Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to eighteen, Episode
Speaker 1: four of Days Like Guys, production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's share consciousness. Than it is Thursday, January six.
Speaker 1: I think that day will forever conjure in our minds
Speaker 1: that it is, of course, National Bean Day and National
Speaker 1: Cuddle Up Day. Nothing with the sweetheart. We're we're a stuffy.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't matter. Is Stuffy a brand? Ning? Now?
Speaker 1: That's just what little kids call their stuffed animals these days. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: beat down with the lingo of the three to four
Speaker 1: year old set. I remember hearing a nephew and I
Speaker 1: panicked because I was like, funk is that a brand
Speaker 1: I don't know about? And I was like, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1: I didn't have stuff use my that's a stuffy. That Yeah.
Speaker 1: Our stuffy is brown Bunny. My three year old stuffy
Speaker 1: is Brown Bunny, and Brown Bunny has kind of a
Speaker 1: fucked up personality if I If I'm being honest, brown
Speaker 1: Bunny talks a lot of shit about me, and uh,
Speaker 1: but it is based on my three year old fondness
Speaker 1: for the film Brown Bunny by Vincent Galla. So my
Speaker 1: name who me? My name is Jack O'Brien a K.
Speaker 1: This is the story of a pod that gets recorded
Speaker 1: the day before it's dropped. And though the world looks
Speaker 1: bad and very sad, absolutely love waking up with Miles.
Speaker 1: That is courtesy of Suburban Panic Attack. And I'm thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined as always by my co host, Mr
Speaker 1: Miles Gray. I may run in hide Wayne just screaming
Speaker 1: my name Miles Gray. But let me tell you now,
Speaker 1: there are hot tastes to say Miles Gray west one
Speaker 1: by and to keep and lie I I are you people?
Speaker 1: Can't you see? Can't you see how the plagues affecting
Speaker 1: our reality? They say, back to work, We'll say that's
Speaker 1: fucked up. That's here on the daily I guy East okay,
Speaker 1: at Paul, that wonderful Backstreet Boys referential a K. I
Speaker 1: couldn't tell even up to the end, even though you
Speaker 1: fucking nailed it, because I wasn't hearing the actual song.
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if that was a bon Jovi or
Speaker 1: a Backstreet Boys song. Oh okay, yeah, But anyways, Miles,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled and fortunate to be joined in our
Speaker 1: third seat by a brilliant comedian, writer actor who's written
Speaker 1: for and appeared on Comedy Central and ABC. UH and
Speaker 1: his stand up albums The Blake album, Stuffed Boy and
Speaker 1: Live from the Pandemic debut at number one on iTunes
Speaker 1: and Amazon, and his album Twelve Years of Voicemails from
Speaker 1: Todd Glass to Blake Wexler chart on Billboard. Please welcome
Speaker 1: the hilarious, the chaotic Blake. Blake yourself before you wex yourself.
Speaker 1: BLUGGINI blake yourself before you wex yourself. BLUGGINI blake yourself
Speaker 1: before you wex yourself. Thank you at Paul Garaventza Double
Speaker 1: Trouble from Paul Today for that wonderful introduction and welcome
Speaker 1: to the daily site. Guys, Wait, that was PAULA wrote
Speaker 1: that for you. He wrote that for me as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's busy, he's on my on staff. Okay, so yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: try harder on mine and you might have hit for
Speaker 1: the cycle. Bro Oh my god. Yeah, that's expected trifecta.
Speaker 1: I don't think we've had that. Maybe yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: If it ever happened, it would have been a Yamagucci
Speaker 1: Main or Hannasult. Yeah, anyway, we'll go anyway for the
Speaker 1: stats and yeah yeah, we're gonna go on Daily Today reference.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Blake, how are you so good to see you?
Speaker 1: Thou oh, thou art great. I've been coverting my neighbor's
Speaker 1: mother and I'm sorry. I'm just trying to do Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: there's no rule about that, bro, there is no rule.
Speaker 1: They were concise to honestly the detriment of interpretation. So
Speaker 1: that's my one. My one problem with the Ten Commandments
Speaker 1: is they were too succinct, too specific. Yeah yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's my only one, and we can talk more about
Speaker 1: that later. I'm sure we will. But uh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: everything's everything's good here. There's all about the loopholes. Yeah
Speaker 1: that's true. That is true. So um yeah, no, everything's good.
Speaker 1: I'm just scooping up I I lived on I moved
Speaker 1: back to the East coast, so I've just been scooping
Speaker 1: up boots and coats and just any any excuse to
Speaker 1: spend money on things. Scoop and boogie, boot, scoop and
Speaker 1: boogie in that order. Yes, the weather good, wearing boots, wet, slushy.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I honestly, I can't wait until
Speaker 1: the first time I slip on ice here because I
Speaker 1: have been really excited about like I'd rather be cold
Speaker 1: and bundle up than hot, and I am. I'm just
Speaker 1: waiting till the first time I slip on ice, and
Speaker 1: then that will the complaints in print, online, digitally. I'm
Speaker 1: going to complain in every media. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: complaining about the weather. So that's that's my plug for
Speaker 1: this week. But I have I have some complaints coming up.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, everything, everything's good. Did you Jack, did
Speaker 1: you go back to the East Coast during the holidays? Roll?
Speaker 1: Or did you? East Coast came to us, both my
Speaker 1: parents and both my sisters and my sister's kids. Uh,
Speaker 1: they all came out and the East Coast weather followed them.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a real shitty weather for a
Speaker 1: week straight. And and Miles, is your goalie still handsome?
Speaker 1: Or um? What's going on with Arsenal? Every everything? That's
Speaker 1: all I'm on a burned leno the like shining example
Speaker 1: of like German aryan face burnt I know was the
Speaker 1: name of the roast show that I pitched to Essential
Speaker 1: Right roast talk show you know, actually last since last
Speaker 1: week spoke, I mean, I feel like Arsenal were in
Speaker 1: a terrible place. We're now in the top four. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been. We had we lost in Manchester City over
Speaker 1: the weekend, but it was like one of those losses
Speaker 1: where people went holy sh it, like that was a
Speaker 1: great like they really we had a few calls not
Speaker 1: go our way, the virtue of the var and the
Speaker 1: video replay, shi it didn't go our way. We got
Speaker 1: a man sent off, but it was a great time.
Speaker 1: So yeah, thank you, grats on your loss. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think Russell Westbrook didn't have a turnover for the
Speaker 1: first time like fucking years, so he had the best
Speaker 1: line where he goes like, I'm allowed to turn the
Speaker 1: ball over, I'm allowed to have bad games, and it
Speaker 1: was like, my game isn't predicated on the lack of turnovers,
Speaker 1: and it's like people have gotten very myopically focused on that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, it is what it is. Because the Lakers
Speaker 1: have a lot of unhealthy people team Blake and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't know anything about being hind both losses because just
Speaker 1: keep winning, bro, they keep winning. It's a multi franchise
Speaker 1: in every aspect. Nothing to complain about, just a true
Speaker 1: model of stability. Yeah, yeah, it's great. We're kind of
Speaker 1: like the Yankees of the NBA. We're just you know,
Speaker 1: like people are begging to come, no one would ever
Speaker 1: dream of leaving. It's yeah. Yeah, the Sixers are like
Speaker 1: the Celtics of the NBA. That just a well run franchise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny. The seventy sixers are playing well right now.
Speaker 1: And then I had my all of my hopes dashed
Speaker 1: by like a single paragraph of a Zach Low article
Speaker 1: this n B a writer who was like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: they don't get any they don't get any rebounds, so
Speaker 1: they're fucked. And I was like, oh, yeah, I should
Speaker 1: probably just stop stop watching them. Then that that does
Speaker 1: sound like something bad basketball team can do with thirty
Speaker 1: three percent of the stats that people care about, you know,
Speaker 1: it's rebouncing, that's charitably. We don't do that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's an issue. Yeah. Anyways, though, Joel embiide hell of
Speaker 1: a guy. I love him. Plan Plan well also not
Speaker 1: Arsenal fan, is he Yeah that's also a Madrid fan okay,
Speaker 1: look and a Max for Stepping fan and oh he
Speaker 1: is Oh god, what a weird choice. I know, like
Speaker 1: we'll get into F one later with podcast a show
Speaker 1: for no Ones for act three, the intersection of the NBA.
