Speaker 1: Oh, hello the Internet, and welcome to season one, sixty four,
Speaker 1: episode one of the Daily Zite Guys. The production of
Speaker 1: My Heart Radio is the produce the podcast, not the production,
Speaker 1: although this is a gigantic production. It's the podcast where
Speaker 1: we just kicked the top off of America's skull and
Speaker 1: look into our shared consciousness and go okay uh and
Speaker 1: then just make some jokes for a little bit. It's Monday,
Speaker 1: December four, forty slurting nine. Who knows someday untill January
Speaker 1: whenever the other guy gets booted out and the other
Speaker 1: guy old get moves into the White House. Anyway, my
Speaker 1: name is Miles Gray, a k. Never mind guess our
Speaker 1: host without Jack. It's cool. Can't believe you left. I
Speaker 1: feel like a fool. I just got some code red,
Speaker 1: I remember, he said, and he took off to place
Speaker 1: sober punkin ster. Okay, thank you to Christy y'am auclaine
Speaker 1: on the discord for that. AKA dude, you're getting adell.
Speaker 1: I mean, how could you? How could we get that wrong?
Speaker 1: And I'm thrilled to be joined in the in the
Speaker 1: co host seat, I mean really the host seat, you know,
Speaker 1: because I know what ch'all is coming for you're coming
Speaker 1: from the big Zamboni energy or the little Zamboni energy.
Speaker 1: He's welcome, Jamie loftus a K la petite Zamboni a
Speaker 1: K diet napocop. That's a fun one. I got the
Speaker 1: funny like that made me feel real smart that I feel.
Speaker 1: I I almost didn't in adele a K this morning
Speaker 1: and I couldn't. I can't follow that. I can't follow
Speaker 1: that I have. I've been mainlining dunk into my head
Speaker 1: and uh, it's not it hasn't yet reached. Okay, okay, Well,
Speaker 1: before we bring the guests into the phrase, just to
Speaker 1: run it off top of we're going to get into
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about where the Senate is with
Speaker 1: the relief or if that's coming around. I don't know
Speaker 1: where they aren't and who they're actually seeking relief for.
Speaker 1: Who are they going to give it instead? What means
Speaker 1: the relief right now? Is it corporate America or people? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I think we all know the answer to that. Also,
Speaker 1: we'll be talking about the Texas Attorney General who filed
Speaker 1: you know, that really weird lawsuit with the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: and been like, I wonder is he dying of pardon thirst?
Speaker 1: Is that what's going on? Could he be in some
Speaker 1: jeopardy and that's why he's legally self immolating in front
Speaker 1: of everybody. We will dig into that. Also, yes, there
Speaker 1: was an announcement from our entertainment overlord Disney, who you
Speaker 1: know because they own all the I P. So whenever
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, we got some announcements, most people kind
Speaker 1: of need to be like, Okay, what's going on? What
Speaker 1: are they gonna do? So we'll check in with them,
Speaker 1: as well as a new collab between Brittany Spears and
Speaker 1: the Backstreet Boys in this the Year of Our Lord
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty. Uh, and even maybe we'll talk
Speaker 1: about squirrel Tables and Taylor Swift. Who knows. We'll get
Speaker 1: to all of that, but first, I mean, we're honored
Speaker 1: to be joined today by a comedian, uh journalist, uh,
Speaker 1: just overall brilliant person. You might know him from the
Speaker 1: Daily Show, you might know him from his stand up comedy.
Speaker 1: You might know him because he introduced himself as Michael
Speaker 1: and you called him Mikey because you met him in
Speaker 1: New York. I don't know. And also somebody with a
Speaker 1: very newly released comedy special on Comedy Central called Detroit,
Speaker 1: New York l A three cities I've been to. Uh,
Speaker 1: please welcome the brilliant, the talented Michael Costa. Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me, Thanks for Yeah. I have this kind of
Speaker 1: name that when I say I'm my name is Michael,
Speaker 1: people in New York then immediately call me some nickname
Speaker 1: of it, big man, what's up, big m And it's like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't approve. I do not accept your nickname of me.
Speaker 1: I'm Michael, and I like Michael. It is Mike as
Speaker 1: a kid. And then I grew up and I said,
Speaker 1: it's time to be Michael. I okay, I'm curious about
Speaker 1: this is there was there that moment where you were like,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like Mike anymore. I'm I think I
Speaker 1: need to own the adult Michael. Now. I think I
Speaker 1: made a three pointer, you know, organized basketball game, and
Speaker 1: I said, I'm now Michael, I can shoot deep. Mike
Speaker 1: couldn't make that shot, Mike, Mike would would have would have,
Speaker 1: you know, gone to the paint, gotten followed, missed both
Speaker 1: free throws exactly. And I'm guessing so you're special Detroit,
Speaker 1: New York l A um um. I know you're in
Speaker 1: New York. Now, you said you've lived in Los Angeles. Uh,
Speaker 1: tell me about Detroit. What's going on. Yeah, I'm from
Speaker 1: ann Arbor, Michigan. So I started in the Detroit comedy scene,
Speaker 1: and I wanted my special to follow my path. So
Speaker 1: I want to take the viewers in the same path
Speaker 1: I did. So we started this really great theater downtown Detroit,
Speaker 1: and then we within ten minutes, I'm on a bicycle
Speaker 1: in Manhattan going to the New York Comedy Club Grimy Gritty,
Speaker 1: Damp Basement show, and then uh, twenty minutes later at
Speaker 1: the Hollywood Improv off of Melrose Avenue. Three totally different places,
Speaker 1: three totally different audiences, and I I just kind of
Speaker 1: want the viewer to experience some of the nonsense that
Speaker 1: we all go through as a stand up comic, right
Speaker 1: right right. I'm so excited to see it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I love man. I've been in eight years, but
Speaker 1: I want to go back. Yeah. It's wild to go
Speaker 1: back now because you see a lot of construction, and
Speaker 1: when I grew up there, you never saw construction. It
Speaker 1: was like they had just given up on it. And
Speaker 1: now it's funny. I've never been happy to say, Oh good,
Speaker 1: they're redoing the streets. This is a terribly inconvenient to
Speaker 1: get around right now, but it means someone is putting
Speaker 1: some money and energy into this place, which is great
Speaker 1: infrastruct social list Anyway, Well, let's get into you, Michael
Speaker 1: a little bit. Why don't you tell us something from
Speaker 1: your search history that is revealing about who you are? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it really is revealing because the search is ready,
Speaker 1: what is kink sex? Okay? Now, now, the reason it's
Speaker 1: revealing is because I'm close with my family. You're onto
Speaker 1: something and um my mom is a therapist and she
Speaker 1: has a couple of new clients and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: I was your new client today, and she said, well,
Speaker 1: I had to google kink sex. And then I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck is king? I don't like, I don't
Speaker 1: even know what that is. And I'm almost a certain
Speaker 1: Mom is wrong about the terminology. So then I googled
Speaker 1: what she had said, and I just read that it's
Speaker 1: basically like kinky sex, as m that I would be
Speaker 1: really surprised if it ended up being something different. It
Speaker 1: would be interesting. Wait, so that's what I thought. It's
Speaker 1: just a general blanket. But then I'm like, why would
Speaker 1: your client, Why wouldn't your client be more specific what
Speaker 1: it is that he or she is into. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: kin can mean a few different things for at least yes.
Speaker 1: So was your mom like, so it was one of
Speaker 1: those moments where you're like, I don't know if your
Speaker 1: definition is the same one. So you had to sort
Speaker 1: of like, let me just try and get find the
Speaker 1: real answer. Was she insisting it was something specific or
Speaker 1: she was like I don't know. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know how you guys read your text messages from your parents,
Speaker 1: but I am reading most of it going this is
Speaker 1: a complete exaggerated nonsense. Okay, So like when my mom,
Speaker 1: like when my mom texts me, hey, our neighbor says
Speaker 1: your Comedy Central special isn't showing up on the guide,
Speaker 1: I go europe, old woman who doesn't understand anything. And
Speaker 1: then I find out that it's actually correct and this
Speaker 1: is a problem and I have to reach out to
Speaker 1: the comedy network because it's not showing up on the guy.
