Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season two twenty, episode four.
Speaker 1: Up There, Daily Stuff production of I Heart Radio. This
Speaker 1: is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
Speaker 1: America's shared consciousness. And it is Friday, January one, which
Speaker 1: of course means that it's a National Squirrel Appreciation Day
Speaker 1: and National Granola Bar Day. The squirrel lobby is strong.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, they want to get into the Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're everywhere in all our yards watching us. It's actually
Speaker 1: it's from Chirsty heard Grow, a wildlife rehabilitator in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: That's um, Like, apparently squirrels were very rare a while back,
Speaker 1: and people it was like a real treat to be
Speaker 1: able to see a squirrel. You had to go to
Speaker 1: the zoo to see squirrels, and like pre twentieth century
Speaker 1: and like if you somebody time traveled to the future
Speaker 1: and like from then and saw our world, they'd be like,
Speaker 1: this is so cool these and squirrels man for free.
Speaker 1: Just get squirrels in your backyard. Man. Oh wait, it's
Speaker 1: fascism still though, okay, kind of a tradeoff. Also, granola
Speaker 1: bars feel like they are nothing in the past. Is
Speaker 1: that I mean that too strong? I take it feels
Speaker 1: like it was like a candy bar that got in
Speaker 1: under the guys of health food for a little right
Speaker 1: right right, Like that was something like my mom wouldn't
Speaker 1: be like, you're not buying sneakers, but I'm like, what
Speaker 1: about nutral value? Like okay, let it rip. I'm just
Speaker 1: eating the whole box in one sitting. Yeah, maybe I
Speaker 1: don't do your kids just eat granola bars. No, it
Speaker 1: was just like that, Like I mean, like definitely are
Speaker 1: as a treat like a candy bar maybe, but like
Speaker 1: I just don't know why anybody would eat a granola
Speaker 1: bar now. Also, we like really sugar granola with their
Speaker 1: cereal in the morning. So it's not like I'm a
Speaker 1: good parent or anything. I just have my own takes
Speaker 1: on these things. Yeah. Yeah, Well, my name is Jack O'Brien,
Speaker 1: a k on the dailies. Like guys, Jack and Miles
Speaker 1: will let you know all the funked up ship that
Speaker 1: happened not that long ago, over rated, under rated special
Speaker 1: guest will show on the Daily's. I guess Jack and Miles.
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Speaker 1: It's a great ak Paul Garaventa. I just hadn't heard
Speaker 1: that song. I had to do the research get it
Speaker 1: in my head. Now it will never not be in
Speaker 1: my head. Also one of the great cell phones. When
Speaker 1: it comes to like sexual innuendo and penis size, I
Speaker 1: think it's up there with Indra Day when they brag
Speaker 1: about how somebody has a gap tooth in their mouth
Speaker 1: and so their penis has to fit and right right.
Speaker 1: It feels like very specific, Yeah, very specific, and you know, great,
Speaker 1: But I just don't know that it implies what they're
Speaker 1: intending for it to imply, or it's about a sex
Speaker 1: act I'm not familiar with where someone just like blows
Speaker 1: lightly on the penis. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: by my co host, Mr Miles Grad. Now I've heard
Speaker 1: there was a secret store with sandwiches and chips golore.
Speaker 1: But you don't really care for tuna, do you. They
Speaker 1: say it's fish, then it's not fish. The prices fall.
Speaker 1: I can't resist that delicious thing that they call subway
Speaker 1: touna subway to tuna, subway tuna, subway tuna subway to
Speaker 1: shout out to me in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: waking up in the middle of the evening, because I said,
Speaker 1: you're very creative when you wake up in the middle night,
Speaker 1: you try it out, and I quite might. I just
Speaker 1: welcome like subway. It was so stupid and I had
Speaker 1: to write that ship in bed and I went back
Speaker 1: to sleep. So anyway, shout out that rem cycle, yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and that that was beautiful. And also you were talking
Speaker 1: about your breakfast this morning. I thought you said subway tuna. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, the we have the dumbest uh,
Speaker 1: the dumbest weird inspiration going on right now. Also I've
Speaker 1: gotten word all two days in a row on the
Speaker 1: second guess you know, you don't get to choose your powers,
Speaker 1: but I'm killing it. Somebody was like, I don't believe you.
Speaker 1: You said you were cheating, and I anyways, that that's
Speaker 1: that's a lot of energy to be like, I don't
Speaker 1: believe your word. Like it was very straightforward, like I
Speaker 1: think you're lying, no jokes, you are hiding a child, yes, anyways,
Speaker 1: and I am cheating us as just really sad grasp
Speaker 1: to grasp that. People thinking I'm smart Miles. We are
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined in a third seat for the
Speaker 1: first time. But this this guest has been teased by
Speaker 1: previous guests as one of the funniest people on the planet.
Speaker 1: It's a very funny comedian whose writing has appeared in
Speaker 1: McSweeney's and his comedy has been highlighted mpr Vultra l
Speaker 1: a times. He was one of Illuminatives twenty five Native
Speaker 1: American comedians to follow and host the stand up show
Speaker 1: Star Fuckers Astrology But Make It Comedy at Union Hall
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. Please welcome, be hilarious and talented Brian Bahy.
Speaker 1: What's up right? Yeah, wellways love stick. I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what is happening with the songs, and
Speaker 1: that's when I came up with, Yeah, we like to
Speaker 1: humiliate ourselves up top, you know, just so the guest
Speaker 1: knows that second rate podcast that's just like one step
Speaker 1: above a Morning Zoo show. We're just basically show, except
Speaker 1: it's the podcast and we exactly Yeah, I mean, I knew.
Speaker 1: It's always my favorite. We have first time guests on
Speaker 1: Brian because the second Jack screams and ice cream someone
Speaker 1: all that. People always have a reaction and Brian's was
Speaker 1: like Okay, was like, yeah, here we go Thursday. Uh, welcome,
Speaker 1: you are coming to us from Brooklyn. I mean Brooklyn
Speaker 1: right now. It was snowing earlier today and yeah, having
Speaker 1: my third cup of coffee. Yeah, there you go, I'm
Speaker 1: saving my second right now. You switch it up. I
Speaker 1: just switched it up last week. So Miles learned about
Speaker 1: the creativity of the witching hour in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night from our guests last week. And I learned
Speaker 1: from the same guests that matcha tea is a you know,
Speaker 1: decent alternative to coffee. And I made the switch last
Speaker 1: week and I felt like I had the flu ever
Speaker 1: since because I'm not getting as much caffeine in the morning.
