Speaker 1: How's the weather over there in New Jersey, brick, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it's cold, man.
Speaker 2: I was two days. I have one of these like
Speaker 2: newly renovated homes, and they just do not give a
Speaker 2: shit about craft these days, and so they don't even
Speaker 2: insulate anything when they're done. You know what the guy said,
Speaker 2: Actually he said you could put a carpet down. I
Speaker 2: was like, bro, here are.
Speaker 3: Some things we've seen work, just like start a fire
Speaker 3: in the middle of your living Oh, you know.
Speaker 2: That's dangerous.
Speaker 3: I like to warm my hands over the toaster as
Speaker 3: I'm making my bagel in the morning. You know, you
Speaker 3: just put your hands in the bread.
Speaker 2: You have to have very steady. But I do have
Speaker 2: a blanket though. Let me go faster it. Wow, you're
Speaker 2: getting you're getting really you got to get the blanket going. Okay,
Speaker 2: there we go. Don't say anything racist, No, put the
Speaker 2: the towers. It's so hard. God, which way do I
Speaker 2: go with this? I have a thousand photos of my
Speaker 2: dad doing exactly this, just like just getting bundled pretending
Speaker 2: to be a ship. Oh really, Lawrence of Arabia style. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a good look. There's like a really amazing school
Speaker 2: for religious scholars in Egypt. It's called Azad University, and
Speaker 2: my dad took like a class there for a day
Speaker 2: and ever since then he's like, yeah, I've been to Asha.
Speaker 2: Oh yep, yeah, he'll do this. He'll just do this,
Speaker 2: throw it over his head, funny. Yeah, he's a funny guy.
Speaker 2: Oh he's hilarious. I didn't really so. I thought he
Speaker 2: was always just kind of mean and like, you know,
Speaker 2: like a lot of dads just keeps kids at arms distance. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize until after I wrote my memoir and
Speaker 2: I was like asking him questions that he was actually
Speaker 2: a comedian, comedic genius. He's actually really really really funny.
Speaker 2: He was chilling, stand up. Oh my god. He told
Speaker 2: me this one story. So I sat down and I
Speaker 2: was interviewing him for the book, and I was asking
Speaker 2: him how he why doesn't have any hair beneath his
Speaker 2: neckline at all? So look straight from here down nothing nothing,
Speaker 2: no arm hair, no leg hair, all the way down.
Speaker 3: Probably not a question you want to ask your dad.
Speaker 2: I'll answer it. I mean, like he's been dipped. Leave
Speaker 2: that curiosity aside. Really, that's what he was gonna say,
Speaker 2: That's that's what he said. He said, you know, I
Speaker 2: come from a part of Egypt where we celebrate the
Speaker 2: first born son by dipping them in milk when they're born.
Speaker 2: And I was like, wow, it's really fascinating. I'm taking
Speaker 2: notes and writing it down. I wrote it into the chapter,
Speaker 2: and then when I was reading it out loud to
Speaker 2: my brother for a fact check, he was like, that
Speaker 2: doesn't sound right, sought my dad. He was at all.
Speaker 2: It was like, I've never heard that before. The milk
Speaker 2: was this and my dad starts cracking up and he
Speaker 2: was like, you believe that. He's like milk you think
Speaker 2: we just have milk like that where we could just
Speaker 2: like dip babies.
Speaker 3: In there and then we'll throw it out. I was like, good, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: He's like, you didn't know that. My interview style was
Speaker 3: two truths and a lie. Every every paragraph I did
Speaker 3: a lie in there. Oh, you're the fun with my
Speaker 3: bad bro. You know you know I'm not your dad, right,
Speaker 3: it's gone too long. He's gone too But he gave
Speaker 3: me so many stories like that.
Speaker 2: You know. He told me another story about how when
Speaker 2: he got married he was having a taxi cab in
Speaker 2: the city in the seventies, that's when he got married.
Speaker 2: He told his wife, my mom, that he would take
Speaker 2: her to a nice Italian dinner, and so they got
Speaker 2: in the cab. They drove up to Joe's Pizza on
Speaker 2: Fifth Ave and it's literally just a big pizza oven
Speaker 2: in the window. And I don't know if it's real
Speaker 2: or not, because I don't I don't know if he's
Speaker 2: just made fun of me or not. Likes to believe that.
Speaker 2: I'll believe anything. What's this one?
Speaker 3: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season four, fifteen, episode
Speaker 3: three of dird Eley's Guys. It was a production of
Speaker 3: iHeart Radio. It's a podcast where we take a deep
Speaker 3: dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Wednesday, November nineteenth, twenty five.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of things here that it's like play
Speaker 1: monopoly or whatever.
Speaker 2: This is the one, Jack.
Speaker 1: This one's for you, my guy, because it's National Carbonated
Speaker 1: Beverage with Caffeine Day.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know. Yeah? Have you heard people?
Speaker 1: Have you heard that referred to as a fridge cigarette?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 3: I was justs are fridge thicks.
Speaker 1: It was just around a bunch of diet coke brained
Speaker 1: people in New York and they were like, I died
Speaker 1: fridge sick. And I was like the and they're like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, give me one too. And then I was
Speaker 1: like a kid.
Speaker 3: It's the new six seven among middle aged people in New.
Speaker 1: York if you're a white business professional. Yeah, yeah, put
Speaker 1: that fridge sick. So yeah, rip a fridge dart.
Speaker 3: Eh, I'm gonna rip a fridge dart this afternoon in
Speaker 3: honor of my national Day and Mountain Dewis fridge meth it.
Speaker 1: Fridge grant depends, man, you know, because some people cigarettes
Speaker 1: come in all kinds of intensities, so I feel like, well,
Speaker 1: can't you know the soda doesn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a fridge filterless camel red exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's a Marlborough Do you think.
Speaker 3: Marlborough Marlborough light would be a diet coke? I think
Speaker 3: I think that's what the type.
Speaker 4: Of person I mean it strikes me as a parliament
Speaker 4: a parliament is, I think, well, I think those are
Speaker 4: all in the same range of cigarette. It's like the
Speaker 4: cigarette for people who are like, oh, I don't smoke,
Speaker 4: but them bump cigarettes right right.
Speaker 1: Well, because parliaments to me were like the cigaret the
Speaker 1: first cigarette all the white girls in my high school smoked.
Speaker 1: And then when they're like, oh, you could do drugs
Speaker 1: out the recessed filter, I was like, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: this is this is for me. Yeah yeah, No, would
Speaker 1: a black and mild be like a Doctor Pepper black
Speaker 1: and mile see that's mhmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's one that's only a mixer, you know, like
Speaker 3: whichever soda is like bet does a mixer because it
Speaker 3: isn't black and mild like you use.
Speaker 2: I mean you can't. I mean I usually you want
Speaker 2: to use around cigarettes. Maybe that's just a coke heavy
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: But people do take out the inner paper inside the
Speaker 1: black and miles, so it hits a little bit less harsh.
Speaker 1: So it is in a way, it's like you wouldn't
Speaker 1: just hit it straight out the fucking pack like that
Speaker 1: unless you've got some lungs.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Anyways, we've done our due over this cigarette industry.
Speaker 2: Anyways, they.
Speaker 3: Which one takes you to flavor the most? Talking about
Speaker 3: our favorite drag linked.
Speaker 1: Cigarette, which which cigarette would able to make.
Speaker 3: Do you remember your first drag off a cigarette? I
Speaker 3: was like, this smells so good and tastes like dirt
Speaker 3: air like.
Speaker 1: Well, the first cigarette I smoked was one of my
Speaker 1: was was a butt. You know that my family members
Speaker 1: left around. I never the first time I sparked of
Speaker 1: out the packed new fresh cigarette.
Speaker 2: I was probably fifteen in.
Speaker 1: Japan, and I was surprised how smooth that first drag was.
Speaker 2: I was like I thought was. I was like, yo,
Speaker 2: I might be able.
Speaker 1: To yeah, exactly, you're used to it was used to butt,
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: Just stand there like half the filter I'm smoking. They're like, sir,
Speaker 2: that's not tobacco.
Speaker 3: My name is jacko bro Yes today Potatoes O'Brien, and
Speaker 3: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co
Speaker 3: host mister Miles.
Speaker 1: Grass Miles Gray aka come on, look at who led capitulation?
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Speaker 2: Lesson zero, thanks to let me, let me go Aim
Speaker 2: all right, you're about You're about before, don't come on.
