Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one seventy one,
Speaker 1: Episode five of The Daily Side Guys production of I
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Speaker 1: into America's shared consciousness. It is February. My name is
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Speaker 1: what do you think of that? Did I nail it?
Speaker 1: My four year oldest here? How was it good? Yeah? Boring? Uh?
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Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined once again by my co host,
Speaker 1: Mr Miles grab They said he's so hungry subways so
Speaker 1: far so he cries, cries, cries in his misda can
Speaker 1: thinking if there's nothing missing in his life, then wise
Speaker 1: he craft that's up that night? Yeah, that one that
Speaker 1: is from Christie y'ama Gucci Main on the disorder, Gucci
Speaker 1: Slain or whatever. I'll use your biblical historical name. Will Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was beautiful. Yeah, thank you for that. Let's give
Speaker 1: it a moment. Well, we are thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Kyle Air.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. You know it's Christie, I'm a
Speaker 1: Gucci Main. That's art. That name is art. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: I mean, I would expect no less from that. I
Speaker 1: would be so happy if I thought that I will
Speaker 1: wouldn't do anything the rest of that day. What I've done,
Speaker 1: I've done some stuff today, he persists. The hustle. You
Speaker 1: gotta admire it. How is your week? How is that
Speaker 1: Super Bowl for you? Kyle? Oh, it's bad, you know,
Speaker 1: as far as like one isolated game. I'm Chiefs Fans,
Speaker 1: So I remember it was fun to answer the question
Speaker 1: it does football have to be a team sport? We
Speaker 1: all got to answer it, and it turns out, yeah,
Speaker 1: you need a team because can one man do it? No?
Speaker 1: Will that stop him from trying? Absolutely not man. That
Speaker 1: was like as bad as that game was for the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: like just some of the throws he was making, uh
Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes like as he was like there there was
Speaker 1: one throw. You know he was just running around for
Speaker 1: his life behind the line of scrimmage. But he was
Speaker 1: like making throws like with his head like almost on
Speaker 1: the greatest passes. And it sounds dumb to be like
Speaker 1: what a great incomplete but had he had that were dropped,
Speaker 1: that's what the most always straining part is hit a
Speaker 1: man in the face mask in the end zone while
Speaker 1: throwing the ball while he's parallel to the ground. Had
Speaker 1: he caught that, the highlights still would have kind of
Speaker 1: disappeared because they lost, but it would I don't think
Speaker 1: it's hyperbole for me to say that might have been
Speaker 1: the greatest throw I've ever seen in my life. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because you know how like you always
Speaker 1: hear like like the best this the funniest thing that's
Speaker 1: ever been said was probably not during a stand up show.
Speaker 1: The greatest basketball shot that's ever been made was probably
Speaker 1: a backyard horse shot. None of us. That was the
Speaker 1: greatest throw I've ever seen in my life, and it
Speaker 1: got dropped it, hit a dude in the face. It
Speaker 1: was hit a guy in the face, hitting people in
Speaker 1: the hands and the face mask, and they were dropping it.
Speaker 1: It is like if all of the catchable balls he
Speaker 1: threw had been caught, I don't know that you guys
Speaker 1: would have lost the game. Maybe goes in a different path.
Speaker 1: Too many things went wrong to say that, Like, there
Speaker 1: were a lot of bad penalties that I disagreed with
Speaker 1: for the first quarter and a half, but then they
Speaker 1: did not have an offensive line, which you need. You need.
Speaker 1: It felt like have you ever played a video game
Speaker 1: against someone who knew the buttons right? This is like
Speaker 1: if I've never played Madden, but I picked the best team,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get some weird plays by just hitting you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? What's going on? That's kind of
Speaker 1: what it felt like, and it was not fun to watch,
Speaker 1: But I'm still you try and keep things in perspective.
Speaker 1: Sports fandom is such a bizarre thing if you think
Speaker 1: about it, like it's a reality show. I've been watching
Speaker 1: my whole life, and they finally rewarded my character last
Speaker 1: year after thirty years of them not beginning. Susan Lucci
Speaker 1: Emmy win dec it felt more like the Peter Otool
Speaker 1: oscar Win where we were a hundred and forty years
Speaker 1: in and they were like he might not be here
Speaker 1: next year, and so this is I still have to
Speaker 1: be like I couldn't. I can't believe that guy's the
Speaker 1: quarterback of the team I watch. He's the most fun.
Speaker 1: Kansas City has never had the most fun player in
Speaker 1: any sport. Now they have Steph Curry, which is like
Speaker 1: he's probably the best, and he's by far the most fun. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: So I just got to be happy to be there.
Speaker 1: I'm just I am tired of Tom Brady and that's
Speaker 1: not even his fault. Well it is, but not a
Speaker 1: negative thing to him. Yeah. Um, all right, Kyle, we're
Speaker 1: going to get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, just a few of the things
Speaker 1: we're talking about. UH. We finally got sort of a
Speaker 1: analysis of what American UH life would look like, what
Speaker 1: the last year would have looked like with a competent
Speaker 1: or at least an averagely competent response to the COVID pandemics.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. We'll talk about Republicans reacting to
Speaker 1: the impeachment trial and Q and on reacting to the
Speaker 1: president's laws or I guess a man. Um. We will
Speaker 1: talk got a new audience he's working with. Uh, talk
Speaker 1: about Gina Corano getting dropped from the Mandalorian. Uh, cocaine
Speaker 1: hippopotamus is which is a fun phrase. Uh. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about the just very strange drama behind the Game of Thrones,
Speaker 1: Guy Benny often Wie's new Netflix show. Uh, which is
Speaker 1: that series the Three Body Problem that I have been
Speaker 1: halfway through reading for a while. Not done yet. Oh no, man,
Speaker 1: I give up on it. But Uh yeah, for that
Speaker 1: t L d R from you, I read the Wikipedia
Speaker 1: summary so I can still give that to you. Uh.
Speaker 1: And we'll talk about Ted Cruise's relationship to the cast
Speaker 1: of his favorite movie. All of that plenty more. But first, Kyle,
Speaker 1: we like to ask our guest, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history that's revealing about who you are? So
Speaker 1: the last thing that I Google searched was toe puppy
Speaker 1: behind bike thing? Inexpensive? Let me toe puppy behind bike thing? Yes,
Speaker 1: Oh so a little cart to drag your dog in
Speaker 1: your bike inexplosive. I'm just trying to infusion because I
Speaker 1: know Google speak. I was like, oh no, this, this
Speaker 1: isn't just a jumble of words. It's a real thing. God,
Speaker 1: what's that called the trailer? It's called a trailer. It's
Speaker 1: the same as it is if it's not for a dog.
Speaker 1: It's a word we all know. But sometimes you gotta
Speaker 1: dance your weight around the word before you say it, right,
Speaker 1: and then you can find it, like the media with
Speaker 1: white supremacy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that way you remember, actually
Speaker 1: have to say it, but you can find it online. Right,
Speaker 1: Just a bunch of isolated incidents, all crowded together in
Speaker 1: a group of eleven thousand, eleven thousand isolated incidents within
Speaker 1: six ft of each other. Uh, you know these are
Speaker 1: just some misguided patriots really trying to um. So anyways,
Speaker 1: I got my dog a thin blue line trailer to
Speaker 1: toe like, what's the what's the dog trailer? Markets? So,
Speaker 1: because they're about so it's all over the place. I
Speaker 1: got this puppy. He's it's his five month birthday today.
Speaker 1: He was born on September eleventh, so you can remember.