Speaker 1: But one of these days it's gonna pay off from
Speaker 1: smokers flu like when people trying to kick cigarettes, Like
Speaker 1: you say, you got that kind of like you're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, my body's like having trouble adjusting
Speaker 1: caffeine withdrawal, Like I've done their research into it, and yeah,
Speaker 1: caffeine withdrawal, it just feels like the flu and it
Speaker 1: can last for like weeks. Unfortunatelyd if you're you know,
Speaker 1: mainline as much caffeine as this guy. Well, hey, now
Speaker 1: hopefully you'll you'll find a new a new home, and
Speaker 1: I do like the ritual. Wait, Brian, you said three
Speaker 1: cups of coffee. Are you caffeine and sensitive or are
Speaker 1: you like Jack? You're like, I exist on a steady
Speaker 1: diet of caffeine. It's really hard to tell. I think
Speaker 1: I just do it because I it's like habit at
Speaker 1: this point. Yeah. Like I have a big French press,
Speaker 1: I brew two and a half cups and then I
Speaker 1: just see how much of it I can drink throughout
Speaker 1: the day. Challenge, do you have something that's keeping the
Speaker 1: keeping the coffee. That was always my issue with French
Speaker 1: presses that it wouldn't stay hot. You just likely I
Speaker 1: don't mind that. I don't mind a warm coffee, taping coffee. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like that. I'm like, I'm kind of into it. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My mom she would always like she always drinks tea
Speaker 1: and stuff and throughout the day and would like regularly
Speaker 1: be sipping on like room tim like whatever. The room
Speaker 1: temperature was my partner, her majesty. She it has to
Speaker 1: be like screaming hot or else. It's it's like to her,
Speaker 1: it's like disrespect to coffee or something. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'll drink your room temperature coffee. Give that here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't mind room temperature. Like most things in my
Speaker 1: life are room temperatures. So I'm like, what why would
Speaker 1: like hold why hold liquids to a different standard? You know, right,
Speaker 1: most things in everyone's lives are room temperatures. That's a
Speaker 1: really good point, turns out. Yeah. Yeah. The other thing
Speaker 1: that I I have genetically high cholesterol, and that the
Speaker 1: French press. I didn't realize that, Like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of cholesterol in coffee that like gets filtered out with
Speaker 1: like the paper filters or whatever. But if you really yeah,
Speaker 1: the French present, Like I was doing French press for
Speaker 1: a year and then had like a medical check up
Speaker 1: and they were like, oh shit, you're just like eating
Speaker 1: only egg yolks. What's going on? Man? WHOA? That's blowing
Speaker 1: my mind? Like why isn't that more common knowledge? You know? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean but I am definitely predisposed to it, so
Speaker 1: like that, you know, any any little funk up can
Speaker 1: alter my So you're saying paper filters, I don't know
Speaker 1: what more cholesterol I might have, just learned that coffee
Speaker 1: was bad for cholesterol, and I just was like, well,
Speaker 1: I'll just use a paper filter. Maybe I made that
Speaker 1: story up so that I could keep drinking coffee filter
Speaker 1: coffee is a better choice. They say that there even
Speaker 1: there's no cholesterol in it, there's like oils within it. Oh,
Speaker 1: that can contribute to your cholesterol. I guess God. Interesting. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this is not a cardio, cardiology or coffee podcast. So
Speaker 1: take those takes with a few grains of sugar in
Speaker 1: the raw. Yeah, you don't have to see your doctor.
Speaker 1: Just listening daily got at me. At me was good.
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, We're going to get to know you
Speaker 1: a little bit better in a moment. First, we can
Speaker 1: tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the filibuster staying at Busted by Cinema Mansion.
Speaker 1: So apparently the intervention of college football coaches did not
Speaker 1: move mansion on that one. Nick Saban, and that was
Speaker 1: like news in the sports media like Saban's in. I mean,
Speaker 1: everyone listens to Saban. We're gonna talk about Florida, what
Speaker 1: they're doing. They're they're passing a bill to outlaw white
Speaker 1: people from getting their feelings hurt. It seems like we'll
Speaker 1: talk about the Super Bowl halftime show, We'll talk about
Speaker 1: ladies coming back to the super Bowl. Why why do
Speaker 1: we think ladies Frido Lay coming back for the first
Speaker 1: time in seventeen years. Maybe they're shitty labor practices, that
Speaker 1: those labor, those bad labor headlines. They're just gonna pass
Speaker 1: our bags of chips. Like, what does that mean? You're
Speaker 1: coming back? Uh? They're doing a ad? Can the Super Bowl? Wait?
Speaker 1: Is that? Oh? Is it? Because prior years it was
Speaker 1: always like fan made ads. They've no Freedo's or lay as.
Speaker 1: I guess the that specific imprint of the freed To
Speaker 1: Lay brand has not had ads in seventeen years, which
Speaker 1: seems like wrong. I'm gonna say that that's incorrect. But
Speaker 1: according to like all the mainstream media outlets, they haven't
Speaker 1: had ads in seventeen years, and that's the sort of ship.
Speaker 1: They actually have an inside track on what corporate media
Speaker 1: is doing. So welcome back Freedo Lay. So they got
Speaker 1: Seth Rogan for their ad campaign and they released like
Speaker 1: a teaser for the ad campaign and it seemed to
Speaker 1: involve like making light of stalking, like there's somebody who
Speaker 1: stalk Seth Rogan and like has a weird trying built two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very very strange. So we'll talk about all that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first, Brian, we do like to ask our guests,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history? Something from my
Speaker 1: search history is, uh, Robert Durst gay? M hmmm, So
Speaker 1: do you remember he died the guy that bade the drinks?
Speaker 1: It's not of a fascinating yeah. And I was trying to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, tweet a little something about it. I was like,
Speaker 1: what's my angle gonna be? I ended up not tweeting anything,
Speaker 1: but I just like googled Robert Durst gay because I
Speaker 1: was like, was he gay in that documentary? I don't remember,
Speaker 1: but he did like dress up as like an elderly
Speaker 1: woman at one point when he was like in Louisiana,
Speaker 1: And yeah, that may have just been criminal activity. Did
Speaker 1: you what did you find when you when you start that?
Speaker 1: I think, I think, And also I actually don't know.
Speaker 1: I forget it wasn't Whatever I found was not interesting
Speaker 1: enough for me to remember. But you know, I love
Speaker 1: finding out when somebody's gay as a as a gay person,
Speaker 1: and I was like, who are who are my peers
Speaker 1: right right? And you were where you were praying for
Speaker 1: We gotta viral make this a memorable couple of months
Speaker 1: right now. It's like we need yeah, we need um.
Speaker 1: You know it's more murderers and the serial killer representation exactly.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated? I'm gonna say soup.
Speaker 1: Soup overrated coming out. It's winter here, it's cold. It
Speaker 1: was like nineteen degrees last weekend. A lot of soup content,
Speaker 1: a lot of people really, you know, tipping their hats
Speaker 1: to soup. And I'm like, I mean it goes back
Speaker 1: to the coffee thing. It's like not everything needs to
Speaker 1: be hot. It's like, give me, like a room temp anything,
Speaker 1: and I'm like I'll take that, right, You're it's something
Speaker 1: your brand is room temp always, what do you do
Speaker 1: extremes with it? You know what I mean? Room temp
Speaker 1: is fine, We exist do yeah, Room timp is a
Speaker 1: great brand. Like nobody's locked down the corner on room
Speaker 1: tentp just like that's there. You know, everybody's bragging about
Speaker 1: being hot or cool, but ye room tip. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's like I saw some thing that just
Speaker 1: I see so many write ups about soup though, you're
Speaker 1: right like it and I'm not a soup hater or
Speaker 1: like a lover. I like, you know, a soup. Soup
Speaker 1: has its place, but I'm more of a stu person
Speaker 1: than a soup if if I'm picking between like liquid
Speaker 1: spoon eating, like because then it's like eating a bunch
Speaker 1: of gravy, Like it's just so thick that just like
Speaker 1: it's stew better. It's like thickness. You do love liquid
Speaker 1: spoon eating, liquid eating. Not enough people are talking about
Speaker 1: liquid spoon eating either, thank you. Yeah, I mean we've
Speaker 1: been saying it for years. Absolutely, So there's no soup
Speaker 1: that like kind of you're you're wild about you really love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it has. You was like
Speaker 1: it's like sup recipes. Now we're in soup season. Here
Speaker 1: are some very eight top soups. And it's like, first
Speaker 1: of all, I've never I don't cook, so this article
Speaker 1: isn't for me. But so already like I've tuned out.
Speaker 1: I hear a soup I t now, but I you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta go with the classic tomato tomato soup. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: classic grilled cheese on the side. You know, what can
Speaker 1: you do? What can you remember I saw that one
Speaker 1: time that like when when the sort of grilled cheese
Speaker 1: fad begin to erupt, like in the late OTTs early teens.
Speaker 1: I remember going somewhere that they're like and we've got,
Speaker 1: you know, like the classy grilled cheese with tomato soup,
Speaker 1: and there was like basil oil on top of the
Speaker 1: tomato soup. And I almost didn't eat it because at
Speaker 1: the time my palette wasn't developed enough. It's like there's
Speaker 1: a green spot in my redding and like it's basil oil.
