Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one, Episode two
Speaker 1: after Daily zeit Geist, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into American share consciousness and we like to say up top,
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Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien, ak Zeitgeist, Daily site Geist.
Speaker 1: What kind of guy host Daily Ezite Guys? A white thie,
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Speaker 1: and Ray. That's courtesy of MMC Ericson and The Simpsons,
Speaker 1: and I'm thrilled to be joining. That's always by my
Speaker 1: co host, Mr Miles Great. This Ocean is on fire
Speaker 1: shout out to Cunningham, Adam Abidemigod for that one, because
Speaker 1: well that was some ship to see when I pulled up.
Speaker 1: God's read it. And then you see this ship in uh,
Speaker 1: what is it? The Gulf of Mexico. I thought, Godzilla's
Speaker 1: fucking arch nemesis was about the surface. Yeah it's not great,
Speaker 1: it's not great, but yeah, we're we all can empathize
Speaker 1: with Cleveland and Pittsburgh and other towns who have lit
Speaker 1: their local bodies of water on fire. Now collectively, we
Speaker 1: have lit the ocean on fire. I'm sure. I guess
Speaker 1: we'll have something to say about whether that's his country
Speaker 1: has followed as much as the thirst, but shouldn't have shared.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go ahead and blame all of humanity.
Speaker 1: Thank god they got it out. Yeah, well, we are
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one
Speaker 1: of the funniest stand ups doing it, a fan favorite
Speaker 1: and us favorite all the way from New Zealand, the
Speaker 1: hilarious and talented Guy ongm Fellas. Please you embarrassed me
Speaker 1: before I even get to over my mouth. Good morning, Jack,
Speaker 1: good time, Good morning. Is this a bad time to
Speaker 1: say that I've recently taken a lucrative sponsorship from Black
Speaker 1: Rifled Coffee? Now, I mean that's part of our Their
Speaker 1: sponsorship was we had to have you on, so I see. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: what a confusing relationship we all have with one another.
Speaker 1: It's it's great to be here, and yeah, yeah, obviously
Speaker 1: we we did. We didn't notice it on our sea bed,
Speaker 1: but we have heard reports that the oceans on fire.
Speaker 1: And on the one hand, this is a devastating environmental disaster,
Speaker 1: but on the other hand, it's pretty impressive, pretty cool,
Speaker 1: right to get on fire. You guys have tried to
Speaker 1: do that out the back yard, but oh yeah, constantly
Speaker 1: when I was a kid. Yeah, just spraying the surface
Speaker 1: with like lubricants and for or whatever. And the incredible
Speaker 1: amount of you know, reckless dedication to truly get that
Speaker 1: baby blitzen. I mean, that's one of the great things
Speaker 1: about capitalism. They're like, oh, let me, I bet you
Speaker 1: don't have ocean off fire, pink cord. We did do it. Guy,
Speaker 1: what's new with you? You are in winter? Where you are?
Speaker 1: Is that correct? I'm in winter and it's some that's right.
Speaker 1: So it's sort of opposites world here. So it's cold
Speaker 1: and it gets dark early. Those are two of the
Speaker 1: main figures I'm noticing. What else is What else is
Speaker 1: new with me? Man? How cold does New Zealand get?
Speaker 1: Not as cold as America? Yeah, we had a we
Speaker 1: had a polar blast recently in Auckland, which is got
Speaker 1: a subtropical our version of subtropical climates, the largest most
Speaker 1: northern city go down to two overnight two degrees celsius.
Speaker 1: I can't do the translation of fahrenheit. I also can't
Speaker 1: fathom your insistence. I was sticking with fahrenheight. We've got
Speaker 1: such a good system running down here. Yeah, we're zero's frozen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: anders really correspond to what's happening. Yeah, two is like
Speaker 1: thirties sixties, just you know, it's freezing for two is two?
Speaker 1: But yeah, and then but further south we got we
Speaker 1: had a polar blast, one of the coldest stretches of
Speaker 1: June on record in New Zealand very recently. But you'll
Speaker 1: be pleased to hear that did not manage to put
Speaker 1: in a dent in US also having the warmest June
Speaker 1: on record. Really Yeah, I was listening to our national
Speaker 1: broadcast yesterday and they seem to think that was due
Speaker 1: to warm the ear cycles. And I'm also the entire
Speaker 1: planet constantly heating up. Again. You're welcome. We are. We're
Speaker 1: doing it. We're really doing it. You know we're doing
Speaker 1: We're doing I got three windows open and two heat
Speaker 1: is cranking baby. Yeah, I mean people should have known
Speaker 1: better when we refused to go with Celsius and the
Speaker 1: metric system. Yeah, like it wasn't gonna go well for
Speaker 1: the globe in general. Yeah, I like the precursor to
Speaker 1: people not wanting vaccines. Yeah, and lighting the ocean on fire.
Speaker 1: We didn't see the red flags. That's what you're saying exactly.
Speaker 1: You should have known this group of idiots is gonna
Speaker 1: sum up. Yeah, funk are they talking at thirty two?
Speaker 1: They make they make good TV. We'll stick with him
Speaker 1: for a while. Hey, the Simpsons. You know, alright, guy,
Speaker 1: we are going to get to know you a little
Speaker 1: bit better in a moment. First, we can tell our
Speaker 1: listeners a couple of things we're talking about today. Hey,
Speaker 1: speaking of the ocean being on fire X on mobile,
Speaker 1: lobbyists basically dined out their senate friends. There was an
Speaker 1: undercover investigation from Greenpeace UK and we just got to
Speaker 1: hear them speak unguardedly about about how things actually work
Speaker 1: when when they're not on the record, we are going
Speaker 1: to talk about where we're at with vaccination. We basically
Speaker 1: missed the goal for vaccinations by just about Republicans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so just by that chunk of people. We'll talk about Netflix.
Speaker 1: Are they waning all right? What? What is the future
Speaker 1: of Netflix? Uh? And we'll also talk about the present
Speaker 1: tense of Netflix, which too hot to handle is trending
Speaker 1: in the top five. It's back baby. All of that
Speaker 1: plenty more. But first, guy, we like to ask our guest,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are? You love to ask that question. I
Speaker 1: do love it, and frankly I live to answer it.
