Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one, episode five
Speaker 1: of used the production of I Heart Radio. This is
Speaker 1: a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's
Speaker 1: share consciousness. And it's Friday, August twenty one. My named
Speaker 1: is Jack O'Brian a k all. In all, it's just
Speaker 1: another kick in the balls as courtesy of Pink Fluid,
Speaker 1: and I feel like a more accurate description of our
Speaker 1: current post apocalyptic landscape. I'm thrilled to be joined as
Speaker 1: always by my co host Mr Miles Gray. With vaccinations,
Speaker 1: you'll survive with your life, but you gotta be smart
Speaker 1: about it and not you lation well, get you life. Okay,
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Speaker 1: who knew usually I was doing the right thing with
Speaker 1: vaccinations at his veggat show. Shout out to me again
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Speaker 1: the old ERSH. Yeah, I mean you didn't mention the
Speaker 1: fact that it's going to make my seeming less valuable
Speaker 1: on the open market. We'll we'll we'll debate that later
Speaker 1: on in the show. Okay, all right now, I'm just saying,
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Speaker 1: to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious writer, comedian,
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Speaker 1: Please welcome the hilarious and talented Vince Man singing. I
Speaker 1: guess who just got back today? Was that? Not the
Speaker 1: singing like you guys like? I didn't prepare parody, but
Speaker 1: I was right is back in town? That was great? Man?
Speaker 1: How are you? Oh? I'm good. I'm just uh, you know,
Speaker 1: breathing in a lot of wildfire smoke and then and
Speaker 1: and hacking up flin balls. That's great. Yeah, picking wild
Speaker 1: hits of forest ash. Yeah, yeah, it gave me a
Speaker 1: headache yesterday I was like, wait, it's my I was like,
Speaker 1: is it my allergies? I'm like, no, it's the wild
Speaker 1: fire headaches I get. Yeah, you know what, you know
Speaker 1: how they put like fluoride in the water to keep
Speaker 1: our teeth a nice way. I feel like they should
Speaker 1: put like nicotine in the pine trees that way, then
Speaker 1: fill us out a little bit. Yeah, when the wildfire's happen,
Speaker 1: and then then at least it's like, you know, we
Speaker 1: get a little h cigarette high off of it. I
Speaker 1: do wonder like, is there a THHC content to the
Speaker 1: air in Los Angeles these days just because of all
Speaker 1: the weed farms that are burning up? And I don't really,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think like eighth grade me would have
Speaker 1: been like, dude, I bet if we drive close enough,
Speaker 1: like we get so high just from reading there. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. I don't know. I doubt
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be enough for you to notice, Miles. But
Speaker 1: if I start having panic attacks and thinking everybody's talking
Speaker 1: about me, I'll let y'all know that that'll probably be
Speaker 1: a good sign that I'm getting a little bit of
Speaker 1: a contact. Alright, alright, let me know, all right, Vince
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
Speaker 1: few of the things we're talking about. Uh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: check in with Floyd Ray Roseberry. I mean, that is
Speaker 1: the most mega name possible. I don't think you could
Speaker 1: fucking workshop that any better. That's the dude who was
Speaker 1: live streaming his standoff with Capitol police outside of the
Speaker 1: Library of Congress with his and his pickup and with
Speaker 1: his finger on a detonator. I watched another little surreal
Speaker 1: scene from this modern world of ours. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about anti vax sperm. It's the new goal. I've been
Speaker 1: saying this for a long time, but finally the world
Speaker 1: is caught up. We will talk about the The f
Speaker 1: a A is having to, you know, deal with airplane
Speaker 1: passengers in a new way where things have just gone
Speaker 1: too far. It seems like so there they have updated there.
Speaker 1: I don't know what is it there, Bill of passenger
Speaker 1: like bill of rights or something. No. I mean, if
Speaker 1: they they've that, they've announced that, they just they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we've given out a million dollars in fines already for
Speaker 1: people fucking around on planes, and we've done it faster
Speaker 1: than ever before. Congrats, Congrats America. We'll go into some
Speaker 1: of the fines and that everyone's acting like a feral
Speaker 1: cocaine hug on an airplane. Now we'll talk about Fox
Speaker 1: News vaccination. They're they're about to have to reveal their
Speaker 1: vaccination status. We'll talk about the Canadian election. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that new Jeopardy host. We're getting new details of
Speaker 1: what that search in quotes looked like and what kind
Speaker 1: of dude he is, all of that plenty more. But first, Vince,
Speaker 1: we like to ask our guests, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history. I recently searched Jonathan Taylor Thomas. I
Speaker 1: wanted to know what he looked like, you know, get
Speaker 1: from Improvement. Yeah, that's a that's a common search, actually,
Speaker 1: I think I think we've had that before you. So
Speaker 1: you're looking for, isn't da j T T? Yeah? My
Speaker 1: stepson was watching an old movie with Jonathan Taylor Thomas,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to know what he looks like now.
Speaker 1: And I got like, I guess he had been photographed
Speaker 1: for the first time in like eight years recently, and
Speaker 1: it was It didn't tell me much, it was just
Speaker 1: him in a hat and some glasses, vaping while he
Speaker 1: walked a couple of poodles. Yeah, damn, that picture does
Speaker 1: make me feel old. Yeah, it's wearing a Mets hat.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a double edged sword because it's like
Speaker 1: you don't want to be a public figure anymore, which
Speaker 1: I respect. But then like when you get photographed once
Speaker 1: every eight years, every time people are like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's aged. Yeah, well, yeah he's taking gene game or offensive.
Speaker 1: Those balances are on tight my guy. Wow, Yeah he's
Speaker 1: got the beat up old new balances. There. Those bootcut jeans,
Speaker 1: I guess those are more Yeah, he cut, but they're
Speaker 1: they're no. I was saying, like, is he is he cool?
Speaker 1: Does he have bootleg jeans? Like the coolest among us?
Speaker 1: Are this cool? Now? Are this cool again? Don't please,
Speaker 1: don't man, this guy's upside down upside down on some
Speaker 1: bootleg jeans. Man, he container? It was only seventy grand
Speaker 1: for this whole shipping container packed to the gills with
Speaker 1: boot cut lee jeans. Oh man, so cool though, because
Speaker 1: you know you got you gotta let him know tight up.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna convince people with that that very low
Speaker 1: energy pitch. Oh sick this what is something you think
Speaker 1: is overrated? I mean this is an easy one. I
Speaker 1: don't know if someone's done this yet, but I mean
Speaker 1: the Afghan National Army, m you weren't impressed. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: bit of a paper tiger there, seems like, yeah, well
Speaker 1: you know what a funk. I mean right now there's
Speaker 1: people they're they're reclaiming parts of the country, so this
Speaker 1: thing is is just all over the place. That whole
Speaker 1: thing was just so wild. Like along with that, I
Speaker 1: mean talking about the U. S Military like being completely
Speaker 1: overrated after that as well, like when you're thinking, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're fine. This thing is unwinnable and it
Speaker 1: was just a big old military you know, fire sales
Speaker 1: slash spender palooza, and then we did this now yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: then do we pay any of the people in the
Speaker 1: Afghan National Army. I feel like it was a lot
Speaker 1: of well, you don't want to pay him because then
Speaker 1: they'll get lazy. I thought there was I thought there
Speaker 1: was like palates of money going around to warlords kind
Speaker 1: of thing. Well, that was how they were trying to
Speaker 1: get people to agree to the you know, like new
Speaker 1: policies of this government. And it was just sort of basically,
Speaker 1: what if we give you money to agree? And they're
Speaker 1: like yeah, great, and that's just not a sustainable way
Speaker 1: of doing things. And then we're like, why are these
Speaker 1: people so corrupt? We paid him to do what we wanted.
