Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one, eight seven,
Speaker 1: Episode two, After My Heart Radio. This is a podcast
Speaker 1: where we take a deep dive into America's share consciousness.
Speaker 1: Uh that was guttural, yeah, from our special guest cost today.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, June two one. My name is Jack O'Brien,
Speaker 1: a k guess who's back back again. It is Jack
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Speaker 1: and Hosnie. And that's that's all I got And I'm
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined as uh, not as always, but
Speaker 1: as I am occasionally uh by our special guest co host.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really burgundying it. If you have it on
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Speaker 1: to be joined by today's very special guest co host.
Speaker 1: He is the time producer of this show. He is
Speaker 1: the very talented, very lovely Mr DJ Daniel good Man.
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Speaker 1: very last second a k A. You don't need to
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Speaker 1: here so thrilled to be back in the Wow. And
Speaker 1: he went with for someone named Daniel. He didn't go
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Speaker 1: I could have gone with a totally different Elton John
Speaker 1: song dedicated to me. But the last Daniel, my co host,
Speaker 1: you are younger than me. I should have done that.
Speaker 1: That's not me, bro, because that's all it's not written
Speaker 1: from the perspective of Daniel stripped his relation. That's fair,
Speaker 1: very fair, very fair, and we are relations. Uh well,
Speaker 1: as if it's not enough to have one total asshole
Speaker 1: on the show today and teach Daniel, we got another
Speaker 1: another one for you. Uh. He is the host of
Speaker 1: the Secretly Incredibly Fascinating podcast, one of the finest humans
Speaker 1: that I've ever known, formerly the host of the Cracked podcast.
Speaker 1: A very counted and hilarious human being. He is Mr
Speaker 1: Alex Schmitt. Wow. Thank you, Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1: Tramping back It's an honor. That's uh. That's such a
Speaker 1: nice intro. I think I only laughed over most of it.
Speaker 1: Thank you for a k A Schmidy the clam. What's
Speaker 1: happening man, welcome back, Thank you. I'm doing great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we uh, we're vaccinated, we're healthy at summer. We're just
Speaker 1: talking about I just got engaged. There's just a lot
Speaker 1: of good things going on there, a lot of good things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out to you and your lovely fiance. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: you both. Yeah, yeah, it's I had my optimism for
Speaker 1: post pandemic times tempered by having to travel last week
Speaker 1: and then deciding to travel unwisely this weekend. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's wild out there. Well we'll actually get to that.
Speaker 1: Like the airports, Yeah, the airports are wild. The Amtrak
Speaker 1: is wild. You know. We did a train trip because
Speaker 1: the uh, you know, the five year old is is
Speaker 1: super into trains right now. So we did that and
Speaker 1: that was fun. But then I don't even know if
Speaker 1: I should say what we did because we're gonna get demolished.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we went to Sea World. You're like, no,
Speaker 1: I meant it doesn't matter. You don't have to say
Speaker 1: oh no oh Jack, no, no, no, no no. Because
Speaker 1: the San Diego Zoo was sold out and I did
Speaker 1: all this last minute because that's the kind of guy
Speaker 1: I am really scrambling. But SeaWorld sucks, not just because
Speaker 1: of its politics and treatment of animals, but because it
Speaker 1: is a bad place to go anyways. But the zoo
Speaker 1: not a bad place, Alex, you used to work at
Speaker 1: a zoo. Among many interesting things, but you used to
Speaker 1: work at a zoo. You are a one time Jeopardy champion,
Speaker 1: But the zoo thing is relevant to the sentence that
Speaker 1: I just said. Can you talk about that a little bit,
Speaker 1: your zoo experience. I think you just listed my two
Speaker 1: greatest dreams as a child, which I'd very fortunately gotten
Speaker 1: to do. I wanted to be a zoo tour guide
Speaker 1: in wind Chapardy and then I didn't he and it
Speaker 1: was the Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago. I was a tour
Speaker 1: guide there. I was a motor Safari adventure guide. It's
Speaker 1: like a three car tram where you stand on the
Speaker 1: back or dry even the front, show people animals. It's
Speaker 1: amazing nice. Yeah I was. I was picturing you on
Speaker 1: a motorcycle when you said motors so far, kind of
Speaker 1: like Chris Pratt in Jurassic World. Yeah yeah, yeah, um,
Speaker 1: like I train a bear to be my friend like
Speaker 1: that one after Yeah, yeah, come on and then it
Speaker 1: comes with me. Yeah, I say, people, you're just buds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna get to know you a little
Speaker 1: bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our
Speaker 1: listeners a few of the things we're talking about today.
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta blast from the recent past. Over
Speaker 1: the weekend when there was a Q conference or a
Speaker 1: QUE I don't know, uh, do your own research festival,
Speaker 1: and we learned that a lot of people still believe
Speaker 1: in Q. They were specifically calling for a mean Mars
Speaker 1: style coup in America. We'll talk about what that means.
Speaker 1: We'll also talk about why there's reason to believe the
Speaker 1: president is still on board the Q train. We will
Speaker 1: talk about how Americans officially don't know how to act
Speaker 1: post pandemic necessarily. But yes, just some well we'll blame
Speaker 1: a few of them, but yeah, Well we'll talk about
Speaker 1: why that is, some coping mechanisms. We'll talk about possibly
Speaker 1: the effect weather continues to have on COVID spread and
Speaker 1: whether that's being under reported. We will talk about the
Speaker 1: weekend box office BOFO bio. We all like to say
Speaker 1: a phrase that we all like to use. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about how a quiet place too did about what people
Speaker 1: were hoping it would and one turpet that read those
Speaker 1: tea leaves. Uh. And then we will of course do
Speaker 1: on a Hosni's streaming corner all of that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first, Alex, we like to ask our guests, what
Speaker 1: is something from your search history that is revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are? Yeah? I when checked and I recently
Speaker 1: searched for Wingspan card game because we we went for
Speaker 1: like one of our first sitting down indoors with people's
Speaker 1: has been board game Nights and we played this amazing
Speaker 1: game where you just gather cards with birds on them
Speaker 1: and feel like you're one with nature. It's amazing. What
Speaker 1: so I bought it? Very amazing. Yeah. What, um, it's like, uh, sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm having having trouble real life Pokemon cards. It's like
Speaker 1: bird watching, but indoors indoor bird watching. Yeah, it's basically
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful game because every card is a different bird.
Speaker 1: There's no duplicates, and so you just try to catch
Speaker 1: all of the birds that you want and then lay
Speaker 1: the most eggs and put the most in a tree.
Speaker 1: And like it's competitive, but it's not brutal. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of these advanced board games, it's like you
Speaker 1: get together to to crush each other, you know, and
Speaker 1: this one you just try to get the best birds together.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's just a really nice time. But but
Speaker 1: the birds do all have like power ups and special abilities.
Speaker 1: It's it's a pretty fun way to think about, like
Speaker 1: chicken talking about Yes, let's go, that's fantastic. And is
Speaker 1: it a collector like do you go and buy a
Speaker 1: single set that is the same for everybody who buys
Speaker 1: that single set? Or are there is it like magic
Speaker 1: Togethering and Pokemon where you can get like a super bird?
Speaker 1: Are there gold Foil? Are their foil birds? Right? Just
Speaker 1: Hologram Eagle or whatever. The main boxes North America have
Speaker 1: gotten very deep on this catalog. They also have a
Speaker 1: European expansion, so you can get some euro birds going on.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a whole thing. Yeah, And I don't
Speaker 1: know that's been. That's been a very comfy like spending
Speaker 1: time with people indoors again because there's a game element
Speaker 1: and you do that and then you you reacclimatize to
Speaker 1: like seeing other humans besides your one or two or
Speaker 1: more people in your house. It's great. Yeah, that sounds
Speaker 1: like the most civilized post pandemic activity that I can
Speaker 1: possibly imagine, really compared to what we will discuss. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is overrated? I think winter? I
Speaker 1: can can go suck a lemon, don't need it. We like,
Speaker 1: if you're in the southern hemisphere, I'm sorry, but we're
Speaker 1: out of that season and I'm really glad about it.
