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Speaker 2: Miles.
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat.
Speaker 1: Through trials and tribulations, the government tried to shut him down,
Speaker 1: but he's here. Very funny comedian and writer who you
Speaker 1: have seen doing stand up in places like your TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Internet. Yeah.
Speaker 1: His new album ran Through is now available to pre
Speaker 1: order on Apple and Vinyl. Please welcome back to the show,
Speaker 1: the hilarious, the talented Alan Strickland, will y'all.
Speaker 3: Of you all star Weekend, y'all, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: What's up, y'all, it's going to be back. Thanks for
Speaker 3: thanks for having me. And yeah, you know, just for
Speaker 3: the listeners. Little backstory, I guess Transformer neighborhood powers out.
Speaker 3: So we're so so we're on a hot yeah.
Speaker 2: And I get you should see it. You're not even
Speaker 2: seeing this. This man has his fingers locked behind his head,
Speaker 2: leaning back. That's how easy he is about this.
Speaker 3: I'm not worried. I Meanwhile, I'm like, my foot's shaking
Speaker 3: a hole in the ground underneath the table. Cool at
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Speaker 1: That's right, that's that's who he is. In a catastrophe.
Speaker 1: He's exactly hands by leg vibrating.
Speaker 3: I probably caused it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, how do you.
Speaker 1: What do you think going too hard?
Speaker 2: What do you what do you suspect did it? When
Speaker 2: you say you're rocking too hard, it's because you've got
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Speaker 3: Mind, I got the big coin. But guys downstairs, I've
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Speaker 3: I've got that. But it's just for my hair. So
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Speaker 2: It's dry.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Thank you very much, very it's
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, if anything for for Alan's hair, and those
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Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Now now the plugs would even work right now because
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Speaker 1: Guys, that's comedy that you get. This upcoming album ran through.
Speaker 1: When's it drop, Allen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it drops this Friday, October twenty fifth. You can
Speaker 3: pre order right now. We've got a lot of one liners.
Speaker 3: We've got a lot of relatable bits. We've got some
Speaker 3: poignant yet hilarious takes on the celestial bodies that hang
Speaker 3: in the sky above. Oh maybe some trauma stuff. Dating's weird,
Speaker 3: you know, stuff like that. The get We'll get into
Speaker 3: all of it. We wrap it all up nicely for
Speaker 3: you. You're gonna lie, You're gonna light the way you laugh.
Speaker 3: I guarantee it all right.
Speaker 1: And that plug was as organic as the ones in
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: What is something from your search history that is revealing.
Speaker 5: About who you are on Saturday, as it will be
Speaker 5: forever known going forward to the day after I saw miles.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I plus one D day plus one and
Speaker 5: I they don't give plus ones for D Day. I
Speaker 5: noticed whenever I go to Normandy, they just make you
Speaker 5: go solo. But I had to google bike tube because
Speaker 5: I fucked up a day. I fucked up my Saturday
Speaker 5: in a way that I'm like, I don't know if
Speaker 5: I should be allowed to make a decision ever again.
Speaker 5: And I drove to New Brunswick, which is like forty
Speaker 5: five minutes away, which is a shithole, but they have
Speaker 5: a great beautiful bike path that goes along like the
Speaker 5: Raretan Delaware River. So drove my bike out there. Didn't
Speaker 5: realize a Rutgers game was going on. Home game, so
Speaker 5: I was driving into football traffic like right when the
Speaker 5: game was right before. So already fucked myself. And then
Speaker 5: I get to the I couldn't park. I finally park
Speaker 5: right across. It was right next to the stadium. And
Speaker 5: then two like three miles into the ride, I hit
Speaker 5: a rock at a speed that was crazy and just
Speaker 5: blew my just blew up my front tire and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: I don't know how to fix this. And I was
Speaker 5: like trying to get an uber to take me back
Speaker 5: to my car, but there were search prices because of Yeah,
Speaker 5: so I was getting so I was cheap.
Speaker 1: Bankrupted yourself taking a bike ride?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I bankrupted myself. So I ended up just sitting
Speaker 5: and looking up how to change a tire and then
Speaker 5: I patched it. I figured it out after like an hour,
Speaker 5: and then it.
Speaker 2: Like popped again.
Speaker 5: So I had to walk three miles and like my
Speaker 5: tiny little outfit all the way back to my car
Speaker 5: through this weird.
Speaker 1: Part a bike out yeah, I have on social media.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah it was, and it was real. It
Speaker 5: was one of the more revealing ones that I.
Speaker 2: And you were wearing one that says Saint John's on it,
Speaker 2: so you were really getting smoked too.
Speaker 5: I was really Yeah, I was wearing a Chris Mullen
Speaker 5: jersey and a Saint John's bottoms saying on the left
Speaker 5: ask cheek John's jaw.
Speaker 2: N r Saint John's. Wait, did you have a So
Speaker 2: you had like a patch kit on you?
Speaker 5: I had patches, and then I had to like it's
Speaker 5: so inside the tire there's a tube and a tire.
Speaker 5: So the tube is what you inflate if you have
Speaker 5: that type of tire, it's like a little like a
Speaker 5: mini tire. I guess, yeah, and that's what had the
Speaker 5: holes in it. So I covered the holes and I
Speaker 5: was able to be like, oh, I fixed it, and
Speaker 5: then I didn't. Apparently I hit that rock so hard
Speaker 5: it was not fixed. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: Thought that was only children's bikes, but that's okay if
Speaker 1: you ride children's Wow.
Speaker 5: Feel my bike has three wheels on it. I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: tricycle Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: But it does feel like they need to start making
Speaker 1: bikes specifically to deal with the speed at which you
Speaker 1: ride that thing with those plumpers like it would it
Speaker 1: be safe to say that, like, bike companies should probably
Speaker 1: just start like change their approach when it comes to
Speaker 1: how you ride that.
Speaker 2: Thing, thank you. So I've reached out to Ford every
Speaker 2: day for the past three years trying to get them
Speaker 2: to make me a bike, a Ford bicycle, and they
Speaker 2: won't do it.
Speaker 5: So Chevy. Yeah, and it has to be American made.
Speaker 5: If it's not, I'm not going to fucking ride it.
Speaker 2: You know this.
Speaker 5: So Mazda earmuffs the other ones. I only I can
Speaker 5: only name Mazda's Internet National cars, so hummer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I won't ask what kind of car you
Speaker 2: drive in your personal life because I don't want to
Speaker 2: ruin the brand image, but it is. It's a super
Speaker 2: Roo Bronco. Yeah yeah, it's a super Yeah SUPERU Silverado,
Speaker 2: the Silver Kim. What's something you think is underrated? Uh?
Speaker 6: State holidays? Because today is Nevada Day And did you
Speaker 6: guys know Nevada has its own holiday.
Speaker 7: I didn't know what do you do to celebrate? Do
Speaker 7: you gamble?
Speaker 6: Traditionally you go to brothels gamble, Uh pay tithings.
Speaker 7: To that's like every state.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, when I moved to California, I was like, when's
Speaker 6: California Day? In California doesn't have a California Day, but
Speaker 6: Nevada Day does.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I thought California would have a California Day
Speaker 6: because in Nevada on Nevada Day it is like like
Speaker 6: a federal holiday. All the banks are closed, DMVs closed,
Speaker 6: stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I was waiting for California Day because you know,
Speaker 6: everyone wants an extra day off. It never fucking came
Speaker 6: and I realized it was, uh not every state has it,
Speaker 6: but every everything feels special like California every day.
