Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, seventy six,
Speaker 1: Episode one of Dirty Guy, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's shared consciousness. It's Monday, March fifteenth one. My
Speaker 1: name is Jack O'Brien, a k A little bit of
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Speaker 1: for my wife, A little major mel end's all I need.
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Speaker 1: We even have a parody title Yellow number five courtesy
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Speaker 1: joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles Gray.
Speaker 1: It's been a long day, oh, sid guys and Trance,
Speaker 1: I will tell you all about it with JACKO and
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Speaker 1: know he's Daniel's done. He's still probably Fami, Justin is
Speaker 1: in the building. All praise to Justin Big J Daddy,
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Speaker 1: Come to find out, Justin's a d J two and
Speaker 1: Justin been rocking crowds from sucking here to Catman do Faces.
Speaker 1: He's seen a million faces and he's rocks most of them.
Speaker 1: He said, we just we got this in from Justin himself.
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Speaker 1: but welcome him, shout out to DJ brand Matter, uh
Speaker 1: and we are thrilled to be joined in our third
Speaker 1: seat by the hilarious, the talented you know, yeah, travel,
Speaker 1: I've returned again that I don't have a song for you.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I wasn't ready for the song introductions you guys,
Speaker 1: your tweets of empowering. I've been prepared. What's new Man.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, I'm just here sitting in my in
Speaker 1: my little shoe box bedroom. Uh, you know, just admiring
Speaker 1: all my anime posters and one shoebox you got framed
Speaker 1: ship on the wall. Oh yeah, you know, I finally
Speaker 1: feel like I'm coming on my slam dunk jersey. Oh
Speaker 1: oh that's so good. Oh look at that. See that's
Speaker 1: amazing that I saw it in the beginning, and I
Speaker 1: didn't want to. I didn't want to say anything too early.
Speaker 1: I had I had to wear it because I was like,
Speaker 1: you're doing is a real one? Who know? The manga
Speaker 1: jersey on? Uh? In Brooklyn? How's the weather? How are
Speaker 1: you feeling over there? It's finally starting to feel good outside.
Speaker 1: You know, it's um it's in the mid sixties today,
Speaker 1: after it's been you know, freezing. I think we're in
Speaker 1: what's been called the full spring. I think inevitably it
Speaker 1: will go back too bad, but for now, for now,
Speaker 1: it's kind of nice. Been out going to the park skating. Right,
Speaker 1: we're in a we're floor flip flocked because now l
Speaker 1: A is like under sixty fifties and rainy. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's all about balance, you know, it can't. Things can't
Speaker 1: be good everywhere. You know, me having me having good
Speaker 1: things in my life means that you necessarily have to
Speaker 1: have bad things in yours. Yeah, you know that's how
Speaker 1: it works. Yeah. Yeah. My kids got there like third
Speaker 1: ever Thunderclap the other day where they were like, what
Speaker 1: the fun was that they were? They were clubbing in
Speaker 1: the no thun like thereunder dance move Thunderclap. Hey, No,
Speaker 1: that's from the breakdown of Ushers. Yeah. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're familiar with Ushers. Yeah, Ushers featuring Little John,
Speaker 1: not to be confused with the other Yeah, by um
Speaker 1: the what are the dudes from the you know the place? Yep?
Speaker 1: Uh huh? Then us Is that the name of that
Speaker 1: for now Blonde song? That's what's going on? What's going on? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, you know you. We're gonna get to know
Speaker 1: you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're
Speaker 1: going to tell our listeners a couple of the things
Speaker 1: we're talking about. We have a deadline by which the
Speaker 1: pandemic will be officially over all done baby May one,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about that. Uh. We have some
Speaker 1: official uh CIA provided statistics Mackenzie provided statistics on on
Speaker 1: like proof of something we've been saying for years here
Speaker 1: on the Daily Zeitgeist that uh racism in Hollywood uh
Speaker 1: is bad, like worse than your average industry, but also
Speaker 1: like officially unprofitable. It's officially making these racist executives bad
Speaker 1: at their jobs. Are sucking up your own bag. That's
Speaker 1: that's how much they are clinging to that ship. Interesting,
Speaker 1: you should say that. We will talk about Trump becoming
Speaker 1: a christ figure finally, just make it official. Apparently this
Speaker 1: Cuomo guys a real jerk. Uh, So we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about uh, this maybe being the last time
Speaker 1: we spring forward fact why it should be Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's uh even even little Marco Rubio is getting on board,
Speaker 1: so we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the hottest
Speaker 1: new podcast coming to your ear holes, the i Keia catalog.
Speaker 1: They're turning that into into a podcast. Hell so we
Speaker 1: gotta go to war. It's war then, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: I told them, motherfucker those sweetest motherfucker's too. Stay in
Speaker 1: you're fucking lane man, and I will start making my
Speaker 1: own meatballs and selling them outside your stores. And if
Speaker 1: that's what they want it's on. They know the daily
Speaker 1: Nitgeist circle and the IKEA catalog circle, that ven diagram circle.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about Pie Day, which happened yesterday. This is
Speaker 1: a real Yesterday focus show with the Daylight savings and
Speaker 1: Pie Day. But we've got we've got to honor the
Speaker 1: great Pie Day. Wait this even revealing it's this weekend
Speaker 1: Daylight say, yeah, I have no no clue because it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter anymore. But ship Okay, fine, Earth, you want
Speaker 1: to go to fucking war again, let's go. Let's do
Speaker 1: like I've never not been caught off guard by it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we never. I've never known when it was. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: I think it's this weekend. Oh yeah, this this weekend. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not even officially spring yet, so the name spring
Speaker 1: Forward is kind of, you know, just misleading. It's a
Speaker 1: winter forward, yes uh. And we'll talk about the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: vaccine rollout, which has quickly become the story that we
Speaker 1: constantly tease and never get to what one of the classics,
Speaker 1: but we we will talk about it one of these days,
Speaker 1: maybe today. All of that plenty more, But first, you know,
Speaker 1: we like to ask our guests, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history. Okay, well, uh, it's the most recent
Speaker 1: thing is scissor. It's just always scissor. And then on
Speaker 1: the next one I think is siss a lyrics, siss
Speaker 1: a boyfriend? Does she have one? And then how to
Speaker 1: heal flip? How to how to do a heal flip.
Speaker 1: I've been skateboarding. I'm just trying to, you know, make
Speaker 1: sure my technique is all right. Yeah, we've been keeping
Speaker 1: up with it. Miles used one of your tweets recently. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was nice to reading about your skate journey. Are
Speaker 1: you a latter day skate Yeah, I'm a latter day
Speaker 1: skate started skating at twenty nine years old because I
Speaker 1: figured if my body's falling apart, I might as well
Speaker 1: help it along the process. Right that shatter your wrist
Speaker 1: at some point? Yeah? Yeah? Why let it happen for
Speaker 1: no reason when I could give it a reason? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did you ever skate at all like prior this? Or
Speaker 1: you just are you just up and been like, well,
Speaker 1: I've played Tony Hawk, so you know what. I had
Speaker 1: a skateboard as a kid. Um most kids did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, I just go There was just never
Speaker 1: a good place to like to really learn, and so
Speaker 1: I just didn't. And then I don't know what happened
Speaker 1: to that skateboard, but it does not It's not in
Speaker 1: my possession anymore. But now I got new one that
Speaker 1: is not from Walmart. Was skateboard like in the eighties
Speaker 1: and nineties, just in the seventies, like just the like
Speaker 1: no thought given gift to give to a kid, like
Speaker 1: as like some sho you could grab it a Big
Speaker 1: five or sporting goods and be likedre you go fucking
Speaker 1: skate I don't know, something that goes with your backwards hat.