Speaker 1: And um, that's on purpose. They didn't, but that's why
Speaker 1: you bought the puppies with that didn't hurt. I thought
Speaker 1: when I wanted to name him jet Fuel. He that
Speaker 1: was refused um and then seven was the other name
Speaker 1: that didn't work right right. He had a lot of siblings,
Speaker 1: uh that that we were trying to get to UM.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to ton N behind my bike because
Speaker 1: he just likes to be outside. He's real small. I
Speaker 1: thought it could be fun to go to a dog
Speaker 1: park with it, and I just thought it'd be funny
Speaker 1: to have. So I was looking it up, and I
Speaker 1: feel like this tells a lot about me, because bike,
Speaker 1: puppy Inexpensive are all sort of like three of my
Speaker 1: top tens. Yeah, bike bike bike is one of my
Speaker 1: biggest new things now. I'm just I'm just a bike
Speaker 1: and full if I don't really really like to go
Speaker 1: there because it's like it's so I'm realizing the car
Speaker 1: thing gets stale, and when you're really dealing with like
Speaker 1: limited stimuli, you really it's like really have to take
Speaker 1: it upon yourself to vary your like way you move
Speaker 1: about and things. This thing happened to me where I
Speaker 1: told my girlfriend I was going to go to my
Speaker 1: other room, and I went and sat in my car,
Speaker 1: and that's when I realized I might need to figure
Speaker 1: something out could vehicle like it might be getting a
Speaker 1: little sad and a little I eat it here because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go my other room. And then I just
Speaker 1: sat in my car on my phone for a minute
Speaker 1: to be alone. It was like, maybe the bike needs
Speaker 1: to bus air the tires back up there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people don't can't uh, listeners can't tell. But Miles is
Speaker 1: in a full one of those bike racing outfits. Weirdly enough,
Speaker 1: the speed walking helmet. Yeah. Look, I mean, Kyle Man,
Speaker 1: when you get to some of these speeds, I would
Speaker 1: I would be remiss to not take my safety into
Speaker 1: consider it smart. It's smart, And so I want to
Speaker 1: get my dog a little thing so he can be fun,
Speaker 1: to take him out and kind of go explore a
Speaker 1: little bit. I live in at Water Village and only
Speaker 1: it's pretty flat and there's a path right there. So
Speaker 1: I think it's manageable. But you know, you start reading
Speaker 1: reviews of stuff online, it gets so overwhelming you don't
Speaker 1: buy anything. Yeah, the reviewser that they're so poisonous, and
Speaker 1: it's so like I've had to develop, and I think
Speaker 1: most people have to develop, like the filters to look
Speaker 1: at a review and understand what is actually trying to
Speaker 1: be said, like whether it is this an actual review
Speaker 1: of the product they bought, or is this person a
Speaker 1: shitty partner bought a gift last minute, it didn't arrive
Speaker 1: on time, it was the wrong color, and they're taking
Speaker 1: out their shame as a bad partner on this product
Speaker 1: visa via the review because so many restaurant reviews like
Speaker 1: that too. So the a phrase that is not held
Speaker 1: up in any capacity is the customer is always right.
Speaker 1: That was written by someone who never met a customer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just like a manipulation tactic to draw the customer
Speaker 1: further into your financial trap. Come on and come on, yes,
Speaker 1: sign that your no problem. Do that, and now you
Speaker 1: owe us your baby. Yeah. So I didn't buy one
Speaker 1: because they're too many, but you know, I'm gonna find one.
Speaker 1: If anyone has rex send them to me, and I
Speaker 1: think it'd be fun to sort of bop around with
Speaker 1: them and be that guy. And then I'm slowly trying
Speaker 1: to become that guy in all of the harmless possible
Speaker 1: ways in my new neighborhood. Right, it's the bike, the dog, Like, yeah, um,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is underrated? So I I think,
Speaker 1: I I asked this morning while I was eating breakfast,
Speaker 1: I asked my girlfriend both underrated and what are things
Speaker 1: I think are underrating? Overrated? And she goes, oh, you
Speaker 1: think everything's overrated? And I was like, okay, what's something
Speaker 1: I think I was underrated? She goes, oh, you think
Speaker 1: everything is underrated. And it's like, I can't be both.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, give me a specific example
Speaker 1: of either. She goes, I can't think of any and
Speaker 1: I was like, this sounds like a youth thing. This
Speaker 1: sounds like something that's projecting on to me. No details,
Speaker 1: but I think comedy acting is so underrated, yes, actual
Speaker 1: art form. I think that acting in a comedy is hard,
Speaker 1: and I think it is underrated because people are like,
Speaker 1: look at the funny person being funny, I think, and
Speaker 1: I will, I say to this day often Rachel McAdams
Speaker 1: deserved an Oscar nomination for Mean Girls, and there are
Speaker 1: ten equivalent performances every ten years in comedy that no
Speaker 1: one else could do. It's so funny too, because it's
Speaker 1: it's even the thing that actors acknowledge is harder than
Speaker 1: the thing they're constantly like lauded for. You know when
Speaker 1: people are like, oh my god, the dramatic forms like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with do comedy is way harder
Speaker 1: than It's so much harder to be funny than it
Speaker 1: is to pretend to be Lyndon Johnson. Or it's actually
Speaker 1: hard to pretend to be Lyndon Johnson and that not
Speaker 1: be funny as the new movie Lyndon b laughing. He
Speaker 1: did use his aids as a pis screens. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: like those calls. I mean, how do you do with
Speaker 1: a straight faced say bung hole like he does, and
Speaker 1: like try and while being sworn in? Right, had that delivered? Well,
Speaker 1: being sworn in with Jackie standing right there, bung hole,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's a funny word. Faithfully execute the
Speaker 1: duties of this office upon my bung hole. Right, has
Speaker 1: this entire suit pulled up over the top of his
Speaker 1: head like Beavis Cornelio, Cornelio pulled up over his head.
Speaker 1: That dude is one of my like, uh, Daniel O'Brien
Speaker 1: uh from corarect and now last week tonight used to
Speaker 1: uh talk about like just there's all these wild stories
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. He would make reporters do interviews with
Speaker 1: him while he was pooping on the toilet, like because
Speaker 1: it was like a power move of something. Um. He
Speaker 1: would show people his what he called big jumbo Uh,
Speaker 1: because I guess he had a big, big penis. He
Speaker 1: exposed himself a lot to people. Yeah, tons, Uh what
Speaker 1: am I? Why am I surprised at someone who runs
Speaker 1: the United States isn't also flashing their dick? Imagine running
Speaker 1: a country because a guy died and not having a
Speaker 1: weird ego exactly and then being like, well he left
Speaker 1: me with a fucking mess up a country right now,
Speaker 1: Well I'm and that's assuming that he had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with it, which now you've seen the picture. Why
Speaker 1: was he ever smiling? Um? The he's like looking at
Speaker 1: looking over Juh. But sorry, I distracted from your point,
Speaker 1: which I think is a really good one. The like
Speaker 1: it's definitely harder to pull off, and like in the
Speaker 1: case of Rachel McAdams, like that is a more lasting
Speaker 1: performance than any dramatic performance from that year, like culturally impactful. Uh, sorry,
Speaker 1: my son is Ramsey or he doesn't like this take.
Speaker 1: He's he's been honestly laying on the ground and like
Speaker 1: stage yawning during like every time I talk just being
Speaker 1: oh man, um, oh man, you're on that one again.
Speaker 1: But it's all just about how like that's a youth
Speaker 1: like the audience thing wanting to feel when when they
Speaker 1: won't nominate any comedy movies for Oscars. That's just because
Speaker 1: the Academy voters watching it want to feel like they're
Speaker 1: doing something serious and therefore like it's them. It's it
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with like the actual power or
Speaker 1: cultural impact or like jet, You're right, it is jealousy.
Speaker 1: I will say the way. I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: what comedies came out the year Manchester by the Sea
Speaker 1: came out, but I bet they're a bunch of comedians
Speaker 1: who are good at being funny and can look like
Speaker 1: sad sex as ship, and so I think that. I No,
Speaker 1: I don't know much about Casey Affleck. I don't care
Speaker 1: to learn anything more about him, and I think he's
Speaker 1: been better in other movies. But that movie was just
Speaker 1: a guy being sad and he it's and his version
Speaker 1: of sad was being quiet, and so he want to
Speaker 1: Oscar because uh cinematographer was good at making him look sad. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: give me, give me Bill Murray and Groundhog Day which
Speaker 1: is comedic and dramatic. Give me Rachel Adams, mean girls,
Speaker 1: give me everyone in Bridesmaids. I don't know. Will Ferrell
Speaker 1: probably shouldnt want to ask her. Francor Man, we're still
Speaker 1: talking about it, and no one else could have done
Speaker 1: it like that. People just don't value it as as
Speaker 1: an art form. But then if they when they try
Speaker 1: and do it, they look a fool or they're just yeah,
Speaker 1: acts like using a baseball glove for cleanup, like I'll
Speaker 1: take that over man trust by the city. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's you know, like they they're like
Speaker 1: you're saying jack, Like they can't really acknowledge how significant
Speaker 1: comedy is to culture and like how how much of
Speaker 1: a lasting impression that leaves on the audience. Like more
Speaker 1: people quote, you know, not that it's I'm saying this
Speaker 1: needs to get an Academy more, but more people will
Speaker 1: quote dumb and dumber then fucking saving Private Ryan or
Speaker 1: something like that. Like there's there's something about comedy that
Speaker 1: like it really uplifts us and like we can draw
Speaker 1: upon something positive just like with a recollection of it,
Speaker 1: and granted, of course, like dramatic thing is an art
Speaker 1: form in and of itself as well, but and art
Speaker 1: form right, and it's also wild. Yeah, like so to
Speaker 1: not hold them up and be able to say like
Speaker 1: it's like the Grammys saying like the only music is
Speaker 1: classical music. Yeah, yeah, exactly, No, you idiot, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Like people turn up to all this
Speaker 1: other ship. But I don't know if we need to
Speaker 1: just do like oscars need to do what the Golden
Speaker 1: Globes do. But then generally the Golden Globes gives the
Speaker 1: best comedic or musical performance to whatever is the most
Speaker 1: dramatic thing that pretends to be a comed something. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the most dramatic movie that also made us laugh this year.