Speaker 1: But um, so I just thought she was kind of
Speaker 1: like not pulling the wrong terminology, which I kind of
Speaker 1: still feel like she was. I was hoping I was
Speaker 1: going to Google and be like, kink sex is when
Speaker 1: this happens. This happens, but it's not. It's a very
Speaker 1: it's a wide umbrella. So I appreciate you guys reaffirming
Speaker 1: that for me. Yeah, exactly. It's when you're blasting the
Speaker 1: album albums of the Kinks while in bed. I could
Speaker 1: also see a patient kind of like getting nervous and
Speaker 1: cutting themselves off before getting too specific. They're like, you know,
Speaker 1: kinky sex and then seeing whatever facial expression your mom
Speaker 1: made have been like I think of him A move on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've definitely done that before before I get too with
Speaker 1: the therapist and like, I don't think, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't have time to I can't. I'm paying a
Speaker 1: lot for this and I can don't have time to
Speaker 1: burn time explaining to you what I'm talking about. It's
Speaker 1: funny when you get a new therapist and you're expanding
Speaker 1: a lot of energy being like how am I going
Speaker 1: to present this to this person? And then I'm already
Speaker 1: burning myself out trying to describe something I'm working on
Speaker 1: and trying to be like I think I'm being judged,
Speaker 1: and they like, wait, I'm in therapy, so I loaded
Speaker 1: I loaded the gun with a full clip. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to move on to a new story
Speaker 1: because because we do judge their face, we assess their
Speaker 1: face and go, oh, they are judging me. Of all
Speaker 1: the people they talked to today, I get the face
Speaker 1: they think I'm a loser. That's my greatest fear in
Speaker 1: this life. Why am I getting the face? Michael, what's
Speaker 1: something that you think is underrated? Well? I was gonna
Speaker 1: say silence, and then I thought that that's probably like
Speaker 1: a hacky answer, and then I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let Miles and Jamie intimidate me with
Speaker 1: my answer and what I've been known to do. I
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of silence. I think it's harder
Speaker 1: and harder to get it. I believe in noise pollution.
Speaker 1: I think I would love it if we could backtrack
Speaker 1: on the key fobs to check if your car is locked.
Speaker 1: I mean everybody is over clicking. Yeah, I'm guilty of that.
Speaker 1: It's like I needed to honk three times. Why, you're
Speaker 1: a smart guy, would yeah. I think it's just this
Speaker 1: like it's like a thing where you're just like because
Speaker 1: I've had you know, I've just had ship stolen out
Speaker 1: of my car once before us or maybe a couple
Speaker 1: of times, but where I'm like make sure. But I
Speaker 1: know at a certain point, like I was like, I
Speaker 1: think I need to find a way to for it
Speaker 1: to not do the horn. I know, but it would
Speaker 1: be nice if they gave us options if it's just
Speaker 1: it's just the lights flashed or something, and for all them,
Speaker 1: I just did the headlight light flash with my hand. Yes,
Speaker 1: when we all know that, we want to say the
Speaker 1: picture for the listeners, the hand choreography was next level.
Speaker 1: We definitely appreciate that. But yeah, like news, I'm sure
Speaker 1: for you noise pollution living in the city that never sleeps,
Speaker 1: what is like, are you finding waste? Yeah? I just
Speaker 1: kind of made that up, I think, But is there
Speaker 1: is there like do you find yourself doing things to
Speaker 1: create sort of that atmosphere for yourself or you just
Speaker 1: kind of experience it and being like, damn, I wish
Speaker 1: quite quiet is way better than this ship. I find
Speaker 1: now that even when I go home to Michigan, it's
Speaker 1: like I can never not hear a leafblower then and
Speaker 1: like now when I sit in my uh tiny living
Speaker 1: room in New York. I'm like always hearing the refrigerator
Speaker 1: or I'm always hearing a car drive by. And so
Speaker 1: maybe what I'm discovering through this conversation is it's not
Speaker 1: that I find silence is underrated. It's that I maybe
Speaker 1: like I have a too high a sensitivity to noise
Speaker 1: or something, especially like mechanical compressors. It seems like a
Speaker 1: mechanical really well, especially if you don't have access to silence,
Speaker 1: that like makes it all the more valuable because you're like, well,
Speaker 1: I couldn't even have it if I wanted it. This
Speaker 1: thing that we should all sort of have access to
Speaker 1: struggle with, Like silence makes me tense up in a
Speaker 1: way that I'm like, I should probably do some work
Speaker 1: on that. But I always like maybe as I grew
Speaker 1: up with like my parents watching TV while I went
Speaker 1: to sleep, so just some background noise feels comfortable. And
Speaker 1: so when actual, like when true silence happens, it's I
Speaker 1: love that when it's so quiet it's fucking loud as
Speaker 1: ship and you're like, yeah, to the desert and ship,
Speaker 1: when you're just like I'm not hearing it things, there's
Speaker 1: something to that. Yet space must space, Like did I
Speaker 1: hear something. You heard literally absolutely nothing, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: die now. I think Jamie, you hit it right because
Speaker 1: my father I grew up in a home where commercials
Speaker 1: were on bang mute. If you had something in your
Speaker 1: hand and you were kind of like fidgeting, my dad
Speaker 1: would grab it and we go, we're gonna put that down.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be quiet now. So I'm just like, I
Speaker 1: just got my dad in my head, see value silence,
Speaker 1: that's right. And now they're coming, our parents, and there's
Speaker 1: church bells behind me right now, and it's and I'm
Speaker 1: furious about it. And you're like, hey, Christ, pipe down
Speaker 1: for a second birthday coming up. Um Christ, I've been
Speaker 1: saying this for years. Jesus Christ is taking up too
Speaker 1: much space, I think, so, yes, he needs to make
Speaker 1: more space for people. Yeah, it makes space, Jesus. I
Speaker 1: mean the Crucifix game is so congested it can only
Speaker 1: mean really, um, think of the other people. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the other thing I found myself doing the lockdown. I
Speaker 1: said this very early on the lockdown was just like
Speaker 1: this app called Portal because it's just like three D
Speaker 1: nature atmospheres and I have like noise canceling headphones that
Speaker 1: I wear that with and it's like reading a book
Speaker 1: or anything else is so much more pleasant, especially like
Speaker 1: when you're in a very you know, condensed packed urban areas.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll way, but but even noise canceling headphones
Speaker 1: like they kind of have some thing they do they
Speaker 1: like shoot out white noise or something. And and so look,
Speaker 1: this is something that has been in my brain for
Speaker 1: a while. And that's why you know, I was like,
Speaker 1: do I disclose such a personal item to the Daily Zeitgeist?
Speaker 1: And I did? And I don't want you to judge
Speaker 1: me on this, but let's how about this. Let's reevaluate
Speaker 1: what silence means to all of us and try to
Speaker 1: be more comfortable in silence. And that's what my goal
Speaker 1: is this week. I love I just brought that down. Michael.
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's move on to something that you
Speaker 1: think is overrated. I think there's two much fried chicken.
Speaker 1: I feel like, I feel like every restaurant's got a
Speaker 1: fried chicken sandwich, now hot chicken. I feel like Kale
Speaker 1: hired this publicist fifteen years ago, and then Truffle Mac
Speaker 1: and Cheese hired the same publicist, And I feel like
Speaker 1: fried chicken then hired that publicist as well. I think
Speaker 1: I think it should be exceptional when you have it,
Speaker 1: but you shouldn't have it as often as it's being presented.
Speaker 1: That's it. You can't look look, that's it. Okay, that's it.
Speaker 1: The dealers out. Sorry, shift changed, I got nothing more.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, that l A is it? Like it
Speaker 1: happened in such a violent way, right it was. Holland
Speaker 1: Rays came and everyone's like, because you know, I get it.
Speaker 1: All these food trends are like sort of offshoots of
Speaker 1: some guy fiery thing, like you go on, you watch
Speaker 1: a food travel show and you're like, man, in Nashville,
Speaker 1: they got this ship called hot Chicken, and for me,
Speaker 1: I love fried chicken, I love spicy food. It's the
Speaker 1: intersection of one of the two most important culinary roads
Speaker 1: in my life at the moment. So I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: fuck yes. Holland Rays opens up in l A. And
Speaker 1: the line is like seventeen hours, and that's que for
Speaker 1: the rest of the city to be like, all right,
Speaker 1: I think this is what everyone needs to pivot to.
Speaker 1: And I think I'm not joking. In the valley, I
Speaker 1: think there's like forty two hot chicken places now that
Speaker 1: have popped up instantly. We went on like a drive
Speaker 1: the I forget why we had to drive across the
Speaker 1: city this week, but it was like so many places
Speaker 1: had popped up since I last drove all the way
Speaker 1: across the city six months ago. You're like, it's even
Speaker 1: going to these places like I used to be a
Speaker 1: Washington mutual, Like wasn't that a public library at one point?
Speaker 1: But now it's a really expensive chicken restaurant. I may
Speaker 1: have I may have mixed up overrated with oversaturated, but
Speaker 1: I would also argue that maybe those are parallel that
Speaker 1: I think. So that exists, and what's the next? What's next?
Speaker 1: Like you know, you you guys live in l A.
Speaker 1: You know, no one ever creates the new thing. You
Speaker 1: just make another of the thing that was first and successful.