Speaker 1: The most recent search in my search history is it
Speaker 1: was float Tank near me Auckland, which has turned out
Speaker 1: to be i'll say their name, a place called float
Speaker 1: culture and Eden terrorists and they're not paying for this
Speaker 1: mentioned guy, there are people that lucrative green back during
Speaker 1: the pandemic times and so not long after this record
Speaker 1: rep So I'm gonna go and lie down and salty
Speaker 1: enclosed body of water for an hour and see if
Speaker 1: that is relaxing. What do you think I mean? I've
Speaker 1: I've heard about it. I really want to try it
Speaker 1: because as a kid, I remember being in the bathtub
Speaker 1: and I would kind of do the version where I
Speaker 1: just kind of put my just my ears underneath the
Speaker 1: surface and just always be like this is so weird
Speaker 1: and try and like, I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: about meditating them, but I guess I was doing some
Speaker 1: form of it with that. So when I hear about
Speaker 1: float tanks and how, you know, the buoyancy essentially makes
Speaker 1: it feel you completely sort of begin to separate your
Speaker 1: physical and mental And yeah, I have that sensation. I've
Speaker 1: been really interested in going, but I have not done yet. Wow, man,
Speaker 1: that is exactly my ship. So I'm gonna go, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna find out. I'm really hard to find out.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited. Yeah, because there's also like the most
Speaker 1: probably the most relaxed and best I feel in my
Speaker 1: life is you're lying down and you're about to fall asleep,
Speaker 1: and it's sort of it's not quite loose to dreaming,
Speaker 1: but it's the moment between consciousness and unconsciousness and you're like, man,
Speaker 1: my brain is taking me wherever it once right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's I have the same thing because like,
Speaker 1: I love floating, and just in general, you find me
Speaker 1: in a body of water. I like to float in
Speaker 1: the in the ocean where it's calm enough. I like
Speaker 1: to just get on my act and just feel, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever that sensation is. But I think it's really interesting
Speaker 1: for what they say is just like sort of this
Speaker 1: introspective opportunity that it offers people when you're kind of
Speaker 1: in this situation or in that environment. So I tried
Speaker 1: it once, and I have to just a little piece
Speaker 1: of advice is don't go face down. That's not at all,
Speaker 1: not at all. And I only lasted a couple of
Speaker 1: seconds and got stopped doing that. Now I've heard it's trippy.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out if that's like the one
Speaker 1: episode of Joe Rogan that I listened to and I
Speaker 1: always talk that I repeat, repeat, every day episode. I
Speaker 1: couldn't risk muddying the waters with any of the other one,
Speaker 1: but they were talking about that and it made it
Speaker 1: very intriguing. And then there's the Simpsons episode where he like,
Speaker 1: basically it's like thing right, like, is what the most
Speaker 1: extreme version of it that I've heard. I like anything.
Speaker 1: I'm into anything that can put you in touch with
Speaker 1: sort of the vast realms of your unconscious mind. So
Speaker 1: I'm this is me saying, I'm going to do that too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I don't know why I haven't to this point.
Speaker 1: I'm very interested and it sounds great. I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: it too, and I'm gonna do it on my back.
Speaker 1: I can I can't wait to see the huge splack
Speaker 1: in traffic that Float Culture Eating Terrace is having right now.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and you can say you're welcome when you
Speaker 1: arrive today, even though that episode may not be how
Speaker 1: you can just say you're welcome, and I will and
Speaker 1: I will see, and they'll say, man, this guy's got
Speaker 1: a bad attitude. He needs to float immediately. They do,
Speaker 1: like clear clean the water right in between floats, Like,
Speaker 1: and is I understand you gotta wash yourself a fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes before and after? That's good? Yeah, which is yeah,
Speaker 1: laying in some someone else's soup like yeah, get your
Speaker 1: infection in there. Yeah. I don't know that it's going
Speaker 1: to be a brand new soup, right. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: it's a ship. I think it's a ship souper. I
Speaker 1: think it's like you at the Racetrat and you trust
Speaker 1: the other. If you were running a tank business, how
Speaker 1: many how many floats you do before you swarch out
Speaker 1: the soup? If it's my tank business, Yeah, I'm trying,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like running. You don't want to change
Speaker 1: that oil. That's where the flavor is. Oh yeah, all
Speaker 1: the revelations iron skillet. Yeah, all the revels are keeping
Speaker 1: the same water over and over. Mix everyone else's hallucinations
Speaker 1: up with your own. Yeah. Yeah, Like Jacinda was just
Speaker 1: in there. She'd be an honored to be in there.
Speaker 1: She was in there. Jermaine Clement was in there. I
Speaker 1: think one time, you know how time got that great cricketer,
Speaker 1: you know, the one, you know, the w we're talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, because yeah, yeah, I'm honored that I've made
Speaker 1: your New Zealand celebrity lists. Oh yeah, absolutely, that's every
Speaker 1: every person I asked that. I mean, that's from New Zealand.
Speaker 1: I said, you know, gut him on coming, right, that's
Speaker 1: the honey right there. But that that is such a
Speaker 1: like when when you know, the the airlines we found
Speaker 1: out don't clean anything in between, and they're like taking
Speaker 1: garbage with you and that's why we all got sick
Speaker 1: on airlines for so many years. Yeah. So Keith Urban
Speaker 1: New Zealand or Australia. You know, damn, there's a good question.
Speaker 1: I think he's Australian. Is he married? To no way
Speaker 1: to know Nicole Kan Yeah, I think he's Australian. Okay,
Speaker 1: there there are a few that are contentious that we
Speaker 1: sort of um, he seems to be on this list
Speaker 1: with like Russell Crowe too, Russell Crows contentious. Both countries
Speaker 1: claimed him, and then both countries were like, ah, you
Speaker 1: have him, but I think he's Australian. Okay, Well he
Speaker 1: wasn't in the soup, so don't worry. Crowded houses, New Zealand,
Speaker 1: but Australia claims them is throwing gotcha, got youa What is, guys,
Speaker 1: something that you think is overrated? I think any any
Speaker 1: sport that lasts less than five days is vastly overrated. Hey,
Speaker 1: speaking of cricketers, right I am. I am referring to cricket.
Speaker 1: You might see that I'm taking on a journey towards
Speaker 1: what is underrated. But I think any any sport that
Speaker 1: doesn't break for lunch and afternoon tea and then has
Speaker 1: everyone literally sleep on the event that's currently happening. They
Speaker 1: wake up the next morning and go back to work
Speaker 1: on the same thing. It doesn't spin a narrative that spans,
Speaker 1: you know, multiple days and nights, right, that's fast food
Speaker 1: to me. That's why don't you sit down and have
Speaker 1: a lovely digger station. Yeah, we're just doing our quick
Speaker 1: hits of testosterone fueled sports out here in the US.
Speaker 1: Just a good quick, quick forty eight and we're out
Speaker 1: of here, exactly. I mean like baseball is that it's
Speaker 1: a long sport by American standards, right, yeah, very very much.
Speaker 1: So something've made a long sport short and boring. Unbelievable
Speaker 1: to me. Who wait, how when like they have when
Speaker 1: they break for lunch and tea? Is there like an
Speaker 1: athlete do what do what do they get to eat?
Speaker 1: What do the players get to eat? Yeah? Do they
Speaker 1: do it in the middle of the of the game,
Speaker 1: like they go it's broken up over five days when
Speaker 1: I am, I hold on now, tea break real quick?
Speaker 1: They go off the field. There's like there's dining, this dining,
Speaker 1: this facilities, and they get there's food prepared and served
Speaker 1: for them. And I guess, depending on where you are
Speaker 1: in the game, some you know, some players would eat
Speaker 1: hastily and others would would stay lean and light. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: but because what happens is is lunch last forty minutes
Speaker 1: and uh, you sort of if you're watching the game,
Speaker 1: you'll often sit and watch that. You could break for
Speaker 1: lunch too. You know, how often do you know that
Speaker 1: you're eating in perfect synchronicity with the athletes who are theory? Really,
Speaker 1: but it's tricky athletes keep unusual eating schedules. But I've
Speaker 1: always sort of be cool if thee as a player
Speaker 1: cam and so each member of the squad has to
Speaker 1: where a go prone through lunch, you just get to
Speaker 1: watch the players eating, serving themselves. You don't have to
Speaker 1: have the audio on. It would just be nice to
Speaker 1: have the submersive kind of experience. Yeah, and just hear
Speaker 1: like the cutlery against like the plates and things grounds
Speaker 1: and yeah, I get it. That would be nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're the we're the opposite of that in America, Like
Speaker 1: American football delivers a total of only eighteen minutes of
Speaker 1: of football action like in between, like that's how much.
