Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two oh four,
Speaker 1: Episode five of the Daily Like Guys production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. This is the podcast or we take a
Speaker 1: deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it's Friday, October one,
Speaker 1: so you know what that means. It's National Black Dog
Speaker 1: Day up. Get ready for your aunt to text you
Speaker 1: about that. If you have a black dog my name
Speaker 1: it's the help, they say, because black and darker shade
Speaker 1: dogs don't get adopted at the same rate, so it's
Speaker 1: like to bring awareness. Yeah, it's like, hey, man, get
Speaker 1: that out to my my black dog, you know around
Speaker 1: beautiful dog. Thank you. It was rimby a adoptee. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: straight up, straight up out of a supermarket parking lot.
Speaker 1: Riby is like a beautiful dog. I'm assuming that was
Speaker 1: one you had to snap up real quick. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the woman had was for turning her card
Speaker 1: and wasn't looking at him, so I just pull I
Speaker 1: just snatched him up, crabbing the car take off with him.
Speaker 1: Is my dog? No? No, it was just like a
Speaker 1: pet adoption and we I don't know, he's a beautiful mutton,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, we got that
Speaker 1: going for each show anyway, Shout out to all the
Speaker 1: black dogs out there. My name is Jack O'Brien a K.
Speaker 1: I did cast five hundred pots and I did cast
Speaker 1: five hundred more just to be the man who talks
Speaker 1: the news with miles of thousand times or more. That
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Speaker 1: at least, I uh, that is courtesy of Rob Cunningham,
Speaker 1: who uh informed us with this ak that we have.
Speaker 1: This is our thousandth episode. I believe that God a
Speaker 1: mill that's a millennium. That's a step into millennium. That's
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Speaker 1: gambling circles, I got five large on the assholes. But yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out to us for doing a thousand podcasts. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Rob for bringing the appropriate amount of enthusiasm
Speaker 1: for this milestone by just retweeting the one he already
Speaker 1: did for our episode, which is exactly right because when
Speaker 1: I told Miles it was our thousandth episode about two
Speaker 1: minutes before starting recording, what was your answer, Moss? It
Speaker 1: is real time flies when you're having fun. It does.
Speaker 1: Uh Well, I am thrilled to be joined by my
Speaker 1: cold head it snake seven. Behold I'm again when I can't,
Speaker 1: I have to do that whole method man part step
Speaker 1: into Millennium. You do, Yeah, sorry, Hey, Well, I'm thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined by you, my co host, Mr Miles Grass.
Speaker 1: It is an emergency. This is not fine. Please someone
Speaker 1: seeing him sounds it tooth his mind. God, just the
Speaker 1: dude for this. I think he's known. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: known as the music Man. Music man putting out the
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Speaker 1: made for that Elton John's priory a k. Yes, the
Speaker 1: music man who we found out from the Stephanie Grisham Leeks,
Speaker 1: the person who plays Donald Trump's show tunes to avert
Speaker 1: and Trump thank you very stute observation, just stroking his
Speaker 1: forehead playing playing show tunes to calm him down. Well, Miles,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
Speaker 1: for the for this momentous thousandth episode by a hilarious
Speaker 1: comedian and filmmaker whose debut comedy album Airports Comma Animals
Speaker 1: Period just so you have the punctuation punctually right, was
Speaker 1: named one of the best stand up albums of one
Speaker 1: by Pace Magazine. They called it a thought provoking, hilarious triumph.
Speaker 1: The Comedy Bureau called it a damn good debut comedy album.
Speaker 1: Very agro from the Comedy Bureau, but I've listened to it.
Speaker 1: They are right. It will make you extremely happy. Please
Speaker 1: welcome the brilliant and talented Sean devl Wi. Hello. Hello,
Speaker 1: you your thousandth episode and probably should have booked a
Speaker 1: more famous guest. Oh you're not. Hey, we don't this
Speaker 1: is it. I mean you got an album. I don't.
Speaker 1: This is here, baby, you have one of the best
Speaker 1: stand up albums of the year. Yeah. Uh, it's very good.
Speaker 1: And also your energy level is appropriate to this being
Speaker 1: our thousandth episode, which we barely acknowledge. Yeah, so we're
Speaker 1: thrilled to have you have millennial energy. Exactly where are
Speaker 1: you coming to us from? Vancouver, British Columbia. A favorite place,
Speaker 1: my favorite place on earth. He'll talk a lot about
Speaker 1: the time he went to Italy, but the real heads
Speaker 1: know that Vancouver is miles his favorite place. They know
Speaker 1: I got a collection of Vancouver Christmas Market mugs in
Speaker 1: my pantry, you know I collect them. I'm coming through
Speaker 1: for the Christmas Market downtown. Wait, so you came in
Speaker 1: the winter. Yeah, because look, I'm born, I'm I'm of
Speaker 1: the valley. The San Fernando Valley just local scum, and
Speaker 1: it's just so hot all the time that I have
Speaker 1: like a very like I fantasize about wearing jackets because
Speaker 1: I've always been like barefoot on blacktop and shorts and
Speaker 1: ship my whole life. So bundling up is like it's
Speaker 1: like fucking costplay for me. And going to Vancouver at
Speaker 1: that time of years, it's it's like not so cold
Speaker 1: that I can't handle it, but just enough from like
Speaker 1: respecting it. That makes sense, That makes sense. Lot of
Speaker 1: rain though, yeah, I mean it's funny. The last couple
Speaker 1: of times I went, I would like my trip will
Speaker 1: coincide with the first snowfall of the winter, so like,
Speaker 1: you know, a way, I was like, look at look
Speaker 1: at look at us Vancouver were made for each other. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: rain and snow another thing. The San Fernando Valley doesn't
Speaker 1: get a lot of net really dust fire, ash, fire,
Speaker 1: ash and dust. Sehn, You've you've been a filmmaker most
Speaker 1: of the time, and then this is your debut album.
Speaker 1: What like it it took. It was what was the
Speaker 1: road to having your debut album come out? Now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it had a bit to do with the pandemic.
Speaker 1: Uh so, yeah, things were slower with film, and it
Speaker 1: felt like I was ready to put an album out
Speaker 1: and and a record label off for me money to
Speaker 1: do it. That's that's the realizer. Okay, right there you go.
Speaker 1: I was gonna trying to come up with something artistic.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's really it's really fun good man, it's
Speaker 1: so fucking funny. Oh, thank you. I appreciate it. Well,
Speaker 1: we are going to get to know you a little
Speaker 1: bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our
Speaker 1: list is a couple of things we're talking about today.
Speaker 1: INSTACRT workers are striking school boards are begging Joe Biden
Speaker 1: to protect them. We will talk about the scourge that
Speaker 1: is facing all parents this Halloween according to cops, which
Speaker 1: is that people who have weed gummies are just dying
Speaker 1: to give them away two children they don't know and
Speaker 1: just make make children way more annoying. We are going
Speaker 1: to talk about Dog, the bounty hunter. I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna I believe in I believe in today's show. I
Speaker 1: believe we're gonna get to it all of that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first, Sean, we do like to ask our guests,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history. I googled this morning,
Speaker 1: can a weed plant get rained on too much? Mm hmm, yeah,
Speaker 1: because yeah, we had a lot of rain here last
Speaker 1: night and it's my wife and I was first time
Speaker 1: growing weed outdoors and we got spooked. Yeah. I just
Speaker 1: gotta you know, if you're going to outdoors there, if
Speaker 1: they're they're meant for, you know, typically plants grow. So
Speaker 1: I think it's just like the mold, right that you
Speaker 1: gotta watch out for. Yeah, mold. I googled it, and
Speaker 1: I love the like weed growing advice is there's a
Speaker 1: fine line. Sometimes you're like, yeah, this is science, and
Speaker 1: sometimes it's just sowner advice and sometimes um So the
Speaker 1: first tip was like just shake all the water off off,
Speaker 1: punch it off. So yeah, we shook it off a bit.