Speaker 1: It's there's nothing actually good about it, and and we
Speaker 1: can forget it. This this is the best time right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: are you spring? Has spring? Uh sprung? Or are you
Speaker 1: getting into the summer days where where you are on
Speaker 1: the East Coast? Yeah? In North Carolina, we're getting real
Speaker 1: summer and so it is hot. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I I grew up with winter outside Chicago, and then
Speaker 1: I went to college and winter in Syracuse, and as
Speaker 1: soon as I wasn't there, I like, I went to
Speaker 1: college in winter. Yeah, it's just like when it comes
Speaker 1: to Syracuse, that is winter. It is a geographic location
Speaker 1: where winter has come continues to stay. Yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 1: doesn't miss around. Yeah did you miss it when you
Speaker 1: lived in Los Angeles? Not even a little bit. It
Speaker 1: was amazing. I just I was like, oh you can
Speaker 1: just not deal with this fantastic It was an option
Speaker 1: this whole time, just south of us. You know, it's great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I missed the rhythm a little bit, not enough to
Speaker 1: ever move away from Los Angeles, but I do enjoy
Speaker 1: just the discomfort and shittiness of the the rest of
Speaker 1: the country has to put up with. No. Uh. It
Speaker 1: does like kind of break up time a little bit
Speaker 1: in in a way that makes long term memory easier
Speaker 1: to comprehend. But it also breaks up outfits nicely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is the one. That is the one thing that
Speaker 1: I missed. It's like, I totally agree with you where
Speaker 1: it's like winter totally can suck a lemon. I'm not
Speaker 1: with it. I don't want slashing my boots, but I
Speaker 1: do miss being able to wear a long coat in
Speaker 1: that fall area right before winter, when it's like it's
Speaker 1: nice to bundle a little bit put a scarf on.
Speaker 1: I miss that, Whereas, like you know, it could be
Speaker 1: the most warming up I will do was putting on
Speaker 1: slightly thicker sweatpants out here in l A. And that's it.
Speaker 1: So you know, I would love to put a code
Speaker 1: on again. That just sounds nice. Yeah, people who grew
Speaker 1: up in l A like fetishized winter, like Miles and
Speaker 1: Danial they have winter outfits for no reason. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: maybe thro those three days we traveled to the East
Speaker 1: Coast for Thanksgiving and that's about it. Yeah, I want
Speaker 1: I want winter as a treat for a little bit, right,
Speaker 1: I want. I want, like I want to briefly watch
Speaker 1: the Peanuts go ice skating and especially and that's called
Speaker 1: outside for the two days a minute and then forget
Speaker 1: a little that was enough, like yeah, a little taste fun? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is underrated? I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the novel Frankenstein because I don't know about other people.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I will read to try to get sleepy, you know,
Speaker 1: like you read a little bit of a book and
Speaker 1: then actual Yeah, And earlier in the pandemic, I was like,
Speaker 1: how can I just grab a book Project Gutenberg? What
Speaker 1: do they have? And I forgot how good the novel
Speaker 1: Frankenstein is. I could not sleep. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: time for a little sleepy reading. And it was gripping
Speaker 1: like that that book still works. It's really well done.
Speaker 1: Everyone should read it if they haven't. It's two years old.
Speaker 1: Still fun. Yeah, you know the Frankenstein is actually the
Speaker 1: doctor's name. Alex. I don't know if you knew that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I know, I know you're probably reading it
Speaker 1: with visions of like Herman Monster in her head. But no,
Speaker 1: Frankenstein was actually the doctor. The first time I read
Speaker 1: it was very confusing to me. I got a whole
Speaker 1: paper to rewrite. Goodness, damn it, high school. There's gonna
Speaker 1: fail his class. Did we all read it in school?
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like it comes up in school
Speaker 1: and it's one of the few, like science fiction, horror
Speaker 1: or anything that you get to read their Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: It was like one of the cooler books that you
Speaker 1: got to read in school. And also I wish they
Speaker 1: had taught the story about how it was written, because
Speaker 1: wasn't it like a week long like group party like
Speaker 1: Opium Bender, Like wasn't everybody just like getting drunk and
Speaker 1: high in a in a cabin writing it together? Yeah,
Speaker 1: a couple of writers all at once. And Mary Shelley
Speaker 1: was I think nineteen or eighteen. So this is a
Speaker 1: basically a high school senior turning out a globe spanning
Speaker 1: significant book in a party with weird people. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: that's the movie you know when people say that's the movie,
Speaker 1: that's the movie, right, that's yeah. Maybe you shouldn't have
Speaker 1: told me that in high school, that a nineteen year
Speaker 1: old gotten funked up for a week and wrote one
Speaker 1: of the great works of English literature. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a good one alright. Well, speaking of important culture,
Speaker 1: I do want to mentioned something. It's a belated update
Speaker 1: on a story we've been following loosely. Uh, and that
Speaker 1: is the story of Blippy, the children's entertainer Orange and
Speaker 1: Blue because are his colors. Speaking of Syracuse, Yeah, in Chicago, Bears,
Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by Orange and Blue, my tabreaking and the Nicks,
Speaker 1: who unfortunately are what will be mentioned later on in
Speaker 1: this because of certain fans behavior. But yeah, so Blippy,
Speaker 1: you know, we we met. He came up because he's
Speaker 1: very popular with children. I've managed to kind of keep
Speaker 1: my kids away from him for the most part. It
Speaker 1: hasn't like taken over their lives the way other entertainers have.
Speaker 1: But he was he one time he shipped on his
Speaker 1: friend's chest on camera when he was a younger man.
Speaker 1: His name back then with Steve Grossman. That's a good
Speaker 1: episode of Blippy though, right, like you go all out
Speaker 1: when you're making flippy, that's you gotta you gotta break it,
Speaker 1: can't go aheadway. I'm just going to add, you know,
Speaker 1: not to be um actually are here. But I do
Speaker 1: believe it was his friend's asked that he shipped on
Speaker 1: And to me, that's just like I just love that
Speaker 1: detail and that you know there there is there could
Speaker 1: be like a prank element to it, where someone was
Speaker 1: sleeping and you know, on the poop on their chest.
Speaker 1: But but the fact that it was the but seems
Speaker 1: so much more premeditated. It's like you had to stick
Speaker 1: the ass out and everything and then poop on it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just I love that. I feel
Speaker 1: that detail so crucial and different, unique to a to
Speaker 1: a defecation story. Yeah, we actually just as an update
Speaker 1: on how I'm doing, Alex. We won't spend an entire
Speaker 1: episode talking about this. Uh so oh yeah, that's where
Speaker 1: I'm at. So good, I guess how Jack do good? Now? Well?
Speaker 1: I I also and I don't know if it's partly
Speaker 1: because you're a parent, but I feel like I learned
Speaker 1: about entire cinematic universes when I talked to a parent
Speaker 1: because they're like, oh yeah, Papa Pig had this whole
Speaker 1: constellation of situations and characters they're in. They're they're just
Speaker 1: out there, and then I learned them from shows like this.
Speaker 1: It's great. So an important part of the Blippy cinematic
Speaker 1: universe is that he wants pooped on his friends. But
Speaker 1: and now people are up in arms because they have
Speaker 1: recast Blippy, presumably Steve Grossman, the guy who you know
Speaker 1: created the whole universe and is a big part of
Speaker 1: the creative team, the Blippy team. Team Blippy is the
Speaker 1: Blip Vengers. Sure yeah, but people are acting like, oh
Speaker 1: you think we wouldn't notice? You think what you thought
Speaker 1: that my kid was gonna not see this? Like they're
Speaker 1: so mad. And so what happened was they did a
Speaker 1: touring stage show of Blippy and Steve Grossman is just
Speaker 1: a person who started making YouTube videos. He's not a
Speaker 1: trained entertainer. He's not somebody who you know, you can
Speaker 1: watch the videos and realized that's like part of the
Speaker 1: charm is he's just a dude and some wacky clothes.
Speaker 1: Who is you know, you feel like your dad's fun friend,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming. So they cast somebody to play Blippy in
Speaker 1: the stage show, and they were like, whoa, this guy
Speaker 1: is really good at acting. I guess is that what
Speaker 1: you call it? Acting and dancing and performing? And so
Speaker 1: they tried to bring this other actor into play the
Speaker 1: character of Blippy in a video and people, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna read some some quotes. Did they not think my
Speaker 1: extremely observant four year old would notice a different dude
Speaker 1: playing hashtag Blippy? Today? There was a new guy portraying Blippy,
Speaker 1: and I wondered, if this is like doctor who where
Speaker 1: every few years here she regenerates. So that's okay, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's probably a fine interpretation. But then one mom wrote,
Speaker 1: what the heck happened to Hippy? My kid noticed within
Speaker 1: four seconds that it was a different guy, and she
Speaker 1: was ticked. Ticked. I don't know, the classic the one,
Speaker 1: the one comment that seems like they said, I wish
Speaker 1: Blippy could just introduce us to his quote friend and
Speaker 1: maybe he could wear the same outfit, just different colors. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: what why do it's not a we're not all trying
Speaker 1: to trick our kids, guys? Why why is everybody like
Speaker 1: reacting like this was an attempt to like pull the
Speaker 1: wool over or like it was like that had been
Speaker 1: put out to pasture, and like you could just be like, no,
Speaker 1: there's multiple Blippy's. Blippy is you know a company of
Speaker 1: people just treat your kids like, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: they don't need to be lied to, right, right, this
Speaker 1: could be a little a throwback to the to the
Speaker 1: Blues Clues era of the Big Steve transition, when we
Speaker 1: got New Steve and we had to see Steve walk
Speaker 1: out the door for the last time and say goodbye kids.
