Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome this season two eighty seven
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Speaker 1: Episode five of The Daily Sit Guys. It's a production
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Speaker 1: my guest co host today. Look, this brother's from Chicago.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. He's a great musician, he's
Speaker 1: got great taste. He's got a brand new tattoo that
Speaker 1: is fantastic and it's not even finished yet. And you know,
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Speaker 1: doesn't help to talk about tattoos, but I will. And look,
Speaker 1: DJ Producer, I don't know what else to say. All around,
Speaker 1: fantastic human. Please welcome to the microphone.
Speaker 2: Justin Connor.
Speaker 3: Man, it's your boy, Justin Connor, stay out of Chicago,
Speaker 3: the perpetual shy guy on a twelve year siesta in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, the artist arms like we were
Speaker 1: talking yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got the artist arms, the little noodle arm.
Speaker 3: You know, you know you're trying to decorate them up
Speaker 3: with some art right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 3: my arm is a little raw right now. But man,
Speaker 3: amazing fantastic artists. I linked up with Danny Cansino. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna drop more for information at the end of the
Speaker 3: show and plug her because man, I couldn't be happier.
Speaker 4: And I only have like twenty percent of the test.
Speaker 1: I love that twenty percent, like and I recommend it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then later you're like, man, it was a l man. No,
Speaker 1: so fucked up. But anyway, you're doing good.
Speaker 4: Justin Yeah, I'm doing great, man, fantastic you know.
Speaker 1: Shoe game looking strong as ever in the background.
Speaker 4: You know, hey, man, this is what are those dollars
Speaker 4: worth of mistake?
Speaker 5: What are those?
Speaker 1: What are those? Are those threes down low?
Speaker 5: What are those?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Which those are the Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Those are good from a sneaker heads out there, we
Speaker 1: love those, We love those. But first we got to
Speaker 1: introduce our guests today. We've got fantastic writers.
Speaker 6: Comedians, performers, scientific explorers if you will. They got a
Speaker 6: show on HBO, Max that it's pretty in line with
Speaker 6: all of my interests because it's called high science, and
Speaker 6: I like science, but I also love high.
Speaker 1: I love high, you know. I think people know that
Speaker 1: on this show. I love high. I love to get high,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's one of the greatest things ever,
Speaker 1: and combining that with science makes it a fantastic show
Speaker 1: which is very accessible for people like me who have
Speaker 1: an add addle brain. Please welcome to the microphone slash stage,
Speaker 1: mister Matt Kleiman and Zach Hello, good to see, nice
Speaker 1: to be here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having us, guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I gotta say the show is fucking great man.
Speaker 1: I love Like I said, I like science, but I
Speaker 1: like high. And you have a show where Paul Bettony
Speaker 1: voices a like a sentient bong that helps teach you
Speaker 1: about complex scientific concepts. That's pretty much everything I need
Speaker 1: in my life. And I'm like, I got to say,
Speaker 1: like I was telling you, guys off, Mike, I fuck
Speaker 1: with anything Paul Bettany does, mostly because he's an Arsenal
Speaker 1: fan like me. That's really I have no really no
Speaker 1: idea about his artistic acumen, but just because we fuck
Speaker 1: with the same team, I love him. But Yeah, welcome
Speaker 1: to the show. Like, how how are how are things
Speaker 1: with the both of you? Oh?
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Thank you so much for digging
Speaker 5: the show. Yeah, I mean we made it for yeah,
Speaker 5: for people like you, people who just wanted to like
Speaker 5: get high and like put something on. Like the The
Speaker 5: ideal person watching the show is like you come back
Speaker 5: home from a party or something, but you want to
Speaker 5: like you're gonna like eat you got like like Jack
Speaker 5: in the Box tacos on the way home or something,
Speaker 5: and you want to smoke a little bit more and
Speaker 5: put something on while you eat them. Yeah, that is
Speaker 5: what we made the show for that exactly.
Speaker 3: That's the best thing that I can recommend for anyone
Speaker 3: is something that has a low level of entry, but
Speaker 3: then you get fascinated with That is all I needed
Speaker 3: was one sentence to jump in headfirst.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, look, this easy sentient teaches people lessons about science.
Speaker 2: What that's that means? Our spirit guide, you know, he
Speaker 2: guides us through our Yeah, so we get we get
Speaker 2: high on what we're gonna learn that day. So it's
Speaker 2: like we get high on Neanderthals, we get high on trees.
Speaker 2: And then the rest of the episode is our hallucinogenic
Speaker 2: journey learning about these topics from you know, scientists who
Speaker 2: are at the top of their game out there were
Speaker 2: also you know, hallucinating interviews with them, and the whole
Speaker 2: way Doctor O Paul Benny Is is guiding us with
Speaker 2: his robot bong geniusness.
Speaker 1: And what's you know, how like, are y'all actual soners
Speaker 1: or just really clever creators? I got it?
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3: Part of me is like they don't seem high during
Speaker 3: this you had the skeptical look in your eye.
Speaker 4: Miles.
Speaker 2: You gotta we have to do super sober for the
Speaker 2: shooting of it because we were like we had to
Speaker 2: shoot the whole thing in like two days, and it
Speaker 2: was like teleprompters and pressure and the whole season.
Speaker 1: And two days.
Speaker 5: Yes, you guys would not like this show is like
Speaker 5: the lowest budget, like scrappy thing, Like it's a miracle
Speaker 5: that it got made. The whole thing is like hand
Speaker 5: crafted and we like tried to make it, you know,
Speaker 5: and it's amazing. It's on HBO Max, but like truly, Yeah,
Speaker 5: we shot the whole thing in two days on friend.
Speaker 2: Of the whole high part and then we had one
Speaker 2: half day in the lab, which is where it bookends
Speaker 2: the whole experience, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well this sounds like I my little high self in
Speaker 3: the mid two thousands watching Adult Swim when it was
Speaker 3: in its heyday. Like it really feels like you captured
Speaker 3: the heart of like my what I wanted at that time.
Speaker 1: Amazing. If you with Adult Swim, if you fuck with aquatine,
Speaker 1: if you fuck with science like all that, it's it's
Speaker 1: all like, it's all very rhetorically related. That's why, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really dig that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cause it seems like the same people who love
Speaker 2: Adult Swim shit also like to put on Planet Earth.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I feel like those things
Speaker 2: are definitely like those people are curious about ship in
Speaker 2: different ways, but also aligne.
Speaker 1: I brought up Planet Earth, yes and yesterday's episode. That's
Speaker 1: how much Planet Earth. It just rings through my skull
Speaker 1: because when that DVD set came out.
Speaker 5: In the globe, in the globe, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, high shit. And again I'll keep saying it, my
Speaker 1: favorite episode Caves because that intro guy jumps into.
Speaker 4: The pit and just disappears into darkness, and.
Speaker 1: I'll have to say it every time. I just want
Speaker 1: to feel that. I don't know why I want to
Speaker 1: jump into a void and Vanish I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's dangerous or says something about like my you know,
Speaker 1: outlook on the earth, But hey, that's my fantasy at
Speaker 1: the moment.
