually leave
Speaker 1: the state and then that's where I'm from. Yeah, is
Speaker 1: there something like did you used to be able to
Speaker 1: get booze up there? Like at a younger age, or
Speaker 1: was I remember driving out there once when I lived
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. Yeah. The main thing with New Hampshire is
Speaker 1: sales tax. So people from Massachusetts, like I went to
Speaker 1: u n H and Ivy School. I'm sure you guys
Speaker 1: have heard of it. In the University of New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of kids from from mass because it's
Speaker 1: it's short driving distance. I mean, you can get from
Speaker 1: l A to Culver City in a slower amount of
Speaker 1: time than you can from we're talking Super l A
Speaker 1: and New Hampshire specific if you're anywhere else like just
Speaker 1: but it's just so close. But people would come up
Speaker 1: to New Hampshire to buy booth because then it's cheaper.
Speaker 1: I was a notorious tax dodge when I was seventeen
Speaker 1: year old. Nice. Yeah, um, I really truly can't remember
Speaker 1: why we did that. Maybe it was because it was
Speaker 1: just cheaper and my friends were like trying to shave
Speaker 1: an edge. But anyways, maybe you had to go look
Speaker 1: at the old man in the mountain beauty. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did. Man. My fourth grade state report was on
Speaker 1: New Hampshire. I don't know why I picked New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, man, people are going for like
Speaker 1: states you heard of, because I'm like ten nine and
Speaker 1: I'm like New Hampshire. Yeah, when the Old Man on
Speaker 1: the Mountain fell, it was like it was heartbreaking for
Speaker 1: this We got to find another thing. Guys. Everybody in
Speaker 1: New Hampshire said, they're like, oh, we gotta find a
Speaker 1: different what now? Yeah, and for people who don't know, what,
Speaker 1: would you mind explaining what the Old Man on the
Speaker 1: Mountain is? Yeah? So it was this really really intricate
Speaker 1: just rock on the side of the highway. Um that
Speaker 1: looks like an old man. It's sort of had like
Speaker 1: an Abe Lincoln nose and from the side profile was
Speaker 1: like the old Man. So people would be like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're going to New Hampshire the old Man on the mountain.
Speaker 1: And then the rock, you know as rocks do after years,
Speaker 1: fell off the mountain, and so the rock, not Dwayne Johnson,
Speaker 1: but the Old Man on the mountain, the rock. I
Speaker 1: was so confused until right now I figured I had
Speaker 1: to give some context. Okay, so not Dwayne Johnson. Cool, Well,
Speaker 1: we're thrilled to have you. We're gonna get to know
Speaker 1: you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're
Speaker 1: gonna tell our listeners. A couple of the things we're
Speaker 1: talking about. We're gonna talk about this guy, Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1: You heard about this guy. I think he's a real jerk. Um.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna talk about like one of the first
Speaker 1: questions that I am I hear from people who are
Speaker 1: new to being aware of the of the whole situation
Speaker 1: over there, is like, so why are they doing this?
Speaker 1: And I've heard a lot of different theories, So what
Speaker 1: we'll talk about those I also have like my own
Speaker 1: theory theories. Necessarily it's pretty out there articulated. Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about CNNs that that transition from the
Speaker 1: key of a Raid Sirens to an Applebee's commercial, which was,
Speaker 1: you know, just an absurd moment, awful display of the
Speaker 1: contradiction at the core of our society, but also like
Speaker 1: a long, rich tradition for CNN and Network News. So
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that. We'll talk about how the Pentagon is.
Speaker 1: They want to let us know we're a bunch of
Speaker 1: soft bodies. I guess they've been letting us know that
Speaker 1: for a long time. But the Nintendo generation in particular
Speaker 1: too soft, can't can't put hack it anymore according to
Speaker 1: this Sergeant Major, your grandpa, the Nintendo gener Okay, uh huh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about a celebrity shilling for Crypto, all
Speaker 1: that plenty more. But first, Erica, we like to ask
Speaker 1: our guests, what is something from your search history? Okay?
Speaker 1: So I went and looked into this and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: something in my search history. There's a lot of boring
Speaker 1: stuff too, but there was something that popped up, and
Speaker 1: I guess should I give this to you guys without context? First? Sure?
Speaker 1: We love that? Yeah, okay, dog diarrhea, rumba? What to do?
Speaker 1: Oh no, all right, let me see if I could
Speaker 1: put this one together. A bad night? Okay, yeah, looking
Speaker 1: bad night? I'm sorry? Yeah. Is it that you were
Speaker 1: looking for videos of us that after that? Or you
Speaker 1: were like, it's happened. It happened, and and it was
Speaker 1: it was not good. I'll tell you guys that. So
Speaker 1: I have a dog. He's he's a little guy, um,
Speaker 1: and he was not he was not feeling good. He
Speaker 1: was really really sick. To the point where it was
Speaker 1: it was two days in a row of like every
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes having you go outside to the point of
Speaker 1: day two where I'm like, I need to sleep, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna work, Like I was going crazy. So I decided
Speaker 1: to put like p pads down by the by the door.
Speaker 1: So like Thor, you know, you gotta go, You go
Speaker 1: on your P pad. He's seven, he knows what to do.
Speaker 1: So name Yeah, Thor's my rumbo's name. Actually no, and
Speaker 1: so so Thor you know, does his business every twenty
Speaker 1: minutes on the on the P pad. And I wake
Speaker 1: up to the sound of the roomba started by itself,
Speaker 1: which I don't know how that happened, and it was
Speaker 1: dragging the P pad across the floor, and the pad
Speaker 1: was tangled up in it, dragging across my front like
Speaker 1: living room, across the entire house like a ship zamboni
Speaker 1: basically literally yeah, So I was like, Google's gotta know
Speaker 1: what to do when this happened. Yeah in Google and
Speaker 1: says like, dude, just throw that away. It was like,
Speaker 1: get of Thor. You need to like, okay, you need
Speaker 1: to go, okay, you need to put this in private
Speaker 1: browsing mode, and you need to get a new I
Speaker 1: D because you're gonna burn your house down and who
Speaker 1: you are is dead now. Actually yeah, yeah, no insurance
Speaker 1: claimed nothing. Wow, I'm sorry that so there really is
Speaker 1: nothing you can do. Yeah it was the room. The
Speaker 1: room ba like warranty number came up, like that, get
Speaker 1: a new one ys, because you can't use that again.
Speaker 1: You can't like be like washed it out and like
Speaker 1: it's eco lab or something. Yeah, she's gone. She's gone.
Speaker 1: She's an old man in the mountain. And yeah, what's
Speaker 1: something you think is overrated? Okay? Overrated? This was This
Speaker 1: was a question that was on my mind a lot
Speaker 1: because I was like, there are a lot of things
Speaker 1: that I think are overrated, but they're up for discussion
Speaker 1: and and all this kind of stuff. But and this
Speaker 1: is a really and I don't know how you come
Speaker 1: down on this, but espresso martiniz Now a lot of
Speaker 1: my friends love them. They're all about them. And yes,
Speaker 1: or the four local generation that turned into vodka red
Speaker 1: Bulls that turned into espresso Martinis, which is still the
Speaker 1: upper and downer and whatever. But I was at the
Speaker 1: bar recently, you know, and I'm thirty at the bar
Speaker 1: and my friend gets an espresso martini and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're chugging a chocolate shake with Bailey's to stay up right,
Speaker 1: now like this, this just doesn't do it for me.
Speaker 1: I'd rather, you know, forced down a vodka Red Bull.
Speaker 1: Not my my choice. But if you're really needing to
Speaker 1: stay up, like I don't need to be having a
Speaker 1: huge thick chocolate, you know, espresso martini just doesn't do
Speaker 1: it for me. Yeah, I anything that is in a
Speaker 1: regular Martini is like a no for me. Like when
Speaker 1: you start getting weird with I'm like no, I Like,
Speaker 1: I like a really simple, dirty martini, like just just
Speaker 1: dry that gives that's it. So espresso martinis, yeah, like
Speaker 1: you said to me, it sounds like like everything because
Speaker 1: I watched Below Deck, that Bravo show, and I feel
Speaker 1: like so many people on that show ask for espresso
Speaker 1: martiniz and I'm like what And I noticed that, like
Speaker 1: wave happening. I'm like, why are people drinking this ship? Now?
