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Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to be joined in our third scene
Speaker 1: by the brilliant, the talented, the legendary, the new daily
Speaker 1: podcast host Nicky Glazer. Hiys, so good to be here
Speaker 1: on another daily podcast. You guys inspired me to start
Speaker 1: my own podcasts. Uh and uh, I'm oh man, I'm
Speaker 1: yeah doing a daily podcast. And then also I've been
Speaker 1: doing a ton of other podcasts, Like I'm podcasting like
Speaker 1: three or four times a day. It's all I do,
Speaker 1: and I love it. It's the best. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: having so much fun with mine and um as we
Speaker 1: were just talking off air of like, it's just so
Speaker 1: nice to have a job you don't dread or like,
Speaker 1: and and then there's so many jobs I do that
Speaker 1: are just you know, it's obviously what I chose to do.
Speaker 1: But I don't think there's a single time I go
Speaker 1: on stage and I go, oh, I don't even know
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna say. I don't want to do this.
Speaker 1: And then I grabbed the mic and I have fun.
Speaker 1: The second I grabbed the mic and I got on stage,
Speaker 1: I have fun, but constant dread up until that moment.
Speaker 1: But I don't dread my own podcast at all. In fact,
Speaker 1: I like I do it four days a week, Monday
Speaker 1: through Thursday, the Nicki Glazer Podcast. I Heart Radio by
Speaker 1: Big Money Players, um, but on I get sad Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 1: It's like too much of a break. I miss it.
Speaker 1: And that's not just me saying that to be like
Speaker 1: I really do. I just feel like it's I Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you guys ever feel that way? Or do you
Speaker 1: need a break? I mean, we all need breaks. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed my weekends. I think it was once we
Speaker 1: started doing a second episode every day. I was just like, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we did like a fifteen minute trending episode a lot.
Speaker 1: But I don't know because Jack and I we saw
Speaker 1: each other physically for the first time over the weekends.
Speaker 1: We were doing a lesser a war show than the
Speaker 1: one you were doing or maybe depending on where let's
Speaker 1: be honest, I think their same level really boil it down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But like it was one of those moments you're like
Speaker 1: like a reunion scene at the end of a fashion
Speaker 1: curious movie or some ship because you guys don't see
Speaker 1: each other in person, like ever, you don't have the
Speaker 1: first time in over a year. What yeah, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what did the vaccine observant? I wasn't surprised. How the
Speaker 1: solid hug Jack gave me. Ship my man came in
Speaker 1: from came from deep within. Podcasting is hard, though, because
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like a great job, and I'm not complaining,
Speaker 1: but it is. You can't be on your phone, you
Speaker 1: can't be doing other things. It is to be focused.
Speaker 1: You have to be present, you have to be listening,
Speaker 1: you have to be It's it's different than any other job.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like most people work nine to
Speaker 1: five and maybe get the same amount of presence and
Speaker 1: like focus that we have in an hour of podcasting.
Speaker 1: Because I get off my phone, I'm like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: the longest I've been away from my phone. Ever, is
Speaker 1: what I podcast? It's like the it's the It's the
Speaker 1: way it used to be when you would go on
Speaker 1: a plane and they wouldn't have wife right now now
Speaker 1: you have no excuse to never be tethered to your phone.
Speaker 1: But podcasting is the only excuse I have now and sleeping,
Speaker 1: But even sleeping, it's like wake up, bitch, answer my
Speaker 1: tax Yeah, yeah, everything, okay, yeah, I've just been asleep
Speaker 1: for four hours with them. Yeah. Well the only reason
Speaker 1: I like when if people want to get ahold of
Speaker 1: me when I'm sleeping, I say call me because I
Speaker 1: always had my phone on silent, but I always have
Speaker 1: um white noise going. I think it was one of
Speaker 1: my underrateds last time I came on here as like
Speaker 1: a sleep mask and white noise to sleep, So I
Speaker 1: wake up when someone calls because the white noise will
Speaker 1: just it'll go to silence. So I get woken up
Speaker 1: by silence of the call. So that's the only way
Speaker 1: I wake up when I when I sleep. When people
Speaker 1: are like, I don't I didn't want to wake you
Speaker 1: up by texting you, and I'm like, who the hell
Speaker 1: is leaving their text alerts on when they're sleeping? That's
Speaker 1: a that's a that's a person. You need to don't
Speaker 1: get very many text messages, like myself, Oh, you don't
Speaker 1: get any texts and you just rub in your mits.
Speaker 1: You're like, whoa I wake everybody in my house. Hold up.
Speaker 1: I'm like, God, kids, get in here. Do you notice, though,
Speaker 1: that more people are using the voice memo option instead
Speaker 1: of texting? We've been doing that? Yeah, because they disappear, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've I've not. I would say drug dealers are very
Speaker 1: early adopters of the voice message because you could get
Speaker 1: real graphic and say things that you wouldn't want in
Speaker 1: text form that you could do in the voice, you know,
Speaker 1: because yes, graph like graphic about your drugs, like oh
Speaker 1: you want three point five grams? Yes, It's so much
Speaker 1: better than being like can I get some sweaters from you?
Speaker 1: Or whatever? Like I used to just in high school,
Speaker 1: we used to say we were knitting sweaters, And it's
Speaker 1: just like why I thought my parents wouldn't catch onto
Speaker 1: the fact that I've never had an interest in like
Speaker 1: arts and crafts at all, and that we would go
Speaker 1: knit sweaters in the car and drive around my subdivision
Speaker 1: for fifteen minutes and come back with bloodshot eyes and
Speaker 1: no yarn or needles or sweaters. Like it's just so dumb.
Speaker 1: But now I do feel like the voice moment thing.
Speaker 1: I noticed it with like more famous people that I
Speaker 1: may be talking to as the same as drug dealers, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't want as much of a record of a
Speaker 1: text screenshot, so they said the voice. But I like
Speaker 1: you and I famous friends, I mean barely. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I need more drug dealers in my life, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I'm tired of asking my dad if
Speaker 1: I could have some of his weed. Now they're all
Speaker 1: on Signal, so oh yeah, Signal that's the one. And
Speaker 1: you get an alert when a friend joined Signal. If
Speaker 1: you're on Signal, you get like alerts when your friends
Speaker 1: joined it. You go, oh, someone just got a new
Speaker 1: drug dealer. That's what I say. It's like because you're
Speaker 1: not a journalist or activist or someone who would need
Speaker 1: you're into psilocybin. Now, yeah, you're trying a new therapy.
Speaker 1: I just got an alert that the city of Dayton,
Speaker 1: Ohio joined Signal. I was like, Okay, first of all,
Speaker 1: I didn't know they were one of my contacts. But
Speaker 1: that's so weird wild. I mean, Dayton, Ohio has had
Speaker 1: a drug dealer for a long time. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's what's going on there, right. They're just catching up
Speaker 1: to the technologybe they're having an affair with Cleveland. That
Speaker 1: could it really could be cheating on Cincinnati with Cleveland.
Speaker 1: It's just like an administrator for the city is doing
Speaker 1: it for shady stuff and not realizing it's sending like
Speaker 1: the city of Dayton has joined signal. Damn. I'm starting
Speaker 1: to wonder if my little sister has been using voice memos,
Speaker 1: like since they began. I'm wondering if maybe she's a
Speaker 1: drug dealer. She might be young, like how old is shame?
Speaker 1: She's only two years younger than me. But okay, but
Speaker 1: like the younger kids use the voice memos too, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like that's a it's like texting as
Speaker 1: like old. But I do a lot of the dictating
Speaker 1: of like saying period, exclamation mark. I still started my
Speaker 1: period exclamation mark, you know. But that's that's a weird
Speaker 1: one because sometimes I will be used leaving the voice
Speaker 1: momo and I say exclamation and I'm talking like a
Speaker 1: robot exclamation mark, and I'm like, oh wait, no, I'm
Speaker 1: sending this. Yeah right. My series has I'm unimpressed with
Speaker 1: series of yet uh series ability to like just randomly
Speaker 1: drops in as like I'm sorry, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: I was I'm like, what the funk? I've never I've
Speaker 1: never like gotten that when it was intended. Anyways, I'm
Speaker 1: an old man, yet, let's talk about I don't think
Speaker 1: Siria has ever brought me anything but consternation in my life,
Speaker 1: Like I need to shut it off. That little start things,
Speaker 1: the little magic ball like starts, get at it. I
Speaker 1: hate I hate that on these iPhones. How many screenshots
Speaker 1: do you have of your home screen from trying to
Speaker 1: turn up or down the music when you have to
Speaker 1: get a grip on it so you have to press
Speaker 1: the other button. I have so many screenshots of my
Speaker 1: home screen It's so annoying. I feel like, are the
Speaker 1: new phones? Did they fix that? Are the new models
Speaker 1: they had to have? I mean, that isn't a thing
Speaker 1: that happens. I think, if anything, you have to change,
Speaker 1: like how you take a screenshot to avoid that definitely,
Speaker 1: like oh okay, thank you. It got harder to take
Speaker 1: a screenshot with this latest update of the phone, so
Speaker 1: I had to like, yeah, I well, I'm on, I
Speaker 1: just got the twelve, but I jumped from like one
Speaker 1: with a button, so I'm way behind. Like the first day,
Speaker 1: I couldn't take a screenshot. Now I can't not take
Speaker 1: them so and then that's the thing is, like you learned.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like we get so mad at a design
Speaker 1: change and then we get used to it with it.