Speaker 1: I feel like every backyard I went to as a
Speaker 1: kid had a rotting skateboard fucked by the weather. It
Speaker 1: seems like one of those things that like every like
Speaker 1: guitar hero story, like you just saw one at Sears
Speaker 1: and bought it for a nickel and gave it to
Speaker 1: your right right, like I don't know, back when series
Speaker 1: sold stuff other than like washing machines and also still existed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hate to see it back to the I think
Speaker 1: I've talked about this before, but this will very specifically
Speaker 1: aged me. I had the Back to the Future branded
Speaker 1: like it had the Back to the Future poster on
Speaker 1: it little. It was like a very narrow skateboard. But
Speaker 1: I feel like that was the first time a lot
Speaker 1: of people found out about skateboarding. Yeah, and so that
Speaker 1: was and I'm sure a percent of them were very
Speaker 1: disappointed that it did not hover, it didn't over, It
Speaker 1: was harder than it looks and and I I never
Speaker 1: figured out how to do a kick flip or any
Speaker 1: of the any of the things you you recently nailed
Speaker 1: a trick that you were showing someone as you're illustrating
Speaker 1: that you've never been able to do this and then
Speaker 1: nailed it. Yeah, I was at the I was at
Speaker 1: the park with a friend and she asked if I
Speaker 1: knew how to do a pop shot but shove it,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, I know, like in my
Speaker 1: mind and intellectually I know, and in many ways, uh,
Speaker 1: I think that's my problem across the board, even outside
Speaker 1: of skateboarding, because then I know how to how to
Speaker 1: do it and how to fix it, but it's just
Speaker 1: not happening, right. But yeah, I was demonstrating that I
Speaker 1: don't know how to do it. I've never landed one,
Speaker 1: and then just landed it perfectly first try. And now
Speaker 1: I just reset the obsession that was about to fade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's done with it. Yeah, just right when you're about
Speaker 1: to just cash out and you're like, fuck right at
Speaker 1: this table for a little bit longer, and it's always
Speaker 1: on a penny slot. Like I didn't spend that much.
Speaker 1: The level of disappointment that came with setting up my
Speaker 1: own ramp and my driveway with just like a piece
Speaker 1: apply board and then just like falling off of it
Speaker 1: instead of like ramping off, I'm flying like a like
Speaker 1: Tony Hawk. Uh yeah man, Yeah that's what did me in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, you know, it's complicated because you think it's
Speaker 1: just jumping and it's not just jumping, and Alie is
Speaker 1: not just jumping, right, you know there's other stuff to it.
Speaker 1: You know. It was somebody mentioned timing. I was like, what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna jump now, right, what else is there? I
Speaker 1: see the rail, I'll jump and then I'll grind it. Yeah, problem,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna grind. It's also probably important to
Speaker 1: get a piece of plywood that like wouldn't sag when
Speaker 1: you like went onto it and uh yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: just like break in the middle of because you're like
Speaker 1: you don't know anything about physics or it's just the
Speaker 1: thing out Yeah, engineering, you're like, nice, I guess I
Speaker 1: have to reinforce the middle too. Yeah, it probably should
Speaker 1: not be resting on a barrel. Why where did I
Speaker 1: even get a barrel? Why where does a seven year
Speaker 1: old get a barrel? Uh? What is something you think
Speaker 1: is overrated? Overrated? Having a good WiFi connection? I think
Speaker 1: it's Uh. I think it's just overused, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, not everybody needs it, you know, I just
Speaker 1: feel like, Uh, first of all, when a face feet
Speaker 1: freezes on screen, perfect opportunity to grab a screenshot, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's just like I think people don't consider
Speaker 1: the possibilities that that arise when you're when you don't
Speaker 1: pay your WiFi bill on how's your WiFi right now? Terrible?
Speaker 1: Oh man, you're actually artifacting a little bit as you
Speaker 1: were saying that, So it's kind it's very appropriate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I planned that for comedic effects. I assumed it was
Speaker 1: going to happen, just because the frequency that it's happened
Speaker 1: is is very is predictable that I can write jokes
Speaker 1: around it. What is what's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 1: Getting out of bed? Before four pm. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I feel like just people should
Speaker 1: try it. I've been doing this thing where I I
Speaker 1: opened my eyes. I wake up at nine thirty. Every
Speaker 1: day probably I'm not out of bed until until four thirties.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I just stare at the ceiling, look at my phone,
Speaker 1: and then um and then and that's my whole day.
Speaker 1: I start my day. This is the earliest I've been
Speaker 1: out of bed, and and we're honored that you would
Speaker 1: do that for us. Yeah, you know, I almost canceled
Speaker 1: because like it's getting a little bit before four would
Speaker 1: be right there, you know. Yeah, yeah, what time you
Speaker 1: go to sleep? Let me see, I wake up at nine,
Speaker 1: so eight. Yeah, it's really sleeping from eight to four.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it sleep. It's more like I ruminate.
Speaker 1: It's a deep state of rumination from eight to four
Speaker 1: infects essential dread, looking directly and ceiling. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: just pondering. I think pondering is a good word for it. Postulating,
Speaker 1: right right, Um, yeah, sleep is not sleep is the
Speaker 1: least of my worries. It's yeah, take your pick. At
Speaker 1: the moment, I was just in in researching this Daylight
Speaker 1: Savings article, Like one of the arguments against changing it
Speaker 1: is that kids will have to go to school in
Speaker 1: the in the dark if we don't like do the
Speaker 1: daylight savings thing. Okay, well, if you're familiar with the
Speaker 1: American education system, you know, these kids are already in
Speaker 1: the dark based on our history books. Everyone has been
Speaker 1: in the dark film right sometime. Now, you gotta open
Speaker 1: your third eye children. That's also a made up problem
Speaker 1: because kids shouldn't have to go to school at like
Speaker 1: six in the morning every morning, like they should like
Speaker 1: doctors say, they should be going to school late, like
Speaker 1: let them go insane. Yeah, it's like how far are
Speaker 1: we going to go to the that we we have
Speaker 1: to shelter kids from the concept of nighttime, Like yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you can see the sun when it's down, but it's
Speaker 1: got to be at six in the morning. You gotta
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta slowly introduce kids to it, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got to know it's coming out in a in
Speaker 1: a half hour or so. Oh man, I mean, hey,
Speaker 1: we made it with daylight savings. We were walked about
Speaker 1: by this unpredictable timeline that we call our time system
Speaker 1: or whatever this is. But the time system yet Yeah,
Speaker 1: the time system. Yeah, but yeah, I just like what
Speaker 1: they said. What was the other thing we always because
Speaker 1: we've brought this up on the show before, like there's
Speaker 1: more car accidents, people getting just it's just it's just
Speaker 1: doesn't help anybody, Like there's physical ramifications that play out
Speaker 1: statistically when you do this ship. Yeah, we're adaptable, we'll
Speaker 1: we'll figure it out if it's happening slowly over the
Speaker 1: course of time. But why why like just throw a
Speaker 1: curveball at us in the middle of the year. Yeah. Also,
Speaker 1: we're not all farmers. We're not we're like mostly not farmers.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that's yeah, Like statistically, statistically, if you look
Speaker 1: at the numbers, the number of people who are not farmers,
Speaker 1: pretty there's so many of them, most of them these days,
Speaker 1: so many people, and you hate to see it. You
Speaker 1: hate to see it. We're losing God and farm you know,
Speaker 1: people talk about white people as the majority all the time,
Speaker 1: but you know, if you look at the numbers, it's
Speaker 1: really people farmers out farming non farmers. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll be right back. And
Speaker 1: we're back, and uh. May one takes on new significance
Speaker 1: after Biden's uh speech at the end of last week
Speaker 1: where he was like, you're gonna have a vaccine in
Speaker 1: your arm by May one or my name is not well,
Speaker 1: what is it again, Joe Joe, Robbin Batman? No, Batman, No,
Speaker 1: it's Robin. Nett is your middle name? Uh? Yeah, they look,
Speaker 1: it's all it's the day. It's coming first every all
Speaker 1: the adults, not just the people who are scheming in
Speaker 1: part in your city to jump the line, which I'll
Speaker 1: talk about it is that. And but right now, uh,
Speaker 1: we've been averaging more than the two million doses per
Speaker 1: day rate. The administration was sort of targeting, like you know,
Speaker 1: it's getting closer like three million a day. But even
Speaker 1: if we stayed at two, we would have over half
Speaker 1: of the adults in the US vaccinated by May one
Speaker 1: at that pace. Now, granted, not everyone is eligible at
Speaker 1: the same time, so I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: if we can say, like who, how quickly everyone will
Speaker 1: be vaccinated. But to know that starting May one or
Speaker 1: that's their target date, that they'll have enough vaccines to
Speaker 1: make it widely available to people is cool. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the whole thing is it's all tied to the fucking
Speaker 1: spirit of America, Because when Joe Biden was talking about this,
Speaker 1: he also said, you know, in July four, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe a date we're targeting to really kind of go
Speaker 1: back to feeling like ourselves and celebrating our independence, not
Speaker 1: as a nation, but an independence from the virus. So
Speaker 1: a little bit of fucking Uncle Sam again, a little
Speaker 1: independence day, we will say independence. That's it's just so
Speaker 1: fucking boring. Like at least Bill Pullman was talking to
Speaker 1: a bunch of fighter pilots from around the globe that scene, right,
Speaker 1: blow some ship up, bro, Like, what are you doing.
