Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one seventy three,
Speaker 1: Episode two of the Daily Like Stef production of I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a
Speaker 1: deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Tuesday, February one.
Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien, a K Ted Cruzy coward.
Speaker 1: Is he ran off to can coon? He got shamed
Speaker 1: hopped on a plane? Boy, what a goon. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about it today with Jack Obe and Miles of Gray.
Speaker 1: We're giving Ted Cruise it on t DSY. That is
Speaker 1: courtesy of uh Ben Acosta. Want to be authored is
Speaker 1: that we're coming. Yeah, and Uh I'm thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles Grass,
Speaker 1: Miles Gray. A K spliff penny number nine in g
Speaker 1: major movement for a K A John Cage is four
Speaker 1: minutes and twenty seconds a K A golt Rinse of Arabia.
Speaker 1: A K. Hey, Jackie, it's me your cousin, Yeah, your
Speaker 1: cousin Miles E. Grazy. You know that new sound you've
Speaker 1: been looking for? Well, listen to this and some prop
Speaker 1: work there. Shout out to car Lobo on the discord.
Speaker 1: Actually wrote in bong bubble noises for the sound you've
Speaker 1: been looking for and I love a good you know,
Speaker 1: back to the future rep back to the future. What
Speaker 1: was his name again? It was Marvin Marvin and Marvin
Speaker 1: Berry Marvin Berry. Yeah, what if fact? That works? Like yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't work like it's bad. But it's
Speaker 1: also like when you watch it, you're not like, what
Speaker 1: the fund is happening right now? I mean you do it.
Speaker 1: I think it's like with adult eyes, you're like, damn.
Speaker 1: Or once you like start writing yourself or entering that
Speaker 1: kind of business, you're like, what were they? What was
Speaker 1: the thought process? They were like, we gotta, we gotta
Speaker 1: let it. We gotta make sure this one does not
Speaker 1: escape them. Uh ship Miles. Great to have you back.
Speaker 1: Great toe Um, thank you for having me. We are
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious,
Speaker 1: the talented Mr Vinceman. Soon is is great to be here,
Speaker 1: you know. Marvin just it's like a really good cousin
Speaker 1: name I feel, yeah, yeah, oh yeah man, cousin Marvin.
Speaker 1: And then Marvin gets his head blown off in pulp fiction. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, It's it's an unfortunate name
Speaker 1: to sometimes it's like you're never where's the hero Marvin Marsian.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, maybe it just sounds like a
Speaker 1: roused about Oh it's Marvin. Here we comes right, right right?
Speaker 1: Oh man? Do you think that scene had rewrites where
Speaker 1: the Marvin Barry scene, Like first they tried to be like,
Speaker 1: why don't we just do stutt like, hey, Chuck, it's
Speaker 1: me you know what are you looking forward? Well here
Speaker 1: it is and you're like, wait, well that's that was
Speaker 1: a Chuck Berry song. They said, Chuck, that's enough, or
Speaker 1: did they go it's it's gotta be marvel. Well, the
Speaker 1: fact that he says Marvin Marvin Barry, like it's if
Speaker 1: you had just said it's your cousin Marvin Berry, that
Speaker 1: would have been one thing, or your cousin plus first name, right,
Speaker 1: But then you wouldn't know the Chuck Berry thing, right right.
Speaker 1: I just thinking also the reality of how you would speak,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like the delicate interplay of what's real
Speaker 1: and how you get the message across to the audience.
Speaker 1: Because I'm never like, hey, it's your cousin, bro, your
Speaker 1: cousin Miles Miles Gray, unless it's like an elderly cousin
Speaker 1: who likes especially if it's one of your cousins with
Speaker 1: the same last name as you. Exactly what implies that
Speaker 1: Chuck Berry has a lot of cousins that are always
Speaker 1: trying to sell them on stuff and picture that's the
Speaker 1: movie I want to see, the unscrupulous Barry Cousins the
Speaker 1: um All right, Vince, what what I was just gonna say?
Speaker 1: I feel like this is I feel like this is
Speaker 1: the process of, uh figuring out that all my favorite
Speaker 1: movies are made for children and I'm a four year
Speaker 1: old man. But Vince, what's new with you? What's going on? Man? Oh?
Speaker 1: Not much? Just uh, you know, I had a birthday yesterday,
Speaker 1: and yeah, h b D it's it's great. It's great
Speaker 1: to have a birthday. And now it's over and uh,
Speaker 1: I can just enjoy the rest of the year. Oh
Speaker 1: so for you, you're like one of these lucky motherfucker's
Speaker 1: who had a birthday before the pandemic and now it's
Speaker 1: only biting you in the ass now because last year
Speaker 1: you probably had a Prialy had a whole las birthday, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: last year. I can't remember. I'm old enough that I
Speaker 1: don't remember exactly what we did on my birthday last year.
Speaker 1: But I think it was good. Yea right right, oh man, yeah, pandemic?
Speaker 1: Will I will the pandemic be over for my birthday?
Speaker 1: You know, because that was the thing in this summer.
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people were thinking about
Speaker 1: for the fall. They're like, dude, at the pandemic still
Speaker 1: happening for my birthday. I mean, not that you think
Speaker 1: like that, but I think it enters everyone's mind as
Speaker 1: a goal post in time. I mean I were like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be over by Memorial Day so we can
Speaker 1: go out and have have a proper three day weekend. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've talked to you, Miles specifically about how I think
Speaker 1: that the pandemic is specifically a punishment for me for
Speaker 1: because I have a July birthday, and like, you couldn't
Speaker 1: have really made it anymore central, so, you know, and
Speaker 1: for all the blaming of like Trump and his policies,
Speaker 1: I let's let's not get carried away. I think this
Speaker 1: whole pandemic was based the some kind of karmic spite
Speaker 1: um against Jack. Yeah. And that's where yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm always shouting when we're not recording, Why
Speaker 1: do bad things happen to good people? It's not it's
Speaker 1: that Nancy Karragan tape over why alright? Underrated strange reaction
Speaker 1: to that, like what does that happened to? It's not
Speaker 1: just like all my leg go get that person? But
Speaker 1: why me? Why couldn't have me? Oh? Man? That was
Speaker 1: one of the first times I made an adult laugh.
Speaker 1: Was right around that time. I think it was about
Speaker 1: ninety three, right, um. And I was in third grade
Speaker 1: and someone there was like one of the kids in class,
Speaker 1: someone was crying about like they got in trouble and
Speaker 1: they had to like you know, you do like red light,
Speaker 1: green light ship, that's a red light? And this girl
Speaker 1: was like why why? And I was like, okay, Nancy Karragan.
Speaker 1: My teacher was like god now and no, none of
Speaker 1: the kids understood, and only my teacher understood. And I
Speaker 1: was like the fucking goatchard prior this elementary to your cousin,
Speaker 1: Marvin Leno, I got the joke rider for you. Hey,
Speaker 1: what do you? Nancy? Carry it the city around my
Speaker 1: head like dice man. All right, Vince, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things
Speaker 1: we're talking about. Uh, we're gonna talk about that Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal op ed from the Johns Hopkins physician who
Speaker 1: believes that we might be seeing the end of COVID,
Speaker 1: which you know, yeah, I'll see that now, don't I know. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what he's basically saying. That the medical community is like,
Speaker 1: don't curse it, just shut up my scene. Cool. All
Speaker 1: the takes did feel like that because everyone was saying like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the numbers are, but you don't. Don't fucking look at
Speaker 1: the numbers, asshole. Yeah, So we'll talk about that. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about I've been publicly on this show dreading Trump's return,
Speaker 1: uh some and it would be like some carefully choreographed
Speaker 1: you know, World Wrestling Federation, like emerges from the spotlights
Speaker 1: like he did at the r n C. But apparently
Speaker 1: it happened last week. Uh and just a lot of
Speaker 1: people didn't notice. Uh. So we'll talk about that. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about the Supreme Court telling him funck off. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about Mike Lindell. We got a lot to talk
Speaker 1: about today. Most importantly, Taco Bell has entered the fight
Speaker 1: the Crispy Sangwich wars fight. Uh. So we'll talk about
Speaker 1: all of that plenty more, but first, Vince, Uh, we
Speaker 1: like to ask our guests, what is something from your
Speaker 1: search history that's revealing about who you are? Um? I
Speaker 1: I searched et hoodie because I was, you know, scrolling through.