Speaker 2: I would love to be in a cave and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden watch it come to life with
Speaker 2: like bioluminescence and all these like little creatures who never
Speaker 2: see the light of day, but they can go in
Speaker 2: the darken. For some reason, I can see them very
Speaker 2: clearly and easily.
Speaker 1: I would. Well, Matt Zach, we're going to get to
Speaker 1: know you a little bit better. But first let's let's
Speaker 1: clue people into what we're going to talk about. Some
Speaker 1: serious shit. First, the debt ceiling shit show continues. There
Speaker 1: is this fucking stupid ass pantomime. But me and the
Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans are like, oh man, it's gonna fuck
Speaker 1: up the economy, but we're gonna do a deal. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be catastrophic, don't worry, We're not gonna default. But
Speaker 1: if we do, oh shit, it's like it's exhausting and
Speaker 1: really all it is is like it's all just a
Speaker 1: fucking performative Act just to cut social spending, because this
Speaker 1: is what happens every single fucking time. So we'll touch
Speaker 1: in on that because it is it is. It is
Speaker 1: talked about a lot in the news, but not in
Speaker 1: this way that needs to cast a little more, you know,
Speaker 1: cynicism on the process. And since we're with some creators,
Speaker 1: some people who have made some shows, I think it's
Speaker 1: good to talk about just sort of what the writer
Speaker 1: lists sort of slates look like for people's entertainment coming up,
Speaker 1: because with the writer's strike, guess what, y'all not getting
Speaker 1: anything new? So what are the networks doing? They're scraping
Speaker 1: the bottom of the fucking barrel. And we'll talk about
Speaker 1: some of those shows as well as like Jimmy Fallon,
Speaker 1: like flexing, he was stunting on people about the new
Speaker 1: Zelda game. We'll talk about that too because it all
Speaker 1: fits in with the strike. And then we'll rap out
Speaker 1: because the new Fast and Furious movie is coming out.
Speaker 1: We gotta ask, is this going to cause more people
Speaker 1: to drive like they are out their fucking minds? Are
Speaker 1: more domb Touretto Wanna Be is gonna hit the road
Speaker 1: because apparently there's some some statistics that seem to suggest
Speaker 1: that this movie is inspiring some idiotic behavior behind the wheel.
Speaker 1: But hey, we'll talk about that and plenty more. But first,
Speaker 1: who do we start with, Matt or Zach? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you, what's something from your search history that reveals
Speaker 1: a little bit about who you are or what you're into?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Zach, you go, man, you got that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I've kind of taken over both of our
Speaker 2: search histories because last my search history is all poison
Speaker 2: IVY treatment based searches. A week and a half ago,
Speaker 2: I was shooting a short film in Cape Cod and
Speaker 2: it was we were doing a nighttime shot and I
Speaker 2: needed to I'm not gonna say exactly what the whole
Speaker 2: film is about, but I needed to get a giant
Speaker 2: spoon that was like Technicolor lighting up to lift off
Speaker 2: this mound at this Cranberry bog in Cape Cod. And
Speaker 2: so I was laying on this mound and it was nighttime,
Speaker 2: and I was actually just scared of ticks, right, I
Speaker 2: was like tons of ticks around here.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I laid down a jack and I was like,
Speaker 2: this is all good. And then, as you know, I
Speaker 2: was down there for like an hour and a half
Speaker 2: trying to get this shot to work, and I'm just
Speaker 2: laying on the ground. I'm like, you know what to
Speaker 2: keep checking. I'm not seeing any ticks. This is awesome, man,
Speaker 2: I've avoided all the ticks. And then two days later,
Speaker 2: I start to get these little bumps on my arms
Speaker 2: and I'm like, wait, what is going on? And then
Speaker 2: I was like, did I get a mosquito bite? And
Speaker 2: then I realized that that mound that I was laying
Speaker 2: and I had realized this before, like a month ago.
Speaker 2: I had tracked it in my brain. I was like,
Speaker 2: don't don't forget that mound is covered in poison ivy.
Speaker 2: And I realized, oh no, I've covered my arms and
Speaker 2: my neck and in poison ivy. And over the plane
Speaker 2: ride back to the West Coast, I just started to
Speaker 2: like scratch more and like I started to feel it.
Speaker 2: And then over the next the course of the week,
Speaker 2: I just like, I just got a rash and there's
Speaker 2: all over my body and it's been an insane experience,
Speaker 2: but I'm finally getting better. And I sent photos to
Speaker 2: Matt to tell him about it, and he reacted with horror,
Speaker 2: and he also started looking at poison ivy.
Speaker 5: Well, here's here's what I didn't know. I assume like, oh,
Speaker 5: poison ivy, like that'll wreck your day or a couple
Speaker 5: of days. Poyson ivy last two to three weeks?
Speaker 1: Oh fuck?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 4: Yea?
Speaker 1: It is there a difference between poison ivy and poison oak,
Speaker 1: Like is one better?
Speaker 2: They released the same euriscitol. They're eurrishital I can't remember
Speaker 2: his pronounce, but they're fine high science. Someone's gonna have
Speaker 2: the same oil that is released by all these different
Speaker 2: prices and it does the same thing and and that,
Speaker 2: and interacting with that can be a two to three
Speaker 2: week fuck fest basically for your skins. It also it
Speaker 2: like it makes it so that you can when you
Speaker 2: just brush against it, you spread the oil arms around
Speaker 2: your skin. It gets all So I ended up getting
Speaker 2: it like all replaces that weren't even exposed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm from Illinois. Like we moved to this little town.
Speaker 3: After a while, there was just it was covered with
Speaker 3: poison ivy. When you wanted to go camping or fishing,
Speaker 3: which is new to me. I was like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I love the outdoors now. I used to be surrounded
Speaker 3: by concrete and pavement and whatnot, And no one told
Speaker 3: me about poison oak poison ivy. They literally, weirdly enough,
Speaker 3: they told me to watch out for lime disease and ticks,
Speaker 3: like that was the biggest thing.
Speaker 4: Horse flies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I we were just kids. We were rolling
Speaker 3: up and down a hill like for hours and hours
Speaker 3: and hours. Same exact thing happened to me. But I
Speaker 3: got it all in like my inner thigh and I
Speaker 3: could not resist scratching and I spread that shit everywhere
Speaker 3: it was. It was painful. Yeah, it was like one
Speaker 3: of the most painful experiences I've ever went through. And
Speaker 3: shortly before that, I had a fishing hook go through
Speaker 3: my finger and come out the other side. I would
Speaker 3: say poison ivy was slightly because it lasted so long.
Speaker 3: But I went back to fishing that afternoon after the
Speaker 3: fish hook thing. The poison ivy took me out. I
Speaker 3: didn't go outside for like a month.
Speaker 1: I know that I was hearing the other day. I
Speaker 1: was like, hey, man, there's this hill, new hill. I
Speaker 1: want to roll down. Man to come check it out
Speaker 1: with me. You're like no. Never.
