Speaker 1: How you doing man, congratulations, thank oh, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you said it would never happen for me. I
Speaker 2: said you said never.
Speaker 1: And I still don't really believe it, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: still I sent Miles to make sure it wasn't bullshit man,
Speaker 1: because I honestly I was.
Speaker 3: Mom. I was like, I don't know, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't know if it happened.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, man, congrats.
Speaker 2: Thank you. It's uh, it's lots of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, marriage, marriage stuff, eh.
Speaker 2: I know this stuff, that's great.
Speaker 4: I like genuinely have been bonking my ring on everything
Speaker 4: that I could bonk it on, and it's such a blasting.
Speaker 3: Like intentionally, like you're just coming up to like what
Speaker 3: about this?
Speaker 1: Just like running into walls?
Speaker 2: What everything sounds?
Speaker 3: That's solid?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Hello the Internet and welcome. Season three sixty two,
Speaker 5: Episode five.
Speaker 1: Of Daly's Guys Day.
Speaker 3: Production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: We are America's only undecided podcasts, still trying to figure
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 2: This election's tricky.
Speaker 1: It's tricky, man, just as garbage man. You did garbage man,
Speaker 1: and that's I find that in Dear. This is a
Speaker 1: podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness.
Speaker 1: And it is Friday, November one, twenty four.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Today we've all been waiting for waiting, All Saints, the
Speaker 1: all Hallows Eve behind us. It's all Hallows.
Speaker 3: It's Hallows Day. And it also is Baby National Fountain
Speaker 3: Pen Day, Autistic Speaking Day, National Biologic Coordinator's Day, National
Speaker 3: Cinnamon Day, National Toothbrush Day, National Jersey Friday as in
Speaker 3: Sporting Jersey, but also shout out to the garden State
Speaker 3: of New Jersey, National Foal Zone Day, National Deep Pride
Speaker 3: Clams Day, National Cook for Your Pets Day, National Family
Speaker 3: Literacy Day, Nation Do Thursday, the National Vinegar.
Speaker 1: Day, shout out oil also, but ay do Our guest
Speaker 1: today author Jersey. Yep, he's always wearing a basketball jersey.
Speaker 3: Shirt under New Jersey. That's Jersey. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyways, my name's Jack O'Brien aka watching Old Bruce with
Speaker 1: list Sammy Jack by his side. They both die Hard
Speaker 1: with a Vengeance Jeremy Irons. That is courtesy of halcyon
Speaker 1: Salad on the Discord in reference to one of the
Speaker 1: two movies that we talked about in this podcast. For
Speaker 1: some reason, I guess the reason is those are the
Speaker 1: only two movies we've seen Rocky four, Diehard three Classics.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Anyway, shout out Halcion Salad. I'm thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: as always by my co hosts.
Speaker 2: It's mister Miles Gress.
Speaker 3: I love Miles great do do do do do do?
Speaker 3: We love them all right, shout out to the Los
Speaker 3: Angeles Dodgers who were victorious over the New York Yankees.
Speaker 3: And I must say, as a Native Angelico, I love
Speaker 3: being just this is the best time that we've anytime
Speaker 3: La wins something, it's fantastic. Now, obviously, the police came
Speaker 3: out in full force pretty much immediately in anticipation of
Speaker 3: the revelry, and things went well.
Speaker 1: They have to celebrate too, like people up and arresting people.
Speaker 3: It's like, hey, you like to shoot boom booms, we
Speaker 3: do too, and well but they're not lethal ish. But anyway,
Speaker 3: what a game coming back from five zero down that
Speaker 3: fifth that was at the fifth inning, that was just
Speaker 3: absolutely just turned the game upside down. Was fantastic to watch.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy he brought it alund for a landing.
Speaker 1: At first, you sounded like somebody who was like, when
Speaker 1: La wins the game, it is the most fantastic, Yes,
Speaker 1: it is. It is fantastic.
Speaker 3: Winning baseball game much celebrates.
Speaker 1: A culinary hint kiss. Anyways, Miles, we are thrilled to
Speaker 1: be joined in our third seat by one of the
Speaker 1: funniest and smartest writers and people I've had the pleasure
Speaker 1: of working with. He's a best selling author and Emmy
Speaker 1: winning writer. The last week Tonight with John Oliver six,
Speaker 1: I co hosts the podcast Quick Question with Sworn and Daniel.
Speaker 3: Please welcome. It's Daniel O'Brien.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 4: What an introduction I was was I was really prepared
Speaker 4: to come in here with with a planned bit of
Speaker 4: being consistently over the length of your Aka's a problem
Speaker 4: I've had with this podcast since the beginning. But then
Speaker 4: you said so many sweet things about me that I've
Speaker 4: I've completely abandoned that planned bit. Oh and now i'm
Speaker 4: I'm I'm armed with no bits.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Hey, well, welcome a great to have you bitless and
Speaker 1: that's just we we can get in there. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be like the Mark Maren podcast where you know,
Speaker 1: drop that that stance, Dan the comedic you know, let's
Speaker 1: get in there. Let's get into the the juicy insides. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what makes you tick?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: And Also my ak was like really quick today and
Speaker 1: perfectly concise, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could have done it for first Banger, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I cut so much. It was actually supposed to
Speaker 1: be an Oasis medley about all the die Hard films.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we had had a wonder wall about die
Speaker 1: Hard four Diehard, Yeah, lift free Diehard of course.
Speaker 3: How are you doing?
Speaker 1: What's new with you?
Speaker 3: Daniel?
Speaker 4: I'm doing very well. I mean, I don't know why
Speaker 4: I'm saying I'm doing very well. It's I work at
Speaker 4: a political comedy show, as you mentioned, and we're just
Speaker 4: a few days away from an election. So fun, even
Speaker 4: though that's not a surprise like we had this whole year.
Speaker 4: I mean, an argument could be made that we've had
Speaker 4: several years to plan for this election. We are still
Speaker 4: running around headless chickens over here. We're still trying to
Speaker 4: not that there's anything we can do to impact how
Speaker 4: anyone's going to vote, or how this election is going
Speaker 4: to go, or not that there's any way we can
Speaker 4: add further context to it. We just all share the
Speaker 4: same level of anxiety that everyone else has. Where we
Speaker 4: record on Saturday for an episode that's going to air
Speaker 4: on Sunday, and then we are prepping a show that
Speaker 4: is going to record the week of the election, so
Speaker 4: a few days after it, and trying to prepare for
Speaker 4: what we can talk about when we truly have no
Speaker 4: information right now.
Speaker 1: Real sliding Doors moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a historical text,
Speaker 1: the Gwyneth Paltrow film Sliding Doors. But Daniel, we are
Speaker 1: going to be recording an episode on election day when
Speaker 1: we'll come out the day after. We had an hour
Speaker 1: long meeting yesterday being like what the fuck, Like, how
Speaker 1: do you do that?
Speaker 3: I think we just record two kinds of episodes and
Speaker 3: we just you know, choose your own adventure and when
Speaker 3: it times when it's time to publish.
Speaker 1: No, we're just gonna do some bullshit. I think just
Speaker 1: an election we should try that, Just like do do
Speaker 1: something about funny video clips?
Speaker 3: Can you bring cheat time back? I would maybe, I
Speaker 3: would love that so much, just like something, Look, we
Speaker 3: don't know what's going on. Well, let's enjoy this this
Speaker 3: time where we don't know.
Speaker 4: We have one TV in the office that we all
Speaker 4: huddle around. That TV broke, so we don't know what
Speaker 4: happened in the.
Speaker 2: News this week.
Speaker 4: So I'm just gonna sort of has anyone seen Saturday Night?
Speaker 4: We want to talk about that. That's the thing we're
Speaker 4: going to talk about.