Speaker 1: It's an old friends on Instagram and we're passing around
Speaker 1: in the group chat. You know, when you got like
Speaker 1: a friend that you don't talk to but mostly you
Speaker 1: just make fun of them in group chats with other people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there their group chat fodder, their Instagram group chat fodder. Yep.
Speaker 1: I have somebody who has a real brawlic doll collection
Speaker 1: and a lonely doctor who we always speculate what their
Speaker 1: life's about. Yeah, so I got one of those. And
Speaker 1: there was like one of those real uh you know,
Speaker 1: vague book we call him vague books. I forget one,
Speaker 1: which one of my comedian friends came up with that
Speaker 1: whenever people are sad and they just like right, vague
Speaker 1: platitudes online, vague vague booking, and they're in like a
Speaker 1: they're in a blanket looking very uh for Luren, And
Speaker 1: it reminded me of ET. And I was trying to
Speaker 1: find the Et picture to compare it to, and then
Speaker 1: I googled Et hoodie only to realize that Et wasn't
Speaker 1: wearing a hoodie. It was actually just like his blank
Speaker 1: blanket warm. Yeah, like Mandela affected myself, I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope my friend heard this podcast liked st E
Speaker 1: was wearing a fucking hoodie. So did you picture in
Speaker 1: your mind Et wearing the red hoodie that Elliott wears
Speaker 1: exactly exactly? I did? Well, yeah, yeah, I did? Yeah
Speaker 1: right now, huh. Eat hoodie is like a whole vibe though,
Speaker 1: like if Et rock to hoodie, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: his hands selling Molly and ship. Yeah, whereas the you
Speaker 1: can pull off the red hoodie, you cannot pull off
Speaker 1: the blanket wrapped around your head and then like tied
Speaker 1: at your chest without people being like, yo, man's everything.
Speaker 1: It's everything, right, Because remember there's even that tweet that
Speaker 1: we liked. I was like, yo, I took my kid
Speaker 1: brother to Target and it was just like a little
Speaker 1: kid in a big gass downcoat and it just look
Speaker 1: like a coat was walking around. Even that shape was
Speaker 1: less suspicious to me when I was a kid in
Speaker 1: the coat. But because that could have been et and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have batted it, and I because I'm used
Speaker 1: to that, but it's some kid in a blanket like that.
Speaker 1: I'm like some kind of terrestrial being. What is something, Vince?
Speaker 1: Do you think is underrated? Uh? Half hour TV shows?
Speaker 1: I feel like we don't get them very often anymore.
Speaker 1: But man, when we do, it's great. You just bust
Speaker 1: through him without falling asleep. I mean, what's the good
Speaker 1: what's the last good half hour? You think? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say ted Lasso? Okay, man, because I really need to
Speaker 1: watch it doesn't seem like it would be a half
Speaker 1: hour episode show, and then it is, and then uh,
Speaker 1: and then you know you want you end up watching
Speaker 1: more of it. But I love those half hour chunks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to. I started watching it, but I only
Speaker 1: had a free preview of Apple TV because I had
Speaker 1: an Apple Watch that had six months or something over
Speaker 1: that I remembered at the last minute that I had
Speaker 1: like a week left. Didn't get through all of it,
Speaker 1: but I really did. I started seeing what everybody says
Speaker 1: about it, if it like it's just pleasant, uh, and
Speaker 1: it's like, uh, it's really it's weird, Like because it's funny,
Speaker 1: but also at the same time, I'm like, no, like
Speaker 1: it's like that that one teacher who's like class like
Speaker 1: you would behave in for some reason, had that energy
Speaker 1: over me. I don't, I don't. I don't miss the
Speaker 1: have in this class for some reason. Yeah. On paper,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, this is a really terrible Disney concept
Speaker 1: where like the Uplifting American goes to England and teaches
Speaker 1: everybody an important lesson about positive thinking. Uh. And it
Speaker 1: kind of is that, but it's good somehow, and it's
Speaker 1: hard to figure out why. Right, how do people in
Speaker 1: the UK feel about ted Lasso? That's all? That's a
Speaker 1: great question. I'd be I'd be interested. UK review from
Speaker 1: The Independent. Uh. Ted Lasso review. Jason Sadikis is a
Speaker 1: hapless football coach in Dislikable if uneven comedy four stars.
Speaker 1: Full of that. That's like the that's one of the
Speaker 1: that's a lazy critic move when you call something uneven
Speaker 1: without saying what you what was wrong with it? It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I will tell you in what ratios, but
Speaker 1: even nonetheless, right, just keep it vague. Uh, probably a
Speaker 1: reflection and of how you were feeling at the time.
Speaker 1: Maybe the fact that you were watching it while you
Speaker 1: were like stopping and starting going on walls. Maybe it
Speaker 1: only looks uneven because you got your wallet in your
Speaker 1: back pocket. Man, I just watched I May Destroy You.
Speaker 1: That's another one that's like a Presties show that is
Speaker 1: in half hour episodes. For the most part, I think
Speaker 1: I think it's all half ower. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I watched that to another half hour great half howur
Speaker 1: show definitely different vibes, but it's also matt like. But
Speaker 1: I think that's where, like you gotta give it up
Speaker 1: to MICHAELA. Cole that show because the way the subject
Speaker 1: matter that they navigate through the show while still not
Speaker 1: having it's it's balanced in this very like just elegant way.
Speaker 1: Uh that I was like, damn, this this is this
Speaker 1: is what, this is what that writing ships about? Yeah,
Speaker 1: even like that, that's what exactly nobody was writing with
Speaker 1: packets or pockets unencumbered by wallets. Uh, what is something?
Speaker 1: You think? It's overrated? Awards movies that are based on plays.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot, you know, and I
Speaker 1: hate when you're watching a movie and then you have
Speaker 1: that thought like, oh, This is definitely based on a play,
Speaker 1: wasn't it? And then what's a movie like that? I'm
Speaker 1: because look, Vince, you're you watch a lot of films.
Speaker 1: You know it would be known you're a bit of
Speaker 1: a critic yourself. Um, but yeah, like, what's what's a
Speaker 1: film that that does that? Because I'm also completely ignorant
Speaker 1: to like the theater scene and that I can't remember
Speaker 1: if it's actually based on a play or if it's
Speaker 1: just because Aaron Sorkin wrote it and he's like a playwright.
Speaker 1: But Trial of the Chicago Seven you're definitely watching that
Speaker 1: movie going oh, yeah, this is definitely like this is
Speaker 1: a play, this is really stage right, And then One
Speaker 1: Night in Miami was definitely a play. Um, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of just hanging out in the hotel room for
Speaker 1: like way too long, right. I like when people move
Speaker 1: around and go play, especially in this day and age.
