Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one nine, Episode
Speaker 1: one of Day Night Guice, the production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's share consciousness. It is Monday, June one. My
Speaker 1: name is Jack O'Brien, a K Britain looks good. Won't
Speaker 1: you shut cold gas off? You're a fine little island.
Speaker 1: Won't you shut cold gas off? Prevent suicide when you
Speaker 1: cut shut cold gas off? Oh? Who is you playing with?
Speaker 1: Shut cold gas off? That is courtesy a position dickhead.
Speaker 1: And I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my
Speaker 1: co host, Mr Miles Yes, it's Miles Gray. Ak Hideo Nojo.
Speaker 1: I am feeling nostalgic for the Dodgers because I just
Speaker 1: went to a Dodger game for the first time with
Speaker 1: my mom. The last time she was at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: She was helping Hideo Nomo likes an interpreter his rookie
Speaker 1: season honor, Yes, my North Hollywood, my Japanese American roots,
Speaker 1: all of them at once. Yes. I thought that was
Speaker 1: just a cool screen name. I didn't know you had
Speaker 1: that connect at no yes, oh Yo. I was in
Speaker 1: a photo shoot like when he came over here. They're
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, Hideo Normal is now live in the
Speaker 1: l A life. And my mom had to do some
Speaker 1: like casting to make it look like, you know, Hideo
Speaker 1: normal just like casually playing like sports with some American
Speaker 1: kids on the beach. So she hired me and my
Speaker 1: my homie DJ, who looked like just a California surfer
Speaker 1: kid like we were playing catch with him on the beach.
Speaker 1: It was a fantastic time, fantastic. Oh here, I'll show
Speaker 1: you this picture right here. Whoa, it's me and Nomo
Speaker 1: on the beach and DJ. I mean, you guys look
Speaker 1: like a boy band more than you look like you're
Speaker 1: playing catch. That is uh that I was. I kept
Speaker 1: trying to get him to throw the ball at me
Speaker 1: full speed and like everyone laughed, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I want to see. You're twelve and this guy's a
Speaker 1: professional picture. You could die if anything the ball hits you.
Speaker 1: So whatever, he was scared. What's the top speed of
Speaker 1: a whiffleball like fastball from a heade Omo, like you
Speaker 1: get that ship going? That's a question for the zeitgang
Speaker 1: scientists out there are guests. Well yeah, maybe speaking of
Speaker 1: our guest super producer on a hosny A, continuing to
Speaker 1: kill it with yet another legendary guest. He's the host
Speaker 1: of the podcast Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, his new
Speaker 1: comedy special and documentary Half My Life getting rave reviews.
Speaker 1: You may know him if you're one of the handful
Speaker 1: of fans of a couple of small shows called The Office,
Speaker 1: Parks and rec He's the host of the legendary The
Speaker 1: Chris Gathered Show, which makes sense because he is Chris Gut.
Speaker 1: Everybody's met Chris Gather. Ak Andy Scoffman a K. David
Speaker 1: Betterman a k. A Shlock, Jock Coward Stern. Beautiful for
Speaker 1: coming on, man, Oh, it's lovely to be here. Thanks
Speaker 1: for thanks for the kind intro and whatnot. Where are
Speaker 1: you coming to us from? I'm well, I'm based in
Speaker 1: New Jersey, but currently I'm waiting in a hotel room
Speaker 1: in Vancouver because I have an acting job on Space
Speaker 1: Force on Netflix and they make you sit in a
Speaker 1: hotel for two full weeks even though I'm fully vaccinated.
Speaker 1: And kudos to the Canadian government for playing it safe.
Speaker 1: But man, am I starting to loose my mind? In
Speaker 1: your mind? Did you bring things with you to quarantine
Speaker 1: where you're like, oh, man, I'll bring like an instrument
Speaker 1: or something, or what do you do. So many people
Speaker 1: told me to buy a Nintendo Switch. I had multiple
Speaker 1: people tell me go get a Nintendo Switch. But I
Speaker 1: stopped gaming in college because I was in college when
Speaker 1: Golden I came out, and I had a phase where
Speaker 1: every literally every night, all my dreams would be that
Speaker 1: I was running down hallways and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is not good because also, like later would be
Speaker 1: proven true that I can have some addictive tendencies in
Speaker 1: other ways. So I said, I've always just like gaming
Speaker 1: is just I know it'll become a any two hour
Speaker 1: a day thing. I didn't get the swish, and I
Speaker 1: wish I did because it would give me more to do.
Speaker 1: And then of course I told myself, no, I used
Speaker 1: this as like a creative boot camp, and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: what I'll do is I'll watch NBA playoff games. But
Speaker 1: since I'm on West Coast time and I'm used to
Speaker 1: East Coast time, that's like the games are at like four,
Speaker 1: and then I had no idea what to do for
Speaker 1: the rest of them by night. So, yeah, that's so funny. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm also someone who ended up having addictive tendencies who
Speaker 1: also quit playing video games in college because I was like, man,
Speaker 1: this could this could really get out of hand. It
Speaker 1: was getting bad and they were turning me into like
Speaker 1: an angry I was like, people would like beat me
Speaker 1: in the game of Golden Eye, and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: it's because you used odd job and pick prox mind
Speaker 1: and we all know that those are two cheats and
Speaker 1: those are not the same skill. And I'd be like,
Speaker 1: what am I like streaming at my friend, like my
Speaker 1: friend Katie who lives down the hall, like like you
Speaker 1: picked odd job, this bullshit? Like I told you I'm
Speaker 1: not doing Golden Gun on the silo level again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's from that ship back with how Proxi mines. See
Speaker 1: how it goes. Let's go all mines. Let's go all mines.
Speaker 1: Let's go all mines. Yeah, maybe this is not the
Speaker 1: best side of myself. Yeah, alright, Chris, We're gonna get
Speaker 1: to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a few of the things
Speaker 1: we're talking about today. We're gonna talk about those dang
Speaker 1: Southern vax rates a bit slower pace of life down
Speaker 1: there and a bit slower to uh come around on
Speaker 1: the whole vaccine things. We'll talk about that and why
Speaker 1: that might be a problem. We'll talk about the second
Speaker 1: act of the story about how billionaires don't pay any taxes,
Speaker 1: which is the hunt for who leaked that ship? Who
Speaker 1: the funk told you that? Who told you that? The
Speaker 1: old who told you that? Argument? You know somebody, Yeah,
Speaker 1: must be innocent if that's their first response, Who told
Speaker 1: you that? No? No, who told you? We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about draft conditions out, We're gonna talk about a nun
Speaker 1: on the run kind of We're gonna talk about other
Speaker 1: billionaire assholes who want to go to space. Asked the
Speaker 1: question of whether we are on the cusp of a
Speaker 1: pop culture serial renaissance. All of that plentymore, But first, Chris,
Speaker 1: we like to ask our guests, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history that's revealing about who you are? Well,
Speaker 1: I have one from last night, and I'd like to
Speaker 1: blame this on being in this like very strict quarantine
Speaker 1: where I'm bored. But this is something you could find
Speaker 1: in my search history on any given night, which is
Speaker 1: I recently did search Roddy Piper, Greg the Hammer Valentine
Speaker 1: dog collar match. So I wanted to watch that dog
Speaker 1: collar match from and I couldn't find a full video
Speaker 1: of the dog collar match. I didn't search too hard
Speaker 1: because I actually found an oral history of the three
Speaker 1: Greg Hammer, Greg the Hammer, Valentine and Roddy Piper dog
Speaker 1: color match. So I did spend the chunk of last
Speaker 1: night reading an oral history of a very bloody wrestling
Speaker 1: match from three. And I'll stand by that. What what
Speaker 1: is a dog color match for our listeners who are
Speaker 1: uninitiated dog color match? I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: a thing that pre existed these guys, but they would
Speaker 1: do this match where they both put a leather collar
Speaker 1: around their neck and then they were connected neck to
Speaker 1: neck via these chains. Because yeah, it just had these
Speaker 1: brutally violent They'd wrapped their fists in the chains and
Speaker 1: they dragged each other across the ring by the chain
Speaker 1: and really like bloody brutal match. And uh, I was
Speaker 1: reading last night, I didn't realize there's this famous one
Speaker 1: from three, And then I didn't realize it was so popular.
Speaker 1: They had to go around the country and do like
Speaker 1: all the different territories and they wound up minus match
Speaker 1: forty times that year, and they both talked to like
Speaker 1: talking about how like I think Roddy Piper's ear was
Speaker 1: torn in half and they both had like semi permanent
Speaker 1: hearing loss from it by the end, Like all this,
Speaker 1: all this insanity that these wrestlers put us through back then,
Speaker 1: you think back in those days two when you're like,
Speaker 1: this was not like this is like pre Hogan becoming
Speaker 1: like pop culture superstar. This was for them, Like, all right,
Speaker 1: I guess we gotta go like entertain the southern half
Speaker 1: of Louisiana by ripping our ears off Tonight. Next week,
Speaker 1: I guess we'll be up in Almaha ripping our other
Speaker 1: ear off. Maybe only wrap the chain like three times
Speaker 1: around my face this time before you rip it off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: can you maybe take out my teeth? My ears are
Speaker 1: still healing for my teeth. The photos look pretty erotic, though,
Speaker 1: when you look at the still images, you're like, WHOA, Okay,
Speaker 1: I see what's going on here. W It is pro wrestling.