Speaker 1: That's how long people are playing for what we needed
Speaker 1: in quick birth, just like you know, delivered to us
Speaker 1: in concentrated form, and then we need a break to
Speaker 1: watch your commercials exactly. I have sort of underhandedly pooh
Speaker 1: pooed these shorter sports, but I've got to say, I
Speaker 1: do appreciate American football and I love that. But well, I,
Speaker 1: just like um, I do struggle without advertisers. I don't
Speaker 1: know what products to buy, and so I do find
Speaker 1: myself with a very well stocked fridge after a game
Speaker 1: of American football. Well, I love the eighteen minutes of
Speaker 1: actual sport. I see, I love the hundred and twelve
Speaker 1: minutes of commercials don't really make the sport. What do
Speaker 1: you were? You a Broncos fan? Again? Is that? I
Speaker 1: am a Denver Broncos Yeah? Okay, I remember it's all
Speaker 1: starting to come together again. Yeah, and I'm assuming if
Speaker 1: your purchases are based on football commercials, that your fridge
Speaker 1: is stocked with a hundred and fifty different varieties of
Speaker 1: hard Seltzer. People, and you've been a you better believe
Speaker 1: I'm in short up the wazoo. Look you look at
Speaker 1: the post and you got in the back. He got
Speaker 1: the whole dilly dilly frame joint. Yeah, what is something
Speaker 1: you think is under air? Again? Test cricket the only
Speaker 1: form of sport. I would like to take this opportunity
Speaker 1: to champion our men's national team, the black Caps, who
Speaker 1: recently won the World Test the inaugural World Test Championship.
Speaker 1: It's one of sports great underdogs. Test cricket traditionally takes
Speaker 1: five days. It's the reason that people don't like cricket
Speaker 1: and misunderstand it because it takes five days. It's this
Speaker 1: incredible sort of titanic mental as well as physical battle.
Speaker 1: It's called test because it's you know, it's mentally testing.
Speaker 1: And for the first ever World Test Championship final, they
Speaker 1: left a sixth day in Loup for for rain for
Speaker 1: rain delay. But traditionally a Test match can last five
Speaker 1: days and the outcome can be a draw and it's
Speaker 1: it's not exactly what you want, but everyone involved ken
Speaker 1: still be satisfied by that outcome. And this since since
Speaker 1: we won against the odds against the most powerful and
Speaker 1: wealthy cricketing nation in the world, India, and it was
Speaker 1: I stayed up. It was on in England, so I
Speaker 1: stayed up every night. I started at nine thirty and
Speaker 1: play with m and play with last still six am,
Speaker 1: so I shifted my body clock. I went nocturnal and
Speaker 1: it was one of the greatest weeks of my life.
Speaker 1: Like a huge shout out to Test cricket in the
Speaker 1: black Caps one Bay eight wickets. We won by eight wickets.
Speaker 1: It was like it was honestly, it was one of
Speaker 1: the most sort of religious experiences I've had watching sport.
Speaker 1: I can't even articulate the feeling it gave me. It
Speaker 1: was like, oh, man, did you grow up playing cricket
Speaker 1: or was it yeah, everyone plays too on top of
Speaker 1: watching or because something to me, like the perception, obviously
Speaker 1: from my ignorant as, is like, well, I don't have
Speaker 1: enough white clothes to play cricket. Yeah. Yeah, they do
Speaker 1: love to put you in white clothes. It's sort of
Speaker 1: like it's the summer sport, I suppose. So it's not
Speaker 1: unlike baseball would be in America and you could organically
Speaker 1: be like, yo, you know who can bowl the funk
Speaker 1: out of that thing? Is my friend guy? Like is
Speaker 1: it the same way or do you have to really
Speaker 1: focus on becoming a cricketer, Like can you organically kind
Speaker 1: of like yo, did you have seen this kid around
Speaker 1: the corner? You know it's there are people who are
Speaker 1: pretty naturally talented at it, and then they get sort
Speaker 1: of hooved up into the development systems and they can
Speaker 1: become great. Usually you see small enough that usually you'll
Speaker 1: be one degree of separation from something in the national
Speaker 1: team got you. But yeah, it's it's just I just
Speaker 1: like a Rookie of the Year type Disney film where
Speaker 1: like this this child who with a broken arm, sudden
Speaker 1: it suddenly becomes like the greatest bowler and Test cricket
Speaker 1: and you're just like, maveryone's like I love that now.
Speaker 1: I love the sport. The very thinly drawn sort of
Speaker 1: hallmark sports movie you have described as it's it's a
Speaker 1: pretty handy metaph for the black Caps media arc rise
Speaker 1: to um to being world champions. Five years ago. We
Speaker 1: were the like worst team in the world and no
Speaker 1: one wanted to play us. We were bad, but then
Speaker 1: we were like, We're like, do you know what would
Speaker 1: be We'd be better as if we were good, and
Speaker 1: so everyone concentrated on becoming good and it worked. I
Speaker 1: love the A to B logic of the chillis you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's something to just stand in off because
Speaker 1: out here we're like, put on your bootstraps and smack
Speaker 1: the shift out of it. Why are we losing? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I sort of I did create quite a succinct narrative
Speaker 1: there because I'm aware we've been talking about variations of
Speaker 1: cricket for ninon five or so, possibly ten minutes and
Speaker 1: alienating a huge number of listeners and potential sponsors like
Speaker 1: Black Rifle Coffee. So we've got to keep the show
Speaker 1: on the road. I can't think of a less less
Speaker 1: of an overlap between two brands than Test Cricket and
Speaker 1: Black Rifle. What can I just ask before we move
Speaker 1: on from cricket, which I promise Za Gang we will,
Speaker 1: what like, what is the viewing experience? Are you sitting
Speaker 1: down that whole time? Are you like running errands in between?
Speaker 1: How long is each viewing session? So it starts, the
Speaker 1: first session lasts for two hours in the exact hourly breakdown.
Speaker 1: The second session would last for two hours again maybe
Speaker 1: in the last one. It's probably two to two and
Speaker 1: each day each day, Yeah, so there's two hours per day,
Speaker 1: six hours per day, six hours per break. So you've
Speaker 1: got your morning session, then you've got lunch, and you've
Speaker 1: got your sort of post lunch session, then you've got
Speaker 1: t and then you've got your evening session. And there's
Speaker 1: allowance for light and whatnot, but you can sort it's
Speaker 1: sort of like just also a great conversational backdrop. It's
Speaker 1: like I tried to get when I was living in America.