Speaker 3: We're thrilled to be joined by an award winning Slate
Speaker 3: magazine and staff writer, one of our favorite guests. You
Speaker 3: might have seen his work on a couple of places
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Speaker 2: Prepared this time. I'm going to be a a k a.
Speaker 2: The Hot Take, a k a. The Bubba on the
Speaker 2: Beat a a k A. Fish No relation.
Speaker 3: Bubba on the Beat does get to the theory that
Speaker 3: Miles and not I have positive from the start that
Speaker 3: everyone's imagining Bill Clinton. There is the horse theory.
Speaker 2: What about Sparks? What about Bubba Sparks?
Speaker 3: You know that would be just so because anyone asked,
Speaker 3: is anyone Bubble?
Speaker 2: I feel like this is a time.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a time for every person
Speaker 1: named Bubba to be like, just so you know, bro,
Speaker 1: got nothing to do with me. It's not Bubba Wallace,
Speaker 1: it's not Bubba Sparks. It's not Bubba Smith from Police Academy,
Speaker 1: even though he passed away man years ago.
Speaker 3: The timing probably doesn't work out for it to be
Speaker 3: Bubba Gump, Bubba from Forrest Gump. Yeah, because I think
Speaker 3: he passed away and he you know, they would have
Speaker 3: met in the Wars Trump hadn't dodged the draft.
Speaker 1: Oh you mean you mean the actual Bubble actor Michael Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm just saying I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 2: Sark Bubba Wallace Michael T. Williams is sixty eight years
Speaker 2: old now, the guy who played Bubba. That's so I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that.
Speaker 3: I feel like a dismissive asshole like Mark Epstein would
Speaker 3: probably refer to him as Bubba.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you never know.
Speaker 3: Let's let's leave no lee unturned here, because he is.
Speaker 3: He is approaching this like a bridge troll in a riddle,
Speaker 3: being like, I cannot tell you who it is.
Speaker 2: I will tell you who it is not. Oh, okay,
Speaker 2: like your dad when he's being interviewed.
Speaker 3: One of us can only tell the truth, one of
Speaker 3: us can only tell lies.
Speaker 2: You have three questions. Hey, man, it's great, it's great
Speaker 2: to have you back. How have you been. Oh man,
Speaker 2: I'm feeling pretty good. Feeling pretty good, getting a lot
Speaker 2: of writing done, getting a lot of pieces done. I
Speaker 2: spent some time at the UVU campus where Charlie Kirk
Speaker 2: made his last debate. Got to learn some things from
Speaker 2: talking to those kids directly. Yeah, man, it's been good.
Speaker 2: It's been good. How are you guys? Yeah? Wait, is
Speaker 2: that a piecer working on right now? Or do that?
Speaker 2: Is that something you wrote already? It published? Yeah? Oh
Speaker 2: it did? I have to check that out. I was
Speaker 2: just reading.
Speaker 1: I was reading a lot of your coverage about Zoran's election,
Speaker 1: like in the build up and aftermath, but I missed
Speaker 1: that kirkpiece.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, I'm I'm so excited about Zoron already, like
Speaker 2: woking up in a whole new America? Does it?
Speaker 1: I mean, it definitely gave everybody the just a light
Speaker 1: air of positivity. Although now we're like, okay, so how
Speaker 1: are the billionaires They're they're all now scheming to be
Speaker 1: like how do we make this not or do anything?
Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, you know what? It felt like. It
Speaker 2: felt like that moment in Syria when Lasholotte, I said,
Speaker 2: finally got deposed and then all the prisons are being released,
Speaker 2: and everything was just opening up, and people were coming
Speaker 2: back to Syria for the first time and forever. That's
Speaker 2: what this feels like. If we finally saw democracy do
Speaker 2: what it was supposed to do. It wasn't just like
Speaker 2: some somebody cheating or some election fraud something. It just
Speaker 2: felt like more than fifty it worked. His campaigning worked
Speaker 2: right right, And I feel like we haven't seen that
Speaker 2: in a while.
Speaker 3: No, no, not almost, Like I mean the local race.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's it's usually at the like city,
Speaker 1: state level where you're going to see that kind of
Speaker 1: like big de democracy kind of stuff really go down.
Speaker 2: Once you get to the federal level, it's just it's
Speaker 2: just money games.
Speaker 3: Yes we can, he may. I mean, we're gonna get
Speaker 3: to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 3: we're gonna tell the listeners a couple of things we're
Speaker 3: talking about.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk.
Speaker 3: About what Donald Trump is up to with his affordability tour,
Speaker 3: his McDonald's franchise e speech that had a weird speaking
Speaker 3: of police academy had a weird like little Michael Winslow
Speaker 3: moment where it was like, well, yeah, did he did
Speaker 3: he just start. Should he turn into a walkie talkie there.
Speaker 3: I have a theory on what he was going for.
Speaker 3: I'm going to talk about that. We'll talk about his
Speaker 3: plan for getting people distracted from the epsteam files, which
Speaker 3: is a bribe. You know, Just which of all the
Speaker 3: policies like this, you know, I'll take that, send some
Speaker 3: money directly to people. Yeah, that's never been a bad thing.
Speaker 2: Now will it solve everything? I don't know about that,
Speaker 2: But go ahead, we're square.
Speaker 3: Stop asking about the right just I don't want to
Speaker 3: hear it ever again. Okay, you can take the car.
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear about it anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like that, only take it. If you're done
Speaker 2: talking about Epsteine.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that LAPD who are continuing to protect
Speaker 3: us hell yeah, from magaard statistics, how they are at
Speaker 3: their job work, most most obviously guilty Ship. I've seen
Speaker 3: the LAPD do pretty well because they are on some
Speaker 3: always on some like guilty Ship. But this is pretty bad.
Speaker 3: And then we'll talk about so Nicki Minaj is addressing
Speaker 3: the u N today and it all starts with Bill
Speaker 3: Maher being full of ship, and we'll we'll talk about
Speaker 3: how that train of misinformation happened around the subject of
Speaker 3: Nigeria and you know, a right wing plot to fabricate
Speaker 3: the idea that, oh you think you think Israel is
Speaker 3: committing genocide. Actually it's Nigerians are doing Christian Christians. So
Speaker 3: all of that plenty more.
Speaker 2: It's sad, man, it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, Bill Maher, this amazing what you can
Speaker 1: do in your an islamophobe with an HBO show.
Speaker 2: You can act the business of the at the U
Speaker 2: n right, all that plenty more.
Speaker 3: But first, aman, we do like to ask our guests,
Speaker 3: what is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 3: who you are?
Speaker 2: Okay, this morning it was like big News and my
Speaker 2: circle of friends that the Legends of Held movie that
Speaker 2: we're finally getting to our first looks. Oh really, I'm
Speaker 2: a big zelder NERD. I played all those games to death.
Speaker 2: It's the only game I could really play. I'm a
Speaker 2: big dungeon freak. And yeah, me and my circle of
Speaker 2: friends we love that ship. And so yeah, there's like
Speaker 2: the first freak.
Speaker 3: It sounds so much nastier than what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my whole vocabulary when I say D and D,
Speaker 1: people are really going to be looking for my name
Speaker 1: in the files.
Speaker 3: Okay, so first looks, I'm looking at something that looks
Speaker 3: like the Peter Jackson Lord.
Speaker 2: Of the Rings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty much it. Yeah yeah, well feel pretty exciting.
Speaker 3: So ship that is like the Hollywood's promise to New
Speaker 3: Zealand that we will boost your tourism industry once once
Speaker 3: every decade. It feels like what we're seeing here.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 3: It's it's live action. You know, that's that'll be interesting.
Speaker 1: They said, oh wow, they're describing it west. The director
Speaker 1: said they're aiming for something quote akin to a live
Speaker 1: action Miyazaki, which.
Speaker 2: I'm okay, there's a lot of opportunities. No, but you know,
Speaker 2: we the vibrations we're going to copy. I think I
Speaker 2: used to hate like video game adaptations, and then I
Speaker 2: saw that movie Uncharted with Tom Holland and I was actually,
Speaker 2: just this feels like a meal. Like this feels like
Speaker 2: a whole meal. I really enjoyed that one. Are you
Speaker 2: want to like Super Mario and stuff? I was like, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I get like the An made it version.
Speaker 1: They're just trying to keep it like to very video
Speaker 1: gaming kind of stuff because it wasn't the John Liguizamo
Speaker 1: Bob Hoskins live action Mario Brothers we got in the nineties.
Speaker 2: But are so good? Are the fans? How are they?
Speaker 1: Because obviously, I mean I feel like Nintendo fans are
Speaker 1: less toxic than like console or PC gaming fans are.
