Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two. I was
Speaker 1: have an episode four of Turn Daily THI guys the
Speaker 1: production of My Heart Radio. This is a podcast where
Speaker 1: we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Thursday,
Speaker 1: October twenty one. Woman names Jack O'Brien a k havannah
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Speaker 1: heal's gone down since in havannah naa, y'all really got
Speaker 1: bad bedside manners. I need a new cat Scanna na na.
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. Cally canleys a Dodger Kenley. He strikes out
Speaker 1: the bread. It's Kelly, Kelly Jansen. Okay, that's just my
Speaker 1: love for Kenley Jansen helping the Dodgers eke out a
Speaker 1: Game three win. Wonderful. Chose to Cody Balinger as well,
Speaker 1: but I always love Kenley Jansen because the reason I
Speaker 1: sing that song is there's a viral video called ken
Speaker 1: Ley and it's a woman in like like Eastern Europe
Speaker 1: auditioning for like Derrick quivalent of American idol and she's
Speaker 1: singing that Mariah Carey song without You, but she's singing
Speaker 1: she's like Kenllyle out You and like the judges are like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what song was that? She's like ken Lee
Speaker 1: by mariahre there like ken And I always think of
Speaker 1: Kenley Janson when I think of that. So love his
Speaker 1: pitching motion when we were just talking about it before
Speaker 1: we started. Just holds it up there, let you know
Speaker 1: what's about the what's about to happen. I don't like
Speaker 1: his pre motion motion where he does the like two
Speaker 1: little shoulder ticks, but I guess that helps him keep
Speaker 1: his hips closed or open. And if I'm sure a
Speaker 1: bat too, if you're not used to it, it it might
Speaker 1: throw you off a little bit because you might be like,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, Yeah. I feel like if I
Speaker 1: was a picture, like if that was your superpower, that
Speaker 1: you could throw a baseball a hundred miles per hour,
Speaker 1: Like that's how I would design my motion. Because he
Speaker 1: just holds it up there, like you sucker is ready
Speaker 1: for this. Yeah, he doesn't hide it. He let's help
Speaker 1: this series last from games too. So yeah, well, Miles,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
Speaker 1: by a hilarious and talented comedian, writer, an actor. You've
Speaker 1: seen on set Myers Cordon on HBOS Crashing. He was
Speaker 1: a producer and co host of Comedy at the Knitting Factory,
Speaker 1: one of the best independently we're on comedy shows in
Speaker 1: the world. As comedy album be a d Dreams debut
Speaker 1: number one on iTunes. His name is one of the
Speaker 1: best of Just for last new Faces by Village, Please
Speaker 1: welcome the hilarious, the talent. Take Kenny Defarre. That's my
Speaker 1: best can He's got his own money in a used
Speaker 1: car and I didn't have time to think of more lyrics.
Speaker 1: But this is best Friend by Sweetie and Ja Cat. Hello.
Speaker 1: He beautiful. But I hope that was okay. I felt
Speaker 1: it felt not as good as what you guys had
Speaker 1: going on, but you know that was that was fantastic.
Speaker 1: That's our first best friend. Yeah, now I feel now
Speaker 1: I feel good. What's new man? Oh man, I know
Speaker 1: it's really good to be here. I was at the
Speaker 1: Laker game last night saw Sweetie, so you know, she
Speaker 1: was on the dome, she was on the bres your bones.
Speaker 1: I actually was like, who is that beautiful woman holding
Speaker 1: a diamond crusted basketball, and uh I was I was
Speaker 1: right in my suspicion it was a rapper because it
Speaker 1: was diamond crusted basketball and that was the bagger. That's
Speaker 1: just like, no, no, she was. She was just holding
Speaker 1: it and then like a regular Yeah yeah, she was
Speaker 1: just like she was like, you know, in case, in case,
Speaker 1: you guys lose the ball. I got this one. And
Speaker 1: she was sitting next to Genie Buss and I was
Speaker 1: just like, this is great. I just like, this is
Speaker 1: the best. But the best of Los Angeles is the
Speaker 1: Staples Center. I love that, right. Yeah, yeah, l was
Speaker 1: in the building. You know what I mean a lot
Speaker 1: of people are talking about her and Rich Paul just
Speaker 1: I think it's walking like a little leather outfit. Yeah no,
Speaker 1: I actually saw she went running across the court, literally
Speaker 1: all the way from one side to the other, ran
Speaker 1: up the stairs, gave a woman a hug, and then
Speaker 1: turned around and ran back. And I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know who that woman is, but she's important. But
Speaker 1: that's that's flex right there. She's about to get an album. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's about to get an album written about her. It
Speaker 1: actually interrupted a fast break when she did that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but people are just like, oh ship, it's Adele. Sorry
Speaker 1: are bad Adele? You just go on your way, yeah, Adele,
Speaker 1: Rich Paul, I mean the Queen of Staples was a
Speaker 1: new queen being in l a fixture now leaving Monday Town. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so you'll see a doll. Yeah, I do like that.
Speaker 1: It's no longer just like did you see Jack Jack Nicholson,
Speaker 1: or it's like no, I did it bummed me out? Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: try not to see Jack, and uh, there's so much
Speaker 1: more to see. There's always that thing that Laker games
Speaker 1: where they'll put him on the big screen and he
Speaker 1: used to be like, you know, playing cool. I feel
Speaker 1: like yesterday when they put him on, he was just
Speaker 1: kind of like like he was right, alright, alright, alright.
Speaker 1: I was just like, damn, yeah, we're time comes for
Speaker 1: all of us. That's true. Yeah, undefeat an entire hot
Speaker 1: dog in the corner of his mouth, like yeah, oh man,
Speaker 1: one of the greats, both our guest and Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna get to know you a little
Speaker 1: bit better in a moment. First, let's tell our listeners
Speaker 1: a few of the things we're talking about today. There
Speaker 1: is a new sort of racist myth happening in the
Speaker 1: mainstream media that we want to just debunked for you
Speaker 1: real quick. We're gonna talk about Biden's child VACS plan.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about all that. We'll talk about Facebook's new plan.
Speaker 1: You know, it's always a good sign when your strategy
Speaker 1: for moving your company forward is the same as the
Speaker 1: strategy murderers used when they go on the lamb. Because
Speaker 1: he's gonna give them a new name, I think is
Speaker 1: the plan. We'll talk about a new historical narrative from
Speaker 1: David Graber, who wrote that Bullshit Jobs essay and passed
Speaker 1: away last year. But he has new kind of comprehensive
Speaker 1: re revision of how we think about history. That's pretty dope.
Speaker 1: And of course we'll look at the reason that Rudy
Speaker 1: Giuliani is not drunk. Thank you very much, all of
Speaker 1: that plenty more. But first, Kenny, we do like to
Speaker 1: ask our guest, what is something from your search history. Uh,
Speaker 1: Fantasy NBA pre draft rankings, Because I just had my
Speaker 1: draft for Fantasy bath Football. It's a big part of
Speaker 1: my life. And uh, if you don't play fantasy basketball,
Speaker 1: you're sucking up, dude. It's the best one is it.
Speaker 1: I feel like I fantasy is a really it's a
Speaker 1: fine it's a double edged sword, like it causes me
Speaker 1: to get so engaged with the league, but also I
Speaker 1: can't do anything else except like have regrets all the
Speaker 1: time about like who I'm playing or not playing, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I knew it, and like that part really
Speaker 1: fox me up. Currently, I'm like, it's easier to do
Speaker 1: with like the English Premier League, which we have a
Speaker 1: fantasy league for the listeners and that's his games like
Speaker 1: once a week, and then I can just kind of like, alright,
Speaker 1: I can, I can have my regrets. But other times,
Speaker 1: like when I've done football or things like that, it's
Speaker 1: just it fully takes over me. Yeah, well so for
Speaker 1: me the the I guess this is the way I
Speaker 1: rationalize it anyway. But I just look at that when
Speaker 1: I'm taking a deuce instead of Twitter, and it makes
Speaker 1: me less mad than Twitter. So so it is it
Speaker 1: is like improvement in that regard, you know. And then
Speaker 1: I just kinda you know, I treat it like a
Speaker 1: insta pot man. I said it and forget it. You know.