Speaker 1: With F one, You're gonna love alright, Blake, We're gonna
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell you a couple of things we're talking about.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the fact that it is January six,
Speaker 1: it is the one year anniversary of that whole business,
Speaker 1: and so we're gonna talk about, you know, where we're at,
Speaker 1: how we're feeling good. I'm gonna predict we're all feeling
Speaker 1: good and like it's been well died, justed and taken
Speaker 1: care of by our country. Uh, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: the most Google chain restaurant. We're gonna talk about yellow
Speaker 1: Stone is apparently a very very popular show. I actually
Speaker 1: was on a Neo Western kick over like the past
Speaker 1: week last week. Yeah, yeah, it was. You know. The
Speaker 1: buzz out there is definitely and we'll we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the many reasons this is just gonna be a regular
Speaker 1: segment possibly every day where we talk about why the
Speaker 1: metaverse sucks all of that plenty more. But first, Blake,
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guests, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
Speaker 1: So I looked up UM Liberty University Jerry Folwell because
Speaker 1: I was watching football and Liberty has a very good
Speaker 1: quarterback and he was probably gonna be in the like
Speaker 1: first round pick in the NFL next year. And I
Speaker 1: was thinking, like, there's no way that that is the
Speaker 1: same university from that pig weirdo you know, who was
Speaker 1: you still there? Who was the president fallout? And it
Speaker 1: was and I, or at least I remember it was.
Speaker 1: I'm wrong about these things all the time, but I
Speaker 1: believe that that was the answer. So um I it
Speaker 1: made me think about how interesting it is that you
Speaker 1: have these universities like or the difference between you kind
Speaker 1: of forget in sports that like there are universities that
Speaker 1: are incredibly like conservatively religious, like extremely religious universities that
Speaker 1: are playing teams like like Alabama or South Carolina or something,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, our USC, and you forget
Speaker 1: that these students are who go to these universities are
Speaker 1: like governed by different rules and have such a different
Speaker 1: college experience and seeing that juxtaposed next to you know,
Speaker 1: like a state school or b y U for instance.
Speaker 1: You know, like a few years ago one of their
Speaker 1: basketball players was kicked out of the school before the
Speaker 1: tournament because he had a girl in his dorm room
Speaker 1: like consensually after hours. And it's just just I thought
Speaker 1: it was a really interesting thing where, you know, the
Speaker 1: good thing about sports is that you're it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: these are just people, you know, think about like what's
Speaker 1: happening there. You don't think about belief systems or the
Speaker 1: world that they're living in. But I guess like the
Speaker 1: downfall is it kind of distracts you where you know,
Speaker 1: particularly someone with the belief system that a Jerry Fallwell
Speaker 1: junior has, like you kind of don't think about that
Speaker 1: and how that affects the lives of young people at
Speaker 1: you know where he used to run the university. So
Speaker 1: I thought that was that was interesting. It also feels
Speaker 1: like a fake you Like, it feels not a fake university,
Speaker 1: but like it feels like you're telling me that, Like
Speaker 1: somebody is the quarterback for VY is like blue Chip
Speaker 1: prospect or Universe Phoenix Online quarterback John Jacobson is a
Speaker 1: second round pick. Yeah, it's very strange. The best name
Speaker 1: I could improvise off the John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt a
Speaker 1: line back. That's my name too. Actually never ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: whenever I go out, people always shout that. Really just
Speaker 1: he blew the cobwebs off a weird school memory right there.
Speaker 1: It was like you need a minute, Yeah, no, fine,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put on my school uniform. Yeah, and and
Speaker 1: shed a tear into a into a yearbook. That song
Speaker 1: is about like, uh contagion, social contagion, trially, you know,
Speaker 1: it's taking over the name Jacob jingle Heimer Schmidt, taking
Speaker 1: over the universe. And you know, do you know like
Speaker 1: those circulars, because that was one of those circular things
Speaker 1: that would just annoy the ship out of parents. You know,
Speaker 1: like where once you start singing, like you have to
Speaker 1: have the willpower or someone to scream at you to
Speaker 1: stop singing this thing over and over. For there are
Speaker 1: other ones that you guys would do. There was like, uh,
Speaker 1: there there, I think baby Shark now is probably one
Speaker 1: right where like people should singing baby Shark. And then
Speaker 1: then there was yeah, but there's only so many family
Speaker 1: members blake and at a certain point you gotta go
Speaker 1: out and hunt. And there was another kids to say
Speaker 1: my last right, Like in elementary school, their kids would
Speaker 1: say they would like they would hear the word like
Speaker 1: a teacher says that we're crazy, and they go crazy.
Speaker 1: I was crazy once they put me in a rubber
Speaker 1: a rubber room. That is then the worms came. They
Speaker 1: make me crazy crazy, I was crazy. Ones and what
Speaker 1: would just say this ship, Yes, there's some some ship
Speaker 1: these kids in my school. And I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: y'all are your fucking nightmare. They were like the kids
Speaker 1: would like bring their toys to school and ship and
Speaker 1: play with them. You're like, what the funk is this? Huh?
Speaker 1: Like we're fucking third grade. You don't even bring toys
Speaker 1: here for you play dodgeball or some ship. Anyway, which
Speaker 1: if we're breaking down the name John Jacob, Jingleheimer Schmidt,
Speaker 1: what is the first name, what is the middle name?
Speaker 1: What is the last name? Is John Jacob? The first
Speaker 1: name like hyphenated Jingleheimer, middle name Schmidt last or Jingleheimer
Speaker 1: Schmidt Schmidt is uh, yeah, it's a it's a hyphen a. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The mother was Jingleheimer, the father was Schmidt. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: John first Jacob, middle and then jingle Haimer Schmidt. It's
Speaker 1: just like, uh, they did. Like the backstory of that
Speaker 1: is they are an assassin and that's why they get
Speaker 1: all three names because they did attempt to assassinate a
Speaker 1: president at one point, apparently out of vaudeville. Oh really Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I heard Jack's rendition that John Jacob jingle Heimer
Speaker 1: Schmidt killed friends Ferdinand I think, and yes, real low prince,
Speaker 1: They're like, no, they don't like that one. That doesn't
Speaker 1: really work. It doesn't really doesn't really not enough syllables
Speaker 1: in that guy's name that makes sense that it would
Speaker 1: be like the Kristen Shaw is a Horse version of
Speaker 1: like for do you know that sketch where it's just
Speaker 1: Kristin Shaw and uh, one other kind of indie comic
Speaker 1: doing a thing where they just keep singing Kristen Shaw
Speaker 1: is a Horse over and over again and it like
Speaker 1: goes until the entire audience just leaves. That's so funny.
Speaker 1: So she's hilarious her character, and uh, what we do
Speaker 1: in the Shadows that series is just yeah, she cracks
Speaker 1: me up, shoots funny and all everything she does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what there's some yo. This the John Jacob jingle Himers
Speaker 1: straight Lord, it's like kind of weird they said it
Speaker 1: got popular because girls scouts would start singing them on outings.
Speaker 1: But then it says The Times. In the Times newspaper
Speaker 1: of Munster, Indiana, printed that during a girl Scout outing,
Speaker 1: the scouts sat around the campfire and quote it was
Speaker 1: solemnly announced that John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith, after a long
Speaker 1: and useful life, had died from overwork on the way
Speaker 1: to Whiting. He was buried with deuce ceremony, and his
Speaker 1: ghost is not to be seen until October one. All
Speaker 1: the favorite camp songs were sung. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that is, but it sounds like now it's a ghost
Speaker 1: and he died of overwork, so he's a victim capitalism.
Speaker 1: Yeah right. Also that so it evolved to Schmidt at
Speaker 1: some point because that there was a backlash against Germans
Speaker 1: during World War one and two. So maybe that was
Speaker 1: like a little piece of propaganda. I do like that.