Speaker 1: I also think that assumes they were just like flavored
Speaker 1: that way, like like espresso flavored vodka or something. It's espresso,
Speaker 1: it is, Bailey's I think it is. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of But then I at at that point not at all.
Speaker 1: But that's in a martini glass. Yeah, Am I just
Speaker 1: a binge drinker? Like maybe people are just like I
Speaker 1: have a nice esprecial martini after my dinner out, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, why do you want to drink that and
Speaker 1: fill up when you could have like, you know, three
Speaker 1: and a half Acasta's before you go to the next place.
Speaker 1: Like maybe it's a me thing, but yeah, overrated, No,
Speaker 1: I definitely agree. Yeah, vodka, coffee, liqueur, espresso, simple syrup. Oh,
Speaker 1: simple syrup. So they're adding on top of the coffee liquor.
Speaker 1: They're adding syrup. Damn No, I mean that sounds very
Speaker 1: They need to rename that because there's two words there
Speaker 1: that don't ring very like American to me. But like
Speaker 1: that is a drink made like as a trap for
Speaker 1: Americans and the most sugar that you can possibly pack
Speaker 1: into a small caffee martini glass. Yeah, it's like a
Speaker 1: compaine for Karen's. Like what it feels like that Karen Coke? Exactly?
Speaker 1: Let me get a Karen Coke. Karen Coke. Okay, all right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had when I drank, I had a policy of
Speaker 1: I only drank martinis when I was wearing a tuxedo,
Speaker 1: and I would not drink anything else when I had
Speaker 1: a tuxedo on. If there's a bar. Do you like
Speaker 1: the olives or do you do it? I love olives
Speaker 1: and still to this day. Yeah, now you're just like,
Speaker 1: give me a martini glassful of olives. What is something
Speaker 1: you think is underrated? Okay, underrated? And maybe once again,
Speaker 1: I am spinning to a circuit a certain market. But
Speaker 1: air drop for iPhone users and for someone that works
Speaker 1: in editing or producing or I make my own content
Speaker 1: or whatever. I can legitimately film something on my iPhone,
Speaker 1: click a button and it appears on my Mac. Like
Speaker 1: that is cry crazy? Do you guys understand this? Like
Speaker 1: I can take a photo right now and then make
Speaker 1: it a like magically appear on my Mac Like why
Speaker 1: are not people talking about this? Like this is insane? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It is that. Like I love that you have perspective
Speaker 1: about how good technology is because you'll meet people like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's like taking so long. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you just sent forty five videos at once to someone
Speaker 1: standing next to you without a cable. Let's let's let's
Speaker 1: rejoice in that. And also in that same vein like
Speaker 1: being able to like ha ha a text or like
Speaker 1: it and then just end the conversation like you don't
Speaker 1: have to answer. You can just be like ha and
Speaker 1: then you're done, right, Like, why aren't we talking about this?
Speaker 1: You guys, like, I know there's important stuff going on,
Speaker 1: but like this is huge. Tap backs are like the
Speaker 1: great punctuator of a conversation. You're right, I didn't even
Speaker 1: think of how it's saving me having to say something
Speaker 1: I don't mean just be cool. Thumbs up, Oh, thumbs
Speaker 1: down to that. Boom, good, I've interacted. Yeah. I have
Speaker 1: a friend on group texts who will like critique your
Speaker 1: use of that, will be like why did you thumbs
Speaker 1: up that? What was that? What was your thinking of that?
Speaker 1: Just too yeah, oh, just to just to force you
Speaker 1: into more. I'll walk me through this, walk me, walk
Speaker 1: me through. It's never like something that he wrote. It's
Speaker 1: like something somebody else right to be like, why did
Speaker 1: you U? Why do you like that? So you emphasized
Speaker 1: bad news when you wrote that. That's really quick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: walk me through this. All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back and uh talk about some news and
Speaker 1: we're back and yeah, first question people seem to ask
Speaker 1: about the Russia thing. Why is Russia doing this? Which
Speaker 1: I don't know. It seems like like you've heard about
Speaker 1: it being like the westernmost points, so like strategically significant,
Speaker 1: the closest to Western Europe of the places like Russia
Speaker 1: one's controlled. I actually heard an interesting explanation that Ukraine
Speaker 1: is actually like where all of Russian civilization was actually
Speaker 1: formed and then it like kind of spread out from there.
Speaker 1: But it's actually you know, for somebody who is supposedly
Speaker 1: a like Russian supremacists, like that's that would be pretty
Speaker 1: significant if the place that was like showed you the
Speaker 1: direction to go was suddenly like nah, fucking fucking funk
Speaker 1: all everything you're all about, Yeah, we're kind of into
Speaker 1: doing our own thing. Yeah, we're kind of the West
Speaker 1: seems to be onto something. But there's also you know
Speaker 1: that like, uh, there's a the hill piece that is
Speaker 1: like Putin and meanwhile is exactly where he likes to be,
Speaker 1: right at the center of the media narrative and or
Speaker 1: like in the spotlight basically, and that that was something
Speaker 1: that occurred to me, like when they were dragging out
Speaker 1: the like will they won't they war? Like will they
Speaker 1: won't they evade side of it, and everyone was like
Speaker 1: why it's not clear what they're gaining or you know
Speaker 1: the strategic purpose of all of this, and I just
Speaker 1: I feel like he is a he just loves to
Speaker 1: see his name in the paper. Like I think he's
Speaker 1: more similar to Trump than we. I mean, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I'm in sort of the ego version too, But
Speaker 1: I think, you know, aside from the him saying like
Speaker 1: I have to do it to prevent ethnic cleansing or
Speaker 1: protect ethnic Russians and on top of NATO expansion, he's
Speaker 1: also he's he uses very clearly like words that are
Speaker 1: him saying like I'm trying to rebuild like the Russian
Speaker 1: Empire before, like you know, the restore the glory of
Speaker 1: Russia Preuss. Yeah, because he obviously does the way he
Speaker 1: felt the Soviet Union was like broken up, he was
Speaker 1: like no, like you know, that was a huge wound
Speaker 1: for him that he carries with him and feeds a
Speaker 1: lot of this energy to expand and and sort of
Speaker 1: reclaim these like territories. But yeah, it's it is it again,
Speaker 1: Like it's just one of these moments too where for
Speaker 1: a person who's just sort of like, well, my power
Speaker 1: is waning, I need to show strength to try and
Speaker 1: bolster my credibility at home, even though it's clear many
Speaker 1: Russian people do not want a war. You know. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it has the unfortunate effective Like you
Speaker 1: look at the people that now have to fight because
Speaker 1: of this, because you even look at like these kids
Speaker 1: that are like eighteen that they're saying that they get
Speaker 1: they got to Ukraine with the Russian army, and they're like,
Speaker 1: we you we were told this wasn't like a thing
Speaker 1: where like we're gonna actively like be having like fight
Speaker 1: people and potentially kill people, and you just I don't know,
Speaker 1: the whole of it just comes even more heartbreaking all
Speaker 1: because yeah, like to your point, this is a way
Speaker 1: for him to have a spotlight while also having his
Speaker 1: very like singular aims of you know, restoring his empire. Right.