Speaker 7: That's what I'm saying. It's not every state needs one,
Speaker 7: you know, feel.
Speaker 2: Good about ourselves.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's Vegas, but everyone knows Vecas. The rest of
Speaker 6: us need to feel special.
Speaker 2: Park County is getting all the fucking attention, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? Isn't that what the county that the
Speaker 2: Vegas is in? I think so, Yeah, I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: say that as if I know. I'm pretty sure it is. Yep,
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know why we don't have I mean, I
Speaker 2: probably because we also respect a lot of other holidays,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure other states wouldn't because you know, like
Speaker 2: some places are like MLK Day even though we're like
Speaker 2: I think we should all what are we really not
Speaker 2: gonna okay that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm pretty sure like Indigenous People's Day went right
Speaker 6: over most people's heads here, even though they are a
Speaker 6: really large community of that, right.
Speaker 2: It probably depends on, yeah, the governor and their outlook.
Speaker 2: And like it's still Columbus Day. We still like Italian
Speaker 2: Genocide or day. Okay, it's one of our favorites.
Speaker 7: Mummy. Yeah, shout out the Columbia change though, for without
Speaker 7: which the world might not have potatoes.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, Calie sober, which is what I've been
Speaker 2: sort of doing, which is where you only have weed. Yes,
Speaker 2: I've been taking some time off of alcohol. It fucking sucks.
Speaker 2: I'm just like so stoned all the time and like
Speaker 2: and like kind of basically non functional the second the
Speaker 2: sun goes down. But I don't feel as bad in
Speaker 2: the morning, which is the one silver lining. But that's
Speaker 2: like turning me into a morning person, which I'm not.
Speaker 2: So I have the worst of all worlds, which I'll
Speaker 2: wake up. I'm unwillingly waking up at the crack of dawn,
Speaker 2: but I am still like sleepy and out of it
Speaker 2: in the evening.
Speaker 1: I know I don't as good as you're gonna feel.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I got I guess I gotta. I gotta
Speaker 2: move into like like New Mexico sober or whatever and
Speaker 2: just do meth. But just yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The whole process of waking up because you never get
Speaker 1: to sleep.
Speaker 4: Kelly Sober is always interesting to me. I mean I do.
Speaker 4: I am a firm believer that we is better for
Speaker 4: you than alcohol as far as it's your body.
Speaker 2: That's largely why I started. But it's not that great
Speaker 2: if I'm being honest.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you're still just like you know, like I know,
Speaker 4: we we smoke a lot in California, but it's not
Speaker 4: as social, yeah as it can be, you know, because
Speaker 4: you still got to like go outside and you know,
Speaker 4: you gotta light up. You gotta have the circle or
Speaker 4: you got somebody has to have the weed worst versus
Speaker 4: like if they I believe like Cali Sober will become
Speaker 4: more social and more of a fun thing to be
Speaker 4: when we start opening up more weed cafes in California. Yeah,
Speaker 4: if we open up where you can actually like go
Speaker 4: to a place you can eat and like, you know,
Speaker 4: commune with people, I think it'll be like, h it'll
Speaker 4: be even more fun to be Cali Sober.
Speaker 2: I think those those places because I feel like when
Speaker 2: they started legalizing weed, like people tried those businesses. And
Speaker 2: here's my guess as to why that shit doesn't work,
Speaker 2: is like it's much harder to get someone to buy
Speaker 2: like ten joints in a night, whereas you can get
Speaker 2: someone to buy ten shots. Sure, like you.
Speaker 1: Can have one joint and immediately be like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: waiting too high right now. The last thing I want
Speaker 1: is anymore. I think the business. The business model's tough.
Speaker 4: I mean, but like Amsterdam has it, like with coffee
Speaker 4: shops and so they figured so like it. Probably it
Speaker 4: isn't like a I mean they do have a few bars,
Speaker 4: and I know tourists at those places uption and shit
Speaker 4: like that. But like I think, like food has to
Speaker 4: be a big.
Speaker 2: Yeah to it, Like you have to make money some
Speaker 2: other way.
Speaker 4: You got to make the money, like from like food
Speaker 4: and people just being able to sit down and smoke
Speaker 4: and eat and like laugh and like have get like
Speaker 4: you you know what, you want to open a business?
Speaker 1: We can do this, man, Yeah you can may pitch yeah,
Speaker 1: Miles's pitches that they just need to do it at
Speaker 1: movie theaters, which absolutely that would be just have.
Speaker 2: Like optional movie theaters.
Speaker 1: Essentially, you know there's oh my god, there's a weed bar,
Speaker 1: and then you have bar movies.
Speaker 2: And you basically you just re up for ten dollars
Speaker 2: every hour if you don't want to move from your seat.
Speaker 4: And then also you got to be able to talk,
Speaker 4: Like you gotta be able to fucking talk in the movie,
Speaker 4: Like if you don't had any smoke because I smoke
Speaker 4: and I go watch horror movies, doesn't make you more
Speaker 4: fun for me because I'll be I am like, I
Speaker 4: will become like the stereo, not in a disruptive way
Speaker 4: like people be, but I will become the stereotypical man.
Speaker 4: I don't go in there, come on, now, come on now,
Speaker 4: all ship you know. I mean that would because I'm
Speaker 4: high and like so if I'm gonna be smoking and
Speaker 4: a movie, you gotta I want this to be song
Speaker 4: for everybody. Like we're gonna be giggling and talking and laughing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and guess who's not gonna give a shit about
Speaker 1: you talking during the movie. The other extreme one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people, it costs five dollars for every half hour
Speaker 2: to stay in the seat. Stay as long as or
Speaker 2: long or as little as you want. But you're wrenching
Speaker 2: the chair. Movies are just playing. You can order food
Speaker 2: on your phone. We cracked it.
Speaker 4: Be great, we cracked its.
Speaker 2: Cracked it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think people, I think the only not downfall.
Speaker 4: But what will happen is you will start to get
Speaker 4: people who will try to fuck in the movie theater
Speaker 4: because it will it will put you in like nobody
Speaker 4: else's around, right.
Speaker 1: We're yeah, we're adding businesses at an alarming rate. But
Speaker 1: I do think like an hour like motel with like
Speaker 1: one of those love like heart shaped hot tubs in
Speaker 1: it could.
Speaker 2: Be a good movie.
Speaker 4: Or put a little canopy over your two seats and
Speaker 4: just zip it up.
Speaker 2: That's too much.
Speaker 1: I don't like that so many people are going to
Speaker 1: be jacking off, and then.
Speaker 2: After each person goes, you basically got to like close
Speaker 2: the canopy again. Fill it completely with bleach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like a float pool. Like what are what are
Speaker 1: those like sensory deprivation tanks? Yea, they just like replace it.
Speaker 2: Not listen, these are all details though. We're just talking
Speaker 2: logistics because.
Speaker 1: I feel so I'm just incidentally mentioning a business that
Speaker 1: we should probably add a sensory deprivation tank. Just this
Speaker 1: is this is an adult entertainment complex, but like not
Speaker 1: in the pornographic way, you know, h entertain You might
Speaker 1: as well also add a sky zone for adults, like
Speaker 1: where adults can just you know, get high and then
Speaker 1: jump on trampolines.
Speaker 2: I will say it is crazy that there is not
Speaker 2: just like a walk up sensory deprivation tank on like
Speaker 2: the Las Vegas strip, just like a little you know,
Speaker 2: like like just like one of those like side businesses
Speaker 2: next to a casino or in the Morgan Wear casino
Speaker 2: malls and you just like be alone for and it's
Speaker 2: quiet for like fifteen minutes, or play an.