Speaker 1: I tried to get into baseball because I like going
Speaker 1: to the game, and it's just, you know, it's sort
Speaker 1: of active in action next you, and you've got all
Speaker 1: these huge conversational breaks. It's like going for the sporting
Speaker 1: equivalent of going for a walk, where you know it's
Speaker 1: a changing environment around you, there's something you can always
Speaker 1: defer to conversationally. Yeah, and I just also it's it's
Speaker 1: so slow, like right, it's so it's almost deliberately boringly inaccessible,
Speaker 1: and I love it. I love that people hate it
Speaker 1: with such a passion and it winds them up. I
Speaker 1: find it very funny. Yeah, American sports fans are like
Speaker 1: baseball is too slow, speed it up, like get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: less time in the batter's box, hurry, hurry, ry. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I like the the opposite. It's the the sporting equivalent
Speaker 1: of slow TV. Absolutely. All right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll come back and talk cricket. No, sorry,
Speaker 1: that's where you did that. We'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about the news and we're back and yeah. So Greenpeace
Speaker 1: UK put together an investigation where they were posing as
Speaker 1: recruiters for a lobbying effort for a company that was
Speaker 1: a fan of x On mobiles work. And that's a
Speaker 1: that's a great set up to get people to just
Speaker 1: talk about like hey, man, like impress me right. It
Speaker 1: feels like how you do like a start a documentary,
Speaker 1: like with a about a drug dealer. We're like, yo, dude,
Speaker 1: did you really he really moved all those drugs? Like no,
Speaker 1: I can't talk about that. I can't. Man, the things
Speaker 1: I've heard. I just heard epic things like the CIA
Speaker 1: said they had never seen anything like this. The d
Speaker 1: e A. They were crying hearing your name, like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, this has been They used that same
Speaker 1: tactic again just to reach out to Exxon mobiles like
Speaker 1: main DC lobbyists, one who is still at Exxon Mobile
Speaker 1: and official capacity very high up, and another that just
Speaker 1: left in the beginning of the year, and again just
Speaker 1: a couple of compliments and now they're kind of letting
Speaker 1: you know again. The part that most of us can
Speaker 1: see from the outside pretty clearly as we look at
Speaker 1: how senators and congress people you know, are motivated. But
Speaker 1: it's really one thing to hear them talk all this
Speaker 1: stuff out loud. So I'm gonna play just a quick
Speaker 1: intro part and then I'm gonna jump ahead to this
Speaker 1: guy talking. So I'll play two parts and then we
Speaker 1: can talk on the other side. Unearthed posed as recruitment
Speaker 1: consultants and told them we had a client who admired
Speaker 1: their work. Then we interviewed them on zoom and asked
Speaker 1: them to tell us what they and the other lobbyists
Speaker 1: at Exxon have been up to. Exxon Mobile is so
Speaker 1: powerful that the management suite at its global headquarters he
Speaker 1: is known as the God Pod. Okay, good start. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're talking to the folks over at the God Pod.
Speaker 1: Yeah right. I can't imagine, especially for the one of
Speaker 1: the you know, the largest polluters of our earth, that
Speaker 1: the people in there that it's reference to as the
Speaker 1: God Pod. Is this a bad time to say? I
Speaker 1: recently took on a very lucrative sponsorship deal with x
Speaker 1: On Mobile. Damn it, guy, really, I gotta get that cash.
Speaker 1: We were gonna take that shell deal. Okay, So then
Speaker 1: let's get to the good part, which is a few compliments.
Speaker 1: And now they got the loosest lips he told us,
Speaker 1: which United States Senators the company sought to recruit to
Speaker 1: their lobby and campaign, and they're not all Republicans. We're
Speaker 1: playing defense because they're President Biden's talking about this big
Speaker 1: infrastructure package and he's going to pay for it by
Speaker 1: increasing corporate taxes. You stick the highways and bridges and
Speaker 1: a lot of the negative stuff. It starts to come
Speaker 1: out because because there's it's there's a germanus, right, there's
Speaker 1: this that doesn't make any sense for highway bill. Why
Speaker 1: why would you put in why would you put in
Speaker 1: a something on uh all admissions reductions or climate change
Speaker 1: to oil refineries in a highway bill? He well, Senator Chapana,
Speaker 1: who's the ranking member of Environment of Public Works, Joe
Speaker 1: mansion I talked to his office every week, and he
Speaker 1: is shocking this because he's a Democrat from West Virginia,
Speaker 1: which is very conservative state, and he's not shy about
Speaker 1: sort of stake in his claim early and completely change
Speaker 1: in the debate. So on the Democrats side, we look
Speaker 1: for the moderates on these issues. So it's the mansions,
Speaker 1: it's the cinemas, it's the testers. Excellent is even trying
Speaker 1: to get through to President Biden through his friend Senator
Speaker 1: Chris Coon's. This guy goes on to say that Chris
Speaker 1: Coons is like all you know, they talked to him constantly,
Speaker 1: and because he's from Delaware where Biden is from, that
Speaker 1: they they're really exploiting this connection to you know, get
Speaker 1: them to hear their side of this debate, which is,
Speaker 1: please don't make us pay more taxes or pay for
Speaker 1: a carbon tax while you go and pay for these
Speaker 1: new technologies that are infinitely renewable and have no carbon emissions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those are the moderates. Just to be clear, that's what
Speaker 1: That's what he said. We we look for the moderates
Speaker 1: who are open to being in the pocket of x
Speaker 1: on mobile when it comes to climate change. That's you know,
Speaker 1: moderation is considered in the in the Democratic Party, in politics,
Speaker 1: and it's not about the filibus or any of this
Speaker 1: other ship like they know. You know, again, the calculus
Speaker 1: for a lot of people in the Senate it is
Speaker 1: merely just just stay in office. It's not to deliver
Speaker 1: results for people. It's just no, I want to get
Speaker 1: here and I want to feel like I can never
Speaker 1: be knocked off this part. So if I have to
Speaker 1: do deals with the Earth, fuckers you know that are
Speaker 1: out there with their deep pockets, then I will do
Speaker 1: business with That's the That's the same sort of um
Speaker 1: power grabbing, short term logic that governs all of this, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, what is the endgame for X on mobile.
Speaker 1: There's a finite amount of the resource that they piddled
Speaker 1: in the world. But it's like you just gotta have
Speaker 1: a vice script on power and distribution and like, you know,
Speaker 1: proticting how much it costs to to find and use
Speaker 1: until we run out. And then they go, I, I
Speaker 1: don't know we're gonna run out. Hell, if I knew
Speaker 1: we were going to run out, how I wouldn't go
Speaker 1: into this in the first place. I would have pivoted
Speaker 1: to this other thing that apparently could be a much
Speaker 1: better path forward. But yeah, even when listening to this,
Speaker 1: it's just it's, you know, it's one thing to always
Speaker 1: see this sort of gridlock happened in the Senate and
Speaker 1: then just with our very fucked up form of governance.
Speaker 1: But then when you really see on the other side
Speaker 1: of the people who are the ones exerting the pressure
Speaker 1: speak so plainly like that it's never about this other stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like, no infrastructure is supposed to be like roads
Speaker 1: and stuff. Don't come into our lane with this emissions
Speaker 1: reduction or carbon tax stuff. We don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1: And then this piece goes on later on to say
Speaker 1: where they admit how acton will be for a carbon
Speaker 1: to acts but they only do that because they know
Speaker 1: the road there is so hard that if they can
Speaker 1: just stay fixed there, then they can excuse all this
Speaker 1: other stuff. It was like, well, we're for a carbon tax.
