Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three one three,
Speaker 1: Episode three of the Dailies Geistart production of iHeartRadio. This
Speaker 1: is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
Speaker 1: America's shared consciousness. It is Wednesday, November fifteenth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: What's November fifteenth? That's easy.
Speaker 1: It's National Education Support Professionals Day. Is National Raisin Brand Day,
Speaker 1: National Spicy.
Speaker 2: Hermit Cookie Day. I don't know what the fuck that is?
Speaker 1: National bunt cake Day. I know what that is? National
Speaker 1: clean out Refrigerator Day, National Philanthropy Day in America, recycles Day,
Speaker 1: or do they Because in La I see them putting
Speaker 1: the recycling and the trash in the same truck and
Speaker 1: it goes and I'm saying, well, I guess they separated
Speaker 1: at some point. But that's where we are, Blake, Do
Speaker 1: you did do any of those? Resonate with you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Clean out your fridge Day, I think for me
Speaker 2: is every single day.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I subscribe to forty six mule kit companies, so it's
Speaker 2: a constant. It's a real mess.
Speaker 1: You always have a bag of rapidly spoiling spinach for
Speaker 1: some reason in the back of here.
Speaker 2: It's a race against well, you already know what time
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: My name is Miles Gray, aka the Blazer, Frenny Occasion,
Speaker 1: the Lord of lankasham Yo boy Kusama, obviously, and you
Speaker 1: heard me pull my guest host in. It's the Lord
Speaker 1: of Chaos and so one of my favorite people, and
Speaker 1: I believe one of your favorite people too. Please welcome
Speaker 1: my guest host, Blake Wexler.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for having myles. This Islake Wexler aka I want.
Speaker 1: To blake free. I want to blake free. I want
Speaker 1: to blake free from Jack's lies. He's so self said.
Speaker 1: It's fine. I don't need him.
Speaker 2: It's great to be here. Thanks for letting co host.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm like a lot of responsibility.
Speaker 1: No, no, not at all. No, no, not show. We
Speaker 1: don't do anything. We're worthless. I just don't say that.
Speaker 1: We're mere voicing job. We're mere voices. Were mere voices.
Speaker 1: But yes, let's move on to our guest today. First
Speaker 1: time guest, but someone I've definitely known about for some time.
Speaker 1: I'm sure many people have as well. Not only is
Speaker 1: this person a very talented author, they're also a comedian.
Speaker 1: They've worked in tech. They gave us many memories throughout
Speaker 1: twenty twenty on the social media's I think it's safe
Speaker 1: to say that their debut memoir, Foolish is out now.
Speaker 1: Because it is out now. That's why it is safe
Speaker 1: to say, and they should pick it up. Please welcome,
Speaker 1: And obviously I do want to give the sub head
Speaker 1: to that title Foolish Tales of Assimilation, Determination and humiliation.
Speaker 1: I think words many of us that listen to the
Speaker 1: show can live by. Please welcome to the third chair,
Speaker 1: Sarah Cooper.
Speaker 3: Cooper, Oh my god, this is the best intro I've
Speaker 3: ever got.
Speaker 1: Well make it easy.
Speaker 3: There is twenty five for sure.
Speaker 1: We'll take that. There, we'll take that. We'll take that.
Speaker 3: The yelling, the jerseys in the background, it's really it's
Speaker 3: a lot going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot going well, this is all the
Speaker 1: rack of jerseys behind me is because I don't have
Speaker 1: proper soundproofing. So this is kind of like baffling. And
Speaker 1: it's also baffling to my partner. Why I have so
Speaker 1: many jerseys as someone who's.
Speaker 2: On it is a cost efficient way of doing it,
Speaker 2: is buying authentic jerseys instead of it's.
Speaker 1: Just my padding. Yeah, there are my kids. I've had
Speaker 1: these for so many years.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean showing off?
Speaker 1: No, I mean I do show off my new WU
Speaker 1: Tang New York Knicks jersey, because yeah, I am proud.
Speaker 3: Of that one that's in the front for a reason
Speaker 3: you put that there.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely I spent way too much money on it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Sarah, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: I know you you've been you're traveling, You're all over
Speaker 1: the place, so thank you for making the time for
Speaker 1: stopping by. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Oh, anytime, anytime for you.
Speaker 1: Thank you. This is getting started so well. I feel
Speaker 1: like we already know each other. And like, book, how's
Speaker 1: that been putting out your first memore? Because this is
Speaker 1: in your first book, right, this is this is something
Speaker 1: you've done. This is just your first memoir.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is my first memoir. I had another book
Speaker 3: called one Hundred Ticks to Appear Smart in Meetings, and
Speaker 3: then I had another book called How to Be Successful
Speaker 3: Without Hurting Men's Feelings, and then I had a few
Speaker 3: other things I did. But this is the first one
Speaker 3: with like words, lots of words, you know, and sentences
Speaker 3: and like paragraphs and like chapters and stuff. So that
Speaker 3: was like, yikes, you know.
Speaker 2: So you can't color in the images on this one
Speaker 2: because that was no traditional like a traditional book.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they were going to have they were going
Speaker 3: to have like a little section with like pictures and stuff,
Speaker 3: and then I think we decided not to, so like
Speaker 3: it doesn't even have that many pictures in it, to
Speaker 3: be honest.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, it's huge. Yeah, you are you on a
Speaker 2: tour for it?
Speaker 1: Now? Is that why you're you're traveling?
Speaker 3: Or my tour kind of ended already? The book came
Speaker 3: out in October, but I'm doing another event here in Boston,
Speaker 3: so that's why I'm doing a little traveling. But you know,
Speaker 3: I spent too much money on cloth this month, so
Speaker 3: I was gonna I was going to take myself on
Speaker 3: a trip to like London, and now I don't have
Speaker 3: money for that. So now I just I'm in Boston
Speaker 3: for two days. So instead of London, I'm in Boston
Speaker 3: for two days in the middle of November.
Speaker 1: So that's it. Okay, at least you're in New England,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, there's that. Boston is the London of
Speaker 1: New England.
Speaker 3: What a good connection. Yeah, instead of England, I'm in
Speaker 3: New England.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you do that? Thing like when you look
Speaker 1: at all the clothes you bought that prevented you from
Speaker 1: going London, and you look at them, You're like, that's London.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at London right now. This like reminds you
Speaker 1: when I would do shit like that by should I
Speaker 1: didn't need And I'm like, oh, now I can't do
Speaker 1: this other thing. I'm like this pair of soccer cleats
Speaker 1: that I bought for I don't know why I haven't
Speaker 1: played any year. Yeah, that's I think.
Speaker 3: The thing that kills me is when I spend a
Speaker 3: lot of money on one outfit. Yeah, and I'm just
Speaker 3: like I could have gotten eight outfits for this one outfit.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The math is in mathing. I get it.
Speaker 4: For me.
Speaker 2: It's not travel, It's it's like medical expenses that I
Speaker 2: forego because I'm like, oh, there's a pair of back
Speaker 2: surgeries that I have on the ground that I went
Speaker 2: on stock X and purchased something. So now I hear you,
Speaker 2: yeah travel, Wait, you need back surgery, Blake, I am
Speaker 2: currently you have.
Speaker 3: Two You need a pair of back surgeries.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's true to making the Beast with two backs.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm getting a back production is what I'm getting.
Speaker 2: Said too, and I'm told I only need one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Well it's good to know. Thank you for
Speaker 1: being honest. I appreciate trance anytime your back. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: we got back. We've got your bacs. Saya. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get to know you even better. But first you got
Speaker 1: to let people know what we're going to be talking
Speaker 1: about today. Republicans got to talk about them. They're coping
Speaker 1: with being wrong by being wronger. It sounds like they're
Speaker 1: just doubling down on a bad hand. You hate to
Speaker 1: see it, or maybe you love to see it, and
Speaker 1: also find out our our laws aren't quite keeping up
Speaker 1: with our driving habits, and we're gonna look at how
Speaker 1: a law from about like twenty years old, laws are
Speaker 1: about twenty years ago, haven't quite kept up with our
Speaker 1: cell phone technologies, and how how people are not being
Speaker 1: very good about being safe on the road. Truth Social
Speaker 1: you hate to see it. They lost seventy three million
Speaker 1: dollars since it launched, and just turns out as they
Speaker 1: try and bring the company public, more information comes out
Speaker 1: as part of the process of merging. So we benefit
Speaker 1: from seeing just how with how the art of the
Speaker 1: deal actually works, and maybe that Jeremy Renner has a
Speaker 1: better app than even Donald Trump. Then we'll talk about SpaceX.
Speaker 1: They're trying to launch a starship rocket again this week.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot, a lot of safety violations that
Speaker 1: have been going on SpaceX I had no idea about
Speaker 1: that are very troubling. Even if you are an elon
Speaker 1: stand they will probably not. But for those of us,
Speaker 1: that aren't very troubling. And if we get time, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about Andre three thousands, a new album that's coming
Speaker 1: out Friday. Just drop out. We'll have time. Oh, we'll
Speaker 1: make time. We'll make that's the lead story, even if
Speaker 1: we scrap every other story we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: before we do any of any of that. All of that, Sarah,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are?
Speaker 3: I was doing a deep dive on Suzanne Summers today, Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: And I don't know you all are probably too young
Speaker 3: to remember Three's Company, but it was.
Speaker 2: Hey about it.
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree with the sentiment.
Speaker 3: Jack Tripper was my first first celebrity crush. Oh, John Ritterer. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And anyway, Suzanne Summers she recently died. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: she died I think a week ago, or no, a
Speaker 3: month ago, a month ago October fifteenth, she died anyway,
Speaker 3: So she wrote twenty five books. Did you know that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Wow? I mean I think my knowledge of her went
Speaker 1: from obviously there's an agam do they'll be waiting for you?