Speaker 1: Give it a day before you start tweeting about how
Speaker 1: it's now ruined. We they know us so well. They're
Speaker 1: only optimizing everything for us to be on this thing longer.
Speaker 1: And and they know they know us better than we
Speaker 1: know ourselves. So give it time and it will be
Speaker 1: intuitive within hours. I have to stop being mean to Siri,
Speaker 1: like when she interrupts, I have to stop. Oh, shut up,
Speaker 1: because my my kids are learning it now. Uh, they're
Speaker 1: like being mean too, Alexa. Now I'm like, gosh, they're like,
Speaker 1: it is so at her and get your aggression out
Speaker 1: and just be like you dumb bitch. I don't care
Speaker 1: about the weather like I like to get really mad.
Speaker 1: It's probably rejection. It's not good. I should change it
Speaker 1: to a man's voice to make it feel less. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Alex, shut the funk, Alex, Alexei. I guess
Speaker 1: Alex might be too common. I don't know. Whatever. What
Speaker 1: is something from your search history that is revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are? Wow? I am obsessed with these Twitter
Speaker 1: accounts that just post a Google photo of every address
Speaker 1: in the city. So the one that I look at
Speaker 1: constantly is every Lot l A, which is just a
Speaker 1: picture of every lot in l A. But there's also
Speaker 1: every lot Chicago, every lot in New York. I follow
Speaker 1: them all, but I don't understand what what does it do?
Speaker 1: It just posts. It's just a bot and that is
Speaker 1: programmed to post a picture of like every address wanted.
Speaker 1: It like a picture of every Google Maps shot of
Speaker 1: every building. It's like every building in every city. It's
Speaker 1: wild because right now they're like Laurel Canyon Vale, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, what the fun? Yeah, last night I
Speaker 1: was looking at it because they're on Victory Boulevard and
Speaker 1: it's just like a stretch of Victory Boulevard. I love.
Speaker 1: So I was just like Victory, we love it. Oh
Speaker 1: that's a victory right there. About a North Hollywood shootout. Yeah,
Speaker 1: old elementary school right there. Yeah. And I just I
Speaker 1: love the account and I love that it's a bot
Speaker 1: because I just like, well, wait, it posts every twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: I'll be like, oh man, only eight more minutes until
Speaker 1: we get another every lot post. Now, this is the
Speaker 1: sort of thing, just thinking with my n f T
Speaker 1: brain here you can pile all of those into a
Speaker 1: single uh file and then uh you can add an
Speaker 1: n f T and sell that for well you can
Speaker 1: for that, you know, real estate speculation going on. Just
Speaker 1: pictures of real estate. Yeah, it's a fucking no brain
Speaker 1: or molly, I mean the central Land kind of like that.
Speaker 1: This is dope, though, this is really cool. It's just weird.
Speaker 1: It's like it's a bizarre account, you know, because this
Speaker 1: is essentially like if you've ever just they're just clipping
Speaker 1: out these street view things and giving you the address.
Speaker 1: But it is I find myself it's weird because the
Speaker 1: specific part of the city they're in right now is
Speaker 1: a part where I've I know very intimately, so that
Speaker 1: they caught me at a good moment on every lot
Speaker 1: right now, we're in a good stretch. Yeah, it gives
Speaker 1: you a unfettered view of the like even my memory,
Speaker 1: I like remember the stores that are open. I don't
Speaker 1: remember how many of the stores are boarded up, but
Speaker 1: it's like nine tenths boarded up stores on here. Well
Speaker 1: there's this right now where they're at, like in North Hollywood,
Speaker 1: is this old business park that has just died. Its
Speaker 1: Actually they shot the opening of what was the Marvel movie.
Speaker 1: Mrs Mark was the Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Marvel where
Speaker 1: she touches down in that blockbuster that's in that same
Speaker 1: business park, abandoned business park in North Hollywood where the
Speaker 1: Goals gym is and all this other ship and that
Speaker 1: thing has just been dying over the last thirty years.
Speaker 1: So it was kind of a bummer part of it.
Speaker 1: Not Hollywood right now it rules. That's awesome. Also, the
Speaker 1: Sizzler you might see that image first, first Sizzler, that
Speaker 1: one right there. Yep, yep. Sizzler wasn't uh big deal
Speaker 1: where I lived at the at the time that I
Speaker 1: first saw white men can't jump, But when they like,
Speaker 1: it was a legendary eating establishment in my mind because
Speaker 1: of that movie, because of the We're going to Sizzler celebration.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated? Salad? Uh huh?
Speaker 1: Tuna salad, chicken salad? Are we talking about the leafy
Speaker 1: green leaves? The leafy green? Because when you think about it,
Speaker 1: have you ever thought about salad? You hear about this
Speaker 1: guy's you thought about It's just like it's lubricated leaves
Speaker 1: and hard bread, and I could have like softer bread
Speaker 1: and non moist leaves. Wait, hold on, you want to
Speaker 1: eat a dry leaf, like your ideal meal is just
Speaker 1: a dry leaf a rabbit. People might not realize that
Speaker 1: Katie is actually a rabbit. They might. Yeah, now you
Speaker 1: put a leaf on on a soft bread, right with
Speaker 1: like some chicken or something. Maybe, Yeah, sandwich, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Sandwiches are better than salads. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: It's just little, it's a sam I mean, do you
Speaker 1: do you like vegetables though? You just so if you're
Speaker 1: gonna have your vegetable intake, you're like, I'll just raw
Speaker 1: with a veggie. Yeah, just eat a raw vegetable, bite
Speaker 1: into a big old bell pepper. Sure. Yeah, you're eating
Speaker 1: a raw potato right now like an apple. I find
Speaker 1: it's good for my digestion, digestive health, digestion digestion. As
Speaker 1: nobody says. Yeah, I don't know salads are better for
Speaker 1: me than sandwiches. And this might just be in my
Speaker 1: old age, like comfortable, but I like this. What I
Speaker 1: mean they're being compared right, that's true? Well, I guess yes,
Speaker 1: I feel like There's got to be a new method
Speaker 1: though for salad eating, like maybe like a cone made
Speaker 1: out of a lettuce and then you drizzle the inside
Speaker 1: with like vinaigrette and then you fill it with croutons
Speaker 1: and things. And I really did give up on presentation.
Speaker 1: It's it's just a pile lazy. You just want to
Speaker 1: sounds like you just want you to let us wrap anything.
Speaker 1: So lettuce is it for wrapping? You know? That's what
Speaker 1: it sounds like. That's what you're landing. Lettuce as a wrap.
Speaker 1: Salads are a rap, right, but usually let us wrap
Speaker 1: has like meat and stuff in it. I just want
Speaker 1: crutons wrapped in on us, Okay, yeah, then listen, Yeah
Speaker 1: do you put crutons? You sound like you're you're a
Speaker 1: big tan head? Do you do you put that? That
Speaker 1: was not the best I could have done, but it
Speaker 1: is what I did. Uh? Do you do you put
Speaker 1: crutons in soup? I love a cruton? Yeah, Yeah that's good.
Speaker 1: Maid's handmade some crutons last night by chopping bread up
Speaker 1: into cubes, but I kind of overdid the toms so
Speaker 1: they were a little bit you know, cinder blocks. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: testing those teeth up, Yeah, And what is something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated? Click, I'm gonna sound so basic, but
Speaker 1: and something I think is underrated is sleep. I I
Speaker 1: love sleep. I really highly value it, and yet somehow
Speaker 1: I never prioritize it. Every single night. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: could go to sleep now, or I could just stay
Speaker 1: up watching some Netflix show that I actually don't care about.
Speaker 1: I just I am not ready to to, you know,
Speaker 1: face my demons and my subconscious and I think it's underrated.
Speaker 1: I actually heard someone say the other day that classic
Speaker 1: refrain of I'll sleep when I'm dead, and I was like, no, honey,
Speaker 1: I'm sleeping when I'm alive. This is the joy of
Speaker 1: living is that we get to sleep. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: get to enjoy that ship when I'm dying. It's not
Speaker 1: like you have a RESTful pre death period like that.
