Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one seventy one,
Speaker 1: Episode one of Day Guys production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's share consciousness. I've never done that before with
Speaker 1: someone in the room with me. My four year old
Speaker 1: is in the room and just covered his ears. He's
Speaker 1: not not thrilled with my decision to scream that early part. Uh.
Speaker 1: It is Monday, February. My name is Jack O'Brien, a
Speaker 1: k A. I feel old with a TikTok taking over.
Speaker 1: I feel old. The damelios jojo see what I feel old?
Speaker 1: You wanna let the nineties over? I feel old? Joel?
Speaker 1: Help me? Should I bust it my back out? Okay?
Speaker 1: That is courtesy of Christie. I'm a Gucci man, and
Speaker 1: I am thrilled to be joined by today's special guest
Speaker 1: co host, Joel Moni. Yeck, it's so good to that
Speaker 1: was thank you because the lyricist, yes, yes, nailed it. Uh.
Speaker 1: And we are thrilled to be joined in our third
Speaker 1: season by the brilliant, the talented Test Lynch. Hello, h
Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Also, your son is so
Speaker 1: cute high do you wanna say hi to Test and
Speaker 1: Joel Hi Captain Joel. Yeah every time, Test, How have
Speaker 1: you been What would have you been up to? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, nothing, I've been up to nothing. Um, just
Speaker 1: like everybody else. I my main like story arc. Over
Speaker 1: the past ten months or whatever, we um I had
Speaker 1: a podcast with my friends Molly and Emily, and since
Speaker 1: we ended that podcast, I have just been doing nothing.
Speaker 1: I know boo yes boo that we ended it. The
Speaker 1: podcast was yea uh. But I've been mostly sitting in
Speaker 1: my backyard with my kids while my neighbors, UM have
Speaker 1: been playing the Billy Jewel album The Stranger, and it's
Speaker 1: it's taken up my entire brain, however, lost a while. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's started in March and it's at least once a
Speaker 1: week and they play The Stranger in its entirety, usually
Speaker 1: on Friday nights, but they'll mix it up now. I mean,
Speaker 1: over the past three weeks, they've played it maybe three
Speaker 1: times a week and sometimes at random times of day.
Speaker 1: And it's the whole album though, Jack, the whole album.
Speaker 1: It's leaving Scenes from an Italian restaurant is the best
Speaker 1: song on that album. Yeah, I'm never not in the
Speaker 1: mood for that. One, but I mean then they're you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot at the end the final song, which
Speaker 1: I like, forget the title. It's also it's it's not
Speaker 1: super loud, so it's just enough that it like makes
Speaker 1: you feel a certain way. But sometimes you can't even
Speaker 1: like identify it. Sometimes they'll play it super quietly and
Speaker 1: you're just like, why do I feel like there's like
Speaker 1: a weird New York City jazz kind of vibe in
Speaker 1: the air, and they're, ah, it's the stranger Yeah are
Speaker 1: moving Out? Yeah, theible Anthony song. But you know what,
Speaker 1: it doesn't hold up as well after like thirty plays
Speaker 1: moving Out, Moving Out with one of my top ten
Speaker 1: Billy Joel songs, and now too, I'm like digging into
Speaker 1: the you Know Later catalog just to balance it out.
Speaker 1: So I'm doing, like I go to extremes keeping the Faith? Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you ever find yourself just accidentally going into like ayah, like, hey,
Speaker 1: could you turn that Anthony's song? Sorry, guys, I'm Anthony
Speaker 1: now Joel, what are you gonna say? Just that I'm
Speaker 1: really sorry they're ruining. Like some of my favorite Billy
Speaker 1: Jel songs are on this album, like Vienna it's great
Speaker 1: like jams, and I feel like it's unfair that they
Speaker 1: are ruining it for you, but I'm glad that you
Speaker 1: have found a way to bring a balance to your
Speaker 1: Billy Jewel dysmography. Also, do you think after a year
Speaker 1: they're gonna get tired of it? Is there any like
Speaker 1: slowing down of the progression of their listening. No, it's
Speaker 1: picking up. It's picking up, and they'll add other things
Speaker 1: like it's book ended. It's often like they book ended um.
Speaker 1: Elton John might be a lead in eel O might follow.
Speaker 1: But there's variation there, you know, it's the stranger remains
Speaker 1: the same um. But I do have to say I
Speaker 1: like Vienna also, and it's you know, I mostly associated
Speaker 1: with thirteen going on thirty, where it's employed to great effect.
Speaker 1: But it inspired an episode of Taxi. I did not
Speaker 1: know this, Yeah, and it's in the way kipedian and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, now I should like go back
Speaker 1: and watch that episode of Taxi. But then I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I've had enough. I don't need to do this to myself.
Speaker 1: Degrees of Billy Joel separation, Yeah, totally take over someone's
Speaker 1: life with by just playing a Billy Joel album over
Speaker 1: and over. It is a method of control, absolutely psychologically
Speaker 1: them at war with your neighbors. See gang helpful hints
Speaker 1: here for you. Just start playing that album. It's torture.
Speaker 1: It is. But have you ever thought about how like
Speaker 1: sometimes you look in the mirror and the person looking
Speaker 1: back is a stranger to you. A stranger is yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like we're all like, we all and this is gonna
Speaker 1: blow your mind, but it's all it's almost like we
Speaker 1: all wear masks. Oh man, But that does seem pathological
Speaker 1: at this point. I don't think they're going to be like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we've had enough. It seems like it's no now it's
Speaker 1: a Now it's a lifestyle. It went from like a
Speaker 1: fun thing to like, now it's a joke, and now
Speaker 1: it's like we've we're jumping the shark and now it's
Speaker 1: just an earnest commitment. Yeah, and there's no turning back. Alright,
Speaker 1: tests we're going to get to know you a little
Speaker 1: bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our
Speaker 1: listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the NBA All Star Game, whether
Speaker 1: they should be having that or not, I'd say or not.
Speaker 1: We will talk about just overdose deaths in general, because
Speaker 1: they are on the up as people have mentioned. Uh.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the money behind the anti mask protests
Speaker 1: that are proliferating. We'll talk about the very specific definition
Speaker 1: of cancel culture that Marjorie Taylor Green has. It only
Speaker 1: applies to very certain things. That does not apply to
Speaker 1: her wanting to fire all NFL players for wanting to protest.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about maybe a Canadian politician. Uh, We'll talk
Speaker 1: about Cardi Bes video. We'll talk about how advisable it
Speaker 1: is to use guerrilla glue in your hair. Um, all
Speaker 1: of that plenty more. But first test, we like to
Speaker 1: ask our guests, what is something from your search history
Speaker 1: that is revealing about who you are? Okay? So um,
Speaker 1: recently I had to search my maternal grandparents full names
Speaker 1: because I had a psychic reading, and uh, the my
Speaker 1: grandparents both really wanted to chat, and they both referred
Speaker 1: to themselves by their middle or by their first and
Speaker 1: middle names, which I then realized I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I had no idea what their middle names were, so
Speaker 1: I did a Google to like verify what the psychic
Speaker 1: had told me this was also my first like professional
Speaker 1: psychic reading I've ducked into like the psychic I before. Um,
Speaker 1: but for my birthday this year because I hate stuff.
Speaker 1: At this point, after being around my stuff for so long,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I want to have an experience.
Speaker 1: So I did a zoom with a psychic very cool,
Speaker 1: and didn't I had to google was there uh reading
Speaker 1: on point like once you once you would? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: mean it was. I was Also my husband was lying
Speaker 1: on the floor while I did this because, um, he
Speaker 1: lost because I punched him in the know. Uh he
Speaker 1: he's like lost a bunch of family members over the
Speaker 1: past like ten years or so. Um. And this psychic
Speaker 1: as a psychic medium, so we thought maybe you know,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't know if there were any like crazy
Speaker 1: details about his you know, grandmother or something, he would
Speaker 1: have to verify. But it's a one person reading and
Speaker 1: it's twice as expensive to do too, so I thought
Speaker 1: he could just lie on the floor and listen. Um.