Speaker 1: They do like that. They're like, his ghost will not
Speaker 1: be seen until it's almost it's like it's a little rest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the schedule is a bit he can I know you're
Speaker 1: expecting to see his ghost immediately. I'm with the Ghost
Speaker 1: Union Local four for three. Yeah, Jacob Jingleheimer's he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be here. He's gonna be here October first. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to Yeah, send it up the chain, Blake.
Speaker 1: What's something you think is like overrated, overrated hair on
Speaker 1: men's heads. Huh. And I've been thinking about like my hair,
Speaker 1: like it's kind of it's creeping in the bag, it's
Speaker 1: creep in the front a little bit. I think I
Speaker 1: have a little while. I think of a couple of
Speaker 1: years left on it. But I've been thinking about, like, oh,
Speaker 1: when my hair goes, I'll probably shave my head, you know,
Speaker 1: and like a beard or something. But I do from
Speaker 1: I can go hair here, oh and then transplant it
Speaker 1: d I Y style on the top of my own
Speaker 1: Please don't d I Y your hair blooks, alright, come up,
Speaker 1: come over from the bottom of the face all the
Speaker 1: way around, just like I like that raid cocktail, weenie. Well,
Speaker 1: you'll need an earhole. However, which is the one thing
Speaker 1: that's stopping me from doing that is the lack of symmetry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Can you guys repeat that. It's like I
Speaker 1: can't say anything to you the way you look. I
Speaker 1: can't say ship to you. But yeah, like from people.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of those things where it's just
Speaker 1: a thing that men like think about more than anyone
Speaker 1: else does, where when I see like a guy with
Speaker 1: a shaved head or something, I'm not like, ah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, that's just a guy that's like John.
Speaker 1: There's a Jacob jingle just like chober One and it's
Speaker 1: time to get funked up seeing all his favorite songs
Speaker 1: around the fire. No. Yeah, I like to remember when
Speaker 1: I was losing my hair. I remember the moment I
Speaker 1: caught onto it. It was in the reflection of a
Speaker 1: of a metallic elevator dore like. I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: what's with the corner of my hairline? And I remember
Speaker 1: going in. I remember I was in Japan at the time.
Speaker 1: I remember asking like my relatives, my uncle, he was like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's just going
Speaker 1: couldn't even giving me the and but my and all
Speaker 1: the men in my you know, because you you you
Speaker 1: inherit the hair trades from your mother's side, all of
Speaker 1: them are bald. So I've been knowing since like ten
Speaker 1: years old, since I knew that was it there like
Speaker 1: welcome to the show, Like you're on your way kid.
Speaker 1: And I remember Monkle was like, so I guess so
Speaker 1: I guess he made a joke. He's like, oh, I
Speaker 1: guess you really are your mom's kid. You're not adopted
Speaker 1: with the way he tried. So there was good news there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: rest his soul. Thank you. It is interesting because I
Speaker 1: would never think of you, not now that it's a
Speaker 1: negative thing, but I would be like, oh, Miles has
Speaker 1: the right head, you know what I mean? Like I'm
Speaker 1: not I would never be like, oh, Miles is a
Speaker 1: bald gentleman, or Miles is a guy without hair, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you, like you're Miles. Yeah, things things I haven't
Speaker 1: thought of. But yeah, you know again, I'm always raising
Speaker 1: my fist to the sky. I'm like, did they have
Speaker 1: to figure out a COVID vaccine before a hair restoration pill? Like? Really,
Speaker 1: I thought you meant in pride with like bald solidarity,
Speaker 1: but you mean like raising your fist to the sky.
Speaker 1: Check I think Miles a COVID vact Correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. A COVID vaccine for bald people? Is that
Speaker 1: what you're saying? That too, that we will inherit the earth? Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know that we are breaking
Speaker 1: that on today's episode. But the COVID vaccine doesn't want
Speaker 1: to if you're bald, which is why I haven't left
Speaker 1: the house in seven months. What is something you think
Speaker 1: is underrated? Blake when old people curse, like as long
Speaker 1: as it's non racial, you know, but like so let
Speaker 1: me add that qualifier in. But I've heard like my
Speaker 1: grandmother used to say crazy where when it was cold,
Speaker 1: she'd say, it's colder than like a witch's tit in
Speaker 1: a brass bra is like a thing that she would
Speaker 1: say when I was a child, and which is a
Speaker 1: very vibrant image. And than uh, my dad, I heard
Speaker 1: him say like son of a bitch, bastard dog like
Speaker 1: it's someone like just after he dropped, like like they
Speaker 1: dropped something, and that was like a very funny thing.
Speaker 1: And I heard him say mother jumper the other day,
Speaker 1: which is I believe it's supposed to be a less
Speaker 1: strong version of motherfucker, but like someone who jumps mothers
Speaker 1: to me, is so much worse than Yeah, I jumped
Speaker 1: him mother because it could mean sex, it could mean physical, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I jumped her bones. I feel like I heard
Speaker 1: that a lot in like eighties movies. Oh yeah, jump
Speaker 1: your bones, Like I don't like that? What does that even? Like?
Speaker 1: Don got that? Got that? We gotta get that out
Speaker 1: of here. But yeah, oh, I'm trying to like either
Speaker 1: of your families have like like just either phrases or
Speaker 1: would they not curse? Would they say? I mean I
Speaker 1: would My grandfather on my my my dad's side, my
Speaker 1: black grandfather would say like typical ones where because he
Speaker 1: went to church, so he hated saying stuff with God
Speaker 1: in it, So he would say godly, that's when you
Speaker 1: get real mad. Or dog gun It, dog gun It
Speaker 1: and Goali were rest in peace. My my grandfather warrened,
Speaker 1: those are the ones that he was saying. I always
Speaker 1: laughed when he was like God because he was the
Speaker 1: amount of energy that came. It felt like he was saying,
Speaker 1: like you know, Christ, cut it was he was. It
Speaker 1: was so extreme but it was just golly. But yeah,
Speaker 1: those are about the extent of it. And then the
Speaker 1: one time he said I don't like that ship. It
Speaker 1: was like when he was older, and it was like
Speaker 1: later in his life and he was the handbrake had
Speaker 1: come off on, like giving a funk about stuff because
Speaker 1: you're like whatever, I'm mortal man, like I'm not conpling
Speaker 1: my tongue. And I remember made me laugh so much.
Speaker 1: That's some ship. I don't like that same grandfather's You
Speaker 1: told me that he would fart and then go huh
Speaker 1: somebody said something directly behind Yeah, and uh, I have
Speaker 1: not stopped doing that around my kids. And that's how
Speaker 1: he lives on forever exactly just and it was always
Speaker 1: sometimes he would yell like if they were really loud,
Speaker 1: like what's behind you? That's the important thing. You got
Speaker 1: to say it's not what or if you can get huh,
Speaker 1: then you got it? You got it? Parted Pardon me?
Speaker 1: Is the best? Again? Yeah, the only one that works.
Speaker 1: That's great. And then I have a my I guess
Speaker 1: my parents didn't curse that much. But again, I I
Speaker 1: pick up on the parents and relatives of friends. With
Speaker 1: my best friend in Kentucky's dad would say someone stepped
Speaker 1: on a bullfrog whenever he farted, and yeah, that always
Speaker 1: stuck with me too. I fared a lot, you can't tell.