Speaker 1: We've talked about how like narcissism is the cheek code
Speaker 1: in the modern world, right, Like, especially in the context
Speaker 1: of America, you know, with Trump and Kanye kind of
Speaker 1: in different ways, but just you know, becoming some of
Speaker 1: the most powerful figures in the history of the culture
Speaker 1: in terms of their influence through just like a pathological
Speaker 1: like debilitating what like could have been in another era,
Speaker 1: like a debilitating type of narcissism in like this era
Speaker 1: and as like our version of American you know, late
Speaker 1: stage capitalism evolves like that becomes more and more like
Speaker 1: the sicker you are in that way, the like stronger
Speaker 1: your hand, or like the more the better your instincts
Speaker 1: for just taking out more and more of the oxygen
Speaker 1: in the media landscape. And like I can't imagine he
Speaker 1: is displeased with what he is seeing in media, not
Speaker 1: just social but like every type of media, like where
Speaker 1: he is now being treated as like the living embodiment
Speaker 1: of like Hitler, essentially like in mainstream media outlets, Like
Speaker 1: I just I wonder, like this is a thought experiment
Speaker 1: people do a lot with mass shooters that like if
Speaker 1: you just never mentioned their name, Like would mass shooters
Speaker 1: be like way less common, Like I I wonder if
Speaker 1: you know his name wasn't mentioned in the headlines, But
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, but I think it simplifies like there's
Speaker 1: larger struggle between the like Western capitalism and communism. That's
Speaker 1: about the heart of like how this tension begins, like
Speaker 1: with the creation of Nata, Like it's it's such a
Speaker 1: like integral part of the history of the region that
Speaker 1: that's what's always kind of like the underpinnings of it too,
Speaker 1: of like who's gonna who's gonna win in the end
Speaker 1: of this and that's what it's like. And on top
Speaker 1: of that, like we're also we're watching this like war
Speaker 1: play out like on social media, which is the most
Speaker 1: surreal thing I think I've ever experienced, because I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm becoming more empathetic or desensitized because the
Speaker 1: images you see are so vivid and graphic that I'm like,
Speaker 1: how fuck, Like, I don't it's overwhel It's truly overwhelming
Speaker 1: to like be able to see, you know, people actually
Speaker 1: in real time, seeing like a fighter jet the hit
Speaker 1: a building with like missiles, with people recording from the inside.
Speaker 1: It's like throughout all of it too, I'm also processing,
Speaker 1: like what does it even mean to be, uh, like
Speaker 1: a person conscious in the year two in the age
Speaker 1: of social media and the internet with like a war
Speaker 1: breaking out? And is that is that helping? I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like I've had this weird moment where I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what it's what my what I'm actually experiencing as I
Speaker 1: look at it all, because it's overwhelming. Yeah, it's fucking horrifying.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's let's talk about one way that
Speaker 1: the mainstream media also having a tough time covering this,
Speaker 1: and that is CNN cutting from a shot of KIV
Speaker 1: with air raid sirens going off like just you know,
Speaker 1: a moment of crisis to an Applebee's commercial. I don't know,
Speaker 1: do you should we play the audio? Do we think that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The for the spookiest transition of the Yeah, so this
Speaker 1: is them going, you know, going to break saying that
Speaker 1: these are that the sort of chiron at the bottoms
Speaker 1: as air raid sirens ring out in Ukraine's capital and
Speaker 1: a little bit of chicken Oh my gosh, cut to
Speaker 1: a cowboy shaking his butt, shaking his little butt in
Speaker 1: his wrangler jeans. I mean you gotta laugh. Like when
Speaker 1: I saw that, my my jaw hit the hit the floor.
Speaker 1: I was like, I just cannot believe this is real.
Speaker 1: Yeah right again, Like everything about watching What's Happening feels
Speaker 1: like this massive joke or experiment gone awry. M Like, huh,
Speaker 1: we we really went from like hearing air raid sirens too,
Speaker 1: just you know a little bit of chicken fried. I'm
Speaker 1: seeing that like just played as like a gaff or
Speaker 1: like treated as a gaff, but like that is that
Speaker 1: is CNN's business model, and like the entire business model
Speaker 1: of like any news supported by advertisements, you know, like
Speaker 1: it's it's not a gas that is like that, it's
Speaker 1: kind of tying into like the whole thing of like
Speaker 1: this isn't These aren't like momentary screw ups, Like this
Speaker 1: is the system that we've built and that we live in.
Speaker 1: We're just like seeing it in new context now that
Speaker 1: like war is happening. But Applebee's express disappointment in the
Speaker 1: actions of the network and expressed how deeply concerned everyone
Speaker 1: at Applebee's is about the situation in Ukraine. So Applebee's
Speaker 1: is standing in solidarity with Ukraine. That's good, that's but
Speaker 1: they paid for the ad like they know, like if
Speaker 1: you're advertising on CNN anyways, like you know what you're
Speaker 1: what you're getting essentially too. So I don't think like
Speaker 1: I've been obviously in a live newsroom and a TV
Speaker 1: production setting and there's like so many cooks in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Stuff happens, yes, but specifically probably wasn't someone at Applebee's,
Speaker 1: you know, corpsing. Let's put it here for sure. No, right,
Speaker 1: there's no chance but also the fact that like that CNN,
Speaker 1: that someone like a showrunner or anything would be like, well,
Speaker 1: we got to get this in and at the top
Speaker 1: of the hour, like let's put it here, Like I
Speaker 1: just don't know where else you would put it, but
Speaker 1: why you would put it or at least like fade out,
Speaker 1: don't do such an abrupt transition like a chicken friend.
Speaker 1: Even the thing the chiron was still up. It's like
Speaker 1: the war of you know, Ukraine and Russias, like sponsored
Speaker 1: by applebe is like the sampler platter ridiculous. I feel
Speaker 1: like the fact that it was picture and picture so
Speaker 1: you could still see you know that that's like the
Speaker 1: live war thing that they will do anytime they're you know,
Speaker 1: covering breaking news, they'll like keep part of the picture
Speaker 1: on part of the screen. I feel like that's given
Speaker 1: them a chance to be like, ah, that was the
Speaker 1: that was the issue. We're not doing that anymore, Like
Speaker 1: we're good, We're not going to do picture and picture
Speaker 1: ads anymore. And it's like I don't think that's what
Speaker 1: people are like, like, don't the rates go up? Like
Speaker 1: it's like the Super Bowl, like when they know like
Speaker 1: they're going to be dealing with a lot of eyeballs
Speaker 1: because I know, like during election season, it's like that,
Speaker 1: like you know, they know it's like hey, man, if
Speaker 1: people the rate cards just got a little bit a
Speaker 1: little bit higher. Yeah, I mean see, so Jam put
Speaker 1: together the story pointing out the like this is what
Speaker 1: CNN was built on. Actually, like they first became a
Speaker 1: cable network of note during the Gulf War in Iraq
Speaker 1: in the early nineties, and they dropped commercials for a
Speaker 1: couple of days to avoid seeming tasteless at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the war. But then a couple of days later,
Speaker 1: the ads were back and their rates had gone from
Speaker 1: thirty second spots costing between three thousand, five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: and five thousand dollars to thirty thousand dollars. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like the whole business model is like when there's
Speaker 1: big news, the highballs come in and do you monetize
Speaker 1: those eyeballs with applebe zah. It's it's this is another
Speaker 1: like again like the how bizarre everything is too, because
Speaker 1: like there's capitalism is so entrenched and everything that even
Speaker 1: like the sanctions fall short from like the EU and
Speaker 1: the US because like you know, for Biden He's like, fun, man,
Speaker 1: I can't have gas prices go up and have like
Speaker 1: risk like increased inflation. So we got to carve out
Speaker 1: like the energy sector isn't going to have sanctions in
Speaker 1: Russia certain like like food things aren't going to happen
Speaker 1: because a lot of two, you know, the a lot
Speaker 1: of especially like Germany. They were saying like we cannot
Speaker 1: sanctioned like at the energy sector, like we're getting so
Speaker 1: much of our natural gas from Russia and it's it's
Speaker 1: preventing like actual effective sanctions that might actually act as deterrence.
