Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two seventy one,
Speaker 1: Episode two of Dirt at Least Like Guys Stay production
Speaker 1: of by Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we
Speaker 1: take a deep dive into America share consciousness. And it
Speaker 1: is Wednesday, January eighteen three. You know what time it is?
Speaker 1: National Michigan Day. Okay, Michigan. Yeah, if you're in the glove,
Speaker 1: you don't shout out to you over there the hand
Speaker 1: or hand or the mitten or whatever y'all like in
Speaker 1: your state to a hand? Uh. National Winnie the Pudai,
Speaker 1: National Pecking Duck Day, National Fi Sourist Day, Everyone's favorite dinosaur.
Speaker 1: You are nailing those pronunciations. Yea, there's always it's always
Speaker 1: in an interesting place. Did you see that tweet that
Speaker 1: was like, hey, kids who like learned vocabulary through reading books, like,
Speaker 1: what's the word you epically mispronounced because you'd only interacted
Speaker 1: it in books? I'm curious if you have a word
Speaker 1: like that, because I don't, you know, accrid? I would
Speaker 1: say a crid yeah, And then I was in a
Speaker 1: writer r and yeah, and somebody was like, what did
Speaker 1: you just say? I'm like, you know that a crid
Speaker 1: taste in your mouth, They're like, acrid. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: hold on, holds, could you just could you just repeat
Speaker 1: that real quick what you just said that quietly in
Speaker 1: the back of the room to me, that a crid
Speaker 1: taste in your mouth from the smoke in the I'm
Speaker 1: sure our listeners can tell me all the ship that
Speaker 1: I've mispronounced. Our guest has one. Just go ahead, comfort table.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it was a comfort table. Comfort comfort table
Speaker 1: table for the seat right there. Okay, I like that.
Speaker 1: Um anyway, my bad right back, just a comfort table. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It also suggests a childhood where you were so rarely
Speaker 1: comfortable that you just didn't didn't have any use to
Speaker 1: say that word out loud. You just read about it
Speaker 1: in books, never seen that word. Also, when you when
Speaker 1: your parents don't know how to say a word, you
Speaker 1: don't learned what that word is. Much later. I thought
Speaker 1: it was bullshit. A bowl of ship. Yeah, you're like, okay, yeah, bowl,
Speaker 1: that's a bowl of ship. Miles you said something very
Speaker 1: funny over text. You you instructed an entity to drink
Speaker 1: your ship. Yeah, it made me laugh very don Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just how to do the Laker game. No, it
Speaker 1: had to do the Laker game. So it's nothing high stakes.
Speaker 1: But Jack and I had a face off over the
Speaker 1: weekend the sixer Nackers. But anyway, it's yeah, nothing import
Speaker 1: will nick John Travolta style. I mean, it sounds like
Speaker 1: you want to talk about it. I want to take
Speaker 1: my face off. We'll get to it on maybe another podcast. Anyways,
Speaker 1: my name's Jack O'Brien. A kit. Their plump, their plump,
Speaker 1: their plump. Look at my legs, They're plump, They're plump,
Speaker 1: They're plump like pony kegs. That is courtesy of the
Speaker 1: On the Only Christie Almagucci. Man, just talking about these
Speaker 1: little pony keg legs that I walk around on. And
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 1: Mr Miles. Grab this bullshit. All the grift is get
Speaker 1: a load of this ship. A few times have been
Speaker 1: around that track, so it's probably just gonna happen like that.
Speaker 1: But I ain't no Russia hacked, George. I ain't no
Speaker 1: Russian hacked George. Okay, shout out to Locarni for that
Speaker 1: holiday back girl. George Santos mashh Yeah, I saw an
Speaker 1: article that was like wow, the like cries of appropriation
Speaker 1: ring out in the US, Japan merely shrugs its shoulders,
Speaker 1: probably think of what was going on with that. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Japanese people are not easily offended about cultural appropriation.
Speaker 1: Let me just say, that's just kind of that's just
Speaker 1: kind of the stance I think most Asian people have
Speaker 1: when they're like, oh, y'all talking about us, okay, because
Speaker 1: over here we do it really wrong. That's right. We
Speaker 1: are to be joined in our third seat by a
Speaker 1: hilarious comedian, writer, director, vir real Sensation, the Brilliant, the Townsend. Sorry, sorry,
Speaker 1: do you don't tell me to do it? So I
Speaker 1: always forget about it? But you know what, my name
Speaker 1: is a song in itself. It is indeed beautiful song.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts written about me named after me? Yeah? Wait,
Speaker 1: so come for a table? Bulls bullshit, bullsh bullshit bush
Speaker 1: I just bullshit. How long did you start saying it? Like?
Speaker 1: When was the moment you had to have that reckoning
Speaker 1: with the real world And you're like, I'm sorry, what
Speaker 1: did you just say with with bullshit? Yeah? It was
Speaker 1: after I don't know. I I think I read it
Speaker 1: and then I heard somebody else say it. I heard
Speaker 1: a different adult say it, and I was like, step
Speaker 1: away from the two options and then come back to
Speaker 1: them with fresh eyes. I don't know why bullshit makes
Speaker 1: more sense because it's just specifying a and I'm like
Speaker 1: an animals type of ship. Yeah, a bowl of shit
Speaker 1: at least specifies a quantity. Yeah. And it's like you're
Speaker 1: trying to serve me this ship. Yeah, like you want
Speaker 1: me to eat it from a bowl. Yeah. I called
Speaker 1: bullshit called Yeah, I called asshole. I called bullshit. Oh wow.
Speaker 1: They said it comes from a French word bullshit, bull
Speaker 1: which means like liar or lie, you know, old French,
Speaker 1: from the old French bull meaning fraud or deceit. I
Speaker 1: don't know whatever. It's like one of those things, will
Speaker 1: never know. I just prefer someone be like, no, man,
Speaker 1: that's bullshit. That's not food that the guy just served you.
Speaker 1: That was bullshit from bullshit. That's all right. We're going
Speaker 1: to get to know you a little bit better in
Speaker 1: a moment. First, we're gonna tell her listeners a couple
Speaker 1: of things we're talking about. We're gonna talk about a
Speaker 1: fight that might may or may not have happened in
Speaker 1: the capital back It happened. Reports are it happened between
Speaker 1: Lauren go Gert and MTG. So the MTG is that
Speaker 1: the Marvel tinematic universe. That's exactly one. I knew it.
Speaker 1: I knew it. Yeah, we're big fans here. You always
Speaker 1: got to keep up with the latest installment. The Bloody,
Speaker 1: Bloody Murdogs, Murdochs, the the South Carolina corrupt legal family.
Speaker 1: Decades generations of having power in a small South Carolina
Speaker 1: town and then there's a bunch of murders and deaths
Speaker 1: and that that implicated them, and the trial is starting
Speaker 1: next week. The New Yorker sent a reporter down, which
Speaker 1: meant that I read a New Yorker article, which means
Speaker 1: that I have to share it with everybody. So but
Speaker 1: it's a it's a doozy. So we'll check in with
Speaker 1: with that story. We're gonna talk about there's a new
Speaker 1: Gerard Butler movie over the week end that did kind
Speaker 1: of good, made like fourteen million dollars, even though I
Speaker 1: was not aware of its existence, And we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about just sort of a a long standing trend
Speaker 1: we've seen of like sort of conservatism in the politics
Speaker 1: of his action movies and yeah, all of that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first, sorry, we do like to ask our guests,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history? Oh well, it's
Speaker 1: funny you mentioned reading a single New Yorker article and
Speaker 1: then having to tell everyone about it, because I did
Speaker 1: the same thing. But it was a different New Yorker
Speaker 1: article than the one you read, which meant I couldn't
Speaker 1: read the one that you linked me to because I'm
Speaker 1: not allowed were three articles. Yeah, I was locked out
Speaker 1: of the most private browser window. That doesn't work. You
Speaker 1: have to do some of you can't even reader mode
Speaker 1: or whatever. Oh maybe a reader mode would work. Try that? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm behind on the hacks. I used to used twelve
Speaker 1: foot but that that doesn't work anymore. But I did
Speaker 1: as a result of reading a single New york article.