Speaker 1: You know, it's nice to go in places doing things
Speaker 1: and not being in the same room talking at each
Speaker 1: other and just yeah, the most action you see is
Speaker 1: like someone getting up to pour like a sniffter of brandy,
Speaker 1: just to sit back down. Anything you can do while
Speaker 1: you're about to have an important conversation. Then did you
Speaker 1: see a nomad land? I did that. That's kind of
Speaker 1: the opposite, like not nothing really, there's no like dramatic
Speaker 1: arc or like no dramatic conversations where people are like
Speaker 1: disagreeing about stuff, but very very pretty lot lots of
Speaker 1: stuff happening in the background. Yeah, you need a real
Speaker 1: nice like vista backdrop on stage if you're gonna just
Speaker 1: like the rolling hills. Yeah, alright, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll be right back. And we're back and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, so I wanted to talk real quick. This
Speaker 1: is the one that my parents were like, did you
Speaker 1: see this thing in the Wall Street Journal? Like they're
Speaker 1: trying to trying to figure out a time they can
Speaker 1: get out and see the grandkids. Uh. So this Johns
Speaker 1: Hopkins physician. Uh you know that this is actually kind
Speaker 1: of follow up on a story that we've been talking
Speaker 1: about sort of the mystery drop in uh COVID cases
Speaker 1: over the last six weeks, where scientists were like, it
Speaker 1: can't be the vaccine yet, Um, people definitely aren't improving
Speaker 1: their behavior in any way. Uh. And so this dude's
Speaker 1: theory is that it is based on herd immunity essentially.
Speaker 1: And so one of the things that we heard in
Speaker 1: the very early stages of COVID, and I think one
Speaker 1: of the reasons this isn't getting as much play is
Speaker 1: there were scientists out of Stanford who were like, we
Speaker 1: should just do the herd immunity thing because it's not
Speaker 1: as deadly as people think, So just let it riff essentially. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And uh, that was something that Trump was saying behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. And you know, five thousand deaths later, Uh,
Speaker 1: turns out that was not a good thing to even suggest,
Speaker 1: to even throw out there, because uh, yeah, that was
Speaker 1: just what the conservatives and libertarians were like dying too.
Speaker 1: That was the they're sort of natural state would be,
Speaker 1: let's just do it that one. Let it play out,
Speaker 1: you do you all do me until it gets to
Speaker 1: me and then I'm going to cry about it and
Speaker 1: ask why you didn't help me. Yeah, and and this
Speaker 1: doctor whose name I will mention in a second once
Speaker 1: I look it up, but they were saying that, like
Speaker 1: the last paragraph is, some medical experts privately agreed with
Speaker 1: my prediction that there may be very little COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: by April, but suggested that I not talked publicly about
Speaker 1: her immunity because people might become complacent, failed to take precautions,
Speaker 1: or might decline the vaccine. Which, yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: totally understandable that that people would think that. I do
Speaker 1: think that, like it's valuable to have this point of
Speaker 1: view out there so that people can uh see some
Speaker 1: light at the end of the tunnel, or at least
Speaker 1: have an understanding of like what people I think might
Speaker 1: be happening. I don't know if Americans understand light at
Speaker 1: the end of the tunnel though, right They're like light
Speaker 1: and they think they're out of the tunnel the problem here.
Speaker 1: But yes, I mean, it's like it's almost like some
Speaker 1: people you can, you know, are responsible enough to hear
Speaker 1: this story and take from that what they came like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this it feels like this is it. Really we're seeing
Speaker 1: that this is a finite event and it won't drag
Speaker 1: on forever. Other people I know are gonna be running
Speaker 1: up and down the hall. Dude, it's it's basically gone,
Speaker 1: Like there are already people who are just gonna read
Speaker 1: this day. It's basically gone. No, it's not, it's going down.
Speaker 1: But the way we're getting you here, please don't forget
Speaker 1: the fucked up the way we got to this point.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll feel good until I'm vaccinated. Like
Speaker 1: that would That's the only thing that would even begin
Speaker 1: to change how I would alter like my behavior or anything,
Speaker 1: is to know, like, oh, I'm I'm at least now
Speaker 1: medically beginning to be safeguarded, rather than just sort of
Speaker 1: counting on like probability to be like yeah, fucker, dude,
Speaker 1: I don't I'm just going to the gym now, just
Speaker 1: breathing on everything. Yeah, I think I think part of
Speaker 1: the calculus of April is that, like the vaccine plan
Speaker 1: continues to move forward. It's not like and this will
Speaker 1: magically go away by then. It's that enough people will
Speaker 1: be vaccinated, like combined with the number of people who
Speaker 1: have had it and have like built up the immunity
Speaker 1: without really showing symptoms or like contributing to the overall
Speaker 1: numbers that we that people have been working with. After
Speaker 1: this past year, it's hard for me to listen to
Speaker 1: any sort of predictions because everything we've had is just
Speaker 1: like back and forth. Just tell me what to do
Speaker 1: tomorrow and then we'll go from there. How about that? Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. And that's probably a good like
Speaker 1: way to uh think about our own lives, you know,
Speaker 1: is that like we're we're just gonna hunker down until
Speaker 1: uh until we find out like exactly what is happening,
Speaker 1: and not make any big decisions before things have actually
Speaker 1: changed like on the ground. But I mean when they
Speaker 1: tell you when you get the vaccine and they're like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, this doesn't mean you can change your
Speaker 1: behaved aivier in any way, and you're kind of like
Speaker 1: you feel like that's probably just something they have to
Speaker 1: say so that we don't all go like wild, because
Speaker 1: I even think, like I have a friend who's uh
Speaker 1: uh like a nurse and has completed their vaccinations and
Speaker 1: like even the like subconscious oh damn done. We can
Speaker 1: kick it then because they're not I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be a danger to them and they're not going to
Speaker 1: be a danger to me or whatever. And I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: hold the funk up. And it was just like, see
Speaker 1: this is how that runaway train ship goes of, like
Speaker 1: because I know how. It's also so it's such an
Speaker 1: attractive proposition to try and figure out what the margins
Speaker 1: are statistically if you can get away with ship but like,
Speaker 1: you know, we need we need to sort of normalize
Speaker 1: this idea, normalize, uh, make regular to most people, this
Speaker 1: idea that like you don't like we we want to
Speaker 1: be as safe as possible. But yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: think it's just the maintain your same behavior. I think
Speaker 1: it's just a way to not uh have to like
Speaker 1: card everybody at the at the entrance to any store
Speaker 1: or restaurant or whatever. Like we're not. We're trying not
Speaker 1: to get into a situation where people are like, well,
Speaker 1: I have the vaccine so I can do whatever I
Speaker 1: want and then and then have other people like trying
Speaker 1: to verify it with proof. It's way easier to just
Speaker 1: be like, you know what, just keep wearing the mask
Speaker 1: for a while longer and uh, and then we'll be
Speaker 1: good until people I know in healthcare say, you know
Speaker 1: it's it's uh, I don't have night terrors anymore from
Speaker 1: the ship that you know. Then I'll be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well maybe based on that, based on the people who
Speaker 1: have to deal with our behavior, uh, then I will
Speaker 1: I can pivot a little bit. I wonder how what
Speaker 1: the over under is on when this op ed is
Speaker 1: going to be fucking bandied about by like open at
Speaker 1: all type folks who are just trying to say, like
Speaker 1: this guy just said it, it's done in April, so
Speaker 1: we need to start planning now. Yeah. I mean it's
Speaker 1: a short enough op ed, and the like half of
Speaker 1: it is the person being like, this doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: you shouldn't you should do basically what you just just
Speaker 1: that hopefully when doctor says that what you say it
Speaker 1: might be over April. Yeah, but I'm saying, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: but April. Yeah, I mean it's probably the short answer
Speaker 1: is it probably already is being bandied about by in
Speaker 1: particular thing Uh yeah, um, by the pro getting to
Speaker 1: visit the grandkids lobby. Yeah, grandkids again? You mean honey,
Speaker 1: I blew up the kid. Yeah. Alright. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Trump's big return to the spotlight. Uh. He came out
Speaker 1: guns blazing on Fox News last week. Uh in yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't. So it was basically ostensibly because of the
Speaker 1: death of Rush Limbaugh. Uh. And he went on to
Speaker 1: a bunch of different shows on News, Maximum, O, A,
Speaker 1: n N, and Fox News to talk about like Russia,
Speaker 1: Limbaugh's legacy. You know, he came out talking about how
Speaker 1: you know, he claimed ten times that the election was
Speaker 1: stolen from him. Uh, And he spent like an hour
Speaker 1: on Hannity and I'm just gonna say it, like, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump doesn't seem like a guy who would be very
Speaker 1: good at somberly reflecting on another man. Yeah, they're like
Speaker 1: this is the way to bring him back or turning
Speaker 1: into some petty dick measuring contest where he's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, I was actually more racist than Rush,
Speaker 1: so I think about it. He was he actually got
Speaker 1: it from me. His whole swag. Yeah, I mean he did. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you use Rush to be like And I
Speaker 1: spoke with Rush at the end and he said he
Speaker 1: believes the election was stolen. So you know, oh god
Speaker 1: dyeing Goblin's wishes right dead or living people to Trump
Speaker 1: are only just like props to get him what he wants. Ever,
Speaker 1: so of course I was in a dream. The Constitution
Speaker 1: awoke and spoke to me and said it's all yours. Maybe.
