Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two oh four,
Speaker 1: episode one of Daily's. Like, guys, you know it's a
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Speaker 1: I don't like tomatoes on pizza much much less exciting
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Speaker 1: is joining us on our third seat. He is a
Speaker 1: hilarious comedian, actor, writer, podcast host. He's one of the
Speaker 1: hosts of the Very Funny Show podcast but Outside. He
Speaker 1: was named two thousand fifteen number one comedian on the
Speaker 1: Top one thousand Comedians. Listen, please welcome the hilarious and
Speaker 1: talented Andrew Mashawn. Thank you, thank you for having me
Speaker 1: and my song about me is happy. But no, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I did not know it was a musical podcast. Um,
Speaker 1: so I don't have a song prepared, but just know that, Um,
Speaker 1: if I had one prepared. It would have been awesome.
Speaker 1: It's very clear to everyone listening that you have song
Speaker 1: in her heart. Yeah. Last time you're on, you're like
Speaker 1: you said the same thing, Like I didn't know it
Speaker 1: was a song. I would have came with one. I
Speaker 1: really don let us down this second go around. Wow,
Speaker 1: I should have known. You know. Well, it's been a
Speaker 1: normal couple of years. So yeah, problem November nine, what's
Speaker 1: going on? Dude? Pick up left off? I well, I
Speaker 1: haven't really been paying attention. Um, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: Everything's been good for me, cool cool, um, Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it's good to be back. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna come clean here and let you
Speaker 1: know that I have forgotten that we met, forgot that
Speaker 1: you were on the show, and then become a fan
Speaker 1: of yours through podcasts but outside since thank you and
Speaker 1: without realizing that you have been on this show. So
Speaker 1: that's perfect. Podcast outside is very very funny. Yeah, before
Speaker 1: you came on, he's like, you know, Andrew like, well, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's very funny. I was like, father, you need hey.
Speaker 1: I honestly, actually that makes you're a fan of my show,
Speaker 1: Like that makes it more pure. You know, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was just a pure enjoyment outside of the fact that
Speaker 1: you and I are close friends. Yes, exactly. There it
Speaker 1: is great. What's good with you, man, other than you're
Speaker 1: back from Coast three, I'm doing well. Yeah, how was that?
Speaker 1: It was great? You know, and it was really nice,
Speaker 1: and honestly, like, looking back, I'm very glad that I
Speaker 1: did go in November in tween nineteen because I tried
Speaker 1: to go out of the country once a year and
Speaker 1: it was a really great trip. And then, you know,
Speaker 1: if I had known that I wouldn't be able to
Speaker 1: leave the country for a long time after that, Like
Speaker 1: it was, it was perfect timing to be able to go.
Speaker 1: Great country, highly recommend it, easy place to travel, and
Speaker 1: everyone's very nice, very beautiful. I love to see it.
Speaker 1: And I'm actually going to leave the country again for
Speaker 1: the first time since then in November, so timing there.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Coast it and I'm just going I'm
Speaker 1: going to I'm going to Iceland actually, which I've never
Speaker 1: been to. WHOA, what's the weather like at that time
Speaker 1: of year? Super? I think it's kind of cold year round.
Speaker 1: Apparently it's just always cold, but that is definitely when
Speaker 1: winter is in the swing of it's like in the
Speaker 1: full swing of winter, so there might be a little
Speaker 1: more snow, but I think it's just universally cold and
Speaker 1: frigid there. But it is like you know, it'll get
Speaker 1: dark like at like four or five pm when we
Speaker 1: first got there, and then by the time we leave
Speaker 1: it'll get dark at like three pm. Like it really
Speaker 1: drastically over the course of November. Yeah, but there's like
Speaker 1: boiling hot water just like shooting up out of the
Speaker 1: earth there all that. Yeah. Yeah, man, I want to
Speaker 1: go there so bad. I studied a lot of Viking
Speaker 1: history in college and like Iceland's eyes, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I got it. I need to see it because a
Speaker 1: lot of the people that like ended up habitating that
Speaker 1: place where like fleeing the Vikings. They're like, let's get
Speaker 1: over here. Did the Vikings ever go there? And like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they did. I mean I as far as
Speaker 1: I can remember, what was that fourteen years ago? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's like those are the remnants that you
Speaker 1: hold on your like, I know they were fleeing the
Speaker 1: other Vikangs and then they have a great soccer team
Speaker 1: that overperforms. Well, I'll let you know how it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like a nice, easy place to travel. And
Speaker 1: also it's like nineties six percent vaccinated kind of thing,
Speaker 1: and you have to be vaccinated go in. So as
Speaker 1: far as like, it feels like a safe first trip
Speaker 1: after this whole thing. All right, Andrew, we're going to
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things
Speaker 1: we're talking about. There is a COVID pill that might
Speaker 1: even help some anti baxtors out there, because yeah, because
Speaker 1: you actually, yeah, it's a it's a pill that gives
Speaker 1: you COVID. It didn't take the mystery out of it,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, just knock it, knock it out, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because whatever someone says, where'd you get it? Like you
Speaker 1: don't know what to say, But now you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I got it from this pill. I got it from
Speaker 1: the pill pill. Yeah, you gotta just roll the dice.
Speaker 1: And it's because I mean, honestly, if you haven't had it,
Speaker 1: you're you're always wondering like, how would I do if
Speaker 1: I got it? So, um, No, this is a pill
Speaker 1: that you can take after you get COVID though, which
Speaker 1: you know, we we've heard a lot of cases of
Speaker 1: people who are antivactors until they're like, you know, heading
Speaker 1: into the hospital from COVID symptoms, and then they're like please,
Speaker 1: and then it's too late, but we got a pill there,
Speaker 1: Like will you take this FDA approved treatment? Right? How
Speaker 1: about this one? Why don't you just tell me what
Speaker 1: you want to do. We're gonna talk about Texas, a
Speaker 1: couple of Texas stories. We are going to talk about
Speaker 1: the murder rate. We're gonna talk about the folders jingle.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about squid Game. Andrew, you have
Speaker 1: you watched squid Game? Yes? I have seen two episodes
Speaker 1: of squid Game. Okay, we're I've seen episode seven and
Speaker 1: episode nine. But the character development needs to work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it needs work. Yeah, I don't know what the hell
Speaker 1: they're thinking. Uh. And well, we'll talk about a couple
Speaker 1: other stories. All of that plenty more. The first, Andrew,
Speaker 1: we do like task our guests, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history? This is gonna be boring because I
Speaker 1: already addressed it. But the last thing I really searched
Speaker 1: was about the active volcano in Iceland. Because I'm trying
Speaker 1: to see that while I'm there. There's been a volcano.
Speaker 1: It's been active for a few months and it's like
Speaker 1: the first time in decades and it's been active, and
Speaker 1: apparently you can just go and see lava pouring out
Speaker 1: of it. So why are you referring to it in
Speaker 1: such general terms? Why don't you just flawlessly pronounced the
Speaker 1: name of very very good question. Well, if you must know,
Speaker 1: I searched active volcano in Iceland right now, I did
Speaker 1: not search the name. And it is a lot of
Speaker 1: sas and k's and vs. Is it the same one
Speaker 1: that like shut down air traffic in Europe a few
Speaker 1: years I don't think so. I think it's all another one.
Speaker 1: I mean the country, the country is full of them,
Speaker 1: but this one in particular is like just been very
Speaker 1: consistent all year, just like tons of lava and you
Speaker 1: can hear written see it and it looks cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna try to see that. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: Like That's the one detail that is stuck with me
Speaker 1: about any time I've read about Iceland is that like
Speaker 1: there's just hot like just a natural supply of hot water.
Speaker 1: That is, like they have all these like hot water baths,
Speaker 1: public baths and then like hot spring. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite. But like that's how that where they
Speaker 1: get electricity is also from just like the naturally heated water.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so it's it's a very steampunk country. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is overrated? My thing that
Speaker 1: I think is overrated right now is COVID nineteen. Hey,
Speaker 1: everyone's talking about it, and everyone's freaking obsessed with the thing.