Speaker 1: Is the Are there are people enthusiastic about this casting?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Pretty okay. I think everybody. They didn't want it
Speaker 2: to be like some big name celebrity where they were
Speaker 2: going to just try to force it like they did.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because they continuously do. How are they going
Speaker 3: to get Chris Pratt to do the voice though? Is
Speaker 3: he just overdubbing them like in vo afterwards? All Right,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you those directors me and then i'm
Speaker 3: gonna give you the directors filmography, and you're gonna do
Speaker 3: a bit of a Brittany Brosky face miles where it's like,
Speaker 3: all right, yes, the kombucha face. So he is best
Speaker 3: known for directing the Maze Runner film trilogy, but then
Speaker 3: he made the Fourth Kingdom of the Planet fifth or
Speaker 3: Fourth Planet of the Apes reboot Kingdom of the Planet
Speaker 3: of the Apes, which I've heard is like interesting at
Speaker 3: least and sorry, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Don't look, bro, I don't do whatever the fuck you're
Speaker 1: gonna do. You never know, because I know the directing
Speaker 1: movies is you might make a whole bunch of shitty
Speaker 1: ones and then suddenly make a good one. So off
Speaker 1: of this and Aiman's excitement, I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say really positive about this.
Speaker 2: I do really like po I do like the No
Speaker 2: Name performers. So it's a perfect pairing, man, if you
Speaker 2: think about it. Because all the monsters in Zelda are
Speaker 2: like non humanoid, They're they're like pig ape right thing creatures,
Speaker 2: and so it actually kind of makes sense that actually
Speaker 2: makes me more excited they hat to be.
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for when they're gonna because i know
Speaker 1: right now they say this woman Bo Braggison is playing Zelda.
Speaker 2: But I know, but they're gonna put Sidney Sweeney in
Speaker 2: that world eventually. Oh god. Yeah. And you know what,
Speaker 2: you know what else it is, I haven't been excited
Speaker 2: about anything, uh like, in movies for so long, and
Speaker 2: so I'm just really allowing myself kind of forcing myself
Speaker 2: to be really excited about this one.
Speaker 1: I love that may not be a disappointment made really
Speaker 1: hyped over a movie.
Speaker 2: I was pretty psyched about one battle after another.
Speaker 1: I was really psyched over weapons, and I never saw
Speaker 1: it still weapons.
Speaker 2: Weapons, I know. I was just like I remember seeing
Speaker 2: the trailer.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, this ship fucking goes and then cut
Speaker 1: to like, you know, life lifing. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad.
Speaker 3: Also, it seems like it's aimed at theaters, right, Like
Speaker 3: there's gonna be a theatrical release. They're not just going
Speaker 3: to be like now on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, okay, that's good, that's good. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I think I heard.
Speaker 3: I was really excited about the uh Miss Piggy movie.
Speaker 3: I heard that it's going to be a streaming thing,
Speaker 3: which is crazy, like you need to put that on
Speaker 3: on out in theater.
Speaker 1: That's fine because I just showed my them up. It's
Speaker 1: Christmas Carol. He's fucking love fun. He normally doesn't like
Speaker 1: seeing like live action ship. He likes animated shit.
Speaker 2: He was feeling, oh nice, Yeah, is this gonna be
Speaker 2: like a live action Miss Piggy, live action Miss Piggy? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I haven't even heard about this. Ammas Stone and Jennifer
Speaker 2: Lawrence and Miss Piggy.
Speaker 3: This might be relevant to one of our upcoming Icon episodes,
Speaker 3: so stay tuned for those Amma Stones. I get yeah,
Speaker 3: all right? And man, what is what's something you think
Speaker 3: is underrated?
Speaker 2: Mm? Underrated? I'm going to say, Tom Gotchi's They're back.
Speaker 2: They're back. Yeah, I just bought one. I'm going to
Speaker 2: give them to my wife. I'm really excited. Do you
Speaker 2: remember do you know what to do? You know what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the little uh how about partridges with a little
Speaker 2: screen on it and you give it food and you
Speaker 2: clean up its poot and you see them get bigger
Speaker 2: and they laugh and they cry and they're just so
Speaker 2: happy and you can't neglect them to the point that
Speaker 2: they could die. Yeah, they could die.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they die? Do they die forever? That that's
Speaker 3: a question that my seven year old asked me about
Speaker 3: people recently.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that. That'd be that'd be crazy if
Speaker 2: you have to, like I think, like the throat away,
Speaker 2: if it dies, that'd be crazy.
Speaker 1: I feel like the original Japanese version probably would have
Speaker 1: been like, yeah, bro, it's gone. And then if our
Speaker 1: American consumers are like you got maybe just take the
Speaker 1: battery out and put it back in.
Speaker 2: Oh they respawn, thank you can respawn.
Speaker 3: Jesus, Well that's a little scary. Actually yeah, yeah, all right,
Speaker 3: yeah this this totally missed me.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, because you were what your four year Yeah,
Speaker 1: you would have been like driving, like a driving high schooler.
Speaker 2: By the time this, Yeah, really hit fever pitch for me, Like,
Speaker 2: how old are you? In my fifties? Yeah, dude, that
Speaker 2: looks good on you. You still have all your hair.
Speaker 2: I'm forty years older than months.
Speaker 1: He's thirty two, bro, No, no, no, forty four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll be forty five. Shit, I'm forty one.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Ah, God damn the old as fuck. So you are
Speaker 3: you seeing that, like is it coming back in the
Speaker 3: sense so you can get one on eBay? Or you're
Speaker 3: seeing this as a trend.
Speaker 2: They have like a whole new line of them, and
Speaker 2: you know, but yeah, so I think it's just kind
Speaker 2: of like a fun little toy that you could just
Speaker 2: keep in your pocket and then every once in a
Speaker 2: while it rings and you can pull it out and
Speaker 2: you can play with it, and it's something that's not
Speaker 2: your phone. I think that's like the bigger draw exactly.
Speaker 2: That's not an app something that's not you know, because
Speaker 2: I feel like so much of my life and my
Speaker 2: wife's life and everything is just going from like big
Speaker 2: screen to little screen in the back to the big screen,
Speaker 2: the back to the little screen. Yeah, and life has gotten
Speaker 2: so repetitive with having kids. I mean, dude, I love
Speaker 2: having kids. I like being a dad, but we end
Speaker 2: up doing the same things over and over again, and
Speaker 2: the days are really running away from us. So I
Speaker 2: wanted to do something different for this year's holidays and
Speaker 2: year holidays, which it's funny because we're mostlim we don't
Speaker 2: even do that stuff. But I still wanted to get
Speaker 2: her a gift so that she wouldn't feel left out.
Speaker 2: And there I was looking around, and I just like,
Speaker 2: I wanted to get her like a gadget, something that
Speaker 2: was small, But she's not really the gadget. She doesn't
Speaker 2: want like a watch or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she kind of likes things that are like not
Speaker 1: a dummy, like a dumb phone, you know.
Speaker 2: So I was like looking at that, and I was like, yo,
Speaker 2: she really used to like that stuff back in the days.
Speaker 2: I remember I used to like that stuff too. Let
Speaker 2: me just get home one nice I.
Speaker 3: Can't wait next time you're on, we need to get
Speaker 3: the report, because my my gut would be the having
Speaker 3: kids and then having a thing that replicates having kids.
Speaker 2: Would like I didn't even know one.
Speaker 3: To feed one of them, and I can't remember which
Speaker 3: one it is.
Speaker 1: This one's got clients coming off of it. It's funny
Speaker 1: though too that like I mean, you bring it up
Speaker 1: because like when this ship was popping is because we
Speaker 1: didn't have cell phones as kids.
Speaker 2: It's like, yo, bro, got this little tomagachi.
Speaker 1: I'm fucking around on dir any thing no tamagatchis and
Speaker 1: you just think of all the things we used to
Speaker 1: just like the phone has yourplace, Like I'm seeing like
Speaker 1: a fucking yo yo, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Or it's like, bro, you have nothing to do. Get
Speaker 3: that yo at yoyoa. Oh big kids. We were rocking beepers.
Speaker 3: I didn't have enough people calling me.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 1: Did you put in your hat too? Did you clip
Speaker 1: the beeper.
Speaker 2: To your hat? I never did the beeper.
Speaker 3: I think I got a like type of candy that
Speaker 3: came in a beeper shaped box For those of us
Speaker 3: who didn't have bustling enough social lives.
Speaker 2: The beeper I was in the streets.
