Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one uh NonStop
Speaker 1: infotainment laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here
Speaker 1: is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Well, Jamie, we are thrilled to
Speaker 1: be joined in our third seat by the extremely talented
Speaker 1: digital activist and podcast host of the brilliant podcast There
Speaker 1: Are No Girls on the Internet, which did a special
Speaker 1: mini series on disinformation in our modern disinformation age called Disinformed.
Speaker 1: That want to shorty and that is especially timely right
Speaker 1: now as disinformation is killing us literally. Please welcome bridget Talk. Well.
Speaker 1: I love the air horn introduction. Pieno, Pieno. How are you.
Speaker 1: I am doing well. I'm not lucky enough to be
Speaker 1: in a basement in Wisconsin. I am in a kitchen
Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. I am in recovery for a
Speaker 1: broken ankle, which but other than that, I am good.
Speaker 1: I wish it was like a good story. I was
Speaker 1: on a three night canoe trip on the Delaware Water Reserve.
Speaker 1: And that's a good story, A good story. Well, you
Speaker 1: know what's funny is that, like I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be kind of a test of my
Speaker 1: outdoor skills. And then first night I was like so
Speaker 1: so overconfident on the river. We'll just say this. It
Speaker 1: was a combination of stormy weather, over confidence, and alcohol.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I that story is great being in
Speaker 1: a storm on a like on a canoe trip. The
Speaker 1: last time I was like, my life was like suspended
Speaker 1: by an injury. I think it was from like a
Speaker 1: sneeze throughout my back. Yeah. That's what sucks about getting older.
Speaker 1: It's like you get injured. It it's like, oh, I
Speaker 1: just like got up too fast or I just like
Speaker 1: sat down weird, and now my back is out. I
Speaker 1: had a hip like I always thought like knees. It
Speaker 1: was like a bad old person thing. But like my
Speaker 1: hip is starting to hurt. When I after, I like
Speaker 1: go for a run and that that makes you feel real,
Speaker 1: real fucking old man. God, I hurt my I hurt
Speaker 1: my neck comforting my brother on a roller coaster. My
Speaker 1: brother's twenty four years old, but he was really scared.
Speaker 1: What coaster was it? Do you remember? Yeah? It was
Speaker 1: in um it was at six Flags, New England, and
Speaker 1: it was the Wicked Cyclone. We went on the most
Speaker 1: New England roller Core it was and it was awesome,
Speaker 1: It was so good. But I forgot My brother is
Speaker 1: like has historically for his entire life been terrified of
Speaker 1: roller coasters and was kind of going on to appease me,
Speaker 1: and yeah, he was upset. Roller coasters are so fun,
Speaker 1: They're so good. I was like, your coaster head, I'm
Speaker 1: starting to be a coaster had I was when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. And then I just did a bunch
Speaker 1: of roller coasters recently and that they were really fun.
Speaker 1: All right. I really missed them and didn't realize it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: same cool, Marcella. We like to ask our guest, what
Speaker 1: is something from your search history? The last thing I searched?
Speaker 1: Um is the fucking package I'm waiting for, Like this
Speaker 1: ship will not update. I hate the USPS or whoever
Speaker 1: your package is through not updating that ship? You got
Speaker 1: the bar code update me? Is it gonna kid here?
Speaker 1: Before I leave to town? I need to know that's
Speaker 1: the last thing. I'm like. That's I went to look
Speaker 1: at like my my Google history and it was like
Speaker 1: every other thing, every other thing, like it opened a
Speaker 1: new tab every time, you know, Oh my god. And
Speaker 1: it was like literally six of me searching my package
Speaker 1: and so I just waiting for these sunglasses to show up.
Speaker 1: That's literally it. That's the only thing on my mind
Speaker 1: right now, with me going to New York for two
Speaker 1: weeks and I'm so excited and they say no, the
Speaker 1: sunglasses say no, and oh they're sick like on the
Speaker 1: on the lenses, the lenses are n Oh they're the best.
Speaker 1: And I'm just like dying for them to show up
Speaker 1: so I can bring that negative attitude to York, to
Speaker 1: the attitude that New York deserves. I'm bringing them to them,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, reflected back, you know, yeah, exactly what
Speaker 1: are you doing in New York? Are you doing any
Speaker 1: stand up? I'm headlining the Bellhouse July the Saturday, actually Saturday,
Speaker 1: will be headlining the Bellhouse. I'm so excited. I haven't
Speaker 1: been New York since two thousand nineteen. I haven't performed
Speaker 1: there that since then, and I'm just like so fucking humped,
Speaker 1: and um, I would love if the Daily is like, guys,
Speaker 1: listeners came. I know some of you hate me, but
Speaker 1: something tells me the New York listeners fucking love me.
Speaker 1: Come out. New York Listeners is definitely fun with you
Speaker 1: the We definitely we had a show in Brooklyn and
Speaker 1: the listeners came out and there was definitely like you
Speaker 1: know that we had a couple come up on stage.
Speaker 1: There was definitely like some good energy there, some good energy.
Speaker 1: What happened when they come on stage. So we just
Speaker 1: like had a sort of interactive part where they had
Speaker 1: to take a quiz. The show is about the year
Speaker 1: two thousand or dorks and we we just like to
Speaker 1: like insert school as much as possible into anything like
Speaker 1: so these are people going out having some drinks somewhere, like,
Speaker 1: let's let's do something school like I still heads up
Speaker 1: seven up and then quiz them on it. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: a great live show vibe. I need absolute silence. We're
Speaker 1: on our rainy day schedule, New York, get in here
Speaker 1: and do this quiz. That's fun. Um. I think this
Speaker 1: is kind of like a cliche thing for stand ups
Speaker 1: to talk about, but like, what, what do you feel
Speaker 1: like the differences between l A and New York crowds. Well,
Speaker 1: it's interesting because now New York is so heavily gentrified
Speaker 1: that you can communely talent difference anymore. So sometimes some
Speaker 1: of the shows can be kind of whacked because you
Speaker 1: get those like overly sensitive, gentrifying types that are like,
Speaker 1: you know, they wear the Black Lives Matter pin but
Speaker 1: pin but they you know, they they kick some people
Speaker 1: out of their homes and they don't even realize that
Speaker 1: they're part of the problem. You know, that that type
Speaker 1: of liberal which is like they're not the best audience
Speaker 1: to have in comedy. But in the past, like maybe
Speaker 1: whatever might even like three as soon as three four
Speaker 1: years ago, the audiences in New York their fucking book wild.
Speaker 1: They cannot be up offended. They don't give a fuck,
Speaker 1: and it's the best. And I implore those people please
Speaker 1: come to my show on Saturday, because y'all are the
Speaker 1: fun best, like real deal New Yorkers or people who
Speaker 1: have lived in New York long enough that they have
Speaker 1: the mentality of a New Yorker, but not these like
Speaker 1: newer gentrifiers. They're the fucking worst. And there that's how
Speaker 1: the l A comedy scene is, where it's like people
Speaker 1: who are two cents. You know. The other thing about
Speaker 1: l A people go because they know celebrities are usually
Speaker 1: at the comedy clubs because they are like not just
Speaker 1: on stage but I remember one time Drake was at
Speaker 1: the comedy store, like watching a comedy show in this
Speaker 1: big gas room in the main room, and and it
Speaker 1: was a black show, you know, Like he went there
Speaker 1: because he wanted to see good ass black comics do
Speaker 1: good ass black comedy, and that's just good comedy. Let
Speaker 1: me just make sure to clarify that don't want anybody
Speaker 1: to talk to no ship about the way I wore things.