Speaker 1: Um my last Google search is Kendall Getty website. There
Speaker 1: was an article in The New Yorker about the Getty family,
Speaker 1: which is a super supermassive, very very rich family, very
Speaker 1: big California family, a lot of foundations and places and
Speaker 1: philanthropy things named after them, particularly in the state. And
Speaker 1: the article is about how their money manager had been
Speaker 1: fired and then had filed I think like an improper
Speaker 1: termination lawsuit, and so as a result of the lawsuit,
Speaker 1: all of their tax avoidance strategies are being discussed as
Speaker 1: part of the court record, which is really fun. And
Speaker 1: Kendall Getty is one of the Getty heiress is uh.
Speaker 1: She is a multimedia artist, and I really urge you
Speaker 1: guys to google her and go to her website so
Speaker 1: you can look at her art. Sometimes I think that
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about art, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's good or bad, But it turns out I
Speaker 1: do know. You have some sense. Yeah, Sometimes you go
Speaker 1: to a museum and you go, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: like this one, I don't like this one. I don't
Speaker 1: really know why. I don't know what already is good
Speaker 1: and bad. I just know what I like. But then
Speaker 1: you see some art and you're like, that's bad art.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't have to go to art school
Speaker 1: to to know this art is bad? Was it? Was
Speaker 1: this the same Getty that like had that inexplicable like
Speaker 1: spread like cover story done about him in a magazine
Speaker 1: like in the last year, and people are like, what
Speaker 1: the fun is going on there? Like they're a Getty
Speaker 1: And there was like, oh, that Yeah, yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 1: Getty family has like a lot of airs because J.
Speaker 1: Paul Getty, who was the one that made most of
Speaker 1: the money, had like a ton of children by a
Speaker 1: ton of different mothers and so cut a couple of
Speaker 1: them out of his will. Like, it's very dramatic. The
Speaker 1: article gets into it. It's it's very good. So she's
Speaker 1: like shitty billionaire Bob Marley kind of like You're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: of course you Getty's grants. Every everybody's fucking related to J.
Speaker 1: Paul Getty. Man. Yeah, So like, for example, Kendall Getty's
Speaker 1: Instagram bio includes the phrase bastard princess because she isn't
Speaker 1: a legitimate Getty Air this Game with Thrones or something. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also it's she's just she's in the Democratic Socialists of America.
Speaker 1: It's a great artifer, It's good. It's all about how
Speaker 1: how money managers helped their millennial clients invest in more
Speaker 1: ethically responsible portfolios. Right start one, really good. All the
Speaker 1: millennials have portfolios they're trying to diversify. It's the most
Speaker 1: exciting article about tax evasion that I've ever read. I'll
Speaker 1: say that. Right, there's there's a lot of that that
Speaker 1: that actually ends up being not not really tax evasion,
Speaker 1: but like complicated financial crimes that are just by design
Speaker 1: so complicated that your eyes glaze over two sentences into
Speaker 1: the paragraph where they're describing it. It seems to be
Speaker 1: at the heart of this Murdoch empire. Yeah, it turns
Speaker 1: out that the whole money making money thing is like legal,
Speaker 1: but all of the lawyers that know about it are like,
Speaker 1: we got to do this as much as we can
Speaker 1: before it becomes illegal because once people, once people's eyes
Speaker 1: stopped blazing over and they realize what we're doing, they're
Speaker 1: gonna make it illegal. Yeah. The overall shape of it
Speaker 1: is them stealing money from poor people like that, that
Speaker 1: is what is happening, but also just avoiding taxes, like
Speaker 1: avoiding taxes for generations and generations by passing things down
Speaker 1: in these trusts and pretending that they don't live in
Speaker 1: California so they don't have to pay California property taxes
Speaker 1: even though they do live in California, Like you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's succession ship for sure, right, Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: they even have a funk up named Kendall. That's who Aspirations,
Speaker 1: that's that rules. They made their money though in like
Speaker 1: a really smart way where they just had this brilliant
Speaker 1: idea that nobody thought, oh no, wait, they just found
Speaker 1: a bunch of oil. Yeah, yeah, became you used their
Speaker 1: influence from finding some oil to find all the oil.
Speaker 1: It's called entrepreneurship Jack, Thank you, dude. This one piece
Speaker 1: of art, it's like a deer with like a human
Speaker 1: face on it. I think it is the one that's
Speaker 1: a video called Happy Birthday, Mr. President, which I'll just
Speaker 1: spoil it for you guys, is a shadow play where
Speaker 1: you see the silhouette of a girl sucking a man's
Speaker 1: penis and then he kills her. Wow. Oh, this website
Speaker 1: is a wild What do you think that's implying? Like
Speaker 1: that's deep? Well, it says that it wants to be
Speaker 1: a disruption of visual literacy, and I think that's what
Speaker 1: it is. This is Have you seen that show, um
Speaker 1: Nathan Barley. It was a British comedy that came out
Speaker 1: in the early odds. I've heard of it, but I
Speaker 1: have never watched it. It's like presages all this kind
Speaker 1: of ship where it's like, dude, check out the newest
Speaker 1: art and like this one picture she did is literally
Speaker 1: she clipped out a scene where like Jean Claude van
Speaker 1: Dam is holding something but she like collaged it in
Speaker 1: with like a porno where like and honestly they're not
Speaker 1: the worst. Like this one was just a wild to
Speaker 1: look at. I'm like, why is Jehan Claude van Dam
Speaker 1: doing this to this woman? But it's just the juxtaposition
Speaker 1: of like the things like yep, and this one's my
Speaker 1: two and my two D medium. But anyway, it feels
Speaker 1: like this very like provocative for provocation sake kind of art,
Speaker 1: but it's really like a fourteen year old. It's really
Speaker 1: speaks to me. It speaks to me, you're in our
Speaker 1: fourteen year old yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah, because like this,
Speaker 1: I mean I remember when I was younger, like it
Speaker 1: did not. I cannot understand art, cannot understand poetry because
Speaker 1: I just hadn't lived enough and wasn't in touch enough
Speaker 1: with like meaning of life. So this I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this ship where van Dam has like a sword to
Speaker 1: this naked lady. Yeah, I get that ship's wild. That's
Speaker 1: the point. Speaks to me, what is uh something you
Speaker 1: think is overrated? I mean I'm just looking at this
Speaker 1: website now again. Um, when I searched Kendall Getty, I
Speaker 1: get a lot of Getty image results for Kendall Kendall
Speaker 1: with an E. It's kah Ken Dolly. Who is Ken
Speaker 1: dot dot com? Yeah? I love It's like like, like,
Speaker 1: what is the matrix dot com? When that fucking trailer
Speaker 1: came out? Who is found it? What? What is something
Speaker 1: you think is? Says sorry, she's on her own Instagram
Speaker 1: posting at n why times. Somebody please report on iran.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much Kendall for your support. Okay, what
Speaker 1: is something I think is overrated? Preventative botox? I think
Speaker 1: it's just stop. It should stop. I know you guys
Speaker 1: are on that tip hard. Yeah, the whole getting botox
Speaker 1: at twenty three so that your face never has a
Speaker 1: chance to form wrinkles. Oh like saying like I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna let y'all see some wrinkles on this fucking
Speaker 1: face kind of ship. Oh okay, Yeah, it's it's really weird.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of like teens. I mean literally
Speaker 1: they're like nineteen on TikTok and they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like one of those memes where they're like everybody's saying,
Speaker 1: I'm crazy me getting preventative botox at nineteen, and like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it looks weird. It looks weird. Everyone
Speaker 1: can tell it's good. Getting wrinkles is fine, aging is okay,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, don't worry. So what your foreheads you know,
Speaker 1: look like Kylo Ren's mask In a few years, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get my four to look like that Geory
Speaker 1: division covered in four D like Kendall, like Kendall Getty's art.