Speaker 1: And it's been two years of COVID this and COVID that,
Speaker 1: and it's such a small little guy, but everyone's talking
Speaker 1: about it, even this labs. Yeah, even the slabs are
Speaker 1: talking about it. Who isn't talking about it? No? But
Speaker 1: that is truly like, at this point in this journey,
Speaker 1: it's like, that's the thing that I'm just like. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously it's sad and people are dying in our society
Speaker 1: is being torn apart on ideological grounds, but it's also
Speaker 1: just I'm sick of it, right, It's yes, And I mean,
Speaker 1: I know you have to talk about it, and you
Speaker 1: other stuff to talk about, but it's like, for the
Speaker 1: sake of our conversations, hopefully we'll get over this thing soon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's funny because the art piece you're sitting in front
Speaker 1: of kind of looks like a COVID. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: had this art piece before COVID. But no, I mean,
Speaker 1: it is just like, it's so interesting to think of,
Speaker 1: like when we first started hearing rumors of this thing,
Speaker 1: and you know, early nineteen or sorry, to think that
Speaker 1: like two years later or whatever, we would still be
Speaker 1: talking about it and obsessed with it's pretty nuts. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's not really anything to say. Also, but that is
Speaker 1: also part of the conversation now. I feel like every
Speaker 1: Zoom meeting I have starts with the somebody saying, how's
Speaker 1: it going, and then people being like, you can't even
Speaker 1: ask that anymore. I'm like, yes, this has all been prescripted.
Speaker 1: I wonder if culturally there's ever been anything that has
Speaker 1: been this like long lasting of a story, you know, right.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to be a down it's not. I
Speaker 1: mean it's interesting. This pills sounds interesting that, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess so. But I was every conversation like war stuff,
Speaker 1: I think it was. But yeah, I think it is
Speaker 1: like that, Like that is the closest we've come to
Speaker 1: having just a story that was affecting everybody around the globe,
Speaker 1: just not on global warming. Yeah, that would be that
Speaker 1: would be one if anybody talked about it. That's opposite,
Speaker 1: right oh boy, Yeah yeah, I guess Hitler, Hitler and
Speaker 1: COVID they kind of take the kick. Yeah, yeah, there's uh,
Speaker 1: I guess uh. In America, nine eleven was a real uh,
Speaker 1: it was a real doozy if you were eleven the
Speaker 1: year later. I don't think so, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like this is like this is like one of those
Speaker 1: things like to your point, every day there will have
Speaker 1: to be an utterance of it. Yeah, but yeah that's
Speaker 1: because yeah, I wonder at what point it will become
Speaker 1: like when it does end, like what the time spend
Speaker 1: is on like COVID nineteen discussion, you know, like is
Speaker 1: it gonna be like no one's gonna talk about an
Speaker 1: a year later? It's like actually kind of kitchy to
Speaker 1: bring it up and like funny, like what's the what's
Speaker 1: the timeline of exists on the social spectrum? Right? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm more curious to if like if it affects things
Speaker 1: like saying how are you you know, like to your point,
Speaker 1: Jack of how like on a zoom called people like
Speaker 1: I don't even what's the even the point of saying it? Like,
Speaker 1: we all know she's very grim, so hey things are
Speaker 1: grim side from that thing. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: we come up with a new way of being like
Speaker 1: yeah you all right, all right, like and it's just
Speaker 1: not how are you just more of like an assumed
Speaker 1: yeah you good? All right? Yeah? Will it ever be
Speaker 1: okay again? For people with just like boundless positive energy,
Speaker 1: like the CEOs of the world, to just be like
Speaker 1: I am great, I'm amazing, thank you for asking. Like
Speaker 1: I feel for them, you know, they's them out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I worry about them. Uh, Andrew, what is something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated? Um, taking a nice hot shower. You know.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's been all this discussion recently about
Speaker 1: these celebs who don't shower, and then during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I feel like people kind of use it as a
Speaker 1: point of pride of like, I haven't taken a shower
Speaker 1: in ten days quarantine much so I kind of think
Speaker 1: that And I like to take a shower every day.
Speaker 1: It's how I start my day. It kind of feels
Speaker 1: like the moment that day I started, So for me,
Speaker 1: I think that is underrated right now, And you're not
Speaker 1: saying this because there are flies visible in my zoom box.
Speaker 1: You don't know. I'm not referencing anything I can smell
Speaker 1: over zoom problems. I don't know, Like, how did you
Speaker 1: but Jack, I'm curious, how did you actually get stink
Speaker 1: lines to appear? Yeah? That that is kind of the
Speaker 1: experiment was could I get the stink lines to stink
Speaker 1: lines scientifically possible? And the lines that actually show the
Speaker 1: flies motion as it circles around. Yeah, it's like an
Speaker 1: old Matt Graining comic strip. There's something like almost like
Speaker 1: I I can't fully wake up unless I've had a shower.
Speaker 1: I feel like I also feel like, as connected as
Speaker 1: we are to our phones and the internet, like shower
Speaker 1: is one of the only times you can get away. Man,
Speaker 1: I gotta gotta got the wall. They're just text and
Speaker 1: built in. Just how hot a shower do you all go?
Speaker 1: Because I know people like I used to. I realized
Speaker 1: when I was younger, I had no palette or skin
Speaker 1: tolerance level for like a really like hot shower. Like
Speaker 1: I remember the difference between when like my mom would
Speaker 1: have like what that was, like, oh my god, are
Speaker 1: you burning yourself? And then what I would get into
Speaker 1: where people like this is cold and now like I'm
Speaker 1: damn near burning my fucking skin off when I go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like to push it to the limit. I think
Speaker 1: you do. Okay, Yeah, I think I like to go
Speaker 1: where it's uncomfortable and then go one notch down right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you gotta find right, you find that point and
Speaker 1: then we we bit back. Yeah. Yeah, I'm baby at
Speaker 1: like Lukewarm show, Luke I'm a baby okay, baby, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just my my wife likes it way hotter than
Speaker 1: I do, and so that's the only thing I really
Speaker 1: have to compare it to. And but I've I've heard
Speaker 1: other people say that their wives are like take their
Speaker 1: showers hotter than they do, and maybe that's just because
Speaker 1: I'm friends with just a bunch of babies. No, that's
Speaker 1: an old Seinfeld joke. He's like, what's up with wives
Speaker 1: and their showers? Hot? Hot shower? Yeah, it's totally it's
Speaker 1: I I feel like that is one of those personal
Speaker 1: like what my five year old like his bathwater super
Speaker 1: duper hot and my three year old does not, and
Speaker 1: that makes things very difficult, right. Yeah, we did put
Speaker 1: like a dividing wall in the bathfower. Like here's the
Speaker 1: hot zone and baby zone. He can't make the baby
Speaker 1: like take the hot shower. So it's just it just
Speaker 1: sucks for the five. You know what. I actually had
Speaker 1: an invention as a kid that I still have never
Speaker 1: seen it incorporated, because I used to take bath when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, and the idea was, maybe you
Speaker 1: guys have seen this before, a bath with a spigott
Speaker 1: on both sides the bath and you're trying to warm
Speaker 1: it up and you get on one side, yeah, and
Speaker 1: you gotta like move it over. How come wish people
Speaker 1: don't have two spig Just just an idea. I used
Speaker 1: to use a like h like this toy hockey stick
Speaker 1: that I had just like a cauldron. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: like like there's like this dumb fucking to I remember
Speaker 1: the early nineties where it was like an electronic like
Speaker 1: indoor hover puck. It was like basically a like a
Speaker 1: hover craft, but in the shape of like a puck
Speaker 1: with like that was all foam and you turned it
Speaker 1: on and like the fan would sort of like lifted
Speaker 1: off the ground. And to play with it, you had
Speaker 1: these dumb plastic sticks that became my bathster or like
Speaker 1: I was making bath booze and ship. Remember my mom
Speaker 1: was like, what are you doing. I'm like, it's just
Speaker 1: it's too hot on this side, trying to even the
Speaker 1: ship up. Yeah, I thought the hockey thing, the like
Speaker 1: hockey game you were describing, had something to do with
Speaker 1: the bath that was so confused. Are you guys fans
Speaker 1: with that? Are you as fans of showers that like
Speaker 1: hit you from all the different angles? Have you ever
Speaker 1: been in one of those where it's like the spot
Speaker 1: in Vegas? I thought that's that's the best example I
Speaker 1: can think of. Yeah, it's just hard. Yeah, like you
Speaker 1: can't like lather up though with that on, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Immediately like I need some soap to
Speaker 1: stay on momentarily. Yeah, you gotta find safety in the corner.
Speaker 1: But the for me, the like whenever there's something like
Speaker 1: something like the rain fall ahead like directly over my skull,
Speaker 1: whenever I've been in a thing, I'm like, this is it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: being like you know six ft, you know six one,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of them. They just kind of
Speaker 1: blast you, like right on top of your forehead. So
Speaker 1: I appreciate something. I'm right there with you, brother, I'm
Speaker 1: six one to exactly. It's like, yeah, alright, well let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll be right back. And
Speaker 1: we're back, and there's a pill that just had a
Speaker 1: great trial. Now they nailed the trial. Good job, merk.
