Speaker 1: And it's been happening a lot lately. Start talking.
Speaker 2: It's like I told you to stop drinking half in
Speaker 2: half before, and I told you I can't.
Speaker 3: The process is the process.
Speaker 1: And as we've seen everywhere, trusting the process work creations.
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Speaker 1: Anyways, it is Thursday, November fourteenth, twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Four yep, yep, more significant stuff Today it's National seat
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Speaker 2: like spicy wackam mole, today's your day. And National Pickled.
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Speaker 1: I don't really fuck with spicy Guacamolely, That's not what
Speaker 1: I'm looking for from guacamole.
Speaker 2: It's kind of the opposite of what I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: I respect people like I think that the times that
Speaker 1: I've had it that it's good it's usually the crushed
Speaker 1: red pepper in there, so it's like kind of comes
Speaker 1: at a different rate from the creamy coolness of the guac. Okay,
Speaker 1: And I'm just I'm just telling the truth here, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm opening my heart.
Speaker 2: You got that's tame palette. You know what.
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Speaker 1: just thinking about spicy guacamole. I'm thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: as always by my co host mister Miles.
Speaker 2: Gray as well as Dragga.
Speaker 5: Woke up this morning. I don't believe what I saw.
Speaker 5: One hundred billion bottles washed up on the show. Seems
Speaker 5: that I'm not peeing alone.
Speaker 2: One hundred million castaways looking.
Speaker 5: For a who.
Speaker 2: I really have to piss my guy, I really have
Speaker 2: toss my guy. I hope that no one sees me.
Speaker 2: I hope that no one sees me pissing in a bottle. Yes,
Speaker 2: all right, shout out. That's obviously a reference to The
Speaker 2: Rock and David Lynch and everybody, all the people, filmmakers,
Speaker 2: actors who like to piss in bottles just pisses on trees.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, clarify, okay, Sorry While making lost highway in
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Speaker 2: Mason jars technically for Robert Downey Junior bottles for Rock
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Speaker 1: Maybe they'll be the next double O seven. There's news
Speaker 1: we talked about, Drake Miles. We are thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined in our third seat by a very funny author, comedy,
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Speaker 1: out right now. He's written for Last Week Tonight and
Speaker 1: Jesus and Marrow, which my autocorrect change to Jesus and
Speaker 1: Marrow because it knows where my heart is and the
Speaker 1: salvation that I need personally would have been a very
Speaker 1: different show. Jesus and Merri two legendary shows, among many
Speaker 1: other things. Co created the Twitter account at Seinfeld today,
Speaker 1: which are very impressed by that one. I actually just
Speaker 1: learned that this morning. One of the kindest, funny people,
Speaker 1: one of the funniest kind people doing it anywhere. He's
Speaker 1: here to rip off your head and take all your cocaine.
Speaker 2: It's Josh got the.
Speaker 3: Hello, so nice to join you. Thank you for having
Speaker 3: me on the final I believe National Spicy Guacamole Day
Speaker 3: before someone in the Trump administration outlaws it. I think
Speaker 3: Stephen Beller No, oh it's over. Yeah, it's done.
Speaker 2: Spicey. I gotta see RSK Junior being like, it's it's
Speaker 2: that's what's killing our kids. Spicy.
Speaker 3: The spice is like the vaccine of the flavor world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man, they're gonna go so hard against hot
Speaker 1: sauce and spicy things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't work with the general palette injecting raw
Speaker 2: milk into the.
Speaker 1: Oh, Josh, it's good. It's good to have you back
Speaker 1: in the feed. The past few times you've been on Miles.
Speaker 2: And Jack on Mad Boosties.
Speaker 1: You were on recording with us as the election results
Speaker 1: were rolling in, and so I blame you, and like
Speaker 1: my brain has connected those those two things and now
Speaker 1: it's your fault.
Speaker 3: That is kind of I am kind of the one
Speaker 3: incorrect conclusion that pundits haven't drawn on TV right, Like
Speaker 3: people are coming up with all the reasons.
Speaker 2: It was fucking he went on Boosties.
Speaker 3: Dude, he just like went too hard for the Celtics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nothing to do with the party or the platform,
Speaker 2: because the nation decided.
Speaker 3: This episode wasn't even out yet when the results were in,
Speaker 3: but knowing what we do now, that's clearly what it was.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: The nation just decided they weren't worth saving. They were like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I don't feel like moving today.
Speaker 1: Did you hear that fucking Celtics?
Speaker 2: I heard it. That's right.
Speaker 3: Not only is that Joe Mizila's reliance on the three
Speaker 3: point shot turning people away from the NBA. It's turning
Speaker 3: people away from the polls.
Speaker 2: It's just boring.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't care who cares who wins. Anyways,
Speaker 1: it's great to have you back, great to be here.
Speaker 1: We are going to get to know you a little
Speaker 1: bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell
Speaker 1: the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're
Speaker 1: talking about info Wars being sold for parts, talking about uh,
Speaker 1: the new Doge government like they're doing memes while creating
Speaker 1: government departments.
Speaker 2: So we talk about that. We'll talk about the sexiest man.
Speaker 2: Of course, we were all on the edge of our.
Speaker 1: Seat for this one and it was announced it's CIA
Speaker 1: apologist John Krazinski, So we'll.
Speaker 2: Talk about that.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about KFC continuing to be really weird about
Speaker 1: the original recipe. Anyways, all that plenty more, But first,
Speaker 1: Josh Gondleman, we do like to ask our guests, what
Speaker 1: is something from your search history that's revealing about who
Speaker 1: you are?
Speaker 3: Yesterday night, I googled Google dolls, slide lyrics.
Speaker 2: So many goos in that center.
Speaker 6: Googled Google, Google, Google googly eyes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was, so this is something about me. I
Speaker 3: went to see Ben Folds live in concert last night.
Speaker 2: Oh man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I posted about it online about how wild it
Speaker 3: was that he had that. Ben Folds five had a
Speaker 3: big radio hit in the late nineties of Brick, a
Speaker 3: gentle piano ballad about being kind of salty about having
Speaker 3: to take your girlfriend in the morning to get an abortion.
Speaker 1: The day after a bummer for me, though, think about
Speaker 1: it from that person's and I'm drowning slowly.
Speaker 3: He got a PlayStation, babe, I was gonna hang him
Speaker 3: play PlayStation the day after Christmas, and I mean, it's
Speaker 3: really to write a melody?
Speaker 2: Yeah he does. That was a great album too, But Ben,
Speaker 2: how has Ben? Look? I whatever? And ever amen? I
Speaker 2: love that album. I just remember being like a band
Speaker 2: kid and being like, yep, this ship is fucking look
Speaker 2: at a piano smoking off. This guy is playing like
Speaker 2: it's such theater kid music. But I, how's how is
Speaker 2: he live? Like, what's it live? Now?
Speaker 3: He's good, It's I did kind of miss the band
Speaker 3: because he plays solo, so it's just him a piano
Speaker 3: and he played, so he played one set. He was great.
Speaker 3: And then he's doing this thing called the paper Airplane
Speaker 3: request her so takes a ten minute break and then
Speaker 3: people write down requests and throw them on a stage
Speaker 3: as paper airplane, and then he just walks around the
Speaker 3: stage picking him up and he's like and then he
Speaker 3: like tells a little story about each song. And plays it,
Speaker 3: and the request set was like a lot of the
Speaker 3: kind of slower ballads. But he, I mean, he's his
Speaker 3: voice is really good and it's like I kind of
Speaker 3: like you can hear that little Southern accent in it
Speaker 3: when he's singing. It's like very distinctive, and I just
Speaker 3: like him as a songwriter. It was a blast. Didn't
Speaker 3: play Air.