Speaker 1: It's weird, right right right? Yeah, And that's why I
Speaker 1: like they think every like everyone now who's looking at it,
Speaker 1: who before wasn't like this is an absolute waste? Is
Speaker 1: like wait it was what? Oh well, that sounds like
Speaker 1: an absolute mess, Like, yeah, it was. What's something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated events? I mean, on that note, I
Speaker 1: gotta go with the Taliban. You know, they just seemed
Speaker 1: like they wanted it more, had a lot of great
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah yeah, and they had to go for all,
Speaker 1: getting all the loose balls, yeah, taking out the lunch
Speaker 1: pail and going to work. You know, they're grinders. I've
Speaker 1: always said that about the Taliban. That's what that's what
Speaker 1: you all sound like. Donald Trump said, yeah, they're great negotiators.
Speaker 1: He was saying he was, he's big, he was bigging
Speaker 1: up the Taliban. Uhh. But again, this is I think,
Speaker 1: and that's why I think you saw a lot of
Speaker 1: conservatives who are like suddenly like Team Taliban all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, and you're like, what the fuck is Yeah,
Speaker 1: they kind of really like. I saw some right wing
Speaker 1: guy tweet about how you know, the Taliban is pro
Speaker 1: abortion and anti all these liberal things, and he's like,
Speaker 1: why why were we on the other side again? And
Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, I mean, we've been calling you
Speaker 1: guys the American Taliban for like ten twenty years now,
Speaker 1: Like it's weird that you just noticed the similarity, right, Like,
Speaker 1: oh you were right, y'all, weren't kidding? Okay, Well, speaking
Speaker 1: of the American Taliban, let's get to this. This gentleman
Speaker 1: by the name of Floyd Ray Roseberry just kind of
Speaker 1: announcing himself on the scene in a big way yesterday
Speaker 1: morning by pulling his pick up up on the front
Speaker 1: doorstep of the Library of Congress with a detonator and
Speaker 1: live streaming his negotiations with Capitol police. Just a nice
Speaker 1: little snapshot of like what we got festering just below
Speaker 1: the surface on in the right wing portions, the right
Speaker 1: wing echo chambers of the country. Did you guys catch
Speaker 1: any of any of his commentary? Now, I didn't watch him.
Speaker 1: I saw someone who had a written description of the
Speaker 1: main points of his live stream. Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: this is you know, this is just seems like a
Speaker 1: natural extension after January six the people who don't see
Speaker 1: any sort of repercussions for doing ship like this and
Speaker 1: that that this is a way to do something. But
Speaker 1: this guy didn't even It seemed like he wasn't even
Speaker 1: clear on what he wanted, aside from saying, I want
Speaker 1: to speak to Joe Biden, but he can resign. I
Speaker 1: also don't want to harm anyone. He wants to talk
Speaker 1: to Sampson. That's what I heard, Yeah, exactly. He really
Speaker 1: came to speak to the manager of d C in
Speaker 1: the weirdest fucking way, and it was just it's right
Speaker 1: on some level, I'm like, this is all I mean,
Speaker 1: this dude is pump faking or whatever. But also, fuck,
Speaker 1: like this is so real now that this is. You
Speaker 1: can tell by the way the language he's using. He's
Speaker 1: trying to say, like, some of you are calling yourselves patriots,
Speaker 1: but you're golfing and doing this other stuff. We need
Speaker 1: to do ship. Uh. Fuck. It seems like the official
Speaker 1: ideology of like the Trumpist right is incoherent rage now
Speaker 1: and uh and so like every time one of them
Speaker 1: gets up to shout, it's just like a stream of consciousness,
Speaker 1: like a set of grievances. And I'm curious how this
Speaker 1: negotiation goes because, uh, I haven't I haven't heard what
Speaker 1: he wants yet, but I'm sure it's super super coherent.
Speaker 1: Well right now, right, he did he gave it up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did take him into custody at the end of it,
Speaker 1: so he didn't blow anything up and ultimately got whatever
Speaker 1: he was looking for. So, I mean, he's probably in
Speaker 1: a meeting with Joe Biden right now. No no word
Speaker 1: on on how those negotiations are going, but we'll see
Speaker 1: probably just his his sizzle reel for like an news
Speaker 1: Max show that he from prison. Yeah, that's the main
Speaker 1: thing that we all want, is just a media career.
Speaker 1: But i mean, like, you know, with all even all
Speaker 1: jokes aside, you can tell the way this guy is talking,
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna stop, and it's it's just gonna get worse,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And like I as much
Speaker 1: as I'm like, I'm also like it's you know, everything
Speaker 1: is unfolding in a way that seems very predictable, where
Speaker 1: there's all still these people who call themselves quote unquote
Speaker 1: patriots who are trying to rally each other and embolden
Speaker 1: each other, and I'm I don't I'm curious to understand
Speaker 1: what the end game is like in terms of what
Speaker 1: this I don't know, like what domestic this domestic terror
Speaker 1: problem and how that's gonna play out and ultimately be
Speaker 1: settled or not or embraced. It's the yeah, go on
Speaker 1: lot going on. Then there was like a there was
Speaker 1: another bomb scaring like Times Square too at the same time,
Speaker 1: and then there's a truck on like the Bay Bridge
Speaker 1: that was like on fires. There was a wild morning. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Our understanding of what like liberty and all the things
Speaker 1: that we talked about, our understanding of what that means,
Speaker 1: it gets like narrower and narrower and more scattered, to
Speaker 1: the point where it's just like, well, I ain't putting
Speaker 1: out no mask, man, this is a mirka And if
Speaker 1: you asked me to do that, I'm I'm just a patriot.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Liberty is me being able to do whatever
Speaker 1: I want in this moment right now, where the list
Speaker 1: of consequences seems to be the going definition and some
Speaker 1: in some circles. Yeah, I mean, there's just the world
Speaker 1: is painful right now, and we've got a lot of
Speaker 1: people who are making a lot of money giving people
Speaker 1: convenient scapegoats and lies and targets. And I don't know
Speaker 1: how it's gonna get better before it gets worse. Because
Speaker 1: he even said something about his health care, you know,
Speaker 1: and like not getting able to get like shots for
Speaker 1: his back and always been in the court of zone
Speaker 1: or whatever. That's something. And like you realize too that
Speaker 1: like all so many people are feeling the squeeze of
Speaker 1: how fucked up and just inhumane this country is. But
Speaker 1: but people are get get squeezed to these media machines
Speaker 1: and come out to the other side thinking like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's because of this, that and the other thing that
Speaker 1: is the reason why my life experiences like this and yeah,
Speaker 1: and then it just manifests into this real world nightmare ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're all mad about like real ship. And then uh,
Speaker 1: it just gets who they blame gets really scattered and weird.
Speaker 1: It's like, man, I can't believe I can't get the
Speaker 1: shots I need. And it's like, oh, is it because
Speaker 1: we you don't have healthcare? No, it's because like immigrants
Speaker 1: and the maskers and stuff, and you're like, okay, I
Speaker 1: mean sure, but I mean that's the brilliance of how
Speaker 1: these like the media apparatus apparati machines are working to
Speaker 1: keep people on a steady diet of misinformation to just
Speaker 1: be like you're always going to be close enough to
Speaker 1: the problem but not quite to begin to like move
Speaker 1: in a direction that's constructive. Yeah, it's the kind of
Speaker 1: natural outcome of a world where there's not really a media.
Speaker 1: There's like a bunch of machines feeding people content just
Speaker 1: based on what's going to keep them quote engaged the most.