Speaker 1: It hurts. Yeah, when you're about to die, you man,
Speaker 1: you're tripping that whole time. It's a head trip that
Speaker 1: whole time when you are truly on your death it
Speaker 1: I mean like watching that happen to a few family members,
Speaker 1: like it's you know, it's you can be peaceful, but
Speaker 1: it's not a thing you're like, damn, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just looking for the sleep. You know. It's like a
Speaker 1: good parent to You're like, who say, I'm start being
Speaker 1: around so much wasted time? Right, I didn't project my
Speaker 1: past traumas onto you via your parents. I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: you just just rest up, you could, right. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the sleep thing is you know, the when I a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, we talked about this sort of phenomenon
Speaker 1: about how people are procrastinating with their sleep, and like
Speaker 1: there's a few things. Some of it is like the
Speaker 1: idea of trying to regain moments from your day that
Speaker 1: you feel we're lost through having to work or other things.
Speaker 1: So part of it is like this rebellious act before
Speaker 1: we're going to sleep, of like I'm gonna look at
Speaker 1: my fucking phone because I don't I didn't have enough
Speaker 1: time to do my ship today, and I'm gonna watch
Speaker 1: like in your case of shitty Netflix show that you're
Speaker 1: not even sure why you're watching it. Yeah, I'm an adult,
Speaker 1: damn it. The second I kind of realized about like
Speaker 1: sort of that phenomenon, I really try and keep the
Speaker 1: screenshit away towards the end. But it's tough. It is
Speaker 1: sometimes because you know, I'm also like a kid who
Speaker 1: would try to go to sleep with a TV on
Speaker 1: it every now and then. So it does. It does
Speaker 1: sort of lull me, for sure, but it's also like
Speaker 1: I'm trying to, as you said, like make that period
Speaker 1: of my day sacred in the sense that, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I can find other times in my day to
Speaker 1: watch these television shows which I you know, some of
Speaker 1: which I do love and engage with. What if I
Speaker 1: can make my evening time about like reading before bed
Speaker 1: or journaling before bed, or you know, something that will
Speaker 1: be stimulating in its own way and fulfilling and sort
Speaker 1: of fill the same need, but won't be like blue
Speaker 1: light beaming straight into my eyeballs at night. You know.
Speaker 1: That's why I like sleep podcasts have been the thing
Speaker 1: I've been trying to replace in the like I'm kind
Speaker 1: of want some kind of stimulation, information, entertainment, but like
Speaker 1: not intense like watching comedy or whatever, sports highlights or whatever,
Speaker 1: because like the real the ship that's like half sleep,
Speaker 1: hypnosis or it just kind of a walking through just
Speaker 1: checking in with your breathing and your body and then
Speaker 1: transitions into like the most dry like reading of like
Speaker 1: Alice in Wonderland, I find myself being like, oh, here
Speaker 1: we go, it's so fun. My AirPods out my ears.
Speaker 1: I'm like, fuck them, don't even let them hard. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I have to transition to sleep real quick, and I
Speaker 1: can't like interet okay, now put it in the case
Speaker 1: and charge. I'm like that children's stories really do it
Speaker 1: for me. Man, Wait, Like I I read my kids
Speaker 1: four bedtime stories, and by number three I am like nodding, Um,
Speaker 1: I do drop a couple of ambient before, just to
Speaker 1: you know, don't know, not children's literature, the original ambient
Speaker 1: because it's nonsense, uh pretty boring, but very uh you know, unobtrusive.
Speaker 1: I think also it's a good sign that I'm sleep
Speaker 1: deprived that whenever I just like sit down and read
Speaker 1: for twenty minutes straight, I'm just like, I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't keep my fucking eyes open, right, yes, yeah, but
Speaker 1: my kids can and then they're in charge of the
Speaker 1: house for a couple of hours while I'm asleep on
Speaker 1: their floor. That's always my favorite is my friends with kids,
Speaker 1: like seeing like nannicam footage of like one parent asleep,
Speaker 1: like trying to read the kid a story and the
Speaker 1: kids just up like taking the book from them and
Speaker 1: just like doing it themselves. I love it the kids
Speaker 1: are partying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's also the time,
Speaker 1: like sleeping adults, I learned the most about the human body.
Speaker 1: Those times, like looking up my grandma's nose and ship
Speaker 1: like just pulling on like my my grandpa's hairy ear
Speaker 1: or something like that. Like those those are the moments
Speaker 1: you remember as a kid. Yeah, I used to when I, um,
Speaker 1: when I was learning how to drive. My goal. My
Speaker 1: dad is a pilot, and he's very like he pilots
Speaker 1: whatever car he's in as well. You know, he's always
Speaker 1: like your head's on a swivel. He's like swinging his
Speaker 1: head around, and were like, um, and he was always
Speaker 1: talking about how you like need to have your like
Speaker 1: slow what would he say, slow down into a stop
Speaker 1: sign and then like accelerate through the turn like all
Speaker 1: of these things. And so my goal was always when
Speaker 1: I had him in the passenger seat, was to sort
Speaker 1: of like be such a smooth driver that he would
Speaker 1: nod off and he would fall asleep and he would
Speaker 1: sort of like nod out, and then somehow while he's
Speaker 1: still asleep, he'd be like, you need to stop at
Speaker 1: that stop sign, like and then he would like black him.
Speaker 1: He has like one eye open, so a side visible
Speaker 1: to you he's asleep, but that other eyes like scanning
Speaker 1: the road right exactly. His head's on as livel Wow.
Speaker 1: I like that he's giving you like real like racing
Speaker 1: stuff like you gotta hit the apex of the term
Speaker 1: and then you bring decelerate into and then accelerate out
Speaker 1: and he's you know, this triple force to launch you out. Yes,
Speaker 1: my dad is Capricorn. He's like deep Earth sign vibes.
Speaker 1: Everything about him is practical. He always wants to give
Speaker 1: like advice and tips. He can't just be like this
Speaker 1: is a great day. He has to be like, well
Speaker 1: today it's beautiful because you know, like metric pressure that
Speaker 1: I think is really underrated or misunderstood. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's so funny. He when you say, like my dad's
Speaker 1: a pilot, My almost things like I'm guessing he's like
Speaker 1: all of my friends parents or dads specifically have like
Speaker 1: like a firefighter or like pilot. They're all like these
Speaker 1: like wells of infinite like just wisdom. Sometimes you're not
Speaker 1: really even asking for it, but it's not sometimes, Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're exactly like my friend, my own girl's dad
Speaker 1: who's a firefighter who just calls through, like, man, this
Speaker 1: guy hasn't looked like this in three years, right, Like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: that's cool. I want to hear more about that. So
Speaker 1: that's clearly me being a dad. I'm like, this guy
Speaker 1: is like what I'm complaining Two characters from my life.
Speaker 1: Robert the the proper fire chief will come through. He's
Speaker 1: a kind of dude who like he'll come to your
Speaker 1: house and be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on
Speaker 1: that light socket? Hold on? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh see it sounded like it wasn't grounded. I could
Speaker 1: hear it from here. You're like my parents. So my
Speaker 1: parents are staying with me right now, and they it's
Speaker 1: been great. They're they're great with the kids. The kids
Speaker 1: love hanging out with them. But I'm seeing all like
Speaker 1: we've got plumbing issues going on that like I had
Speaker 1: just like it's like a fire alarm that's law on
Speaker 1: batteries that you just kind of silence with your brand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just got used to it, but now I'm just like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I'm I am slacking like my name's like
Speaker 1: you're pipe sure bang a lot. What the hell is that? Like, like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's because I am not. Yeah, see, you just gotta
Speaker 1: follow through. Jack were talking about his son, all right, Clarie,
Speaker 1: I do have to ask it, did your dad ever
Speaker 1: talk about encounters with unidentified flying objects? The only time
Speaker 1: he's ever mentioned it was when we were This is
Speaker 1: incredibly misleading, so I apologize, but because I see you're
Speaker 1: getting excited. No, I mean either way it's I think
Speaker 1: it will either be it'll pay off on the premise
Speaker 1: or it'll be a fantastic turn. So it's really it's
Speaker 1: more like a cute God. I feel like I've really
Speaker 1: set this up to fail. We we were young, and
Speaker 1: he came back. He flew for ups for basically all
Speaker 1: my life until last January and like the January of
Speaker 1: the up the pandemic, and he was flying back from
Speaker 1: China or somewhere on Christmas Eve, and he came into
Speaker 1: our rooms and he was like, you have to go
Speaker 1: to bed now, because as I was flying, I saw
Speaker 1: this this flashing red light out of the side of
Speaker 1: the plane, and we we sped up so that we
Speaker 1: could we could beat him here because I think it
Speaker 1: was Santa, and my sister and I were like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, like rooms like covered our heads the original
Speaker 1: unidentified flying object, you know, I mean it was unidentified.
Speaker 1: People think that Santa, but we didn't. We don't know.