Speaker 3: Like pretend, what if you pretended that you had shit
Speaker 3: going on?
Speaker 1: There's jack, there's bubble dumb spilling out of your beeper.
Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, she's calling again. Oh you're right, yeah,
Speaker 2: I better take this. My duke is tripping, you know
Speaker 2: how it is.
Speaker 3: I pretend my mom is calling dude.
Speaker 2: That's the best I can imagine. I have really over
Speaker 2: protective parents. Did you guys have beepers when everybody else
Speaker 2: had a cell phone?
Speaker 1: I had a beeper in ninety five, so people mostly
Speaker 1: people still had beepers, and it was.
Speaker 2: Like the beeper arrow when I had a beeper sick.
Speaker 2: I had a beeper because I couldn't afford the phone,
Speaker 2: and so I would just get a beeper then borrow
Speaker 2: someone's phone to call them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had the beeper for a long time though, because
Speaker 1: I also didn't like the phones are so big. I
Speaker 1: still was just so into the idea because like rappers
Speaker 1: would put like nine beepers on their waistband. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was just kind of like I had two. Like at
Speaker 1: one point I had two beepers. One was a broken one,
Speaker 1: but I just had to to just stunt on people
Speaker 1: at the mall.
Speaker 2: That's like, if you got a lot going on and
Speaker 2: you want to look like Batman, you need like a
Speaker 2: utility belt. All beepers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so many deepers deeper Batman.
Speaker 1: Doctors still kind of using right, or they're all using
Speaker 1: Apple watches and ship like the app.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got phonesfe works in the hospital and she
Speaker 2: has a beeper.
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like she gets pages, right.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's the last place where they're still
Speaker 1: used like in a regular way, right.
Speaker 3: So it's I mean, yeah, so I think my wife
Speaker 3: has like a work phone that is only like for
Speaker 3: work calls that she knows that she's getting a call.
Speaker 2: On that it's it's within the hospital. Yeah, yeah, it's important.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, I get I guess beepers do make
Speaker 3: sense like for that. So because dude, I was, I
Speaker 3: was showing miles yesterday. I got nine spam calls yesterday,
Speaker 3: like during the course of our recording phone calls. Yeah,
Speaker 3: hour and a half nine spam phone calls. It's they
Speaker 3: have made it completely fucking useless. Like if I was
Speaker 3: a doctor, I'd be fucked or I'd be like getting
Speaker 3: scammed so much.
Speaker 2: Hold on, sir, I gotta I gotta leave this surgery.
Speaker 1: I'm getting another callam doctor, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: You gotta like sanitize your hands all over again.
Speaker 1: Got to be sure it's the same area code as
Speaker 1: my hometown.
Speaker 2: Makes me think maybe it's someone I know trying to
Speaker 2: call me from a new phone.
Speaker 3: I got like the AD and T spam detection thing,
Speaker 3: and like it's just taken off since then, and now
Speaker 3: it never says scam likely.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh boy, the fucking DNT.
Speaker 3: Anyways. Uh, what something aman that you think is overrated?
Speaker 2: Uh? Laptops? Uh huh. I feel like we're finally at
Speaker 2: the point now where you could just do everything on
Speaker 2: your phone. And so when I see somebody like pull
Speaker 2: out a laptop on a train, because you know, like
Speaker 2: I'm in the city and everything, somebody's like it's like
Speaker 2: a busy train and somebody like has to do their
Speaker 2: work and they got to like do It's like, dude,
Speaker 2: it could wait right later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, trying to make a big production of the fact
Speaker 3: that you have work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you take them space. Can you write an entire
Speaker 2: article on your phone? Have you done that? I've done
Speaker 2: that before. Damn, it's not great.
Speaker 3: You're a great gun typer. Yeah, because I need I
Speaker 3: need a keyboard, like to really crank shit out.
Speaker 2: I need. But you could also hook up like a
Speaker 2: keyboard to a phone now that you can get like
Speaker 2: a dunk. That is the wildest look though.
Speaker 1: You You imagine you're taking the train and somebody just
Speaker 1: takes their phone out and then a fucking keyboard and
Speaker 1: they're like, right, let me just type this ship up
Speaker 1: on my cellphone, and.
Speaker 2: That's so much easier to carry than a whole laptop,
Speaker 2: and just it's something about it just makes me just
Speaker 2: drives me nuts. Because then because I see it all
Speaker 2: the time, I see people pulling that laptops and doing
Speaker 2: work somewhere where they're not supposed to. And I'm like, dude,
Speaker 2: look around, you're stressing us. Read the room. Yeah, read
Speaker 2: the room. I'm trying to have a sandwich, and you're
Speaker 2: trying to use this cafe as your office.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, dude, Like your slack sounds are fucking upsetting
Speaker 1: me that I can hear ambiently in this office.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. And it's like they sometimes give you a
Speaker 2: dirty look if you're dragging a chair across because I'm
Speaker 2: interrupting their work. This happened the other day. My son
Speaker 2: was pushing a chair in a cafe and somebody gave
Speaker 2: him a look because he was interrupting his flow. So
Speaker 2: you're in a public place.
Speaker 1: Photograb three chairs, my bad man, I'm expecting some people
Speaker 1: man using this chair in front of you.
Speaker 2: Actually, it wouldn't bother me so much if, like I
Speaker 2: didn't see it all the time. You know. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: just feels like you can't leave the house without somebody
Speaker 2: making whatever space their office. You know. I take my
Speaker 2: case of the library a lot again, just people just
Speaker 2: post it up, making it their their workspace. And I'm like, you, guy,
Speaker 2: it's not that important love that even.
Speaker 1: Though it's a peaceful place to do your work.
Speaker 2: We'll do that shit somewhere else, or just you know,
Speaker 2: be better at time management. If your problem is that
Speaker 2: you have to do work on the way that we're
Speaker 2: like on the wages where you're going, maybe you should
Speaker 2: have done woke up a little bit earlier. That's right.
Speaker 2: They probably lift themselves up by their bootstraps and get
Speaker 2: it together. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Oh you're getting crushed by your job. I don't want
Speaker 1: to see it in front of me, you know.
Speaker 2: Uh, The article that I did fully write on my
Speaker 2: phone was the January sixth article when I was when
Speaker 2: I went to the Capitol building. Oh okay, I'll give you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I needed a file literally right then, and so I
Speaker 2: just typed out everything as it happened to published it
Speaker 2: in a couple hours.
Speaker 3: And it was It read like one of Jeffrey Epstein's emails.
Speaker 3: It was just like no capitalizations, stations scattered throughout.
Speaker 2: Luckily you got a good editor.
Speaker 3: So yeah, all right, we're gonna take a quick break,
Speaker 3: then we're gonna come back and talk about some news.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back, and we're back. We're back.
Speaker 3: And somebody told Trump about this affordability thing, this crisis.
Speaker 3: It really must be hard for him, who has never
Speaker 3: you know, to afford anything in his life, never had
Speaker 3: any sort of lack in his life, and also doesn't
Speaker 3: seem to be able to hear people who aren't billionaires
Speaker 3: like you know, like fully take them in as humans. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so this is probably news to him. Will some people
Speaker 3: are like having trouble.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, when you're that wealthy, you're all your wealth
Speaker 1: is just like built on exploiting people's like labor. So
Speaker 1: at that point you truly don't see them as people.
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, these are my fucking smurfs that I
Speaker 1: squeezed dollars out of. What the fuck are they complaining about?
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Trump is having a summit or had
Speaker 1: one already with McDonald's franchisees about affordability, and I guess like,
Speaker 1: rather than like, I don't know, introducing like legislation that
Speaker 1: would bar companies from profiting excessively, he'd rather just yell
Speaker 1: at a bunch of McDonald's people about it.
Speaker 3: But he lowered the prices like that was basically the right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, when for.
Speaker 3: A day or something, do a sale.
Speaker 1: When you read the comments, you're like, this feels like
Speaker 1: somebody's leaning on you McDonald's. But so people, we've talked
Speaker 1: about how he was going to go on a speaking
Speaker 1: tour to address the affordability crisis and just not listen.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no, no, no, no, you will hear me.