Speaker 1: And so it's just, uh, you know, whatever they want
Speaker 1: to hear. Like you, the reality becomes a you know,
Speaker 1: self fulfilling. It just generates from whatever they want to hear,
Speaker 1: is what what reality becomes. Yeah. VC has ruined the
Speaker 1: Internet first and then now they're ruining the actual world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fun, it is all right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll be right back. And we're back, and
Speaker 1: let's talk some anti vax sperm sounds like in online
Speaker 1: communities there's a new conspiracy theory bubbling up that's kind
Speaker 1: of a gross wave putting it, but essentially anti vax
Speaker 1: guys are saying their sperm will become one of the
Speaker 1: most in demand substances on the planet because those of
Speaker 1: us who got suckered into taking the vaccine are now
Speaker 1: going to be sterile, sterilized. I think that's a big
Speaker 1: part of the the anti vax tex they called it, Yeah, Texas,
Speaker 1: Texas Pearl they say. Essentially, the logic, it's funny, this
Speaker 1: is just a confluence of so many weird things. But
Speaker 1: the logic is that because the vaccine is experimental, that
Speaker 1: their fears about you know, like what it means, because
Speaker 1: it's at experimental and unsafe and like the great herd
Speaker 1: thinning of the you know, the global elite, that essentially
Speaker 1: their fears will play out in this way that vact
Speaker 1: the vaccinated population just falls apart because everyone is poisoned,
Speaker 1: and then those that want healthy offspring are going to
Speaker 1: be breaking down the doors of unvaccinated men and it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be just it's gonna be raining. And like
Speaker 1: all conspiracy theories, this is a combination of a couple
Speaker 1: of things that are true along with some total bullshit.
Speaker 1: But their red string theory ship doesn't doesn't even come
Speaker 1: close to being related in any significant way, but it's
Speaker 1: just enough, like you could put three articles in front
Speaker 1: of someone be like, and this is the theory. So
Speaker 1: the first part is they think the Red Cross is
Speaker 1: asking for unvaccinated blood. They're saying the Red Cross that
Speaker 1: says unvaccinated blood high and demand and also turning away
Speaker 1: vaccinated donors. Not true at all, absolute horseshit. There's nothing
Speaker 1: even remotely close to this statement being true. But they
Speaker 1: wanted to be. They wanted to be, like with Clip
Speaker 1: Floyd Ray Roseberry, it's, you know, whatever they want to
Speaker 1: be true creates it just becomes the reality. Then the
Speaker 1: next part is that sperm banks apparently have like low
Speaker 1: reserves at the moment. That is true, but all of
Speaker 1: them say it's because of COVID. It's just slowed down donations.
Speaker 1: It's not because of anything else going on. It's just
Speaker 1: because it's a pandemic. So some not everyone's priorities to
Speaker 1: go on down to the sperm bank for a donation
Speaker 1: at the moment. Then you have the like their subreddit
Speaker 1: of like Wall Street bets Vibes that has people on
Speaker 1: some fucked up monetary speculation tick. So they're like, okay, man,
Speaker 1: this is like the new game stocks AMC but might
Speaker 1: come and that the coal. Right, So do you see
Speaker 1: like there's this in this Vice article they say that
Speaker 1: there's a screenshot from like this headline of an article
Speaker 1: from a crypto blog that's this quote, is unvaccinated sperm
Speaker 1: really the next bitcoin? And that is being passed around
Speaker 1: no context, even though the if you read the article,
Speaker 1: the answer is no. So yeah, it's it's a very
Speaker 1: very odd thing. You look at some of the comments
Speaker 1: to say, mark my words that unvaccinated sperm and blood
Speaker 1: will be in high commodity in a few months to
Speaker 1: a year. Oh okay, but yeah. And then the other
Speaker 1: thing is the irony here is that a lot of
Speaker 1: studies have shown that COVID has been detected in pen
Speaker 1: island testicular tissues as well as sperm, and some of
Speaker 1: you found it could possibly lead to erectile dysfunction and
Speaker 1: infertility if you have COVID. But that's again they take
Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff that you see as research
Speaker 1: into those things as causation or correlation to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, they're looking into it, so
Speaker 1: it must be that vaccinated sperm could be poison. Well,
Speaker 1: I feel every new thing like the go to conspiracy
Speaker 1: is that like like this always gonna make me gay,
Speaker 1: ain't it? Or you know, the vaccine is like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's about my dick again, and uh, it's about my
Speaker 1: dick again. It's the Yeah, it's the it's the go
Speaker 1: to thing. It's like, you know, I mean, be the
Speaker 1: thought that the way into a toxic man's heart is
Speaker 1: to threaten their peeps. And then immediately they're on board
Speaker 1: to be like oh no, oh no, threaten our nation's
Speaker 1: most vital resource, which is, you know, our masculinity. I've
Speaker 1: heard p s. A hasn't seen some online that are
Speaker 1: like with doctors sort of going that route to be
Speaker 1: like you should get vaccinated because COVID could potentially give
Speaker 1: you a rectile this function, so come on. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: like they were really leaning into the like hey man,
Speaker 1: PEP care, like get the vaccination. But yeah, this is
Speaker 1: you know, the always checking in with what the conspiracies
Speaker 1: are because first it was like they were wearing masks
Speaker 1: because they were worried about getting COVID from vaccinated people.
Speaker 1: And now we're at a place where the sperm is gold.
Speaker 1: I just like, it's about my dick again, as like
Speaker 1: a just standing like somebody reviewing their thoughts. It's about
Speaker 1: my dick again. They're like going to a therapist. It's
Speaker 1: about my dick again. Anyways. So yeah, I mean, you
Speaker 1: know total that sperm, as they say on Reddit, hold
Speaker 1: on for dear life. So that's what that is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: total hell. Yeah, is that it's like sting going to
Speaker 1: be our new king, just holding onto this sperm forever, right,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, it's it's yeah, this
Speaker 1: is this is where we're right now, where sperm could
Speaker 1: be the new crypto, or at least they have people
Speaker 1: really mentally emotionally invested in that idea. They should go
Speaker 1: mind for it. They should do some jis coin mining.
Speaker 1: I watch someone's gonna start that as a joke, like
Speaker 1: jizz coin, and then it's then then let the internet
Speaker 1: do its thing. Mm hmm. Alright, let's talk about the
Speaker 1: f a A. They recently announced that they've reached a
Speaker 1: new milestone in record time. After going through three thousand,
Speaker 1: eight hundred and eighty nine reported incidents. They have now
Speaker 1: charged people with funds that have gone over one million dollars.
Speaker 1: So I think that we should just take this as
Speaker 1: a as a report card and say congratulations to America.
Speaker 1: We did it. We're killing it. Absolutely, no one knows
Speaker 1: how to act. Everyone is on some other about to
Speaker 1: snap type energy no matter what. Yeah, there's like a
Speaker 1: sort of collection of some of the fines that have
Speaker 1: been doled out, and these aren't just like little slaps
Speaker 1: on the wrist some people, like forty five thousand dollar
Speaker 1: fine against a passenger in May of this year because
Speaker 1: someone was allegedly throwing objects, including his carry on luggage,
Speaker 1: at other passengers, refusing to stay steed seated, lying on
Speaker 1: the floor in the aisle, refusing to get up, then
Speaker 1: grabbing a flight attendant by the ankles and putting his
Speaker 1: head up her skirt. The passenger was placed in flex
Speaker 1: cuffs and the flight made an emergency landing in Virginia.
Speaker 1: Another one is forty two dollars for a passenger and
Speaker 1: may on Jet Blue from a flight from Queens to
Speaker 1: San Francisco allegedly interfering with crew members, failing to comply
Speaker 1: with the face mask mandate, making non consensual physical contact
Speaker 1: with another passenger, throwing a plane card at a passenger
Speaker 1: and threatening him with physical harm, making stabbing gestures towards
Speaker 1: certain passengers, and snorting would appear to be cocaine from
Speaker 1: a plastic bag, which the cabin crew confiscated. The passenger
Speaker 1: became increasingly agitated, and the crew equipped themselves with flex
Speaker 1: cuffs and ice mallets to ensure the safety of the flight.