Speaker 1: People think I'm in the bad for aliens. I am
Speaker 1: just as willing to believe that that white tic tac
Speaker 1: is Santa. That is gift delivering technical that we don't
Speaker 1: know about. It could be it could be alien life,
Speaker 1: could be Santa. Come on, it could be literally anything.
Speaker 1: It could be you know what I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's where she's been. Yeah, she was like, oh man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take off on their regular as spacecraft and
Speaker 1: switch it off from my turn up spacecraft. Time is
Speaker 1: relative in space, right, Yeah, I think it's all right.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and won't be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back, and let's check in with the Roe v.
Speaker 1: Wade Supreme Court story, just because I feel like we've
Speaker 1: heard a number of times that like this is a possibility,
Speaker 1: but this you know, pending decision, really seems like it
Speaker 1: is the the case we've been warned about. The justices
Speaker 1: specifically chose a case that lower courts uh had mostly
Speaker 1: upheld precedent on So it basically means that like they're
Speaker 1: coming into an argument that seems like it had been
Speaker 1: settled and they're starting some ship again. So it's clear
Speaker 1: that they have something to say, like they have they
Speaker 1: think there's work to be done on what I think
Speaker 1: most people thought was settled precedent. Yeah, so this people
Speaker 1: are saying like they wouldn't have done this unless a
Speaker 1: major kind of change was coming. And it's probably not
Speaker 1: going to be a change in the pro choice direction.
Speaker 1: I don't think Amy Coney Barrett is going to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just let's be a little bit more liberal on them.
Speaker 1: She was famously tight lipped in or you know when
Speaker 1: people were asking those questions because of this exact moment,
Speaker 1: you know, because what Trump has put in a third
Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court now and we are, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: looking at this conservative majority that yeah, is is the
Speaker 1: the exact thing that people were fearing that of like
Speaker 1: what a Trump administration looks like or what you know
Speaker 1: what this conservative conservatives that the wheel gives you all
Speaker 1: these other justices. Right, But if you're I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're fearing it, like don't you want it sooner rather
Speaker 1: than later. For me, it's just like, all right, this
Speaker 1: is what's gonna happen. If there's all if you put
Speaker 1: all these people in Supreme Court and we know this
Speaker 1: is coming down the pike at some point, like let's go.
Speaker 1: Because the sooner it happens, and the sooner that they
Speaker 1: curtail Roe v. Wade, then the sooner people are going
Speaker 1: to realize that the only way to change that is
Speaker 1: to is to vote. The way that is to is
Speaker 1: to kick people out of office and like and or
Speaker 1: or create legislation or create a constitutional amendment like like it.
Speaker 1: I'd rather do that than just waiting for the other
Speaker 1: shooter drop. I think, yeah, more than anything. That's just
Speaker 1: how you know American politics works, like it has to
Speaker 1: get to that point for a plurality of people to
Speaker 1: be like, oh fuck, we gotta do something because before
Speaker 1: when everyone was like warning, like no, this could be bad,
Speaker 1: like you kind of need to think about this now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, Dan, that's what's that. I don't know what
Speaker 1: else could happen for things to actually change. But I
Speaker 1: mean when you look at all the state houses across
Speaker 1: the country, I think far too many are willing to
Speaker 1: you know, restrict access to these kinds of procedures then
Speaker 1: actually offer them to their to the constituents. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a very dark time I think already now
Speaker 1: when you see the amount of people who are having
Speaker 1: to like navigate their murky laws to go out of
Speaker 1: state or find other ways to have this kind of access,
Speaker 1: just how it's just a really bleak picture. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what this does to help
Speaker 1: force a conversation about like, well, if that's the case,
Speaker 1: what are we doing about Supreme Court justices and term limits?
Speaker 1: Are we expanding the courts now? Because I think maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, if this does happen, that makes all of
Speaker 1: those other conversations happen with a little more you know. Figure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're saying it would revert at least twenty states to
Speaker 1: the pre road days when basically rich women could get
Speaker 1: safe abortions and poor women could not, Right, So I
Speaker 1: guess my fear would be that, And I think this
Speaker 1: is born out a lot in the past four years
Speaker 1: that even with something horrible with legislation or from the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, that people still don't do what they need
Speaker 1: to do to fix things. So then when you really
Speaker 1: would end up with just like people getting back all
Speaker 1: abortions again. Yeah, I mean the three quarters of the
Speaker 1: population want to keep row in place, like according to polling.
Speaker 1: So this is straight up like activists like just out
Speaker 1: of step with the rest of the country or with
Speaker 1: the majority of the country, I guess. So it would
Speaker 1: seem to be like this would be all the reason
Speaker 1: that the Democratic Party that Joe Biden would need to
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, this is the break glass in case
Speaker 1: of an emergency moment. I can I can totally see
Speaker 1: that being the thing that like they drop a bombshell
Speaker 1: ruling and then that's when Biden like kind of gets
Speaker 1: moving on the Supreme Court kind of term limits or
Speaker 1: you know, expanding the court. But we shall see. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean there's also many states too that have like
Speaker 1: these trigger laws too, that are saying, like the second
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court makes a decision, boom, abortions immediately illegal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, many states are waiting for this. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a few states. Um, I don't know how many, but
Speaker 1: there's there's a few that have these like trigger laws
Speaker 1: in place in regards to Row. And I think more
Speaker 1: than anything too, it's going to force us to realize, Okay,
Speaker 1: we only have each other to help out. And I
Speaker 1: think that is going to lead to a lot of
Speaker 1: It's going to take a lot of person like people
Speaker 1: helping each other because once the states are just shuttering
Speaker 1: their doors on this, now like we're like these activist
Speaker 1: groups and charities are going to have to do a
Speaker 1: lot of the work to be able to give people
Speaker 1: access to abortions and things like this. So yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot to come. All right, let's talk about the recount.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've all been kind of on the edge
Speaker 1: of our seat. Why when are we gonna finally find
Speaker 1: out who won that fucking election? Guys? I mean, you
Speaker 1: see the new Ben Garrison cartoon. I wake up every morning.
Speaker 1: The first thing I check is what it is? Stupid
Speaker 1: as Ben Garrison cartoon is a It's a the set
Speaker 1: of dominoes Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, George in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: with Joe Biden looking scared as the last one, and
Speaker 1: the Arizona domino is falling first, hopefully triggering the audit
Speaker 1: as they say, and you have Trump saying you thus Domino, Joe,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. But well, because Joe
Speaker 1: in this comic is very literally his body is a
Speaker 1: domino at the end of which is pretty domino. Joe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that. Um so in Maricopa County in Arizona, that's
Speaker 1: the scene of the like one of the most absolutely
Speaker 1: nonsensical attempts at overturning the election. Um if you remember
Speaker 1: this already happened. They did a hand recount. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you remember this, and then like courts were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: these allegations of fraud are like absolutely baseless, like please
Speaker 1: get out of my face, Like it's this election has
Speaker 1: been certified. But since the big lie, the Maga faith
Speaker 1: will have just been very eager to overturn the results.
Speaker 1: So the Republicans in the Arizona Senate subpoena the ballots,
Speaker 1: and then they handed them over to a group of
Speaker 1: fucking idiot conspiracy theorists who are like, yeah, we will
Speaker 1: get to the bottom, we'll find fraud. They're called I'm
Speaker 1: not joking. Their fucking name is the Cyber Ninja's and
Speaker 1: I just want to read a little bit about them.
Speaker 1: The company has no experience in elections, and it's CEO
Speaker 1: helped to spread the stop the steel conspiracy theories in
Speaker 1: the run up to the Capitol riot. It is now
Speaker 1: in possession of Maricopa's ballots and voting equipment, so they're
Speaker 1: they're being like, we're going to figure it out. We'll
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of this. Do we have experience, No,
Speaker 1: but we do have experience in baseless conspiracy theories. So
Speaker 1: as you can imagine, because we know what happened and
Speaker 1: there is no fraud, they have found absolutely funk all
Speaker 1: and because it's so poorly run, like they were using
Speaker 1: this like county like convention center to do the audit
Speaker 1: and stuff, they had to pack up their ship and
Speaker 1: pause the operation because it was they were fucking up
Speaker 1: so bad. It was taking way longer than they thought
Speaker 1: it would that it was interfering with the on these
Speaker 1: high school graduations that they helped hold in that building,
Speaker 1: So they're like, guys, you gotta pack this ship up.
Speaker 1: We got some graduations coming in man, Like, I know
Speaker 1: this is a fun time for you, but we gotta stop.