Speaker 1: But like the second somebody pointed him out, that was
Speaker 1: it for the show. Everyone just like got up and
Speaker 1: was trying to see him, wanted to take pictures, and
Speaker 1: it was like, why why would you mention him? He
Speaker 1: being here like that ruins the show for the comics.
Speaker 1: But it's also like so common. And then sometimes I
Speaker 1: get the laugh Factory. They get so many celebrities that
Speaker 1: come hang out that people are kind of used to it.
Speaker 1: They don't even give a fuck. So it goes both
Speaker 1: ways sometimes. But the celebrity in the audience and on
Speaker 1: stage can be kind of distracting in l A. But
Speaker 1: in New York you don't see that. Like they thing
Speaker 1: I like about New York audiences is they love a
Speaker 1: grimy comic. You know, like when They're a good comedy audience.
Speaker 1: They fucking love weirdo ship, experimental ship. You can put
Speaker 1: any style of comic on stage and they love it.
Speaker 1: That's not true for l A, California and general. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my favorite kind of stand up comedy is watching Drake
Speaker 1: watch a stand up comedy seem stand up experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that seems like it needs to be filtered through through Drake.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine like looking at what Drake Laft said,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Drake, it's really funny. You know, the
Speaker 1: hose are in full effect. Yeah, so much pressure on
Speaker 1: Drake to like, I don't know that that would feel
Speaker 1: weird to be like watching I feel like he loves
Speaker 1: I feel like he likes that ship. I feel like
Speaker 1: he likes that you guys leave Drake alone. I don't
Speaker 1: think he wants to be I think he loves that
Speaker 1: goofy attention. Yeah, I'm picturing myself being like having people
Speaker 1: watch me and see like whether I am laughing at something,
Speaker 1: And that's definitely me and Drake have a lot in come.
Speaker 1: I'm always shocked when you laugh out loud at something
Speaker 1: I say. Like, when you laugh, I'm just like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I have to look at him laugh because
Speaker 1: he never laughs. That's what That's what I messed about
Speaker 1: being in studio. No, you're not You're not a big laugher.
Speaker 1: I'm a comedian. I can tell you right now, you're
Speaker 1: not a big laugher. You you go, that's what you
Speaker 1: do there, it is, I mean him laugh, But I
Speaker 1: made him laugh about himself. That's just the narcissism. I
Speaker 1: don't even think that was funny. Yeah, you can just
Speaker 1: say anything about me and it'll it'll get a big reaction.
Speaker 1: Jack is a huge dick. Damn it supposed to say
Speaker 1: it's funny because it's true. But we all know the truth.
Speaker 1: Come on, what's something? Get over it? Billionaires? Come on, man,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I know you guys have been talking about that.
Speaker 1: I won't talk about it. I won't talk about billionaires.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say one thing, one thing about him,
Speaker 1: because I know you guys. I'm sure on this podcast
Speaker 1: you guys have just been talking about billionaires. Do you
Speaker 1: want to fucking barn never? Never? Never? We wish them
Speaker 1: the best. Were kind of like the Washington Post here
Speaker 1: and that we think what Jeff Bezos is doing is
Speaker 1: really cool. Actually it's actually good, super fucking tight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's coolness. It's coolness research, Yes, exactly, see how cool
Speaker 1: it is? And he said it was cool. Can a
Speaker 1: fifty five year old man pull off a cowboy hat?
Speaker 1: Is one of the things that he was researching any cooler?
Speaker 1: So anyway, I was just I just have been talking
Speaker 1: a lot about that on um We've been talking a
Speaker 1: lot about that on Coldbrew. Got me like my podcast
Speaker 1: just because see what I did there, Well done, well done,
Speaker 1: because because like I just think that the most outrageous
Speaker 1: thing is that they keep trying to throw in this
Speaker 1: like that they are doing research of some sort, Like
Speaker 1: they didn't bring any stuff. You can see right in
Speaker 1: the space capsule, there's like nothing in there at all.
Speaker 1: Nothing to quote myself, They've just made space the v
Speaker 1: I P room of a club. Yeah, that's all it is.
Speaker 1: It's like, I guess where I'm dancing, asshole guessing. I
Speaker 1: bet you're not dancing weightless at one Oak or whatever
Speaker 1: they fucking party at now. I don't know the lux
Speaker 1: or I like using antique things like you know, I
Speaker 1: bet you're not I bet you're not waitless at the
Speaker 1: hottest nightclub in the world of the luxe or in
Speaker 1: Vegas on the top of the luxe or pyramid anyway.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just think that the fact that the
Speaker 1: most outrageous thing to me, even more outrageous than the
Speaker 1: cowboy hat, even more outrageous than those fucking five dollars
Speaker 1: space suits that they were wearing. And you know, they
Speaker 1: are a pure theater. There's no reason they're just going
Speaker 1: in a high plane. They're not even going to real space.
Speaker 1: They don't need to space suit. They can wear their
Speaker 1: street clothes. And just someone pointed out that, you know,
Speaker 1: the Jeff Bezos, saying, we're excited to see what we
Speaker 1: find out, Like that's they've never they we've had a
Speaker 1: space shuttle before. We've had a space shuttle that took
Speaker 1: up equipment and stuff. You don't even bring any equipment
Speaker 1: they could throw around, Yes, confirms I just want to
Speaker 1: highlight the fact that their spaceships are empty. You can
Speaker 1: see them. Yeah, we want to find out. And people
Speaker 1: pointed out also that high balloons have gone to that
Speaker 1: part of the atmosphere. There's nothing what we're gonna find out.
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out that you're a dicky. That's all
Speaker 1: you and your friends are a bunch of dicks and
Speaker 1: Richard Branson uses shell companies to avoid fucking taxes. That's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna find out. Yeah, truth bomb. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, yes, yes, oh, yes, that's boring. I know
Speaker 1: Billionaires is boring, But I mean it worked in a
Speaker 1: certain respect because like when you look at I think
Speaker 1: there was there was a statistic that one morning of
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos going to space got as much coverage as
Speaker 1: climate change got for the entire year, like one more traveling.
Speaker 1: So I mean it's just like the mainstream media bought it,
Speaker 1: bought it, hook line and sinker. Well, they need something,
Speaker 1: they need something every two minutes. This model, this model
Speaker 1: of getting people a click on stuff, there's no way
Speaker 1: to go twenty four hours of needing new clicks. This
Speaker 1: just leads to yes, stories about what's coming up on
Speaker 1: the show, like a horse visiting people in the hospital.
Speaker 1: And also you know, it's like they need that stuff.
Speaker 1: They probably that's probably not even a horse. It's probably
Speaker 1: like news producers and I goddamn suit a horse suit,
Speaker 1: just like we need a story. It's been five minutes
Speaker 1: since something horrible happened. Are you sure? Are you sure? No?