Speaker 1: There, you go, all right, well, we are going to
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the
Speaker 1: things we're talking about. We are going to talk about
Speaker 1: the election. And this has just been sprung on me,
Speaker 1: but yeah, apparently there's election news. There's some questions around turnout,
Speaker 1: whether whether the boy is gonna turn out for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: The boys not turning out so far in the early vote,
Speaker 1: and people are scared. Some people are asking whether it
Speaker 1: has anything to do with Trump's ground game, which is bad.
Speaker 1: Like I'm hoping it's as bad as it seems like
Speaker 1: it would be. So we're gonna talk about that. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about again, We'll do a little look at
Speaker 1: the stakes because Trump has claimed that he wants to
Speaker 1: let RFK Junior go wild on medicines, which if he's elected,
Speaker 1: that's a direct literal. We'll talk about that. We might
Speaker 1: talk about what Trump will do if he loses. We
Speaker 1: will definitely talk about It's November first, it's the day
Speaker 1: after Halloween. This is the season of the Dentist Halloween
Speaker 1: candy buyback program, and that surprisingly is going to be
Speaker 1: the darkest story of the day because holy shit, our
Speaker 1: writer JM McNab dug into this and it's fucked It's like,
Speaker 1: so we be surprised at this point that, like you
Speaker 1: dig it, dig into any American institution and there's a
Speaker 1: coin flip of a chance that it's going to be
Speaker 1: super fucked up this one is. So we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that plenty more, But first, Daniel O'Brien, we do like
Speaker 1: to ask our guests, what is something from your search history,
Speaker 1: Jack O'Brien networth and what do we what are we
Speaker 1: coming back with?
Speaker 4: See here's Here's what's an unfortunate bummer about this is
Speaker 4: that I thought it would be lots of fun to
Speaker 4: be to have that be my recent Google search because
Speaker 4: that used to be a really fun thing to do.
Speaker 4: Like Celebrity net Worth is exactly what it sounds like.
Speaker 4: It collects net worth of celebrities using who knows what methods.
Speaker 4: In the past, they no one's been able to really
Speaker 4: divine exactly how they come across their numbers. But it
Speaker 4: was like I, as a public personality from Cracked and
Speaker 4: writing books and now last Week Tonight I was searchable
Speaker 4: on that site and there was some either AI or
Speaker 4: freelance writer who had just sort of decided what my
Speaker 4: net worth was. And it was a fun game to
Speaker 4: play to see what some random writer somewhere comes up with,
Speaker 4: because it was always like danielb brien has been writing
Speaker 4: comedy since two thousand and seven. It is estimated that
Speaker 4: his net worth is ninety three million dollars, and it
Speaker 4: was always way off based on nothing, and I thought
Speaker 4: this would be a fun way to kick off the
Speaker 4: episode to see what AI or some child writer thinks
Speaker 4: Jack O'Brien's net worth is. But celebrity networth has changed
Speaker 4: drastically over the years. It's not the free for all
Speaker 4: that it used to be. Used to be able to
Speaker 4: find almost anyone of dubious notoriety there, and now they've
Speaker 4: really cleaned it up. And I did some digging and
Speaker 4: it is this is like you're seeing an episode of
Speaker 4: Last Week Tonight, get workshopped in real time in a nutshell,
Speaker 4: start with a fun thing and then uncover a sad
Speaker 4: dark thing. And the sad dark thing is that like
Speaker 4: Google as Google has decided to crush every website on
Speaker 4: the Internet that is not Google. This is like a
Speaker 4: big tech anti trust thing. People used to search solary
Speaker 4: net worths and get directed to CelebrityNetWorth dot com and
Speaker 4: spend time on that site. Google had started taking the
Speaker 4: information from that website and putting it right on the
Speaker 4: Google search results. Yeah, got so you wouldn't go to
Speaker 4: celebrity net worth anymore. At one point in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 4: Google asked the founder of Celebrity Networth, Hey, can I
Speaker 4: do this? Can we start like scrubbing your website and
Speaker 4: putting it in search results so people get the information
Speaker 4: they want and never have to leave Google. Isn't that
Speaker 4: great news for the user? And the owner of Celebrity
Speaker 4: Networth was like, yeah, that's great news for the user,
Speaker 4: but it's like fuck news for me. I need people
Speaker 4: so bad to go to my website so I can
Speaker 4: get money from ads from you Google.
Speaker 2: I need to sell my.
Speaker 1: Ads already You're already taking such a massive cut. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but if it was all our money.
Speaker 2: What if it Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: We're having this meeting here in Google and we're like.
Speaker 4: What if what if it was who can we get
Speaker 4: rid of and so the guy said, no, you can't
Speaker 4: scrub my website, and then Google did it anyway, and
Speaker 4: between like twenty fourteen and now it looks like traffic
Speaker 4: to celebrity or net worth has gone down eighty percent.
Speaker 4: And I think, as a longtime fan of CelebrityNetWorth dot com,
Speaker 4: you can really see that the quality has has suffered
Speaker 4: because of this huge loss thanks to Google.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, just so, did you get any kind
Speaker 3: of answer for the number question? No? I did ask
Speaker 3: Chad GPT just now, Oh, just to see how what
Speaker 3: a I did. Jack o'brancost, the Daily's form of creative
Speaker 3: director at housto Forks, has an estimated networth of approximately
Speaker 3: two million dollars. His wealth is called extensive work in
Speaker 3: digital media. Daniel O'Brian, known for his work as a
Speaker 3: writer and comedian with Crack and as a writer for
Speaker 3: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, has an estimated net
Speaker 3: worth of around three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I'm on, Daniel, and I got seventy five million for myself.
Speaker 1: Seventy that I'm a famous Okay, it's it's the theater director.
Speaker 2: There's the other one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the other one. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I like, hopefully people don't do research too good or
Speaker 1: it confuses the AI and they think all more seventy
Speaker 1: five million dollars that would be pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wow, three hundred and fifteen k is just so
Speaker 3: oddly specific. Yeah, you know, so I got from Walmine,
Speaker 3: I've got the estimated net worth of Oh that's Daniel
Speaker 3: F O'Brien, and then it says mister Brian owns. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is the it says on the Jack O'Brien net
Speaker 3: worth page. It says Jack O'Brien is a member of director.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how good. It feels like maybe
Speaker 1: the internet is broken.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no no no, no accurate anyway is it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I have searched mind it said who that's actually what
Speaker 3: chat GPT said, And I'm kind of fucking pit that's honestly,
Speaker 3: That's why I think it's bullshit, Like, what is it?
Speaker 1: Jack O'Brien is not doing too well? You should reach
Speaker 1: out to him and see how he's doing network. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Daniel?
Speaker 4: This is gonna sound very basic, but seasons and I'm
Speaker 4: sure that's come up on the podcast before it's coming up.
Speaker 7: For me.
Speaker 4: I live in New Jersey on the Jersey Shore. It
Speaker 4: is as we record Halloween, it's very spooky. October thirty first,
Speaker 4: it is eight fucking degrees outside right now.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: And there's a lot of like global warming hand ringing
Speaker 4: to be done about that because this is just like
Speaker 4: like fundamentally not the way that temperatures are supposed to
Speaker 4: go this time of year. And sure, I agree with
Speaker 4: all those reasons it's bad that we're killing the world,
Speaker 4: but also very specifically to me.
Speaker 2: Seasons are important.
Speaker 4: We have already taken the fall decorations and clothing out
Speaker 4: of storage and are ready to move the summer decorations
Speaker 4: into storage, but we can't right now because the weather
Speaker 4: is being so ridiculous and it's just turned my entire
Speaker 4: closet topsy turvy, and I don't know what to do
Speaker 4: with myself.
Speaker 3: I think of the closets, yeah, think.
Speaker 1: Of the closets, the fossil fuel industry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, please please. I love Yeah, I love seasons just
Speaker 3: because growing up in LA we only have like two seasons,
Speaker 3: like hot and not as hot, right, So I like,
Speaker 3: I like wearing sleeves. I like hoods, jackets, pants and
Speaker 3: the like. But yeah, yeah, seasons.