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, Ship, you feel like a child. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you gotta scope out the hills. Before you roll down them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's fucked up, man. Yeah, please be careful out there
Speaker 2: with the poison ivs and oaks. And then Matt, you
Speaker 2: were saying you were also searching because you just in
Speaker 2: solid air.
Speaker 5: Do you're like, I got yeah, well, I just wanted
Speaker 5: to know how long my friend was gonna be.
Speaker 2: I literally was stopped. I would be like talking to man,
Speaker 2: be like, dude, I gotta go, I gotta take a
Speaker 2: cold shower or something. Man Like.
Speaker 5: I was like so amped up and I was talking
Speaker 5: to I was like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: But I just couldn't stand still picturing picturing you on
Speaker 1: a flight as you're like realizing it's getting worse. I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel bad for the other passengers too,
Speaker 1: who might be like, is this guy? Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: definitely like it just keep it cool, just keep it yeah,
Speaker 1: Like because you're probably like, don't start scratching, You're just.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, yeah, obligatory. Sorry this is on a podcast,
Speaker 5: but this is the photos extent.
Speaker 4: Oh no that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5: Listeners just imagine like blonde red sploshes all over the man.
Speaker 1: That looks so bad. I would wish that on Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 1: What's something I think is overrated? Oh, okay, I got
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know. Maybe your audience is like cinophiles and
Speaker 5: I'm fucking myself and everyone's gonna but I find, you know,
Speaker 5: like cit and Sound, pole top movie. I finally watched
Speaker 5: In the Mood for Love. Are you guys familiar with
Speaker 5: this movie? In the Mood for Love? It's considered one
Speaker 5: of the greatest films of all time, Like it topped
Speaker 5: the like cit and Sound like a tour you know
Speaker 5: List twenty twelve. I think like it's always in the mix,
Speaker 5: like Letterbox people are always talking about In the Mood
Speaker 5: for Love is like, actually, this is the greatest film.
Speaker 1: Oh this is the Wan Car Why Car Why?
Speaker 5: Yeah, one Car Why in Hong Kong, And this movie
Speaker 5: is horribly overrated. It's like the thing is, it is
Speaker 5: beautiful and there's like the hallway thing with the music,
Speaker 5: like if you've seen it or know it, like that
Speaker 5: is great, But the whole movie is just about two
Speaker 5: people who should fuck and then they don't fuck, and
Speaker 5: that's the whole thing. And you're just like, oh, these
Speaker 5: guys should fuck. You're like this is overly romanticized. It's crazy.
Speaker 5: It's like these two people whose partners cheat on them
Speaker 5: with each other and then they fall in love and
Speaker 5: then it's like, okay, yeah, so you guys can do
Speaker 5: it too, you should fuck but they don't.
Speaker 3: Man, And it's so interesting. You bring this up, Matt,
Speaker 3: because I live with my sister. She's you know, the
Speaker 3: audience is familiar with her joelmo Nique, amazing film critic,
Speaker 3: so it's kind of hard to have an argument with
Speaker 3: her about this stuff. So generally I come from a
Speaker 3: place of curiosity. I'm like, why is this or why
Speaker 3: does this happen? She was watching some melo dramatic thing
Speaker 3: the other day and I had the same thing. I
Speaker 3: was like, this was an eight minute conversation about whether
Speaker 3: they love each other or not. And I'm like, already
Speaker 3: four steps ahead. I'm like, just get to it, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. And she was like yeah, and
Speaker 3: she was like, you're missing the point of melo drama.
Speaker 3: It's like almost kissing is like the hottest thing, you know,
Speaker 3: not like not quite getting there. And I was like,
Speaker 3: all right, you know, I it's not for me, but
Speaker 3: like I'm I'm trying to appreciate the the art form
Speaker 3: a little.
Speaker 1: Blow the slow burn. Yeah, yeah, of will they want
Speaker 1: but then you got to get to the burn.
Speaker 5: You gotta get thee yeah yeah, yeah, come on. And
Speaker 5: it's just like why didn't they Why why didn't you fuck?
Speaker 5: Like you could have fucked. They could have fucked a
Speaker 5: bunch of times, and then they don't And it's not
Speaker 5: really like it just doesn't. I didn't believe the reason
Speaker 5: why they didn't fuck, because people fuck. That's the thing.
Speaker 5: The thing I know about people is that when they
Speaker 5: want to fuck, they fuck.
Speaker 2: It's okay to spoils for me, what what was the
Speaker 2: reason for not fucking?
Speaker 5: There's no reasons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I get it because like for those people,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like emotional edging, yes exactly, And you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: some of us are Neanderthals, you know for pro magnet man,
Speaker 1: where we're like just through the bang or not.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Though they never actually kissed, they would withhold. They
Speaker 2: were really good at. Yeah is their thing.
Speaker 1: They invented edging Patrick yea, Yeah, they invented edging as
Speaker 1: the first form of birth control.
Speaker 5: People don't know that.
Speaker 2: People really they died off. They didn't approach because they
Speaker 2: just thought they were just so big on edging.
Speaker 4: It was makes sense, that's science.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm saying. All right,
Speaker 1: Well cool, I like to I'm glad to know, like
Speaker 1: sometimes like there are those there are those films, and
Speaker 1: I like, I like movies, but not to the point
Speaker 1: where like I can connect with sort of those kinds
Speaker 1: of films. And that's just me as a consumer. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm more of a mouth a gape airplane guy whom
Speaker 1: you view ship like that. Sometimes, Yeah, nous movies.
Speaker 5: I loved bo Is Afraid for example, that just came out,
Speaker 5: was divisive, incredible film, Like I like that kind of thing.
Speaker 5: This one didn't. My wife was asleep like halfway in,
Speaker 5: and I was like, yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought there was a time too, like in like
Speaker 1: the early aughts where like all my friends who are like,
Speaker 1: you know, big cinephiles, like like One Car Why was
Speaker 1: just like just beyond repro Like there's like they're like,
Speaker 1: don't funk, no, manfucker's a gene dud dude.
Speaker 5: Reproach and proach o.
Speaker 1: Everything is good. Yeah, I mean, you know, twenty forty six,
Speaker 1: I fucked with that, you know, I wasn't. I wasn't mad.
Speaker 5: Was that good?
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember at the time. I think I
Speaker 1: may have just said it because I was dating somebody
Speaker 1: who was like, you need to see this film, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, fuck with that. I have
Speaker 1: a bad habit of like being like, yeah, what do
Speaker 1: you like? Okay, I'll try that out. Even though I
Speaker 1: don't shout out Harry Potter films could only get through one. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: what is something I'll think is underrated?
Speaker 5: Zach, you got a good one.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've just got ivy on the brain and
Speaker 2: I just want to say cold showers. I've also been
Speaker 2: a huge fan of cold showers. Recently, it's been growing.
Speaker 2: I think cold showers are absolutely incredible, wake you up more,
Speaker 2: and they kind of like, I think they make you
Speaker 2: a better person. I think the longer that you can
Speaker 2: say I do, I truly do. I.