Speaker 1: Did you see under the four D sc art? I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: just videos, I know, I'm like that ain't the fourth dimension?
Speaker 1: Ken art? Whatever? Anyway, smells some oranges while you're looking
Speaker 1: at it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that's smelling while
Speaker 1: looking at art. Yeah. This the you know, it's true,
Speaker 1: like the whole thing with your face being frozen, like
Speaker 1: it affects your ability to emote, Like yeah, the person
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, like Aubrey Plaza is really playing
Speaker 1: this whole character dead pan and white lotos and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh nah, it's frozen. Get ready, get ready,
Speaker 1: everybody's about to be that dead pan. I recognize it
Speaker 1: as dead pan anymore. People are always talking about like
Speaker 1: the dead eye look, and it's like it's because your
Speaker 1: face is frozen right to like the person who just
Speaker 1: doesn't do the Like the way they were emoting, I've
Speaker 1: never seen anything like this in my life. They were
Speaker 1: trying to express emotion, but everything around them made it.
Speaker 1: It was so restrained. You know, that's gonna be the
Speaker 1: word you hear a lot when it comes to performances. Restrained,
Speaker 1: so very, very subtle. The subtlety anger, very the subtlety
Speaker 1: of their anger was very clear. But studies have found
Speaker 1: and I don't like a lot of studies that came
Speaker 1: out in the two thousands that you know, we're like whoa,
Speaker 1: and you know I I wrote about them in correct,
Speaker 1: and then you know, I probably need to do some
Speaker 1: re research on that. But like there were studies that
Speaker 1: found that people who do botox report feeling less emotions
Speaker 1: because they can't move their face, and like, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to go down the slippery slope to
Speaker 1: like just smile and you'll feel better. But it does
Speaker 1: seem like there is a two way street that happens
Speaker 1: between the face and the brain. And so like if
Speaker 1: you get botox, you just like feel dead. If your
Speaker 1: face is not able to make the same expressions that
Speaker 1: it normally would via emotion. That's depressing. There was even
Speaker 1: the thing that they can't tell that I'm feeling depressed
Speaker 1: but it's depressed. Yeah that really hits sorrow. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you played it really subtle, So shout out to you.
Speaker 1: I remember, like I think we even talked about on
Speaker 1: the show about how like some like doctors are saying
Speaker 1: like if you go too hard on that, like you're
Speaker 1: like like parent infant come nication skills also begin Like
Speaker 1: that also looked like babies are like, oh yeah, this
Speaker 1: motherfunction is not impressed at all. Facial expressions are like
Speaker 1: pretty important to our communication as a species, like extremely,
Speaker 1: extremely important. And you know, it's kind of a it's
Speaker 1: kind of a hack joke of like somebody getting too
Speaker 1: much botox and can't make a facial expression, but honestly,
Speaker 1: it's fucking terrifying because yeah, babies learn to make facial
Speaker 1: expressions because they see you make facial expressions. And that's
Speaker 1: why it's important to smile at babies so that they
Speaker 1: can smile, and why like them, smiling is a really
Speaker 1: important developmental milestone, and like if babies don't make facial expressions.
Speaker 1: It's like a potential sign that they might be autistic.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like it's a it's an important thing
Speaker 1: to be able to do, and like autistic children are
Speaker 1: taught facial expressions and how to read facial expresions. Like
Speaker 1: that's how important it is. It's like if you don't
Speaker 1: instinctively understand it, it's important enough that you have to
Speaker 1: learn it. I don't know why I have to explain
Speaker 1: that facial expressions are important. Is something that it's just
Speaker 1: not even like factored into the equation of whether or
Speaker 1: not to get botox as opposed to like wrinkles that
Speaker 1: only somebody who is staring at themselves in the mirror
Speaker 1: for minutes straight. Well, now that's why they got levels
Speaker 1: to it, you know what I mean, Like they dilute it,
Speaker 1: you know, they get the watercolor. I heard my homebreaths
Speaker 1: talking about that one. It's like, yeah, just a little
Speaker 1: bit all over, so you still got a little control.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, what they call it? Like I
Speaker 1: think they I think they water it down, like it's
Speaker 1: fucking bass, like they're cutting a crack or some ship.
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, it's just watered down. A little bit
Speaker 1: and then it gives a little more of a natural look.
Speaker 1: But anyway, you know, to each their own, because I know,
Speaker 1: I mean I remember my dad, Well, he's like he
Speaker 1: had headaches or some ship and got it, but that
Speaker 1: it didn't work. Yeah, it's an actual medical treatment that
Speaker 1: works for some things. But then you know the it's
Speaker 1: really useful. Yeah yeah, I still got time. All right,
Speaker 1: what if something you think is underrated? I have so
Speaker 1: many more underrated than overrated overall. I'm just a big appreciator.
Speaker 1: I okay, So before December thirty one, all three rush
Speaker 1: hours around Netflix, Um, I watched them in a row,
Speaker 1: and I do think they're underrated. I would love to
Speaker 1: talk about them. I think Samin no Strat is underrated,
Speaker 1: even though she's extremely she's she's gotten a lot of
Speaker 1: praise you in the James Spirit a word, but I
Speaker 1: still think she's underrated. I think people don't appreciate her enough.
Speaker 1: This woman is the Juliet Child of the twenties. And
Speaker 1: then the last thing that I think is underrated is
Speaker 1: rain catchment. We got rain barrels where I live, and
Speaker 1: they filled up really quickly. And now I'm obsessed with
Speaker 1: how much rain catchment we could be doing on a
Speaker 1: municipal scale. And you know, I live in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: It's a very dry place. We have a very low
Speaker 1: level of rainfall, and we have a lot of water problems.
Speaker 1: And now I'm like water rich, and I'm going mad
Speaker 1: with power with all the water I have. You're like,
Speaker 1: look at this, sister, and I bill just slapping my barrels,
Speaker 1: Like look at nest feel that listen to that ball
Speaker 1: And when I turn on this pigot and it sprays out,
Speaker 1: it just laughed maniacally. Yeah, it's amazing. It's it's really
Speaker 1: mind blowing when you've lived in a place like you know,
Speaker 1: Southern California for a long time and you're used to
Speaker 1: thinking of water is an extremely precious resource, which it is.
Speaker 1: You know, if I lived in a rainier place, perhaps
Speaker 1: I wouldn't worry so much. But you know, you're like water,
Speaker 1: it's all it's so expensive, and I gotta get it
Speaker 1: from the water company and then it's just falling out
Speaker 1: of the sky and you're like, I could put it
Speaker 1: in this barrel. Yeah, So how does the catchment system work?
Speaker 1: Like you is it just a barrel that sits out
Speaker 1: and the rain that happens to fall in it, or
Speaker 1: is there like some collecting mechanism. It's the downspout, you
Speaker 1: know how like your roof has gutters, and the gutters
Speaker 1: feed into down spouts and then water just goes out there.
Speaker 1: You just connect the down spout to a barrel to
Speaker 1: the top, and like there's different ways of doing it.
Speaker 1: You can have, Like if you have an open top barrel,
Speaker 1: then of course once the rain's over, you gotta seal
Speaker 1: it so that bugs don't breed inside. But the kind
Speaker 1: that we got it was like a closed system. So
Speaker 1: it just goes from the barrel I'm sorry, from the
Speaker 1: downspout into the barrel and it's all sealed and then
Speaker 1: you just turn on this bigot when you want it.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's so cool. And now wherever I go,
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about the catchment possibilities and large buildings
Speaker 1: and paved areas and I'm like looking at the gutters
Speaker 1: and all of the all of the runoff that we
Speaker 1: get in l A just go straight to the ocean,
Speaker 1: which you know, and it seems like something they should address.
Speaker 1: We're talking about that last week that we are a
Speaker 1: place that is like chronically out of water, and then
Speaker 1: we have this one huge downpour every six months and
Speaker 1: we were just like, oh man, that water in a month.
Speaker 1: Yeah well yeah, well I think that's the other part.