Speaker 1: Absolute mess to like just imagining the amount of bacterial
Speaker 1: infections that people get at those things is yeah, I've
Speaker 1: done it once, and yeah, it's like I had a
Speaker 1: minor scrape on my leg and it like was burning
Speaker 1: because of all the chemicals in the water because legally
Speaker 1: there has to be because I think it's mostly salt.
Speaker 2: But yeah, sensory deprivation. You're it's you alone with the
Speaker 2: flora and fauna of every person that's ever been in that.
Speaker 1: Ye, just the biome of every Yeah, all right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break.
Speaker 2: We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the news. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back.
Speaker 2: Like I said, we are very very close to election day,
Speaker 2: and you know, as the race gets closer, there's been
Speaker 2: a lot of early scape voting draped in polling. You know,
Speaker 2: how will Arab voters vote, How will the Muslim communities
Speaker 2: of Michigan vote? Will they let Trump win? There's like
Speaker 2: that kind of like rhetorica will they let Trump win?
Speaker 2: Why are black men abandoning Kamala was her plan not
Speaker 2: good enough? With the crypto and all the other things.
Speaker 2: To that, I say, please direct your critiques at the
Speaker 2: significant voting block that is white America and ask why
Speaker 2: they aren't bothered. I think that's maybe a little bit
Speaker 2: of an easier question to ask those those numbers tend
Speaker 2: to be than the marginal sort of groups that you're
Speaker 2: using to sort of create this like I don't know
Speaker 2: pre explanation in the event that Harris does not win.
Speaker 2: But as Jack has mentioned, the business blocked many times.
Speaker 2: But the more you look at how billionaires are using
Speaker 2: their influence to affect the race or just kind of
Speaker 2: get in the way of like the normal discourse, it's
Speaker 2: pretty clear that these people have no issue with the
Speaker 2: Trump presidency either. So I feel like is another worthy
Speaker 2: question and something that is worthy of some journalistic analysis. First,
Speaker 2: is the La Times the main newspaper, Yes, the La Times.
Speaker 2: They are owned by billionaire South African and musk friend
Speaker 2: doctor Patrick Soon Schong, and he vetoed earlier this week
Speaker 2: the editorial Board's plan to endorse Harris, which resulted in
Speaker 2: the resignation of the editorials editor Mariel Garza doctor Sun
Speaker 2: Shong tried to explain this away as him like he's like, well,
Speaker 2: what I did was I pro posed sort of like
Speaker 2: a like, let's take all the issues and analyze how
Speaker 2: they will affect Americans and give people sort of a
Speaker 2: non partisan analysis to help voters decide how they would
Speaker 2: like to vote. But it was quickly dismissed as bullshit,
Speaker 2: as Mario Garza herself said, no, we were planning to endorse.
Speaker 2: He said no to that shit. And that's why I think,
Speaker 2: that's why I'm walking from this, because these people are
Speaker 2: fucking meddling and just something that's very been very normal
Speaker 2: practice for the La Times since about two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: And I think this also goes along with like the
Speaker 2: trend we have seen of like the wealthy buying newspapers
Speaker 2: and gutting them an attempt to kill local journalism, which.
Speaker 7: Is doesn't bezos on like the Washington Post or something
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he does, he does too, he does too.
Speaker 2: And we've seen them also have some interesting like a.
Speaker 7: Lot of the headlines have become like oh, it's like
Speaker 7: pretty normal to be in a gatorade bottle and you're like,
Speaker 7: what what I'm kidding. I'm totally joking.
Speaker 6: I know they're on TikTok. I like their TikTok crow.
Speaker 7: Right, the wa po TikTok. Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 6: And again everything's a grain of salt because bezos.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, it's just a very like again, we see that,
Speaker 2: you know, whether you own a newspaper or sit in
Speaker 2: the c suite of a you know, conglomeration of a
Speaker 2: company that you know owns different TV news networks, there
Speaker 2: are ways to be like, let's do this. Maybe let's
Speaker 2: not talk about this as we've seen, Yeah, clearly for
Speaker 2: this last year, especially that relates to what's happened in
Speaker 2: Gaza and the gend ongoing genocide there.
Speaker 7: But then all right, and you've convinced me I'm gonna
Speaker 7: start a paper. I'm gonna for the regular people come,
Speaker 7: come do and on and get my Halloway paper.
Speaker 2: See yeah yeah yeah. So aside from that, and I
Speaker 2: think a lot of people, there are a lot of
Speaker 2: celebrities like well, I never I'm going to cancel my
Speaker 2: subscription to the La Times. I mean, there's a way
Speaker 2: to get through that with ad blockers and stuff. But
Speaker 2: I'm not here to advocate for that. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: just that's what Reddit's for.
Speaker 7: We would never copy and payte stay into a Google doc.
Speaker 2: We've been never never look for a cashed version of
Speaker 2: the website that or use private browsing to try and
Speaker 2: get in the other way. But then we have the
Speaker 2: fine folks at MSNBC, you know, they fucking love the
Speaker 2: horse race and being like, I.
Speaker 4: Don't know Trump.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of kooky, but let's you know,
Speaker 2: maybe he could, maybe he could not. We just don't know.
Speaker 2: They've been finding very interesting people to platform, like a
Speaker 2: recent recent segment from Alex Wagner, to platform people like
Speaker 2: these black people in Pennsylvania that will be voting for Trump. Now,
Speaker 2: anyone who has heard Trump speak may have recognized that
Speaker 2: a lot of these quote unquote normal voters people had
Speaker 2: very similar talking points like that they were also repeating,
Speaker 2: which I get to the repetition of it, kind of
Speaker 2: like American people just like, yeah, she's not qualified or
Speaker 2: educated enough. You're like, are you really doing really really,
Speaker 2: there's a lot to say about Harris as a candidate,
Speaker 2: but they're sort of using like the very trick like.
Speaker 7: This dumb floot bitch.
Speaker 2: Man, excuse me, and I'm no feminist. There was a
Speaker 2: woman who said that it's like and I'm no feminist.
Speaker 2: I'm like, and that's fine, and I get that that
Speaker 2: was very clear. But here's the thing I'm not saying that.
Speaker 2: You know, like, there's no way that there are black
Speaker 2: people that support Donald Trump. But this is just sort
Speaker 2: of how I don't know if this is bad journalism
Speaker 2: or propaganda. When you looked at one of the people
Speaker 2: that was speaking like to this, like this quote unquote
Speaker 2: panel of like normal voters in Pennsylvania, one of the
Speaker 2: women speaking is literally a Republican candidate for office that
Speaker 2: is running this cycle, and they.
Speaker 7: Are you saying she's not a black woman? Is that
Speaker 7: what you're saying, Miles?
Speaker 2: It is in political arts.
Speaker 7: Are you saying she turned black after being a Republican?
Speaker 7: Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Miles, Not at all. I'm saying this is some opportunistic shit.
Speaker 2: We've seen places like CNN do that when they have
Speaker 2: their quote unquote undecided voters, and there are people who
Speaker 2: are like very much just Trump voters, but they're being like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe we'll see it's just sort of
Speaker 2: like this lack of.
Speaker 7: Undecided and whether they're racist or sexist?
Speaker 6: How much money they which one?
Speaker 2: They want to openly admit to being on national television,
Speaker 2: And I get that is a hard decision to make.