Speaker 1: You will hear me again, And he said he was
Speaker 1: just going to go around not offering solutions, but merely
Speaker 1: pointing to his past accomplishments to be like, how you
Speaker 1: go say, I'm not doing anything for working people. I'm
Speaker 1: doing no tax on tips no tax on overtime. Now,
Speaker 1: don't look too deeply into that and see if that's
Speaker 1: actually beneficial to those people. But it sounds good and
Speaker 1: that's what ideal in So yeah, he continued this, uh,
Speaker 1: and they got the people who were asking about, like,
Speaker 1: what's going to be going on the McDonald's Sumit it
Speaker 1: says a key message at the mcdonald' summit will be
Speaker 1: that value and affordability or quote so important to consumers
Speaker 1: and elected officials that our franchisees and company are co
Speaker 1: investing to bring extra value and affordability to our customers.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, hold on.
Speaker 1: Affordability is so important to elected officials that franchisees are
Speaker 1: investing their own This sounds like legislators like you need
Speaker 1: to fucking help us, So whatever you need to do
Speaker 1: to bring the fucking cost now, will help you do that.
Speaker 2: Shit. Yeah, it's like we put money in your pocket.
Speaker 2: Now it's time to make me look good.
Speaker 1: Right, Like, this isn't because we've talked about i mean
Speaker 1: over the like the last since we've been doing this show.
Speaker 1: It's always been like how fucking expensive fast food is
Speaker 1: getting to the point where it's not even some shit
Speaker 1: where you're like, bro, I can't like I can eat
Speaker 1: fast food for cheap at least now it's like I
Speaker 1: gotta count the coins in my pocket before I go
Speaker 1: to like McDonald's or some shit. Axios did report that
Speaker 1: McDonald's is quote taking the rare step of footing part
Speaker 1: of the bill for its new extra value meals to
Speaker 1: win back cash strap.
Speaker 2: So okay, and.
Speaker 3: There's probably no quid pro quo where you know, the
Speaker 3: FDA looks the other way as they like just call
Speaker 3: it an extra pound of u sawdust to all of
Speaker 3: their products.
Speaker 2: Its sawdust.
Speaker 1: But it just feels like, like, so the greed is
Speaker 1: causing such bad optics for this administration. They're begging slash
Speaker 1: coercing McDonald's into bringing prices down as a smoke screen,
Speaker 1: because we have heard McDonald's be like, we are our
Speaker 1: customers can't even afford our product, like that is being
Speaker 1: talked about within the boardrooms. Now again that that means
Speaker 1: are you willing to make less profits? Are you willing
Speaker 1: to take that extreme step to make less money?
Speaker 3: And I will say the McDonald's is franchise base, franchise
Speaker 3: e like based, so you can put the pressure downwards.
Speaker 3: So you're not asking billionaires to take a pay cut.
Speaker 3: You're asking them to put pressure on the you know,
Speaker 3: p people who own the individual outlets, right right, So
Speaker 3: it's that that's a way of doing this that doesn't
Speaker 3: require you to put pressure on corporate America in any way.
Speaker 2: It's it's really beautiful. It's like a beautiful trick they've done.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this administration has been throwing out all kinds
Speaker 1: of ideas how to bring prices down, and Trump has
Speaker 1: even gone up, like gone back on being like Biden
Speaker 1: started the high prices, but I will fix it. And
Speaker 1: but now they're finding themselves and being like okay, so
Speaker 1: how and they're like.
Speaker 3: Ask them to lower the prices?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you like Yon tried asking them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it requires them to do things that are antithetical
Speaker 1: to their entire worldview, like so like don't write socialist
Speaker 1: checks your capitalists ass can't cash.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that's what he's trying to do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know this is going to work so beautiful, beautifully
Speaker 2: for them. And that sort of drives me nuts because
Speaker 2: I think for like the past, it's not like a
Speaker 2: Republican or democ issue. I think like the way that
Speaker 2: it's been working for the past ten like decade, is
Speaker 2: that the top one percent. Berniey Senters has been talking
Speaker 2: about this forever. The top one percent has been just
Speaker 2: siphoning money from the middle class and the lower class
Speaker 2: like crazy. And now like that all of the money
Speaker 2: has already floated to the top, they're gonna trickle just
Speaker 2: a little drop back down and they're gonna act like
Speaker 2: they're actually doing something right. And the way that it's
Speaker 2: been working in Trump world, where they're just desperate for anything,
Speaker 2: any sign of life in the Trump administration, that they're
Speaker 2: going to actually turn this into a win. And I
Speaker 2: hate to say it, it's gonna work. And you know,
Speaker 2: I saw a little bit of the video of him
Speaker 2: like going up and like talking about it, and just
Speaker 2: the laughs that he got in the room when he
Speaker 2: was he was like, you know, I'm the first president
Speaker 2: that have been elected who was formerly a fry cook
Speaker 2: at McDonald's. I think the way that the room erupted
Speaker 2: and laughter, I think tells you everything about how this
Speaker 2: is that play.
Speaker 3: Is that because he did that one photo op as
Speaker 3: a fry.
Speaker 2: Cook or no, he's just making fun of himself, and
Speaker 2: I think people are just it's a party and everybody
Speaker 2: it's like a big birthday celebration more than it is
Speaker 2: any policy like movement. It's just gonna work out.
Speaker 3: Life is just one long birthday party for him, you know.
Speaker 2: And I think the way that he photoshopped like the
Speaker 2: McDonald's double arches on top of the White House, are
Speaker 2: they wasted they and they put grimace in a maga hat.
Speaker 2: I think it's it's sort of the same pattern of
Speaker 2: trying to create this idealized version of the success, trying
Speaker 2: to show Trump as somebody who was actually solving problems.
Speaker 2: As long as they can continue to manufacture that image,
Speaker 2: their base is going to think of it as a success.
Speaker 2: And we're not talking to them. They're not talking to
Speaker 2: us anyways, and so there really is no room for
Speaker 2: somebody to say, actually, is this actually going to do
Speaker 2: make a difference. Now they're gonna be oh no, look,
Speaker 2: Trump actually did lower the prices, He did what he
Speaker 2: said he was gonna do. Well.
Speaker 1: I think that's where they're trying to find the thing
Speaker 1: where they're like, clearly the the you know, voted Trump
Speaker 1: three times people are they don't need to be convinced.
Speaker 1: It's like all the people they kind of siphoned off
Speaker 1: in the presidential that they're like, ah, fuck, like we're
Speaker 1: losing everybody too, because they would tell everybody else who
Speaker 1: they think is gonna vote for.
Speaker 2: A Democrat like just eat shit, we don't give a fuck.
Speaker 1: But I think there is like that group because especially
Speaker 1: with the number of like Latino voters who are now
Speaker 1: just like the like the inversion of that coalition or
Speaker 1: the lack of support.
Speaker 2: Now they're like, uh, fuck, why what's their problem? What
Speaker 2: are they meant about?
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, just the kidnappings? Should we just look
Speaker 1: at this clip where he talks about we.
Speaker 3: Should yeah, we should talk about the books he is
Speaker 3: he does kind of have them eating out of his hands,
Speaker 3: and then he does something that's like, I don't I
Speaker 3: don't know what really happens here, but I just as
Speaker 3: you know, not just as a politician, but as as
Speaker 3: a person.
Speaker 2: It's worth watching this as a person.
Speaker 6: Doing honest, beautiful hard work and happy family sitting down
Speaker 6: to a really great meal, because no matter who you are,
Speaker 6: everyone loves some thing at McDonald's. It's always something to have.
Speaker 2: I like the fish, I like it. What you could
Speaker 2: do a.
Speaker 6: Little bit more ta please, seriously, I hate when I said,
Speaker 6: you have any do you understand that?
Speaker 2: Yes, the fish, Okay, I like.
Speaker 3: Fish, And he like pushes his hand down a little bit,
Speaker 3: so all right. My first impression is it seems like
Speaker 3: a clear attempt at a Homer Simpson audibly drooling, thing like.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 7: Okay, But but he like doesn't. So he's just like,
Speaker 7: what's but what's the hand doing? Because he's like, I
Speaker 7: like the fish, And it looks like he's shifting in
Speaker 7: the third gear. Maybe isn't he doing like a crunching
Speaker 7: sound like.
Speaker 2: Aulating that he's simulating the roof of his mouth coming
Speaker 2: down on.
Speaker 1: A Oh, he has a bit of an oral fixation.
Speaker 1: It feels like the last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it is.
Speaker 3: It's weird, like maybe he has something in his throat.
Speaker 3: I don't want to bring that up that that has
Speaker 3: nothing to do with anything that's happening elsewhere in the news.
Speaker 3: I'm just wondering if he had something in his throat
Speaker 3: it was a horse, Okay, I would be a new
Speaker 3: fucking angle.
Speaker 2: It was a fucking horse, all right. That he goes
Speaker 2: I like the.