Speaker 1: I just constantly need things to do because and I
Speaker 1: do have to just thank Justin, uh sup producer Justin,
Speaker 1: because I mean, the these episodes are two hours long
Speaker 1: during the edit, but and we're like, we couldn't hear it,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't work like that. Yeah, I'll be like,
Speaker 1: well you should have heard it was pretty impressed. All right, Well, guys,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break, and when we come back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the fact that it's January six,
Speaker 1: and of course Bean Day, speaking of parts and cuddle
Speaker 1: up Day, and uh, I guess we might get to
Speaker 1: the fact that it is also the day that Capital
Speaker 1: got over on with help with some Capital police or whatever.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll be right back, and we're back, And
Speaker 1: it's been a whole year since, uh, since we were
Speaker 1: recording this show, being like, wow, uh, do you get
Speaker 1: some ship going on right there? It looks like, huh,
Speaker 1: keep an eye on. Yeah, a year since, as you said,
Speaker 1: the help of some of the Capitol's finest we watched
Speaker 1: in horror, as you know, the slow motion car crash
Speaker 1: that we saw begin from election day like sort of
Speaker 1: come to pass. And you know, the hearings have gone
Speaker 1: on for a while. We've checked in with them. Mostly
Speaker 1: subpoenas are being ignored, and then we get like drips
Speaker 1: and drabs of you know, communications between people in the
Speaker 1: Trump world, and you're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Like that was they They just they just didn't have
Speaker 1: their ship together enough to fully overthrow the government that day,
Speaker 1: and they really wanted to. But then latest news rather
Speaker 1: than just kind of be like, well where are we now,
Speaker 1: I just it's better just check up on the latest
Speaker 1: thing that happened. And that's around Sean Hannity. He just
Speaker 1: got hit with a letter from the January six Select
Speaker 1: Committee about some fucking text messages, not the ones that
Speaker 1: we heard a few weeks ago that Liz Cheney read
Speaker 1: out loud of all the like many people from Fox
Speaker 1: News who are like begging the January six ship to stop. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: they have ones that they're saying are so damning that
Speaker 1: I think the word seems like insufficient based on like
Speaker 1: what Sean Hannity was saying. So I just want to
Speaker 1: read what the Select Committee was saying in their good
Speaker 1: over here letter to Sean Hannity. Quote, the Select Committee
Speaker 1: has now has information in its possession as outlining part below,
Speaker 1: indicating that you had advanced knowledge regarding President Trump's and
Speaker 1: his legal teams planning for January six, It also appears
Speaker 1: that you have h You were expressing concerns and providing
Speaker 1: advice to the president in certain White House staff regarding
Speaker 1: that planning. You also had relevant communications while the riot
Speaker 1: was underway and in the days thereafter. These communications make
Speaker 1: you effect witness in our investigation. Like this one we've
Speaker 1: never heard from January five, quote from Sean Handy to
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows. I'm very worried about the next forty eight hours. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean that I think we said the same thing.
Speaker 1: We didn't say it directly to Mark Meadows. I don't think. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: how about let's try this one on first eye. This
Speaker 1: is from December thirty one to Mark Meadows. Also, we
Speaker 1: can't lose the entire White House Counsel's office. I do
Speaker 1: not see January six happening the way he is being told.
Speaker 1: After the sixth, he should announce he will lead the
Speaker 1: nationwide effort to reform reform voting integrity. Go to Florida
Speaker 1: and watch Joe mess up daily, Stay engaged. When he speaks.
Speaker 1: People will listen, and you're like, then, hold on, know
Speaker 1: what's this thing about the You can't lose the entire
Speaker 1: White House Counsel's office. I don't see the six happening
Speaker 1: the way he's being told. Well, it sounds like the
Speaker 1: thing we had heard about where the White House Council
Speaker 1: was essentially gonna resign in mass to protest the attempted
Speaker 1: factory that was going to go on with d O
Speaker 1: J because some dude was about to crown himself acting
Speaker 1: Attorney General to then announce a bunch of nonsense investigations
Speaker 1: to sort of reinforce to stop the steal narrative, to
Speaker 1: keep the coop energy up. That's pretty wild that he
Speaker 1: was a week out was like, I do not see
Speaker 1: January six happening the way he is being told. So
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty That's maybe the most damning thing I've sorry,
Speaker 1: dang navit ing thing I've darned to this point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's another one where he's talking about He's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I spoke to him and like, I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's understanding me. It's like very he said, guys,
Speaker 1: we have this is on January tent So this is
Speaker 1: the text that he sent after right everything went down.
Speaker 1: Quote this is to him again speaking too. I believe
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows saying, guys, we have a clear path to
Speaker 1: land the plane in nine days. Oh this is to
Speaker 1: him and to Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan's and then
Speaker 1: wrote quote, he can't mention the election again. Ever, I
Speaker 1: did not have a good call with him today, and worst,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what is left to do or say,
Speaker 1: and I don't like not knowing if it's truly understood ideas. Mhmm.
Speaker 1: It sounds like people these this group of people definitely
Speaker 1: have you know, the people have mentioned that Hannity has
Speaker 1: been in the year of the White House for a
Speaker 1: long time. But when you see it's like this, it
Speaker 1: sounds like people who are like, Yo, what the funk
Speaker 1: He's not He's not sticking to the script, like this
Speaker 1: is the ship we planned. Yeah, it's I'm not one
Speaker 1: to defend Sean Hannity, but are we sure? When he
Speaker 1: said I'm very worried about the next forty eight hours,
Speaker 1: he wasn't talking about the hit CBS show that's my
Speaker 1: favorite show, the next episode of forty eight hours. It's
Speaker 1: a great question, Blake, Okay, I'm gonna expecting to answer.
Speaker 1: I'm just bringing it up as because it the first
Speaker 1: forty eight hours or do they have also the next
Speaker 1: forty eight hours a sequel to the first forty forty
Speaker 1: eight hours neat no ice, nothing just forty eight hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, I don't know. I mean you should
Speaker 1: talk to Jay Sekulo, his lawyer, and maybe you can
Speaker 1: offer that as a possible defense. You might the episode
Speaker 1: titled the corn Raak Murder. Oh yeah, a class that
Speaker 1: might be really worried about it. I don't want that
Speaker 1: to happen to me. Yeah, okay, So I just wanted
Speaker 1: to again, like I obviously I'm I'm just playing Devil's
Speaker 1: advocate here. That's fine. And then when we need that
Speaker 1: to have a fair and balance show, since we are
Speaker 1: a year later from this, like I I do just
Speaker 1: want to take a moment to like ask the question,
Speaker 1: what do we think he has learned since these messages?
Speaker 1: Like I would assume that he the lesson that he
Speaker 1: has learned from the ensuing year is that he was wrong,
Speaker 1: Like he should not have been telling him not to
Speaker 1: fire the entire White House Counsel's office or have them
Speaker 1: all resigned because there were no consequences, like they just
Speaker 1: got away with it, like right, Like he's not He's
Speaker 1: not looking back at this and being like, wow, I
Speaker 1: really avoided uh steered him clear. He's probably looking back
Speaker 1: and being like, man, I didn't realize how little people
Speaker 1: gave a ship about about something like this, right, I
Speaker 1: don't know. That's hard. It's hard to get into the
Speaker 1: minds of these people because there's so much cognitive dissonance
Speaker 1: like at the center of their world, like and it's
Speaker 1: just they just do the thing that most people do
Speaker 1: when they have those moments, just double down. But I
Speaker 1: don't know if deep down, like these texts suggests that
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity's like, y'all, this a fucking weird plan. You
Speaker 1: should not like it's completely like, this is unlike anything
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Like I'm fine screaming racist sh it
Speaker 1: on TV and like making it hot for libs, but
Speaker 1: like to violently overthrow the government like in such an
Speaker 1: underhanded way out in the open. They're like, that just
Speaker 1: feels like a bridge to That's that's I think that's
Speaker 1: the most charity I can give Hannity based on the text,
Speaker 1: is that he's like, yeah, I'm smart enough to know
Speaker 1: it's like, you don't want to get mixed up in
Speaker 1: this if it goes left. I'm assuming he is only
Speaker 1: given this advice based on the fact that he thinks
Speaker 1: it's going to be unsuccessful and he thinks it's going
Speaker 1: to be a bad look for the president, which is
Speaker 1: what everybody like kept that seems to have been the
Speaker 1: thesis of everybody was. You know, in those texts we
Speaker 1: saw last month, everybody seemed to be being like, stand down,
Speaker 1: like tell everybody to chill out. This is a really
Speaker 1: bad look, like you're gonna it's gonna kill your political career.