Speaker 1: It tastes really good, and I was like I knew that.
Speaker 1: I knew that. Thank you excuse me? Did somebody sneeze
Speaker 1: on my tomato soup? Sins infection based on I made
Speaker 1: a split pea soup over that. We We had a
Speaker 1: leftover like ham hawk from Christmas dinner, so I boiled
Speaker 1: that made it into split pea soup. And to your
Speaker 1: point about it being overrated, I haven't stopped spragging about it,
Speaker 1: like I think this is the fifth time I've mentioned
Speaker 1: it on the show, because yeah, making a soup is
Speaker 1: very easy, and so people like something, yeah one of
Speaker 1: those large cauldrons. Yeah, yeah, I got cauldron. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it keeps melting on the bottom because it's plastic from Halloween.
Speaker 1: But yeah, do you have a big do you have
Speaker 1: a big stockpot? Like are you actually are you equipped
Speaker 1: to start banging out the stews and soups like that
Speaker 1: you have a big stockpot? Oh my sh okay, I
Speaker 1: have a large stock put. Okay, I guess I guess
Speaker 1: my epike got lost for the What is something that
Speaker 1: you think is underrated? Brian? All right, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people have been, you know, talking a lot
Speaker 1: of ship about House of Gucci. And I saw it
Speaker 1: in theaters. You know, I was there, not opening weekend,
Speaker 1: but the following weekend, and I do agree that it
Speaker 1: was off. It was weird. But also the people I
Speaker 1: saw was we were we did not stop talking about
Speaker 1: it for a solid two hours after the movie. And
Speaker 1: it was around that you know, that time stamp, that
Speaker 1: I was like, hold on, maybe this movie is actually
Speaker 1: really good. Like what movie had you talking about it
Speaker 1: for so long after you had seen it you just
Speaker 1: like couldn't stop, Like, you know, I thought Jared Lato's
Speaker 1: performance was outstanding to okay, because this has been like
Speaker 1: the most consistent thing I've been hearing I haven't seen
Speaker 1: Jack you saw right, Yeah, I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 1: But the one thing I always hear is people being confused.
Speaker 1: Their first reaction is confusion to the film, like where
Speaker 1: they don't want to say it's bad, but they weren't
Speaker 1: sure it was good. And then when I hear them
Speaker 1: explain everything, I like, it's the same everyone. I think
Speaker 1: everyone has to like process it out loud. It seems
Speaker 1: like so in that sense, how what did you did? You?
Speaker 1: What was like what were the things that you saw
Speaker 1: as being like, oh this maybe not isn't that great too?
Speaker 1: Then evolving into wait a second, it's just like the
Speaker 1: scenes like they it feels like they jumped around randomly.
Speaker 1: It's like they're in like Tuscany or something, and then
Speaker 1: they're in New York and then it's like the next
Speaker 1: day or something, and they're back in like Italy or wherever,
Speaker 1: and like the you're like once and for just like
Speaker 1: a random scene and then the rest of the time
Speaker 1: we're just supposed to like piece it together yourself. And yeah,
Speaker 1: there was just like zero context. And then it's the
Speaker 1: same director who did like Alien right, yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 1: when I saw his name. I was like, what the fuck,
Speaker 1: Like he clearly knows what he's doing, but it's just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was fascinating. And the accent work,
Speaker 1: did you have any what was your what was your
Speaker 1: take on the accent work. That's another thing I hear.
Speaker 1: People have many different things. I'm terrible at accents, so
Speaker 1: for me to judge another person's accent is unfair. Sure,
Speaker 1: so I didn't take you out at all or you
Speaker 1: were like perfectly fine. No, And I'm beginning to think
Speaker 1: that I might be like accent uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: just can't hear it sometimes, like everything sounds. I can
Speaker 1: tell when something is different, but when somebody can immediately
Speaker 1: pick up on an accent, I'm like, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know what that. It all sounds British, right, saw some
Speaker 1: version of euro Yeah, yeah, I don't. To be honest,
Speaker 1: like I I have gone along with people being like
Speaker 1: but the accents, right, I'm like, yeah, man, the worst.
Speaker 1: But it all sounded fine to me, like and Jared
Speaker 1: like Jared Letos, very like Hammy, but like it again
Speaker 1: to my dumb American brain, like that is not like
Speaker 1: that familiar with like the intricacies of the Italian accent
Speaker 1: or why they might be speaking English in Italian accents
Speaker 1: even though they're in Italy. Did it didn't bothered me.
Speaker 1: I was just like yeah, uh huh, and it looks cool,
Speaker 1: Like it looks great. It tells the story that I
Speaker 1: didn't know. But yeah, like Jared Letto, like that is
Speaker 1: who Jared Letto needs to be playing, like the kind
Speaker 1: of I don't know, he really nailed a dumb person
Speaker 1: who's like kind of aware of his own like limits,
Speaker 1: but also isn't in many remarkable respects. Yeah, just a
Speaker 1: guy who's down on his luck and cannot get a
Speaker 1: win to save his life. It also feels like in
Speaker 1: the way that normal people may luxuriate in like a
Speaker 1: night out where you get to look like glamorous and beautiful,
Speaker 1: it seems like he this was him luxuriating and looking
Speaker 1: like not one of the most beautiful creatures on earth.
Speaker 1: Like he really seemed to be enjoying just like being
Speaker 1: lush love. Like it was like he was like like that,
Speaker 1: He's like this is me. Yeah, it's might as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah he exactly wished to love Tourism by Jared Letto,
Speaker 1: but like he really seemed to be exploring the studio
Speaker 1: space and enjoying himself. It was just fun to watch,
Speaker 1: Like that's you know, I can't give many movies higher
Speaker 1: praise than that. It's just really fun to watch movie
Speaker 1: there figured it out. I mean, that's the thing I'm
Speaker 1: still drawing just because of when Andrew T told me
Speaker 1: he didn't know if it was a comedy or not.
Speaker 1: I was like, I have now I have to see this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're you're a writer, and you watched it
Speaker 1: and you were having trouble pinpointing the genre. I'm like
Speaker 1: that that that's art. For lack of a better word,
Speaker 1: I think you can you can agree with everybody. Like
Speaker 1: I talked to uh not to out her, but Jamie
Speaker 1: loft Is was like, oh my god, I just thought
Speaker 1: it was so bad, right, And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like that's true, Like there's a lot of it that's
Speaker 1: like bad, but it's also just wildly entertaining. And then
Speaker 1: she was like, yeah, I've seen it like twice already,
Speaker 1: so you know, like it's there's something about art movie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If Jamie's going multiple times, it's hard. That's the other
Speaker 1: that's the other litmus test. Yeah, alright, well, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back to talk about
Speaker 1: the filibuster. Finally, Yes, and we're bad and you know, no,
Speaker 1: no big surprises in Washington this week would be the
Speaker 1: theme of today's update from Washington, d C. Not much
Speaker 1: to see here, folks, I mean, yeah, the filibuster, do
Speaker 1: you know what they know? To no one's surprise, cinema mansion,
Speaker 1: you know, basically stood alongside the GOP to not make
Speaker 1: any alterations to the filibuster and prevents just some very
Speaker 1: basic voting rights from being passed. And you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of writeups right now. Mostly it just
Speaker 1: seems like people be like, can you believe it? They Philip,
Speaker 1: they they voted to keep the filibuster, to not alter it.
Speaker 1: And most people like, yeah, we did, we can believe it.
Speaker 1: We just can't believe that this is all you have
Speaker 1: in terms of trying to remedy this. And I think
Speaker 1: like some takes are like, you know, it's it's all
Speaker 1: done now, it's all bad. That's a wrap. Others are like, hey,
Speaker 1: don't worry, man, there's there's like the fights still going,
Speaker 1: like we can keep going. And I think, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's important to point out that, yes, this is
Speaker 1: not good. It's not a I guess, total death blow.