Speaker 1: If his behavior worsened, they had to divert to Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: I smell it sounds like it sounds like a like
Speaker 1: Marvel Universe weapon. I'm assuming it's just mouets to break
Speaker 1: up the ice. But yeah, yeah, the little ones, because
Speaker 1: that's when they get the bags of ice on board.
Speaker 1: You gotta re you know, it used to be an
Speaker 1: ice pick where you can't use that anymore because it's
Speaker 1: a weapon. I guess they have whenever somebody's like on
Speaker 1: the flight. I mean, I don't know, but I assume
Speaker 1: that's why they I've never heard of an ice mallet.
Speaker 1: I assume that's just the thing that they had to
Speaker 1: invent for a plane, right, Yeah, yeah, Because I mean, like,
Speaker 1: if you're breaking up ice, well, I don't know why
Speaker 1: you would have to break up ice at your house,
Speaker 1: but usually you'd use like something like an ice pick, right,
Speaker 1: you know, he's like a meat tender before, Like, isn't
Speaker 1: there an ice pick? Like old school, like if you
Speaker 1: just gotta block of ice, you know, like yeah, and
Speaker 1: you're just like, hey, you want to get sit there
Speaker 1: and chips at apart, and you're like, hey, you wannaf
Speaker 1: you wanna cold the Scotch on the rocks, like and
Speaker 1: you're just like putting the fragments in a glass on
Speaker 1: ice experts, let me know how this works. But whenever
Speaker 1: I get a bag of ice, you just slam it
Speaker 1: on the ground. Yeah, but I think you're a real
Speaker 1: deal bartender or sorry, mixologist. I think you still have to,
Speaker 1: you know, pick your own ice, like you have to
Speaker 1: have like bespoke ice cube shapes. Right, of course you
Speaker 1: do the other thing. Another fine was over thirty tho
Speaker 1: dollars for someone in January allegedly assaulting passengers around him
Speaker 1: because someone in his row would not change seats to
Speaker 1: accommodate his travel partner. He told his travel partner he
Speaker 1: would need to bail him out of jail for the
Speaker 1: physically violent crimes he threatened to commit. The captain returned
Speaker 1: the flight to the gate where law enforcement met the passenger,
Speaker 1: Southwest banned him from flying and then says the f
Speaker 1: A does not put passengers on no fly lists. So whenever,
Speaker 1: whenever that happens on my plan, I like to turn
Speaker 1: to the guy next to me and go, I wonder
Speaker 1: which vaccine he got. I mean, like this, I feel
Speaker 1: like this stuff is just a huge indicator for how angry, stressed, depressed,
Speaker 1: how little fox people get. At the moment. It's a
Speaker 1: little jarring, you know, like to the point where the
Speaker 1: last couple of times I was on a plane, I
Speaker 1: was bracing myself for ship to kick off. I'm like, please,
Speaker 1: Like if I hear someone like laugh loudly, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh god, dude, I'm about to go down. Well, we
Speaker 1: just keep we keep adding more and more rules to
Speaker 1: plane travel while offering less and less service. So it's
Speaker 1: just like you get in the airport and you're immediately
Speaker 1: having to do the whole like t s a exam
Speaker 1: and now it's like, you know, have your mask on
Speaker 1: at all times and this and that, and then meanwhile
Speaker 1: like flights are like canceled delayed. People are spending like
Speaker 1: you know, three days on an airport, and then you
Speaker 1: shove them into a plane after all that, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be some bad stuff happening. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: there it seems like the airlines are understaffed as well.
Speaker 1: I had to change a flight and spent five hours
Speaker 1: on on hold. We were five hours is like I
Speaker 1: have the screen cap because we were like, wow, this
Speaker 1: is record. We're just like doing it as a bit.
Speaker 1: After a while, we're like, there's no way they're going
Speaker 1: to come on and like help us. And then they did.
Speaker 1: They ultually came on. They were super helpful and rebooked
Speaker 1: our flight for us, but literally five hours of the
Speaker 1: whole time. And so I have another theory here that
Speaker 1: because aren't flights not serving drinks right now? Like so
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if this is people realizing they're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to order drinks on the flight and
Speaker 1: like overshooting the mark when they get drunk before the flight,
Speaker 1: and like so they're just extra extremely because this all
Speaker 1: seems like ship that I would have done when I
Speaker 1: was blacked out. That's at various points you would have
Speaker 1: stuck your head up a flight attendant skirting on it. No,
Speaker 1: I guess not all of this stuff, but in the open, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like that that one felt like, oh no,
Speaker 1: I could, Oh no, what's the date on this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's you you got a pre game, and then sometimes
Speaker 1: you pre game a little too much. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: ruins the actual game because some of the fines are
Speaker 1: also for people drinking outside alcohol on the plane, like
Speaker 1: they're bringing it on board and things like. Yeah. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a combination of things. But in general, I
Speaker 1: think there's also this like thing when we're just reopening
Speaker 1: and things like that meant we just don't we are
Speaker 1: were feral. Some of us are just out here wild,
Speaker 1: you know, Like I mean, I got in trouble and
Speaker 1: Staples Center, you know what I mean, because I was
Speaker 1: too wicked against the Suns in the playoff game. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember I took my name down and
Speaker 1: Ship because I was screaming there like, hey man, you
Speaker 1: you can't be screaming Ship like this from the stands.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm sorry, God, I'm sorry, it's a it's
Speaker 1: it was I'm having a hard time. And I decided
Speaker 1: to get cathartic at the Laker game. Okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean when once you just like marinate in your
Speaker 1: own house for about a year while all the news
Speaker 1: is like, you know, teaching you different ways to hate
Speaker 1: each other. It turns out once you stick them back together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not a great situation. Yeah, no, absolutely, Yeah. Have
Speaker 1: you seen any Have y'all seen anything on flights? I
Speaker 1: know DJ Daniel was telling me he saw something recently
Speaker 1: when he was coming back, like his flight took a
Speaker 1: minute to get to the gate because someone was wilding out.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if if you all encountered unruly flights.
Speaker 1: I haven't been able to fly. My wife is very pregnant.
Speaker 1: To our last trip, we had to drive to Montana,
Speaker 1: so we did it as a road trip and then
Speaker 1: our in laws were taking a flight on the way
Speaker 1: back and they got the flight got delayed like three
Speaker 1: or four times in the space of I mean, it
Speaker 1: was still a faster drive than it was a flight.
Speaker 1: But yeah, something about like knowing that you're gonna do
Speaker 1: that drive seems preferable to you know, having the goal
Speaker 1: post pushed back over and over while you're just sitting
Speaker 1: in an airport somewhere right. Yeah, this dude I was
Speaker 1: sitting next to like ship his pants was like throwing
Speaker 1: food all over the place, you know, punched me. It
Speaker 1: was my three year old, but it was still still
Speaker 1: a pretty pretty dynamic performance by him. Yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be on the no fly list God willing after that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's I have a hard time noticing anybody
Speaker 1: else when when I'm traveling with with three year old,
Speaker 1: it's just head down, every chaos, apologizing to people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's actually not that bad. But yeah, do
Speaker 1: you ever give like is that there is that normal
Speaker 1: people like are like, I have a baby, here's like
Speaker 1: here's apology gifts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, gear plugs. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: like we're usually try and like make contact with the
Speaker 1: people around us, and sometimes they're just like why are
Speaker 1: you talking to me? And sometimes they'll they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I get it. You know, I have a kid or
Speaker 1: have a nephew, And yeah, it's it's good just to
Speaker 1: like have because otherwise you just feel like if there's
Speaker 1: silence in the interact, like you haven't interacted with them,
Speaker 1: you're just assuming the absolute worst or after how they
Speaker 1: feel about things. So yeah, it's it's always good to
Speaker 1: just like kind of make brief contact that becomes like
Speaker 1: a new like a little bit of decorum from anti
Speaker 1: maskers are on flights like, h I just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna refuse to wear a mask, so it made Sorry.