Speaker 1: I also wonder if there's something changing because like uh
Speaker 1: not to keep hearkening back to Cracked, I have cracked
Speaker 1: on my brain. But the first podcast we did on
Speaker 1: for the Cracked podcast was about like how um comedy
Speaker 1: like ages poorly compared to drama and like old comedy
Speaker 1: movie aren't really funny anymore except for like the Marx Brothers,
Speaker 1: because they went town to town and just like honed
Speaker 1: these jokes that were like funny, irrelevant of what town
Speaker 1: they were doing it in. UM. I I just wonder if,
Speaker 1: like now, it seems like things have, like we still
Speaker 1: think Anchorman is funny. I don't know, you guys are
Speaker 1: younger than me, but like it seems like people fewer
Speaker 1: I think. I do think that fewer comedies hold up
Speaker 1: over long term than dramas that do. And I think
Speaker 1: even fewer dramas hold up than like an action like
Speaker 1: die Hard is so old at this point by movie
Speaker 1: standards and feels like a movie that could have come
Speaker 1: out a year ago, but comedies from that year. There's
Speaker 1: like a Naked Gun sequel, which has probably kind of funny,
Speaker 1: but doesn't I just you know, it doesn't hold up
Speaker 1: as much as these other things. So it seems to
Speaker 1: be like this the couple of comedies for most years
Speaker 1: that hold up, whether it's like Groundhog Day or Airplane
Speaker 1: or movies like that that they'll hold up for a while.
Speaker 1: But I kind of think block By just tend to
Speaker 1: hold up the best. We still watch Jurassic Park, you know,
Speaker 1: everything that is an Avatar will still go back and
Speaker 1: watch Jaws. I think is often cited as one of
Speaker 1: the movies that holds up the best. And that's a
Speaker 1: whole another gripe that I have is uh, you know who,
Speaker 1: we don't acknowledge that these movies that influence culture more
Speaker 1: than anything else should get any sort of nomination for
Speaker 1: this stuff, let alone stunt people in movies, let alone
Speaker 1: acknowledging that computers helped make movies. Now, Academy Awards could
Speaker 1: be so much more fun. Yeah, it feels like the
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball of of of Awards comind where, like
Speaker 1: the MTV Movie Awards got it right where they get
Speaker 1: super specifically like wow, this fucking fight scene and then
Speaker 1: it actually gave you something like really, you're like actually
Speaker 1: comparing like from Blade two. I'm like, okay, let's like
Speaker 1: watch this fight scene and trying to even I remember
Speaker 1: watching the Ship and like talking to my friends like
Speaker 1: you really thought that was better from Matrix? Okay, what like,
Speaker 1: just make some more rewards. I don't know what John
Speaker 1: Wick getting nominated for nothing. We all talked about it
Speaker 1: for four years, right, yeah, exactly. Yeah, But I guess
Speaker 1: that's where it's like, what, Yeah, I wonder if the
Speaker 1: Academy can take itself a little less seriously and understand that,
Speaker 1: like film itself is something much larger than like the
Speaker 1: people who call themselves the Academy can take themselves less seriously.
Speaker 1: It's you're talking about a bunch of people who work
Speaker 1: in something they call the industry, and I say they
Speaker 1: I'm part of that the industry. Maybe doctors should be
Speaker 1: the industry lies that poison our brains, like you think,
Speaker 1: because like also too you look at a movie like Crash,
Speaker 1: that one best picture in two thousand six, that motherfucker
Speaker 1: doesn't hold up atter of course. I mean for people
Speaker 1: who had half a brain in two thousand six, you're like,
Speaker 1: are y'all seeing this? And then that you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: so white people are in charge of everything, and like
Speaker 1: it was hitting a little ally cord. So people like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's so good, so good, so good. Yeah, they would
Speaker 1: never make that mistake again two years ago. I mean
Speaker 1: how I would be so much more, Like they keep
Speaker 1: talking about, like people aren't as interested in the oscars anymore.
Speaker 1: Like if they just did an award that was the
Speaker 1: best uh special effect in movie, in any movie and
Speaker 1: you just got to see like how they did it,
Speaker 1: I would love that. That would be so fun, like
Speaker 1: because they do that with like they have the like
Speaker 1: behind the scenes costuming and like all these things they
Speaker 1: do to honor those arts, but like, I don't know
Speaker 1: that would be behind the scene because you know what
Speaker 1: I feel. I feel like we lost like we sort
Speaker 1: of lost the magic of filmmaking too, because we don't
Speaker 1: see as much behind the scenes stuff. I remember, like
Speaker 1: on HBO, part of the whole marketing thing would be
Speaker 1: a fifteen minute behind inside look at the making of
Speaker 1: a film that was coming out, and you get to
Speaker 1: see like them between takes, the technology being using that.
Speaker 1: For me as a child, like anything that was behind
Speaker 1: the scenes anything always had my imagination going even further
Speaker 1: because I'm like, oh, wow, like this is how you
Speaker 1: do it. These are jobs you could have this, that
Speaker 1: and the other. And I think because like with that
Speaker 1: content being less there, it's like we're just focusing like
Speaker 1: the actors more and really think like the one thing
Speaker 1: you do is be pretty in front of camera and talk,
Speaker 1: but the other are You always hear stories about how
Speaker 1: those behind the scenes are what prompted so and so
Speaker 1: to become a filmmaker or so and so to get
Speaker 1: every time you ever see any visual effects person there,
Speaker 1: Like I saw a ten minute behind the scenes about
Speaker 1: how a head exploded and evil Dead and I wanted
Speaker 1: to do this and now i'm and I'm that's beautiful.
Speaker 1: The credits are so long, right, yeah, the credits are
Speaker 1: so long. Uh, what is something you think is overrated? Okay?
Speaker 1: This I wrote two things down. One is too specific
Speaker 1: and the other one is okay. First thing, Uh, the
Speaker 1: style of all those how every home ends up in
Speaker 1: an h GTV renovation show. Everyone's house is looking the same. Now,
Speaker 1: don't live in a barn, everyone, it's a new barn,
Speaker 1: cape cod ship. I call the look wedding invitation. That
Speaker 1: seems to be the look that a lot of houses
Speaker 1: are ending up to be right now. I call it
Speaker 1: wedding invitation. And it's crazy because I think you know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Everything is, oh, you know, we
Speaker 1: we installed a barn. Here's we're gonna do. We're gonna
Speaker 1: open up this space. We're gonna expose those beams, thrown
Speaker 1: island in there. And then what we're gonna do is
Speaker 1: everything's gonna be half incursive, half not incursive, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna look like no one lives here. It's gonna look
Speaker 1: like we took the air out of the room B
Speaker 1: and B and every those shows are kind of watchable
Speaker 1: because I think it's fun to watch them destroy houses.
Speaker 1: But then at the end, every single one looks the same,
Speaker 1: and then you start notice them in your neighborhood. It's
Speaker 1: like a flip house. Don't worry, we gutted the porch.
Speaker 1: We put two rocking chairs on there, and everything everything
Speaker 1: is white, the outside black. Uh. And then everything is reclaimed.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be able to go down to the original
Speaker 1: beams and then restore those, which I like, like wood floors.