Speaker 2: I do too.
Speaker 4: And on a day like today, it's hard not to
Speaker 4: think back to my childhood trick or treating in New
Speaker 4: Jersey and how grateful you were for the temperature to
Speaker 4: drop a bit so you're not walking around in like
Speaker 4: full WCW sting makeup in eighty degrees, a bag of
Speaker 4: a pillowcase of melting chocolate on your shoulder.
Speaker 2: It was just the a nightmare.
Speaker 1: I will say, it's a little chilly. It was a
Speaker 1: little chilly here this morning, so it's not global warming.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so we're good there. What's something you think
Speaker 1: is overrated?
Speaker 4: Something that I think is overrated is the I'm so
Speaker 4: sorry for being so Halloween focused. The sophistication and growth
Speaker 4: of the consumer grade Halloween decoration market. I'm over I
Speaker 4: think there there was a time when the house in
Speaker 4: the neighborhood that went all out for Halloween decorations was special.
Speaker 4: There was something meaningful to that. You could tell it
Speaker 4: was someone who spent a lot of time. This isn't
Speaker 4: like I'm not saying that only wealthy people should be
Speaker 4: allowed to decorate for Halloween but afford. But it was
Speaker 4: like you, we would we would do like handmade homemade decorations.
Speaker 4: It was a big, like Halloween tradition for us to
Speaker 4: make tombstones out of like styrofoam and pay them and
Speaker 4: then come up with funny things to write on the tombstones.
Speaker 4: And that would be like a family activity and a
Speaker 4: cool like point of pride, this decorations that we did.
Speaker 4: And now I feel like the market for Halloween decorations
Speaker 4: has exploded. It's so much cheaper and so much easier
Speaker 4: to get really terrifying and cool looking decorations that everyone
Speaker 4: has them everywhere, and I don't care for.
Speaker 3: It, oh like as it like nothing special anymore, because
Speaker 3: nothing special any so widely available. I get, yes, just.
Speaker 1: Twelve foot skeletons as far as the eyes can I
Speaker 1: can see.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's there's a spot in my neighborhood someone
Speaker 3: had three twelve foot like different figures just cramped in
Speaker 3: their yard. And it felt like, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been noticing a lot of Halloween decoration cramping
Speaker 1: as well, like especially with the inflatables, like the salatable
Speaker 1: just inflatables everywhere yeah, Yeah, I don't know. I guess
Speaker 1: those things are a little bigger once you get them
Speaker 1: out of the box, the inflatables, because they are yeah,
Speaker 1: shoulder to shoulder in some of these front yards. My
Speaker 1: twelfth of Witches in my front yard right now, we
Speaker 1: are recording this on Halloween, uh, in my front yard,
Speaker 1: just reading people for filth. I turned the turned the
Speaker 1: volume back up on her because I had turned her
Speaker 1: down because one of my friends like three year old children,
Speaker 1: got really scared of her. Oh like, he sent me
Speaker 1: a video of his son crying from So I turned
Speaker 1: the volume down on her, turned it back up for Halloween.
Speaker 1: And the writing is just so fucking bad on the
Speaker 1: things she says, like she has a little sensor when
Speaker 1: she walked. When you walk by, she'll like say something,
Speaker 1: but it's like this long, meandering It's like how am
Speaker 1: I flying? You ask, well, that's a good question, and
Speaker 1: that you're like wanting to walk away from her.
Speaker 3: Party You're like put it up a chair.
Speaker 7: I used to date orson wells, okay, okay, should we
Speaker 7: take a break and come back and talk about the election,
Speaker 7: because I.
Speaker 1: Mean it's coming up and it's a fun one.
Speaker 3: It's a real coin flip?
Speaker 1: What what drama?
Speaker 3: What excitement? We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: And we're back.
Speaker 1: Yes, And I apologize if it sounded like I was
Speaker 1: inside your ear. I have trouble with mike discipline. But
Speaker 1: to be fair, we've only been doing the show for
Speaker 1: seven years.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the news. Yeah, yeah, there's a few
Speaker 3: stats from the early vote that has clearly caught the
Speaker 3: attention of the MAGA crowd. A political analysis of early
Speaker 3: vote data and battleground states said there's a two or
Speaker 3: ten point gender gap in early voting, with women comprising
Speaker 3: fifty five percent of those who had cast ballots nationwide.
Speaker 3: Early voting data showed that on Thursday, just today, as
Speaker 3: we record of roughly fifty eight million mail in and
Speaker 3: early in person votes cast across the country, fifty four
Speaker 3: percent came from women. So this is for the MAGA crowd.
Speaker 3: They're like, oh no, like have they been hearing what
Speaker 3: Donald Trump says? Could this be a bad thing?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: This is probably good news for the Harris campaign, although
Speaker 3: it's entirely possible that a significant portion of that early
Speaker 3: vote is also for Trump, considering the campaign's recent emphasis
Speaker 3: on early voting. So like the last presidential election, less
Speaker 3: than a quarter of mail in ballots came from Republicans.
Speaker 3: In this cycle it's up to a third. But again,
Speaker 3: it's all about it's all about whatever you have to
Speaker 3: say to get people out. But the way they're communicating
Speaker 3: it is sort of like the Mike Cernovich's and Charlie
Speaker 3: Kirk's of the world are like, where my bros at man.
Speaker 3: We need you guys if we're gonna get Trump over
Speaker 3: the line. If these ladies get out, we're crushed. Cernavi said, quote,
Speaker 3: male turnout in Pennsylvania for Trump has been a disaster.
Speaker 3: Unless this changes, Kamala Harris takes Pennsylvania and it's over.
Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk early vote has been disproportionately female. If men's
Speaker 3: stay at home, Kamala is president. It's that simple pull
Speaker 3: pull pull. So I think the other thing that they're
Speaker 3: really reacting to, I don't know, have you guys seen
Speaker 3: that Kamala Harris ad that's like narrated by Julia Roberts,
Speaker 3: where like a woman goes to the polls with like
Speaker 3: the clearly like a maga coated couple, and when the
Speaker 3: woman goes to the voting booth, she's like I'm gonna
Speaker 3: actually vote for Kamala and Tim Walls. And then when
Speaker 3: she goes back to her husband, he's like, did you vote, honey,
Speaker 3: for the make the Right choice? And she's like, yes,
Speaker 3: I did, and she like winks at another woman at
Speaker 3: the polling place and then turns.
Speaker 1: Back to the camera and she has to thrill her eyes.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, this has been like this is this is caused.
Speaker 3: I'll just play a clip of Charlie Kirk just he
Speaker 3: was on Magan Kelly's show, just talking about how this
Speaker 3: ad is like undermining the modern mayor. I don't know. Look,
Speaker 3: just this listens to this.
Speaker 6: It is the embodiment of the downfall of the American family.
Speaker 6: I think it's so gross. I think it's so just nauseating.
Speaker 6: Where this wife is wearing the you'll show it, wearing
Speaker 6: the American hat. She's coming in with her sweet husband
Speaker 6: who probably works his tail off make sure that she
Speaker 6: can go, you know, and have a nice life and
Speaker 6: provide to the family. And then she lies to him saying, oh, yea,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna vote for Trump, and then she votes for
Speaker 6: Kamala Harris as her little secret in the voting booth.
Speaker 6: Kamala Harris and her team believe that there will be
Speaker 6: millions of women that undermine their husbands and do so
Speaker 6: in a way that it's not detectable in the polling,
Speaker 6: and she needs people to basically.
Speaker 3: Looka that was out of the clip. Yeah, undermine their husbands. Again,
Speaker 3: I am voting for who.
Speaker 1: You want to vote for and not sharing that information.
Speaker 1: If your husband is really awful and like demands that
Speaker 1: you vote for the same person as.
Speaker 3: Him, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a healthy marriage.