Speaker 1: One's electrocuted themselves in Bulgaria because people don't care. It's
Speaker 1: just one. But then just say people in Bulgaria are
Speaker 1: getting electrocuted, make it bigger. There you go. What is
Speaker 1: something you think is underrated? King and Queen of my
Speaker 1: last week and honestly, if I'm being my last year,
Speaker 1: ice packs? Honey child darling, if you don't have an
Speaker 1: ice pack in your freezer at all times, ready for
Speaker 1: you to use for your enjoyment, change your life by
Speaker 1: adding an ice pack bag of peas will do it.
Speaker 1: You don't gotta go spending for some things, but you will.
Speaker 1: Eventually you'll be like, yeah, I don't want that. She'll
Speaker 1: be at ice pack. But start with by just grabbing
Speaker 1: vegetables you don't want to eat and placing them on
Speaker 1: your body. I'm listen to the old woman talking to you,
Speaker 1: young child in growth in years, preventative care is all
Speaker 1: the rage. You doing it for your beautiful face, kin,
Speaker 1: do it for your sweet sweet joints. You don't need
Speaker 1: an ice pack altways, that doesn't mean you shouldn't write
Speaker 1: for one. What if your pleasure in place? I just
Speaker 1: wear an ice pack occasionally. All the cool athletes do it.
Speaker 1: Ice packs are cool, y'all? Ice packs are something like
Speaker 1: a cool ice pack, like a like a like a
Speaker 1: le Bron ice pack doesn't have one probably end. I
Speaker 1: feel like, well, there's like those hyper ice you know,
Speaker 1: there are ones that athletes use that are definitely like
Speaker 1: on the next level. But yeah, it's like made in
Speaker 1: a lab somewhere like the fare gun and things. I'm like,
Speaker 1: do I need five Do I need to spend five
Speaker 1: dollars for this? Am I need that kind of condition?
Speaker 1: I'll be like I'll just take the thing from when
Speaker 1: I order something that was frozen on the internet and
Speaker 1: just keep those. Yeah, the grocery delivery ice pack, that's
Speaker 1: just like a block of that's a free ice pack.
Speaker 1: You just free ice pack. Those are ice packs. They
Speaker 1: were test my theory. See if it's for you, shout
Speaker 1: out to Zeight Gang. When we had our lives in Toronto,
Speaker 1: there was a listener from Montreal who brought Montreal smoked
Speaker 1: meats and gave it to us, and it gave with
Speaker 1: all these ice packs. He's like, I think they should
Speaker 1: be fine for the flight back, Like they're pretty stable,
Speaker 1: they're smoked me And I'm like, great, I saved those
Speaker 1: fucking ice packs. Baby, yeah, I still international ice packs.
Speaker 1: I haven't been my freezer. I use them all the time.
Speaker 1: That's how ice down my vaccine shot. Oh yeah, see
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. I just think we forget if we're achy
Speaker 1: or headache or feel shitty that you actually can't do
Speaker 1: something about it. Free right now, that works, right now,
Speaker 1: there's just like nice relief kind of all around you. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: So when the stressful ice pack is under rated, the
Speaker 1: cheapest air conditioner is a soaking wet hand towel. You
Speaker 1: rang out backs on it and put it on your back,
Speaker 1: on your straight back, and you lay on your stomach
Speaker 1: on the tile floor. Baby, anybody in the heat waves,
Speaker 1: you get you get yourself little spray bottle and you
Speaker 1: just pray your sheets. You're sleeping only under the top
Speaker 1: sheet anyway, you just you just break that top sheet.
Speaker 1: It's not wet. It's just sort of like that really
Speaker 1: just like damn. Yeah, nobody likes damp. Nobody wants a
Speaker 1: damp sheet. Moist sheet also not great sprints. Let's go
Speaker 1: with sprints. I was gonna say, I was gonna recommend
Speaker 1: three ice packs because you have to like cycle them
Speaker 1: in and out and so you have the waters out
Speaker 1: and then it gets warm, and then you have the ice.
Speaker 1: Just want the domino over right. Yeah, that will become
Speaker 1: clear to the ice pack user as it becomes a
Speaker 1: deeper part of their life. But then I was told
Speaker 1: that you're actually not supposed to like perpetually have ice
Speaker 1: on any part of your body, like for too long
Speaker 1: a period at times. So, uh, you want to do
Speaker 1: like you're definitely not yeah, yeah yeah at most tell
Speaker 1: you yeah, unless you're like when people like I want
Speaker 1: to go numb. Yeah, I don't dry ice on your body.
Speaker 1: Whenever you're putting your body, your body is gonna warm
Speaker 1: up a little bit, so will naturally, you know, fifteen
Speaker 1: or twenty minutes is about the maximum ice can sit
Speaker 1: on a nine point six degree object anyway, So you're
Speaker 1: you're all right. I even had a haircut since Lants March.
Speaker 1: So I am trying to hang out with the gang
Speaker 1: and actually look at you and enjoy this digital meeting
Speaker 1: that we are having together to record this podcast, and
Speaker 1: are if I could do another stand in bit, I
Speaker 1: am the Adams family cousin at stand in I can't
Speaker 1: I couldn't get cast as cousin Itt. But I couldn't
Speaker 1: stand there while they set the cameras. Or you look
Speaker 1: like a side character like in a cartoon about like hippies,
Speaker 1: or like there's like that one character who's like hair
Speaker 1: was so shaggy, like you never saw their face. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I still, yeah, I'm hungry some nineties conservative yuppies
Speaker 1: like idea of a hippie exactly cut their hair and
Speaker 1: you can't even see on their hair. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll be right back breaking and
Speaker 1: we're back and Fox News. Let's talk about Fox News.
Speaker 1: We've been speculating for the past, Like last week there
Speaker 1: was this turn right where suddenly Sean Hannity fucked with
Speaker 1: a vaccine like some of the people on the Fox
Speaker 1: Morning Show. We're talking about how the vaccine works, which
Speaker 1: was new, you know, like their party line had been
Speaker 1: like we're just asking questions here, but who's to say
Speaker 1: if the vaccine works or not, like just real like
Speaker 1: the same the same ship you hear from anti baxers.
Speaker 1: It's just a difference of opinion. What you you guys
Speaker 1: are gonna thought control? Ben Shapiro, Oh, thanks, I was
Speaker 1: trying to do Tucker Carlson, so we're going for Charlie Kirk,
Speaker 1: whoa okay, like open to interpretation the share of voice.
Speaker 1: So anyways, we were wondering, like, did somebody threaten them
Speaker 1: with a lawsuit, because that's like what made them change
Speaker 1: their tune when it came to the big lie and like,
Speaker 1: but whether the voting machines had like stolen votes from
Speaker 1: Trump and then you know that they were open to
Speaker 1: that story until the voting machine company was like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're suing you for two billion dollars and then suddenly
Speaker 1: they were just like reading statements on air. So we
Speaker 1: were wondering if that happened with COVID and with vaccinations.