Speaker 1: I don't think he did air. He did just milk.
Speaker 3: He did Kate, which is my favorite song or whatever.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that like when the upbeat ones where the
Speaker 3: piano is a little more percussive, I feel like that
Speaker 3: kind of makes you missed the band a little less.
Speaker 3: But like on those balls God, the double tracked vocals
Speaker 3: or whatever from the album, I don't know. I can
Speaker 3: talk about then Folds because it was a big theater
Speaker 3: kid thing for me. I did high school theater, and
Speaker 3: it was like when the older when you started making
Speaker 3: friends with the older kids who went cars and drive around,
Speaker 3: it is all then Folds five.
Speaker 6: Maybe, yeah, what is this? It's then Folds five, dude.
Speaker 6: This is called slide. Have like little lines in there
Speaker 6: that like feel like they're straight up out of a
Speaker 6: anti choice like pamphlet. It's not me you're dying for,
Speaker 6: and don't you love the life you killed?
Speaker 2: Are too love? That's aggressive, That's a lot that's about centering, at.
Speaker 1: The very least, not being very supportive of your partner.
Speaker 3: Because first of all, to say that is like a
Speaker 3: little cold and uncaring, right when when someone makes that
Speaker 3: choice with their own body and reproductive freedom. Second, the
Speaker 3: second point, that's a song. Now everybody knows.
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, it's like, yeah, a combination of us not
Speaker 2: having enough awareness or sensitivity and plus just be like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, there's just melodies, sick and a dude's sis.
Speaker 3: Fine, right, not only right, Not only am I mad
Speaker 3: at you for a choicing made of your own body,
Speaker 3: but I'm kind of making it slap and I've turned
Speaker 3: America against you the song and the radio waves.
Speaker 1: And also, by the way, I wasn't going to take
Speaker 1: care of that motherfucker if you was not, So it
Speaker 1: was not in a very strong way. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: does remind me of just like teenage boy emotionality where
Speaker 1: it's like, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, it's just like fucked up.
Speaker 1: You know, that's like the entire entire thesis, because did
Speaker 1: you for a second living fucked up?
Speaker 2: You can you put yourself in the other person's shoes
Speaker 2: right now? No? No, no, no, absolutely not absolutely putting myself.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what she is. I'm putting myself in
Speaker 3: the baby shoes that were never worn and are now
Speaker 3: for sale.
Speaker 2: That's where and that's and that is real man.
Speaker 3: Ship, this Hemingway baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that it's not me.
Speaker 1: You're dying for the aligned to the baby.
Speaker 3: I think so wow, because she's alive. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: think she very.
Speaker 1: She's emerally dying. You know, it's it's hard to say, Josh.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're going to get to an act too,
Speaker 1: just a point by point lyrical analysis of Rick. But
Speaker 1: before we do, Josh, we like to ask our guess,
Speaker 1: what's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Oh? I think this is a peacock show. That first
Speaker 3: season came out I missed entirely. Second season came out
Speaker 3: Deep Pandemic. It's called killing It with Craig Robinson. I
Speaker 3: feel like people should go back and find this once
Speaker 3: Craig Robinson, Claudio Dherty, Tim Heideker. It's really really funny.
Speaker 3: It's like a very row battles and it's increasingly dark
Speaker 3: satire about like hustle culture and the American dream. It's
Speaker 3: super funny, super inventive. It is like one of my
Speaker 3: favorite shows of the last five or six years, and
Speaker 3: I'm here to shout it out.
Speaker 1: I think it's been it's a pretty common underrated with
Speaker 1: people who would know these things. Yeah, like this is
Speaker 1: We've had like some very solid recommendations for this show,
Speaker 1: so and I still haven't watched it.
Speaker 2: It's it's very good.
Speaker 3: I'm into it, and I think it's like there's twenty
Speaker 3: episodes total. So it's one of those things that's like
Speaker 3: if you're looking for a new fun thing to watch,
Speaker 3: but you're not ready to commit to whatever all ten
Speaker 3: seasons of or eleven seasons of Cheers or whatever, which
Speaker 3: I also did during twenty twenty with my wife, then
Speaker 3: this is like it's it goes fast, it's fun. It's
Speaker 3: it's like it feels like it's about something in a
Speaker 3: way that is not beating you over the head, but
Speaker 3: is like an innovative and funny presentation. There's like an
Speaker 3: It Follows style episode that's just about various debt collectors
Speaker 3: like coming out, like debt being consolidated, it's it's really
Speaker 3: funny and sharp and good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean we are on our grind set mindset on
Speaker 1: this podcast.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much our.
Speaker 1: Listeners are gonna feel, how they're gonna enjoy this, because yeah,
Speaker 1: we it's a it's just failure the frame of mind.
Speaker 1: And this sounds like some l shit. Doug Debt collectors
Speaker 1: are a frame of mind.
Speaker 2: Dude. What what some of the things overrated?
Speaker 3: The Democrats woke unquote woke agenda.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, brother, dude.
Speaker 3: People can't stop talking about how fucking quote unquote woke
Speaker 3: the Democratic Party was. Kamala Harris was basically doing an interviewer.
Speaker 3: She's like, my pronouns are border and wall and it's like,
Speaker 3: come on, man, this is ridiculous. I don't you know.
Speaker 3: I'm not the one to do an autopsy on a
Speaker 3: political campaign because I'm stupid, but this is stupider than me.
Speaker 3: The the fact that people are going, well, Democrats talk
Speaker 3: too much about trans people and it's like, well, what
Speaker 3: do you mean by that? Well, the Republicans put out
Speaker 3: a lot of ads about how much I hate trans people,
Speaker 3: and it say you got got dummy own up to
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 2: That's what happens. So who was talking about it? A bunch, right, who.
Speaker 3: Was talking and who? And it's I think the Democrats personally,
Speaker 3: I would have loved if they were talking about talked
Speaker 3: about it more. Things they would do for people more,
Speaker 3: of course. And I just think it's like such a
Speaker 3: people are going on TV just saying shit, like going
Speaker 3: on first the Fumes of Vibes from twenty twenty and
Speaker 3: they're and they're going, oh uh too woke, And it's like, no,
Speaker 3: you're just saying the thing that Trump's ads are saying.
Speaker 2: It is right, right yea, yeah, yeah, because you've basically
Speaker 2: internalized the messaging from the Trump campaign and then this
Speaker 2: is why they won because of whatever they're saying. No, no, no.
Speaker 3: It's so stupid. I just like I can't hear I
Speaker 3: can't see another headline. I don't read the columns because
Speaker 3: I don't. I'm dumb enough without actively making myself dumber.
Speaker 3: But I can't read one more headline from a column.
Speaker 3: That's like, if the Democrats use a single pronoun, if
Speaker 3: the next person who uses a plural pronoun for any
Speaker 3: reason will doom that political party for generations to come.
Speaker 2: Shut up, loser, Yeah, and that's like we keep saying this,
Speaker 2: this is the fight that's happening right now because you
Speaker 2: have a lot of these establishment figures who don't want
Speaker 2: to own the fact that they're attacked to the right
Speaker 2: was the thing that fucked everything up, and now they're
Speaker 2: just going for just we just need to acknowledge, man,
Speaker 2: like obviously, like the trans thing is like a thing
Speaker 2: we need to just like be clear on, you.