Speaker 3: Fish makes me wonder if he just like doesn't know
Speaker 3: where fish come from.
Speaker 2: He's just like doing.
Speaker 3: He's just like he thinks they're like created by a
Speaker 3: robot or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: He makes like a ninety degree angle with his either way,
Speaker 1: that's what he's trying to do. He's getting them to
Speaker 1: talk about anything, but whatever is happening right now? I
Speaker 1: am curious, So like how quickly it? Like, so prices
Speaker 1: will go down at McDonald's maybe for how long? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what about everywhere else? Because everybody also has bills
Speaker 1: to put, like utility bills to pay, they have phone
Speaker 1: bills to pay, They've got grocery costs that you know.
Speaker 1: The one thing now, he's like like they're trying to
Speaker 1: eliminate the tariffs on things like coffee and like tropical
Speaker 1: fruit and certain things to just to give the illusion
Speaker 1: like like, oh, some things are coming down, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I think he also misunderstands that this is it. This
Speaker 1: is a like a fucking all encompassing crisis of affordability.
Speaker 1: It's not just McDonald's became too pricey, but.
Speaker 3: Against your people, right, that's they the shit, right, we'll
Speaker 3: go the same.
Speaker 2: But that's him too. It's wages.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the other thing too, And I think
Speaker 1: rather than doing addressing any of those things, it's easy
Speaker 1: to be like, we're going to be cutting people of
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars checks, folks, just to be like, you know,
Speaker 1: how about my wages go up?
Speaker 2: How about my healthcare costs? To do something about them? No, No,
Speaker 2: here's two thousand. That's you know, don't look into the
Speaker 2: analysis of what happened in the lockdown. It did contribute
Speaker 2: a bit to inflation, although did.
Speaker 3: That were required in at a very high level from
Speaker 3: like the C suite, And that's not what he's requiring
Speaker 3: here here he's asking franchises to make less money, so
Speaker 3: that you know, and franchisees are not like C suite millionaires.
Speaker 3: There are people who own a single McDonald's franchise, or
Speaker 3: you know, a group.
Speaker 1: Of McDonald if you've got multiple, if you've got a multiples,
Speaker 1: I hope.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean there's some there's some McDonald's franchise
Speaker 3: e kingpins for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Out here.
Speaker 3: And also he did tweet out that mega hat of
Speaker 3: an image AI slop essentially of Grimace wearing a mega hat,
Speaker 3: and then they immediately deleted. So I feel like McDonald's
Speaker 3: was like whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're like don't, yeah, we don't. That makes
Speaker 2: it even funnier.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna Yeah, well, like the first one they
Speaker 1: they they I think they vetoed the one where it
Speaker 1: had a swastika armband on, and then.
Speaker 2: Maybe like all this the a I thought that they've done.
Speaker 2: There was a panic on the Trump side. We're like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's too far, that's too far. Take that back. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but that's all dripping poop on protesters in Chicago, right right.
Speaker 1: What's also just funny to me is like that the
Speaker 1: McDonald's has enough sway. They're like, hey, man, take that
Speaker 1: ship down. And they're like sorry, sorry, yeah, sorry, I
Speaker 1: guess we got to white nationalists dip on our chip there.
Speaker 1: Sorry about that, McDonald's. We will remove the post at once.
Speaker 3: Let's talk real quick about the LAPD, who We've been
Speaker 3: on a pretty steady. The police and human caging system
Speaker 3: in America is inhumane, doesn't work to make people safer,
Speaker 3: and it seems like the people in charge of running
Speaker 3: that system might be catching onto that fact too crazy
Speaker 3: because in LA we spend billions of dollars in tax
Speaker 3: money to keep the LAPD and fast cars and new guns.
Speaker 1: The finest guns we keep our police and the finest guns, and.
Speaker 3: Tearing through the sky and helicopters. Nobody has really explained
Speaker 3: the purpose of oh.
Speaker 1: Paying lawsuit settlements for their illegal behavior.
Speaker 2: Us.
Speaker 1: That's actually a huge burden on the city.
Speaker 3: The helicopters. Man, I feel like we gotta. I feel
Speaker 3: like we could. We could take over the golf courses.
Speaker 3: If Mom Donnie can get elected, we can get rid
Speaker 3: of the LAPD helicopters and take over the golf course
Speaker 3: and LAPD helicopters. Like, don't once you just like take
Speaker 3: a second to think about it, You're like, so that's
Speaker 3: just for car chases, Like that's why the fun that
Speaker 3: they need to be, why the sky need to be
Speaker 3: constantly swarming with helicopters.
Speaker 2: It's also also have they heard of drones? Right?
Speaker 1: Oh, you know they have, yeah, budgets, Like we need
Speaker 1: just a few of those. But also I'm I'm sure
Speaker 1: they're like, but we also need the helicopters so we
Speaker 1: can just keep a low grade stress, like just a
Speaker 1: nice low grade stress for low income area. You're being watched, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just buzzing down through neighborhoods, to keep them alive.
Speaker 2: You know, you're gonna keep them awake that you know
Speaker 2: they have multiple purposes.
Speaker 3: So on the question of what the money is being
Speaker 3: spent on and how it's working, the LAPD is just like,
Speaker 3: we're not telling just trust us. It's for your own good.
Speaker 3: That's essentially what they've done.
Speaker 1: They've gone with, right, because we used to have a
Speaker 1: crime map that you could look at at any time
Speaker 1: that was basically like here's the crime data website. You
Speaker 1: can go look to your neighborhood. You can just see
Speaker 1: there's records of like locations of crimes, the use of force,
Speaker 1: number of other like all kinds of data, just like
Speaker 1: what the cops are up to. And it was somewhat
Speaker 1: trained by law.
Speaker 3: Right, there's a law, the public transparency law that for
Speaker 3: years the LAPD has had to maintain records to improve
Speaker 3: inspection and accountability. And then abruptly this year they were like, heh,
Speaker 3: you actually can't see it. And when asked why, they
Speaker 3: said that the information quote has the potential to lead
Speaker 3: to misguided public policy discussions or unjustified public panic, which
Speaker 3: I believe the first one is their concern that they're like, oh, man,
Speaker 3: you guys are gonna cut our funding if you know
Speaker 3: what's actually going on, but the idea that it would
Speaker 3: lead to public panic. They love some statistics that make
Speaker 3: them look like they are necessary and make their job
Speaker 3: look dangerous and make it look like they're having to
Speaker 3: fight things and crimes out of control. They when there's
Speaker 3: when there's a crime, they're the first ones to tell
Speaker 3: you about that. So I have to assume at this
Speaker 3: time of like rapidly dropping violent crime across American cities,
Speaker 3: that their their problem is not we don't want to
Speaker 3: show you guys, because you can.
Speaker 2: Be too scared. You can be too scared, you're gonna
Speaker 2: make you're gonna need us too much. We don't want
Speaker 2: you to see how much everyone is so dumb man,
Speaker 2: They think everyone is as dumb as them.
Speaker 1: It's so patronizing to be like, oh, you guys, won't
Speaker 1: even wrap your head around this data that shows we're
Speaker 1: doing fuck all and wasting money, because then you're gonna
Speaker 1: you don't even want and you're gonna fucking panic or
Speaker 1: some ship, dude, because it sounds like you. That data
Speaker 1: is going to be so incriminating in terms of the
Speaker 1: just just total waste of money that we pay these
Speaker 1: people who most of them don't even live in the
Speaker 1: fucking city. They're out of towners who come in and
Speaker 1: just fucking bad up the actual people who live in
Speaker 1: the city. Yeah, right now, there's a lot of back
Speaker 1: and forth trying to get this information out. The mayor's
Speaker 1: office has not even returned to Andy, hasn't given any
Speaker 1: kind of comment on this, because, yeah, how are you
Speaker 1: gonna defend this, Like you don't want to be transparent
Speaker 1: with the data about what you're up to, then then
Speaker 1: tell your story if you if you're if you're so
Speaker 1: concerned about what the what people are gonna get from
Speaker 1: this data, then why don't you release it and you
Speaker 1: give whatever your analysis is and then allow people to
Speaker 1: look through the raw data themselves.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 3: It's like a kid just being like, what, I gotta
Speaker 3: tell you something, but you're gonna be mad at me? Yeah,
Speaker 3: tell you you're gonna be so mad at me? Do
Speaker 3: you promise you're not gonna be mad at me? Then
Speaker 3: I'm not telling you.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get mad? Well, did you do something bad?
Speaker 2: I don't know we're gonna get mad? Are you gonna
Speaker 2: be mad?