Speaker 1: If you just pass something, you know, like that's what
Speaker 1: we'll do. But also behind the scenes, we're coming up
Speaker 1: the gear so you guys won't even get close. But
Speaker 1: you can't. But again, when you hear both of these
Speaker 1: lobbyists speak, it's clear to them that the pace at
Speaker 1: which people are asking for new forms of energy and
Speaker 1: to address climate change, they see themselves as having like
Speaker 1: a four year window like to do as much damage
Speaker 1: as possible before the legislation kind of you know, consumes
Speaker 1: their business probably, but who knows. They seem to be
Speaker 1: very will fund They got great service stations, friendly attendance
Speaker 1: to hell of a product. As you've always said, I mean,
Speaker 1: they were the first to know about climate change. They
Speaker 1: knew about climate change in the early eighties before we
Speaker 1: knew about climate change, and that didn't change anything. So
Speaker 1: I mean except the dank climate, right, get them out
Speaker 1: of here, Get this guy out of here, this guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if there's any hope for people that like those u
Speaker 1: x on mobile is investing in a greener future, campaigns
Speaker 1: have some actual truth behind them, like we we can
Speaker 1: give up on that that this is what they're invested in,
Speaker 1: which is making as much money next quarter, is essentially
Speaker 1: what it is. Well, yeah, that all those initiatives always
Speaker 1: been thinly veiled pr exercises right, absolutely no substance. British
Speaker 1: Petroleum rebranded to Beyond Petroleum and invented the idea of
Speaker 1: a carbon footprint, right, which is pretty much just like God,
Speaker 1: this is too big for us. If we can just
Speaker 1: force everyone into thinking they can shoulder a tiny bit
Speaker 1: of responsibility for their carbon emissions, we can keep just
Speaker 1: absolutely pillaging everything right in the interim. Yep, it's on you, listener.
Speaker 1: You gotta r with paper straws and remember your bags
Speaker 1: when you go to the grocery store. Yeah, don't don't
Speaker 1: funk this up to get a we can fix this.
Speaker 1: Don't up for Rex Tillerson, who went from the CEO
Speaker 1: of excellent too the Secretary of State. Look at the
Speaker 1: fucking for lack of a better word, pipeline and you
Speaker 1: can see just how all this ship moves like. It's
Speaker 1: all you know again for people who aren't cynical or
Speaker 1: radical enough yet, just don't take a second to look
Speaker 1: at how they do, how they move. It's the same
Speaker 1: thing as you know how celebrities always celebrities the only
Speaker 1: ones who know what it's like. Yeah, right, right right,
Speaker 1: They're like, I can I can only lay my head
Speaker 1: down with another evil earth fucker who has the dread
Speaker 1: of their you know, collective karma for the deeds they've
Speaker 1: done in the pursuit of profits hanging over their head.
Speaker 1: But we loved a vacation in Bali, Right, They've already
Speaker 1: made their decision a long time ago. And that's how
Speaker 1: that's how you know that they're they're good. They're good
Speaker 1: for the job. All right, Well, let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about you know, where the shortsightedness of the
Speaker 1: US has gotten us. So Republican governors are now basically
Speaker 1: begging their constituents to get vaccinated after the country missed
Speaker 1: its goal for vaccinations by uh just you know, if
Speaker 1: Republicans had gotten vaccinated, we would have hit seventy pretty easily. Currently,
Speaker 1: a new Washington Post ABC News poll showed seventy four
Speaker 1: percent of people who haven't been vaccinated say they probably
Speaker 1: or definitely won't get vaccinated, and that scent of Democrats
Speaker 1: have received at least one vaccine shot compared with pcent
Speaker 1: of Republicans, so breaks down pretty evenly along ideological lines.
Speaker 1: There they're dealing with something spooky or now because of
Speaker 1: the delta variant and now that it's become, you know,
Speaker 1: slowly the dominant strain in the US, these states and
Speaker 1: cities that have low vaccination rates are looking at experiencing
Speaker 1: significant infection rates. And this is why these governors like
Speaker 1: in Utah, Arkansas, West Virginia, etcetera, have like again, I
Speaker 1: been saying things like, you know, I think Asa Hutchinson
Speaker 1: Arkansas was like the vaccine is the only solution to
Speaker 1: this was like saying very directly on TV to people
Speaker 1: who would listen, because you know they're looking at sub
Speaker 1: vaccination rates. You got Jim Justice, who's the governor of
Speaker 1: West Virginia saying when it really boils right down to it.
Speaker 1: They're in a lottery to themselves. We have a lottery
Speaker 1: that says, if you're vaccinated, we're gonna give you stuff.
Speaker 1: Well you've got another lottery for them, and it's a
Speaker 1: death lottery. Hell yeah, like that energy that guy, this
Speaker 1: is the governor of West Virginia, Well you got another
Speaker 1: the lottery for them, and it's a it's a death lottery.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so appropriate that it's somebody named Jim
Speaker 1: Justice because it sounds like a that that is a
Speaker 1: Steven Skull character name, and that the way he spoke
Speaker 1: about that, it sounds like it could be from a
Speaker 1: trailer for Steven Skull. He's like, yeah, they're playing a
Speaker 1: lottery death death and that's the name of the Sagal
Speaker 1: movie Death. Yeah, death lottery. It's a good sound. Steven
Speaker 1: sgal in death lottery or is the death lottery? It depends.
Speaker 1: Do you think Jim Justice seems like the kind of
Speaker 1: guy who just based on that one like he'd be
Speaker 1: the last kind of like t ball coach you'd want, like,
Speaker 1: you know, consoling your kid if they get hit with
Speaker 1: a ball anything like that. He's like, yeah, shouldes, it's
Speaker 1: tough love in the moment. But you know, you look
Speaker 1: back on that and you think, wow, that table coach
Speaker 1: really changed my whole life. He got me to respect vaccines.
Speaker 1: It's funny to just see him like finally getting it
Speaker 1: a year and a half into the global pandemic that like,
Speaker 1: these people's lives are at rest. It's so it's so
Speaker 1: crazy how low the bar has been set for any
Speaker 1: sort of appraisal or just basic improvement on governance. Where
Speaker 1: it's like a year and a half into what was
Speaker 1: a pandemic that was telegraphed as much as possible, a
Speaker 1: year and a half and it's like, oh, wow, you
Speaker 1: better get vaccinated because this is bad. Everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're gym justice man. I knew he'd pull through. It's
Speaker 1: still it's still responsible for like you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know the particulars, but it's just absurd like that the
Speaker 1: bar that was set for basic competence on handling this
Speaker 1: was so low. It was just basically, you know, an
Speaker 1: understanding you had to a difficult thing in the moment
Speaker 1: to prevent an absolute disaster unschooling, and virtually no one
Speaker 1: could rise to the challenge, no, because it required doing
Speaker 1: things that an American had never thought of, which is
Speaker 1: to take care of another American person, and because that
Speaker 1: concept is so foreign, it just turned in this car
Speaker 1: wreck of like no empathy, no empathy car wreck. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, what the hecks going on?
Speaker 1: And You're like, well, you didn't even handle this thing empathetically. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember when the whole the masque thing, like just
Speaker 1: this very basic logical piece of advice, became a sort
Speaker 1: of referendo on civil liberties and freedom. And I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: if you guys are gonna miss the point this badly,
Speaker 1: America the ship out of this, you're gonna assignment again.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is and it's wild to kind of
Speaker 1: see this continue because you know, you know that these governors,
Speaker 1: just like Exxon Mobile is, the analysts are showing them
Speaker 1: things that say it can get real fucking dark if
Speaker 1: people aren't vaccinated, because the delta variant is now be
Speaker 1: coming the more dominant strain around the world. But in
Speaker 1: America you're seeing it creep up and it's just gonna
Speaker 1: tear through unvaccinated communities because it is so transmissible. While
Speaker 1: at the same time there's all this evidence that's showing
Speaker 1: like you know, anecdotally, I saw that there was some
Speaker 1: party like in Australia that was like a super spreader event,
Speaker 1: but like people who are vaccinated were the ones who
Speaker 1: walked out without getting infected. And you know, in the UK,
Speaker 1: this is another place that has a lot of vaccinations.