Speaker 3: Know, like and yet you should have been clear about
Speaker 3: that about how like trans people are people and deserve
Speaker 3: dignity and rights and not, like you can't let the
Speaker 3: Republicans who are like they shouldn't exist dictate the terms
Speaker 3: of conversation. It's humiliating, yes.
Speaker 1: And also when you change your answer on something, it
Speaker 1: looks bad for you when you're like, psych, we actually
Speaker 1: don't care about that. We care about border security, and
Speaker 1: we're running away from that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's it's so wild that so the people who ran
Speaker 1: the campaign that lost ran the campaign as though this
Speaker 1: was their biggest problem and then lost despite like having
Speaker 1: a wildly defensive, like hyper focused on this angle campaign
Speaker 1: and that them and they're like, you know, advisor class
Speaker 1: is coming out and being like they lost because of
Speaker 1: this thing that they were clearly acutely aware of and
Speaker 1: ran the entire campaign around.
Speaker 3: Brutal It's also I think, you know, I have my
Speaker 3: own disagreements with the Harris Whiles campaign on policy. You know,
Speaker 3: I wish they had taken a stronger stand about a
Speaker 3: weapons and bargo to Israel. Yeah, that was a big
Speaker 3: one for me. But I do think Kamala Harris spoke
Speaker 3: significantly better than Ben folks about abortion. I think she
Speaker 3: really spoke effectively and clearly and without hedging. I thought
Speaker 3: Tim Walls on issues like trans students spoke really plainly
Speaker 3: and clearly and compassionately, like didn't play the rhetorical games
Speaker 3: and was just like, yeah, they're kids and we should
Speaker 3: support them, and you're being gross to want to like
Speaker 3: look up their assholes every time they take a shit,
Speaker 3: and it is I just think that's they had these
Speaker 3: strengths and then pretty immediately like tamp down at least
Speaker 3: the second. You know, I think I think they spoke
Speaker 3: well about reproductive health throughout, but yeah, just like ran away,
Speaker 3: like you said, ran away from some of the stronger points,
Speaker 3: and it was frustrating, not just from an optics and
Speaker 3: pulling standpoint. But it's somebody who's like, yeah, this is
Speaker 3: like you're saying things that are correct and compassionate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is a direction we should be moving in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's our problem. Oh sorry, what what was the
Speaker 1: last thing he said?
Speaker 2: That was the direction? But yeah, all those like post
Speaker 2: mortems are definitely like I think you should leave hot
Speaker 2: dog suit sketch, you know what I mean, where they're
Speaker 2: like they're like, why am I hearing from you right now?
Speaker 2: They're like, we got to figure out who what?
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyways, let's pick and well that's the sound of
Speaker 1: the sound of my soul escaping.
Speaker 2: We'll be right.
Speaker 7: By and we're back.
Speaker 2: Let's have a little shot and freud.
Speaker 1: Shall we a little amuse boush of shodden fud?
Speaker 2: And look at it.
Speaker 1: Alex Jones, the one right wing shithead who is actually
Speaker 1: lost in the moment, so what he deserves?
Speaker 2: Yeah, ye as we record this, Alex Jones entire media
Speaker 2: disinformation empire is being auctioned off. We're talking literally everything
Speaker 2: from like broadcast equipment to the parent company that owns
Speaker 2: in full Wars, down to his little desk that he
Speaker 2: screams from. It's all for fucking sale, and again this
Speaker 2: is all being auctioned off in order to pay restitution
Speaker 2: for calling the Sandy Hook victims and their families like
Speaker 2: crisis actors and saying that the shooting was a hoax.
Speaker 2: So knowing that it's just wild, because on Monday on
Speaker 2: his live stream, he was acting like he's like he's like,
Speaker 2: you know, the actual the case is already determined before
Speaker 2: that we want to trial. That's like, dude, I get
Speaker 2: maybe your your listeners might believe that shit, but to
Speaker 2: everyone else, you're like, dude, it's so clear what's going on.
Speaker 2: So uh here he is talking about how this you know,
Speaker 2: could be maybe his his last live stream and how
Speaker 2: everything's being absolutely sold off.
Speaker 8: Day afternoon, Info Wars, the equipment, info wars dot com,
Speaker 8: Info warstore dot com had a whole bunch of other
Speaker 8: stuff is in a federal bankruptcy auction from the fake
Speaker 8: judgments of the rig trials where I was found guilty
Speaker 8: beforehand and they had literal show trials out of the Soviet.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure like he didn't even rip, like because
Speaker 2: he refused to actually like have any kind of like
Speaker 2: legal argument against like the disc like, but he like
Speaker 2: went into a summary judgment, which is why he's like
Speaker 2: there was a show tr It's like, dude, you were
Speaker 2: you had nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he didn't cooperate in the sense of
Speaker 1: like sitting quietly in court and like or he.
Speaker 2: Was even argument stream right, Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It was
Speaker 2: also wild that like.
Speaker 1: Even though it was determined before and he had no chance,
Speaker 1: he still revealed that, like, this is just a character
Speaker 1: that he in that trial, which seems like I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have revealed that, man if I knew I was already
Speaker 1: If I already knew that it was rigged and I
Speaker 1: was gonna lose, I wouldn't have said, like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a character. I actually don't believe that, and it's fucking stupid.
Speaker 1: I get it, like please, but we're just I'm it's
Speaker 1: like whole Cogan Alex Jones is just a fake character
Speaker 1: I play, which is what he said in trial and
Speaker 1: still lost and then he got like sad and stopped it.
Speaker 2: Was a quote.
Speaker 3: Still, actually, my First Amendment rights are being violated.
Speaker 9: That's why I should be able to say whatever I want,
Speaker 9: even if it is smearing victims of a mass shooting.
Speaker 2: Anyway, go on, Alex and.
Speaker 8: Er Nazi Germany, Rob and I walked in here during
Speaker 8: the break after getting there blast of water, saw the
Speaker 8: auctioneers inside the building going around surveying from the last
Speaker 8: time they were here, to make sure all the stuff's here,
Speaker 8: everything tagged, everything marked this dad day.
Speaker 2: After anyway, So he goes on it's all up for sale.
Speaker 2: He did go on to be like maybe the good guys.
Speaker 2: I think the good some good guys might come through
Speaker 2: and like bail me out. And I think that, like reports,
Speaker 2: it could be some kind of like weird consortium of
Speaker 2: like Roger Stone and other like wealthy right wing figures
Speaker 2: or even fucking Elon would come in. There was also
Speaker 2: a lot of talk from like groups like Media Matters.
Speaker 2: They're like, dude, we'd fucking buy him full wars and.
Speaker 3: Just they Media Matters. I just hope that they don't
Speaker 3: get in a bidding war try to drive the price.
Speaker 2: I mean, I.
Speaker 1: Guess we get sixty five dollars exactly.
Speaker 2: Well, what's Musk offering, right? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3: He Also he's also wearing an outfit like this is
Speaker 3: normal look, but it's kind of a burgundy button down
Speaker 3: worn in a fashion that I would describe as like
Speaker 3: a strange father at his child's first communion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's like in the back of the church
Speaker 2: because like they're like, no, he was here.
Speaker 3: He was in the back of your dad was there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just had to keep leaving to go vape out.