Speaker 1: There's there's always going to be some homoraticism inheriting. Some
Speaker 1: fans might not like to admit that, but let's call
Speaker 1: it what it is Yeah. I feel like wrestling back
Speaker 1: then was closer to the like being a carny or
Speaker 1: like in the circus. I guess would be the closer
Speaker 1: thing where you came to town, people came and saw you,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't wasn't on TNT like that blew my
Speaker 1: mind when I realized that they also did shows that
Speaker 1: weren't televised, because I went to one and I was like,
Speaker 1: wait where the cameras. I'm like, this isn't this is
Speaker 1: an exhibition? And I was like what they do this
Speaker 1: all the time, like almost killed themselves. Cool. I'm really
Speaker 1: fascinated to back in those days when it was the territories.
Speaker 1: Like John Darnelle from The Mountain Goats has this famous
Speaker 1: story I Love where he grew up in southern California
Speaker 1: hated Roddy Piper. Roddy Piper was like the biggest asshole,
Speaker 1: the enemy of the Guerrero family. And then he went
Speaker 1: to visit his dad up in Portland, Oregon, and he
Speaker 1: took him to wrestling matches and they introduced Rowdie Piper
Speaker 1: and John was ready to like boo his head off,
Speaker 1: and everybody started cheering because in Portland they were just
Speaker 1: running a different storyline. But because there was no national TV,
Speaker 1: it was like you can be like actually causing riots
Speaker 1: in l A through your like bad guy he'll anti
Speaker 1: Mexican rants, and then up in Portland you're like a
Speaker 1: beloved hero pillar of the community. I love you. It's
Speaker 1: not even that far away. Yeah, they might not have
Speaker 1: had to change the storyline, that's true. Yeah, you you
Speaker 1: are somebody who I've always been interested to hear talk
Speaker 1: about kind of regionalisms. I think it was on Beautiful
Speaker 1: Anonymous you talked about like just Weird New Jersey early
Speaker 1: on that that always got me fascinated. That site is
Speaker 1: pretty pretty incredible. I worked for them for anyone who's
Speaker 1: that's a magazine about sort of like ghosts and local
Speaker 1: legends and Jersey. I worked for them for four or
Speaker 1: five years in my my early twenties, and it's the
Speaker 1: best job I will ever have. It's it's called Weird
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Yeah. Yeah. And it started out as a
Speaker 1: fanzine and it just kind of kept getting more and
Speaker 1: more call to access in Jersey and then it eventually
Speaker 1: a lot of people. If you've been to like a
Speaker 1: Barnes and Noble, you may know that like I wound
Speaker 1: up writing a book called Weird New York, and then
Speaker 1: they did Weird Us and then all these different states
Speaker 1: that it became this like coffee table book series. But
Speaker 1: the beating heart of it has always been this kind
Speaker 1: of underground fanzine in New Jersey. And it was very,
Speaker 1: very lucky to find it when I did, and I
Speaker 1: encountered some situations that were truly foolish and terrifying, and
Speaker 1: I can't believe it was a gig, And yeah, sort
Speaker 1: of helped me realize like going on to be an entertainment.
Speaker 1: I always felt like it was one of these things
Speaker 1: that gave me a little bit of an advantage where
Speaker 1: I was like, there's all these rules here, but I
Speaker 1: also know that you might be able to like make
Speaker 1: a healthy living off of a fancyne about New Jersey
Speaker 1: based ghosts whatever. Felt the total need to like buy
Speaker 1: in on the system side of They're a big part
Speaker 1: of why. And I do think there's something about New
Speaker 1: Jersey that's like a click up in terms of just weirdness.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe through your research into New York
Speaker 1: he found that wasn't true, but like, yeah, my family
Speaker 1: has a story that my grandma and my aunt when
Speaker 1: my aunt was a child, broke down on the at
Speaker 1: I think it was a Jersey turnpike. It might have
Speaker 1: been like another highway around there, but like by the
Speaker 1: pine barrens, and a guy just came out of the
Speaker 1: pines with a hammer and was attacking the car and
Speaker 1: they had to like run their back. Then like the
Speaker 1: way you called for help was there was like a
Speaker 1: phone every like quarter mile, yeah, call box, And so
Speaker 1: they were like running back and forth to the call
Speaker 1: box while this guy kept running out of the pines
Speaker 1: with a hammer, just like covered in mud, trying to
Speaker 1: attack their car. Classic Piney's. They there's they called them Piney's,
Speaker 1: the people who kind of lived within the pine Barons
Speaker 1: and do their own thing. And my friend Group, I said,
Speaker 1: he was not there this particularly, but my friend Group
Speaker 1: has this story from high school that we all still
Speaker 1: say this phrase to each other where they were going
Speaker 1: to see some punk show in a place called Brown's Mills,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, which is we were North Jersey kids, the
Speaker 1: Pine Barons. That was like you know, like trying to
Speaker 1: go to more door to us. It didn't make sie
Speaker 1: some GPS back then, they got super lost and they
Speaker 1: pulled into this shady looking station that looks like it
Speaker 1: was off a movie set in the middle of the
Speaker 1: pine barrens, and this guy comes out and they just go, hey,
Speaker 1: can you help us out? Like how do you get
Speaker 1: to Brown's Mills? And the guy just took a deep
Speaker 1: breath and turned and just turned to them and inexplicably, way,
Speaker 1: how do you get to Brown's Mills? And they just
Speaker 1: like hit the gas and peeled out and got out
Speaker 1: of there, like this South Jersey I'm that still certain
Speaker 1: friends in my life where if I want to make
Speaker 1: him laugh, I'll just how do you get to Brown's Mills?
Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated? Chris? People get
Speaker 1: mad at me when I say this. I don't understand
Speaker 1: our obsession with Lacroix. It's a perfectly fine Seltzer, but
Speaker 1: it it doesn't need to be like the building block
Speaker 1: of people's parties and welcome. It's like like I feel
Speaker 1: like people almost I feel like they're showing off, like hey,
Speaker 1: can I get you something you want? Like you want
Speaker 1: some water or maybe maybe a Lacroix, And they expect
Speaker 1: you to kind of be taken aback by that, as
Speaker 1: if you've leveled up and it's like, no, it's pretty,
Speaker 1: in my mind, pretty average seltzer available at many supermarkets,
Speaker 1: and that's a good product to be. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to talk bad about Lacroix, but I don't see it
Speaker 1: as this sort of like level up moment in my
Speaker 1: in my day and a lot of people flip out
Speaker 1: about Lacroix. Yeah, I've moved on to other flavors. I
Speaker 1: found superior flavored seltzer's that I prefer, like, I like Waterloo.
Speaker 1: That one gets my palette just pumping. I feel like
Speaker 1: the people I know who have like I'm really into it,
Speaker 1: where people who never drank water and suddenly we're like,
Speaker 1: I hate no flavor and then they're like, you can
Speaker 1: drink something with no sugar and it's like water. And
Speaker 1: I feel like that. I know it's a specific energy
Speaker 1: from the soda drinkers who are trying to be healthy
Speaker 1: that now it's like it's like their methadone or something
Speaker 1: that might be part I'm a very obsessive soda drinker.