Speaker 1: It was a heartbreaking handoff that I think maybe some people,
Speaker 1: maybe our generation or or more closely, my sister's generation,
Speaker 1: never recovered from that that final goodbye to see where
Speaker 1: they're like, you know what, we just need a hard
Speaker 1: cut from one to the other. We can't have this
Speaker 1: this like we can't put them out to pasture because
Speaker 1: then they'll they'll be too sad to watch the other
Speaker 1: Blippy go. And it's like, I don't know, well, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe it worked, maybe it didn't. I'm not sure here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and also we just need a more peaceful transition
Speaker 1: of power between the Blippies, right, Like our blippy system
Speaker 1: depends on a smooth recognition of the next Blippy who
Speaker 1: won the election? Right diff to let the white smoke go.
Speaker 1: The white smoke that was like, the new Blippy has
Speaker 1: been elected at the old Slippy show now passed the
Speaker 1: giant hat or the the the orange glasses off from
Speaker 1: one to the other. Wow. I do wonder how much
Speaker 1: the people who are up in arms over the Blippy
Speaker 1: transition having common with like people who were at the
Speaker 1: q con. I wonder if there was like a small
Speaker 1: shoe people being like, what is this ship? Anyways? Keep
Speaker 1: your eyes open, guys, That's all I'm saying. Blippy. You
Speaker 1: know they're gonna try and fool you with this new Blippy.
Speaker 1: Don't buy it. Don't buy it my Blippy original list.
Speaker 1: I also, I just from what you guys said, I
Speaker 1: really liked that the the original Blippy. It looks like
Speaker 1: his real name was Stephen Grossman, but his stage name
Speaker 1: was Steven John. For some reason, his stage name was Steven.
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like it was huge news for
Speaker 1: the Steven community that this guy existed, and then also
Speaker 1: the poop thing. But he's really a Stephen. Okay, we're fine,
Speaker 1: He's not one of us, like us Stevens are fine.
Speaker 1: This is this is different. How is Steven spelled? It's
Speaker 1: stev I n in the thing I'm reading. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: I don't know why. Yeah, I respect it. What was
Speaker 1: a guy named Stephen and he was like, I really
Speaker 1: need a stage name. Steven pretended to be a Steven.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Again, one of those times when it
Speaker 1: seems like somebody was forced to make a binding, permanent
Speaker 1: decision within a second, like at gunpoint. Yeah, yeah, Evan,
Speaker 1: Like it was somewhere between using his name and Kevin.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, like when you have two ideas for how
Speaker 1: to say a saut once Sunday in the middle of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break and we will
Speaker 1: be right back to talk about less important things. And
Speaker 1: we're back and we all gotta I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was a rude awakening, but you know, I think
Speaker 1: I think we've been aware that the Q. The Q
Speaker 1: movement is still out there, still going strong, but had
Speaker 1: a big weekend. Last weekend there was a Texas convention
Speaker 1: where various speakers, including a congressman and Michael Flynn, just
Speaker 1: you know, repeated the lies that the Q movement is
Speaker 1: based on, like the foundational lies that it's stolen Michael
Speaker 1: Flynn even when when asked like why America hasn't had
Speaker 1: a mean mar style uprising or Q, which, in case
Speaker 1: you're not familiar, that means that like protesters are shot,
Speaker 1: journalists are put in prison, and a new undemocratically elected
Speaker 1: government is put into power by the military. He said
Speaker 1: he thinks that would be great, that we should have that.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. And I think it's easy to dismiss the
Speaker 1: Q movement as sort of a collection of delusional, you know,
Speaker 1: narcissists shouting to your own research as their singular argument
Speaker 1: for every bizarre belief they've made up, because like that
Speaker 1: is what it is. But it also I feel like,
Speaker 1: first of all, Trump is totally on board with this.
Speaker 1: Maggie Haberman just announced that he's been saying that he
Speaker 1: fully believes that he will be reinstated as president by August.
Speaker 1: And that's like where his sort of laser focus on
Speaker 1: the audits, Uh, those goal posts back, just keep moving
Speaker 1: to back a little bit more. I was it was
Speaker 1: March for the first storm, and that's August. He's maybe
Speaker 1: like October, I'm telling you, October that's gonna be the money.
Speaker 1: But they're leaning into a new thread, which is that
Speaker 1: America needs to have a M. E. M. Mar style
Speaker 1: KU where the military deposes the democratically elected ruler and
Speaker 1: selves their own like as like that that feels significant
Speaker 1: to me. I know it's easy like a lot of people,
Speaker 1: but but and like especially because like I feel like
Speaker 1: in the mainstream media there's this division where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: the Cube movement is silly, but it's being led by
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who is also leading the Republican Party. Like
Speaker 1: fully the way no like is more powerful, has more
Speaker 1: power in that party than I feel like any individual
Speaker 1: has ever had in one of the major parties, and
Speaker 1: in like u s history, like he just determines what
Speaker 1: happens there. Yeah, so I don't know, less than three
Speaker 1: years we're going to have a major presidential election where
Speaker 1: one of the major parties platform is this is Q
Speaker 1: and hun ship is stop the Steel and is basically
Speaker 1: tacitly an approval of an armed uprising. Yea. And if
Speaker 1: if I remember the previous election, like the official Republican platform,
Speaker 1: the platform was just of one page dot commence staple
Speaker 1: to the front of the ten platform and it said
Speaker 1: we support Donald J. Trump. That was the that was
Speaker 1: they didn't they didn't have like issues for I think
Speaker 1: the first time in an American election the major party
Speaker 1: wasn't like this our candidate, and also this is what
Speaker 1: we believe. They were just like, no, this this wonderful,
Speaker 1: strange man. That's our entire platform. Anyway, this is democracy,
Speaker 1: that's what we like. And any and any issues at
Speaker 1: all that were brought to the table, we're just to
Speaker 1: refute them. We're gonna be like, that's not a thing.
Speaker 1: You don't believe in. That climate change, we're not. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a liberal hoax right there. It's just
Speaker 1: everything is everything is anti You're right, there's there's no
Speaker 1: ground to stand on. And I feel like this is
Speaker 1: because it's been politicized, and because Democrats recognize that it's
Speaker 1: been politicized, they are, you know, the right wing, like
Speaker 1: a right wing terror group or a group that's threatening
Speaker 1: to overthrow the government is being treated more passively by
Speaker 1: the mainstream than like if a congressman and a former
Speaker 1: you know, major military official we're talking about overthrowing the
Speaker 1: US government for any other cause, it would be like
Speaker 1: the end of the news cycle. But just because of
Speaker 1: all the normalization that has happened, and because of the
Speaker 1: Fox News advantage that the right has where they you know,
Speaker 1: have all mainstream commentators and mainstream Democrats frightened of being attacked,
Speaker 1: that they just this is being treated more passively than
Speaker 1: it would if any left wing group like made similar claims.