Speaker 1: Like I was old enough to watch Three's Company reruns,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, oh, and then you became
Speaker 1: the thigh Master lady. Right, And those are kind of
Speaker 1: the two like pinnacle or like big standout moments in
Speaker 1: my elder millennial brain. Right, I didn't know she was
Speaker 1: a prolific author.
Speaker 3: She wrote twenty five books. She Leftree's Company and didn't
Speaker 3: talk to John Ridder for twenty years because she kind
Speaker 3: of ruined the show because she wanted to be paid
Speaker 3: as much as he was being paid on the show
Speaker 3: for like the fourth season or fifth season. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: then she had like a follow up sitcom that like
Speaker 3: called She's the Sheriff that just was rated at forty
Speaker 3: fourth of the fifty worst shows ever made. But then
Speaker 3: she came back and she was the mom on step
Speaker 3: by Step or one of those like you know, she'd
Speaker 3: get their Friday whatever shows. And she was married to
Speaker 3: her husband for fifty five years and he's still alive.
Speaker 3: He's ten years older and he's still alive. And they
Speaker 3: had this like really explosive sex life like into like
Speaker 3: their seventies, Like they were having sex multiple times a day.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I just I found out a lot
Speaker 3: about Suzanne Summers.
Speaker 1: That's yeah. I mean she always had a bit of,
Speaker 1: you know, sex appeal to her, so I guess it
Speaker 1: doesn't quite strike me as surprising, but yeah, it's good
Speaker 1: to like goals to be like you can have sex
Speaker 1: multiple times a day in your seventies.
Speaker 3: Truly to your body break. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, what like were her books like sort of memoirs
Speaker 1: or was she also like was she getting into like
Speaker 1: kind of interesting niche stuff.
Speaker 3: Her first book was a book of poetry, and the
Speaker 3: first time she did Late Night was talking about her poetry,
Speaker 3: her book of poetry, and in the book of poetry
Speaker 3: is about touch and how important it is to touch people.
Speaker 3: And she got like Johnny Carson and edwmc mant to
Speaker 3: hug each other because they never She's like, you guys
Speaker 3: never touch each other, and like they touched each other
Speaker 3: for like the first time. It was like really funny.
Speaker 3: And then she wrote a few memoirs, and she wrote
Speaker 3: like self help books. She had some weird medical theories
Speaker 3: that were like questionable.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm just reading one right now that she
Speaker 1: thinks fluoride may have caused mass shootings. Right he stuff
Speaker 1: in household pans. Okay, you know we can't bathe, we
Speaker 1: can't bath fear remed. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but she did get breast cancer twenty two years ago,
Speaker 3: and very aggressive breast cancer, and she survived for twenty
Speaker 3: two years, so you know, work, maybe it works for her,
Speaker 3: you know, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Wow, Suzanne, you know what a legend? What
Speaker 1: a legend? Were you a family or something?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, go ahead, what were you gonna say? Do you
Speaker 1: want to know what I was? You're gonna shame yourself
Speaker 1: in front of everyone. Go ahead, I'm not shaming myself.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you A real story is that I knew
Speaker 1: that she was a prolific writer because in school and
Speaker 1: like elementary school, used to do something called summer's reading,
Speaker 1: where each summer we would read Suzanne summer books exclusively. Great,
Speaker 1: So whatever you were going to say, now you can
Speaker 1: say it.
Speaker 3: Wow, are hysterical, And I hope that you will start
Speaker 3: start a movement across elementary schools. I think summer reading
Speaker 3: needs to be a thing now.
Speaker 1: Summer. Yeah, absolutely. You have all these kids talking about
Speaker 1: like is there a floor ride in our water? Teacher,
Speaker 1: we need to talk about this. I read something very interesting.
Speaker 3: I'm never going to brush my teeth again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, damn you summers. Yeah. I don't know what
Speaker 1: I was going to say, Blake, you completely neuralized me
Speaker 1: with that, with that amazing top tier joke. Sarah, what
Speaker 1: is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 3: I have a few things if that's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll allow it.
Speaker 3: The first. The first thing I would say is astrology.
Speaker 3: I had this conversation last week where I was telling
Speaker 3: a friend that I keep I can't figure out like
Speaker 3: what I want. I keep going back and forth between
Speaker 3: things like do I want to do this? Do you
Speaker 3: I want to do that? And he was like are
Speaker 3: you a Gemini? And I was like no, I'm a
Speaker 3: Sagittarius And he was like I knew it. And I
Speaker 3: was like, wait a second, you knew that I was
Speaker 3: a Sagittarius even though a second ago you thought I
Speaker 3: was a Gemini? Like leave me alone, Like why is
Speaker 3: everybody like, I'm like sunrising like scorpio falling like whatever
Speaker 3: it is, like what is it? Like? Why do people
Speaker 3: why do people believe in this?
Speaker 1: I just don't understand it. It's it's a way to
Speaker 1: I mean, for I always give this anecdote because I
Speaker 1: was always interested by astrology, but it was usually at
Speaker 1: my loneliest. I got into it because shout out Susan
Speaker 1: Susan Miller's astrology zone. She would have like love forecasts
Speaker 1: and be like, you're a virgo, you need to keep
Speaker 1: your eye open. And that was a way for me
Speaker 1: to give myself some kind of hope that I would
Speaker 1: be like, this thing is telling me some shit that
Speaker 1: I don't believe myself, but I need someone who I
Speaker 1: believe is tapped into something larger than I can understand
Speaker 1: to help me understand that. And then yeah, cut to
Speaker 1: things where people will be like are you a scorpio.
Speaker 1: I'm like no, I'm a verb, like exactly, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: come on now, like you sound like one of those
Speaker 1: like like those those psychics that get busted on TV
Speaker 1: where they're like yeah, yeah, my brother, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: But also like when you were a kid, like when
Speaker 3: I was like a boy crazy and used to do
Speaker 3: those like you know, paper things yeah yeah, the fortune
Speaker 3: teller thing or the mash thing like yeah, which also
Speaker 3: made me remember this idea. This is what Facebook needs
Speaker 3: to do. Okay, Yeah, have so much information and data
Speaker 3: on every single person. They could figure out, like all
Speaker 3: of my data, who I am today, and they could
Speaker 3: match it up with someone who's very very similar demographically
Speaker 3: and like mentally to someone who's five years older than me,
Speaker 3: and they could literally tell me where I'm going to
Speaker 3: be in five years probably right right, right, yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: they could do that.
Speaker 1: That would be why could you imagine? Like that feels
Speaker 1: like such a double edged sword because on one hand,
Speaker 1: you could see, like all it would take a couple
Speaker 1: to be accurate, and then people to completely give it all,
Speaker 1: like all their agency away to like the meta fucking right.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: But I just read that we don't have free will anyway,
Speaker 3: so who cares?
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Meta took it away, took it away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I don't fuck with the matrix, you know,
Speaker 1: That's why I don't. You're in the matrix, Nay.
Speaker 3: I can't tell it's in water, dude.
Speaker 1: I've been out. I've been out. There's a real bad mushroom,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure I was out for a little bit.
Speaker 1: What else do you think is overrated? Sarah?
Speaker 3: Personal growth? I think, I think knowing yourself, you know,
Speaker 3: self awareness. I feel like the people who are most
Speaker 3: successful aren't self aware at all, truly.
Speaker 1: Yeah they have some.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So why are we getting to know ourselves?
Speaker 3: Like I feel like I've I've really gotten to know
Speaker 3: myself so much now that I'm basically who I was
Speaker 3: like thirteen years ago. And like the sayings that my
Speaker 3: mom used to say that I used to think, we're
Speaker 3: so stupid, I now find myself saying I'm like, it
Speaker 3: is what it is? Like, why am I saying that?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: It's so scary when you start repeating what your parents do.
Speaker 2: It's it's horrifying.
Speaker 3: But also also it's true. How do you argue with
Speaker 3: it is what it is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't argue with it. It's this, this is present.
Speaker 1: You're like, of course, that's an observation, right, right, pretty objective.
Speaker 2: I used to say don't step in the oil constantly
Speaker 2: whenever we'd walk through a parking lot, like if a
Speaker 2: car was leaking oil and I'd be like, God, why did.
Speaker 1: You always say that?
Speaker 2: And now I'm like, yeah, I guess I was stepping
Speaker 2: in it and dragging it through the carpets of our house.
Speaker 2: We had a carpet, We had carpets, and it ruined life.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, yeah, it's been a good few years,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I'm a lot of nepotism.
Speaker 1: In my life. Tell him about you grandfather, the carpet
Speaker 1: King of South Carolina. Here was the carpet King of
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Yeah, he laid them so. He was originally
Speaker 1: labeled a carpet bagger, and then he turned lemons into
Speaker 1: lemonade and called himself the Carpet King and opened up
Speaker 1: a multi billion dollar business. I love he.
Speaker 3: Turned lemons into lemonade and became a carpet king.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fascinating.
Speaker 2: He opened up a lemonade stand and sold carpets asn't happened.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. And when he called himself the carpet King,
Speaker 3: did he spelled carpet with a K too?
Speaker 1: I think Calvin Klein logo, right, It was like a
Speaker 1: c K. It was.
Speaker 2: It was exactly that. Yeah, yeah, it was a hundred present.
Speaker 2: You know exactly what did you are you like scraping
Speaker 2: my Facebook data? Because I've posted about this a lot.
Speaker 2: I'm the oracle of directly.
Speaker 3: I can't tell what's real on this show. I really can't.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That was a joke. Okay, but this is
Speaker 1: not the matrix though we're in the real world. I
Speaker 1: want to say, I want to argue on behalf of
Speaker 1: the real world there. But you'd say you think, I mean,
Speaker 1: you haven't had any personal growth. You said, like, I'm
Speaker 1: the same person I was thirteen years ago.
Speaker 3: Well, I had this, you know. I I the first
Speaker 3: joke I ever wrote, ever told on stage, was a
Speaker 3: year ago I was single, and today I'm no longer single.
Speaker 3: I'm not desperate.
Speaker 2: That's really funny, and that's a great that's great, thank.