Speaker 1: You're the president, you have your finger on the nuclear
Speaker 1: button every day, and the best you can do is
Speaker 1: independence from the virus. And I think you get a copywriter.
Speaker 1: I think he even hedges to that and was like,
Speaker 1: well you can. I'm not saying like have big parties,
Speaker 1: but you know, like small gatherings. It's like, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get you all vaccinated, so you can have lame get
Speaker 1: togethers with yeah, small gatherings of two to five people.
Speaker 1: The thing is too, like there's other elements of the
Speaker 1: vaccine though, that are a little more like we also
Speaker 1: need to keep in mind one is just about the efficacy,
Speaker 1: because if stupid ass governors and municipalities start just fucking
Speaker 1: tossing out the mandates and safety mandates, that will also
Speaker 1: affect the efficacy of these vaccines. It's not like that. Again,
Speaker 1: we've talked about how those eficacy rates are based on
Speaker 1: environments where there is social distancing and other mitigating factors involved. Um.
Speaker 1: Not only that, I mean, the wealthier nations are starting
Speaker 1: are hoarding vast amounts of vaccine that is causing a
Speaker 1: problem for the global South to get their hands on.
Speaker 1: And so before you can start celebrating a ship. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's also important again, but this is part and parcel
Speaker 1: of this capitalistic world in society globally we're in is
Speaker 1: that people with means countries with means are going to
Speaker 1: get it more and that's going to be the cost
Speaker 1: of access to these other nations. So and one other
Speaker 1: thing I just want to point out, can I maybe
Speaker 1: all of us have stories about this because as vaccines
Speaker 1: come out, I get that people are so excited. I'm
Speaker 1: fucking excited. I had a fucking daydream where I was
Speaker 1: at a concert and I was while in the fuck out,
Speaker 1: like in a crowd and just like throwing water everywhere
Speaker 1: and like just sucking, ripping my shirt off, like going,
Speaker 1: you know, fucking just absolutely wild. Um. And I know
Speaker 1: we all have that motivation, but I have, whether it's
Speaker 1: people in my own circle, second hand, people in orbit
Speaker 1: of my family. Do not be one of these fucking
Speaker 1: vaccine schemers. Okay, please try and hold in your heart,
Speaker 1: if you are privileged enough, if you have the ability
Speaker 1: to stay safe and distance, don't try and start cutting
Speaker 1: the line in these really fucked up ways to try
Speaker 1: and get the vaccine before other people. Like in South
Speaker 1: l A. I've i go I've gone through there because
Speaker 1: my family still live over there. I see the people
Speaker 1: that are trying to get vaccinations. They do not look
Speaker 1: like West South l A looks like which is black
Speaker 1: and brown people. And you know there's there are plenty
Speaker 1: of anecdotes, like especially in l A, there are people
Speaker 1: in the entertainment industry who got like arrant codes or
Speaker 1: were sharing a code to like bypass of vaccine registration line.
Speaker 1: I know people who are fucking who know people who
Speaker 1: own restaurants who are saying, hey, let me fill out
Speaker 1: a W two and say I work at this restaurant
Speaker 1: to to say I'm a I work at a restaurant, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: You don't work at a restaurant. You never worked at
Speaker 1: a restaurant in fact, in fact, you've never been in
Speaker 1: a social economic place to ever work in a restaurant.
Speaker 1: So don't be these motherfucker's because this ship pisses me off.
Speaker 1: It's so fucked up, and there are people who are
Speaker 1: having real fucking consequences because this government it does not
Speaker 1: give a funk about them. For suddenly to be like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, ship, if I can get it, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get that. Please think of the people who who do
Speaker 1: not have these options, please. And I get that there
Speaker 1: are excess lines and that's a whole other thing, but
Speaker 1: trying to jump the line in this other way, Oh no, no, yeah. Bro.
Speaker 1: The other day I saw they had vaccines on the
Speaker 1: sneakers app and I was like, they all went to
Speaker 1: that VPS son boss. He just had all the syringes.
Speaker 1: He was doing like a money phone with the syringes.
Speaker 1: All the syringe is just stuck in his head because
Speaker 1: hyperm you only got one vaccine? Was like, oh my bad,
Speaker 1: it's the money calling. Excuse me, call me the hell raiser. Motherfucker.
Speaker 1: Look at all these vaccine shots in my head out here.
Speaker 1: But I mean again, if you need to get it,
Speaker 1: and you're able and eligible by all means, please do it.
Speaker 1: But I just want to implore people to act with
Speaker 1: some sense of morality throughout this. And I understand how
Speaker 1: close things are, but like, come try and try and
Speaker 1: fucking just get your ship together for us. And if
Speaker 1: you listen to the show and you know who I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, you know I'm talking about you. Help help
Speaker 1: your elderly relatives. Help them sign up. That thing is
Speaker 1: fucking confusing for people who know how to use the internet.
Speaker 1: Help them get signed up. Spender put your time into that,
Speaker 1: and then you know, the sooner we get all the
Speaker 1: people who need to be vaccinated backs, and the sooner
Speaker 1: it'll be your turn. But if you're still wearing hoodies
Speaker 1: with box logos on them, we're talking to you right.
Speaker 1: If you were waiting in line, if you went from
Speaker 1: a supreme drop line to a vaccine drop line, get
Speaker 1: standing outside city m D like they're waiting waiting on
Speaker 1: a drop Oh my gosh, that new mon Santo bape collapse. Man,
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, and also the overflow lines. Do your thing.
Speaker 1: I mean I know people who like are unemployed and
Speaker 1: they're like, fun, I can wait in a line ten hours, yea,
Speaker 1: and they gotta throw the they gotta throw that ship
Speaker 1: out regardless. So like yeah, so like that's another thing.
Speaker 1: But yes, when if you are aware of what you
Speaker 1: were doing, or you know people who are doing that,
Speaker 1: please take second and try and check them, try and
Speaker 1: let them know this is not This is not the
Speaker 1: way to do it. It's not ethical and it feels gross,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to be one of these motherfucker's
Speaker 1: who you know, like you're doing what you were saying
Speaker 1: before this before we started record. People need to have
Speaker 1: dates on their vaccine cars so you can start looking
Speaker 1: at like, how the fuck did you get it before?
Speaker 1: My grandmother, I have a pre existing condition. I work
Speaker 1: for CIA. Yeah, like, yeah, hold on, how did you
Speaker 1: get it in September? Bro hold on, Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: the I got the Commemorative Vaccine Addition September eleventh edition.
Speaker 1: You know it's a limited it came with a challenge
Speaker 1: coin too. All right, let's talk about racism in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Said that I had heard about this stuff, but mackenzie
Speaker 1: has made it official. Um I always I always talked
Speaker 1: about that email from I just think it's like the
Speaker 1: thing to explain how Hollywood works. The executive from the
Speaker 1: Sony Leaks who was like, Danzel is my favorite actor. Guys.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that he's not a great actor. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that his movies don't do as well overseas
Speaker 1: because they're racist, and so we shouldn't let him start in.
Speaker 1: I think it was like the equalizer to or some ship.
Speaker 1: So they kind of grab these like pieces of like
Speaker 1: racism urban legends about the box office and just like
Speaker 1: cling to them. And so mackenzie, uh, and a bunch
Speaker 1: of people have been doing this, like just looked at
Speaker 1: the receipts and we're like, this is this is a
Speaker 1: fucking provable lie. You guys are turning down billions of
Speaker 1: dollars annually to be racist, yeah, or just not or
Speaker 1: just to to stay in the comfort of your de
Speaker 1: facto white supremacy and not have a reckoning with it,
Speaker 1: which on when it's on autopilot, they're saying, you are
Speaker 1: leaving ten billion dollars on the table by not by
Speaker 1: not diversifying more. Yeah, it's amazing that that's what takes man.