Speaker 1: So I'm always thinking, like, Okay, we had truffle mac
Speaker 1: and cheese or truffle seems to be everywhere. I thought
Speaker 1: truffle was a delicacy. It's everywhere. Um understand what it means?
Speaker 1: Something is truffle. What are they saying? It's just because truffle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like it's like a you know, like a mushroom basically
Speaker 1: just a flavor, and it's it's the umami of it,
Speaker 1: and it takes like Okay, I don't even know if
Speaker 1: I can swear on this podcast, but you can when
Speaker 1: we talk about truffle sh Okay, get that shitty truffle
Speaker 1: out of my fucking face right now, because and I
Speaker 1: think the other thing that's expensive, like it takes pigs
Speaker 1: to find them, like they have to like they have
Speaker 1: to find them under the ground. Yeah, like they're hard
Speaker 1: to dig up. And then I remember, like on the
Speaker 1: Vice Channel like years ago, was like spending a day
Speaker 1: with like Manhattan's like truffle Dealer King and it's like
Speaker 1: this weirdest ship and you guys like yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: can get you that, but that's gonna be about five
Speaker 1: grand right there. And it's like this like Wall Street
Speaker 1: yuppie drug dealer vibe. It's so stupid. I would watch
Speaker 1: a cartoon about truffle pigs. That's that's more interesting. Oh yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's more of there's definitely like a pair
Speaker 1: of like a sort of allegory to like working class
Speaker 1: corporate work relations with like truffle pigs. Do it like
Speaker 1: extracting from the earth these things these other people over
Speaker 1: value and they're like, why do we have to do this? Done? Done, Jamie,
Speaker 1: get on it? In Capital, isn't alright perfect? Is there?
Speaker 1: Like in in New York? Are you like is I'm
Speaker 1: guessing fried chicken is basically everywhere as well? Are you
Speaker 1: seeing other? And and you know, I went out to
Speaker 1: dinner last night, and by out to dinner, I mean
Speaker 1: sat in the street and someone had built a shoddy
Speaker 1: outdoor home depot two by four with some plastic as
Speaker 1: I just froze, you know, um. And I know this
Speaker 1: must be hard for you guys in l A to
Speaker 1: hear about such a thing, but we have outdoor dining
Speaker 1: here kind of. But people, you know, no one has
Speaker 1: any money. No restaurant has like extra money line around
Speaker 1: after seven months of nobody going to a restaurant. So
Speaker 1: they've built these like outdoor space. So I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at the menu and it's just like
Speaker 1: it was just it's fried chicken. The waiters like, you
Speaker 1: gotta get the fried chicken. It's so good, and I'm
Speaker 1: just like it's always the same goodness. It's just everywhere.
Speaker 1: What's the next sandwich? You tell me? I'd love to
Speaker 1: know what the next one is. It's kind of the
Speaker 1: sort of thing where every time a food trend like
Speaker 1: this happens, I get annoyed with it in the moment,
Speaker 1: but then when it's over, I get really sad. Remember
Speaker 1: when you chicken anywhere right right, You're like to remember
Speaker 1: cupcakes when they came out of a T M S.
Speaker 1: Cupcakes were hot for for for a few minutes there.
Speaker 1: I felt that way about frozen yogurt. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: when I was in college, there was a frozen yogurt
Speaker 1: shop on every corner. And then I'm like, I found
Speaker 1: five hundred years old like me and doo wop groups
Speaker 1: when I was there on every fucking corner, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, I think the next food It's
Speaker 1: always interesting to think of, like what the next ethnic
Speaker 1: food trend is going to be, because like that's always
Speaker 1: like the thing that like the trends happens, Like I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have had Nepalese food before
Speaker 1: and everyone's like, oh, you gotta have it, Like Taiwanese
Speaker 1: food was becoming like in the East Side of l
Speaker 1: A for a little bit. But yeah, I'm always the
Speaker 1: the the kind of run Saracha's had has been interesting
Speaker 1: because you know, I remember always kind of enjoying Saracha,
Speaker 1: feeling like maybe I knew something others didn't. And then
Speaker 1: I was in Silver like one day and like I
Speaker 1: saw a table of like six kids wearing a Saracha
Speaker 1: T shirt right right, and I'm like, Okay, Saracha's coming gone.
Speaker 1: But it is an excellent sauce um. And but why
Speaker 1: did it get so popular? Why did it pop off?
Speaker 1: Maybe fried chicken? Maybe that's what hot fried chicken is?
Speaker 1: Is it? You never know? I think it's just like
Speaker 1: Saracha became one of those things that felt like exotic
Speaker 1: but was available everywhere. And he was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that thing with the fucking rooster on it, that's good.
Speaker 1: Oh I know that, and they buy it. A buddy
Speaker 1: of mine like wrote the Saracha Cookbook like in like
Speaker 1: the early twenty tens or something, and it was it
Speaker 1: was purely like it was truly one of those things
Speaker 1: that was like the hottest thing at an urban outfitters
Speaker 1: during Christmas. You know, when it's like the Saracha fucking cookbook,
Speaker 1: Get the fucking y'all. Uh so shout out to him,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: back to talk some stories. And we're back and oh,
Speaker 1: PLoP PLoP, fiz fiz where the relief is? Mitch McConnell, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just I just vibe that one
Speaker 1: out off the off the cuff right there. I was
Speaker 1: just feeling that one. But yeah, I appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: liked the journey. We're looking for a relief bill, uh
Speaker 1: to come out of the Senate's something that acknowledges that
Speaker 1: people have only received one check from the federal government
Speaker 1: throughout this entire lockdown. And you know, for whatever reason
Speaker 1: that they're the Republicans are very much like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: who knows what it's gonna do, Like if it's good,
Speaker 1: it's really really need that much? Like are these real
Speaker 1: people even that exists? Like I thought poor people were
Speaker 1: like a myth we made up to keep people in
Speaker 1: line with capitalism. I don't know, sure, go back to
Speaker 1: the classic of like I'm pretty sure most of these
Speaker 1: people have died. No no, no, no, no, no, they're
Speaker 1: going to die. I don't do anything. Got mixed up? Yeah, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: And you know, I think the refrain from the entire
Speaker 1: country at the moment is asking, begging the question, where
Speaker 1: is the relief? Where are these checks going, when are
Speaker 1: they coming? What is happening with this these negotiations in
Speaker 1: the Senate? And you know, I think we're looking at, well,
Speaker 1: who's getting the relief? Who is who is Mitch McConnell
Speaker 1: going to ride for in this instance. And he's made
Speaker 1: it clear since the fucking be like the first relief
Speaker 1: bill was coming out, he is very concerned about the
Speaker 1: liability of companies more than anything. That is his biggest
Speaker 1: concern and at the moment, that is what's holding up
Speaker 1: the negotiations. Um, you know they're saying that right now.
Speaker 1: McConnell is like the offer from the republic canes how
Speaker 1: about an eighteen month federal shield on coronavirus litigation Meaning
Speaker 1: if you were if you were so fucking greedy that
Speaker 1: you harmed your employees in the pursuit of money, Um,
Speaker 1: guess what, they can't sue you because you were acting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so that's the current hill that Republicans are choosing
Speaker 1: to kill the country on. That's wild because a lot
Speaker 1: of that is meat packing. M Remember, like Trump declared
Speaker 1: meet emergency or whatever the hell it was. And then
Speaker 1: all these more or less illegal immigrants who work and
Speaker 1: packed the meat, all who were forced to go to
Speaker 1: work and get sick, and then now they have even
Speaker 1: less legal rights to like, you know, do anything anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you look in places like I think it was
Speaker 1: like one of those Tyson processing plants to where the
Speaker 1: executives were what they were telling the translation staff because
Speaker 1: like you're saying, there's a lot of people who are
Speaker 1: coming into work that aren't speaking English, so they actually
Speaker 1: need to deploy translators on the processing floor to communicate
Speaker 1: to the workers. They were saying, don't talk about COVID
Speaker 1: to anyone down there, just like they would when they
Speaker 1: did speak to a journalist. They're like, I noticed that
Speaker 1: the person who stood next to my left for eleven
Speaker 1: straight years, like went away for four days, and like
Speaker 1: because that person was sick and died. I mean it's
Speaker 1: like it's also I can order nine packs of chicken
Speaker 1: breasts because oh no, the pandemics coming. I want to
Speaker 1: have food in my freezer. Uh yeah, it was. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize that that's what McConnell was held up over.
Speaker 1: Now that's mess, I mean, right now, you know, his
Speaker 1: first the first thing he wanted, like earlier this year,
Speaker 1: he was asking for a five fucking year period of
Speaker 1: liability protection for businesses, schools, healthcare providers, and other organisms
Speaker 1: and other organizations because you know, like we're saying this
Speaker 1: whole lockdown or don't lock down, open up, we need
Speaker 1: to earn. It's all based around this thing, is that
Speaker 1: no company or the federal government is willing to actually
Speaker 1: subsidize lost wages or these other things to get people
Speaker 1: to comply to actually get a hold on this thing.