Speaker 1: I'm actually, I would say, kind of weird in my
Speaker 1: soda knowledge, and there might be a part of me
Speaker 1: that feels like I'm sensing the same thing, and maybe
Speaker 1: there's some bitterness there, like even on the fact that
Speaker 1: you like soda but don't like soda. But let's not
Speaker 1: have like a weird middle ground water down coconut soda
Speaker 1: that's not good. Yeah, That's why I like Waterloo because
Speaker 1: it feels like it's just missing the high fructose corn
Speaker 1: syrup to become a full blown flavored soda. And that's
Speaker 1: what I appreciate about. It's not subtle at all. I
Speaker 1: know that it's got sugar, but I'm like, are we
Speaker 1: really going to claim that Lacroix has taken the San
Speaker 1: Pellegrino crown because it used to kind of be San
Speaker 1: Pellegrino that occupied that cultural slot, and in my mind,
Speaker 1: San Pellegrino is just just a better product. It feels
Speaker 1: like we're in a in a carbonation arms race where
Speaker 1: we're just like trying to get the most carbonated beverage possible,
Speaker 1: and like Topo Chico I think is near the near
Speaker 1: the top, but like Waterloo is also hyper carbonated, right,
Speaker 1: it's like very yeah, Like if you if you close
Speaker 1: your mouth after taking a full sip, like the a
Speaker 1: carbonation would just make your mouth explode. Because would have
Speaker 1: to release. Yeah, I feel like it's like the there's
Speaker 1: a spiciness that like the way that people are about
Speaker 1: spicy food, people are about like the carbonation has to
Speaker 1: fucking hurt. Like my kids call it sharp water because
Speaker 1: it feels like you're like getting pickle pricks in your
Speaker 1: in your mouth. And they like it, you know, but
Speaker 1: it's like their chest is gonna break open if it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like they like it in the same way
Speaker 1: we used to like like Warheads and cry babies like
Speaker 1: candies that classed us pain. Yeah, that was which was
Speaker 1: a really good That was a good phase of my
Speaker 1: child Hell yeah, yeah, shout out to the kids that
Speaker 1: it was like their whole personality though, like that for
Speaker 1: a while, I remember like they were like as the
Speaker 1: Warheads kid. Yeah, like you can hand him any flavor
Speaker 1: of Warhead. You can stand here and watch and no
Speaker 1: tears will escape. He won't even grim as he can
Speaker 1: just take down that Warhead. It was a major source
Speaker 1: of middle school respect in my community. Right, it becomes
Speaker 1: becomes mythological like they did a whole pack, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: are their parents still split up? Yeah? Yeah, what is
Speaker 1: something you think is underrated? Chris Well. I want to
Speaker 1: be clear, this is in no way like any sort
Speaker 1: of like purchased branded average sisement. But since I since
Speaker 1: I took down one item of the of the food
Speaker 1: and beverage world, I'll say my wife started bringing on
Speaker 1: these snacks and they're gonna sound like bullshit to anybody listening.
Speaker 1: But they're called him Alayan pink salt Paleo puffs, which
Speaker 1: I know sounds like something that would be like only
Speaker 1: for like meatheads who only want to eat protein. These
Speaker 1: things are the best. They're the best, and from what
Speaker 1: I can tell, very few people know about them, and
Speaker 1: they're completely delicious. They're so delicious. What is it made?
Speaker 1: What is it? What's what is what's puffed? I mean,
Speaker 1: the the closest analogy would be to say that it
Speaker 1: is in the Cheeto family. It is in the puffy
Speaker 1: Cheeto family, but it's made with coconut oil and it's salty.
Speaker 1: It's perfect. It's The company that makes them is a
Speaker 1: company called Lesser Evil Snacks. And I've started trying their
Speaker 1: other stuff too, and they got other They got these
Speaker 1: power curls. Those are pretty good. They also make they
Speaker 1: they had a watermelon flavored bag of popcorn, and I
Speaker 1: was going, what is We're trying too hard and I
Speaker 1: ate it. I said, no, what this is is refreshing
Speaker 1: and delicious. But in my mind nothing holds a candle.
Speaker 1: They even have like a cheese flavor, like a I
Speaker 1: guess it's vegan, like a no cheese cheese waver that's
Speaker 1: meant to actually be like a cheeto. Those are good.
Speaker 1: But these Himalayan pink salt paleo puffs. You put it
Speaker 1: bag in front of me, the bag will be gone.
Speaker 1: And I'm I feel like there's a chance here that
Speaker 1: if we can get enough people on board, five years
Speaker 1: from now, they're going to be in that pantheon of
Speaker 1: here's your lace, here's your bugles, here's your ruffles, here's
Speaker 1: your Himalayan pink salt paleo pause, here's your Cheetos. Like
Speaker 1: it could be up there, it could be on there.
Speaker 1: They're good. They deserve it, They deserve the shine. Are
Speaker 1: they pink or is the bag just pink and the
Speaker 1: salt is pink? I think it's just referring to pink salt,
Speaker 1: just pink salt. Yeah, they're salt to salt. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: look colorwise. They don't look like much. They couldn't kind
Speaker 1: of look almost like um like beige styrofoam. M'd say, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they look like un cheesy cheese puff. Yeah, but are
Speaker 1: they delicious highly recommend Yeah, that's the Trader Joe's product or.
Speaker 1: My wife started ordering I know very little about I'm
Speaker 1: I promise you this. I'm not like surreptitiously played to
Speaker 1: plug things. My wife started ordering something stuff from a
Speaker 1: place called Thrive Market, and I know very little about it.
Speaker 1: But they had these things, and I said, let's get more.
Speaker 1: It feels like this could usir Pirates Booty, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, that's what it is. Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like that's what I think. Maybe I feel like if
Speaker 1: I'm working with lesser able, like we gotta go straight
Speaker 1: for Pirates Booties. Fucking neck with these. It's right, it's
Speaker 1: very clear. And went from Cheetos to Pirates Booty. We
Speaker 1: all want healthier Cheetos, great, and then you look at
Speaker 1: the back you go not necessarily that much healthier, and
Speaker 1: then Pirates Booty the Paleopuffs, which I'm not going to
Speaker 1: claim a healthier but is an extension of the same mindset. Right, right, right,
Speaker 1: they're good. They're good, Miles. I think your philosophy of
Speaker 1: go for their fucking neck might be a little aggressive
Speaker 1: for a company called Lesser Evil, but well, you know
Speaker 1: that's why they hire me, and that's why I said,
Speaker 1: here's the disconnected for Pirate. Look, if we want to
Speaker 1: be lesser evil, then we're gonna have lesser profits. Okay, filmy,
Speaker 1: So look, you guys come up with the ideas. I'll
Speaker 1: come up with the pr campaigns and the straight up
Speaker 1: hashtag fun pirates booty. Well, we're working on that. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be but we will figure out a way to
Speaker 1: market this. But yeah, that's the sort of spot I'm
Speaker 1: looking for. But when you said watermelon flavored popcorn, I
Speaker 1: have to circle back to that. What do you mean,
Speaker 1: Like it evokes the flavor of like the Jolly Rancher,
Speaker 1: fake gas water, and like what kind of watermelon flavor?
Speaker 1: We talking along those lines. Clearly, it's like an artificial dusting.
Speaker 1: But I would say it's not offensive and it's not overbearing.
Speaker 1: Where I went, oh, this feels like a gimmick, and
Speaker 1: then I go, oh, no, what this is for I
Speaker 1: imagine is if you're having people over in an outdoor setting.
Speaker 1: M this would be great on a hot day outdoors
Speaker 1: in particular, It's not meant to be like a candy.
Speaker 1: It's not like a caramel corn with like watermel It's
Speaker 1: like they just gave it this light touch and it's good.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. All right. How did you guys react
Speaker 1: the first time you heard there was a snack called
Speaker 1: pirates booty? I laughed. I did too. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: I was in high school or something when it came out,
Speaker 1: and then it was like a thing that I remember
Speaker 1: kids were bringing it like for their school lunch or whatever,
Speaker 1: because like they had younger siblings who were their parents
Speaker 1: are buying it for And I was like, what is
Speaker 1: this And I was like, yeah, it's okay. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, was like, it needs more
Speaker 1: salt and needs more it needs more chemicals for me
Speaker 1: to fully go there. But the texture I think was
Speaker 1: the most fun, was the most novel thing. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a good it's got a good nosh. I put it
Speaker 1: in my kid's book bag this morning. Welcome to dad
Speaker 1: cast your kid. We got a five year old and
Speaker 1: a three year old. Oh, I have a two year old. Ay,
Speaker 1: we are last day of school today, schools out forever, now,
Speaker 1: schools something forever. I've said that a number of times
Speaker 1: than they've been thoroughly wouldn't. What's the response to that.