Speaker 1: You know what, when when there's not money on the table,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like seeing somebody like funk up their
Speaker 1: own life to be racist. That's hilarious to me, that's
Speaker 1: so funny. But unfortunately they were so rich, like they're
Speaker 1: not really sucking up their own lives, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's like les yachts now, because that's really
Speaker 1: how it's gonna move. You know, they're gonna why just
Speaker 1: like how you know, over the summer, many brands are
Speaker 1: like shit right, like racism bad, and like we should
Speaker 1: actually take a stand for something because apparently that helps
Speaker 1: make money and that's really how we think about things.
Speaker 1: But on top of the revenues that are being lost,
Speaker 1: they're talking like this analysis is really interesting because it's
Speaker 1: just it's just cutting through the entire industry to show
Speaker 1: how at every turn, um is this is specifically to
Speaker 1: black actors and creators, how the just Hollywood is completely
Speaker 1: turned its back but not realizing it. So I think
Speaker 1: we all know that there are already there's a few
Speaker 1: too little like black lead stories or series and things
Speaker 1: like that, and the ones that are are just notoriously
Speaker 1: and consistently underfunded, Like that's just and you've and undervalue.
Speaker 1: You see that in how there are very little marketing budgets,
Speaker 1: especially for black films and movies where it's like purely
Speaker 1: word of mouth or you see one poster on the stream, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I've only seen one fucking poster for
Speaker 1: the studio release. Can't be Oh, you know, it is racism.
Speaker 1: So um, it's not only that they're talking about the
Speaker 1: the lack of black creatives who are in above the
Speaker 1: line positions, which are like you know, creator, producer, writer, director,
Speaker 1: and and those who are above the line roles are
Speaker 1: the ones primarily responsible for bringing in more black people
Speaker 1: to be off screen talent or to work on cruise
Speaker 1: and things like that. Um, and saying that unless at
Speaker 1: least one senior member of a production is black, black
Speaker 1: talent is largely shut out of those critical roles. I
Speaker 1: think it's this is the true of every industry. I
Speaker 1: feel like, really it's not just film and TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean the way people like to operate and
Speaker 1: that's it. They just are. We're still stuck in this
Speaker 1: place where we're doing the very bare minimum. And I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people's understanding what needs to actually
Speaker 1: happen is just so limited. Like I mean, I've been
Speaker 1: in writer's rooms, and I've been on TV shows where
Speaker 1: like I mean, I was in a writer's room where
Speaker 1: it was white women and then me, and then people
Speaker 1: are walking around calling that diverse, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: there are four black people on this show and we
Speaker 1: all work in separate departments. Like what, that's not what
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be, like, you know, and it goes beyond,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like people have to understand. It goes
Speaker 1: beyond like white people hiring black people into these positions.
Speaker 1: There are also plenty of black creatives. They're trying to
Speaker 1: get their own projects off the ground and they need
Speaker 1: seed money or they need whatever or other type of
Speaker 1: ship to get off the ground, and you just need
Speaker 1: to get the funk out of their way. You know.
Speaker 1: There's some problems like black people not being able to
Speaker 1: get loans or get any type of like financial assistance
Speaker 1: when they have a good idea. You know. It's like
Speaker 1: my whole mentality on this and any type of financial
Speaker 1: thing is like we should not have to depend on
Speaker 1: the benevolence of wealthy people to get by you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's also like a stunning thing. In my career,
Speaker 1: I've never been hired by a black person, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, I've never, like I've mostly been hired
Speaker 1: by white people, like for many media jobs I've had,
Speaker 1: And like at a higher level, it's like you're like
Speaker 1: where where is there are there other people of color here?
Speaker 1: Or it's everybody below this certain point at the hiring level,
Speaker 1: like that there's like this you know, just barrier that
Speaker 1: cannot be broken. And aga then this this study is
Speaker 1: talking about they have cataloged close to what they call
Speaker 1: forty specific pain points which reinforce racial status quos in
Speaker 1: the industry, and that these are pain points that black
Speaker 1: professionals in film and TV regularly encounter as the attempt
Speaker 1: to build their careers. And on top of that, too,
Speaker 1: there's like the the standard of you do not have
Speaker 1: the margin of error that white creators do. If a
Speaker 1: black creator or actor flops, you're fucking like there's no
Speaker 1: coming back, Like it's toast um. And that's another just
Speaker 1: you know, a part of this really long report. I
Speaker 1: really if you're interested in this, you should definitely check
Speaker 1: this whole thing out because it's a very you'll probably
Speaker 1: see it resonating even if you don't work in film
Speaker 1: and TV, just in general an industry you work in,
Speaker 1: because I think it's indicative of just how the United
Speaker 1: States is at the moment. Yeah, because film, just the
Speaker 1: entertainment industry is so you know it it's like kind
Speaker 1: of unregulated, you know in a lot of ways, like
Speaker 1: especially at that higher decision making and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people making like sort of subjective decisions based on like,
Speaker 1: you know, their gut, and that is that's just a
Speaker 1: recipe for white supremacy being perpetuated over and over. Like.
Speaker 1: The study finds that the entertainment industry film in particular,
Speaker 1: is less diverse than the energy sector, finance, and transport,
Speaker 1: which are which they are like those are actually very
Speaker 1: not diverse industries, and film is worse than that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And the what's wild about it is that, like we want,
Speaker 1: we see people making these surface level moves to put
Speaker 1: people black people in those higher positions, and it really
Speaker 1: is just setting people up to fail. That's all it
Speaker 1: ever is. It's like a very affirmative action type of
Speaker 1: thing where people are like people who have never had
Speaker 1: this type of opportunity and down suddenly putting this position
Speaker 1: where they're like controlling the entire black narrative. Like there
Speaker 1: are people who I'm not gonna name names because I'm
Speaker 1: not because I'm I'm not trying to be better or
Speaker 1: anything like that. But people who have written one good
Speaker 1: script now have a production company where they're green lighting
Speaker 1: every black project in existence, and they don't necessarily have
Speaker 1: a view that's like wider than what they had when
Speaker 1: they wrote that one script, you know, like they don't
Speaker 1: necessarily have the the wherewithal to say what is and
Speaker 1: isn't a good story for somebody else to tell. And
Speaker 1: the fact that we're not getting being allowed to make
Speaker 1: those mistakes on that level is like we get stuck
Speaker 1: on I mean, we get stuck in these narratives that
Speaker 1: we've been trying to push for from like five ten
Speaker 1: years ago, because it's taken five to ten years for
Speaker 1: our projects to get green land. And so by the
Speaker 1: time you get to that show on the air or
Speaker 1: whatever the funk it is, you're you don't even feel
Speaker 1: that winning anymore. You've just been like pitching that for
Speaker 1: however long. And that's how we get stuck in these
Speaker 1: narratives because we like, this industry drives culture and it
Speaker 1: drives public opinion, and so because people get stuck like
Speaker 1: telling the same stories and never actually learning from what
Speaker 1: they're saying, you get narratives where people are saying things
Speaker 1: like support black businesses, but with no other context beyond
Speaker 1: just a black person owning a business. They could be
Speaker 1: employing all white people there could be exploiting all their workers.
Speaker 1: Black people are just as capable of that as anybody else,
Speaker 1: and we never get to move beyond that, right, It's
Speaker 1: I mean, it's true. I mean just with the whole
Speaker 1: you know, Hollywood's role in just perpetuating just the subconscious
Speaker 1: racism that most people just ingest through media of like
Speaker 1: reinforcing these stereotypes. In this study, they say, in the
Speaker 1: words of one creative executive quote, when studios are looking
Speaker 1: for black content, they're looking for waconda or poverty. There's
Speaker 1: no in between. And that is such a fucked up
Speaker 1: environment to have to create into or take something that
Speaker 1: is a pure expression of who you are as a
Speaker 1: person and then have some people look at it and
Speaker 1: be like, well, it's not fitting in this binary of
Speaker 1: like magical black people or like so so poor, Like
Speaker 1: I can feel good at the fact that I'm not
Speaker 1: like a nineteen sixties racist. Uh, that's just a it's
Speaker 1: just a terrible environment, and we're not going to have
Speaker 1: the kind of growth, like even to what you're saying,
Speaker 1: you do you of like expanding being able to tell
Speaker 1: other stories because of all this gate keeping. So they
Speaker 1: have like four solutions that they have offered, which I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, sure, this this, this absolutely needs to be done.