Speaker 1: So people's only recourse is to go to work and
Speaker 1: possibly get sick and work for a boss who's not
Speaker 1: going to be in there because they're not gonna get
Speaker 1: fucking sick. But you damn sure better clock in because
Speaker 1: I need to see money in the til by the
Speaker 1: end of the day. So as it stands right now, uh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't look good for Americans because you know, until
Speaker 1: they can guarantee that they're the wealthy aren't going to
Speaker 1: be held accountable. It seems like that's the you know,
Speaker 1: that's the biggest impass at the moment. And like we
Speaker 1: were talking about yesterday, I mean, it just already seems
Speaker 1: pretty unlikely that Biden administration is going to do much
Speaker 1: to progress that and do much to progress you know,
Speaker 1: any labor movement in any meaningful way because the um
Speaker 1: because the cabinet is already stacked with billionaires and people
Speaker 1: who represent billion dollar companies and so it's just very
Speaker 1: bleak extreme. Yeah, and it's just it's a tough it's
Speaker 1: just such a really fucked up thing to just behold
Speaker 1: when you're like, Wow, we're really here because Mitch McConnell's
Speaker 1: like prose companies from getting shood for being just you know,
Speaker 1: pathologically greedy to the point that it's causing death. Uh So, yeah,
Speaker 1: welcome to America. Let's move on to Texas and the
Speaker 1: attorney general there, Ken Paxton, who he was. He caused
Speaker 1: a lot of shock waves last week, um when he
Speaker 1: went straight to the Supreme Court and was like, uh,
Speaker 1: here's the deal, essentially, like without getting into the legal eaves,
Speaker 1: because I don't even think there was any legal ease
Speaker 1: in the complaint or the lawsuit he filed his whole
Speaker 1: complaint of trying to overturn the election with a few
Speaker 1: other attorneys general's. Attorneys general were that he was saying
Speaker 1: specifically dear Supreme Court, Um, Texas wanted Trump and these
Speaker 1: other swing states that let Joe Einen win because they
Speaker 1: wanted to like make voting easier in a pandemic that
Speaker 1: actually violated the desires of the people of Texas. Um,
Speaker 1: so you need to overturn the entire election. And even
Speaker 1: like Samuel Alito was like, what is what does that
Speaker 1: even mean? Dude, It's just yeah, that's like a waste.
Speaker 1: I mean, not that any of these have not been
Speaker 1: a waste of time, but this is a this is
Speaker 1: a special waste of time. Yeah, absolutely, And it's it's
Speaker 1: it's just a really you know that that that's the
Speaker 1: nature of the current lawsuits that are just getting body
Speaker 1: slammed by judges. Yeah, I mean, it's it seems it's weird.
Speaker 1: Every time I think that they're starting to kind of
Speaker 1: die down, and then it's like, okay, someone's gonna just
Speaker 1: taken oil finally, Um there's there's three more. And it's
Speaker 1: a way it's I've honestly stopped keeping up with them
Speaker 1: because we're like, well, none of these are going to
Speaker 1: fucking go anywhere, knock on wood, right, But it's just
Speaker 1: it's sad. It's pathetic make me sad, Well, it's it's
Speaker 1: all so, it's it's it's has this weird effective being
Speaker 1: like we're laughing at the coup, but like not being
Speaker 1: like no, there, this is like this is a this
Speaker 1: is an indicator of how bad things are actually even
Speaker 1: though that's all you got, it's like, yeah, but they're
Speaker 1: trying it. This is new, They're trying this nonsense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like after the year that we're having.
Speaker 1: It's it is like just so it just makes my
Speaker 1: heart sink when you're like it's good news when you say,
Speaker 1: like the coup is failing, like that's where we're at.
Speaker 1: Is it a is it a potential feeling of optimism
Speaker 1: because some of the checks and balances are working, Like
Speaker 1: part of me, part of me was thinking, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to pay attention to this bullshit because it's
Speaker 1: it's bullshit. But then I was like, well wait, stuff.
Speaker 1: That's how like stuff sneaks up on you and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, we have Donald Trump for another four years.
Speaker 1: But I'm like kind of pumped that some of these
Speaker 1: federal judges who more or less have been appointed by
Speaker 1: Republican president are are giving it an L So that
Speaker 1: made me happy a little bit. Yeah, no, I think
Speaker 1: that's the like. And at that point it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: those institutions held up, but we're also seeing that there
Speaker 1: it's like anything like they're hacking the law in a
Speaker 1: way of like, well, that didn't work. Let's try this version,
Speaker 1: like of like brute force ways of trying to use
Speaker 1: her name and password where it might work at some point,
Speaker 1: But I think the real alarm should be like, okay,
Speaker 1: we actually need to we need better safeguards around this.
Speaker 1: It's like relying on Yeah, it's like, oh good, our
Speaker 1: backup parachute worked, and you're like, what happened to the
Speaker 1: first parachute? Why did they get pushed out of a plane? Backup?
Speaker 1: Like I would rather not have to use the backup? Well,
Speaker 1: hold on, because before this, and if I recall, I
Speaker 1: was eating hot chicken at a restaurant and then someone
Speaker 1: put an ether rag over my mouth and then I
Speaker 1: awoke to being pushed out of a plane in which
Speaker 1: my first shot didn't work. And now you're saying, good
Speaker 1: thing my backup. So I'm grateful that you know I'm
Speaker 1: not dead, But it was regardless, we were pushed out
Speaker 1: of a plane. Yeah, shouldn't we do something about that?
Speaker 1: I think you're missing the point here. You're good, that'll
Speaker 1: just happen. That happen. What about next time? Who knows
Speaker 1: it will be next time? Um? But yeah, this guy
Speaker 1: Ken Paxton, he is he's actually he's quite literally currently
Speaker 1: under indictment for securities fraud that was happening back in
Speaker 1: So you know, it's hard to look at somebody or
Speaker 1: like well, I mean, maybe that's just a one off.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's he's actually suing and having this ludicrous lawsuit
Speaker 1: because he believes this is what the Constitution should be.
Speaker 1: I mean, in the beginning of his lawsuit, he starts
Speaker 1: off saying, quote, our country stands at an important crossroads.
Speaker 1: Either the Constitution matters and must be followed even when
Speaker 1: some officials considered inconvenient or out of date, or it
Speaker 1: is simply a piece of parchment on display at the
Speaker 1: National Archives. We asked the court to choose the former.
Speaker 1: Oh that, like what your argument is that people made
Speaker 1: it easier? Okay, sir, thank you. We've had enough of that. Um.
Speaker 1: And he was shooting shoot out of the building. Um.
Speaker 1: But as you sort of like look on uh like like,
Speaker 1: why do this because we know why Rudy Giuliani has
Speaker 1: been going on and he's making twenty dollars a day
Speaker 1: and he needs a pardon when all of a said
Speaker 1: and done, so we're like, yeah, this Guy's gonna do
Speaker 1: whatever he can to stay in Trump's good graces. And
Speaker 1: Ken Paxton, I mean, look, is he Are the FEDS
Speaker 1: watching him or something? Oh? I think they actually are.
Speaker 1: He is under investigation by the FBI. Ken Paxston was
Speaker 1: just subpoena U for his personal records because of bribery
Speaker 1: claims for tat this the one that is under indictment
Speaker 1: for securities fraud him. Um. This all comes because his
Speaker 1: staff raised like alarm bells back in October because they
Speaker 1: were saying he was making moves to help this guy
Speaker 1: Nate Paul. Not really to Jake Paul. I don't think um,
Speaker 1: who is an Austin interest is still sinister amoutter no
Speaker 1: matter what. UM. And it's like a huge donor like
Speaker 1: he got like twenty five tho dollars from him from
Speaker 1: him and then apparently Ken Paxton hired like an outside
Speaker 1: lawyer to investigate this donor's claims that the FBI, like
Speaker 1: fucked up the raid on his house in office last year,
Speaker 1: and like, so ship should be negated. So he he
Speaker 1: really went through with that, and also says that, um,
Speaker 1: one of the guys this donor employed, there was a
Speaker 1: woman that he employs. The Attorney General had an affair
Speaker 1: with this woman and then also like recommended her for
Speaker 1: a job like high up somewhere else. So the whistle
Speaker 1: blower lawsuit is becoming very huge. Um So, I can't
Speaker 1: imagine that any scrutiny from the FEDS would motivate this
Speaker 1: kind of nonsense from him. No, it's interesting to see
Speaker 1: Ken Paxson. Okay, fine, I guess I'll I guess I'll
Speaker 1: pay attention to this story. Fine, I mean don't have
Speaker 1: to in this sense. Somewhere legally, I mean truly, like legally,
Speaker 1: the options are running out. The cracking lawsuits with Sydney Powell.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't even believe I'm giving it the
Speaker 1: dignity of calling them the cracking lawsuits. But the cracking
Speaker 1: that was released has been fully shoved back down into
Speaker 1: the sea to never emerge again. Um So, I think
Speaker 1: that's again another reason. You know, a lot of people
Speaker 1: are curious now that the legal routes are exhausted. What
Speaker 1: Trump pivot to um because his desire to upend things?