Speaker 5: Georgia, you're just saying that people who don't take cold
Speaker 5: showers are bad people.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, say you I'm saying I'm not
Speaker 2: saying you're all lower. I'm saying we're all optim to this,
Speaker 2: and we can we can optimize ourselves in did you start?
Speaker 2: You start with a hot and then you just slowly
Speaker 2: towards the end of your shower just start making colder
Speaker 2: and colder and colder, and then you get it to
Speaker 2: it's really cold, and you just would stand that for
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes just that way. So you do that,
Speaker 2: You'll like, you'll feel what way better getting out of
Speaker 2: the shower. You do it like you do a reverse
Speaker 2: frog boil, basically I do. Yeah, that's actually exactly converse
Speaker 2: frog boil, and then I get it super cold, and
Speaker 2: then by the end, like not only do I feel better,
Speaker 2: but you know, my thought, my mirror is less foggy,
Speaker 2: Like I can already see myself a little easier, you know,
Speaker 2: like everything just kind of goes a little smoother when
Speaker 2: you do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't experience shared by many people. If
Speaker 1: you had a fucked up water heater where that ship
Speaker 1: might just actually happen during the shower, you're like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: it's gone.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's how it started for me where I was
Speaker 2: missing that. Yeah, I've had Brooklyn apartments that had some
Speaker 2: really shitty water situations, and it was like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm going cold showers because I had to be. But
Speaker 2: now it's like, yeah, you know what, Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: I love that. Okay, cool cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I I as much as I've tried
Speaker 1: it before, because I remember I've heard the same thing
Speaker 1: from like biohacker type people that I had interviewed in
Speaker 1: the past. I just can't. I fucking hate Like when
Speaker 1: my gas reflex kicks in, it's over. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: just you got to just get past that gap. You
Speaker 1: get past and then you're and then you're in a
Speaker 1: whole new world.
Speaker 3: I'm a heat. I'm a heat in this bro. I
Speaker 3: love being comfortable at all. And so when like I
Speaker 3: literally I have a little space heater right here, like
Speaker 3: next to this shower, I'll get out of the shower
Speaker 3: and like turn that space heater on and just stand
Speaker 3: in front of oh, like while I'm toweling myself off,
Speaker 3: Like yeah, it's incredibly wasteful.
Speaker 1: I've got You don't got the towel heater either, Uh no.
Speaker 3: I don't have a to I really what you changed
Speaker 3: the game mentioning the terry cloth. I haven't gotten one
Speaker 3: of those yet. Oh yeah, macking it's because I got
Speaker 3: that's the next step.
Speaker 1: Because when again, like, if you don't like being cold,
Speaker 1: just the fucking robe is a whole body towel, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to feel all that water evaporating on
Speaker 1: your skin and cool off.
Speaker 3: I'm already making the DIY version. I put like four
Speaker 3: towels around me, Like, yeah, it's not it's.
Speaker 2: Not an economical What is the robe if not three
Speaker 2: and a half to four towers right exactly without the stitching.
Speaker 4: It's out the sewing machine, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Matt Kleinman, what about you? You got anything you think
Speaker 1: is underrated?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know so. I'm a big I really like
Speaker 5: spicy foods and hot sauces, and I've been talking to
Speaker 5: people and like, even people who aren't into that sort
Speaker 5: of stuff. I do you feel like people don't know
Speaker 5: enough about crystal hot sauce? Whoas? Yes, you're talking about
Speaker 5: white people, man, Yeah, that's that's all the rage.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I didn't. I didn't mean to come at
Speaker 1: you like that. No, great to hear.
Speaker 5: I'm really glad to hear that.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: But I would say, even in comparison to Louisiana and
Speaker 5: like Texas, Pete is crystal held above them.
Speaker 1: I don't like Texas peats. I have more experience.
Speaker 3: I have more experience in like the Georgia area, Georgia,
Speaker 3: Alabama area, and like crystals is huge.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, no, no, I feel like the chain
Speaker 1: you mean Crystal hot Sauce. Yeah, Crystal, Oh I thought
Speaker 1: you mean crystals that there, because there's also the franchise. Yes,
Speaker 1: the chain, yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 5: Also crystals the rock are great. I love rocks hung general. Yeah,
Speaker 5: of course we love crystals. We're all about crystals. But
Speaker 5: I feel like people don't know, like you know, I
Speaker 5: don't know, it's it's I think it's a good gateway
Speaker 5: hot sauce. Is kind of the thing that I've been
Speaker 5: like telling people who are like getting into hot sauces
Speaker 5: or want to or are like afraid of them. And
Speaker 5: like I think Chilula had been the gateway hot sauce
Speaker 5: for a lot of people for a while because a
Speaker 5: lot of people thought Tabasco is too spicy. But I
Speaker 5: actually think Crystal is a better gateway hot sauce for people.
Speaker 5: And I think and a lot of this is also
Speaker 5: just because like if you know, going over to some house,
Speaker 5: are going and they just have nothing, It's like if
Speaker 5: at least you have crystal, then we're like, okay, it
Speaker 5: works with almost anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have everything, they have every grocery store. But
Speaker 1: I think most people are like, I want Tabasco, and
Speaker 1: now tabaskets in like nine thousand flavors.
Speaker 5: I'm like, come on, Mountain, Yes, totally. The basket is great,
Speaker 5: and I like Tabasco, but I think I don't know.
Speaker 5: I want it to be more. It should be more
Speaker 5: like the South everywhere. I guess, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: What about sir Racha is that is that falling off?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Si Racha had its heyday like in the like the tens,
Speaker 1: the teens. I remember shout out my boy Randy wrote
Speaker 1: a fucking cookbook.
Speaker 2: I think we all over used it. I think ye
Speaker 2: think you're Ryan. It's just I think we just it
Speaker 2: was just everywhere, blew it out every meal, and then
Speaker 2: like we all just got used to a siracha taste
Speaker 2: for all of our cheap meals that we were eating,
Speaker 2: and then it was like, I can't do I still
Speaker 2: use it just in the context, right, like I love
Speaker 2: to make hot I love grilling, I love I love
Speaker 2: making wings especially.
Speaker 3: I use it everyday conversation. Shout out to Chicago Bulls fans.
Speaker 3: If you're a fan of Stacy King, give me the
Speaker 3: hot sauce to Racha, that's his catchphrase. But yeah, other
Speaker 3: other than that, yeah, I think it really really, really
Speaker 3: really fell off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I will say I prefer their garlic paste,
Speaker 5: the garlic about the one with like the green like
Speaker 5: the little the jar squatty bottle with the green tom
Speaker 5: The garlic paste one, I think is a little bit
Speaker 5: better flavor wise, and it's less sweet. It's a little
Speaker 5: bit more like everything you like and not maybe what
Speaker 5: you don't.