Speaker 1: Of the people they're vaccinated. New infections were kind of
Speaker 1: low at around nineteen hundred at the d a day
Speaker 1: and the end of May, then the delta variants showed up.
Speaker 1: Now they're around seventeen thousand, six hundred new cases a
Speaker 1: day and they're rising. And but yeah, luckily though because
Speaker 1: of the vaccinations, the instances of hospitalization and death are
Speaker 1: much lower. But still this means if you aren't you're
Speaker 1: not looking. You know, Russian man example, is not doing well.
Speaker 1: They lower in the UK, but it's still rising. Boris
Speaker 1: john Soon gave a press conference I think maybe yesterday
Speaker 1: two days ago where he was like, man, they're guys
Speaker 1: such a fucking slice of spam, massive piece of ship.
Speaker 1: Was just saying, you know, we just have to accept
Speaker 1: we're going to be looking at fifty cases a day
Speaker 1: and people are going to die. He just was pretty
Speaker 1: plainly like we just have to accept that people are
Speaker 1: going to die because he has been so long saying
Speaker 1: we're going to open on July, and now in the
Speaker 1: face of a fourth wave, he's just he's just so spineless.
Speaker 1: He's like, we're still going to open on July. Well,
Speaker 1: literally the entire country is just the delta variant is
Speaker 1: running riot. His definition of herd immunity is people are
Speaker 1: going to die. Treat people like herd animals. That's that's
Speaker 1: where the weak ones in the herd are gonna you know,
Speaker 1: they'll perish, and then the ones we mean poor. We
Speaker 1: we talked last week about this our bad from somebody
Speaker 1: who was talking about how EDS has continued to be
Speaker 1: a crisis in the world. It's just that it's it's
Speaker 1: more of a crisis that affects poor people. And therefore
Speaker 1: the narrative in government and in the mainstream media has
Speaker 1: become that we have it under control, that we have
Speaker 1: this medication parentheses, extremely expensive medication that that can control it.
Speaker 1: And I feel like we're seeing the same thing happen
Speaker 1: here with COVID, as that abed pointed out. But like
Speaker 1: that's just like when you view Boris Johnson through through
Speaker 1: that lens, it's like yeah, people are gonna die, not me,
Speaker 1: not that people I know and make money with. It's
Speaker 1: going to be you know people, but we are going
Speaker 1: to make money and just pretend that this isn't happening
Speaker 1: because it's mostly happening to the poorer people. It's people,
Speaker 1: not persons. It's not individual people. It's the conceit people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a large group. And don't make me look at photos
Speaker 1: because I'll bump me at. But we have to accept it.
Speaker 1: And I can just see, like, you know, in fifteen years,
Speaker 1: like Bill Gates is like Spearhead, like you know, COVID
Speaker 1: relief concert for the Southern Hemisphere, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And like we're acting like, oh god, it's a terrible
Speaker 1: thing COVID that it's just we haven't eradicated it yet.
Speaker 1: And you've said this a lot. You think you said
Speaker 1: Gates will be headlining, You think you see a recording
Speaker 1: career for Bill Gates coming, You think he's where it's
Speaker 1: all headed full. I told you this the whole reason,
Speaker 1: with the fact, yes, he wants to keep COVID alive
Speaker 1: so he can then do a benefit concert and launch
Speaker 1: his you know, he he said he's doing Lime, like
Speaker 1: garritge m seeing like he's really in the the UK
Speaker 1: drill sound. I don't know, we'll see he track out
Speaker 1: windows dreams of nights on his acrimonious divorce. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be absolutely seven. Yeah, yeah, he just steps up. The
Speaker 1: beats are slapping. He's like, man, Melinda was so untrustworthy.
Speaker 1: Can y'all believe it? I can't, honestly, Like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if y'all don't agree with me, but she probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't deserve happiness the way she lived her life. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I had some I asked a couple of co
Speaker 1: workers out or people who worked for me, you know,
Speaker 1: but that's not what Linda did. Anyway. I'm Bill Gates
Speaker 1: and covid y'all, thank you, have a good night, And
Speaker 1: then the songs with and replaces Kim with Melinda, and
Speaker 1: he performs like with a holograph of Epstein performing a happening. Hey,
Speaker 1: you're fucking ready, Jeff, you're fucking ready to do it
Speaker 1: to him, sucking fog machines like Jeff Epstein, and they
Speaker 1: was like booing trash and he's like, what, oh, bad, bad, somebody,
Speaker 1: some billionaire just needs to own that ship. I guess
Speaker 1: McAfee was one of the people who was doing that right, Like,
Speaker 1: wasn't he starting his own cult and ship? But like,
Speaker 1: somebody just needs to be that bad. It's like Jeffrey Epstein,
Speaker 1: are that bad? They just have no just in the worst.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, that's right. I need to dismiss the
Speaker 1: PR team. They need to live life honestly. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take another quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back, and let's talk about Netflix currently. You
Speaker 1: know they've got well, first of all, the second season
Speaker 1: of I Think You Should Leave just dropped, so I'm
Speaker 1: very excited about that. But um, when you look at
Speaker 1: the top ten, for the most part, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of reality shows. Our new producer DJ Dramas was pointing
Speaker 1: out that Too Hot to Handle is constantly trending in
Speaker 1: the top five because they just dropped season two of that,
Speaker 1: which is the hot people try not to have sex
Speaker 1: with each other reality show where where a hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars is is a risk or you know, they're competing
Speaker 1: to win a hundred thousand dollars And yeah, Miles, you
Speaker 1: were you were reading somewhere that it's just like Netflix,
Speaker 1: maybe more the safe flex CBS version, Yeah, which is
Speaker 1: funny in this right up and wired about Netflix, like
Speaker 1: every paragraph whoever wrote this, I'm just gonna pick them
Speaker 1: up by name because they were clearly I think you
Speaker 1: should leave now, fans, because every like opportunity there was
Speaker 1: to talk about I mean, the only thing to watch
Speaker 1: on Netflix is obviously, I think you should leave season two.
Speaker 1: And then like three paragraphs later, it's like, and I mean,
Speaker 1: we're not for shows like maybe I think you should
Speaker 1: leave season two that's about to drop. Netflix might not
Speaker 1: have anything. And I just love when people like are hardcore,
Speaker 1: So Kate NIBBs, I see you, you, Tim Robinson stand
Speaker 1: I love the energy. But in this piece was writing,
Speaker 1: you know, globally, Netflix is the dominant streamer like that,
Speaker 1: that's just without a shadow of a doubt. When we
Speaker 1: look at the the Nielsen ratings, like that's reflect it.
Speaker 1: It's like Netflix is the default top ten and then
Speaker 1: if another streamer has a like big movie or a
Speaker 1: big show come out, they will sometimes crack the top
Speaker 1: ten for like a week, and then it goes back
Speaker 1: to all Netflix. But now you know they're saying with HBO,
Speaker 1: Max and Disney plus they're finding their kind of rhythm
Speaker 1: in terms of original of original releases, and like many
Speaker 1: news services coming online, because it used to be like, well,
Speaker 1: at least Netflix has a lot of stuff. Now it's
Speaker 1: become like if you like horror, if you want anime, like,
Speaker 1: you're probably not gonna go to Netflix. You go to
Speaker 1: like crunchy roll or something like that. And then in
Speaker 1: the summer they had like a lot of the movies
Speaker 1: are coming on HBO, Max, Mortal Kombat, that Mortal Kombat
Speaker 1: film came out, the Godzilla and Versus Kong film came out,
Speaker 1: and like those did numbers that apparently made the Army
Speaker 1: of the Dead on Netflix just seemed like a mild hit.