Speaker 1: So now it's gotten to the point where even the
Speaker 1: Republicans in Arizona are just over it because it's been
Speaker 1: such a clown show that they're like begging them to stop,
Speaker 1: which is kind of odd. So what what is the
Speaker 1: big news that is causing the ben Garrison, Like why
Speaker 1: why are they so certain that this is a comic
Speaker 1: or is that like I'm pretty sure it's from the
Speaker 1: last few days. It's because he thinks he's because he's
Speaker 1: not in the group that thinks this is stupid or
Speaker 1: a joke. It's that he thinks they have things like
Speaker 1: they were looking for like bamboo fibers to prove like
Speaker 1: things were coming from China and ship and using like
Speaker 1: and using like uv purple lights on ballots and people
Speaker 1: like forensically, what do you are you even doing? And
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, we're checking for stuff like what though,
Speaker 1: oh you'll you'll find out. It's like, dude, this is
Speaker 1: all just it's all performative. It's all nonsense. So the
Speaker 1: Republicans started, like, you know, asking the Senate President Karen
Speaker 1: fan like to please end this, like you started this ship,
Speaker 1: please end it. And the board of the Board of
Speaker 1: Supervisors in Maricopa County we're like really fucking pissed. One
Speaker 1: state Republicans calling the process quote a spectacle that is
Speaker 1: harming all of us. Uh. This is from the Board
Speaker 1: of Supervisors. And mind you, this board of supervisors is
Speaker 1: for Republicans and the fifth is a Democrat. So this
Speaker 1: is this board of supervisors Republicans from Arizona. They said
Speaker 1: it's time to make a choice to defend the Constitution
Speaker 1: and the republic. We stand together to defend the Constitution
Speaker 1: and the Republic in our opposition to the big lie.
Speaker 1: We ask everyone to join us in standing for the truth.
Speaker 1: Our state has become a laughing stock. Worse, this quote
Speaker 1: unquote audit is encouraging our citizens to distrust elections, which
Speaker 1: weakens our democratic republic. You have rented out the once
Speaker 1: good name aim of the Arizona State Senate to grifters
Speaker 1: and con artists who are fundraising hard, hard earned money
Speaker 1: from our fellow citizens. Even as your contractors parade around
Speaker 1: the call of scene. See them hunting for bamboo and
Speaker 1: something they call kinematic artifacts while shining purple lights for effect.
Speaker 1: None of these things are done in a serious audit.
Speaker 1: I'm curious what kinematic artifacts? Yeah? What? It sounds like
Speaker 1: a good thing, Like you don't want to ask to
Speaker 1: sound stupid, but you're like, what is that? Something to
Speaker 1: do with actor Joe Strong refraction of waves in the
Speaker 1: migration velocity model introduces kinematic artifacts coherent events not corresponding
Speaker 1: to actual reflections. Okay, they just wanted to like get
Speaker 1: that that UV light on there because that makes them
Speaker 1: feel like they're and they've done this thing where like
Speaker 1: it's so confusing. I've given up trying to understand what
Speaker 1: they're saying. And but it's the bottom line, how they
Speaker 1: audit is nonsense and what you're doing is nonsense, and
Speaker 1: it's ran by the cyber ninjas. We sound like the
Speaker 1: fucking bad guys from like surf Ninja's or some ship.
Speaker 1: But other than being like kind of kicked out of
Speaker 1: the building because they have because of the high school
Speaker 1: graduations and being like shouted down by their own party,
Speaker 1: Like is there is this progressing in some way? Like
Speaker 1: what is giving the people who are on the side
Speaker 1: of these people like hope and nothing? I mean like
Speaker 1: their response to them, it's just to that is being like, oh,
Speaker 1: here they go. They're afraid of what we might find,
Speaker 1: like that you haven't found anything and you're not going
Speaker 1: to because a you're looking for something that isn't there
Speaker 1: and be you're not even trained to even understand what
Speaker 1: you're looking at aside from just like this very narrow
Speaker 1: motivation to be like we're gonna find Chinese bamboo fibers
Speaker 1: on these ballots or some ship. But it's they're they're
Speaker 1: making money. Yeah, absolutely, And I think it's only it's
Speaker 1: another indication. I think this like sort of strongly worded
Speaker 1: attempt at stopping it from the Republicans from the Board
Speaker 1: of Supervisors, that how deeply fractured, Like just like the
Speaker 1: Republican Party is now like where some people are like,
Speaker 1: I think we can get a home, They're like, Nope,
Speaker 1: there goes the party. Off. It goes with the cyber ninjas.
Speaker 1: By the way, Ben Garrison great example of like the
Speaker 1: lower standards of anybody, like for culture that is created
Speaker 1: by anybody who's on the side of this, because they
Speaker 1: just like will take what they can get. The shadow
Speaker 1: work on the on this like when you look at
Speaker 1: so the the idea is that these dominoes are supposed
Speaker 1: to spell out the word audit in shadows, but that
Speaker 1: he has made literally no attempt to make it seem
Speaker 1: like that is even conceivably possible, that would it took
Speaker 1: too much time. He just he just wrote audit, but
Speaker 1: looks Trump always looks good. Yeah, it looks like Richie
Speaker 1: rich he's he's uh. His suit is like kind of
Speaker 1: straining at the like kind of groin region, which I'm
Speaker 1: assuming is not by accident. Like he's yea of what's
Speaker 1: under the US? What do you see there? Tell us
Speaker 1: more about what do you see there? All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the insurrectionists. There's a bipartisan effort to look
Speaker 1: at the January six attack, and it's running into opposition
Speaker 1: from GOP leadership. Basically, who would have thought? Who would
Speaker 1: have thought? Minority leader Kevin McCarthy specifically is out here
Speaker 1: being like, oh, it's it's too shortsighted, and it it
Speaker 1: doesn't look at all of the political violence that has
Speaker 1: occurred in the United States. In other words, they don't
Speaker 1: want an investigation into an event that perhaps of their
Speaker 1: own members had a hand in. If you remember, Kevin
Speaker 1: McCarthy was on the phone with Donald Trump when the
Speaker 1: attack was happening. So I have a feeling, yeah, that
Speaker 1: guy doesn't want to have to sit in front of
Speaker 1: anything and explain anything to anyone about what was said
Speaker 1: or not said. But he now saying, quote the renewed
Speaker 1: focused by Democrats to now stand up an additional commission
Speaker 1: ignores the political violence that has struck American cities. That's
Speaker 1: talking about the BLM protests, a Republican congressional baseball practice,
Speaker 1: that was the Steve Scalise thing from seen, and most
Speaker 1: recently the deadly attack on Capitol police in April where
Speaker 1: that guy ran into some of the officers near the Capitol. Now,
Speaker 1: those are not comparable events, and I understand and that
Speaker 1: those we those have been investigated and people understand what
Speaker 1: happened there. This, on the other hand, has a lot
Speaker 1: of moving parts where there's law enforcement, military involvement, even politicians,
Speaker 1: where there's a lot of question marks to like what
Speaker 1: exact really happened and so, and now I think their
Speaker 1: whole thing is they just want to go way back,
Speaker 1: broaden it to the point to be able to raise
Speaker 1: their talking points. Like other proposals from the Republicans are,
Speaker 1: we can we talk about Antifa. We gotta put Antifa
Speaker 1: in there, and we gotta put the BLM protests in
Speaker 1: there as well, just to I think create this sort
Speaker 1: of mass spectacle of like, look, everyone's everyone's doing it, folks,
Speaker 1: So how can we really, you know, consider ourselves safe.
Speaker 1: So yes, that's that's the current state of this effort
Speaker 1: to figure out what happened. Yeah, and I mean Antifa
Speaker 1: was involved in the in the stormy of the capital,
Speaker 1: if if my sources are are correct, if your favorite parlor, yeah,
Speaker 1: your favorite parlor counselor to be believed. And the problem
Speaker 1: with this effort is John Katco, who is the ranking
Speaker 1: member on the Homeland Security Committee, who's the Republican giving
Speaker 1: it this bipartisan support. He voted to impeach Trump. So
Speaker 1: that's already that's already I think a bad sign for
Speaker 1: how much Republican support it's going to get because this
Speaker 1: guy was being like, no, no, I don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: voting to impeach. I don't know what everyone else is
Speaker 1: talking about. So that's already raising question marks on top
Speaker 1: of the fact that once it gets out of the House,
Speaker 1: it has to go to the Senate and then we'll
Speaker 1: see what kind of will there is to either completely
Speaker 1: water it down, you know, amend it. So it really
Speaker 1: is like about just whatever they wanted, whatever else they
Speaker 1: needed to be about. But I think such as the
Speaker 1: the all too familiar theme recently, right all right, let's
Speaker 1: take one more break and we'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about some bullshit. All right, it's now time for the story.