Speaker 1: This is my easy hack for wings. You take a
Speaker 1: fucking you know, buy your buy your party wings or whatever,
Speaker 1: whole wings, but however you like to get down and
Speaker 1: marinade them. You know, just what I do is put
Speaker 1: them in a ziplock bag, empty a whole bottle of
Speaker 1: crystal in it, and you let that go. You let
Speaker 1: that sip for a few hours. It like it's not
Speaker 1: gonna get too spicy, but it gives it such a
Speaker 1: great flavor. It's like my very easy way to have
Speaker 1: like good wings that aren't too sort of intensive in
Speaker 1: terms of the preparation.
Speaker 5: So well, I think the hack for doing like Nashville Chicken.
Speaker 5: You know that sort of thing, is marinating the chicken
Speaker 5: in hot sauce before you brett.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, my bed. Yeah, and that like fucking oil
Speaker 1: chili concoction that they'll pour over after you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: more of that, more of that. All right, We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a quick break and do some light hot sauce
Speaker 1: tastings and then we'll be right back to talk about
Speaker 1: the dead scene right after. And we're back and just
Speaker 1: to talk about some serious business really quick. The debt
Speaker 1: ceiling shit shari how Australians would call it. It continues
Speaker 1: right now. In the news, we keep hearing about the
Speaker 1: looming debt ceialing crisis, that America could default on its
Speaker 1: debt and worsen our image to the rest of the world,
Speaker 1: especially our trading partners, because they're like, oh, y'all, don't
Speaker 1: pay your fucking bills. This would be terrible for the
Speaker 1: US economy. And the Republicans know that the super whack
Speaker 1: jobs in the GOP are practically salivating for a manufactured
Speaker 1: financial crisis to better the party's overall chances in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, just so they can move on from we
Speaker 1: don't believe in human rights or abortion access and just
Speaker 1: start saying things like Joe Brandon killed the economy. That's
Speaker 1: why you should vote for me a nazi. And Biden
Speaker 1: and the Democrats have said that the default will be
Speaker 1: a disaster. Same thing for the GOP defaulting would be terrible.
Speaker 1: But then Joe Brandon, McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, they are also
Speaker 1: saying some form of Oh, we're definitely not gonna default.
Speaker 1: There's no way we're gonna default on the dead. No,
Speaker 1: we're gonna figure it out. We're gonna make a deal.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make a deal. Even though sometimes you hear
Speaker 1: before Joe Brandon was a little more confident in his
Speaker 1: lack of interest in negotiating, basically saying, why would I negotiate?
Speaker 1: This is something, this is like the basic function of government.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna use this as leverage to start gut
Speaker 1: gutting social social programs. Well, it looks like we may
Speaker 1: be there. And this is all very fucking confusing because
Speaker 1: you're like, are y' all gonna make a deal or not,
Speaker 1: but you're saying you won't, you say you will, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a crisis. It's like they're both in
Speaker 1: on a scheme to make the population sweat over this
Speaker 1: crisis that may not be one. But the reality is
Speaker 1: here is it looks like the President is going to
Speaker 1: negotiate with the GOP, and that is bad since the
Speaker 1: GOP's main requests here are making huge cuts to things like,
Speaker 1: you know, like Medicare and food stamps, which it seems
Speaker 1: like Joe Byron is a little more open to, like
Speaker 1: having more strict work requirements for food stamps, which is
Speaker 1: terrible and fucked up, while also the other part of
Speaker 1: the GOP's requests are they want to completely fuck the
Speaker 1: environment over too. They want to cut the tax incentives
Speaker 1: for clean energy that came from the Inflation Reduction Act
Speaker 1: and replace it with basically fossil fuel hand jobs for all.
Speaker 1: So it's like a terrible backward step and you're like,
Speaker 1: these are the things you're gonna like what the what
Speaker 1: the fuck is this? Like this isn't even a negotiation,
Speaker 1: but we see this script all the time that like
Speaker 1: replays over and over throughout every administration. Like Republicans are like,
Speaker 1: we want to go back to the eighteen hundreds, and
Speaker 1: the Democrats like there's no way. We do not negotiate
Speaker 1: with this kind of shit. This is not this is
Speaker 1: this is beyond the pale. Then the GOP says, then
Speaker 1: we will default. We don't give a fuck, watch us,
Speaker 1: watch us not give a fuck. We'll completely fuck this
Speaker 1: whole thing up. Then the Democrats come to the table
Speaker 1: and cut spending and there's more austerity measures that are
Speaker 1: just regressive. Then both parties walk out, like they say,
Speaker 1: of the fucking day, and life moves on. But it's
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a bit of a we'll see where
Speaker 1: they end up. Because while there are negotiators now speaking
Speaker 1: with McCarthy's deputy, they're like on both parties, whether it's
Speaker 1: like the Freedom House, Freedom Caucus, who's like they better
Speaker 1: gut fucking everything, or we're not voting for this, and
Speaker 1: McCarthy's like, fuck, I don't. I don't know if we
Speaker 1: can get all that. In the meantime, there are many
Speaker 1: Democrats who are like, do not fuck with these social programs,
Speaker 1: like working people need these fucking programs, and to do
Speaker 1: this in service of like handouts to the fossil fuel
Speaker 1: industry is it a bridge too far? And you know,
Speaker 1: like they're like, I'm not gonna support that, so I
Speaker 1: don't care what you negotiate, President Biden, it's not happening.
Speaker 1: So a bit of a topsy turvy moment.
Speaker 2: But it's just so frustrating because this is not a thing.
Speaker 2: Then it became a thing like this debt ceiling thing
Speaker 2: was just always like a bipartisan just like, yeah, we
Speaker 2: just gotta keep it going because we just gotta that's
Speaker 2: not even something to worry about. And then and then
Speaker 2: in twenty eleven, it just became like, oh, we can
Speaker 2: just kind of hold this as some sort of hostage
Speaker 2: sort of situation where we can, you know, just demand
Speaker 2: that someone work with us unless this thing that we
Speaker 2: all have always agreed upon, like we you know, we
Speaker 2: keep it from from happening, from passing. And it's just
Speaker 2: like it's just so annoying because we all know, like
Speaker 2: it's just like you just this doesn't need to be
Speaker 2: a thing. Just keep it going. You're like, and uh,
Speaker 2: and yeah, the fact that they're arguing, like we need
Speaker 2: to negotiate, we need to do all this stuff, it's like, no,
Speaker 2: we know that you could just keep this separate and
Speaker 2: then just keep working on all of your other stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean again, they're the they're they're the party
Speaker 1: of just bad faith everything. So you know, they're basically
Speaker 1: you know, you're dealing with just absolute ghouls. We're like,
Speaker 1: we don't get fucked like like we've we've invited these
Speaker 1: people to the party.
Speaker 3: There's also something to be said to like, once once
Speaker 3: you're in like a certain class, like your job has
Speaker 3: a certain level of prestige and a certain salary to it,
Speaker 3: there's this level of self importance that comes with it.