Speaker 1: It's just because of what has gone on with the
Speaker 1: Republican Party and like how the Democrats have just kind
Speaker 1: of been controlled by the right wing media over the
Speaker 1: last you know, fifteen years. It's we're now at a
Speaker 1: point where they're going to get away with us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I wonder how much of this just springs from
Speaker 1: most Americans don't know anything about me Edbar, Like you
Speaker 1: can switch governments and me and Bar It's like, well
Speaker 1: I want to switch governments, not learning anything more, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it seems to be working out. Well, oh
Speaker 1: really you are you following me? Yeah? I mean it's
Speaker 1: still a country, right, Yeah, I don't know. We I
Speaker 1: I remain really filled about the previous election because there
Speaker 1: won't be a Republican president until January of and I
Speaker 1: think they're not processing it very well. It seems to
Speaker 1: be the issue. Well, speaking of not processing it very well,
Speaker 1: so people are seemingly waking up to the fact that
Speaker 1: sports fans act badly a lot of the time. But
Speaker 1: I can't tell if it's more now than there's ever
Speaker 1: been in the past, or if it's just we're kind
Speaker 1: of more looking for it. But what is unavoidable is that,
Speaker 1: like there's there's been a continuation of a trend we
Speaker 1: talked about on last week's shows where someone threw a
Speaker 1: water bottle at Kyrie Irving after he called Boston sports
Speaker 1: fans out for being hostile and racist, and the fan
Speaker 1: base spent days accusing him of overreacting and being dramatic,
Speaker 1: and then they were like, yeah, you're so over overreacting
Speaker 1: that we're going to prove you exactly confirm all of
Speaker 1: the beliefs in one swift moment spectacular. It was like,
Speaker 1: culturally there was so much riding on him not throwing
Speaker 1: a water bottle at Kyrie Irving that he just like
Speaker 1: couldn't help himself. And then a fan of the Sixers game,
Speaker 1: which I think this one is a type of mania
Speaker 1: that has been less covered but is equally there. A
Speaker 1: fan of the Sixers game on Monday night ran onto
Speaker 1: the court and had to be tackled and like arrested, um,
Speaker 1: which is more the diffuse mania of just like people
Speaker 1: just having so much energy and not knowing how to act.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I don't know if you guys have like
Speaker 1: anecdotally experienced anything. I was on a Amtrak train where
Speaker 1: a passenger who is shockingly a white male, refused to
Speaker 1: wear a mask and spent fifteen minutes calling the conductor
Speaker 1: of the train a bitch uh and everything else he
Speaker 1: could get his brain on before she stopped the train
Speaker 1: and kicked him off. Which is kind of cool to
Speaker 1: just like kick someone off a train, like just between
Speaker 1: stopped there you go. I know, I know trains go fast,
Speaker 1: but what a gentle form of transportation? Where is taken?
Speaker 1: Come on, like chill out. I was at I was
Speaker 1: at a Bethma over the weekend getting a supplies for
Speaker 1: a Memorial Day party, and there were a couple of
Speaker 1: people there who were so amazed by the size of
Speaker 1: a or bottle that they were almost running around the
Speaker 1: store with it, just going can you believe this thing?
Speaker 1: Look at the size of this And it scared my
Speaker 1: girlfriend a little bit, and you could tell everybody else
Speaker 1: was like, can you please calm down? We're in a bed.
Speaker 1: Is there's plenty of BEV for everyone? Come on, exactly?
Speaker 1: Was it like a magnum bottle? Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: larger than average. It was. It was a very large
Speaker 1: liquor bottle. But I feel like at this point, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like I've seen enough music videos to know
Speaker 1: what a bottle of that size looks like, and I
Speaker 1: would see it and simply identify, like, ah, this was
Speaker 1: one of those bottles. Yes, I've seen these before in
Speaker 1: the movies and the television, as opposed to like, could
Speaker 1: you believe this? I feel like an ant next to
Speaker 1: this giant bottle of takoyla. It's right, please sir, please,
Speaker 1: like literally pacing around the store just bottle in hand,
Speaker 1: like trying to show other people. It was like, what
Speaker 1: what are you doing? What are we doing here? Again?
Speaker 1: This is a bet? Right? The sports stories make me
Speaker 1: think of I'm going to a sports game on Friday,
Speaker 1: a minor league baseball game here and d for the
Speaker 1: first like sporting event and forever. And then also I
Speaker 1: follow the major league team, the Chicago White Sox and
Speaker 1: their most recent rainy game there was a streaker apparently,
Speaker 1: and then also the streaker tried to hide in the
Speaker 1: tarp that they put over the field for the ring.
Speaker 1: So I think I think there's some innovative human behavior
Speaker 1: that's kind of groundbreaking. Yeah, I do wonder like how
Speaker 1: much of so you know, there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: conversations about like anxiety, like people feeling post pandemic anxiety.
Speaker 1: I think people are understanding what social anxiety is for
Speaker 1: maybe the first time now that they've spent a year,
Speaker 1: you know, in in solitary uh. And so I think
Speaker 1: we like alcohol was built to deal with that, Like
Speaker 1: I was a is yes, so good at helping with
Speaker 1: social anxiety. And when you have social anxiety, as somebody
Speaker 1: who has spent a lifetime treating social anxiety with alcohol,
Speaker 1: I think there's something unhealthy about just having that crutch
Speaker 1: that is like your solution, and there's like unprocessed conflict
Speaker 1: that is just gonna come out in energy in some
Speaker 1: unhealthy way. If if you're just taking problem, apply booze,
Speaker 1: it's going to be fun. But occasionally you're gonna try
Speaker 1: and hide in the tarp as they cover them cover
Speaker 1: the field during a rain game. To me, it sounds
Speaker 1: like that's striker forgot how a slipping slide works. It's
Speaker 1: like you go over the tarp. You need you need
Speaker 1: to go on top of the tarp to get the
Speaker 1: full you know, advantage of the water on the you know,
Speaker 1: and really get a nice slide going. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: just the tarpest new I mean, I don't know, right off,
Speaker 1: the cuffs are like, well, it's been years since he
Speaker 1: used to slip and slide. It's hard to remember exactly
Speaker 1: there is. I feel like one consequent trend, or like
Speaker 1: parallel trend, is that people are being a little bit
Speaker 1: more respectful of athletes as people, like as humans. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're they're experiencing ship that no humans should have to experience.
Speaker 1: But I do think that it has been commonplace in
Speaker 1: the past. For instance, Russell Westbrook got popcorn dumped on
Speaker 1: him after an injury, which is sucking, horrible. But I
Speaker 1: do think it is also something that wasn't all that
Speaker 1: unexpected coming from Philadelphia sports fans, right, who threw batteries
Speaker 1: at Santa Claus during an Eagles game in the in
Speaker 1: the eighties. But uh so Naomi Osaka, who's the best
Speaker 1: tennis player in the world, just so she was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do the press because I have
Speaker 1: angst idea around talking to the media and it makes
Speaker 1: being part of a major like a very unhealthy atmosphere
Speaker 1: for me. And major League Tennis, I'm gonna call it.
Speaker 1: That's not the name, but you got a major league,
Speaker 1: the National Football Tennis that's the one. Uh was like,
Speaker 1: not really that support n f T s tales football Tennis.
Speaker 1: Thank you to my bros. All right, So n f
Speaker 1: T think that it is a nasty football to But
Speaker 1: so she was basically like, I feel like ship when
Speaker 1: I have to face the media. Um. That makes sense
Speaker 1: to me because the media kind of US athletes, especially
Speaker 1: athletes in like these individual sports as both like adversary
Speaker 1: and thing to exploit and uh not necessarily as like
Speaker 1: a person who they're looking out for. Um. So she
Speaker 1: ended up withdrawing from the French Open and has seen
Speaker 1: some criticism, But I think for the most part, people
Speaker 1: think it's progress that somebody can be like I need
Speaker 1: a break for my mental health to uh like not
Speaker 1: not play tennis and be on a national stage and
Speaker 1: be like constantly interview which I think it's cool. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think anybody criticizing her should watch the
Speaker 1: entirety of a sports press conference. It's not it's not
Speaker 1: a valuable use of time for anyone involved, and the
Speaker 1: sportswriter should find some other way to produce something about
Speaker 1: the game, Like watching it right now when you hit
Speaker 1: that one ball? Uh, can you tell us what you
Speaker 1: were thinking, like as as the ball went over the
Speaker 1: net and went where you wanted it to go, were
Speaker 1: you like nice? Essentially? Yeah? Yeah, essentially, I was just
Speaker 1: uh doing the thing that I practiced forty hours a day,
Speaker 1: and uh paid off in that moment. I mean, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: And then like forty other ants go up and asking
Speaker 1: equally a name question and then so that's that would
Speaker 1: be one thing is if they were just asking really
Speaker 1: dumb questions, but then they get like crushed for saying
Speaker 1: something that is like misinterpreted in some way. Uh. And
Speaker 1: the only the only like I think I mentioned this
Speaker 1: on last week's show, the only like classic moments from
Speaker 1: press conferences are where athletes and coaches become laughing stocks,
Speaker 1: like the practice uh and playoffs. I actually used Jim
Speaker 1: More as cadence from Playoffs for Alan Iverson's practice. But
Speaker 1: that's fine, well, obviously perfect in this way Anyways, there's
Speaker 1: other post pandemic things happening, like New York is deciding
Speaker 1: whether to keep to go cocktails as a thing once
Speaker 1: we open back up, which I I personally feel like
Speaker 1: like I was like, yeah, maybe that's like slightly irresponsible,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, maybe maybe it's fine. But then
Speaker 1: I saw that the people who are lobbying against it
Speaker 1: is liquor stores. So it's like, oh, you're just right,
Speaker 1: You're just mad that people are consuming a more responsible
Speaker 1: amount of liquor and paying more for it. Yeah. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that the response from this whole thing is to
Speaker 1: take things from it and not completely pushed to the
Speaker 1: side like that. That was then, yes, put it away,
Speaker 1: put it away away, not thinking about it again. No more,
Speaker 1: no more of this pandemic we didn't exist and happen.