Speaker 1: But even then you see like other countries too, like
Speaker 1: Italy was saying like, can we also get luxury goods
Speaker 1: exempted from the sanctions because they're really good customers And
Speaker 1: we're like, holy shit, guys, like what the fuck? But
Speaker 1: this is because I don't think there's even solutions to
Speaker 1: say we'll find if this is what we need to
Speaker 1: do to do it right, then we need to figure
Speaker 1: out a way to open up the coffers to to
Speaker 1: keep prices controlled for people, rather than being like, well,
Speaker 1: the way it works is if I sanction a bank,
Speaker 1: then that doesn't help like traders who are trading like
Speaker 1: with like, you know, doing any kind of business with Russia,
Speaker 1: because even on the website it tells you how to
Speaker 1: get around the sanctions like if you're doing business. So
Speaker 1: it just kind of like what everything is just so
Speaker 1: intertwined in the end, like you we get this like
Speaker 1: very perverse or real version of like trying to solve
Speaker 1: a problem, but it's just made much more complicated. Also
Speaker 1: to your point, Erica about like Applebe's new what they
Speaker 1: were getting less than two years ago in the summer
Speaker 1: of CNN took heat for a tone deaf ad placement,
Speaker 1: and again it was Applebee's. They followed a report of
Speaker 1: the death of Oadway start Nick Cordero after a prolonged
Speaker 1: battle with COVID with a peppiad for Applebee's, proudly announcing
Speaker 1: a return to dine in service. So yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think Applebee's is probably the problem of America and
Speaker 1: total I don't know where we're talking yesterday or we
Speaker 1: were talking on Friday's episode actually about how it's like
Speaker 1: our community center. That's where everybody knows our name, knows
Speaker 1: I know everybody's names. Absolutely, Yeah, that's where I go
Speaker 1: to hang out with the Little League team I coach.
Speaker 1: I guess I think that's what happens. And the yeah,
Speaker 1: the super Bowl ad that they did where they just
Speaker 1: stole the Cheers team. Yeah, well look, I know they're
Speaker 1: loving it because there Erica and I have the same
Speaker 1: brain were the second time we've said the same joke
Speaker 1: at the same time. Um No, But I feel like they,
Speaker 1: you know, when they look at the act like metrics
Speaker 1: that are going on, they're getting like almost like a
Speaker 1: thousand mentions a minute, like on Twitter and ship like
Speaker 1: right after that. Yeah, but who's going like, yes, it's mentioned,
Speaker 1: and I guess social media like Okay, now I'm thinking
Speaker 1: and now I'm out, But like who is actually watching
Speaker 1: that sitting there being like, holy ship, the world around
Speaker 1: me is falling apart. We're still in a pandemic coming
Speaker 1: out of it. But actually that cold beer at applebee specifically,
Speaker 1: like did look kind of good? Like who's going, yes,
Speaker 1: some really crass person is Like they turn out like
Speaker 1: they're watching CNN and they go, you know what I'm thinking, boys,
Speaker 1: a little bit of chicken fried. They all, right, let's go,
Speaker 1: We're going to Applebee's. I think both mostly for them,
Speaker 1: you know, the game. They know that like advertising doesn't
Speaker 1: work in the traditional sense anymore. So it's just all
Speaker 1: about brando wearing like that you're aware that it's still
Speaker 1: a thing that you can go to, and what better
Speaker 1: than to be like, yeah, I don't know, we'll be
Speaker 1: the face of the dystopian uh, the corporate world. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: but this is kind of the other side of the
Speaker 1: thing I was saying with like Putin being as like
Speaker 1: at his happiest with like right now as he's you know,
Speaker 1: on the front page of every newspaper in the world.
Speaker 1: Like these companies, these like for Prova media companies are
Speaker 1: you know, this is this is when they get all
Speaker 1: the coverage and I am admittedly like checking the New
Speaker 1: York Times like every half hour on the half hour,
Speaker 1: you know, because they have the ability to cover it. Um,
Speaker 1: they have the budget. So it's like I mean in
Speaker 1: in some ways it's just like yeah, that's how the
Speaker 1: world works. But it does feel like that there's a
Speaker 1: sort of feedback loop there where like everybody's getting what
Speaker 1: they want. When you go to war, everybody's excited, and
Speaker 1: especially if you're making the ruling class absolutely because you know,
Speaker 1: wars typically you completely destabilize things and you can force
Speaker 1: people to accept like a lower living standard as a
Speaker 1: result of like the destruction. Like there's just so much
Speaker 1: of it that creates more opportunities for wealthy people to
Speaker 1: become wealthier too. And I don't know, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, you just think of like all of
Speaker 1: the regular people who have nothing to do with this
Speaker 1: actual power struggle, who are forced to put their bodies
Speaker 1: on the line for you know, for what you touched
Speaker 1: on it too, just like quickly before we move on,
Speaker 1: it's just seeing it on TikTok, seeing these soldiers being like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm right here, or they're like live, or these reporters
Speaker 1: are like I'm here doing this, and you're you're watching
Speaker 1: these videos that are getting millions and millions of views
Speaker 1: and likes and comments, and and it's sort of a weird.
Speaker 1: We've had Snapchat, we've had you know, social media before,
Speaker 1: but this, even with this constant like going live on Instagram,
Speaker 1: like seeing it in a way that we all consume
Speaker 1: media is just such a surreal experience. And it again
Speaker 1: you're like, don't you see people in the comments like
Speaker 1: give them hell? And you're like you're talking to like
Speaker 1: a like it's a picture of an eighty year old
Speaker 1: man who's trying to sign up for the army, and
Speaker 1: it's not just like give them hell, it's like what
Speaker 1: a fucking tragedy. But I get though, too, Like people
Speaker 1: start looking at this ship and it feels like we
Speaker 1: get so disconnected though too, from the reality of it
Speaker 1: while also being so close to it visually. That's what
Speaker 1: I think is really kind of like the disorienting sensation
Speaker 1: of it all is like you can see how it
Speaker 1: becomes gamified more than like in a like a sports
Speaker 1: context where people are like, yeah, way to go, like
Speaker 1: give him hell Ukraine, like show putin, like what's up.
Speaker 1: But we're also completely detached from like absolutely absolute chaos
Speaker 1: that's actually there and the uncertainty that people face. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's why it's a very very bizarre
Speaker 1: time to be having these things occur and we're all
Speaker 1: just so connected but then feel powerless at the same time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do wonder like the the push has always been
Speaker 1: from the military military industrial complex. The push has always
Speaker 1: been too carefully frame the realities of war right like
Speaker 1: and Vietnam became unpopular because there was more press access,
Speaker 1: although it was still very limited and mediated. But I
Speaker 1: do wonder if just the more and more looks we
Speaker 1: get at it and the less and less they're mediated.
Speaker 1: The that's assuming that people aren't going in and manipulating
Speaker 1: the algorithm and making war look awesome or fun or whatever.