Speaker 2: I totally get that they're also on Twitter. Some people
Speaker 2: have alleged that another woman in the video was part
Speaker 2: of a local Mom's for Liberty group, So hardly just
Speaker 2: like normal people assurance liberty, that regressive, homophobic group. That's like,
Speaker 2: we don't want kids knowing about anything that will get
Speaker 2: them to have We don't. We're anti empathy.
Speaker 7: Don't look at it, don't look down when you're in
Speaker 7: the shower, make you die. Contact with the shower head,
Speaker 7: It'll let it dribble out. Don't let the shower pressure
Speaker 7: be too.
Speaker 2: Lie, turn down the water pressure. So again, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if this is just bad journalism or just straight
Speaker 2: up propaganda, but the segment was quite pointless, like when
Speaker 2: you look at these sort of like the underlying details
Speaker 2: in question, Yes.
Speaker 7: Myles, as a black man, how do you represent your demographic?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? What?
Speaker 1: What like?
Speaker 7: What are you guys gonna do? What are black men? Well,
Speaker 7: right now, Indian people, we're gonna sell ourselves out. Okay, yeah, yeah, thank.
Speaker 2: You so much, Thank you so much. Yes, black people,
Speaker 2: and look, I do have the opportunity to speak for
Speaker 2: Japanese people too, because we are a monolith.
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're known Black and Japanese people
Speaker 7: always voting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, Rui Hachimura, Naomi Osaka. You
Speaker 2: know we're out here. We're trying to make a difference.
Speaker 2: Although I don't think really can vote because he's not
Speaker 2: a citizen, but as I have this jersey hanging behind me.
Speaker 2: But you know, we're gonna do the right thing. What
Speaker 2: we like to do is just continue to I think
Speaker 2: the kinta cloth thing in the capital rotunda was big,
Speaker 2: was really big.
Speaker 7: It was huge.
Speaker 2: It was huge. It showed me that Nancy Pelosi's knees
Speaker 2: were like she's spry. She was able to take a
Speaker 2: knee unassisted. And I wasn't pressed with that. I was
Speaker 2: impressed with that physical ability.
Speaker 7: That's incredible. We were went over by when Trump spoke
Speaker 7: handy really poorly and that weird ad from years ago.
Speaker 7: Wait what there was an ad word. Trump spoke handy
Speaker 7: and it was like the worst pronunciation.
Speaker 2: Are you for real?
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh my god, I'm like.
Speaker 7: Pandering or whatever. I think he just said like a
Speaker 7: few words, but it was really bad.
Speaker 6: He did that for Nevada in twenty sixteen, Like in Reno.
Speaker 6: He's like, everyone says it's Nevada, but I know we
Speaker 6: all know it's Nevada, and Nevada's get so pissed off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't say Nevada. Come on now, I know
Speaker 2: better than that as someone who's had to campaign for
Speaker 2: another person many years ago. Oh wait, here's the ad
Speaker 2: pikey bar Trump chawkar Oh, hold on on on'y key
Speaker 2: bar Trump shark car.
Speaker 7: Wait. Wait, guys, you guys are watching Like the way
Speaker 7: his mouth is moving, it's like Hindy was never meant
Speaker 7: to be spoken out of those lips.
Speaker 2: He's like sar car. Yeah, I've never seen somebody. I
Speaker 2: don't see. I've never seen anyone speak any language with
Speaker 2: their mouth that wide open, unless you're looking at the
Speaker 2: words like a video game puzzle. It's like up key
Speaker 2: bar Trump star Car.
Speaker 6: Wow, it looks like he's prepping for a blowjob to.
Speaker 2: Give a Yeah wow, I did not Wow.
Speaker 7: Okay, it was like the volley or something. I don't know,
Speaker 7: but it was uh and that won our vote, and
Speaker 7: that's probably why Oshan married Vance. I don't know, maybe yeah, who.
Speaker 6: Knows, that's all that matters.
Speaker 2: He's like, no, I really appreciate the effort he put in.
Speaker 2: Holy shit. And then so on Fox there was like,
Speaker 2: there's just another moment. We shouldn't be surprised they have,
Speaker 2: Like Trump visited that barbershop in the Bronx. They edited
Speaker 2: the fuck out of that entire interaction to make it
Speaker 2: seem like he even knew how to listen to and
Speaker 2: answer questions. The unedited video is just another example of
Speaker 2: just how fucking out of it Trump is. But that's
Speaker 2: nothing new to most people who are observing this election.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just think so much is also being
Speaker 2: ignored about how in terms of like the mainstream media
Speaker 2: and they wouldn't deign to criticize Harris in this moment,
Speaker 2: but like the moves that the Harris campaign themselves are
Speaker 2: making quite possibly will be their own undoing, like pivoting
Speaker 2: to the right on huge issues that matter to their supporters,
Speaker 2: like law enforcement reforms, if any, immigration, just being like yeah,
Speaker 2: we're basically can go as hard on immigration as Trump. Gaza.
Speaker 7: I also like beyond strategy, I know we're like all
Speaker 7: caught up in like strategy and it's politics and it's
Speaker 7: capitalism and it's evil. But it also just sucks that
Speaker 7: they don't care. They don't have any morals and they
Speaker 7: don't care about anything. I know, we know this, and
Speaker 7: we've been knowing this, and that's what this country was
Speaker 7: founded on. But in the spirit of Moodang's innocence, I
Speaker 7: just want to take a moment that people like don't
Speaker 7: do things for the sheer reason that it's good to
Speaker 7: bite your keeper, you know what I mean, Like it's
Speaker 7: just sad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, totally. And I think it's clear that they're like, well,
Speaker 2: we're not going to do any of that stuff that
Speaker 2: would be like you know, actually beneficial to people, but
Speaker 2: detrimental to like our police industrial and military industrial states.
Speaker 2: That they will also like they're like, so, let's just
Speaker 2: pick off some exhausted white Republican voters and see if
Speaker 2: like that can be it, because we're not going to
Speaker 2: do this other stuff that is just way too much.
Speaker 2: That's and I and again, like I've said this before,
Speaker 2: if if they think like doing the off brand version
Speaker 2: of the GOP is going to be effective, uh, you
Speaker 2: got you might have another thing coming here, because if
Speaker 2: these people want to see more suffering at the border
Speaker 2: and for like people of color, they have the candidate
Speaker 2: for that, and they will go all in on that.
Speaker 2: They are telling you that as much. Why settle for
Speaker 2: this watered down version if that's like that important of
Speaker 2: an issue to someone as a voter. So the logic
Speaker 2: is baffling.
Speaker 7: But go ahead, came maga magas.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. But yeah, like again, go ahead, pin
Speaker 2: this on progressives and people of color rather than the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party's insistence on maintaining this cruel and awful version
Speaker 2: of American democracy.
Speaker 7: Please also slide point. People keep like conflating all these
Speaker 7: different demographics, like Arabs aren't all Muslim, most of them
Speaker 7: are Christian, And you're like, they're like, it doesn't I
Speaker 7: don't know. It feels like really stupid. The boxes they're putting.
Speaker 2: People into it lacked in this weird way. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Anyways, well then again, people opening their worldview.
Speaker 6: We can't do that. Everyone has to be in their
Speaker 6: own little box.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. You look at those those those images
Speaker 2: of what's happening around the world. Oh my god, how
Speaker 2: do you do it? Anyway, I'm a congress person, and
Speaker 2: you're like, what you're not?
Speaker 7: Fuck okay, congress person, you've never heard of Moodang?
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, fucking you know what's going on in Thailand
Speaker 2: right now? Fucking eyes, my guy, Look at this greasy Look.
Speaker 7: At the blush on her cheese.