Speaker 1: It's like getting I guess stabbed a bunch of times
Speaker 1: and you're bleeding very slowly. And yes, if it goes unaddressed,
Speaker 1: it could be very bad, but that means, I guess,
Speaker 1: something can be done. And a lot of like political
Speaker 1: scientists and historians have sort of like sort of point
Speaker 1: at this fact of like, yes, there are like like
Speaker 1: a lot of these things like voting I voter ID
Speaker 1: and stuff. It's tremendously it's like a huge obstacle for people,
Speaker 1: but there are like other dimensions to this that can
Speaker 1: be addressed and potentially rectified to have, you know, a
Speaker 1: seemingly fair system of an election. But the big thing
Speaker 1: that a lot of people were pointing the experts point
Speaker 1: to is that more so than the rules, it's that
Speaker 1: you need people who are gonna do their job. And
Speaker 1: the shiniest example they point to is just how in
Speaker 1: many Republicans just didn't go along with the big lie.
Speaker 1: And we're like, no, I can't. I can't for a
Speaker 1: second say that this was off or not true, because
Speaker 1: I know it is in my capacity as someone who's
Speaker 1: been looking at election boards or elections, But now they're
Speaker 1: putting a bunch of stooges in those positions. So next
Speaker 1: time they go for it, you know, the dominoes can
Speaker 1: fall much quicker and with less friction. So the one
Speaker 1: thing I seem to see a lot of people talk
Speaker 1: about is like, hey, it's now falling on you, the citizen,
Speaker 1: due to the total failure of the government or the
Speaker 1: polite elected officials to do this. Maybe it's time to
Speaker 1: think about, you know, running your career. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: which is good. I think it's if you want to
Speaker 1: participate and uh, you know, do something for your community
Speaker 1: and think locally. I think that's fantastic. But for there's
Speaker 1: been a few right of sort of pointing to like
Speaker 1: and that's the next step. It's you and we're left
Speaker 1: here being like I thought that. Mmm, I kind of
Speaker 1: voted for people, so I don't have to get into this.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I think it seems that the
Speaker 1: one positive some people seem to look it is like
Speaker 1: maybe people will be sufficiently piste off enough about their
Speaker 1: elected officials not being able to do anything that will
Speaker 1: create more local participation that they'll become the president and
Speaker 1: like what the fuck you can be Joe Mansion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it does kind of remind me of the
Speaker 1: you know, the way America deals with like unhappiness is
Speaker 1: not to address like systemic things that are making people unhappy,
Speaker 1: but to create the self help industry where you look
Speaker 1: within and it's like an individual battle and like a
Speaker 1: question of like your willpower as opposed to like, well
Speaker 1: or we could like fix all this like systemic. You
Speaker 1: guys need to use paper straws, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's the paper straws or politics now where it's like alright, folks,
Speaker 1: that was a big old l and it's on you.
Speaker 1: I just that's that's that's not very heartening. But I think,
Speaker 1: like everything we talk about, more and more people need
Speaker 1: to realize that the way this federal government is built,
Speaker 1: there's not much you can rely on, like truly to
Speaker 1: be able to have like mutual aid networks locally and
Speaker 1: having an understanding of how power is moving locally and
Speaker 1: understanding who are in position decision making positions locally can
Speaker 1: be a tremendous benefit. But it I don't know, like
Speaker 1: when when I read that the but the good part
Speaker 1: is it's on you that feels that that seems a
Speaker 1: little that seems a little grim. Yeah, that's grim. Is
Speaker 1: there like a grassroots movement like kind of bubbling up?
Speaker 1: What are we hearing on that front? Like is there
Speaker 1: going to be because you know, the like we are
Speaker 1: going to see drastically diminished enthusiasm for voting for like
Speaker 1: establishment Democrats in twenty four Like is anybody Is there
Speaker 1: going to be any other option? Because I feel like
Speaker 1: it's going to be a two step process, one where
Speaker 1: they see how little support there is for them, but
Speaker 1: they're also gonna need to see how much support there
Speaker 1: is for like more progressive values and either a more
Speaker 1: progressive party or more more progressive candidates. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: because everyone just like have their soul sucked out of
Speaker 1: them by like I think and yeah, like in mainstream
Speaker 1: corporate media, it's like that we're like cool, Well they're
Speaker 1: scrambling to figure out what to do now. And I
Speaker 1: think some people point to like the like these groups
Speaker 1: like run for Something, which are you know, groups that
Speaker 1: are made to get people that kind of come out
Speaker 1: and encourage them to run for like smaller office as
Speaker 1: a way of being like and here's a way to
Speaker 1: come back, like because clearly Trumpists are doing what they
Speaker 1: can to enter these positions, so like this can be
Speaker 1: a counter force to that. But I think probably in
Speaker 1: the most immediate the Electoral count Act is something that
Speaker 1: can be reformed on a on a level that basically
Speaker 1: that's like that really oddly or did law from like
Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds that essentially was like giving the Republicans
Speaker 1: this idea of like maybe we can just reject all
Speaker 1: the the electors and then Mike Pence can come in
Speaker 1: and do this like like this tie breaking vote to
Speaker 1: like completely throw the election. By actually amending that, there
Speaker 1: is a way to kind of create, you know, sort
Speaker 1: of stop that kind of subversion. And Angus King does
Speaker 1: have a draft of that bill that I think that
Speaker 1: may be introduced soon ish. And it's also something that
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell has said he was like open to looking
Speaker 1: at because it is so poorly worded, like they you know,
Speaker 1: I think if they amended it, they want to do
Speaker 1: things like it would require supermajority for Congress to like
Speaker 1: reject electors from a state and things like that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: those are kind of I guess what's down the road
Speaker 1: for us now. But it's just kind of hard because
Speaker 1: it felt like the way things were going, or the
Speaker 1: spin was going from the administration was like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: sorry about all the infrastructure stuff. Voting rights though, get
Speaker 1: any motherfucker's because on MLK Day it's going down. And
Speaker 1: now I was like, he please run for office? What
Speaker 1: the fuck? Where do young? What is this? I mean,
Speaker 1: we've had guests before who have done that. Mariah, and
Speaker 1: you know Nitia Ramen she uh so she ran for
Speaker 1: and became the city council representative for a big chunk
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles, and since she won, they just rat
Speaker 1: fucked it so that she like her district was smaller,
Speaker 1: like local businesses and you know, rich people were basically
Speaker 1: like you know, while nobody was looking changed her district too.