Speaker 1: Well even if I mean, I think just when you
Speaker 1: look at what had what like the most widely shared
Speaker 1: clips over the past few days, it seems like most
Speaker 1: if anything, it's weakening people's appetite for armed conflict. Like
Speaker 1: I think, aside from people feeling very passionately about like
Speaker 1: you know who were saying like you know, you have
Speaker 1: to defend your home land, like for sure, you got
Speaker 1: to defend yourself, but there's I don't know, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like we don't want war. That the tennis star that
Speaker 1: that wrote no war on the camera when he just
Speaker 1: was you know, there's a lot of stuff, and I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of people in you know, the
Speaker 1: Russian streets protesting against the war, which is not allowed
Speaker 1: over there, and the amount of that, I do feel
Speaker 1: like as much as we're so divided as a country
Speaker 1: and even with an issue like this, which to me,
Speaker 1: when I'm reading some of other tweets and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, how are people making this like like a
Speaker 1: divisive thing which is insane to me and does not
Speaker 1: make sense whatsoever. But then to also see people, you know,
Speaker 1: there's people fighting about wanting to wear masks in this country,
Speaker 1: but then there's Russian people out in the street protesting
Speaker 1: when they're not allowed to to say like no war,
Speaker 1: and it's just look at our realities, like just I
Speaker 1: don't understand it. Yeah, all right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break game. We'll be right back, and we're back and
Speaker 1: speaking a war speaking of Yeah, I think he said
Speaker 1: ruling class. Well, this is a class of cadets that
Speaker 1: doesn't rule miles. That's the latest generation of soldiers because
Speaker 1: they have been softened by Uba Soft and other videos
Speaker 1: and associating Uh yeah, who oh my god, what are
Speaker 1: you gonna be at E three this year? Uh so yeah, yeah, bro,
Speaker 1: I said E three? Man. I love that movie. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know the I guess the army has noticed an
Speaker 1: uptick of injuries during basic training. And according to one
Speaker 1: of the majors who was like, sort of you know,
Speaker 1: perv you it is uh to like look into this stuff,
Speaker 1: is like I guess the Clinical Coordinator in charge of
Speaker 1: Medical Readiness, Army Major John Mark Thibodeau um is basically saying, like,
Speaker 1: these kids are coming in and they're just soft. They're
Speaker 1: sitting on their butts all day rather than work in
Speaker 1: the fields or in the mines. So the little Mario
Speaker 1: Kart bodies are just breaking under the stress of soldier school. Uh.
Speaker 1: The way he describes what the exact problem is and
Speaker 1: this sounds it sounds like a cartoon character. Army Major
Speaker 1: John Mark Tiboeau says the Nintendo generation Soldier skeleton is
Speaker 1: not toughened by activity prior to arrival, so some of
Speaker 1: them break more easily. Damn. Huh Okay, I both like,
Speaker 1: I think that is wild and he is a cartoon character,
Speaker 1: and also believe it like that that because yeah, like
Speaker 1: if you are not moving as much here, I think
Speaker 1: that's true, isn't it that like your bones? I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree, I just because I can only imagine.
Speaker 1: I know what being sedentary has done to my body. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've also like thank the Gods that when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, it was about like going outside, like I
Speaker 1: was just in the streets constantly. But as I think
Speaker 1: if video games were what they were like now when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, I would probably be pretty sedentary.
Speaker 1: Thank God for only sixteen big graphics, I guess. But
Speaker 1: one of the the assistant chief of physical therapy at
Speaker 1: the like an Army community hospital, sort of talks about
Speaker 1: the kinds of injuries they see and they say, quote,
Speaker 1: we see injuries ranging from acute fractures and falls two
Speaker 1: tears in the a c L, which isn't first of all,
Speaker 1: getting injured in basic training isn't like a new phenomenon whatsoever.
Speaker 1: But I think they're just saying, I guess the frequency
Speaker 1: is increasing. They say there's muscle strained, stress fractures, with
Speaker 1: the overwhelming majority of injuries related to overuse. And then
Speaker 1: the rest of this press release or the guy gets
Speaker 1: you know, angry at the Nintendo generation, urges those people
Speaker 1: looking to join the Army to do some basic fitness
Speaker 1: prep before you come to put your body on the
Speaker 1: line for Coca cola. Okay, no, we don't mean playing
Speaker 1: We Fit Junior, get off that PlayStation VR lifting. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the funny thing is, like the Army is kind of
Speaker 1: is short on highly skilled recruits at the moment, so
Speaker 1: they've been really trying to court, in their words, the
Speaker 1: Nintendo bodies out there, the gen Z kids who are
Speaker 1: into video games, but they've done it with very little
Speaker 1: success because they they just spent millions of dollars platforming,
Speaker 1: like enlisted service members to participate in like e sports
Speaker 1: tournaments and like do twitch streams and ship and then
Speaker 1: all the gamers are just like soft fucking right through it.
Speaker 1: They're like, dude, this is fucking nonsense. Get out of
Speaker 1: here with this crap. And they're like, fuck, they didn't
Speaker 1: think it was cool with the army guy picturing Fortnite
Speaker 1: picture in Arly or whatever, the guy from a full
Speaker 1: metal jacket like pulling off his backwards baseball cap and
Speaker 1: being like, damn it, they didn't fall for it, throwing
Speaker 1: his skateboard to the side, damnit. Private pile. Oh yeah, hello,
Speaker 1: fellow kids, Yeah, hello, fellow kids in it. You guys
Speaker 1: like jueling, dude, what damnit? Because like your grandpa, Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know what what the fun he's doing. Oh man,
Speaker 1: But I mean, yeah, it's funny because I feel like
Speaker 1: they're the Pentagon is kind of like they're stuck with
Speaker 1: their ideas because that sounds like a thing you do
Speaker 1: the young, like like US or gen X would have
Speaker 1: fell for like the Army e sports people, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, like early on if they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: just put because I had fucking Ninja turtle like desert
Speaker 1: Storm action figures, you know what I mean. So that
Speaker 1: was that was desert Storm. Really had a moment there
Speaker 1: where I was eating Desert Storm fighter jet gummies at
Speaker 1: that at that time. Yeah, yeah, and it was like
Speaker 1: cool if you got the stealth bomber even though it's black,
Speaker 1: which oh ship, I remember that, yeah, because I remember
Speaker 1: actually yeah, uh shit fruit snacks, Yeah yeah, fighter jet
Speaker 1: fruit snacks. I just remember my friends thunder jets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my friend who had all the cool ship like had
Speaker 1: those in his lunch, like the day the US invaded,
Speaker 1: And yeah, that's what that's what that looked like here
Speaker 1: in in the US. Meanwhile, I'm assuming everywhere else in
Speaker 1: the world it looked a lot like what Russia going
Speaker 1: into Ukraine looks like. Yeah, And I mean I think
Speaker 1: that's part and parcel of it too. Write you obscure
Speaker 1: what the actual cost is of a war, and you
Speaker 1: get kids to be like it means Leonardo is stressed
Speaker 1: like a tank captain. Yeah, and I a B two
Speaker 1: stealth bomber, and we give and we give this overweight,
Speaker 1: middle aged general a name like he's a fucking NFL
Speaker 1: running back Storm Norman Storm and Norman Schwartz cough cool man.
Speaker 1: It's like that Pepsi commercial. Yeah, like a little kids
Speaker 1: like Storm and Norman. Yeah. Yeah, they just sell the
Speaker 1: idea of war to like it. Basically, everything comes back
Speaker 1: to what you said. It's like capitalism, like, look at everything.
Speaker 1: It's like they make it. They make fruit snacks, they
Speaker 1: make everything. And then I think that we would all
Speaker 1: be eating that if it weren't for video games, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, video games are the
Speaker 1: worst hot take hot take. A lot of people don't remember,
Speaker 1: but the sexiest man of the People's sexiest man of
Speaker 1: the year in the year of Desert Storm was Colin
Speaker 1: pal Really no believe. Yeah. I was like, wow, They're like,
Speaker 1: how did you get that flat top? So flat? Yeah? Alright, Army,
Speaker 1: well keep up the keep up the great work out there,
Speaker 1: keep saying find a new angle, man, find a new angle, Pentagon,
Speaker 1: let's try let's try some good news. It's been it's
Speaker 1: been a while, try it on for size. There's a
Speaker 1: jerrymandering maps are taking some else, yeah, you know for what.
Speaker 1: You know, now that this conflict or the you know,
Speaker 1: Russian invasion of Ukraine is complete, there's nothing on the
Speaker 1: news except for this right now, which is wild to me.
Speaker 1: It's like round the clock like military stuff. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: so we don't have to worry about voter suppression or
Speaker 1: you know, inequality or the pandemic anymore, because it's all
Speaker 1: this okay, okay, cool. But right now the GOP and Florida,
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania and North Carolina, Yeah, they got a couple couple
Speaker 1: bumps in the road in their pursuit of wildly shaped
Speaker 1: jerrymandered maps. Again the process where boundaries of voting districts
Speaker 1: are manipulated in order to gain an advantage. So in
Speaker 1: this instance, a lot of Republican controlled state houses have
Speaker 1: based based been able to do whatever they want in
Speaker 1: terms of like making their own maps because they have
Speaker 1: the votes to approve everything, unless someone brings up, you know,
Speaker 1: like maybe we should have the court take a look
Speaker 1: at this. And this is this happened in Pennsylvania and
Speaker 1: North Carolina, where the Supreme courts of their respective states.