Speaker 3: You, And it's like true again. Oh, I've been married,
Speaker 3: I've been divorced, and now I'm like right back where
Speaker 3: I was right and it's just like and I've done
Speaker 3: all this work on myself. I've had all these relationships
Speaker 3: that I've had all this like introspection and I've looked
Speaker 3: at everything and I've overturned everything, and I've digged in
Speaker 3: and I've hunted, and I'm right back where I started?
Speaker 3: So what was the point? What was the point?
Speaker 1: I think? I think it's you know, we're all paying
Speaker 1: our tuition to the school of experience. I think you
Speaker 1: and now that whatever this next j you know juncture,
Speaker 1: the next venture is romantically Well, you're going to use
Speaker 1: all of these learnings, you know what? Fuck that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What are some of your first dates? Like?
Speaker 3: There, I don't even have dates. That's the one thing
Speaker 3: I did change that I got off all the dating apps.
Speaker 3: Like thirteen years ago, I was on all the dating apps.
Speaker 3: This time, I'm not, so I did change.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what do you what's what? What's your methodology? Now?
Speaker 1: So you've learned something? There you are.
Speaker 3: I'm literally just waiting. I'm literally just like a spider
Speaker 3: in a web, just like waiting for somebody to come along.
Speaker 1: Perfect, perfect, it's coming when you meet that.
Speaker 3: Person, I'm waiting to suck the fucking.
Speaker 1: Than a carpet.
Speaker 2: You get a dried up hust hus I'm done with you.
Speaker 1: What's the mean? Think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Sarah A fake plants. I really love my fake plants.
Speaker 3: They make me feel like I'm taking care of things,
Speaker 3: but then I don't actually have to take care of anything.
Speaker 3: But it's like it adds all this greenery. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I really love fake plants, and I really feel like
Speaker 3: people look down on me for not having real plants,
Speaker 3: and they keep trying to get me to like get
Speaker 3: a cactus or get a succulate or something that, you like,
Speaker 3: shut up, just I have fake plants, and it's.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know, shut out the plastic plant people. I
Speaker 1: have more judgment seeing somebody with dead ass plants than
Speaker 1: I would fake plants. So yeah, aside from the quality
Speaker 1: being different, yeah, we're not.
Speaker 2: That's such so indicative of your friends knowing that, like
Speaker 2: you're a busy performer, writer, comedian, that they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: don't get something that you need to nourish and take
Speaker 2: care of. Get something that doesn't require water or any
Speaker 2: care whatsoever that you can just leave in your home. Now,
Speaker 2: I think fake plants are amazing because now they look real,
Speaker 2: like this isn't the forties back, you know, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's a yeah, you know, it was.
Speaker 3: Definitely not the forties. Yeah, back when they used to
Speaker 3: look so fake.
Speaker 2: And like yeah, or you're like it's gotten better with
Speaker 2: each decade decade.
Speaker 3: It's really improved. Yeah to my my grandfather was the
Speaker 3: fake plant king.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm gonna say, I'm like, go on, Sarah, let
Speaker 1: us know. You know, did you come from Meeker upbringings
Speaker 1: or did you? Were you the princess of the fake
Speaker 1: flower industry? I like, now I find myself like when
Speaker 1: I'm with my partner, her magicy will go out. I'll
Speaker 1: like touch ship because I'm so convinced. I'm like, this
Speaker 1: ship fake, still good, and then I'm like, or like
Speaker 1: I'll end up breaking a leaf on a real thing,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh ship, my bad, my bad. And
Speaker 1: then other times when I find them, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: knew it, but that ship looks real good, that looks fantastic.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe this speaks to our whole thing about like
Speaker 3: what is real? Rightly, certain things that are fake looks
Speaker 3: so real, and some things that are real look fake
Speaker 3: because they look so real.
Speaker 2: And then at that point that's that's such an Aquarius
Speaker 2: thing to say, yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, are you an Aquarius? Oh Sagittarius. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: knew that, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah you're miles okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: Aquarius was probably it's somewhere in your chart though.
Speaker 3: It's a moon it's a sun. It's a yeah, it's
Speaker 3: a moon.
Speaker 1: It's a mood. You know, that's a real select.
Speaker 3: It's a vibe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all vibes. It's all vibes. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll be right back to talk
Speaker 1: some news. We'll be right back, and we're back. I
Speaker 1: want to check in with the Republicans because last Tuesday
Speaker 1: they got a bit of a shellacking. I think some
Speaker 1: people would say in.
Speaker 2: The elections across the country, someone call it wake up
Speaker 2: call number maybe seventy three, seventy five, that their full
Speaker 2: frontal attack on abortion rights and protections for transgender people
Speaker 2: is not a winner.
Speaker 1: Somehow just doesn't. There's not a lot of data to
Speaker 1: back that up. We saw losses for moms for liberty
Speaker 1: candidates across the country, and in Ohio specifically, candidates that
Speaker 1: ran under like no rights for anyone except SIS dudes
Speaker 1: lost seventy three percent of their races. Okay, that's that's
Speaker 1: not a good that's not a good success rate when
Speaker 1: you when you control the entire state election maps and
Speaker 1: things like that, and you're going you're getting around a
Speaker 1: twenty five percent success rate. And so for a second,
Speaker 1: I thought maybe they would realize that this is one
Speaker 1: of the worst platforms to run on in the modern era,
Speaker 1: but pretty much everyone except for like a handful of
Speaker 1: Republicans basically doubled down on this. In Ohio specifically, again,
Speaker 1: the response from Republicans that lost their fight to stop
Speaker 1: abortion rights from being enshrined in the state's constitution figured
Speaker 1: that the immediate response should be going after trans rights again,
Speaker 1: even though that was a losing formula. Their candidates and like,
Speaker 1: in this very sadly transparent active desperation and hatred, state
Speaker 1: legislators put hearings on the books, like immediately after Tuesday
Speaker 1: to discuss new bands on gender affirming care, bathroom laws,
Speaker 1: and fucking drag shows. And these are all things that
Speaker 1: we've seen, like drag show bands have been struck down
Speaker 1: in courts across the country, and we're like, what is
Speaker 1: for real? What is going on again? For the people
Speaker 1: in the back? Seventy three percent of the candidates running
Speaker 1: on this kind of shit lost, but again that hasn't
Speaker 1: stopped the other losers to deny the reality that they
Speaker 1: are very, very, in fact wrong. I mentioned on Monday
Speaker 1: about the RNC chair RONI McDaniel. She insisted that they
Speaker 1: are right and it is reality that is wrong about
Speaker 1: why we should keep running on this terrible, terrible platform
Speaker 1: and play this for you.
Speaker 4: This isn't true, Liz. I'm proud to be a pro
Speaker 4: life party. But we can win on this message. The
Speaker 4: American people are where we are and they want common
Speaker 4: sense limitations. They want more access to to adoption. We
Speaker 4: want to make sure that there's pregnancy crisis centers. These
Speaker 4: are things we can win on. But we have to
Speaker 4: talk about it. And you can't hide in a corner
Speaker 4: and think abortion is not going to be an issue.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So for the record, we can win on
Speaker 1: this message.
Speaker 3: Did you hear her literally almost say people want more
Speaker 3: access to abortion herself and say adoption? She literally almost
Speaker 3: said it. She knows she's she's lying through let me.
Speaker 1: Let me do that one more time. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: quite catch that.
Speaker 4: And they want common sense limitations. They want more access to.
Speaker 1: To adoption, adoption, adoption, adoption, Yeah, get one aboptions, That's
Speaker 1: what I meant.
Speaker 2: Everyone gets a free pop it. Yes, it's horrible. Let's
Speaker 2: go further, right, you know, like people don't already want
Speaker 2: this far as far right as these policies are, let's
Speaker 2: keep going further. See if they're turning the dial.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they keep losing go ahead, and it makes.
Speaker 1: It very easy, makes it very easy that knock yourself
Speaker 1: out as if you're running against the Republic, you needs
Speaker 1: have to be again, like we've said, you just gestured
Speaker 1: to them and be like, so there's this person just
Speaker 1: so you know, okay, and I'm not gonna tell you
Speaker 1: what I'm just I'm just telling you I'm not this person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, sure, I get helping adoption outcomes is fine,
Speaker 1: but you need a couple that with like actual care
Speaker 1: for people and like kids that are in foster care. Like,
Speaker 1: actually look at it holistically. If you're talking about adoption,
Speaker 1: but that's not what it is. You just throw that
Speaker 1: out because it's an alternative.
Speaker 3: And then I'm so bored with this shit, Like it's
Speaker 3: so boring, Like it's so frustrating too. It's just like
Speaker 3: it's all of these buzzwords just to get people like
Speaker 3: riled up, and no one's riled up anymore. I think
Speaker 3: people are just dead inside at this point because it's
Speaker 3: just like the same shit over and over and over
Speaker 3: and over.
Speaker 1: And over again, like and even with their own base,
Speaker 1: Like you have to remember it's your own base that's
Speaker 1: also voting to entrine fucking abortion rights in a state constitution.
Speaker 1: That's not just because the Libs came out. That's because
Speaker 1: your own your own bass Like, well, I don't that
Speaker 1: shit sounds just fun and wild to me, Yet they insist, right,
Speaker 1: and then they're like, oh, of course we want common
Speaker 1: sense limitations. Again, those are still limitations on healthcare, So
Speaker 1: miss us with that shit. And crisis pregnancy centers are
Speaker 1: not someplace you go for compassionate care if you're having
Speaker 1: trouble with pregnancy or you're conflicted you They are bait
Speaker 1: and switch operations aimed at discouraging people from having abortions,
Speaker 1: like and keeping the pregnancy no matter what through the
Speaker 1: power of prayer or whatever they want to offer you there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I've read I've read something about one of
Speaker 3: those crisis centers that they show you like a fake
Speaker 3: ultrasound where the baby, like God, actually looks bigger than
Speaker 3: it actually would would actually be, and then it also
Speaker 3: like has a little like thought bubble like hi, mom.