Speaker 4: I was trying to find the exact link for this,
Speaker 4: But did you guys see Jesse Waters talking about this also?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you want to hear that. I'd love to great,
Speaker 3: you know, hey, maybe if there's one thing I'm good for,
Speaker 3: it's having the outrage links loaded up. This is Jesse
Speaker 3: Waters being like, this is an executable offense.
Speaker 1: And if I found out Emma was going into the
Speaker 1: voting booth and.
Speaker 3: Pulling the lever for Harris, that's the same thing as
Speaker 3: having an affair.
Speaker 4: That's me, He's like laughing, he's doing that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the sanctity of our marriage? Yes, what else is
Speaker 2: she keeping from me?
Speaker 1: Exactly? What else does she lying about?
Speaker 8: Threatened?
Speaker 2: Why would she lie to you.
Speaker 3: I like how Janine Piro somehow kind of like on
Speaker 3: the side of reasons, She's like, well would why would
Speaker 3: this happen? What's happening in your relationship? Are you a monster?
Speaker 4: Even attempting to engage with a bit in good faith,
Speaker 4: just trying to yes and it leading to a complete
Speaker 4: dead end.
Speaker 3: Yeah, completely completely, So I mean, yeah, I think this
Speaker 3: is just sort of all part of everyone's maybe motivational
Speaker 3: the toolkit that they're using.
Speaker 1: For turnout, Like that's kind of how I'm reading it.
Speaker 1: Is just the the Twolways decisions that people make when voting.
Speaker 1: The first is weather to vote at all, and that's
Speaker 1: like a huge factor as to who's going to win.
Speaker 1: So this feels like a good story for them to
Speaker 1: be publicizing as it's now possible for.
Speaker 3: Everybody to vote.
Speaker 1: Basically, I voted yesterday and I will you know Andrew T,
Speaker 1: friend of the show, Andrew T, was on the show
Speaker 1: and talking about how one reason to vote early is
Speaker 1: once you vote, they stopped texting you. I've received a
Speaker 1: text since I voted and it was like, hey, did
Speaker 1: you just vote?
Speaker 3: And that's it.
Speaker 1: So I fhighly recommend.
Speaker 4: I voted every single day this week. I'm gonna do
Speaker 4: it again tomorrow.
Speaker 3: It's fun.
Speaker 1: So we're returning the favor to them to give them
Speaker 1: something they can exert and put on their show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's always like I mean, because it's the same thing
Speaker 1: if you if you have texts from the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: like about the it's always like.
Speaker 8: We're getting fucked over in Pennsylvania. I need seven hundred
Speaker 8: thousand dollars or Trump is gonna rip our heads off.
Speaker 8: So everyone has their version of you know, shitting the
Speaker 8: bed rhetorically to get people, you know, out to vote.
Speaker 8: But I think that brings us to the other part
Speaker 8: of a.
Speaker 3: Campaign, which is getting out the vote. It's we are
Speaker 3: on the precipice of GTV Weekend, where you know, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of effort to get everybody to the polls.
Speaker 3: And a couple of weeks ago, we talked about a
Speaker 3: story where these people that were hired by Elon's America
Speaker 3: Pack to do door to door canvassing for Trump were
Speaker 3: basically like faking all of their work. They just found
Speaker 3: a way to like spoof the results and make it
Speaker 3: look like they were actually going door to door and
Speaker 3: just be like yeah, and then I got my check
Speaker 3: now was it because they were all secret libs. I
Speaker 3: mean I see.
Speaker 1: Secret libs all around me at all times, exactly.
Speaker 3: You know, I was at a secret lib coffee shop
Speaker 3: and I overheard this. You won't believe it.
Speaker 1: My wife dozes off. I'm just looking at her with
Speaker 1: narrowed eyes, being like, is she a secret licretum for Harris?
Speaker 3: So it turns out that they these people who are
Speaker 3: you know, phoning it in. I might just be reacting
Speaker 3: to the fucked up working conditions because there's a new
Speaker 3: article in Wired magazine. No, yes, Jack, I'm sorry to say.
Speaker 3: I know, I know who's Sometimes now they find other
Speaker 3: people to bring in. This is just from like the
Speaker 3: second paragraph in this article quote in Michigan, canvassers and
Speaker 3: paid door knockers for the former president, contracted by a
Speaker 3: firm associated with America Pack, have been subjected to poor
Speaker 3: working conditions. A number of them have been driven around
Speaker 3: in the back of a seatless U haul van, according
Speaker 3: to video obtained by Wired, and threatened that they're lodging
Speaker 3: at a local motel would it be paid for if
Speaker 3: they didn't meet canvassing quotas. One door knocker alleges that
Speaker 3: they didn't even know they were signing up for anything
Speaker 3: having to do with Musk or Trump, and that was
Speaker 3: until they signed an NDA. So how Yeah, it's the
Speaker 3: picture of these people. It looks it looks like these
Speaker 3: people are being kidnapped, Like when you see a bunch
Speaker 3: of people in the back of a seatless van, like
Speaker 3: heatless man.
Speaker 1: That's like an illegal thing that the police do to
Speaker 1: people as like abuse.
Speaker 3: Yes, sure, sure absolutely, but this is also this is
Speaker 3: how you know the America pack is doing their canvassing. Again,
Speaker 3: any normal campaign with like a functioning field ation, you
Speaker 3: have like a network of field offices, staff and you know,
Speaker 3: battleground states to make sure you get your proper voter turnout.
Speaker 3: But I think a lot of this can be traced
Speaker 3: directly back to Trump installing his daughter in law as
Speaker 3: like a vassal dictator at the RNC, where she basically
Speaker 3: got rid of anyone who may have had any experience
Speaker 3: here in the name of saving money. And because the
Speaker 3: whole thing was yeah, they had to use all the
Speaker 3: funds of the RNC to be like a Trump legal
Speaker 3: slush fund, so you know who knows. So that means
Speaker 3: now all the work of the field work and ground
Speaker 3: game stuff is being done by inexperienced Trump allies like Musk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wasn't like too excited about the early voting
Speaker 1: numbers because it's just like we've just seen like early
Speaker 1: trends or like you know, straw poles or you know,
Speaker 1: exit polls tell us very misleading things and elections. But
Speaker 1: the idea that there could be a world where all
Speaker 1: of the stuff that he's been doing that plainly looks
Speaker 1: like just corrupt bad practices could like actually come back
Speaker 1: and have consequences on him does warm my heart? Oh
Speaker 1: does saw my frozen heart a tiny bit?
Speaker 3: Sure, sure would love.
Speaker 1: To see it, even though I'm still undecided.
Speaker 4: I would love to see see consequences for his campaigns specifically,
Speaker 4: or because I as much like secondhand joy as I
Speaker 4: experience from seeing ever report that is like this, Elon
Speaker 4: Musk is running like historically the worst ground game in
Speaker 4: the history of politics. As much as I enjoy that,
Speaker 4: I don't know election wise if that's going to swing anything,
Speaker 4: Like even him doing a bad job is not the
Speaker 4: kind of thing that I think is going to like
Speaker 4: sway undecided voters should they still be out there, like
Speaker 4: no one is waiting to.
Speaker 2: See, like, what's that he drove him around in a
Speaker 2: U haul.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the kind of man Trump hires for his
Speaker 4: ground game, then I can't trust him with that.
Speaker 1: I don't think the story is going to have impact
Speaker 1: on who people vote for. I guess I'm trusting in
Speaker 1: some like magical boots on the ground electioneering thing that
Speaker 1: I've always heard actually matters in politics. And I have
Speaker 1: to assume it does because they put so much fucking
Speaker 1: money and effort into it.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: It is of course being reported by the same people
Speaker 1: who are like and that's why the Democratic Party should
Speaker 1: continue moving to the right and triangulating course forever.