Speaker 9: Check check my fan duel bets off father, Get your
Speaker 9: hands off me. I'm smoking tiger's blood right now. Message
Speaker 9: smoke and the breathing air is my first amendment.
Speaker 2: Right, yes, God, your son's communion.
Speaker 1: Paying attention to this at this juncture and hoping that
Speaker 1: it doesn't somehow break in his favor and like a
Speaker 1: billionaire doesn't come through and like buy everything and you know,
Speaker 1: transport him to some island where he can't be touched
Speaker 1: by international law. Feels a little bit like it's using
Speaker 1: the same part of my brain that wants to pay
Speaker 1: attention to the Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight and like
Speaker 1: pin my hopes on something that I know is going
Speaker 1: to have a bad outcome. You know.
Speaker 2: I'm just but I'm just like, yeah, no, I think
Speaker 2: we got one of them. I think we got one
Speaker 2: this time. Guys.
Speaker 3: We same with me, Same with Rudy Giuliani being forced
Speaker 3: to give his possessions over to the y Paul workers. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it feels so good a judge being like that car
Speaker 3: you're in right now. If you don't hand it over
Speaker 3: it by Monday, you're in jail. Lose it and your
Speaker 3: Yankees World series rings so fun. It's so beautiful for
Speaker 3: him to lose things that are both high in financially
Speaker 3: and high and sentimental value. You can't talk about where
Speaker 3: you are on nine to eleven anymore. Oh no, I
Speaker 3: know that you can never say you were mayor of
Speaker 3: New York.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you do hate to see it just for
Speaker 1: the the Yankees, you know, getting tarnished like that. That's
Speaker 1: that's painful. Just a good franchise like that.
Speaker 3: I hope they sell it to someone who melts it
Speaker 3: down because they need whatever material is in the ring
Speaker 3: for some kind of science project.
Speaker 1: All right, we're just like we're microdosing news about Trump's
Speaker 1: new government. I think we're gonna do like one story
Speaker 1: a day because more than that is too awful.
Speaker 2: So most people are pretty pretty well prepared in terms
Speaker 2: of understanding what's on the horizon.
Speaker 1: So I think we've been fairly predictably awful up to
Speaker 1: this point. One that one of the details it seems
Speaker 1: like it's breaching a new level of like governmental stupidity.
Speaker 1: Is this new? So they announced a new government department
Speaker 1: aka like marketing scheme, Like it just feel it feels
Speaker 1: like a combination. And I mean we've already seen this
Speaker 1: with a lot of things, with like Trump's campaign already
Speaker 1: selling the commemorative coins that like usually come out like
Speaker 1: one hundred years after the event that they're commemorating, just
Speaker 1: because it's like, you know, good money, and he's in
Speaker 1: the commercial being like this commemorative plate set will will
Speaker 1: make you rich.
Speaker 3: Anyways, you don't need to commemorate the present. I always
Speaker 3: remember the present.
Speaker 1: Yes, commemorating last week's amazing rally. So users seem to
Speaker 1: be fleeing, first of all a bit of good news.
Speaker 1: People are fleeing X like it's the Titanic.
Speaker 2: But advertisers are coming back. Oh really yeah, because they're
Speaker 2: now like we need to get on Elon's good side.
Speaker 2: Is another headline I've been seeing because of now he's
Speaker 2: become so I guess important in terms of his proximity
Speaker 2: to Trump.
Speaker 3: You and Trump have been hanging out a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to the point that people like Trump aids are
Speaker 1: like it's getting weird, Like he hasn't left in days.
Speaker 2: He won't leave the president alone. Yeah, he's wearing clothes too.
Speaker 3: I didn't know i'd be sleeping over.
Speaker 2: I'll just buy some stuff.
Speaker 1: The Guardian just announced they'll no longer be posting on Twitter.
Speaker 1: At the same time, Elon Musk and Vivek Brahmaswami were
Speaker 1: just announced as the heads of Trump's brand new Department
Speaker 1: of Government Efficiency, which, as everybody, including Elizabeth Warren has
Speaker 1: pointed out, nothing says government efficiency like creating a new
Speaker 1: department and hiring two people to run it. But it's
Speaker 1: putting aside the obvious fuckery of hiring Musk, who's made
Speaker 1: billions from federal contracts to oversee government spending. They didn't
Speaker 1: need to create this department. It's a department that already exists,
Speaker 1: the US Government Accountability Office, But this one has a
Speaker 1: fun acronym.
Speaker 2: Which is dog Doge.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It seems to be the only thing they've done is
Speaker 1: they've rebranded an existing governmental office as doge Doge.
Speaker 2: Because this is his favorite shit coin. Yeah, this is
Speaker 2: Elon's and this is something he tweeted like months ago too,
Speaker 2: like he'd be like it would be interesting to do
Speaker 2: a department of So I think one thing, one people
Speaker 2: who if you try to even think that this might
Speaker 2: not be as bad as it is, some people are like,
Speaker 2: this feels like some weird fucking just project that you
Speaker 2: can send these two on so they don't actually get
Speaker 2: involved with actual like white house business. But I don't
Speaker 2: see that happening considering how closs Elon Musk is to Trump.
Speaker 2: But I think the other part of this that's really
Speaker 2: like crypt Like, I think it's just really we have
Speaker 2: to keep our eyes on what's happening with crypto, because
Speaker 2: you can there's a there's a longer game at play
Speaker 2: here because first of all, the price of doge coin
Speaker 2: nearly tripled in value since election day. Uh, and you know,
Speaker 2: like this is part of like again a way for
Speaker 2: Elon Musk, Trump and their allies to radically change the economy.
Speaker 2: Like they keep floating stuff about paying off government debt
Speaker 2: with crypto or using like bitcoin as just a way
Speaker 2: to pay off you know, like the T bills or
Speaker 2: something or just government debt. And this is again a
Speaker 2: way that we're always seeing like as even me Elon
Speaker 2: Mussag is like people are gonna have to experience pain,
Speaker 2: aka they want to crash the economy. That's really what
Speaker 2: is That's really what because said that in the lead
Speaker 2: up to the election. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna have
Speaker 2: We're going to be experiencing some pain for a few
Speaker 2: years aka crashed the economy so then billionaires can come
Speaker 2: in and swoop up everything that's left and really consolidate
Speaker 2: even more wealth at the top.
Speaker 3: Also, what an incredible thing to say, we're going to
Speaker 3: experience some pain for a few years, which means Trump's
Speaker 3: presidential term is going to be a disaster. That's what
Speaker 3: he That was the pitch. This is going to be
Speaker 3: bad the entire time that's happening, and people are like sick.
Speaker 1: Right right, Like if you have speed run the early
Speaker 1: twentieth century, they're going to do stock market crash, great depression,
Speaker 1: Third Reich.
Speaker 2: Like all in like yeah, yielded age, gilded age, that's
Speaker 2: the gig economy.
Speaker 3: They're all doing all of those things at once, right right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and again it's like it's uber but for fascism, right
Speaker 3: and fucked up economic crashes are the.
Speaker 2: Turbo fuel of fascism. Yes, and it's clear like mass
Speaker 2: deportation that is going to have significant effects on the economy.