Speaker 1: I don't think it's and and was all this legal
Speaker 1: just him buying himself time right, makes you know, some
Speaker 1: other sinister plan, figuring out his pardons, distracting the media
Speaker 1: so he could do whatever is next. I do think,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, he doesn't want to lose. No one
Speaker 1: wants to lose. Maybe he thought he could win. But
Speaker 1: I do think some of these legal nonsense was like
Speaker 1: him figuring out what he's supposed to do now, you know,
Speaker 1: buying himself some time. Yeah. Absolutely, And it seems like
Speaker 1: even the way he was hiring lawyers, it was like
Speaker 1: straight improv It's like, I'm sorry, who's willing to debase
Speaker 1: themselves in front of a judge? Four Seasons Total Landscaping
Speaker 1: was like, yo, we have we have to do a
Speaker 1: press conference now. And I mean, to me, that was
Speaker 1: that was like, yo, I'm jingled the keys, so we
Speaker 1: and media all like look that way, and I'm like
Speaker 1: trying to go what is going on over here? Like
Speaker 1: why are they doing a press conference at four Seasons
Speaker 1: Total Landscaping? Well, Miles, I think it was you a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago on the show, like who brought
Speaker 1: up like that Steve Bannon theory of just spewing as
Speaker 1: much ship as you possibly can and the New cycle too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just to just to kill what I mean, that's I'm
Speaker 1: assuming maybe this is too generous, but I'm assuming that
Speaker 1: that's what Juliani has been doing. That's what I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what a lot of people have been doing, to
Speaker 1: just flood the New cycle with as much ship as
Speaker 1: possible and then to make it as difficult as you
Speaker 1: can to figure out what the what is the important
Speaker 1: story or any of us who've worked on a day rate,
Speaker 1: we're just trying to justify a twenty K day right
Speaker 1: every day. Like, dude, I was out there, man, you
Speaker 1: saw me. I got that woman who was you know,
Speaker 1: maybe sipping on something before that hearing in Michigan. But
Speaker 1: it's all good. Um. But yeah, so we'll we'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like this lawsuit is basically like a very like soft
Speaker 1: civil war attempt. Essentially, we're like, as this state over here,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to fuck over nine other states. It's like huh,
Speaker 1: but you know, they'll keep trying, and I think it's
Speaker 1: something to really keep an eye on because you know,
Speaker 1: we as that one article in the Atlantic. It's like
Speaker 1: we don't have the nuanced language in this country or
Speaker 1: imagination to describe these kinds of power grabs because we've
Speaker 1: been so used to like the pomp and circumstance and
Speaker 1: formalities of being like yes and gentleman's yes. So maybe
Speaker 1: I will maybe only committed to light funckery during that election.
Speaker 1: But a win's a win, you know, like we we're
Speaker 1: still kind of stuck there, so yeah, we've got to
Speaker 1: be able to call a coup a coup, even if
Speaker 1: it's a bullshit one. Uh. And next, I just want
Speaker 1: to talk about Disney really quick because I they had
Speaker 1: this announcement and it like consumed half of like entertainment
Speaker 1: Twitter because they have had like your shareholder meeting or whatever,
Speaker 1: or they're just sort of announcing what some of the
Speaker 1: bigger plans are. And I think because they own like
Speaker 1: seventy of the I P that does like numbers in
Speaker 1: the theaters and on TV, kind of we kind of
Speaker 1: need to see what's going on. Um, and it's it's
Speaker 1: interest like the biggest thing I think that people were
Speaker 1: curious about, was what was going to happen with Black
Speaker 1: Panther two because Chadwick Boseman passed away and they were like,
Speaker 1: at this thing, they said, they have confirmed quote honoring
Speaker 1: Chadwick Boseman's legacy and portrayal of ta Challa, Marvel Studios
Speaker 1: will not recast the character, but will explore the world
Speaker 1: of Waconda and the rich characters introducing the film blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, because there were talks of like digitizing him
Speaker 1: and I mean, I mean that's what happened to Carrie
Speaker 1: Fisher in like the back half of the Star Wars
Speaker 1: movies that were filmed actor she passed away. I I
Speaker 1: I never know how to feel about that decision. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I guess, I I guess I don't feel one way
Speaker 1: or another about it. Is it a respect thing or
Speaker 1: is it more of like for me as a viewer,
Speaker 1: it looks weird and I know it's digital, so I
Speaker 1: don't like it. Yeah, yeah, that's what. I don't know
Speaker 1: what uncomfortable. But was Black Panther two shooting already when
Speaker 1: Tradwick Boseman passed away. I guess I don't really understand
Speaker 1: at what point in the timeline, Um, everything like everything
Speaker 1: kind of shifted, like was he almost done shooting? Because
Speaker 1: that would make more sense to me if if he
Speaker 1: had shot quite a bit of it before you, if
Speaker 1: you were shooting and worked on the film. I understand,
Speaker 1: and I think it's kind and respectful to try to
Speaker 1: put that actor in the movie. But controversial statement coming up.
Speaker 1: I believe that life is for the living, and to
Speaker 1: just bring him back as a digital because we like
Speaker 1: him so much, I said, give that opportunity to another
Speaker 1: young actor. It's uh, that's what I would say. But
Speaker 1: if I just canceled myself, bring it on. This guy says,
Speaker 1: let living actor portray someone. Well, I mean yeah, because
Speaker 1: on one hand, they're like, we want to honor the
Speaker 1: contribution to the character, and like I get that, Like
Speaker 1: you know, especially like with fandoms, like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of the we sanctify the people who are playing these characters.
Speaker 1: So on one hand, I get that, I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it would definitely be too soon to recast it.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's like you can never recast again.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't really believe in that. To your point,
Speaker 1: those would be some big shoes to try to follow.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying something act just gonna like love the
Speaker 1: idea of it would almost be like, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know who would want to Yeah, but I was trying
Speaker 1: to think of comparable situations where there was I did
Speaker 1: not watch this movie, but the movie the last movie
Speaker 1: that he led your shot obviously not The Dark Knight.
Speaker 1: The well it's like a toymaker or an inventor or
Speaker 1: something like that. And he passed away halfway through the shoot.
Speaker 1: And then they Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: and then they just sort of turned it into like
Speaker 1: this multiverse where multiple people played that character, so they
Speaker 1: were able to use his footage, but there it was
Speaker 1: also like became a collaborative effort that sort of celebrated him.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know. I mean, they've made their decision,
Speaker 1: so who fucking cares what I think? But well, they haven't.
Speaker 1: I just looked. They haven't shot any black Panther toos.
Speaker 1: They have nothing's been shot yet, so there's no there
Speaker 1: is no footage to reckon with or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's interesting that we can even have this
Speaker 1: discussion only because ten years ago this conversation would be
Speaker 1: basically impossible to have of like you wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to create a convincing enough digital um, you know, replica
Speaker 1: of someone who's at that point, is it a Black
Speaker 1: Panther film? You know what I mean? Like if we're
Speaker 1: in the m c U and it is just about
Speaker 1: Wakonda and other things, like do you ca all that
Speaker 1: Black Panthers still? I mean, like that's for Ryan. I
Speaker 1: also think you can't computer generate a Chadwick Boseman performance
Speaker 1: like that's he's amazing, like he was performance. I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I found I found the Carrie Fisher ones to be
Speaker 1: really kind of like ghoulish and and scared. I didn't
Speaker 1: I don't know, it made me uncomfortable to watch because
Speaker 1: I loved, like I like, you know, it's like these
Speaker 1: are beloved performers, you know how they act in these parts.
Speaker 1: But and then when you see it digitally repeated and
Speaker 1: you know that it just there's still that kind of dissonance, yeah,
Speaker 1: because otherwise they would just do this for every actor
Speaker 1: like you. I don't know, I don't know, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm being digitized right now. But to your point, Miles,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like this has been a great performance, right,
Speaker 1: I disagree. I highly love so the other things that
Speaker 1: are being announced. Nea da Costa is directing Captain Marvel too.