Speaker 1: I think in the years since, it has been proven
Speaker 1: that that is not the case. That they were overestimating
Speaker 1: the power of the mainstream media and the like, underestimating
Speaker 1: the control that Trump has over the Republican Party, and like, now,
Speaker 1: how I feel like it's worth this to happen again
Speaker 1: today they would just be like you should have planned
Speaker 1: better type thing, unless like come out and denounce this
Speaker 1: at once, because that, you know, that didn't really do
Speaker 1: nobody think. Yeah, they're I think they're operating in a
Speaker 1: world where they're like, dude, we're gonna get deep ship
Speaker 1: for this, and then yeah, like you're saying it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: And I think even then that's like a weird momentary
Speaker 1: check for everyone to or like, no, but we were
Speaker 1: looking scared of that happening. But also the clock's taking
Speaker 1: on us being able to continue to win elections without
Speaker 1: having a plurality of votes, So then what do we do?
Speaker 1: So that's yeah, so I don't discount like the sort
Speaker 1: of living, breathing creature that is the Republican Party to
Speaker 1: do what it has to do to survive, Like they're
Speaker 1: not going to just be like, you're right, folks, the
Speaker 1: ideas were too bad, right, I guess we just gotta
Speaker 1: figure it out before people will vote for us, because
Speaker 1: their whole thing is like, no, well funk that people
Speaker 1: are wrong, they're stupid, and I think we just need
Speaker 1: to make everyone's decisions for them. Was that called authoritarian regime?
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever. I think what it is too
Speaker 1: is that, I mean, this sounds so simple, but the
Speaker 1: fact that no members of the like no representatives were
Speaker 1: detained or did come into physical contact with these people,
Speaker 1: I think this is so silly. But the fact that
Speaker 1: the government wasn't overthrown and the fact that these representatives
Speaker 1: weren't actually I mean, they were in danger obviously, but
Speaker 1: there was no, nothing, nothing horrific happened. Does that Does
Speaker 1: that make sense? Where no physical harm came to these people?
Speaker 1: I think, just to for once try to be concise
Speaker 1: in my goddamn life, the fact that nobody was physically harmed,
Speaker 1: that I think was the line that would be crossed
Speaker 1: for this actually to matter in a meeting in a
Speaker 1: political way. Does that a lot of Yeah, A lot
Speaker 1: of people point to like Republicans who were fucking panicked
Speaker 1: in the chamber. They're like, dude, these guys are shooting
Speaker 1: out of the fucking doors into the hallway and like
Speaker 1: cowering that they definitely knew how bad it got. But
Speaker 1: I think that's just how quickly ship had to shift,
Speaker 1: because it's like, well, we can't sit in that because
Speaker 1: then we look guilty. We're gonna have to quickly move
Speaker 1: past to that. I was nothing. It was nothing, even
Speaker 1: though it was probably one of the most vivid, weird,
Speaker 1: fucking experiences I've ever been in my life. As a
Speaker 1: conservative talking point, being afraid is not something that is
Speaker 1: popular to say, you know, like where I think as
Speaker 1: a liberal, as a demo, like as a liberal, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: feelings are okay, you know, what I mean, like you're
Speaker 1: feeling scared the liberal representatives like, oh, we were really
Speaker 1: really afraid. A Democratic voter can accept that a lot
Speaker 1: easier than a conservative voter where in my This is
Speaker 1: my opinion, but I think a conservative, someone who's conservative
Speaker 1: politically wants strength, wants power, wants and to say that
Speaker 1: I'm afraid is giving up political capital. You know, like
Speaker 1: you need to like express the position of strength. Saying
Speaker 1: if you're a Republican, oh, I was afraid is not
Speaker 1: good for your party and it's not good for you
Speaker 1: to try with your voting basis, because I think that's
Speaker 1: what you know, conservatism is all about. It's not about
Speaker 1: progress or moving forward. It's about staying very rigidly in
Speaker 1: this earraw where people don't have fucking feelings. I've never
Speaker 1: heard of fucking trauma. I never heard in this. It's
Speaker 1: just like you either if you fucking hit or done
Speaker 1: or you don't be scared. What the hell is that?
Speaker 1: And I think that's just yeah, like you're saying that
Speaker 1: does have an appeal to voters of a certain disposition,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's in the long view, we kind of
Speaker 1: like look at this, and yeah, I too, look at
Speaker 1: what the media has done, their lack of being able
Speaker 1: to properly communicate like how awful this is because they're
Speaker 1: afraid that they're picking sides, because that's really the thing
Speaker 1: that is governing the outward messaging to be like this
Speaker 1: is so bad. I don't know if we know this,
Speaker 1: the whole country is in chaos, like those stories come up,
Speaker 1: but I, you know, I don't I don't see the
Speaker 1: same motivation to warn people because like they're even looking
Speaker 1: at like all this voter suppression. They're like, golle, who
Speaker 1: are they doing? And it's like this is a fucking
Speaker 1: existential threat. But yeah, this is uh, that's that's the
Speaker 1: other part of this um. The other part of January six, though,
Speaker 1: is to talk about Donald Trump. He had a big
Speaker 1: old like press conference plan for today, like on the
Speaker 1: anniversary of January six. He had some ship to say.
Speaker 1: He was like, it's gonna be this whole event that
Speaker 1: conservatives are gonna rally around on the anniversary. But it
Speaker 1: got canceled at the fucking last minute. And was it
Speaker 1: because other conservatives told him, dude, this is a terrible
Speaker 1: fucking idea. Maybe, but if you ask him, he'll put
Speaker 1: it like this, You know, dude, this is only a
Speaker 1: fraction of like this long thing he wrote about why
Speaker 1: he's actually canceling his January six anniversary speech quote in
Speaker 1: light of all that I'm I can't even do to
Speaker 1: do his fucking voice, in light of all the total
Speaker 1: bias and dishonesty of the January six bucket unselect committee
Speaker 1: of Democrats, two failed Republicans in the fake news media,
Speaker 1: I'm canceling the Anyways six press conference admire Lago on Thursday,
Speaker 1: and instead we'll discuss many of those important topics at
Speaker 1: my rally on Saturday's in Arizona. It will be a
Speaker 1: big crowd. What has become more and more obvious to
Speaker 1: all is that the limestream media will not report the
Speaker 1: facts that Nancy Pelosi in the capital bubble. It's just
Speaker 1: it goes on and gone and on. The fact is
Speaker 1: every Republican who spoke to was like, or people were
Speaker 1: talking to his orbit were like, do not fucking do this.
Speaker 1: This is the worst fucking thing you can do. Also,
Speaker 1: people need to be focused on real issues. Don't fucking
Speaker 1: bring the clock back to this. And Laura Ingram apparently
Speaker 1: also turned down a request for him to appear on
Speaker 1: her show to talk all this ship. So it all
Speaker 1: boiled down to the fact that it wasn't really the
Speaker 1: lengthy media but the fact that he wasn't going to
Speaker 1: get live like live television coverage. Yeah, and that's all
Speaker 1: he wanted. And I think when so that's interesting to
Speaker 1: see what that's a that's another that's all part of
Speaker 1: Trump's like realization process as well. I feel like where
Speaker 1: he's just like, oh, fuck, like I can't even get
Speaker 1: on live TV anymore, Like what do I do UFC
Speaker 1: fight against Jake Paul? Paul wouldn't take that, But like
Speaker 1: this doesn't feel comforting to me that like Laura Ingram
Speaker 1: like turned him down so much as it just seems
Speaker 1: like there like the whole aftermath, Like wait, when you
Speaker 1: think back to like where we were on the sixth
Speaker 1: and like watching this and everybody being shocked and being like, wow,
Speaker 1: they're really like showing their ass at this point, like
Speaker 1: Trump is showing his ass, like especially because this is
Speaker 1: based on like a complete lie that is like easily
Speaker 1: provable as such. This is like I think there was
Speaker 1: a sort of mainstream consensus that this was going to
Speaker 1: be a like Okay, we've hit a breaking point with
Speaker 1: this ship, like let's let's watch the way of kind
Speaker 1: of received type of moment, and instead, I feel like
Speaker 1: it's been more like they've been given an act break
Speaker 1: to like sort of gather themselves and strategize in the wings,
Speaker 1: while Biden is like on stage not doing a whole
Speaker 1: hell of a lot, and it's just yeah, it just
Speaker 1: feels like it's a chance for It's not like the
Speaker 1: high water mark for authoritarianism. It's like a break for authoritarianism.
Speaker 1: And yeah, like I don't know, it's like Hitler's prison
Speaker 1: term where he took a break to write mind Kump.