Speaker 1: The lineup gets set and I and I and I
Speaker 1: move on with my life and if something happens, something happens.
Speaker 1: But who's who? Who do you play with? Like other comedians?
Speaker 1: You have like a consistent group you've been doing this
Speaker 1: for years with with high stakes, Like what's the culture
Speaker 1: of your fantasy crew. This is the fourth year of
Speaker 1: this league, the third year of it being a keeper league.
Speaker 1: We voted after the first year to make it a
Speaker 1: keeper league. So it's a bunch of comics and um,
Speaker 1: like a couple guys that are just friends of comics
Speaker 1: in the league because we needed a filth space. But
Speaker 1: four years strong. We call it the Jimmy Butler standard
Speaker 1: because we've got a very high Someone call it unreasonable
Speaker 1: standard for the league, and um, yeah, man, we're looking
Speaker 1: good this year. Yeah do you? Uh? So you have
Speaker 1: a squad that you've had for a couple of years
Speaker 1: now and you're just like adding, yeah, well, you keep
Speaker 1: four players per year this is and you can only
Speaker 1: keep Peach guy three years. So this is my last
Speaker 1: year of Luca. I took Luca as a rookie and
Speaker 1: I've been trying to build a winner around Luca and uh,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I took Jalen Green this year too, so
Speaker 1: I'm still thinking about the future, and uh, we'll see. Man,
Speaker 1: I got I think I got third last year, so
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta step it up. Are there any
Speaker 1: like this is the other thing that I always surprised
Speaker 1: me when you play fantasy people like people are just
Speaker 1: freaks out of no where with the with their fantasy
Speaker 1: knowledge or just like they're thinking about it really effective
Speaker 1: and like what barely talk about this sport? Are you
Speaker 1: fucking smashing me out? Do you have people like that
Speaker 1: in the league or everyone's kind of pretty consistently performing well, No, definitely,
Speaker 1: there's definitely that. And I mean, you know, for me,
Speaker 1: why I like it, Dude, is I fucking waste so
Speaker 1: much of my life reading about basketball as it is?
Speaker 1: It's like, I should do something with this knowledge, Like
Speaker 1: this can't just be something I talked about at the
Speaker 1: bar once a month when I happened to be around
Speaker 1: people in the games on Like, I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: do something with this knowledge that I have. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there's like a couple of ringers in the league. It's like, dude,
Speaker 1: I thought you were I thought you were. I don't
Speaker 1: know what I thought you did with your time, but
Speaker 1: I did not think it was no, this much about
Speaker 1: the coolest support that's ever existence. So yeah, man consistently shocked.
Speaker 1: But I just love it. I love the league, I
Speaker 1: love the sport, and you know, it's a mental health
Speaker 1: thing coming out of the pandemic. It's like, let's take
Speaker 1: care of the head. Let's take care of the head.
Speaker 1: I don't need to be looking at the twenty four
Speaker 1: hour news cycle all day. So all right, I'll allow
Speaker 1: myself to do something dumb that makes me happy. You know.
Speaker 1: I love that, and it's I think, a great thing
Speaker 1: to say. This is a perfect social media substitute. Ye,
Speaker 1: to give yourself something else to just look at, will
Speaker 1: take your attention. It will cause you to look at
Speaker 1: other articles. But at least it's not about the decaying. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, no matter how bad Jalen Green shoots, he's
Speaker 1: not trying to take abortion away, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it's like, at the very baseline, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be that mad, right right, right, Yes, Jonathan Isaac's
Speaker 1: it's trying to take away Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's what
Speaker 1: It's what those long arms are were used for. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I used to play fantasy hoops and I just it.
Speaker 1: It's definitely like right in that sweet spot between like
Speaker 1: football is almost pure luck, and it's once a week
Speaker 1: so you don't have to like think about it all
Speaker 1: that much. It's like the easy kind of starter fantasy sports. Baseball.
Speaker 1: I think I've never played baseball, but my friends who do,
Speaker 1: like it takes over their life and like it's all
Speaker 1: they talk about for the entire baseball season. Basketball is
Speaker 1: like right in the middle. You know that it has
Speaker 1: half the games of baseball, and but I don't know. Man.
Speaker 1: I I won the first year that I was in
Speaker 1: my like college friends league, and then like just steadily
Speaker 1: got worse and I was just like all right, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting the the people who you know, you got
Speaker 1: a yokich as the number one pick this year just
Speaker 1: in standard redraft leagues, but some people like Lebron is
Speaker 1: number twenty five because he rest so much, just according
Speaker 1: to like some of some rank And also we'd be
Speaker 1: remissed and not tell people that today is National Reptile
Speaker 1: Awareness Day. I think we forgot that. Yeah dude, did
Speaker 1: I forget to mention that? Yeah? I know we fucked up, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: National witch Hazel Day. Okay, So clear your skin up.
Speaker 1: I did mention that though, right, I did mention the
Speaker 1: lich get your toner and hey, if you got some hemorrhoids,
Speaker 1: put some witch hazel on those motherfucker. Oh yeah, oh yeah, baby,
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Speaker 1: put it on your face or your butthole either want
Speaker 1: verse you know it's safe. If his butthole safe, is
Speaker 1: face safe? That's right? Yeah. I mean every day is
Speaker 1: National Reptile Awareness Day over here because we're aware of
Speaker 1: the reptilian shapeshift flots take over the globe and thank you.
Speaker 1: You know, when are we going to talk about this more? Yeah? Man,
Speaker 1: if I see one more motherfucker with like a vertical,
Speaker 1: I blink as you know what I mean. Tired of
Speaker 1: this everywhere I look, just with your your slit eyes
Speaker 1: blinking at me. Always sunning on a rock, you know,
Speaker 1: catching whole rodents with your tongue and following them whole
Speaker 1: enough enough and they don't think. If you don't think
Speaker 1: Bill and Hillary Clinton are somewhere sunning on a rock
Speaker 1: right now, then I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1: You know, they're sunning in Iraq on a rock. And
Speaker 1: why do you think they invaded the rock? Because rocks?
Speaker 1: Do you mean where they helped Jeffrey Epstein escape to?
Speaker 1: Exactly Iraq? What's a rock if not an island? What
Speaker 1: is something you think is overrated? Kenny with a game
Speaker 1: of golf. I just took it up. And man, I
Speaker 1: just took it up. And I am proud to say
Speaker 1: I've body reached my ten hours of yelling goddamn it,
Speaker 1: because that is all honestly off. It's just like men
Speaker 1: just need to get more comfortable being like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you wanna do you wanna just talk? Do you want
Speaker 1: to just like look out at the landscape and talk,
Speaker 1: like you want to go for a stroll? My guy,
Speaker 1: we don't even carry you know, clubs. I just want
Speaker 1: to hang out with my pal, right yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: my god. And even then there's not questions being asking golf.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like your your teeing off. It's like god,
Speaker 1: fuck man, and you're like, yo, is everything cool? Yeah? Man,
Speaker 1: I'm good. It's just ship at home, dude. You know,
Speaker 1: I got the wedding coming up, Like oh, that's the
Speaker 1: entree pointed to someone speaking about it, just like, let
Speaker 1: me have an outburst and then when someone going, whoa buddy,
Speaker 1: then the healing can start. It is that is really
Speaker 1: all it is. It's like, you shouldn't have to I
Speaker 1: don't know, I shouldn't have to spend like a month's
Speaker 1: padecheck on clubs just to my friend that I'm frustrated.