Speaker 1: She's directed Candy Man, I think or directed Candyman. And
Speaker 1: then so Captain Marvel two is coming out. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love the first one also because they shot one
Speaker 1: of the scenes in a parking lot by my elementary
Speaker 1: school that I grew up in North Hollywood, So shout
Speaker 1: out to that scene. Um. And then also the the
Speaker 1: like the reimagined Little Mermaid that is going they've already
Speaker 1: been like okay, we're confirming, but reconfirming the actors. That
Speaker 1: was the thing that had people all up in arms.
Speaker 1: It's like, it can't be a mermaid of color? What
Speaker 1: the fund is this? And it's like, yeah, we'll buckle
Speaker 1: the funk up, ignorant fox because mermaids are white. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like really that's the take that happened. People. People were
Speaker 1: piste off about that. It was it was like ridiculous, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's like what do you mean, like at what
Speaker 1: point you know, like the sort of like original ship
Speaker 1: head like internet trill logic of like, well that character
Speaker 1: is white, so it should be white. It's like that,
Speaker 1: even that dumb logic, I can see the pathway there
Speaker 1: and though it's absolutely stupid, but with like something like this,
Speaker 1: it's like we're talking about a fucking mythical creature and
Speaker 1: and a fucking car to like this, this being adapted
Speaker 1: from a cartoon, Like what kind of like I think
Speaker 1: it could be? Like people for red Hair, they feel
Speaker 1: like maybe it's a racer, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because Ariel's iconic, uh with the red hair. But at
Speaker 1: that point, like really, yes, like serious, that's bullshit. That
Speaker 1: was such a frustrating, um frustrating controversy because it kept
Speaker 1: going and going and going and going, and it's like everyone,
Speaker 1: fucking chill out. All the live action reboots suck anyways,
Speaker 1: Like like just shut up. She's Lando Calarisian Donald Glover
Speaker 1: is coming back to play Young Lando because they're going
Speaker 1: to have a series for Disney. Plus. I know that
Speaker 1: was like a rumor, but you know, I like to
Speaker 1: see that. And then the other one, WHOOPI Goldberg she
Speaker 1: teased it but sister Act three in development and premier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, is Kathy Nagimie going to be in it too?
Speaker 1: Is Maggie. What's her name is? Professor McGonagall? Whoever the fuck? Oh?
Speaker 1: Max ms Smith, that's right, she said. I mean she's kicking.
Speaker 1: Maybe she'll come back. Damn. Yeah, I know we're like
Speaker 1: will those elderly people also be in? Was sister act
Speaker 1: I for? Why was she she was disguising herself as
Speaker 1: a nun? Correct, Yes, she was on the run. She
Speaker 1: was like the run right from what god generally unsavory characters.
Speaker 1: I feel like it was like my recollection was that
Speaker 1: something happened where like someone she was in a relationship
Speaker 1: with did something illegal, and that she had to be like,
Speaker 1: her identity had to be protected. She didn't do anything,
Speaker 1: but she like was close with someone who did something.
Speaker 1: The classic plot of every great movie, which is your
Speaker 1: living your life as a quirky character until you witness
Speaker 1: a murderer run. That's what it was. She saw her
Speaker 1: boyfriend kill a fucking snitch. That's what it was. I mean, exactly,
Speaker 1: why wasn't called like snitch to act or something? Let
Speaker 1: people know, like this is actually a movie about snitching.
Speaker 1: But yeah, her name Dolores Vancardier. Remember that, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's a perfect character name. Yeah, Alright, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: another quick break and we'll talk a little bit more,
Speaker 1: some more more popular culture. Where was the bab That
Speaker 1: was my question, the Babu Frick spin off? I'm out.
Speaker 1: I'm out. Yeah, I subscribed. They can't handle it. They're
Speaker 1: a right, they can't handle the Babu Frick verse. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll be right back, and we're back. Uh, and have
Speaker 1: y'all seen I don't know if you saw this, but
Speaker 1: over the weekend, Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys dropped
Speaker 1: like a fucking new song together in twenty I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean I'll play a little bit of it for
Speaker 1: you now. It's called let me see what did you
Speaker 1: just call me? Yeah? Right, you already got matches matches,
Speaker 1: and you know what, Let's just play a little bit
Speaker 1: of it, uh and just get our thoughts on the
Speaker 1: other side here. You know, I could see I'm brainstreaming
Speaker 1: my name and it fits up to me. Oh you
Speaker 1: know what, I am a brand between Let's play in
Speaker 1: with matches. Okay, okay, like that drop, I couldn't give
Speaker 1: it to you. We will get hit with a season
Speaker 1: to say, but Britney in playing with my what my matches.
Speaker 1: It's like playing with matches. Yeah, exactly, because we're so
Speaker 1: horny or something. I feel like that's where most songs
Speaker 1: are about, like that. I like this one, especially after
Speaker 1: after the year that Brittany has had. I'm like, she
Speaker 1: deserves a win, she if she. If Brittany is happy
Speaker 1: with the track, then I'm happy with the track. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I okay. Now I'm not saying I don't like this,
Speaker 1: but what would have been nice was something that fully
Speaker 1: leaned into like that early odds late nineties sound like
Speaker 1: that would have probably fucked everybody up. Like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, I don't like, it's not great, but
Speaker 1: it sounds like when we were sixteen or fourteen or
Speaker 1: however old anyone was back then. But like, I feel like,
Speaker 1: but either way, this seems like very up to date.
Speaker 1: You know. It's got that club drop that everybody was
Speaker 1: having a drop alone is just so unfamiliar. So the
Speaker 1: vocals sounded a little wet, like, they sounded a little
Speaker 1: older for what they didn't sound like boys. And I'm
Speaker 1: sensing some computerized vocals have heavy on it. I think
Speaker 1: so again, No, that's no, that's called practice, baby, that's
Speaker 1: I think Brittany is doing the back Street Boys a
Speaker 1: huge favor here because it's like Brittany sound as she's
Speaker 1: like still a contemporary artist. She her like sound and
Speaker 1: image has like evolved over the years, whereas the back
Speaker 1: Street Boys are still very firmly in two thousands. But
Speaker 1: like Brittany, I yeah, I think that was that was
Speaker 1: a good community service thing that Brittany did for the boys.
Speaker 1: They oh, there's no I mean actually unless Brittany was
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm feeling, you know, nostalgic for
Speaker 1: the old days. But it's like it's very clear who's
Speaker 1: doing who the favorite here because that's like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's a telephone that like pop stars just
Speaker 1: pick up and they all are connected to right, like
Speaker 1: like the Tower Puff Girls. Basically who wants to I
Speaker 1: saw I saw the back Step I saw the Backstreet
Speaker 1: Boys in Vegas last year. The brag and uh, they're
Speaker 1: a little they're getting a little crusty. They're getting a
Speaker 1: little crusty getting Listen, did I did I cry? There
Speaker 1: was I did I buy merch? Yes, of course, but
Speaker 1: but they you know, they're gett they're getting maybe a
Speaker 1: little crusty. They're doing skits at their Vegas show. But
Speaker 1: they do skits. They're like, hey, Nick, remember when we
Speaker 1: lived in Florida, and please well it's also in Pearlman.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, where's the lou Pearlman move? Anyways there.
Speaker 1: I could go on about that for days, but it's
Speaker 1: just like the back Street Boys all like kind of
Speaker 1: walking around on stage trying to avoid talking about the
Speaker 1: many crimes Nick Carter is committed over the years. Um,
Speaker 1: So we couldn't even get Aaron Carter in there as
Speaker 1: a sub sucks. It's like, yeah, it's like you're damned
Speaker 1: if you do, and your damned if you don't. With
Speaker 1: these Carter guys. Um. One thing I was looking at
Speaker 1: it was interestingly enough, is the New York Times devoted
Speaker 1: a bit of page space to the trend, the pandemic
Speaker 1: trend of squirrel tables. Um, the squirrel table sort of
Speaker 1: stuff like the squirrel tables. You haven't seen These kinds
Speaker 1: of memes are like not memes, like, but I felt
Speaker 1: like at the very beginning of Lockdown, I was definitely
Speaker 1: seeing these like videos and images of people creating like
Speaker 1: picnic benches for squirrels that they would put on trees.