Speaker 3: And especially when it comes to politicians, they know they're
Speaker 3: not going to be affected by anything that goes sideways,
Speaker 3: like and so it's doubly fucked up for them to
Speaker 3: like dangle this little thing like you know how dangerous
Speaker 3: this can be for y'all right, I mean, I'm doing
Speaker 3: my best here, but I don't know.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 3: That really raises the anxiety amongst like people everyday people,
Speaker 3: every single day, and it's like they cannot it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter to them, It will never matter to them. And
Speaker 3: that's what's I think where a lot of the apathy
Speaker 3: comes from is because you see another human being so
Speaker 3: dismissive of like most of the country, and your heart
Speaker 3: kind of just wants to believe that people couldn't do that,
Speaker 3: and they do it every time. Like you said, this
Speaker 3: has become a pattern when it didn't used to be.
Speaker 3: And it seems like there's no break system on this,
Speaker 3: Like it's only going to get more manipulative and more insidious.
Speaker 3: And I'm wondering where we go from here, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there is you know, like there are
Speaker 1: things that the president could do that are kind of
Speaker 1: you know, revolutionary, like or not revolute, but like, you know, different,
Speaker 1: like you know, evoking the fourteenth Amendment to sort of
Speaker 1: be like, no, I am going to make sure like
Speaker 1: all of this ship's paid. There's been talk of like
Speaker 1: printing more money, when I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, what's meaning the coin?
Speaker 1: We don't need to do that.
Speaker 2: And so whenever they start getting into making more money
Speaker 2: and coins, I'm always like, I feel like that's not
Speaker 2: gonna be.
Speaker 5: What wouldn't you want to hold the trillion dollar coin?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Pic?
Speaker 1: You want to have trill coin?
Speaker 3: But also does Biden seem like the kind of person
Speaker 3: who's gonna do something different? Like no, I'm like, so
Speaker 3: what like with anything?
Speaker 1: Ever, He's presided over this exact scenario many times. Himself already,
Speaker 1: you know, and been on this, on it, on the
Speaker 1: side of it as a senator, as a vice president,
Speaker 1: and now as president. There's not they know because again
Speaker 1: like at the end of the day, they're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I mean like I was just increasing food stamps as
Speaker 1: like a campaign platform thing. We can dial that ship back,
Speaker 1: but like here when we do that, like nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: know because sadly, to your point, justin the people who
Speaker 1: depend on it sometimes like the apathy rings through to
Speaker 1: the point that they are like, you're not even aware
Speaker 1: of the ship that's going on, because it's like, who
Speaker 1: gives a fuck man, all they need to do is
Speaker 1: fuck us over anyway. Why don't need to be engaged
Speaker 1: with this shit? So it's you know, mix makes me
Speaker 1: even more cynical when I look at it, because the
Speaker 1: double speakers just like absurd, like it's it's it's happening
Speaker 1: or it's not. You're negotiating or you're not. But you
Speaker 1: guys are just saying this out loud while like winking
Speaker 1: to each other like you no, we'll make it work.
Speaker 1: We'll make it work. It just helps, it just helps
Speaker 1: both of our collective audiences seem like, you know, we're
Speaker 1: doing the fight, rolling our sleeves up and ship. All right, well,
Speaker 1: let's let's move on to some people who aren't able
Speaker 1: to roll up their sleeves because they're on strike.
Speaker 2: The writers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the w GA is on strike. You know, obviously,
Speaker 1: fuck these man Fuck these streamers, especially man like who
Speaker 1: want to fuck around. I mean, obviously, look y'all shows
Speaker 1: on streaming now work. I'm gonna come not to catch
Speaker 1: this persons on your play, but you know what, you
Speaker 1: know what to do with these royalties. Man, stop acting
Speaker 1: brand new about this ship because people are watching it.
Speaker 1: And again, this is a very very interesting moment, I think,
Speaker 1: especially as it relates to AI and things like that.
Speaker 1: While I see like I've been seeing like counter opinion
Speaker 1: pieces written about they're like the writers are being completely
Speaker 1: overblown with their fear of AI, and it's like, really, now,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think it's very much a
Speaker 1: thing and and potentially like one of the first groups
Speaker 1: of workers who are like, we should be able to
Speaker 1: decide when you like, deploy this technology that could completely
Speaker 1: fuck up our industry and our ability to support ourselves
Speaker 1: because you just loaded a prompted a chat GPT and
Speaker 1: now you've got a whole franchise about talking Mason Jars
Speaker 1: or some shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean that was so like so, I mean, so
Speaker 5: Zach and I are both WJA, we're both on strike
Speaker 5: right now. Yeah, but like stoked to be doing this,
Speaker 5: to finally be standing up to these things. But the
Speaker 5: AI thing, like literally that was put in if you
Speaker 5: track kind of the new it's because like AI was
Speaker 5: kind of in the news when the negotiation started, and
Speaker 5: enough people were kind of talking about it, and so
Speaker 5: I think they threw it in, not quite as a lark,
Speaker 5: but as just to like, hey, okay, we'll address the
Speaker 5: AI thing. We'll put it in our pattern of demands
Speaker 5: that like no AI, but this is like an easy
Speaker 5: gimme for the producers to just be like, of course, yeah, guys.
Speaker 5: I think what freaked everyone out was that they did
Speaker 5: not immediately be like of course. They instead were like, whoa, whoa, let's.
Speaker 1: Let's revisit it. Let's put a pin in and just
Speaker 1: see how bad AI fox things up, and then we offer.
Speaker 5: Yearly meet it. It was like, so I think that
Speaker 5: then got everybody like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 5: hold on a second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people had also started to see in their contracts
Speaker 2: little things like that the AI that their whatever uber
Speaker 2: corporation above them is working on like has like can
Speaker 2: review their material. So it's almost like it's also also
Speaker 2: quick permission that are you that our AI can read
Speaker 2: your script or whatever and kind of learn your voice
Speaker 2: a little bit just for you know, its own intensive
Speaker 2: learning purposes, not for anything, you know, not for anything
Speaker 2: negative towards you or anything like that. And it's like,
Speaker 2: wait a second, who WHOA WHOA? Like now now AI
Speaker 2: is studying our different our creative process, our voice and
Speaker 2: like the things that we're making and learning that like
Speaker 2: it's I mean, the thing is A is going to
Speaker 2: affect every single job that there is in a in
Speaker 2: a way like where there's like this is going to
Speaker 2: be like the Internet and how it changes things. Absolutely
Speaker 2: we can't even comprehend how it's going to affect all
Speaker 2: of our jobs, all of the things that we interact
Speaker 2: with in technology, and so I think it's incredibly important
Speaker 2: for creative people, like creative places to also try to
Speaker 2: get ahead of it in whatever way they can so
Speaker 2: that doesn't screw us down the line. And it's too
Speaker 2: late to have any sort of like chat about it,
Speaker 2: even though we don't really know exactly what it means
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: Right it's a while, Like you not being able to
Speaker 3: control your own voice and artistic integrity is something that
Speaker 3: is like, you know, that's a spirit killer. Like there
Speaker 3: is someone I really admire and appreciate who works for
Speaker 3: a company that on the low, that guy's company took
Speaker 3: a lot of his voice and a lot of his
Speaker 3: mannerisms and like ran it through AI software and tried
Speaker 3: to see if they could like replace him in something
Speaker 3: without his knowledge, right, And he was like and then
Speaker 3: he was able to make a video about it under
Speaker 3: the company's like Moniker Like he's like still releasing videos,
Speaker 3: but he's like, hey, my company tried to do this.