Speaker 2: The the tariffs are going to have significant effects on
Speaker 2: the economy. There's already talk about like what happens with
Speaker 2: the debt ceiling? Is America going to default and also
Speaker 2: further throw things into chaos. There's a lot of things
Speaker 2: that they have the like their hands on the levers
Speaker 2: to create this situation. And it's just like that's that's
Speaker 2: a real part of it that I'm just kind of
Speaker 2: really freaked out by and seeing how whatever whatever whatever
Speaker 2: this plan is because all roads seem like they're leading
Speaker 2: to just one of the most fucked up economic crashes.
Speaker 3: And it's it's also to me, I think the idea
Speaker 3: of like the economy, I'm like using fucking scare quotes
Speaker 3: like basic there's but they give the economy writ large
Speaker 3: is like when it's good, it doesn't necessarily hit most people. Right,
Speaker 3: The economy being good doesn't like benefit people directly because
Speaker 3: it's all for capital's all funneled upwards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the economy economy killing it during the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Yes, and when the but when the economy is bad,
Speaker 3: people do feel it, right, Oh yeah, Like the ceiling
Speaker 3: on it is so low It's like an airport sandwich
Speaker 3: where you're like, the best it gets, you're just like
Speaker 3: this is adequate for me, and then the worst it
Speaker 3: gets you're like, this has ruined my wife.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I'm sick, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: No, when it's bad, your just you know, your company
Speaker 1: announces that they're taking a look at taking some preventative.
Speaker 2: Measures because the there.
Speaker 1: Are economic headwinds in the offing, and then you lose
Speaker 1: your job. And when it's good, you don't see shit.
Speaker 1: You just see headlines that the economy is good, yeah,
Speaker 1: and get angry enough to fucking elect Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: And then you're like, yeah, Jeff Bezos has added a
Speaker 2: fifth billion dollar yacht and you're like, what, Okay, it's.
Speaker 1: Boom time on this one island where Tom Brady lives
Speaker 1: next door to Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, it's it's truly brutal to be like, oh,
Speaker 3: it must be nice to be the economy.
Speaker 2: I guess, right, it's there, But I mean I guess
Speaker 2: this is also the other thing too, Like you look
Speaker 2: at how the price of bitcoin is, I don't just skyrocketed,
Speaker 2: you know since the election and made a lot of
Speaker 2: people like like smaller holders of bitcoin very wealthy because
Speaker 2: then now you they've also created a group of people
Speaker 2: that will evangelize about cryptocurrencies and be like, no, like
Speaker 2: this is actually like it's amazing, like what I've been
Speaker 2: able to do with it.
Speaker 3: There's just so many different dimensions of how I don't like,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what version is going to work, but
Speaker 3: you can already just see sort of like this pattern
Speaker 3: sort of emerging. The crypto lobbying has been so weird. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Like in the biggest industries outreach to blackmail voters, she
Speaker 3: like really centered crypto in that. And I don't know
Speaker 3: if this is just like received wisdom or if this
Speaker 3: is true, but like the crypto lobby investing a bunch
Speaker 3: of money in the Ohio Senate race then elected Brittany
Speaker 3: Marino and pushed out Brown, and it's like it feels
Speaker 3: like six years ago someone should have been like, no,
Speaker 3: this is imaginary. You can't do government. You're off on
Speaker 3: your own island with your play money.
Speaker 2: Right right, yeah, yeah, But again, like because because of
Speaker 2: like the emergence of like these very wealthy people who
Speaker 2: run these coin exchanges, Yeah, to your point, they're just
Speaker 2: being like, this is this is our play now like
Speaker 2: we can, we can, we can put because they because
Speaker 2: now like fully they're realizing, okay, dollars I can use
Speaker 2: to push around and threaten any politician with a primary
Speaker 2: loss or a full on election loss by just going
Speaker 2: all in on their opponents. And that's how you see
Speaker 2: they did it. Over the last few years of getting
Speaker 2: people in line over their stances on crypto, and more
Speaker 2: and more people are just being like, yeah, yea, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I think maybe we maybe less regulation would
Speaker 2: be good for this.
Speaker 3: And that usually that is always pretty sick for like
Speaker 3: most people, is when things get deregulated.
Speaker 2: Do you regulate?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just that always works out, I think pretty well.
Speaker 1: Like Enron, I know so many people who are just
Speaker 1: you know, paid off their home loans with Enron money.
Speaker 3: And put my kids through college.
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, yes, all right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll come back and talk about some things
Speaker 1: we can feel good about, like the Sexiest Man Alive.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back, and we're back. We're back.
Speaker 1: And so we actually the episode that we recorded the
Speaker 1: day of the election, before we knew the results, one
Speaker 1: of the stories that we focused on was, you know,
Speaker 1: the upcoming big news that we still didn't have access to,
Speaker 1: and it makes it so hard to record those episodes.
Speaker 1: We still didn't know who People's Sexiest Man Alive was, and.
Speaker 3: And you're sourced up over there. You're like the Woodward
Speaker 3: in Bernstein of People magazine.
Speaker 1: And I got fucked by the sources, to be honest,
Speaker 1: a lot of them, especially the ones who are you
Speaker 1: know sheep dipped. CIA agents were telling me it was
Speaker 1: going to be Jim from the Office, and I just
Speaker 1: now that guy.
Speaker 2: Have you seen how Powell whatever the exactly.
Speaker 3: He's sexy, he's alive?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do, what's wrong? I do?
Speaker 1: Like the people who have the energy to be outraged
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 10: Just like another another one where I had all my hopes, right,
Speaker 10: it's just like just another rake to the face, just
Speaker 10: going through the media landscape catching rakes to the face.
Speaker 1: But yeah, some people. It was announced on Tuesday that
Speaker 1: Jim Halpert from the Office is the Sexiest Man Alive.
Speaker 1: His photo on the cover looks almost apologetic.
Speaker 6: He's like, sorry, yeah, I didn't mean to be all sexy.
Speaker 2: Helper. Look, yeah, totally is a breaking the fourth wall
Speaker 2: of sexy Jim.
Speaker 1: Look, yeah, yeah, we only bring it up because people
Speaker 1: really seem to not like it. Because he's also a
Speaker 1: character that I have like for a while now, been
Speaker 1: like been keeping one eye strongly on ever since he
Speaker 1: just like started being openly pro CIA interviews. His like
Speaker 1: positive news show came out during like at a time
Speaker 1: when everybody was really pissed off. He was like, what
Speaker 1: if flick, I don't know, it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2: Like immediately like this was all just kind of like
Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars and nothing ever came out.
Speaker 3: People continued to die of a rampant pandemic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, he just he has he has weird
Speaker 1: takes and takes so weird in fact, that he has
Speaker 1: become people's sexiest man these mainstream enough. He's like the
Speaker 1: Jay Leno of sexy guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's kind of like but he is like a
Speaker 2: perfect encapsulation of like in America, where on the surface
Speaker 2: things seem like okay, but like.
Speaker 1: On the service he seems calm and steady.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but deep down, yeah, and he's weak or mom
Speaker 2: Spaghetti another Mom Spaghetti's.
Speaker 3: I think everyone knows what people underneath these mom spaghetti Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, his vomit.
Speaker 3: Jim vomited down spaghetti.
Speaker 1: He looks like that that's the look of the picture.
Speaker 1: He's like, Oh, I don't know, I just had this letter.
Speaker 1: I guess I just puked on it mom spaghetti. But hey,
Speaker 1: I'm as American as eating mom spaghetti, you know. But
Speaker 1: like again, but underneath, it's like this guy that's like
Speaker 1: constantly winking at the right wing while also kind of
Speaker 1: pretend like doing an away.