Speaker 2: She's eight yeah, fuck it twenty he write it in
Speaker 2: fuck it she.
Speaker 7: Would be a better alter.
Speaker 6: Wait not this year.
Speaker 2: Not if you want. Hey, look if you're if you're
Speaker 2: Moodang twenty four, glad do you think.
Speaker 7: They're gonna be like birther people?
Speaker 2: Like? Was she born? I have it on good authority
Speaker 2: that this hippo is from Thailand. And you're like, you
Speaker 2: have it on good Wow, that's you're racist.
Speaker 7: Oh so has to be her running mate? Yeah so,
Speaker 7: Oh my god, she was the giant hanguin. Miles, Oh
Speaker 7: my god, Miles, they're.
Speaker 2: Low information voter. I'm sorry, did.
Speaker 7: You already know no knowing about pesto yo?
Speaker 2: Oh oh but wait, but I'm based off this code
Speaker 2: is that like a young penguin.
Speaker 7: Baby penguins, Miles, he is a baby, and he's standing
Speaker 7: next to his parents, and he's a million times bigger
Speaker 7: than them, and he's just a little baby.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is the Lebron James of penguins.
Speaker 7: Wow, that's what we're saying. That's baby pesto.
Speaker 2: Oh, I like the muscle to move.
Speaker 6: Dang's cuteness.
Speaker 7: She gets me, like, oh, is he old enough to
Speaker 7: run for VP?
Speaker 2: The experience? Does he lack the experience? He hasn't even
Speaker 2: he hasn't even lost his baby down coat yet or
Speaker 2: whatever that phase of either new.
Speaker 7: Like progressive actually progressive John Fetterman, Okay.
Speaker 6: I've never seen him assaulted couch, so you know he's.
Speaker 2: Got he's got and yeah, he hasn't been compromised by
Speaker 2: different interest groups. I love that. I love that. Okay,
Speaker 2: so let's move on to this Netflix movie about the
Speaker 2: hottest fucking snowman you've ever laid your mortal eyes on.
Speaker 7: Speak for yourself.
Speaker 2: You see, I've seen hotter.
Speaker 7: I've made hotter Snowman.
Speaker 6: Okay, I like dad bought Snowman's thank you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there you go, there you go. Yeah, exactly
Speaker 2: what is this traditional version of hot we're being sold?
Speaker 2: But so we all watch the trailer for this new
Speaker 2: Netflix movie. I've already forgot the name of it. Uh
Speaker 2: hot Frost Frost, which is very odd, so Netflix is
Speaker 2: they're really hot to We've got the meats.
Speaker 7: Imagine Frosty but it's melted and meats.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Wendy's you're missing out. I mean, y'all,
Speaker 2: y'all own that Frosty ship. But I think again, we've
Speaker 2: seen the Obviously, holiday movies are very popular. I'm a
Speaker 2: very I'm very much into holiday movies myself. I love it.
Speaker 2: It's trash. It's like wallpaper being not white and never
Speaker 2: having Christmas like white people do. I like to live
Speaker 2: in their fantasy worlds in the form of these like
Speaker 2: Terrible Sacharin holiday films. So this movie, which we all
Speaker 2: subjected ourselves to watching the trailer too so we could
Speaker 2: speak accurately on what this thing is.
Speaker 7: Offering journalists here.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is a movie where Lacy Shaybear, who you
Speaker 2: might know from a lot of Holiday Channel or Hallmark Channel,
Speaker 2: rom com. She was in Party of Five, Me and Girls,
Speaker 2: et cetera. She's playing a widower who brings a nude,
Speaker 2: ripped snowman to life with a magical scarf.
Speaker 7: Also, this snowman is in like the town Square, being
Speaker 7: like naked and like r with ads like stores in
Speaker 7: school and just like right there he is.
Speaker 2: See this is why Mom's for liberty is right?
Speaker 7: What if it was their version of Jesus.
Speaker 2: That have been so much funnier And it's like I
Speaker 2: am Jesus's like, oh damn, I'm just trying to fuck
Speaker 2: hold me my bad? Can I get my scarf back
Speaker 2: so you can melt away? So apparently this guy's only
Speaker 2: had like a few days, Like he's only like he
Speaker 2: was literally born yesterday, as he was brought to life
Speaker 2: by this magical scarf. He has a very limited time
Speaker 2: on earth. Quote before he starts to melt, they naturally
Speaker 2: obviously start dating. And it features comedic actors like Craig
Speaker 2: Robinson and like Joe Joe Latruglio. So it's clear like
Speaker 2: there is a level of self awareness to this comedy
Speaker 2: that is like absurd, but also they also want to
Speaker 2: get the traditional holiday people up in.
Speaker 7: I don't think this is actually a Christmas movie. This
Speaker 7: is a movie about how hard it is to day
Speaker 7: in la Okay. I will take a man that melts
Speaker 7: in three days over some of them.
Speaker 6: I will literally fuck a snowman. I can't find anyone
Speaker 6: car if.
Speaker 7: My pussy freezes and falls off Okay, I got this Kraren.
Speaker 2: Some what I got this scart?
Speaker 6: I got this carrot from Sprouts and tell me it
Speaker 6: cannot be used.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 7: So also krishell Stoss always Krishelle from Selling Sunset.
Speaker 2: That was, Oh my god, good on you, chrisll Is
Speaker 2: she with the dude from This is Us.
Speaker 7: Dumped her and then and then now she's dating G
Speaker 7: and they're like a really popular Australian or married to
Speaker 7: G and they're a really popular Australian. But she also
Speaker 7: dated her Selling Sunset boss and she still works with
Speaker 7: one of the twins. Very strange.
Speaker 2: I remember watching that when G was introduced and one
Speaker 2: of the twins was just sort of like, oh, I'm
Speaker 2: sure with this and.
Speaker 7: I'm broken every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I love watching that show because despite all
Speaker 2: the money those two have, they are fucking broken people.
Speaker 7: They're sad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we watched the trailer. I'm just what are
Speaker 2: your thoughts on this? Because oh, before I want to,
Speaker 2: I just do want to preface this is part of
Speaker 2: Netflix's like holiday stravaganza where they're going to be releasing
Speaker 2: a new Christmas movie every Wednesday throughout the month of November.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna fucking cry. You're releasing all those movies. You
Speaker 7: couldn't even get me a single line in any of them.
Speaker 7: I want to be in a bad movie, so bad Netflix,
Speaker 7: I will not call it a bad movie. If you
Speaker 7: put me in it, I will be I don't care,
Speaker 7: I'll be any I'll be the stay of an Indian person.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm gonna say, would you be in one?
Speaker 2: That was like a totally fucked up take of like
Speaker 2: Indian Christmas kind.
Speaker 7: I had to do that for my sixth grade choir.
Speaker 7: You think I wouldn't do that in a Netflix? They
Speaker 7: the world. They never let me sing in anything, and
Speaker 7: then they did a fucking Christmas around the World and
Speaker 7: I had to be the one of the stars because
Speaker 7: they didn't have enough brown people in my fucking Utah
Speaker 7: elementary school, so I had to teach them about the
Speaker 7: volley and they never let me sing again because I
Speaker 7: was Yeah, I'll wear a sorry, I don't care, get
Speaker 7: me on screen, Okay, I will dress sorry, Okay an
Speaker 7: auntie to life?
Speaker 2: Would you be? Would you be in a holiday rom
Speaker 2: com about a single Indian woman trying to find love
Speaker 2: on during the holidays called sorry, not sorry.
Speaker 7: I will write it.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 7: And there I know what's going to happen is I
Speaker 7: will be cast as a friend. I don't care.