Speaker 1: We're like, oh, these maps are they're a little tainted. Friend,
Speaker 1: let's go for something slightly easier. Although in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: I think Democrats felt that they're the the way the
Speaker 1: the map that the court favored still kind of put
Speaker 1: them out of slight of disadvantage. Either way, it wasn't
Speaker 1: close to being like the terribly gerrymandered map I guess
Speaker 1: for what that's worth. But in Florida, RN de Santis
Speaker 1: had it the worst, sadly, because he got involved with
Speaker 1: the process of of making the maps. Like the Like,
Speaker 1: Florida is completely Republican controlled, so the state House and Senate,
Speaker 1: we're doing their thing. They already had maps. They're like,
Speaker 1: these are gonna work. They can't really get challenged in court. Like,
Speaker 1: we're just we're doing it us right, giving ourselves a
Speaker 1: little bit a bit of an advantage, and we'll make
Speaker 1: sure we keep the state red. Dude, this guy comes in,
Speaker 1: he's like, no, I'm making my own map. They're like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck. He's like, yeah, yeah, we can go back.
Speaker 1: We can do better than this. What if we deleted
Speaker 1: two Democrats seats and added to Republican seats because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna split up this black district the fifth district and
Speaker 1: chop them up into a bunch of little red districts.
Speaker 1: And again everyone in his party were like, you don't
Speaker 1: need to do this, man, we we we did it enough.
Speaker 1: We got this. It's just legal enough and just rat
Speaker 1: fucked enough that it's the perfect balance. He just went
Speaker 1: a little bit too far. And the Supreme Court looked
Speaker 1: at that and they were like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is this what you're proposing, is uh not you
Speaker 1: Like they're like de santisily saying like, can you review
Speaker 1: this proposed map and and have give a ruling on it?
Speaker 1: And they're like, no, We're not even gonna look at
Speaker 1: this because i think on its face, everyone's like this
Speaker 1: is in violation of like your own state laws on
Speaker 1: top of you know, federal laws. The only way that
Speaker 1: they that that the goop can like try to win though,
Speaker 1: it's just like when you look at the popular vote,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna like the Republicans haven't won it, Like
Speaker 1: they won it once in the last thirty years or
Speaker 1: something like that, so it's like they would lose every election.
Speaker 1: So it's it's just It's like almost comical to me
Speaker 1: that number one, all the Republicans were like, hey, Ron,
Speaker 1: like we can't do this, Like even they're turning against
Speaker 1: him is hilarious in itself. And then the fact that
Speaker 1: they're like, well, we can't win this way, but what
Speaker 1: if we just change everything? It's also such a great
Speaker 1: bad boss behavior, Like it's exactly right what you're like,
Speaker 1: what a boss would do if he saw his employees
Speaker 1: like getting away with a crime. Is like come in
Speaker 1: and be like, no, we should do it more and
Speaker 1: out in the open, we should steal more money and
Speaker 1: like try and take credit for it and just funk
Speaker 1: everything up. And then he's be like, dude, why did
Speaker 1: you guys screw me over? Exactly what motherfucker you came in?
Speaker 1: Fuck you? What are you talking about? We were perfectly
Speaker 1: fine fucking this map up on our own. So yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe he's not the genius that everybody fears he is.
Speaker 1: Although that just sounds like a like he's going to
Speaker 1: be a successful politician. I mean you're given that, you know,
Speaker 1: And I think that's that's really the only I think
Speaker 1: metric that it sort of dictates your level of success
Speaker 1: in the modern Republican Party. Now it's like, yo, like,
Speaker 1: how out there with your nonsense are you? Because like
Speaker 1: if you can say that ship with a straight face,
Speaker 1: they're gonna love you. All right, let's talk crypto real quick.
Speaker 1: I have watched a couple of the rebuttal videos and
Speaker 1: the line goes up video. I haven't seen anything that
Speaker 1: really changed my opinion, like really on WHOA like overall,
Speaker 1: what is your opinion that it's like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: basically a clone of capitalism and the rich or very lucky,
Speaker 1: like a few get very rich off of it, and
Speaker 1: a lot of other people are getting screwed and it's
Speaker 1: also bad for them that for the environment or like
Speaker 1: dearon Fox, did you see about that? You know what
Speaker 1: happened on the Kings? Oh? I know Aaron Fox. No,
Speaker 1: he dropped like an n f T dude and it
Speaker 1: was like like worth a million points six or something,
Speaker 1: and then he took down the n f T website
Speaker 1: and he said he's pulling the plug. So he just
Speaker 1: ran off with people's money. Yeah, I mean that's so
Speaker 1: that's why it's like a less regulated capitalism, which is
Speaker 1: like on in some cases, you know, I I see
Speaker 1: the appeal of that idea, but in other cases it's
Speaker 1: like some of those regulations where they are for a
Speaker 1: purpose in the first place. But anyways, we we I
Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, get back to a thing a
Speaker 1: lot of people were talking about after the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: was celebrities shilling for Crypto. Obviously the Larry David commercial
Speaker 1: was the was the big one. We learned. It took
Speaker 1: apparently six weeks of negotiations to get him to sign
Speaker 1: on to to say that he wasn't on board with it,
Speaker 1: but be like the butt of the joke. But in
Speaker 1: terms of like a lot of these celebrities like your
Speaker 1: Matt's damon, critics are calling it a moral disaster because
Speaker 1: celebrities are urging regular people to take financial risks when
Speaker 1: you know of n f t s are going to
Speaker 1: go bust in the next couple of years, and meanwhile,
Speaker 1: you know, celebrities will either have gotten out by that point,
Speaker 1: or they will be able to absorb it, you know,
Speaker 1: or or they just did it for a fee upfront.
Speaker 1: They're like, dude, I don't need to get it involved,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, you want to do I want me do
Speaker 1: an ad for this? Fine? Sure, Like you want any
Speaker 1: of this and like, no, I just want the million bucks.
Speaker 1: I'm good, you know. And I think that's what they
Speaker 1: don't understand too, is like they think they're just sort
Speaker 1: of endorsing a product rather than like normalizing a very
Speaker 1: risky casino. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So this is already happening.