Speaker 1: It's like, let's say, let's learn from that whole thing
Speaker 1: and evolve. It's great. Yeah, I mean it's great. It's great.
Speaker 1: It's great as relative me. Let me let me walk
Speaker 1: that back a little bit. Yeah, we could be we
Speaker 1: could be better from the shared traumatic experience that we
Speaker 1: all had. Let's do that for sure. That's to take Daniel,
Speaker 1: when you when you said, put it away, put it away.
Speaker 1: I was imagining that huge PEVMO bottle. You're like, just
Speaker 1: just shove it back in the shelf under the weight
Speaker 1: of ye and I was imagining a shirtless Anthony Keatis Uh,
Speaker 1: put it away, put it away, put it away? Now?
Speaker 1: Is that one where he's like covered in silver paint
Speaker 1: or I'm from a generation where there were things called
Speaker 1: music videos. I like. I like that all the famous
Speaker 1: red hat chili pepper outfits are either like body change
Speaker 1: or one sock that's whether famous progressing. That's right, Oh, Jack,
Speaker 1: you are a percent right about that one good call
Speaker 1: with silver body paint. Yeah. I had to watch a
Speaker 1: whole two seconds of this music that confirmed that, Yep,
Speaker 1: you are right, this is the one, and just really
Speaker 1: enunciating the hell out of some words um and that one,
Speaker 1: and then I do wanna this is more of a
Speaker 1: I'm having trouble processing this strand of the COVID story, uh,
Speaker 1: And I wanted to just kind of get you guys
Speaker 1: thoughts on what you've seen of it. So basically there
Speaker 1: there's an article in the Associated Press that is, you know,
Speaker 1: Europe sees a drop in the virus just in time
Speaker 1: for summer, a summer tourism in time for summer, Europe
Speaker 1: sees dramatic fall and virus cases, and it never once
Speaker 1: mentions a relationship between climate and the weather that locations
Speaker 1: experiencing and COVID trends. And that's something that we like
Speaker 1: talked about before and then it kind of like it
Speaker 1: went away despite the fact that we gave it the
Speaker 1: t d Z bump. I can't believe it wasn't like
Speaker 1: all over the news the next day, Um, but like,
Speaker 1: how many shots is that bump? That exactly there you go.
Speaker 1: At the same time, there was like a story on
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal about how like southern states have
Speaker 1: largely faced a lower risk of transmission during the winter
Speaker 1: and spring months because people spend more time outside and
Speaker 1: also it tends to be more humid there, so like
Speaker 1: in northern states where people were spending time inside because
Speaker 1: of heating which drives out the air indoors, they just
Speaker 1: didn't see as high transmission. And that's especially notable when
Speaker 1: you realize that they are also among the lowest in
Speaker 1: terms of people getting vaccinated. So it's just weird because
Speaker 1: when you read the whole a p article, they don't
Speaker 1: mention this once, but then you read the Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal article and I'll just read this one paragraph. These
Speaker 1: are outdoor societies, and the effects of the outdoors is
Speaker 1: much greater than the public appreciate, said Marty Macary, a
Speaker 1: cancer surgeon and the deemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, someplace
Speaker 1: called Johns Hopkins. I don't know, uh, he said, hair flow,
Speaker 1: seasonality and outdoor culture are probably primary drivers of the
Speaker 1: reduction in cases. And that's like when you look at
Speaker 1: the time when America had its worst spikes, it was
Speaker 1: like during the winter, and when you look at like
Speaker 1: times when it sort of went down, it was during
Speaker 1: the summer. And now we're like at a good place.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, it just feels like one of
Speaker 1: those things where And I think this just generally applies
Speaker 1: to both parents talking to their kids about blippy and
Speaker 1: the mainstream media talking to Americans that like just tell
Speaker 1: the truth, like just trust people to have access to
Speaker 1: the truth. I just feel like anytime you're hiding something
Speaker 1: because you're afraid that it's going to be like used
Speaker 1: by this group or that group, it just sucks things up.
Speaker 1: It makes it like overall harder for people to trust
Speaker 1: the mainstrew media. If that's what's going on here, that
Speaker 1: they're just like hiding this fact because they think it'll
Speaker 1: make people act more irresponsible during summer months. Yeah they really,
Speaker 1: they really should just go ahead and tell people everything.
Speaker 1: Like you can. You can borderline and tell your child
Speaker 1: that Flippy pooped on his friends, but right, children understand
Speaker 1: poop and the same. Yeah yeah, but in a more
Speaker 1: serious way, Yeah, tell tell people how this public safety
Speaker 1: needs to work. We we've had such chaotic messaging throughout
Speaker 1: the whole thing, really really rough. It's been chaotic messaging.
Speaker 1: I feel like on on everything, there should there should
Speaker 1: be an honesty board. That's that's like, here's how I mean.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's just, um, what's that that blog
Speaker 1: that just rates things like pants on fire or PolitiFact? Right?
Speaker 1: Like you know, but yeah, PolitiFact or whatever it is
Speaker 1: should just be part of how it was gets reported
Speaker 1: in general, because like this, this spin does not help
Speaker 1: anyone get a better idea of how we need to
Speaker 1: move forward as a society. Yeah, but that polit effect
Speaker 1: has its own issues in dest on a tone issue exactly.
Speaker 1: That's star right. They keep lighting all these pants on
Speaker 1: fire because pants all right, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back. It's got to be bad
Speaker 1: for the environment, right, it's a lot of being released
Speaker 1: pants braining, I think so. And we're back, and we
Speaker 1: are joined by super producer on a Hosni whoop Hi,
Speaker 1: And I saved a bo anecdote for you for so
Speaker 1: yesterday the first time, and I was in a long
Speaker 1: time being in public. We're on the train. He picked
Speaker 1: up my diet coke half full, smelled it deeply, and
Speaker 1: then said, in a voice that was loud enough for
Speaker 1: the whole train car to hear, it smells. It smells
Speaker 1: like the coronavirus fucking burned me. Many It doesn't really
Speaker 1: make sense. Oh, you guys were blacklisted on that train.
Speaker 1: And it was annoying because I was already refusing to
Speaker 1: I was refusing to wear my mask, so come incredible.
Speaker 1: This is going to hurt my ability to argue with
Speaker 1: the conductor tell that story as if it wasn't me.
Speaker 1: Smells like coronavirus. Yeah, by the way, and I saw you,
Speaker 1: guys my new giant bottle of tequila. Look at it.
Speaker 1: Look at it sounds right here. I guess My question is,
Speaker 1: how does bo know what coronavirus smells like? That's the
Speaker 1: question that we all just like chemicals. It's like this
Speaker 1: diet coke is not good for you. Man. That would
Speaker 1: be amazing if he was, like if babies born at
Speaker 1: the time or like, who are infants at the time
Speaker 1: of coronavirus, like could smell the coronavirus? Like that was
Speaker 1: the stupid superpower that they developed. Anyway, that's my theory.
Speaker 1: Now I'm using him as a coronavivirus for all things.
Speaker 1: All Right, that's enough anecdotes about children. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: a quiet place too, because the box office is back baby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did anybody see a quiet place a QP two Not yet?
Speaker 1: Not yet. Have you guys on to do do a movie
Speaker 1: since things have reopened? Also not yet? Yeah, we were
Speaker 1: there's an Alamo Drafthouse in Rally and we were actually
Speaker 1: thinking about going, but we have not gone. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: we feel like comfortable. I think we're ready to do it.