Speaker 1: I like wood beams. But they all look the same.
Speaker 1: They all look like a wedding invitation, and they all
Speaker 1: look like, oh, this house, it was designed by two
Speaker 1: sentient mason jars and what they did, and that's like
Speaker 1: what it all feels like. I don't even hate the Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're good mindless TV. And then I get mad. Yeah, everyone,
Speaker 1: every one of them. Then by the end of it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I swear to God, if they put another free,
Speaker 1: if they change just I want to look. I want
Speaker 1: to see what looks like when the people move their
Speaker 1: crap in that doesn't match. I want to see what
Speaker 1: it looks like when they're like fighting over if the
Speaker 1: guy can keep his lazy boy, like I just want
Speaker 1: to kind of see what it looks like when they're done.
Speaker 1: They're so generic it makes me frustrated with it, and
Speaker 1: that's a very fun mindless watch. Are a lot of
Speaker 1: these renovation shows. But then at that point, I'm like,
Speaker 1: every if they showed me that, I'd be like, why
Speaker 1: am I living in a model home? Or just specialize them,
Speaker 1: like be like, yo, what's the version, because that's what
Speaker 1: hint My ride did so well that wasn't practical at
Speaker 1: all because it was cars in my ride would be like, okay,
Speaker 1: so we did put up, we fixed your engine, we
Speaker 1: got you new break, we did put a fish tank
Speaker 1: instead of a passenger seat. Also good luck and affording
Speaker 1: insurance insurance on this new car. There is a live fish.
Speaker 1: You have to feed your car. Because we saw on
Speaker 1: Zanga seven years ago you said you like fish. So
Speaker 1: when you put a fish tank and at least but
Speaker 1: then it's a car, it's not practical in a house.
Speaker 1: Put him with the stuff they like, Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine the inch. That's fun. We ever read
Speaker 1: old Pip my Ride people who are on there talking
Speaker 1: about how they just got it and sold their car.
Speaker 1: Two weeks after the show, Like I can afford that ship.
Speaker 1: It's impractical, but like yeah, even like the that new style,
Speaker 1: the fucking new barn cape cot like those everything's got
Speaker 1: to do. The door that like slides across on a hinge.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a house and tried to
Speaker 1: take a ship with the door like that? You don't
Speaker 1: feel like you have privacy? And my house is a
Speaker 1: bar in Bushwick. Uh, that's my water closet is right
Speaker 1: over there. It says did you see on my bathroom door?
Speaker 1: And please just let me go? Yeah, I got this
Speaker 1: little barrel that we use to how is the toilet?
Speaker 1: So it's real whimsical in there. My great grandmother, her
Speaker 1: remains are the bathtub, but we took down all the
Speaker 1: pictures of her and put up pictures that are a
Speaker 1: little bit more. In this house, they're like, we put
Speaker 1: seventeen different chairs in a poof in here in the
Speaker 1: kid's room, and you're like, I know what the kids want.
Speaker 1: You should put us deports in the outlets. You should
Speaker 1: put ports in the outlets, forty USB cables that they
Speaker 1: can just walk around with their iPads. Just leave me alone.
Speaker 1: There's no router in the house you just made. Chip
Speaker 1: and Joanna Gains, They're fucking up this entire country. I
Speaker 1: think that's the people I'm talking about. I think that's
Speaker 1: the people I'm talking about, because there's is even more
Speaker 1: repetitive than most of the other ones. It's offensive. Chip
Speaker 1: and Joy I mean like they'll in the whole, like
Speaker 1: Magnolia networking industry brand that they have. It's like you're
Speaker 1: just it's It's funny because like in certain place, especially America,
Speaker 1: like we have such a consumer cult or like we
Speaker 1: just take our cues from ads and TV, like no
Speaker 1: one actually develops their own taste a lot of the time.
Speaker 1: Like it's sort of like a collection of Instagram posts
Speaker 1: and like with Chip and Joanna Gaines and like that
Speaker 1: Magnolia aesthetic, like that is like the new thing. Everyone
Speaker 1: just sort of like it's like aspiring to mindlessly if
Speaker 1: you have. But you know, what is timeless in the
Speaker 1: home is your stuff in your life. And that's why
Speaker 1: I wished I saw a little bit of this stories.
Speaker 1: It feels things people to move into them. They they
Speaker 1: picked their art for the walls and stuff, and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, but don't you what do you why would
Speaker 1: you want someone else to put that stuff on the wall.
Speaker 1: Plus most of the time you're you're actually paying like
Speaker 1: at least for that anyway, So shows work. The property brothers, Uh,
Speaker 1: just like redid like basically took a house down in
Speaker 1: my neighborhood to like studs build it back up, looks
Speaker 1: like exactly what you're talking about and like sold it
Speaker 1: at Like we've taken the actually practical love of hardwood
Speaker 1: floors and gone too far with floors are wonderful, but
Speaker 1: that everyone agreeing that those are good has like now
Speaker 1: turned into this entire thing. The house is hardwood floor,
Speaker 1: Your ceilings are hardwood floors. Don't touch him. One of
Speaker 1: the property brothers is dating Zoe Deschanel, which feels like
Speaker 1: the most perfect like a cou tremont to like their
Speaker 1: esthetic sense is like and so in your house, I
Speaker 1: actually have my girlfriends. Zoe stands in the corner all
Speaker 1: of the time, but the dress she's wearing actually compliments
Speaker 1: the fan above your stove. All right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we will be right back. And we're back. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some bullshit. Actually, I've kind of been
Speaker 1: waiting for this study to happen without realizing it, somebody
Speaker 1: UH did a study to see like what would America
Speaker 1: have looked like if um, they had had a competent
Speaker 1: UH pandemic response. Yeah, I mean, you know the Medical
Speaker 1: journal the lance that they're the ones who put this
Speaker 1: study out, and it's just like sort of it's like
Speaker 1: a study that's sickening and no ship at the same
Speaker 1: time when you just see it, Well, the top line
Speaker 1: is basically that fort of the COVID deaths that occurred
Speaker 1: in the United States were preventable. And but they're also
Speaker 1: saying it's not just Trump, like this is a sort
Speaker 1: of part and parcel of the momentum where we have
Speaker 1: with our just deteriorating health care system. But what they're
Speaker 1: saying in this article or this UH study is quote,
Speaker 1: many of the cases and deaths were avoidable. Instead of
Speaker 1: galvanizing the US populace to fight the pandemic, President Trump
Speaker 1: publicly dismissed its threat, despite privately acknowledging it discouraged action
Speaker 1: on as infection spread and to shoot international cooperation is
Speaker 1: refusal to develop a national strategy. Worse than shortages of
Speaker 1: personal protective equipment and diagnostic tests, President Trump politicized mask
Speaker 1: wearing and school reopenings and and convened indoor events it
Speaker 1: attended by thousands where masks were discouraged and physical distancing
Speaker 1: was impossible, And so they got this on top of that.
Speaker 1: They saying, Okay, so clearly he was actively trying to
Speaker 1: make it worse. But let's also look at other G
Speaker 1: seven nations, so countries that are of similar economic uh backgrounds,
Speaker 1: I would say development. Uh. They're saying the way they
Speaker 1: did it is comparing the COVID deaths in the US
Speaker 1: with the average, like the weighted average of other G
Speaker 1: seven nations, and we were just like we had four
Speaker 1: hundred fifty excess like excess deaths or something. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: we had hundreds of thousands of excess deaths. When comparing
Speaker 1: it to these other countries that had a response that
Speaker 1: was the somewhat opposite of what Donald Trump did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, similar circumstances, different response. Here's like the sup
Speaker 1: the surplus of death that we had. That sounds this
Speaker 1: sounds like from the makers of did you know gun
Speaker 1: control might help comes? Hey, this also would have worked
Speaker 1: the sequel. No one wanted to have to ask for yeah,
Speaker 1: which is like why it's like I was saying, like
Speaker 1: I wrote this up of like in Sickening No Ship News.
Speaker 1: But it's just, you know, it's like something we have
Speaker 1: to actually go through measuring to understand, even though we
Speaker 1: all could see the effects of it in real time.