Speaker 4: I'll do that.
Speaker 2: Somehow I wrote directing it and.
Speaker 7: They made me the friend or I'm like the seven eleven,
Speaker 7: don't put me in it.
Speaker 2: I will.
Speaker 7: I told you earlier in this episode, I sell my
Speaker 7: people out.
Speaker 2: Okay, if the there is a price, this.
Speaker 7: Is going to be the main Indian girl.
Speaker 6: With yeah, right exactly, just throw back to by Hankah's areas.
Speaker 2: Full on brown face, you know it. Oh my god, Oh.
Speaker 7: My god, what if they what if we say this
Speaker 7: and that's one of the movies they released Netflix right now,
Speaker 7: like some other Indian person gets to be the best friend.
Speaker 7: I'm like, what the fuck?
Speaker 2: Like did you that down? Right?
Speaker 4: That down?
Speaker 2: Did you leak to sorry not sorry? Concept someone just
Speaker 2: quote these three people just said the entire film right now,
Speaker 2: with the title, with the plot and the cast, We're
Speaker 2: fucking up. I don't know. I love holiday films. I
Speaker 2: don't know about y'all, but Kim, I will ask you,
Speaker 2: as someone who as a cartoonist illustrator, you you have
Speaker 2: an imagination of things that are non typically coming to life,
Speaker 2: coming to life having personalities. What did What's your critique
Speaker 2: on seeing the huge nippled ripped snowman guy and his
Speaker 2: life and him coming to consciousness? Well, two thoughts.
Speaker 6: One is I I did notice the lack of sentient
Speaker 6: bug butt plug representation. I felt that was needed. But
Speaker 6: I would totally watch this unronically. If this was done
Speaker 6: in old school claymation style would be the best.
Speaker 2: I miss that.
Speaker 6: It would be so perfect to have your time still
Speaker 6: hot Frosty.
Speaker 7: Yeah, one hundred and five.
Speaker 2: It so funny. It's like I'm melting kids and as
Speaker 2: that happens, just a butt plug drops.
Speaker 7: Had that in the whole time and the winnower picks
Speaker 7: it up. A single tear rolls down her eyes.
Speaker 6: What's inside you all?
Speaker 7: Along with children?
Speaker 2: It's medically viable polyurethane. Yeah, I I was like it
Speaker 2: was Look, I'll watch any holiday films. I'll probably watch this. Obviously.
Speaker 2: There is like a thing where I'm kind of like
Speaker 2: the Frosty watch party. Think we should? I think we
Speaker 2: should depending on how I mean. By the time it
Speaker 2: comes out, I have a feeling will still be in
Speaker 2: the throes of debating the election and whether or not
Speaker 2: it's certifiable. So in that liminal space where we're, you know,
Speaker 2: on the edge of total collapse, this may be the
Speaker 2: one thing that that soothes our nerves, in which case, yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe we should do that, just yeah, yeah, truly, Oh wow,
Speaker 2: what's happening? I don't know. This fucking snowman is hot, though,
Speaker 2: so fucking hot. The other thing that is interesting too
Speaker 2: is that Lacey Shabert was named in an age discrimination
Speaker 2: lawsuit against Hallmark, which could explain the switch to Netflix,
Speaker 2: because if and look, I'm all about the many days
Speaker 2: of Christmas shit they do on Hallmark, but there's a
Speaker 2: good damn near every day there's a new holiday movie.
Speaker 2: She her shit is all over, like her face is
Speaker 2: in she stars in this shit. So I wonder if
Speaker 2: they did the thing where they're like, all right, she
Speaker 2: aged out, we're done with.
Speaker 6: Her looks so young. She doesn't look anything different than
Speaker 6: mean girls.
Speaker 2: Honestly, it said Hallmark did not want to cast old
Speaker 2: people like Holly Robinson, Pete and Lacey shaber Wait.
Speaker 7: From the article and Variety, it says, Lacey's getting older
Speaker 7: and we have to find someone like her to replace her.
Speaker 7: As she gets older. Hamilton Daily allegedly said, damn okay.
Speaker 7: I like how women are always I told like, oh
Speaker 7: my god, don't be so competitive with younger women because
Speaker 7: like you're always acting like they're trying to replace you. Meanwhile,
Speaker 7: like men are like, yeah, we're replacing you that you're
Speaker 7: afraid of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then he told Apparently the same guy told this
Speaker 2: casting director Penny Perry, who's seventy nine years old, that
Speaker 2: constantly she was quote too long in the tooth. I'm
Speaker 2: sorry that quote. Does that mean that is too long
Speaker 2: in the tooth for you to be casting aspersions on people?
Speaker 7: Also, if you use the phrase too long in the tooth,
Speaker 7: you're fucking too long.
Speaker 2: As it's exactly old.
Speaker 7: Say her aura was off Jesus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is the etymology? Like you're like a.
Speaker 7: Recession.
Speaker 6: We can't have her because of her ginger vitis.
Speaker 7: Guys like it's noticing.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you know how Oh I guess it is.
Speaker 2: It alludes to a horse's gums receipting with age. We're
Speaker 2: talking about we're talking about livestock white over here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: old horsemouth, look at that. We can't cast it only
Speaker 2: wants to fuck this old horsemouth all right, let's move on,
Speaker 2: let's find something different. Anyway, So this is all part
Speaker 2: of a very new exciting time here. We will see
Speaker 2: where this goes. I'm glad they're finally snow men to fuck.
Speaker 2: I guess we're gonna go outside.
Speaker 7: We're gonna see a bunch of snowmen and a bunch
Speaker 7: of holesome them, and we're gonna be like, how do
Speaker 7: the men get a hold of it?
Speaker 2: I know they're like, you need to worry about the men.
Speaker 6: There will be at least one carrot pun in that movie.
Speaker 2: That let's take some odds. Okay, there will be a
Speaker 2: carrot pun. There will have to be some kind of
Speaker 2: like it's like, clearly this guy's like kind of an
Speaker 2: alien because he's just become human, and like where he
Speaker 2: doesn't realize like he can't get naked all the time,
Speaker 2: probably kind of thing that seemed like that was sort
Speaker 2: of the case in the trailer where he's like so hot.
Speaker 7: Feels like there is like this theme of like women
Speaker 7: falling in love with dudes who just appeared like what
Speaker 7: was it enchanted or like I guess I was the
Speaker 7: reversal of it, but it's I don't know, I feel
Speaker 7: like it is like our version of like when men
Speaker 7: go for like nineteen year olds, We're like, no, no,
Speaker 7: we still want them to be an adult, but not
Speaker 7: ruined by the world exactly. We want them to not
Speaker 7: have met other men before they met us. We wanted
Speaker 7: the patriarchy to not have insidiously ruined their personality.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think the one knock that goes against
Speaker 2: it looks like his two only friends are cops. So
Speaker 2: we'll see how that works out. So true, we shall see. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's take a quick break and we'll come back to
Speaker 2: check in with an overall terrible take from The Atlantic
Speaker 2: about Halloween when we.
Speaker 8: Get back, and we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back.
Speaker 1: And so the big news in a story that we've
Speaker 1: been following. The big news also in the streaming world.
Speaker 1: You know, we were all rocked with the announcement that
Speaker 1: Chick fil A is getting into the content game, where
Speaker 1: they're basically going to create their own streaming service where
Speaker 1: you can watch shows that we were speculating based on
Speaker 1: their YouTube channel would be about cows that like do
Speaker 1: wacky shit like Warner Brothers style. They have a cartoon
Speaker 1: series that has like surprisingly a lot of views where
Speaker 1: like cows get into wacky kind of Looney tun style adventures.