Speaker 1: And on his deathbed, Rush said grading Carter was very
Speaker 1: unfair to me. That's why magazine went under. His obsession
Speaker 1: with like bitchy New York media feuds is uh one
Speaker 1: of the underrated things that I feel like the fact
Speaker 1: that there's a bunch of people in the middle America
Speaker 1: who have like cheered and been like funck grading Carter.
Speaker 1: It's pretty it's pretty amazing. One of the great surreal
Speaker 1: aspects of his his rise to power. Um. But so
Speaker 1: the main takeaway is that he So he did an
Speaker 1: interview with Seawan Hannity primetime Fox News. Apparently it drew
Speaker 1: like fine ratings, but it wasn't even the most watched
Speaker 1: show of the evening. Tucker Carlson's show even had higher
Speaker 1: ratings than like Trump's first post election interview on her
Speaker 1: post leaving the office interviews. So I don't know. Again,
Speaker 1: this is another like very cautiously optimistic story where I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to take this to me
Speaker 1: and that he can't like engineer some other great comeback.
Speaker 1: But it's just a positive sign. I think, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I think that's what c packs for because that's that's
Speaker 1: where I think he's got He's got the whole Beyonce
Speaker 1: homecoming stage show planned out, because that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big audience of people who you know are gonna just
Speaker 1: want to watch him dry hump the flag, um and
Speaker 1: scream at Clanchella. But yeah, I don't know, we'll see
Speaker 1: what what he does there. But I think like his
Speaker 1: whole the thing is like everything he's saying is like
Speaker 1: just stale. And now that you're out of office, it's
Speaker 1: like you sound like your campaigning is Joe Biden again. Right, well,
Speaker 1: I mean the whole Like it's funny that it started
Speaker 1: with Rush Limbaugh's death because like, once upon a time,
Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh was like like straight talking conservative guy who's
Speaker 1: going to tell you know, Joe six pack or whatever
Speaker 1: exactly what he wanted to hear. Uh, And then like
Speaker 1: that wasn't uh you know, at a certain point, like
Speaker 1: that lost its shine and and then and then we
Speaker 1: got Trump and and like Fox News and then you
Speaker 1: see Trump going on Fox News and like the ratings
Speaker 1: aren't that good because Fox News is not giving people
Speaker 1: like the straight shot of like Q and on adrenaline,
Speaker 1: adrenaline that you're gonna get Like they're like they're old
Speaker 1: they're old hat now like they don't they can't give
Speaker 1: people that shot of uh dopamine the way that they
Speaker 1: once were able to. Yeah, yeah, it's a little jumbled.
Speaker 1: I feel like it would be it would be confusing
Speaker 1: for a Fox News viewer, like I I do feel
Speaker 1: like you can look at some of the ratings and uh,
Speaker 1: like I think ap was pointing out that on like
Speaker 1: Fox News is audience during the impeachment, when it was
Speaker 1: the prosecution like present or the impeachment managers presenting their case,
Speaker 1: they're they had like shot like super duper low ratings thousand,
Speaker 1: uh and then when Trump's lawyers came back and offered
Speaker 1: up their defense, it doubled to two point to one million.
Speaker 1: So I do feel like it's they they know what
Speaker 1: they're looking for, and they also know what they don't like,
Speaker 1: the part of reality they don't want to let in.
Speaker 1: So that's like, that's like me watching a Laker game
Speaker 1: when I don't care, like we lost to the Clippers,
Speaker 1: but I'm just watching all I'm watching all the times
Speaker 1: the Lakers scored in a super cut and that's how
Speaker 1: I watched the game, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, oh shit,
Speaker 1: what was the final score? One? Two? Okay? Um? But
Speaker 1: did you see you know, like it's like what are
Speaker 1: you doing? You know on some level, like do you
Speaker 1: have to understand that you are you know, you're safeguarding
Speaker 1: yourself because you don't want you don't want to see
Speaker 1: the other thing where other people. You know, if you're
Speaker 1: a little trying to be somewhat more objective, you're like, well, no,
Speaker 1: I want to see this bullshit and also the other bullshit,
Speaker 1: and I will sift through the bullshit. Yeah, It's like
Speaker 1: the Fox News is like chicken soup for racist boomers,
Speaker 1: and so then they show anything else that's not flattering
Speaker 1: their worldview. It's like, you know, when they when McDonald's
Speaker 1: surf salad or whatever, they're not gonna like, what's the point?
Speaker 1: Why is this here? I mean, But a positive way
Speaker 1: that you could take it is that they recognize that
Speaker 1: some bad ship they don't want to admit happened on
Speaker 1: January six, and like, so they're avoiding that, like the plague,
Speaker 1: and that would involve which, by the way, they're not
Speaker 1: good at avoiding plagues. But uh, that that would involve like,
Speaker 1: you know, trying not trying to hear Trump speak that much,
Speaker 1: at least right now, while he hasn't come up with
Speaker 1: a new a new angle, find a new angle, it's
Speaker 1: a normal color. Wait till he drops that mixtape at sepack.
Speaker 1: The Donald Trump of Your Nightmares will emerge Jack. Ah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I'm so curious where they go. Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, Donald Trump seemed like the perfect Frankenstein's monster
Speaker 1: of all their worst impulses, but he also made every
Speaker 1: other like mainstream Republican at that point look really bad
Speaker 1: and uh and lame and uh. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: guess like the next step is like Lauren, whatever the
Speaker 1: Q and on Congress people are now? Uh, you know
Speaker 1: whoever seems like the more intense, uncut version of Trump MT.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is another thing. I mean this piece
Speaker 1: I was reading in the New republic Um who is it?
Speaker 1: By oh By? There's this piece in the New Republic
Speaker 1: by Alex Shepard that's kind of talking about how the
Speaker 1: GOP playbook is just kind of like faltering a bit,
Speaker 1: not a bit a lot, Like right now they're doing
Speaker 1: the two thousand nine playbook on Biden's pandemic stimulus, which
Speaker 1: is scream about how much money is being wasted and like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you're gonna help losers overwinter, because that's
Speaker 1: what they did in two thousand nine. They're like these
Speaker 1: people who went over their skis on these subprime mortgages.