Speaker 1: Here's some gift cards, right, but it's just my freedom.
Speaker 1: And I understand that's probably gonna inconvenience to you and
Speaker 1: that's not fair to you. But here, just please take
Speaker 1: these ear plugs and these flex cuffs. And my family
Speaker 1: just we can't weather the price drop on my seamen,
Speaker 1: and so that's important to me that my seamen goes
Speaker 1: for top dollar uh in the year two. So well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about let's talk Fox News real quick, because
Speaker 1: they are gonna have to announce their vaccine status probably
Speaker 1: just internally, right, Like we're not going to get to
Speaker 1: know their vaccine status, are we? No? I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: hip hop Hippopotamus is gonna protect them, and I'm sure, look,
Speaker 1: you know what's gonna happen. Somebody there's gonna leak this
Speaker 1: ship and then it'll be all on wax. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe it will, maybe it won't, but that seems like
Speaker 1: that's what could happen to take the wind out of
Speaker 1: some people's sales. Maybe it'll get I don't know. Look,
Speaker 1: but here's the thing that's been passed around. If you
Speaker 1: worked at Fox, they got this real nice alert says
Speaker 1: dear colleagues, is all of you know, the health and
Speaker 1: safety of our employees has been our priority at Fox
Speaker 1: News Media since the start of the global pandemics seventeen
Speaker 1: months ago. Whether at work or at home, the COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic has had a tremendous impact on all of
Speaker 1: our lives. Here are some of the steps we are
Speaker 1: currently taking given the recent rise in COVID cases nationwide
Speaker 1: and the spread of the delta variant. One. We have
Speaker 1: asked all and it's like underlined employees, whether on site
Speaker 1: is part of our essential workforce or working remotely, to
Speaker 1: upload their vaccination status into a work day. That's how
Speaker 1: I know this ship is real. They just said please
Speaker 1: put it inka um and then it's like this is
Speaker 1: being done for space planning and blah blah blah. It
Speaker 1: says all employees must enter their status in bold no
Speaker 1: later than today August seventeenth, by the closing business. So
Speaker 1: that's a little that's interesting a lot of people. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not what you that's not what's on the air though, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what are they doing it just to make sure that
Speaker 1: people aren't falling for this vacks bullshit? You think that's
Speaker 1: what's going on, because I could actually see the person
Speaker 1: leaking it being either you know, somebody who's like, ha
Speaker 1: ha Tugger Carlson sucks and I'm gonna show that he's
Speaker 1: full of ship. But I could also see somebody leaking
Speaker 1: it because they're like they betrayed us by getting the
Speaker 1: vaccine type ship. So either way, I don't care why
Speaker 1: you're doing it, please leak this in information. It's probably
Speaker 1: the anti vax people don't want to be around all
Speaker 1: those vaxed employees and they're worried about, you know, what
Speaker 1: to do their more jellings or whatever they're worried about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Larry Cudlow is like, I can't do it. I can't
Speaker 1: be young people like that. Just I'm I'm all in
Speaker 1: on com futures. But is Fox News even that popular anymore?
Speaker 1: It feels like it's kinda it's kind of like diet
Speaker 1: soda to the real hardcore que Yeah. I mean they're
Speaker 1: still doing numbers. They have been, you know, people have
Speaker 1: been migrated to news Max and O A n but
Speaker 1: it still seems like it's still part of your full,
Speaker 1: your complete and balanced right wing diet. Is you gotta
Speaker 1: have your you gotta have your vegetables in the form
Speaker 1: of Fox News. I guess before you get to the
Speaker 1: sweets of news Max and Mike n you gotta smuggle
Speaker 1: in a little zip block of O N and your underwear.
Speaker 1: You just to get that hit snorted in the flight
Speaker 1: and then fight all the passengers. But I mean it's
Speaker 1: funny because they clear they clearly know right Fox News
Speaker 1: clearly no as a business that they can only way
Speaker 1: to operate safely is because like is to do this
Speaker 1: because they know that COVID is serious shit. But then
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's like, well, we just want
Speaker 1: to make this place as safe as possible for our
Speaker 1: goons to go on camera and then be like it's
Speaker 1: not thing, don't worry about it. Fuck Joe Biden and vaccines.
Speaker 1: Just go out there and be free, because we know
Speaker 1: what the people want. Because we're all in Manhattan. We
Speaker 1: know what Red America is thinking. It's like, fuck is
Speaker 1: this Hey, they're an enemy territory, you know, they're just
Speaker 1: plotting from behind the lines. The Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: it seems like Foxes ratings are still pretty dominant, but
Speaker 1: we're just like not really paying attention, but they're just
Speaker 1: as popular as ever. And then you'll also have the
Speaker 1: O A N N and ship like that. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then they're in weird like but it's funny because all
Speaker 1: of those networks have like double speed going on. We're
Speaker 1: like some people will be like no, like it's serious,
Speaker 1: and then like twenty minutes later they're like telling you like,
Speaker 1: it's gonna turn your arms to like lizard tails and
Speaker 1: who knows what the fuck? Yeah? I did develop gray
Speaker 1: scale after I got the vaccine, but that's just attack
Speaker 1: people in a boat, you know. Is that why your
Speaker 1: hand was wrapped in that rag? I was like, what
Speaker 1: would happen? Trying to keep that on the low, but yeah,
Speaker 1: a little gray scale. Anyone have you tried sacrificing your
Speaker 1: child to the fire gud oh? Yeah thatwhere yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My consultant, my gray scale consultant, has recommended that we're
Speaker 1: just kind of looking at various options. Let's talk Canadian
Speaker 1: election real quick. Hell yeah, yeah baby, an election coverage.
Speaker 1: The thing that the Zeke gang has been clamoring for
Speaker 1: this is just it's always interesting. It's like finding out
Speaker 1: about the laws of physics on another planet. It's like,
Speaker 1: this is like they can, for instance, call snap election.
Speaker 1: So justin Trudeau just was basically like, hey, we're having
Speaker 1: an election on September because he thought he would get
Speaker 1: regain a majority in the House of Commons. So it's
Speaker 1: like an impromptu election. What a dumb system. It's like
Speaker 1: they don't even have like some right wing talk show
Speaker 1: hosts to spend millions of dollars making a new election.
Speaker 1: They can just call it, that's the election, dissolving parliament.