Speaker 1: It's like the time where he gets to like sit
Speaker 1: back in the cut and strategize and build. And just
Speaker 1: like that, I also think like the thing that nobody
Speaker 1: could have predicted on this day a year ago is
Speaker 1: that the public would be more alienated than ever before,
Speaker 1: with like sort of the increasingly mainstream frustration with the pandemic.
Speaker 1: And you know, I feel like I know more people
Speaker 1: today who are closer to buying into some form of
Speaker 1: like conspiracy theory thinking than I did a year ago.
Speaker 1: I can compare people I know two people and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm blown away. And and it is to that
Speaker 1: point that frustration, it creates opportunity for people to adopt
Speaker 1: like these sort of alternative you know, explanations for what's happening,
Speaker 1: which is why so many experts on like democratic collapse
Speaker 1: are just saying, you know, if the US, like you know,
Speaker 1: had more like support for people like could actually eliminate
Speaker 1: some of the tension that's brought on by the pandemic,
Speaker 1: like economic uncertainty or like debt and things like that.
Speaker 1: That has a very massive effect on people's thinking in
Speaker 1: terms of like going towards something more like authoritarian or
Speaker 1: conspiratorial because on your you're you're taking away these sort
Speaker 1: of pain points that motivate someone to go deeper or
Speaker 1: find an explanation because the one that they have, which
Speaker 1: is like I live in a cruel, shitty world like
Speaker 1: sometimes isn't enough unfortunately, Yeah, and they have more time
Speaker 1: to think about it too, where you know, with even
Speaker 1: remote work or you know, like not doing as many
Speaker 1: things because of COVID, you're in front of your computer
Speaker 1: more often, you're alone more often, like you have excuses
Speaker 1: not to go out, and like you know, and I
Speaker 1: mean this probably has something to do with the metaverse
Speaker 1: as well. But like you know, you can you just
Speaker 1: have more time and more empty like idle idle space
Speaker 1: and your brain to explore these conspiracy theories. And when
Speaker 1: when you're locked down, you don't have as much perspective
Speaker 1: on what's real and what's logical, and then it's just
Speaker 1: so easy to fall into these silos of like minded
Speaker 1: you know, thinkers that I think that's another big difference
Speaker 1: between twenty nineteen and now, where there's just so many
Speaker 1: factors that lead to this ship. Yeah, but yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think there's an also an overarching like there's a
Speaker 1: reason that all of the like toss ups are breaking
Speaker 1: the same way, and it's because we have a fucked
Speaker 1: up system that's reaching a breaking point and people, the
Speaker 1: authoritarians are rushing into exploit it, and the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: is not built to exploit it. Like kind of even
Speaker 1: are the system right? Like the bones are about to
Speaker 1: break themselves, you know what I mean, Because it's like
Speaker 1: it can't withstand its own weight anymore, and like like
Speaker 1: just the idea of like being able to aid people,
Speaker 1: it's like we're clearly at a point where we have
Speaker 1: to invert the dynamic where the plurality of people are
Speaker 1: enjoying like the benefits of of a like a healthy economy,
Speaker 1: rather than the most moneyed people enjoying that. And because
Speaker 1: we would have to reorient to put people without money
Speaker 1: ahead of people with money. It's just incompatible with how
Speaker 1: the country is. Know, like, we're then that's the issue.
Speaker 1: We're asking the country to do an impossible thing. So
Speaker 1: I don't see how anything happens unless it has these
Speaker 1: like really fucking freaky moments. We're like, oh shit, what
Speaker 1: the fuck? Because we're there, we have the the way
Speaker 1: our leadership is structured in our political ideology in this country,
Speaker 1: it's it's only it's always to be to benefit the wealthy,
Speaker 1: and because what we need is the opposite. It's just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to fucking do that. I can, like,
Speaker 1: I can make gestures towards it, but like truly like formative,
Speaker 1: transformative ship, Well, that's not can't happen with these people,
Speaker 1: can't happen with the way are like our elections are
Speaker 1: funded and the way our tax code is set up.
Speaker 1: It's just can't happen, you know, And I think that's
Speaker 1: what's the that's what makes it a little bit frightening
Speaker 1: is to know that for all, as much as like
Speaker 1: the optimism there is for you know, Joe Biden's agenda
Speaker 1: and things like that, the ship that I think that's
Speaker 1: really needed, it's just it's anti petical to how we operate.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's discussed enough either, like
Speaker 1: a true confrontation. Like I think, more than anything, the
Speaker 1: way everything's been moving the last few decades, it's just unsustainable.
Speaker 1: And we're seeing all of the fucking evidence right now
Speaker 1: because I can't point to let people who are like,
Speaker 1: you know, just not out people who are not wealthy
Speaker 1: saying my life has got become exponentially better here now.
Speaker 1: I get comparatively, when you leave a very stressful situation
Speaker 1: from somewhere else, you can find moments for improvement and
Speaker 1: things like that. But I feel like the people who
Speaker 1: who really talk about like they've really benefited or wealth
Speaker 1: the wealthiest people like people that are wealthier even beyond
Speaker 1: our imaginations. And I think that's the hard part about
Speaker 1: it at all. You what if I was just like
Speaker 1: after that beautiful statement was like speak for yourself, I'm
Speaker 1: fucking crushing it over here. Beautiful. It was so well
Speaker 1: said it just completely undervaluate, like it sounds like a
Speaker 1: lot of talk like Jacob Jingle himersh it had a
Speaker 1: little too much. I didn't know he was on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and uh, we'll come back and
Speaker 1: talk about the most Google Chain restaurant. And we're back,
Speaker 1: and you know this is this is a hard hitting
Speaker 1: ship where Google has released the most Google Chain restaurant
Speaker 1: and what are we looking at? Miles Hit us with
Speaker 1: the with the facts, hit us with the scorecard, Harold Letterman.
Speaker 1: Who is the most Google chain restaurant is Starbucks, followed
Speaker 1: by McDonald's, then Dominoes, Chick fil A, Pizza Hut, and
Speaker 1: are blessed Taco Bell right at the end at the
Speaker 1: death just snatched it and the writers that they take out.
Speaker 1: I only bring this up because not because it's really
Speaker 1: that important, but the over at the take out they
Speaker 1: had some theories of like why Starbucks like so much
Speaker 1: more ahead, and like the rankings, like I think it
Speaker 1: was in thirty and it was like the thirty ninth
Speaker 1: most search thing and then McDonald's like the fifty five
Speaker 1: or something that it's things like they have more varied
Speaker 1: menus that are like in like in localities they have
Speaker 1: different menus, or that they have seasonal items like you know,
Speaker 1: Christmas drinks and fall drinks and ship like that, or
Speaker 1: commitment cups and stuff. And they're also in dense urban center,
Speaker 1: so people might be just saying, yo, let me google
Speaker 1: where's a Starbucks. But my theory, really, I think is
Speaker 1: that the thing that pushed them over the edge or
Speaker 1: put them so far ahead, is that it was all around.
Speaker 1: I think that struggle for labor rights and how much
Speaker 1: of a top of mind thing. Not that for the
Speaker 1: entire country, but in Buffalo, those those stores that were unionizing,
Speaker 1: that took up a lot of of like the conversation
Speaker 1: air during that time, like everyone was like talking about it.