Speaker 1: Get the food in the beer and everything. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I'm waiting for the whole fast fifty fifty. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's still down a little bit. It didn't
Speaker 1: hit sixty million, which is what people were expecting. A
Speaker 1: fifty seven, so it's close. But I think, like the
Speaker 1: reviews were so good, the there was such little competition
Speaker 1: that I think this is still a sign that, like,
Speaker 1: people aren't quite as willing to go to movies until
Speaker 1: you don't have to wear a mask the whole time,
Speaker 1: would be my guess, and can just wear it use
Speaker 1: a mask as a popcorn muzzle, which is how I
Speaker 1: planned to repurpose my mask muzzle. Yeah, hell yeah, the
Speaker 1: old feedbag, the old popcorn feedbag. Well, I also don't
Speaker 1: know if I like missed the theater. I've I of
Speaker 1: the things I have missed in the pandemic, like especially
Speaker 1: when I was winter and we couldn't do stuff outside
Speaker 1: that was hard. But but the movie theater, yea, that's
Speaker 1: probably not top ten, right, Yeah, yeah, I'm probably there
Speaker 1: with you, even though it used to be like my
Speaker 1: favorite thing to do. It's also like, although outdoor movie
Speaker 1: theaters and like drive throughs are a one of those
Speaker 1: things from the pandemic that I hope hangs around because
Speaker 1: those are those are really nice and fun. Yet those
Speaker 1: those existed before the pandemic, I know, but they weren't
Speaker 1: as common. I feel like maybe, right, I think my awareness.
Speaker 1: I hope persists that those exist. All right, it is time,
Speaker 1: of course for superproducer on a hosnie a streaming corner.
Speaker 1: We need to get you a drop one. Okay, let
Speaker 1: me hear it. I have a theme song. Wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: how to go? Wait? Well, I actually have to I
Speaker 1: have a I have an opener and a closer okay,
Speaker 1: I which I don't recall, So we're just gonna improvise
Speaker 1: it again. All right, it's streaming. It's streaming. My family
Speaker 1: is missing, okay, I thanks for singing along. Nice, nice, nice, Alex.
Speaker 1: In case you aren't aware on it, spends most of
Speaker 1: our days in the office back when we worked in
Speaker 1: the same room, improvising songs, and they usually have to
Speaker 1: do with the fact that her family is missing and
Speaker 1: I can't I can't find them, and then she can't
Speaker 1: find them, can't. It's actually really taken situation, except there's
Speaker 1: nobody with a particular set of skills. That's actually like
Speaker 1: a really sad situation, more like two and crime. That's
Speaker 1: a nice thing to hear about it. I mean, we're laughing,
Speaker 1: but my family is missing, so yeah, we laugh. Not
Speaker 1: to cross. First off, shall we talk about anything around
Speaker 1: Mayor of Easttown before we get sure you're it just ended.
Speaker 1: Mayor of Eastown just ended. Guys. If you guys have
Speaker 1: not been watching Mayor of Eastown, you have sure been
Speaker 1: missing out. Mayor of Eastown has been a great enjoyment
Speaker 1: towards the end of the pandemic. You know, I've really
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching Kate Winslet completely engross herself into this small
Speaker 1: town outside of Pittsburgh, lady, and sure, Pennsylvania person, small
Speaker 1: town Pennsylvania person where she vapes, she wears tall collars,
Speaker 1: what are those things called turtlenecks, tall colors, tall collars, turtlenecks,
Speaker 1: and uh walks around and drives a big old suv
Speaker 1: because that's what it's like to live in small town Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Great finale, great show. My god, why was Guy Pearson?
Speaker 1: Everyone's asking, right, that's I don't even know if that's
Speaker 1: that should be considered a spoiler. And I got accused
Speaker 1: of spoiling something the other day, but and sorry for
Speaker 1: any spoilers. Spoilers if if in it, Piers is in it.
Speaker 1: But I guess the question of why he's in it
Speaker 1: suggests like I assumed he was going to somehow play
Speaker 1: into the overall plot. But he did not, I mean
Speaker 1: kind of did, but like, you know what, Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: not say anymore because it could be a spoiler. Spoiler, spoiler,
Speaker 1: my family got another spoiler for you. Kate Winslet actually British,
Speaker 1: so I did know that she was British. However, the
Speaker 1: experience of going from having watched the full season without
Speaker 1: seeing her speak in any other accent to then there's
Speaker 1: like after the finale interview and just like hearing her
Speaker 1: suddenly go posh on me, it was like I was
Speaker 1: I was shocked. She was like acting is magic and
Speaker 1: we should not trust it. The actor who plays her
Speaker 1: her daughter, also British. I was like, who are all
Speaker 1: these people? They're all British Brits. Yeah, it actually makes sense. Well,
Speaker 1: because the trouble is Philadelphia's fictional. So who do you cast?
Speaker 1: You have to you have to write Californians. I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know who you find, but I just assumed
Speaker 1: you cast a bunch of British people because they're like,
Speaker 1: that's like kind of the first one of the first
Speaker 1: areas they colonized, you know. Yeah, I don't really know
Speaker 1: for sure. But you know, they're like, just bring them down.
Speaker 1: They get it. They could probably hit that Delco accent
Speaker 1: because it's kind of similar to what they used to
Speaker 1: talk like or whatever. Right, yeah, so I mean that's
Speaker 1: a linguists theorized that that was what the British accent
Speaker 1: sounded like, and the current British accent is fake. They're
Speaker 1: all faking it. It's just no, it's just the accents
Speaker 1: just evolve. They and I do think a part of
Speaker 1: it was like, okay, well now that vap places sexists.
Speaker 1: But it is true the original British accents sounded more
Speaker 1: like a Boston accent than it didn't what it sounds
Speaker 1: like now, I'm not even joking. If that's very real,
Speaker 1: that's very real. And then they were like, god, these
Speaker 1: Bostonites and monsters, let's talk sound like this. That's a
Speaker 1: little more Liverpool than I meant it to be. They
Speaker 1: were all on Kyrie side right, throwing water bottles and
Speaker 1: basketball players like, we don't roll like that, We're more
Speaker 1: like this. Now I can't do it. I'm sorry. I apologize.
Speaker 1: That sounded great now, that was perfect. Dan's displeasure at
Speaker 1: your British accent was audible. I'm just no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no no no. I loved it. You not. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I apologized every one. Pay sound cancer Alex Daniel. Did
Speaker 1: you guys watch Mayor? I think we're both gonna say no, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't watch it. I was catching up on Ted Lasso.
Speaker 1: That's what. That's what I that was my streaming recently.
Speaker 1: We were we in like the same house or something same.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's great. I love fantastic, totally thrilling and very
Speaker 1: very up my alley of like kindness wins out. That's
Speaker 1: just like very heartwarming and winning, and everybody does a
Speaker 1: great performance and you're still rooting for the bad guys
Speaker 1: at times, and it's like, you know what, this show
Speaker 1: was great wins me over entirely. Yeah. Absolutely, jokes are good. Also,
Speaker 1: I grew up in the Midwest and also follied soccer
Speaker 1: as a kid because my my best friend was from Italy,
Speaker 1: and so I like clued into everything. I just knew
Speaker 1: everything that was going on all at once. It's like
Speaker 1: that in both ponds. You know, it was great, fantastic.
Speaker 1: I don't see uh Ted Lasso on on a streaming corner,
Speaker 1: So I ask you guys, just shut up streaming corner shade.
Speaker 1: You wanted to speak about ted La just kidding. I
Speaker 1: haven't watched it. I watched the first episode, but I
Speaker 1: never really got into it because everyone's so fucking nice.
Speaker 1: I was like, grow up. So I completely skipped over it.
Speaker 1: But I have heard a lot of good things about it,
Speaker 1: and I probably will eventually go back. Yeah, that is
Speaker 1: definitely the show that I am most aware that I
Speaker 1: am missing and would love and just sheer inertia of
Speaker 1: the energy it takes to get into a new show
Speaker 1: and the energy I do not have. It's like it's
Speaker 1: fun in a way where the best character might be
Speaker 1: a guy who shows up like more than halfway through,
Speaker 1: like there's so much going on, like it's already good,
Speaker 1: and then new fun stuff all the time. It's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, we will cut that up because hey, the
Speaker 1: stream quarter I asked for one thing. I said, no,
Speaker 1: ted Lasso talk, get ahold of your show, take back control?
Speaker 1: All right? What what is uh something you recommend? Another
Speaker 1: one of my stream choices would be Bo Burnham's Inside.
Speaker 1: Now you know, I don't love to promote tall white
Speaker 1: men small white men. I hate it. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't promote white men, but Bo Burnham what a talent.