Speaker 1: Two is like even locally right like in my yard,
Speaker 1: like I dug a swale to like basically have more
Speaker 1: ways for the water to re enter the like the
Speaker 1: ground because grass that ship ain't doing it, So I
Speaker 1: put a swale in. I'm like, because I think that's
Speaker 1: one way I've been dealing with a lot of my
Speaker 1: anxiety of climate and ship is like fun. Like part
Speaker 1: of me is like, man, why the fund do I
Speaker 1: gotta do this ship? Because all these motherfucker's that they
Speaker 1: fucking Exxon who knew this ship for decades. But I'm like, God,
Speaker 1: damn it, I guess I gotta do this ship because
Speaker 1: they won't. But it feels good because in a way,
Speaker 1: that's a really beneficial like they're really trying to encourage
Speaker 1: that more in l A, especially because too maybe have
Speaker 1: grass lawns and you could actually be doing ship to
Speaker 1: like when we have rain like that, you could feed
Speaker 1: that water back into the ground and also like native
Speaker 1: like rewilding ship because you look at all the last
Speaker 1: of like like I'm sorry, the loss of like biomass
Speaker 1: and the insects and things like that. It's as easy
Speaker 1: as like taking your like people's vanity plants that they
Speaker 1: put in their yards and just putting back local fucking
Speaker 1: just ship that grows, that grows here. Yeah, And it's
Speaker 1: so that's the thing. It's so much easier to take
Speaker 1: care of it so much. You throw seeds on the
Speaker 1: ground before it rains, and then boom, like a month later,
Speaker 1: you got flowers. All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back to talk Lauren, Marjorie and all
Speaker 1: sorts of ship. And we're back. And so yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the tone, Chrismael McCarthy. Lauren and Marjorie are fighting in
Speaker 1: the bathroom. That's what happened a couple of weeks ago, apparently.
Speaker 1: And like for all the ship talking we do about
Speaker 1: our elected officials in Washington, it's nice to get the
Speaker 1: occasional reminder that we aren't wrong and that a bunch
Speaker 1: of malformed eagle ego freaks do in fact make up
Speaker 1: the majority of Congress. But the latest gusts is it's
Speaker 1: quite literally out of the capital bathrooms where reports are
Speaker 1: emerging of a friendship ending fight, although it's debatable the
Speaker 1: whether or not these two people were friends. But between Lowen,
Speaker 1: I said, loan, hold on, hold on, let me get
Speaker 1: into my sleepover position where I hold into my ear
Speaker 1: and I kicked my feet behind me. Yeah, exactly, Hold one,
Speaker 1: you're some mothers boards that rhyme with Corey story allegory anyway,
Speaker 1: shout up Simpson's reference. Um, but this latest gossip right
Speaker 1: there in the bathroom, it's Lauren Goldgert versus major league
Speaker 1: tainted fiend and they had to face off. And look
Speaker 1: the way this even works. Again, I'm not even sure
Speaker 1: these people even have a functional understanding of what a
Speaker 1: friendship is. But at the very least they will not
Speaker 1: be sharing clan robes after this bust up. I will,
Speaker 1: I can say this. So the showdown happened as the
Speaker 1: speakership vote kicked off and McCarthy was taken more else
Speaker 1: than a drug dealer who's plug is in Canari boom,
Speaker 1: please please bomb drop that Did I do that? Right?
Speaker 1: In New York hip hop? Thank you so much? You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Take the elder canars anyway. Uh So,
Speaker 1: Margie Taylor Green Confrontedlauren in the bathroom, and the exchange
Speaker 1: goes as follows, based on quotes from the people that
Speaker 1: reported this in the Daily Beast. First, Margie Taylor Green
Speaker 1: comes up, apparently blows out of a bathroom stall like
Speaker 1: a fucking villain, and it's like, so, quote, you were
Speaker 1: okay taking millions of dollars from McCarthy, but you refused
Speaker 1: to vote for him for Speaker Lauren. Lauren turns around,
Speaker 1: don't be ugly, and then allegedly, according to the witnesses
Speaker 1: that were there, quote ran out like a schoolgirl. Wait,
Speaker 1: there are other people in the bathroom. Yes, one was
Speaker 1: represented with Debbie Dingle from Massachusetts, Shadow Michigan, from Michigan.
Speaker 1: She's a Democrat. But she when they asked her, like, yo,
Speaker 1: were you in there, And she's like, look, what happens
Speaker 1: in the bathroom stays in the bathroom. She kept the
Speaker 1: G code. She said, that's where we go to handle
Speaker 1: ship in the bathroom like a public high school. Like
Speaker 1: now asked me off the record, as off the record,
Speaker 1: she ran out like a little girl. She may have
Speaker 1: been the source for this story, but yeah, this is
Speaker 1: like apparently this has been brewing for years which makes
Speaker 1: sense because they're both like the same version of like
Speaker 1: a guano brained racist whose like reality is formed by
Speaker 1: Facebook ship posts. But I think what the the problem
Speaker 1: was there could only be one, you know, like just
Speaker 1: completely out there right wing ethno nationalists spokesperson. Well, you
Speaker 1: always hate the person who's most like you, you know,
Speaker 1: right right, Yeah, And on one side you had tough
Speaker 1: Marge and then you had cute gun gun in the
Speaker 1: form of Loran Lauren go Gert And and I guess
Speaker 1: it makes sense that it came to a head there.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people are still trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what the millions of dollars comment was because they're like,
Speaker 1: hold on, like, was Kevin McCarthy's pack sending Lauren Bobert money?
Speaker 1: They couldn't quite, it doesn't matter, But it's just wild
Speaker 1: because the GOP is now entering like the kids being
Speaker 1: banished from the cafeteria so they have to eat their
Speaker 1: lunch in the library now phase yeah, which if we
Speaker 1: remember that is the first cancel culture when when too
Speaker 1: much drama you get banished, when you lose your social
Speaker 1: cash like in high school, and they're like, you're like, yo,
Speaker 1: they don't eat with them. Now they eat with them.
Speaker 1: Now you're like canceled. I think the first cancel culture
Speaker 1: is the time out. Yeah truly, Yeah, I guess. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you're little, you don't share, you get canceled. Yeahs
Speaker 1: line reads like it was scripted ahead of time and
Speaker 1: practice like just the way taking millions of dollars, So
Speaker 1: right exactly, door flies open to like, come on, this
Speaker 1: is true, and yet this is true the thing that
Speaker 1: people say all the time, and it's very gossip girl.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. I love it, but ran out like a
Speaker 1: little school girl. So it's getting it's getting ugly over there.
Speaker 1: But I would love to hear more reports of what
Speaker 1: goes on in the congressional bathrooms. Males included, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: Donald just did an absolute paint job in the national bathroom.
Speaker 1: They're like, dude, have you ever piste? Next to Lindsey
Speaker 1: Graham at the urinal Dude, it's like he like he's
Speaker 1: given himself pep talks like his flows all week. Dude.
Speaker 1: It's so awkward, and then I feel bad that I'm
Speaker 1: being all normal and then he gets all just down
Speaker 1: and out next to me. See, this is what people
Speaker 1: used to do before Twitter is just be mean to
Speaker 1: each other in the bathroom. Yeah, and then right about
Speaker 1: it literally on the bathroom wall. Yeah, and then everybody
Speaker 1: would be like, did you hear what happened in the bathroom? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did you hear? He has a weak stream? That is
Speaker 1: one of the worst. It's like when you're peeing next
Speaker 1: to a usually an older person and it's just evidently
Speaker 1: very painful. That's like the that's like one of the
Speaker 1: first moments you have about your mortality, I think as
Speaker 1: a man entering the workforce, because like I remember one
Speaker 1: of my first like big office jobs were like you
Speaker 1: interacted with like one of the higher ups who's like
Speaker 1: seventy five, and then you both are in the bathroom
Speaker 1: and like I'm over here and be like and then
Speaker 1: my man's over here, like fucking the Green mile like
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks. Yeah, Like it's comflict. Sounds like a trap song.