Speaker 1: But and on top of all this, they're saying, you know,
Speaker 1: the US has already been dying at a faster rate
Speaker 1: than most G seven nations because our healthcare is just
Speaker 1: this fucked up death casino. So they're saying, already, right, um,
Speaker 1: when compared to similar countries in the G seven already
Speaker 1: stood like US debts already had four D fifty thousand
Speaker 1: excess debts in eighteen alone. Wow, when comparing it to
Speaker 1: other countries, like and people remember wasn't when COVID happened.
Speaker 1: This is just regular times, the regularatest country in the
Speaker 1: world with our flaw plan exactly. And if they say,
Speaker 1: we're saying, if a lot of those deaths come from
Speaker 1: people under the age of sixty five, and is that
Speaker 1: are they including like speaking of gun control, are they
Speaker 1: including gun deaths in that or that's just like healthcare related.
Speaker 1: I think it's just in terms of like life expectancy
Speaker 1: and those things like that um and just looking like
Speaker 1: oh wow, and yeah, they said, if you if they
Speaker 1: were equivalent to like the other G seven nations, they say,
Speaker 1: because they say two out of every five people who
Speaker 1: were passing away were under the age of sixty five.
Speaker 1: They're saying a lot of those people, like they would
Speaker 1: have added up to all of the people who like
Speaker 1: lost their lives from COVID if we could even get
Speaker 1: you know, to the two similar levels of life expectancy.
Speaker 1: But we just we have an awful you know, there's
Speaker 1: no support system for people, and we have increasing despair
Speaker 1: deaths and all these other things that are all sort
Speaker 1: of systemic. Um. So it's like, yeah, like on top
Speaker 1: of already a terrible leadership the lance, it's also like
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean like, let's you also,
Speaker 1: this has been happening for a while in the U S.
Speaker 1: This was this was obviously made things even worse. But
Speaker 1: we also just just screaming why we need to change
Speaker 1: our health care system. But it's not it's not h
Speaker 1: like they say that that number the food and two
Speaker 1: thousand eighteen alone is a number that's been climbing for decades.
Speaker 1: So it's not like a condition that is part of
Speaker 1: like the American character. It is all this deregulation and
Speaker 1: just letting uh, you know, health insurance companies and just
Speaker 1: corporations run rough shot over the population. I would love
Speaker 1: to see the overlap of like, uh, the wealth disparity
Speaker 1: in the United States versus the unnecessary death increase in
Speaker 1: the United States. And I bet those lines look fairly
Speaker 1: similar because they seem to like a line up with
Speaker 1: people's in I mean, I've had such a recent not
Speaker 1: even recent years and years been with the health issue
Speaker 1: that has got me firsthand, like battling with the health
Speaker 1: care system here in and out of having insurance, and
Speaker 1: you just do eventually get frustrated and I'm and you're
Speaker 1: just like I'm done. It's too much work. I'll ride
Speaker 1: it out. And you see, this is this is me
Speaker 1: who has a ton of energy and as young and
Speaker 1: can deal with the weird tech and as good at
Speaker 1: being on the phone with insurance companies. Right, It's such
Speaker 1: a frustrating system. This stuff sometimes feels like so many
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly bleak numbers that it is hard to take in,
Speaker 1: and I think people just distance themselves from it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, absolutely, It's just an awful thing to have
Speaker 1: to think about, like, you know, to anybody in the
Speaker 1: last year, right to think if you've lost someone from
Speaker 1: COVID and then there's a good chance that person might
Speaker 1: still be here because for for any number of reasons.
Speaker 1: And then even on top of that, the fact that
Speaker 1: we are Yeah, I mean like that's like the fucking
Speaker 1: American superpower is like turning your your consciousness off to
Speaker 1: like all of the just awful things that are around you,
Speaker 1: like that you can't see if you bothered to look.
Speaker 1: It's not that they're not affecting you. That's what's what.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you hear people saying they needed to affect them directly,
Speaker 1: and I do, I don't really say I don't know,
Speaker 1: I will I don't. You kind of get that you
Speaker 1: can warp yourself into being like, oh, this person didn't
Speaker 1: care about COVID til it's someone they knew got it
Speaker 1: or died or something. This is affecting everybody if you
Speaker 1: just really pay attention or are willing to pay attention,
Speaker 1: because it's it's so prevalent and has been that it
Speaker 1: is in your face if you care. Yeah, and like
Speaker 1: even if you have, you know, let's say you're fortunate
Speaker 1: enough to have older family members that are in good health,
Speaker 1: um and already trying to navigate. Trying to get a
Speaker 1: vaccination right now has been hell on earth for trying
Speaker 1: to get for older people in my family, like who
Speaker 1: don't know how to use computers, who will go to
Speaker 1: a website that says all the appointments are filled up
Speaker 1: and to say, oh, well, I can't do anything, but like, no,
Speaker 1: you gotta keep refreshing and it might open frustrating and yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like fuck. And then now think of someone who
Speaker 1: is not in good health, who has other issues going
Speaker 1: on on top of that, trying to navigate the system.
Speaker 1: And that's before COVID too. It's like we're asking the
Speaker 1: elderly in our country to battle ticketmaster scalpers to try
Speaker 1: and live and you have to get on and refreshing
Speaker 1: and and and snag Radiohead tickets to survive or something
Speaker 1: like that. They're like, what's Radiohead's radio Head? Grandma? Come on,
Speaker 1: come on. They're starting from the they're starting from the
Speaker 1: base level level. I used to camp out for this,
Speaker 1: And you're like, well, that's good because you might have
Speaker 1: to get back into doing that. Yes, I actually, uh,
Speaker 1: last week was volunteering in Arizona, helping with the logistics
Speaker 1: of distributing vaccines at Arizona State And I got my
Speaker 1: first vaccine at the end of the day, which was
Speaker 1: a wonderful thing. And I got lucky enough to be
Speaker 1: one of a hundred volunteers who got to do this.
Speaker 1: And I is in Arizona just spending time my girlfriends. Anyways,
Speaker 1: it talking to people about the hell they've been through
Speaker 1: trying to get the appointments. I'm just the last person
Speaker 1: who verifies who they are before they get them, and
Speaker 1: you just you see the relief on their face, but
Speaker 1: still understand the frustration that has gone through. And then
Speaker 1: a lot of people just showed up like please, do
Speaker 1: you have any And it's just it feels a little
Speaker 1: bit like lifeboats on the Titanic all over and over
Speaker 1: and over again, except the government made everyone get on
Speaker 1: the boat knowing it was going to run into something.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean, I know were sold the lifeboats
Speaker 1: at UH And the thing the thing about the lifeboats
Speaker 1: is it is once again a financially based thing. It's
Speaker 1: essentially bottle service at the club. Can you afford a bottle? Okay?
Speaker 1: And then we're not going to come through with sparklers
Speaker 1: in the back. There will be a sparkler in the lifeboat.
Speaker 1: That'll be kind of dope. Uh yeah, even like the
Speaker 1: um sixty year old person who I know who was
Speaker 1: able to get it like without you know, going through
Speaker 1: all sorts of different methods, like had to get it
Speaker 1: because somebody she knew was like working at a clinic.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's straight up just like an indictment of
Speaker 1: the system that it's just like that's way. So, how
Speaker 1: much risk did we unnecessarily put your life in? Did
Speaker 1: we put your life in enough unnecessary risk to where
Speaker 1: you are able to continue safely living like you have
Speaker 1: to like have earned has in the last year? Have
Speaker 1: you almost died? If so, we might give you this
Speaker 1: thing maybe if you're quick enough to maybe not almost die. Um.
Speaker 1: And just to tie this to uh Ted Cruz's relationship
Speaker 1: with the cast of The Princess Bread, I want to
Speaker 1: jump ahead to this story just because something that we
Speaker 1: talked about all the time on this show, but that
Speaker 1: is worth just bang over the head is yeah, who
Speaker 1: killed his father, who killed her? And they should prepare
Speaker 1: to die. The people on the right, who are the
Speaker 1: ones who stand in the way of the ship being changed.