Speaker 1: We heard like, you know, we played some of the
Speaker 1: cringe e monologue from the former CEO. And I think there,
Speaker 1: I think that drew a lot of people in because
Speaker 1: as much as I'd like to think pumpkin spice lat
Speaker 1: days and commemorative cups drove the traffic search, I think
Speaker 1: their place in the potential domino effect of like worker
Speaker 1: rights gave it a little bit more. There was more
Speaker 1: interest from the general public aside from just anyone, because
Speaker 1: I'm not to say that every person who was like
Speaker 1: working at a like a quick service restaurant was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta little focus on Starbucks, Starbucks, Starbucks. But that
Speaker 1: news and around it, I felt like just created more
Speaker 1: headlines and more attention around it. Just Mike, I think
Speaker 1: that makes sense, Yeah, because I also really like what
Speaker 1: you're onto with the different pieces of news or new
Speaker 1: things that they come up with. Starbucks always has new drinks,
Speaker 1: Domino's has like driver lists, delivery and all that. Like
Speaker 1: Chick fil A you gotta note like which day is
Speaker 1: it closed, Pizza Hut is always like has a new
Speaker 1: box filled with shelves of food in it, you know,
Speaker 1: and Taco Bell always this new stuff. I do want
Speaker 1: to know why anyone would ever google McDonald's because it
Speaker 1: is always the same and you're not trying to find one,
Speaker 1: because if you just drive, like you'll run into one,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you don't if you're
Speaker 1: on a road trip, there'll be a signed for it
Speaker 1: on the highway. They're everywhere. I do not know why
Speaker 1: you would google McDonald's, like that's my first Google every morning, Blake. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, what are they up to McDonald's making
Speaker 1: sure it's there? Yeah, making sure it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: How's that claim? You know what's wild? Though? It got
Speaker 1: so the things that people it got more people search
Speaker 1: McDonald's more than Netflix. Wow, which seems like or Bank
Speaker 1: of America. So this is one of my that's crazy
Speaker 1: questions slash theories is that like Starbucks and Dominoes both
Speaker 1: have really good apps as supplications, not appetizers, and so like,
Speaker 1: I was so fucking confused when you first that, I
Speaker 1: almost threw up on my pants. So thank you for
Speaker 1: for fixing that. That is something that happens to you
Speaker 1: when you're confused. And yes, we have to give you
Speaker 1: a very gentle briefing before every episode or else. It
Speaker 1: takes some mess in here and I appreciate it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But like, so I'm just trying to McDonald's makes more
Speaker 1: sense to me because nobody's like going into the McDonald's
Speaker 1: app and like ordering on the McDonald's app. But like
Speaker 1: Dominoes is the one that I get. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: they had the news hook about driverless cars, but for
Speaker 1: the most part, I can't imagine like googling unless you're
Speaker 1: just like, what's the phone number four Dominoes? Because I
Speaker 1: don't use apps that like were they I mean they
Speaker 1: I don't know if they were also making headlines with
Speaker 1: like all the you know, like minimum wage talk, but
Speaker 1: was there anything that put McDonald's like whatever, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter all that to say people are focused on the
Speaker 1: quick service world and yeah, long, um, I mean not
Speaker 1: long made the struggle last, but long mad continue until
Speaker 1: we get better treatment. If Google really wanted to grab
Speaker 1: our attention, they would be breaking each of these searches
Speaker 1: down by like how many of the people were googling
Speaker 1: Starbucks because they needed a place to ship right, Like
Speaker 1: that's I have to think that's like of the like
Speaker 1: you know, like it was the it's just Starbucks dicking coffee.
Speaker 1: Like we're honestly like just as confused as you. Back
Speaker 1: to when I worked at Cracked, there was a search
Speaker 1: term I'm drawing a blank. I'm like what it was
Speaker 1: something with like horse I think horse dicks. That was
Speaker 1: one of like the top search terms that landed people
Speaker 1: on the website. Like when you got down, it was
Speaker 1: always like in the top hundred and we could never
Speaker 1: figure out why it was like Horsecock Miles Gray was
Speaker 1: a big one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that you had one, Miles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I collect them. Yeah yeah, I love your necklace. By
Speaker 1: the way, thank you. Yeah, your shelves are buckling. I'm
Speaker 1: getting I'm getting a delivery of a Clydesdale later. It's yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh man, no, I have to picture. What do Clydesdale's
Speaker 1: dicks have the like fluffy white fur like the bottom
Speaker 1: of the Bosn't know, that's interesting as a very interesting blake.
Speaker 1: You know those amphibians that have it's not a salamander,
Speaker 1: but it has the fluffy gills like up near its head.
Speaker 1: Isn't that situation with the cly sale hog with the
Speaker 1: fluffy fur at the top or is it at the
Speaker 1: base where the pubist? Oh yeah, what's it called like
Speaker 1: an ox lock dole or something? Yes, yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is. If that and you nail
Speaker 1: the pronunciation, nail it, it's a very difficult for axle
Speaker 1: fully that Yeah, the exlful road. What is that? All right? Briefly,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about yellow Stone because they just
Speaker 1: had their season four finale. This is a if you
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar. It's a kind of neo Western
Speaker 1: show starring Kevin Costner made with technically neo Western John
Speaker 1: New Western. What the fuck? Yeah, I don't know what
Speaker 1: that means. It's it might be a term I just
Speaker 1: made up, but I think it's I think it's like
Speaker 1: No Country for Old Men, blood simple, you know. Taylor Sheridan,
Speaker 1: the creator of the show Yellowstone, has also made Hell
Speaker 1: or High Water and wind River. So it's like Westerns
Speaker 1: that take place in a more modern setting, right, they say?
Speaker 1: With right the definition subgenre that adopts its character setting
Speaker 1: in themes and transplants them with contemporary sensibilities. Got it,
Speaker 1: got it right? So I think also like Unforgiven and
Speaker 1: more or like postmodern westerns would count as neo Westerns.
Speaker 1: But like I think that, I don't know. I find
Speaker 1: you could say Mandalorian is a neo Western too. Produce
Speaker 1: Rebecca just wrote a neo Western is a Western with
Speaker 1: a shaved head. I think I give my bad jokes,
Speaker 1: Doc Martin with red laces. I don't reverer Sorry, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: backa and Justin gave me that joke sultaneously. Yeah, But
Speaker 1: so I I got I got on a big neo
Speaker 1: Western kick over the break and like watch Blood Simple
Speaker 1: No Continent like the movies that I just mentioned. So
Speaker 1: that's but so Taylor Sheridan is the guy who made Heller,
Speaker 1: High Water and wind River and that he created this show.
Speaker 1: It's about a family that like owns the largest private
Speaker 1: ranch in Montana and have to defend against outside forces
Speaker 1: like bordering native reservations and a public park and land developers.
Speaker 1: So so they nailed one villain of those dreaded public park. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know what his point of view is on this,
Speaker 1: like maybe they're maybe they're like anti heroes, but you know,
Speaker 1: it does make sense that it would be salient now
Speaker 1: seeing as like private property, like you know, the Bundy's
Speaker 1: out in the West. I feel like there's very interesting
Speaker 1: things happening in that world, and I feel like private
Speaker 1: property seems to be kind of the original sin of
Speaker 1: the United States that we can't really recover from. And
Speaker 1: so this is all to say, I'm going to watch
Speaker 1: yellow Stone or some of it and actually have a
Speaker 1: a well informed take instead of this. Yeah, wasn't there
Speaker 1: this finale like just setting records? Yes, so this was
Speaker 1: some season four finale hit like had the highest ratings
Speaker 1: for a day of and like that they premiered it
Speaker 1: on I guess it's Peacock even though it seems like
Speaker 1: it's on Paramountain Network. Show its streams on Peacock and
Speaker 1: they have like nine million people watch it on the
Speaker 1: day it came out, which is a new record, which
Speaker 1: is pretty wild when you realize that like every show
Speaker 1: in the top ten of like most streamed shows is
Speaker 1: on Netflix. But I mean, it's it's definitely one of those.
Speaker 1: It's like the it's again one of those shows, like
Speaker 1: the biggest show that I don't know about. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I just see constantly see pre rolls for it,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't know, Kevin Costner are cool,
Speaker 1: but yeah, the neo Western man, I just do it.
Speaker 1: So I did watch wind River, which is the only
Speaker 1: of the one of those movies, those neo Westerns I
Speaker 1: hadn't seen, and it's about like crimes done to native
Speaker 1: people's on like native reservations, and it's protege. This is
Speaker 1: a fish and wildlife tracker played by Jeremy Renner. But
Speaker 1: it's cool because his ex wife is Native American. Oh cool, cool,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but not not his love interest might do.