Speaker 1: They're like, just hand the spiky water, dad, But give
Speaker 1: me some spiky water. All right, Let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll be right back. And we're back, and
Speaker 1: let's talk vaccines. Let's talk about vaccination rates. California. Not
Speaker 1: to brag, but we are crushing it in terms of
Speaker 1: vaccine rates. The South is not not so much right,
Speaker 1: a little slow. It's a little slow, and I think
Speaker 1: more than anything like this, there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: experts based you know, pointing to the fact that while
Speaker 1: it's great that the West Coast is definitely probably gonna
Speaker 1: reach like marked by the fourth of July and things
Speaker 1: like that, they're huge pockets, especially in the South where
Speaker 1: the vaccine hesitancy is creating what they believe could be
Speaker 1: a big problem because they sort of compare what happened
Speaker 1: last year and are possibly saying, could there be another
Speaker 1: wave like happen like similar to last year, because around
Speaker 1: this time rates were going down. The lowest point was
Speaker 1: on June eighth, we had eighteen thousand cases per day,
Speaker 1: but then on July one, it doubled over forty new
Speaker 1: cases per day, and then at the end of July
Speaker 1: it ended up at seventy new cases per day. Because
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are feeling okay, things
Speaker 1: are dying down. Then you had all these summer breaks
Speaker 1: and things shot right up, and at that time the
Speaker 1: southern US was the most affected. So say it's like Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi,
Speaker 1: and now they're looking at this and saying, you know,
Speaker 1: because now most like a lot of older people are
Speaker 1: getting vaccinated. This pocket is really probably most likely could
Speaker 1: affect young people in children because they are the like
Speaker 1: they account for the largest group of unvaccinated people, and
Speaker 1: there's already increased reports of variants that are affecting young
Speaker 1: people and these other things that are going on. So
Speaker 1: when experts say things like those groups are quote sitting ducks,
Speaker 1: that is a little alarming because I think for all
Speaker 1: of us thinking like, yes, they're as we might be
Speaker 1: vaccinated and hopefully that spells a good situation for the
Speaker 1: rest of the country. If we have like novel breakout
Speaker 1: infections in these areas that ripple effect you could go
Speaker 1: through the entire country despite even having you know, high
Speaker 1: vaccination rates in other places. So a lot of the
Speaker 1: time they're just saying, hey, you don't want to just
Speaker 1: immune system your way through this one, because you could
Speaker 1: essentially be transmitting new forms of the virus as well
Speaker 1: or having you know, more severe outcomes because you're not vaccinated. Well,
Speaker 1: Southern kitchen cooking up some new strands of covid U. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: the young our behaviorally good at avoiding exchanging saliva with
Speaker 1: strangers or sneezing in each other's mouths or wiping their
Speaker 1: nose and then just like high fiving each other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now this is bad, this is this is not great.
Speaker 1: We're obviously in a better position than we used to
Speaker 1: be when we weren't like vaccinated in some parts of
Speaker 1: the country, but yeah, I think it just underlines how
Speaker 1: much we're still very much a pandemic, you know. And
Speaker 1: I think as much as this the messaging from like
Speaker 1: the media or advertisers are like, hey, time to get
Speaker 1: back out there, and blah blah blah. It's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a certain level, Yeah we can, but that's not
Speaker 1: to say that this is over and the risk is
Speaker 1: completely evaporated either. Have you guys had the thing happened
Speaker 1: yet where you're going back out with your friends for
Speaker 1: the first time and then you realize you're wearing slippers.
Speaker 1: You forgot to put on shoes or pants, like in
Speaker 1: that commercial. My version of that was that, I, you know,
Speaker 1: there's comedy shows have started back up again. And I
Speaker 1: did a show with a couple of friends of mine
Speaker 1: and we were in a car together, and I was
Speaker 1: in the back seat and it was three of us
Speaker 1: and they were talking, and I kept having those moments
Speaker 1: of like, well, I should say this thing about what
Speaker 1: they just said, and then it would pass me by
Speaker 1: and then it'd be like, but they okay, they were
Speaker 1: so they were talking about basketball, but that's three minutes.
Speaker 1: It was a weird if I bring it on, And
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I this year has been long
Speaker 1: and strange enough that I don't know how to participate
Speaker 1: in a three person, in person conversation. You're killing it
Speaker 1: on Zoom right now, Chris Zoom feels more natural. Honestly,
Speaker 1: right one on one I can figure out. But when
Speaker 1: you have to get back into that pacing of oh,
Speaker 1: there's three actual living human beings in a similar space.
Speaker 1: I'm unfortunately positioned in the one with at least eye contact.
Speaker 1: I have actually human evolution. It took that quick for
Speaker 1: me to not know how to insert myself into jumping anyway.
Speaker 1: And I don't know that that's my best skill on
Speaker 1: my on a normal year is interaction. But it was profound.
Speaker 1: I was I was in the back seat actually laughing,
Speaker 1: like my inability to participate in this is actually pitiful.
Speaker 1: If anybody could see it would be pitiful. What's happening?
Speaker 1: Like about to kind of like if we had a
Speaker 1: camera on a camera, you would you about to be
Speaker 1: open up, like, well, so much of that, so much?
Speaker 1: And how long was that? Yeah? And then me sitting
Speaker 1: here like, well, if I talk about the peanut butter
Speaker 1: thing now, they're not even gonna remember they said. And
Speaker 1: then the next time someone does asked me what's going on,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're talking about currently because I've
Speaker 1: been living such a deep internal monologue. So I'm just like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, you know, that's cool. And then it moves
Speaker 1: on beyond me and I feel like a real piece
Speaker 1: of ship and it reminds me so much of my
Speaker 1: entire youth. Hey, remember when you guys were talking about
Speaker 1: basketball earlier. Well, uh, here's an observation about that. Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard huh huh. He's very good at basketball right, offense
Speaker 1: and defense, right guys, two way player. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: we're talking about how to get my daughter to read
Speaker 1: more man? Oh right, yes, so oh yes, since you
Speaker 1: brought up basketball, you've brought up but you've had an
Speaker 1: opened and opened up, very soulful, emotionally risky revelation about
Speaker 1: your daughter's cognitive ability. Kauai, he really knows how to
Speaker 1: poach a passing lane right the way it puts pressure
Speaker 1: on those shooters. I mean, come on, I feel like
Speaker 1: you're not recognizing that. I just said my daughter figured
Speaker 1: out how to read, and they thought she wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to do. You think the fact that he's quiet
Speaker 1: keeps him out of conversations for best in the league.
Speaker 1: A lot of people never thought Kauai would be able
Speaker 1: to shoot, but he really worked on his JA and
Speaker 1: now I mean his mid ring. She can read. They
Speaker 1: told me she couldn't read. Now she reads fluently at
Speaker 1: above her grade level. My marriage almost dissolved over this.
Speaker 1: This hardship man, what come on dissolving those defenses when
Speaker 1: he's hitting that mid range game and he's even hitting
Speaker 1: some threes. Now, get out of the get get out, Miles.
Speaker 1: Are you having any re entry issues? Nah? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean I've been on a plane. That's like I
Speaker 1: was saying once that happens a lot, has a lot
Speaker 1: of fear has subsided. I think it also along with
Speaker 1: being vaccinated and being like, you know for the longest time,
Speaker 1: like that's the last thing I'll ever do is get
Speaker 1: on a plane with just a mask and just be like,
Speaker 1: all right, God, let's do this. Yeah. I think that
Speaker 1: between that and the Laker game, I want to and
Speaker 1: just hearing all the people scream like just animals, Like
Speaker 1: when the ball tipped off, I was like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: humanity's fucking dope, Like let's get back into this. For sure.
Speaker 1: Well good for you, man, I'm happy for you. But
Speaker 1: all that to say is I was invited to like
Speaker 1: a party, and I'm like, part of me is like fun, man,
Speaker 1: how am I going to do like at a like
Speaker 1: a big party. And that's where I definitely am getting
Speaker 1: like gathered like three man combo anxiety, and I'm like
Speaker 1: maybe I'll just like sit statically at a table with
Speaker 1: one seat in front of me and be like, yes,
Speaker 1: I welcome one conversation participant, like a performance art, like
Speaker 1: a Marina stunt. Yeah, just put this card table in front, Like,
Speaker 1: let's talk about My first party was my neighbor who
Speaker 1: I'm friends with, was turning forty. He and his wife
Speaker 1: had a party. It was like twenty people. The only
Speaker 1: people I knew were the people who are having the party,
Speaker 1: and my wife was out of town unexpectedly, so it's
Speaker 1: just me and I'm trying like it was fine. They
Speaker 1: were all very nice people, but uh, it was some
Speaker 1: intense awkwardness that I'm trying not to let, you know,
Speaker 1: be you know, spoil me on the act of becoming
Speaker 1: social again. You know, it was brutal. You just this
Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with the pandemic, but I
Speaker 1: just had this memory come back that I haven't thought
Speaker 1: about years, because we're talking about parties and figuring out
Speaker 1: to be in them. When I was twenty three, I
Speaker 1: had an apartment in Montclair, New Jersey, and the people
Speaker 1: who lived next to me were also young, and I
Speaker 1: was just so cripplingly shy and deep in my own
Speaker 1: head and dealing with my mental stuff like not and
Speaker 1: actually not dealing with it. And I never knew how
Speaker 1: to say hi to these people, and they seemed like
Speaker 1: we could have been friends. And there was one weekend
Speaker 1: night I'm never I can't believe I haven't thought about this,
Speaker 1: And I remember one night being home and they were
Speaker 1: having this rager and I was home alone and I'm
Speaker 1: listening to these other people might just have what sounds
Speaker 1: like the most fun party through the wall. And I'll
Speaker 1: never forget just sitting there being like I should just
Speaker 1: go knock on the door and say, hey, I live
Speaker 1: next door, can I hang? And I sat there on
Speaker 1: my couch two scared to do it, and then I
Speaker 1: I still remember this moment in my head of just
Speaker 1: hearing he and everybody was just dancing to jump around,
Speaker 1: just shouting along every lyric to stream, and was sitting
Speaker 1: on my sitting on my couch alone, miserable, just like
Speaker 1: to the kids on the hill, plus my mom and
Speaker 1: my pop. I also know every word, like I'm listening
Speaker 1: to all these people have fun shouting every word. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just now thing the words one tier, oh man, the Bible. Man.