Speaker 1: And then it's said to give it potassium, which I
Speaker 1: guess means like you feed it my weed plant a
Speaker 1: banana or something. I don't know how to give it potassium. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to feed plants at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't how to feed in any food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or it's like or like I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of like weed growing things will also just be like weird,
Speaker 1: hostile like sarcasm too. It's like, oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like it's a plant, right, so you know, God forbid water,
Speaker 1: God on a thing that grows outside. You're gonna be fine. Bro,
Speaker 1: Really are very interesting. Yeah, we boards are interesting place
Speaker 1: for information. It's just like you're an idiot for asking
Speaker 1: questions about growing weed, but then but then like wrapping
Speaker 1: it up with it's all good, bro it don't worry
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah. How do you dry a planet? Like?
Speaker 1: Do you dry a plant by just waiting for the
Speaker 1: sun to come out? Or is it like we were
Speaker 1: just like putting a little towel on it and wagging
Speaker 1: it back and forth. What were we doing? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know what I did, because we're not gonna have
Speaker 1: sun here for several days, so we were thinking about
Speaker 1: maybe just cutting the plant early, you know, cutting our
Speaker 1: losses and and bringing it in to dry it inside.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. It's it's tense times over here. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you know we're we're here with you, so if
Speaker 1: if we can help you know, let us know is
Speaker 1: that gang also if you have any tips for obvious treatment,
Speaker 1: because we know we have many diverse skill set within
Speaker 1: the listening community. And BC is like naturally a place
Speaker 1: that weed is very comfortable, correct, Like that's a that's
Speaker 1: even before everything was legal, and like you could have
Speaker 1: massive growing operations like that was the place that people
Speaker 1: grew a lot of weed, right, yeah, even before it
Speaker 1: was legal. My my recollection is that it was a
Speaker 1: seven billion dollar shadow industry pre legalization just in BC. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I remember like even when the first like medical
Speaker 1: dispensaries are opening up here in like the late nineties
Speaker 1: and early two thousands, like BC buds would come down
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, yo, they got some BC buds
Speaker 1: in and that you know that the community for sure. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the best stories that you can find about like
Speaker 1: people being innovative is like how people get drugs across
Speaker 1: the border. And I feel like there were some good
Speaker 1: ones about people like floating it across in balloons from
Speaker 1: British Columbia and maybe a catapult here and there. I
Speaker 1: think the catapult was the US Mexico border, but I
Speaker 1: remember the catapult there. They're My favorite one at the
Speaker 1: at the BC US border was these folks built a tunnel,
Speaker 1: and so they dug out a whole tunnel. They put
Speaker 1: in like a little trolley tracks and everything, and they
Speaker 1: put fluorescent lighting in. But then the Feds knew about it,
Speaker 1: I guess from the beginning and just watched them do it.
Speaker 1: And then the first guy that rolled that first cart
Speaker 1: down with like fluorescent lighting like a grocery store and everything,
Speaker 1: they were just waiting for him on the other end.
Speaker 1: They busted them and then fucking no need any more worse?
Speaker 1: Do you think, like the Yeah, they a busted him,
Speaker 1: and they're like they're trying to figure out like the
Speaker 1: best bit to shock the guy with like a nick
Speaker 1: What do we do like clowns. Yeah, we throw a
Speaker 1: surprise party. We do like surprise and under arrest our
Speaker 1: trafficking a team from practical jokers. Yeah, like agent, Yeah,
Speaker 1: put your ear wig in so we can feed you
Speaker 1: some lines from the control room. Okay, yeah. The trolley,
Speaker 1: the indoor trolley. A few people know that that was
Speaker 1: what Mr Rogers was doing, is smuggling weed on his
Speaker 1: little indoor trilley. What was that little town called Imagination Land?
Speaker 1: Or something. Yeah, yeah, whatever, he was tracking Friday's realm.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, you see that ship. You see those people,
Speaker 1: They're right fucking peaked. Man. What is something? What is
Speaker 1: something that you think is overrated? Sean? The banjo, which
Speaker 1: is a banjo and a ukulele. It's a musical instrument,
Speaker 1: should not exist. And my downstairs neighbor is dating a
Speaker 1: a white man with an asymmetrical haircut who's been teaching
Speaker 1: himself how to play banjul Ailey in my yard for
Speaker 1: five months. I'm painting a very specific picture of my
Speaker 1: home life. Here we plant problems and this dang banjul
Speaker 1: ale and he's not getting better. It's like I want
Speaker 1: to say, give up. You're not progressing at a rate
Speaker 1: that would make you feel good about this. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the key part. He's learning. He's learning, not like the
Speaker 1: instrument sounds terrible regardless even if I think you had
Speaker 1: mastered it, I would still hate it. But he's been
Speaker 1: teaching himself instrument by playing and singing like Weezer covers.
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah. I'm baffled by his confidence because I
Speaker 1: have so much anxiety, Like I feel like I can't
Speaker 1: buy milk without thinking that I've somehow offended the grocery
Speaker 1: clerk for him to just um into my heart and
Speaker 1: think that you know, he could do this and no
Speaker 1: one would have issue with this terrible banjo a music. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't understand his confidence. In fact, I want to
Speaker 1: learn from it or something right, right, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people there's always like that tweet.
Speaker 1: It's like I wish I had the confidence of blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. It's like we should all aspire to the
Speaker 1: confidence of a white man with an asymmetrical haircut learning
Speaker 1: banjo lal at the outdoors. I used to be like
Speaker 1: when I was when I was a kid, I played
Speaker 1: trumpet for most of my life and when I would
Speaker 1: when I would practice, I I'm just like, I just
Speaker 1: like I don't want to sound bad. I would like
Speaker 1: go to like the most remote remote place of like
Speaker 1: my house to try and like practice in silence. I
Speaker 1: would even use a mute sometimes. So for someone who
Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, I was doing in my driveway
Speaker 1: just blasting this ship, I'm like, Wow, that's there's something
Speaker 1: to be learned there. Though. Yeah, they sound though like
Speaker 1: what do you what? Like? It feels like what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do like a tropical you know, ukulele obviously
Speaker 1: evokes Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, you know, things like that.
Speaker 1: But then the banjo is very much feels like Southern American.
Speaker 1: And then together like what the fund is that? Like
Speaker 1: does it sound any like when you hear it, you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's an interesting sound, or just sounds like any other
Speaker 1: stringed instrument. It sounds racist that makes sense than ukulele.
Speaker 1: And I feel like the banjo has definitely appropriated the ukulele,
Speaker 1: like it's more banjo than ukulele. It's just I think
Speaker 1: the banjo just wanted the lateley for the cred or something,
Speaker 1: the cultural cred yeah, or the you know place too
Speaker 1: for other people to vacation. And and also yeah, kidnapped
Speaker 1: the ukuleles queen in order to anna banjo structure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then intermarried, full forced intermarriage. Yeah. They Yeah, they
Speaker 1: have the racism covered from both the like cultural a
Speaker 1: creation angle and the just straight up deliverance style like
Speaker 1: uncut proud racism of the banjo. Yeah. And if yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love to hear a sick banjo l solo,
Speaker 1: but in my mind, like I don't I don't. And
Speaker 1: also when I hear wheezer, I'm like, what are they?
Speaker 1: What song is it? Like? Say it ain't so or something? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Just pretty yeah, several. My name is jonas on Banjo Laile.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of picking. I'm picturing the year downstairs
Speaker 1: neighbor as the apartment from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Speaker 1: For some reason like that, I can't not like Kim Careless. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like that that the vibes. Vibe, yeah, the vibes. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is underrated? Sure? Boiled eggs, guys,
Speaker 1: fu Yeah, boy, I had too for breakfast. You don't
Speaker 1: need to fry them. You don't need to to devil them.
Speaker 1: You just need some hot water and it maybe a
Speaker 1: bit of salt, some chili sauce or something. Wow. Just
Speaker 1: I got nothing else, just boiled eggs. How are you?