Speaker 1: We're always pulling for those guys. So basically, when taken
Speaker 1: by people who already have COVID, it cut the number
Speaker 1: of deaths in half, I believe, and hospitalizations and hospitalizations.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of a new that's a game changer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: get a new changer in the game. Was how I
Speaker 1: was going to put it, precisely like that changer in
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, but yeah, I mean, that's that's great
Speaker 1: news for all the people who refused to take there's
Speaker 1: like a look, if I'm gonna put my little conspiracy
Speaker 1: had on a little bit, right, there's this whole All
Speaker 1: of the mainstream news coverage of this has been like,
Speaker 1: it's a game changer. This is especially going to be
Speaker 1: great for it's a changer of the game changer or
Speaker 1: in the game, you know, developing nations that have very
Speaker 1: low vaccination rates. This could help offset the damage there.
Speaker 1: But part of me is just like we'll hold on though,
Speaker 1: because the thing that we were talking about was how
Speaker 1: we were going to get the vaccine as widely available
Speaker 1: as possible. And the big thing was a lot of
Speaker 1: pharmaceutical companies like, well, we don't you know, it's proprietor
Speaker 1: we don't not sharing anything because or this like really
Speaker 1: tired argument that is saying ship like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the countries lack the facilities to develop these
Speaker 1: medications and things like that, when they're completely ignoring the
Speaker 1: fact that there are many medications that people consume that
Speaker 1: are manufactured in these other countries, And so I'm like,
Speaker 1: why don't It almost feels like they can give up
Speaker 1: on the vaccine thing to then just do the well,
Speaker 1: if everybody has COVID, then everybody's gonna need this pill,
Speaker 1: maybe multiple times because of whatever. And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: wish we still had the same emphasis on the back
Speaker 1: the nation part of it too, but that would just
Speaker 1: me be a little salty at the pharmaceutical companies for
Speaker 1: not doing the right thing, which is to make the
Speaker 1: fucking vaccine is widely available. Right, It's basically we've we've
Speaker 1: you know, luckily come up with this miracle. But then
Speaker 1: they're kind of like, all right, we have that miracle.
Speaker 1: But here's something that's kind of okay too, and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: get the miracle out there as many people as possible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but imagine there's like you're probably at actually like maybe
Speaker 1: once and if you need a booster, okay in another time.
Speaker 1: But dude, if you get COVID a bunch of times,
Speaker 1: you're gonna take this bunch of times. We gotta take
Speaker 1: eight pills a day as well. Yeah, But I mean again,
Speaker 1: at the same time, that's not to discount the fact
Speaker 1: that it will absolutely save lives because of the nature
Speaker 1: of vaccination rates that I think for the longest time,
Speaker 1: people were like, I think thinking like when will there
Speaker 1: actually be a treatment for COVID that isn't going to
Speaker 1: the hospital and just sort of addressing your symptoms and
Speaker 1: these other interventions. Right, That's what seems crazy about this
Speaker 1: pill is that you can take it at home, which
Speaker 1: is the first time that there's been anything available for that,
Speaker 1: right exactly. Well, I mean, we're not gonna talk about
Speaker 1: iver maac and put bleach inside your skin. The race
Speaker 1: to develop these treatments is definitely speeding up. Has progress
Speaker 1: stalled on, like getting these vaccines to other countries. Just
Speaker 1: look at the state of Africa right now. You know,
Speaker 1: in the Congo there's I think eighties six million people
Speaker 1: and it's like a point o or oh oh four
Speaker 1: percent vaccination rate. It's like the lowest in the world.
Speaker 1: It's like almost like it's like as if three white
Speaker 1: people like traveled there and they change the vaccination rates
Speaker 1: or something. But there's a huge lack of vaccination in Africa,
Speaker 1: and that's why a lot of people have said, let
Speaker 1: us do this ship here, like we can, we can
Speaker 1: create stuff on the continent, or you with a global
Speaker 1: effort helped create like more robust facilities to do that
Speaker 1: and speed this up very quickly. And you know when
Speaker 1: you look at those kind of like when you look
Speaker 1: at that situation, I'm like, well, I like at some
Speaker 1: point where this vaccine has to be as widely available
Speaker 1: as possible, because this is going to be something that,
Speaker 1: as most epidemiologist say, like, we're gonna have to deal
Speaker 1: with this for a while. So to just cut to
Speaker 1: the treatment part, I feel like it's very lucrative for
Speaker 1: pharmaceutical companies and is helpful, but it's but like there
Speaker 1: was also a dire gap in vaccination rates in you know,
Speaker 1: Africa and the rest of the developing world. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it feels very much like our sort of centrist mainstream
Speaker 1: media too be be like, oh, they made a pill,
Speaker 1: you can just they made a product that people can buy,
Speaker 1: so we're good. You know, that'll do it. But it
Speaker 1: does provide a relief because I think for the longest time,
Speaker 1: it almost just felt like, well, if you get COVID,
Speaker 1: you thug it out and hope that your body is
Speaker 1: you know, your their constitution is robust enough to handle it,
Speaker 1: or you end up in a hospital and to know
Speaker 1: what they're interesting is like I feel like that mentality
Speaker 1: also leads to low vaccination rates, like the fact that
Speaker 1: the is like whatever your constitution is, Like there's a
Speaker 1: certain number of Macha people who are like, I'm strong,
Speaker 1: Actually I don't need the vaccine. So it's actually worked
Speaker 1: in our detriment that mentality. Yeah, there was just a
Speaker 1: story about how bad Like, I feel like we got
Speaker 1: a lot of news when COVID ripped through cities, and
Speaker 1: I I kind of had a sense that it had
Speaker 1: been bad for rural communities just based on the like
Speaker 1: politics of the people there. But there's a new report
Speaker 1: that's just saying that it's really really because of the
Speaker 1: fact that it is rural areas have poor health, unvaccinated
Speaker 1: people more likely to live in poverty. Medical facilities are
Speaker 1: often inadequate or overcrowded. It's just been the head of
Speaker 1: the National Rural Health Association said, we turned rural communities
Speaker 1: into kill boxes, which is yeah, but I mean that's
Speaker 1: it makes sense when you kind of if you spent
Speaker 1: time him in rural community. There's also like a vibe
Speaker 1: like I visit my mom like earlier this year after
Speaker 1: I got vaccinated and stuff, and they're even just talking
Speaker 1: to her over the last couple of years. Like, there's
Speaker 1: definitely a vibe in smaller places where they're kind of like, no,
Speaker 1: we're we're out here, we're chill like you here was good,
Speaker 1: No one looks sick like, and it's just like and
Speaker 1: then they're they're all at their guard down and then
Speaker 1: it all kind of spread into their communities. We die
Speaker 1: politely in our own homes, yeah, quietly. Well, Uh, let's
Speaker 1: talk Texas first. There's a there's a Quinnipiac pole that
Speaker 1: is saying that Greg Abbott's currently not very popular, like
Speaker 1: the majority of the voters in Texas don't think he
Speaker 1: deserves another term, which would be great news if they
Speaker 1: really liked one of the people who's running against him.
Speaker 1: But we've got thirty three who think Beato would make
Speaker 1: a good governor. And then the real news here think
Speaker 1: Matthew McConaughey would make a good governor. Maybe are you
Speaker 1: doing your warm up acting ship? Yeah, I mean twenty
Speaker 1: five percent think McConaughey. Yes, because os it on the
Speaker 1: pole or was it a right? Yeah, because there was
Speaker 1: like murmurs and stuff and they said, look, what do
Speaker 1: you think that's alarming? Not because I'm you know, like
Speaker 1: the fact that I gets comparatively be like yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean at this point, I'm like, yeah, probably Matthew McConaughey
Speaker 1: probably would do a better job than than Greg Abbott.
Speaker 1: But still to be like, I think Matthew McConaughey would
Speaker 1: be good, that is a little worrying given the trajectory
Speaker 1: of like or the evolution of the kinds of people
Speaker 1: that are running for office, where you know, maybe that
Speaker 1: does happen. But I think with as it relates to
Speaker 1: Greg Abbott, it's just clear that all of his policies
Speaker 1: are just wildly um popular, like even with Republicans, like
Speaker 1: sevent of Texans were like, you know, this abbot like
Speaker 1: abortion thing is like absurd, Like it's absolutely this is
Speaker 1: unfathomable because most people, like you know, I think the
Speaker 1: one the most humane thing that pro life people take
Speaker 1: as it relates to an abortion is like in cases
Speaker 1: of like rape or incest, they'll say, well, yeah, there
Speaker 1: there are exceptions where it's fairs, sense and and and etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: And this has proven, I think, I guess, to be
Speaker 1: unpopular with most people. Now what happens with that, I
Speaker 1: don't know, because at the same time, they have very
Speaker 1: aggressive voter suppression hitting the books in that state. So
Speaker 1: he might not need much more than a barely fifty
Speaker 1: percent to win or something the election next year, I believe.