Speaker 3: And they figured it out. Yeah, I think. I mean
Speaker 3: the negative is going to be that potentially it does
Speaker 3: like they don't reach the people who are only like
Speaker 3: half asked about MAGA stuff that might they might get
Speaker 3: to the polls. So there is that. But again, I
Speaker 3: don't know if it matters, because I think I think
Speaker 3: plan A for Trump just seems to be to steal
Speaker 3: the fucking election. Yeah, it's not based on the performances
Speaker 3: he's given as a candidate, based on like everything you're
Speaker 3: reading about how it's operating and everything that's happening behind
Speaker 3: the scenes. They seem more invested in a different kind
Speaker 3: of Yeah. I guess we'll call it a non traditional
Speaker 3: type of win.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I have another question for you guys, if that's all right. Yes,
Speaker 4: I'm going to describe everything I say says between us.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I have to let me know if I'm guilty of
Speaker 4: an election crime, because all these stories have me flashing
Speaker 4: back to my sophomore year of college where we were
Speaker 4: looking for money anywhere we could, and then we found
Speaker 4: out that John Corzine, who was running for governor of
Speaker 4: New Jersey as a Democrat at the time, I believe,
Speaker 4: would pay people seventy five dollars a person if they
Speaker 4: would go around and knock on doors. And we were
Speaker 4: picked up in a bus and dropped off a neighborhood
Speaker 4: and went around knocking on doors just telling people to vote.
Speaker 4: We were explicitly told, don't tell people to vote for Corsign,
Speaker 4: just like knock on these doors for a certain amount
Speaker 4: of hours and tell people, hey, have you voted, here's
Speaker 4: your voting place. If you haven't voted. If you have, great,
Speaker 4: have a good day, and then a bus will pick
Speaker 4: you up at the end of the night and you
Speaker 4: will go home and then you will take those seventy
Speaker 4: five dollars and use them to buy weed and sandwiches.
Speaker 4: I think was not like an official directive. But you're
Speaker 4: giving a college sophomore Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that? Is that legal? Is that our?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, so that's what probably happened, was like a dark
Speaker 3: money group is the one doing the paying of you guys.
Speaker 3: And the reason you can't advocate because they were probably
Speaker 3: trying to do it on the level way where you
Speaker 3: can't direct something depending on the nonprofit like the way
Speaker 3: it's structured, you can't directly advocate for a candidate. But
Speaker 3: they probably put you in an area where it was
Speaker 3: mostly people that were going to vote for Corsine, so
Speaker 3: it didn't you didn't really have to be persuasive more
Speaker 3: so just to like motivate people and then like, no,
Speaker 3: we're we're non partisan, we're non partisan. We're just reminding people.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. So no, you're fine, you're fine.
Speaker 1: Did you have a big check that you were that
Speaker 1: you dangled him of people and said, hey, now they
Speaker 1: are be yours.
Speaker 9: They very smartly yes, all right, So the whole Trump's
Speaker 9: stealing the election of it all, we've covered like some
Speaker 9: specific you know, there's been his claims of fraud on
Speaker 9: social media.
Speaker 1: There's been a physical destruction of ballots by at least
Speaker 1: one Republican Trump supporter in the case of a narrow
Speaker 1: Harris victory. I've seen some takes that like, oh, we
Speaker 1: have nothing to worry about because they've made it so
Speaker 1: the electors can't be thrown out this time, like the
Speaker 1: thing that they wanted Mike Pence to do, they can't
Speaker 1: do that. But I don't know, like that was just
Speaker 1: one thing they tried last time when they didn't really
Speaker 1: know what the fuck they were doing, and Trump didn't
Speaker 1: have the support of the entire Republican Party to steal
Speaker 1: the election. This time, he's had four years to plan,
Speaker 1: He's consolidated, empowering Congress and like allegiance and loyalty in
Speaker 1: Congress and with the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3: It seems so like.
Speaker 1: The the one scenario I can't foresee is Trump losing
Speaker 1: a close one, and it seems like it's going to
Speaker 1: be close and admitting defeat like that's the only that's
Speaker 1: the only thing that I think we could just be like,
Speaker 1: that's definitely not Can I put money on that.
Speaker 4: He is never in the history of time conceded defeat
Speaker 4: on an election he has lost, even like the one
Speaker 4: primary he lost to Ted Cruz, he didn't say that
Speaker 4: was fair.
Speaker 2: Yeah and square like that is completely out the window.
Speaker 4: The idea of him, first of all, gracefully doing anything
Speaker 4: and second of all gracefully conceding is just you know,
Speaker 4: you want to say, if there's a landslide, he'll concede,
Speaker 4: But even then I don't.
Speaker 2: Think it would do it.
Speaker 4: I think that the the options are he loses narrowly
Speaker 4: and says it's rigged, he loses big and says it's
Speaker 4: it's rigged. He loses, he wins and says it's rigged,
Speaker 4: but we still move one still want, which is what
Speaker 4: he did in the in the Clinton sixteen. Yeah, they
Speaker 4: never once not said that an election he was involved
Speaker 4: in wasn't rigged. I'm pretty sure like he's never conceded
Speaker 4: defeat in an argument, like in a conversation, like.
Speaker 3: You know, unless he has some kind of like neurological
Speaker 3: event where it's like WHOA did he He's just he
Speaker 3: fucking said I'm tired, guys, I'm tired. Yeah it's over,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's a box article talking about like some of the
Speaker 1: official channels they could go through in order to steal
Speaker 1: a close election if Republicans hold the House Speaker Mike
Speaker 1: Johnson could try to interfere with certifying the results. And
Speaker 1: obviously Trump recently made the public statement that he and
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson a.
Speaker 2: Leader secret thing. There's so many secret things.
Speaker 4: There are so many like you, you almost long for
Speaker 4: the simplicity of his attempts to overturn the last election,
Speaker 4: because there was like an A to B straight line
Speaker 4: of like you were my vice president and you worked
Speaker 4: for me, and I'm telling you throw out the votes
Speaker 4: or calling up Secretary of State in Georgia and saying
Speaker 4: find votes for me. That kind of stuff was like
Speaker 4: so clear. And now some of the stuff that has happened,
Speaker 4: and it makes opposing Trump very difficult and frustrating. It
Speaker 4: makes supporting him very funny and fascinating to me. Because
Speaker 4: one of the major changes that we covered on our
Speaker 4: show that's happened in the last four years is that
Speaker 4: the one county of electors, like the Elections Board in
Speaker 4: one county in Georgia has been like majority stocked with
Speaker 4: Trump sick of fans who truly believed the last election
Speaker 4: was stolen, and they are like big cheerleaders for him
Speaker 4: and the steal And it's scary that there's a bunch
Speaker 4: of people who who think the system is rigged, who
Speaker 4: are now in charge of whether or not certain votes
Speaker 4: not necessarily get counted, but like how triggers different o them, Yeah,
Speaker 4: how they get counted. And it's a fascinating thing to
Speaker 4: watch as someone like you guys, and and like myself,
Speaker 4: we have to watch a lot of Trump.
Speaker 2: Videos all the time.
Speaker 4: The difference between like nine years ago Trump where he
Speaker 4: comes out and he's got very simple ringleader message. It's
Speaker 4: it's wrongheaded, but it's compelling, just like there are bad guys,
Speaker 4: they're coming into this country. I'm gonna build a wall
Speaker 4: and it's gonna be free.
Speaker 2: And his fans go.
Speaker 4: Nuts because they love that message. And now you see
Speaker 4: him at rallies when he's campaigning in Georgia and he's like,
Speaker 4: we need to win this election. We've got some great
Speaker 4: new members of this five person Board of Elections in
Speaker 4: Fulton County, Georgia, and they created a beautiful new rule
Speaker 4: that requires a hand count by three different people and
Speaker 4: if they find any discrepancies, why that triggers different rule.
Speaker 4: And like all of his fans, the rallies are like, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 4: this is I'd like to so much more when it
Speaker 4: was the wall, and now there are all these other
Speaker 4: things that I need to be. I need to be
Speaker 4: such a policy wonk right to be a Trump supporter.