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just saying, you know. And it's and
Speaker 3: this was, you know, a YouTube internet thing. So there's
Speaker 3: no WGA or anything involved in this, but it's affecting everyone.
Speaker 4: Down the line.
Speaker 3: It's only a matter of time if you're especially in
Speaker 3: a creative industry. It's it's scary, it's scary.
Speaker 5: It's also it's just like a level of respect like
Speaker 5: for people that you work with, Like I think that's
Speaker 5: the other thing that it's like we've already we already
Speaker 5: get like a lot of disrespect from like produced, you know,
Speaker 5: from like from these companies or whatever, like not respecting
Speaker 5: what we do, not really knowing what we do, but
Speaker 5: being like you know, thinking they can just kind of
Speaker 5: push it around, thinking they can kind of dictate and
Speaker 5: know better than us how many people should be in
Speaker 5: a room.
Speaker 1: I can't three people write an entire season of a
Speaker 1: show in two weeks, right, no, exactly, and.
Speaker 2: Then we'll greenlight it. Okay, we just got to see
Speaker 2: the whole show first, you gotta understand, and then we'll
Speaker 2: give it a green light.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just not it's so it's a
Speaker 5: level of respect. And then so the a I think
Speaker 5: it's in a way it's like to even ask is
Speaker 5: like disrespectful, like you know, to even and then let
Speaker 5: alone to like do those kinds, you know, to really
Speaker 5: try to replicate one of your colleagues, someone that you're
Speaker 5: working with, somebody who's the whole point. We make the
Speaker 5: things that these companies put out, like we are the product.
Speaker 5: We make the products for them, and so like it's
Speaker 5: our companies too. In those you know, it's our products in.
Speaker 1: Those creative labor that enables them to have these obscene
Speaker 1: payouts and all this other crap so they can go
Speaker 1: yacht it up wherever the fuck they are right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the guy I mentioned didn't even seem to
Speaker 3: be shit talking his company, Like I said, the company
Speaker 3: let him release the video like on their channel, and
Speaker 3: it seemed like it was more.
Speaker 4: Of like a oh, we did this, my bad, like
Speaker 4: we didn't know you would care.
Speaker 3: And that's also very scary, like like why wouldn't you
Speaker 3: consider me in this? Like why wouldn't you think I
Speaker 3: would care? You know, it's it's wild.
Speaker 1: Well, we're beginning to see what happens when the workers
Speaker 1: go on strike because their labor is being exploited over
Speaker 1: and over again by group of fucking creeps that you know,
Speaker 1: they're like, look, you know, we know our pattern is
Speaker 1: to cut costs at any measure, and you know, AI
Speaker 1: seems like a great way to do that. Anyway. We're
Speaker 1: looking at some of the upfronts, some of the slates
Speaker 1: that some of the networks, you know, they like to
Speaker 1: present to advertisers. Here are the things that you could
Speaker 1: advertise on coming up this fall like get to get
Speaker 1: you excited, to get your ad dollars, which again that's
Speaker 1: you know, the bread and butter of the ad based
Speaker 1: broadcast television industry. So we're seeing things like what they're
Speaker 1: doing now that there are no writers contributing to make
Speaker 1: new material. Fox they didn't release their full schedule, but
Speaker 1: they announced their slate, which features mostly unscripted shows, because
Speaker 1: that's the way around this is to just go just
Speaker 1: to lean into reality shows. The reason we have Cops
Speaker 1: that the TV show is because of the like the
Speaker 1: writers striking the eighties that they're like, oh, fuck it,
Speaker 1: then we'll just follow cops around with cameras and that's
Speaker 1: a show. We don't need writers. So they're like they
Speaker 1: got their show. They're renewed Farmer Wants a Wife, Special Forces,
Speaker 1: and a new game show called ake Oil hosted by
Speaker 1: David Spade, which I'm like, is he just gonna improv
Speaker 1: up there? Like is someone writing, like who's writing this
Speaker 1: game show? But again that they'll figure out ways to
Speaker 1: like maybe put them on like a creative producer who's.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, creative consultants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they just scab it up that way, because
Speaker 1: someone is going to have to write it and ABC
Speaker 1: also then they said we got a jaw dropper of
Speaker 1: the schedule. They unveiled it. It's comprised entirely of unscripted shows,
Speaker 1: with the exception of a pair of Abbott Elementary reruns
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. That's it. They're like, fuck, man, at least
Speaker 1: we got that show. But I guess we'll just do
Speaker 1: reruns and put like not listen to the people that
Speaker 1: make the fucking hit show that are giving you all
Speaker 1: this whatever. And it sounds like this is from tv
Speaker 1: line says and what can only be viewed as a
Speaker 1: foreboding sign about the potential duration of the current writers strike,
Speaker 1: the network's fall schedule. Fall schedule is compromised entirely of
Speaker 1: unscripted fair and the lineup includes More America's Funniest Home Videos,
Speaker 1: American Idol, Shark Tank, and the show nine to one
Speaker 1: one which Fox dropped, and several Bachelor shows, including the
Speaker 1: brand new Golden Bachelor, which isn't about people that are
Speaker 1: like piss free, it's about it's about the senior citizen
Speaker 1: season of The Bachelor, which we know about.
Speaker 2: We were talking about that briefly. I'm excited for that one.
Speaker 2: I think that yeah, actually of all, but you know,
Speaker 2: older people are more real, So honestly, I could just
Speaker 2: see it just being way more like, yeah, let's go
Speaker 2: for it, Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people who are in touch with their mortality make
Speaker 1: way better contestants on game shops.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and unlike in the mood for love, they will
Speaker 4: fuck in the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're probably gonna look for every opportunity on the
Speaker 2: to go when.
Speaker 1: They go to fantasy suites when they all man, you know,
Speaker 1: one of them may come out in a wheelchair just because.
Speaker 5: They're like instead of at the bottom, like what their
Speaker 5: occupation is, it's like how many years they probably have
Speaker 5: left a list?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like Walt twenty twenty years at best. It's
Speaker 1: twenty years at best.
Speaker 5: The stakes are higher than Yeah, well, it's like the
Speaker 5: thing you see even.
Speaker 1: On like Love is Blind on Netflix, Like a lot
Speaker 1: of the couples like Crash and Burn because you have
Speaker 1: like cloud chasing young people who like also don't feel
Speaker 1: like the creeping of time to be like, am I
Speaker 1: gonna die alone?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Surely not, So give me the Golden Bachelor please. But again,
Speaker 1: this is sort of like where they're at. They're just
Speaker 1: gonna lean into more of the unscripted shit as a
Speaker 1: way to try and be like, well, we don't need you.