Speaker 1: His love interest is Elizabeth Olsen, who is a who
Speaker 1: comes into helps solve the crime. But like, yeah, the
Speaker 1: the Native people aren't very useful or capable of dealing
Speaker 1: with their own ship in the movie, so there's like
Speaker 1: some very serious white savior ship going on. But I
Speaker 1: I do want to watch this and see like how
Speaker 1: they're handling a story that centers on a Bundy like
Speaker 1: clan trying to defend their private property rights against the
Speaker 1: public park system, Like I can't think of I mean,
Speaker 1: it's got to be good, you know, like because I'm
Speaker 1: you don't do numbers like that and be a totally
Speaker 1: like nonsense show, you know, So not to say that
Speaker 1: like it's not no, no no, but I mean, like
Speaker 1: you know that they like even when I watched shows
Speaker 1: that do not as I'm like, oh, I see why
Speaker 1: people funk. I've never seen like a show. This is complete.
Speaker 1: This is like a fever dream. I don't understand this
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah. Right, you guys haven't seen a single
Speaker 1: one of these, right, A single episode of Yellowstone not
Speaker 1: not one. Yeah. I started to have it. I have
Speaker 1: a rechargeable battery thing I got as a promo for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it counts. I saw the hell out of some billboards
Speaker 1: when it first came out. But I thought you said
Speaker 1: Mystic River when you said wind River. And when I
Speaker 1: was in high school, I got like hired to write
Speaker 1: like hired, I probably was free. It was free to
Speaker 1: write like the dirty, like dirty movie titles. I guess
Speaker 1: for a morning show and I asked my best friend
Speaker 1: Jeff to help me, and he wrote like a hundred
Speaker 1: of them, but they were all so bad where it
Speaker 1: was like Mystic River of Semen was like one of
Speaker 1: the ones that he wrote, and it's like, no, you
Speaker 1: gotta like do word play, and it was like Pirates
Speaker 1: of the Caribbean having sex with each other and it's
Speaker 1: like you can't though it's just word play. Word kind
Speaker 1: of with Jeff on this woman, I think you steered
Speaker 1: him wrong. Mystic River scene was pretty good, superducer, Becca,
Speaker 1: What which show was good? I did again? I'm yellow
Speaker 1: Yellowstone is good? Yeah, okay, Samley, Yellowstone is good. I
Speaker 1: watched it with my mom in Texas from the South Yellowstone.
Speaker 1: She loved it, and they have like, um, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's a spin off, but it's the same
Speaker 1: creators who did Yellowstone? I think, but it's like based
Speaker 1: in like I don't know the organ trail right eighteen.
Speaker 1: It's like at some year title, right, it's a prequel.
Speaker 1: It's like these people's an that has country stars Faith
Speaker 1: Hill and um wow, I'm spacing very famous. Um yea
Speaker 1: love m Alright, Well now I am feel less dread
Speaker 1: about the fact that I just promised to watch some
Speaker 1: of this. But yeah, Zake Kang, let us know thoughts
Speaker 1: on Yellowstone? Yeah? Is it the New Bosh? Yeah, your
Speaker 1: dad's favorite show? Alright, Well, Blake, such a pleasure as
Speaker 1: always having you on t d Z. Where can people
Speaker 1: find you and follow you? I am at Blake Wexler
Speaker 1: on everything. By the way, I love doing this. Thank
Speaker 1: you for having me both of you. And Uh. I
Speaker 1: host a podcast called, if you want to call it,
Speaker 1: that called Blake's Takes for God's Sakes, and uh it's
Speaker 1: essentially what this would be without anyone else on it.
Speaker 1: It was. Yeah, it's just me free associating, riffing with
Speaker 1: myself for forty five minutes each week, and um yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. A lot of people don't, but it is.
Speaker 1: It is at It's been described as a disaster, but
Speaker 1: it does exist and you can download it. And um,
Speaker 1: I have some stand up dates coming up as well.
Speaker 1: UM in January, January two, I'm gonna be in Raleigh,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, Good Nights, February the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado,
Speaker 1: and then the February Denver Comedy Lounge in Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's uh, that's where I'm at. But this
Speaker 1: was this was so much fun. Thank you guys, and
Speaker 1: you're welcome to plug whatever you'd like. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a neo Western tour. Yeah, it really is. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'll you're going to forts, going to forts, I'm going
Speaker 1: I'm assuming are understeady, you know, bombardment from the British.
Speaker 1: We're planning a siege for Saturday night late shown. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be cool. Bring your hooks and ladders. There you go, miles.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? With tweet you've been Oh sorry, Blake, Hey, Blake, Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: how are you almost skipped over? Question that I love
Speaker 1: to ask our guests, which is what is a tweet
Speaker 1: or some of the work of social media you've been
Speaker 1: enjoying A tweet from at Jeff mcdev on Twitter. I
Speaker 1: came across this video of Wilt Chamberlain dancing and it
Speaker 1: brought me so much joy I wanted to share it
Speaker 1: with all of you. It is, but in this Chamberlain
Speaker 1: dancing for fourteen seconds next to regular sized people and
Speaker 1: his body, it looks like it was edited to you
Speaker 1: just don't see someone like that, and it's like, God,
Speaker 1: this guy had style and he had he had it,
Speaker 1: this dude. So it's um one of those like almost
Speaker 1: like a soul train type like dance show. Well, he's
Speaker 1: on the fever. He's on the fever. Let's see, let's see,
Speaker 1: al we're but he'll always be remever as the brand
Speaker 1: boy the sun incredible. Whoo whoa looking like a cooked
Speaker 1: out turkey? Damn will whoa he got honey in those hips?
Speaker 1: WHOA Wow? That guy's intro's rival mine. I was jealous
Speaker 1: of the NBA record of most games, most points in
Speaker 1: a game one oh boy, that's amazing. Yeah, arguably one
Speaker 1: of the great athletes in any sport. Ever, it looked
Speaker 1: like those two like people that were not of Wilt
Speaker 1: Chamberlain size height, he was like using them as crutches
Speaker 1: almost way like holding his hands to come. He's just
Speaker 1: so tall, and he's like, oh yeah, anyway to human
Speaker 1: walking sticks miles Where can people find you? What the
Speaker 1: tweet you've been enjoying Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Gray.
Speaker 1: Also the other show for fiance that I do with
Speaker 1: Sophie Alexandro we talked ninety day Fiance. If you like that,
Speaker 1: come check that out. A tweet out like first one
Speaker 1: is from andres to bush It at a M do
Speaker 1: bushit b O U c h E t h E
Speaker 1: T and the list is one man cover bands Jeff Leppard,
Speaker 1: Ned Zeppelin, Earl, jam Alan Shain's Radio, Fred lou Too,
Speaker 1: Ted Hot Chili Peppers, Dan Steely and Jim Imagine dregs Um. Lastly,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to dis it from Judd Harris at Visible.
Speaker 1: Judd tweeted, and this is from my bilingual folks. I
Speaker 1: hear dress leges Economia. That's really fun. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Killed me, killed me, let's see. Andadresen tweeted Titanic should
Speaker 1: have been called vacation Boyfriend, and uh Connor Trippler tweeted,
Speaker 1: I actually have good reason to shoot the messenger. For one,
Speaker 1: I do not like what he's telling me. You can
Speaker 1: find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can
Speaker 1: find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at the
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Speaker 1: episodes and our foot where we link off to the
Speaker 1: information that we talked about in today's episode, as well
Speaker 1: as the song that we think you might enjoy Blake.
Speaker 1: What do we say about that? What do we say
Speaker 1: about doing the emphasis on the footnotes is the one
Speaker 1: that we emphasize. Man, this is why we don't publish
Speaker 1: the you're on. I don't know what you're talking. I
Speaker 1: literally have no clue. Uh Miles, what what's the musical recommendation?
Speaker 1: You know what? All this talk of Neil Western, I
Speaker 1: instantly just thought of the track by the French m C.
Speaker 1: M C. Salar with two a's and the track is
Speaker 1: called Nouvel Western. And I really like the track because
Speaker 1: there's a sample of Serge Games books Bunny and Clyde
Speaker 1: in it. If you're familiar, Searge Games were great track.
Speaker 1: But that has turned into a beat and it's like
Speaker 1: from the early nineties French rap, but it's Nouvel Western
Speaker 1: and I felt like perfect for what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: So check happen now. Hell yeah, Well, The Daily Zygas
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