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go do it. Let's go. It was
Speaker 1: supposed to be October three, so we're going we're going
Speaker 1: off to in two years, one month early. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's how math works. The Conservative Party tweeted out
Speaker 1: an ad using a jib jab animation from the year
Speaker 1: twenty oh four. It's very wild. They basically just like
Speaker 1: copy pasted Trudeau's face onto Rucasaw from Willy Wonka to
Speaker 1: be like he's complaining. He's a he's a complainer. And
Speaker 1: people are just pissed at Trudeau for calling an election
Speaker 1: at all, Like it seems like the worst thing that
Speaker 1: he did was called this election. I love how polite
Speaker 1: even the attack ads are in Canada. Like I remember
Speaker 1: when I was in Toronto win this election in the
Speaker 1: lead up to the election, when when trudeaug got elected,
Speaker 1: and like the attack ads on him, we're just people,
Speaker 1: people in bars and like other places where being like
Speaker 1: we just don't think he's experienced enough, and that was like,
Speaker 1: I don't like attack ad. I don't think he has
Speaker 1: the right ideas to be qualified, to be quite honest
Speaker 1: with you, And here it's like he's a fucking demon
Speaker 1: who eats fucking puppies. It's like, wow, I think the
Speaker 1: slogan was he's just not ready. So this is a
Speaker 1: bunch of people don't being like he's I just don't
Speaker 1: think he's ready, and which like leaves the possibility it's
Speaker 1: like I might consider him if he was ready, but
Speaker 1: he's just not, so I guess I'll be voting conservative
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah. And the other thing is like to
Speaker 1: your point of like, why are you calling an election
Speaker 1: right now? Because it's a very like you're saying there's
Speaker 1: a there's another wave of COVID happening because the delta
Speaker 1: variant is also making its way through Canada, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people are like, this isn't the right time,
Speaker 1: Like it just shows a disconnect between the politicians who
Speaker 1: are like, well, I know, trudeaus sort of logic, because
Speaker 1: I did a great job with COVID, so maybe for
Speaker 1: cost an app election, they'll come back, they'll help vote
Speaker 1: liberal and give me a majority and then that will
Speaker 1: help me out without realizing people are fucking just exhausted
Speaker 1: and drained, and then you want them to vote in
Speaker 1: person during another wave of the pandemic. And they're also like,
Speaker 1: vote by mail isn't a really popular thing in Canada either,
Speaker 1: so it seems like a bit you have to vote
Speaker 1: by moose. Oh boy, there it is, right, but yeah,
Speaker 1: just yeah, And they're saying like his numbers aren't even
Speaker 1: like strong like it. They think that he's probably going
Speaker 1: to get the same, like he won't even get the
Speaker 1: thing he was hoping for at this point, so shout
Speaker 1: out to Trudeau kind of a cell phone. It seems
Speaker 1: like this reminds me a little bit of like the
Speaker 1: bregsit thing, where they were like, Okay, let's do the
Speaker 1: sensible thing and hurry up and get this over with,
Speaker 1: and then turns out people aren't as rational as as
Speaker 1: the liberals think they're going to be. I've made a
Speaker 1: terrible mistake, ye a ton of money to have an election,
Speaker 1: and then just kind of be like, oh, I got
Speaker 1: the same votes. Huh fuck? All right, well, I guess
Speaker 1: they don't like mus much as I thought. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: talk about important stuff like the new host of Jeopardy.
Speaker 1: Mm and we're back. And we talked last week about
Speaker 1: how the search for a new Jeopardy host ended with
Speaker 1: the executive producer of the show. So like it was
Speaker 1: I just remember, like when we first heard that this dude,
Speaker 1: the guy was the EP of Jeopardy was like basically
Speaker 1: considering himself as a candidate to replace extra Back, and
Speaker 1: like that that was the moment. Like it seemed so
Speaker 1: like embarrassing and self serving and fraudulent like but then,
Speaker 1: like many news stories in the modern era, just like
Speaker 1: hung around for us to get used to the awkwardness
Speaker 1: and like stench of it enough for it not to
Speaker 1: seem that strange. And so by the time and then
Speaker 1: also by the time he announced that he was the choice,
Speaker 1: they had already like seeded the media with like reports
Speaker 1: of like how the ratings were bad of these other
Speaker 1: much more popular guest host options like LeVar Burton. But anyways,
Speaker 1: just kind of taking a step back. When he first
Speaker 1: guest hosted, he had he felt the need to like
Speaker 1: give a weird preamble where he's like, hey, sorry, Ken
Speaker 1: Jennings like canceled last minute. So guys, I'm just doing
Speaker 1: this to help with a scheduling issue. I know it's
Speaker 1: a little embarrassing since I'm no host, but you know,
Speaker 1: the show must go on. It's like when you when
Speaker 1: you ask a model their origin story, it's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I was just going with my friend to
Speaker 1: it addition, and they chose me because I just happened
Speaker 1: to be there at a total coincidence, right, So it
Speaker 1: turns out Ken Jennings like had a scheduling conflict that
Speaker 1: was easy to overcome, like and everybody who worked on
Speaker 1: the show was like, yeah, no, we'll work with Ken
Speaker 1: whatever his schedule says, and he was like, no, I
Speaker 1: don't think we can do it. We better So just
Speaker 1: like that's how he like forced his foot into the
Speaker 1: door to get in there. He has like people are
Speaker 1: now pointing out that he said multiple times on this podcast,
Speaker 1: used to have that he wasn't a trivia guy. That's
Speaker 1: what he told Ken Jennings. Ken Jennings is was like
Speaker 1: Alex Trebek's pick for like Alex Trebeck left him like
Speaker 1: his couff links and that was pretty crazy, like leaving
Speaker 1: him cuff links in the will. Yeah, Like he was
Speaker 1: basically like, this is my chosen successor this dude is
Speaker 1: this last season was his first season, is the EP
Speaker 1: of the show. So he has like it's not like
Speaker 1: he has like a great relationship with the people on Jeopardy.
Speaker 1: And in fact, he's been sued or like as part
Speaker 1: of a suit for just discrimination and harassment. So one suit.
Speaker 1: This is all from a report by the Ringer that's
Speaker 1: a pretty great read that people should go check out.
Speaker 1: We'll put it in the footnotes. But so this woman
Speaker 1: who was one of the models on Prices right in
Speaker 1: two thousand ten, he he had recently laid off several
Speaker 1: models and then she went to him and said, hey,
Speaker 1: I am actually pregnant, so I'm gonna need some time
Speaker 1: off And he said, go figure, I fired five girls.
Speaker 1: What are the odds, which she understood to mean that
Speaker 1: he would have fired her if he had known she
Speaker 1: was going to get pregnant, and then after giving birth
Speaker 1: she learned that her contract had been terminated. And then
Speaker 1: he also just like he made them wear shorter addresses
Speaker 1: on The Prices right, talks a lot about like women's
Speaker 1: appearances and a very like cavalier and like nineteen sixties,
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties, like just shitty, misogynistic way on his podcast.
Speaker 1: And people also said like from the start of him
Speaker 1: taking over for The Prices right as the EP, he
Speaker 1: was trying to become the host of The Prices, right,
Speaker 1: this is just like he's, yeah, that's his Oh, he's
Speaker 1: just always wanted to be the host on TV. Like
Speaker 1: it's it's funny because it's like the the entire like
Speaker 1: this expectation that someone be a game show host, which
Speaker 1: is kind of like this very nineties sixties ideal of
Speaker 1: you know, like the handsome, an offensive guy who you
Speaker 1: don't know his personal life because that was like impossible
Speaker 1: to do in the back in the day. It's like
Speaker 1: we're still expecting someone to be that, but not realizing
Speaker 1: like all the weird retrograde baggage that's going to obviously
Speaker 1: come along with anyone who has that persona Now like,
Speaker 1: of course this guy's a weirdo. And then yeah, not
Speaker 1: his life's goal was to be a game show Like
Speaker 1: what do you think he's gonna be? Like? And now
Speaker 1: like everyone's like they found some remarks on his old
Speaker 1: podcast to where he's like talk, he's just saying something
Speaker 1: even like Worship was calling like women like what was
Speaker 1: it the co host or one of the presenters on
Speaker 1: this show that he was referring to, like as like
Speaker 1: a booth ho or something. Yeah, he called her a
Speaker 1: booth ho and h I I don't know the world
Speaker 1: of game shows enough to know what he's even implying.
Speaker 1: They called her a boothstitute. I mean there's like booth babes,
Speaker 1: Like that's kind of a thing at any like sort
Speaker 1: of tech comic book gamer, higher invention. Right. Yet, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they used to hire like, you know, hot girls to
Speaker 1: be the face of whatever to attract people to whatever
Speaker 1: booth they had, I said, I mean, I I took
Speaker 1: that as him trying to do humor, but being again
Speaker 1: like this weird sort of Seacrest kind of guy where
Speaker 1: they can't really do humor convincingly because they're in that
Speaker 1: weird post bot mode. Yeah, the host bought mode exactly,
Speaker 1: and just the thing he falls back on our like
Speaker 1: criticizing women's appearances. He used the R word for somebody
Speaker 1: with a disability. Yeah, kept calling this woman a booth
Speaker 1: slat and a booth hoe, made fun of a woman's
Speaker 1: weight in horrifying terms, said she was so giant she
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to fit out the door, and husky
Speaker 1: do and fat and not good, and then just has
Speaker 1: like complained about people being on food stamps and unemployment
Speaker 1: that it's just like, like, what else do you fucking need?