Speaker 1: I ain't going out like no punk bitch. You might
Speaker 1: think I'm that song, and Mama said, knock you out.
Speaker 1: I feel like might be the most memorized rap songs
Speaker 1: for a certain generation. That's true, that's true. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Hunts four leaks. This this is just
Speaker 1: a story we see all the time. We kind of
Speaker 1: got a taste for it during the Trump administration when
Speaker 1: like a story would come out that was based on
Speaker 1: a leak or a whistleblower, and then we would get
Speaker 1: to hear about like Trump kind of trying to ferret
Speaker 1: out the leak, and also he would tweet, he would
Speaker 1: give us like a live look into window into his
Speaker 1: brain as he like was being furious about it. And
Speaker 1: then we kind of learned that you think that, like
Speaker 1: reporters were like, you think this is bad, Obama was
Speaker 1: like worse. He like was really aggressive about going after
Speaker 1: anybody you leaked, just like digging through their emails and
Speaker 1: ship And now that is a big part of the
Speaker 1: story about you know, the Pro publican story that we
Speaker 1: just talked about earlier last week where they leaked the
Speaker 1: tax records of individual billionaires. You know, they instead of
Speaker 1: it being like here are fifty anonymous people who are
Speaker 1: the richest in America. They were like, no, you get
Speaker 1: to see who these people are, because that is how
Speaker 1: we understand stories, is like via these characters, and like
Speaker 1: they are making themselves celebrities. So we are going to
Speaker 1: use that too, Uh make our point. And I think
Speaker 1: it was really important reporting. And now the story that's
Speaker 1: being told in the mainstream is like they're hunting down
Speaker 1: the leaker. Uh. The I r. S Has like referred
Speaker 1: it to the FBI, And I don't know, just generally
Speaker 1: in reality, when you accuse someone of something and their
Speaker 1: responses who told you that and then making the entire
Speaker 1: argument about who told you that, um, that's usually like
Speaker 1: a pretty good sign that that person is doing something wrong.
Speaker 1: What you heard is accurate. But for some reason, unless
Speaker 1: it's being done by the Trump administration, this hasn't really
Speaker 1: hit our brains as like an evil thing that becomes
Speaker 1: like the focus of our attention. I think that it's
Speaker 1: also like a lot of these billionaires must be mad
Speaker 1: at certain other billionaires because they're not even I can't
Speaker 1: help but feel like there's something to be said for
Speaker 1: like Elon Muski is gonna host SNL and then Jeff
Speaker 1: Bezos is gonna announce he's launching himself into space. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: like yeah, there's very little sympathy for me right now
Speaker 1: about these people's privacy rights, if I'm being honest, like,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard for me to go like, well,
Speaker 1: I would hate it if my tax in fall got
Speaker 1: out there, like yeah, But I also don't, you know,
Speaker 1: dominate the American economy and fight unionization and launched myself
Speaker 1: into orbit like it. I don't do that either, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna worry too much about how who leaked that,
Speaker 1: you know, but I bet that you got like Warren
Speaker 1: Buffetts sitting around going like I play it cool. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't think a lot of these people spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time and money staying directly out of the spotlight.
Speaker 1: That makes it um so enjoyable to want them to
Speaker 1: get taken down. They'd prefer we didn't know this. They
Speaker 1: must be looking at Elon going get the funk off
Speaker 1: a live TV. What's wrong with you stay off? Making
Speaker 1: it hot for the rest of the drug dealers? Essentially
Speaker 1: exactly that is. It is interesting. It's kind of become
Speaker 1: a new strategy of like like billionaires used to I
Speaker 1: guess They didn't used to laylow. They used to like
Speaker 1: buy colleges and name them after themselves, so they've always
Speaker 1: like having their name out there. But it's it's just
Speaker 1: seems like the trying to like chase celebrity, probably like
Speaker 1: having more PR dollars spent on their own like personal
Speaker 1: image than most companies. I'm sure. Like that seems to
Speaker 1: be a new a new angle. And the thing that
Speaker 1: they've arrived on is go to space, man. People people
Speaker 1: think that ship's cool. And at least the college is
Speaker 1: like I'll put my name on this thing and other
Speaker 1: people go and learn there. And then you know, like
Speaker 1: these billionaire industrialists back in the day where it's like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna build Grand Central Station because I want i
Speaker 1: want my city's train station to be better than anybody,
Speaker 1: It's like it's just still building a public service thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, dude, you're just gonna go like read que
Speaker 1: cards on NBC television and smirk about it and none
Speaker 1: of us are even sure how much of what you
Speaker 1: do is real. Man, Like, yeah, I'm not gonna feel
Speaker 1: too bad when somebody's like, check out the dirt I
Speaker 1: got on these people. It's hitting a breaking point you know,
Speaker 1: and it's it's actually just really scary because it's like
Speaker 1: they're going to go after the leakers, but it's not
Speaker 1: like anything changed after the Panama papers either, and it's
Speaker 1: just you's gotta sitting and he wonder. Oh, it's like
Speaker 1: it really it really does feel like this is not
Speaker 1: going to change. They're not going to opt out of this,
Speaker 1: like it's gonna need to be taken away from him.
Speaker 1: And that's what you're talking about, like, Oh, is there
Speaker 1: gonna have to be like an actual like revolution against
Speaker 1: billionaires because it seems like they're getting a lot of
Speaker 1: chances to go at least put in a token effort
Speaker 1: to give some of this stuff back. You know. It
Speaker 1: feels that way. And I think until like culturally we
Speaker 1: we shift away from just being like, oh, having a
Speaker 1: lot of money is good and cool. It will always
Speaker 1: have like this love affair with like people who like
Speaker 1: have just could you imagine that's so cool? We have
Speaker 1: so much money, like you don't even know what to
Speaker 1: do with it. And I think slowly, I think more
Speaker 1: and more, look more and more people look at billionaires
Speaker 1: and go, no, there, that's that's bad. This they're hoarding
Speaker 1: the wealth and that's why there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: are lacking is because these people a don't pay their
Speaker 1: fair share and they're just concentrating all their wealth off
Speaker 1: of the backs of the people that work for them. Um.
Speaker 1: And I think until we can like shift cultured for
Speaker 1: like a billionaire or a millionaire, you know, some like
Speaker 1: hyper wealthy person to show up like on a screen
Speaker 1: and a sitcom and people don't go, oh who for right, boo,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's a fucking evil doer like that.
Speaker 1: That's I think the important shift that that has to
Speaker 1: take place at some point at least a popular culture.
Speaker 1: I feel like some of these guys are really starting
Speaker 1: to come off to me, like if Willy Wonka didn't
Speaker 1: share any candy, and it's like and now you're just
Speaker 1: thrust the psycho. He's just like a psycho and crazy
Speaker 1: clothes with like a weird warehouse full of experiments, right,
Speaker 1: and you don't even share the candy, like we don't
Speaker 1: even does he does the golden ticket thing, but he
Speaker 1: keeps them all for himself and then just like makes
Speaker 1: a big deal about how much candy he can eat.
Speaker 1: It's he's like, damn, I got each one. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean tier point, Chris. I think the the message of
Speaker 1: this leak is obviously the rules are broken, right, Like
Speaker 1: it's so like there was the CNBC segment that was
Speaker 1: embedded in one of the articles about how like the
Speaker 1: I R. S Is hunting these people down, and the
Speaker 1: c NBC anchor was like, it's not tax evasion, it's
Speaker 1: tax avoidance, Like I don't see what the big deal is,
Speaker 1: and like one of the people I think it was
Speaker 1: Jim Kramer actually on the panel, was like, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be mad at me, but I'm I think these billionaires
Speaker 1: need to pay more money. And they're like, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? How are you going to do that
Speaker 1: if they're not booking the money, But like they just
Speaker 1: can't think beyond the Yeah, they're refusing that they suck.
Speaker 1: The rules are bad, that system is broken. And I
Speaker 1: called him out before like a joke. But I think
Speaker 1: Warren Buffett is the one who has gone on record
Speaker 1: and said like, they absolutely should change the law so
Speaker 1: we can stop doing this. And I think he's been like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do it because it's not illegal, but it should
Speaker 1: be league. I think it was one Buffett who's been
Speaker 1: like guys like if twenty of us all, that's the
Speaker 1: thing that's so maddening for the rest of us, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I've been very lucky. I've I've a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: I had a couple of years I did really well,
Speaker 1: and I have some breathing room. Now I'm not doing
Speaker 1: as well. And I sit and I stressed about that.