Speaker 3: I don't I mean, I'm protecting you from this information
Speaker 3: because you're gonna be so mad.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be so mad.
Speaker 1: Oh, anyone tell you?
Speaker 2: This is why I didn't tell you nothing. Shout out
Speaker 2: to the LA You can almost imagine how that meeting went,
Speaker 2: where they were just like, wait, why are we even
Speaker 2: giving this to people on the why so they could
Speaker 2: be mad at us? This is so dumb. I'm sure
Speaker 2: some poor, low level person have to go on the
Speaker 2: website and scrub.
Speaker 1: It right, or I'm sure some some person who's in
Speaker 1: charge of that was like whatever, you just always posted,
Speaker 1: and so I'm like, just just.
Speaker 2: Don't fucking post this one. Don't fucking post this one.
Speaker 2: They're like what what what It's just like, oh, no.
Speaker 3: If we didn't ye, no, no, there's a law, but
Speaker 3: what if there wasn't. Yeah there is who's gonna enforce
Speaker 3: the law?
Speaker 2: Where the police? Yeah, exactly one hundred per cent?
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean like because also, like in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: the LA Times like they, you know, did an investigation
Speaker 1: show that they were doing the LAPD was involved in
Speaker 1: all kinds of misclassification errors that were artificially lowering the
Speaker 1: city's crime levels.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 3: So we're just messy. We're just messy guys. We're you know,
Speaker 3: we're like loose cannons.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Did you ever see Rigs or John McClain doing fucking paperwork?
Speaker 1: Hell no, dudell, No, they hated it, beating the ship
Speaker 1: out of people.
Speaker 2: Happy though, look at the numbers this lower.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the I think the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is really for people to understand how much tax
Speaker 1: revenue like La County generates, or even just even at
Speaker 1: least city does, and you look at the services we have,
Speaker 1: and then you just look at how much of that
Speaker 1: money goes to police overtime and settling these lawsuits for
Speaker 1: their fucking actions of impropriety. To put it lightly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it would it's my numbing. And people are like, damn,
Speaker 1: why do the streets look like this? I'm like, because
Speaker 1: a lapd.
Speaker 3: Right, you say, why why does the streets look like this?
Speaker 3: As a helicopter flies over your head, It's like, it's
Speaker 3: a shame of mine.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: It drives me nuts because in New York we're having
Speaker 2: this whole news cycle discussion about what Zoron means when
Speaker 2: he meant when he said defund the police like ten
Speaker 2: years ago, and it's so easy for people to just
Speaker 2: explain it. Right, It's simple. You take some of the
Speaker 2: budget that's like that's being wasted, that's actually not being
Speaker 2: used for good police work, and you spend it on
Speaker 2: services so that the police aren't being overwhelmed with non
Speaker 2: stop calls for every little thing. It just makes sense
Speaker 2: when you when you hear it said out loud. But
Speaker 2: then it doesn't even matter. You take what you're saying is, oh,
Speaker 2: so you want crime or are you pro crime? Then
Speaker 2: oh yeah, you want people to kill you? Yes, look
Speaker 2: at me, dude, I'm pro crime. Look at me.
Speaker 1: I've lost my mind and I'm pro crime. And my
Speaker 1: wife pant they get fucking robbed every time I leave
Speaker 1: the house. That's my dream, right, because that's a reasonable
Speaker 1: person says no, Like to your point, it's like, we
Speaker 1: take all the money they fucking waste, Like we're only
Speaker 1: spending four thousand dollars a minute on helicopters and putting
Speaker 1: that into the social safety net programs that like to
Speaker 1: your point, you know, lead to actually.
Speaker 2: Less ride And because we live in a democracy, and
Speaker 2: all hinges on whether or not this group and that
Speaker 2: group can have a conversation, and it just we so
Speaker 2: clearly can't control All of our policies are being based
Speaker 2: off of what slogan sounds better and how much a
Speaker 2: happy meal will now cost.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I wonder if there even is a
Speaker 1: way to tell these cops like, look, guys, y'all are
Speaker 1: making a lot of money, all right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a little we're taking some money away, okay, and you
Speaker 1: still get to drive your gigantic truck.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be nice to like not respond to everything?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right right, It's like, but we got to work
Speaker 1: this out, baby. This ain't this isn't just some shit
Speaker 1: that you can just bleed the city dry with all
Speaker 1: your fucking overtime shit.
Speaker 3: You talk to the cops and like a lot of
Speaker 3: them are like, yeah, I don't like that there are
Speaker 3: no mental health resources in the city.
Speaker 2: That's bad for us. The cop. Yeah, even then everything
Speaker 2: with a with a cop, you can just throw a
Speaker 2: cop and expect to work out.
Speaker 3: According to Joe Biden gave that speech, it's like, what
Speaker 3: you want to defund the police? The police are psychiatrists.
Speaker 2: There are doctors, our lovers, there are lots didn't want
Speaker 2: to ask corn Pop if he knows who Buppa is,
Speaker 2: that's a great question. We need you need to find out.
Speaker 2: I don't even think.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if corn Pop knows who corn
Speaker 1: Pop that they are corn Pop, Joe Biden. Just think
Speaker 1: some random black duty shook hands with like seventy years
Speaker 1: ago and corn Pop was a bad guy.
Speaker 2: Okay, sir, how did you fat what files? He never has?
Speaker 3: Has that been searched? That's your job as a journalist
Speaker 3: to tell us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta google this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back,
Speaker 3: and we're back. We're back, and let's talk about first
Speaker 3: of all, why Nicki Minaj is addressing the UN addressed
Speaker 3: the UN yesterday. Her involvement was arranged by the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: She tweeted, couldn't address the UN just off the strength
Speaker 1: of her and the Barbs.
Speaker 3: I know I would think so, but the writing and
Speaker 3: a post ambassador. I'm so grateful to be entrusted with
Speaker 3: an opportunity of this magnitude. I do not take it
Speaker 3: for granted. Means more than you know, the Barbes and
Speaker 3: I will never stand down in the face of injustice.
Speaker 3: We've been given our influenced by God. There must be
Speaker 3: a bigger purpose. Trump media advisor Alex bruce Witz, who's
Speaker 3: also expected to speak at the event, and this was
Speaker 3: to highlight claims of Christian persecution in Nigeria, which, first
Speaker 3: of all, I do just want to say. Now we've
Speaker 3: got two of the three people on Monster now fully
Speaker 3: aligned with the right. Only Jay Z's our last holdout.
Speaker 3: I mean he's I say he was low key, you know,
Speaker 3: as a billionaire. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he's part of
Speaker 3: that set. But yeah he's not. He hasn't open. He
Speaker 3: doesn't fully become a part of the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine?
Speaker 1: Like and he has who better than Sean Carter as
Speaker 1: my liaison for Housing and Urban Development?
Speaker 2: He said, the streets is watching, and he knew it's
Speaker 2: kind of it's kind of nice when people like this
Speaker 2: get involved and they do, like want to take a position.
Speaker 2: I think it's really cool. It's just NICKI minajal people.
Speaker 2: I can't. I don't think I ever got over when
Speaker 2: she talked about how the COVID vaccine will make your
Speaker 2: testicle swollen. Yeah, cousin and their cousin. Yeah, they pulled
Speaker 2: off because they took up the COVID vaccine. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's good. We should want people to to like
Speaker 2: take stances and be political, you know, volved. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: don't on the line.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, don't get charged up off of Bill mahersh segment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that is what happened. This is what happened.
Speaker 3: Earlier this month, she praised Trump for threatening military action
Speaker 3: against Nigeria over this slaughter of Christians.
Speaker 2: Trump had air quotes for slaughter.
Speaker 3: I think it's important to yeah, yeah, over the quote
Speaker 3: unquote a latter of Christians. He ordered the military to
Speaker 3: prepare for action in Nigeria to tackle Islami's militant groups
Speaker 3: because the government is failing to protect Christians and promise
Speaker 3: to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria is not going
Speaker 3: to be happy about. He always does shit like that,
Speaker 3: like he's flirting, and you know, obviously he doesn't give
Speaker 3: a fuck about Nigerians. But this gives conservatives an excuse
Speaker 3: to paint Christians as the real victims in our world.