Speaker 2: No way, it's it's its first NBA contract like a
Speaker 2: the womb where it's like, this baby's a cash cont.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want to abort this one. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be it's gonna go places. This is gonna be your
Speaker 3: central bullock vehicle right here, right.
Speaker 1: You go in there and you're like, I just came
Speaker 1: here to fuck with you. I am not pregnant, So
Speaker 1: what was that?
Speaker 2: They're like, fox, So I need surgery because I don't
Speaker 2: know how did I swallow this thing?
Speaker 1: What happened? Get its side bit? And also this is
Speaker 1: a wildly unprofessional sonogram machine. If it's giving me thought bubbles,
Speaker 1: please please please don't leave, and only in English. Thought
Speaker 1: bubbles in English, yeah, right right, right, of course, of course, yeah,
Speaker 1: because those those fetuses better, they better, they better know
Speaker 1: what time it is. No fetus, so we.
Speaker 3: Produced American fetuses here that speak English.
Speaker 1: In America, okay, oh I'm sorry, I don't the thought
Speaker 1: bubble can only do the official language of the United States.
Speaker 3: If the thought bubble is in Spanish, We're like, yes,
Speaker 3: please abort it like that. They actually are okay with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like they're like, we're gonna we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to call Ice now because this is this is you
Speaker 1: can't Jesus, Okay, I want to move on to talking
Speaker 1: about our laws around distracted driving, because this is kind
Speaker 1: of I didn't so I think all of us we
Speaker 1: were there the era I was in high school and
Speaker 1: college or in the aughts, where like we were filled
Speaker 1: with stories, like we were just told constant stories about
Speaker 1: distracted driving, Like don't people are getting the serious sometimes
Speaker 1: fatal accidents, you know, because of this this thing called
Speaker 1: the cell phone. People are texting and calling each other
Speaker 1: while driving, and that was sort of the big threat
Speaker 1: back then. But now like it's like, I'll just just
Speaker 1: for the record, it turns out every state except Montana
Speaker 1: enacted some kind of texting while driving band like, which
Speaker 1: is very interesting. So hey, if you want your freedom
Speaker 1: to fucking drive and crash into whatever the fuck you
Speaker 1: want because you're distracted, go to Big Sky Country. But
Speaker 1: technology has evolved, and nowadays I feel like we all
Speaker 1: see it. I've been catching people watching full on movies
Speaker 1: on their phones while driving, like holding it, watching like
Speaker 1: a movie or a motherfucker's face timing and driving or
Speaker 1: watching YouTube. And not only do we have like dashboard
Speaker 1: mounts that can now just like fully put a cell
Speaker 1: phone screen in our eyeline, but like a lot of
Speaker 1: the newer cars also have big ass screens as part
Speaker 1: of the dashboard, and some of them you can hack
Speaker 1: to basically be a fucking TV or play games off
Speaker 1: of it while you're operating a motor vehicle. A recent
Speaker 1: survey showed that an embarrassing amount of people are casually
Speaker 1: driving and watching. About twenty five percent of drivers reported
Speaker 1: watching movies, TV shows, or video clips while driving at
Speaker 1: some point in the last thirty days. About fifteen percent
Speaker 1: of them said they do our fifteen percent of respondent
Speaker 1: said they did it regularly, twenty percent said they made
Speaker 1: video calls regularly in the previous month, and fifteen percent
Speaker 1: recorded and posted video. And millennials twenty five to thirty four, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hates out of that group, what's wrong with all?
Speaker 1: Get it together? They have the highest rates watching videos,
Speaker 1: playing games, and scrolling social media while driving for the records, Sarah,
Speaker 1: have you ever recorded and posted video while driving? I
Speaker 1: just I don't want to put you on blast, but
Speaker 1: are there?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean driving is boring.
Speaker 1: You want to be doing something else.
Speaker 3: While you're doing it, like if you're not drunk, which
Speaker 3: you shouldn't be drunk, you know you should right right,
Speaker 3: posting a video obviously of you driving. I don't know,
Speaker 3: I've never actually I never done that before. Yeah. I
Speaker 3: just think that there's a lot of people that feel
Speaker 3: like they can handle it, you know, they're like, I
Speaker 3: can do this, yeah, because because they grew up with
Speaker 3: screens and so I just like that. Then then they
Speaker 3: get into an accident and so it's just an awful
Speaker 3: situation of Darwin business.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, Like you were watching like great British bakeoff,
Speaker 1: like while driving on Mulholland that's a windy road. You shouldn't. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That sadly, like a lot of the laws on the
Speaker 1: books across the country, they're so vague that watching and
Speaker 1: drive are perfectly legal in some instances because some states
Speaker 1: just like some states have laws in their book that
Speaker 1: just explicitly banned watching TV broadcasts. So you can literally
Speaker 1: you think ABC NBC not be watching local broadcast television.
Speaker 1: Oh you on the CBS app. Yeah, yeah, that's good,
Speaker 1: that's fine, that's that's.
Speaker 3: Oh my gods have taken over everything.
Speaker 1: But and so like in only eighteen states have right
Speaker 1: laws right now that actually ban it, while the rest
Speaker 1: of the laws in the country are either so vague
Speaker 1: that it could go either way, or just like not
Speaker 1: banned at all.
Speaker 3: So banning means that like an officer can pull you
Speaker 3: over if he sees you doing that, and so that's
Speaker 3: a good different friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If it's banned, then they'd be like,
Speaker 1: they're on your phone. You can't be like, well, I
Speaker 1: wasn't watching broadcast TV. They're like, it doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: the fucks you were doing. That's that's baharamount. Plus some states,
Speaker 1: like in Texas, I think you could be like, this
Speaker 1: is Netflix, fam, So.
Speaker 3: No, I was watching Texas Rangers. Oh okay, that's fine.
Speaker 3: Okay in Texas, so it's okay. Certain shows are okay,
Speaker 3: Like while you're I.
Speaker 1: Was watching the World Series, Like hold on, was that
Speaker 1: being broadcast on television? You're like, fuck, you got me?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 1: He's like, but hey, he just won, so you're free
Speaker 1: to go. Now.
Speaker 3: Are people playing video games while driving? That would be interesting, Like.
Speaker 1: That's why I've seen some candy crush like swiping ass
Speaker 1: activities from people driving. It did not look like they
Speaker 1: were punching in an address. It's like you were playing
Speaker 1: a fucking puzzle. Game while driving?
Speaker 3: Can I tell a story that might get me in trouble?
Speaker 1: Go ahead?
Speaker 3: I think the statute of limitations is over on this.
Speaker 3: But I actually did rear end somebody while I was
Speaker 3: looking at my calendar on my phone. This was like,
Speaker 3: you're busy, yeah, so to go through all the oh,
Speaker 3: And I got and I got out of the ticket
Speaker 3: by like leaning over enough into the into the cops
Speaker 3: car that he could see most of my breasts.
Speaker 1: Wait, you were leaning into the cops car? Wait, what
Speaker 1: do you mean?
Speaker 3: So he was he was in he was in his
Speaker 3: in his cruiser or whatever, writing the ticket. And I
Speaker 3: got out of my car and I walked back there,
Speaker 3: and I like he opened the door and I was
Speaker 3: leaning over and I was like, this really wasn't my fault,
Speaker 3: and I could he was looking like right down my
Speaker 3: shirt and I was just like letting him and he
Speaker 3: was like, well, maybe we could go out sometime. I
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, I love that, And I got out
Speaker 3: of the ticket.
Speaker 1: So wown God. Yeah that's a skill move, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mister far right exactly. But I don't think that
Speaker 3: would work now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean obviously, like laws won't change the problem
Speaker 1: right away, but like to your point, Sarah, like knowing
Speaker 1: something's illegal does usually help someone's risk assessment to I.
Speaker 3: Put on a seatbelt all the time in the back
Speaker 3: seat because I know it's illegal. Lot.
Speaker 1: Also i've just seen like you know, just people now
Speaker 1: wearing seatbelts, like I know, ifeople are trying to be cool,
Speaker 1: got into like life accident. If had they been wearing
Speaker 1: a seat boat, they wouldn't have just been like you know,
Speaker 1: boggled in the backseat, like like a pair of cheap dice.
Speaker 1: But I think I.
Speaker 3: Think young people just don't think that anything's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: You know. I just didn't think I was. I thought
Speaker 3: I was gonna be fine, So I just don't think
Speaker 3: there's gonna be any consequences.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely guilty at an occasional low key look as
Speaker 1: something frivolous. But it's wild how because in my mind,
Speaker 1: like you can't be on your phone, like I keep
Speaker 1: that shit real low, which is actually worse because like
Speaker 1: then my eyeline is completely down. That I've had to
Speaker 1: definitely reassess now that like I'm a parent, but I'm blake.
Speaker 1: I think you were. You were telling me earlier, like
Speaker 1: you have no temptation. Ever, you're so so good about this.
Speaker 2: No, I will only like record videos to promote road dates,
Speaker 2: but other than that, I won't. I won't do anything
Speaker 2: like road dates. It's more yeah, my stand up dates.
Speaker 2: It's the only time I'll use use the phone when
Speaker 2: I'm driving. But I won't watch broadcast. I would never
Speaker 2: watch something on broadcast, like I would never watch a
Speaker 2: live event. Okay, good, Ever, ever, on my phone, Rory
Speaker 2: Scovell had a really funny joke. I think this was
Speaker 2: almost like eight or ten years ago. At this point,
Speaker 2: we're on Cone and he was talking about how states
Speaker 2: were starting to ban texting while driving, and Rory, for
Speaker 2: some reason, was using a Southern accent for noting. Didn't
Speaker 2: address it on the Cone. He just did it in
Speaker 2: a Southern accent the whole time. He goes like, but
Speaker 2: we we're just getting good at it. He goes like,
Speaker 2: why are they banning it just when we're getting You'll
Speaker 2: look at it the whole time. You just look down, up, up.