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian and Floyd Maywetter Mayweather as my Chicago Maywetter
Speaker 1: are currently being sued in a class action lawsuit for
Speaker 1: promoting a cryptocurrency on social media that lost around of
Speaker 1: its value since early June. And like, but it because
Speaker 1: like that that is typically what's described as a pump
Speaker 1: and dump scheme, but because it's n f T, s
Speaker 1: like you can get away with a little bit more
Speaker 1: or there's less precedent. Brie Larson debuted her new n
Speaker 1: f T avatar on Twitter with Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon,
Speaker 1: and Eva and Gloria all unveiling an FT avatars from
Speaker 1: the same company on that same day. It wasn't labeled
Speaker 1: as such, but it's clearly like part of a coordinated
Speaker 1: promotional effort, you know. So, like there are rules around
Speaker 1: celebrity endorsements on most products, but with this, it's just
Speaker 1: a little blurrier. So the FTC has rules that say
Speaker 1: that the celebrity has to disclose promotions on social media,
Speaker 1: so like they basically have to say this is a
Speaker 1: promotional thing or I got this as part of a
Speaker 1: promotion when they're talking about a product. But because cryptocurrency
Speaker 1: is very public and allows anyone to air drop items
Speaker 1: into someone's wallet, these companies could easily and frequently just
Speaker 1: air drop gifts to celebrities without you know, they're being
Speaker 1: a clear right, yeah exactly, And like you know, so
Speaker 1: with a swag bag, which like if somebody gets something
Speaker 1: as a piece of swag and they're posting on it
Speaker 1: on social media, the FTC says they're supposed to disclosed
Speaker 1: that that was a promotional thing. The you know, those
Speaker 1: products are not going to go up one x and
Speaker 1: value the way an n f T can and then
Speaker 1: like lose all the value. So it's like it's like
Speaker 1: a much more effective like prospect for a celebrity. I
Speaker 1: guess is like you because it's so volatile, Like the
Speaker 1: volatility is built in like these are just like basically
Speaker 1: a little slot machines and then like you give the
Speaker 1: celebrity a chance to get really rich really quickly. And
Speaker 1: I don't know, I feel like the more famous you get,
Speaker 1: for the most part, unless you are constantly fighting against it,
Speaker 1: you're spending more of your time talking to people who
Speaker 1: manage your money than you're talking to like yeah, like
Speaker 1: normal people who aren't millionaires. Probably someone who's like and
Speaker 1: as your accountant, whose vested interest is to make you richer.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, do this, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well
Speaker 1: you know again zeit coin, our our crypto is going
Speaker 1: live next. Get in on that, y'all. This is the
Speaker 1: good one. Great from people designing zeke cooin. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: We've got so many kids, so many to the point
Speaker 1: where I'm like, I guess do we just make a
Speaker 1: crypto now? The joke has gone so far? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's all the same thing, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: You just might as well as well get in on it. Like,
Speaker 1: do I sound like a crypto bro? I'm like, well, listen,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's similar to um what happened, like
Speaker 1: the late the late Internet boom in the nineties, like
Speaker 1: the dot com bubble, Like once it burst, then it's
Speaker 1: going to start over. Trust me. That's when you want
Speaker 1: to get in on it. A lot of people, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? I have no idea. When the
Speaker 1: evangelists are the ones being like, this is like getting
Speaker 1: a pets dot com domain like email domain dot com. Man,
Speaker 1: remember that from Entourage? Remember like Aris ex wife's new husband.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that like an entrised aries like X wife's new
Speaker 1: husband created stamps dot com or the domain name and
Speaker 1: rich start um. So this is totally off topic. But
Speaker 1: I was trying to make a website for you know,
Speaker 1: just myself and content, and so I went to Erica
Speaker 1: tampos dot com and it was a full blown porn
Speaker 1: site because someone had bought the domain. And they do this,
Speaker 1: I guess to people. So that way, I'm literally gonna
Speaker 1: pay whatever to get that domain back, because I'm like,
Speaker 1: who do you think I am? Like, I'm gonna pay
Speaker 1: you for them, like put it up and that's not me,
Speaker 1: Like I don't care. They eventually, you know, dropped the
Speaker 1: drop the thing, and now it's just like a not
Speaker 1: domainable because that's the word, not domainable. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: we all speak into web here, right absolutely, you know
Speaker 1: it's a n f T now. But other than it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pay you money for this for
Speaker 1: this domain. But that's also kind of smart. So here's
Speaker 1: my moral dilemmas, Like should I start buying people's domains
Speaker 1: like their names and then they have to pay me
Speaker 1: for it? Is that smarter than getting in on an
Speaker 1: F T S? I mean, yeah, if you can, if
Speaker 1: you can predict like you know, up and coming stars,
Speaker 1: you know, that's really that's really I spend a ton
Speaker 1: of money on domains of people that like when viral
Speaker 1: once and then yeah, my my, my dad lost all
Speaker 1: his money buying Jonathan lit Nikki dot com like three grand.
Speaker 1: He's never recovered, So I don't know, I'll say, from
Speaker 1: my perspective, I would just I don't know, etc. Store.
Speaker 1: It's just a couple of days ago that your dad bought.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we could see a bounce back from he
Speaker 1: was just saying, He's like everything comes around full circle.
Speaker 1: Jerry mguire is gonna comeback. Everybody's gonna be like, who's
Speaker 1: that little boy? And Jerry McGuire who said bees and
Speaker 1: dogs can smell? I mean, everybody remembers this kid, right,
Speaker 1: But the idea that it's because I have heard it
Speaker 1: compared to like the dot com bubble by advocates and
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, not everything is perfect at first, but
Speaker 1: like Amazon head a thing you know back then, and
Speaker 1: if you had just stuck with Amazon, but they were
Speaker 1: like millions of things, just like there's millions of n
Speaker 1: f T s and fucking crypto currencies and all all
Speaker 1: this ship. Like the fact that there are now like
Speaker 1: four survivors that are like billion billionaires doesn't exactly like
Speaker 1: upturn the idea that this is just like a really
Speaker 1: shitty like massive scale casino. But can't you see it
Speaker 1: though actually being like a massive thing in the ticketing
Speaker 1: event industry, or like digital I D cards or like
Speaker 1: first cards and like storing medical records like I think,
Speaker 1: like and then this is just me like getting deep
Speaker 1: into people like arguing about it like online when you
Speaker 1: start reading about it, and it's like the proof of
Speaker 1: concept is there, But that doesn't mean I think that
Speaker 1: people should be buying into it now kind of yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the problem is because it's the regulations are
Speaker 1: so loose that people can do, like people can just
Speaker 1: act in their own self interest at the expense of
Speaker 1: other people, and it's not quite the thing that it
Speaker 1: feels like. But yeah, I think that's why I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't argue with the fact of the potential of it,
Speaker 1: but as it stands, and like the people who stand
Speaker 1: to profit from it, in the way it is structured,
Speaker 1: it's already turning into a thing that isn't as pure
Speaker 1: or you know, utopians like you'd hope, you know. And
Speaker 1: I think that's why there are a lot of people say,
Speaker 1: well, well well, this one's an exception, and this one was
Speaker 1: an exception, and that very well maybe, But as a whole,
Speaker 1: there's just a broader movement of like wealthy people who
Speaker 1: are trying to normalize this quasi investment to really just
Speaker 1: you know, bring more people down line, as they say,
Speaker 1: did you guys see the Super Bowl commercial of like
Speaker 1: just the QR code bouncing around for a minute? Ye? Right,
Speaker 1: I saw it after the fact, But yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: will not be commenting on whether I opened that link
Speaker 1: or not at this time. My people have told me
Speaker 1: not to comment on that, Okay, all right. I did
Speaker 1: it after the fact because I knew what it was,
Speaker 1: right right right, you know. I didn't get to see
Speaker 1: any of the Super Bowl ads because I was their
Speaker 1: humble brag. But when I came back and I watched
Speaker 1: the game against just so I could watch the commercials,
Speaker 1: you know, first world problems, I was like the commercials
Speaker 1: like sucks. But then I'd seen the articles about how
Speaker 1: like the site crashed and all this kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: which is like a scary thought in itself. But I
Speaker 1: still was like, well, I want to try, right, And
Speaker 1: a lot of people are like, hey, don't just fucking
Speaker 1: scan random QR codes, like that's how you can, like
Speaker 1: you can end up getting like your information taken like
Speaker 1: that if you're not careful. Oh right, right, right right.
Speaker 1: I knew that I spend most of my day just
Speaker 1: going around looking for QR codes, scanning them and then
Speaker 1: clicking the link and saying we as yeah cool bad
Speaker 1: gateway air cool. This popular Erica. Such a pleasure having
Speaker 1: you on t d Z. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you all that good stuff just at Erica, tamposey
Speaker 1: do a lot of do a lot of stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: really glad you guys had me on for this episode.