Speaker 1: I mean there's also the centrist like the Obama administration
Speaker 1: letting the insurance industry right, the legislation for Obama Care.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, the people on the right are
Speaker 1: the ones who are absolutely like, if they just disappeared tomorrow,
Speaker 1: you would be able to make a lot more progress
Speaker 1: and at least get the US closer to these other
Speaker 1: G seven countries where it's not like, well, you gotta
Speaker 1: live or die by the free market. Literally. Anyways, they
Speaker 1: tend to accuse the other side of exactly what is
Speaker 1: wrong with them. Um, and so Ted Cruz uh claimed
Speaker 1: on his podcast at the risk of ruining this medium, Yes,
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz has a podcast, Fuck the Ted Cruise podcast. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's fun to think about Ted Cruiz figuring out audacity, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure definitely has. The audacity podcast is called The
Speaker 1: Audacity of Nope. I would imagine. Uh. He claimed that
Speaker 1: movies uh these days on a recent podcast often have
Speaker 1: quote rabid environmentalists as the bad guys, adding that quote
Speaker 1: the view of the left is that people are a disease. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then he points to the examples such as Avengers,
Speaker 1: End Game and Watchman, which so he is he's comparing
Speaker 1: the uh, you know, rabid leftists who make movies with
Speaker 1: the ideology of Thanos. So he liked, I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's ever seen a movie, because he's supposing that
Speaker 1: the people who make movies always agree with the views
Speaker 1: of the villain. You can tell they agree with the
Speaker 1: views of the villain by how the villain doesn't get
Speaker 1: killed in the end and notoriously survived Avengers end game. Him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and uh they he he added, they buy into
Speaker 1: the Malthusian line that there are too many people in
Speaker 1: the world. People are bad, and everything would be better
Speaker 1: if we had fewer people. Thanos wanted to eliminate fifty
Speaker 1: percent of life forms in the universe with one finger snapping. Uh,
Speaker 1: which is such a watch that and get anything except
Speaker 1: the viewpoint that. So then all of the good guys
Speaker 1: banded together to defeat him and find a way to
Speaker 1: fix this. Actually so long and there's thirty eight of them.
Speaker 1: You would be led to believe that he has never
Speaker 1: seen a movie and just like has no idea like
Speaker 1: how movies work. He is he has these movies that
Speaker 1: he's like, he is actually obsessed with A Laddin, for instance,
Speaker 1: he said that he would not go through with his
Speaker 1: wedding if he was not allowed to play a Whole
Speaker 1: New World and sing it. Maybe that's how I picture it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I think it's for his dance and he wanted
Speaker 1: to but it. The thing was, remember, he insisted that
Speaker 1: the wedding band that didn't couldn't play it because it
Speaker 1: had to be the CD version because that's the lit
Speaker 1: version and that was the one that he had been
Speaker 1: practicing to in front of a mirror for so long.
Speaker 1: But his favorite movie, even more than A Laddin, is
Speaker 1: The Princess The Princess Bride. Uh, that's funked up because
Speaker 1: that was one of my favorite movies me too. It's
Speaker 1: so good. It's so good. But he so he is
Speaker 1: in a battle with like so the Castle. The Princess
Speaker 1: Got Bride kind of found out that it's his favorite movie,
Speaker 1: and the star Carrie Always, you know, pointed out that
Speaker 1: it must suck for Ted Cruise because literally everyone in
Speaker 1: his most beloved movie, uh fucking hates his guts. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Ted Cruz responded with a photograph of from the
Speaker 1: movie that has been autographed by Carrie Always and says
Speaker 1: to Senator Cruise and he was like, does this mean
Speaker 1: you want your picture back? Carrie? And Carrie always like
Speaker 1: do that? I never I never signed that. That's so weird.
Speaker 1: I bought this basketball card of yours, are you my
Speaker 1: best friend? Uh? It's and then ship I never signed.
Speaker 1: That's it's so specific to Yeah, Mandy Ptempkin has come
Speaker 1: out and I think he wrote an editorial back in
Speaker 1: being like, you know, just talking about how Ted Cruise
Speaker 1: clearly doesn't understand the Princess Bride, which is like, uh.
Speaker 1: In addition to you know, a great fun movie is
Speaker 1: like a Vietnam War metaphor, as are all movies from
Speaker 1: that era. Um, I just can't imagine Ted Cruise like well,
Speaker 1: at least I can turn on my favorite song, Fortunate
Speaker 1: Son by Creating's clear Water Revival and just listen to
Speaker 1: this pro war, pro military ballot. Uh. Anyways, Uh, shout
Speaker 1: out to the Castle, Princess Bride and fun. Look, if
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to watch movies where the actors hate you,
Speaker 1: my favorite movies National Treasure and John Void probably thinks
Speaker 1: I'm a piece of shit. Everyone. Our writer Jim McNabb
Speaker 1: wrote this up and was like, could you imagine like
Speaker 1: loving a movie where you know everybody hates your guts
Speaker 1: and like, well, not specifically, like Bruce Willis doesn't know
Speaker 1: I exist, but I bet he would be like you
Speaker 1: fucking punk. You would probably hate me and think I
Speaker 1: was whack for asking him to put on a mask.
Speaker 1: Uh well outside of his home anyways. Uh funk. Take Cruz,
Speaker 1: I think is the moral of that story. I want
Speaker 1: everyone to know who's listening. Uh. This is the longest
Speaker 1: single section of notes I've ever seen you guys have
Speaker 1: for any topic in the show in the history of
Speaker 1: me doing it for Ted Cruise being dragged by the
Speaker 1: cast of the Princess working around, We're not working around.
Speaker 1: We got every angle. Three lines in here is five
Speaker 1: thousand dead from pandemic. But then just under it is
Speaker 1: seven and a half pages of a Google doc of
Speaker 1: Princess Bride, which I believe is okay, yeah, absolutely, you
Speaker 1: know that's the credit to jam you starting with it,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to append to it now. I
Speaker 1: have never seen The Princess Bride, but I think it's
Speaker 1: important for me to say it's not important. It's just
Speaker 1: a fun movie with the giant. Uh yeah, whatever, We're not.
Speaker 1: I've I've moved past having reactions like that. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: well you've never seen that. It just felt important for
Speaker 1: the context of the entire conversation. Yeah, well that's if
Speaker 1: everyone thought I was deflecting the national treasure too much.
Speaker 1: I apologize your pro John even Anaconda come on the thing.
Speaker 1: But like Ted Cruz, he really has the worst taste
Speaker 1: of movies. Like when you know that his favorite movies
Speaker 1: are Aladdin and Princess Bride, He's clearly like has to
Speaker 1: live in a world where he like regresses to these
Speaker 1: sort of childlike fantasy stories that like keep him protected
Speaker 1: from like the reality of the cruel world. So I
Speaker 1: don't know a lot about the Princess Bride, But there's
Speaker 1: this guy in the mask here in the pictures. Does
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz just like movies where young men pretend they
Speaker 1: do have the same theme of a guy who like
Speaker 1: knows a girl and then comes back undercover and pretends
Speaker 1: to be something he's not in Like, Wow, this doesn't
Speaker 1: relate to anything to any conspiracy theories about who Ted
Speaker 1: Cruise might actually be. I do somebody Hed Cruise relationship
Speaker 1: with him? Right? Interesting? Because remember, like there's that one
Speaker 1: thing about where his daughter was so clear right about
Speaker 1: like how like the mom like could have just exercised
Speaker 1: her agency and left ted cruise right. Yeah. During his
Speaker 1: like run for president, she was like, Mom, you really
Speaker 1: fucked up by marrying this guy, because like you could
Speaker 1: have done did you quit your job? You don't make money?