Speaker 1: He was like saying some other stuff like people with
Speaker 1: big noses are Jewish. Yes, he's got. It's almost like, yo,
Speaker 1: what what more does he need to say to make
Speaker 1: this clear that he should not be the fucking host.
Speaker 1: He's like, Oh, I got some more. I got some
Speaker 1: more podcasts that didn't come out. You could listen to
Speaker 1: it if the case isn't made enough. But then on
Speaker 1: top of that, too, you saw someone did a poll
Speaker 1: that showed that like by like a huge margin, more
Speaker 1: people wanted LaVar Burton over Mike Richards, Like it didn't
Speaker 1: even matter. It's like even people were like this is
Speaker 1: who we'd like or prefer, and he was still like
Speaker 1: barely making any kind of waves in like a pole
Speaker 1: of like actual Jeopardy fans. Yeah, but it's just from
Speaker 1: the Ringer article about just what the process was like,
Speaker 1: they say, Richard's the guy who ultimately chose himself for
Speaker 1: the for the job, controlled nearly everything about Jeopardese most
Speaker 1: recent season. Sources say this led to a myriad of
Speaker 1: conflict of interest. Quote. He was the one rehearsing and
Speaker 1: giving directions to all the guest hosts who may not
Speaker 1: have realized they were competing with him for the job.
Speaker 1: He could influence the promotion of those shows and the
Speaker 1: respective guest hosts. He had personal relationships with the executives involved,
Speaker 1: who had entrusted the show to him a year before.
Speaker 1: And then it's not hard to see the structural advantages
Speaker 1: that such a candidate would have. Would he vigorously advocate
Speaker 1: for the strongest guest host as an EP normally would
Speaker 1: in that situation? Yeah, what is he going to the
Speaker 1: higher ups there and gonna look, I gotta tell you know,
Speaker 1: I'm the EP la arbor He crapped the bed. Huh.
Speaker 1: I don't think we can do it. You know who
Speaker 1: he is me? Can you know what people love? You know,
Speaker 1: you just go out there, you just rattle off a
Speaker 1: few racial slurves. They love it to eat it up.
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, it's that's the that's our audience
Speaker 1: here at Jeopardy. I think you got I want you
Speaker 1: to check out where I was just kind of crushing
Speaker 1: it or like Ran Dumb that's what it was actually called,
Speaker 1: even though it was a a supposedly a behind the
Speaker 1: scenes of the Prices Right podcast he everyone was clamoring for.
Speaker 1: He he called it Ran Dumb d U n B
Speaker 1: because that was his comedy talk radio show from his
Speaker 1: days at Pepperdine. Oh my God. He also, as we've
Speaker 1: talked about, scheduled LaVar Burton. It was like people's It
Speaker 1: was either Ken Jennings or LaVar Burton, like people in
Speaker 1: most people's hearts, that's what people wanted to see. People
Speaker 1: have pointed out that he aired LaVar Burton's episodes in
Speaker 1: the midst of summer Olympics, which caused many of them
Speaker 1: to be preempted on NBC affiliate stations, and then somehow
Speaker 1: even though the ratings for that shouldn't have been put
Speaker 1: on par with like non Olympics episodes of Jeopardy. Somehow
Speaker 1: it got out that the ratings were really bad. One A.
Speaker 1: Bar Burton was on. So I feel like this article
Speaker 1: was so extensive and brutal that I almost sort of
Speaker 1: questioned it. After a while, I was like, oh, my god,
Speaker 1: next they're gonna be like oh and he also he
Speaker 1: kicks his dog, he doesn't wash his hands after he
Speaker 1: goes to the bathroom. He's always double dipping and the
Speaker 1: sausa bowl. Like it was, they were going brutal. He
Speaker 1: has his tone nails. I mean, where does it end
Speaker 1: with this guy? Honestly? But wow, it's like it's so
Speaker 1: much like but he's like he's he's just being an American,
Speaker 1: you know, like how do you jerrymander the funk out
Speaker 1: of a district to win? He was just jerrymandering the
Speaker 1: funk out of whatever whatever he had. He was at
Speaker 1: control of enough levers that he could make ship look
Speaker 1: a certain way and then be like, Hey it's me
Speaker 1: and mine bialla cool, Like, don't look at her past
Speaker 1: comments on whether or not she believes her kids should
Speaker 1: be vaccinated, but anyway, are we go? I think that's
Speaker 1: why I like this is such an interesting read is
Speaker 1: because it is like how America, how decision making works
Speaker 1: at a high level, Like just the the like kind
Speaker 1: of getting his foothold in by announcing himself as a candidate,
Speaker 1: being like, hey, but I'm withdrawing myself and from the
Speaker 1: you know, selection process, because I don't want to like
Speaker 1: tilt the scale because I am obviously a serious candidate.
Speaker 1: It like there, I'm reading this book about Robert Moses.
Speaker 1: That's a thousand pages, so I'm still reading it and
Speaker 1: will be for the next three years. But they talked
Speaker 1: about how he would get projects approved by basically starting
Speaker 1: them even though he didn't have the funding for it,
Speaker 1: and then once they were started, people wouldn't like go
Speaker 1: back on it because you already like had the foot
Speaker 1: in the door. You already had like the momentum started,
Speaker 1: and like once a project is started, it's much harder
Speaker 1: for people to like pump the brakes and put the
Speaker 1: brakes on it. So just like getting himself like mentioned
Speaker 1: as a candidate, that was like the thing that he
Speaker 1: had to do to like get the momentum started, and
Speaker 1: then after that he was just able to fucking control
Speaker 1: all the levers to and just shamelessly exploit the situation.
Speaker 1: Did you guys watch any of his host now? I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it for a while. I haven't. It's
Speaker 1: one of those shows I have on my DVR that
Speaker 1: I just binge at certain times, and it's been it's
Speaker 1: been a while. So when Bob Barker left Prices Right,
Speaker 1: they he tried out to be the host of Prices Right,
Speaker 1: and at that time he wasn't powerful enough to choose himself,
Speaker 1: so they ended up going with Drew carry But one
Speaker 1: of the producers who was part of the selection process
Speaker 1: at the time said he knew all the right words
Speaker 1: to say, but he did not bring anything special personality
Speaker 1: or performance wise to the test show. His performance was
Speaker 1: compared to that of an eager student performing in a
Speaker 1: college show and putting on his best impersonation of what
Speaker 1: he thinks of game show hosted if You, which is brutal.
Speaker 1: But if you watch him as the Jeopardy host, it
Speaker 1: is like, so spot on, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: It's like every word is equally enthusiastic, and I love Jeopardy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just I mean, that's like the kind of crap
Speaker 1: that we've been wanting from these people for for years,
Speaker 1: where it's just like we want this like eager, like
Speaker 1: you said, like a Seacrest spot, Like we want this
Speaker 1: squeaky clean person who has a hollow a hollow hole
Speaker 1: at the center of their personality, and uh yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's it's it's kind of poetic that someone would try
Speaker 1: to be that for like half of their adult life
Speaker 1: and then when he shows up, people are like, man,
Speaker 1: this guy sucks like you man, Yeah, just so brutal. Now,
Speaker 1: to be fair, he did. And who knows if this
Speaker 1: was because he didn't select him, but that producer was
Speaker 1: immediately fired after the selection process to make room for Richards,
Speaker 1: so you know, he might have had certain feelings about that.