Speaker 1: But they're saying the first one is ensuring diverse representation,
Speaker 1: especial among off screen talent and executives. I think it's
Speaker 1: so true. It's just it's not you know, when you're
Speaker 1: working on a black production, because it's literally a black production,
Speaker 1: Like most productions are very white with a smattering of
Speaker 1: like diversity. But that's one thing like in having crews,
Speaker 1: having people in development roles, in marketing roles will bring
Speaker 1: this new if thinking about which is this it seems
Speaker 1: so like easy, that's what it's like. Looking at these
Speaker 1: points of like how to address this also just feels
Speaker 1: so fucked up because the solution is like, yeah, give
Speaker 1: people a seat at the table. Yeah, which even that
Speaker 1: is like complicated because that's that's that table is capitalism essentially,
Speaker 1: you know, people, you're bringing people to the top of
Speaker 1: this like socioeconomic ladder where then they don't really have
Speaker 1: the same steak in like arguing with or like dismantling
Speaker 1: the system as it exists altogether. Um, and like two backtrack,
Speaker 1: Like it's fucked up to me that we have to
Speaker 1: like we have to have these all black productions to
Speaker 1: even like ensure that that many black people are getting
Speaker 1: hired in a position in these entertainment jobs. Like I've
Speaker 1: been on sets where they don't even do something as
Speaker 1: basic as hiring a black makeup artist or hairdresser. And yeah,
Speaker 1: and I mean, I feel like the solution goes beyond
Speaker 1: anything that Hollywood can mandate. You know. It's first of all,
Speaker 1: it's wild that they even have the power to say
Speaker 1: this is what all all productions do. But like it
Speaker 1: has to go down to like the production companies, to
Speaker 1: the studios, to like every individual not accepting certain work conditions,
Speaker 1: you know. And I feel like just the structure of
Speaker 1: entertainment needs to be entirely reorganized because it's driven entirely
Speaker 1: by people who don't act or do comedy or perform
Speaker 1: or do anyway right marketing until yeah, like why the
Speaker 1: funk is a like social media intern who got a
Speaker 1: couple of promotions now in charge of like development, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like why is that how they how it works? And
Speaker 1: none of that was funny? But no, but it's true.
Speaker 1: I mean, you'd like to find the humor in it,
Speaker 1: but I think it's just one of those things. It's
Speaker 1: just the humor is almost in the absurdity of how
Speaker 1: racism can completely cloud people's fucking minds to the point
Speaker 1: where on paper you could be making more money, but
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, you can't get out of your ship.
Speaker 1: And I get that sometimes, like, well we don't know
Speaker 1: any people are blah blah blah, So that's why you
Speaker 1: have to put in the fucking energy. I think that's
Speaker 1: why Mackenzie has this four point list, because the money
Speaker 1: gooules at the studios like fuck man, tend bills on
Speaker 1: the table. What do we do, Mackenzie, tell me, because
Speaker 1: I don't know how to do the work. Tell me
Speaker 1: what the work is. And now they're saying the work
Speaker 1: is ensured. First representation, like hire more black people, people
Speaker 1: of color at every level. Then they say step two,
Speaker 1: increase transparency and accountability, So Mackenzie saying, and then you
Speaker 1: tell everybody where you're at in that process of hiring
Speaker 1: more people. Okay, So that way you know what your
Speaker 1: goals are and we can raw raw you on or say,
Speaker 1: what the funk this? You're moving too slow. Third, seek
Speaker 1: and financially support a wide range of black stories. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, they gotta write this down. And then number
Speaker 1: four create an independent organization to promote diversity. I think
Speaker 1: that's actually interesting is to have a like advisory some
Speaker 1: kind of organization that can actually act as some kind
Speaker 1: of you know, mechanism to fucking push the studios and
Speaker 1: with within the unions. Like maybe I don't know, I
Speaker 1: feel like unions could have done a good job of
Speaker 1: like kind of being a big part of them their
Speaker 1: various like uh professions. I feel like if there was
Speaker 1: each union that built into it. I mean, the history
Speaker 1: of unions in this country is also grounded in so
Speaker 1: much racism. Like, yeah, I don't know that that's gonna
Speaker 1: change at any any sort of reasonable pace. You know,
Speaker 1: it's sadly, I think it's the thing that will change
Speaker 1: it is Mackenzie saying, Hello, you guys are leaving at least,
Speaker 1: they say, at least ten billion dollars a year a
Speaker 1: year sucking on the table. That's what's gonna get them
Speaker 1: to feel like, oh shit out, I'm ready. It's wild
Speaker 1: to think that, like, the same logic that played a
Speaker 1: part in ending slavery in this country is now going
Speaker 1: to get us a live action Miles Morales movie. That's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this cotton pick and ship just isn't making us the money,
Speaker 1: is it. We're not moving the ship like we used to.
Speaker 1: I guess we gotta I guess we gotta put a
Speaker 1: good black kid in the suit. Yeah. The other kind
Speaker 1: of study that this always reminds me of is the
Speaker 1: one where they found that diverse teams when they were
Speaker 1: like given a task, they did a better job of
Speaker 1: completing the task, but had less confidence in their ability
Speaker 1: to complete the task because it was just harder and
Speaker 1: they were having to encounter opinions that weren't exactly like
Speaker 1: their own. Where So, like, just from from an industry
Speaker 1: wide standpoint, like you were saying, Miles, it's you have
Speaker 1: to work harder your you will be better at your job,
Speaker 1: you will be less comfortable, and the world will be
Speaker 1: a better place. But like it's just easy to be
Speaker 1: I think because people don't like growth because ship is uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: especially like if it's something to do with like I
Speaker 1: get it, Like if you've if you've been living in
Speaker 1: a reality where your family is you're come from a
Speaker 1: white fan, mean, there's not racist ship being expressed, and
Speaker 1: now you're working at a company and like it's just
Speaker 1: you're getting caught in the flow of it. And now
Speaker 1: you've been like it's right, what do I how do I?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? But that's what has to
Speaker 1: be done. Like that's you just have to take that second.
Speaker 1: I promise you. Everything that's hard, not like not nothing
Speaker 1: that's that's you know, bordering too like abuse or transgression,
Speaker 1: but a situation that is hard, that challenges you. You'll
Speaker 1: never come out the other side like that ship was
Speaker 1: not worth it. You'll always you will come out the
Speaker 1: other side with growth and you will be just be
Speaker 1: more realized, you'll have more dimensions to you. That ship
Speaker 1: is the fucking lifeblood. Staying static, that ship you're that's rotting.
Speaker 1: You're rotting, You're fucking rotting. So just do yeah it ship,
Speaker 1: it hurts, you know what I mean, Like a fucking
Speaker 1: uh snake molten is ship. You gotta leave that skin behind,
Speaker 1: but you gotta fucking new one now or whatever. But
Speaker 1: that it takes that process. Yeah, that also applies to
Speaker 1: like just allow other people to be challenged, you know,
Speaker 1: like people in those positions because you're giving you're putting
Speaker 1: people in a position where they never get the experience
Speaker 1: that you want them to have because you don't because
Speaker 1: you box them out of that experience. So it's like
Speaker 1: even if people don't know what the funk they're doing,
Speaker 1: which is what is a lot of people's arguments in
Speaker 1: this case, in the case of like affirmative action type
Speaker 1: situations like this, they'll figure it out. If you put
Speaker 1: somebody in a position where they're free falling, they they
Speaker 1: have a job that they have to do and they
Speaker 1: don't know how to do it, they'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: If that's if they have money righting on it, you know.
Speaker 1: So just give people an opportunity to to prove to
Speaker 1: like prove that they can do it instead of just
Speaker 1: boxing them out because they can't because they have it right,
Speaker 1: Because I mean, we can point to hundreds of projects
Speaker 1: where they're just pissing money away and they clearly just said, yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll figure it out and green lit it. So you know,
Speaker 1: let's afford that opportunity to as many people as possible.