Speaker 1: And then there's also a show on their channel called
Speaker 1: Evergreen Hills Stories of Evergreen Hills that has very suspicious
Speaker 1: view count but.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey, come on, man, why just because it's
Speaker 2: faith based? Okay, there's a lot of Christians out there, man,
Speaker 2: a lot of Christians.
Speaker 1: So the show Stories of every So those are the
Speaker 1: two of the things that were announced, right, they're gonna
Speaker 1: take I think.
Speaker 2: I think though, with the cow one, they now are
Speaker 2: cows that run a gay conversion therapy sort of like
Speaker 2: business where they yeah, where they they sort of victimize
Speaker 2: chickens or something. Yeah. Yeah. And another one is about
Speaker 2: the power of Sundays. I believe, or it might not.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm just I'm just spitballing here, but
Speaker 2: it's I think there's a lesson zero chance that they
Speaker 2: could be if someone comes to something like that.
Speaker 1: Just checking the view counts of Stories of Evergreen Hill
Speaker 1: on YouTube, this is not suspicious at all. We've got
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighteen two hundred and fourteen thousand, one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty one million for another episode.
Speaker 3: Oh that one's really good.
Speaker 2: I watched that.
Speaker 1: One actually, because I was like, is this thing just
Speaker 1: like fire? Is this like the best piece of content?
Speaker 1: It is a ten minute long little animated morality tale
Speaker 1: about bullying. There's like a bunch of world building where
Speaker 1: like an old guy takes his young helper to like
Speaker 1: the spark tree and he's like, the spark tree works
Speaker 1: like this. You can get the spark, but you must
Speaker 1: use it like just a bunch of rules and ship
Speaker 1: and there's just no reason I can conceive of that
Speaker 1: anybody would be watching this ship on purpose.
Speaker 2: But well, that's why I think that that's what makes
Speaker 2: this kind of getting it gets a little freaky, right
Speaker 2: because before like they're probably just finding some like Christian
Speaker 2: production companies that are just like they're like, yeah, we
Speaker 2: like to make really boring Shita buy it. They're like
Speaker 2: they have like people behind the shows like top Gear
Speaker 2: and The X Factor and like that game show and
Speaker 2: NBC The Wall, like they're they're doing deals with like
Speaker 2: like proper production companies to like take their ship to
Speaker 2: the next level. And also, let's not forget scripted podcasts,
Speaker 2: which we all know are work all the time.
Speaker 1: I've never seen one not work. The Wall that's the
Speaker 1: game show of the Wall. Yeah, pink fluence, no man
Speaker 1: who knows. Yeah, make sure.
Speaker 3: It sounds like someone had the idle. They're like, what
Speaker 3: if we did Cocoa Ballad for adults.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's what this sounds like.
Speaker 8: It That's exactly what it feels like.
Speaker 3: It's like maybe AI's writing it and like it's just
Speaker 3: turning out this stuff or something. It's very it's a
Speaker 3: brave new world, guys, very brave, courageous new world exactly.
Speaker 1: So it does make me feel like I'm in a
Speaker 1: post apocalyptic film, as have a number of stories in
Speaker 1: the recent in recent weeks, like not just like oh, theoretically,
Speaker 1: I see how this feels like we're in a weird
Speaker 1: post apocalyptic movie, but like we were talking about this
Speaker 1: lapd dog robot dog that they introduced and the video
Speaker 1: of them like being introduced. Like what one is like
Speaker 1: a shot from a news helicopter where like the news
Speaker 1: reporter is like there it is, then you like see
Speaker 1: it like walk on this it's like straight up out
Speaker 1: of RoboCop. Like it is a like could literally be
Speaker 1: lifted from RoboCop. And like there's other like news shots
Speaker 1: where it just like walks by the news camera and
Speaker 1: they're like, wow, there goes a hero.
Speaker 3: Who rescued who right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Exactly, And there's like a news story that compares it
Speaker 1: to the size of a Golden Retriever instead of more
Speaker 1: threatening like you know, just the they picked the friendliest
Speaker 1: dog possible.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But anyways, and then our writer JM made the observation that,
Speaker 1: like the footage of Elon Musk giving a giant, oversized
Speaker 1: novelty check to someone who registered to vote for Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: like that is something that is on TV in the
Speaker 1: background of RoboCop like that. It's just like there are
Speaker 1: these very specific moments that keep happening that feel like
Speaker 1: they are just shots from RoboCop. Yeah, but overall, theoretically,
Speaker 1: like this story about Chick fil A streaming has more
Speaker 1: of a demolition man idiocracy vibe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was about to say idiocracy for sure, like
Speaker 3: I and I I just had it's happening in in
Speaker 3: my in life too, like you you'll just I was
Speaker 3: up in Oakland area. I went too fast food place.
Speaker 3: I went to the drive through. They had one of
Speaker 3: those centuries like you see them a lot in like
Speaker 3: downtown or parking lots. Like it's like a police stand,
Speaker 3: there's like a pole, there's silent on every yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and uh it was out there and like we're in
Speaker 3: line of the drive through and the speaker just starts going,
Speaker 3: welcome to Carls Junior, we are here for your safety.
Speaker 3: And I was just like, oh my god, it's straight
Speaker 3: up Idiocracy, like like welcome to Costco, I love you,
Speaker 3: like whatever. I was like, oh my god, so wild. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's uh, it's it's really We're we're really it really
Speaker 3: is like a movie out there, donk like we really
Speaker 3: we really are. Like it's like I'm like, did someone
Speaker 3: cast this? Like did someone this is getting close?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Carls Junior was the thing from Idiocracy, right.
Speaker 3: Like I think I think it was Carl's Junior too,
Speaker 3: or it might have been. It might have been it
Speaker 3: might have been Jay and the Bee the Bee. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: m but I felt safe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you did feel safe because who's gonna look
Speaker 1: after you better than Jane to be.
Speaker 2: Welcome or you can have it your way. Oh it's
Speaker 2: Carl's Junior. It was Carls Junior. It was Carl Junior in.
Speaker 1: Idiocracy, Yes, yes, okay, in Idiography it has a couple
Speaker 1: of details that I had even forgotten, like I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that part of it was like everyone wears crocs. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's the thing that happens in idiography.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the thing that Mike Judges quote on it is
Speaker 2: just so funny because like he was talking about the
Speaker 2: costumer's decision to have people in the film wearing crocs
Speaker 2: and he said, quote and I said to her, but
Speaker 2: you actually bought these, like you can order these shoes.
Speaker 2: What if by the time the movie comes out, these
Speaker 2: things are everywhere and it doesn't look like we're set
Speaker 2: in the future, and said, oh no, that's never gonna happen.
Speaker 2: These shoes are too ugly. And sure enough, by the
Speaker 2: time it comes out two years later, everyone is wearing crocs.
Speaker 2: So it already started coming true even faster than we
Speaker 2: made the movie, really, which is wow, you know spot
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: It's also funny and idiocricy, the like normal person just
Speaker 3: milling about like an extra whatever that is who Trump
Speaker 3: is appealing to with the Arnold Palmer Dick story, right
Speaker 3: like like that, like oh my god, oh well, well, it.