Speaker 1: How are you applying it? Just on the on the
Speaker 1: smooth outside the chili sauce. I mean you take a bite,
Speaker 1: you feel the hole? What do you do? I'll slice
Speaker 1: it right down the middle, dissect it, and then I'll
Speaker 1: put some yeah, some chili in there, maybe a thin
Speaker 1: slice of onion. Oh ship wow, And then you a
Speaker 1: little bit of going into that. Yeah there. You never
Speaker 1: go soft boiled. Yeah, only if I'm in a rush,
Speaker 1: so it's more out of okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I
Speaker 1: like a lot of soft boiled eggs, and I kind
Speaker 1: of on the similar diet as you. I usually eat
Speaker 1: like two boiled eggs too, soft boiled eggs in the morning,
Speaker 1: a little bit of CuPy mayonnaise, Japanese mayonnaise in a
Speaker 1: little little bit of a tear or drop of soy sauce. Wow. Okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how I get down. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: this tomorrow. Yeah. How are you guys transport? Do you
Speaker 1: transport in in shell or do you transport like you
Speaker 1: crack it? And then here's the thing. I think we're people.
Speaker 1: I I feel like I agree that the boiled egg
Speaker 1: is thinking. So I don't want to force that on
Speaker 1: other people necessarily. So I just tried to eat it
Speaker 1: almost like a vitamin Like. I like that I can
Speaker 1: boil it and I can eat it so quickly, and
Speaker 1: that's my breakfast, right Yeah, yeah, that's and I that's
Speaker 1: what I do. I take a small bite off the
Speaker 1: top and create a chasm, and then I give my
Speaker 1: little mannise and soy sauce in there, then I eat
Speaker 1: the rest of the rest egg and one bite. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're so good. All right, Well, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we will be right back to talk about
Speaker 1: some news and we're back. Strikes are in the air.
Speaker 1: We got an instat cart workers strike starting on October six.
Speaker 1: They're specifically the shoppers who go on strike because yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's bullshit. They've been treated just horribly. They they
Speaker 1: have added billions and billions of dollars of evaluation to
Speaker 1: the company's bottom line, and the company has rewarded them
Speaker 1: by treating them like ship. Yeah, this the old gig
Speaker 1: worker recipe, which is make them independent contractors so you
Speaker 1: owe them nothing. And in this situation, you know, conditions
Speaker 1: have been pretty the pretty. Conditions are awful across the
Speaker 1: board for people and that are doing gig work because
Speaker 1: of the fact that no one is treated as an employee.
Speaker 1: It's all this independent contract or nonsense. And you know
Speaker 1: there is for instat cart shoppers. They we're dealing with
Speaker 1: low tips, like where they started to bring down like
Speaker 1: the minimum that like would first sort of default too
Speaker 1: in the app, as well as like a rating system
Speaker 1: that's super fucked up in severe where like if you came,
Speaker 1: if you dropped off in order, and someone gave you
Speaker 1: a one star review mostly because for things like out
Speaker 1: of their control, like supply chains are fucked up. So yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe the thing the customer asked for wasn't in their
Speaker 1: order and they hit a one star review like sort
Speaker 1: of in a retaliatory way that would prevent shoppers from
Speaker 1: like losing out a more lucrative trips less work in general.
Speaker 1: So they have just some simple demands to try and
Speaker 1: make this just resemble some kind of humane work. They
Speaker 1: have five demands, which are that they just want base
Speaker 1: pay for each order instead of the system they have
Speaker 1: now which pays workers as well as seven dollars for
Speaker 1: like they'll batch up to three orders and once and
Speaker 1: then you're making seven dollars. That's nonsense. They want to
Speaker 1: return to commission a commission based pain model where previously
Speaker 1: pay shoppers forty cents per item shopped. They also want
Speaker 1: the ten percent default tip to be reinstated right now
Speaker 1: it's at five percent. They also sadly are asking for
Speaker 1: occupational death benefits for workers who die on the job
Speaker 1: because that is something that has happened as well as
Speaker 1: you know, to alter the rating system that doesn't punish
Speaker 1: them for things like the supply chain being fucked up
Speaker 1: because of a fucking pandemic and customers taking it out
Speaker 1: on the rating system. And yeah, there was just like
Speaker 1: there have been more attacks on gig workers during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: and then there was Sadly, an instacrt shopper was murdered
Speaker 1: in March in Colorado while a fucking working for insta cart.
Speaker 1: And that's why they're like, this is this isn't just
Speaker 1: like like I think a lot of people, especially the
Speaker 1: way people tip or way workers describe it, they just
Speaker 1: think people are just fucking around getting their groceries and
Speaker 1: dropping off and like, well they don't need a tip,
Speaker 1: like that's an easy job. But honestly that this is
Speaker 1: Sadly they rely very heavily on tips because instacart doesn't
Speaker 1: do the minimum. So for listeners, they should go to
Speaker 1: their phone right now and delete instacart as an app.
Speaker 1: Is that basically the way that we can kind of
Speaker 1: stand in solidarity with or just don't use it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think customers are just boycotting as well. In solidarity
Speaker 1: beginning the sixteenth when they strike where because you know,
Speaker 1: like like you're saying Instacart's value, I think nearly doubled
Speaker 1: in the pandemic to thirty nine billion dollars is what
Speaker 1: they're worth. And as you know, as the pandemic like
Speaker 1: went on and we prematurely began to reopen things, the
Speaker 1: demand for grocery delivery has also shrunk. So they're, like,
Speaker 1: I think, in a position where they're trying to cut
Speaker 1: corners to to kind of keep their revenues looking pretty.
Speaker 1: But it's just a you know, another predictable tale of
Speaker 1: gig worker apps treating people like independent contractors to the
Speaker 1: point where the only the only choice is to like
Speaker 1: have to take collective action like this, any job that
Speaker 1: comes with the cabin if you're working and you die,
Speaker 1: we don't know you anything. That's a job that needs
Speaker 1: a union. That's like, h that's very very clear. That
Speaker 1: part is is really shocking. Like I would rather I
Speaker 1: would rather go to a job interview and ask them, like, hey,
Speaker 1: what happens if I die? I rather here that they're
Speaker 1: unprepared for that, Like I'd rather they be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, we've never considered that as opposed to
Speaker 1: them being like, yeah, that happens a lot. Just yeah,
Speaker 1: we have a policy and it doesn't include you. So
Speaker 1: that's that's insane at a at a bare minimum that
Speaker 1: like that seems like that should be illegal. M Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I think and this is why companies like this,
Speaker 1: they're constantly lobbying legislators to you know, write guidelines that
Speaker 1: are favorable to this kind of oppressive work. And you
Speaker 1: know they're right now. There was even talks of like
Speaker 1: instat cart and door dash and Uber will potentially merge
Speaker 1: into one just three headed hydra of terrible, terrible subsubsistence
Speaker 1: wage work. Yeah. I feel like they're too much like
Speaker 1: little mom and pop companies that we need them to
Speaker 1: be more like just giant autonomy automatons that and through
Speaker 1: human lives. Yeah. And by the way, the thirty nine
Speaker 1: billion dollar valuation is it should be clear like based
Speaker 1: on the fact that they're able to at least like
Speaker 1: to a large degree, that they're able to treat employees
Speaker 1: like ship like that is the unfortunate truth of the
Speaker 1: current version of you know, late capitalism is like, well,
Speaker 1: if you can, you can you know, lower the amount
Speaker 1: that the overhead on these dang employees like your ubers.
Speaker 1: You can really crush it out there, right, because like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you think like the benevolent version of an app like
Speaker 1: this is like yeah, man, like you keep like we
Speaker 1: just need a small feed for us to connect you
Speaker 1: with someone for you to do the job, and then
Speaker 1: like whatever that costs, like you take all that. We
Speaker 1: merely just set this up, like for the infrastructure for
Speaker 1: people to make money by offering people rides or doing
Speaker 1: shopping for them, when now it's like, yeah, you're not
Speaker 1: getting a fucking not even getting close to what's your
Speaker 1: own on on the actual labor that you're putting into
Speaker 1: this thing. So it's don't see that formula changing anytimes.