Speaker 1: It's like that a lot of breath happening. They've like
Speaker 1: discovered Kundalini yoga, like just having to piss all the time,
Speaker 1: and it became I remember this one job I had
Speaker 1: where Sidney Stones. You're like, whoa kidney Stones? But yeah,
Speaker 1: I just look, it's it's the passage of time and
Speaker 1: it comes from us all. But anyway, yeah, hey, good
Speaker 1: for you. Anyway, guys, get your prostates checked. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the Murdocks. We we checked into this,
Speaker 1: like I thought it was murder all. Murd All is
Speaker 1: what it looks like, should be pretty for this is
Speaker 1: an example of this. I was saying it wrong the
Speaker 1: New Yorker. I don't know what paragraph said Murdoch. And
Speaker 1: this will be the first time I've been pronouncing their
Speaker 1: names correctly, and I apologize. I should have put more
Speaker 1: respect on your name, the Murdochs. So this is a
Speaker 1: story that's been kind of had our attention and drips
Speaker 1: and drabs, going back to old people pissing as the
Speaker 1: as the details kind of leaked out. But the so
Speaker 1: so the New Yorker went down because the trial of
Speaker 1: Alex Murdoch, the sort of patriarch and main criminal defendant
Speaker 1: in this thing, is about to start. So basically, they
Speaker 1: they were just like running this town. They like they
Speaker 1: were the most powerful attorneys, they were connected to all
Speaker 1: of the most powerful judges, all of the law enforcement
Speaker 1: kind of answered to them. The thing that kicked it
Speaker 1: all off, their son got really runk, which was kind
Speaker 1: of what he was known for, just always being hammered,
Speaker 1: got really drunk and crashed a boat into a bridge
Speaker 1: with a bunch of people on it, and it resulted
Speaker 1: in the death of a young girl. Sounds like a
Speaker 1: Labor day crime. I I don't remember. It was like
Speaker 1: a few years back. It was impossible to say, sorry,
Speaker 1: what day was? No, it's it's in the article. I
Speaker 1: just didn't write it down. So they hire an attorney
Speaker 1: for him by the name of Dick harput Leon. And
Speaker 1: it turns out Dick harput Leon is a powerful state senator,
Speaker 1: a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: And I can't emphasize this enough. His named Dick harput Leon.
Speaker 1: And so he comes in it's looking like he's gonna
Speaker 1: shoot holes in the case and like, get this dude off.
Speaker 1: And then suddenly that that young man, the chronically drunk
Speaker 1: son of this huge, powerful family and his mom are
Speaker 1: murdered in on the night of June seven. They're they're
Speaker 1: found dead outside the kennels on their seventeen acre hunting estate.
Speaker 1: And then sorry, d d seventeen hundred acre. Sorry, sorry,
Speaker 1: I was not in my Murdoch mindset Jack exactly. The
Speaker 1: people will be able to hear them scream, Oh you
Speaker 1: only to have a fifteen second head start. No come,
Speaker 1: that's just that's just poor form, that's non sporting. Three
Speaker 1: months later, Alex so Alex was the one who found
Speaker 1: his son and wife and called nine on one. Three
Speaker 1: months later, he calls nine one one again, telling the
Speaker 1: dispatcher he'd been shot in the head by a stranger
Speaker 1: while changing a flat tire on his car. And then
Speaker 1: people quickly realized, like an eyewitnesses like, a looked really
Speaker 1: weird when I drove by, Like it looked like a
Speaker 1: set up. Quick quickly it becomes evident that he had
Speaker 1: someone like shoot him, but nobody can even like find
Speaker 1: the wound, so he like it might have just been that.
Speaker 1: He like asked the local law enforcement to like say
Speaker 1: he got shot. Oh so he said he got Wait
Speaker 1: I remember this right, because then he was like, I'm
Speaker 1: on opioids, man, that's what's going on. But he didn't
Speaker 1: actually even get shot in the head. He showed up
Speaker 1: in court two weeks later and he there was no
Speaker 1: evident wound. There are a lot of other body parts
Speaker 1: you could pretend to be shot in right, or just
Speaker 1: take a real one and be like, I'll just just
Speaker 1: get in the muscle, come on, let's go. But instead
Speaker 1: he did a fake hedge, come on, Alex, let's go.
Speaker 1: And and so the his like ne'er do well cousin Eddie,
Speaker 1: who was supposedly the person who shot him, according to Alex,
Speaker 1: like because he paid him too. So Alex basically went
Speaker 1: with the like, hey man, I'm on a lot of opioids,
Speaker 1: Like I need I needed the money for opioids. When
Speaker 1: the reporter asked harput le In about the fact that
Speaker 1: Alex showed up for a bond hearing with no sign
Speaker 1: of injury to his head two weeks after the incident,
Speaker 1: harput Leon said, good hair. That was his explanation. So
Speaker 1: these people just like don't give a fuck. What is
Speaker 1: that so fucking I think a head of hair that
Speaker 1: you couldn't see a bullet wound in his head? God, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's something wrong with Herputleian. Yeah, well you were drunk.
Speaker 1: Incredibly powerful, the most powerful harput lean in the galaxy.
Speaker 1: He's the most like people say, he's the most powerful
Speaker 1: person in South Carolina. How do you get away with
Speaker 1: like becoming that powerful and having the name harput Lean.
Speaker 1: I don't know it rings maybe it helps, maybe like
Speaker 1: in that likes from the planet Harputley. Which is so
Speaker 1: wild though that the most powerful Armenian American in this
Speaker 1: country isn't a Kardashian, it's this motherfucker Harputlean. He was like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I said, my client got shot in the head. He
Speaker 1: fucking did it fully, and I'm still banging out here,
Speaker 1: Like why so the two new cases crop up, like
Speaker 1: now that people are like looking at this, they start
Speaker 1: to assume that Alex was involved in the murder of
Speaker 1: his son and his wife, and in fact, now he
Speaker 1: is accused of being the sole gunman in the murder
Speaker 1: of his son and wife. And also two new cases
Speaker 1: have cropped up that were people who died on their property.
Speaker 1: That it's sucks, it's really suspicious. Like there's this guy,
Speaker 1: Steven Smith, who had been found dead in the middle
Speaker 1: of a road near their seventeen acre hunting a state
Speaker 1: with a serious head injury. Superficial appearances suggested he'd run
Speaker 1: out of gas, begun walking home the accidentally hit by
Speaker 1: a vehicle, except there was no evidence of a hit
Speaker 1: and run or like any vehicle. There was no vehicle debris,
Speaker 1: kid marks, and then people are like, the rumor starts
Speaker 1: to spread that he was murdered by Paul and Buster
Speaker 1: the the oldest of the scions of this Paul. Paul
Speaker 1: is the younger one who would eventually be murdered. And
Speaker 1: but that is like the official state corner comes back
Speaker 1: and is like or or no, wait, it's the official,
Speaker 1: it's what. So some official comes back and he's like,
Speaker 1: he was hit by a car. Not nothing to see here,
Speaker 1: there's a normal collar, leave it alone. And so no,
Speaker 1: no murdac, No murdocks were ever questioned in that one.
Speaker 1: But there's like some rumor that Smith was gay and
Speaker 1: his name was linked to Busters and the gossip mill
Speaker 1: or former high school classmates, and so it was like
Speaker 1: done to cover up any homosexual activity by Buster. I
Speaker 1: can't believe there's a real Buster in this tale of
Speaker 1: familial financial I know, it's it's wild. Uh. Then there
Speaker 1: was a housekeeper who died in the house and they
Speaker 1: used they basically he then reached out to her sons
Speaker 1: and was like, hey, you could sue me for five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars and then I will get collect the payment
Speaker 1: for you and pay you back. And the sons were like, okay,
Speaker 1: we're you know, we don't have any money and we
Speaker 1: are about to be evicted from our our mobile home.
Speaker 1: So they agreed to that. I never saw a penny.