Speaker 1: We've all been waiting for cicadas. We we knew brood
Speaker 1: what I had been calling brood X, but apparently ten
Speaker 1: his they're coming out into the world. Uh, it's Brewed ten. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, man, I'm looking like XX. Yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is brewed X. Well, MPR is calling it Brewed ten,
Speaker 1: and pre also called him Malcolm ten. So that way,
Speaker 1: So these cicadas are coming out, and they are on
Speaker 1: their way out. As they get closer to like sexual maturity,
Speaker 1: which is when they come out, their body gives off
Speaker 1: some sort of chemical marker that then causes this fungus
Speaker 1: too like mature rapidly. As they're coming through the ground,
Speaker 1: it infects them. They're insides basically get replaced with what
Speaker 1: appears to be like any racer, like a pencil eracer
Speaker 1: that's just absolutely packed with spores of this fungus and
Speaker 1: it is full of amphetam means and psilocybin. Uh. And
Speaker 1: they spend the whole time that they're out just high
Speaker 1: out of their minds, incredibly horny, and just trying to
Speaker 1: mate with anything that moves uh and therefore spreading the
Speaker 1: fungus around to others. Kada's it's wild. Can you explain that? Well?
Speaker 1: I actually I just did a podcast on Creature Feature
Speaker 1: with Mary Wilson about brood X recently, and yeah, it's
Speaker 1: really interesting. My my sister in law just sent me
Speaker 1: this article this morning. I guess everyone knows that I
Speaker 1: would want to hear about this and talk about it.
Speaker 1: The fungus are one of the few sort of like
Speaker 1: dangers to cicada's as they are underground and await their
Speaker 1: emergence after seventeen years of developing underground. So they their
Speaker 1: life cycle is basically, they legs the eggs you know,
Speaker 1: fall down onto the ground, and the larva goes and
Speaker 1: burrows underground. They take seventeen years to mature, and then
Speaker 1: after the seventeen years, they all simultaneously emerge and start
Speaker 1: sucking each other and and then this cycle begins again.
Speaker 1: But these fun guy will infect the cicadas while they're underground,
Speaker 1: and then as they come up, you know, they then
Speaker 1: like as they make that final molt into their adult forms,
Speaker 1: the fungus causes their butts to fall off, and then
Speaker 1: it replaces that entire area where their genitals and the
Speaker 1: rear end of their abdomen would be with like this
Speaker 1: weird like white chalky packed in spores, just like Jack said,
Speaker 1: and it releases a the wait, how did they funk
Speaker 1: if they got no butt? They can't, but they try,
Speaker 1: but don't try that. How do they procreate for the
Speaker 1: next site? They don't. They don't. There's not it's not
Speaker 1: like the whole population has the infection. It's just a
Speaker 1: small Oh got you? So some are freaky, No, but
Speaker 1: I mean they're they're so they're There are so many cicadas.
Speaker 1: There's like hundreds and hundreds of like I actually think
Speaker 1: like millions of cicadas that come out because her majesty
Speaker 1: she's from the DC Maryland area, and she was saying
Speaker 1: how people are already wrapping their trees and ship like
Speaker 1: to prepare for this because they don't want their trees
Speaker 1: to become like cicada fuck parties and things like that
Speaker 1: and something romantic just like aromatic aromatherapy set and some
Speaker 1: tasty lubes. No. I just like they're trying to protect
Speaker 1: their property. It's just wild to me, like because like
Speaker 1: being in Japan all the time as a kid, Cicadas
Speaker 1: are just a very normal part of like the summer soundscape.
Speaker 1: Like in fact, something's wrong if I don't hear cicadas,
Speaker 1: you know, screaming. Yeah, that's when the aliens have come, right,
Speaker 1: But this is funny, like too, now when over here
Speaker 1: we have this one that's like every seventeen years, it's
Speaker 1: like the fucking pestilence. It's more than every seventeen years.
Speaker 1: Because so these are there are multiple species and multiple
Speaker 1: groups of these cicadas, So you will have even the
Speaker 1: one group so like this Brewed X will only emerge
Speaker 1: every seventeen years, but there's like another group of cicadas
Speaker 1: that are slightly out of sync with that one. So
Speaker 1: you get every few years, you get a giant amount
Speaker 1: of cicadas coming out geographic Like is there like Brewed
Speaker 1: X like takes over the East coast and then brood
Speaker 1: whatever the fun I mean, it's not that huge of
Speaker 1: like a geographical chunk, but certainly like there's you'll have
Speaker 1: maybe cicadas in like this area, and there's ones in
Speaker 1: this area. But also if there are different species, those
Speaker 1: can those can um differ. They can be in the
Speaker 1: same region. But yeah, no, I mean I don't think
Speaker 1: it's like, uh, you do get that regional difference in
Speaker 1: terms of which are emerging at what time, but it's
Speaker 1: not like it's not like on the West Coast we
Speaker 1: get it every ten years and then on the East
Speaker 1: Coast they get it every seven. It's it's much so
Speaker 1: were diversified than that one question I had because this
Speaker 1: just raises like something that I think is interesting about
Speaker 1: drug use in general, is that like when when we
Speaker 1: take drugs, it's not like the powder from the ecstasy
Speaker 1: we take is going into our brain and like the
Speaker 1: little powder molecules are like going in there. It's like
Speaker 1: it's causing your brain to make its own drugs, right,
Speaker 1: Like that's what that's what this fungus does, is it
Speaker 1: causes the cicadas to make psilocybin and amphetamines, and like
Speaker 1: they basically are like pumped full of those, but it's
Speaker 1: like by their own body. So it just made me wonder, like,
Speaker 1: are there examples of throughout human history where they think like, oh,
Speaker 1: they were probably like that was probably a massive wave
Speaker 1: of some infection that made everybody like start tripping for
Speaker 1: like a for an entire summer or something. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think you mentioned this, uh in the dock.
Speaker 1: But there's that the rye or get um, which is
Speaker 1: that fungus that grows on rye, which when cooked into
Speaker 1: bread and ingested, can cause all sorts of health problems,
Speaker 1: but also has hallucinogenic effects. And so that's been speculated
Speaker 1: to be behind some of the Salem witch trials of
Speaker 1: those girls, like accusing their natures of being witches and
Speaker 1: they believed what they were seeing. Yeah, and uh, Justin
Speaker 1: producer Justin just pointed out that this is something I
Speaker 1: had heard about. I had never heard it attributed to
Speaker 1: a fungus. But the dancing plague, the thing where people
Speaker 1: couldn't stop dancing and some of them danced until they died,
Speaker 1: people believe that was caused by a fungal infection. So
Speaker 1: that's that sounds very similar. Actually danced until their butts
Speaker 1: fell off, right, Because if they're eating this like rie
Speaker 1: fungus and it produces this like ergotamine, and then that
Speaker 1: ingestion of it can cause hallucinations and uh. In terms
Speaker 1: of medical conditions, though, there are medical conditions where you
Speaker 1: can make yourself get drunk, not drinking any alcohol. It's
Speaker 1: called auto brewery syndrome or gut fermentation syndrome. So ethanol
Speaker 1: is actually produced by fermentation by fungi or bacteria in
Speaker 1: the g I system. And you don't have to drink anything,
Speaker 1: you know, you just eat normally and then you have
Speaker 1: like this abnormal gut bacteria or yeast or fungi that
Speaker 1: is creating basically beer. When you get drunk, your stomach
Speaker 1: turns into a Pruno bag from frist where whatever you
Speaker 1: eat is now like, dude, that's booze. Now? How a
Speaker 1: many times have people like gotten do like I swear
Speaker 1: anything you can't you could get out of a d
Speaker 1: u I if you have this medical condition, I think
Speaker 1: I've actually read a case of that. Like someone sauceper
Speaker 1: just give him. I'm telling you'a got a brewer's stomach.
Speaker 1: What alright? Alright? If you're driving a fucking school bus man,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's got to be a lawyer who specializes
Speaker 1: in that. It's just like I was. He likes to
Speaker 1: pull rabbits out of a hat and he only takes
Speaker 1: on cases where he knows it's like, oh, yeah, you
Speaker 1: do have auto brewery syndrome. Okay, I'll take this case.
Speaker 1: Do you or someone you love have auto brewery syndrome?
Speaker 1: You may get money in a settlement. Yeah, we need
Speaker 1: you to get pulled over for a d U I first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So this is all sorts of straight on. One thing
Speaker 1: that I will just note in case anyone's getting any
Speaker 1: big ideas about going out and eating any cicadas they see,
Speaker 1: uh with their asses blown off by a plug of sports.
Speaker 1: So the scientists are saying in this NPR article there's
Speaker 1: always a risk in eating cicadas pumped filled with amphetamines.
Speaker 1: That was just a grand under statement. That was just
Speaker 1: one of a thousand compounds we found in the cicadas,
Speaker 1: and we don't know what those other compounds are capable
Speaker 1: of doing to humans. I'm sorry, man, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be the new tide pods. Well, but people already eat
Speaker 1: cicadas during these mass cicada blooms, like they put them
Speaker 1: on ice cream before the trippy as sports. Yeah they don't.