Speaker 1: But I he was like, you're so game for this,
Speaker 1: you know. I wasn't even trying to make this psychic
Speaker 1: prove themselves. I was helping them out the whole time
Speaker 1: because I was so excited to talk to a stranger,
Speaker 1: you know, and like a long conversation. I just very
Speaker 1: starved for um a long chat. And yeah, it was
Speaker 1: pretty It was awesome. People were coming through and like
Speaker 1: yelling over each other, which I guess is common with
Speaker 1: this psychic that it's the ghosts are very crowded and
Speaker 1: they're like so the psychic occasionally will be like I
Speaker 1: stop stop, no, no stop. It liked I know you're upset.
Speaker 1: I know you're upset. But I was a little nervous
Speaker 1: it was going to be like when Polly Walnut sees
Speaker 1: the psychic medium and like all the dead people are
Speaker 1: like he get him, get him, yeah, and then he
Speaker 1: gets really mad, like shut the funk over. Yeah, thats
Speaker 1: the table over? Um do you Usual? Things in quarantine
Speaker 1: has been very uh, I don't want to say weird,
Speaker 1: teems to bass the word. It's it's like, I think,
Speaker 1: maybe more enlightening, like I've been doing like spiritual healings
Speaker 1: via Zoom with like mass groops of mostly influences, which
Speaker 1: is funds amazing, weird and funny. We like burn in
Speaker 1: paper and I have like an energy guide and she's
Speaker 1: really cool and fun and like it's it's actually sort
Speaker 1: of like helped build a sense of community that I
Speaker 1: totally feel what you're saying when you're like, it's an opportunity,
Speaker 1: just like anything different, at this point, I will I
Speaker 1: will leap on it exactly. It's also one of those
Speaker 1: things where you think about something that kind of differentiates
Speaker 1: one day from another, and how it's hard to figure
Speaker 1: out on your own how to make a day different
Speaker 1: so that you would look back and be like, well,
Speaker 1: there was that one day when something happened that wasn't
Speaker 1: just like reading horrible news. So it's just a lot
Speaker 1: of different mental input and it's it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: my husband, who was pretty skeptical, he was like, it
Speaker 1: felt like going to a concert kind of where you
Speaker 1: just get a lot of like sensory input and then
Speaker 1: it's over, and you know, it was it was a
Speaker 1: lot like that. Yeah, I know, the differentiating, like just
Speaker 1: differentiating one day from the next is so important. Right now,
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, I've been trying to do that
Speaker 1: in quarantine jack Um, I have not been doing a
Speaker 1: good job of it. But I was saying the other
Speaker 1: day I had to go to the hospital to get
Speaker 1: something removed, like a skin thing removed, and that was
Speaker 1: like a joyful experience, like interacting with the nurse and
Speaker 1: just like having having human interaction, like being like which
Speaker 1: room am I going to? You know that? And then
Speaker 1: that really broke up the week for me. Touch you?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Yeah, I know right, So just what
Speaker 1: a thrill. The physician's assistant, I must say, was one
Speaker 1: of the great bedside manners. She had a Spotify playlist
Speaker 1: that we played. Our songs that we had together were,
Speaker 1: you know, the best. Next year you should send her
Speaker 1: a car. I've been trying to do it with food,
Speaker 1: but like preparing like wild things that I've never cooked before.
Speaker 1: We're like trying any fancy restaurant I haven't tried. It
Speaker 1: helps a little, it's still it's not quite enough differentiation
Speaker 1: to be like watch a whole new date. But I've
Speaker 1: bought a Dutch oven, so you know, out, let's find
Speaker 1: out we can really push this. What's the best thing
Speaker 1: you've cooked since quarantine? Being Oh, we discovered that if
Speaker 1: you use bison in chili instead of ground beef, it's
Speaker 1: like it's so good, really, yeah, because it's kind of
Speaker 1: like bison has like it's gamy, but it's not um.
Speaker 1: It doesn't venture into like a venison territory of gaminess,
Speaker 1: and so it's like very different, but it's super hardy
Speaker 1: and like we're Midwest folks and so like when it's cold,
Speaker 1: we need chili. I mean this like delicious bison chili.
Speaker 1: But then now we're experimenting with like mixing, like combining
Speaker 1: different meats, like doing a lambened bison mix or um,
Speaker 1: what was the other thing that we made the other day? Um,
Speaker 1: I made a chicken tangeen, which was great, But now
Speaker 1: I'm going back. It's New York Times recipe which I've
Speaker 1: like been fiddling with for like maybe two or three years,
Speaker 1: trying to like perfect and I've never done it with
Speaker 1: preserved lemons, which is apparently a thing you really need
Speaker 1: to do. So now i gotta put lemons in a jar,
Speaker 1: fill it with salt, and let's sit for six months
Speaker 1: and try again. Oh nice, let me know how that goes,
Speaker 1: because I've been wanting to make fire cider, which is
Speaker 1: a similar with in the same vein of like the
Speaker 1: preserved lemon. It's it's just like you put it in
Speaker 1: a thing and then you let it sit for six months,
Speaker 1: but it firesider has like oranges, lemons, ginger, garlic, onion,
Speaker 1: Like they just keep going and adding more things to it,
Speaker 1: and I can't imagine what it tastes like, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try it. It's giving me like um, which is
Speaker 1: like a Peruvian like drink. It's like, should not taste
Speaker 1: delicious because it's like most like fish oils, and then
Speaker 1: like a bunch of like spicy seasonings and you're like,
Speaker 1: how does taste good? But a minute it hits your palette,
Speaker 1: like I have to have jars of it and need
Speaker 1: all of its amazing No actual Tiger and late Contegra
Speaker 1: Tiger's milk test. What is something you think is underrated? Okay, underrated?
Speaker 1: I'm going to go with running for a very very
Speaker 1: short amount of time. Um. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people have taken up running during quarantine, and I am
Speaker 1: one of them as of four days ago. But everyone
Speaker 1: I talked to who's a runner, they always go on
Speaker 1: this kind of weird journey where it's like they're running
Speaker 1: and then they want to keep They're like, well that
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough. I have to keep running more. You know,
Speaker 1: when it becomes this thing where like now they're training
Speaker 1: to run a marathon, and then most of the people
Speaker 1: I know who do this end up being like, and
Speaker 1: now I have knee problems, so I keep running. Running
Speaker 1: is terrible, right, So I've decided I am only going
Speaker 1: to run and it's really kind of a jog for
Speaker 1: less than two miles. I will never in my life
Speaker 1: run more than two miles. And I'm like micro dosing running. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think that's yeah, And slow is also great. Running
Speaker 1: slow is the best. Once I gave up on running fast,
Speaker 1: and also like it was from the example of my wife,
Speaker 1: who like never like running, and then she was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna like not try and run fast, and
Speaker 1: eventually became one of those people it was like running
Speaker 1: marathons because she feel slowly, slowly built built up and
Speaker 1: eventually was just like smoking me. I think there's a
Speaker 1: weird mentality that goes with running, where once you start
Speaker 1: to get the and I'm speaking as an expert of
Speaker 1: four days of running, by the way, but once you
Speaker 1: start getting the endorphins, you're like, oh, this is just
Speaker 1: the beginning, Like I can keep building on this. But
Speaker 1: I'm like a very sedentary, like wheezy person um. And
Speaker 1: I just know that if I got caught up in
Speaker 1: that whole runner's mentality of like, well, now I'm doing this,
Speaker 1: now I got to do it and be the best
Speaker 1: and do it really push it, I know that my
Speaker 1: bones would disintegrate, like the cartilage that supports them would
Speaker 1: like flee, and I'd be one of those people where
Speaker 1: it's like running sucks. So I'm after my long evolution
Speaker 1: into being a runner of four days, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm probably qualified to say that that's an underrated way
Speaker 1: to exercise. The tiny run. There's the There was a podcast,
Speaker 1: I think it was Radio Lab where they profiled this
Speaker 1: woman who had some sort of like traumatic brain injury
Speaker 1: where she had like no short term memory I think
Speaker 1: it was, and she became one of the world's like
Speaker 1: foremost distant distance runners. And like they were tying the
Speaker 1: fact that like she doesn't like process uh or like yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like she doesn't have like a temporal awareness. She's
Speaker 1: not able to be like, man, this is gonna last
Speaker 1: forever basically uh, into like her running and her experience
Speaker 1: of pain. And that's something that after I listened to
Speaker 1: that show, I was like, oh, I'm going to be
Speaker 1: able to like use this to mentally make myself better
Speaker 1: at running. And it is not done. Nothing at all.