Speaker 1: Now, that was one of the things that underperformed in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two election. It remains to be seen
Speaker 1: if it will underperform, like with him actually running the message.
Speaker 1: But like all the candidates who were on the stop
Speaker 1: the Steal shit like people seemed to just be like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Like can we like yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like a lot of technicalities and like bullshit that you
Speaker 1: have to like it's a lot of homework to ask
Speaker 1: people to do. And because it's a dumb bullshit conspiracy theory,
Speaker 1: it's like a bunch of like when you talk to
Speaker 1: a conspiracy theorist, it gets really exhausting quickly because they're like,
Speaker 1: ask you to learn thirty different people's names, you know,
Speaker 1: and like the JFK conspiracy theorists are, you know, and
Speaker 1: that's when you get this CIA agent who was sheep
Speaker 1: dipped to be And I'm just like all right, like
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't do this anymore. So I'm hoping
Speaker 1: that that is again like he's kind of over leveraged
Speaker 1: in his messaging in that direction.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean, I think the one thing that's
Speaker 3: consistent is at the very least setting the expect because
Speaker 3: if it is a blowout, the magaside is prepared to
Speaker 3: think it's not supposed to be a blowout. So like, yeah,
Speaker 3: no matter the outcome they have been, they have been
Speaker 3: like inoculating them against like accepting reality. It's purely the
Speaker 3: expectations are high. That's the one thing I found really
Speaker 3: curious is like you know that like that weird like
Speaker 3: betting market, the polymarket shit that like people can like
Speaker 3: bet on the outcome of the election, and how right
Speaker 3: now a lot of the money is on Trump. Part
Speaker 3: of that also feels like this is like another dimension
Speaker 3: of a potential scam where a lot of people are
Speaker 3: gonna pull a bunch, like they're putting a ton of
Speaker 3: money on Trump to have a lot of people bet
Speaker 3: on Trump, but then bet the opposite and get cause
Speaker 3: you see tweets where people like I'm gonna win four
Speaker 3: hundred dollars when Trump wins the election, like people are
Speaker 3: looking at those odds and like this is great, Like
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make all this money. That there's also like
Speaker 3: a fleecing of people that could also be happening based
Speaker 3: on like this dwed betting markets. There's just a lot
Speaker 3: of weird expectation, I think from every angle. But yeah,
Speaker 3: the I don't Yeah, I do not expect anything to
Speaker 3: be you know, peaceful or not chaotic.
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, I just I don't know. It really is
Speaker 1: just his belligerence is going to be there. I think
Speaker 1: there's going to be I don't know. It seems like
Speaker 1: he's going to be pushing for like violence if he
Speaker 1: if he loses, you know, if he wins, he'll also
Speaker 1: be pushing for violence and I'll have the US military disposable.
Speaker 1: But if he loses, like I just I don't see
Speaker 1: a scenario where like he and Elon Musk go like
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is going to continue to own Twitter, and
Speaker 1: you know it's going to be It just feels like
Speaker 1: I like I'm not gonna say we're walking into a
Speaker 1: disaster because I think a lot of people like recognize
Speaker 1: this what's happening, but there's just like nothing to be
Speaker 1: done about it. There's just like no option that isn't
Speaker 1: a complete fucking nightmare after this election based on you know,
Speaker 1: how who he is and like institutionally, like how he's situated,
Speaker 1: like the one like hopeful note I've seen people is like, well,
Speaker 1: you know when you talk to and like pull individual
Speaker 1: mega supporters, they seem like they're going to be more
Speaker 1: resigned than like willing to take up arms this time around.
Speaker 1: And like maybe a lot of the people who were
Speaker 1: the most extreme are just like are in jail right
Speaker 1: now for January the sixth. But that's I don't know,
Speaker 1: don't I don't like any plan where it's like and
Speaker 1: then we rely on the goodwill of the Trump supporters
Speaker 1: to right, you know, cooler heads to prevail.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Fun fact, January sixth, this guy's birthday.
Speaker 1: They be birth That's right, It's it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: It's uh, every year on my birthday now, I get
Speaker 4: phone calls from family members who say happy birthday. And
Speaker 4: then give any phone call enough time. And you got
Speaker 4: a family member who will say, gosh, I still remember
Speaker 4: I was watching the news Gluten like, yeah, all right,
Speaker 4: we've reached that part of my birthday.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep.
Speaker 1: And that's what you do. Stand by your statement that
Speaker 1: that's why you were down in DC that day, was
Speaker 1: celebrating your birthday with your friends, and you just kind
Speaker 1: of got swept along with them.
Speaker 4: On some people go to bars for their birthday. I thought,
Speaker 4: you know, what do I want for my birthday? I
Speaker 4: want to take in some culture. I want to visit
Speaker 4: our nation's capital. And you just have fun, let loose,
Speaker 4: dress up.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's just since then you're like you realize, like, oh,
Speaker 3: like January sixth just is the day on our governmental
Speaker 3: calendar for the Yeah, it counts that certification of electrical books.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey man, happy birthday, Happy early birthday, buddy. Let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: Halloween candy buy back programs.
Speaker 10: We'll be right back, boy, And we're back.
Speaker 3: We're back.
Speaker 1: And it's the day after Halloween. And I mean, as
Speaker 1: you listened to this, as you listen to this, it's
Speaker 1: the day after Halloween, you might here getting ready little candy.
Speaker 1: The spookiness in our voice because it's still Halloween where
Speaker 1: we are, but we're coming to you from the distant
Speaker 1: past twenty four hours ago. Dentists all over the country
Speaker 1: are offering to buy back Halloween candy in their continuing
Speaker 1: effort to be not fun to make kids' lives shitty.
Speaker 1: So beginning on November one, children can forfeit the bags
Speaker 1: of candy they worked so hard for in exchange for cold,
Speaker 1: hard cash, which they're probably just going to use to
Speaker 1: buy candy or it will prepare them for the crypto
Speaker 1: markets of the future. Just a terrible fucking deal. They like,
Speaker 1: they're offering one dollar a pound of candy.
Speaker 3: That that's good. That feels low. That's like a low
Speaker 3: ball effort. Oh yeah, like that's.
Speaker 1: So the in terms of like how much I feel
Speaker 1: like you need an hour to collect a.
Speaker 3: Pound of candy. I mean unless you just steal shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, unless you're just knocking knocking, asshole.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I don't care if you have a ring camera.
Speaker 3: I'm pathetic, but yeah.
Speaker 1: So this began in the early two thousands. By twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: more than two thousand, five hundred dentists and orthodonists had
Speaker 1: signed up to participate. And so about three hundred were
Speaker 1: participating in two thousand and seven, twenty five hundred by
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, and love the expansion.
Speaker 3: I just there's something just the the title of a
Speaker 3: candy buyback program when we have to, like we associate
Speaker 3: buyback programs with guns, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 3: they're like, no, no, no, the candy buy back program.
Speaker 3: You're like, fuck, man, Like what about about actual issues
Speaker 3: that heard? Like, is that something that somebody could do?
Speaker 1: Like has anybody tried to do like a private gun buyback?
Speaker 1: I guess that would just be like a gun store,
Speaker 1: right right, I guess anybody could. I'll give you a
Speaker 1: dollar a pound per gun. Anyways, you're probably wondering what
Speaker 1: happens to the candy. I actually wasn't. I assume they
Speaker 1: just threw it out, But no, it actually gets sent
Speaker 1: directly to the US military. And so the dentist behind
Speaker 1: this idea, doctor Chris Camer with a K, bragged that
Speaker 1: he didn't want to improve kids dental hygiene so much
Speaker 1: as he wanted to send Halloween treats to our troops
Speaker 1: to let them know we appreciate them and as a
Speaker 1: thank you for serving to keep us safe. This was
Speaker 1: in two thousand and five.