Speaker 2: Is like, but I'm like not that kind of guy. Also,
Speaker 2: like I'm Jim. It's just this very yeah, off putting thing.
Speaker 2: But it's it is wild for how much people fucking
Speaker 2: hate this announcement because I don't know, I think it's
Speaker 2: probably partially like a lightning rod for everyone's election angst. Yes,
Speaker 2: but it's truly being like, yep, this is the perfect
Speaker 2: guy to fucking get angry about it.
Speaker 3: It's also like there's so many years that people Magazine
Speaker 3: and Sexiest is like not someone as as Victor pointed
Speaker 3: out that it's not someone who's like super in the zeitgeist.
Speaker 3: It's not someone who you think of necessarily as sexy
Speaker 3: like Blake Shelton one, you know, and people like fully
Speaker 3: like left their bodies with rage. And it's also like
Speaker 3: not it's the sexiest famous guy alive. Right, that's the thing.
Speaker 3: The sexiest guy alive is some broke dude who like
Speaker 3: lives on his friend's couch and has like slept his
Speaker 3: way through an entire friend group and no one's mad
Speaker 3: at him.
Speaker 2: Oh nice, you slept with him? Too cool?
Speaker 1: Really? Yeah, it's also there's an interesting pr thing that
Speaker 1: happens with this increasingly these past two years. Like this year,
Speaker 1: I think everyone was like there's an obvious choice, Like
Speaker 1: there's a guy who is famous for being the sexiest
Speaker 1: guy and he was in like the biggest blockbusters of
Speaker 1: the summer.
Speaker 2: Glen Palell was.
Speaker 1: Like seemed like, yeah, this in a world like where
Speaker 1: this had some like editorial integrity, Like I think when
Speaker 1: it's when it started, it was like, yeah, they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess it's Brad Pitt again, you know,
Speaker 1: a guy who's most famous for like people, you know,
Speaker 1: jacking off to how hot they are, and that then
Speaker 1: like I think starting I don't know exactly when it started,
Speaker 1: but I think because it's like viewed.
Speaker 2: As like I don't know that, do I want it?
Speaker 2: Do I want that?
Speaker 1: It has to be somebody whose team thinks it's a
Speaker 1: good branding move for them to be considered sexy. And
Speaker 1: so last year with Patrick Dempsey, it was like, what
Speaker 1: if we gave them a reminder that this guy was sexy.
Speaker 2: Because he's got a movie coming up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also like jumped on the Golden Bachelor wave.
Speaker 1: And with this year with fucking god, I can't John
Speaker 1: Krasinski not Jim Fuckers, how fuck is he?
Speaker 2: Whatever? This fucking guy's name, Gim.
Speaker 3: The thinking Man's Mark Wahlberg.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, we don't really think of him that way,
Speaker 1: but what if you did?
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: I think there's also backlash for understandable reasons against kind
Speaker 3: of puffy comedy guys that are like, but what if
Speaker 3: it was fucking hot like him and Chris Pratt? Like,
Speaker 3: if it were Chris Pratt, I think there would be
Speaker 3: riots in the streets right now. It would be like
Speaker 3: any hockey team won any hockey game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I think this is just all this tells
Speaker 1: us is that Chris Pratt turned down the opportunity to
Speaker 1: be people sexiest. Man. I think that's the only thing
Speaker 1: this says is like, yeah, he.
Speaker 3: Retreated from being sexy for a while where he's like, no,
Speaker 3: I'm Mario and Garfield.
Speaker 2: Now right, yeah, yeah, yeah, don't look at me as sexy,
Speaker 2: look at me as Garfield. Sexiest man alive guards just
Speaker 2: such a weird like the idea of the sexiest man
Speaker 2: alive just like evokes like some kind of freak show thing.
Speaker 2: Or it's like step right up, ladies and behold the
Speaker 2: sexiest man alive and it's just some white guy again.
Speaker 11: And buckets of cold water get too sensuary and seven
Speaker 11: fainting couches, be careful like it's just all right, and
Speaker 11: again the lack of just like it's who are the like,
Speaker 11: only the people of color to win?
Speaker 2: This have been what how many of you? Dwayne Okay,
Speaker 2: the Rock, Idris, Elba John, Oh you know what they did.
Speaker 2: They probably did this moral licensing thing where they went
Speaker 2: three years of black men. They're like it was el
Speaker 2: John legend, Michael B. Jordan and now we're electing Trump
Speaker 2: and now we will never have to do that again,
Speaker 2: right right.
Speaker 3: It's also like did someone lap Michael B.
Speaker 2: Jordan?
Speaker 3: That's ridiculous, Like in the past year we've tallied the votes,
Speaker 3: Patrick Dempsey got sexier than Michael B.
Speaker 2: Jordan's.
Speaker 3: He should just keep the crown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it would be like a King of the Hill.
Speaker 2: Thing is like, is anyone ready to dethrone a sexiest Okay, I.
Speaker 3: Guess we can just yeah, kind of a runway walk
Speaker 3: off the winder style.
Speaker 1: If there was like an independent media media ecosystem, it
Speaker 1: would be like really low hang for someone to actually
Speaker 1: do like a rigorous version of this story and just
Speaker 1: be like actual sexiest man.
Speaker 3: At Glen Powell. I feel like even you do a
Speaker 3: Jeremy Allen White as those are the two.
Speaker 2: Hotel people are so to lose Miles.
Speaker 3: Sorry, sorry man, this is Trump's America hotel. Can't be
Speaker 3: sexiest man.
Speaker 2: Sorry yeah, bad, my bad. Want to get down the election,
Speaker 2: Jesse Waters.
Speaker 1: That's I mean in nightmare future universe, like we could
Speaker 1: be headed that way. I think he's going to be
Speaker 1: running the Department of Education.
Speaker 2: I think probably before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, every host from form really of the five is
Speaker 3: going to have their own department.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: On Yesterday's training like Trump did name just a Fox
Speaker 1: News host to be depart.
Speaker 3: Career of defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah defense. Yeah, I like to wash his hands.
Speaker 3: I do think we should do what that guy.
Speaker 2: It's because that guy, it's his hands, his hands peak.
Speaker 3: M hmm. I do think that we should have a
Speaker 3: sexiest dead guy every year. Yeah, we don't have to
Speaker 3: show a current picture, but I feel like if a
Speaker 3: new sexy guy dies, maybe they're the sexiest dead guy.
Speaker 2: Or they're like that's fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just coming.
Speaker 2: Back around to it, you're like, oh yeah, I mean like,
Speaker 2: have you seen the photos? And we're talking peak peak right.
Speaker 3: Right right, because when you're dead, that's that's how you
Speaker 3: should be remembered.
Speaker 2: Yea peak Marlon Brando, not like Islander, Doctor Moreau, Marlon Brando.
Speaker 2: Have you seen those pictures of the Billy Zame as
Speaker 2: Marlon Brando and that biopic that's coming out later this year.
Speaker 2: It's bro, this motherfucker looks like Marlon Brando. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I hate to just commandeer the segment like that, but
Speaker 2: it just hit me because I saw a recent pick
Speaker 2: of it and I was like, holy shit, dude, this
Speaker 2: is this is prestige casting in terms of finding someone
Speaker 2: that looks like Marlon Brando.
Speaker 3: They're gonna eat like they haven't since Titanic the.