Speaker 1: Nothing works. It's you're just not meant to run that much.
Speaker 1: People are not meant to Yes, Um, what is something
Speaker 1: you think is overrated? Okay, well, um, hopefully we'll get
Speaker 1: a chance to talk about this later. But I am
Speaker 1: now ready to come out as a hater of fancy
Speaker 1: ice cream. Yeah I know. Um, I live in like
Speaker 1: an ice cream epicenter neighborhood. It's just like constantly overrun
Speaker 1: by fancy ice creams, and I've kind of just silently
Speaker 1: put up with it. But no more, there's no I worked.
Speaker 1: I worked at Ben and Jerry's in uh in college.
Speaker 1: That is as fancy as ice cream should be. Anything
Speaker 1: fancier is wrong. You know what you're strawberry and balsamic
Speaker 1: ice cream. Nope. I don't want lavender, I don't want saffron.
Speaker 1: I don't want the Jenny's Everything bagel ice cream, which
Speaker 1: is maybe sounds why why? I mean I it's like,
Speaker 1: I get it, you can do it, and then people
Speaker 1: like us will be like, let's talk about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have thought, but it's to me like ice
Speaker 1: cream in general, I have like mixed feelings about, you know,
Speaker 1: because I think really really good ice cream is like
Speaker 1: just the very simple ice cream, and when you get
Speaker 1: super premium it's almost like too creamy, you know. I
Speaker 1: have to say I'm kind of like a Baskin Robbins
Speaker 1: person at this point where I'm like, that's the ice
Speaker 1: cream we deserve. I definitely chunks over ice cream kind
Speaker 1: of person. I'm like, like, that's on layered stuff. I
Speaker 1: was like, this is absolutely my bag, like extra toppings, yep,
Speaker 1: like ice cream in between. The texture. Texture is really important.
Speaker 1: I think when people get crazy with flavors, it's like
Speaker 1: we're all kind of pretending that you can taste all
Speaker 1: of those things, but you sort of can't when there's
Speaker 1: that much cream involved, you know. I Mean it's it's
Speaker 1: the suggestion that it's there, but like it's not really
Speaker 1: doing anything. Listen, I'm a Ben and Jerry's like, like,
Speaker 1: then we're going out for ice cream. It's probably going
Speaker 1: to be Ben and Jerry's. Yeah. I've done Jenny's ice
Speaker 1: cream with my fancy lady friends who are like we
Speaker 1: try all the new things. That's good to milk bar
Speaker 1: but but I kind of like a quote unquote milk
Speaker 1: bar or even Ben and Jerry's philosophy of like keep
Speaker 1: it simple and clean. Like I'm an American and I
Speaker 1: like American desserts, and we did not go to fancy.
Speaker 1: We bake yellow cake. We put the chocolate frosting and
Speaker 1: some sprinkles on it. Go next exactly. I mean, I
Speaker 1: still think of desserts like the fanciest dessert kind of
Speaker 1: can't compete with Um. I know that the l A U. S. D.
Speaker 1: Coffee Cake. I think recipe was going around recently, like
Speaker 1: the coffee cake, but I will be looking it up.
Speaker 1: Oh Joe, I'll send it to you. It's everyone got
Speaker 1: addicted to it. Apparently it just had this like really
Speaker 1: good crumb and it's very super simple. It's been the
Speaker 1: same recipe forever. The fans are so obsessed with it,
Speaker 1: and it's like you take that and then you take
Speaker 1: a fancy cake, and like it's just not the same.
Speaker 1: Dessert needs to be humble. It's like it should be
Speaker 1: a humble thing. Um that said, I I still really
Speaker 1: like Tiramis Sue like I'm eightiesman or something where, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is the best of every world, right, because it's
Speaker 1: giving you that like a little bit of crunch from
Speaker 1: the ground coffee, but also it's giving like the sweetn
Speaker 1: dense the milk sort of flavor. But also there's chocolate, Like, yes,
Speaker 1: it's complicated, but it's like chocolate and coffee and cream
Speaker 1: like it's perfect. It's perfect. Also, I like that it's
Speaker 1: retro because that kind of keeps it from being a
Speaker 1: high luten imposter. You know, like now now that it's
Speaker 1: a really old and dated dessert, it's okay to be like,
Speaker 1: well then now that's cannon. Now that counts exactly. No,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely with you, I should admit as as I
Speaker 1: was like trying to act like I agreed with this
Speaker 1: take tests. I this past weekend walked to my nearest
Speaker 1: Jenny's to try and get the everything big ol ice
Speaker 1: cream and would now would now be telling you it's
Speaker 1: actually pretty good if if they hadn't just run out
Speaker 1: when I got there, so they ran out nothing to
Speaker 1: do when McDonald's launched that, Like, I don't forget the
Speaker 1: pops are they like partnered with like a rap? Travis
Speaker 1: Scott Right, Travis Scott Meal. At that time, I lived
Speaker 1: across the street from a McDonald's and when I tell you,
Speaker 1: there was just a line around the block all day,
Speaker 1: every day for like two and a half weeks. There's
Speaker 1: nothing to beause people were just like, yes, we will
Speaker 1: McDonald say in our car safely social distance. This is
Speaker 1: a smart, insane thing to do. Was crazy. There's also
Speaker 1: bad Bunny and J Balvin. Oh yeah that J Balvin.
Speaker 1: My husband was weirdly like really wanted the J Balvin meal.
Speaker 1: I forget what it was. The Travis Scott was the
Speaker 1: one that had the least reason to exist, I think,
Speaker 1: because it was just I think the only innovation was
Speaker 1: that it was barbecue sauce for the fries. Yeah, bacon
Speaker 1: and then oh bacon on the burger quarter pounder with
Speaker 1: with bacon, which I wonder does anyone remember what the
Speaker 1: J Balvin one was or was? Because that was the
Speaker 1: Travis Scott. I wonder what the J Balvin was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now I feel like I missed out. I just remember
Speaker 1: my husband being like, should we go get the J Balvin?
Speaker 1: And I was like, actually good on that. Yeah, even
Speaker 1: with the fancy name in front of it, it's still
Speaker 1: McDonald's big Mac and Oreo shake. That's actually, okay, now
Speaker 1: I under stand why he I mean, those are awesome.
Speaker 1: Those are awesome things. Uh yeah, you could, you could
Speaker 1: just order those on your own, but never it worked.
Speaker 1: They got what they needed. But now you have the
Speaker 1: backing of Jay Balvin to admit that that's that's your order?
Speaker 1: Is that sweet sweet merch Like yeah? Wait wait did
Speaker 1: it come with anything? Not the meal itself. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, McDonald's would team up with these guys
Speaker 1: and launched like merchandise, so there was like a member's
Speaker 1: only jacket, UM that like instantly sold out. They sold
Speaker 1: McDonald's trays with like the star's face on it, I
Speaker 1: think shoes if I remember correctly, It was like a
Speaker 1: lot of suff That stuff was fire and sold out
Speaker 1: pretty quickly. Have you guys been to McDonald's recently? UM
Speaker 1: to a drive through, like probably a month and a
Speaker 1: half ago. I hadn't been in a really long time,
Speaker 1: and then I started going again, UM for Mcflurry's, which
Speaker 1: I felt like I needed at Time're so good. It's
Speaker 1: so much more expensive than it was. And it's really
Speaker 1: crazy to me because I remember, Um, I was having
Speaker 1: a conversation with a friend of mine, maybe like a
Speaker 1: year or two ago, and she's from Morocco and she
Speaker 1: was like, you know Morocco, McDonald's is like really expensive,
Speaker 1: and um, it's like a fancy treat because she was like,
Speaker 1: you know, they're trying to discourage it because they know
Speaker 1: how like shitty it is for you. Uh. And when
Speaker 1: I went to McDonald's, we've been going to in and
Speaker 1: Out a lot, and I was like, McDonald's is legitimately
Speaker 1: like eight dollars more than in and because we're buying
Speaker 1: for four people, um, because you can't just buy three
Speaker 1: mcflurry's and then be like this one is my five
Speaker 1: year old. I care about her health like no longer. Um.
Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, it's like thirty dollars to
Speaker 1: get McDonald's now, and in and out you get like
Speaker 1: the same amount of food and it's you know, twenty
Speaker 1: two was super super weird to me. It went and
Speaker 1: got fancy on us. They did your friends and uh
Speaker 1: suddenly you know charging us in our mental like in
Speaker 1: and out is still just value wise really one of
Speaker 1: the best. Yeah, I mean I prefer fat burger. Joel
Speaker 1: is like she knows how I feel because she's had
Speaker 1: to sit through a lot of podcasts. Fat Burger is
Speaker 1: is I think far superior to In and Out, but
Speaker 1: it's also just so expensive, um, which I think you
Speaker 1: know for good reason and everything, but like in and
Speaker 1: Out is just the most budget. Yeah, it's the best
Speaker 1: bang for your book and friendically to one in the
Speaker 1: valley that was like a fat Burger in the valley
Speaker 1: that's super old and have the original griddle on the
Speaker 1: like side pull up window is that Beverly Glenn and
Speaker 1: Ventura And I'm making yeah, no, no, no no, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that's the corner divine. I was like, this is
Speaker 1: next level, like even like if it's in and Out
Speaker 1: and then fat Burger, this Fatburger gets like two steps exactly.
Speaker 1: That's the classic fat burger stand from at least from
Speaker 1: my childhood. That was like the fat burger to go
Speaker 1: to to I love l a culture. It's so like
Speaker 1: the fact that you just pulled that immediately like the
Speaker 1: good fat. That's also it's really close to a Ben
Speaker 1: and Jerry, So if you want, you can do the
Speaker 1: fat Burger. Ben and Jerry we know how to live
Speaker 1: out here. Um, all right, we are going to take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we will be right back and
Speaker 1: we're back, and let's just run through some stories. A
Speaker 1: couple of COVID related ones. The n b A first
Speaker 1: of all, made the teams come back like I I
Speaker 1: Lebron specifically says in this article seventy one days after
Speaker 1: like there were seventy one days between the games. They're
Speaker 1: supposed to be like a nice, you know, many months
Speaker 1: long break in the off season, they you know, kind
Speaker 1: of rushed them back, uh and also said like ahead
Speaker 1: of the season, there won't be an All Star game.
Speaker 1: You'll get five days off in March. And now they're
Speaker 1: kind of switching this up. And I'm hoping that Adam
Speaker 1: Silver comes to his senses because many of the top
Speaker 1: All Stars, the people who will have to play in
Speaker 1: this game, are like, please, please, please, don't make me
Speaker 1: do this. It's a wild because Lebron was like, you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm nominated and asked to go, I'm still gonna go,
Speaker 1: But just my heart is not going to be in
Speaker 1: the game. And I think, like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're contractually obligated to participate very severely, Jesus Christ, what
Speaker 1: that seems. I feel like the players have enough money
Speaker 1: and enough lawyers to be like yeah, we should not
Speaker 1: have to put our lives at risk to come and
Speaker 1: entertain people for a day. And let's be real about it,
Speaker 1: like the All Star Games not what they used to be. Not.
Speaker 1: Uh last season was, yes, yes, last season did give
Speaker 1: us some some great dunks, uh, some good moment and
Speaker 1: you're like, you know, and now with some of the
Speaker 1: shift up to because uh, sorry I'm bad at names
Speaker 1: the Houston's player that just yeah, yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: I feel like I've been reading about some hurt feelings,
Speaker 1: some some friendships ending, some major shifts and relationships, so
Speaker 1: I'm sure the drama would be good. But I also
Speaker 1: feel like I don't understand why the NFL just couldn't
Speaker 1: like create two bubbles either coast and then once we
Speaker 1: got to the finals just shake it down to like
Speaker 1: I feel like they had they had the perfect example
Speaker 1: of like, yes, this can be done safely, Yes we
Speaker 1: can make sure the players are participating, and then they
Speaker 1: were like, well nobody else decided to pick up what
Speaker 1: we were doing, so screw all that. So apparently the
Speaker 1: because that's what I've I've been like, just two more bubbles,
Speaker 1: bubbles for everything, and it sucks to be in the bubble.
Speaker 1: Apparently that's the reason they did not do the bubble.
Speaker 1: Like the players hated being in the bubble because yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they have great lives when they're not in a bubble.
Speaker 1: And then it was like, okay, guys, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: sleepaway camp. Uh, and you all have to eat garbage
Speaker 1: food from the calf and that takes though by the
Speaker 1: end they had some great food, I know, but it's
Speaker 1: it's just I think. And also they couldn't see their families,
Speaker 1: like for the most part, like or you know, they
Speaker 1: could only see It was just very it seemed very
Speaker 1: surreal and strange, and that was like an immediate nonstarter.
Speaker 1: At the beginning of the season. Uh. From the NBA
Speaker 1: Player Association was like no more bubbles. The cats march
Speaker 1: to just I'm so sorry you had to continue and
Speaker 1: like go and push through. All of this stuff is
Speaker 1: just beyond me, Like I really, it's so hard for
Speaker 1: me to wrap my mirind to it and be like, yes,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely worth lives to play a basketball game, right,
Speaker 1: that doesn't it makes no sense to me. It's not
Speaker 1: just that though, it's also just part of the whole
Speaker 1: kind of um this weird inability to admit what this
Speaker 1: situation has done to everyone's morale and like wanting to
Speaker 1: make people into you know, the kind of and the
Speaker 1: band played on kind of thing where it's like, but
Speaker 1: you have to you owe it to people to give
Speaker 1: them something, and it's it just fails to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: kind of stress that everyone's under. I mean, even beyond
Speaker 1: the health risk. It's like everyone's just so depressed and
Speaker 1: like scared and you know, at the end of their
Speaker 1: ropes and it's like, but you still have to entertain.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, give him a break. Yeah, Lebron
Speaker 1: James is paid very well, and it is probably when
Speaker 1: I always say, this is one of the most underpaid
Speaker 1: people in America because the level of his talent, the
Speaker 1: level of value that he adds to the NBA product
Speaker 1: is you know, worth billions and billions of dollars, which
Speaker 1: you know they do not pay him. Let's talk real quick,
Speaker 1: just overdose deaths. The numbers during the pandemic. I think
Speaker 1: we assume they were going to be bad. Numbers are
Speaker 1: looking bad, and it's actually also uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: were seeing a lot of opioid overdose deaths and uh,
Speaker 1: the years leading up to the pandemic. Um. And now
Speaker 1: they're also seeing like cocaine and meth deaths, which we like,
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard of that in a long time, people
Speaker 1: dying of cocaine overdoses, but that's on the rise again. Um.