Speaker 1: They're losers y'all they fucked up. That's on them. And
Speaker 1: that was sort of like the attitude even like it
Speaker 1: wasn't very humane look on the people who were got
Speaker 1: into these fucked up mortgages, and now like the same thing,
Speaker 1: it's just oh my god, these losers are getting they
Speaker 1: don't deserve money. So then they can do the whole
Speaker 1: thing of like water down the stimulus, which means a
Speaker 1: shitty recovery because the stimulus wasn't effective at all, then
Speaker 1: blame the Democrats for the lack of anything improving, take
Speaker 1: the house, and then hopefully just repeat that pattern until
Speaker 1: you're in the White House again, like they try to do.
Speaker 1: But it seems like now the austerity ship just doesn't hit,
Speaker 1: especially after Trump and like the in your face as
Speaker 1: fuckory that was going on with giving rich people more
Speaker 1: money and things like that, and now with the pandemic,
Speaker 1: like even like, yes, there are definitely America's definitely team Bootstraps,
Speaker 1: but they're definitely also people who are Team Bootstraps that
Speaker 1: are also kind of like, you know, I, I, uh,
Speaker 1: my bootstraps even vanished somehow, so I'm gonna need help.
Speaker 1: And I don't like this idea that you're calling me
Speaker 1: a loser because I'm not a fucking loser. And so
Speaker 1: even like the language is like changing a bit, and
Speaker 1: they don't have they so they just don't have anything
Speaker 1: to offer. Like Steve Scalise is just calling this in
Speaker 1: his description of the stimulus package, he just says this
Speaker 1: package will keep schools closed, bail out blue states, pay
Speaker 1: people not to work, and raise the minimum wage to
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars an hour. Okay, Like but and what's your counterpoint?
Speaker 1: They don't fucking have one anymore because they've just like
Speaker 1: they've turned up the racism so much that they cooked
Speaker 1: off all the like optical parts that made it look
Speaker 1: like a party. And I was just like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: just honestly, we don't have any ideas. We're just all
Speaker 1: we have to offer our cancel or cancel culture battles
Speaker 1: that will scream about uh and really nothing else aside
Speaker 1: from tax cuts. So I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: And now like it's like now and now like to
Speaker 1: your point, Vince, like then we just now the people
Speaker 1: that are getting clicks are lower and Bober Lauren Bober
Speaker 1: with her homemade gun rack on her bookshelf with that's
Speaker 1: not mounted at all that she could have fell over.
Speaker 1: You know, like, yeah, the old school way to do
Speaker 1: it was like to do the racism stuff to justify
Speaker 1: you know, giving money to more rich people. But then
Speaker 1: Trump kind of broke that a little bit where he
Speaker 1: was like, well, I'm still gonna be racist, but I'm
Speaker 1: also gonna give you six dollars or whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: and so like they kind of broke the uh, the
Speaker 1: part where all the all of the white nationalism stuff
Speaker 1: was was openly like a way to uh, you know,
Speaker 1: get people to give more money to rich people. And
Speaker 1: now it's kind of it's kind of broken. So it's it's, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hard to tell what they're what they're going to now,
Speaker 1: it's hard to go from that back to, oh, this
Speaker 1: deficit responsibility. But I mean that's happening. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's happening in both parties, right Like Trump was trying
Speaker 1: to or said he was trying to do the two
Speaker 1: thousand dollar thing on his way out. Romney is doing
Speaker 1: a bill that gives better child text credits than currently exist.
Speaker 1: And you know, there there's a lot of populist economic
Speaker 1: movement in the Democratic Party. But like both sides, I
Speaker 1: feel like are having this moment where they have to like,
Speaker 1: you know, safeguard the party and the and the rich
Speaker 1: and the ruling class from from what's in people's best interests.
Speaker 1: Because it's almost like they either side hasn't learned their
Speaker 1: lesson from fucking two thousand nine, which is the Republicans
Speaker 1: like the it isn't gonna work right now, and then
Speaker 1: for Democrats, they're like, do we need to work I
Speaker 1: think we need to work with Republicans on this. I
Speaker 1: think we don't want to. We don't want to just
Speaker 1: unilaterally help people. We need we need the the visions
Speaker 1: of a bipartisan Congress. And it's like, motherfucker, no, they
Speaker 1: fucking voted to basically, have you killed in a lynch
Speaker 1: mob at your place of business and you're still okay,
Speaker 1: but go ahead. They're like permanently hamstrung by thinking they
Speaker 1: need to get an a from the teacher, Like they
Speaker 1: spent the last year being like, you gotta trust the experts,
Speaker 1: and so now that they're like in power and the
Speaker 1: ruling in the ruling power, they're like they're still asking
Speaker 1: like random you know, experts or whatever on like what
Speaker 1: we can actually do for the stimulus instead of just
Speaker 1: giving people money, which would was what they campaigned on
Speaker 1: and would be like the obvious choice, except when the
Speaker 1: experts are like, no, you gotta give them more money
Speaker 1: than that, Joe, and he's like, well, shut the funk
Speaker 1: up for a second. And I just did that to say,
Speaker 1: I asked somebody, now fucking fallback, you fucking economy real quick.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court continues to reward Trump's having three of
Speaker 1: them nominated by telling him to go fund himself essentially,
Speaker 1: which is you love to see it. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: there wasn't one dissenting opinion when the Supreme Court basically
Speaker 1: said we're not gonna hear any case trying to block
Speaker 1: his tax returns from the New York District Attorney, so
Speaker 1: and it apparently it was like a one It was
Speaker 1: described as a terse one liner, so um great, which
Speaker 1: is basically being like, yeah, not to this presidential immunity ship,
Speaker 1: civans can have your fucking tax returns. Because it started
Speaker 1: this was a lawsuit that was filed in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: which is like looking into Karen McDougald and Storey Daniel's
Speaker 1: hush money payments. And then when I was like, you
Speaker 1: can't do that. No fair blah blah blah. He came back.
Speaker 1: It's like, look, this is what we're arguing. Clearly he's
Speaker 1: seeking like immunity that doesn't exist, and like, okay, you
Speaker 1: can let it bang, and Sivans like, oh, one more thing. Uh.
Speaker 1: The investigation we're actually it's we're looking at some more
Speaker 1: stuff now, including bank fraud and insurance fraud. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna need some tax returns and that finally, we've ended
Speaker 1: up at this point where now there's no more hands
Speaker 1: to be played and they will get I think at
Speaker 1: least the tax returns from two thousand eleven on. Also,
Speaker 1: who is his lawyer? I feel like the person who
Speaker 1: was his lawyer during the election drama, Uh said on
Speaker 1: Twitter that John John Roberts was part of some pedophile
Speaker 1: ring where he was like forced to like rape and
Speaker 1: kill a child on video. And then I hope that
Speaker 1: that is the same lawyer that's trying to petition that
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. He was smart enough to not have that
Speaker 1: person there, but also dumb enough to not realize what's
Speaker 1: being argued on your behalf in Washington, d C. Right now.
Speaker 1: Also interesting, interestingly, UH and not surprisingly Gillane Maxwell. Over
Speaker 1: the weekend, it was reported that she confirmed that Epstein
Speaker 1: had video of both I think Clinton and Trump. Uh
Speaker 1: that like compromising video basically, uh so really shocking, but
Speaker 1: uh yeah it's not I mean so so Trump's lawyer
Speaker 1: was right about one thing that John Roberts has killed
Speaker 1: on videotape before that political catharsis to be like, look
Speaker 1: at these ugly monster motherfucker's that were smiling in your face,
Speaker 1: being like I'm the president, what I mean like, tear
Speaker 1: them all fucking down, Like that's what But it's still
Speaker 1: fucking you know, it'll still just end up this question mark,
Speaker 1: like where are are there? Were there tapes? Are their tapes?