Speaker 1: The rating system too, I'm glad they're keen on that
Speaker 1: because that's brutal and it also you know, makes us
Speaker 1: as consumers see our complicit complicity in it too, because
Speaker 1: it's like I think the problem with those rating systems
Speaker 1: is that it's letting everyone be a boss. And like,
Speaker 1: because of the hierarchy of capitalism, we're all, you know,
Speaker 1: we've all been piste off at our bosses. But it's
Speaker 1: letting everyone be like you know, I I recently hired
Speaker 1: a new employee to bring me a sandwich in the
Speaker 1: next twenty minutes, and I'm gonna treat that person like shit,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna scream at them for you know, having they
Speaker 1: were late. Yeah. Yeah, And because there it's a vast
Speaker 1: web of people mistreating each other, like the if this
Speaker 1: is the one chance you get to have an employee
Speaker 1: who works for you and you've just been shipped on
Speaker 1: by your boss like for five years, like you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like some people will use that as an
Speaker 1: opportunity to treat those people like ship And I don't
Speaker 1: think it's it's like a coincidence to me, It's it's
Speaker 1: designed right. It's like there's so much hostility and frustration
Speaker 1: building up with some of these systems of power, and
Speaker 1: I think things like this facilitate that hostility being directed
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction, you know, like let's have people
Speaker 1: send it at each other instead of in the direction
Speaker 1: it should be going, Yeah, upward. And uh, Like I'm
Speaker 1: not a historian. This is this is just based on
Speaker 1: me watching the Ridley Scott film The Gladiator. But I
Speaker 1: think that the whole thumbs up thumbs down thing came
Speaker 1: from walking Phoenix, like the guy that Roman emperor, and
Speaker 1: it was like, you know, that's where he's like, should
Speaker 1: this gladiator be murdered publicly or not? Yes or no?
Speaker 1: Thumbs down. And I think it was clear to everyone
Speaker 1: who saw that Oscar you know worthy film, that uh,
Speaker 1: that's a sort of kind of unaccountable form of power
Speaker 1: that should be checked, not kind of scaled up through
Speaker 1: innovative app technology and like distributed to everybody. That's so
Speaker 1: so I had a I had a theory because Gladiator
Speaker 1: was a two thousand film and we did a live
Speaker 1: show about the year two thousand, and I had a
Speaker 1: theory worked out about Gladiator and why it like hits
Speaker 1: so hard with the two thousand with the audience in
Speaker 1: the year two thousand that we I didn't have time
Speaker 1: to get to. But just like this idea, I I
Speaker 1: feel like the audience was caught like identified with Hajwaki
Speaker 1: and Phoenix, like they didn't want to, but that's who
Speaker 1: they realized they were. And then like Gladiator was the
Speaker 1: you know the people who are off like fighting wars
Speaker 1: that like they don't want to be a part of.
Speaker 1: But like there's never been like a more cowardly character
Speaker 1: like in movies, and like when you look at the
Speaker 1: structure of that movie, it really feels like it's like
Speaker 1: offering that character up as like someone we can project
Speaker 1: our anxieties of being. You know, like America is way
Speaker 1: more nepotistic than it wants to admit. Americans like will
Speaker 1: be at war without realizing it, you know that all
Speaker 1: that sort of ship and then like you're able to
Speaker 1: be like, no, funk that guy, he's bad. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the allowing us like an app that allows us all
Speaker 1: to be individual little commedist is common commed des I is, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a billion dollar industry because we're all
Speaker 1: like fuck yeah, thumbs down off with the head, my
Speaker 1: my eggs were late or whatever, the blue and brown
Speaker 1: shells mixed together. Ye Also, uh, you know it is
Speaker 1: the I said strikes are in the air because Hollywood
Speaker 1: is facing its largest strike since World War Two, Like
Speaker 1: the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees IOTZI, who represent
Speaker 1: you know, they build the sets, they do all the
Speaker 1: behind the scenes work. They are going to probably strike
Speaker 1: in the next couple of days. And you know, if
Speaker 1: you like I, I don't know what Hollywood is gonna
Speaker 1: do like, is the next season of Stranger Things just
Speaker 1: gonna be like a Lars von Trier movie and like
Speaker 1: a black a black box type thing, like because that's
Speaker 1: basically what what you're dealing with. Everybody's just wearing bur
Speaker 1: laps acts and in a in a black void because
Speaker 1: these are the people who build the fucking sets and
Speaker 1: make everything like make you able to suspend your disbelief. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think you know, and it's the same. The
Speaker 1: theme is the same anywhere, right, which is just like
Speaker 1: with Ayazi, They're they're saying like we're not trying to
Speaker 1: blow the fucking industry up, but when we keep banging
Speaker 1: our heads against the wall saying we would like, you know,
Speaker 1: a living wage for certain positions, like at the lowest
Speaker 1: rung of our union, that that is a living wage.
Speaker 1: Or you know, like because new media and streaming stuff
Speaker 1: has also like created like all new kind of business
Speaker 1: quagmires for like contracts and things like that, there's just
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff too. Or they're like, what about
Speaker 1: like rest periods because if I'm doing consecutive like you know,
Speaker 1: eighteen hour days, I I there has to be a
Speaker 1: point where we can have a break, not just because
Speaker 1: they have to make a schedule for production like in
Speaker 1: time to not go over budget. And yeah, I I'm really,
Speaker 1: I honestly hope that the Hollywood actually takes a second, ever,
Speaker 1: like a moment to reckon with itself because these are
Speaker 1: truly the fucking people who make everything fucking possible. It's
Speaker 1: not just that it's not the people who we see
Speaker 1: on the fucking screen. To get to that point is
Speaker 1: so that effort in labor of countless fucking people, And
Speaker 1: and hopefully I think it just makes people more aware
Speaker 1: of like what what it takes to make these things,
Speaker 1: because they don't just like pop up and it's a
Speaker 1: great time, Like there are really hard jobs in production
Speaker 1: that go unnoticed and are not being compensated fairly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the living wage is a great point because
Speaker 1: I think between this and the instacrat workers, it's probably
Speaker 1: a similar thing of the designation of being told you're
Speaker 1: an essential worker rubbing up against the realization that you're
Speaker 1: not being paid a living wage, Like how can I
Speaker 1: be essential to everyone and not be getting paid a
Speaker 1: wage that lets me live? And I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: I saw that during the pandemic because a lot of
Speaker 1: up here in NBC, right, we have a pretty big
Speaker 1: film industry, and a lot of COVID stuff got brought
Speaker 1: up here because you couldn't shoot down in l A.
Speaker 1: It was getting brought up to Canada. And so there
Speaker 1: was a period where like teachers literally weren't at school
Speaker 1: teaching and you know, shaping the minds of the future generation.
Speaker 1: But like I have friends who are still working on
Speaker 1: like sugar free gum commercials, like yeah, I mean, and
Speaker 1: so they're being told like, no, no, you're essential. We
Speaker 1: need this sugar free gum commercial. And if that's true, sure,
Speaker 1: tell me that's that's essential. But like treat me right, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: anything new in like the error version of you know,
Speaker 1: market capitalism, Like so new media, these delivery apps with
Speaker 1: that are like you know, building an industry from scratch
Speaker 1: kind of like those will all always by default just
Speaker 1: abuse the ship out of people until like somebody does
Speaker 1: this and like fights for the rights of people. That's
Speaker 1: just like how it seems like it has always worked
Speaker 1: in America, and it would be awesome if we could
Speaker 1: break out of that cycle where it's like you know,
Speaker 1: because I mean it's the same thing, right you look
Speaker 1: at like how instacart values, the value goes up and
Speaker 1: workers are still being like a dude, we still have
Speaker 1: so many fucking problems, and you guys are spending more money.
Speaker 1: The same thing with all these new shows that are
Speaker 1: coming out, like yeah, exactly, Prestige TV is like it's
Speaker 1: fucking on the same level as film and granted out
Speaker 1: he's working on film and television, but like they're just
Speaker 1: seeing like these budgets are getting bigger and bigger and bigger,
Speaker 1: but you're able to kind of keep costs low by
Speaker 1: keeping the crew at this very like lower level without
Speaker 1: an ability to renegotiate things. While we're watching things like
Speaker 1: how much money is being spent on this production. They're
Speaker 1: trying to treat like a Netflix series like it's a
Speaker 1: fucking funnier die short, you know, like it's just, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's bullshit. But they that seems to be the default
Speaker 1: shape that all you know, industries take when they're when
Speaker 1: they first take form in America. And then like then
Speaker 1: you have to like break through the media like cone
Speaker 1: of silence and be like no, this is really bad
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, because otherwise it'll just be
Speaker 1: like insta carts. Valuation is fucking skyrocketing, like that'll be
Speaker 1: the headline instead of yeah, you know what's actually happening
Speaker 1: to people. I mean people are naturally withholding their labor
Speaker 1: because no matter what many people are realizing it, it
Speaker 1: shouldn't working multiple jobs shouldn't be the norm. Like, if
Speaker 1: we're in a system where we have to put our
Speaker 1: labor forward to survive, then one job should be enough.