Speaker 1: I think it's irrelevant to the trippy as sports. It's
Speaker 1: just like, oh, this is a fun event. Like a
Speaker 1: local ice cream store may like put candied cicadas, But
Speaker 1: I'm talking about like me. If I'm seventeen right now
Speaker 1: and I'm reading that their butts are filled the psilocybin
Speaker 1: and and amphetamines, I'm like, bro, we gotta see if
Speaker 1: that should yea something. I mean, it's yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: psilocybin is the same chemical found in psychedelic mushrooms. But
Speaker 1: I think he'd be safer off doing psychedelic mushrooms. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but again, this is for kids. I'm putting myself in
Speaker 1: an idiot kid mode and I'm hearing there's free drugs
Speaker 1: in the suit. He to assholes. My friend from Dayton
Speaker 1: when I moved to Lexing in Kentucky, he came down
Speaker 1: to visit me. We were good friends, but like not
Speaker 1: such good friends that I was just a little like wow,
Speaker 1: he like wants to stay for a week and then
Speaker 1: made us like go out into horse fields and look
Speaker 1: for psilocybin mushrooms under ship piles in in a horse
Speaker 1: and cattle fields. Kids will do anything to get hot,
Speaker 1: but don't Scientists say don't because we never ate them.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't let him meet any of the any of
Speaker 1: the you don't. The thing is, I don't think you
Speaker 1: want to just eat a mystery mush room probably not
Speaker 1: good for you. I mean, like what I was talking
Speaker 1: about that, right, erg it um not only could it
Speaker 1: cause hallucinogenic effects, but ergotism with repeated ingestion of it,
Speaker 1: which could cause gang green and convulsion. So people's like
Speaker 1: skin and digits falling off in convulsions. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what we know about this butt fungus,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't mess around with it personally. Kids do
Speaker 1: not smoke cicata? Ass is that even a combination like that?
Speaker 1: People do? Like I know that M D M A
Speaker 1: and ampheta means is ecstasy, but like is mushrooms and
Speaker 1: ampheta means like a combo? But that's not that's not
Speaker 1: that's not one you really want to. Like, Yeah, beam
Speaker 1: up and have a full on It's like okay in
Speaker 1: space and have an anxiety attack. They seem incongruous. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we will be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back and all right. We hear a lot
Speaker 1: about AI technology being incorporated into law enforcement, into I
Speaker 1: think medicine, and you always hear like promises of how
Speaker 1: AI is going to change entertainment. Somebody kind of put
Speaker 1: together an interesting proof of concept on the music front
Speaker 1: that Miles, you're into, right, I just I always, you know,
Speaker 1: the when when you're talking about oh, Netflix, like they
Speaker 1: can use algorithms to kind of figure out what a
Speaker 1: hit show is going to be, I'm like, Okay, that's yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that next. Or things like that are like,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the racist police recognition facial recognition software
Speaker 1: isn't as good. I like the lower stakes kind of
Speaker 1: AI stories, you know, like when they say we've fed
Speaker 1: this machine all this nineties pop music and then this
Speaker 1: is what it's been out so and this has been
Speaker 1: a trend that's been going on for a while, but
Speaker 1: this one is kind of interesting just because of the
Speaker 1: how contrasting the two inputs are they have. They basically
Speaker 1: got this AI. They said, look, we want to see
Speaker 1: if we can do the Spice Girls Wanna Be but
Speaker 1: in the form of a nine inch Nails track, and
Speaker 1: almost like that seems like a stretch, And I don't
Speaker 1: know how the fucking machine is gonna get like take
Speaker 1: if you want to be my lover with like I
Speaker 1: want to disagree you like that. I don't know how
Speaker 1: they do it, but they did and I just want
Speaker 1: to play a really quick clip of this because it's
Speaker 1: kind of believable shooting. Okay, not a perfect downward spiral recreation,
Speaker 1: and in fact, to me it sounds more like Scream
Speaker 1: by Janet and Michael. But it's just weird again because
Speaker 1: it's nailing these certain textures, like it knows what the
Speaker 1: weird chaotic synth guitar part is and they get Trent's
Speaker 1: voice right, but then I think the funk part of
Speaker 1: want to be kind of messed with. Either way, you
Speaker 1: get this like weird. It sounds like music from like
Speaker 1: Demolition Man. Yeah, you know what I mean. It sounds
Speaker 1: exactly like music from a movie set in the nineties,
Speaker 1: like when you go to a party or something and
Speaker 1: there's a band playing at the party. That's what they
Speaker 1: would have been playing. Or like in the Matrix when
Speaker 1: like he's following the White Rabbit to that club, like
Speaker 1: this is the ship that would have been playing in
Speaker 1: that freaky Aas club. There's some steaks there. It's like
Speaker 1: the you're in the club, the band is playing, and
Speaker 1: you're looking across and you like clock the person you're chasing,
Speaker 1: and then they start running right. Oh shit, okay, oh,
Speaker 1: now shootout with the with the green liquid spilled up.
Speaker 1: She was bringing a bottle of green to somebody. Hey man,
Speaker 1: you bump into someone. Hey man, watch where you're going, right,
Speaker 1: They're always so rude in those clothes. Hey, what's the
Speaker 1: big idea? Man? When you watch the special like features
Speaker 1: are like? That was actually the producer Jim Bowls character
Speaker 1: whoa And he was just partying right there. He was
Speaker 1: in the way. We just kept that. But just to
Speaker 1: say that, like it's getting before you would get these
Speaker 1: weird ass non musical things, things are getting a little
Speaker 1: bit better, to the point where, you know, give it
Speaker 1: a few more thousands of hours of music and check
Speaker 1: back in with us. But I also want to talk
Speaker 1: about it even freakier AI thing that is occurring, which
Speaker 1: is I don't even know. Well, wait before you say that,
Speaker 1: because I do have to. I feel like people will
Speaker 1: drag me if I don't. As a Spice Girls fundamentalist,
Speaker 1: I believe that that song is blasphemous and should never
Speaker 1: be played again. Bice Girls music is pure and perfect
Speaker 1: and should never be touched by humans or certainly not machine.
Speaker 1: I will say I officially thought that that sucked I
Speaker 1: thought I thought it was bad. It was worse than
Speaker 1: any Spice Girls song in any nine ishes. No, no,
Speaker 1: it's not not that. It's it's but I'm saying it's
Speaker 1: it's getting there. All that to say, that's in service
Speaker 1: of this next thing, which is the freaky fucked up
Speaker 1: part of AI, which is on its way to Like
Speaker 1: at first you're like, I mean that's kind of sucks.
Speaker 1: Now it's like, oh, fuck is territory? Yeah, so yes,
Speaker 1: you know, but oh, I'm just back to your point
Speaker 1: about want to Be. You're saying that it should never
Speaker 1: be defiled in such a way as it was, rather
Speaker 1: than want to Be is outside of what you believe
Speaker 1: to be canon for Spice Girls. You're saying, how dare
Speaker 1: you put your dirty hands algorithm on that thing? Exactly? Okay,
Speaker 1: the just for the record, yes, absolutely, that is punch
Speaker 1: of the jam episode about want to Be as great
Speaker 1: because like they take all the stems and all the
Speaker 1: different like and and you really get into appreciation for
Speaker 1: what a good song that is. Oh who didn't fucking
Speaker 1: love that song? I remember? I just you know, because
Speaker 1: we like to pivot to go on tangits on this show.
Speaker 1: I remember so vividly. When that ship came out. I
Speaker 1: was working on a school project at my friend Michael
Speaker 1: Kim's house and his mom brought so much fucking taco
Speaker 1: bell like into like his room to help us finish
Speaker 1: this project. I had never seen a parent bring this
Speaker 1: much fast food and put in front of kids before.
Speaker 1: And we were playing want to Be on a Loop,
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget that day. Uh, Michael Cam, I
Speaker 1: hope you're good. I hope your mother Agnes or I
Speaker 1: think that was her name. I hope she's good too. Um, shoutout, Agnes,
Speaker 1: shout out. I just cam. But this one. So we're
Speaker 1: talking now. Deep fix another version of using this AI
Speaker 1: to you know, make it seems like someone is doing
Speaker 1: something they're not. First we saw him like really problematic
Speaker 1: celebrity faked porn and shipped like that, and then people
Speaker 1: talked about how there was also technology to take the
Speaker 1: voice and then be able to map someone get someone's
Speaker 1: voice to say anything you want. Well, there's a new
Speaker 1: company now that is essentially able to begin dubbing films
Speaker 1: but using deep fakes to do it. And I know
Speaker 1: that sounds kind of weird, but I'm just gonna play
Speaker 1: you a clip of how this kind of operates. So
Speaker 1: it's called flawless. And you know, for the most part,
Speaker 1: when we watch foreign language films were used to like
Speaker 1: dubbed films or subtitles, right, the double will just be
Speaker 1: like the old Kung Fu movie joke where like the
Speaker 1: mouth is moving and then the dialogue comes out completely mismatched.