Speaker 4: Just a hall of fame stands for a dentist to take.
Speaker 4: We don't give a shit it out teeth. This is
Speaker 4: about the troops.
Speaker 1: Yeah, about supporting troops, tricking your kids into supporting the troops.
Speaker 1: This was in two thousand and five, so kind of
Speaker 1: height of war on terror, invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: So the modern version of the buyback similarly has Dennis
Speaker 1: working with existing Halloween candy buyback organizations, offering kids as
Speaker 1: little as a dollar a year for their candy and
Speaker 1: selling it to US soldiers or sending it to US
Speaker 1: soldiers instead, and as an old ABC News segment about
Speaker 1: the trend noted, the troops give most of the candy
Speaker 1: away to local children to build relationships. Now, if you
Speaker 1: just turn your brain off right there, just turn it off. Fine,
Speaker 1: that's fine. They're giving the candy away to kids who
Speaker 1: probably don't. End the story candy, it's a happy story.
Speaker 1: Don't go stop thinking, stop reading the story.
Speaker 2: Jack. You can find Jack on Twitter at.
Speaker 1: Uh. So the candy was really being rerouted to the
Speaker 1: Middle East to help an invading army ingratiate themselves to
Speaker 1: the local children. Is another way of saying the thing
Speaker 1: that we just said, and that like it's just what
Speaker 1: the practice of American soldiers distributing candy to kids is
Speaker 1: has like so many tragic implications, like tragic like outcomes
Speaker 1: just any anytime, these local kids are like drawn in
Speaker 1: to be around soldiers who are a being targeted by people,
Speaker 1: and like, so there have been bombings at like places
Speaker 1: where a bunch of children were gathered around to get candy,
Speaker 1: and there have been like in the cases of some
Speaker 1: of the worst atrocities carried out by US troops, they
Speaker 1: used candy to like draw kids in and like, if
Speaker 1: you want to read details that will ruin your fucking month,
Speaker 1: you can go more into a third platoon and striker
Speaker 1: view with a y. But it's it's fucking awful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like because it's again we don't know how
Speaker 3: this candy is used. But when you know that these
Speaker 3: are like the practice of giving candy and this is
Speaker 3: one of the organizations, it'd be like and here's how
Speaker 3: they get their candy. Yeah, it's hard to kind of
Speaker 3: be like, oh god, yeah, there, yeah.
Speaker 1: There's no evidence that the specific candy in the horrific
Speaker 1: atrocities came from kids Halloween trade ins, but it's pretty
Speaker 1: clear we shouldn't normalize occupying forces distributing candy to children.
Speaker 1: The organization that the Halloween candy buyback works with is
Speaker 1: also really shitty. It's called trou Pathon, and that's a
Speaker 1: good name. Again, let's just stop there. Troop Pathon sounds fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they be a little bit cute, Yeah, a little.
Speaker 3: Bit of fun.
Speaker 1: Is it a marathon? You know, it's a marathon? They trust,
Speaker 1: Oh okat miles. Supporting the troops is not a sprint.
Speaker 1: It's a true pathon.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like a dance marathon where you have to stay
Speaker 4: up for twenty four hours, trooping the entire time.
Speaker 1: Sometimes people die from exhaustion, but it doesn't matter anyways.
Speaker 1: They used to be called Move America Forward, and the
Speaker 1: driving force behind Move America Forward was sal Rousseau, the
Speaker 1: founder of the tea party.
Speaker 3: Express Oh Wow Love Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sou and a twenty fourteen pro public investigation into Move
Speaker 1: America Forward suggested that they mislead donors and provide false
Speaker 1: information about donations, like they claimed that they were sending
Speaker 1: care packages to a marine battalion that was not on
Speaker 1: the continent they claimed they were sending the care packages to.
Speaker 1: They also used images from veterans without their permission, falsely
Speaker 1: claimed to have a partnership with Walter Reed Medical Center
Speaker 1: that they did not scans. So the charity donations, you know,
Speaker 1: the monetary charity donations that they were supposedly sending to
Speaker 1: to the troops for the Troopathon of American Support, we're
Speaker 1: actually being used to subsidize three conservative political action committees,
Speaker 1: according to pro Publica, and the organization denied those allegations,
Speaker 1: were like, we're not changing shit we have. We don't
Speaker 1: have anything to be apologizing for or ashamed of. And
Speaker 1: then they promptly changed their name to True Pathy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is so funny, just such a I mean, like
Speaker 1: this this all falls into the right wing grift, Like
Speaker 1: it's like, no, we care about the troops, and we don't.
Speaker 3: We don't, we don't, but we know you might now
Speaker 3: give me your money and I can use it for
Speaker 3: something else. But yeah, there's I mean, it must be.
Speaker 3: It's probably so opaque too for people who donate their
Speaker 3: money to even understand how what the outcome is of
Speaker 3: their donation. So it's probably like the second, like, I
Speaker 3: don't know, it's for the troops and yeah that's enough
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 4: I do wonder this is such a silly thought. They'll
Speaker 4: need to spend more time on if including America in
Speaker 4: the the name of what your organization is, if that's
Speaker 4: completely gone the other way at this point in terms
Speaker 4: of convincing people that you're doing the right thing. I
Speaker 4: don't know if this is maga or if this is
Speaker 4: something else, but just hearing the name moving America forward, yeah, like, ah,
Speaker 4: what are you fucking up to?
Speaker 3: A up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah forward where?
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's really has not been great for the brand,
Speaker 1: for the American brand. I'm gonna say it, guys, I
Speaker 1: think Mega has been bad for the brand person.
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, yeah, take Athon. I'm a little weird like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean it's like I'm again, I think there's just
Speaker 3: something so grim. Even hearing about the idea of a
Speaker 3: candy buyback program, even without all these other details, I'm
Speaker 3: still like, humhmm, this feels odd, it feels strange, and
Speaker 3: I feel like there's so many other ways if it's
Speaker 3: truly about like dental health, a lot better ways to
Speaker 3: do that then to be like yeah, give us your
Speaker 3: your candy for some very low return.
Speaker 4: I really liked the idea of it when I was
Speaker 4: not investigating it whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Like, this was a thing.
Speaker 4: That for the last couple of years as someone who
Speaker 4: in my last place I had, I lived in a
Speaker 4: neighborhood where you got a lot of kids trick or treaters,
Speaker 4: and then I ended up with a lot of candy afterwards.
Speaker 4: It was really great cover for me. Whenever I would
Speaker 4: talk to other adults who had too much candy, I
Speaker 4: would be like, well, you know, there's this great organization
Speaker 4: that lets you buy back candy and it sends the
Speaker 4: candy to the troops. That was a thing that I
Speaker 4: never had to investigate a because it seemed harmless enough.
Speaker 4: It didn't they a lot of the early messaging didn't
Speaker 4: include that the troops were giving it to children specifically.
Speaker 4: It seemed like this was just like, give the troops
Speaker 4: a little bit of candy, huh. And the other reason
Speaker 4: I didn't investigate it was it was mostly cover for
Speaker 4: me that like, if I told you that this organization exists,
Speaker 4: then surely you won't think I'm eating all the candy, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I end up eating so much of my kids
Speaker 1: Halloween candy. It's it's really I need to come up
Speaker 1: with a better solution.
Speaker 3: Well, no, no, you're doing your part to fight American imperialism.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's how you.
Speaker 1: But now now I'll feel like a hero exactly, not
Speaker 1: a COLLI. Hey, I'm not getting my kids mixed up
Speaker 1: and no war crimes and fraud. Fucking father of the year.
Speaker 3: You tell your kids you like scare your kids like, well,
Speaker 3: do you want to go in front of a war tribe?
Speaker 1: You want to go to the I said, like chocolate cake.
Speaker 2: For the Hague is fucked up.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, why do you want to peanut
Speaker 1: butter cups? Yeah, I'm gonna the doctor says, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: smell like peanut butter cups for a couple of months now.