Speaker 1: And just opioids, the the fentanel thing is really like dangerous,
Speaker 1: Like anybody who is using opioids, it just needs to
Speaker 1: be so so careful because you can get what you
Speaker 1: think is one thing and it's fentanyl and it will
Speaker 1: kill you, um, very very quickly. Um. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know this makes sense to me. It's a lonely
Speaker 1: affliction and these are extraordinarily lonely times, like even before
Speaker 1: the pandemic, and then when you add the pandemic on
Speaker 1: top up of it, well, when you compound the fact
Speaker 1: that like a lot of people are just doing everything
Speaker 1: they can to avoid like hospitals and doctors right now,
Speaker 1: especially for people struggling with like chronic pain who were
Speaker 1: also on pain meds which can also be addictive. This
Speaker 1: is like a horrible cycle of like, uh, an inefficient
Speaker 1: health care system essentially, I think completes a huge part
Speaker 1: in this. And the you know, it's been. This article
Speaker 1: was talking about how, um, the addiction treatment facilities are
Speaker 1: not doing well because America, like during the Trump administration
Speaker 1: and just like generally across the past couple of decades,
Speaker 1: like since the eighties, has just had a disintegrating social
Speaker 1: safety net, Like they're not paying that. So it's like
Speaker 1: up to the drug treatment facilities to like make money,
Speaker 1: bringing the bringing the big bucks. Uh. And that's like,
Speaker 1: come on, ridiculous. I remember an article I think it
Speaker 1: was maybe a year ago about how proud it to
Speaker 1: worry a lot of those treatment facilities have become and
Speaker 1: how they're they're just run in such a an inhumane
Speaker 1: and like really aggressively marketing kind of way. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I can only imagine what it would be
Speaker 1: like to have to struggle with whether or not to
Speaker 1: seek medical treatment if you think you've overdosed right now,
Speaker 1: especially in Los Angeles where you know, I s s
Speaker 1: are full. I know that response times from paramedics have
Speaker 1: been really long. It's it's such a heartbreaking thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's also just a reminder that being any kind of
Speaker 1: struggle that you had going into this pandemic is just
Speaker 1: so exacerbated and it seems like I think people are
Speaker 1: also having a harder time talking about how things are
Speaker 1: affecting them personally and if they're having a really hard time,
Speaker 1: because you know, everybody is, so it seems harder to
Speaker 1: kind of share your own issues right now because it's
Speaker 1: just you're comparing them against people who have lost family
Speaker 1: members or you know, who are struggling in different ways,
Speaker 1: and it makes it almost seem like you don't want
Speaker 1: to depress anyone with your own problems. It's it's such
Speaker 1: a uniquely horrible Yeah, um, one thing that has been
Speaker 1: good during the pandemics meetings or there's right now there's
Speaker 1: a meeting you could go to for whatever you're looking
Speaker 1: for kind of support from. I have a a a
Speaker 1: spreadsheet in my Twitter bio if anybody's looking for meetings,
Speaker 1: that's like a bunch of l A meetings. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there's just so many happening right now at all times.
Speaker 1: It's not quite as good as like going in person,
Speaker 1: but it is something for sure. Let's talk the anti
Speaker 1: mask protests, which I not only but also because like
Speaker 1: the second I saw this, I was just like this
Speaker 1: doesn't really add up, Like it doesn't make sense that
Speaker 1: people are this past about shopping without masks on at
Speaker 1: Ralph's um, like I get, and I think there's probably
Speaker 1: like some aspect of it that's just you know, like
Speaker 1: we've been talking about the poison of social media and
Speaker 1: just um the hit of being like I know something
Speaker 1: that other people don't, so like now I have dopamine
Speaker 1: flooding my brain. But there was an early, early in
Speaker 1: the pandemic Washington Post article UH that pointed out the
Speaker 1: movement's roots were funded by dark money, the same way
Speaker 1: the Tea Party was, with associates of like Rhonda Santis,
Speaker 1: the Coke family, the Mercer family, all like having people
Speaker 1: who run in those circles were funding the anti mask
Speaker 1: movement early on. And I can't imagine they've if anything,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they've just found a better way to to
Speaker 1: disguise it. Um. I understed the financial gains of like
Speaker 1: backing something like a tea party, but I'm trying to
Speaker 1: under stand the financial gains behind like being like don't
Speaker 1: wear a mask in public. I think it's I think
Speaker 1: early on it was this well, first of all, Trump
Speaker 1: was like giving them their marching orders, right, like, so
Speaker 1: you wanted Trump to have like some legitimate claim to
Speaker 1: some version of reality. They also felt like by closing
Speaker 1: down the economy or you know, asking people to social distance,
Speaker 1: you were hurting the economy, which was going to be
Speaker 1: bad for his reelection hopes. And so that was a
Speaker 1: thing people talked about a lot, which is do you
Speaker 1: remember that? Yeah, which was wild to me because it
Speaker 1: was just like if all we had to do was
Speaker 1: just chill for eight weeks. Yeah, yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's a So Robert Evans just finished his He did
Speaker 1: a mini series Behind the Insurrections, which you can listened
Speaker 1: to him the Behind the Bastard's Feed, but it's uh,
Speaker 1: just talks about different like fascist uprisings and like that.
Speaker 1: You can kind of hear echoing in the January six
Speaker 1: Insurrection Washington, d C. And the final episode was about
Speaker 1: the business plot, which is a bunch of like Wall
Speaker 1: Street multimillionaires and billionaires trying to fund the overthrow of
Speaker 1: FDR when he was like proposing the new Deal, and
Speaker 1: it just like it was Prescott Bush, so like George
Speaker 1: Bush's George H. W. Bush's father and W's grandfather was
Speaker 1: one of the people. Yeah, I mean, we're six cousins,
Speaker 1: um well he's a great guy. Uh, I just want
Speaker 1: to say no, but uh, it was it was a legitimate,
Speaker 1: like the only thing that stopped was that they approached
Speaker 1: a um military leader who had like recently been radicalized
Speaker 1: and become like more sympathetic to socialist causes. But they
Speaker 1: were going to basically install a They were going to
Speaker 1: use FDRs illness to take him like delegitimize him or
Speaker 1: make him like a figurehead and then like have a
Speaker 1: military leader kind of doing a deep state sort of thing. Um.
Speaker 1: And it was you know, just called out in the open,
Speaker 1: like they were like, here, we're gonna pay you to
Speaker 1: do this. The guy who they were trying to pay
Speaker 1: was like, hey, they're trying to pay me to do this.
Speaker 1: And because money and capital runs everything in America, they
Speaker 1: like those stories immediately got like the New York Times
Speaker 1: was like this is hogwash um, and like ship all
Speaker 1: over it, um and it's not. Yeah, it was very
Speaker 1: very real. Almost worked. Yeah, almost worked. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Trump real quick. So the Democrats wanted him to testify
Speaker 1: during the impeachment trial. Uh, and he continued his run
Speaker 1: of sending like caddy letters as being like his primary
Speaker 1: form of communication. Uh, through his attorney. Uh. He let
Speaker 1: me just get this big enough so that I can
Speaker 1: read it. Um, he said, Dear Congressman Raskin. Uh so
Speaker 1: this is in response to them asking him to come
Speaker 1: and testify it his own impeachment trial. Uh, he said,
Speaker 1: we're in receipt of your latest public relations stunt. As
Speaker 1: you certainly know, there's no such thing as a negative
Speaker 1: inference in this unconstitutional proceeding. While it just like it
Speaker 1: reads like a Trump like Twitter rant mixed like as
Speaker 1: sent through the screener of a paralegal. Uh, but it's uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not having it. We're I'm still waiting to see
Speaker 1: like where he's gonna surface and actually like what he's
Speaker 1: going to do with all the energy that people are like,
Speaker 1: come on, man, what what's happening? It's so weird. The
Speaker 1: feeling of having him be invisible, which is what I
Speaker 1: longed for for so many years, and now that he's
Speaker 1: not on Twitter, I'm so I feel like I have
Speaker 1: this anxiety of like, what's he doing, what he's up to,
Speaker 1: what's he doing, which is of course exactly what he wants.
Speaker 1: So I hate that I feel that way. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's like the cattiest person in the world.