Speaker 1: We still don't know the answer to that, but we
Speaker 1: do know that they can be sued. A legal expert
Speaker 1: for Slate it was basically explaining that they're open to
Speaker 1: a lawsuit if somebody dies from COVID because they didn't
Speaker 1: get vaccinated after watching Tucker Carlson's show. They can be
Speaker 1: sued under the common law theory of fraud. So basically,
Speaker 1: you just have to prove that the defendant made a
Speaker 1: misstatement of fact knowing that it was false, or with
Speaker 1: reckless disregard as to whether it was true or false. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the so it's like contingent on them being too
Speaker 1: being able to prove that Fox News knew it was
Speaker 1: bullshit when they were saying it, Yeah, or just didn't
Speaker 1: do the work to find it out, like reckless disregard
Speaker 1: the defendant did no investigation at all, but just put
Speaker 1: the statement out there. Yeah, And I mean we in
Speaker 1: addition to you know, being obvious that they like the
Speaker 1: information is just everywhere and they're supposed to be a
Speaker 1: journalistic institution. We talked last week about how they have
Speaker 1: a clear pass that they are using behind the scenes
Speaker 1: at Fox News that like shows that like you can
Speaker 1: you can only work if you have had the vaccine,
Speaker 1: so they know like they're operating on a day to
Speaker 1: day basis and in a world where the vaccine works,
Speaker 1: and then coming on the air and uh saying things
Speaker 1: like just a list of a couple of the things
Speaker 1: we have Tucker Carlson saying that COVID is really about
Speaker 1: social control and questioning whether the vaccine works since those
Speaker 1: who are vaccinated are still urged to take precautions, maybe
Speaker 1: it doesn't work and they're simply not telling you that. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that man needs to be put through a shredder, just
Speaker 1: like industrial shredder. Very Midwest of you to go far big.
Speaker 1: It's been everyone, it's weird and everyone everyone's backyard here
Speaker 1: there's a gigantic shredder. So it's just been on my
Speaker 1: mind right with a leg hanging out of it in
Speaker 1: case you sin? Yeah? How what is the kind of
Speaker 1: COVID masking vibe where you guys are in California? It
Speaker 1: seems like people have gotten the message. They've also like
Speaker 1: changed the law in southern California or in l A
Speaker 1: County saying that you have to wear a mask? Are
Speaker 1: you is? Are people still wearing masks? And Wisconsin and
Speaker 1: d C. No, it as demonstrated by the Bucks game
Speaker 1: the other night. No one is wearing a mask. You can't.
Speaker 1: Like I have seen people choosing to wear masks, like
Speaker 1: at the gas station and stuff, and unlike the last
Speaker 1: time I was here, people are no longer making fun
Speaker 1: of you if you are wearing a mask in public.
Speaker 1: So I view that as um as progress. That's pretty cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get relentlessly bullied. Christ that's so like, who cares
Speaker 1: if if you, if you're a stranger, is wearing a mask,
Speaker 1: who cares? And also even way before COVID, people who
Speaker 1: had like, um, you know, like who are you know compromised?
Speaker 1: Were mask My dad wore masks to travel way before COVID,
Speaker 1: So like who cares? Like what is it your business
Speaker 1: if somebody if you got to bully them or have
Speaker 1: have an opinion about it? What do you care if
Speaker 1: someone that you don't know in public is wearing a mask?
Speaker 1: How does it impact your life? It's very bizarre. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was like a remember a guy giving me just
Speaker 1: a minute long, little little song and dance about like
Speaker 1: are you going to rob my business? Because bandits wear masks?
Speaker 1: And I was like do you want I mean to
Speaker 1: buy a diapepsi here or not there? Like I don't
Speaker 1: know what your end game is. I mean that is
Speaker 1: when there's a One of our listeners said that their
Speaker 1: favorite wing place now prohibits masks because of the risk
Speaker 1: of robbery, which is there. There's just very it seems
Speaker 1: like things have turned to the anti vaxxing and anti
Speaker 1: masking people now like going on the offensive, like being
Speaker 1: like you can't you you can't stay at our Airbnb
Speaker 1: if you are vaccinated, and like being aggressively against masks.
Speaker 1: I think Tucker Carls another thing where he was like,
Speaker 1: if you see somebody wearing a mask around your child,
Speaker 1: you should call the police. So sure, yeah, it's responsibly.
Speaker 1: Advocating for the misuse of publics service is totally very responsible.
Speaker 1: How is DC? DC is interesting? I will say DC
Speaker 1: like we are by and large a city of people
Speaker 1: who like just want to follow the rules. Were like, fine,
Speaker 1: whatever it is we're supposed to do. Fine. I do
Speaker 1: think with the masking, I think people are confused, right,
Speaker 1: Like I don't. DC is not a place where people
Speaker 1: are gonna where most people, I should say, are gonna
Speaker 1: be anti mask or for the sake of being anti masker.
Speaker 1: I think that when we got that federal guidance that
Speaker 1: you didn't have to wear masks indoors if you were vaccinated,
Speaker 1: I think that that frankly, I mean, I'm no medical professional,
Speaker 1: but I think that that probably confused a lot of people.
Speaker 1: So mean, like when you go to Target and stores
Speaker 1: in my neighborhood in d C and Columbia Heights, they
Speaker 1: still have the sign saying like please wear a mask.
Speaker 1: I don't think that people are trying to pooh pooh,
Speaker 1: you know that that guidance, But I just think the
Speaker 1: federal guidance be or the federal messaging being though you
Speaker 1: don't need to wear masks, has just confused everybody. So
Speaker 1: I would say, when I go into the grocery store
Speaker 1: in DC, see now it's probably half people wearing masks
Speaker 1: and have people not. I don't think the people who
Speaker 1: are not wearing masks, I don't think they're trying to
Speaker 1: be like anti mask whatever, because that's not really a
Speaker 1: prevalent thing, particularly in my area of DC. I just
Speaker 1: think people are confused, and we've got too much conflicting
Speaker 1: guidance and people don't know what to do. Like we
Speaker 1: we don't really have one unifying message, even though our
Speaker 1: local guidance still is like wear a mask inside. It's
Speaker 1: just I think people are confused. Yeah, no, for sure,
Speaker 1: I I think that's totally fair about it about the masking.
Speaker 1: But the the vaccine stuff seems pretty It seems like
Speaker 1: now everybody is being pretty clear about that. Even Alabama
Speaker 1: Governor k I Vy is saying folks are supposed to
Speaker 1: have common sense, but it's time to start blaming the
Speaker 1: unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It's the unvaccinated folks
Speaker 1: that are letting us down. You know, she's somebody who
Speaker 1: ended the state's mask mandate early, and it's chosen not
Speaker 1: to spend the state emergency COVID fund on like incentive programs.
Speaker 1: So like, this is definitely another situation where like Republicans
Speaker 1: are coming around on something that like should not have
Speaker 1: required any convincing but oh yeah, and to to that point,
Speaker 1: this is the same person who in you know, not
Speaker 1: too long ago, was spreading unfounded fears about things like
Speaker 1: vaccine passports, right, like they pretend like k Ivy did
Speaker 1: not spend a good portion of the year politicizing vaccines
Speaker 1: and you know, downplaying the need to get them and
Speaker 1: really spreading irresponsible hysteria, putting her own constituents at risk
Speaker 1: by spreading unfounded claims about vaccines and how they were
Speaker 1: going to be administered. And so, you know, I'm happy
Speaker 1: to see that she's come around to the side of
Speaker 1: common sense. But instead of blaming her unvaccinated constituents, she
Speaker 1: didn't want to look in the mirror and wonder where
Speaker 1: folks are getting from kind of panic and hysteria from
Speaker 1: And what maybe did she do that that actually caused that.