Speaker 1: Is it? Apparently it's not enough that they were best
Speaker 1: fucking friends and on the plenty of receipts on being
Speaker 1: on the lowly forget it whatever? All right, y'all do
Speaker 1: you clearly not enough. He's a very cool guy who
Speaker 1: I hear likes the ladies, but I like the women,
Speaker 1: so uh so, real quick, I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about these uh Texas regulators and Texas power executives. I
Speaker 1: think one CEO UH was caught saying that this was
Speaker 1: basically a jackpot. They had hit the jackpot with this
Speaker 1: crisis that led people to actually freeze to death or
Speaker 1: die trying not to freeze to death. Um, because they
Speaker 1: are now able to charge like five figures for people's
Speaker 1: use of electricity during the crisis, that was the big
Speaker 1: Everybody saw those pictures, you know, like those screenshots that
Speaker 1: were like, you know, my bill is six thousand dollars
Speaker 1: or my bills thirteen thousand dollars electric bill. Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the fund is going I opened up
Speaker 1: my app and he said, this is where I'm at
Speaker 1: right now. And again we've been saying this fucking deregulation
Speaker 1: because that this the you know, literally the wild West
Speaker 1: over there. Um. A lot of these people were lured
Speaker 1: into these pricing plans that are tethered to like the
Speaker 1: wholesale price of electricity. So essentially it could be a
Speaker 1: good deal when shit works. And but the thing is
Speaker 1: that in the fine print it's like, oh, just so
Speaker 1: you know, if anything deviates from perfect energy transmission, your
Speaker 1: bill will be absolutely fucked, just so you know. And
Speaker 1: that's when people started being like, oh, what the fund
Speaker 1: is going on here? And so uh, there are so
Speaker 1: many of these pictures going around. A lot of it too,
Speaker 1: they're saying, is some of these people who were getting
Speaker 1: higher bills. It was born out of the supply and
Speaker 1: demand relationship where an energy generation company, because because of
Speaker 1: the grid failure, wasn't able to get power to certain customers,
Speaker 1: they just up the price on the people that could
Speaker 1: get power to offset them. So you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what the funk is this again? Because there are no regulations.
Speaker 1: They used to be about guaranteeing power delivery and things
Speaker 1: like that, or make ensuring that things are weather proof
Speaker 1: to maintain some stable energy generation, and then they just
Speaker 1: went to, nah, our policies now, let the fucking market
Speaker 1: go off, honey. And that's what like like, as if
Speaker 1: you had a choice and who you were going to
Speaker 1: buy electricity from, and and like, you know, as if
Speaker 1: you had to say where you're like, well, this electricity
Speaker 1: is too expensive, I'm just gonna turn everything off today.
Speaker 1: Well that's what they but that's what it is. Though
Speaker 1: you can you can pick from a myriad of providers,
Speaker 1: you know, like you can shop around for your best deal.
Speaker 1: That's why it's so like they're like, what the funk
Speaker 1: kind of structure. Is this for a public utility and
Speaker 1: the whole thing is like na, But that's how we
Speaker 1: keep the competition because like yo, if their price is
Speaker 1: too high, someone will just go to the other one,
Speaker 1: and that's how you keep it moving. But no, like
Speaker 1: you could just build your own electrical grid if you
Speaker 1: don't like those prices. But this that's the advice people
Speaker 1: were getting. When someone called their provider like, hey, I
Speaker 1: have a six thousand dollar bill, they said, okay, here
Speaker 1: your two options, uh, turn off switch providers immediately or
Speaker 1: shut down all your power that way. No, that way,
Speaker 1: we can't charge you. And they're like, what I have
Speaker 1: kids that are like in diapers and the I'm free.
Speaker 1: What the funk are you talking about? Then there's this
Speaker 1: tweet again just to underline everything. CPS Energy was another
Speaker 1: energy provider out there. Uh, someone was asking them at
Speaker 1: some like sort of meeting, this is the question, is
Speaker 1: CPSC CPS Energy going to provide payment relief to customers?
Speaker 1: And then this was their answer. We understand that it
Speaker 1: would be unacceptable to have customers bear the costs on
Speaker 1: their monthly bill, so we are working diligently to find
Speaker 1: ways to spread those costs. Over ten years or longer
Speaker 1: out here. Yeah. Also I think we need to come
Speaker 1: up with uh, like we let big business and the
Speaker 1: Republican Party. I think name deregulation because it just takes takes.
Speaker 1: Nobody likes regulations, like make some sound extra bureaucratic and
Speaker 1: it's like no vegetables. Yeah exactly, it's no vegetables plan.
Speaker 1: Uh where what it essentially like, it's never deregulation around
Speaker 1: like whether you're able to you know, do something fun
Speaker 1: or get get government benefits or uh, it's always deregulation
Speaker 1: around wealthy people and company's ability to fuck you over. Um,
Speaker 1: So yeah, we need to go for the better. This
Speaker 1: was definitely the week if you lived in Texas that
Speaker 1: if you had signed up for like automatic debit of
Speaker 1: your of your electricity payments, You're like a ship, I
Speaker 1: gotta cancel this right because I could lose all my money.
Speaker 1: And now, like I think the governors like suspended the
Speaker 1: taking of payments. But it's like, so what are you
Speaker 1: going to do after that? Like is this just gonna
Speaker 1: be like CPS entergy You're like, don't worry, We'll spread
Speaker 1: your paint, your bill over your lifetime. It's a new mortgage,
Speaker 1: like a power mortgage that you have, isn't that cool? Cool?
Speaker 1: But yeah, the new theme song going forward needs to
Speaker 1: be this because that's what the funk we need, you know,
Speaker 1: they need to go to d C and just be
Speaker 1: screaming this ship. I mean, we need to fucking regulate
Speaker 1: because this ship is out of control and people are
Speaker 1: getting the wild bill hiccock because their power consumption isn't
Speaker 1: being properly vetted and regulated. So yeah, and and just
Speaker 1: to your point, Jack about people losing their lives like
Speaker 1: this is why the stakes are more than just price gouching, Right,
Speaker 1: there's there's a loss of fucking life. This a even
Speaker 1: year old boy. This is and I can only imagine this.
Speaker 1: This can't be the only incident like this, but this
Speaker 1: is the one that gets to the news. And the
Speaker 1: eleven year old boy died because he froze to death
Speaker 1: in his family's mobile home that suddenly lost power in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night that was heating, that that
Speaker 1: was giving them heat, and his mother woke up to
Speaker 1: her son dead in his bed, who was not previously ill.
Speaker 1: Was the first time seeing snow after I believe being
Speaker 1: reunited with his mother from coming from Central America and
Speaker 1: like the night before was joyous. The power went out.
Speaker 1: Her son is dead. Her a three year old son
Speaker 1: in the that was in the bed with him survived.
Speaker 1: And what recourse did these people have? I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: they're gonna sue the fuck out of the you know,
Speaker 1: the of of the Energy Regulation Committee. But like, this
Speaker 1: is this is such a larger issue that it can't
Speaker 1: just be like, well, whoever has the wherewithal to get
Speaker 1: to lawyer up and sue can get justice because all
Speaker 1: of these people that have set this energy market up
Speaker 1: have blood on their hands and for them to be able,
Speaker 1: I mean this this is a this is like potentially
Speaker 1: like a Flint type crisis where you have people who
Speaker 1: had the wherewithal to know that everyone had been saying
Speaker 1: for like over ten years, like you know, this this
Speaker 1: system fragile is fuck like and you should anything goes wrong,
Speaker 1: we're going to be in a bad place. Didn't do anything,
Speaker 1: and like where what at what point can we begin
Speaker 1: to create some responsibility? But you know that's just a
Speaker 1: system where you can you can get like a low
Speaker 1: interest loan from your energy provider in order to defray
Speaker 1: the funeral costs. UH and it's gonna be great, right,
Speaker 1: just put up your your own life up as collateral.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like that's why we don't have
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's hard to say how we move
Speaker 1: forward because if we begin to have laws that are like, yo,
Speaker 1: you can't just exploit people so you can make money,
Speaker 1: then it's gonna be regulations and social It's like, come
Speaker 1: the funk on, you can't let people their runaway greed
Speaker 1: end up with loss of life. That just has to
Speaker 1: be oft like common sense thing we can agree on societally. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Line in the Sand, uh yeah. And I mean Flint uh,
Speaker 1: which was a lot of you know, a failure by
Speaker 1: the government to uh like that didn't really that wasn't
Speaker 1: like quickly adjudicated in any or like fixed in anyway.