Speaker 1: It's still blows my mind that it's only been you know,
Speaker 1: however long since he was kicked off Twitter. It feels
Speaker 1: like hard to remember a time when you had to
Speaker 1: constantly block and unblocked to see what kind of damn
Speaker 1: with today? I was saying this day, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: isn't it disappointing that we got a catty president? But
Speaker 1: he was also stupid, Like I love a smart, catty bitch,
Speaker 1: Like I really like a president who was like, no, sister,
Speaker 1: that's not what we're doing. You don't know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, and like actually has like solid receipts for
Speaker 1: people that like Obama would occasionally tap into that bag,
Speaker 1: you know, when they really had the moral high ground.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I feel like what a waste Trump was
Speaker 1: in all aspects, Like it couldn't even be a fun
Speaker 1: kind of like a caddy president. My hope is that
Speaker 1: the messiness is a bigger part of his appeal than
Speaker 1: people realize that, Like when Ted Cruz tries to do
Speaker 1: it and like just can't zero charisma, Yeah, because he
Speaker 1: has zero chrisma, like that that will uh kind of
Speaker 1: fall flat because the messiness is like what I think
Speaker 1: made him kept him at the top of people's minds.
Speaker 1: And he I mean, to his credit, I which I
Speaker 1: don't like to say, but he was so good. It
Speaker 1: was a note that he could really hit. You know,
Speaker 1: he knew how to kind of maximize the emotions that
Speaker 1: come with Like it just felt like he was almost
Speaker 1: a machine of being able to hone his stupid statements
Speaker 1: to like really get under everyone's skin. Uh. It was
Speaker 1: a talent, a horrible evil talent, right, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he was, uh and not by like him sitting down
Speaker 1: in the lab and being like, I will design myself
Speaker 1: to be the perfect It's just our current version. Uh,
Speaker 1: this like crisis where the world is run by like
Speaker 1: a attention economy and like just controlling people's attention via
Speaker 1: social media, like really favors people with narcissistic personality disorder
Speaker 1: and he is the most of that of anyone. Uh.
Speaker 1: And yeah, like just has a unfillable whole in the
Speaker 1: middle of his being that he has to constantly fill
Speaker 1: with more and more attention. So that's what it was.
Speaker 1: But also interesting because when he resigned from sag Um,
Speaker 1: this follows a you know, I forget how many months
Speaker 1: ago it was, because who knows what time is anymore.
Speaker 1: But after SAG kind of fiddled with their income limits
Speaker 1: for healthcare UM and ended up dropping a lot of
Speaker 1: people from their healthcare plan and then had to do
Speaker 1: kind of this series of forums about why they made
Speaker 1: that decision and you know, justifying it and everything. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who are angry at SAG,
Speaker 1: who are correct, I believe to be angry at SAG.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like um with Newsome, you know,
Speaker 1: where it's like everyone on the right was like, recall Newsom,
Speaker 1: and then finally, like the people on the left were like,
Speaker 1: wait is that we hate that? We agree, but it's
Speaker 1: like we don't want to recall, but we're mad at
Speaker 1: him too, And they had all those memes of us
Speaker 1: shaking hands over being angry at Newsom. I felt that
Speaker 1: with the SAG thing because I was I I'm very
Speaker 1: proud to be a Union member and I love SAG,
Speaker 1: but I was felt very disappointed by how they handled
Speaker 1: their health plan stuff because I know it really impacted
Speaker 1: a lot of people, especially older people. So I was like,
Speaker 1: damn it, Trump, we agree thing being mad at Sack
Speaker 1: There Hauld be one thing. He has so many opinions exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there there was this New York Times article that was
Speaker 1: like the left is like failing at the vaccine or
Speaker 1: like the left's vaccine problem, and they were equating newsome
Speaker 1: with the left, like as opposed to just and like
Speaker 1: just giving the Democrats, like claiming that all Democrats were
Speaker 1: the left. But it was a really weird It was
Speaker 1: like from their team, who does who sends out their
Speaker 1: daily newsletter, But it was just very much like a
Speaker 1: kind of foggy hit piece that was like being like,
Speaker 1: we look at Israel. They have the best uh nash
Speaker 1: sal numbers, which is true, but they were like, see,
Speaker 1: Israel is doing well, the UK is doing well, Conservatives
Speaker 1: are doing well, whereas the left is like falling down.
Speaker 1: It's like this whole fucking problem is because of a
Speaker 1: right wing fascists like President the United and like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I get like, I don't think that people on the
Speaker 1: left should be above criticism, and there's definitely been vaccine problem,
Speaker 1: vaccine rollout issues, but I think we need to be
Speaker 1: very specific and careful about equating anyone who's part of
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party with the left. There are liberals that's
Speaker 1: a good differentiation, I think, though you know, this comes
Speaker 1: up a lot when comparing California's COVID numbers to you know,
Speaker 1: the numbers in Kentucky or whatever, where they say like,
Speaker 1: look it's like they're run by the left. But it
Speaker 1: also I mean, while there is like a large contingent
Speaker 1: if people are very progressive in California, obviously we also
Speaker 1: have I mean Beverly Hills in that New York Times
Speaker 1: um interactive map where they showed you know, who voted
Speaker 1: for Trump and everything and you could get really hyper local.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeahs okay, then not so good county
Speaker 1: just watched having watched those uh live meetings earlier in
Speaker 1: the year, earlier last year. Uh yeah, it's I wonder
Speaker 1: like there's there's so much dissent, sure descent on quote
Speaker 1: unquote the left. Where do Democrats fall? What is a liberal?
Speaker 1: Like the whole thing is just a chaotic mess right now,
Speaker 1: even like just in and amongst ourselves of just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out like where do you where do you land?
Speaker 1: Like the Democratic Party has become so center um to
Speaker 1: call them left is just yeah, this bizarre at this point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's true, I know, it's it's hard to like have
Speaker 1: conversations about these kinds of things, is they're so rapidly shifting,
Speaker 1: and the definition of you know, these kind of like
Speaker 1: different political factions is so kind of contested depending on
Speaker 1: who you're talking to, So it's difficult. I mean definitely
Speaker 1: during the primaries, that was a time when uh, you know,
Speaker 1: people were fighting so so much who would essentially agree
Speaker 1: on most issues, But then you know, the differences between
Speaker 1: them became so pronounced it was intense to see and
Speaker 1: difficult to figure out how to kind of zoom out
Speaker 1: and get a good picture on how this is going
Speaker 1: to be viewed later, you know. Yeah. But two, in
Speaker 1: a lot of cases, the Democratic Party is like values
Speaker 1: the status quo and like the way things have been,
Speaker 1: which is a overall like a conservative philosophy is to
Speaker 1: go back to the way things were. Um. And then
Speaker 1: you know, the Republicans are fascists at this point, like
Speaker 1: straight up and down fascists. Uh, we don't really have
Speaker 1: of Like, I don't know, I think that the Democrats
Speaker 1: are in a lot of ways a conservative like center
Speaker 1: right party when you compare them to any other country,
Speaker 1: or at least a lot of other countries. Um, and
Speaker 1: then the left doesn't really have any sort of media
Speaker 1: outlet other than like it doesn't have a TV network.
Speaker 1: MSNBC is not a left a leftist thing. They are
Speaker 1: a d n C, H and d n C. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, yeah that's true. Um, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll be right back. And we're back. And
Speaker 1: uh so is Cardi B. She's she dropped a new
Speaker 1: video on Ben Shapiro's M this. Uh yeah, it's really good.