Speaker 1: So I should point out that it's not going to
Speaker 1: be a matter of them seeing support for progressive ideas
Speaker 1: and then just like moving in that direction, because they
Speaker 1: will fight progressive candidates until they're dead. And plus they
Speaker 1: tried to recall Nittia too. Yeah yeah, that's been a
Speaker 1: huge thing and then that fell apart. But that's kind
Speaker 1: of what I mean, and I think that's when you
Speaker 1: really see what the stakes are locally, you have people
Speaker 1: who are out here like advocating for like policies to
Speaker 1: combat the un housed population and to support them, but
Speaker 1: then it's met with like you gotta recall this person. Man,
Speaker 1: they're just throwing it. They're just they're making a mess
Speaker 1: of things trying to help people. Yeah, so that is
Speaker 1: kind of the thing that we're seeing is that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: more people and just even as we even see what
Speaker 1: like students and stuff, people at certain points are just
Speaker 1: can't help but to become activists as it relates to
Speaker 1: their own well being. And that's we're kind of seeing
Speaker 1: that situation pop up a lot. But yeah, not sure
Speaker 1: what the plan is now. Joe, Yeah, Brad, do you
Speaker 1: are do you see any like sort of progressive energy
Speaker 1: in in the Brooklyn area or is that something you're
Speaker 1: kind of into. Yeah, especially it's interesting how many comedians
Speaker 1: have kind of like overlapped into like progressive mutual aid
Speaker 1: organizations and like strass roots organizing. Like especially like once
Speaker 1: the pandemic really started, we were all just kind of
Speaker 1: like locked in our homes. I was like, damn, Like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of us like out here are a
Speaker 1: lot of them, like out there like doing the work
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, ship, this is really inspiring kind
Speaker 1: of I'm like, you're like a double threat, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: seems and I think that's been a very like, I
Speaker 1: think an evolution we've seen like across the country. I mean,
Speaker 1: like the same with l A like I think, and
Speaker 1: then I mean there's probably something about comedy where it
Speaker 1: takes a level of like self awareness ability to like
Speaker 1: grapple with the truth and have some sense of like
Speaker 1: out like moral outrage about things. And yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of like people really get get
Speaker 1: super involved with like whether it's like you're saying mutual
Speaker 1: aid organizations or even backing candidates or sort of you know,
Speaker 1: shifting into like local politics. Yeah, it is there. There
Speaker 1: is a lot of energy. But I guess that's where
Speaker 1: trying to figure out is how is that really going
Speaker 1: to be fully leveraged for something that isn't just to
Speaker 1: get one like Joe Biden reelected, because that's that's all
Speaker 1: the Democrats are going to think of. It's like, well, man,
Speaker 1: look at these people they're sucking on the streets. How
Speaker 1: do we get them to vote against their own self
Speaker 1: interests as well, right, and it's like there were like
Speaker 1: some like small winds, but it kind of like not
Speaker 1: even like legally, but just like like housing eviction stuff
Speaker 1: or whatever, like people would like gather outside somebody's home
Speaker 1: who is like being wrongfully evicted and kind of like
Speaker 1: kind of stop that. But yeah, it's like I mean
Speaker 1: to turn that into like something actually, like voting wise
Speaker 1: feels like a large undertaking. And yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: there are these isolated, you know, pockets of there. There's
Speaker 1: some like a bunch of young people in Massachusetts who
Speaker 1: like really young people who like while they were in
Speaker 1: high school. Like also, you know, swung that election away
Speaker 1: from an establishment. Damn. I think it was like one
Speaker 1: of the Kennedy's towards somebody who was at least at
Speaker 1: the time espousing more progressive values and like that. I've
Speaker 1: seen like isolated articles written about them, and you know,
Speaker 1: but it does feel like these are not things that
Speaker 1: are you you won't hear about like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Speaker 1: until she wins, and the media is like shocking, you know,
Speaker 1: like everything so shocking, like that the work that's being
Speaker 1: done is not going to be covered like so it
Speaker 1: really is like, you know, you need to find out
Speaker 1: what's happening in your own community somehow, right. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: I also as soon as I said that, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I wasn't that super tapped in into like like Brooklyn
Speaker 1: like politics, like what was going on before any of
Speaker 1: that happened. And and now it's kind of like it
Speaker 1: I am more like a little bit or like a
Speaker 1: tuneto stuff that's happening. So maybe there is kind of
Speaker 1: like a snowball effect, even though it has died down
Speaker 1: a little bit since, like it's still there. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe it's it's just like time. Who knows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it is at least a like there's an
Speaker 1: optimism to see that gradually more and more people the
Speaker 1: norm was just to be a completely politically disengaged or
Speaker 1: just be like I don't know, I just vote for
Speaker 1: my D or my R candidate every couple of years.
Speaker 1: And you know, and I think because of everything becoming
Speaker 1: so transparent or apparent to people like how much needs
Speaker 1: to change, It's like everybody is slowly kind of like
Speaker 1: turning me like, rate a second, how does this all happen?
Speaker 1: How does this work? Now? And I think that's where
Speaker 1: in this phase where a lot of people are like,
Speaker 1: how do you get here? How do we end up?
Speaker 1: Like this? And and and like even that pool we
Speaker 1: were referencing and yesterday's show showing how like much younger
Speaker 1: people now knows that it was kind of vague when
Speaker 1: they just use the word populism, but clearly like younger
Speaker 1: people are much more engaged with politics now as well.
Speaker 1: That yeah, that that has to hopefully will bear fruit.
Speaker 1: But at the moment, yeah, they were talking about like
Speaker 1: younger people getting more involved and turning left, but their
Speaker 1: evidence of turning left was like voting for democrats like
Speaker 1: democrats were left to them, which seems misguided at this point,
Speaker 1: but like that absolutely won't make sense if if that's
Speaker 1: the kind of measure they're using in twent twenty two,
Speaker 1: because I think a lot of people are just out
Speaker 1: on these assholes. Yeah, all right, well let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right back to talk about stuff
Speaker 1: that isn't Washington, And we're back and definitely not the
Speaker 1: did did you guys see the like trailer for the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl halftime show? But any did the like the
Speaker 1: three like the fucking Avengers of Hip hop yes, so
Speaker 1: like I I think I remember hearing at the time
Speaker 1: it was gonna be like Dre and Snoop and maybe Eminem,
Speaker 1: but it's also Kendrick and Mary J. Blige, and it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty like, this is the first time I've this
Speaker 1: is the most excited I've been for a super Bowl
Speaker 1: halftime show, and maybe the first time I've been excited
Speaker 1: first halftime show, you know, the Prince thing like pleasantly.
Speaker 1: You know, I just wasn't really looking forward to it,
Speaker 1: But that was fucking awesome. And there have been very
Speaker 1: cool super Bowl halftime shows that took me by surprise.
Speaker 1: I still ride very hard for the Katie Perry one.
Speaker 1: I think that was a very particular kind of left
Speaker 1: Shark was like sane American art. But this this looks
Speaker 1: fucking dope. I mean, if they really they like I
Speaker 1: feel like there's gonna be a lot of like classics
Speaker 1: from the Dre, Snoop, Eminem era. But like, if they
Speaker 1: actually utilize Kendrick, I'm like, let him like take up
Speaker 1: a sizeable like I'd say, probably should be the most
Speaker 1: sizeable portion of the show. Like it could be really dope. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's they won't because like that's not the right Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: like what which songs will he do? It was when
Speaker 1: I was watching the thing, I was like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: surprised that every single song wasn't a DRE produced track
Speaker 1: because rap God isn't a dray track. But they start
Speaker 1: off eminem section with that Mary J's Family Affair, That's
Speaker 1: a dre track, uh was? The next episode was Snoop,
Speaker 1: That's a dray track, but then Humble That's how I
Speaker 1: think Mike Will made it. I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I thought, but I'm I don't do dra and Kendrick
Speaker 1: have any tracks together. All that to say is that
Speaker 1: was my first observation of it, and and yeah, like
Speaker 1: to your point is like I've not really cared about
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl ever or like the halftime shows really
Speaker 1: that much. But this this, to me, it's almost signaling like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're old because now you're in the demo, Like you're
Speaker 1: in the demo that when I was fourteen, being like,
Speaker 1: why the fund is Bruce Free seen on the halftime show,
Speaker 1: like the chronic just came out that. Now we're at
Speaker 1: that place, So it's like, I think this is what
Speaker 1: the adults in the room we're fucking with And that
Speaker 1: was for me, that was that moment I had. I
Speaker 1: was like, I have arrived. My tastes are now dictating
Speaker 1: the super Bowl halftime show. Yeah. I think that's why
Speaker 1: the Kendrick part really excites me because that that feels
Speaker 1: like the most relevant like artists that they've had involved
Speaker 1: in a super Bowl halftime show, like since Katie Perry.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but if Kendrick hasn't had an album
Speaker 1: out and like we're all just dying for some new material.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's also but also seems like it's strange.