Speaker 1: So I I just I worry about the ability to
Speaker 1: get this actually addressed. Well. I wonder if it'll be
Speaker 1: different because the you know, the victims are it's less
Speaker 1: people of color and more an entire state of people.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of you know, FLYNT already had
Speaker 1: its own you know, racial complications going on with why
Speaker 1: things weren't moving the way they did. But you know,
Speaker 1: now like it affects all like every many people in
Speaker 1: Texas are upset, and I just you know, what's what's
Speaker 1: the fucking next step? Because I can't imagine you're gonna
Speaker 1: be happy as a text in with everyone being like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we learned from that and we just gotta
Speaker 1: be more careful, folks. What the funk? No, if I
Speaker 1: don't come on text and it's turning to you know,
Speaker 1: burn your ship. Now, go to the government's mason, not
Speaker 1: your ship, burn their ship. All right, let's take another
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back real quick.
Speaker 1: I I did want to talk about nomad Land because
Speaker 1: that hit Hulu this weekend. The handful of people who
Speaker 1: I talked to, a lot of them watched it, and
Speaker 1: it's just like, what the The thing that I wanted
Speaker 1: to emphasize it's really good, definitely worth watching, is like
Speaker 1: it's a post apocalyptic movie but it's set in America
Speaker 1: in two thousand twelve, and it's like half documentary. Um,
Speaker 1: but like that, it's like you see there there's like
Speaker 1: a lot of interplay of like generations and that's kind
Speaker 1: of a an undercurrent throughout like young people and uh,
Speaker 1: it focuses on people in their sixties, but like, you know,
Speaker 1: there's uh, one of the guys that has lost his
Speaker 1: son recently, you like meet some young people and it's
Speaker 1: just and then like when one of the things that
Speaker 1: she one of her like prize possessions is like photographs
Speaker 1: of her family from before, and it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what things used to look like. Uh, and now
Speaker 1: she's you know, driving around in a van with all
Speaker 1: her worldly possessions, like in the van with her bad
Speaker 1: Max in the world of people who put your Amazon
Speaker 1: packages in boxes. That's exactly right. Yeah, it's she you know,
Speaker 1: goes from job to job and like one of the
Speaker 1: gigs that kind of grounds the series is her going
Speaker 1: back to an Amazon warehouse like around the holidays, like
Speaker 1: doing doing basically that gig gig economy work. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just that there's like literal ghost
Speaker 1: towns that, uh, like modern day ghost towns throughout the
Speaker 1: country that like the the opening Chiron of the movie
Speaker 1: talks about a community that had a mind closed down
Speaker 1: and the zip code was discontinued six months after the
Speaker 1: plant was closed down, which I didn't even know was
Speaker 1: a thing that could happen discontinue a zip code like
Speaker 1: a canceled show. Yes, yeah, and like she goes back
Speaker 1: to that town, which is where she's from, and it's
Speaker 1: just a bunch of you know, it looks like a neighborhood,
Speaker 1: except all the houses are empty. Everybody was just like out.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, that's while it's worth checking out. It
Speaker 1: seems like it's going to be Nomad Land verus Trial
Speaker 1: of the Chicago seven for the best picture according to
Speaker 1: early gold Derby odds. And you know which one is
Speaker 1: going to that hornor in the card harder you will
Speaker 1: have order in my cart. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys saw the movie, but yeah, yeah, it's it's, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a mythologizing of American liberalism, like the sort
Speaker 1: of American liberal point of view, uh, and like changing
Speaker 1: the facts to suit, like weird centrism ship. It's very
Speaker 1: very strange. But that's that's that's kind of like an
Speaker 1: American mirror though. It's like, no, I'm not gonna look
Speaker 1: in the mirror and see it for what it is.
Speaker 1: Let me just just stort myself again. Like that that's better.
Speaker 1: That's more like that's us. Do you have something that
Speaker 1: flatters the meritocracy. Okay, let me watch that movie. I'm
Speaker 1: looking for something that will kind of take my Oligarch
Speaker 1: face and make it a little more blue collar because
Speaker 1: I'm in a little bit of denial about my place
Speaker 1: and siphoning up resources. Okay, uh, but let's talk about
Speaker 1: more important things. Uh. There is a new player in
Speaker 1: the crispy spicy chicken sandwich war, and that is Taco
Speaker 1: bell I thought I was thinking outside the bun, but yeah,
Speaker 1: they are, because it's it's no bun the way they
Speaker 1: call it a it's a chicken tender that's been in
Speaker 1: jalapeno butter milk. I was like, what the fuck? It
Speaker 1: sounded awful like reading the words together. But then I'm like, okay, right,
Speaker 1: because that's for the fried chicken. Then they rolled in
Speaker 1: tortilla chip coding. And then the thing it's in is
Speaker 1: what they just described as puffy bread, not even it's
Speaker 1: not even a gordita thing, you know, it's some new
Speaker 1: ship with Chipotle sauce. I'm like, it looks good. But
Speaker 1: the thing that is interesting to me, right is it's
Speaker 1: not going to be It's only available like at the
Speaker 1: beginning of March in two test markets, Charlotte, North Carolina
Speaker 1: in Nashville, Tennessee. So to me, that says they're not
Speaker 1: working around with this test. They want to fucking baptism
Speaker 1: by fire when you're coming when if you're pulling up
Speaker 1: with chicken fried chicken product in those cities, that's not
Speaker 1: you know, the fucking hot chicken this that's what I
Speaker 1: think of Nashville. Um, So, either there's I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm curious to know what the sort of logic is
Speaker 1: or like sort of like if we can get these,
Speaker 1: if they funk with it, then we're good. Well, sandwich
Speaker 1: rules are like prison rules where you just go up
Speaker 1: to the biggest guy on the yard. Bunch of them knows,
Speaker 1: and that way people know that you're crazy speech lamna
Speaker 1: real quick, you know, letting them know when your first
Speaker 1: day in I found the biggest motherfucker right good oh
Speaker 1: man talking sopranos again. But uh yeah, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: I am great. I hope it's good because you know,
Speaker 1: Wendy's had one that did not make a lot of waves.
Speaker 1: Boston Market. They they pour barth Boston Market. It's almost
Speaker 1: like you shouldn't have even said anything. Boston Market. This
Speaker 1: isn't your lane. Wendy's had a spicy chicken sandwich besides
Speaker 1: the standard one that they've always had, they brought it back.
Speaker 1: They had a I think it's called the Halapeno popper
Speaker 1: chicken sandwich. M Yeah, yeah, I mean I did. I
Speaker 1: was offended by the Popeye's furor because I mean, I
Speaker 1: love a chicken sandwich, But if you're at Popeye's and
Speaker 1: you're not getting just like the regular fried chicken, like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Yeah, I mean, you know, to
Speaker 1: each their own. Do you know? I used to just
Speaker 1: be a spicy thighs kind of guy over there, but
Speaker 1: I do it all, baby, you know. I sometimes when
Speaker 1: they have the crawfish basket, Baby, I's sometimes get that too,
Speaker 1: even though even if it's actually fish, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like just fried protein amorphous nugs. And
Speaker 1: that's how Miles and I actually met was we went
Speaker 1: to Reddit for spicy thighs for very different reasons, very
Speaker 1: different reasons. Yeah, yeah, I remember I was moddying that
Speaker 1: subreddit and had to ban you because you were being
Speaker 1: a little out of pocket with your questions. How about
Speaker 1: these spicy thighs huh like, oh Jesus Christ, that guy's
Speaker 1: back again. Job and finally just a quick UFO update.