Speaker 1: So we don't actually know that. Okay, no, no, you
Speaker 1: just it's a mid term. It's part of the mid terms.
Speaker 1: And you had a good alert from Matthew McConaughey. He
Speaker 1: saw the news story started whoa governor of Texas? That
Speaker 1: guy's bad? Huh, maybe got a chance here. First thing
Speaker 1: I look for is are there new picks that come
Speaker 1: with this pick? With this news Break And I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my linking in my driveway right now,
Speaker 1: and I bought that thing because of his commercial. I'm
Speaker 1: on board. He like, it's not just like murmurs. Behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. Matthew McConaughey has said he's measuring a run
Speaker 1: for governor. So he's openly speculating that he's he's going
Speaker 1: to run. Just find someone. I mean, look, I I
Speaker 1: have it. Betto tried to beat Ted Cruz. It didn't
Speaker 1: work out for him. I'm curious. I don't know, given
Speaker 1: the fact that only thirty three of these people pulled
Speaker 1: were interested in him, what that actually means to mount
Speaker 1: a serious challenge against Greg Abbott. So I'm curious if
Speaker 1: they somehow find someone that actually threads that needle of
Speaker 1: like being a Democrat, who you know, may have what
Speaker 1: it takes to you know, get a plurality of votes.
Speaker 1: But I know it's impossible in Texas. Maybe it is McConaughey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what what would that be? What the debate look like?
Speaker 1: Probably be the most entertaining debate of all time? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like what ver like? And does he just use like
Speaker 1: mcconaugheyisms up there? And he were like fuck yeah. He's like,
Speaker 1: the budget is a flat circle, and you're like what okay,
Speaker 1: and he does everything is a flat circle. That's all.
Speaker 1: It's all campaign. It's about flat circles, Governor McConaughey, what
Speaker 1: about climate, Well, the planet is actually a flat circle.
Speaker 1: There was like, okay, I call it the firmament. No no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: never mind. The moon's a spotlight, all right, party at
Speaker 1: the moon tower. That was actually a tower that the
Speaker 1: moon was on. You know, Matthew McConaughey seems like a
Speaker 1: nice guy though, right am I fallone for it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Probably this seems cool. I mean, I feel like there
Speaker 1: was something that came out like recently where his politics
Speaker 1: were clearly not in the right place, Like where I
Speaker 1: was like, of course, you're just like a guy who
Speaker 1: spent time in Hollywood, so you've collected a lot of
Speaker 1: like like democratic opinions. But whether or not you're like
Speaker 1: living that or believing that, I think it's a completely
Speaker 1: other discussion because dude, it's Matthew McConney Like that's not
Speaker 1: so I'm saying, come on, now, we don't need people
Speaker 1: like that. We need like people who have like activist
Speaker 1: backgrounds or like coming from the communities that actually need help.
Speaker 1: Like that's how we're going to find things. But for
Speaker 1: a laugh, fuck it? Why not? Sure? Fine? The Houston Chronicle,
Speaker 1: by the way, has the headline from last week time
Speaker 1: as a flat circle. Matthew mcconne, hey still measuring. They
Speaker 1: didn't even like find a way to like cleverly put
Speaker 1: it into the thing. They just said, he's measuring a
Speaker 1: run times of flat circle. Remember that. Remember that. Like
Speaker 1: sometimes I as as silly as it is, I am
Speaker 1: surprised that more celebrities haven't had more success running for
Speaker 1: politics just because of how much I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump about like among the most
Speaker 1: powerful politicians of our lifetime, and like they were both
Speaker 1: just people who kind of hacked the system and more
Speaker 1: like I look like a president and I'm doing the
Speaker 1: thing that makes you. Yeah, there's a question if you
Speaker 1: could have any a list celebrity be the president, you
Speaker 1: think they would actually do a good job. Who who
Speaker 1: would be your pick? It's a great question. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: haven't thought of it either, but I think they're fiery. Yeah, Okay, gang,
Speaker 1: he knows, he knows, he knows. Food is important. So, like,
Speaker 1: I feel like he would really address issues like hunger
Speaker 1: and access to and he's got a great record as
Speaker 1: it relates to lgbt Q rights and like doing like
Speaker 1: mass weddings for same sex couples. I also feel like
Speaker 1: being in a restaurant is inherently working with the lower
Speaker 1: class and like people who have been to away jobs,
Speaker 1: and I feel like to understand apply to the common
Speaker 1: worker in a big way, right, although that he might
Speaker 1: take their restaurant tours you and he's like, what's wrong
Speaker 1: with tips? Guy? Come on, but she's done the most.
Speaker 1: He's like raised so much money during the pandemic for restaurants. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think I think that's the right answer. And
Speaker 1: he he's he's like kind of every man enough to
Speaker 1: appeal to the demographics of If it's someone like Tom Cruise,
Speaker 1: people are just gonna be like, no, he's a rich celebrity,
Speaker 1: like he's in Hollywood and guys a little more of
Speaker 1: the people. Yeah that, but guys a little more of
Speaker 1: the people. The guy could go to like the reddest
Speaker 1: parts of the state. Exactly. That's exactly I mean he does.
Speaker 1: He's wearing the uniform. Yeah, and as you know, the
Speaker 1: assignment was an A list celebrity, And I mean you
Speaker 1: picked an A plus list celebrity, right, Yeah, what are
Speaker 1: you trying to say, Jack, You're being flipping here that
Speaker 1: no okay good. I'm just saying, like when you were
Speaker 1: at Conde Nast and like they did the Vanity Fair
Speaker 1: post Oscars party, wasn't he like the first first name
Speaker 1: on the list? We come on, Jack, I told you
Speaker 1: that in secret we had to kick him out. We
Speaker 1: kicked him out, We said, get out of here. We
Speaker 1: don't know who you are. Make way for Vin Diesel,
Speaker 1: who's drunk. Well, speaking of Texas, Alex Jones just lost
Speaker 1: in court and the kind of a big, big lee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like what was this the so this is the the
Speaker 1: case where he was harassing the families of Sandy Hook shooting,
Speaker 1: the whole crisis actors, claiming that they were crisis actors
Speaker 1: and they had their lives of ruined after they already
Speaker 1: had their lives of ruined exactly with harassment campaigns and
Speaker 1: people be like, you're just trying to get their guns
Speaker 1: taken away because that's what Alex told me. And so
Speaker 1: many families sued him for defamation in Connecticut and also Texas,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's done a lot of things, like
Speaker 1: in his depositions he came around's like no, like I
Speaker 1: actually believe it, like that that's not true. And and
Speaker 1: we've heard him also say things to the effect of
Speaker 1: like I'm like more of a performance artist. And also
Speaker 1: like in his own words, he said that he was
Speaker 1: suffering like a form of psychosis, which led to him
Speaker 1: saying that but that was amongst so many different excuses
Speaker 1: that he gave out to try and be like just
Speaker 1: leave me alone. Well, a judge just ruled against him
Speaker 1: in full wars with like a pretty scathing ruling, which
Speaker 1: is essentially saying like he won, he lost by defall,
Speaker 1: which is like the worst kind of way you can lose,
Speaker 1: like where they're just like not the judge like, I'm
Speaker 1: over this. You're not cooperating, you've been abusing the discovery process,
Speaker 1: You've not been following any of the rules. In fact,
Speaker 1: you've gone back on so many things you said that
Speaker 1: that's it. I'm like, this is you've as as they say, yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems hard to it seems hard to make the
Speaker 1: argument that you were like suffering from psychosis, that you
Speaker 1: are no longer suffering from and that you temporary, It
Speaker 1: was temporary, and I was going through a lot, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what that actually the medical deft the
Speaker 1: show in that same persona like, how how does he
Speaker 1: just look look, look, my honor. That that's I don't
Speaker 1: know why I'm on trial here, okay, And that's I
Speaker 1: thought that would be enough to be given some form
Speaker 1: of sympathy for what's going on. But yeah, so now
Speaker 1: a jury is going to decide, like how much he's
Speaker 1: going to owe the plaintiffs, And I can imagine it
Speaker 1: would be significant, you'd think, But unless it's like a
Speaker 1: lot of Info Wars fans in that jury, the you'd
Speaker 1: imagine that they would be like, yeah, that's untold suffering
Speaker 1: that has been compounded by this person's wise, it's kind
Speaker 1: of the worst thing anyone's done. And pulp like it's
Speaker 1: so it's just so bad perspective. It's it's a real
Speaker 1: like hard one to justify. I'm I'm just even confused
Speaker 1: as to how uh, and he's made sort of mounting
Speaker 1: any defense while still doing the same show with the
Speaker 1: same points of perspectives that are causing this massive harm. Well,
Speaker 1: and it's so funny, like all these claims that these
Speaker 1: you know, these SMAs school shootings are crisis actors and
Speaker 1: it's all employees kind of like, well, there's been a
Speaker 1: ton of them and zero gun control legislation, so it's
Speaker 1: not like it's even effective if they are, if they
Speaker 1: really are employs, it's like, well, they're not working, so
Speaker 1: calm down. Yeah, And I think, but that's that's the
Speaker 1: thing about these sort of like thought killing conspiratory cliches
Speaker 1: that people like that throw out. It's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: faking it to go after the Second Amendment? Is it? Actually?