Speaker 1: You know, come on man. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I'll keep going back because that's what it does. Is
Speaker 1: it the like? Because I know like when I early on,
Speaker 1: when Tiger Woods was on the scene, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm blazing. Then that means this is my basketball because
Speaker 1: like I wasn't good at karate or basketball. So I
Speaker 1: was like, what other racist stereotype can I use to
Speaker 1: try and give my twelve year old imagination something to
Speaker 1: hold onto. And in the beginning, it was all about
Speaker 1: really like connecting with the ball, and as a kid,
Speaker 1: I just didn't have the patients like sometimes you connect like,
Speaker 1: oh that was fucking amazing. I love this ship. Other
Speaker 1: times I would just go to a driving range and
Speaker 1: the other times you've completely funk up. You're like this
Speaker 1: is trash. I hate my life and everything are you
Speaker 1: is the thing that entices you is just like that
Speaker 1: that sort of you're striving for that consistency to be
Speaker 1: able to be like every I don't curse every time now, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I mean you know, yeah, truth be told, dude.
Speaker 1: I grew up playing basketball very competitively, and you know,
Speaker 1: and I still play. But I'm hitting at age where
Speaker 1: my body is starting to be like, maybe you need
Speaker 1: to find a new competitive outlet, right so we can
Speaker 1: age gracefully because I mean, dude, it's one of those
Speaker 1: things you don't want to think about it, but I
Speaker 1: cannot get hurt. I just can't get hurt at this
Speaker 1: point in my life. Like when I moved to l A,
Speaker 1: I tore my labor m in a pickup game at
Speaker 1: l A Fitness because every way, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know this, but everyone in l A Fitness thinks
Speaker 1: that there's Laker scouts there, and uh, they're you know,
Speaker 1: they're really trying to get that ten day. And I
Speaker 1: tore my labor from It was my first like three
Speaker 1: months in l A. And I come home from the
Speaker 1: gym and my right arm is just dead, like fully
Speaker 1: hanging the side. I can't move it, and I got
Speaker 1: to explain to my girl that her her man is
Speaker 1: now one armed for the next like two months. I
Speaker 1: didn't have health insurance, so I was literally just on zoom.
Speaker 1: Luckily I had a childhood friend who became a doctor,
Speaker 1: so I was like, what's going on? And he like
Speaker 1: talked me through it. But at the end of that,
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't. Like, right, I'm a grown
Speaker 1: as man. I can't have one arm for two months.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like if I tear my
Speaker 1: achilles or yeah, if I like I played pickup ball
Speaker 1: before a stand up taping one time, That's how crazy
Speaker 1: I am. Like I was in New York to tape
Speaker 1: something like a big career thing. I'm playing pickup ball
Speaker 1: like two days before And at the end, I was like,
Speaker 1: what the what? What? What was that? Like what if
Speaker 1: you tore your a c L and then you just
Speaker 1: have to come out on crutches to do your Like Like, bro,
Speaker 1: you ho, this is a great bit. He's doing the
Speaker 1: one legged comedian. I like this angle. He's got a
Speaker 1: good angle. Guy who just came from pickup ball. Just
Speaker 1: like very real. You're like, I'm just kind of in
Speaker 1: denial about my mortality at the moment, but I got
Speaker 1: a whole thirty on it. I played pickup hoops the
Speaker 1: morning of my wedding and almost got into a fight
Speaker 1: with somebody. That would have been bad. You know, I
Speaker 1: was a young, hotheaded year old. You get punched in
Speaker 1: the eye. It's like even Jack's eyes very close, exactly good.
Speaker 1: Look what is something you think is underrated? The national
Speaker 1: parks of this beautiful country. I think I've probably gone
Speaker 1: on about this on this show before, but we just
Speaker 1: had a friend get married in Yosemite, and Dude, as
Speaker 1: easy as it is to like hate America right now
Speaker 1: and what it stands for, just go look at it, dude.
Speaker 1: It's so beautiful and honestly, like, I know, fans of
Speaker 1: this show are probably fans of progressive politics, or you
Speaker 1: just listen to get really angry about progressive politics. But
Speaker 1: national parks are progressive politics done well. It's perfect, man
Speaker 1: and like and honestly just fuels my soul. Dude, I've
Speaker 1: been like going and it got me through the pandemic.
Speaker 1: And um yeah, we were in Yosemite and we went
Speaker 1: on the hetch Hetchy Hike, which is the reservoir that
Speaker 1: gives San Francisco all its drinking water. And it was
Speaker 1: just dope, man like just learning about the attitudes of
Speaker 1: this country and how they shifted did so like Hetchi
Speaker 1: was used to be a valley and then they flooded
Speaker 1: it after the San Francisco fires. None of this I
Speaker 1: knew before this wedding, by the way, So San Francisco,
Speaker 1: there was like a huge public debate and at the times,
Speaker 1: the early nineteen hundreds, the prevailing public opinion was that
Speaker 1: the wilderness is something to be conquered, very like manifest
Speaker 1: destiny sort of attitude, like it's us versus nature, Right,
Speaker 1: we gotta go conquer that ship, and so who's the boss,
Speaker 1: who's the king of the fucking world? And right up
Speaker 1: all the rivers and lakes and then turn the things
Speaker 1: that aren't rivers and lakes into rivers and lake that's right,
Speaker 1: just just because we can, because yeah, we gotta, we
Speaker 1: gotta gentrify the woods and you know, make the deer
Speaker 1: go find somewhere else to live, exactly. And so but
Speaker 1: then there was this guy JOm Moir m u I
Speaker 1: R And I just read it, yeah, and he like
Speaker 1: he was all early preservationist, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And like they kind of reached this compromise with he
Speaker 1: because San Francisco burned down and they were like, bro,
Speaker 1: we need water, and so they kind of like work
Speaker 1: together to create this situation that worked well for nature
Speaker 1: and for people. And I was just so fascinated, man.
Speaker 1: And by the end, I was like, I honestly needed
Speaker 1: to hear about a time where people like came together
Speaker 1: and solved a problem. And you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: So I just had National Parks. You gotta take advantage, man, everyone.
Speaker 1: We we did so much work in the like New
Speaker 1: New Deal era, like the one time that America was
Speaker 1: able to like consolidate behind progressive and you know, socialist ideals,
Speaker 1: and we're just coasting off of that ship like ever
Speaker 1: since and like slowly undoing that progress. Yeah, man, And
Speaker 1: it's just like it's the ship that like it should
Speaker 1: be bipartisan, you know what I mean. Like I've been
Speaker 1: in National Parks and seeing dudes and maga hats walking
Speaker 1: around and I'm just like, so, I know you love this,
Speaker 1: but you know that the guy he wants to drill
Speaker 1: this for or you know that right here are good.
Speaker 1: That's not here though, that's bears yours say, well, that's
Speaker 1: also a national park in moneyment way for good drilling spots.
Speaker 1: That's what they're doing there. Yeah. Yeah, I love the
Speaker 1: idea of a Republican who goes to Sedona to heal
Speaker 1: on the vortexas like, who's that guy? Who is this
Speaker 1: cross section of humanity? Yeah, Kirsten Cinema. Yeah, yeah, Libertarians
Speaker 1: you have Have you been in the Mirrorwoods in Mill Valley? No?
Speaker 1: But now and out of obviously is named after him. Right.