Speaker 2: X maybe, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Everybody can go check out some cool pictures of John
Speaker 1: Krasinski leaning against various things. Photo shoot has him leaning
Speaker 1: against a doorway in the meatpacking district, leaning against an
Speaker 1: old timey cab, multiple old timey cabs. He might have
Speaker 1: an inner ear situation because he's really off balance in
Speaker 1: all these pictures.
Speaker 3: But disability representation is so important.
Speaker 2: He's stealing Keith Morrison from Datelines whole fucking thing which
Speaker 2: is leaning on ship, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 2: there's nothing atrid about this. Yeah, just move on, move
Speaker 2: on from him.
Speaker 1: That was a big Instagram was like the lean is
Speaker 1: so hot, and it was just like people like guys
Speaker 1: leaning against doorways people online.
Speaker 3: But it's like people are just so into to engagement.
Speaker 3: They'll be like, like food just hits different when you're hungry.
Speaker 3: You don't need to say that, just think.
Speaker 2: It right, just hits different when you're hungry.
Speaker 3: John. The John Krazinski thing is so funny too, because
Speaker 3: like even with this like action hero glow up, he's
Speaker 3: not someone that I hear people being horny for. And
Speaker 3: at his peak right as Jim Helpert, when people were
Speaker 3: like he's dreamy, it would be like people's marriage materialist
Speaker 3: man of.
Speaker 2: Man alive right right right, right right, Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: you have to issue a statement like you just found
Speaker 2: out about this, like something they called you on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Morning and we're like, hey, you won the because he's
Speaker 1: like I guys that. For me, this is like so weird,
Speaker 1: so wide. I don't sit around being like, oh I
Speaker 1: hope I'm people's sexiest man alive today. You know, Like
Speaker 1: it's just it was like phrased in a way that
Speaker 1: was like you should have written this out of time.
Speaker 1: It looks like you did, but like you did it.
Speaker 1: You should have had somebody else write this out ahead
Speaker 1: of time. It seems like because it's not it's not selling.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not buying that, John Krazinski. This was not
Speaker 1: part of an aggressive campaign to be like what if
Speaker 1: we tried to like say, I know the last like
Speaker 1: movies we've tried people are like, oh no, no, probably not,
Speaker 1: but like what if he was sexy? Have we tried that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It's also to be like faux humble. It's like when
Speaker 3: you're a person who's the best again still best known
Speaker 3: for the office, do have a little fun with it,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Like, Uh, since I was
Speaker 3: a boy, I always knew I would achieve this honor
Speaker 3: and it's it's beautiful to be recognized for the sensuous
Speaker 3: man I've always been, and I look forward to making
Speaker 3: love to each American individually. Now that is my prerogative.
Speaker 2: See could have Josh Gondleman right for you.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's been a dream to write for.
Speaker 3: I am that unemployed. I'm going to put some poor
Speaker 3: lady named Kelsey out of work.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, And finally KFC is suing somebody again
Speaker 1: around the phrase original recipe. Just the concept of the
Speaker 1: original recipe seems to make them go crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because churches deigned to say that they our original
Speaker 2: recipe is back. Oh you fucked up, because now KFC's
Speaker 2: lawyers are coming for your ass. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Original recipe only refers to KFC's original recipe. We have
Speaker 1: trademarked that and U OUs so much chicken.
Speaker 3: The KFC has declared they have the concept of the
Speaker 3: original recipe, as if the original recipe the first recipe. Ever,
Speaker 3: it's fried chicken and not potatoes over an open flame.
Speaker 1: Right they So they actually say that they're not doing
Speaker 1: this for themselves. The lawsuit is actually on behalf of
Speaker 1: all fried chicken lovers out there. I can't figure out, Like,
Speaker 1: how you even get to that logic? Like if churches
Speaker 1: stole your original recipe, how would that harm Fried Chicken lovers.
Speaker 2: Out there again? Because they're trying to say that we
Speaker 2: are the protecting the ystem, they are the standard bearer for.
Speaker 3: The flying they're flooding the zone with original recipes, right
Speaker 3: the Steve Bannon tactic, right to diminish trust in mainstream
Speaker 3: chicken media.
Speaker 1: Employers. We kept so many people jobs. You guys should
Speaker 1: love us. They're like, if we go out of business
Speaker 1: doing this on behalf of you guys.
Speaker 3: I also love the phrase that they're doing it for
Speaker 3: the Fried Chicken levers, which sounds like the like the
Speaker 3: spoken word intro to the grossest R and B song
Speaker 3: of all time.
Speaker 2: Huh yeah.
Speaker 1: So just to give you a little background on how
Speaker 1: KFC does when it comes to the original recipe. In
Speaker 1: two thousand and couple bought Colonel Sanders's house and discovered
Speaker 1: a hamdwritten note that seemingly contained the recipe. They contacted KFC,
Speaker 1: the most good faith thing I could imagine a human
Speaker 1: being doing in that scenario. They contacted KFC to be like, hey,
Speaker 1: we found your wallet, do you want it back? With
Speaker 1: like extra money in it.
Speaker 3: We found a wallet. Whose is it?
Speaker 2: I honest the wallet, you can have it. No, we're
Speaker 2: gonna fuck it out ours.
Speaker 3: That's our wallet for sure.
Speaker 1: So they they suit this couple again. But just not
Speaker 1: to give you the wrong idea, they did say, we
Speaker 1: took it very seriously. We filed the lawsuit to protect
Speaker 1: the quality of our product and by extension, you the
Speaker 1: fried chicken Fried Chicken lover. Yes, exactly. Absolutely, they may
Speaker 1: have a claim to the term original recipe, but they
Speaker 1: actually don't have like just legally speaking, that is the
Speaker 1: argument they're making and in today's Supreme Court environment, but
Speaker 1: they actually don't have a patent on the actual recipe
Speaker 1: because that would require them to disclose the ingredients and
Speaker 1: they really like they just won't do that, or so
Speaker 1: they claim they won't do that. Yeah, so anyways, it's
Speaker 1: like a big show.
Speaker 2: They make them the funniest.
Speaker 3: The funniest reason did not want to go through Discovery
Speaker 3: is like they're going to find out how much human
Speaker 3: we here.
Speaker 2: Yeah fuck yeah exactly. I mean when the sad thing
Speaker 2: is like it's it's out there already.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all bullshit. You can really buy KFC season
Speaker 1: right now if you want. Because Colonel Sanders himself got
Speaker 1: the company Marion k to recreate his spice blend, and
Speaker 1: then they still sell it under the name ninety nine
Speaker 1: X ninety nine dash X, which not great branding. Let
Speaker 1: they're less good at branding, but it feels like Elon
Speaker 1: musks child name.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it feels like a very nineteen ninety nine
Speaker 2: naming convention, Like yes, ninety nine X, dude, is that.
Speaker 3: Mountain dew.
Speaker 2: Ok oh by that oh buy that.
Speaker 1: Goes well with surge, But ninety nine X doesn't list
Speaker 1: its ingredients. However, Colonel Sanders' nephew leaked the recipe to
Speaker 1: the Chicago Tribune just a few years ago, and he
Speaker 1: died of polonium poisoning.
Speaker 3: They're making Boeing look real soft, right, that's right, Mark
Speaker 3: his nephew.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be so embarrassing to get assassinated by KFC.
Speaker 3: I hold on, I have a knock at my door
Speaker 3: one second, guy, the documentary JFKFC.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be incredible.