Speaker 1: And the fact that it isn't is I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just creating a very organic version of people kind
Speaker 1: of advocating for themselves, and it's popping up more more
Speaker 1: and in long may that last. I hope that leads
Speaker 1: to a point where more people can really fully be
Speaker 1: on the same page to understand like oh yeah, like
Speaker 1: whether it's Instacart or aatsi or uber or fucking writing
Speaker 1: for an online publication or whatever, like, there are minimums
Speaker 1: that we deserve as human beings, especially when we're in
Speaker 1: a system where our labor is being converted into massive
Speaker 1: wealth for people who aren't putting even a close to
Speaker 1: the shred of work that the workers do. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: would be cool if somehow is this there became some
Speaker 1: stronger solidarity or even like alliances between all these essential
Speaker 1: workers because they've fallowen across so many different sectors and industries.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's been such a difficult period. But these
Speaker 1: are all the folks who are told, no, you have
Speaker 1: to keep working. So if when push comes to shove,
Speaker 1: I mean worse than that plague comes to death, that
Speaker 1: that these folks have to keep working, they they should
Speaker 1: be able to like collectively organize. All right, let's talk
Speaker 1: briefly about another group of fat cats who have had
Speaker 1: it too good for too long. And I'm talking, of course,
Speaker 1: about the people who volunteered to be on school boards.
Speaker 1: Come on like that. You know, they dedicate their time
Speaker 1: to help educate our children, and now they're going to
Speaker 1: complain that they've been subjected to being you know, abused
Speaker 1: and treated like absolute ship by right wing political activists.
Speaker 1: Come on, I've had enough where I mean next, you know,
Speaker 1: we've seen the scenes at these board meetings. They look
Speaker 1: they're just you can't even like if you were if
Speaker 1: you had it on mute there, you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like was their network of sexual predators like just like
Speaker 1: running them up in this like school system. But no,
Speaker 1: they're like they're teaching our kids critical race theory, which
Speaker 1: again is for graduate students and law students. It's so
Speaker 1: complex you couldn't even begin to fucking teach a child
Speaker 1: critical race theory even with like the most a rudimentary
Speaker 1: graphs and pictures. But again we've seen this, whether it
Speaker 1: was critical race theory or masks. You know, there were
Speaker 1: medical professionals who have had their tires slashed from nearly
Speaker 1: like restating the obvious facts at a school board meeting
Speaker 1: around masks or vaccines. Teachers have been subjected to coordinated
Speaker 1: harassment campaigns for believing in teaching history. And and we're
Speaker 1: also when we talked about earlier, extremists are trying to
Speaker 1: infiltrate the school boards themselves to try and alter the
Speaker 1: curriculum like to whatever they see fit. So things are chaotic.
Speaker 1: And this group that the National school Boards Association, who
Speaker 1: like representing like thousands of school board members, they're like
Speaker 1: asking the president to like, we need protection here, like
Speaker 1: this is they're they're actually effectively intimidating people into not
Speaker 1: doing what's right for children purely because of intimidation. And
Speaker 1: they really are asking that things that are including quote,
Speaker 1: the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent
Speaker 1: to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes, and
Speaker 1: they're saying, we just we need help all across the board,
Speaker 1: whether that's having the FBI, Secret Service and like National
Speaker 1: Threat Assessment Center, like give them resources to understand like
Speaker 1: how to like do proper threat assessment or examine what
Speaker 1: they say, quote examine appropriate enforceable actions against these crimes
Speaker 1: and acts of violence. It just seems like they're that
Speaker 1: there's so many avenues for these people to harass them
Speaker 1: that they're just like this work. We're not equipped for this,
Speaker 1: Like we need someone intervened. I think the most absurd
Speaker 1: part of it is that a lot of the people
Speaker 1: who are harassing these teachers from the right seem to
Speaker 1: be the same people that proposed as a solution to
Speaker 1: mass shootings at schools that these teachers be given guns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so like just for their own safety, I mean
Speaker 1: the safety of these idiotic monsters, they should probably we
Speaker 1: choose one of those things, like either I'm going to
Speaker 1: keep harassing and antagonizing these teachers or I want to
Speaker 1: arm them, but for your own safety, maybe not both, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like that if they were just like, okay, we are
Speaker 1: going to go with your suggestion to arm the teachers,
Speaker 1: but only at PTA meetings. Yeah right right, yeah yeah
Speaker 1: that energy, yeah, temporary gun license, yeah right. Or they're
Speaker 1: just like or they're like, yeah, well we can do like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, trial by combat, but we'll just get like
Speaker 1: the mountain to represent the school boards and yeah, throw
Speaker 1: whoever you want at them. Parents. How about you rick
Speaker 1: with the flannel shirt tucked into your jeans. You want
Speaker 1: to fight the mountain over cretinor theory? Now, okay, next up, masks?
Speaker 1: Anybody else? No good, don't get dry ripped off by
Speaker 1: the mountain. But I think you know, this is just
Speaker 1: kind of that thing where it's it's hard to know,
Speaker 1: like how can you solve this problem because it just
Speaker 1: feels like this is just part of like the continuing
Speaker 1: convoy oceans of this like amorphous culture war that is
Speaker 1: existing that if it's not critical race theory, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be masks, and if it's not that, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: trains kids, And if it's not that, it's going to
Speaker 1: be this other thing that there's just there's always going
Speaker 1: to find they're always going to find a way to
Speaker 1: keep doing this. So I don't know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think maybe that's why they're asking like some kind of
Speaker 1: law enforcement part of this, because maybe jail might dissuade
Speaker 1: some of these parents that are just like so hopped
Speaker 1: up on their privilege that maybe it's not you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it's not a thing that you can just slash
Speaker 1: someone's tires. I mean, I think it's a bit of
Speaker 1: a snake eating its own tail thing, because I think
Speaker 1: that the solution is how you educate kids, Like, if
Speaker 1: you want adults that aren't idiotic and violent and hostile
Speaker 1: in these ignorant ways, it's gonna start in school. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I guess part of why this uh battle is
Speaker 1: so important. But it also I guess it would require
Speaker 1: patients for some of those results to be seen. Like
Speaker 1: maybe we can hope that in in thirty years, if
Speaker 1: things go well, there won't be teachers trying to parents
Speaker 1: trying to fight teachers. Right. Yeah, it's yeah, I think
Speaker 1: And that's why I think conservatives see just as they
Speaker 1: see the same path there. Right, It's like it's through
Speaker 1: the schools. It's like Steve Bannon said, it's through the
Speaker 1: school boards, and they know that just there's been this
Speaker 1: like baseline of what American education is, and they realize
Speaker 1: it's turning out more people who would probably not vote
Speaker 1: for Republicans, and they're just like, fun, Okay, then like
Speaker 1: we need to like we need to start deprogramming people
Speaker 1: as swiftly as possible to try and get them on
Speaker 1: board with our more autocratic, you know, fascist way of
Speaker 1: looking at governance. Yeah. Yeah, all right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll be right back, and we're back,
Speaker 1: all right. So Halloween is coming up, one of our
Speaker 1: favorite seasons here on Daily Zeitgeist, besides National Black Dog Day.
Speaker 1: You know, it's up there with National Black Dog Day
Speaker 1: Halloween for us. But you know, every time Halloween comes around,
Speaker 1: there's usually going to be a dumb police warning about
Speaker 1: this year it's pot laced Halloween candy that these you know,
Speaker 1: these dang potheads are gonna be handing out tricky th
Speaker 1: HC laced Halloween candy to your kids. And then just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, well, I don't know what they think
Speaker 1: the purpose of that is, but this is so the
Speaker 1: way this story is being manufactured is they raid somebody's
Speaker 1: house and find candy laced with THHC. Because people love
Speaker 1: that ship because it's a lot of fun. They look
Speaker 1: at the similarities between the candy and the like can
Speaker 1: Halloween candy and they're like, ah, they must be trying
Speaker 1: to They don't actually believe this. This is just like
Speaker 1: they This is how they get people to be scared.