Speaker 1: I mean, unbelievable. This guy, I can't I can't even
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to describe. I won't. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna give a lot away because he just does
Speaker 1: this like really great kind of deep dive into internet culture.
Speaker 1: And that's not even what I just said, it's not
Speaker 1: even remotely doing it justice. But he films an entire
Speaker 1: special inside one small room, which I'm assuming is like
Speaker 1: the back house to his like nice house. It's like
Speaker 1: a tiny room which just like recording equipment and just
Speaker 1: you know, filming equipment in it. So I really recommend
Speaker 1: it's on Netflix to his early days. Sure, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean actually I'm a fan of Bo Burnham for years
Speaker 1: because I used to love his first show on MTV
Speaker 1: called Zack Stone Is Gonna Be Famous or something like that.
Speaker 1: It's really funny. I really recommend going back and watching
Speaker 1: it if you guys ever, or if you missed it. Hilarious.
Speaker 1: I knew back then I was like this kid, he's
Speaker 1: got it, and let me tell you, I was right,
Speaker 1: So I really recommend it. Like he's just so good.
Speaker 1: Like he also towards the end, like you can see
Speaker 1: the pandemic is breaking him and working on this special
Speaker 1: is breaking him, and he's just very honest throughout all
Speaker 1: of it. And uh, I loved it. I really enjoyed it,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, please check that out. The podcast Good
Speaker 1: One just did a rerun. I don't usually listen to
Speaker 1: that one. It actually came on when I was doing
Speaker 1: something else and I heard, like it starts off with
Speaker 1: the bit of comedy that they are then going to
Speaker 1: do a deep dive into. I don't know why I'm
Speaker 1: like qualifying this and make it him like I don't
Speaker 1: normally like it because it's a fine show and well done,
Speaker 1: but this particular one was about the like Kanye remix
Speaker 1: part at the end of his last special, and it
Speaker 1: just gave me again like an appreciation for how brilliant
Speaker 1: that dude is. And also that he was having panic
Speaker 1: attacks like daily during that tour that ended up producing
Speaker 1: like such a completely amazing and then the panic attacks
Speaker 1: just led him to be like, I'm just gonna go
Speaker 1: write a great movie about an eighth grader's experience. That's okay,
Speaker 1: all right, killing killing it. That's he gets killing five
Speaker 1: five Killing It from me love it. Okay. My next
Speaker 1: recommendation is, actually, we don't have a lot of times,
Speaker 1: so only I'm only going to give two more. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do three more. You know what, live large
Speaker 1: you now, let's go. Next recommendation is flat Bush Misdemeanors
Speaker 1: on Showtime. Now you might be like, huh um, but
Speaker 1: it stars Dan Perlman and Kevin I So, which actually
Speaker 1: hilariously enough. I saw Kevin i So back at Bridgetown
Speaker 1: Comedy Festival Circle and I literally walked up to him
Speaker 1: and said, please give me your email. I would love
Speaker 1: to book you guys ten for ten out here. I'm
Speaker 1: killing it with this talent booking. Okay, I just know
Speaker 1: who's hot. I know who's hot baby, Okay, I got
Speaker 1: my eye on the talent whatever. Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he you know what, I'm gonna give this show
Speaker 1: actually a four out of five killings. Killings. It's because
Speaker 1: while I do think it's really funny and really well written,
Speaker 1: and it's about two friends just kind of navigating their
Speaker 1: life in flat Bush. It's a little slow, but it's
Speaker 1: actually really I just enjoy it because it's funny. We
Speaker 1: got the return of we Bow If you guys ever
Speaker 1: watched The Wire It's weird. It's we we Bow. That's
Speaker 1: it's like a streaming service or something. Well, Hassan Johnson,
Speaker 1: who played we Bay, Yeah, I really just said we Bow.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm out. He returns. I haven't seen him in
Speaker 1: anything in a while, so it's actually great to see
Speaker 1: him pop up and he's playing a character that's torturing
Speaker 1: these poor two guys. So yeah, I would. I would
Speaker 1: recommend checking out. There's two episodes out so far on Showtime.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, like I said, four out of five
Speaker 1: killing it killings, it's uh killing, It's yeah. Okay, Moving
Speaker 1: on another show I would recommend, which is on HBO
Speaker 1: Max is the what's it called? When each episode's about
Speaker 1: a different thing? Anthology? Anthology and pthology series. I should
Speaker 1: have been on Jeffery. Okay, Jack, you can stop doing
Speaker 1: buzzer motions in the podcast, distracting every time I talk
Speaker 1: is mud say, what is Generation Hustle? So technically you
Speaker 1: are out? Yeah, So the show is called Generation Hustle.
Speaker 1: Every episode's about a different scammer, you know, who got
Speaker 1: away with what they were not really got away with,
Speaker 1: but just like scammed people for a pretty long time
Speaker 1: before they were called out. And the episode that really
Speaker 1: stood out to me is the we Work episode, because
Speaker 1: I do want to admit right now, Jack and I
Speaker 1: were accomplices to the wee Work scam. That's why, you
Speaker 1: guys we worked out of a wee work. Jack and I, Okay,
Speaker 1: we were there. We were putting money into this cult
Speaker 1: leader's pocket. We were there being like goose Fraba with
Speaker 1: him or whatever it was. We were drinking his fruit water.
Speaker 1: That's right, we were having their coffee. We were literally
Speaker 1: holding hands in circles and chanting. Not really, but you know,
Speaker 1: we basically were because we were there for a decent
Speaker 1: amount of time. So that's right. We're a part of
Speaker 1: the problem. Jack admit it. I admit it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: all I needed was that cucumber water and I was like,
Speaker 1: I will kill someone for you. Yeah. So it's basically
Speaker 1: it's about how the founder basically like deified himself and
Speaker 1: then it turns out he was just like taking a
Speaker 1: ton of money out of the company and turned himself
Speaker 1: for the most part into a billionaire. And then like
Speaker 1: they tried to go public with an I p O
Speaker 1: and then all they released all this information and I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, no, I didn't do that, and he
Speaker 1: was like, gotta go. And yeah. It was a very
Speaker 1: culty environment and everything was very intense, and you had
Speaker 1: to go to like summer camps like and if you
Speaker 1: couldn't go, you had to have like a written excuse
Speaker 1: from like a real like like a doctor as to
Speaker 1: why you couldn't go to a festival for the weekend
Speaker 1: for your wee work company. It was very intense. I recommend.
Speaker 1: And there's a bunch of other scammers they cover. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're a fan of Scam Goddess, you know you
Speaker 1: might enjoy learning about these other scammers. So is it
Speaker 1: hosted by Lacy I wish? Honestly, there's no host. Get
Speaker 1: your head out of your s HBO Max. It's just done,
Speaker 1: you know, like narrative, no host. They just tell you
Speaker 1: what's going on. Yeah, equip being a blippy HBO Max.
Speaker 1: Cut it out, cut it out, get your ship out
Speaker 1: of your friends. But so the final show I want
Speaker 1: to talk about, which I personally think is the greatest show.
Speaker 1: I absolutely like, I love this show. Do I think
Speaker 1: it should have been created? Absolutely not. This show should
Speaker 1: have never absolutely whoever was like, give this this, this,
Speaker 1: this person, this show should be fired. But it is
Speaker 1: everything I've ever wanted to see. It is Mark Wahlberg's
Speaker 1: Wall Street. Oh my fucking god, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: The entire show is Mark Wahlberg being like, I'm busy
Speaker 1: and that is it. That is it. The whole shows
Speaker 1: I'm always doing stuff perfect and that's it. That is it.
Speaker 1: He's like, look, man, having a business. It's tough, and
Speaker 1: I'm busy, and you're like, what is going on? And
Speaker 1: there's no there's no rhyme or reason. He's just like,
Speaker 1: and here I am at a movie premiere, and here
Speaker 1: I am at a business meeting. Why are you filming
Speaker 1: these business meetings? This is not seem productive. You shouldn't
Speaker 1: really film these business meeting. Sounds like you guys are
Speaker 1: actually giving a lot of information away about your weird
Speaker 1: wall Burger's Burger shop. But that's the show. And he's
Speaker 1: just carrying it Sharpie all the time because he needs
Speaker 1: to sign ship all the time. Apparently he signs like
Speaker 1: contracts with Sharpie's and then he signs like autographs and
Speaker 1: he's like he's like looking at photos of himself, like
Speaker 1: shirtless and he's like wow, OK. And then and then
Speaker 1: he's like it's like two thirty in the morning and
Speaker 1: he's working out in a hotel room that they turn
Speaker 1: every hotel room. He goes into into like his own
Speaker 1: personal gym, and it's like to thirty in the morning
Speaker 1: and he's like whoa, whoa, like working out and you're like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck? Where do you get off acting like
Speaker 1: that at two thirty in the morning in a hotel
Speaker 1: room in London, Like, I don't give a ship if
Speaker 1: you're Mark Wallberg. People are sleeping and uh no, it's
Speaker 1: great show ever seen. I recommend it. I just I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys just want to see some
Speaker 1: straight nonsense check it out. Man. All right, it's called
Speaker 1: it's called Mark Wahlberg's Wall Street. Yeah is it spelled how?