Speaker 1: But doesn't nothing could be done.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I got this great dentist. He doesn't
Speaker 4: give a ship about teeth, so I'm clear.
Speaker 3: Just to ask.
Speaker 1: We just talked about politics. Daniel O'Brien, truly a pleasure
Speaker 1: having you on the Daily Siegeist, where people find you,
Speaker 1: follow you all that good stuff.
Speaker 4: You can find me on Blue Sky. I'm there every
Speaker 4: once in a while. I mostly left Twitter, but I
Speaker 4: came back to promote a rare live show appearance. I'm
Speaker 4: going to be doing some kind of comedy at Late
Speaker 4: Stage Live, which is a queer and trans focused late
Speaker 4: night comedy show. It's going to be part of the
Speaker 4: New York Comedy Festival. That's at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn
Speaker 4: on November twelfth at boy ten pm. You could find
Speaker 4: information about it at twenty Now. I was when Ella,
Speaker 4: who was the host of that show, also a writer
Speaker 4: for Friend of Ours Cody Johnston and David Bell and
Speaker 4: Katie Stole's Some More News show. When Ella reached out,
Speaker 4: it was like, we would love to have you as
Speaker 4: a guest on our late night show in New York.
Speaker 4: I was so thrilled at the idea of doing comedy
Speaker 4: in New York in front of people again. And then
Speaker 4: when she said ten pm on a Tuesday, I was.
Speaker 3: Like, Oh, that's right, life like.
Speaker 2: But I'll be doing that November twelfth.
Speaker 4: It'll be a week after the election doing late night
Speaker 4: show that you know, we'll see what everyone's mood is.
Speaker 4: There's no way to predict what the vibe is going
Speaker 4: to be, but we'll be there doing doing making as
Speaker 4: as much fun as we can. Beyond that, you can
Speaker 4: listen to the show Quick Question with Soren and Daniel.
Speaker 4: It's a podcast I do with my best friend and
Speaker 4: former Cracked compadre, Soren Bowie, who is currently a writer
Speaker 4: for American Dad.
Speaker 2: We are two.
Speaker 4: Working comedy writers for television, and we never talk about it.
Speaker 4: We mostly just it's an hour long phone call where
Speaker 4: two buddies catch up every week and you get to
Speaker 4: listen to.
Speaker 2: It if you want.
Speaker 3: I think, but what if you guys talked about comedy?
Speaker 1: Like have you ever thought about that? Like a comedy
Speaker 1: podcast where people like talk about comedy.
Speaker 4: Every once in a while. We think, I want to
Speaker 4: just like sit down and be like, so sorry, who
Speaker 4: are your guys? Who's coming up for you? We look
Speaker 4: it at who you like it?
Speaker 3: Who you like you? I like Mark there.
Speaker 1: It's so easy to make fun of that show, but
Speaker 1: he does it well. All right, Daniel, is there a
Speaker 1: work of media that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yes, Tina Frimmel. It's the last name is spelled f
Speaker 4: r im L. She is a comedian that the good
Speaker 4: folks at Instagram's algorithm brought onto my feed. She is
Speaker 4: a young, up and coming comedian. One of the things
Speaker 4: that will immediately distinguish her to people who aren't familiar
Speaker 4: is that she does have cerebral palsy, and her comedy
Speaker 4: touches on that. But it's also just like, genuinely like.
Speaker 4: The two parts of her work that I love is
Speaker 4: that I'm hearing from someone in comedy like a voice
Speaker 4: and a perspective that I'm just not really getting anywhere else.
Speaker 4: And two, she is just hilarious. She's one of the
Speaker 4: funniest people to ever do it. I can't believe how
Speaker 4: young she is. It's it's very frustrating, and I cannot
Speaker 4: recommend her enough. I've been working in comedy in some
Speaker 4: form or another since two thousand and seven, which means
Speaker 4: I'm old and that I can still be like surprised
Speaker 4: and excited by a new voice is really really fun.
Speaker 4: So Tina Primmel check her out. Frml to that in
Speaker 4: the footnotes. Great, No, great recommendation, got it. Miles Where
Speaker 4: can people find you?
Speaker 1: Is there a worchimedia you've been enjoying?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, wherever they have at symbols at Miles of
Speaker 3: Gray basketball talk. That's Miles and Jack I man boost
Speaker 3: E's ninety day Fiance talk. I do that on four
Speaker 3: to twenty day fiance. Some tweets I like. First one
Speaker 3: is from at Bimbo Underscore Hours. Reagan Lee Stallion tweeted,
Speaker 3: you gotta dabble in just enough recreational drug use in
Speaker 3: your youth to develop a solid taste in music, but
Speaker 3: not enough to permanently addle your brain. It's a fine line,
Speaker 3: and I felt that. I felt that as someone who
Speaker 3: prides themselves on their musical taste. And then John Gondleman
Speaker 3: again if he again he's a Boston guy. He's hate
Speaker 3: for New York stuff. It comes through in really awesome
Speaker 3: ways at Josh gond treated his sports not.
Speaker 2: New York stuff.
Speaker 3: I think he lives like Nix or Donkey on New
Speaker 3: York sports stuff. He comes out like with his last
Speaker 3: thing referencing the three and oh, the three to zero
Speaker 3: come back from the Red Sox against the Yankees this time,
Speaker 3: Josh Gondan tweeted, the Yankee should have a fan that
Speaker 3: helps put the ball in their players.
Speaker 1: So good, God bless him, God bless him, and God
Speaker 1: bless the Yankees. You know, tough, tough to see you
Speaker 1: hate to see the Yankees lose. Yeah, some tweets I've
Speaker 1: been enjoying Alice doesn't have bangs at cinema. Milf tweeted
Speaker 1: Nicole Kidman being in a film called Baby Girl is
Speaker 1: actually perfect because it's like another version of her last
Speaker 1: name kid Man Girl.
Speaker 11: God have it so I never noticed that baby and uh,
Speaker 11: Frank Bullet tweeted watching the Yankees loses like seeing cops
Speaker 11: going to jail.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I kept tweeting, texting this to you, mild I
Speaker 1: Just like every new person who would come up on
Speaker 1: the Yankees, I'd be like, god, cop, each one looks
Speaker 1: more like a fucking cop. It's crazy, culminating with the
Speaker 1: guy with the mustache and the NYPD turtle.
Speaker 3: Knack underneath his uniform. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, anyways, you can find me on Twitter at Jack
Speaker 1: Underscore Brian. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.
Speaker 1: We're at the Daily Zeichgeist on Instagram. We have a
Speaker 1: Facebook fan page on our website Daily Zeikeist dot com,
Speaker 1: where we post our episode than our footnotes.
Speaker 2: We link off to the information that we.
Speaker 1: Talked about in today's episode, as well as a song
Speaker 1: that we think you might enjoy miles. What song do
Speaker 1: you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 3: Just look, it was just something nice and easy as
Speaker 3: we go into a stressful weekend. Probably this is a
Speaker 3: track by Unknown Mortal Orchestra. You may have heard it's
Speaker 3: called Nadia n A DJA, but I love Unknown Mortal
Speaker 3: Orchestra on narn Mortal.
Speaker 1: Orchestra is Australian and sometimes it's slips yeah sorry, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Losing the accent.
Speaker 4: But kilometers gray but yeah, yeah, this is a great track.
Speaker 3: Nadia. Enjoy and just relax, relax and.
Speaker 1: Don't think I missed that kilometers gray. That was very good.
Speaker 4: I really had to sit and think for a second.
Speaker 4: Is that Did they use that?
Speaker 2: Sister?
Speaker 1: I feel like if anybody outside of the US would
Speaker 1: be not using it, it would be Australia.
Speaker 2: But I do think.
Speaker 1: They're on the They're on that km shit.
Speaker 2: All right, phew, all right.
Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: That is going to do it for us this week.
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Speaker 3: Bye bye,