Speaker 1: You guys are good at green lighting projects that are
Speaker 1: on a they'll figure it out basis when it's famous
Speaker 1: people's kids and kids. Right, Um, all right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll come back and talk about
Speaker 1: uh daylight saving And we're back. So last night, as
Speaker 1: we all hopefully know by now to I guess, uh,
Speaker 1: Saturday night Sunday morning, the clocks uh sprung forward. We
Speaker 1: lost now asleep, so it means the sun will be
Speaker 1: setting later, it'll be rising later. But that's okay because
Speaker 1: the days are going to get longer. There's some momentum
Speaker 1: happening in Washington for legislation to basically never do basically
Speaker 1: never fall back to standard time like what. So basically
Speaker 1: the way the schedule works, there's four months out of
Speaker 1: the year where we are on standard time. The rest
Speaker 1: of the year we're on daylight savings time. So we're
Speaker 1: currently on daylight savings time right now, and that is
Speaker 1: the time that is basically made the most sense for
Speaker 1: the modern world. And the idea would basically be to
Speaker 1: get rid of standard time, which I guess would just
Speaker 1: mean making daylight savings time standard time. But the point
Speaker 1: is we only use standard time for four months out
Speaker 1: of the year anyways, not that many people really use it.
Speaker 1: It's actually counterproductive. I guess it's to allow farmers to
Speaker 1: wake up earlier, this big farmer agenda. Again, we already
Speaker 1: give them the upper house of our fucking legislature, Like
Speaker 1: why do we need to but yeah, like why is
Speaker 1: it called standard? Yeah? See that's what people up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also like hearing it be like, you know, nobody even
Speaker 1: fucking us a standard time. It's like that conceptually, it's
Speaker 1: just so weird to even think about, Like, no, I
Speaker 1: don't use that time like for a month, time for
Speaker 1: four months. You're just like floating through a like a
Speaker 1: formless fourth dimension. I don't funk with standard time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not really on a schedule, bro. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like I spend all four months on Mr. Hewing and ship.
Speaker 1: Don't be afraid. So they first introduced daylight savings time
Speaker 1: in World War One and then brought it back during
Speaker 1: World War Two, and it was to save fuel, and
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, we it's not like we're living
Speaker 1: through an existential disaster right now. That would be nice
Speaker 1: to save energy and stop like stop burning as much fuel.
Speaker 1: Now it's like, let's just go back to that ship
Speaker 1: like I mean we are, but more long term. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying, Like, that's what we need to do.
Speaker 1: We need to like this would say it so it
Speaker 1: would save energy. One of the one of the big
Speaker 1: reasons that people point out for like let's keep doing
Speaker 1: doing it the way we've been doing it is that
Speaker 1: kids would have to go to school in the dark,
Speaker 1: and like that can be dangerous. Just make kids go
Speaker 1: to school later like that. That's another thing that has
Speaker 1: been studied by science and it's like, yo, this is
Speaker 1: this would be much better. They did a study where
Speaker 1: they moved the kids start turk back minutes and they
Speaker 1: were like healthier, happier, better at school, Like what the fuck?
Speaker 1: But also, stop sheltering your kids so much. They were
Speaker 1: going to have to experience nighttime at some point. Maybe
Speaker 1: it'll be good for them to go to school before
Speaker 1: the cops wake up. You know, it could be in
Speaker 1: and out before all the s r os get there.
Speaker 1: I mean, what the fund is it Okay, I get
Speaker 1: it is I guess it's so dark or whatever. But
Speaker 1: it's the more you started saying all these arguments about
Speaker 1: going against why we still keep it, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what what really was the point of it all? And
Speaker 1: like with school, yeah, it absolutely should start later, regardless
Speaker 1: of the daylight savings because I ask any teacher, ask
Speaker 1: any person who had been in high school, junior high,
Speaker 1: I could never fucking stay awake because I'm like already
Speaker 1: going through adolescents, my bodies doing all kinds of crazy shit.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to grow. And on top of that, I'm
Speaker 1: like I can barely, like I would need nine hours
Speaker 1: of sleep so to wake up like a sixth story
Speaker 1: to try and make class. That that I'm already walking
Speaker 1: in like ship, yeah the kids, Yeah yeah. I pulled
Speaker 1: the study about waking up later from a study that
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with daylight savings time. It was
Speaker 1: just about, like the American Academy of Pediatrics is just like,
Speaker 1: you know, we need to start sending kids to school later.
Speaker 1: We are making them sick by waking them up this early,
Speaker 1: so that's just a benefit. Let him stare at the
Speaker 1: ceiling until four pm. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thought leader on SEP Science. But like, wait, because what
Speaker 1: are they saying the standards should be for a school,
Speaker 1: like for school to start, uh? They did forty five
Speaker 1: minutes later. So they just studied like a shift from
Speaker 1: UH in one school district and moved it back forty
Speaker 1: five minutes and saw improved sleep reductions and tardiness, dramatic
Speaker 1: improvements to behavior problems, like dramatic improvements to behavior problems.
Speaker 1: And so they issued a recommendation that no school start
Speaker 1: earlier than eight thirty, no middle or high school because
Speaker 1: that's when like people start getting weird. Yeah, yeah, things,
Speaker 1: things start getting a little weird. Although I don't know why,
Speaker 1: Like why send kids so early in the first place,
Speaker 1: is just because like parents, I guess go to work
Speaker 1: so early, and so they need to drop their kids.
Speaker 1: Just let parents come to work a little bit later,
Speaker 1: you assholes, Like what the fun or fucking work less?
Speaker 1: How about that we've all found out people don't need
Speaker 1: to be working all these hours they work. But look
Speaker 1: now we're describing some fucking comi utopia now, and like,
Speaker 1: get your head out, jack, because that ain't never happening here.
Speaker 1: This comi utopia is being forwarded by uh, super progressive
Speaker 1: left winger Marco Rubio, but he's driving a lot of that.
Speaker 1: I think he's just like, maybe we should just let
Speaker 1: it always loves only work on ship that like doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter and is de politicized maybe as good ideas
Speaker 1: on on other ship. But he's always been on this.
Speaker 1: You're right, right, well, because can you imagine though, just
Speaker 1: because Marco Rubio is like now you got like Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer being like, oh this is this is racism. I
Speaker 1: think they've I think they've got like a bipartisan commission. Fortunately, yeah,
Speaker 1: thank god. I mean this just feels like because everything
Speaker 1: is so partisan. Yeah, I cannot wait for all the
Speaker 1: for all the liberals to be like, you know, black
Speaker 1: people would thrive more in in standard time? Yeah? Black?
Speaker 1: Like what you noticed? Productivity in African Americans rises for
Speaker 1: four months a year? What do you think that comes from? Uh?
Speaker 1: I'm not thanks coach Saban over here, but like, yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: my high school started at seven. I was walking into
Speaker 1: that dead yeah shit. Yeah, I had totally forgotten how
Speaker 1: early school was until I had kids, and then I
Speaker 1: was like, what the funk? Like they even go late,
Speaker 1: like they get there at eight thirty, but like that's
Speaker 1: still like fucking early, and then they get out at
Speaker 1: like the kids in the upper school get out of
Speaker 1: like to thirty year, like three o'clock. It's like, why
Speaker 1: are we doing? Why did we just shift everything way
Speaker 1: the funk forward? Like you know what? Though, it's because
Speaker 1: of way it's set up though though is like that
Speaker 1: allows us in our like puberty adolescent teen years to
Speaker 1: really funk up and make mistakes without because I'm like
Speaker 1: life bigan for me at two pm? What I mean, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so where I was, that's where my education funck is started.
Speaker 1: But that's probably also why like sports, Like sports is
Speaker 1: another big argument for why we need because like kids
Speaker 1: would have to like it. It wastes energy to have
Speaker 1: to light a football field for practice or whatever, so
Speaker 1: kids would have to leave school a little bit early
Speaker 1: to play sports. But like that, it's just like, first
Speaker 1: of all, kids don't need to play sports if they're
Speaker 1: getting out in there, like family is already off of
Speaker 1: work when they're getting out of school, so like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Also, maybe uh spend that money on
Speaker 1: things that enrich kids lives as opposed to like the
Speaker 1: other ship you're spending sucking money on. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: lighting a football field is a little bit more beneficial
Speaker 1: to that kid's life than uh than fucking having cops
Speaker 1: at the school, you know, or like food or food
Speaker 1: or food, Like there's an amount of poverty that's being
Speaker 1: experienced by students too. It's like, but I I just
Speaker 1: in general got I know so many people who and
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was because of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: but this this year, when daylight saving or I guess
Speaker 1: standard time hit, it just seemed like the sun was
Speaker 1: going down at fucking noon, like it was just going
Speaker 1: down so early this winter. I think just because everybody
Speaker 1: was kind of an oblique mood, it just like, uh
Speaker 1: piled on. But fuck yeah, I think time was just
Speaker 1: moving different. I don't know what happened. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I don't know if time got like a big check.