Speaker 1: And you know, Jack earlier, you we're talking about Fox
Speaker 1: News and you use the word fraud. I think that
Speaker 1: more and more we need to see people that push
Speaker 1: nonsense about our public health, about our elections as the
Speaker 1: fraudsters and the scammers that they are. Tucko Krausen, he
Speaker 1: knows that vaccines are safe. If that if the vaccine
Speaker 1: guidance from you know, Fox News as an organization to
Speaker 1: work for is correct, he probably has been vaccinated himself.
Speaker 1: I saw him doing a whole song and dance about
Speaker 1: how it was the most offensive question to ask he
Speaker 1: was vaccinated. But the bottom line is, people like Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson are making money by pushing dangerous lies. And we
Speaker 1: have a word for that. It's a scammer, it's a fraudster.
Speaker 1: And so this is not a you know, a debate
Speaker 1: or two sides issue. These people are scammers and fraudsters
Speaker 1: and they're making money off of pushing people dangerous, dangerous
Speaker 1: anti science ideas to people that can get people killed.
Speaker 1: And I really am happy to see people using language
Speaker 1: like fraud and scam to call out these obvious scammers
Speaker 1: and fraudsters. Yeah, yeah, I mean this thing with k
Speaker 1: i Vy is it's I mean, it's not the world,
Speaker 1: but it's it's way too late for her to try
Speaker 1: to do, you know, like a face turn at this
Speaker 1: point in the way she's handled this, where there's absolutely
Speaker 1: I mean, it's ridiculous to expect a public official to
Speaker 1: take accountability for anything, but yeah, just to act like
Speaker 1: the reason that people are unvaccinated in her state exists
Speaker 1: entirely in a void that has nothing to do with her.
Speaker 1: It's just nothing ridiculous, Like it's yeah, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: the Republican ideal of everything is like personal accountability and
Speaker 1: like personal like and nothing has to do with any
Speaker 1: sort of group based or like public Uh, it's such
Speaker 1: a double like it's like you have to trust Republican
Speaker 1: leadership implicitly or leadership implicitly in general, but if you
Speaker 1: are misguided by leadership, it's your fault whatever happens to you. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems unfair. It's probably better that she is doing
Speaker 1: this than her you know, staying on the same path
Speaker 1: she was on before, but obviously not somebody who belongs
Speaker 1: in a position making public policy. Another thing about COVID,
Speaker 1: which is interesting because Carl you're talking about how you
Speaker 1: know your identities and there was only one person working.
Speaker 1: Is this constant sort of screaming about a labor shortage.
Speaker 1: That's like nobody wants to work because they're getting benefits
Speaker 1: and they're getting unemployment benefits and they're just loafing around. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's We've all seen the studies that say these people
Speaker 1: are not just collecting a check in kicking back. Many
Speaker 1: people are actually taking advantage of this social safety net.
Speaker 1: The fact that they could have benefits means they have
Speaker 1: they don't have the pressure to take just any old
Speaker 1: job that's going to screw them over because they're The
Speaker 1: pandemic has given many people the perspective of like what
Speaker 1: work should look like, or what it means to work,
Speaker 1: or what you deserve to work. And because of that,
Speaker 1: just this trend of people leaving their jobs has not stopped,
Speaker 1: like it's continuing. A lot of people are just being like,
Speaker 1: I'm I need to find another job, and if and
Speaker 1: and again because they have the ability the flexibility with
Speaker 1: these benefits to just say, you know what, you don't
Speaker 1: need to you don't need to actually have a job
Speaker 1: right now. You can take some time to look at
Speaker 1: what you want to do that is being categorized as
Speaker 1: a labor shortage. Yeah, I think it is like a
Speaker 1: really it's been interesting to kind of watch this developed too,
Speaker 1: because I feel like it kind of like unravels a
Speaker 1: lot of the like bootstrap mentality that most of us
Speaker 1: are raised with of like, well, you have to like
Speaker 1: if you don't have a job, even if you hate it,
Speaker 1: even if you're treated like ship, even if you're not
Speaker 1: given any benefits and you don't make enough money to live,
Speaker 1: like interpreting that as a personal failing versus a systemic one.
Speaker 1: And the past year has like just laid that all
Speaker 1: out if if it wasn't something that you had, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of pieced together already that people are just like, well, no,
Speaker 1: this is clearly a systemic failure. And there are already
Speaker 1: I mean, like there are so few social safety nets
Speaker 1: as it is that it's like, of course people are
Speaker 1: gonna use this, like it's that's what it's sucking for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, anybody you know who has worked retail server
Speaker 1: job or whatever, it's it's bad, the money isn't good,
Speaker 1: and the sort of the constant deferential behavior you have
Speaker 1: to adopt to the customer is will grind your soul down,
Speaker 1: especially when people are screaming in your face about nothing
Speaker 1: that's not your problem and you're just they're trying to
Speaker 1: do your job too, And you know, the we're seeing
Speaker 1: like this sort of there's just two forces, right. There's
Speaker 1: the business owners who are like, where the funk are
Speaker 1: they at? I got my less than fifteen dollars an
Speaker 1: hour I'm offering, and they're not coming back because I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not going to change my fucking business model
Speaker 1: and say, oh I'm gonna you know what, people are
Speaker 1: asking for a living wage, Well, that starts to cut
Speaker 1: down on my profits and I know, and for smaller businesses,
Speaker 1: that's a that's tricky math too, because sometimes you're already
Speaker 1: dealing with razor within margins. Which is why I feel
Speaker 1: like business owners too should implore the government to have
Speaker 1: things like universal health care, because that's a cost that
Speaker 1: would be taken off an employer's plate. You know, there's
Speaker 1: ways that they can also participate in, you know, advocating
Speaker 1: better for everybody. But and then on the other side,
Speaker 1: you have the workers who are just saying, like this,
Speaker 1: we cannot work for sub subsistence wages. I can't go
Speaker 1: to a place where this one job isn't going to
Speaker 1: support me. I don't. I can't work two and three
Speaker 1: jobs just to be able to have an apartment that's
Speaker 1: too small and barely enough food and have nothing to say.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, and really, what
Speaker 1: this is people are just begging for and screaming for
Speaker 1: is a real just like just having a reckoning with
Speaker 1: what we consider like labor, what we consider essential and
Speaker 1: what that means in terms of what you are paid,
Speaker 1: you know, right, like if you're if you're working an
Speaker 1: essential job, you should be able to work one job
Speaker 1: and live and have benefits that you can like it
Speaker 1: that it's just it's so obvious. But I really hope
Speaker 1: that there is like some sort of change that's forced here.
Speaker 1: And my my fear is that the social safety net
Speaker 1: will just be scaled back so people are forced back
Speaker 1: in their jobs. And I really, really really hope that
Speaker 1: what workers are, you know, organizing are just making individual
Speaker 1: choices to do right now, actually does push for better
Speaker 1: conditions and better money. Yeah. Also, Miles, I wanted to,
Speaker 1: you know, give you a shout out because you lost
Speaker 1: your small business Studio City Shoe Buckle Company. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was tough. You have raised with dan Margin's shoe buckles,
Speaker 1: aren't look I Carlin Carls like, it's not gonna work, man,
Speaker 1: nobody wants shoe buckles, And I was like, what then
Speaker 1: do you know, Carl? But listen, it's called Studio City
Speaker 1: Shoe Buckles. This guy SSEs and c has got literate
Speaker 1: of qualities to the name. Nobody nobody do you Nobody
Speaker 1: wears shoe buckles anymore. I don't say it wasn't work there.