Speaker 1: It's probably not quite as evocative. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: the what's the provocative. Yeah, it's very evocative. It's not
Speaker 1: quite as maybe not quite as provocative as what video,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, it's pretty good. That's what. I
Speaker 1: having a whole conversation on Twitter before she got on,
Speaker 1: because it was like, listen, can you can we break
Speaker 1: this down? Because there's so much happening in this music
Speaker 1: video and I think if you just give it like
Speaker 1: a cursory service branch, like, okay, this is very much
Speaker 1: like a Cardi B style music video, but like once
Speaker 1: you get into specifically the like her style designs in there,
Speaker 1: like a lot of magic begins to happen. For example,
Speaker 1: at one point, she's wearing this like cone braught neon
Speaker 1: like sports like get up, like it's shorts in like
Speaker 1: a top or whatever. Now instantly my head I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is giving me like, um, like a fifties like
Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe meets like eighties Jane Fonda vibe because she's
Speaker 1: also in sneakers, not on heels, and it's like kind
Speaker 1: of sexy but also like very powerful, somewhat cheerleader. But
Speaker 1: then Tests you were like, oh no, Madonna, and I
Speaker 1: was like, there is much happening in this video that
Speaker 1: I really really like, especially if you think about like
Speaker 1: what's sort of being said about like sexuality, but also
Speaker 1: just like womanhood. There's she has these and at one
Speaker 1: point she's like this dominatrix like cheerleader style vibe going on,
Speaker 1: which Tests brilliantly picked up was like a TLC nod,
Speaker 1: which was like the big hair pieces from the No
Speaker 1: Scrubs music video. Well, I was like, oh it's I
Speaker 1: was like, it's fly Girls, and then I was like
Speaker 1: no weight and then I but then I had to
Speaker 1: like do like many googles and everything, and oh, I
Speaker 1: see it's left I But also I mean just the
Speaker 1: you said, Missy Ali it too with the wig part.
Speaker 1: That was the best part. It was it also like
Speaker 1: it was just so she's so funny and like it
Speaker 1: just it played so well, but I didn't get and
Speaker 1: I felt like I knew it was a reference. When
Speaker 1: she's wearing the kind of like saran wrap like strapless
Speaker 1: bikini thing and with all the champagne. I was like,
Speaker 1: is that like Kim Kardashian with like the champagne you know? Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: she wrote the Internet h yeah, But I was like,
Speaker 1: is it that? But I felt like that was a
Speaker 1: distinct reference that I wasn't getting. Um, they did like
Speaker 1: a birth of Venus, you know, and a Marilyn Monroe reference. Um.
Speaker 1: But I was like, oh, this is one of the
Speaker 1: ones where I'm just going to have to sit down
Speaker 1: and find like every little Easter eg that's in there.
Speaker 1: But it's been in my head all morning. Um, and
Speaker 1: I keep like humming in and then I see my
Speaker 1: kids and I'm just like that go away. I do.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of her like evoking all of
Speaker 1: the like icons of feminine beauty throughout the ages and
Speaker 1: then in absolutely like making them her own. And she's
Speaker 1: like the rolls Royce ornament. I was like, this is life.
Speaker 1: This is exactly what I want from a CARDI B.
Speaker 1: It's just her having like a ton of fun, like
Speaker 1: absolutely embodying like her like absolutely just power over her
Speaker 1: like sex drive in sex life. Um, and then being
Speaker 1: kind of goofy and making a pyramid that works. I
Speaker 1: was like, this is a feat of like physical prowess,
Speaker 1: Like this is so incredible that any she just changed
Speaker 1: the cheerleading game with that one shot or ever. I
Speaker 1: look forward to all of your uh you know new
Speaker 1: TikTok dance crazes based off of this video. It's going
Speaker 1: to be amazing. Yeah yeah um and the you you
Speaker 1: were saying that the there were like product placements, like
Speaker 1: a one of the vibrator that appears as like something
Speaker 1: that she's selling or has aligned herself with a brand.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So Bush reached out her on like Twitter,
Speaker 1: I think if I remember correctly, and they're like all
Speaker 1: very about like positive female orgasm, like get yours, and
Speaker 1: they sent her a bunch of like vibrators and she
Speaker 1: opened them on Instagram and like has this very positive
Speaker 1: you know, women empowered movement. I like the idea of
Speaker 1: especially if you look back at like, oh, like the
Speaker 1: the legends of the female rapp game the mid nineties
Speaker 1: are our little kims are it's a bad day for names.
Speaker 1: Guys m are Trina's um. A lot of times those
Speaker 1: ladies had to partner with dudes in order to sell music,
Speaker 1: but then also to get these like major brand endorsements, which,
Speaker 1: if you know anything about the music game, particularly now,
Speaker 1: like you don't make a lot of money selling songs.
Speaker 1: It's brand endorsements and touring, and you can't tour right now,
Speaker 1: so it's like it's a challenge. And so it just
Speaker 1: to see like her getting like all of these like
Speaker 1: big brand endorsements, and it's just Cardi B. It's not
Speaker 1: her in partnership with anybody else. I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of exciting. Um. I don't think it's of Spade, but
Speaker 1: I'm really excited for her and everybody who Spade with
Speaker 1: a sparkler in it at a club, you know. I
Speaker 1: also think it's kind of like a fun The Madonna
Speaker 1: references also, we're just interesting because I also think that
Speaker 1: she there was like a reference um in one of
Speaker 1: the shots that people were mentioning resembled this book of
Speaker 1: erotic photo, you know, photography. I think it was French
Speaker 1: maybe um, but it had like a strong kind of
Speaker 1: like Madonna vibe throughout of like a material girl, kind
Speaker 1: of like I'm going to be subtle, like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: here to make money and like I'm here to like,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of dominate, and it had all of
Speaker 1: these like s and m things going on. But I
Speaker 1: just love her and I like love that she's doing that.
Speaker 1: And I also think we've become more accepting of like
Speaker 1: the brand partnership and stuff over the past couple of
Speaker 1: years as more people have entered that space and you
Speaker 1: realize how you know, um, Spotify and like other platforms
Speaker 1: can kind of short artists and how brand partnerships make
Speaker 1: up that gap. A lot of the time. It used
Speaker 1: to be something that seemed kind of tacky and like lame,
Speaker 1: and now I feel like it's just you. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: great for you. You know you got the Vibrator partnership,
Speaker 1: like run with it, you know, show it. It's great.
Speaker 1: The Madonna reference also, like I remember a time I'm
Speaker 1: this old that like when a new Madonna video came out,
Speaker 1: like that felt like an event that also like all
Speaker 1: of the aesthetics from that video would like kind of
Speaker 1: become a part of the ether, like the like a
Speaker 1: Prayer video, the Vogue video, like all the just different
Speaker 1: imagery like suddenly like that was just something that was
Speaker 1: going to be referenced. The cone bra immediately became a
Speaker 1: thing that was like going to be an SNL like
Speaker 1: or in living color like joke visual gag immediately um
Speaker 1: and now like it feels like she cardis videos like
Speaker 1: when she drops one, it's like immediately a part of
Speaker 1: the culture, like an event that where everybody is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we gotta drink this up. And now like that is
Speaker 1: part of our vocabulary. Yea. The entire hairpiece from the
Speaker 1: in the I really love opening shot, which is her
Speaker 1: like standing on a grave like her lubatan shoe is
Speaker 1: literally on some guys like sack and then you see
Speaker 1: the like graves and it's like a it's a great stance.
Speaker 1: So like if you think of like a king, Arthur
Speaker 1: Old King's covered in cement. I think they do this
Speaker 1: in Lord of the Rings where it's just like the
Speaker 1: body laying and that's the tomb. Uh so she's standing
Speaker 1: on top of the guy and then they reveal the
Speaker 1: name and it's and I was like, I wonder how
Speaker 1: cathartic that just experienced. Was something like this whole video
Speaker 1: is just a very stout like fuck you. Um. But
Speaker 1: her hairpiece and that it's all. It's like a giant,
Speaker 1: chunky braid with black roses in like little crucifix is
Speaker 1: tied in. Um. The crucifix consistently, Uh a fashion statement.
Speaker 1: I've had definitely had several pairs of crucifix earrings, different
Speaker 1: types of crucifix bows and stuff like forward seeing what
Speaker 1: the girls do with that coming forward, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff to like feast on its It's a visual
Speaker 1: feast for the eyes. Um. And I'm glad we have
Speaker 1: Cardi b in these quarantine times between her and then
Speaker 1: Chloe and Hallie doing all of their like live digital
Speaker 1: things of like, okay, we we don't have summer concert series,
Speaker 1: but we have these girls and holding it down for us.
Speaker 1: The but the thing with the barbies, uh screaming like
Speaker 1: singing from her hair is hit so hard because it's
Speaker 1: like that point in the song also hits really hard.