Speaker 1: And like, as the local reporters were kind of going
Speaker 1: through all this ship, they discovered that he had in
Speaker 1: fact collected the five hundred thousand dollars Alex Murdoch and
Speaker 1: just like took it and didn't pay the children of
Speaker 1: the housekeeper who died on their property. And so that
Speaker 1: then leads to them being like and in fact, that
Speaker 1: is really the only way this guy ever made money,
Speaker 1: Like that's all he did. Was his law firm basically
Speaker 1: was like really good at suing people for like that
Speaker 1: was kind of the main industry and that part of
Speaker 1: town because like all the factories that closed and you know,
Speaker 1: just capitalism, capitalism, capitalism all over the place, Like they
Speaker 1: had there was a bunch of farming that happened that
Speaker 1: just had no long term respect for the land and
Speaker 1: it like lead shout of all its minerals, and like
Speaker 1: so the place is just the only the only industry
Speaker 1: is this law firm suing people essentially, And then taking
Speaker 1: their settlement money and then he would find ways to
Speaker 1: siphon off settlement money. It's a tail as old as time.
Speaker 1: Jack Tom Girardi was the Real Housewives taught us all
Speaker 1: about this reasonably with another guy who was like the
Speaker 1: He's like, oh man, these people blew up in a
Speaker 1: gas explosion the Bay Area. I'm also going to keep
Speaker 1: the money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like down and like
Speaker 1: they talked about how it is still like a big
Speaker 1: industry in South Carolina. Like that's how the laws are
Speaker 1: set up, is that they will basically treat these settlement
Speaker 1: payments like you know, cash payday loans, and they basically
Speaker 1: take advantage of the fact that the people who are
Speaker 1: getting these settlements need the money, and they're like, here,
Speaker 1: we'll pay you thirty percent of that now and then
Speaker 1: we get the rest like as it comes out later
Speaker 1: on down the road. And that's on the books. That's
Speaker 1: not even like against the law and what this guy
Speaker 1: he can do whatever he wants because the Republicans are
Speaker 1: protecting them. No, no, no no. So we also get
Speaker 1: this interesting detail. Alex's attorney, still harput Lean as he's
Speaker 1: facing murder trial, is super well connected. Harput le In,
Speaker 1: a former chair of the State Democratic Party, has talked
Speaker 1: of playing golf with President Joe Biden and his wife,
Speaker 1: was recently made US Ambassador to Slovenia. Has a great
Speaker 1: golf that O Biden Jack Right, I'm serious. We've all
Speaker 1: played golf with Joe. Yeah, he doesn't remember it, but
Speaker 1: I do. Yeah, but you can say it, and he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to admit that he doesn't remember, so he'll
Speaker 1: always say yes. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, how you
Speaker 1: been see I told you Wow, So Joe Byron. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: it's just it's wild again. No matter where you can,
Speaker 1: you get powerful like this, It's the game is the same.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, man, there's rules for us, but if
Speaker 1: you know enough, people really can do whatever funk you want.
Speaker 1: I said Alex got shot in the head, bro he didn't. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm still cooking out here, Like is this guy in
Speaker 1: trouble at all? Or is he actually still the attorney
Speaker 1: in this guy's because you said Alex Murdoch's trial is
Speaker 1: starting now or like he's starting in the twenty three
Speaker 1: of January and harpud Leian is his attorney And that's
Speaker 1: just the way it is, Like the thing that I
Speaker 1: was talking about, like that there's something called factoring. That's
Speaker 1: that's the practice of like basically lending people money or
Speaker 1: like taking people's settlement payments, are siphoning it off, and
Speaker 1: it's all just it's all just you know, the most
Speaker 1: immoral use of money to make money, as you said earlier, sorry,
Speaker 1: Like that's just they use the fact that they have
Speaker 1: a ton of money to take advantage of people who
Speaker 1: aren't capable, don't have like the massive staff to understand
Speaker 1: all the legalities and like business complexities that they're using
Speaker 1: to take away their money. And it's that that is
Speaker 1: the US economy, Like it's it's not isolated. Is we
Speaker 1: have way too many fucking fancy words for stealing from
Speaker 1: board people. This part is really amazing. Factoring companies can
Speaker 1: offer cash upfront to victims in exchange for part or
Speaker 1: all of their settlements at an average rates on the dollar. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In one case, judge, have a lot of company is
Speaker 1: to buy a young woman's entire settlement in a series
Speaker 1: of deals culminating in the purchase of her remaining trench
Speaker 1: for about ten cents on the dollar. The woman had
Speaker 1: suffered brain damage and a train collision at the age
Speaker 1: of twelve, and the settlement was intended to support her
Speaker 1: for the rest of her life. A retired judge dryly
Speaker 1: underscored the state's tolerance of such practices by saying, we're
Speaker 1: all entitled to make stupid mistakes. Oh okay, so there's
Speaker 1: no such thing. There's no such thing as predators. Only stupid,
Speaker 1: stupid idiots that make mistakes, all right, thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: stupid idiots with their injuries settlements in their home. And
Speaker 1: there was a t V I when you were twelve
Speaker 1: years old. Come on, who makes a deal like that?
Speaker 1: Like what where is the MP? Like, I mean there is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, why would you take out this
Speaker 1: home one when you knew you couldn't afford it? Because
Speaker 1: I need a home, right, you idiot? Who would give
Speaker 1: that to you? You? You encouraged me, You said this
Speaker 1: was the one to take. This is the way I
Speaker 1: was going to realize my dreams. You fucking targeted me.
Speaker 1: It's just a bunch of like people, privileged people like
Speaker 1: golfing together and you know, let letting each other do
Speaker 1: this ship. And when Alex Murdoc like, well, we'll update
Speaker 1: you guys. As the case unfolds. But when he appeared
Speaker 1: for like the before the trial, like there's a painting
Speaker 1: of his grandfather in the back of the courthouse, Like
Speaker 1: I love the South. Yeah, well, I don't even think
Speaker 1: it's just the South, Like I think this it's not
Speaker 1: just the sound, but I think I think the South
Speaker 1: is one is one place in America where a lot
Speaker 1: of the generational like dynastic generations have stayed in one place.
Speaker 1: You know. Also this also really makes me think of
Speaker 1: you know that the no one wants to work anymore thing,
Speaker 1: And it's like, yeah, because we found out that the
Speaker 1: work that you were doing was just stealing from poor people,
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, I don't really want to do that.
Speaker 1: So you got all of this from just stealing? Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not. Yeah. Yeah. It's like you become
Speaker 1: I mean, who becomes a lawyer, and then it's like, well,
Speaker 1: can't wait to spend the rest of my life sucking
Speaker 1: the blood out of everybody around me. But the reporter
Speaker 1: is like still, They're like I just can't get my
Speaker 1: mind around this person like killing their son. It just
Speaker 1: seems so far fetched because like he everything up to
Speaker 1: that point would have suggested that he was, you know,
Speaker 1: doing everything, like using the machinations of his power to
Speaker 1: protect this kid, and like it just seems it, but
Speaker 1: I feel like they're not taking into account, like what
Speaker 1: addiction can do to your brain and the fact that
Speaker 1: like on a broad scale, you know, you you have
Speaker 1: these people who are making all this money and you
Speaker 1: know just completely immorally have no like no any social currency,
Speaker 1: are like friends to to speak of, there nothing, yeah,
Speaker 1: produce nothing. And then they are at the top and
Speaker 1: they're like and then you can buy all the drugs
Speaker 1: that give you the brain chemical that is produced by
Speaker 1: the human interaction that we're that we've replaced with these
Speaker 1: capitalist machinations, and so like it actually makes perfect sense
Speaker 1: to me that this person who had replaced who would
Speaker 1: like become drug addicted as at this point where they
Speaker 1: were just like nihilistically stealing from everyone and knew they
Speaker 1: couldn't be caught, that they would get to that point,
Speaker 1: because that's that's kind of what happens, is just completely
Speaker 1: alter your brain chemicals to the point that you're kind
Speaker 1: of inhuman. And that's like kind of the whole complete
Speaker 1: system that we've found is like you you have a
Speaker 1: system that completely siphons the humanity out of everything, and
Speaker 1: then your reward for that is like drugs that give
Speaker 1: you the brain chemicals that that you used to get
Speaker 1: from interacting with people like going. It sounds like a
Speaker 1: perfect system to me. Yeah, perfectly self contained system. Sign
Speaker 1: us up. Yeah, it's regenerative. Anyways, it's a it's worth
Speaker 1: of read. We'll link off to it in the footnotes,
Speaker 1: and we will keep you guys updated as the trial unfolds.