Speaker 1: It was such a softball compared to a few episodes
Speaker 1: ago where you guys were talking nineties TV shows, So
Speaker 1: I appreciate it a lot. It was really great. Hey,
Speaker 1: you never know, the reality throws off speed pitches sometimes,
Speaker 1: like Tim Wakefield, you know, yeah right, but you know,
Speaker 1: just Twitter, Instagram at at Erica Tampose was awesome hanging
Speaker 1: out with you guys. Yeah yeah, Hey, if we can
Speaker 1: get a handle on the news cycle, we'll we'll be
Speaker 1: like in here exactly. I lost on the weakest link
Speaker 1: because I didn't know what Google was. I said, bang,
Speaker 1: so that's the girl you had on to talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, the invasion in Ukraine today? Wait really yes, really, alright, sorry,
Speaker 1: you have to right now. So I went on the
Speaker 1: weakest link. It was over the pandemic, like a casting
Speaker 1: director hit me up and they're like, Erica, like, come
Speaker 1: on the weakest link. And I was like, oh, Trivia,
Speaker 1: like I'm going to kill it this. I get all
Speaker 1: the way to the final two and then it's sudden death.
Speaker 1: So it's between the two of us. And it was
Speaker 1: me and this kid who was like a screw sales
Speaker 1: men like nuts and bolts, like legitimate screw salesman, and like,
Speaker 1: I'm not one to point at someone's intelligence, but this
Speaker 1: kid was like literally a not in bolt Like we
Speaker 1: had nothing there, like every question he got wrong, I
Speaker 1: knew the answer to. And at one point they came
Speaker 1: to me and they were like nineteen seventy eight, and
Speaker 1: I was like, that's really early, and I don't even remember.
Speaker 1: But then they said Sergey, which I should have known
Speaker 1: was Google, but I thought it was a trick question,
Speaker 1: and so I said bang, and I got it wrong
Speaker 1: in My friends have never let me live it down.
Speaker 1: And I lost four thousand dollars and it went to
Speaker 1: the screw salesman and I think about it every single day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, my instinct that guy probably needs the money.
Speaker 1: Screw sales not great. I always keep track of a
Speaker 1: house screws they're selling. He may have gone, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's upside down on a big screw by he did.
Speaker 1: They were saying, so the person was born in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy eight. Who found you? No, I don't even remember
Speaker 1: the actual question. I blacked because it was really stressful
Speaker 1: with Jane Lynch looking right into your soul being like
Speaker 1: and we like did Son and Death and she was like,
Speaker 1: this is the worst weakest link we've ever had in America.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, it's the first season of the reboot,
Speaker 1: so give it time. But yeah, it was. I don't
Speaker 1: remember that it's actually on UM NBC or Peacock. I
Speaker 1: think it was episode six. So if you guys are
Speaker 1: interested in watching me fail miserably, you can go there.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a great bit to like have it
Speaker 1: all riding on something where the answer is very clearly
Speaker 1: Google and answering ding because I don't know. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, if I don't know if we'll get sued.
Speaker 1: But Stanford Grad students Sergey Brynn and Larry Page launched
Speaker 1: what revolutionary internet search engine thing? The correct answer is Google? Like,
Speaker 1: how do you do that? Erica? Oh my god? Can
Speaker 1: you imagine? Like I live of Hells? How did you
Speaker 1: do that? Why did you how did you find that
Speaker 1: so fast? I'm really good at using beings just like
Speaker 1: you just Google? You you you bang the dumbest contestant ever,
Speaker 1: I said, dumbest being answered weakest link. Yeah, I was like,
Speaker 1: I was, like I should have asked Jeeves, like I
Speaker 1: should have studied up before I went on the show.
Speaker 1: I would have. I can't believe I lost that. I
Speaker 1: can't believe that. I'm so I'm so sorry. You know
Speaker 1: all your listeners had to had to hear that no, no,
Speaker 1: I mean, but that's great, that is wonderful, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Yeah yeah, uh is there a tweet or
Speaker 1: some of the work of social media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: I mean that I love this question. I don't know
Speaker 1: how familiar you guys are in the sports world, which
Speaker 1: is sort of where I I mean, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: in the comedy world with Jocelynch, but also mainly sports
Speaker 1: of the NFL network. If you're not following or reading
Speaker 1: mina kind tweet, she is the most brilliant, hilarious, Like
Speaker 1: she's smarter than any football player that has played the game,
Speaker 1: not played the game, Like I think she is one
Speaker 1: of the top analysts out there, and especially because she's
Speaker 1: a woman, but she like drags people that come after her,
Speaker 1: like she'll be trending because some football player will tell
Speaker 1: her like she's never played the game, and she's just
Speaker 1: way smarter than anyone I've ever met, and in a
Speaker 1: great person and I love her to death and just
Speaker 1: watching her destroy people in like a way smarter way
Speaker 1: that you could ever find on bang is awesome. Miles
Speaker 1: where can people find you? What's the tweet? You've been enjoying.
Speaker 1: Find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of Gray
Speaker 1: and also the other show for Fiance with Sophie Alexandra
Speaker 1: where you know we talk about ninety and love that show.
Speaker 1: Oh check it out, check it out. Uh some tweets
Speaker 1: I like, uh, this is from New York Times pitch
Speaker 1: at Doug Jay Balloon tweeted. Sources close to Jared and
Speaker 1: Ivanka said that privately the couple opposes the invasion of
Speaker 1: Ukraine was like brave, very brave, very brave. And then
Speaker 1: kay Lee Miracle or Keiley Miracle k e y l
Speaker 1: E tweet it to me the biggest airport flex is
Speaker 1: not carrying anything but my purse. That's luxury to me.
Speaker 1: And I feel I felt that because whenever I'm at
Speaker 1: an airport and I see somebody with nothing in their
Speaker 1: hands get on a plane, I'm like, I'm sorry, are you?
Speaker 1: Are you so rich? Who are you? And what do
Speaker 1: you do? The entire flight? You just look at the back.
Speaker 1: Then you just just like if the if whatever entertainment
Speaker 1: system they have is out, you're fucked. Got a cell phone?
Speaker 1: You got a phone? I mean I either yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess I don't know. Maybe that's like another thing we
Speaker 1: gotta keep, like, what do they do? Do they can?
Speaker 1: They just sit there in silence and you're like, mmmmmmmmmmm.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not to care in the world envy that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a tweet I've been enjoying this from Blair Saki tweeted,
Speaker 1: I love your loud car. You seem super sane And
Speaker 1: I've thought about that multiple times since have I Have
Speaker 1: I shouted that one up already? Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're talking about loud cars all the time because rolled
Speaker 1: but they're just too loud. I think they're making them louder.
Speaker 1: You said, all right, if I did, doubled up, doubled
Speaker 1: up because it's so good and I've thought about it
Speaker 1: so often. And then another one from Catholic dad for tweeted, uh,
Speaker 1: I try to be kind to my elders because anyone
Speaker 1: born before has survived a historical shift that is absolutely
Speaker 1: brain melting. And I just asked our listeners to keep
Speaker 1: that in mind. I was born way before and just
Speaker 1: just trying to keep up your folks, all right. You
Speaker 1: can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore Brian. You
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Speaker 1: post our episode done our foot notes, or we link
Speaker 1: off to the information that we talked about in today's
Speaker 1: episode as well. It was the song that we think
Speaker 1: you might enjoys song do you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 1: This is gonna be at tracked by Femikoti, the son
Speaker 1: of legendary afrobeat artist Fella Couti. Uh, and it's a
Speaker 1: track called show Tong s h O t A N
Speaker 1: And what I if you're gonna listen to song, find
Speaker 1: the video version because it's like there's a live version
Speaker 1: of this, Like the track is lifted off this live
Speaker 1: performance and the people he has this auditorium called the Shrine,
Speaker 1: and people lose it to this song. Like he starts
Speaker 1: the song off basically begging the crowd to not throw
Speaker 1: water and drinks and beers and chairs in the air,
Speaker 1: like because the turn up is so intense. And then
Speaker 1: what do they proceed to do? Throw water and beers
Speaker 1: and chairs all up in the place because they can't
Speaker 1: contain them so out. So this is just a beautiful track,
Speaker 1: great energy. Uh, And you know closing out that Black
Speaker 1: History Month was with a little bit of afrobeat there
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