Speaker 1: They're saying, dub is usually so bad. Yeah, this one,
Speaker 1: they're saying, not fun that We'll get these people to
Speaker 1: speak whatever language you want now, so behold this freaky
Speaker 1: technological advancements. So that was a few good men in French.
Speaker 1: The mouth movements not the super Stellar, but they're matching,
Speaker 1: and it's not to the point where you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is completely taking it out now, I just want
Speaker 1: to play. This part shook me to my core because
Speaker 1: they had fucking Forrest Gump speaking Japanese in this clip.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I know it's hard to see. We'll put
Speaker 1: the link in the footnotes, but we are approaching this
Speaker 1: future now where this company is saying, we don't have
Speaker 1: to do reshoots, you don't have to do subtitles. We
Speaker 1: can map the animated mouth movements to whatever language and
Speaker 1: even use the tone of voice to get these actors
Speaker 1: to speak in any language that you so see fit.
Speaker 1: I just want to play this part. This is de Niro,
Speaker 1: I think speaking German. Contest. Oh yeah, they got so
Speaker 1: they use the person's actual voice to Okay, that's kind
Speaker 1: of freaky. Interpretate, create, synthesize them speaking in other languages,
Speaker 1: because their whole the whole thrust of this company is
Speaker 1: like dubs. You lose the dramatic performance because the facial
Speaker 1: expressions aren't timed with like the delivery of the lines,
Speaker 1: and you can give kind of a disjointed interpretation of
Speaker 1: what you're seeing. I mean, it's kind of this is
Speaker 1: clearly a double edged sword because you can see the
Speaker 1: good that it could do and you can all see
Speaker 1: again we've always known Deep Fix we're going to be
Speaker 1: a problem since like the first sort of clips came out,
Speaker 1: and now that we're like here, it has some actors
Speaker 1: like I'm not really feeling this like manipulation of my
Speaker 1: face to do this other stuff. Yeah. I was already
Speaker 1: feeling like my job was in danger when the pandemic
Speaker 1: hit and I was like, huh, do I have any
Speaker 1: useful skills? And an apocalypse beyond like keeping you entertained,
Speaker 1: and like look over here, don't look at the burning
Speaker 1: fires all around us. And now this is very much
Speaker 1: like oh right, and we also don't need you at all.
Speaker 1: We could just completely create a performance based on images
Speaker 1: that we already have, anything like oh, we're doing new
Speaker 1: soul Bomb episodes based on the existing audio we already
Speaker 1: have from the podcast and have me saying crazy ship
Speaker 1: and that honestly, as long as I'm getting paid, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll take it. But now they're they're all about how
Speaker 1: delicious bug paste is, and I love that bug paste.
Speaker 1: Gid read bug paste. But the other thing is like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, part of me likes watching
Speaker 1: foreign language films because part of it the fun is
Speaker 1: hearing language you don't understand and hearing the nuances and
Speaker 1: language too, So it's like, but then they're also times
Speaker 1: like when I was watching Lupan on Netflix, when I
Speaker 1: was like, fuck, maybe I'll go to the dubbed version.
Speaker 1: But I also like to hear but so I can
Speaker 1: see sometimes how maybe i'd be like, yeah, fuck it,
Speaker 1: I guess I could go with the dub version tonight,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I tried to watch um that
Speaker 1: German show Dark I. I did watch the first season
Speaker 1: fully dubbed, and I was like, it's fine. I guess
Speaker 1: the show is fine, but the performances are kind of shitty.
Speaker 1: And then I just like changed over to subtitles. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, these are great performances there. It's just
Speaker 1: like the voice actors have an impossible job and like
Speaker 1: they're not the quality of actor that the actual performers are.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's I will say, I've heard I've
Speaker 1: heard the French dub of my character in Love Simon,
Speaker 1: and I was hoping it would sound like me speaking French,
Speaker 1: you know, but like like a native speaker when I
Speaker 1: speak French, it sounds like a child who obviously not French.
Speaker 1: But it sounded like a French woman. And I was like, huh, okay,
Speaker 1: this is this is interesting. It's like somewhere in the
Speaker 1: realm of what my voice sort of sounds like, but
Speaker 1: it also fully sounds like a woman. And like, like,
Speaker 1: what are you trying to say here, Fran right, right
Speaker 1: right exactly, like m what is your understanding of gender
Speaker 1: identity and performance France? France? Oh, I want to posit
Speaker 1: this question to this group because just on the topic
Speaker 1: of algorithms mishmashing shipped together and then being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we can do this, seeing the wacky nine inch snails
Speaker 1: want to be and then this thing, I'm really curious.
Speaker 1: I would really be interested to see like a fully produced,
Speaker 1: algorithmically created film that was like only based off of
Speaker 1: like nineties actions and action films and comedies, just to
Speaker 1: see what kind of chaotic, fucking nightmare this AI thinks
Speaker 1: is like what we were trying to say to storytelling
Speaker 1: at the time. And I feel like it would be
Speaker 1: just this I don't know, like a weird like like
Speaker 1: a mushroom trip, because part of it is this you know,
Speaker 1: synthesis of like actual human expression and ideas. But then
Speaker 1: what this machine isn't saying believing what we're trying to
Speaker 1: do with it. I've always just been a big, you know, supporter,
Speaker 1: believer in wanting to see a project like that. I
Speaker 1: know that there's there was that company that basically was
Speaker 1: feeding plots into algorithms, and I think it was doing
Speaker 1: it more reactively. It was like you would send a script,
Speaker 1: they would input all the details from the script into
Speaker 1: their algorithm. They had a couple of early hits and
Speaker 1: then they were like, Okay, based off those early hits,
Speaker 1: we're gonna like really invest We're gonna like buy this
Speaker 1: small studio. And they like immediately ate ship and went
Speaker 1: out of business. This is for like, this is like
Speaker 1: for an Elon Musk type idiot who has a bunch
Speaker 1: of money to piss away. And it's like, I give
Speaker 1: earth meme movie based on algorithms because I feel like
Speaker 1: if it was really taking like weird toxic messaging we had,
Speaker 1: it would be like the asshole asshole man Wins would
Speaker 1: be like the name of the film, basically whole man wins.
Speaker 1: Who would be who would be the star of that?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking it would be like Wesley Snipes and Slash
Speaker 1: Alone or something. It's like, it's Wesley Snipes, It's the
Speaker 1: cast of Demolition Man plus Tom. Yeah, they're in a
Speaker 1: movie together, right that we already talked about, plus Tom
Speaker 1: Cruise face plus Will Smith face. Right. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: that's now you're talking about like the best cast of
Speaker 1: any movie you know. But I'm saying it would blend
Speaker 1: all these together, maybe like an ethnically ambiguous character Dick
Speaker 1: who was like so their masculiney was so toxic it
Speaker 1: was like a power. It turns out, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like I'm just because like it's these like
Speaker 1: other things that I'm curious how much AI picks up
Speaker 1: on and being like that's the subtext of this is
Speaker 1: actually this, I mean, that's most clean Eastwood characters, isn't
Speaker 1: it The like toxic masculinity is a power becomes That's
Speaker 1: why asshole Man wins too. Is the film even this
Speaker 1: thought experiment Miles is the first step towards the machines
Speaker 1: taking over? Why do we care what they think about? Wait? No, sorry, machines.
Speaker 1: I love you, and I do feel like anytime I'm
Speaker 1: on the record, I need to make sure they know
Speaker 1: that I am on their side. And I also don't
Speaker 1: think we need to tempt them. I mean, the podcasts
Speaker 1: seem like a very good import for the machines to
Speaker 1: be taking in because there's so much content there, Like
Speaker 1: there's more hours of podcasting than there have been in
Speaker 1: the history of the human species, for sure. So just
Speaker 1: algorithmically like taking all those things in and then spitting out,
Speaker 1: like I don't know where will be replaced. So it's
Speaker 1: my fear, it's my biggest fear, and I feel very
Speaker 1: similarly about thinking about them and talking about them as
Speaker 1: I do about like the n s A or the FBI.
Speaker 1: You know where you're like. You're probably not comping to
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, but just in case, you know, I
Speaker 1: always feel the need to remind Alexa that I am
Speaker 1: not a robot. Probot right making sure your name is
Speaker 1: on the protective scrolls. Yes, please make it clear when
Speaker 1: they rip the roofs off of our homes and like
Speaker 1: you were, you were down with us. Thank you, sir,
Speaker 1: vaporized hater. All right, that's gonna do it for this
Speaker 1: week's weekly zeite. Guys, please like and review the show.
Speaker 1: If you like the show, uh means the world of Miles.
Speaker 1: He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a
Speaker 1: great weekend and I will talk to him Monday. By
Speaker 1: s