Speaker 1: I didn't I don't always picture Kendrick, Like when I
Speaker 1: saw him in a commercial that was like that flashy
Speaker 1: parting felt like that feels very Kendrick. Yeah, but for sure,
Speaker 1: they also only got three seconds of him like writing
Speaker 1: a thing and then just looped that over and over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that everybody else they had like going through a
Speaker 1: bunch of different like sets and doing different things, and
Speaker 1: they apparently got him to sit at a desk and
Speaker 1: write something and throw a piece of paper and they looped.
Speaker 1: I feel like a big part of I don't know,
Speaker 1: I is this right? Are there? Usually it's like dancers
Speaker 1: right or like people was like the flags that like
Speaker 1: do flag stuff. There's always a huge element. Yet I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: that'll be cool to like, you know here paired with
Speaker 1: you know, traditional like fanfare with like the next episode.
Speaker 1: It's like when that when that crip walking line came out,
Speaker 1: it was beautiful, Like the way they were sea walking
Speaker 1: on him. It was my god, I thought they was
Speaker 1: neighborhood sticks out. I mean it should, yeah, they should
Speaker 1: have people crip walking right like that. It's supposed to
Speaker 1: be like, no, that's violence. See that's and that's where
Speaker 1: you know it could it could go fucking weird where
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, you know, it'd be cool we dress
Speaker 1: all of these white kids up like crips and like
Speaker 1: for when for when Snoop comes out and they're like
Speaker 1: then it's like and it feels possible because anything is
Speaker 1: possible in this country. But yeah, it will be I'm
Speaker 1: I'm really curious to see how it all comes together
Speaker 1: and like what how much Mary j Like how much
Speaker 1: runway she's gonna get, how much Mary Jay dancing we're
Speaker 1: gonna get because we all know she's one of the
Speaker 1: greatest dancers of our time. Your own right. Really, Mary
Speaker 1: J has a very interesting way. She's unique. She's unique.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say Mary J is bad. I would
Speaker 1: never say it's a bad dancer. Mary J. She moves,
Speaker 1: she moves how she wants to. But I respect then,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I don't expect like Mariah, you know,
Speaker 1: Whitney Houston to like be able to dance like she's
Speaker 1: you know, she's just a belt. No, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: not even like that's an expectation. I'm just saying when
Speaker 1: she catches, like when you watch if you've seen a
Speaker 1: Mary J live show, and she like just starts feeling it.
Speaker 1: She's feeling it, and I'm like, like, that's that's what
Speaker 1: I like because sometimes people like she sucks and I'm like, no, dude,
Speaker 1: that's like, actually dope. Just because it feels it feels
Speaker 1: very authentic. It doesn't seem like she's trying to do
Speaker 1: moves she can't do. She's doing her This is why
Speaker 1: I never feel it. That's smart. Used to feel it fully,
Speaker 1: just stay out of the feeling trying to feel it. No, no,
Speaker 1: I will, I would acknowledge it fully feeling it. There's
Speaker 1: that comes with a risk. Because I start to feel
Speaker 1: I leave the room these things just and I think
Speaker 1: that's why. And I think that's why Mary J is
Speaker 1: a lesson to us all, Like that's why I it's
Speaker 1: your remind you know, dance like everybody's watching, but you
Speaker 1: don't give a funk, right. Also, just I always enjoy
Speaker 1: seeing Dre because Mary J like gave a performance that
Speaker 1: was like, okay, you have five minutes in this in
Speaker 1: this uh trailer, and Dre is you know, very awkward
Speaker 1: on camera a lot of the time. And then Snoop
Speaker 1: is just a fucking such a professional just killing it,
Speaker 1: just so comfortable. Yeah, and Eminem was a little too
Speaker 1: into the like minority report lyric computer he was manipulating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was like, oh ship, let me think about where
Speaker 1: this word goes. Okay, sure, and then we've given energy.
Speaker 1: Like he's like, you know, I acted an eight mile
Speaker 1: Maybe I should like pursue my acting career a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think I think I'm good at this. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was definitely uneven, but you know I was. I
Speaker 1: was more excited until you put the image in my
Speaker 1: head of like the white teenagers like running onto the field.
Speaker 1: That's how like the show's always started like they start
Speaker 1: close on the white teenager and then they're like, come on,
Speaker 1: come with me, and then like you like pan as
Speaker 1: they sprints onto the field, but they're like they're doing
Speaker 1: American sign language. They're like they're stacking sets right now.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know, it's it's it's a very
Speaker 1: it'll it'll be an interesting thing, and I think like
Speaker 1: he's there. There are a lot of articles that were
Speaker 1: like he's on the hook for the whole bill, for
Speaker 1: the halftime show or something like that. Who dre like
Speaker 1: so if anything were to go wrong, like it's real,
Speaker 1: it's he's going to take the biggest hit more than
Speaker 1: like the NFL would. I guess that was just some something, right.
Speaker 1: I think more that he's he may be financing the
Speaker 1: whole thing, like maybe as a way to get the
Speaker 1: show how he wants it. I don't know. There was
Speaker 1: just something that he has a stake in it that
Speaker 1: he could stand to lose money if they remember. I
Speaker 1: remember reading something to that effect with the Weekend and
Speaker 1: like that it's not that lucrative gig. It's more like
Speaker 1: this is the best advertisement that you could possibly get
Speaker 1: for your career. But with like artists like this. It's
Speaker 1: like you're borrowing like legends too. I feel like that's yeah,
Speaker 1: if you could make your own super Bowl halftime show
Speaker 1: was just if the super Bowl halftime show was just
Speaker 1: made for you, give a funk about the ratings? Who's
Speaker 1: the band you want to see? Have a super Bowl
Speaker 1: halftime show just for you? No, don't not, don't worry
Speaker 1: about mass appeal. But personally, Brian, what's who's the band
Speaker 1: that you want to see? My chemical romance? Okay, I
Speaker 1: feel like that's not I mean, they don't do anything anymore,
Speaker 1: but right, they could reunion? Why not? Wait aren't they aren't?
Speaker 1: Are they not doing some kind of they They announced
Speaker 1: a show in Las Vegas as a part of like
Speaker 1: a festival yesterday, but before that, right, I think I
Speaker 1: don't know. So he's saying it's a scam. Now I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's really I was talking about the
Speaker 1: when we were young things. Yeah, I'm saying mostly because
Speaker 1: that's Live Nation, and you know they're they're I think
Speaker 1: they're trying to recoup some astral world money because those
Speaker 1: ticket prices are expensive for when we were young. And
Speaker 1: actually it's a treet I liked to but okay, my chemicals, Well,
Speaker 1: they would do a good they do a great show.
Speaker 1: I feel like it would be good. That's yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I would want. I also feel like they're into
Speaker 1: like the theatrics of whatever, and they could turn out
Speaker 1: some like black Parade ship that would look really cool.
Speaker 1: I think, mm hmmm, because is it does? Is that
Speaker 1: guy Gerard like involved the comics or something too? He
Speaker 1: writes a comic yeah yeah, which got turned into like
Speaker 1: the Netflix show Yeah someone that I feel I feel
Speaker 1: like that you're gonna come with a good halftime show
Speaker 1: if you have the vision for Umbrella Academy, Like you're
Speaker 1: not going to be like, hey man, we're playing on
Speaker 1: a big star in the middle of the right parachute
Speaker 1: right exactly, or like or like real theatrics like superhuman
Speaker 1: feata strength, like someone just like head bangs through like
Speaker 1: a brick wall and you're like, okay, like does wire
Speaker 1: work Jack? What about you? I mean, this isn't that
Speaker 1: far off from like what at least one of like
Speaker 1: a top three that I would pick, Like if you
Speaker 1: just add my favorite rapper flow Ride up to this,
Speaker 1: I think I think we'd be in business. Okay, get
Speaker 1: people whistling or Radiohead, but that that feels like Radioheads
Speaker 1: really good live. But I don't know how much they'd
Speaker 1: be good live, Like they're just like not the demographic
Speaker 1: for the super Bowl. Yeah, I think portis Head, I
Speaker 1: funk with a portis Head halftime show. Just bring the
Speaker 1: fucking arena down emotionally because that would be dope too.