Speaker 1: But I don't care because that's that's the thing that
Speaker 1: activates my outrage. Of course it's not working, because we
Speaker 1: pointed out there were crisis are I wanted to talk about.
Speaker 1: So there there's a stat that I'm seeing a lot
Speaker 1: of places recently about how murders were up in murders
Speaker 1: seemed to be trending upwards. One the New York Times
Speaker 1: just published an article about it last week, and they
Speaker 1: spend multiple paragraphs like suggesting that the Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: protests are in somewhere or another like responsible. And so
Speaker 1: I wanted to just put this theory out here that
Speaker 1: they don't really mention in any other than to say that,
Speaker 1: like healthcare was under stress. But there are a lot
Speaker 1: of articles before the pandemic even about how the drop
Speaker 1: in the murder rate has a lot to do with
Speaker 1: the fact that these like emergency medical care systems got
Speaker 1: way way better at like helping people helping shooting victims,
Speaker 1: and so the drop in murders you're seeing is actually
Speaker 1: just more people surviving the shootings essentially, And when you
Speaker 1: when you look at that, it seems like it at
Speaker 1: the very beginning of the pandemic, when the like you know,
Speaker 1: hospitals were being stretched to the breaking point. That was
Speaker 1: kind of one of the first thoughts I had, is like, wow,
Speaker 1: so many people must be dying that weren't dying before.
Speaker 1: But like that isn't really being raised as an explanation,
Speaker 1: and I think it's so. Penn Medicine, which is like
Speaker 1: one of the best hospitals for you know, helping shooting victims,
Speaker 1: just released a study in Money about how like they
Speaker 1: basically did a they tried to count the number of
Speaker 1: shooting injuries, like including people who don't die, and they
Speaker 1: were basically saying, like that number is not counted like,
Speaker 1: which is bonkers to me, but it seems to kind
Speaker 1: of be part of the whole thing we've seen where like,
Speaker 1: you know, shootings by police officers are not counted. Gun
Speaker 1: deaths were not counted for a long time, even though
Speaker 1: the CDC was fighting for them to be counted, because
Speaker 1: the gun lobby was more powerful. And so it's just,
Speaker 1: you know, the things that are happening that I think
Speaker 1: are most responsible for this is one, like, there's just
Speaker 1: not the the health care system is being stretched to
Speaker 1: the breaking point, and the health care system was a
Speaker 1: big reason, a big thing keeping the murder rate from
Speaker 1: being incredibly like much higher before. And then also there's
Speaker 1: just you know, the media and the gun companies are like,
Speaker 1: you know, conspiring to drive up gun sales, and so
Speaker 1: there's way way more guns now on the street than
Speaker 1: there ever has been. Those would seem to be like
Speaker 1: the two main contributing factors. And yet this New York
Speaker 1: Times article doesn't mention, uh, it mentions the fact that
Speaker 1: they're more guns, but it doesn't like really connected to
Speaker 1: the like, doesn't it doesn't really make a compelling case.
Speaker 1: I guess they're just like that's one of the things Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting too, and the stuff you
Speaker 1: wrote here, Like it's interesting that it's difficult to get
Speaker 1: statistics on how many gun injuries there are versus gun
Speaker 1: deaths because the gun lobby just like doesn't want that
Speaker 1: information to get out there of like how many people
Speaker 1: are injured by guns annually. Yeah, I think that's really fascinating.
Speaker 1: And yeah, speaking of like under reporting, is that new
Speaker 1: sort of study that came out that saying police are
Speaker 1: under reporting fatal shootings too that are being properly attributed
Speaker 1: to the police, And that found that like, yeah, black
Speaker 1: people were three and a half times more likely to
Speaker 1: die by police gunfire than than any other demographic or
Speaker 1: what actually than white people. And so yeah, there's like
Speaker 1: a lot of there's so many different sort of explanations
Speaker 1: for things, and it's there's been a few that was
Speaker 1: connecting this study to say, like, what it looks like
Speaker 1: we need more cops exactly. So what this looks like
Speaker 1: If this is the case and Black Lives Matter protests
Speaker 1: and uprisings made police feel bad, then god, I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe we just need more cops to brutalize people who
Speaker 1: are just out there in the streets and that would
Speaker 1: solve it. But that doesn't seem like a coherent solutioned
Speaker 1: the the populations where there are where they're seeing the
Speaker 1: biggest spike in murder rates are in isolated, marginalized communities
Speaker 1: where you know, and they're part of the American healthcare
Speaker 1: system where you are deemed not worthy of life saving
Speaker 1: medical care if you don't have a full time job.
Speaker 1: And like the problem, they're going to say, the problem
Speaker 1: is too few police. It's just fucking inexcusable, Like especially
Speaker 1: during this last year, which is like proven more than
Speaker 1: any other time, Like how interconnected everything is, Like the
Speaker 1: fact that there are more shooting deaths because of COVID
Speaker 1: because they can't get care because of the like it's
Speaker 1: all so thoroughly connected that just to say there were
Speaker 1: some protests a year ago and that's why more people
Speaker 1: are dying, it's just like not accurate, rather than you know,
Speaker 1: zooming out far enough to say, what's the root cause
Speaker 1: of crying? How do we stop the criminals? More police,
Speaker 1: rather than oh, we actually need to provide opportunity for
Speaker 1: more people left your own devices, your recourse in trying
Speaker 1: to survive maybe extra legal activity yea. And then to
Speaker 1: feel safe, and then to feel safe doing that, you
Speaker 1: have to have a gun, and and it just all
Speaker 1: is compounded. Yeah, And I just just want to go
Speaker 1: on the record of saying, like, for the past decades,
Speaker 1: my murder rate has stayed at zero every year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for decades and decades. That's your guarantee. Yeah, guarantee. I'm
Speaker 1: at zero and that's not changing any time soon. So
Speaker 1: I just want to get that out there. Could you imagine,
Speaker 1: like Andrew a bunch of people at what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Our fact checker actually came back and said, that's not accurate?
Speaker 1: Were you laughing? Self defense is different self defense with
Speaker 1: with wearing a Michael Myers mask, seasonal self defense Halloween. Like,
Speaker 1: so all the stuff that we just talked about gets
Speaker 1: either less than a paragraph or no mention. And then
Speaker 1: the This New York Times article has three paragraphs that
Speaker 1: begin with a sentence. The protests that erupted after the
Speaker 1: police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis were also an
Speaker 1: important fact during although experts differ about why, and then
Speaker 1: they basically say the two possible explanations are that the police,
Speaker 1: being under scrutiny and demoralized, pulled back from some aspects
Speaker 1: of crime prevention. And then there's also the explanation others
Speaker 1: put the emphasis on the public, suggesting that diminished respect
Speaker 1: for the police prompted more people to try and take
Speaker 1: the law into their own hands. What do you a
Speaker 1: fucking principle from an eighties You fucking believe that this
Speaker 1: is in the New York Times, Like there, dude, there
Speaker 1: are something's up over there. They're fucking up, like the
Speaker 1: suck up worse and worse every day. I don't think
Speaker 1: I think this has been the way it is, Like
Speaker 1: I think this is just all part of that sort
Speaker 1: of central like mainstream media narrative that like, you know,
Speaker 1: with respect the police and fucking right. But I guess
Speaker 1: it's because it's like even other places like well maybe
Speaker 1: we actually can be a little more nuanced and like
Speaker 1: talk to there are sources of information to give up
Speaker 1: better understanding. Where it's like, I think they're just probably
Speaker 1: just so entrenched in their way of doing things that
Speaker 1: they're not even really willing to challenge like the perspective
Speaker 1: of the paper itself to say like is there, like
Speaker 1: is there something where we can have a less like
Speaker 1: pro law enforcement bend to it that isn't in an
Speaker 1: op ed, like that's actually the reporting of the paper
Speaker 1: and I don't know what you know, Yeah, and this
Speaker 1: isn't or not that this is the reporting on the
Speaker 1: murder rate being up. And yeah, I mean so much
Speaker 1: of the mainstream media is like that sort of relationship
Speaker 1: between the media and the police, where like they go
Speaker 1: to the police for the official account of what happened,
Speaker 1: and that that includes like statistical explanation. Yeah, hey, chief,
Speaker 1: what can you tell us? Well, if these BLM protests
Speaker 1: didn't happen many, there probably wouldn't be as many murders. Great,
Speaker 1: thank you, I'll print that exactly, Like, don't you're not
Speaker 1: gonna ask many anything? Okay, suck it. Maybe if they
Speaker 1: didn't hurt our feelings. Basically, our feelings are hurt and
Speaker 1: we do not like the black lives. I'm sorry, Chief,
Speaker 1: did you say feelings? Uh? No, one, no further questions
Speaker 1: at this time. I'm gonna go into my Amazon booth.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back and we're back. All right, let's talk folders
Speaker 1: real quick, and then we're gonna talk about a quick game. Yeah. Well, look,
Speaker 1: the folders thing, right, if if I asked, y'all, do
Speaker 1: you know do you know a song called Real Snowy Morning?