Speaker 1: But I'm very very lucky. And even I sit here
Speaker 1: and I go, man, it really is about twenty to
Speaker 1: thirty people that if they just like, if they cut
Speaker 1: the ship to a degree that they wouldn't even notice,
Speaker 1: it would take so much stress off the rest of us.
Speaker 1: I'm not even saying take I'm not even saying own
Speaker 1: up to it. To do it to a degree that
Speaker 1: it will affect your life. It will not affect your life.
Speaker 1: You'll only own of American commerce instead of forty three
Speaker 1: percent that other will help so many other people get
Speaker 1: like braces for their kids and ship Like That's what's infuriating,
Speaker 1: is like you could find a ground where these assholes
Speaker 1: are still getting away with so much and and it
Speaker 1: erases human suffering and they don't do it. And it's
Speaker 1: weird to say, but I'm like, that's for as gross
Speaker 1: as like you know, the Carnegie and the rocket fillers,
Speaker 1: where at least they did go and build big train
Speaker 1: stations for the rest of us, And wasn't was it
Speaker 1: so that they could like jerk themselves off in the mirror. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: but they did do something for the rest of us. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: But Bezos is doing something for the rest of us,
Speaker 1: and that is going to space and showing us anything
Speaker 1: is possible with a loan from your parents. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll talk about that in
Speaker 1: a second and we're back. And so what you were
Speaker 1: saying before the break, Chris Jeff Bezos coming out getting
Speaker 1: all the all the attention for planning to go to
Speaker 1: space with his brother and late July has piste off
Speaker 1: a couple of the other billionaires. I think his his
Speaker 1: decision was based on him being competitive with Elon Musk, Right,
Speaker 1: he was going to go to space eventually, right, And
Speaker 1: he's like, well, funk out Blue Origin, we want to
Speaker 1: be the first, you know, manned commercial flight out there.
Speaker 1: And they announced the flight like a while back. Bezos
Speaker 1: didn't say he was gonna like, so we knew this
Speaker 1: fight was gonna happen. But Bezos didn't say he was
Speaker 1: going to be on that ship until last week with
Speaker 1: his brother, who I still suspect is a clone that
Speaker 1: he created in order to harvest the Organs because the
Speaker 1: vibe was just really weird between these quote unquote brothers.
Speaker 1: But that's for another episode. So yeah, Like so July
Speaker 1: was like the gauntlet was put down and then Richard
Speaker 1: Branson's ass comes like so you know, he's been talking
Speaker 1: about Virgin Galactic since two thousand four. To be fair
Speaker 1: to Richard Branson, I feel like he was one of
Speaker 1: the first like billionaires like I gotta go to space.
Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck, I have the money to
Speaker 1: do it. Let's do this it And apparently now there
Speaker 1: are now that these reports are unconfirmed, but reports have
Speaker 1: come out that he is trying to figure out a
Speaker 1: way to go to space before Jeff Bezos now on
Speaker 1: the fourth of July weekend, So all part of this
Speaker 1: like ego match, they said. Quote a source who requested
Speaker 1: anonymity told like this person who Douglas Messier, who runs
Speaker 1: this blog about like, you know, space stuff, said that
Speaker 1: the company plans to fly Branson on a test flight
Speaker 1: of its spaceship to rocket over fourth of July that
Speaker 1: would poise Branson to beat Bezos too space by a
Speaker 1: narrow two weeks got him. I mean, how wild would
Speaker 1: it be if there's back to back disasters. I know,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say there's a new challenger to
Speaker 1: the throne of first billionaire in space. Like this is
Speaker 1: becoming a parody of itself. Last time, I was like,
Speaker 1: this sounds like a New King Ralph type opening script
Speaker 1: where someone Bezos tries to go to space, something goes wrong,
Speaker 1: and then some some guy on Earth ends up being like,
Speaker 1: I'm the new Bezos. But I feel like, now you
Speaker 1: have Branson going up there. It's just it feels like
Speaker 1: a like a sketch or something. The real question in
Speaker 1: my mind becomes if if something goes wrong, and I'm
Speaker 1: not wishing death upon anybody, but just theoretically, if Branson
Speaker 1: doesn't make it this, Bezos still go oh right, I'm
Speaker 1: doing this for Richard. Does he back out? Is he like, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe we need to explore this stuff more and I'll
Speaker 1: leave it to the scientists, Or is he like, no,
Speaker 1: now I get to be the first and it's even
Speaker 1: more meaningful traumatic Yeah, I don't. I bet he would.
Speaker 1: I bet. Yeah, how how can he resist? You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I think that would also like wouldn't that you
Speaker 1: know if if the I don't know if Blue Origin
Speaker 1: is publicly traded, but if you suddenly backed out, they'd
Speaker 1: be like, well, hold on the head of it. Won't
Speaker 1: even get on like their maiden voyage because you know,
Speaker 1: all those guys they have to triangulate everything based on
Speaker 1: value and shareholder value and all this other ship. And
Speaker 1: Jeff is like, he's like, I'm so scared though Richard
Speaker 1: kind of bad time, like he didn't readjust well and
Speaker 1: the re entry and I don't want that, And they're like,
Speaker 1: you gotta go. You asked for this, you announced this ship,
Speaker 1: you back out. Now the stocks are going to get
Speaker 1: on the space ship. Un He's all like crying when
Speaker 1: he gets on. It was like, I guess it was
Speaker 1: a very an emotional flight for Jeff Bezos. The panic attack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I I it's it's just again, it's
Speaker 1: just so funny when this whole thing, Wow, there's all
Speaker 1: this suffering on Earth. It's truly just like, Nah, I
Speaker 1: want to be the first guy to build his own spaceship,
Speaker 1: to go on my own the One thing though, that
Speaker 1: Richard Branson is running up against is that he needs
Speaker 1: to get like a license from the f a A
Speaker 1: like really quick in order to do this. So who
Speaker 1: knows the bureaucracy might end up helping Jeff Bezos in
Speaker 1: the end if he needs help with that. I know
Speaker 1: a few people I could pull some strings get him
Speaker 1: a space for a space worthy ship license. He does
Speaker 1: anybody know? An Like, I'm gonna get my space license
Speaker 1: real quick? Plot like next week? An what you said passport? Right?
Speaker 1: You wait? Space space license? Space license? I don't even
Speaker 1: know where you dm Do you go to the d
Speaker 1: m V? Does the post office sell those? Like? What? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know where you get him from. I didn't
Speaker 1: get my picture get the post office picture from my
Speaker 1: space passport? He would need to. They said it's doable,
Speaker 1: but again it has to be that they need a
Speaker 1: a licensed commercial rocket like a like a properly permitted
Speaker 1: commercial rocket lunch from the do not like this for
Speaker 1: Richard Branson, Man, this sounds so half past last minute.
Speaker 1: They also say, like, you know, the f a may
Speaker 1: be able to modify the license with the f a A,
Speaker 1: And it's like, don't start cutting corners. Now with the
Speaker 1: funk y'all, I mean, yeah, it would. It would just
Speaker 1: given the upside down morality of like this upside down
Speaker 1: world of billionaires, it would be fitting that the most
Speaker 1: likable of the billionaires would just blow up like a firework.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about a nun who's at least
Speaker 1: out here getting it for yourself, not not in the
Speaker 1: most the most lawful of ways, or nuns are the
Speaker 1: brides of Christ. We all know that anyone who went
Speaker 1: to a Catholic school has been been like, oh no,
Speaker 1: this person is real creepy, but yes, this this nun
Speaker 1: who was a principal at a Catholic high school in
Speaker 1: Torrance Shadow, Southy, California, was found to have been embezzling
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars from the school's coffers to
Speaker 1: the tune of eight hundred thirty five thousand dollars. And
Speaker 1: they didn't find this out till she retired, and like
Speaker 1: they didn't the archdiocese did an audit and they're like,
Speaker 1: what happened here? So over like her twenty eight year career,
Speaker 1: she would take like donations and tuition checks and like
Speaker 1: reroute some of them to like a convent fund that
Speaker 1: was there, like a bank account that was there for
Speaker 1: the nuns and the convent to pay for whatever expenses
Speaker 1: they had. But that was like her like gambler slush
Speaker 1: fund that she was using. Yeah, she was gambling and
Speaker 1: like cracking up all kinds of debt and like and
Speaker 1: just using this fund to pay it off. And it's
Speaker 1: just again, it ends with someone who clearly has the
Speaker 1: absolute right amount of Catholic guilt. They said, the moment
Speaker 1: that they pressed her, she like a quote. As soon
Speaker 1: as she was confronted, she accepted full responsibility for what
Speaker 1: she had done, and she was cooperated with completely with
Speaker 1: law enforcement and the archdiocese shout out to Catholicism, noting
Speaker 1: that quote. Later in her life, she has been suffering
Speaker 1: from a mental illness that clouded her her judgment and
Speaker 1: caused her to do something that she otherwise would not
Speaker 1: have done. And I don't know the details about that,
Speaker 1: but also it sounds like maybe a lifestyle of never
Speaker 1: having fun, uh contributed to this thing that clouded your
Speaker 1: judgment and saying like funk this, I can start shaving
Speaker 1: off ten g's at a time and get my jollies
Speaker 1: off in Vegas and stuff, and she said she's quote
Speaker 1: very remorseful and sorry for any harm she has caused.