Speaker 1: And so all of this together they're kind of saying, like, well,
Speaker 1: it seems like it's sort of Netflix has definitely lost
Speaker 1: its place in terms of like the prestige area. And
Speaker 1: if even if you want to talk about them wanted
Speaker 1: to be a full fledged film studio. Amazon just went
Speaker 1: and bought a whole as film studio in MGM. So
Speaker 1: they're like, how are they going to keep up because
Speaker 1: it seems like now they're real big hits. Are I
Speaker 1: think you should leave? And maybe, and Sexy Beasts where
Speaker 1: the people wearing like prosthetics to look like animals and
Speaker 1: ship that dating show. They're like, where has the prestige gone?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, and when you
Speaker 1: look at what like they have all these accidental hits
Speaker 1: like that art film in quotes from the guy who
Speaker 1: directed Into the Void, but the premise was it's a
Speaker 1: art film where people are actually having sex. And then
Speaker 1: there was the sixty five Days, which was just a
Speaker 1: softcore porn Those were like among their top ten shows.
Speaker 1: So I mean they acquire a lot of content and
Speaker 1: then just let the let the people sort it out.
Speaker 1: And supposedly they make their programming and like what they
Speaker 1: invest in decisions based on what people tell them they want.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's just sort of what happens when
Speaker 1: you're you're commissioning is done by an algorithm. Like there
Speaker 1: are so many studio execs or whatever it Netflix, But
Speaker 1: it's like what do they do? They take meetings with people,
Speaker 1: then go into a big room with you know, a
Speaker 1: smart board with mass equations happening, and then come back
Speaker 1: out and say, sorry, right, I don't Yeah, it's this
Speaker 1: because even I think about it. I've looked at through
Speaker 1: the prism of stand up comedy. There was that window
Speaker 1: where if you've got to stand up comedies fecial on Netflix,
Speaker 1: it was this close to sort of like getting on
Speaker 1: Carston or Letterman, you know, eons ago, where it was
Speaker 1: like there was a certain amount of prestige attached to that.
Speaker 1: But now it's as though it's it's nowhere near. I
Speaker 1: don't think that they streamed the same numbers, and it's
Speaker 1: just not like they give out those huge deals to
Speaker 1: your Chappell's or your Signfelds or whatever. But for for
Speaker 1: ordinary communities it's still fantastic, but just there's no care
Speaker 1: or attention paid to it. It's like, this is one
Speaker 1: of the cheapest things that we can commission, and I
Speaker 1: guess we'll give it a go and if people watch it,
Speaker 1: then we'll know to keep coming back, right, And they're
Speaker 1: and they're kind of and Netflix is in a new phase.
Speaker 1: You know, they're no longer borrowing money for the first time.
Speaker 1: That was always a thing where it's like where is
Speaker 1: all what are they doing? But you know, I think
Speaker 1: this is part of their long term strategy. And yeah,
Speaker 1: things like Disney Plus and HBO Max even Paramount. Plus
Speaker 1: they're siphoning away people's like watch time, Like it's funny,
Speaker 1: like I have Netflix, but again I'm really only watching
Speaker 1: will probably watch I think you should leave, or Sexy
Speaker 1: Beasts or the f One Show or something like that.
Speaker 1: It's only like a couple of things. I feel like
Speaker 1: I need Netflix before, whereas you know, ask me seven
Speaker 1: years ago, I was like, oh my god, man, you're
Speaker 1: not fucking Netflix, Like what the fund do you do?
Speaker 1: Like how do you live? And again these analysts are
Speaker 1: looking at it as because they're just they're so ubiquitous,
Speaker 1: and now globally they just have such a lion share
Speaker 1: of the eyeballs that it's just going to be more
Speaker 1: like CBS, where they were like the first to broadcast,
Speaker 1: but now people are just like, ohn't no, like it's
Speaker 1: it's around, but I'm not. I don't with CBS because
Speaker 1: I think it's cool. It just happens to be the
Speaker 1: biggest thing. Yeah, And I mean the way that these
Speaker 1: other streaming apps are pubbing up and qualifying their place,
Speaker 1: it's like there's only so much money in people's wallets
Speaker 1: were eventually you have to you know, you can't just
Speaker 1: you have to choose, and you can't just choose something
Speaker 1: because it's got one show you go to your friends
Speaker 1: and watch it. But like you can't just be like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get Netflix because they're gonna have a
Speaker 1: new season. If Tim Robinson's showing another year or two years,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense. But here I am waitin
Speaker 1: waiting no more. I know you gotta came out today
Speaker 1: as we record this. Yeah, you gotta meet out your
Speaker 1: your value you're getting from the show. Because there's a
Speaker 1: year's worth of Netflix subscription distilled into watch six episodes.
Speaker 1: I flew through them. I mean when the first season
Speaker 1: came out, I probably just watched the first season three
Speaker 1: times over just because like the replay value was like
Speaker 1: sort it was infinite for a while, and I had
Speaker 1: to do the thing where I didn't want to start
Speaker 1: memorizing all of the bits like with other things I've watched,
Speaker 1: because then I just find myself performing along with my
Speaker 1: TV rather than being like an audience because I like
Speaker 1: it so much, I'm like, oh, man, if he tagged
Speaker 1: me and I could do this sketch with him, It's
Speaker 1: just like it's a real advertisement for stupidity. That show
Speaker 1: because it is the stupidest show on television and also
Speaker 1: the best and it's not a coincidence. Well, you can't
Speaker 1: be that. That's the irony of it, is like you
Speaker 1: have to be really smart to be able to pull
Speaker 1: off the Ship. That's that dumb, you know. It's not
Speaker 1: just like, oh man, look at this bozo just falling
Speaker 1: over himself. It's like, no, like you gotta like that's
Speaker 1: the I think that's why I really loved Ship when
Speaker 1: I watched This is so but it's it's a performance
Speaker 1: style as well, because it's just it's such every character
Speaker 1: is so entrenched in the you know, in themselves, this
Speaker 1: commitment to everything. It is so real. It's just like
Speaker 1: you can't look away because it's like these these beautiful
Speaker 1: little car crashes with the drivers. I mean literally in
Speaker 1: one skitch was like the drama. There wasn't a car crash,
Speaker 1: which is so perfect for our country. A car crash
Speaker 1: happens like it clearly wasn't me, even though everyone saw
Speaker 1: him do it. Yeah, I think there's a reason that
Speaker 1: that resonates with people, stupid people making embarrassing mistakes and
Speaker 1: then refusing to admit it. For some reason that that
Speaker 1: resonates with the modern world. I had a kind of
Speaker 1: related streaming question with regards to so it seems like
Speaker 1: all Pixar movies from now on are just coming out
Speaker 1: without like they're just gonna be Disney Plus products. And
Speaker 1: I feel like that's like there's this new Luca one
Speaker 1: about like a kid who's a sea monster that is
Speaker 1: apparently a metaphor for like l G B t Q,
Speaker 1: like you know, be being Yeah, it's a metaphor for
Speaker 1: Disney acknowledging that queerness exists in the world. Exactly, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: But it's like it's just gonna be dropped on Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: It seems like, and that's what happened with Soul, they
Speaker 1: dropped it for free. And I don't know, it feels like,
Speaker 1: do you guys feel like it's devaluing like Pixar movies,
Speaker 1: Like it just feels like it's less of an event
Speaker 1: now when Pisar, like Onward came out last year and
Speaker 1: like that wasn't really a big thing. I think that
Speaker 1: came out before the pandemic, so it hit theaters. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think there's a few things happening.