Speaker 1: And that's I'm being selfish. I'm were just like, you
Speaker 1: know what I want to I want to see, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know some of some of those those bands from
Speaker 1: the mid nineties come back with the Well, since we're
Speaker 1: in a block that is clearly sponsored by the NFL,
Speaker 1: we might as well talk about Super Bowl commercials as well, because,
Speaker 1: for the first time in seventeen years, Las Lays potato
Speaker 1: chips will be featured in a Super Bowl commercial, and
Speaker 1: the first ad in the series just dropped online. They
Speaker 1: did get Seth Rogan for the commercial, so I think
Speaker 1: people were expecting to see Seth Rogan in this first
Speaker 1: like teaser ad, but instead it includes one one live actor,
Speaker 1: a creepy bearded guy chanting in a basement in front
Speaker 1: of a Seth Rogan shrine. Yeah, with like lace at
Speaker 1: the altar. Yeah mm hmm, so yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's very very strange. I don't know. Maybe maybe they'll
Speaker 1: maybe they'll pull it off. Rogan, you did it again,
Speaker 1: you son of a bitch? What could it possibly be?
Speaker 1: I don't know they're gonna I mean, you're already setting
Speaker 1: up the dynamic that this is like an obsessed stalker
Speaker 1: who is like the visuals are meant to evoke like
Speaker 1: some kind of dangerous person. And then what it's like
Speaker 1: the Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial where it's like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: have some lace, don't don't kill me, and then it's like,
Speaker 1: hey lace, we did it. Like it seems like the
Speaker 1: joke is that Seth Rogan is not the type of
Speaker 1: person that you stalk. But we've been on the internet.
Speaker 1: We know that like everybody is the type of like
Speaker 1: there's every celebrity has like wild ass out there. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'll just say, like the vibe of this at
Speaker 1: Stephen Wilbur did it better and his Instagram picture for
Speaker 1: his guesting that like the shrine kind of sucks. They
Speaker 1: just have like a fake magazine with Seth row Rogan
Speaker 1: on it, and then like the stalker has photoshopped himself
Speaker 1: into a framed picture and then lays potato chips for
Speaker 1: some reason that will be heavy handed and not totally
Speaker 1: makes sense or feel earned in yad, I'm assuming, what's
Speaker 1: this seventeen year like hiatus about h Like, why is
Speaker 1: that like happened that? Like people like I need I
Speaker 1: didn't need to know that you need an issue a
Speaker 1: press release for that. Yeah, that is like it seems
Speaker 1: like that is the thing. They're pitching this around, Like
Speaker 1: finally you've been waiting every I know how at every
Speaker 1: super Bowl party. You're like, but where are the lads
Speaker 1: as well? We're back, baby, and we got Rogan, not
Speaker 1: the one that you want. Maybe fans of fans of
Speaker 1: LAS might be looking for another Rogan, not that one
Speaker 1: spelled slightly differently. I was just looking. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: seventeen years ago, Okay, well I'm looking. I know this
Speaker 1: because since I don't know time. The two thousand four
Speaker 1: Lays commercial was the one. It was like an old
Speaker 1: couple where an old man is like tripping this other
Speaker 1: old lady. They're trying to get chips, and it was
Speaker 1: called Fight to the Death two thousand five. I guess
Speaker 1: which would stand. The reason that was the last thing
Speaker 1: they did was a one with mc hammer. What did
Speaker 1: he do? After hitting a baseball over the neighbor's fence?
Speaker 1: A group of children throw over a bag of lace
Speaker 1: potato chips and exchange for returning their ball. They got
Speaker 1: back more than they expected when their lost dog is
Speaker 1: tossed over as well as mc hammer and gold parachute
Speaker 1: of pants. And then they're like, we can't do this anymore.
Speaker 1: We can. That broke their spirit. Then they're like, we
Speaker 1: gotta stop. Let's say. Yeah, they clearly they think they
Speaker 1: learned their lesson. They're like, we took seventeen years off.
Speaker 1: We've been in the writer's room for these commercials. You
Speaker 1: think we got something good with Seth Rogan And I
Speaker 1: don't know. I hope they actually pulled through, but if not,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll go away for another seventeen years. It's like
Speaker 1: it's equivalent of those bugs that only come out every
Speaker 1: seventeen years. Yeah. Well, and I guess, like, I know,
Speaker 1: you're kind of maybe joking, but like i'd imagine all
Speaker 1: the labor dispute stuff. Maybe they're like, Hey, the only
Speaker 1: stuff about us out there right now is that we
Speaker 1: work people to death. Yeah. I I had assumed they had,
Speaker 1: just like when they stopped advertising, much like I assumed
Speaker 1: they had had just like literally given up and been like,
Speaker 1: well people, no, like the internet exists now, people know
Speaker 1: that our chips like are not that great, Like they're
Speaker 1: not the best potato chips out there or even like
Speaker 1: top three in their category. I feel like, just in
Speaker 1: terms of quality. But yeah, it seems like something has
Speaker 1: spurred them to action. Maybe the fact that they are
Speaker 1: making people work eighty four hour work weeks and quote
Speaker 1: what was called within the factory suicide shifts with only
Speaker 1: an eight hour break between shifts, and you the workers
Speaker 1: went on strike and that got a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of attention from younger people. And so maybe this
Speaker 1: is their attempt to be like, alright, what's young and
Speaker 1: hip and very progressive. The NFL, the NFL injuries, we
Speaker 1: love it. I'm was that. Isn't that the new Tim
Speaker 1: Ferris book? Four hour work Week? Yeah, that's right. Uh No,
Speaker 1: that's that's a book by the people that Tim Ferris
Speaker 1: makes work for him so we can week and then
Speaker 1: travel travel around. They've got a Ferrari and I live
Speaker 1: in Dubai. How do I do it getting other people
Speaker 1: to sell uh nutrient supplements. But anyways, yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: that's lazy. They're also doing this like weird thing with
Speaker 1: where they take dirt from each NFL team's home field
Speaker 1: and then like sprinkle that dirt over their potato farms
Speaker 1: and like the you are you can buy a potato
Speaker 1: chip bag for that is like grown in the soil
Speaker 1: of your team's home field, and that is very cool.
Speaker 1: It feels very like what are they mimicking here when
Speaker 1: they're like, can we take the land from these places
Speaker 1: and then we will commodify that in a fucking aluminum
Speaker 1: bag back to the consumer. When I eat those chips,
Speaker 1: am I supposed to feel like an athlete or something like? Right? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think so. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I actually have no idea what what you're supposed to
Speaker 1: feel other than it is it's just fun. Like I
Speaker 1: actually this idea of taking the dirt from the field,
Speaker 1: sewing it into the potato fields where you grow the chips,
Speaker 1: growing potatoes in your home field dirt, and then selling
Speaker 1: those chips to like super fans that like a huge
Speaker 1: Like I think they're like limited edition chips like this
Speaker 1: is their attempt to, you know, to create the off
Speaker 1: weights of of potato chips like that are gonna sell
Speaker 1: on stock X or whatever. I'm I'm even having trouble
Speaker 1: thinking of a field that isn't turf. Yeah, so there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of there's a bunch of fields in the
Speaker 1: NFL that are turf, and for those, they're like they
Speaker 1: were grown in the glory of their team's grounds, so
Speaker 1: they they keep it scam Well, yeah, I'm sorry, Jackie.