Speaker 1: Or fences and like just be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: look the squirrels eating at this table I made and
Speaker 1: it's eating sunflower seeds, and people just getting giddy by
Speaker 1: being like I made a cool restaurant for a squirrel. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: kind of cute. This isn't I'm really the only one
Speaker 1: that was tapped into the world was like, this does
Speaker 1: not ring any kind of bells for me. You were, what,
Speaker 1: what's your algorithm? I don't know, man, I think it's
Speaker 1: like it's it's it like modulates between like European soccer,
Speaker 1: NBA weed, like hip hop beats, and then like moments
Speaker 1: that will make you cry because you skipped therapy this week. Um,
Speaker 1: but this one the trend. And so as they're saying,
Speaker 1: they really tried to dial like dial in where the
Speaker 1: origin of this trend was. They said the trend seemed
Speaker 1: to have started in March quote when Rick Kalinowski, an
Speaker 1: unemployed plumber in brent More, Pennsylvania, posted a series of
Speaker 1: pictures of a squirrel feeder in the Facebook group all
Speaker 1: about Squirrels. In one widely shared picture, a squirrel sits
Speaker 1: at the table attached to a fence and grasps peanuts
Speaker 1: in its little hands. Um. Now, just a quick history
Speaker 1: about squirrels, which I didn't know. I just thought there
Speaker 1: were things we have lived with a long time. Apparently,
Speaker 1: like we got very close to like eradicating squirrels from
Speaker 1: cities because people are just like these are crop pests,
Speaker 1: are like their game, Like they're not for fucking hopping
Speaker 1: around our our neighborhoods and things like that. But they
Speaker 1: had a nice rehabilitation in the mid eighteen hundreds, uh,
Speaker 1: in places like Philly and Boston, they began reintroducing squirrels
Speaker 1: to like the urban environments, to quote beautify and enliven
Speaker 1: the urban landscape at a time when American cities were
Speaker 1: growing in geographic extent, uh, population density, and cultural diversity.
Speaker 1: And then once the urban park came along, it was
Speaker 1: Frederick bestowed upon us. Yeah, I mean we all know.
Speaker 1: I mean we all have the tattoo. Um, the world
Speaker 1: is basically once like we have more parks, they really
Speaker 1: began finding their place and like trees and in suburbs
Speaker 1: and in cities. So now cut to like us living
Speaker 1: vicariously through these tiny animals. It sounds like something that
Speaker 1: my my like aunt would post a Facebook and be like, now,
Speaker 1: this is true bipartisanship. There are some things we can
Speaker 1: all agree on. And it's at a squirrel on the
Speaker 1: table makes me laugh and look at him eating today
Speaker 1: my best customer the Loneous Chipmunk, which I think is
Speaker 1: the name of a famous squirrel. This is much kinder
Speaker 1: to the squirrel than some of the YouTube squirrel clicks
Speaker 1: I've gone after, which are people who are unhappy with
Speaker 1: squirrels taking the bird their bird seed. Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: this is a and there are some true hilarious depending
Speaker 1: on what you know, mean um obstacle course aficionados that
Speaker 1: have like really taken it two squirrels because as anyone
Speaker 1: from the Midwest, like myself knows, they will get that
Speaker 1: bird seed right, well, they will get the bird seed well. Going,
Speaker 1: going off this, I want to make a quick YouTube recommendation.
Speaker 1: There's a channel I learned about recently called James Blackwood,
Speaker 1: the Raccoon Whisperer. He's a guy that lives in Nova Nova, Scotia,
Speaker 1: and it's just truly thousands of videos of him feeding
Speaker 1: raccoons peanut butter sandwiches every single night. The raccoons are
Speaker 1: gigantic and they love him, and he has them on
Speaker 1: the schedule, and it's just if you want to see
Speaker 1: a retiree feed like thirty raccoons, is this how grizzly
Speaker 1: man do there's a chan it's so it's the raccoons
Speaker 1: are so because they have fingers and hands and it's
Speaker 1: cute and so that's yeah, there's a whole He has
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand subscribers. Is Werner Hurtz not gonna narrate
Speaker 1: that too? Raccoon Man came to that hung old. He
Speaker 1: uploads twice a day. It's just like and all the
Speaker 1: videos are called like mobbed by Raccoons Tuesday, November three day.
Speaker 1: This guy is a content machine. Yeah, we think we
Speaker 1: really a lot. Well, he's going twice a day, no
Speaker 1: days off with the raccoon content. I will say this,
Speaker 1: like people are I mean, it's nice to see people productive,
Speaker 1: like be productive in their time off at least like
Speaker 1: they're being like I'm dedicate my time at least feeds
Speaker 1: some animals and like poisoning the raccoons or like that.
Speaker 1: But I posted one of the pictures from this article.
Speaker 1: People are making like full on charcouterie boards for squirrels
Speaker 1: and That's where I'm like, look, I get it if
Speaker 1: it's a hobby and helps pass the time. Like, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna judge you. But like I'm looking at that,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I'm too greedy with my food to
Speaker 1: ever put a platter out for an animal who won't
Speaker 1: give a funk about the presentation. I mean, honestly, for
Speaker 1: at that point, I feel like that's people doing it
Speaker 1: more for content than for the animals, which is annoying.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, isn't this funny, And You're like, I
Speaker 1: guess whatever, More like you're no raccoon whisperer, more like
Speaker 1: shark CUTI. Oh, that has to be a fucking Instagram page.
Speaker 1: I'm sure showing the best of people. I want to
Speaker 1: step on. I didn't want to step on Jamie's raccoon men. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't interrupt me when I'm talking about the raccoon whisper.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean credit to all these people. I mean,
Speaker 1: look if if just because we can't dine out doesn't
Speaker 1: mean we can create that experience for our squirrel friends. True. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then one last thing I want to touch on,
Speaker 1: because we were talking about reboots pissing people off. Um, NBC,
Speaker 1: like I can't I can't believe how many like they're
Speaker 1: gonna think they're gonna reboot I carly at this point,
Speaker 1: like everything that's coming back around now, um, and apparently
Speaker 1: Zoro is going to become a series. And I'm like okay,
Speaker 1: but NBC, you know, like they're like, no, let's just
Speaker 1: not just do Zoro, Like let's do Zoro but like
Speaker 1: make a Lady Zoro with Sophia Vergara. And right now
Speaker 1: NBC is developing this contemporary take, contemporary take on the
Speaker 1: classic character with like Robert Rodriguez and his I believe
Speaker 1: his sister are working on like the script. Um now
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, whatever, that could be interesting. It was
Speaker 1: like I'm on word so far, but what's the show about?
Speaker 1: What's this show about? And they say co written by
Speaker 1: brother and sister do a Robert Rebecca Rodriguez and to
Speaker 1: be directed by Rebecca. Zoro centers on Solo Dominguez, an
Speaker 1: underground artist who fights for social justice. As contemporary version
Speaker 1: of the mythical Zoro. Her life is threatened by several
Speaker 1: criminal organizations after she exposes them to have quite literally
Speaker 1: social justice warrior. In the description, I have a feeling
Speaker 1: you're going to draw the ira of shitty Internet people,
Speaker 1: like I mean, like, this show could be good, but
Speaker 1: I love seeing that. I'm like, I can only see
Speaker 1: people like dude a literal social justice warrior come to Yeah.
Speaker 1: I almost feel like that is like that's a really
Speaker 1: frustrating way for the press release to frame it because
Speaker 1: they're just like, I mean, I do believe that that
Speaker 1: happens all the time, where like press releases will be
Speaker 1: formed in a way where they know they're kind of
Speaker 1: bay being the hateful part of the Internet because that
Speaker 1: will get the show coverage. Um, but that's a very
Speaker 1: vile thing to do because it's like who gets the
Speaker 1: abuse from that is like the not the press department.
Speaker 1: It's the stars of the show and the people who
Speaker 1: are writing and creating it, so that ship. I hope
Speaker 1: the show is good. I mean, it's it's I would
Speaker 1: it sounds like a show that I would absolutely watch.
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you what's how do you go?
Speaker 1: I'll envision the pilot of an underground artist. I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to at all the unsuccessful pitches I've had in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, like this this guy put through unsuccessful artists
Speaker 1: social excuse me successful whatever it is, yet underground artist.
Speaker 1: I think underground artific artist is a euphemism for not
Speaker 1: selling any of your works. I just I wish, I
Speaker 1: wish that there was like there there needs, there's like
Speaker 1: such a void in Latin X representation on TV, but
Speaker 1: it's I do I do that. It was like we
Speaker 1: could just give money to latin X creators instead of
Speaker 1: making it like the Algorithm and it reboot and have
Speaker 1: it like that's so many, that's so many additional things.
Speaker 1: But just felt like why are you being like why
Speaker 1: I gotta be about something like letting people create, Like
Speaker 1: give money to marginalized creators and let them make what
Speaker 1: they fucking want, Like that always works out better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if I was at NBC, I'm like, bring me the
Speaker 1: latin X Seinfeld, bring me the Black Seinfeld, bring me
Speaker 1: the Asian Seinfeld, Like we'll get all of these going,
Speaker 1: like because that's really I think the most creative writing
Speaker 1: are coming out of like these small moments that are
Speaker 1: experienced by these groups and elevating them because we know
Speaker 1: the sitcom moments of like white American culture. But it's
Speaker 1: like you can this place got a multi contains multitudes based.
Speaker 1: It's all they're just like fund it and green light it.