Speaker 1: Where is the Daddy John your Mill Valley up in
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. No, okay, I gotta do that. That
Speaker 1: will be next to I love it up there Many Area. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're overrated and underrated or sort of a cross purposes
Speaker 1: because I feel like a lot of the good park
Speaker 1: space in a lot of the cities around the country
Speaker 1: are golf court, right, that we need to invade and
Speaker 1: just claim as as parks that we can use. This
Speaker 1: is I bring it up a lot. It's from Malcolm
Speaker 1: Gladwell podcast, but it's like the one Gladwell idea that
Speaker 1: I was like, fuck, yeah, man, take them back. How
Speaker 1: many tax breaks are we giving these places? We're playing
Speaker 1: them to keep apart, like a bunch of the best
Speaker 1: land in the middle of the city as a private
Speaker 1: thing that we're not allowed to go into. Like that's
Speaker 1: that's the deal that we got. So yeah, but I
Speaker 1: won't I won't tell your golf course buddies that he
Speaker 1: said that ship because I mean, I'll be honest. Look
Speaker 1: at me, dude, they know, they know, they know, they
Speaker 1: know I'm a mole. I can tell the way I
Speaker 1: look out at the green. I'm like, you know, we
Speaker 1: could really plant some beautiful acorn bearing oak trees. What
Speaker 1: if we rewilded this space? Yeah, I look like a
Speaker 1: guy who lived where they built the golf course. And
Speaker 1: I'm coming out right right. You can't put on pants
Speaker 1: goofy enough to make them trust you, Like, Oh, those
Speaker 1: are cool golf spikes. Can you what do you call those? Oh?
Speaker 1: I called them yuffy stompers called do you even know
Speaker 1: whose ancestral land? This is me? A white man emphasis
Speaker 1: on the age and white. All right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back.
Speaker 1: And we just had a visit from Superproducer on a
Speaker 1: Hosnia and we we got to talk a little bit.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to have her onto at some point
Speaker 1: to talk about the what happened on The Bachelor premiere
Speaker 1: last night The Bachelor at premiere, sorry, a couple truly
Speaker 1: amazing introductions. Want one person who like did the the
Speaker 1: like haunted house thing where you have your head like
Speaker 1: poking through a table and it's like on a plate.
Speaker 1: But that was like how he introduced himself. He had
Speaker 1: like people wheel him up with his head poking through
Speaker 1: like on a plate, and like that was his bit.
Speaker 1: But then he stayed that way for like the whole show,
Speaker 1: so you know, making an impression. That's how I met
Speaker 1: my wife doing a viral prank. All right, but let's
Speaker 1: get into this myth that is proliferating about organized shoplifting,
Speaker 1: the great menace that we all should be afraid of
Speaker 1: and worried about, because you know, we're all we all
Speaker 1: are are concerned that Walgreens is not keeping their margins
Speaker 1: where they need to be to hit their numbers this quarter.
Speaker 1: And that's basically the thrust of this story is that
Speaker 1: there's like a single video that is being basically weaponized
Speaker 1: by the Chamber of Commerce too I don't know, and
Speaker 1: and just gobbled up by media outlets because it fits
Speaker 1: in with the Knockout game and other racists like freaking
Speaker 1: bullshit myths the American media loves to cover. That's the
Speaker 1: headlines are always like Walgreens will have to shutter its
Speaker 1: stores in San Francisco because of the rampant organized shoplifting
Speaker 1: rings that are plague game their facilities, and you know,
Speaker 1: like you're saying this thing, this one video sparked a
Speaker 1: whole ton of coverage like across the world, like South Africa, Mexico,
Speaker 1: South Korea, UK, like you name it. People are like
Speaker 1: whoa okay, Like this person just stole a bunch of
Speaker 1: stuff and we just walked out of this wal Greens.
Speaker 1: And this journalist Adam Johnson, who you know, reports a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff that's happening in the Bay Area, points
Speaker 1: out it's like there's just so many weird things about
Speaker 1: how people are talking about this story without really honestly
Speaker 1: looking at like why this might benefit someone else or
Speaker 1: the position Walgreens is actually in. Like for starters, these
Speaker 1: points out that this story where this like dude just
Speaker 1: you know, was shoplifting at Walgreens. This story got over
Speaker 1: four hundred seventy four thousand per cent more coverage than
Speaker 1: this article about wal Walgreens admitting that they stole four
Speaker 1: and a half million dollars from its employees over several
Speaker 1: years through wage theft. This story has gotten way more pickup.
Speaker 1: And so the story where the victims are the readers,
Speaker 1: the people who are are the public, gets no attention.
Speaker 1: But the one where the corporation is the victim much
Speaker 1: smaller theft. That's the one that the New York Times
Speaker 1: than the Washington Post chooses pick up, ABC, CBS, Yahoo,
Speaker 1: USA Today, Bloomberg, like every Sinclair block, like broadcaster owned
Speaker 1: affiliate station, Fox like all like everyone now also into
Speaker 1: events of the media. Can't we all agree that if
Speaker 1: there's one thing this country has too few of its Walgreens,
Speaker 1: can we afform Wreens? So that you said something, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this is why we have all kinds of guests
Speaker 1: on the show to bring balance to these companies. You're
Speaker 1: gonna tell me they're gonna start closing Starbucks, and how
Speaker 1: many of those do we have left? Right? Exactly? Then?
Speaker 1: Where has the war on Christmas? Gone? But when this situation,
Speaker 1: you know a lot. He's just basically saying the basic
Speaker 1: which is challenging other journalists or questionings like why isn't
Speaker 1: anyone like bothering to ask further questions like what is
Speaker 1: Walgreen's current financial situation? Is it securely because that there's
Speaker 1: been some shoplifting, that these are the reasons why they're
Speaker 1: closing its stores, or is it really because this is
Speaker 1: all part of a campaign to possibly ousta progressive d
Speaker 1: a that's in San Francisco, aren't to possibly repeal something
Speaker 1: like Prop thirties Prop forties seven, which sets set higher
Speaker 1: limits for what is felonious theft, because then if you
Speaker 1: repeal that, wow, then like things like you know, traditional
Speaker 1: petty larceny might now arise to the level of a felony,
Speaker 1: which would be great because again, all of these like
Speaker 1: crime stories typically will presage like a huge like tough
Speaker 1: on crime movement, which ends up with black and brown
Speaker 1: people disproportionately in prison. And so with this one, he's
Speaker 1: pointing out four like major holes that people just aren't
Speaker 1: discussing around this story. The first is if this crime
Speaker 1: wave is so bad, why aren't other big pharmacy is
Speaker 1: also closing down? Because CBS hasn't said they're closing down,
Speaker 1: and that they have this issue. They're in there, operating
Speaker 1: in the exact same city, and like what's going on there?
Speaker 1: Also Walgreens they're closing more stores in New York City
Speaker 1: than they are in San Francisco. Not much attention to that,
Speaker 1: but because maybe they can't tie that to a viral
Speaker 1: video to give it this other narrative. The second thing
Speaker 1: is Walgreen's has openly said in their fec or SEC
Speaker 1: filings that they are like since that they have a
Speaker 1: plan to like shut down numerous stores to quote optimize
Speaker 1: the other ones, which is really too offset one and
Speaker 1: a half billion dollars in real estate liabilities that they have,
Speaker 1: And they've been saying this since. So this is nothing new.
Speaker 1: It can't just be the shoplifting, right, And we know
Speaker 1: certain things that on paper, statistically shoplifting has gone down
Speaker 1: in recent years in San Francisco. That's been sort of
Speaker 1: analyzed and the data is there. But then when you
Speaker 1: ask the people who sort of defend this narrative, they
Speaker 1: immediately say, like, well, there's a lot that's just been
Speaker 1: under reported to basically negate that talking point and make
Speaker 1: it reduced this fact to something that no one could
Speaker 1: ever know. And then this seems like contation going. It
Speaker 1: seems like this story is being under reported. You know,
Speaker 1: the spiral video of somebody being good at shoplifting. Well,
Speaker 1: there's there's also like there's just it's become so obvious
Speaker 1: to me that and this is on both sides of
Speaker 1: the media narrative. Media in general has figured out that
Speaker 1: fear is the number one way to keep your attention,
Speaker 1: and attention is their currency, So you have to be
Speaker 1: scared all the time. And because then they can be
Speaker 1: like and we're the only source you can trust to
Speaker 1: help you navigate these choppy waters. And dude, it's the
Speaker 1: same thing. Like I was talking to a friend of
Speaker 1: mine who was in Portland for the pandemic and I
Speaker 1: was like, dude, it seems like it was crazy up there.