Speaker 3: They're so warny to be like persecuted, you know. And
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty, he similarly stated the government, the government
Speaker 3: of Nigeria was not doing enough to protect the safety
Speaker 3: of Nigerians, especially Christians, and there's been like Ted Kruz
Speaker 3: has recently come out and been like fifty thou Christians
Speaker 3: have been killed since two thousand and nine by armed
Speaker 3: Islamist groups in Nigeria. Of course, he did not cite
Speaker 3: sources for the information, and we think like that this
Speaker 3: really got going a week before Cruz's tweet because Bill
Speaker 3: Maher on his show is this what the fuck's is
Speaker 3: still the Real Time or whatever the fuck? I don't know,
Speaker 3: real time, real talk, real whatever the fuck racist self
Speaker 3: hating loser show on he used his HBO show to
Speaker 3: claim that Islamists spoke Oharam are systematically killing the Christians
Speaker 3: in Nigeria.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is new role.
Speaker 3: This is so much more of a genocide attempt than
Speaker 3: what is going on in Gaza. They're literally attempting to
Speaker 3: wipe out the Christian population of an entire country. His sources,
Speaker 3: according to people who are actual journalists, say that it's
Speaker 3: largely fabricated claims and manip images from unverified outlets. But
Speaker 3: of course that segment was later picked up by Fox News,
Speaker 3: which is how it gets to Trump and Ted Cruz,
Speaker 3: which is how it then gets to Nicki minaj.
Speaker 1: Wonderful love that love that pipeline, the Bill Maher to
Speaker 1: Nicki Minaj un pipeline really really impressive, And I mean,
Speaker 1: god do people don't people know Bill Maher, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't even know how the fuck he's still on HBO.
Speaker 1: This guy has such a sordid record of Islamophobic bullshit
Speaker 1: that he says on his show for fucking decades. Yes
Speaker 1: that anytime he mentions anything outside of him wanting to
Speaker 1: have sex with like video vixens from the like two thousands,
Speaker 1: I'm like.
Speaker 2: Bro, this this is some fucking bullshit. This is some lie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And just to just to think that it goes
Speaker 1: from there to now that this whole sort of narrative
Speaker 1: that they're really trying to get going of, like, let's
Speaker 1: we honestly we need to protect Christians everywhere, and maybe
Speaker 1: that's a justification for increased militarism around the world. I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe or just just to change the optic
Speaker 1: a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, turned it into a religious war. Things should be
Speaker 2: what they're going for. Yeah, they want to be able
Speaker 2: to like clap back at the accusations of the side. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: This is Yeah, he dropped that report around the time
Speaker 3: that Nigeria support voice support for a two state solution
Speaker 3: to the Palestinian conflict at conflict at the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five u in General Assembly. So he went and like
Speaker 3: cherry picked fake sources from across the internet and then
Speaker 3: you know, put together a segment basically being like, oh, interesting,
Speaker 3: that's rich coming from you Nigeria.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, they're also using the shorthand Islamist group means the
Speaker 1: crusades against Christian people. It's like, do you know anything
Speaker 1: about Boko Haram, Yeah, they just read about it.
Speaker 3: Boko Haram has positioned itself against the Nigerian state as
Speaker 3: an apostate entity, not against any single religious group. There's
Speaker 3: no one motive behind the attacks. And not only is
Speaker 3: it not a genocide against Christians, but the majority of
Speaker 3: victim of armed group, of the armed group are Muslims.
Speaker 2: It's sad man. No. Bokharm is a real problem. And
Speaker 2: it's like one of many of these kinds of paramilitary
Speaker 2: groups that feed off of young kids and they go
Speaker 2: into these places, they kidnap the kids and they raise
Speaker 2: them up to be fighters and it's and it's just
Speaker 2: really sad that this only comes up in the context of, oh, well,
Speaker 2: you thought that what we were doing was bat how
Speaker 2: come I don't hear you talking about this? And the
Speaker 2: same thing goes for what's happening in Sudan. Man, it's devastating.
Speaker 2: It's devastating if you're keeping up with what's happening over there.
Speaker 2: But I only ever see it being talked about online
Speaker 2: in the context of like, oh well, how come you're
Speaker 2: not protesting your goods loose?
Speaker 3: Yes, I just need I only find out about this
Speaker 3: stuff when it's brought up by a major pop diva.
Speaker 2: I need I need that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with questionable marital choices, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I need a Lady guy got Away in on Sudan.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting I'm sitting on my keep my powder dry
Speaker 1: till Lady got and Olivia Rodrigo.
Speaker 2: Olivia Rodrigo would be very interested to hear what she
Speaker 2: has to say. I mean, she's younger.
Speaker 1: I feel like she probably has something to say. I
Speaker 1: feel like the younger ones.
Speaker 2: Definitely what a Suprina Carpenter said about that.
Speaker 3: Serena Carpenter would be also interesting. I think she probably
Speaker 3: prefers to get stay uninvolved. I just for some reason,
Speaker 3: I can't not picture her as young Hillary Clinton anymore.
Speaker 3: I saw that side by side, I was just like, damn.
Speaker 2: Oh, I haven't seen that yet. I'm gonna look at it.
Speaker 3: You know what, Miles, I'm gonna stick with my original
Speaker 3: stance because one of the things for sure is that
Speaker 3: absently and without uh information, accusing pop divas of things
Speaker 3: never backfires on the internet. Yeah, Taylor Swift fans are
Speaker 3: pretty cool and reasonable and don't don't get mad if
Speaker 3: you if you're just like I don't know, they seem
Speaker 3: like kind of a weird couple, like fuck you, even
Speaker 3: such a pleasure having you as always? Where can people
Speaker 3: find you? Follow you all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm mostly on Instagram posting dumb stuff, usually my articles.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm about in the middle of my book tour,
Speaker 2: so please check in and see where I'm going to
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Speaker 2: then Seattle two weeks after that. So yeah, I'm being
Speaker 2: all over talking about becoming bub by, talking about my journalism,
Speaker 2: saying yes to everything there it is. Is there a
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Speaker 3: Guys heard that?
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Speaker 1: Hey for the listeners, y'all. I don't know if y'all
Speaker 1: heard this show.
Speaker 3: I was on board until they were fucking rude about
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Speaker 2: They're not nice to tell the Swift fans I've heard
Speaker 2: mm hm that's yeah. But they are asking the real questions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like like, yeah, exactly exactly or a horse.
Speaker 2: Seriously. I love coming on the show. I love talking
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Speaker 3: Going from somebody who's actually doing the hand type January sixth,
Speaker 3: journalists from the front lines of an actual insurrection, I.
Speaker 1: Would say we're about twenty levels lower, but we're on
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Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I love you guys. Just don't never
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Speaker 3: I mean not on the subway, right, but like we
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Speaker 2: He's tying on New York train.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can do Amtrak though, I mean that's what
Speaker 3: that's what the Amtrak's for.
Speaker 2: Amtrak is nice. It's like every seat is like its
Speaker 2: own little room. Yeah, all right, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Miles. We had to let him and go to
Speaker 3: you know, go get his kid from school. So to
Speaker 3: the transparency there yet, I just want to transparency at
Speaker 3: this school if you want to meet him there Jersey.
Speaker 3: But I do dying to ask you, where can people
Speaker 3: find you? And is there a working media you've been at, Joel?
Speaker 1: After all these years, it still feels since here, Jack,
Speaker 1: I gotta say, you can find me everywhere at Miles
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Speaker 2: That's the show I do with Sophia Alexandro. Let's see
Speaker 2: a work of media. I like, m no, okay, oh,
Speaker 2: I can one. You know what.
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Speaker 2: That's what these are. Yet, Yeah, that's what these are.
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Speaker 2: It on the top.
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Speaker 3: off to the information that we talked about in today's episode.
Speaker 3: We also link off to a song that we think
Speaker 3: you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that you
Speaker 3: think that people might enjoy?
Speaker 2: Yes, there is. I was just listening.
Speaker 1: TikTok serves you all kinds of music, and there's like,
Speaker 1: you know, this is a genre of like corridos that
Speaker 1: are called trap corridos, and this artist Junior h Is
Speaker 1: like fucking you know up there, And I think I've
Speaker 1: just realized too, because I listened to all kinds of
Speaker 1: music like I'll listen to a lot of electronic music
Speaker 1: and then you kind of need to hear people playing
Speaker 1: instruments and really just like kind of singing and shit.
Speaker 1: This is called Sad Boys to Dollar sign for the
Speaker 1: for the S and Sad Boys II like boys to Men.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is Junior H. Most people have probably
Speaker 1: heard this song. But if you haven't, just just familiarize
Speaker 1: yourself with a new genre of music that maybe you
Speaker 1: don't listen to as much.
Speaker 2: Because they're not singing in English.
Speaker 3: So this is Junior H with Sad Boys too, all right.
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