Speaker 1: Time was just acting different. Time is definitely hitting different
Speaker 1: right now. Tom was like, yeah, I got a new whip,
Speaker 1: I got a new baby, mama, I got all the time,
Speaker 1: Like damn, time slowed down, Like, bro, why are you
Speaker 1: why are you acting different? Man? You know me, it's
Speaker 1: me just cashed out my whole daylight savings, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Alright, let's talk about Pie Day, which
Speaker 1: was yesterday. Yeah, but I learned about all sorts of
Speaker 1: new pies with this Google trend pie map. Yeah. Pie. Look,
Speaker 1: pie had a big week for us on the show
Speaker 1: last week. You know there was there was pie was
Speaker 1: a lie was a big take that and pie twitter
Speaker 1: came from the Zeke Gang saying they love their amorphous
Speaker 1: pie piles to eat, and you know, I like a pie.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, but it's in. Yeah. The search
Speaker 1: for pie based on state is quite interesting, like California
Speaker 1: being Boisenberry pie is like, is that just because of nots?
Speaker 1: I have no idea, like every state's pot like it's
Speaker 1: really got gets. First of all, I would love to
Speaker 1: have a French silk pie, so I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that is exactly. That's why I'm like loving what
Speaker 1: I'm seeing sour cream and raisin pie. What's going on
Speaker 1: in Dakota? Oh no, that sounds terrible. I have a question.
Speaker 1: Crawfish pie is the number one in Louisiana, which, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's savory. Above them, you have possum pie, which I
Speaker 1: guess is a chocolate and nut based pie. But I thought, thought,
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like that's what that is we were dealing with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's how Google is. Um. Yeah, and based on
Speaker 1: our backwards conceptions of the South were like, yeah, they
Speaker 1: would put a possum in there. It's just a whole
Speaker 1: last possum, sometimes alive. Like buttermilk pie. What's buttermilk pie? Texas?
Speaker 1: Buttermilk pie is Tennessee all through the Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana
Speaker 1: region and even uh, Pennsylvania. You've got peanut butter pie,
Speaker 1: which I don't think I've ever had, But that sounds wonderful,
Speaker 1: sounds pretty good. A friend's mom used to make a
Speaker 1: butterfinger pie. That's fucking great. Put the word butterfinger in
Speaker 1: front of anything, and I'm there, Oh yeah, butterfinger diapers fantastic.
Speaker 1: Let me just take a bite. Vermont has cheeseburger pie. Okay,
Speaker 1: oh no, that's just that's just white people experimenting too much, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's it? Cheese Michigan too, and then Wisconsin spaghetti high
Speaker 1: is that what they call pizza? Like? What is that?
Speaker 1: Is that? Not just alasagna? Right? Spaghetti pie? Man, people
Speaker 1: are very confused buttermilk pie is actually pancakes yo. And
Speaker 1: then also, I mean, what's going on in Nevada? Are
Speaker 1: they are there a lot of people selling copies of
Speaker 1: The Last Call because bean pie is the most popular
Speaker 1: pie in Nevada as well. I'm like, okay, that's I
Speaker 1: don't know what what's what's the Nevada bean pie? Like?
Speaker 1: Bean pie doesn't sound like a real thing? Is it
Speaker 1: like the Nation of Islam ones that they that they
Speaker 1: hop out here like on Crenshaw. Bean Pie to me
Speaker 1: sounds like like in the in the forties when they
Speaker 1: like wrote TV shows that had homeless people in them,
Speaker 1: like they would just like bean pie wasn't the thing
Speaker 1: they invented for that. It doesn't sound real, right. It
Speaker 1: sounds like when they have to convey a poor persons,
Speaker 1: like what does poverty make you eat? That's what that
Speaker 1: sounds like? Bean pie? Bean pies over a trash can
Speaker 1: fire down by the rails, but it's usually navy bean pie.
Speaker 1: It's what like navy bean pie? Like you know, like
Speaker 1: when you see like Duce from the Nation of Islam
Speaker 1: when they got the bow tie. They're selling the Last
Speaker 1: Call and bean pies, those beans are usually navy beans. Okay,
Speaker 1: Korean desserts have a lot of bean. Yeah, the red bean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Japanese too. Yeah. Loose beans and milk, yeah, lovel loose bean.
Speaker 1: Loose bean there is There does seem to be a
Speaker 1: tradition of pies that sound grosser than they probably are,
Speaker 1: because you've got grasshopper pie, which I think is like
Speaker 1: a sweet mint liquor based pie, but it sounds gross
Speaker 1: and uh like we mentioned possum pie. I mean. The
Speaker 1: one thing I do like is like I like the
Speaker 1: States that a savory pie is their thing because that
Speaker 1: that appears to me a lot, because I mean, I like,
Speaker 1: I like pie, but I love Shepherd's pie or like
Speaker 1: you know, pastys or like you know, savory pastries. So
Speaker 1: crapf is pie meat pie, crab pie in Maryland? The
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, no with a savory pie. I
Speaker 1: like the occasional sweet pie, but I don't like the
Speaker 1: sweet pies to get pushed on. It's like apple pie, eat,
Speaker 1: but it's not my favorite pie. What's your favorite pie?
Speaker 1: I feel like butterfinger pie something like that. It's like
Speaker 1: I think I think a candy pie. Really, I'm just
Speaker 1: like I love a candy pie, Snickers pie, I've had
Speaker 1: sneakers by like Reese's pie, any type of like any candy.
Speaker 1: So you say, you're talking about the pies that you
Speaker 1: buy in the frozen section that you have to let
Speaker 1: thaw and eat like that, like those like an oreole pie,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean like a homemade like like she
Speaker 1: like you grind up butter fingers and put them in
Speaker 1: a in like I've never known or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the fun you put pie basse right,
Speaker 1: shut out candy pies. Yeah, I love a candy pie. Alright,
Speaker 1: Let's let's talk real quick about the vaccine rollout cluster
Speaker 1: funk that happened in Philly. So these these college buddies
Speaker 1: started uh three D printing face shields and came up
Speaker 1: with a cool logo, uh for, or a logo that
Speaker 1: seemed cool to people in Philadelphia. It was just a rocky,
Speaker 1: uh rocky silhouette with like a face mask over it,
Speaker 1: and it was called Philly Fighting COVID and like, off
Speaker 1: the strength of that, they started organizing testing sites for Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: They became a registered as a nonprofit. All of this
Speaker 1: despite the fact that the group's leader, Andre Derotion was
Speaker 1: twenty two and had uh and I'm quoting here, no
Speaker 1: background in healthcare. But he was a big fan of
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, baby, and that is what you need to
Speaker 1: succeed in America. So he came up with a plan
Speaker 1: for Philly fighting COVID to take their success in organizing
Speaker 1: testing sites, which was like mediocre but certainly more success
Speaker 1: than he should have had with literally no metal medical background.
Speaker 1: They decided to take that and UH put together a
Speaker 1: power point. UH that was their presentation on why they
Speaker 1: should take charge of the vaccine rollout in Philadelphia. Man,
Speaker 1: he said, with a quote, holy Elon Musk shooting for
Speaker 1: the heavens type plan, because who better to name check
Speaker 1: than the guy who famously said he would not take
Speaker 1: a COVID vaccine. But so this dude, his plan wasn't
Speaker 1: just about aiding his fellow citizens. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you could tell by the fact that he was named
Speaker 1: checking the richest person in the world when he was
Speaker 1: announcing it. But he wanted to bill insurance companies twenty
Speaker 1: four dollars per inoculation, UH, which he claimed would be
Speaker 1: juicy in his slide in a slide deck. He was
Speaker 1: like guys I know you're gonna love this. Here comes
Speaker 1: the juicy slide. How are we gonna get paid boom insurance? Uh?