Speaker 1: He was like, not really, dude. It was like a
Speaker 1: small section of downtown and a very small number of
Speaker 1: these like idiots walking around. He's like, I barely noticed.
Speaker 1: And I live close to downtown, you know. And like
Speaker 1: when I was living in Chicago with the gun violence,
Speaker 1: the gun violence was really bad, but people would call
Speaker 1: me and be like, is it just gunshots all the time.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, dude. And in fact, if you
Speaker 1: want to talk about the root cause of the gun violence,
Speaker 1: we can, but that's not what the media wants you
Speaker 1: to talk about. That's not why they're selling it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Yeah, it was selling it because
Speaker 1: it's a liberal city with tight gun laws. And look
Speaker 1: at what's happening, you know, and and it's just like
Speaker 1: we've gotten so bad, and um asking the next question.
Speaker 1: And I think it's social media thing too. You feed
Speaker 1: people a headline, they maybe click on it to read
Speaker 1: the logline of the story, and then they move on.
Speaker 1: They go look at this right exactly and with this too,
Speaker 1: he pointed out that an s f Gate reporter actually
Speaker 1: bothered to go ahead and ask a follow up question
Speaker 1: and not just taking their word as the gospel truth.
Speaker 1: And this is a quote said what quote? When s
Speaker 1: F Gate asked Walgreens to directly respond to charges from
Speaker 1: one of these people and others that the chain is
Speaker 1: weighing other considerations beyond retail theft, the spokesperson stopped returning emails.
Speaker 1: M hmm, huh, okay, whatever, take that for what it is.
Speaker 1: Thinks like ship still. And then the other thing that
Speaker 1: he points out is Walgreen's target CVS. They're like part
Speaker 1: of a group of retailers that are worked very close
Speaker 1: sleep with lobbying groups like the California Real Retail Association
Speaker 1: and the California Chamber of Commerce where those people have
Speaker 1: spent those groups have spent millions trying to repeal Prop
Speaker 1: forty seven, which would make which created much harsher penalties
Speaker 1: for things like theft. And you know, while it's not
Speaker 1: knowable yet, these corporations are almost certainly funding the efforts
Speaker 1: to recall the d A there Boudan or Boudine who
Speaker 1: you know, which is why they're like being like, they're like,
Speaker 1: why isn't people why aren't people talking about any of
Speaker 1: this other stuff? And I think what he's pointing out
Speaker 1: is saying that there's just always this status quo of
Speaker 1: you know, always believe the corporation, you know, always believe
Speaker 1: what they say. And he he, you know, he sort
Speaker 1: of presented a thought experiment. Imagine if a group of
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter activists said that of black customers get
Speaker 1: profiled when they enter a store at a Walgreens, the
Speaker 1: media would never take it like that would be like, well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to show all these other things you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to show, like, where did the evidence come from?
Speaker 1: Is there CCTV footage that that that. There's many more
Speaker 1: hoops to jump through when people are just trying to
Speaker 1: you know, not to say that that's a real stat
Speaker 1: but just as an example, if activists bring up a
Speaker 1: point like that, then it immediately has to go through
Speaker 1: all these layers of vetting and things like which is
Speaker 1: fine because that's journalism, but why But it just it
Speaker 1: just reeks of a double standard when you look at
Speaker 1: a story like that. Well, what's also crazy to me, man,
Speaker 1: it's like so much of the conservative movement, the modern
Speaker 1: conservative movement, is rooted in conspiracy theory. But what's crazy
Speaker 1: is one conspiracy that is actually happening in real time
Speaker 1: is conservative media groups buying up local news channels and
Speaker 1: pushing this ship out. It's called the Carlisle Group. You
Speaker 1: can look it up. You know, they did it last
Speaker 1: week tonight on it. And so that's what's so frustrating
Speaker 1: is it's like bad conspiracy theories are being weaponized to
Speaker 1: mobilize these people to be violent and for instance, storm
Speaker 1: the capitol and all this stuff. But then there's actual
Speaker 1: conspiracies happening like what we're talking about now, and conspiracy
Speaker 1: theorists are not the ones that want to hear it
Speaker 1: or see it. It's so insane, it's like and conspiracy
Speaker 1: there's always like follow the money, and it's like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: the Chamber of Commerce, it follow the money. And it's
Speaker 1: the thing that's especially frustrating here is that it's the
Speaker 1: New York Times in the Washington Posts. You know, we
Speaker 1: we covered it last week in New York Times story
Speaker 1: about the rise in murders and a number of cities
Speaker 1: across the US, and they just took the police's word
Speaker 1: for it that it could be blamed on people protesting
Speaker 1: them murdering people. Like they're like, well, they were mean
Speaker 1: to us, so we stopped. You know, we can't can't
Speaker 1: help it. It's like the same thing they're trying to recall,
Speaker 1: like d A. S. They're trying to like put pressure
Speaker 1: on people to stop asking them to not murder people.
Speaker 1: And it's it's the same ship here. It's just like
Speaker 1: the every you have a argument between the right and
Speaker 1: basically like slightly right of center New York Times like
Speaker 1: and that's all we're getting, and it's really fucking frustrating, right,
Speaker 1: and and not talking really about giving people some political
Speaker 1: context around these things to understand all the dimensions at play.
Speaker 1: They just want to zoom in microscopically on this one
Speaker 1: part and like, well, that's true in a vacuum if
Speaker 1: you look at that piece there just by itself. But
Speaker 1: if you're not giving people the full picture, then yeah,
Speaker 1: all these stories do is serve to undermine the very
Speaker 1: little bit of progress that was made through you know,
Speaker 1: the uprisings and protests in the summer of and trying
Speaker 1: to bring back this idea of like we need to
Speaker 1: get tough on crime and ship when the whole point
Speaker 1: about talking about things where how oppressive the legal system is,
Speaker 1: how it only just for portioning effects black and brown people,
Speaker 1: and that we need to be more aware of it.
Speaker 1: Yet stories like this is just like not not no man,
Speaker 1: they're stealing and look at the people in the photos.
Speaker 1: Uh you see something? Do you need to do something?