Speaker 2: And it was just such a funny, such a funny joke.
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm here to promote from ten years ago.
Speaker 1: It is true, there is like that sense of confidence
Speaker 1: of like you're like, not, well, there's other people that
Speaker 1: need to get there, so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean the worst is when we do
Speaker 3: the lift and like the driver has like three phones
Speaker 3: and they're looking at what directions on one and they're
Speaker 3: texting on another and you're like, what am I supposed
Speaker 3: to do about this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You know what's interesting? They said for people who
Speaker 1: are like especially gig workers, like in the gig economy,
Speaker 1: were like four times likely to engage in distracted driving,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, you hear anecdotally like they're like, yo, bro,
Speaker 1: Like a fucking Uber driver had a full on iPad
Speaker 1: on like watching TV while we were driving around, Like
Speaker 1: but I was also watching that show, so I figured fucking.
Speaker 2: And it's how they're supposed to get Like for Uber
Speaker 2: drivers lift drivers, it's how they also make additional money
Speaker 2: where while they're driving you, they'll get a notification from
Speaker 2: lift or Uber saying hey do you want to take
Speaker 2: this right and yeah, and then it's like boom boom.
Speaker 2: They have to do the math they can see on
Speaker 2: the map where they're going, So it is just inherently
Speaker 2: distracting to be able to do that while you're working,
Speaker 2: Like that's the game of it. And yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: know what they should do. Do you remember when they
Speaker 2: would sometimes bring like a friend in the car with them.
Speaker 2: Did that ever you were early uber? Yea, they would
Speaker 2: just some of them would just have a buddy like
Speaker 2: in the front seat.
Speaker 1: They're like yeah, they're like you, Yeah, it happened bunch
Speaker 1: of At first, I was like, is this shady? But like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was like a short ride, so
Speaker 1: I was like whatever, Like I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: I could, I could handle myself. Well.
Speaker 3: Justin is saying his sister just happened. That happened to
Speaker 3: his sister.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's bad. It happens. It happens sometimes.
Speaker 3: And do you report it because that seems weird?
Speaker 1: No, I mean I don't know. I'm like, it's it's
Speaker 1: hard enough, like yeah, trying to trying to fucking get
Speaker 1: your like, you know, grinding it like that. I'm like, whatever, man,
Speaker 1: Like if I get you again doing that, then maybe
Speaker 1: I'll be like, do you like, does your does your
Speaker 1: friend have to be drinking wine out the bottle? Straight up?
Speaker 1: There is he praying to be in this car?
Speaker 3: Or if they bring a baby and they're like hold
Speaker 3: this baby.
Speaker 1: While at that point I'm like something, yeah, like you
Speaker 1: have terrible judgment me fine, I mean this baby looks cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah fine, I'll rock the baby sleep. But yeah, please
Speaker 1: stay safe out there and and don't try and and
Speaker 1: wiggle your way through the lives. Distracted driving is bad. Okay,
Speaker 1: that is that's the official that's my hot take today,
Speaker 1: and that's why this.
Speaker 3: Is only an audio podcast because we're saving lives.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. I certainly don't want to distract you with
Speaker 1: my grizzled visage. Certainly not. Okay, let's talk about someone
Speaker 1: you know a bit about Sarah Donald Trump, and specifically
Speaker 1: though Trump's social.
Speaker 2: If I didn't know anything about Sarah and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I didn't think this Sara's politics at all?
Speaker 1: Did you work for That's uncura.
Speaker 3: I would love to just like have it erase for
Speaker 3: my brain so I could be like, who's Donald Trump?
Speaker 3: Like who was that?
Speaker 1: Never heard of this person?
Speaker 3: But oh my god, I guess kids are having to
Speaker 3: learn about him as a president. Huh. Yeah, they're just
Speaker 3: learning about him. Some kids that are just for the
Speaker 3: first time, like.
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, seriously, it's oh my god. Yeah, like it's
Speaker 1: like when I was like, like Reagan was a president
Speaker 1: when I was born, and I just remember, like my
Speaker 1: dad all the time, like you you don't want to
Speaker 1: know about Reagan's ass, And I'm like I'm four, but
Speaker 1: like sure, he's like he's like, you know what he
Speaker 1: did to people that need help, fucking left them out
Speaker 1: to dry.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, I'm so hungry, I have my
Speaker 3: my I wrote like a journal when I was like
Speaker 3: thirteen and Bush Bush was president and I put this
Speaker 3: in the book, like and it was like the Iraq
Speaker 3: War was starting and I wrote like, oh, Bush made
Speaker 3: a speech and it was really good. Like I was
Speaker 3: such a little Republican.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, like we have to support our troops, yeah,
Speaker 1: and protect KUWAITI interests.
Speaker 2: You're like, wait, what the fuck? You don't know what
Speaker 2: they're parenting your parenting State Department talking points now, but
Speaker 2: like truth social specifically, right, we've like we've heard how
Speaker 2: just like much of a disaster, it's been like that
Speaker 2: they needed to merge with a company in order to survive,
Speaker 2: and like they needed like a bunch of the shareholders
Speaker 2: to vote to approve this merger. Well that happened, and
Speaker 2: it bought them a bit of more time to survive.
Speaker 2: But Kirkland signature Twitter as we know it is not
Speaker 2: quite working out.
Speaker 1: As a business entity. So this deal that they've been
Speaker 1: planning with Digital World Acquisition Corp. Which is a special
Speaker 1: purpose acquisition company basically companies that are meant to take
Speaker 1: private companies public like, has given us a few details
Speaker 1: into what's happening. And what we found out is that quote.
Speaker 1: Since early twenty twenty two, truth Social, which is owned
Speaker 1: by Trump Media and Technology Group, made three point seven
Speaker 1: million dollars in net sales and lost seventy three million dollars.
Speaker 1: But they made the rest of it.
Speaker 2: You're going negative, They made money. Yeah, focus on that.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot of money. So you've made almost
Speaker 1: four million dollars. I'm like, well no, then don't talk
Speaker 1: that mess about truth Social.
Speaker 3: You know, you can't make money without losing money.
Speaker 1: That's just that's true. True, you know it is true.
Speaker 1: That's also how degenerate gamblers think at a at a
Speaker 1: table when they're like, dude, you gotta lose six thousand
Speaker 1: to win nine thousand, and you're like this is oh,
Speaker 1: I sure, sure it is. Man, Can you let go
Speaker 1: my wrist though, But yeah, they apparently they've just been
Speaker 1: constantly hemorrhaging money, like from the like from the first
Speaker 1: six months, they lost twenty three in the six months.
Speaker 3: Trump's money.
Speaker 1: I think it's money that's been put in by Trump
Speaker 1: and other investors. Yeah who want to who are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll back you because social media is too so woke
Speaker 1: and they're censoring free speech. They're not that we got it.
Speaker 1: We need a place for our own. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if you remember when truth Social was announced, it
Speaker 1: was part of like this like like six headed hydra
Speaker 1: of like a media entity that Trump was like talking about,
Speaker 1: like there was gonna be tm what is it, Trump
Speaker 1: Media Something Group Plus? What do they call it? TMTG plus,
Speaker 1: which is like their answer to everyone, putting out a
Speaker 1: streaming service that said to offer programs including, but not
Speaker 1: limited to, blue collar comedy, canceled shows, Trump's specific programming,
Speaker 1: faith based shows, family entertainment shows that embraced the Second Amendment,
Speaker 1: and news.
Speaker 3: You know who's cleaning up? You know who's really cleaning
Speaker 3: up who? People who know htmlal just like you know what, Yeah,
Speaker 3: let me build you a site. I can do that
Speaker 3: for you, and these these idiots are just like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: let's build a Look, anybody can build a social media
Speaker 3: site now, rightbody.
Speaker 1: Right, right right exactly. They're like, yeah, yeah, let's see
Speaker 1: cause it probably like three million. Yeah, okay, yeah exactly, okay.
Speaker 3: For actually, you know what, the build this month is
Speaker 3: eight and million?
Speaker 1: Sorry oh wait wait, hold on how many people did
Speaker 1: you want? Did you want millions of people using it? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah millions? Okay, so it's a dollar per user that
Speaker 1: you think will use it. So what you said about forty, Yes,
Speaker 1: let's do it for forty. It's yeah, it's fucking wild.
Speaker 1: But apparently Trump Media and Technology Group Plus TMTG plus
Speaker 1: also completely it gone. It's it's it's gone, it got gone.
Speaker 1: It it what it's you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: It gone dot com?
Speaker 1: It gone, yeah, go to it gone dot com where
Speaker 1: you can watch canceled shows.
Speaker 2: Canceled shows is the fun. And it's not like community,
Speaker 2: you know, like yeah, yeah, yeah, like that follow them.
Speaker 1: That first season, yeah, the first season of the Roseanne reboots.
Speaker 1: Basically they're like after that, no, no, basically not or
Speaker 1: they'll have like we'll have outtakes from community. When Chevy
Speaker 1: Chase was saying racist ship and that's it. We can
Speaker 1: make that a show.
Speaker 2: But yeah, canceled shows is so it's funny because it's
Speaker 2: so bage.
Speaker 3: I just want to be in the room. Like when
Speaker 3: they were pitching this and I said, we're gonna call
Speaker 3: it truth social, like the truth, but it's also social.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: Where did you find this person? He sells coke to
Speaker 1: Don Junior.
Speaker 3: Oh great, We're gonna find Hunter's laptop on this thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I'm telling you, bro, we'll find that dude.
Speaker 1: Fucking find everything.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna call this TMT plus man. Yeah, shows
Speaker 1: do fucking guns and shit, fucking god dude family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's sick.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna invest. I'm gonna invest that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: These young guys, man, they have ideas. I mean, you've
Speaker 2: you've spent some time in the tech world. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you've seen some you see you've been in rooms when
Speaker 2: people have been in it. Yeah, Like, I mean, what
Speaker 2: how do you think it's actually working out? Like when
Speaker 2: people come up with like what transparently bad ideas and like, yeah, okayol,
Speaker 2: let's go, that's a go.