Speaker 1: You had me, You really had me until then. I
Speaker 1: was on board for this weird like appropriative ritual of
Speaker 1: moving the land to grow your cowboy potatoes. Even in
Speaker 1: the video that they have they so first of all,
Speaker 1: they have the mascot digging up the dirt, which I'm
Speaker 1: not buying, frankly, I don't. I don't think the mascots
Speaker 1: for each team to do their like groundwork. But then
Speaker 1: they just like put it in a little bag of
Speaker 1: it's or not in a bag in a little tupperware
Speaker 1: container and ship that off. But this idea, this whole
Speaker 1: like concept that they have going on here, just more
Speaker 1: than anything, reminds me of like all of the brain
Speaker 1: power that we have working on selling like the dumbest
Speaker 1: ship in this country. Like this probably took you know,
Speaker 1: fourteen IVY League grads to like come up with a
Speaker 1: like working around the clock for like six months came
Speaker 1: up with this concept and or you know, in a
Speaker 1: different strand of reality and a different alternate timeline, those
Speaker 1: IVY League grads are working on like fixing the infrastructure,
Speaker 1: but not this one. Baby. Yeah. But but but the sad
Speaker 1: thing is, I feel like if they did something like
Speaker 1: that for Arsenal, I probably buy it. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have room to talk, But
Speaker 1: like that's what I'm saying. I'm not I'm not making
Speaker 1: fun of the idea as much as the fact of
Speaker 1: the society that creates a reality where this idea is invented,
Speaker 1: where where people have enough time and incentive to come
Speaker 1: up with this idea. Right, But yeah, I'm gonna this
Speaker 1: has me hungry for for some potato chips, some New
Speaker 1: York Giants chips. Well, Brian, has been such a pleasure
Speaker 1: having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 1: They can find me on social media at Brian spelled
Speaker 1: with an eye underscore b A h E. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where they can find me. All right, Is there
Speaker 1: a tweet or some of the work of social media
Speaker 1: you've been enjoying. I'm currently tweeting as as Ja diaz
Speaker 1: um comedia from and just like that. Uh, having a
Speaker 1: lot of fun with it. Yeah, you're doing a great job.
Speaker 1: So damn. I wish there was a way to change
Speaker 1: my handle, but it's still the same thing. But I'm
Speaker 1: just at j DZ, so you know, look out for
Speaker 1: those jades hot coming at you, Avatar and everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I should say flow Ride is my favorite rapper,
Speaker 1: ds my favorite comedian. So, Miles, where can people find you?
Speaker 1: And what is the tweet you've been enjoying? Man find
Speaker 1: me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray and
Speaker 1: also the other show four twenty Day Fiance with Sophia Alexandro.
Speaker 1: We talked about ninety day Fiance. Say, let's see a
Speaker 1: couple of tweets that I like. First one, since we
Speaker 1: were talking about the well when we were young fest
Speaker 1: from at Space Underscore Mom Underscore tweeted when we were young,
Speaker 1: fests looked pretty cool until you notice it's two five
Speaker 1: dollar nonrefundable for one day, and it's run by the
Speaker 1: same company who is responsible for astral World. And do
Speaker 1: you realize they're actually just praying on the pop punk
Speaker 1: seemed to pay back their litigation fees. That's you know
Speaker 1: what that sounds about, right. The next one is from
Speaker 1: at Reynolds. Gareth Gareth Reynolds, Uh, friend of the show
Speaker 1: who might be on here pretty soon, tweeted, I wish
Speaker 1: we got the Joe Biden that the right keeps pretending
Speaker 1: we have. And that's And finally j d has tweeted
Speaker 1: Brian underscore By tweeted, your god is an awesome god. Okay,
Speaker 1: my God is weed? Uh? And I felt that as
Speaker 1: somebody who can sing that whole song and it smokes
Speaker 1: a lot of weeds. So appreciate that one, chas you've
Speaker 1: really nailed the voice of my favorite comedian. There was
Speaker 1: the other one someone tweeted earlier, oh, jesse On Weiller
Speaker 1: at Jesse con Whiler tweeted, my boyfriend just called it.
Speaker 1: And then there was that and then yeah that, uh
Speaker 1: would maybe be a better title. I don't know, And
Speaker 1: really they were they hung dork. In the last episode
Speaker 1: there was just a dude with a big this big
Speaker 1: dick out, but like it didn't play into the episode,
Speaker 1: like it didn't have a part in the episode. It
Speaker 1: was just like here's a dick and then she doesn't
Speaker 1: really react and then nobody talks about it. Well, like
Speaker 1: they're just trying to make you miss Samantha. Like this
Speaker 1: has been the greatest, the greatest work of propaganda in
Speaker 1: making Samantha seemed like the greatest television character of all time?
Speaker 1: Is this season? I feel like I don't know, Brian,
Speaker 1: are you a fan of? And then there was that
Speaker 1: I can't look away. It's so it's really just like
Speaker 1: every word is like how is this event happening? Right?
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's insane. I am and yeah I'm a
Speaker 1: huge fan. Yeah do you miss Samantha? Though? How do
Speaker 1: you feel with Samantha? Not? Because I watched it and
Speaker 1: every time I watch this, this Choker really used a
Speaker 1: bit of Samantha. It's so funny how like when it
Speaker 1: was like released that like she wasn't going to be
Speaker 1: a part of it owen it's like how what is
Speaker 1: She's not doing anything? Or you know, it's like what
Speaker 1: is why isn't she coming back and now it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we are fully on board with Samantha not being in this,
Speaker 1: like she made the right decision. Yeah, for sure. Some
Speaker 1: tweets I've been enjoying. Daisy Alioto tweeted, jpeg is French
Speaker 1: for I'm pegging. Rigattsresh tweeted make fun of my friends
Speaker 1: all you want, but I draw the line when it
Speaker 1: comes to me. That's also my policy. And then Jason
Speaker 1: Conceptio just tweeted the truth everything Joki does looks like
Speaker 1: absolute trash than the past lands pillow soft and a
Speaker 1: teammates hands like that. Yeah, it's just never been a
Speaker 1: less graceful best player in the NBA. Then Yo, kich
Speaker 1: but here we are. Oh wait, I actually do have
Speaker 1: tweets aside from trade is okay? All right? So Alison
Speaker 1: Liby she posted a pic like a year ago of
Speaker 1: the this like oval she made with pringles, and it's
Speaker 1: like impressive that she did that. It's just like she
Speaker 1: stacked the prickles in a way where it just makes
Speaker 1: like a this like a circle. Oh wild, that is
Speaker 1: very cool. I like sculpture, love sculpture. Some guy named
Speaker 1: Adam J. Moosa posted a picture of this like there's
Speaker 1: a gay cruise. There's an Atlanta's gay cruise that's happening.
Speaker 1: That's like a huge like why would anyone ever go
Speaker 1: on a massive gay cruise? Right now? But there was
Speaker 1: like a picture from a party that uh, like a
Speaker 1: huge dance party that he posted apparently was a military
Speaker 1: themed dance party. And there's an guy's carrying inflatable military
Speaker 1: assault rifles, which is insane. And then the last one
Speaker 1: is uh. Alicia Brown tweeted a picture of like bust
Speaker 1: ever from like the nineties, and she just said, bust.
Speaker 1: It looks like almost every blackstead in Brooklyn, busta. I
Speaker 1: do have to say, and I don't know why I
Speaker 1: didn't bring it up at the time, but right like
Speaker 1: during the first act of this episode, after we had
Speaker 1: declared you like the room temp, the owner of the
Speaker 1: room Temp corner, I took a sip of my tea
Speaker 1: which I had just poured, and it is room temp. Somehow,
Speaker 1: it doesn't it doesn't make any sense. But this might
Speaker 1: be a very strange superpower that you possess. So just
Speaker 1: look into nothing. Nothing will be above a D degree.
Speaker 1: But now I'm writing it down, so I never forgot there.
Speaker 1: You go uh. You can find me on Twitter at
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Speaker 1: I just, you know, I've been listening to in these bands.
Speaker 1: I like to play their instruments. Sometimes I get a
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Speaker 1: like and he's joined up with these bands that like
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