Speaker 1: So he was able to borrow a quarter of a
Speaker 1: million dollars quote from a family friend at least the
Speaker 1: convention center for six months and Philadelphia because America, because
Speaker 1: this is America, and we're just like a private investor,
Speaker 1: private venture, let's do it. They just turned over the
Speaker 1: keys and it was a cluster fuck. Um, they're still
Speaker 1: pulling themselves out from this ship because he just like
Speaker 1: wasn't able to deliver on any of the things. Uh
Speaker 1: completely ditched all the testing sites. There was a quote
Speaker 1: glitch that caused them to lose all the racial and
Speaker 1: ethnic data for the patients. I wonder what that data
Speaker 1: would have indicated, yea, because exactly it's all young, young
Speaker 1: white people, Like what the fuck? And just before they
Speaker 1: began their Vaccine Nation campaign, they quietly reorganized as a
Speaker 1: for profit company called vox Populi or vax Populi. So
Speaker 1: they're good with the titles, they're good with like the
Speaker 1: branding ship, and therefore we should put them in charge
Speaker 1: of a massive public health campaign during our country's like
Speaker 1: greatest public health I don't know, bro vaxx populi fully
Speaker 1: sounds like a eugenics operation. That sounds like that sounds
Speaker 1: like how they put Simplis in the black community. Like
Speaker 1: that's I don't know if that was his intent. I
Speaker 1: mean his marketing plan, his marketing plan to build trust
Speaker 1: was to to do something with Philly legend Meek Mill
Speaker 1: getting a vaccination, I think doing a wheelie on a
Speaker 1: dirt bike down Broad Street, and it was just gonna
Speaker 1: be the most Philly ship ever. He was gonna grow
Speaker 1: a full last beard instantly. But yeah, it was gonna
Speaker 1: it was gonna be like a Steve Ogan in his
Speaker 1: own face tattooed on his back on a fucking a
Speaker 1: TV man Because I mean this is also parts of
Speaker 1: this story, Like it just sort of mimics every other
Speaker 1: thing too that we're seeing that, Like even the sites
Speaker 1: they had, people were working with the sign up links
Speaker 1: and got like it got out of the essential you know,
Speaker 1: a demographic and now real estate developers and financiers or
Speaker 1: something like yeah, I got my appointment, I'm gonna read it. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was just open to whoever, no organization. It was
Speaker 1: also like easily hackable a nurse revealed on Twitter that
Speaker 1: derotion Uh took home a zip block bag full of vaccines,
Speaker 1: which he gave out to a bunch of those friends
Speaker 1: so and put them on sneakers. App obviously right called back,
Speaker 1: I took a I just hate the description zip block bag,
Speaker 1: like you're not even expected, not even not even a
Speaker 1: cooler bro, Like yeah, ye scene, man, the zip blog bag.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you don't even respect the vaccine. Like
Speaker 1: that's making me also piste off. On top of that,
Speaker 1: that's like when your we deal has got the pre rolls, like, bro,
Speaker 1: what is this vaccine? What is in this right? Right?
Speaker 1: Why he's already rolled? Um. The site that they were
Speaker 1: using has had to be taken over by the city's
Speaker 1: health department and later FEMA because they just totally fuck
Speaker 1: things up and obviously like this is not one of
Speaker 1: those things that you can like you can't put the
Speaker 1: toothpaste back in the tube when it comes to like
Speaker 1: trust around vaccines, like this is fucked with community trust
Speaker 1: around vaccinations, and so Philly is really struggling. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to retract my statement from earlier and say you
Speaker 1: don't let people try things we should not know. Just
Speaker 1: don't just use the people who have already been doing it. Don't.
Speaker 1: Don't just give people the keys to things. But they
Speaker 1: love to let people who who have friends with seven
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars of spare venture capital laying around.
Speaker 1: They love to let those people try things. So and
Speaker 1: I would also just like to say, uh, if you
Speaker 1: have a friend that has three quarters of a million
Speaker 1: dollars to give you, that's not your friend. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: as our writer jam put, maybe it's a it's a
Speaker 1: good lesson to maybe not in trust the most critical
Speaker 1: phase of an unprecedented global health emergency to a random
Speaker 1: rich white kid who threw together a PowerPoint presentation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. Yeah. I also just want to
Speaker 1: go on record and say Elon Musk is a bitch.
Speaker 1: Fuck you so tired of the Elon Musk worship him
Speaker 1: in America right now? It is wild. It's just like
Speaker 1: the idea that like, you know, someone can get like
Speaker 1: really popular off like science invention ideas and not just
Speaker 1: being like a rapper or something, only for him to
Speaker 1: want to be a rapper. So it's really pretty loup
Speaker 1: people are caught in regards. He did a convincing job
Speaker 1: of pretending to smoke weed. Uh, well you do. It's
Speaker 1: been a pleasure having you as always. Where can people
Speaker 1: find you and follow you? Um? I am on Twitter
Speaker 1: at you dot Underscore, Instagram at professor dot a and
Speaker 1: um I have a special of it just dropped on
Speaker 1: Friday on Epics and um also wrote for the new
Speaker 1: release of Legends of the Dark Night the Batman thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that comes out in July, so just look out for that.
Speaker 1: Is that podcast or that is a comic series. There's
Speaker 1: a little actology series or the last issue of the
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Man. The full series starts to drop April second.
Speaker 1: I believe I just found out there's a a podcast,
Speaker 1: a Batman podcast that's coming. Oh um yeah. Uh is
Speaker 1: there tweet or some of the work of social media
Speaker 1: you've been enjoying, Uh, yes, there is. Uh. This tweet
Speaker 1: is from at kiss Joy, Underscore Underscore. This is uh.
Speaker 1: I just drove for thirty minutes in g t A
Speaker 1: to clear my mind. Oh man, I mean because it's
Speaker 1: it's should If you really drive around that motherfucker, it
Speaker 1: can take you a minute. Yeah, right, you ever just
Speaker 1: like drive around trying to follow traffic laws and ship
Speaker 1: just like, are there times when I'm like, I'll go
Speaker 1: to like the desert part and I find myself just
Speaker 1: driving there and I'm like, what am I doing? Why
Speaker 1: am I doing? Like this is the most inefficient way,
Speaker 1: Like I could hop in an aircraft or something, but
Speaker 1: sometimes I'd just like to take the roads. It's like
Speaker 1: sometimes you just need a little bit of order, you know,
Speaker 1: like when you find ordering chaos and just like obeying
Speaker 1: the laws in GTA feels like that. M Miles, where
Speaker 1: can people find you? What's the tweet you've been enjoying? Uh?
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter and Instagram. Miles Gray
Speaker 1: PlayStation Network, Miles A Gray, Uh Fiance the other podcast
Speaker 1: talking ninety day Fiance smoking that Wow. Now some tweets
Speaker 1: that I like. First one is from Marks my Words
Speaker 1: at Alison Clint is it Jay and Silent Bob or
Speaker 1: j and Silenced Bob that's never getting old and silent?
Speaker 1: And then this tweet from our guests himself at your
Speaker 1: Underscore tweeted, damn a coffin cause four thousand dollars y'all
Speaker 1: can bury me loose so good? You know, Like like
Speaker 1: four people DM me to ask if they could use
Speaker 1: that as a song title. Yeah, any genre, any genre
Speaker 1: that could be. It's adaptable. That's so good. You can
Speaker 1: find find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. I
Speaker 1: like to tweet from Taylor Garren. She said, just cut
Speaker 1: up some strawberries and put them in a little bowl
Speaker 1: for breakfast, like I'm a fucking ladybug in a little
Speaker 1: hat with a flower on it. You can find us
Speaker 1: on Twitter at daily Zeitgeist. Were at the Daily Zeitgeist
Speaker 1: on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website,
Speaker 1: daily zeitgeist dot com, where we post our episodes on
Speaker 1: our footnotes where we link off to the information that
Speaker 1: we talked about today's episode, as well as a song
Speaker 1: that we recommend you check out. Miles, what is today's recommendation? Um,
Speaker 1: this one is going to be uh, Windows Shop up,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember that song. He's a Windows Shop
Speaker 1: But it's a remix from lock Him l A k
Speaker 1: I Am. You can get on a sound cloud and
Speaker 1: it's a little bit slow down, but it's got it's
Speaker 1: got a real nice feel to it. And I just
Speaker 1: like when people flip songs from the early auts and
Speaker 1: ship because it's like, especially with the new sort of
Speaker 1: production sound that's out so you will like this, but
Speaker 1: it's spelled window w H E N d O E
Speaker 1: h O p p A. So when you look for
Speaker 1: right on SoundCloud or just go to the Footnope, the
Speaker 1: link is there. You know what I mean? Alright, go
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