Speaker 1: From all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I just like the thing that I love
Speaker 2: is that like they the one thing they don't really
Speaker 2: cop to is the fact that they use MSG you.
Speaker 1: Know, they released the recipe minus the MSG, and somebody
Speaker 1: tried the recipe and was like, this doesn't work. Then
Speaker 1: they added MSG and they were like, oh, it's KFC
Speaker 1: that this is KFC that I'm holding my hand and
Speaker 1: they reached out and KFC was like, yeah, okay, we
Speaker 1: use them. Can't prove anything, Kappa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, MSG is like fine, right, yeah, that's the word.
Speaker 2: Which is so funny because they spent all this energy
Speaker 2: to like keep up this myth and like act like
Speaker 2: the secret isn't just using MSG, like that's really what
Speaker 2: it is. Like that's what I mean, Like you think
Speaker 2: about I just think about all this like Chinese restaurant syndrome,
Speaker 2: that shit that was happening in the middle of the
Speaker 2: twentieth century. To be like these Asians are cheating with
Speaker 2: MSG kind of shit and maybe that's villains to use
Speaker 2: that that's all bad. Only for them to hold on
Speaker 2: to it like it's their fucking holy grail.
Speaker 3: To be like it's MSG though, actually makes it a
Speaker 3: little bit. It's a little bit more steroids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. But yeah, I mean I do know
Speaker 2: people have like actual like you know, I think like
Speaker 2: it's a glutamate like allergy or whatever. But for the
Speaker 2: most part, like really it's fine. It's naturally occurring too,
Speaker 2: but like try it on shit, you know, little Yeah,
Speaker 2: because most stuff, if you look at a lot of
Speaker 2: the seasonings that a lot of people use in the US,
Speaker 2: the stuff you're like, damn, that shit's good. It's like
Speaker 2: it's just look at the ingredienters. It's msg in there.
Speaker 2: It's not because it's a secret thing. That's what's making
Speaker 2: stuff hit harder.
Speaker 1: Yeahore the Korean grocer next to my house, like we
Speaker 1: have been shopping that.
Speaker 2: God damn.
Speaker 1: So much of these snacks are like so good. It's
Speaker 1: because like mstry does not have as as bad a
Speaker 1: name in Korea as it does in the US.
Speaker 2: No, in Japan, it's called the essence of flavor, that's what.
Speaker 2: That's what. It's called a geno moto like the fucking
Speaker 2: basis of flavor. And that's like it's like that's where
Speaker 2: like because some what food scientist is like, fucking how
Speaker 2: do we get this like umami kind of thing out
Speaker 2: of shit? And that research led them to this, and
Speaker 2: then for decades we were just racist against food tasting good.
Speaker 1: R Yeah, exactly right, not fair. It's like it's this
Speaker 1: whole the food industry being like not fair essentially. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they've the secrecy, Like the whole branding around
Speaker 1: the secrecy is like they regularly staged dumb pr stunts,
Speaker 1: Like they had an armored car with a police escort
Speaker 1: transport the recipe to a vault and it was contained
Speaker 1: in a briefcase handcuffed to someone's wrist and it said
Speaker 1: KFC top secret on the outside. One time they had
Speaker 1: the recipe delivered to a Swedish nuclear bunker by RoboCop.
Speaker 2: So what, yeah, is.
Speaker 3: That even under Robo Cups jurisdiction?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know in this New America.
Speaker 1: And one of the sequels I think, so the one
Speaker 1: where you can fly, Yeah, sure, I will go to Sweden.
Speaker 1: That's what a lot of people don't nuke. The drug
Speaker 1: from one of the Robo Cups sequels was just but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's basically just like a lot of branding I feel like,
Speaker 1: is just giving adults the thing they lost when they
Speaker 1: stopped believing in Santa Claus.
Speaker 2: You know, there's actually be some magic. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyways, Yeah, the original recipe is closely guarded, like
Speaker 1: the nuclear football and KFC will kill you if you
Speaker 1: find out about.
Speaker 3: It, and like the nuclear football, Donald Trump is desperate
Speaker 3: to regain access to KFC's original recipe.
Speaker 1: Yeah that might randomly be true. Yeah, this is that's
Speaker 1: what motivated his run for.
Speaker 3: Just like I need to get this recipe, and he's
Speaker 3: going to open up a bunch of fried chicken places
Speaker 3: on his own.
Speaker 1: Josh Gondleman, what a pleasure having you as always on
Speaker 1: the daily Zeitgeist? Where can people find you? Follow you
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Speaker 3: I am at Josh Gondleman across social media at gnd
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Speaker 1: Go check it out. Is there a work of media, Josh,
Speaker 1: that you've been enjoying.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I'm really trying to savor the last season
Speaker 3: of what we do in the Shadows, and you know what,
Speaker 3: under a little under the radar we're talking to underrated. Earlier,
Speaker 3: I liked Bad Monkey on Apple Plus. If anybody watched that,
Speaker 3: it's like Vince Vaughan as a disgrace detective.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, got the old magic back Baby.
Speaker 3: I thought I was kind of over his whole thing,
Speaker 3: and then I watched this and was like, oh, he's
Speaker 3: kind of fun as like a Haggard washed up guy
Speaker 3: that's still smug and talks fast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think didn't Trump appoint him to lead the
Speaker 2: National Endowment for the Arts.
Speaker 3: That's right, We're in a true renaissance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Miles, where can people find is their work media
Speaker 1: you've been enjoying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, find me everywhere. When they got AD symbols, including
Speaker 2: blue sky I'm on the blue skis also because uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: gotta gotta have your eyes on all the exits. So yeah,
Speaker 2: check me out there. It's also Miles of Gray. Shout
Speaker 2: out to all the zeitgang that's been following. Also, hit
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Speaker 2: I can get you that, but you gotta reach out
Speaker 2: and I will respond. But yeah, find me in those places.
Speaker 2: Also find Jack and I talking basketball Miles and Jack
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Speaker 2: reality television talking about ninety day fiance on four twenty
Speaker 2: day fiance with Sofia Alexander. So check me out there.
Speaker 2: My tweet I like is from at Brian gar that
Speaker 2: tweeted fuck your feelings, but also please come to Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: We miss you and our vote had nothing to do
Speaker 2: with you, honey, it feels very much the vibe right now.
Speaker 1: You're I don't think I have any media I've been enjoying.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Blue Sky at Jack ob.
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Speaker 1: to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
Speaker 1: as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 2: Miles was sung.
Speaker 1: Do we think people might enjoy it?
Speaker 2: Again? Looking for music that transports us to places that
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like now or here. This is a track
Speaker 2: by a group called The Shack or the Shacks Sorry,
Speaker 2: and it's called Trip to Japan, and it's just it's
Speaker 2: just a really great track. Like they they talk about
Speaker 2: they describe their music as quote soundtrack to a mysterious
Speaker 2: alternate reality, and that's what you get, Like it's the
Speaker 2: people who are like are part of this? Have you
Speaker 2: know played with like bands like L Michael's Affair who
Speaker 2: I've suggested before. It's full out there and it's really nice.
Speaker 2: The vocalists is really super dope, so check this out.
Speaker 2: It feels like a trip to Japan Music League, So
Speaker 2: trip to Japan by the Shacks. Check it out.
Speaker 1: Is it spelled like the s h q s?
Speaker 2: No? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Not the shakeels?
Speaker 1: Now okay, all right, we will link off to that
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