Speaker 1: That's so dope. Yeah, it's screaming about how broke brokeman
Speaker 1: don't deserve pussy, I believe. And yeah, Barbie screaming that
Speaker 1: is pretty great. Yeah, and that is just meybeing like
Speaker 1: remember that part that it was cool, right video? Uh, well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about gorilla glue and hair. I don't think
Speaker 1: Cardi was using gorilla glue in any of her hair
Speaker 1: styles that she was rocking, but it is something that
Speaker 1: we have now been given evidence that does not work
Speaker 1: from a TikTok tessaka Brown. When this hit the internet,
Speaker 1: I was like down. I was like down for the count.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is the wildest thing I've seen
Speaker 1: in a long time. It absolutely feels like it should
Speaker 1: be like if schools in session. I'm convinced this would
Speaker 1: have been the new challenge, like glue your hair down.
Speaker 1: And it's such it's funny because okay, so if you
Speaker 1: haven't seen the video, basically there's a woman she's like, listen,
Speaker 1: my hair has been like this four months, which is
Speaker 1: immediately alarming because your hair should not be one way
Speaker 1: for months. You're like, what is going on? She has
Speaker 1: got to be glued, which if you've ever had to
Speaker 1: secure a wig or any you know, just get your
Speaker 1: edges nice and ly, like that's the go to product.
Speaker 1: You get got to be glued, and it's really gonna
Speaker 1: she lack your hair down, but then you wash it
Speaker 1: and it's fine. She ran out of that. She found
Speaker 1: some gorilla glue spray, which so many points to make here.
Speaker 1: Who knew gorilla blue came in spray. I knew they
Speaker 1: had a good kind. I knew they had a little
Speaker 1: like droplet kind for tiny pieces, but I did not
Speaker 1: know it came in a spray form. Apparently it does, clearly,
Speaker 1: because she lacked her whole head into like a perfect
Speaker 1: bowling ball, like it is just down if if you
Speaker 1: know black hairstyles, this is the like slicked down up
Speaker 1: for attached to the long pony in the back. Very
Speaker 1: common style right now super hot um, but again not
Speaker 1: something you want. Who asked for months and this poor woman,
Speaker 1: after like discovering her mistake, she's like, oh well, I'll
Speaker 1: just wash it. Apparently she washed her hair fifteen times.
Speaker 1: People did not believe her. They're like, this is fake.
Speaker 1: I also she was like, this is for cloud and
Speaker 1: it's silly. But nope. Watched her try to wash her hair.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't move, like she's digging in with her
Speaker 1: nails and it's just hair over scalp. It shouldn't be
Speaker 1: funny because she's clearly distressed about it and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what she's going to do to fix it. Um
Speaker 1: uh yeah. Really. Glue did respond and they were like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, you can use like some acid toner and
Speaker 1: soak it and hopefully that will help. But how is
Speaker 1: that what I said, rubbing alcohol and warm water, which
Speaker 1: I was like, for anyone who's been trying to get
Speaker 1: rubbing alcoholics in short supply, you know. But I knew
Speaker 1: it was real because the look on her face during
Speaker 1: this TikTok when she was explaining it. I've so been there.
Speaker 1: And that's the when you're not with Glue with other things,
Speaker 1: where you realize you've made like a horrible mistake. And
Speaker 1: usually for me, it's like you Google, you're like on
Speaker 1: Reddit and you're like, what's a great way for like
Speaker 1: I just really want to like get rid of dark
Speaker 1: spots And they're like, you just put nail polish remover
Speaker 1: on a cotton ball and swap it all over your
Speaker 1: face and you're like okay. Then you're like, oh no,
Speaker 1: that's one that so many things that I've done because
Speaker 1: like one person on the internet was like, you know,
Speaker 1: what's actually like a really good idea of this. I'm like, sure,
Speaker 1: they seem like a real professional of this, um, but
Speaker 1: it's you do that face where it's like the adrenaline
Speaker 1: in your body is so intense. You're just like I've
Speaker 1: made a horrible mistake and like I'm so embarrassed, but
Speaker 1: I have to admit it because otherwise I'm going to
Speaker 1: be all alone not knowing how to deal with it.
Speaker 1: I love that Gorilla glue responded. I also didn't know
Speaker 1: that there is a gel called gorilla snot, and so
Speaker 1: people on Twitter we're like, oh, I see. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like there's a picture of a gorilla on both
Speaker 1: of them being like one gorillas being like I'll make
Speaker 1: your hair stay, and the other ones like I'm super glue.
Speaker 1: And the other product that she ran out of had
Speaker 1: glue in the title. So it's like, I I totally
Speaker 1: see how that would be. It's it's not even that
Speaker 1: much of a stretchy I could have done this. All
Speaker 1: you have to be is the right amount of tired,
Speaker 1: and you're generous, because my thought was like where do
Speaker 1: you keep your gurulous Ray? Right, Like, someone was like,
Speaker 1: was it did she go to a toolbox? How did
Speaker 1: she magically end up in the like crafts and aisle
Speaker 1: when she's looking for hair product? What happened? I hope
Speaker 1: somebody doesn't end depth profile on this woman, honestly, because
Speaker 1: this is a saga. Also if that woman should happen
Speaker 1: to be listening. You have great cheekbones. You can shave
Speaker 1: your head and you're gonna be good, Like, I know
Speaker 1: it might be frustrating, but it'll grow back. I I
Speaker 1: would not personally poor, like, you know, any kind of
Speaker 1: like dissolvent on your hair, because that just seems like
Speaker 1: it seems like a lost cause this point. See, I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry. Yeah, you don't want to make yourself that
Speaker 1: flammable to like everything that they were recommending. I was like,
Speaker 1: but then it's scary, like if you get like a
Speaker 1: static spark, it's like you're just gonna combust, you know,
Speaker 1: like dumping nail polish remover on get to the science
Speaker 1: of it. That sounds horrifying. Uh well, Test, it has
Speaker 1: been such a play as you're having you on the
Speaker 1: Daily Zeykist, where can people find you and follow you?
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me Um, I am Mr Tess
Speaker 1: Lynch on Twitter and Instagram. I don't have a podcast
Speaker 1: to promote anymore, but um, you should definitely also see
Speaker 1: my friends Molly and Emily my former co host Emily
Speaker 1: Oshita on Twitter Molly Lambert on Twitter. Um, I love them,
Speaker 1: They're my friends still. So yeah, and I know Molly
Speaker 1: was just on Daily Zekeeist as well. It was fun.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're podcasting at a remove the degrees
Speaker 1: of separation of Daily Zeyekeist. Yeah. And is there a
Speaker 1: tweet or some of the work of social media you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying? Oh? Yeah, um it is hold on one sack.
Speaker 1: I can't pronounce this person's name, and I know everyone's
Speaker 1: already seen it, but you never know because you know
Speaker 1: it's a few days lag. Uh. So, in case you
Speaker 1: did not see the tweet, why is it called creepy
Speaker 1: pasta and not fed a chenill afraido afraid O. Let's
Speaker 1: try that again. Why is it called creepy pasta not
Speaker 1: fed acchini afrado by Blaine Capac I'm gonna think about
Speaker 1: that for the rest of my life. It's up there
Speaker 1: with roses or red we eat with utensils. Mike Pencils.
Speaker 1: Full name is Mechanical Pencils, Criminally overlooked, tweeting, that's great.
Speaker 1: This is from openly Blackish. The grilla Glue Girl said
Speaker 1: she's going to the e R bless her Heart and
Speaker 1: hair follow holes. Uh, she's at Honni Chameleon Chew. Really,
Speaker 1: glue girls said, you're going to the e er bless
Speaker 1: her heart and hair follicles. What a trip? Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me again. Really appreciate it by guys, all right,
Speaker 1: and Joel actually had to bounce. Is wonderful having her
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Speaker 1: Underscore O'Brien. As a tweet I enjoyed, Jodi Howser tweeted,
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