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway, dude. What's really crazy too is
Speaker 1: it's I've been obsessed with this since the Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter movement started, and I think liberals in general just
Speaker 1: have to get better at messaging and learning what conservatives
Speaker 1: or moderates actually care about. Like, reforming policing to make
Speaker 1: it better for black and brown people would also make
Speaker 1: it better for cops. That's the part that's so frustrating,
Speaker 1: is it's like you wouldn't be put in such dangerous situations,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like the big talking point
Speaker 1: is always how dangerous it is to be a cop. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is, it is is, and it's because well, a
Speaker 1: lot of reasons, but one of them is you're being
Speaker 1: put in these situations for no reason. You're being sent
Speaker 1: into these neighborhoods armed to the teeth to go after
Speaker 1: a drug dealer when drugs shouldn't even be dealt with
Speaker 1: that way, you know what I mean. Like, reforming the
Speaker 1: system would be good for everybody involved. And that's the
Speaker 1: part that's so frustrating. But again, this is where the
Speaker 1: media comes into play. The media does not profit off
Speaker 1: of a united populace. The media does not profit off
Speaker 1: of all of us having common sense and realizing that
Speaker 1: things that are good for this side are also good
Speaker 1: for this side. They can't have that because when we're fighting,
Speaker 1: and when we're scared, and when the left thinks there's
Speaker 1: this rising tide of Nazis, and when the right thinks
Speaker 1: every one on the left is a gay communist that
Speaker 1: wants to convert their son, then then they win. And
Speaker 1: we're just all fighting each other and clicking on our
Speaker 1: articles all day being like what do I do to
Speaker 1: stop this? And it just creates this nonsense that we're
Speaker 1: dealing with constantly. It drives me truly insane. It's it's
Speaker 1: a similar thing that like we're talking about yesterday with
Speaker 1: Jesse Waters, when he just flip flopped on like paternity leave,
Speaker 1: you know, like it's a it's a paternity to leave
Speaker 1: as a policy that benefits. It doesn't matter your political
Speaker 1: part here, political identification, it's it's just a policy. And
Speaker 1: when he was benefiting from it, he was like I
Speaker 1: love this. He's like I used to mock people that
Speaker 1: took it, Now I love it. I wish it was
Speaker 1: six weeks long. Then Pete Buddha Jedge is taking paternity leave,
Speaker 1: and it immediately has to be like, well fuck funck
Speaker 1: paternity leave, Like look what happened in the country, like
Speaker 1: the splat chains all sucked up. I actually only took
Speaker 1: like two days off because like I have my ship
Speaker 1: together and only like a weakling with you to actually
Speaker 1: take pternity leave. It just shows that there's never an
Speaker 1: ability to say, well, you know like that, that that
Speaker 1: actually tracks like that, that that's that's a benefit, that's unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that's the thing that overlaps between just a basic human
Speaker 1: need or right that I can look at as an
Speaker 1: objective good. But it's that everything is not set up
Speaker 1: like that. Everything has to be completely put through this
Speaker 1: like opposite like mirror effect where everything has to be
Speaker 1: on the contrary. Yeah, let's uh, let's let's really briefly
Speaker 1: touch on we we do have yet more evidence the
Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani is not drunk. He is back at it again,
Speaker 1: posting to social media, this time with a a filter
Speaker 1: that makes him look like a more elderly Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's like it's somewhat performance art because he's
Speaker 1: again doing the only voice. It's the same voice he
Speaker 1: does for both Abraham Lincoln and the Queen. Yeah somehow,
Speaker 1: and it's yeah, I don't know, kick, should we just
Speaker 1: play a clip off? We'll just play it. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: this time he's using his powers of drunkenness to try
Speaker 1: and effecting. It's called acting I'm sorry, alleged alleged acting
Speaker 1: or whatever we're calling this to affect the voters who
Speaker 1: are have a decision to make for their governor in Virginia. Virginia,
Speaker 1: vote against the man who dishonored all pass by selling
Speaker 1: my bedroom hundreds of times to Stone Drows in a
Speaker 1: pay for play scheme. In my time, we got a
Speaker 1: name for men who sold bedrooms for one night. In
Speaker 1: your time, the name is Terry mcauliff. And the Clinton
Speaker 1: flees once and for all. He starts slipping into a
Speaker 1: bad British accent at the end there for some reason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no he does. So what the fun was that? Thanks, Rudy.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people are like, oh, I
Speaker 1: think he's referring this like totally debunk story about how
Speaker 1: when Terry mccaulliff worked as like the head finance guy
Speaker 1: at the d n C, that there's like the rumor
Speaker 1: that like for a certain amount, you could sleep in
Speaker 1: the Lincoln bedroom if you were a top donor. And
Speaker 1: while he like the whole thing came out of him
Speaker 1: like writing about how to get closer to donors because
Speaker 1: like the Democrats have just lost the house and ship
Speaker 1: in the mid terms, like, okay, to prepare for the
Speaker 1: next presidential maybe bring more. A donor is in be closer,
Speaker 1: and someone not him wrote in the margins like Sleepovers,
Speaker 1: question Mark, and then that took on like his whole
Speaker 1: life of its own. They were like hearings about it,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't Terry mccaulliffe anything to do with it,
Speaker 1: aside from him authoring a paper that someone else scribbled
Speaker 1: something on. But even then, it's really not definitive. So
Speaker 1: that's what Rudy wants everyone to remember. I guess Will
Speaker 1: used to have a name for them in your time,
Speaker 1: you call them Terry mcculloff is just good writing, good performance,
Speaker 1: good like just sort of rhythm to his delivery. People
Speaker 1: wonder why there's not more conservative comedians, but I mean, Jesus,
Speaker 1: there's like not even a bait and switch in that,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, yeah, you like set it up like
Speaker 1: a joke was coming. Yeah right, I thought I was
Speaker 1: going to hear the name for what do we used
Speaker 1: to call it? Abe? Come on? Yeah, I even give
Speaker 1: it to his baby. No oh, okay, okay, dude, we
Speaker 1: nailed it. Okay, I mean speaking of conservative comedian Kenny
Speaker 1: When when is your set scheduled to for Gutfeld? Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry I didn't say that. When's your
Speaker 1: set scheduled scheduled for gout feldmation point. There used to
Speaker 1: be a name for comedians that went onteled. Now we
Speaker 1: just called them Dennis Miller. Yeah, babe, apparently the show
Speaker 1: is doing well. So, um, what one of these days.
Speaker 1: It's one of one of those things that I think
Speaker 1: we promised we were going to read the Bad Art
Speaker 1: Friends story and dig into that, and we've also promised
Speaker 1: that one day we will watch an episode of Gutfeld
Speaker 1: and tell you what what that is like. But that
Speaker 1: day is not today. We're gonna take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back and we're back. And yeah.
Speaker 1: So Facebook has announced that there I think in a
Speaker 1: week's time, one week from today, October, they are doing
Speaker 1: a Facebook's Big Connect conference and Mark Zuckerberg maybe announcing
Speaker 1: the new name for Facebook, because that's gonna that's gonna
Speaker 1: fix their problems. Yeah, it worked the first time when
Speaker 1: Justin Timberlake was like drop the the you know, just
Speaker 1: boom nothing. But yeah, so I think that will solve
Speaker 1: all of the problems that the human beings who interact
Speaker 1: with the social media platform are experiencing. It's just it's
Speaker 1: the name that's the problem. My pitch drop, the Facebook,
Speaker 1: just the yeah, that dot com people wouldn't really know
Speaker 1: what it was. The Holy Bible. Maybe they could just
Speaker 1: change it to that. Yeah, yeah, we could definitely use
Speaker 1: a little bit of that Bible that country. I mean,
Speaker 1: your your your mouth to here r. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: good setup. Now let's get into the real story here Jack,
Speaker 1: the lack of Christ in our children's educations across this land.
Speaker 1: Thank you. My status is Kenny is currently worried about
Speaker 1: the future of this nation. My status is safe through
Speaker 1: Christ's salvation, and I hope you are as well. This
Speaker 1: this would be like if Louis c. K came back
Speaker 1: and was like, I'm Louis okay now, and I'm okay really,
Speaker 1: I mean, has that sort of tone death like confidence
Speaker 1: where it's like, is that truly the solution that you think?
Speaker 1: This reminds me, this is a true story. This reminds
Speaker 1: me of when I was still still a drinker, when
Speaker 1: I got a d u I and then my solution
Speaker 1: was to shave my beard off. Yeah, and I was
Speaker 1: like the guy that got that do I had a beard?
Speaker 1: This is a new This guy clean face would never
Speaker 1: do such a thing. One thing I noticed, dudes of
Speaker 1: beards way more reckless. It's right about how about how
Speaker 1: about some clean Facebook? Yes, thank you, although I don't
Speaker 1: know how well that would go over with the people
Speaker 1: who are on their doing their own research, since I
Speaker 1: think they tend to prefer like kind of rough neck
Speaker 1: beard dish. Considering what Facebook is used for, they should
Speaker 1: just name it eight chan. Yeah, just kind of merge it.
Speaker 1: Let's just get let's get right to it. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: just get ahead of everything. Let them know where you're
Speaker 1: at and dot com and on hangout, dot biz chan
Speaker 1: three months ago? What is filtered down from you three
Speaker 1: months ago? Eight that's what it is? Machine. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I curious to know what that name is and I'm
Speaker 1: really interested to know if I'm sure they've done some
Speaker 1: research where they think it could potentially sway some public opinion.