Speaker 1: I didn't enjoy a second of it. Well, the problem
Speaker 1: was you weren't putting in enough hours to get those
Speaker 1: our bonuses. I told you that would actually get you
Speaker 1: to that fIF sort of ways that I promised, and
Speaker 1: very easy to get, very easy to get COVID in
Speaker 1: shoe buckle industry, Oh yeah, especially when you're trying someone
Speaker 1: on for shoe buckles, you are in coughing trajectory just
Speaker 1: beneath someone's knees to be like what about this, and
Speaker 1: like just talking at you. It can be an infection vector.
Speaker 1: And I apologize that we didn't open. We weren't really
Speaker 1: open for more than a week, But yes, studio Studio
Speaker 1: City Shoe Buckles is no more um and I will
Speaker 1: be back though, worry not, because this is America, and
Speaker 1: I'll find some way to grift some money to start
Speaker 1: another business. But yeah, this like essential stuff. It really
Speaker 1: feels like at a minimum, we could, at the very
Speaker 1: least say, if something is essential, that has to be
Speaker 1: a job, that that can be your only job and
Speaker 1: you can afford to have. You could be a single
Speaker 1: parent and you could have two kids and you can
Speaker 1: still put a roof and mutton food and everything and
Speaker 1: with your one job. But I think a lot of
Speaker 1: it because we've whittled away so many social safety nets.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, the middle of the last century
Speaker 1: that things that were like used to be free, like college,
Speaker 1: became cash grabs when like Ronald Reagan's like, hey man,
Speaker 1: like you know, like you can kind of start charging
Speaker 1: people for like you c schools, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And that gave all the other public schools across the
Speaker 1: country the idea that, oh, yeah, now we can squeeze
Speaker 1: people for a little bit of money here. You know, actually,
Speaker 1: if you cut this part back of medical care, you know,
Speaker 1: they'll pick that up and people won't really notice, and
Speaker 1: you'll actually make a lot more money. We've whittled all
Speaker 1: these things back, because if you think about it, ask
Speaker 1: your grandparents if they're still with us, or your parents
Speaker 1: people had you could have been a custodian and supported
Speaker 1: an entire family just being a custodian because there were
Speaker 1: another there were enough and had retirement money, like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's a completely different era now, and now we're
Speaker 1: looking at things like that and just saying like, oh,
Speaker 1: essential that means essentially you're fucked. That's pretty much what
Speaker 1: it means now. And I think maybe someone will clap
Speaker 1: for you as you pass to go to your job
Speaker 1: where you're not paid enough to live. Yeah, Like businesses
Speaker 1: should be like hey, if you come through with your
Speaker 1: like essential worker thing, like you drink for free, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like you eat for free? Like
Speaker 1: I feel like, but these are these are the the
Speaker 1: situation or in everybody go outside and bang your pot
Speaker 1: to eight o'clock. Yeah, yeah, like what, well, No, I
Speaker 1: think these people just rather have like the healthcare paid
Speaker 1: for and like adequate childcare. No. No, I'm like fuck,
Speaker 1: So again this realignment or hopefully there'll be some kind
Speaker 1: of realignment in terms of what we're calling labor these days.
Speaker 1: But you know, as things get closer, you know, unemployment
Speaker 1: benefits are due to be cut off fairly soon, and
Speaker 1: that's gonna put about forty million people under some more pressure.
Speaker 1: And we'll see what happens then. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think a lot of organizations, especially around labor, are talking
Speaker 1: about like we need real organized labor strikes, like we
Speaker 1: really need to be able to organize around that to
Speaker 1: try and create some pressure and put that on the
Speaker 1: business owning community and our representatives and government to realize
Speaker 1: fuck like it's it's it's yeah, I guess it's that bad,
Speaker 1: but I don't know from my perspective as a millionaire
Speaker 1: in Congress, it's hard to see. All right, well, let's
Speaker 1: let's pivot off of that and go to a break
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back after this to talk about
Speaker 1: Trump's Kingmaking Street and we're back. So there was a
Speaker 1: cook out. Someone noticed that the children who are at
Speaker 1: this cook got under the age of ten. We're acting weird,
Speaker 1: quote unquote, And it turned out they had eaten a
Speaker 1: bunch of edibles that they thought were just regular. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you look at the packaging. They couldn't look anymore
Speaker 1: like the watermelon Sara Patch kids. Not only is the
Speaker 1: candy designed to look like that, but the packaging is
Speaker 1: designed to look like that. I mean, thankfully they didn't
Speaker 1: eat so many that it was a health problem. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine, like the eight year old mind fuck of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was God's side and kids are like my my
Speaker 1: five year old is basically like Perma Stone, like the
Speaker 1: ship that he says, just make like sounds like the
Speaker 1: other day, asked me how his bones move him? Oh
Speaker 1: the good questions? What? Yeah, But like so I wonder.
Speaker 1: I do wonder though, like what a five year old
Speaker 1: on edibles would like they I'm just so mad at
Speaker 1: the story that they didn't tell us what the like
Speaker 1: weird behavior was. That's true because children's imagination is like
Speaker 1: the most I mean, the most incredible, the most inspiring.
Speaker 1: That's why they always telling you, my un you're an adult,
Speaker 1: just remember your childhood imagination and try to tap into
Speaker 1: that because it's like, bro, imagine being high and Mickey
Speaker 1: starts talking to you and you're just like I'm sucking
Speaker 1: hanging out with Mickey Mouse, right or whatever. Like Teletubby
Speaker 1: is imagine being high as a child and the teletubby
Speaker 1: has come to life in your backyard. That would be
Speaker 1: fucking sick. Yeah. The first time I got high, and
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting to get high because I was told
Speaker 1: that you like the first time you smoke, you don't
Speaker 1: get high, and then it's like the second time that
Speaker 1: you actually But I took like a a foot long
Speaker 1: bomb rip and then like was all right, and then
Speaker 1: we'll smoke tomorrow and I'll actually get high. And then
Speaker 1: I went into my dorm room and like the Godfather
Speaker 1: poster on my wall, because I was a teenage boy,
Speaker 1: started like the cat literally started moving on my on
Speaker 1: the poster on my wall. How old are you? Did
Speaker 1: you say? I was okay? I mean that's still a
Speaker 1: child technically. Yeah, and I I've freaked out so bad.
Speaker 1: I like made my friend wake up and like tell
Speaker 1: me that everything was going to be okay. And then
Speaker 1: and then he went around. I was in a dorm.
Speaker 1: He went around and woke all our friends up and
Speaker 1: then brought them into my room to laugh at me.
Speaker 1: That's great. We know what. One time I was at
Speaker 1: a family party and my nephew he must have been
Speaker 1: like how older kids when they're teething. Uh too, Okay,
Speaker 1: So he was around there and um we there was
Speaker 1: like one of those like punch like drink things, drink dispensers.
Speaker 1: I had like a bunch, So I was like tasting
Speaker 1: each point with him, like trying to play. And so
Speaker 1: he was teething. He was like a grumpy little guy.
Speaker 1: And my sister was like you could tell she was
Speaker 1: just didn't have enough sleep because he was teething. And
Speaker 1: she had her other daughter too, she was a little older,
Speaker 1: so she was just overwhelmed. I was like, give me
Speaker 1: him for the party. I'll take him for the party.