Speaker 1: On the local news, they're like this, this is a
Speaker 1: great way to whip up a quick moral panic about
Speaker 1: the dangers of weed. And it's the reason they made
Speaker 1: these candies in the size and shape and flavor of
Speaker 1: actual candies. Is is not just because it tastes good
Speaker 1: and is fun, but it is because they want to
Speaker 1: sneak one pest children and poison them for some reason.
Speaker 1: That's that's all, you know, Stoner's all they do is
Speaker 1: watch YouTube videos of kids who are accidentally high and
Speaker 1: laugh their asses off because they're so sadistic, and they're
Speaker 1: also so rich that they can afford to give a
Speaker 1: fucking thirty dollar candy bar just at a time, just
Speaker 1: tossing them out to the local kids that your local youth.
Speaker 1: Of course, of course, I'm in my late thirties and
Speaker 1: in my day, you know, people freaked out about their
Speaker 1: being razor blades in the house of candy and so
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but this seems like genuine progress to me.
Speaker 1: It's like trying to get me high, Like that's better
Speaker 1: than trying to slip my throat internally to slice up
Speaker 1: my asosh I guess with an arrant razor blade. There
Speaker 1: are and this is a quote from a Washington Post article,
Speaker 1: there are no documented cases of kids being poisoned by
Speaker 1: marijuana laced halloween candy. Zero And the one case where
Speaker 1: they have, like a parent claiming that they ate some
Speaker 1: of their kids Halloween candy and it was laced was
Speaker 1: too people who went to the emergency room and where like,
Speaker 1: we're we ate some candy with meth on it, and
Speaker 1: we like, we don't want to explain to you where
Speaker 1: we got it, so we're just gonna say that it
Speaker 1: was in our kids halloween candy. Hall Um basically seems
Speaker 1: to be the It seems to be the story there.
Speaker 1: That sounds like an incident where people just ate math
Speaker 1: and then made up a lie. Yeah exactly, Yeah, some
Speaker 1: meth probably got in that candy. I you're like, we're
Speaker 1: just eating loose meth just because you didn't have a
Speaker 1: stem and you're just trying to beam up real quick.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't look, I'm not here to judge,
Speaker 1: but sir, this is bad. I love the I love
Speaker 1: the fact that you're like, there's no documented case of
Speaker 1: this ever fucking happening, which in a way makes Q
Speaker 1: and On more realistic than this ship from Jeffrey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like at least, like I'm like, yeah, well, you know,
Speaker 1: like they're they are they're trying to tie these loose
Speaker 1: threads either, like there's not even a fucking thread out
Speaker 1: there to even clasp on two for this stupid fucking
Speaker 1: story that they loved to rinse and reus every year.
Speaker 1: That's that's a great comparison though, because it sounds like
Speaker 1: it's you know, news editors trying to you know, capitalize
Speaker 1: on the conspiracy theory side of the algorithm by creating,
Speaker 1: you know, some new hot of the moment conspiracy theory,
Speaker 1: or they're just looking for an excuse to be able
Speaker 1: to pick through their kids candy first and eat all
Speaker 1: the best stuff, right, despite this being like an annual
Speaker 1: news story that I grew up, you know, in the
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties thinking was like one of the main
Speaker 1: dangers to my livelihood was to my life was you know,
Speaker 1: get eating poisoned Halloween candy. There have been since nineteen
Speaker 1: two cases of tampered Halloween treats in the US and Canada,
Speaker 1: which there's about forty one point one million trigger treaters
Speaker 1: in just the US every year, So that's two hundred
Speaker 1: total right since right so recorded incidents and then forty
Speaker 1: one million people of year And of those two under cases,
Speaker 1: experts couldn't find a single report of a child killed
Speaker 1: or seriously injured from a contaminated treat received during trick
Speaker 1: or treating. But meanwhile, like you know, just just maybe
Speaker 1: keep your eyes on the road the like during Halloween
Speaker 1: instead of worrying about this ship, Like there's way more
Speaker 1: pedestrian accidents and ship because people are out on the street.
Speaker 1: Oh you're yeah, you're saying of like a car, a
Speaker 1: car hitting somebody is the big the actual threat on Holliday,
Speaker 1: not fucking you know, wavy candies and the only thing, Like,
Speaker 1: I do think it's fair for people like to be
Speaker 1: wary that they like get not give it out, like
Speaker 1: because there there is now more weed candy than we've
Speaker 1: ever had like our houses them before. But like I
Speaker 1: think that's pretty standard. But yeah, just keep make sure
Speaker 1: you keep it separate from any other candy, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're gonna be fine. Like, whoa, I don't know
Speaker 1: what's the problem. I keep it separate. I don't bump
Speaker 1: me out. Man, Well you know, I I I'm sure
Speaker 1: by next year they'll find a new thing, or maybe
Speaker 1: it'll just be this all over. It'll be this every
Speaker 1: year we're dead or weed is illegal. Well yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know, like you know why, I'm like, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of proud of US, US and Canada that there's only
Speaker 1: been two hundred incidents since nineteen fifty eight. Like you
Speaker 1: you'd think with like how things have espposedly deterior in
Speaker 1: the United States as it relates to like like these
Speaker 1: like large scale violent events that like at the end
Speaker 1: of the people like the Halloween. Man, don't funk, come
Speaker 1: on now, don't like let's I don't have the energy
Speaker 1: for that. And that's just that's no one wants that burden.
Speaker 1: And even in the language that was used to describe
Speaker 1: those two hundred incidents, he said contaminated and there's no deaths,
Speaker 1: And so part of me thinks a bunch of that
Speaker 1: might just be like seed Snickers, Yeah, got the runs
Speaker 1: or something like that was contaminated because I'm sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: like how do you I mean the energy that would
Speaker 1: go into contaminating a candy and like being the front
Speaker 1: for like the face that like, you know, people, there's
Speaker 1: a way to figure out where the candy came from
Speaker 1: on some level. You know, it's not a totally like
Speaker 1: anonymous act because people are knocking on your door and
Speaker 1: so like, do I remember anyone weird? Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: that person just laughing, just sadistically the whole time and
Speaker 1: had no costume on, and right before they gave us again,
Speaker 1: he said, hold on one second. They had closed the
Speaker 1: door for a couple of minutes, then open and be
Speaker 1: like now it's ready. That person, we may want to
Speaker 1: look into that. It's it's also such a weird level
Speaker 1: of distrust of just people because my understanding of you know,
Speaker 1: strangers who like to kill other strangers is they like
Speaker 1: to they like to see it like they like to,
Speaker 1: you know, get their hands dirty, and that is something
Speaker 1: that satisfies them. But to to put all that work
Speaker 1: in and then just know that somewhere out there in
Speaker 1: the distance someone is suffering, that doesn't really seem like
Speaker 1: if that's if that's really happening, then we should be
Speaker 1: just as scared as the candy you buy at the
Speaker 1: grocery store, because would be just as easy to go
Speaker 1: and put a bunch of contaminent candy at the grocery
Speaker 1: store and have people eat that. If that's what's getting
Speaker 1: your rocks off, come on, don't give these freaks any ideas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I I can't think of a worth or less
Speaker 1: satisfying prank. No, And even like as a kid, you're like,
Speaker 1: you're not trying to funk with someone's I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe because you grow up like like Halloween candy sanctified,
Speaker 1: so even and like as you get older you're like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: come on, don't suck her with that. That's not what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do. Anything like throw shit at someone's house,
Speaker 1: Like you know, light a bag of ship on fire,
Speaker 1: t P eggs, that stuff. That's a prank, not not
Speaker 1: violating the sacred trust hollow Halloween candy distribution. Yeah it's
Speaker 1: sacred TP, but the TPS ship on it. But the
Speaker 1: eggs a bitting your ass, Like how do you keep
Speaker 1: them from crack and jack? That's pretty impressive, a lot
Speaker 1: of control, man, a lot of control, a lot of meditating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's very dumb that there have been, Like I
Speaker 1: do think it's there are valid things to like with
Speaker 1: tons of candy around the house, if you have we
Speaker 1: gummies around the house like that. That's something that actually
Speaker 1: happened at a barbecue that we covered on this show
Speaker 1: because it's kind of funny to imagine, but like I
Speaker 1: think a bunch of five year olds got their hands
Speaker 1: on their parents sur patch kids THHD gummies and like
Speaker 1: had to go to the emergency room. So I guess
Speaker 1: not funny, but just kids are already so weird, so
Speaker 1: I was just curious what that would look like. But
Speaker 1: it's all happening by accident, it's not nobody is doing
Speaker 1: this on purpose. So yes, beware, don't leave your fucking
Speaker 1: weed gummies out and like next to your kids fucking
Speaker 1: Halloween candy. That's that's. Oh you should see me like
Speaker 1: whenever I have like younger, like a family over like
Speaker 1: I had, like the d e A is about to
Speaker 1: pull up. Yeah, like yo, they're gonna have to do
Speaker 1: work to find this ship because yeah, like you absolutely
Speaker 1: like you have to understand you know that you you
Speaker 1: have to respect the power in that In the wrong hands,
Speaker 1: it can do a lot of damage. Not even just kids,
Speaker 1: like people in their twenties. My my wife when she
Speaker 1: was younger, showed up at a house party hungry and
Speaker 1: proceeded to eat a bunch of pastries off the table
Speaker 1: that weren't able, and it was like so she downed
Speaker 1: like a whole dinner's worth of of edible weed pastries
Speaker 1: and then had such a severe panic attack that she
Speaker 1: had to go home and just sleep in a snowsuit
Speaker 1: to like sweat it out. I love that method of like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gotta put the full body snowsuit on
Speaker 1: and just sweat this thing out. Oh did it work though?