Speaker 1: That's a go.
Speaker 3: I just feel like Trump and all of these guys,
Speaker 3: they're just so stupid, you know. And I don't mean
Speaker 3: to use the word stupid and just some mean way,
Speaker 3: but they're just and so I I that's when I say,
Speaker 3: like with people who know how to build, these things
Speaker 3: are cleaning up, Like I think that they are agnostic,
Speaker 3: like they don't actually care about the the proctics. They're
Speaker 3: just there to be like, hey, yeah, like we can
Speaker 3: build you a site. Yeah, let's call it true social
Speaker 3: no problem. You know, it's it's got no security, it's
Speaker 3: got no privacy, it doesn't work at all. It doesn't
Speaker 3: work at all. Okay, it is held together with like spit,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. But but truly Trump is like, okay,
Speaker 3: let's keep funneling money into it. You know. It's like
Speaker 3: they found the mark, they found the guy, they found
Speaker 3: the guy who would pay for.
Speaker 1: It, you know, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think because then everybody is so hypnotized
Speaker 2: by the I PO that that's why they're like, dude,
Speaker 2: I'm holding on man, because hopefully we take this thing
Speaker 2: public and I can cash out on this uncashable.
Speaker 3: Check social io the day.
Speaker 1: I know that, but this is what I can't wait
Speaker 1: what's interesting too, I just found out is the Special
Speaker 1: like what it was it the Special Proposalquisition Company, the
Speaker 1: SBAC that is meant to take truth social public. There's
Speaker 1: also like there's a new agreement that was just brought
Speaker 1: to light between the two parties that like they can
Speaker 1: terminate this deal now at any moment starting from like
Speaker 1: October thirty first, like November twenty something. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if like these this this trickle of stuff right
Speaker 1: now is meant to be like yeah, actually we're we
Speaker 1: don't want it. We're now we did we had some
Speaker 1: additional due diligence and it ain't diligence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's the tech pros cleaning up, and now
Speaker 3: it's the finance pros cleaning up. It's just just cleaning up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the different lovable bro just a different lovable cross
Speaker 1: section of bros.
Speaker 3: But I mean, but you know, Elon has ruined Twitter too,
Speaker 3: So I'm just like every site is just falling apart.
Speaker 3: Every social media site to me is just completely falling apart.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean we're talking about this like last week
Speaker 1: about how like millennials especially are in a weird place
Speaker 1: like for you know, being there for the beginnings of
Speaker 1: using the Internet, whether it's like Aol and shit like
Speaker 1: that or Tumbler, you know what I mean, Like we've
Speaker 1: seen everything come and go MySpace and like now we're
Speaker 1: watching it all fucking just go to shit, and like
Speaker 1: it does, like at least for me. We were saying,
Speaker 1: like personally, I was like, yeah, it completely, I'm not
Speaker 1: really interested in using it, Like there's no magic to
Speaker 1: it that there was initially. And I don't know that's
Speaker 1: because there's a bunch of like weird ass you know,
Speaker 1: hateful people and bots and shit that are ruining or
Speaker 1: like because we're just seeing it evolve in the weird
Speaker 1: like profit centric ways. You're like, oh man, just fucking shit.
Speaker 2: No, I was gonna say, it's like interesting too where
Speaker 2: I think you see or from my point of view,
Speaker 2: you hear about like acquisitions on the news, you read
Speaker 2: about them, but like they don't really affect you on
Speaker 2: a day like on a day to day level. And
Speaker 2: then when Elon took over Twitter, I think that's the
Speaker 2: first one that's been primarily like front and center in
Speaker 2: my life where obviously you see the hate on there
Speaker 2: and how you know, like that's been perpetuated, and even
Speaker 2: from something as small as just because he fired so
Speaker 2: many engineers. There just some stuff like you were saying there,
Speaker 2: it just doesn't work where I'm like, oh, like let
Speaker 2: me look up the analytics on this, and it's like,
Speaker 2: oh ye, sorry, this doesn't work right now, and we're
Speaker 2: like what is going on? Oh maybe it'll work tomorrow,
Speaker 2: And it's just there's just things in the app that
Speaker 2: technically don't work anymore because he made so many cuts
Speaker 2: in so many brutal ways.
Speaker 3: The search, the search, the trending terms like the other
Speaker 3: day trending, God, Hitler death, Like what is why are
Speaker 3: these things trending? You click on you you don't even
Speaker 3: know why they're trending anymore.
Speaker 1: It's just such a yeah right now, Will Smith and
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent Hitler as.
Speaker 2: Hitler has been trending for a year and a half.
Speaker 1: Oh Hitler's Hitler is so in especially with that last
Speaker 1: Trump speech where he's calling his enemies vermin. But anyway, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we will see what happens. It turns out though, like
Speaker 1: if the merger doesn't go through, truth Social and TMTG
Speaker 1: may not survive.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I have to delete my account.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know, I know, and Joe.
Speaker 3: My stuff over to somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Hey, downloader members, like download all your data, man, just
Speaker 1: get it all off there before they get rid of it.
Speaker 1: Get all your truth social data off there.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about delete. You know, I really do
Speaker 3: want to get off social media at some point, Like
Speaker 3: I really do have do have this vision of just
Speaker 3: not being on anything. But like I love my handle
Speaker 3: so much and I've had it for so long that
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want someone to take it over, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so like just yeah, just do
Speaker 1: Like maybe we should have like the right to have
Speaker 1: like Internet posthumously squatting on a handle kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I like that we just need to We're going to
Speaker 1: retire this handle and they will not be used for evil,
Speaker 1: and we can use it as a you know, a
Speaker 1: reserve for fantastic thoughts and musings. Okay, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right back to I guess talk
Speaker 1: about Elon again, at least how bad of a boss
Speaker 1: he is. Right after this and we're back SpaceX. Speaking
Speaker 1: of Elon, they just announced that they may try launching
Speaker 1: their Starship rocket for a second time this Friday if
Speaker 1: they get approval from the FAA. And this comes fresh
Speaker 1: off the heels of an extremely damning investigation from Reuters.
Speaker 1: They uncovered quote over six hundred previously undisclosed workplace injuries
Speaker 1: at SpaceX facilities since twenty fourteen. This is including everything
Speaker 1: from like cuts, lacerations, fucking head injuries to amputations. People
Speaker 1: have been in comas and tragically, even death. One employee
Speaker 1: apparently died recently after sitting on some cargo that was
Speaker 1: being hauled on a trailer with no straps, and the
Speaker 1: guy said, oh, no straps, I'll just lay on top
Speaker 1: of this insulation so we can get it from point
Speaker 1: A to point B and hopefully my body weight will
Speaker 1: keep this from blowing off the fucking truck. Tragically, a
Speaker 1: gust of wind blew him and the insulation off and
Speaker 1: he was unfortunately, he was killed, like he was pronounced
Speaker 1: dead at the scene OSHA. Basically, like I think anyone
Speaker 1: who just heard what happened found that SpaceX had quote
Speaker 1: failed to protect the employe from what they say was
Speaker 1: a clear hazard. But it turns out like that's just
Speaker 1: kind of just a sample of how bad some people
Speaker 1: are getting injured. There. One man was smacked in the
Speaker 1: head with it while they were testing an engine in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Apparently like they were doing a pressure
Speaker 1: test of a Raptor V two rocket engine that's a
Speaker 1: tongue twister and like a piece of the rocket blew
Speaker 1: off and fractured the skull of employee Francisco Cabada, and
Speaker 1: it put him in a coma, and reportedly SpaceX has
Speaker 1: quote ignored the family's attempts to find out why he
Speaker 1: wasn't protected. And just I know, I said six hundred
Speaker 1: injuries since twenty fourteen, but it's really important to note
Speaker 1: that that is only a portion of the total case count,
Speaker 1: because while OSHA requires companies to report injuries annually since
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, SpaceX facilities have quote failed to submit reports
Speaker 1: for most of those years. So this is like when
Speaker 1: things were just bad enough, and like the punishments are
Speaker 1: as we say all the time, fines don't deter billionaires,
Speaker 1: especially when the fines are a few hundred dollars to
Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars, like the fine for the guy who
Speaker 1: lost his life. They only had to pay a seven
Speaker 1: thousand dollars fine for that, and it's not like you know,
Speaker 1: I know, people were like, well, maybe working on rocket
Speaker 1: ships is like a fucking hazardous gig. Not Like when
Speaker 1: you compare this to the space industry average, they are
Speaker 1: blowing records out. So in twenty twenty two, the injury
Speaker 1: rate at their Brownsville facility in Texas was four point
Speaker 1: eight injuries per or illnesses per one hundred workers. That's
Speaker 1: six times higher than the space average industry of zero
Speaker 1: point eight per one hundred workers. And the reason for this,
Speaker 1: this is where Elon comes in is fucking Elon and
Speaker 1: his hatred of like regulations, Like he believes that employees
Speaker 1: should quote be responsible for protecting themselves. How I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: how does that work? And also like when he would
Speaker 1: go to do like safety visits to sights, he would
Speaker 1: tell people please take he didn't want people wearing safety
Speaker 1: yellow vests because he dislikes bright colors. And would also
Speaker 1: be like walking around sometimes with one of his dumb
Speaker 1: ass flame throwers during a fucking safety visit, Like what
Speaker 1: are you talking about this?
Speaker 3: Think this guy's a genius by the way, I.
Speaker 1: Know, I know. It just shows you what like hair
Speaker 1: plugs and a few billion dollars can do. And suddenly
Speaker 1: you're the new fucking what Tony Stark or whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck it is.
Speaker 2: He also doesn't like airbags on cars because they're two round.
Speaker 2: He said, to.
Speaker 1: Seatbelts will wrinkle your shirt. Actually, so I don't like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: do away with them. It's an aesthetic thing. What were
Speaker 1: you gonna say, Sarah, Oh no.