Speaker 1: He's mine because I'm like testing these drinks. I'm drinking
Speaker 1: them first. I'm letting him have him drinking it, letting
Speaker 1: him have it, right, And there's four and when I
Speaker 1: get to the fourth one, I pour it and I
Speaker 1: just let him have it. It was alcohol in that motherfucker.
Speaker 1: And then like literally like whatever, five ten minutes later,
Speaker 1: he is just so happy that the time of his life.
Speaker 1: No toothache. I'm I realized it immediately because he tastes
Speaker 1: but he was drinking it. That was the thing. When
Speaker 1: he slipped and he was like oh, this ship is
Speaker 1: fucking good, which alcoholic and runs in her family. Good
Speaker 1: to know it starts young and and then I drank
Speaker 1: because he was so into it and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh funk, this is alcohol. And I didn't want to
Speaker 1: tell my sister. I didn't even tell her. I didn't
Speaker 1: tell her years past and um, but it was just
Speaker 1: funny because I and I. The only reason I even
Speaker 1: told her is because I felt so bad because at
Speaker 1: that part it you could tell, you know, because sometimes
Speaker 1: when parents, especially mothers, when they can't do something and
Speaker 1: then someone else just comes in and does it, well,
Speaker 1: it makes him feel terrible. So she was feeling terrible,
Speaker 1: like wow, like I can't get my teething baby to
Speaker 1: stop crying and soothe him, and she just does it.
Speaker 1: She just comes in and does it at a party,
Speaker 1: like she had that look on her face like she
Speaker 1: wanted to cry because I had him like laughing. And
Speaker 1: I didn't have the heart to tell her at that time,
Speaker 1: but eventually I told her. But that she was hell
Speaker 1: funny though, I'll say that because he was a ball
Speaker 1: of joy. You didn't give no funk about that toothache running.
Speaker 1: And they're gonna be fine, Yeah, I can't justify it
Speaker 1: that way, like it'll be fine. But he definitely drank. Wait.
Speaker 1: I was like, let me get him a McDonald's cheeseburger.
Speaker 1: So he just chills out. I mean, shout out to
Speaker 1: whoever mixed that punch, because like, what if a kid
Speaker 1: can't taste it like they did a they did a
Speaker 1: great job. Yeah it was and I mean it was
Speaker 1: pretty strong. He just didn't give a fuck grimy as
Speaker 1: little boy. But I do wonder like if it sort
Speaker 1: of like with weed, because kids are already like in
Speaker 1: that mind space, if it like if they suddenly like
Speaker 1: turn into adults because they're like, you're there. It has
Speaker 1: like some reverse property of five year all getting him
Speaker 1: me Like nine eleven was an inside job, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I could see that. No, it wasn't Stephen. How was
Speaker 1: talking like that? Oh man, I can just like picture
Speaker 1: this whole thing. So they like rushed these five kids
Speaker 1: to the hospital and they were all fine, but that
Speaker 1: CPS was called all the parents are in prison? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do we know? The race of these children? Girl?
Speaker 1: You know the race of these children? If it's in
Speaker 1: the fucking news, you know, God damn well, what the
Speaker 1: race of these children? Aren't was fine. We wrote a
Speaker 1: news story about it. Guess the race white yeah, and
Speaker 1: black people reading a totally different story. True. It was
Speaker 1: in I think Canada. Yeah, it was their free healthcare
Speaker 1: and ship. They're just like, let's get take these stone
Speaker 1: as kids to the hospital. No sweat off our back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. All right, let's talk about Rick Lax.
Speaker 1: So you've probably seen had you guys heard that name before,
Speaker 1: rick Lax. No, but it sounds like a really catchy
Speaker 1: name for a laxative Rick Lax. So he's apparently the
Speaker 1: king of viral videos on Facebook, which is just not
Speaker 1: I haven't been on Facebook, like actually just looking for
Speaker 1: something to entertain me, uh in probably over a decade.
Speaker 1: And but you know, he apparently has that market cornered
Speaker 1: people who pay attention on Facebook like no his name.
Speaker 1: So we've we've also seen like these things like table
Speaker 1: nachos where somebody just like lays a bunch of chips
Speaker 1: out on a table and like puts cheese on them,
Speaker 1: or table spaghetti where they're always so proud. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's uh, spaghettio pie, which is just spaghettios dumped into
Speaker 1: a pie crust and then like the most half asked
Speaker 1: garlic bread over the top and then they bake it
Speaker 1: and they're like, this is you know, my best yet,
Speaker 1: and there's yeah, there's like pride, but there's also like
Speaker 1: a tinge of like it feels like porn acting where
Speaker 1: there's like, I don't know, they they don't quite seem
Speaker 1: like they're they're uh, actually genuinely in this in this moment,
Speaker 1: having this experience. And so we had speculated at the
Speaker 1: time of the spaghetti video where the person just like
Speaker 1: pours spaghetti sauce on the table and then puts pasta
Speaker 1: on top of it and then meatballs and with her
Speaker 1: bare hands. It's all happening with bare hands. We had
Speaker 1: speculated like maybe this is a fetish video. Turns out
Speaker 1: there's like one guy lacks productions behind all of these videos.
Speaker 1: He's a magician. Some of the women doing the gross
Speaker 1: ship with the food are his magician's assistants. And his
Speaker 1: verified page has fourteen million followers, and he also has
Speaker 1: one point four million followers on a page called rick
Speaker 1: Lax has Fun. It's it's similar to like the SMR
Speaker 1: videos where it's like, you know, there's a fetish but
Speaker 1: like it's nobody's admitting it. Nobody's like the people who
Speaker 1: specialize in the videos, They're not like, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: people are totally jerking off to this. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm jumping the gun here. I was
Speaker 1: trying to read this quickly, but is this the same
Speaker 1: guy that makes these videos so that Black Twitter catches
Speaker 1: onto them and ships on them and helps them go viral? Y? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the because the idea behind them, it's like, on top
Speaker 1: of being like just ridiculous, is like I think you
Speaker 1: guys talked a couple of days ago about how having
Speaker 1: extremely divisive opinions on social media is how you gardener followers.
Speaker 1: So VideA is, Hey, here's a bunch of like really
Speaker 1: awful videos and black specifically, it's I think he started
Speaker 1: on black Twitter but has definitely migrated over to black Instagram.
Speaker 1: When there are videos without seasoning, you know, you have
Speaker 1: these have these old companies like um Tastes Made and
Speaker 1: a few others. BuzzFeed Food did it for a while too,
Speaker 1: with it make these videos and I'd be like, there's
Speaker 1: no seasoning on this, and Latin EXPETI jumped into and
Speaker 1: they would be like this is not how you make
Speaker 1: in a low te like get a life and and
Speaker 1: learn what you're doing, or hire actual people of color
Speaker 1: bone appetitue. So anyway, all of that happened, and then
Speaker 1: this guy starts making these videos are beyond the pale,
Speaker 1: like no one's going to eat this, no one's going
Speaker 1: to make their or is that you know, gross and discussing.