Speaker 1: Is that that she said? It worked? Like by the
Speaker 1: next day she felt like better. But but I agree
Speaker 1: with what you're saying. It's like there is a risk,
Speaker 1: but it's more like at home and be careful. It's
Speaker 1: not like be scared of people premeditated trying to do right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's yeah. I think that's the that's the thing
Speaker 1: that everyone wants to just sort of foster and everyone
Speaker 1: at the moment. It's like be afraid of fucking every
Speaker 1: single person out there, because you don't know who the
Speaker 1: fun they are. Yes, there's no way they could just
Speaker 1: be like you, another human being who's trying their best
Speaker 1: to just survive in the world day to day. They
Speaker 1: want the cops look at these sick funs out here
Speaker 1: with nerve ropes full of drugs to get your kids
Speaker 1: fucked up. Man. I am like I I will say this,
Speaker 1: I will never act on it. I'm very curious what
Speaker 1: my kids would be like stoned because they're already so
Speaker 1: like prone to uh like pod head thinking. I'm just
Speaker 1: if anybody who was at that barbecue who saw those
Speaker 1: five year olds high, if anyone who was at that
Speaker 1: barbecue with those kids and saw how they were behaving,
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, like what that what that looks like? Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's funny because like the first time I
Speaker 1: smoked weed as a kid, I was like, this is great.
Speaker 1: I feel like more like a kid right now. Everything.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's just slippery slopers. Yeah, not trying to
Speaker 1: grow up. I'm just trying to be me to Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just trying to laugh harder at this ship.
Speaker 1: They bring them to the r They're like our kids
Speaker 1: got really cool all this we don't know what to do,
Speaker 1: and they're like listening to safe Searge. I don't even know.
Speaker 1: It's like they're real hip and ship. Yeah, but my
Speaker 1: five year old asked me how his bones move him once,
Speaker 1: and I means and that you're like that fucked you up.
Speaker 1: You're like, man, that was definitely a thought I have
Speaker 1: had while I was high. Yeah, and then immediately forgotten.
Speaker 1: Let's talk really quickly about Dog the Bounty Hunters everywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he, you know, as the Gabby Petito case continues
Speaker 1: to just spin around in the headlines because of missing
Speaker 1: white woman's syndrome, Dog the Bounty Hunter was like, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm on this ship. He so he started smelling some
Speaker 1: money and so he has decided to enter the search
Speaker 1: for Gabby Potito's ex boyfriend who was like with her
Speaker 1: when she died and like he disappeared into like a
Speaker 1: national park and you know, for to his credit, his
Speaker 1: investigation has already yielded a call from the boyfriend's family
Speaker 1: when Dogs the Bounty Hunter showed up at their house.
Speaker 1: Your emergency, um, Dog the Bounty Hunter and like, fucking
Speaker 1: won't leave me alone, right, now he's going full dark Night,
Speaker 1: like he's lived long enough to become the villain. Yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was also doing that. She was doubling down back
Speaker 1: when he said he could use the N word, like,
Speaker 1: He's like, yo, I gotta invite to the cookout permanently,
Speaker 1: so you know I could say the N word, because
Speaker 1: in two thousand seven, that phone call lead to him
Speaker 1: dropping the M bomb multiple times, and not like in
Speaker 1: a I'm singing gold Digger like lyrics out loud type shit.
Speaker 1: He was like he was hitting that hard are and
Speaker 1: he his you know this at the time when I remember,
Speaker 1: I think it was Larry King. He was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm friends was Snoop and you know he's like they
Speaker 1: say like, hey, what's up my end? And you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like because of that, you know I can
Speaker 1: I can say it too, and he kept he came
Speaker 1: back around to talk about those fucking topics again in
Speaker 1: one I was like, why are you still talking about this?
Speaker 1: For like, you're lucky you got canceled before before people
Speaker 1: didn't like knew how to cancel people. Because he's like
Speaker 1: back in like, hey, remember that, I'm here to say
Speaker 1: again M And I'm just like Eminem and you're like what,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, he's like I have more black friends
Speaker 1: and Eminem. Okay, there you go, sir. Name dropping Snoop
Speaker 1: doesn't count because not just because having a black friend
Speaker 1: doesn't let you do that, but because that's the only
Speaker 1: other guy who has dog in his name. Like him
Speaker 1: being like, no, I know Snoop Dog. It's like, well, no,
Speaker 1: that's not your black friend. That's your other friend whose
Speaker 1: name has dog. Like, yeah, y'all have dog solidarity. You
Speaker 1: know that's about it. Um. Yeah. The New York Times
Speaker 1: did like a lengthy profile on him, I think this
Speaker 1: year about like how he's coping after the death of
Speaker 1: his wife. He had a pulmonary embolism thanks to testosterone
Speaker 1: supplements and refused to stay in the hospital. He literally
Speaker 1: pushed in orderly up against a wall to escape and
Speaker 1: was only convinced to get medical help after an intervention
Speaker 1: from doctor Oz. So, like the the head professions on TV,
Speaker 1: like the TV Doctor and the TV Bounty Hunter are
Speaker 1: apparently like friends somewhere with like Judge Judy probably and
Speaker 1: when you reinforcing like my childish idea of like how
Speaker 1: TV works, one, I bet I bet dog the bounty hunter.
Speaker 1: I think Dr Oz is all the celebrities doctors, right,
Speaker 1: but it seems like this is just him coming back
Speaker 1: and be like I feel like I wasn't fully canceled before,
Speaker 1: and like it now would be a great time for
Speaker 1: me to just like formally formally get canceled. Because he's
Speaker 1: also like I thought I had the past, he said quote,
Speaker 1: I thought I had to pass in the Black tribe
Speaker 1: to use it, kind of like Eminem. Eminem doesn't use it.
Speaker 1: Eminem doesn't use the N word, And I know he has,
Speaker 1: like years ago there was like a track and a
Speaker 1: lot of people like, we know what the fun was that,
Speaker 1: But in his like professional career, that's not what. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if again his idea is like, well,
Speaker 1: the white guy who raps I say it right, No not,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think so. Dog. And if you
Speaker 1: think you have the past because black tribe anything, you don't, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: in the black I'm like, what he needs to chill out,
Speaker 1: someone needs to sneak come some some dirty Halloween candies.