Speaker 1: You're probably like, what the funk are you talking about? Well,
Speaker 1: that is the name of the Folgers theme song. That
Speaker 1: pretty much I'm gonna say, what what do you think
Speaker 1: the cut off is? People thirty enough probably like if
Speaker 1: you yelled it at him, they would know the best
Speaker 1: part awaken up this folders in morning. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: or they just were like, I'm an artist because they
Speaker 1: think just the first commercial there was snow in the
Speaker 1: background or something. I think there was like, well there
Speaker 1: used to be like like there were more lyrics, you know,
Speaker 1: like that just that was like sort of describing like
Speaker 1: a scene where it wasn't just like there were lyrics
Speaker 1: that preceded the best part of waking up as folders
Speaker 1: in your cup. But anyway, that's a track called real
Speaker 1: Snowy Morning. And what's very interesting is the like the
Speaker 1: performers rights to this jingle was up for auction last week,
Speaker 1: where essentially like you could buy their cut of their
Speaker 1: performance rights to the jingle, so whenever it's played, if
Speaker 1: you own them now, you would get cut in on
Speaker 1: those residual payments, and the bidding of this started off
Speaker 1: for at sixty three thousan dollars. They said, you can
Speaker 1: own a part portion of the rights to this jingle.
Speaker 1: It ended up going for I was in five dollars.
Speaker 1: And the way this works is every time this ship
Speaker 1: ariz on television with that song playing, they're gonna get
Speaker 1: a cut. So far, in the last year, this thing
Speaker 1: has paid out eleven thousand, seven seven dollars in like royalties. Now,
Speaker 1: was that all from folders, Yeah, because it's that that
Speaker 1: song it's tied. Yeah. Yeah, and they still do like
Speaker 1: come they you know, they modernize it, but that that
Speaker 1: little ditty typically a sonic tag. It's still in a
Speaker 1: lot of their marketing stuff. But um, a lot of
Speaker 1: people are noticing that, like the in the last like
Speaker 1: they said, it's made about twenty dollars in the last
Speaker 1: maybe ten years, and this actually like they only the
Speaker 1: only really started making money again in the last two years.
Speaker 1: So it's like also if folgers win another way, and
Speaker 1: you know Amigos starts doing the fucking you're fucked, bro,
Speaker 1: because if they don't use that sh anymore, then you
Speaker 1: just have a slim shred of this commercial. Have you
Speaker 1: guys seen the uh folder's commercial with the brother and
Speaker 1: sister coming home? Yeah, Like I really want to suck
Speaker 1: each other like so bad. It's like you're the president. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're my president. There's a lot of you know, there
Speaker 1: was a piece that was written like a few years
Speaker 1: ago where they did a fucking deep dive into that
Speaker 1: commercial to try and talk to everyone involved to be like, um,
Speaker 1: what the funk was that? And everyone's like I don't understand.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of them are like, you guys are
Speaker 1: fucking perverted. Like there's nothing aside from maybe those looks
Speaker 1: that was making you think that, uh it was that sexual,
Speaker 1: But I don't know the there was the way their
Speaker 1: eyes light up at each other. Oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 1: have you seen it? Andrew? I haven't seen it, but
Speaker 1: I do want to suck my sister, So I definitely
Speaker 1: get the vibe. I for sure get the vibe. Let
Speaker 1: me then, allow me to just play a little bit
Speaker 1: of this, yeah, so people can understand and and look,
Speaker 1: we we'll give you a running comment. All right, let's see.
Speaker 1: You must have the wrong house. Yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: as flirty as hell, like he did. He's like, am
Speaker 1: I at the wrong house. What they're in bed together? No,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm a dad. That's the parents something far away, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, just he's like, here's your present, and
Speaker 1: then okay it's that look up. There's a lot of looks.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is very flirty. You're the present, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean like there there's even a moment where they
Speaker 1: there's like an awkward moment where there's like eye contact
Speaker 1: and then he has to break eye contact because otherwise
Speaker 1: they would start kissing. Like that is that is that moment?
Speaker 1: I don't, I mean the bashful eye contacted then looking
Speaker 1: down is like so you universally sexual tension, yeah, like
Speaker 1: in a rom com. Yeah, yeah, it's it's funny, they said.
Speaker 1: Timothy Simon's from Veep. He was operating the cameras during
Speaker 1: the auditions and callback phase of this commercial too. Like
Speaker 1: he also contributed to this article about like there's like
Speaker 1: it's just funny how much people have been like just
Speaker 1: obsessed with this commercial like over the years to be
Speaker 1: like this is the weirdest one or like just one
Speaker 1: that's been hotly contested to be like what is the
Speaker 1: what are y'all saying here? But I don't know if
Speaker 1: they maybe the director was just really horny or something,
Speaker 1: or the actors performance it's right, but did the director
Speaker 1: go no, man like more tension. Man, sister just said,
Speaker 1: you're the president. Man, let that land. Man, let's see
Speaker 1: in your eyes. I mean it's also the camera shots,
Speaker 1: like the shots are like weirdly sexual, like they're super
Speaker 1: close in on his eye like looking at her like,
Speaker 1: that's that's sexual tension right there, when you have your
Speaker 1: chin down looking up. He smiles. That's my brother, sister.
Speaker 1: And look, I'm an only child, so what the fund
Speaker 1: do I know? But this would definitely if I saw
Speaker 1: the two people do that, I'm like, do I need
Speaker 1: to leave? Also, I just want to say this fucking
Speaker 1: guy who apparently came back, I just haven't want to
Speaker 1: add one last thing. He's like, oh man, I just
Speaker 1: got back from West Africa. He's like, finally, coffee, really
Speaker 1: Ethiopian coffee, Kenyan coffee, Ivory Coast. These people make. They
Speaker 1: have coffee there that is really good. So finally coffee
Speaker 1: that smells like they're just like that colonizer element to it.
Speaker 1: It's an incestuous colonizer narrative. And I'm not here for
Speaker 1: it with no coffee now wow, I mean yeah, I
Speaker 1: wonder if they're there. Explanation is colored by the fact
Speaker 1: that they like maybe really had a relationship or something
Speaker 1: on the on the filming, because that that is some
Speaker 1: serious palpable sexual test there. I almost like I want
Speaker 1: to be great to hire these actors again and just
Speaker 1: be like I'm doing like a comedy thing. Are you
Speaker 1: down to reprise these roles? Like I'll pay you like
Speaker 1: a fair rate, but like we're gonna take this. We're
Speaker 1: going to continue like this commercial, like just we have
Speaker 1: to see what happened the two days after this. It'll
Speaker 1: be like Cousins the movie, except with siblings. Said, wait,
Speaker 1: what's Cousins? I think that's a Ted Dancey movie where
Speaker 1: he is fucking his cousin. My god, I think from Interesting.
Speaker 1: I just remember always seeing it at the video store.
Speaker 1: I think the videos com but yeah about Cousins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like, gosh, won't people just be okay with
Speaker 1: us fucking each other? Yeah? Anyways, squid Game is taking over.