Speaker 1: But I'm hoping that people realize that this is not
Speaker 1: that this can't be seen as any sort of positive
Speaker 1: action from Facebook, that the pressure is still on. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe they think that's what it's like.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe they'll get confused. I mean people, Okay, we
Speaker 1: don't have the bandwidth to follow everything. So I do
Speaker 1: feel like they're just counting on us to like forget
Speaker 1: and be like, oh, what's this new thing? You know,
Speaker 1: like I don't know at first. Also not to get
Speaker 1: sincere here, but like you got to replace Zuckerberg. If
Speaker 1: you want to have a chance he's got, you gotta
Speaker 1: just bring in a new guy and her preferably a
Speaker 1: new a new not guy anything, but a guy. Just like,
Speaker 1: get someone new in there, and that's who we hate.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what Zuckerberg calls it. It's like, but
Speaker 1: you're you're still the guy that stole this so you
Speaker 1: could rate women that wouldn't sleep with you. That's still
Speaker 1: what this is. Until you're gone, that's what this is, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's why I've announced the new CEO, Zach Mechelenberg.
Speaker 1: This guy, let me go get him one second. Oh
Speaker 1: here he smokes like that. But to your point, getting
Speaker 1: like that people don't have the band with could you
Speaker 1: imagine we're having this discussion like in two years when
Speaker 1: they're like, I can't believe fun Spot is responsible for
Speaker 1: all this conspiracy theory stuff. That's going on. You're like, y'all,
Speaker 1: it's fucking Facebook. Still what fun Spot is actually pretty good?
Speaker 1: That's the best pitch I've heard. So it's like, because
Speaker 1: it's meant to be like, what's the least? You know?
Speaker 1: The most is just innocent sounding thing, But I but
Speaker 1: I get it. Some people probably will fully erase their mind.
Speaker 1: I think it's a new brand and be like, the
Speaker 1: problems are the same, I think, And in two years
Speaker 1: we're gonna be like, dude, think fun Spot got Pat
Speaker 1: Sajack elected president? Oh man, yok? The articles from Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see Maggie Haberman being like, think about it, folks. Look,
Speaker 1: I think he might be too mean to some of
Speaker 1: the people and we all of fortune, but god damn
Speaker 1: do I respect his politics. He's going to make the
Speaker 1: country go bankrupt and I mean, and plus he spin
Speaker 1: the wheel at the border option for immigration. I think
Speaker 1: it's really really novel, and it takes a lot out
Speaker 1: of like the sort of pain of trying to determine
Speaker 1: someone's future and you leave it to a randomized wheel
Speaker 1: that we've waited to actually goose thro The question is
Speaker 1: is he gonna weather the pay to play scandal from
Speaker 1: his by a vowel program. I mean, let's just stay
Speaker 1: with this. Come on, there's there's got to be more there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: apparently this is all part of that. You might remember
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago when Zuckerberg was like, we're
Speaker 1: not actually a social media company, where a metaverse company.
Speaker 1: And apparently that is it's going to have something to
Speaker 1: do with the metaverse. Like I hope it's really you know,
Speaker 1: ill thought out and it's basically like the matrix or
Speaker 1: something like. Because that the article, I was like, are
Speaker 1: you gonna explain what metaverse is? I'm just gonna say that, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: online man, I hope you bought your real estate in
Speaker 1: the metaverse because when we start doing digital events, man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to own the Guggenheim in the metaverse
Speaker 1: because think about that. If Jay Z drops his n
Speaker 1: f T at the metaverse opening at the Guggenheim and
Speaker 1: you own that, that's a lot of dope coming to you, bro,
Speaker 1: That's a lot of dope, dude. Before people are talking
Speaker 1: about though, people are buying metaverse real estate and you're
Speaker 1: just like, what do you fucking what? Maybe this is
Speaker 1: good though, I was thinking about this, like social media
Speaker 1: is bad, I think we can agree, but it does
Speaker 1: keep people in their house on their computer that probably
Speaker 1: should not be out in society. Like, if you're willing
Speaker 1: to buy property in the metaverse, please buy God get
Speaker 1: addicted to your computer and stop going outside. Just like
Speaker 1: stay in grubhub all your meals and just if you're
Speaker 1: that person, please by all means that is the metaverse
Speaker 1: pretty much. You stay indoors your grub hub, you're buying
Speaker 1: your digital real estate, and you're just crushing it. Man,
Speaker 1: you're just crushing it. The number one growth industry in
Speaker 1: the United States these days is actually just money laundering,
Speaker 1: just finding places for rich people to launder money and
Speaker 1: then like convincing everybody else that like it's a good investment.
Speaker 1: It's really something. I think. It's cool, it's helpful, it's helpful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really made me believe again. Yeah that's yeah. But
Speaker 1: that's Onlee Like hearing some people talking about n f
Speaker 1: t S like and be just like so fucking hopeful.
Speaker 1: They're just like, no, man, it's really like the way
Speaker 1: that like this is gonna actually solve all our problems
Speaker 1: because we're gonna know it's like uh huh, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and well that's uh, there's so many things like with
Speaker 1: just even like the idea of that somebody could be
Speaker 1: decentralized like that, because everything you're looking at it just
Speaker 1: being centralized in other places. So there's a lot a
Speaker 1: lot to unpack there. And yeah, like you're saying the
Speaker 1: number one, like the big uses of it especially, it's
Speaker 1: like a lot of people like like sort of track
Speaker 1: some of these transactions, like they just seem like a
Speaker 1: straight like money laundering like without That's what I was
Speaker 1: like trying to get into crypto, and I was like,
Speaker 1: but wait a minute. If one bitcoin is thirty dollars,
Speaker 1: this is never gonna be an actual currency because no
Speaker 1: one's going to give you a bitcoin. I would never
Speaker 1: buy anything with a bitcoin because the value fluctuate. It's
Speaker 1: like crazy, Like so this is really just another thing
Speaker 1: you can hide your money, like you were saying you
Speaker 1: can just it's another thing you can invest in, but
Speaker 1: it isn't. Yeah, and also the people that like stand
Speaker 1: to gain the most two are like people who are
Speaker 1: have gotten really early and then can influence other people
Speaker 1: to get in to start driving the price up. And
Speaker 1: then when you know it's it's it's there, there's a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, definitely not a pyramid scheme, though, I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're suggesting here. No, no, no, definitely not
Speaker 1: definitely not, but it's definitely one of those things where
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a it offers people this idea that
Speaker 1: you can get rich very quickly, and some have, but
Speaker 1: that's just it's just enough of that to allow many
Speaker 1: people to get like super duper invested or completely over
Speaker 1: leverage themselves. And the centralized thing is cool, Like it's
Speaker 1: like got a cool idea at the core of it
Speaker 1: that could be used for good, but that's not happening
Speaker 1: in modern America. Yeah. Well, that's the thing is. It's like,
Speaker 1: if it ever gets to a point where it could
Speaker 1: do that, it'll just become regulated. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: the problem. It's like I love the concept. When I
Speaker 1: first read about bitcoin, I was like, fuck, you have
Speaker 1: power to the people, you know, keep the banks out
Speaker 1: of it. But if it actually starts to work, it
Speaker 1: will just become regulated and driven underground, and then the
Speaker 1: only people using it will be using it to like
Speaker 1: hire hitman and buy drugs and hookers, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. That's just what happens if it's actually gonna
Speaker 1: help people that will be regulated out post daste, right exactly, Like, well,
Speaker 1: what the funk that's helping pa. No, we're off this
Speaker 1: ship completely, but guys, we do need to talk about
Speaker 1: pea co October before there you go. That's the crypto October.