Speaker 1: I think? Think? Yeah, exactly, think. Yeah. The opening credits
Speaker 1: are like him with It's it's like animated, but it's
Speaker 1: like a spray camp, just like on Wall Street, like
Speaker 1: the sign that's like Wall Street, like the Street sign,
Speaker 1: him just being like putting an h over the other
Speaker 1: l and then being like street and you're like, whoa. Yes,
Speaker 1: this clothing line, his clothing line I'm sure you can
Speaker 1: imagine what his clothing line is. It's just all jumpsuits.
Speaker 1: I was trying to find a name, but yeah, great pants. No,
Speaker 1: Henley's bro, Henley's what do what do buff guys wear?
Speaker 1: Henley's duh. Of course I should mention that earlier I
Speaker 1: cited the Wall Street Journal. I was citing the w
Speaker 1: A H. L. Street Journals have a subscription to that.
Speaker 1: That's why you kept saying Bro. I think I will
Speaker 1: say I think he's doing too much. I think he
Speaker 1: needs to scale it back, like he's really he's trying
Speaker 1: to expand this gym, but like low key, it's clear
Speaker 1: the gym, like the corporate part of the gym, is
Speaker 1: not interested in working with him. And it's like really awkward.
Speaker 1: You're like, why would you film and release this? They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Mark, seems like we're really not willing
Speaker 1: to take that risk. He's like, come on, man, I'm here,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go, and they're like, yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: don't know. We don't know about that. And he's like
Speaker 1: come on, and you're like, is he gonna be up
Speaker 1: people to get what he wants? It just makes no sense.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of things where I'd be like, this
Speaker 1: doesn't make you look like a good business man, right,
Speaker 1: this sounds like and he decided to make a show
Speaker 1: about the one thing he's really like average too bad at,
Speaker 1: which is a is the wrong business decision, which so
Speaker 1: it's kind of a self fulfilling thing. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's absolutely truly just funny. It's just so silly, like
Speaker 1: you're just like, what, why are you doing that? Like
Speaker 1: they'll be like, yeah, Mark is so busy, Oh what's
Speaker 1: that He's filming a scene? Well, right after that scene,
Speaker 1: he's got a business meeting. Like literally, that's what it's like.
Speaker 1: You're like, what, that's too much? You need to relax
Speaker 1: when you get downtime. What he doesn't. He's busy. That's
Speaker 1: the whole show. And I gotta say I won't stop watching,
Speaker 1: and I can't wait to see him to His team's
Speaker 1: entire job is just frantically looking for business meetings they
Speaker 1: can stick him in just to make it like that.
Speaker 1: And he also has his entourage with him, which are
Speaker 1: like the same guys he's been hanging out with since
Speaker 1: the Funky Bunch or whatever, all the same dudes. But
Speaker 1: it's all the funky bunch guys who are still like
Speaker 1: hanging out with him, and he's like, I I only
Speaker 1: keep I keep the same friends for years. And they're
Speaker 1: just like a bunch of like dudes who just like
Speaker 1: stand behind him. And I'm like, this is that everything turtle, Yeah,
Speaker 1: except for there's no turtle like guys at all. Well,
Speaker 1: they're all like ripped now, I'm sure that's they all
Speaker 1: work out together like, and then he just like tortures
Speaker 1: the guys who aren't as strong as then like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: you can do it. You could do it, and the
Speaker 1: guy's like, no, I can't, and You're like, this is
Speaker 1: Mark Wahlberg is the most Mark Walberg person you ever
Speaker 1: thought Mark Walbert could be. So there you go. And
Speaker 1: that's been streaming, streaming, my family, streaming, free birks. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Anna, thank you Alex so much for being here. Man,
Speaker 1: such a pleasure having you. It's a joy. Thank you. Guys.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you? Hear you all
Speaker 1: that good stuff. Yeah, I'm at Alex medi on Twitter,
Speaker 1: alex medi dot com, and I make the show secretly
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Speaker 1: It's a podcast about Every episode is about something that
Speaker 1: seems ordinary, and then we go into the history and
Speaker 1: science and lore of why it's amazing. So a bunch
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Speaker 1: fun as website can end in dot fun. It's tagged
Speaker 1: in the footnotes so you can note, uh, and is
Speaker 1: there a tweet or some other work of social media
Speaker 1: you've been enjoying. Yeah, this is a tweet from at
Speaker 1: Afraid of wasps so already and the entire tweet is
Speaker 1: a guy who has only seen The Boss Baby watching
Speaker 1: his second movie, getting a lot of boss Baby vibes
Speaker 1: from this good, oh wonderful Daniel, Yes, sir, thank you
Speaker 1: for thank you for guest hosting today. Yeah. Where can
Speaker 1: people find you and follow you? You can find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter and twitch at dj underscore. Daniel. Um there
Speaker 1: every Wednesday and Sunday playing video games or dungeons and
Speaker 1: dragons or building computers, doing something, doing something something like that,
Speaker 1: and a tweet I like comes from the legend John
Speaker 1: Gabriels wish iOS had a tap back that said, sorry
Speaker 1: I texted you. I'm so high and forgot about time
Speaker 1: zones as I have definitely texting people very late at night.
Speaker 1: Been like it's five in the morning over there. You
Speaker 1: might even be just waking up, Like I'm not going
Speaker 1: to interrupt your sleep cycle. I'm so sorry about that,
Speaker 1: So shout out John Gabriels at Gabriel on Twitter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have sympathy for us. We're we're on the West coast,
Speaker 1: on the West coast. I'm so sorry, still late here.
Speaker 1: And is there a tweet or some of the work
Speaker 1: of social media you've been enjoying. I believe I just
Speaker 1: read it. Um and is there a tweet or some
Speaker 1: other work? Oh boy, get those cats off the prompter,
Speaker 1: Get them off of there, stupid cats. I was asking myself, Yeah, Jack,
Speaker 1: what's a tweet that you've been enjoying. I'll go with
Speaker 1: this tweet from Noah Garfinkel, who tweeted, I want to
Speaker 1: Tim Mathey, I want to show Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, perfect,
Speaker 1: that's perfect. You can find me on Twitter, Jack Underscore
Speaker 1: O Brian, you can find us on Twitter at daily
Speaker 1: See guys, we're at d Daily SI guys on Instagram.
Speaker 1: We have a fasbic vampage uh in a website daily
Speaker 1: esius dot com where we post our episodes than our
Speaker 1: foot no link off to the information that we talked
Speaker 1: about in today's episode, as well as a song that
Speaker 1: we recommend you go check out super producer on are
Speaker 1: you um? First of all, where can people find you?
Speaker 1: And second of all, uh, do you have a song
Speaker 1: that you recommend people check out? Yeah? I'm at Anna
Speaker 1: HOSTI on Twitter. I think I'm shadow band. Thought what Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think because I was like, um hacked and then
Speaker 1: suspended and then uh, I tweet about Palestine, So I
Speaker 1: think I'm shadow band. Wow, I didn't mean to pick
Speaker 1: up an accent just then. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can see my tweets, but you can follow me
Speaker 1: at anahos N. Yeah. Yeah, a great follow. There you go.
Speaker 1: And I would say the song I recommend for us
Speaker 1: to reach out. Wait what am I saying? The song?
Speaker 1: The song I recommend at the end is who A.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm saying that wrong. It's f
Speaker 1: O U s h e E. And the song is
Speaker 1: called deep End. It's just like a good vibe jam.
Speaker 1: I just really feel it out, just roll like and
Speaker 1: I just enjoy it. I like nice quiet music now
Speaker 1: because as I get older and um and that's it,
Speaker 1: as I get older. So when you go to that,
Speaker 1: fushe fushi deep end. All right, we will link off
Speaker 1: to that and the footnotes. The daily is that guy's
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