Speaker 1: Miles and I have watched episode one both right before
Speaker 1: we going to bed last night, and then I didn't
Speaker 1: sleep great, but um, I said grade. Actually, her majesty
Speaker 1: just it was a little it was intense for her,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you gotta decouple the violence from like,
Speaker 1: what the the what the what the message is here?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. There's not just people getting
Speaker 1: blasted left and right. I mean, like, what's it saying.
Speaker 1: It's like it's still really hardcore. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm a little bit desensitized. And then Andrew, you
Speaker 1: have watched episode eight and nine. Yeah, no, I watched
Speaker 1: the episode wanted to. I actually think it gets better
Speaker 1: at episode two. I think it goes in some surprising
Speaker 1: ways which I will now spoil for everyone. And then
Speaker 1: it's in No, but no, I do think the first
Speaker 1: episode it's kind of like a little predictable but cool.
Speaker 1: But the second episode does some surprising things where it
Speaker 1: makes me think, oh, I'm excited to watch the rest
Speaker 1: of the show. For you guys. Yeah, it makes some
Speaker 1: interesting choices that I that you don't see coming and
Speaker 1: that um, I think add more depth to the story
Speaker 1: and the characters. It's interesting because a lot of the
Speaker 1: like kind of mimified things that are happening are also
Speaker 1: thing from the first episode. So at first, I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: I was it was that like people people are slapping
Speaker 1: each other in the subway, which seems like a random meme,
Speaker 1: but that happens in the first episode. And then I
Speaker 1: was wondering, are they just being are these all people
Speaker 1: who only watched the first episode that they they were like,
Speaker 1: I gotta go out there and express my love for
Speaker 1: this first episode, or are they being super respectful of
Speaker 1: those of us who haven't seen the second episode and
Speaker 1: haven't good But yeah, I mean, so there's a there's
Speaker 1: a they use a real phone number in in the
Speaker 1: first episode, and when he gives him that like PlayStation card,
Speaker 1: he gives him a place what looks like a PlayStation
Speaker 1: card with what looks like the PlayStation logo on it,
Speaker 1: and then on the other side as a phone number,
Speaker 1: and that was a real phone number. It is the
Speaker 1: most like centrally framed phone number that uh I could
Speaker 1: imagine in a in a popular film. And then it
Speaker 1: was real. There's a person whose life has been turned
Speaker 1: upside down because they're now getting four thousand calls a day.
Speaker 1: They are also a just random dude and his mid forties.
Speaker 1: So I just want to quickly say all four thousand
Speaker 1: dollars from me. Yes, I call it four thousand. I
Speaker 1: signed the thing with my body rights. I'm ready. I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I'm ready. But maybe you know the person is a
Speaker 1: like a forty year old forty something person and who
Speaker 1: like seems to be have seemed to have been randomly selected.
Speaker 1: So maybe it's the filmmakers actually like doing something meta,
Speaker 1: and that person is going to get pulled into a
Speaker 1: dark game, and there's a I think they're gonna end
Speaker 1: up being okay with all those calls because now a
Speaker 1: South Korean semi fringe political candidate who's running for president
Speaker 1: wants to buy the number for eighty five thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: So I think, so, what what's the goal with that?
Speaker 1: People call it and then there's like a message it's
Speaker 1: just like, hey, you should vote for this guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that's what he's He's like, I've got a solution
Speaker 1: to our inequality call of this number. Yeah, like, well, wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, what's your platform exactly to kill a lot
Speaker 1: of your squid game? I'm the costumes that that was
Speaker 1: an immediate thought I had. The next time that I
Speaker 1: thought about Halloween costumes is there seems to be some
Speaker 1: very dope, very easy to pull off Halloween costumes throughout
Speaker 1: the first episode, and there they are being sold online.
Speaker 1: The ones I'm looking at don't look I don't know,
Speaker 1: they don't look super trustworthy. The one of them just
Speaker 1: says squid squid Game cosplay jumpsuit, squid game cosplay costumes,
Speaker 1: squid game mass costumes, squid game like it looks like
Speaker 1: it was just written by a s e O bot, right,
Speaker 1: but you know, and then the track suit that the
Speaker 1: listeners or whatever contestants have, is that what it actually
Speaker 1: looks like and they look similar to that? Okay, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. I didn't actually watch the whole first episode, guys,
Speaker 1: only five minutes in. Uh actually quick questions, you guys
Speaker 1: watching dubbed during Korean? What are you doing? Oh in Korean? Hey?
Speaker 1: It started as dubbed for me and I like five
Speaker 1: minutes in, I was like, I don't like this, but
Speaker 1: watching yeah, dubbed, just like it takes so much away,
Speaker 1: Like you can't really see the right performances of because
Speaker 1: even if I don't speak the language like you can,
Speaker 1: there's like there's a you know, an intangible quality that
Speaker 1: that comes across the performance. And yeah, and I've actually
Speaker 1: decided I like the second episode so much that I'm
Speaker 1: not going to watch anymore until I become fluent in Korean.
Speaker 1: So right, that's exciting. Have you started taking lessons or no? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not gonna let it happen naturally. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna wait for it to kind to come to me.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, like me in college. Yeah, exactly what.
Speaker 1: You're gonna meet people for a long time. It's gonna
Speaker 1: just no energy invested at all. It'll work out. Koreans
Speaker 1: also a cool language. It sounds cool to hear, you know,
Speaker 1: it's cool. I now have My wife is Korean. I
Speaker 1: live basically in Koreatown. I have no excuse not to
Speaker 1: learn Korean. Does she speak kore influently? She speaks Korean? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I fluently. Um, her mom, who grew up in Korea
Speaker 1: and dead grew up in Korea, are like, would not
Speaker 1: say she speaks it fluently, but as hell to me? Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you watch it with her? No, she was asleep,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna have to rewatch episode one and then Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, sounds cool? Is that they said? Is that?
Speaker 1: What they really said, is that you check the translation.
Speaker 1: Somebody did so, but what did I say? It's anything
Speaker 1: like yeah, contextually, am I missing anything? Or somebody did
Speaker 1: like tweet that they were like, you know, like this
Speaker 1: is super annoying. I apologize, but as a fluent Korean
Speaker 1: speaker they fucked up the subtitles, Like you really have
Speaker 1: to be a fluent create appreciate the show writing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the writing is like amazing, but you wouldn't get that
Speaker 1: from the subject. I mean that's a typical issue with
Speaker 1: anything that's getting translated, because sometimes it may be someone
Speaker 1: who's like super proficient in a language, like without fully
Speaker 1: being able to like recreate in words like what that
Speaker 1: equivalent should be. Yeah, I mean there's also something poetic,
Speaker 1: you know, Like I think when when books are translated,
Speaker 1: there's like so much thought that goes into it because
Speaker 1: you have to capture the kind of the poetic construction
Speaker 1: of the of the words. And maybe yeah, maybe it's
Speaker 1: with with TV shows people put less heart into it
Speaker 1: or something, yeah, or it's just rushed, but yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a that to its own art form, like to be
Speaker 1: able to translate. Like I remember once I helped translate
Speaker 1: a Japanese film, but they had me come into like
Speaker 1: punch up the diet, like to punch up the translation.
Speaker 1: So it actually to a younger American person was like
Speaker 1: an equivalent rather than like, hey, did you hear you
Speaker 1: fuck you bastard. You know nobody's saying that. It's like
Speaker 1: fun off. Yeah. So a couple other like tie insto
Speaker 1: it you can buy the depressing lunch box set that
Speaker 1: the prisoners eat. I think that is from a later episode.
Speaker 1: I don't think that happens in the first episode. That too. Okay,
Speaker 1: you'll see, you'll get there. But uh, in the Philippines
Speaker 1: installed a life sized giant robot that is looks identical
Speaker 1: to the one are very similar to the one from
Speaker 1: the Red Light Green Light game in the first episode,
Speaker 1: which is interesting because that so it's like supposed to
Speaker 1: stop jaywalkers. That that seems like a the hell of
Speaker 1: a message to assend. I'll just say that for anybody
Speaker 1: who hasn't seen it, right right right, Wow, that's in
Speaker 1: just a jay walker's that fucking head spins around and
Speaker 1: the eyes like it's also weird to do that in
Speaker 1: the country where like the president is like down to
Speaker 1: kill people who use drugs like on the streets, like
Speaker 1: not the great not the best country to be kind
Speaker 1: of putting that out there as a promotional device. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my guests would be that that happened because terror tas
Speaker 1: saw the I like that. I like that it was
Speaker 1: do that for Jay Walkers. It's taken over TikTok. Like
Speaker 1: I mentioned, there's a people slapping each other in the
Speaker 1: Subway Stations game that's getting recreated. And the show only
Speaker 1: came out two weeks ago. It's so popular right now
Speaker 1: around the world that Netflix is being sued for all
Speaker 1: the bandwidth that is getting used up. It's getting sued
Speaker 1: by Internet serve providers basically around in South Korea for one,
Speaker 1: which is already an issue like that, basically the you
Speaker 1: know I sps are being super heavily text in ways
Speaker 1: that they weren't expecting before streaming became a thing. But
Speaker 1: it's been a thing now for for a while. But
Speaker 1: I love that. It's like, dude, the contents too lit.