Speaker 1: That's the best she's facing forty years in prison. I
Speaker 1: grew up super Catholic, and I'm thinking of the nuns
Speaker 1: I knew and the idea of them, like stealing money
Speaker 1: and going to Atlantic City the best. What a good
Speaker 1: image in my head. I hate that that happened and
Speaker 1: those people wasted their money, but a renegade nonegade none,
Speaker 1: I just don't have. The thing that makes me really
Speaker 1: upset is that the lack of detail of like how
Speaker 1: she spent the money, because we just know the methodology
Speaker 1: for the razzlement and the amounts that were spent. Like
Speaker 1: I need to know, like did she have like a
Speaker 1: fucking gambler persona that she adopted when she would go
Speaker 1: out She's like the habit, it's off. I'm I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm head to toe him Versacey silk and ship, Like
Speaker 1: I don't I need to know these other details like
Speaker 1: what was she gambling onto? Like they're not wasting the
Speaker 1: money the way I play roulette and uh, you know
Speaker 1: with a direct line to the lord above. Oh she
Speaker 1: comes like full yeah, it's not waste when you have
Speaker 1: a faith. I wonder too, if the other nuns at
Speaker 1: the convent were all of a sudden noticing like hey,
Speaker 1: like where'd this eight hundred dollar blender come from? If
Speaker 1: there was just like all of sudden like weird little
Speaker 1: upgrades at the convent and stuff? Who stalled this bidet?
Speaker 1: Someone in stall? I guess that was just a donation
Speaker 1: from God, you know, just like all the luxury. Did
Speaker 1: everyone have a Vita mix in their room this morning?
Speaker 1: Did someone by a live tiger when this tiger came from? Ah? God?
Speaker 1: I these are the details that like will help bring it.
Speaker 1: But that's why it's it's good fodder for a podcast
Speaker 1: to wildly speculate on what the nuns did, because I
Speaker 1: knew that like there was I went to Calcic High
Speaker 1: School and there was a group of they were mostly
Speaker 1: like priests, and there weren't men. There weren't really nuns
Speaker 1: that were like living on campus. But the way we'd
Speaker 1: always look at them, like what do they do in
Speaker 1: that house? Like they're just retired and likes our tuition
Speaker 1: paying for them to just like yell from their window
Speaker 1: to pull our pants up? Like what is going on,
Speaker 1: like what what what does this one do? I went
Speaker 1: to UM, I didn't go to the Catholic school. My
Speaker 1: parents met at a Catholic school. I lived down the
Speaker 1: block frombin Oh very nice, look at that super Catholic,
Speaker 1: so you know. And I took Sunday school at that
Speaker 1: same school where they met. And we had a nun
Speaker 1: named sister Margaret who taught the Sunday school music class.
Speaker 1: And I came home one day and I was finally
Speaker 1: old enough to go like, I think this teacher of
Speaker 1: ours is I think she might be like losing her
Speaker 1: mind or something like it's making me sad. And my
Speaker 1: dad was like, who is it? And I was like,
Speaker 1: her name is sister Margaret. And he's like, sister Margaret
Speaker 1: is still there. It's like yeah, he's like she had
Speaker 1: dementia when she taught me early sixties, she already had
Speaker 1: she was like already kind of unmoored my parents. I
Speaker 1: think I think that was a moment where even my
Speaker 1: parents were kind of like, what are we paying for?
Speaker 1: Like this woman was this that was decades ago, That
Speaker 1: was decades ago and it's still going on. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: love the I also love the Catholic kind of loophole
Speaker 1: where you just go to confession every day and so
Speaker 1: you're like stealing money over the course of thirty years,
Speaker 1: but you're just offloading that ship. You're offloading that guilt,
Speaker 1: just like you know, the like Andy Dufrain getting rid
Speaker 1: of the dirt out on the play or project. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just like you know, she's just smuggling that ship out
Speaker 1: a little bit. Just how many hell Mary's. I'll be
Speaker 1: happy exactly. I got time now if we even go dark.
Speaker 1: Have you guys had the Catholic upbringing experience that I
Speaker 1: had last year of one of your childhood priests name
Speaker 1: shows up in a document thanks published not Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I also have not been paying attention. Yeah, I had
Speaker 1: the like getting texts from old neighborhood kids like YO,
Speaker 1: check this out and being like what And of course
Speaker 1: it was the one who was the cool one col
Speaker 1: it was the cool priest take gets down the Jersey
Speaker 1: shore on the weekends. Whoa, my god. No, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: always It's funny because even though I wasn't raised religious
Speaker 1: at all, just like that ended up being like the
Speaker 1: one school and my friends went to that my parents
Speaker 1: could afford, so ended up going there. But I grew
Speaker 1: up around a lot of Catholic kids too, and like
Speaker 1: one family in particular who would have the priest over
Speaker 1: like for dinner and things like that and would drink
Speaker 1: at the house and just be like black out and
Speaker 1: You're like and like in my mind, I was like,
Speaker 1: is this what priests do? Like they can just get
Speaker 1: funked up like this and then like eat all your
Speaker 1: food and then like then the mom has to drive
Speaker 1: him home like this is normal. And then he was
Speaker 1: also like the cool one because like west Side connection
Speaker 1: came out and he was like, all right, what side
Speaker 1: and we're like whoa. But I don't I never knew
Speaker 1: what happened to him, and I don't want to look
Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, don't google his name until you're really ready.
Speaker 1: So you're really ready because it was tough, and I try.
Speaker 1: I'll try to go back to church. Every couple of years,
Speaker 1: I'll like go back to church and be like maybe
Speaker 1: I should get back in touch with this side of myself.
Speaker 1: And then I'll be like three weeks in and it'll
Speaker 1: be like, so every every priest in Pennsylvania at some
Speaker 1: point or another had a child slave, And you're like what,
Speaker 1: it's always the timing of it's always some horrific thing
Speaker 1: happens right when I'm like, maybe I could the pope
Speaker 1: is school next, got a cool pope? Now, maybe I'll
Speaker 1: try to get and just horrific abuse just coming out
Speaker 1: from the past, from the very recent past. All right,
Speaker 1: let's uh one last story. Let's talk about the resurgence
Speaker 1: of pop culture. Cereals Lucky Charms has come out with
Speaker 1: low Key Charms in honor the new Loki streaming series,
Speaker 1: which I mean, I don't hate it, I kinda you know,
Speaker 1: it's there, it works right there for you. You know.
Speaker 1: That's one of those ones where I think the idea
Speaker 1: came before like the prompt you know, like they were like,
Speaker 1: what if it was low Key Charms and then like
Speaker 1: reached out General Mills reached out to Marvel as opposed
Speaker 1: to like just trying to slam it together. For instance,
Speaker 1: Ghostbusters After Life Cereal, that was one where they were
Speaker 1: just like, I don't know, just like Misshapen Marshmallow ghosts,
Speaker 1: they like no reason to exist there, But there is
Speaker 1: a Ghostbusters Afterlife Cereal. Wasn't there a Ghostbuster Cereal in
Speaker 1: the eighties? I think there was, it was there was
Speaker 1: and I love. I mean I I remember my mind
Speaker 1: being like blown because I was like, yes, move like that. Actually,
Speaker 1: now that you think about it, that dictated a lot
Speaker 1: of the cereals I would get when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: if they were collaborating with like a movie that I liked.