Speaker 1: But it's like, yeah, this is a lot of this
Speaker 1: is a lot of buzzy, like Social Justice Warrior, re
Speaker 1: boot old property, famous filmmaker attached, like there's there's so
Speaker 1: many algorithm things that play here. Yeah, if you guys
Speaker 1: could uh reboot a movie right now or or show, um,
Speaker 1: what would you do? What do you want to see
Speaker 1: come back? Because it looks like I mean, the chances
Speaker 1: are that it probably will be rebooted, But is there
Speaker 1: anything specifically that y'all hold in your hearts that you're
Speaker 1: waiting for or would like to see them back? Boy,
Speaker 1: I honestly did. I was excited to hear Tiny Tuns
Speaker 1: was coming back. That was the one I was like, there,
Speaker 1: I I like like kids cartoon reboots work for me
Speaker 1: because it's like, oh, I would love to see a
Speaker 1: less problematic version of that cartoon that I really liked. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know about Orson welles if for Tiny Toons
Speaker 1: to be honest, well, yes that's true. What about you, Michael?
Speaker 1: I think I'm always gonna go with an original over
Speaker 1: a reboot, but um, just because I just feel like
Speaker 1: there are so many original, interesting stories that always get
Speaker 1: pushed off because hey, the networks like Zoro made us
Speaker 1: some money back in, let's just change a couple of
Speaker 1: Zoro things. But um, I don't know if I have
Speaker 1: a great answer for you on that. Yeah, No, I
Speaker 1: mean I think that's fair because for the most part,
Speaker 1: I think I do get more excited for something new
Speaker 1: where I'm like, hey, I've never heard of that, and
Speaker 1: it could be absolute shit, but it's at least it's
Speaker 1: not another season of name whatever fucking show. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm always like, you took a shot at something
Speaker 1: unique and different. Maybe it wasn't executed the right way,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, okay, you created you can right right? Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The thing like reboot culture, it's everything like reboot culture.
Speaker 1: It pisces me off though, because it's like at this point,
Speaker 1: like we're rebooting like B and C Tier County, right,
Speaker 1: Like what is the point in doing it? How is
Speaker 1: that worth anyone's time or energy? And like I feel
Speaker 1: like also, the like success rate of reboots is so low,
Speaker 1: Like I just don't understand. I don't understand it. Usually
Speaker 1: people hate hate when because they're either mad that it
Speaker 1: doesn't suck in the same ways, or they're mad because
Speaker 1: they're like I've seen this on bored of this? You know,
Speaker 1: is there a contractual like do they need to activate
Speaker 1: zoros so then they keep the copyright or something like
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like like is it hidden
Speaker 1: in some time capsule and if they don't use it
Speaker 1: for thirty years, it goes back to the originator. Like
Speaker 1: I'm always wondering, like is there more, some more sinister
Speaker 1: reason that they keep bringing it back up other than
Speaker 1: just I mean, I just can't wait for that Small
Speaker 1: Wonder reboot. Really well, you know what would actually be
Speaker 1: a good reboot is the Jim Henson Dinosaurs series. I
Speaker 1: would like a Dinosaurs reboot. Oh yeah, get DJ Daniel's
Speaker 1: dad back. I'm my uncle was one of the first
Speaker 1: eight d s on that show. And I remember I
Speaker 1: went to the set as a kid and I took
Speaker 1: up a picture there and I brought that ship to school.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was there, I met not the mama, motherfucker,
Speaker 1: Get off of me. That's cool. Yeah, I would want
Speaker 1: I want, I want the baby who you gotta love
Speaker 1: to come back? Bring back that baby. Yeah yeah, Well
Speaker 1: Bill Barr kind of looks like the baby I want
Speaker 1: dinos and diapees. Absolutely, I think that's a great slogan.
Speaker 1: Great great, I know. Yeah, the reboots called dinos and diapees. Well, Michael,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for coming on. Man. Where can people
Speaker 1: find you and follow you and support you and and
Speaker 1: hear more and see more of you? Uh? Thank you?
Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for having me. And uh,
Speaker 1: this is my first one hour special on Comedy Central.
Speaker 1: You can go to Michael Costa dot com, Instagram and
Speaker 1: Twitter is Michael Costa And uh, my dog just had
Speaker 1: his sixth birthday. We gave him an open face bacon sandwich.
Speaker 1: Am I trying to get you as a follower by
Speaker 1: pushing out my picture of my dogs eating a birthday
Speaker 1: a sandwich? I am, That's what I'm Can you described
Speaker 1: the birthday? Just give us a little bit more, just
Speaker 1: because I think you got people out the doors. But
Speaker 1: how do we get him in? Well, we accidentally bought
Speaker 1: gluten free bread and we didn't know how to eat it.
Speaker 1: So I was like, let's cut one piece in half,
Speaker 1: put some bacon on it, and then a candle. So
Speaker 1: he actually has a gluten free bait. And I know
Speaker 1: you were being sarcastic, Miles, but I ran with no question.
Speaker 1: So he has a gluten free piece of bread with
Speaker 1: some bacon on it and a candle. But I blew
Speaker 1: out the candle. I didn't have the dog blew out
Speaker 1: the candle, but you made it, did But you made
Speaker 1: the wish on his behalf. Actually it's a great point
Speaker 1: shit wish. Well, I believe, I believe we we granted
Speaker 1: him his wish, which was I want to open face
Speaker 1: bacon sandwich right now. And let's be fair, dogs can't
Speaker 1: even wrap their head around the concept of a wish
Speaker 1: being granted, so's wasted. Uh. And Michael, what's a tweet
Speaker 1: that you like? Is there an active social media that
Speaker 1: you want to show you? My friend, my friend Tim
Speaker 1: Handling is a funny comedian and he tweeted this a
Speaker 1: few days ago. But I think it's just great. If
Speaker 1: nine eleven happened today, half the country would say it
Speaker 1: was a hoax, and it is. It's so freaking funny
Speaker 1: and also totally unfunny and also true. Right. Yeah, It's
Speaker 1: one of those ones that like you laugh and then
Speaker 1: you hurt inside, Like we watched the airplanes fly into
Speaker 1: the building. And yet there would still be people that
Speaker 1: would say, you know, I don't know, dude. I mean
Speaker 1: to be fair, I think there were some people back
Speaker 1: then who almost were You're like, you can physically go
Speaker 1: there to see you can breathe in the air. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying like I'm not down with conspiracy discussions, but
Speaker 1: I believe those airplanes did go into the building. There
Speaker 1: you go, Jamie, where can people find you and follow you?
Speaker 1: And what's the treat that you like? You can find
Speaker 1: me on Twitter, Jamie to help, Instagram, Jamie christ Superstar.
Speaker 1: A new episode of Walita podcast is coming out or
Speaker 1: did come out this morning? Um, if if you want
Speaker 1: to hear something real, real heavy and depressing, uh, that
Speaker 1: that is the place to go. Uh. And I am
Speaker 1: going to shout out a tweet from Brodie Gupta, who's
Speaker 1: so funny and great at Brodie Gupta, she tweeted this,
Speaker 1: uh recently the screenshot of some asshole messaging her saying
Speaker 1: why are you verified? And she wrote thanks for asking.
Speaker 1: I'm the baby from Charlie bit my finger. She's like
Speaker 1: one of the She's so so underrated on Twitter. She's
Speaker 1: so funny, so go follow her. Nice let's see a tweet,
Speaker 1: I like, I really just like this one tweet because
Speaker 1: it wasn't you know. I'm trying to wean off the Twitter.
Speaker 1: But this one's from Kirby at Death Studs. Uh. And
Speaker 1: they tweet Sam isn't real Okay. I literally saw him
Speaker 1: at the mall um and I agree that's true. Like,
Speaker 1: so what are you gonna? What are you? What are
Speaker 1: you gonna tell that person? You can find me at
Speaker 1: Miles of Gray on Twitter and Instagram and also the
Speaker 1: other podcast I do for twenty Day Fiance talking about
Speaker 1: ninety day Fiance. Uh. And if you want to looking
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Speaker 1: We also got a Facebook fan page and a website
Speaker 1: Daily set guys dot com, where we post the episodes
Speaker 1: and our foot notes. But thank you, uh come with
Speaker 1: that as as well as a song we write out
Speaker 1: on and today I want to go out on this.
Speaker 1: I think Japanese American artist jonah Yano and the song
Speaker 1: is called Delicate and he's like very soulful and um
Speaker 1: really create like instrumentation and arrangement on there. So check
Speaker 1: this out. This is Delicate by jonah Yano. Woking back
Speaker 1: a little bit later with some trends until then, talk
Speaker 1: to you soon later, Bye bye. I could tend to
Speaker 1: God while you're even even if it means stay, what
Speaker 1: don't you stay? I stay? No, I don't like me