Speaker 1: And she's like, well no, but if he's president and
Speaker 1: she's like, well, do you make money as firstly she's
Speaker 1: like no, and she's like, then why would you do that? Mom? Yeah? Man,
Speaker 1: but he's a he's a heroic man who stands up
Speaker 1: for the women he loves. Uh. I wonder I bet
Speaker 1: he is. I don't know. I won't speculate, but I
Speaker 1: think he would probably be more identifying with the characters
Speaker 1: who have like the strong person come in and sweep
Speaker 1: them off their feet and protect them, because he's certainly
Speaker 1: not doing that. He's more throw my wife under the
Speaker 1: bus after somebody calls her unattractive. Um, we call those heroes. Yes,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back. Let's talk about cocaine. Hippopotamus is uh, let's
Speaker 1: keep hippos hip Colombia. You know, Pablo Escobar l Pedrino,
Speaker 1: the most famous narco ever. You left many legacies behind
Speaker 1: in his death. But aside from just the bustling cocaine
Speaker 1: trafficking network, uh, there was a ton of wild animals
Speaker 1: that he had at his like estate up in the
Speaker 1: hills near Um I think Bogota, Um. But anyway, when
Speaker 1: he died in like, the government went there like this
Speaker 1: motherfucker has a full on zoo with all these exotic
Speaker 1: animals that should not be here. They're like, what are
Speaker 1: we gonna do with this? So most of them they
Speaker 1: were able to put into different zoos because like they
Speaker 1: had the actual facilities to handle these animals. But the
Speaker 1: biggest problem that they had were these African hippos that
Speaker 1: he had. They were just so big they didn't know
Speaker 1: where to fucking put them. Like, just moving them around
Speaker 1: was like a huge thing. So they figured, look, let's
Speaker 1: just lock the gates and leave them there and hopefully
Speaker 1: they'll just die from neglect. So fast forward, they in
Speaker 1: fact did not die. They fucking thrived. And now we're
Speaker 1: at this point where there's like a lot of biologists
Speaker 1: and ecologists like are raising concerns and it's like this
Speaker 1: huge debate right now over because like they've become an
Speaker 1: invasive species um in like the River Magdalena River basin area.
Speaker 1: They're like, we actually need to cull them for this
Speaker 1: to not get out of hand. But it's kicked off
Speaker 1: like a massive debate over do they need to be cold?
Speaker 1: Is there a way to sterilize them half the like
Speaker 1: most of the people in Colombia like love the hippos
Speaker 1: to like just sort of like the photos of them.
Speaker 1: So they have a very unique problem that this massive
Speaker 1: coke dealer left behind them and the trade, the hip,
Speaker 1: the trade, it's they are. I think probably they're among
Speaker 1: the most dangerous species to humans because there the ratio
Speaker 1: of how adorable they are to how quickly they will
Speaker 1: literally fight you in half like that that's what they're
Speaker 1: known for doing. They're like the death there. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think they're right after mosquitoes, aren't they. It's like
Speaker 1: mosquitoes overwhelming they kill more people than any other animal
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, But hippo is like, just feel like
Speaker 1: they murder more humans than any animals. And I'm down this, honestly,
Speaker 1: I've never been. This feels like the plot to that
Speaker 1: movie Annihilation that I didn't understand or just kind of
Speaker 1: something takes over and we think we can tell it
Speaker 1: not to and it's like this isn't you anymore? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is ours. Let them, let them have it. To
Speaker 1: the danger statistic in twos sixteen, like there was a
Speaker 1: report saying up until until sixteen, they were saying hippos
Speaker 1: are coming around five hundred people a year in Africa.
Speaker 1: That's that's a lot of people. Put you so close
Speaker 1: to the hippos. And the wild thing too, is like
Speaker 1: Colombia is like a fucking vague. It's like an Eden
Speaker 1: for these hippopotami hippos, Like it's completely different than Africa.
Speaker 1: And it's like, actually it's to their benefit. Um they're saying,
Speaker 1: it's quote an evolutionary opportunity. They have no natural predators
Speaker 1: in South America, so they can reproduce much more easily.
Speaker 1: The weather helps because of the droughts that happen in Africa.
Speaker 1: That acts as like population control mechanisms that are natural. Columbia, Baby,
Speaker 1: it's nice and damp. There's no there is no fucking drought.
Speaker 1: And that means now that like it's creating an ideal
Speaker 1: environment where now they are reproducing at earlier ages than
Speaker 1: they even would in Africa, so that the numbers are
Speaker 1: looking at they're saying, like, right now there's around eight hippos.
Speaker 1: By four there could be over twelve hundred if they
Speaker 1: don't actually begin putting controls in place, and so like
Speaker 1: some people just want to shoot them, other people want
Speaker 1: to sterilize them. But in I just want to point
Speaker 1: of this. In two thousand nine, the people, the public
Speaker 1: went nuts when the Colombian army, as they say, quote,
Speaker 1: gunned down the hippo Pepe in two thousand nine after
Speaker 1: it was deemed a threat to local communities. It was
Speaker 1: enough to lead to thirties to make hippos legally protected,
Speaker 1: which is now an obstacle to any plans to call them.
Speaker 1: So it's wild. I just have never been the hippos. Sorry,
Speaker 1: one animal thrives, and now we're like it's news. Sorry,
Speaker 1: one species that they lock into something, then they get it.
Speaker 1: Just let them do what they wanted. You want to
Speaker 1: if you want to kill the hippos, I don't know
Speaker 1: how much a hippo weighs. You should have an effl
Speaker 1: weight amount of humans fighting it with their hands. So
Speaker 1: if they weigh ten thousand pounds, then you could have
Speaker 1: ten thousand pounds of human fight them to the death,
Speaker 1: and that could be you know, however, many fifty two
Speaker 1: hundred pound guys or one hundred one hundred pound martial artists.
Speaker 1: It's up to them on how they want to divvy
Speaker 1: up the houndage. But that's the only give the hippos
Speaker 1: their land. What are you gonna There's no way that
Speaker 1: you can farm in the land that Escobar had. It's
Speaker 1: all tunnels. It's all secret tunnels, so there's no you
Speaker 1: can't till this You're gonna break into another tunnel, So
Speaker 1: just give I'm just team hippo. I'm ignorant to the
Speaker 1: whole topic. I barely even know anything about the geography
Speaker 1: where these things are aside from the terms you're saying,
Speaker 1: I don't know the difference in the landscape. I enjoy
Speaker 1: you explaining why the hippos are thriving. Sorry, it's not
Speaker 1: the hippo's fault. They're there, yeah, right, But I think
Speaker 1: that's why they're trying to because they're you know, there's
Speaker 1: people pointing to like the dangers it faces like that
Speaker 1: it could affect like the chemistry of like the river
Speaker 1: ways and that would affect the fish population. That there's
Speaker 1: also studies that say it's not the effect isn't as
Speaker 1: great as they're reporting it. So like right now, I
Speaker 1: think it seems to be that there's maybe two forms
Speaker 1: of thought of like one is like, let's just kill
Speaker 1: them all, and another's like, let's be a little more
Speaker 1: humane about this because we're not. Also don't see as
Speaker 1: much of like the alarm because the other thing is
Speaker 1: too There haven't been any recorded deaths from any of
Speaker 1: the hippos, so there's still very much the public sees
Speaker 1: them as just like these animals that are here, and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh cool, right. I wonder if maybe he
Speaker 1: got like one of the like really nice families of
Speaker 1: hippos and like these are going to be like the dog,
Speaker 1: what dogs are two wolves of him? Take all of
Speaker 1: my knowledge of hippos. I think if they're hungry, what
Speaker 1: you need to do is give them the marble white marbles,
Speaker 1: and then they'll be less hungry and your dad will
Speaker 1: get mad and get rid of the game. Like for example,
Speaker 1: one of the biologists Natalie Castel Blanco, who was like
Speaker 1: one of the people who was talking about like the
Speaker 1: issues and possible solutions, including you know, killing them. She
Speaker 1: immediately received death threats from the public. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, like it's hard because I think it's
Speaker 1: one thing when you hear an invasive species is a
Speaker 1: plant or if an insect, but like when you have
Speaker 1: this thing that in our like children's books, you're never hippo,
Speaker 1: is never a thing of like, oh hippo. It's always
Speaker 1: like and then there's big hippo. That is nice that
Speaker 1: we we still have like this relationship to them where
Speaker 1: they're like they're mammals. So this, uh, this scientist castel Blanco,
Speaker 1: I need to know if castel Is translates to Castle.
Speaker 1: I just need to know if their last name is
Speaker 1: white Castle. It's not really related to the hippo hippo situations.
Speaker 1: This is either my fourth favorite person or my favorite person,
Speaker 1: depending on how this translation rands out. That's uh, But
Speaker 1: I do think that is like all of our invasive
Speaker 1: species to this point, none of them have been adorable.
Speaker 1: We've had zebra muscles, We've had like you know, carp
Speaker 1: We've had you know, things that were people are going
Speaker 1: to be fine getting rid of. But hippos are too
Speaker 1: cute baby hippos are. It's one of the biggest discrepancies
Speaker 1: from baby animal to full size animal, of like the
Speaker 1: cuteness scale. And so if you show someone a baby hippo,
Speaker 1: no matter what you're if you're saying this baby hippo
Speaker 1: figured out in the head, like if you're like this
Speaker 1: hippo grew thumbs and figured out guns and cybersecurity like hacking.