Speaker 2: Was a nice run. It was a nice run. I know,
Speaker 2: it's it's too I think that's why Like, you know,
Speaker 2: Brian the editor, he was saying he watched it recently
Speaker 2: and he's like it was a mistake. I can't this
Speaker 2: like just hits weights in a way that is just
Speaker 2: it's disturbing. How like this is this isn't even like
Speaker 2: even like with the marketing stuff. It's like, oh, it's
Speaker 2: got more molecules and whoa mole Yeah? Yeah, and how
Speaker 2: we are with like electrolytes or even ship like you know,
Speaker 2: totally this is alkalized or whatever.
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, yeah, I mean they have the show
Speaker 1: al My Balls, which is a pretty close corollary to
Speaker 1: many TV shows. They have a WWE character becoming president,
Speaker 1: which we've already crossed over there in that sense. Like
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was like the reason he made such an
Speaker 1: effective like public figure being in a WWE storyline is
Speaker 1: because he has in his entire career just been a
Speaker 1: WWE character. Yeah, there's like a lot of stuff about
Speaker 1: people not paying attention to their surroundings, like when Luke
Speaker 1: Wilson like pod crashes through Dax Shepherd's wall and he
Speaker 1: like doesn't even look up from his TV. They still
Speaker 1: watch TV and Idiocracy, so they aren't It's actually better
Speaker 1: because they aren't like walking around with the TV in
Speaker 1: their hand, so there's less distraction. But still like that
Speaker 1: was something that was seen as abnormal enough to put
Speaker 1: in satire at that time, right that people would just
Speaker 1: be like, what is this screen saying that Carls Junior that?
Speaker 1: And I think if there's that part where the like
Speaker 1: the Carls Junior claims the woman's kids.
Speaker 2: They're like, Carls Junior believes no child should go hungry.
Speaker 2: You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed
Speaker 2: in the custody of Carls Junior. And you're like, that
Speaker 2: feels it's like like the Chick fil A summer camp
Speaker 2: for kids when they're like, what what is this, Like, Oh,
Speaker 2: they're going to labor here, but we're gonna call it
Speaker 2: a summer camp.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, and people pay for it. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But corporations are people. As Mitt Romney said to us,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, that was like the we should have
Speaker 1: we should have been more scared then, but we were
Speaker 1: like Mitt Romney's an idiot, but the heating hot, right,
Speaker 1: Corporations are are people, and now are at a point
Speaker 1: where they're the only people who have legal rights really
Speaker 1: like they're the only people who can actually get anything
Speaker 1: to change.
Speaker 2: So what what other children?
Speaker 1: There's like some depressing answer. There's like children Men is
Speaker 1: like the bleak answer.
Speaker 3: Running running Man is. Have you guys seen Running Man?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Running Man's great, and I think they're remaking it.
Speaker 3: Like I just saw something with a reality show. I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, like, I don't know something, but I
Speaker 3: think I think there's very Running Man vibes out there
Speaker 3: in the world right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially like the shots of like before they even
Speaker 1: get into the game, right, that's what Children of Men
Speaker 1: is like, the like very bleak, like the footage of
Speaker 1: just like world at large stuff with like there's like
Speaker 1: a refugee crisis.
Speaker 3: And oh that's right, that's right, like people.
Speaker 1: And you know, the lack of children being born also
Speaker 1: you could tie to like lower birth rates are plastic balls?
Speaker 2: Yeah everything size now, Yeah, that's funny. We're like, I
Speaker 2: don't like, it's probably Children of Men, but that's too bleak.
Speaker 1: So right, idiot, Well, it's also probably like Elon Musk's answer,
Speaker 1: because he's like, the biggest problem facing us is underpopulation.
Speaker 2: Come fuck me, you know, right right? Be one of
Speaker 2: my three million children. Yeah, I like. I like the safe,
Speaker 2: entertaining combo of our falling apart world is probably demolition
Speaker 2: Man mixture of ideocracy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going RoboCop ideocracy because demolition Man also feels
Speaker 1: like it would be a conservative's answer where they're like,
Speaker 1: you can't say anything anymore.
Speaker 2: I can't even I can't at this museum. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, it turns out I can, and just people will
Speaker 1: be mean to me online, but otherwise my life is normal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, plane, it's safe. I mean.
Speaker 1: Brand consolidation definitely happening, although it's more it's not that
Speaker 1: like Taco Bell took over all the other restaurants. It's
Speaker 1: just like one company by the scenes takes over all
Speaker 1: the other companies behind the scenes, and they're all just
Speaker 1: like one mammoth company. That's like, you know, with there
Speaker 1: a thousand faces.
Speaker 2: Alan, where do you land? Which one is? What's the
Speaker 2: combo here for you?
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I think there's definitely deocracy vibes. I'm
Speaker 3: also thinking about water World a little bit, but I
Speaker 3: guess in like, we're going to a water world where
Speaker 3: it's just the problem is Nestley owns all the water,
Speaker 3: right like, and so that's why we have to drink
Speaker 3: our own pea or whatever.
Speaker 2: But he was able to convert it. It looked like
Speaker 2: the Okay, okay, maybe.
Speaker 3: You know that's what we'll have to do. We'll have
Speaker 3: to use all the pea that's being stored in bottles
Speaker 3: and Amazon warehouses to convert into water for us. For us, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: the regular lord.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Elysium would be like a good answer,
Speaker 1: but like I would have to watch Elysium and like.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of that I haven't seen, which now
Speaker 3: I like, yeah, I really need.
Speaker 1: To because that that's the one where like the wealthy
Speaker 1: just like escape to a small yeah, suborbital space station.
Speaker 3: Is that the one where they like they can buy
Speaker 3: they literally can buy time? Or is that that time
Speaker 3: that's about time?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah I think so? Yeah, justin Time, justin Timberlake
Speaker 1: is just in time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, with like Amanda siph Red right mm hmm
Speaker 2: was the co host or sucks.
Speaker 1: I think I also watched it too. In time is
Speaker 1: what it's called good concept.
Speaker 2: Though what your time was on Armed, Well, I think
Speaker 2: that's what's like. I think it just makes satire and
Speaker 2: sci fi just you just realize like there's a real
Speaker 2: art to it, because like when you're really like good
Speaker 2: at sort of just thinking about how these things play out,
Speaker 2: whether in a satirical way or you're trying to like
Speaker 2: create a cautionary tale for about the future, it's yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of ideas together that eventually end up being
Speaker 2: like spot on. Like I feel like, you know, in
Speaker 2: the early days it was like the Simpsons, and now
Speaker 2: people like Octavia Butler was right the whole time.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Parable of the Sewer gets a
Speaker 1: lot right unfortunately. Yeah, I don't know, Zeigang. We'd love
Speaker 1: to hear pitches. Don't just say the name of the
Speaker 1: movie though. Hit us up with some details that you
Speaker 1: think rhyme particularly well.
Speaker 2: Snow Piercer probably too. And there's so many things like that,
Speaker 2: the little elements of it.
Speaker 1: And we eat bugs. We're just I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: we should say up front that on this podcast we
Speaker 1: eat bugs and drink our own piss already.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Snowfish are so funny because it's like, man, I
Speaker 3: wish we had high speed rail like that.
Speaker 2: Oh man. Yeah, like in California, you're like, oh.
Speaker 3: It's actually a good that's actually a good movie.
Speaker 1: Aspirational Snow Piercer is there, aspirational postcards.
Speaker 2: They're on time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mad Max is like it feels like where we're headed.
Speaker 8: But yeah, Matt, Matt, not that cool yet.
Speaker 3: Escape from La Escape from New York. I feel like
Speaker 3: I feel like that's like that's like seven twelve years
Speaker 3: down the road. Maybe a little longer, but it does
Speaker 3: feel like we're getting there for sure.
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