Speaker 1: I'd imagine it's a response to the fact that they're
Speaker 1: not going to pull huge numbers at the cinema. And
Speaker 1: then also there's some element that it could be a
Speaker 1: marketing strap. It's like Uber gave out really cheap cab
Speaker 1: rides for a while, so everyone was, man, I can't
Speaker 1: believe all these cab rides are so cheap, and then
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, are we the only thing you use
Speaker 1: is this how you get around out cab rides because
Speaker 1: now and you know what the funk is this? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and the drivers were subjecting them to hell. Yea. It
Speaker 1: just sucks that their lost leader is like the most
Speaker 1: artistically valid thing that they were creating as a studio.
Speaker 1: I feel like in in Pixar movie is like they're
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, I will just like throw the slop
Speaker 1: out to the kiddies, and by treating it like that,
Speaker 1: because apparently I was listening to like an industry watcher
Speaker 1: talk about how even though these movies could make a
Speaker 1: lot at the box office, the most valuable thing to
Speaker 1: them is stock price, and the only thing that draws
Speaker 1: drive stock price is subscriber numbers. It's not like if
Speaker 1: you have a hit at the box office, so now
Speaker 1: they're basically all they care about is driving like Disney
Speaker 1: plus subscription numbers, so they're going to like not even
Speaker 1: release some of these things into movie theaters even when
Speaker 1: movie theaters open back up. It's so grim that the
Speaker 1: world is being run by old white guys who are
Speaker 1: just running around following maths. Ryeah exactly, all in the
Speaker 1: name of fucking shareholder value. Like even now we have things,
Speaker 1: they're just like, no, no, no, what do you kid me?
Speaker 1: You're gonna put a movie in a movie theater where
Speaker 1: people are gonna go and you'll make millions, possibly billions
Speaker 1: of dollars. No, no, not, fam We need to We
Speaker 1: need the subscriber numbers to go up. So these fucking
Speaker 1: day traders and everybody else who are in on our stock,
Speaker 1: then they can feel good. That's what we're in the
Speaker 1: business for. We're no longer Disney. Other thing to watch
Speaker 1: a movie, and he will watch a movie once in
Speaker 1: a day. But Guy as always such a pleasure having you. Man,
Speaker 1: where can people find you and follow you? You can
Speaker 1: find me at Guy under School month, on Twister and Instagram.
Speaker 1: My dream is to become successful enough to leave the platforms,
Speaker 1: as I always say, and Also, this is mostly fin
Speaker 1: Je Zealand listeners, but the new season of Taskmaster in
Speaker 1: ZD historically my favorite panel show. I'm in the season
Speaker 1: the second season of Taskmaster in ZED which come has
Speaker 1: started coming out. Now you can watch it on tv
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Speaker 1: want to watch it, well like and says very possibly,
Speaker 1: now you could. There might be an acronym guiding you
Speaker 1: towards the watch strategy there, but um vocational Paranoian nuisance exactly.
Speaker 1: But yeah, thanks so much for having men. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. I was gonna say sorry about
Speaker 1: everything that's happening over there, but I mean, you guys
Speaker 1: seem to be in good spirits. Yeah, we're doing great.
Speaker 1: It's just that it's fun you guys, you guys having
Speaker 1: Yankees over there. Yet I think, to be honest, only
Speaker 1: extremely wealthy ones. These special visas for people who ever
Speaker 1: sitting it worth only if you're building a compound ship. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, that's something to work towards, not taking from
Speaker 1: and speaking of streaming content, for this week's on a
Speaker 1: streaming corner, we're gonna be watching a peacock show, a
Speaker 1: show on Peacock Peacock, So I'm gonna have to get
Speaker 1: that streaming service. The show is called We Are Lady
Speaker 1: Parts and it sounds incredible, So that's that's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna be watching. Well, we'll sell it to you a
Speaker 1: little better in coming days. But it's a about all
Speaker 1: girl Muslim punk band and it's just supposed to be
Speaker 1: on rotten tomatoes. What are we doing? That's all that's
Speaker 1: all say. Last upset. Is there a tweet or some
Speaker 1: of the work of social media you've been enjoying. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's a tweet I came across last night which hit
Speaker 1: me an absolute stitches. I just gotta pull it up.
Speaker 1: It was um, why the fund is it called a restroom?
Speaker 1: I'm fighting for my life in here, miles making people
Speaker 1: find you. What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh man,
Speaker 1: uh my at Miles of Gray on Twitter and Instagram.
Speaker 1: Also the other show for twenty Day Fiance. If you
Speaker 1: like Weed and ninety Day Fiance, come check out for
Speaker 1: twenty Fiance. We're having an absolute large over there. In
Speaker 1: terms of a tweet, I like Taylor garn At Taylor
Speaker 1: g g A R R O N. She tweets the
Speaker 1: opening line in the Weezer song Buddy Holly was my
Speaker 1: first experience with racism, which is, what's with these homies?
Speaker 1: This in my girl? Why do they got up from?
Speaker 1: Oh my God? Why is that the opening line of
Speaker 1: that song? Never really think about that one. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien.
Speaker 1: Something must be in the zeitgeist about painful ships because
Speaker 1: at Rodent Sheriff tweeted, I'm on that ship that killed
Speaker 1: Elvis print sees the toilet. Oh and also at eighty
Speaker 1: nine Technical point out, so I'm on an episode of
Speaker 1: Secretly Incredibly Fascinating with the brilliant Alex Schmidt and the
Speaker 1: brilliant Jason Pargeon about sewers today, and we talk a
Speaker 1: lot about like how lucky we are to have modern
Speaker 1: sewage systems and how bad it is when you don't
Speaker 1: have sewage systems. At eating and Technical pointed out that
Speaker 1: the Spanish description of tow Notes de Klan in the
Speaker 1: fift hundreds when they got there was the city was
Speaker 1: incredibly clean, and the canals. They had canals where all
Speaker 1: the waist was deposited to uh fertile as the floating gardens.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that that's one thing that we should probably
Speaker 1: not overlook is that this is good for us, but
Speaker 1: other cultures had it headed downpath before we killed them
Speaker 1: all with plague. You can find me on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at
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Speaker 1: footnote where we link off to the information that we
Speaker 1: talked about today's episode, as well as a song that
Speaker 1: we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song should we
Speaker 1: link off to today? This is going to be from
Speaker 1: Flaming Ghostis and Cohuna style. It's called She Loved Me
Speaker 1: and it has like again this is like a sample
Speaker 1: based sort of dancy jam, but it's got this I
Speaker 1: don't know again. This is a track that I would
Speaker 1: chop up to having good summer vibes. So if you
Speaker 1: just play it, if you're driving, you have it on passively,
Speaker 1: it will evoke arm or weather and up the vibrations
Speaker 1: and that's really all you want. That's all you want
Speaker 1: a song duty you sometimes. So this is flamingosis with
Speaker 1: she loved me all right. Well, The Daily Za, guys,
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