Speaker 3: I was. I was gonna say. I have a my
Speaker 3: chapter of my book. This is a joke I had
Speaker 3: about how like when we were at Google, like we
Speaker 3: had like an ergonomic chair to protect your body while
Speaker 3: your soul was dying. And because they were so obsessed
Speaker 3: with ergonomics, they were so obsessed with carpal tunnel syndrome.
Speaker 3: They didn't want to stay at carpal tunnel. They didn't
Speaker 3: want an aposture to be bad. They had standing nest
Speaker 3: so we could stand and sit. You know. It was
Speaker 3: so they were so obsessed with us protecting our bodies,
Speaker 3: and so like, this is wild to me, the trajectory
Speaker 3: of tech in general. I feel like, yeah, this is
Speaker 3: bad for SpaceX and Elon, but I think a lot
Speaker 3: of industries they really started to care less about worker
Speaker 3: health in general.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sure. I mean I think yeah, because we
Speaker 1: like Google and places like that. It seems a little
Speaker 1: insidious too, because they're like, no, we need you healthy
Speaker 1: so we can get every motherfucking ounce of life out right. Course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all the perks that were there were so that
Speaker 3: you would stay. Yeah, so that you wouldn't leave the building.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's like when people talk about how they make
Speaker 1: like wogu beef and they're like, they fatten them up,
Speaker 1: they give them massages, they spit beer into their coats
Speaker 1: and rub it in, so they get to the point
Speaker 1: that their flesh is worth more than any other be
Speaker 1: out there, right right, right right. It's for the slaughter.
Speaker 1: It's for the slaughter. But so apparently he, like Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: defends this attitude because like in tech it's always like
Speaker 1: move fast and break skulls or I think that's break everything.
Speaker 1: Oh break everything, Yeah, break every bone in your body,
Speaker 1: he says, because SpaceX is quote on an urgent quest
Speaker 1: to create a refuge in space from a dying.
Speaker 3: Please can you go do that? You go first, like
Speaker 3: put him there first, and him and Grimes can populate Mars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right. And those other like weird billionaires who
Speaker 1: are like just like they're like I need my sperm everywhere.
Speaker 3: All the billionaires. Yeah, or the or the guy who's
Speaker 3: like using his kid's blood to like keep him young,
Speaker 3: like him go there as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah please fun there's no amount of therapy. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: actually need refuge from billionaires. So yeah, please go there
Speaker 1: because actually believe with all the private flights and stuff
Speaker 1: like the top one percent are going on, I think
Speaker 1: that would help tremendously, along with other things.
Speaker 3: But anyway, I guess I guess they don't have a union.
Speaker 3: I guess SpaceX and any of Elon's companies none of
Speaker 3: those workers are unionized.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder is there I.
Speaker 3: Bet not, because I mean I don't think you would ever.
Speaker 1: Allow that or yeah right, yeah, I feel like anyone would. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like, I'm so proud to be hostile towards unions.
Speaker 5: Is usually like the take of these kinds of guys, Sarah,
Speaker 5: I thought you were asking if there was a billionaires union,
Speaker 5: where unionize this billionaires so we can have our rights
Speaker 5: finally acknowledged by society.
Speaker 3: Dude, I think that's literally in our future that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It is that feels like it. Oh yeah, it says
Speaker 1: employees were fired for speaking up about Elon Musk or
Speaker 1: talking about Okay, so it sounds like yeah, part of
Speaker 1: the course, perfect course, perfect corse. But yeah, like also
Speaker 1: because of this like rush to get us to fucking Mars,
Speaker 1: also meant to like employees have been taking like adderall
Speaker 1: without prescriptions to like be able to fucking pull like
Speaker 1: wild hour and then falling asleep in bathrooms. Also to
Speaker 1: speed up the work, the company has literally been getting
Speaker 1: workers to weld rocket parts in a tent on the
Speaker 1: beach and then like when the beach got too hot,
Speaker 1: they just hooked the people up to an IV and
Speaker 1: then sent them right back out there. And also in
Speaker 1: this like tent welding shop, apparently when the wind was
Speaker 1: blowing they had to they had to shut the flaps
Speaker 1: and basically enclose everyone in a tent with like carcinogenic dust.
Speaker 1: So it's all very it's all very it's all very Elon.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. This is me wild.
Speaker 3: This is a billion dollar company and they're treating employees
Speaker 3: like this. This is I mean, I totally expected in
Speaker 3: the Congo where they're trying to get diamonds out and
Speaker 3: stuff like that or whatever.
Speaker 1: But it's at that model.
Speaker 2: It's it's uh yeah, there you are merely automatons.
Speaker 1: Meant to help us generate capital.
Speaker 3: What is the endgame? Okay? What's the endgame? Okay? So
Speaker 3: we have all of these people addicted to social media
Speaker 3: that's not working and they're all upset and their jobs
Speaker 3: are killing them. Like, there's not gonna be anybody left
Speaker 3: to buy the products that you're making. Okay, there's gonna
Speaker 3: be no one around. Everybody's gonna be gone. We're all
Speaker 3: gonna be dead. So what's the end game. You're gonna
Speaker 3: you're gonna build robots to buy your products, Like you're
Speaker 3: gonna build robots to make your products, and then you're
Speaker 3: gonna build robots to buy your products, and it's just
Speaker 3: gonna be all robots. I guess, I guess.
Speaker 1: Or it's the other one where they're like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: AI is gonna be doing a lot of work. So
Speaker 1: that's why, like you know, you hear the very like
Speaker 1: cynical version of like we need a UBI, we need
Speaker 1: a universal basic income. And that's not because they believe
Speaker 1: that people like we should just move to that and
Speaker 1: give like we have a basic income to live off
Speaker 1: of but because you're like, but then when the fucking
Speaker 1: robots or ais take their livelihood, they'll still have a
Speaker 1: little scratch to give back to us in the form
Speaker 1: of consumerism or something like that. It's all it all
Speaker 1: works out in a very dark way. Or they're just
Speaker 1: they build their fucking bunkers in New Zealand and or
Speaker 1: like I'll hide. We had a guest on a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, Douglas Rushkoff, who like would talk to
Speaker 1: the billionaire who like build bunkers, and the way they
Speaker 1: talk is all like, how do I get them to
Speaker 1: not want like rebel against me, like and take all
Speaker 1: the food. Can I like put like a like a
Speaker 1: detonator on their throat or something to keep them in control?
Speaker 1: And they're like, you actually haven't thought any of this through,
Speaker 1: Like your're so.
Speaker 3: They're scared that their workers are going to rebel, so
Speaker 3: they're figuring out a way to have their workers.
Speaker 1: So in the context of the apocalypse bunker like where
Speaker 1: they said they have like some billionaires are like I
Speaker 1: have a team of like ex paramilitary Like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the people who protect the people who will inevitably protect
Speaker 1: and labor for the billionaires in an apocalypse bunker. They're like,
Speaker 1: do I like make the code to the food something
Speaker 1: only I know? So that way, if I die, they
Speaker 1: also don't get anything. And it's also like it's I mean,
Speaker 1: and to your point, Sarah, it's that way of thinking
Speaker 1: that somehow helps you aggregate the kind of wealth to
Speaker 1: be a billionaire and also makes you a not human.
Speaker 3: So oh my god. And that's why like Zuckerberg and
Speaker 3: all the these guys are trying to build this like city,
Speaker 3: this like city that no one else can get into,
Speaker 3: this like commune because they know this shit.
Speaker 1: Is going to hit the fan, yeah, or that or
Speaker 1: precisely that, Like they know at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's like this relentless pursuit of wealth and making the
Speaker 1: lineup go infinitely is only destroying the earth, destroying the
Speaker 1: fabric of our society. And they're like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: we're responsible before, but at the same time, let's build
Speaker 1: a thing to insulate ourselves from it.
Speaker 3: The good thing is like every man for himself kind
Speaker 3: of yeah, mentality.
Speaker 1: I mean, the good news is those plans will not work.
Speaker 1: Like it feels like no matter what you do, because
Speaker 1: even the people who are like I'll build this, and
Speaker 1: I'll build that. Oh blah blah blah. It's like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: what if a part goes out for your your your
Speaker 1: HVAC you know what I mean, you have no ac.
Speaker 1: Do you have someone on staff that can like manufacture
Speaker 1: the part that you would need to fix it? Or
Speaker 1: do you have someone with that capability? And like, I
Speaker 1: don't know. And then and then what if that has
Speaker 1: a knock on effect on your green your growhouse that
Speaker 1: you say will provide your food, because if that isn't
Speaker 1: temperature controlled, then would you do? And then if you
Speaker 1: don't have the food growing or the water purification system
Speaker 1: not just for you, but for your plants. And then
Speaker 1: they start like this.
Speaker 3: Is very helpful. But I do plan to be a billionaire,
Speaker 3: so it's good to know all this stuff going in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just that's why I just yeah, just be
Speaker 1: one of those people that no one wants to, like, well,
Speaker 1: the first person they think of when the shit goes down,
Speaker 1: like you know who, you know who I'm going to
Speaker 1: pay a visit to, right, Yeah, just be on be
Speaker 1: on the good side.
Speaker 3: Please, I'll be on the good side. Also, maybe just
Speaker 3: like be a billionaire, but like don't tell anybody that
Speaker 3: you're a billionaire. That's probably a better way to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, secret billionaire. I like the idea that in this
Speaker 2: billionaire city there's still like a version of a poor
Speaker 2: billionaire where oh, you only have one point five billion.
Speaker 2: It's like you hear what Carl has A has an
Speaker 2: above ground bunker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's in Michigan. Oh my god, gets
Speaker 1: to New Zealand. Oh poor guy, poor guy, because that's
Speaker 1: the other spot everyone's looking at is Michigan, because all
Speaker 1: that's fresh water. But anyway, let's move on to something
Speaker 1: just to wrap this show up, something a little more pleasant.