Speaker 1: It's p Coctober is the it's the streaming service Peacock
Speaker 1: and they have given us p October. It's it's a
Speaker 1: horror thing and they released Halloween Kills on it over
Speaker 1: the weekend. It did boffo. B oh, you guys, baffo,
Speaker 1: And so that's that's good. I always like when movies
Speaker 1: do well, there's like a wee eared kind of political
Speaker 1: conversation happening around it because the well, first of all,
Speaker 1: so this is part of a trilogy. The next one
Speaker 1: is called Halloween Ends, and according to David Gordon Green,
Speaker 1: who directed this trilogy, and is like, but the vice
Speaker 1: principles and he's bounded down guy and super talented. Uh,
Speaker 1: but this next the next movie will flash forward to
Speaker 1: modern times and actually incorporate the pandemic and all those
Speaker 1: politics and like there's just been like all these political
Speaker 1: like Jamie Lee Curtis keeps talking about how the First
Speaker 1: Halloween was about trauma and the Black Lives Matter movement
Speaker 1: and the Me Too movement, and it's like it could be.
Speaker 1: You know, movies are complicated. They're definitely about the cultures
Speaker 1: in which they are like created, and like get a
Speaker 1: lot of engagement from the people watching them. But like
Speaker 1: trying to prescribe that on there is just very you know,
Speaker 1: she keeps talking about how like there was an element
Speaker 1: of civil unrest in there, just like we're having right now.
Speaker 1: But that equates First of all, she talks about it
Speaker 1: like being about police misconduct. The scene she's referring to
Speaker 1: is when one cop accidentally shoots and kills his partner
Speaker 1: while trying to take down Michael Myers. So not exactly
Speaker 1: the most scathing indictment of modern policing. And the angry
Speaker 1: mob that I'm assuming because she was making the statement
Speaker 1: before January six, like during the Black Lives Matter movement,
Speaker 1: So the angry mob that she is likening the Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter movement to like corner a guy who is
Speaker 1: not actually Michael Myers, and he ends up committing suicide
Speaker 1: as a result. So like that comparison is actually pretty
Speaker 1: fucked up and insulting. But like then there's also this
Speaker 1: thing where the right wing is like jumping on it
Speaker 1: and being like, well, Jamie Lee Curtiss character is a
Speaker 1: gun nut, and so she's like actually proved that you
Speaker 1: need to be a gun nut with a gun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: lady with a gun. Michaels is able to come back
Speaker 1: and start killing people again because they've done away with
Speaker 1: capital punishment, literally because the Walgreens are getting ransacked in Michael, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Michael Meyers even the Walgreens to buy a new hockey mask,
Speaker 1: and it filled them with rage. He had no place
Speaker 1: to put that rage. And because you couldn't find affordable therapy,
Speaker 1: which is also a theme of this movie, a man
Speaker 1: will literally put on a hockey mask and murder people
Speaker 1: instead of going to therapy. That's actually Shatner Mask's actually
Speaker 1: you know, Michael Myers escapes as the inadvertent result of
Speaker 1: meddling by opportunistic journalists. So which I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think that seems are they taking that like mistaken identity
Speaker 1: one to to be like like cancel culture, you know,
Speaker 1: where they found the wrong guy ang would after the
Speaker 1: wrong guy that actually it actually didn't remind me of
Speaker 1: that documentary Don't Funk with Cats. Sure, absolutely, And that
Speaker 1: is definitely a thing that happens on the internet. Like
Speaker 1: there there's a guy that everybody thought was the Boston
Speaker 1: Marathon bomber and it ended up being just a guy
Speaker 1: who was missing and ended up like I was found
Speaker 1: dead like that, but everyone's like get him, take him down,
Speaker 1: and he was not the right guy. And you know,
Speaker 1: that sort of internet vigilantism is very bad. But like too,
Speaker 1: it's just I feel like anytime you're talking about a
Speaker 1: movie that you're making, being like this is actually about
Speaker 1: bigger things and actually specifically about this very important news
Speaker 1: story that like I probably shouldn't be touching or even
Speaker 1: talking about because I'm just a you know, actor, right,
Speaker 1: Totally Okay, So she liken that seems specifically black lives matter.
Speaker 1: That's insane. You don't want to paint that as a
Speaker 1: frothing mob going up wrong people. And she also said
Speaker 1: it was actually a better document than an actual documentary
Speaker 1: when when it comes to documenting trauma. So interesting vehicle
Speaker 1: to make those points. Yeah, it's just like not everything,
Speaker 1: not everything has to mean something greater. Now, like honestly,
Speaker 1: we are in much need of just a dumb fucking
Speaker 1: movie about a guy with a knife and everybody trying
Speaker 1: to escape that guy. Which it seems so hungry for
Speaker 1: a movie that there's no discussion afterwards, Like I'm so
Speaker 1: tired of reading let's have a discussion about this. I
Speaker 1: don't want to have a discussion about this. I want
Speaker 1: to watch a movie that we can all enjoy and
Speaker 1: try to not kill each other in the streets. That's
Speaker 1: what I want. Just a dumb, fluffy movie, please, for
Speaker 1: the love of God. And I think that's kind of
Speaker 1: what people were responding to and enjoying about it. It's
Speaker 1: called Halloween Kills, and apparently it's just a bunch of
Speaker 1: really cool kills of Michael Myers killing a bunch of people.
Speaker 1: But then there's also these like random like kind of
Speaker 1: meaningful cultural commentary is thrown in, but they just like
Speaker 1: don't kind of tie together, which is fine, just I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's like, look, art is supposed to comment
Speaker 1: on things, I get it, but it's just like we're
Speaker 1: so oversaturated with hot takes and think pieces and it's
Speaker 1: just like it's it's exhausting. At some point it would
Speaker 1: be great if someone has like a film it's like
Speaker 1: so like just kind of vague but allows people to
Speaker 1: just sort of project all kinds of meaning on to
Speaker 1: be like, this is amazing just for the director be like, no, dude,
Speaker 1: it's it's literally about this dog. Were like fell out
Speaker 1: of a van. We literally just filmed a dog, and uh,
Speaker 1: he didn't take any direction no matter how we tried.
Speaker 1: We just followed this dog, Like, are you guys fucking serious?
Speaker 1: It's a ninety minute shot of a dog like going
Speaker 1: through trash and ship in Central Park. That's all it
Speaker 1: fucking is. And it was more of an experiment on
Speaker 1: my end to see where the funk y'all would take it,
Speaker 1: because it's just a shot of a fucking dog. See
Speaker 1: where the dog digging through the trash man right there?
Speaker 1: Look you can see an old jet magazine peeking through
Speaker 1: this garbage bag. Now, what's that saying about the decline
Speaker 1: of black America? Do you see how his left ear
Speaker 1: sticks up and his right ear flops. That's about the
Speaker 1: surge of leftist politics plaguing America right now as the
Speaker 1: right buckles and falls. And what about when he's humping
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Speaker 1: you to water. I can't make you, you know, like
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Speaker 1: social media you've been enjoying? Man, I'm gonna I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: A tweet that I like. I like to tweets, let
Speaker 1: me rattle them off. The first one is from at
Speaker 1: j Pound sign just said acid reflux is a choice.
Speaker 1: I b yes, is a choice. Pray more, hustle more.
Speaker 1: Just that mentalities. I feel it sounds like something that
Speaker 1: someone would actually say in a TikTok video. Rise and
Speaker 1: Grind bro Spooky Cold Fox at Roast Malone Underscore tweeted,
Speaker 1: all dogs have their name and like twenty nicknames that
Speaker 1: started as variations of their name but then spiraled out
Speaker 1: of control. And that is so true. I just think
Speaker 1: of all the especially with my cats, to like, I
Speaker 1: call one cat chicken and the other one turkey. Put
Speaker 1: their name. One of them is tiny and the other
Speaker 1: one is called burge. Anyway, that's my that's been my
Speaker 1: ted talk. Some tweets have been enjoying. SHAWNA at Golden
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Speaker 1: this is how you'll cook salmon from now on, and
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