Speaker 1: But look at it, and people be like, we got it.
Speaker 1: We can't do anything about that. What are we gonna
Speaker 1: can't impeach that hippo. Come on, come on out office anyway,
Speaker 1: that hippo didn't inside anything. Let's do impeachment real quick.
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about the Democrats wrapped up the impeachment managers,
Speaker 1: I guess is what we're calling them, wrapped up their case.
Speaker 1: The Republicans continue to cartoonishly ignore it, like they're a
Speaker 1: petulant kid with like a teacher they don't like. Um
Speaker 1: Ran Paul sat with his back to the screen while
Speaker 1: they were presenting things, uh, taking notes ak probably like
Speaker 1: doodling on his notepad, and then left halfway through the
Speaker 1: manager's description of the president, putting Mike Pence's life in danger. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they're doing all he was like laying down
Speaker 1: in the gallery. Yeah, they're like even the very conservative
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal editorial board is like it looks bad,
Speaker 1: like the nothing's going to happen, obviously, like these guys
Speaker 1: are making it clear nothing's gonna happen, but like this
Speaker 1: is a very bad look and like he he should
Speaker 1: never run for a Republican office again. But that's the
Speaker 1: whole thing, is uh, Yeah, I think the only recourse
Speaker 1: people are going to have is to get on the
Speaker 1: asses of corporations that continue to donate to these people. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's like, because there's no way fucking reason, not even
Speaker 1: a fourteen minute video that would make anyone shiver at
Speaker 1: how like intense all this ship was, especially for the
Speaker 1: people that were sucking there. Um that you could watch
Speaker 1: that and still be like, yep, can't do anything about that.
Speaker 1: Um we know that's coming. And yeah, like I feel
Speaker 1: like even when you hear about Mitch McConnell, he's apparently
Speaker 1: not pressuring senators to do anything, like he's not going
Speaker 1: one way. Yeah, And a part of that is, you know,
Speaker 1: with him, he is worried about the money. Where does
Speaker 1: all the super pac money go, Where does all the
Speaker 1: corporate money go? And if they his concern. The only
Speaker 1: thing in the calculus of Mitch McConnell is if there
Speaker 1: if we let this guy off after how bad and
Speaker 1: how glaringly obvious it was that we just sort of
Speaker 1: just turned the other way and just went through with
Speaker 1: a quitting him, that could that could end up hurting
Speaker 1: us in terms of our fundraising. That's the only thing
Speaker 1: they care about. So I think the only other chip
Speaker 1: that is going to even be able to be played
Speaker 1: in terms of some kind of effect, uh punitive effect
Speaker 1: on the Republicans is to then come after the people
Speaker 1: who fund them, because it's not going to happen in
Speaker 1: this impeachment trial. As we see people like it's like
Speaker 1: they were avoiding to see like video clips from like
Speaker 1: you getting really fucking drunk the night before and it's
Speaker 1: like embarrassing to see like, oh dude, I don't need
Speaker 1: to see that, right, Like, no, no no, watch this part,
Speaker 1: watch this part. They're not like that's what they're doing.
Speaker 1: The editory on the Wall Street Journal is interesting because
Speaker 1: they're like putting a lot there, like in Trump will
Speaker 1: never live this down. The stain is permanent, on him
Speaker 1: alongside like describing these senators like, you know, doing noises
Speaker 1: like as they're presenting their case, just like doing the
Speaker 1: most cartoonish like I I can't hear you ship. You know,
Speaker 1: the people who definitely didn't have bad things to say
Speaker 1: about Nancy Pelosi tearing up a blank piece of paper
Speaker 1: before speech once and they but they're not drawing the
Speaker 1: can like connection that that's also a hideous look for them,
Speaker 1: which is weird. I don't know, like it does seem
Speaker 1: like in the public. I if somebody is mad about
Speaker 1: the president's actions, they should be mad about this complete
Speaker 1: disregard for any consequences. It's just they're just it's the base.
Speaker 1: They're just they don't know what to do. They're I
Speaker 1: do think you're playing to a base that I think
Speaker 1: there's some people in areas, in districts and states or
Speaker 1: they just believe that is Trump writer. Diar, it's not
Speaker 1: Trump writer. You can become a senator if you're a
Speaker 1: former college football coach who says I stand with Trump
Speaker 1: and doesn't even campaign. So they just sort of is, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you get to the nightmare that is my home states,
Speaker 1: Josh Holly, Uh, these are just people who double triple,
Speaker 1: quadruple down because they know that when it comes down
Speaker 1: to like grinding out reelection, they're gonna be grunning against
Speaker 1: someone they can call a socialist and win, right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then it's like that, But god, I just it's
Speaker 1: it's really hard to think of what happens after this,
Speaker 1: because clearly this is the moment that they need to
Speaker 1: indicate to the country that they know what's at stake,
Speaker 1: and they are They're saying, we know what's at stake,
Speaker 1: and we're actually voting for the shitty outcome. That's what
Speaker 1: we want. We want the we want the hellscape, that's
Speaker 1: what we're voting for. And I think that's what people
Speaker 1: need to connect a bit, is that there's an entire
Speaker 1: apparatus in basically the Republican Party that's there to just
Speaker 1: say we're here to actually accelerate the coming of the
Speaker 1: American healthscape even more so than it already is. Like
Speaker 1: money under that health escape in the short term. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's okay, I'll grind it out. And then when because
Speaker 1: let's see how many of these people actually stay if
Speaker 1: if we were for at a point where the country
Speaker 1: really starts to fall apart even more, Um, how many
Speaker 1: people are gonna like how many republics like we actually
Speaker 1: need to do something about this, or are they going
Speaker 1: to be further insulating, Like I don't know, there's like
Speaker 1: a group of angry people which are actually just downtrodden
Speaker 1: poor people. We've ignored that we're just going to treat
Speaker 1: as enemies of the state. Now, yeah, I mean the
Speaker 1: whole kind of alignment. It seems like it could be shifting,
Speaker 1: but like they don't they don't really have a way
Speaker 1: to know, Like Q and On obviously is pulling worse
Speaker 1: than it was before. But then there's a poll that's
Speaker 1: saying were in ten Republicans. I think, Uh, if elected
Speaker 1: leaders will not protect America, the people must do it themselves,
Speaker 1: even if it requires violent actions. Is of finding a
Speaker 1: recent poll. Uh, So it's there's I think they're like, well,
Speaker 1: on the one hand, this is a really bad look.
Speaker 1: On the other, um, that's a lot of energy that's
Speaker 1: storm in that capital and those people probably will vote
Speaker 1: in the future and they're not going to go away,
Speaker 1: So we'll ride that way. Which was funny though, because
Speaker 1: remember did you see a lot of the charging documents
Speaker 1: that there were people that storm the capitol that didn't vote. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like so many of them
Speaker 1: didn't vote. Yeah, well, when it's rigged, Just mean, when
Speaker 1: it's rigged from the start, their vote was probably dead
Speaker 1: people vote. It makes me so crazy to even pretend
Speaker 1: to energy. Their energy though, is like, it's not for voting,
Speaker 1: it's for violence. So it's just for them to think
Speaker 1: that they need to they can somehow do something with
Speaker 1: that energy in the context of elections is completely misguided
Speaker 1: because these are people who don't give a shit about
Speaker 1: what happens in an election, because at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it's like, do we still have de facto
Speaker 1: white supremacy? Which box are we ticking? If it's no,
Speaker 1: then we're turning up right. Yeah. Well, Kyle, it's been
Speaker 1: a pleasure as always having you on the daily. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Where have people find you? Follow you here? You all
Speaker 1: that gets well, Matt, Kyle Ayer's on most of the stuff, um,
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Speaker 1: Uh and is there a tweet or some other work
Speaker 1: of social media you've been enjoying? Yes, I laughed really
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Speaker 1: even someone I know. Um, their name is Quarantina Fe,
Speaker 1: which is funny, but it said, Uh, my sister works
Speaker 1: in the mental health field. One day she told me
Speaker 1: no one in this world is fully realized except Jack Black.
Speaker 1: I carry that with me wherever I go. I like
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