Speaker 1: He's gonna walk Jack's see over under on. It's funny
Speaker 1: the reporters, like I was expecting, everyone was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's this good old boy. You dropped him in any
Speaker 1: southern town, he'd just like come off as just one
Speaker 1: of the guys. He'd be fine. And then like he
Speaker 1: walks in and he's just like tall guy who looks
Speaker 1: like he just like stepped off of a yacht, and
Speaker 1: it's just like that that's who it is. He's and
Speaker 1: he's in a courtroom again with a painting of his
Speaker 1: grandfather in the back of it. You think he walks
Speaker 1: in and kisses his hand and then goes and then
Speaker 1: touches it to the painting, goes, that's my Grandpa, my grandpa,
Speaker 1: love you grand grand love you. Game game. All right,
Speaker 1: let's say you a quick break. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: and we're back, and so is Gerard Butler. Jerry. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So last weekend, so the release of Plane, which is
Speaker 1: the newest action movie starting Gerard Butler Plane, just Plane first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we just want to Filly, let's sit with that. This
Speaker 1: new movie, I think farmer, it's about let me just
Speaker 1: look this. It's about Plaine plain good. You might have
Speaker 1: bad guy Gerard Butler good. Brown Skin People Bad, I
Speaker 1: think it is with the that's his next movie, Brown Skin,
Speaker 1: People Bad. You can't wait to see either. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a Plane came out. So the the reviews were
Speaker 1: actually like pretty decent like that. People are like, it's
Speaker 1: so simple and dumb that and it like seems to
Speaker 1: know that it's simple and dumb um. But it does
Speaker 1: have this kind of political bent that a lot of
Speaker 1: his movies seem to have. We've talked before about Den
Speaker 1: of Thieves and how that is supposed to be like
Speaker 1: a gritty movie about that has in the background of
Speaker 1: it like the l a Sheriff's Department, gangs. But he's
Speaker 1: the like anti hero and he's like part of those gangs,
Speaker 1: and the bad guy in it ends up being like
Speaker 1: just a kaiser, SoSE like international criminal mastermind, Like they
Speaker 1: have to like invent this wild criminal conspiracy too, so
Speaker 1: so that you're rooting for the l A Sheriff's Department
Speaker 1: gangs basically, And that's kind of what like through throughout
Speaker 1: his movie. So so first there was The Three, which
Speaker 1: was wildly racist. The war between the Spartans and the
Speaker 1: Persians was you know, both the depicting depiction of the
Speaker 1: Persians was like super racist. It was also a pretty
Speaker 1: clear allegory and justification for the Iraq war. We needed
Speaker 1: one than they had. D sub marines of the time
Speaker 1: took inspiration from Butler and like talked about it in
Speaker 1: the media to be being like, we're like the hopelessly
Speaker 1: outnumbered Spartans fighting heroically to the death, except you know,
Speaker 1: we're doing it from apache helicopter. Except the power dynamics
Speaker 1: completely reverse has anything to do with anything at all,
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's like that. Yeah. Olympus Has Fallen came
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, a few years into Obama's presidency, and
Speaker 1: it was one of two movies that summer about a
Speaker 1: black president in this time. In this case, it was
Speaker 1: played by Morgan Freeman, who allows the White House basically
Speaker 1: to be overtaken by terrorists and like has to be
Speaker 1: saved by a white secret serve this agent White House
Speaker 1: down being the other one, and basically, yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: like I don't know. There's a bunch of why I
Speaker 1: never saw that movie, but people seemed to think that
Speaker 1: it was like pretty pretty clear cut. Is like this
Speaker 1: guy doesn't know what he's doing. And then there's also
Speaker 1: like a subplot with Russians interfering on behalf of Morgan
Speaker 1: Freeman to like get him elected essentially, So like four
Speaker 1: D dude, that's the sick That wasn't that I didn't
Speaker 1: even I just I just noticed everyone exploding when I
Speaker 1: first saw the movie. I had no idea it was
Speaker 1: about anything. But it's like even plane, right, It's like
Speaker 1: about the description of plane. You know what the funky's
Speaker 1: fucking character's name is Brody Torrents. Okay, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: some porn ship. I like they said, pilot Brody Torrent
Speaker 1: saves passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky
Speaker 1: landing on a war torn I land only to find
Speaker 1: that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When dangerous
Speaker 1: rebels take most of the passengers hostage, the only person
Speaker 1: Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspar, an
Speaker 1: accused murderer who is being transported by the FBI. Oh,
Speaker 1: I hate rebels except in Star Wars, right. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: people completely missed the point of that one too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It takes place in the Philippines, which you know is
Speaker 1: a place that the US intervened in, and you know
Speaker 1: that one of the most heavily fucking colonized countries on
Speaker 1: the fucking earth. Yeah, has like destroyed And basically the
Speaker 1: movie just treats it as like, well, this is a hellhole,
Speaker 1: but US is here and we're here to like save
Speaker 1: the day. And also, by the way, Brodie Torrance, he
Speaker 1: is only I'm sorry, what do you say, Brody Torrance.
Speaker 1: I just imagine a fourteen year old, a fourteen year
Speaker 1: old white boy who's skateboards. Yeah, or I feel like
Speaker 1: it's a character Brody Reid would have been very upset about, because,
Speaker 1: like Torrents sing in the fucking Valley, dude, Cody Torrents
Speaker 1: fucking serious. That's that's my first thing. Yeah, it's it
Speaker 1: sounds like a guy on the right he is only
Speaker 1: flying this difficult shift because he was filmed attacking a
Speaker 1: rude passenger one time went viral. So it's anti Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's also anti cancel culture. So glad they worked that in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I assaulted a passenger, Like what, I'm sorry? That
Speaker 1: supposed to make you sympathetic towards to the audience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: haven't you ever assaulted a passenger on a plane, Miles, Yeah, seriously,
Speaker 1: London has fallen. The follow up to White House Down,
Speaker 1: they were like, I can't say London down because they're
Speaker 1: too fancy, so we have to say London has fallen.
Speaker 1: But it is Basically it was decried immediately for its
Speaker 1: blatant Islamophobia, ugly reactionary fearmongering. At one point, Butler's character
Speaker 1: tells in a sailing get back to funk head of
Speaker 1: Stan or wherever it is you're from. That happens in
Speaker 1: the movie, in a movie that came out that was popular.
Speaker 1: I remember what's that? People cheered in the theater. I remember. No,
Speaker 1: it's just the vibes of these films just sound like
Speaker 1: some guy who's like clearly has like he has a
Speaker 1: writing career, but his entire perspective is just shaped by
Speaker 1: like like cursory glances at Fox News and he's just like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I get I know geopolitics. Man, watch this ship.
Speaker 1: Man fucking they're dirty and he's the hero and that's it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So do they do the bad guys in this movie?
Speaker 1: Are they they're from? From? Where? Do we know? Or
Speaker 1: is it fun had to stand? I I actually don't know,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if it's ever treated with more.