Speaker 1: Andre three stacks, Andre three thousand. He is releasing his
Speaker 1: fucking debut solo album. True this like just just me
Speaker 1: doing my thing. This is Andre Benjamin here I am.
Speaker 1: The album is called New Blue Sun. And before, like myself,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, Andre's yes, yes, ye
Speaker 1: right yeah, so long this man. This is again. This
Speaker 1: album is quote entirely made up of instrumental woodwind music.
Speaker 1: It's just him on the flute, which I'm like, that
Speaker 1: makes sense. I've seen him, like he's always like I've
Speaker 1: seen I feel like most of the videos I've seen
Speaker 1: him recently are playing some kind of flute, which so
Speaker 1: people wouldn't be totally shocked. I apparently I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that the track she Lives in My Lap, he played
Speaker 1: flute on that, Like he's playing woodwinds on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And also where's the catch with James Blake? He played
Speaker 1: woodwind So I was like, oh, I had no idea.
Speaker 1: I was not familiar with your game, sir. And there
Speaker 1: was like there a couple of viral clips of him
Speaker 1: playing like a flute in the airport. But it's funny because, like,
Speaker 1: I think he knows how much his fans like love
Speaker 1: him as a rapper vocalist, and he's like a little apologetic.
Speaker 1: Like the first track of the album is this is
Speaker 1: the literal track of the first album. Quote this track one,
Speaker 1: I swear I really wanted to make a rap album,
Speaker 1: but this is literally the way. This is literally the
Speaker 1: way the wind blew me this time is the first track.
Speaker 1: And he said even on the cover, there's even a
Speaker 1: label that says warning no bars, just to let you
Speaker 1: know there will be no You will not hear his voice.
Speaker 1: You will just hear maybe you'll hear a breath here
Speaker 1: and there as he's playing, but I'll take you. I
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I think it's sweet. I think it's yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it's cute, like let him let him do
Speaker 2: his thing. He's not bait and switching anyone, you know,
Speaker 2: let him play his wood ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. And also at this point too, like
Speaker 1: it's been so long where I've like I stopped holding
Speaker 1: my Like I caught them when they had like.
Speaker 2: A reunion tour like in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: I was like I was there for that. I saw that,
Speaker 1: I got my fill. But also it's nice because I
Speaker 1: feel like so much of that work is like it's perfect.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yep, don't, I don't. We don't need to
Speaker 1: augment this. If you want to, sure, go ahead, like
Speaker 1: you know, like I like Big Boys other projects that
Speaker 1: he does, but with like Andre, oh yeah, he's always
Speaker 1: been so vibe that I'm like, I can't get mad.
Speaker 1: And I feel like most people feel the same way,
Speaker 1: Like I know some people, but.
Speaker 3: Whatever, I just as an artist, it's so brave to
Speaker 3: do something so completely different. I mean it really is.
Speaker 3: It's very inspiring, and.
Speaker 1: It's also also just like the con like that just
Speaker 1: a little bit of consideration for his fans who have
Speaker 1: known him as a rapper vocalist, or he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like the first track, I swear I really wanted to
Speaker 1: make a rap album, but this is literally the way
Speaker 1: with the wind blew me this time.
Speaker 3: I'm like, that's fine and it's really funny. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, I am a I don't know with the music.
Speaker 3: I personally have never listened to an album of just
Speaker 3: woodwind instruments, yeah, in my life. But maybe this will
Speaker 3: start a whole new trend. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like people I want.
Speaker 3: To see him and Lizzo do like a little thing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a lot of flutes, a lot of flutes
Speaker 1: going down. Yeah, I think we'll see. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: seen people say they've heard bits and pieces of it.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, like if maybe they're at a listening
Speaker 1: party or something like that, but it's I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, from the people who claim to have hear it,
Speaker 1: they're like, it's it's pretty cool. It's like trippy, and
Speaker 1: I'm like.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm gonna get high and listen to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't imagine Andre, like you come down, He's
Speaker 1: just playing like Hot Crossbuns, like with no backing track. Yeah,
Speaker 1: motherfucker playing a recorder then I might feel like, bro,
Speaker 1: you had a lot of time to fucking get that recorder, right.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I think this will start a resurgence
Speaker 3: of recorder interest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a recorder. Wasn't it? Like? Was recorder
Speaker 1: not like like a part of the courired for a
Speaker 1: certain part? Did you play recorder? Blake did? Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was my primary instrument. Yeah, no, I'm not serious, I'm serious.
Speaker 1: Did you have no play recorder? No bit? Yes I did.
Speaker 2: Like that was because we had music class, and I
Speaker 2: think that was the only instrument because we had to
Speaker 2: buy it ourselves, I remember, but it was in terms
Speaker 2: of instruments, the most you know, affordable instrument that you
Speaker 2: could possibly get. So yeah, no, we played like B
Speaker 2: A G b ag like that was uh, Hot Cross Buns.
Speaker 1: Of course, everybody, you fucking that's the first track you
Speaker 1: learn on Cross Buns. That's right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: But apparent I didn't realize that. Like it's like the
Speaker 1: reason too, is that it helps like with creative thinking
Speaker 1: skills like finger dexterity.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, what the fuck? I was like,
Speaker 1: my teacher is just a weirdo making us play this
Speaker 1: shitty plastic flute. But no, there's it turns out there
Speaker 1: was a reason. There's more than just Mary had a
Speaker 1: little lamb. I'll have to look into it, but anyway, Sarah,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us on the Daily Guys.
Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure. It's been wonderful talking to you.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you, get your book,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and hear more from you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, my book's available wherever books are sold.
Speaker 3: You can get it anywhere. It's on Kindle. There's an
Speaker 3: audiobook that I recorded myself, so you know, if you
Speaker 3: want to listen to it, you can do that while
Speaker 3: you're driving. And you can go to sarahcpr dot com
Speaker 3: for all my other info.
Speaker 1: Great handle And is there a work of media, social
Speaker 1: or otherwise music arts, anything, something that's inspired you that
Speaker 1: you'd like to share with the class.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I love Timothy Shallomet's kind of white SoundCloud wrapper
Speaker 3: impression on SNL this past weekend. It was I've watched
Speaker 3: it like fifty times at this point. It is so funny.
Speaker 3: It makes me crack up every single time. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you guys have seen it.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I gotta watch. Yeah, now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch it.
Speaker 3: Watched to watch the way that he has just captured
Speaker 3: like dead eyes but also just like just mumbling and
Speaker 3: just I mean, and he says, yeah, I got this
Speaker 3: new track. It's a it's a it's about capitalism. But
Speaker 3: he doesn't say capitalism. He says capitalism, capitalism, and then
Speaker 3: he's like, people be capping all the time, it's so funny,
Speaker 3: so funny.
Speaker 1: Uh you stop the cap. Stop the cap, y'all, stop
Speaker 1: the cap. Break. I said, break, Blake, where can people
Speaker 1: find you? Who follow you? And all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm at Blake at Brake Wexler on all social media,
Speaker 2: and then my hour special Daddy Long Legs is still
Speaker 2: streaming on YouTube. December first, I'm gonna be in Ashville
Speaker 2: at Catawbab Brewing, and then December sixteenth, someone from the
Speaker 2: Zeit Gang, which is the fans of the show, helped
Speaker 2: me set up I'm going to start doing a monthly
Speaker 2: show in Brooklyn at Strong Rope Brewing in go on it.
Speaker 2: So December sixteenth is the first show at eight am
Speaker 2: and John helped set that up. And happy birthday to
Speaker 2: Paul Garatmenta, who is a PG.
Speaker 1: Yeah we know PG. Yeah yeah yeah, okay, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Pg's down with all the shows we make. I always
Speaker 1: appreciate all the support from Zeitgang. And guess what we notice.
Speaker 1: We appreciate We know it, really do, We really do
Speaker 1: because it allows me to continue to tell my family
Speaker 1: that I am a podcaster and yes, that is how
Speaker 1: I support myself. That was the goal.
Speaker 3: This was so much fun. You guys are so much fun.
Speaker 3: I do have to I do have to say that
Speaker 3: this was enjoyable.
Speaker 1: Amazing, so for you our a legend. Thank you so
Speaker 1: that it does mean a lot to us because you
Speaker 1: are very talented and exceptional and like I said, your
Speaker 1: reputation preceded you and it's really great to have you.
Speaker 1: And it turns out you are a cool person and
Speaker 1: not a ship back. We love that. We love that
Speaker 1: you can. You can find me at Miles of Gray
Speaker 1: wherever they're serving at Symbols. You can find our show,
Speaker 1: The Daily Guys at the Daily Zeit Guys on Twitter
Speaker 1: at Daily Zeit Guys on Instagram. We got a Facebook
Speaker 1: page of website, Daily Zeit guys dot com or post
Speaker 1: episodes in our footnotes, but no, thank you, Blake little late,
Speaker 1: but I'll take it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And oh, I just want to say, what do you
Speaker 1: want from it? I know, I know, I know. The
Speaker 1: tweet that I do like I do want to shout
Speaker 1: out at Saji star BB.
Speaker 2: Might be something to do with Sagittarians said.
Speaker 1: The quote you don't owe anyone anything. Generation is the
Speaker 1: loneliest generation to date. Shocking, shocking, totally, totally, totally. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also, let's say, let's see a song that we're
Speaker 2: gonna write out on.
Speaker 1: Obviously that's gonna be the footnotes. U is this from
Speaker 1: this artist Root Good? Are you g a w D?
Speaker 1: I think they're a bassist, but they have like this.
Speaker 1: This track is called almost and like the album art
Speaker 1: for it is like a Hello Kitty but like a Gundam.
Speaker 1: But the music is really kind of funky futuristic. So
Speaker 1: if you like that kind of thing, check it out.
Speaker 1: Rgot are you gawd? With Almost? All Right, that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for us today. We'll be back later to
Speaker 1: tell you what's trending. Uh, And I guess we will
Speaker 1: see you then. Bye. M h