Speaker 1: Yeah right. And if he doesn't, I feel like maybe
Speaker 1: the feds are gonna go like suicide squad style, and
Speaker 1: you know, let the Tiger King out of jail to
Speaker 1: go catch Dog Hunter. Yeah right, it's a trap. They
Speaker 1: released the Tiger King to get Dog to draw in
Speaker 1: the bounty hunter apparently, so I didn't realize that like
Speaker 1: his origin story. But back in two thousand three, this guy,
Speaker 1: Andrew Luster, who is the heir to the Max Factor
Speaker 1: cosmetic fortune, was arrested for drugging and raping three women
Speaker 1: and skipped out on his one million dollar bail. Was
Speaker 1: convicted in absentia and sentenced to a d twenty four
Speaker 1: years in prison. And Dog was like, this is this
Speaker 1: is this is how I make my career went and
Speaker 1: like just like spent his whole like like all the
Speaker 1: time he had hunting this guy down. But like the
Speaker 1: way he like brought the guy in was wildly illegal,
Speaker 1: Like bounty hunters are illegal in Mexico. And he went
Speaker 1: down to Mexico and just like grabbed him and like
Speaker 1: through like kidnapped him essentially, and then immediately got arrested
Speaker 1: for that. Like it went like threw him in the
Speaker 1: back of an suv, pulled out, and then the police
Speaker 1: pulled him over from where like what the funk are
Speaker 1: you doing? Man? But he still knows all sorts of
Speaker 1: fucking money for for that, So that that seems to
Speaker 1: be why he's trying to get elbows way back into
Speaker 1: the national spotlight at this key moment when we're all
Speaker 1: super you know, appreciative of cops who are racist and
Speaker 1: do things the you know, via violence and toxicity. Like
Speaker 1: that's he's his moment is here. I guess that is
Speaker 1: what he's thinking. Yeah, I don't know. Again, he's still
Speaker 1: almost a million dollars in unpaid legal fees because of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a fucking from that. First, the first thing from
Speaker 1: his illegal jaunt down to Puerto Vata to be an
Speaker 1: illegal bounty hunter. But then when he did it, he
Speaker 1: was like, hey, it was if I got this guy
Speaker 1: in custody, was worth me going to jail for a
Speaker 1: few days. And I mean just in general, he is,
Speaker 1: you know, he profits from a predatory prism funnel system
Speaker 1: that disproportionately affects the poor and people of color. Again,
Speaker 1: like you said, uses the N word freely and has
Speaker 1: repeatedly lobbied against bail reform, even recording a robot call
Speaker 1: warning people in California about proposed bail reform bill to
Speaker 1: so I can give a less compelling robot call you
Speaker 1: get and starts off like, hey, it's dog Dwayne Chapman,
Speaker 1: the bounty hunter, and like, get shut the okay if
Speaker 1: you're not something dog food, I don't think I honestly
Speaker 1: will listen to you because I don't even get I
Speaker 1: mean perspect you as a bail bondsman, bounty hunter. Mh.
Speaker 1: He definitely learned from that first incident because he was like, well,
Speaker 1: I may not have succeeded in being like an actual
Speaker 1: bounty hunter, but if this was just for the cameras,
Speaker 1: it looked good like and then that's the route he
Speaker 1: went down. Yeah, and I'll just I'll just keep that
Speaker 1: million dollar tab just hanging on the hook bear and
Speaker 1: I'll get to it eventually. Yeah. Yeah, more on that later, Sean,
Speaker 1: such a pleasure having you. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you all that good stuff? So you can get
Speaker 1: my comedy album at my website Sean Devlin dot website,
Speaker 1: and you can follow me on Instagram at Shannie with
Speaker 1: a Y S E A N Y dot Devlin d
Speaker 1: V L A M. And is there a tweet or
Speaker 1: some other work of social media you've been enjoying there?
Speaker 1: I don't have Twitter, so I don't have a handle
Speaker 1: to share. But the comedian Eddie Peppertone is basically the
Speaker 1: only reason i'veent You're into Twitter because he's so funny
Speaker 1: and he tweeted something last week that I loved, which
Speaker 1: was this was his tweet, and he has lots of
Speaker 1: stuff like this. We are surrounded by death from a play,
Speaker 1: but we are also surrounded by great bargains Home Depot.
Speaker 1: Home Depot has floorboards and tile machines with sound buttons,
Speaker 1: all on sale this week, so come on out and
Speaker 1: buy before you die. Home Depot, get your affairs in order.
Speaker 1: Great Eddie pump tone is like NonStop tweeting out this
Speaker 1: amazing voiceover for the current moment, just dystopian nightmare. Miles
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
Speaker 1: of Gray and also the other podcast for twenty Day
Speaker 1: Fiance with Sophia Alexandro where we talk about the fance.
Speaker 1: A tweet I like is from Mark Snedecker at Mark Snedecker.
Speaker 1: He did a quote tweet from CNN where the CNN
Speaker 1: tweet says us government will run out of money by
Speaker 1: October eighteenth, Treasury Secretary says, and Mark replies, unless we
Speaker 1: can put on the best talent show this town has
Speaker 1: ever seen. That's great. I love when that was a
Speaker 1: solution to every problem. It's always works for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, let's see. Uh. Sam Salisbury tweeted, shakespeare Ship
Speaker 1: is so timeless because everybody's got that friend named Polonius
Speaker 1: that hides behind your tapestries. Um uh Push Push tweeted,
Speaker 1: every single night, I slip into the alley behind my
Speaker 1: block and released two gunshots into the sky to keep
Speaker 1: the rent in my neighborhood stable. And this is one
Speaker 1: that will probably it's somebody. I just want somebody to
Speaker 1: answer this for me. Kie flaer At Kei fler Elf tweeted,
Speaker 1: Gonna be honest with you guys, I don't understand how
Speaker 1: the gas nozzle knows when to stop? How then does
Speaker 1: it know? Just like here that thing being like like
Speaker 1: but also I never trusted because I'm a compulsive topper.
Speaker 1: Offer Oh you really? Oh yeah, I'm like no, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like fucking Giles Corey and the Crucible is stacking
Speaker 1: more fucking stones on his chest. Like more weight. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you'll get more gas in that tank if you don't
Speaker 1: see the gas spilling out? Was there ever any gas there?
Speaker 1: You go? I do it till it gets on my shoes.
Speaker 1: Have you have you ever seen the gas like do
Speaker 1: the thing where it like kind of all comes out
Speaker 1: at once, Like it's like like a leaks out all
Speaker 1: at once, like when when you overfill the tank. I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't tell if I imagine this I was a kid,
Speaker 1: or if that's how cars used to like expel gas
Speaker 1: when they got over you have like a vivid memory
Speaker 1: of like an over filled tank just like like a
Speaker 1: orcoes blowholes just like all over the place. I mean,
Speaker 1: who knows the way cars were built back and I
Speaker 1: mean like every year we're like adding safety measures. Were
Speaker 1: like that wasn't there already? Yeah? Uh, it was like
Speaker 1: it seemed like the car's water broke and gas just
Speaker 1: like you can't not from under it. That might have
Speaker 1: just been the shitty car we had. And then I
Speaker 1: went to live with my new family. Uh. You can
Speaker 1: find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can
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Speaker 1: we post our episode then our foot Nope, we link
Speaker 1: off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
Speaker 1: as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 1: Miles what song where we said the people to go
Speaker 1: check out. So We're gonna go out on really like
Speaker 1: a guitarist that I'm really fucking digging. His name is
Speaker 1: Mansur Brown. He's from Brixton, you know, London, and he
Speaker 1: plays a lot with like use of days and you
Speaker 1: know that that whole sort of new jazz scene out
Speaker 1: there from England that I'm just love and love it.
Speaker 1: And this track is called Mushta m A s h
Speaker 1: I t A because it seems like all of his
Speaker 1: albums have Japanese themes. He has an album called like
Speaker 1: this is actually from the album called s Oi, which
Speaker 1: means white in Japanese. And yeah, his guitar playings just
Speaker 1: like so groovy, and his like the way he just
Speaker 1: picks those chords. You just love to hear it, and
Speaker 1: he's so effortless. If you like the music, I really
Speaker 1: suggest you check out him playing live because he's just
Speaker 1: such a like expressive guitar player. Uh and just a
Speaker 1: great way to go into your in your weekend because
Speaker 1: it's nice and easy track of just some nice, soothing guitar.
Speaker 1: So this is Mansur Brown with Mushta Awesome. Well. Daily
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