Speaker 1: I love if they never say and then yeah, they're
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, no, that's actually where they're from. He
Speaker 1: he was correct. You know, movies do occasional invent entire nations,
Speaker 1: so maybe maybe that's what they did. I did actually
Speaker 1: misspeak earlier. White House Down is not the one with
Speaker 1: the Putin Russia election hacking plot, because that came out
Speaker 1: too early for that to speak to the magabase. It
Speaker 1: was actually Angel has Fallen, the third in the series,
Speaker 1: the sequel to the one where he says, get back
Speaker 1: to the funk head of Stand. Angel Has Fallen was
Speaker 1: criticized for lionizing Trump while also like making him a villain,
Speaker 1: but the villain turns out to be Morgan Freeman's vice
Speaker 1: president who wants to go to war with Russia and
Speaker 1: make America strong again. But then it turns out that,
Speaker 1: like Morgan Freeman, the former Obama standing was secretly elected
Speaker 1: thanks to Russian interference. So it's like, so, really, we're
Speaker 1: all bad man everybody. So they photoshopped Morgan Freeman in
Speaker 1: to like an image with m Yeah, that was the
Speaker 1: last scene of the movie to be like we he
Speaker 1: he smoothed it over and everything's good. That's cool. We
Speaker 1: also need to talk about Geo Storm, which is a
Speaker 1: disaster movie supposedly about climate change, but the real villain
Speaker 1: turns out to be a Democratic president's in competence and
Speaker 1: also his secretary of State who straight up sabotaged the
Speaker 1: futuristic satellites that could fix climate change in order to
Speaker 1: attack America's enemies. So climate change isn't solved by humanity
Speaker 1: altering its destructive behavior, but rather a magic gizmo invented
Speaker 1: by Dr Gerard Butler. All right, that that is a
Speaker 1: thing that like, I think in the future people will
Speaker 1: look back on these movies that came out at this
Speaker 1: time and be like, oh, they just thought that, oh
Speaker 1: we can just tech, techno wizardry, something up and it's
Speaker 1: gonna fix climate change, like in the world of the
Speaker 1: movies that take place at this time, the action movies,
Speaker 1: Like it doesn't really make sense that climate change would
Speaker 1: be a threat because we we are able to fix
Speaker 1: everything with technology, Like, there's no way Tony Stark wouldn't
Speaker 1: fix climate change in in the Marvel Cinematic universe. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just reading about the guy who wrote Angel has Fallen.
Speaker 1: He he started the karate Kid franchise. Oh wow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was apparently that guy. It was based on his
Speaker 1: own life because he got beat up by bullies and
Speaker 1: at the nineteen sixty four New York's World's Fair and
Speaker 1: then he started learning martial arts to defend himself. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so that guy is a guy who got beat up
Speaker 1: by bullies, uh, sought the help of a like Okinawan
Speaker 1: karate teacher, and now produces wine on his vineyards. So
Speaker 1: it's the story that all all's well, that ends well,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Jack, look at the guy who wrote
Speaker 1: Look at the guy who wrote fucking London has Fallen
Speaker 1: and white Hot like Olympus has Fallen. His name is
Speaker 1: Creighton Rothenberger. Yeah, that looks like the face of someone
Speaker 1: who goes like, oh God, like poor people are discussed
Speaker 1: like He's just like, there's that looks like a face
Speaker 1: incapable of understanding anything beyond like his own desires, which
Speaker 1: is sometimes it's nice when people are wearing that transparently
Speaker 1: on the outside of their face. Those are some shiny veneers.
Speaker 1: Like guy has got a little face in his mouth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jamie would have been. She's she's already analyzing your game
Speaker 1: on this guy. Well. Sarah as always such a pleasure
Speaker 1: having you. Where can people find you and following you?
Speaker 1: You can find me on Instagram at Sarah to Bother
Speaker 1: You s A r A to bother You. Um, you
Speaker 1: can go to my website sorry June online, and both
Speaker 1: of those you will find links to my short film
Speaker 1: Bathroom Time, which was a Vimeo staff pick last year
Speaker 1: and is playing some more festivals, so you can go
Speaker 1: watch it on the internet for free. There you go,
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Also, go watch is a Bird That Bird? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: bird is so good? Oh? Thanks Jack, And is there
Speaker 1: a tweet or some of the work of social media
Speaker 1: you've been enjoying. Oh? Absolutely, I really enjoyed this tweet
Speaker 1: from at Quarto Core. It is um at Quarto Core.
Speaker 1: Rick and Morty creator being an awful person is like
Speaker 1: nine eleven for smoke shops. It was my first thought.
Speaker 1: I was like, what is Santi Ali going to do?
Speaker 1: Like every smoke shop is every ners in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: I'm like, they're going to have to change the maryal
Speaker 1: there's I'm pretty sure where they're not, and everyone's just
Speaker 1: going to be like, yeah, we're We're actually good with
Speaker 1: this now. I don't know. It seems like some Amber
Speaker 1: Heard type stuff, which in the comments of like the
Speaker 1: Rick and Morty fans already trying to dismiss it all.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was I think there's a went to
Speaker 1: a head shop at Burbank, which I think like they
Speaker 1: lead with Rick and Morty graphics, like on the outside
Speaker 1: of their like they have like graphics on the windows
Speaker 1: where it's like, yeah, dude, get your fucking Rick and
Speaker 1: Morty grinders and dad riggs in here. Miles, Where can
Speaker 1: people find you? What is the tweet you've been on? Man?
Speaker 1: Some tweets I like, Well, first, you can find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also check
Speaker 1: me out and check out Miles and Jack got Mad
Speaker 1: Boost These are Basketball podcast. Also find me on four
Speaker 1: twenty Day Fiance with Sophie Alexandra, where we complain about
Speaker 1: ninety day fiance. Some tweets out like first one is
Speaker 1: from at Our Ali Maynard at ms m a y
Speaker 1: N tweeted, My theory is suburban nights fucking love Disney
Speaker 1: World because it's their chance to enjoy walkable dining and
Speaker 1: entertainment experiences with convenient mass transit without having to see
Speaker 1: homeless people that might that might actually be it. Uh.
Speaker 1: Then another one at man this is just way name
Speaker 1: at Blaze fort ninety tweeted, So apparently the numbers on
Speaker 1: the toaster are in minutes for the last thirty three years.
Speaker 1: I thought it was for different levels of toasting, nous
Speaker 1: and sir, So the fund did? I wait a minute,
Speaker 1: How the funk would I know what? Three minute? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm like, yeah, I want level three, yeah three,
Speaker 1: level three toasting. This is this is sucking me up.
Speaker 1: It's it sucked me up so bad. I'm like, why
Speaker 1: are they presuming I know what a minute of toasting
Speaker 1: looks like? Why wouldn't they write minute on there? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. I don't know, and I
Speaker 1: don't like this. I don't know. This is all fucked up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not a fan of that information. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: choose my brain has rejected it. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go watch Angel has fallen. Uh Infaria tweeted, I was
Speaker 1: just mugged in Park Slope by two beautiful parents and
Speaker 1: their gifted children. Find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien.
Speaker 1: You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're
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Speaker 1: we post our episodes and our foot notes where we
Speaker 1: link off to the information that we talked about in
Speaker 1: today's episode, as well as a song that we think
Speaker 1: you might enjoy. Miles, what song do we think people
Speaker 1: might enjoy? Yo? I just read that. That's bullshit. The
Speaker 1: minute thing. Yeah, numbers on these toast giles. Okay, you
Speaker 1: know what, when an english person says it with their
Speaker 1: chest out like that, I'm gonna believe it. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: love toasts too. That's my own confirmation blast. Like I annoying,
Speaker 1: I know what to funk up that bad with the
Speaker 1: toaster thing. No, that's not right anyway. What's the song
Speaker 1: that I like? Well, this is actually a compilation or
Speaker 1: an album called StarPoint Tactics from this producer three d MG.
Speaker 1: And I think this is a German producer and like label,
Speaker 1: but they make really dope, like lo fi hip hop.
Speaker 1: And this is just a really uh, you know, wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful like remix of ghost Face Killer called My Deadly
Speaker 1: Okay from people who really know shake that body, body
Speaker 1: that guy anyway. And this is like again, the beats
Speaker 1: are boom bab lovely and it feels like I don't know,
Speaker 1: it feels like like like an old like DJ Shadow
Speaker 1: mixtape or something if he was. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: fuck with it. Check this out Mighty Deadly three d MG.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll let off to that in the footnotes
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