Speaker 1: That's basically what it is, infro being transmitted. Yeah, but anyways,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a real phenomenon. I highly recommend the
Speaker 1: first episode. I can tell you that I can say
Speaker 1: the same and I'm I'm like kind of at that
Speaker 1: crossroads where I'm like, do I leave her majesty behind
Speaker 1: to keep watching it? Because like I it's a show
Speaker 1: where I fucking want to just keep like I don't
Speaker 1: want to stop, Like I think I could do it
Speaker 1: all in one sitting on Sunday, Like I'm just like
Speaker 1: clear off the calendar time for squid Game. But I
Speaker 1: don't know if my partner is going to be happy
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, maybe let's watch it twice. Fuck it's
Speaker 1: the first episode again. Yeah, Andrew, such a pleasure having you,
Speaker 1: thank you for for having me is so much fun.
Speaker 1: I love the show and happy to be part of it.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Where can people find you and follow you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm online at Andrew mis Sean M I, C H
Speaker 1: A A and and all this stuff. And then my
Speaker 1: podcast is podcast but outside what you mentioned earlier. But
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar, we set up a table on
Speaker 1: the sidewalk and interview strangers as they happen to be
Speaker 1: walking by. It's very unexpected and fun and interesting conversations
Speaker 1: with different types of people every week on YouTube and
Speaker 1: podcast apps. You guys are really good at like getting
Speaker 1: finding interesting people and just like, yeah, you know, having
Speaker 1: done it for a few years. It's almost self selecting,
Speaker 1: and that usually the people that tend to sit down
Speaker 1: to the people that tend to be interesting. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think we've gotten really good at kind of teasing
Speaker 1: out what makes them interesting as quick as possible. We're
Speaker 1: also on tour right now. We're doing a live a
Speaker 1: live version of the show, which I think is actually
Speaker 1: better than like it's really our live show is really
Speaker 1: special and fun. The premise is basically me and my
Speaker 1: podcast co host col hirsch Er in the theater, and
Speaker 1: then our intern who's like kind of become a third
Speaker 1: member of the show. He's like a young charismatic guy.
Speaker 1: He goes live on Instagram and that's projected behind us
Speaker 1: on a projector at the venue, and he leaves the venue,
Speaker 1: goes outside and finds random strangers who are like walking
Speaker 1: home from work or on their way to dinner, and
Speaker 1: convinces them to come be interviewed on the show. So
Speaker 1: they're just like living their lives. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, they walk into a venue with like three
Speaker 1: people in the audience, and like we've been watching, so
Speaker 1: the audience knows their names, so we're all chanting for
Speaker 1: their name. Like Mike, Mike, Mike, and then they walk
Speaker 1: in and they're like, what is this at what is happening?
Speaker 1: And so we've had some really fun Like in Oakland,
Speaker 1: we had these these two young guys who came on
Speaker 1: and then we're talking to them and we're like they
Speaker 1: were like in their early twenties and we're like, so
Speaker 1: you guys know each other a long time. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been friends since high school. And a woman in
Speaker 1: the audience goes, you guys go to albody high and
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, who's that. She goes, it's miss Green.
Speaker 1: You're English teacher. They're English teacher was a fan of
Speaker 1: our show, and she came on stage and we all
Speaker 1: talked about high school. It was really cool. So Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got our East coast run d C, Philly, New York,
Speaker 1: and Boston. Some of them are almost sold out, but um,
Speaker 1: it's a very fun, exciting show. Even if you're not
Speaker 1: familiar with our podcast, I would highly recommend coming to
Speaker 1: that if you're any of those cities. That's awesome. Yeah. Thanks.
Speaker 1: Is there a tweet or some of the work of
Speaker 1: social media you've been enjoying. Yeah, I saw a friend
Speaker 1: had a funny tweet yesterday. This girl Helena Fresh Hell
Speaker 1: do you follow her on Twitter? She's very funny. She says,
Speaker 1: I want nepotism to happen to me. That would be
Speaker 1: more ethical than when it happens regular regular, more regular style,
Speaker 1: when it happens regular. I love that Miles where people
Speaker 1: find you. What's a tweet you've been in on Twitter
Speaker 1: and Instagram? At Miles of Gray. Also the other show
Speaker 1: four twenty Day Fiance. If you like ninety Day Fiance
Speaker 1: and Stoned Funniness, it's Sophia, Alexander and I talking about
Speaker 1: our favor at TV show, So check that out. First
Speaker 1: tweet I like is from at low Land Louis or
Speaker 1: oh no, it's l O L and Louis. Uh huh,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. Uh. And Mr Mr Problems tweeted
Speaker 1: it's officially hoodie stealing season, which is to say grand
Speaker 1: theft Autumn and somebody who has had so many fucking
Speaker 1: hooded sweatshirts stolen from me from romantic partners. It resonates
Speaker 1: with me and I'm still I'm looking at you, Bianca.
Speaker 1: I know you have my baby cause collabor hooded sweatshirt
Speaker 1: that ship came from Japan. And I know it just
Speaker 1: looks great to you, but that ship is very valuable
Speaker 1: to me. Please give it back, Banca. Is that why
Speaker 1: you like? Is that what you like living with your
Speaker 1: partner because you don't have to worry about that? Nah?
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. And I'm like, my ship's way too big
Speaker 1: for her. So it's just like it looks goofy or
Speaker 1: asked her to move in after the first date, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can see the way she's looking at my hoodies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've gotta be in the same roof all right, come on,
Speaker 1: let's just do this. Let's make it aficient. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then next one at Catholic Dad for twenty tweeted being
Speaker 1: vaguely ethnic means no matter what type of corner store
Speaker 1: I go to, the owner treats me like his nephew,
Speaker 1: and I feel that ship very deep in my bones.
Speaker 1: I will say this for the amount of like doughnuts
Speaker 1: stores that were owned by Cambodian immigrants in like l
Speaker 1: a Man. When I was a kid, I would go
Speaker 1: in there and they would be like, oh, your Cambodian,
Speaker 1: and I'm like nah, They're like, no, your Cambodi, and
Speaker 1: I'm like okay, and then I got free donuts. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm Cambodia, come out. What a beautiful way to grow
Speaker 1: up Cambodian. Yeah, reinforcement through donuts. Let's see. You can
Speaker 1: find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore. O'Brian a tweet
Speaker 1: I've been enjoying uh. Paul Musgrave tweeted did humans really
Speaker 1: build the New York City subway system? At one billion
Speaker 1: dollars per mile? In today's costs? How could primitive twentieth
Speaker 1: century humans have built eight hundred and fifty miles of act?
Speaker 1: Did they have extra terrestrial assistants or did they have
Speaker 1: some way of not spending a goddamn billion dollars a mile?
Speaker 1: And then Sean O'Connor tweeted a Sopranos movie released during
Speaker 1: spooky season. Yeah, I'm gonna call them gabba ghouls. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: can't beat that beat that. You can find us on
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Speaker 1: we talked about in today's episode, as well as a
Speaker 1: song that we think it might enjoy miles. What song
Speaker 1: are we telling people to go check out? You want
Speaker 1: to check out? Let's just you know, I'm feeling, you know,
Speaker 1: after that Folders commercial, So I wanted to attract By
Speaker 1: the Juggernauts j U G G A K and O
Speaker 1: T S. This is a Bronx rap group from the
Speaker 1: nineties that, like how like a vinyl that came out
Speaker 1: and then but it was like on like Barbito's label,
Speaker 1: where like it only came out on vinyl and never
Speaker 1: hit mainstream. But this track is called clear Blue Skies,
Speaker 1: which is very funny because when you listen to it,
Speaker 1: for those of us who know the Meters, they're sampling
Speaker 1: the tracks Stormy by the Meters for the instrumental and
Speaker 1: it just has that like you know, golden era of
Speaker 1: boom bath New York rap style that I love, so
Speaker 1: you will love it too. To start your week, it's
Speaker 1: clear Blue Skies by Juggonauts right, well, we are going
Speaker 1: to send you to go listen to that. The Daily
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