Speaker 1: Uh So, one thing that we have gotten a little
Speaker 1: bit more clarity on that seems to make sense to
Speaker 1: me is the h did did we talk about the
Speaker 1: jet pack guy being just a drone that looks like
Speaker 1: a person has like one that one across the channel? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That that was around uh l A X. Oh they're
Speaker 1: kept being like these jet pack sightings around l A X.
Speaker 1: And didn't somebody legit go across the English channel though
Speaker 1: on a jet pack? The jet pack technology is real
Speaker 1: like that, I'm seeing all sorts of video that very
Speaker 1: easily could be faked, but I'm gonna choose to believe it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course we have to. So this air bus encountered something,
Speaker 1: it was like a fast moving cylindrical object over New Mexico.
Speaker 1: Uh that somebody who was like basically uh eavesdropping on
Speaker 1: radio chatter caught And this person who eavesdrops on radio
Speaker 1: chatter also noted that like three years ago to the day,
Speaker 1: two other aircraft had seen basically an identical thing just
Speaker 1: like flying over New Mexico, far higher than it should
Speaker 1: have been possible. Um, but yeah, the the UFO chatter
Speaker 1: is still out there, and I mean, yeah it was.
Speaker 1: If it was from another planet, shouldn't there days be different.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be the same anniversary. Yeah, exactly, they have
Speaker 1: different length days. Yeah, that's that's a great point, Vince. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I don't have an answer for you. I I don't. Uh.
Speaker 1: The person was like, that looks a lot like a
Speaker 1: scud missile like from the Cold War, just flying through
Speaker 1: the air, but there was it could easily just be
Speaker 1: like military, top secret military testing that uh they don't
Speaker 1: want Yeah, do it over a commercial flight path, you know,
Speaker 1: but do it but keep it low. Yeah, what the
Speaker 1: fun was it? Don't tell me this ship was over Roswell, right,
Speaker 1: it was not over Roswell is like a dark area
Speaker 1: where you can't fly over. I think because they do
Speaker 1: testing around there. There is a that that was kind
Speaker 1: of one of the reasons they were suggesting it probably
Speaker 1: wasn't a military uh like their Yeah they they and
Speaker 1: it's not that far from there, and they probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: let something go just like whoops, that one got away
Speaker 1: from us. So come on, it's like we're so close,
Speaker 1: like quit edging with us. Aliens show yourselves. But every
Speaker 1: time you hear from like a military person who's like
Speaker 1: gone rogue, they're like, yeah, man, we are so curious
Speaker 1: what this ship is. Like they don't. It's not like
Speaker 1: they're like we can neither confirm nor deny. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really trippy, man, we don't. We actually don't know
Speaker 1: what do you guys think it is. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: you saw it. You fucking tell me? Man. Well, you
Speaker 1: know yeah, because it is always like people who got
Speaker 1: out of the navy and then they're like, oh, let
Speaker 1: me write this book, y'all. Oh my goodness, if you
Speaker 1: only knew. Uh, well, Vince, it has been such a
Speaker 1: pleasure having you on the daily zygeist. Man. Where can
Speaker 1: people find you? Follow you here? You? Oh, well, you
Speaker 1: can always find me at at Vince Mancini on Twitter.
Speaker 1: You know, all my articles are on up rocks. UM,
Speaker 1: and I have two podcasts. One is about the Sopranos
Speaker 1: and it's called Pod Yourself a Gun, which you've been
Speaker 1: a guest on. Uh and uh. We also have the Fraudcast,
Speaker 1: which is just our general movies and you know, talking
Speaker 1: crap kind of podcast and those are available wherever podcasts
Speaker 1: are sold both great great podcast Matt Lee to whose
Speaker 1: friend of the show? Yeah? Uh? And is there a
Speaker 1: tweeter some of the work of social media you've been
Speaker 1: enjoying a tweeter? Well, yeah, I picked a tweet in
Speaker 1: particular which was new for me this week. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it was one of those ones where you
Speaker 1: got retweeted into my timeline and I wasn't a follower
Speaker 1: and I became one. Um. The tweet is from whoa
Speaker 1: it's one edo w o a h not w h
Speaker 1: o A anyway. Um, And the tweet is this show
Speaker 1: is about grief. Actually, the crowd gasps, pauses for a
Speaker 1: moment to think about it, and then goes absolutely wild.
Speaker 1: Can you believe it? A show about grief? Fucking phenomenal? Uh, Miles,
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: Find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray.
Speaker 1: Also the podcast for twenty Day Fiance. You know, go
Speaker 1: ahead of on twitch. It's Tuesday. You don't be there
Speaker 1: around four twenty Pacific time. Okay. The other yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you catch a lot of people in the Eastern No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no Pacific. Um, that I like, I haven't been on
Speaker 1: Twitter for a while, so I don't have anything to offer.
Speaker 1: Just to kind of cleanse my eyes, I'm telling you, look, y'all,
Speaker 1: try just try going like four days. It feels like
Speaker 1: not being on social media. I feel like the episode
Speaker 1: of Seinfeld where they're trying to see how far they
Speaker 1: could go without putting gas in the car, and after
Speaker 1: a while you're like, oh, ship baby, We're we're out here,
Speaker 1: like we're free baby, And I don't know how long,
Speaker 1: how much longer? It feels dangerous but it's okay. Um,
Speaker 1: there is an episode where they see how long they
Speaker 1: can go without masturbating, but that is there's also the
Speaker 1: gas in the car one. I just want to make
Speaker 1: clear that you're not using putting gas in the car
Speaker 1: as a masturbation euphanism putting a gas in the car,
Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying. Um, all right, well
Speaker 1: good most gas stations. Uh. You can find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Jack Underscore, O'Brien. Let's see a couple of
Speaker 1: tweets I've been enjoying. P J Evans just tweeted that's
Speaker 1: my bad your honor um, which I think is funny
Speaker 1: to Andrew Nadal tweeted, I love fully artists because the
Speaker 1: problem is always something like we need the sound of footsteps,
Speaker 1: and their solution is like, what if I slapped this
Speaker 1: pool table with wet ham Uh and then Adrianna at
Speaker 1: shut the funk up? Now? I don't know who nell is.
Speaker 1: Underscore tweeted, how do lawyers not cry when arguing? Uh?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I would certainly break into tears
Speaker 1: on the regular. Yeah, that's your lawyers. Oh uh? You can.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore. Brian,
Speaker 1: you can find us on Twitter at daily Zeitgeist. We're
Speaker 1: at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have Facebook fan
Speaker 1: page on a website daily ze guys dot com, where
Speaker 1: we post our episodes on our footnotes or link off
Speaker 1: to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
Speaker 1: as well as a song recommendation that you can go
Speaker 1: listen to on a play list, playlist or maybe on
Speaker 1: SoundCloud again, because you know Miles Is, he's liking the
Speaker 1: remixes cloud Oh my gosh, j Dilla. But this remix
Speaker 1: to Donuts by Coastal the artists Coastal on SoundCloud. Check
Speaker 1: out Coastal This is called Donuts, but it's the Coastal Conversion.
Speaker 1: And yeah, for anyone who is like you know, ADLA fans,
Speaker 1: this is one of those remixes that does it justice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: bless all right, go check that out. We will be
Speaker 1: linking off to it in the foot notes. The Daily
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