Speaker 1: Speaking of dictated, there was also an ET cereal that
Speaker 1: is just ET colored baby dick shapes like it's there's
Speaker 1: no other thing, no other way to describe it is
Speaker 1: like the ET cereal. Yeah it looks like or like
Speaker 1: little poops, but ET colored. So that draws the mind
Speaker 1: to what part of ET is this? If this is
Speaker 1: just like E T shaded, it's just like it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be, like shriveled, shitty finger? Is that right? Put
Speaker 1: butter and chocolate flavored? I guess yeah, maybe maybe that,
Speaker 1: but then a cut off finger. I don't know. Just
Speaker 1: never make your cereal a part of the body of
Speaker 1: the thing, you know, you go with a theme as
Speaker 1: opposed to a actual physical There was also so our
Speaker 1: writer jam is making the case that this is a
Speaker 1: return to the eighties when these child entertainment themed breakfast
Speaker 1: cereals ruled the earth, and that there was also cabbage
Speaker 1: patch Kids cereal, which I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: have the dock in front of you it. He included
Speaker 1: a picture frightening down at the top of and they
Speaker 1: truly look like they were cursed by the devil himself,
Speaker 1: like just like kind of misshapen smiley faces. But oh
Speaker 1: that's bad. Yeah, it's really bad, like the chocolate chips,
Speaker 1: like weird pock marks, and you're like, what do I
Speaker 1: eat this or pray over it? Yeah, if it came
Speaker 1: to life, it would immediately ask you to kill it.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's hard to bring up this pop
Speaker 1: culture food crossover because cereals were pretty ubiquitous, But then
Speaker 1: you mentioned Ghostbusters. Who thinks about the Ghostbuster cereal when
Speaker 1: you can think about what I have to imagine was
Speaker 1: the most successful pop culture food merger of all time,
Speaker 1: which is Ecto Cooler, right, a drink that people wish
Speaker 1: still existed beyond its Ghostbusters association, just because it was great.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'll be at the gates of Coca Cola
Speaker 1: demanding Acto Cooler comeback like it. It was like a
Speaker 1: tragedy when you couldn't get it at McDonald anymore. I
Speaker 1: was like, what are they doing like this is this
Speaker 1: was all I used to drink. I think they brought
Speaker 1: it back for the last Ghostbusters relaunched very briefly, but
Speaker 1: I'm shocked. I feel like that one should outlive. That's like,
Speaker 1: you know, what's the song you know the band the
Speaker 1: Archies and they have is it Sugar Sugar? Is there
Speaker 1: Big Sugar Sugar? The number one song the year the
Speaker 1: year that Gimme Shelter came out, And people don't realize
Speaker 1: that band was created. That was supposed to be Archie
Speaker 1: and Jugghead and Betty and Veronica in the band. That
Speaker 1: was like a pop culture gimmick song. Yeah, and we
Speaker 1: all just forget that because that song. So that I
Speaker 1: feel like Ecto Cooler should be on the shelves and
Speaker 1: then young people should look to our generation and be like,
Speaker 1: why is it called Ecto Cooler? And we sit down,
Speaker 1: Sit down, let us explain to you who Dad Accrod
Speaker 1: was before the skulls full of Vodka. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you about a little man named McK rick moranis who
Speaker 1: he quit on us eventually, but he gave him. He
Speaker 1: gave us all of them randomly punched in New York. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was heartbreaking and sad and totally necessary. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it really does feel because it was just
Speaker 1: tangerine flavor, that was it, like high see, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's like a subtle flavor difference. And I think
Speaker 1: just like that, look, mere mention of it being Ecto
Speaker 1: was enough to to get our to get our little
Speaker 1: imaginations going. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know where we are. I think we're lost
Speaker 1: until we can bring Ecto cooler back. Stay So stay
Speaker 1: Puffed is not a real marshmallow brand, know, I think
Speaker 1: that's from the Ghostbust. That's like not a right, I'm true.
Speaker 1: I googled stay Puffed marshmallows and they do not. It's
Speaker 1: only I was in elementary school and Ghostbusters came out.
Speaker 1: This is the first learning of this. Maybe maybe I'm wrong. Officially, No,
Speaker 1: I've never seen no you mentioned that I've never seen
Speaker 1: a stay Puffed marshmallow. But I've never considered this in
Speaker 1: my life. A group. Yeah, see this these are the thing. God.
Speaker 1: See what happens when we don't question everything. We go
Speaker 1: through life thinking this stay puffed marshmallow Man, it's based
Speaker 1: off a real brand. Either way, like, I'm I'm very
Speaker 1: curious if it is a real brand. I'm very curious,
Speaker 1: it says Dan Ackroyd, conceived of the stay puffed marshmallow
Speaker 1: Man for his initial script for the Ghostbusters movie. He
Speaker 1: created the character, yeah, to show that quote. It seems
Speaker 1: harmless and puffy and cute, but given the right circumstances,
Speaker 1: everything can be turned black and become evil. I know
Speaker 1: that the marshmallow Man is fictional. I'm curious if he
Speaker 1: created the brand as well. It looks like it's a
Speaker 1: fictional food. Yeah, and now I'm questioning everything. This is
Speaker 1: a lot. It's the last episode of the podcast. Yeah, you, guys,
Speaker 1: what where do we go from here? Someone just knocked
Speaker 1: on my door. Guys, there's a government agent at my door,
Speaker 1: he teld me. Now that I figured this out, I
Speaker 1: have to go. Now. There's a guy who looks exactly
Speaker 1: like Chris sitting down in his place, like a doppel
Speaker 1: gang or that they created. Where's the Chris? Where's the
Speaker 1: real Chris? Going? Well, what's so wrong with Willy Wonka
Speaker 1: keeping all his candy he made on hold Ony too?
Speaker 1: And what was wrong with the Alon muscos he's naturally
Speaker 1: very funny? That Warrior sketch was genius. Oh fuck, I
Speaker 1: heard so many people be like, actually, pretty good job.
Speaker 1: He did a really good job. Made me mad. Yeah
Speaker 1: when the bar is on the floor, yeah, sure, you
Speaker 1: gotta work to put that bar down there though, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gotta drop it. Just let gravity toutes Chris. It's
Speaker 1: been such a pleasure having you on the daily Zeitgeist? Man,
Speaker 1: Where can people find you and follow you? Chris Geth
Speaker 1: dot com and Chris Geth on Instagram And uh, I
Speaker 1: got the new special Half of My Life and you
Speaker 1: can go download it everywhere iTunes, Amazon and YouTube and videos.
Speaker 1: So check it out. I hope you like it. Thanks
Speaker 1: for letting me hang out and do bits. It was fun.
Speaker 1: Is there a tweet or some other work of social
Speaker 1: media that you've been enjoying, Well, this one was some
Speaker 1: one promoting something. I don't know if that counts, but
Speaker 1: Laura Stevenson, who I think is a fantastic, fantastic musician
Speaker 1: you should note, tweeted out announcement for a new album
Speaker 1: along with a video to a new song. And I've
Speaker 1: loved Laura's stuff for years and this song I listened
Speaker 1: to it. Whoa this is like darker and rockier than
Speaker 1: I am used to and that that song is like
Speaker 1: my song of the week right now, so maybe you'll
Speaker 1: enjoy it too. Nice go check that out. Miles Where
Speaker 1: can people find you? Wants to tweet you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: Find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also,
Speaker 1: if you like ninety day Fiance, check out my other
Speaker 1: one four twenty day Fiance put it together, see how
Speaker 1: we get down over there on that show. A tweet
Speaker 1: that I like is from at Uncle doom Er tweeted, fellas,
Speaker 1: do the women have convinced you that cargo shorts are
Speaker 1: unsexy because they don't want you carrying around useful tools
Speaker 1: and trinkets. Don't be fooled. I've although someone who used
Speaker 1: to have a pack to the break m cargo shorts. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just very hard to carry that many things these days.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate this. They're trying to take away our power.
Speaker 1: I used to carry a T shirt in one of
Speaker 1: my cargo short pockets just because you swept through the
Speaker 1: first one. Yeah, because like in Japan, the humidities fucked
Speaker 1: up in the summer. You walk outside, I'm like this
Speaker 1: is ruined and I'm like, deploy a utility shirt from
Speaker 1: my cargo, my jargo shorts. Let's see some tweets that
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying at. John Esnerich tweeted, I'll say this again,
Speaker 1: I do not have the personality disorders required for success
Speaker 1: in America. And Maple Cocaine tweeted, damn a lot of
Speaker 1: real grotesque pieces of garbage hate el han Omar. I
Speaker 1: wonder what that's all about. Find me on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at
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Speaker 1: dot com where we post here episodes, then our foot
Speaker 1: no where we link off to the information that we
Speaker 1: talked about in today's episode, as well as a song
Speaker 1: we think you might enjoy. Miles. What song are we
Speaker 1: recommending people check out? This is a track from Peggy
Speaker 1: Goo or Gal forgive me if I mispronounced it, but
Speaker 1: she's a South Korean DJ producer and she has this
Speaker 1: track called not Be and a b I Out and
Speaker 1: it's just got this like nineties house field to it
Speaker 1: that is like so on the nose, but also her
Speaker 1: like kind of spitting in Korean over it. It's just
Speaker 1: it's like kind of this surreal thing of like, man,
Speaker 1: what if we were partying doing warehouse, you know, parties
Speaker 1: in sold in And that's exactly what the vibe of
Speaker 1: this track is. So this is not be by Peggy Coop.
Speaker 1: What was that other Korean hip hop song you played
Speaker 1: earlier last week that shows, Oh you already forgot about
Speaker 1: a man that was in Yeah, yeah, I need to
Speaker 1: I need to go dig that. Shut up? All right? Well.
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