Speaker 1: I also enjoyed that when he got sued when he
Speaker 1: was with The Prices Right, it was like the two
Speaker 1: named people in the lawsuit were Michael Richards, this guy
Speaker 1: no relation to Kramer, and Adam Sandler in a relation
Speaker 1: to the act right commonary comedy Luminaries. Wow, this is so.
Speaker 1: I was Okay, So, as you're talking, I was trying
Speaker 1: to find a video of of him hosting The Prices Right,
Speaker 1: but and and looking for Mike Richards prices right host.
Speaker 1: I found this video from five months ago on ABC,
Speaker 1: which just reeks of fucking propaganda. It's ABC News saying
Speaker 1: a Jeopardy interim host scores Rave reviews and it's Mike
Speaker 1: Richards and you're like, oh, man, so this has been
Speaker 1: a fucking just campaign, man, oh just some months into
Speaker 1: making anyway sucking robot cipher. Yeah all right, and then
Speaker 1: real quick, we do want to talk about you know,
Speaker 1: we don't always mention when new movies are announced, but
Speaker 1: there's this new movie coming that I think we're all
Speaker 1: pretty excited about. It stars Emily Blunt as a Pickerton Agent.
Speaker 1: So if you don't wait from from Modern Pinkerton, No no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. So she is the first woman Pinkerton agent,
Speaker 1: and we're acting like that's like a yes Queen girl
Speaker 1: Boss moment. She was like the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of
Speaker 1: people civil rights leaders. So people don't know what the
Speaker 1: Pickerton Agency is. I was founded in the mid eighteen
Speaker 1: hundreds and it was basically like a hired army for
Speaker 1: tycoons to bust strikes and terrorized unions, which includ to
Speaker 1: hurling dynamite at peaceful labor protests, engaging in a twelve
Speaker 1: hour gunfight with striking workers during a strike at a
Speaker 1: Carnegie steel mill strike. They still have them like they
Speaker 1: were a few months or like, I don't know, less
Speaker 1: than a year ago. They were advertising their services to
Speaker 1: like Facebook and Google, thing that they would send undercover
Speaker 1: Pinkerton's to Silicon Valley coffee shops to like spy on
Speaker 1: people that were leaking information from Facebook. What's so amazing
Speaker 1: is the one kind of mega company that we do
Speaker 1: know has used them in Europe is Amazon. And you'll
Speaker 1: never guess what massive media conglomerate has decided to buy
Speaker 1: the rights to this movie. Amazon. It is Amazon. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also just like this because you know, Emily Blunt
Speaker 1: is married to John Krasinski, who makes like pro cia
Speaker 1: propaganda for Amazon Studios. So there's like kind of this
Speaker 1: nice little group of people just doing doing the bidding
Speaker 1: of capitalism violence on behalf of capitalism. She also played
Speaker 1: like the relatable what what was she? In Cicario? She
Speaker 1: was like either a relatable d A agent or like
Speaker 1: a relatable ice agent or a relatable yeah yeah person,
Speaker 1: I can't remember which it was, but yeah, she's good
Speaker 1: when you want to put like a nice face on
Speaker 1: something you just send in Emily Blunt, right, yeah, so
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's interesting that Amazon is bankrolling
Speaker 1: a movie that is going to put a girl boss, yes,
Speaker 1: queen face on on Pinkertons, do we know when? I mean, like,
Speaker 1: I feel like the only thing that gave them any
Speaker 1: positive press was when they forwarded this like this dude
Speaker 1: from assassinating Abraham Lincoln. Like that was like that was
Speaker 1: that like sort of let people. That's softened people on
Speaker 1: Pinkerton's Like, well, you know, they did, they floiled an
Speaker 1: assassination plot and then they also just funked up a
Speaker 1: bunch of people who are striking for better wages. But
Speaker 1: then I mean, we wrote a really good album about
Speaker 1: him too, which was cool, That's right. I mean Rivers
Speaker 1: Cuomo has always been pro Pinkerton. The President Lincoln account
Speaker 1: is also mainly based on the accounts of a guy
Speaker 1: named let me see if I can get this right,
Speaker 1: Alan Pinkerton, who was quote known to be an exaggerator
Speaker 1: and also was the founder of the Pickerton Agency. A
Speaker 1: little bit about early Mike Richards the bar for like
Speaker 1: an exaggerator in the nineteenth century had to be really
Speaker 1: high because that was I mean, swing for the fences
Speaker 1: when there's no way to fucking verify anything. The Kings
Speaker 1: of the world were like explorers who were just like
Speaker 1: basically professional liars. They'd be like, yeah, I went to
Speaker 1: a place where people walk on one leg and they
Speaker 1: have one eyeball and it's on their ass, and people
Speaker 1: were like, thank you, Marco Polo, you are Eric King
Speaker 1: now yeah, p T. Barnum. And then you had like
Speaker 1: Thomas Edison like electrocuting an elephant and be like, see,
Speaker 1: this is why the other guys thing doesn't work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I guess what's the what's the film called? I
Speaker 1: don't let me see if I can find it. I
Speaker 1: guess it doesn't really matter, but it's gonna be called
Speaker 1: like American Detective or some ship. Yeah, oh my god. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is being epid by President Dwayne the Rock Johnson,
Speaker 1: so you know it's it's happy, that's real. He's like
Speaker 1: producing it. He's producing it. Yeah, dude, wait till we
Speaker 1: see the Rock Jim Ticket, Jim from the It's the
Speaker 1: Rock and Jim from The Office Ticket. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: he was in he was in jungle cruise with her,
Speaker 1: So maybe they're like BFFs. Now, yeah, maybe there's something
Speaker 1: steamy here there. M hmmm. I can't picture the Rock
Speaker 1: ever having sex. Oh that's the only thing I can picture.
Speaker 1: So weird. It's like this weird things. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: can't envision, envision anything in my mind for the Rock,
Speaker 1: just fucking smash. He has to do like the people's
Speaker 1: kind of lingus in the middle of exactly, and then
Speaker 1: I've hit rock bottom emotionally. Hey, al right, well, Vince,
Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure as always having you. Where can
Speaker 1: people find you and follow you? I mean, obviously I
Speaker 1: am the Film and Culture senior film and culture writer
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Speaker 1: if you like listening to my voice. I've also got
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Speaker 1: We are our guests are handsome and distinguished. I got
Speaker 1: to do the Pine Barns episode, which was I remember
Speaker 1: when you said that, I was like, they fucked me.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite. And is there a tweet or some
Speaker 1: of the work of social media you've been enjoying the
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, dude, this was like the I had to
Speaker 1: find a tweet that wasn't like a video one, but
Speaker 1: I thought this was pretty good. It's uh from someone
Speaker 1: I don't follow, but I think I started after this.
Speaker 1: M Nate Shamalan says, I can't believe the only political
Speaker 1: options in America are we have to catch and spread
Speaker 1: a deadly virus to defeat the satanic pedophile elite. Or
Speaker 1: we spent nine months trying to make the bus five
Speaker 1: dollars cheaper and we did not succeed nailed it. Love
Speaker 1: that one miles Where can people find you? What's the
Speaker 1: tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter, Instagram, at miles of Gray
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Speaker 1: of tweets I like. First one is from at jav
Speaker 1: rr r a w R saying February twenty two, which
Speaker 1: is to twenty two two falls on a Tuesday, so
Speaker 1: we will be able to call it Tuesday, which is
Speaker 1: really keeping me going with a low bar, but I
Speaker 1: get you and then another one. Doug Jay Balloon, New
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Speaker 1: so we talked to some Q and ON enthusiasts at
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Speaker 1: Nui tweeted, my body is not a temple, It's a
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