Speaker 1: And now there's an entire like genre of influencer who
Speaker 1: just watches and reacts to this video. So if you
Speaker 1: take like the YouTube react videos to different like you know,
Speaker 1: they were reacting to trailers and then video games and
Speaker 1: then streams. Now these guys are reacting to these bad
Speaker 1: food videos and it's listen, it's an industry. It's making money.
Speaker 1: People are doing things with it. Try to tell you
Speaker 1: what pist pisted that people are making money off of
Speaker 1: his videos without him making a cut of it. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the I love that. I love that he thinks
Speaker 1: he discovered a magic trick. And it's like, bro, everybody's
Speaker 1: been hating a white people not being able to cook forever.
Speaker 1: You just you just taped it. Also, if you didn't
Speaker 1: figure out how to use your fourteen million followers to
Speaker 1: get advertising dollars. That's on you, okay, like twenty emails
Speaker 1: a day and being like, hey, you want to use
Speaker 1: your social media for dollars? How can we do that
Speaker 1: with you? That somebody has definitely reached out to you.
Speaker 1: You could have reached out somebody found a good partnership.
Speaker 1: Spaghettios almost assuredly would have been like, yes, we would
Speaker 1: like to be mentioned two million times. Here's a couple
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Thank you for your help and figure that out, darling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder how much because he's a magician, and like
Speaker 1: magicians are kind of good at like breaking things down
Speaker 1: to the component like illogical dynamics that make it like
Speaker 1: entertaining or may make it like trick people. I do
Speaker 1: wonder like he's not he's not saying and he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not a foodie, I'm not an expert calling the
Speaker 1: recipes gross. I would object to that. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: he sounds like a complete fucking idiot. But uh, if
Speaker 1: if off the table, what what you would? But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the the level of commentary on like white
Speaker 1: people cooking on top of like whatever fetish it is,
Speaker 1: on top of like I feel like there's just this
Speaker 1: is a very specific type of Internet era content where
Speaker 1: it like checks three boxes, like two of them accidentally,
Speaker 1: and it's just like it becomes a genre because like
Speaker 1: then he's like, Okay, well, so randomly Spaghettio Pie is
Speaker 1: our biggest hit of February. So we have ten videos
Speaker 1: coming out this week that's all about like people doing
Speaker 1: like basically the same ship. This is how I feel
Speaker 1: about a lot of children's content. Like a lot of
Speaker 1: the if you go on YouTube, like the children's videos
Speaker 1: that have like thirteen billion views are just like the
Speaker 1: most random, strange, like kind of dream logic e weird
Speaker 1: things that are bad, like but they just are accidentally
Speaker 1: like hitting on something that is like hardwired into the brain.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's it's just this weird like scatter
Speaker 1: shot of like human dis ires that were like coming
Speaker 1: into contact with because the Internet is such a weird,
Speaker 1: disturbing place. Just like call me Daddy, I would just
Speaker 1: encourage your listeners to stop hate sharing things like I
Speaker 1: feel like that's the root of the problem here, is
Speaker 1: that people love to hate share, you know, like the
Speaker 1: people love to dunk on somebody. People, You've got to
Speaker 1: stop doing that. Ship that's just such a fucking that's backwards.
Speaker 1: You know, people that you like and enjoy, you should
Speaker 1: be supporting them. And you know, when somebody that you
Speaker 1: like says something funny or post something funny, you should
Speaker 1: be sharing that ship as opposed to just being like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, look at this stupid fucking video. I
Speaker 1: would never make this. How disgusting. And then it's like, guys,
Speaker 1: you're just perpetuating this ship, you know. M there's I
Speaker 1: have such mixed feelings about it because on the one hand,
Speaker 1: there's things where I'm like, sometimes you can hate you
Speaker 1: something that's bad, but good bad, you know what I mean? Uh?
Speaker 1: For me, Emily and Paris is one of those phenomenons
Speaker 1: where I'm like, oh girl, this is ah, this is atrocious,
Speaker 1: Like how did this get me? This is all kinds
Speaker 1: of wild. But watching it brought such a sense of
Speaker 1: community of people just being like, please don't be Emily
Speaker 1: in Paris and don't don't be that American when you leave,
Speaker 1: and that could be kind of fun. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: there's such a lack of curation I think in the
Speaker 1: just in general in this era, everyone is just like
Speaker 1: just pump out. As much as you can just go
Speaker 1: is it good? We don't care, we don't have time
Speaker 1: to care. Just release it and and hopefully we get
Speaker 1: some followers. Did it just reach a couple of demographics? Great? Next,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of time being put into really
Speaker 1: like crafting masterpiece, or if it is, it's some people
Speaker 1: who already have just an insane amount of money, and
Speaker 1: you know that's not of consequence to them. I wonder
Speaker 1: if we'll see a BackFlash from this of people being like,
Speaker 1: you know, I would rather have my content just hyper curated.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be dealing with the Shenanigans that
Speaker 1: don't want to watch six YouTube videos until I find
Speaker 1: one that's, you know, really good and it's actually talking
Speaker 1: about the things I'm trying to investigate. I kind of
Speaker 1: hope so, because while it's it's great for creators that
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity to constantly be probbing out to fail
Speaker 1: and and succeed, and to then build an audience around
Speaker 1: what is successful, there's that that area of the internet
Speaker 1: is is really fun, and I think it's given a
Speaker 1: lot of people an oportunity wouldn't otherwise have had one.
Speaker 1: But I also think, you know, there are definitely, uh,
Speaker 1: spaces where curation could be of great value, not just
Speaker 1: to the people creating, people trying to access those creations.
Speaker 1: I mean I feel like that might be what TikTok is, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I also have to correct you. Sorry, it's Emily impatty
Speaker 1: just driving me correct. Couldn't hear Edward you said? After that?
Speaker 1: I was like, great, you know, I feel like the
Speaker 1: hyper curated like single channel. I feel like when you
Speaker 1: said that that made me think of TikTok and like
Speaker 1: the way that I for people who like spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time on TikTok, like the way that I
Speaker 1: hear it working on them is like you, it takes
Speaker 1: all decisions out of it and it's just like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, hyper intelligence that's good at learning, like the
Speaker 1: videos that you respond to and it's just point to
Speaker 1: you and a feed right time life you lived? Damn Jack,
Speaker 1: here you go. Don't you worry about that? Created this? Uh?
Speaker 1: Not worth mentioning? Yeah, Like all machine learning is definitely
Speaker 1: influenced by whatever the people choosing to who like originally
Speaker 1: created it, and like the self selection of like what
Speaker 1: the algorithm is being fed in the first place. So
Speaker 1: not a good thing for sure. TikTok, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: out on a limb and say not great, not awesome.
Speaker 1: Damn Jack, you got those crazy opinions on this podcast.
Speaker 1: Wild take, Wild Take. We're gonna put that in a
Speaker 1: splash that we put on like get ready for the
Speaker 1: fire take back to back you and Jack. I'm blowing
Speaker 1: on my fingers. It's a gun. Did you guys see
Speaker 1: this unvaccinated snow leopard at San Diego Zoo catches COVID
Speaker 1: Night Team? Oh my gosh, pretty close enough to the leper?
Speaker 1: What your career has done? This? Some anti science zoo keeper,
Speaker 1: That's what. It's a It's all that instinct, make that character, zoos, animals,
Speaker 1: all that instinct. All right, that's gonna do it for
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Speaker 1: great weekend and I will talk to you Monday. By
Speaker 1: Si