Speaker 1: Guess what assholes you do?
Speaker 5: This is what kills me though. I mean so like
Speaker 5: and I feel like you guys probably were you know,
Speaker 5: like the wet we Zach and I like we like
Speaker 5: worked with Funnier and to eye, we worked at the Onion,
Speaker 5: We worked in like website internet land and we know
Speaker 5: how this plays out, yeah, which is that ultimately, like
Speaker 5: the social media tech companies have figured out a non
Speaker 5: union way of making what they call content, right, you know,
Speaker 5: TikTok YouTube, like these things which and there are on
Speaker 5: these platforms. Yeah right, sure, and there's good things, but
Speaker 5: we're all trying to survive and basically the remnants of
Speaker 5: like the apocalypse that happened to institution website based internet.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, we're all scrambling and scratching trying to survive
Speaker 5: because that was destroyed by this like race to the
Speaker 5: bottom that algorithmically based like video production whatever. These these
Speaker 5: companies Facebook, YouTube, what good you know that they did?
Speaker 5: And the truth is those are the enemies of both
Speaker 5: the AMPTP, the producers and studios and the writers guild.
Speaker 5: Like if we're we're fighting among ourselves right now. But
Speaker 5: what's happening is when there's not good quality television, not
Speaker 5: good quality scripted work on TV, people are switching over
Speaker 5: to their phone. Yep, they're gonna just start getting addicted
Speaker 5: to the algorithms that are you know, made by our
Speaker 5: like adversarial company countries. They're gonna switch over to those
Speaker 5: things because they're literally crack and they're not gonna come back,
Speaker 5: and then we're gonna just like slowly lose everything, right, absolutely, right,
Speaker 5: that's crazy.
Speaker 4: That was my first thought.
Speaker 3: I mean, this lineup sounds like they've given up on
Speaker 3: trying to appeal to anyone under the age of forty,
Speaker 3: so they like, where are those people gonna go? They're not,
Speaker 3: you know, it's and I think they feel like they've
Speaker 3: already lost the like culture war in terms of like
Speaker 3: you know, prestige TV and stuff like that. Age is
Speaker 3: a little bit over. Everyone's watching so many different things.
Speaker 3: You know, you might have someone who like, even like
Speaker 3: a show like Secession that seems to be ubiquitous, Like
Speaker 3: I haven't seen a single episode, and we talked about
Speaker 3: this show so much that I know so much about it,
Speaker 3: But it's like, you.
Speaker 4: Know, I can't. I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't figure out how you do that for reality
Speaker 3: television for people who aren't already like wholly in that
Speaker 3: universe like Miles. You know, yeah, it's not really in
Speaker 3: my bubble, so I don't. They're not appealing to me
Speaker 3: and they're not trying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's like how are you?
Speaker 3: And that also leaves jobs on the on the table
Speaker 3: for people who maybe could write some scripted television that
Speaker 3: I would love to see and it's just not being produced.
Speaker 1: Nah. Well again, I mean like like everything is just
Speaker 1: been about how do we squeeze the most out of world?
Speaker 1: It's like every it's again, this is like just it's
Speaker 1: just a perfect example of happening everywhere, which is how
Speaker 1: can we get the most out of the labor of
Speaker 1: these workers for as little money as possible and keep
Speaker 1: them in a desperate situation so all they can do
Speaker 1: is accept the raw deal that we're giving them, and
Speaker 1: really the only way is through collective action. So shout
Speaker 1: out to the union for fucking striking, because it is
Speaker 1: it's doing something.
Speaker 5: It's true, And I do want to say, I mean,
Speaker 5: like so this our show High Science, we were really
Speaker 5: proud to unionize the show. It was actually the first
Speaker 5: Discovery Channel show that's ever been WGA. What they told us, yeah,
Speaker 5: because they had just bought HBO when it happened, and
Speaker 5: normally Discovery is all unscripted all like that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: But we were like, we're WJ writers, like this is
Speaker 5: going to be a scripted show. Discovery had just bought HBO,
Speaker 5: Max and all those things, and we kind of made
Speaker 5: the case like you're going to have to start doing
Speaker 5: union stuff. We went back and forth a few times.
Speaker 5: We were on that point of like will we walk
Speaker 5: away from this show that we've been trying to make
Speaker 5: for years, right, like if it wasn't doesn't go union?
Speaker 5: And then they let us do it WGA, which was amazing.
Speaker 5: And the other thing is like the people at these networks,
Speaker 5: like the people that we worked with who fought for
Speaker 5: our show over there are execs, Like a lot of
Speaker 5: people fought for our show on that side too, and
Speaker 5: like it's great to collaborate with those people. And I
Speaker 5: know a lot of those people also just want the
Speaker 5: best deal for all of us, right because they want
Speaker 5: to keep making TV too. They love television. It's also
Speaker 5: their job to make television and try to make the
Speaker 5: best shit for everybody. They want this to happen too,
Speaker 5: And the sooner we all just come together and make
Speaker 5: this something that we can all do like and live
Speaker 5: at the sooner we can start making dope shit that
Speaker 5: gets people away from the fucking crack like of the
Speaker 5: fucking algorithm screens and watching cool shit again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, and I mean like, and part of this
Speaker 1: too is like as the strike's going on, you know
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon, who's just like had gaff after gaff since
Speaker 1: the strike began, whether like being asked like, hey, are
Speaker 1: you painting right, He's like, I don't, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, I'll do it, like for another couple
Speaker 1: of weeks or like this another two weeks. He's reportedly
Speaker 1: going to be the first late night show to stop
Speaker 1: paying its crew as the writer's strike continues, according to
Speaker 1: one of the employees, Nbcason calling it a layoff or furlough,
Speaker 1: but rather an unpaid leave of absence. Hopefully that doesn't sting,
Speaker 1: but basically it's the same thing because you're not getting
Speaker 1: your check. The last check you're getting is coming next week,
Speaker 1: and deal with it. Colbert Kimmel Myers, They're all reportedly
Speaker 1: continuing to keep their staff paid. We'll see how long
Speaker 1: that lasts. But the same day this report dropped about
Speaker 1: Fallon and like not paying the staff, he joins blue Sky,
Speaker 1: the new you know Twitter clone, and you know he's
Speaker 1: like may people that like, oh, maybe he'll address the
Speaker 1: concerns of this sort of note. Wait, he just posted
Speaker 1: about how you got the new Zelda game on switch?
Speaker 1: Like the most empty posted him I holding the switch up,
Speaker 1: like yeah, I got the Zelda. Naturally, most of the
Speaker 1: responses were like he was just getting brigaded in the
Speaker 1: comments of like, hey, your fucking staff, you fucking clown,
Speaker 1: rather than stunting like with a debt with your dead
Speaker 1: eyes being like that new Zelda, That's.
Speaker 2: What I'm doing.
Speaker 3: I feel like Jimmy Fallon is the kind of guy
Speaker 3: who just ends up in spaces and goes along with
Speaker 3: whatever is happening in the room at the moment, because
Speaker 3: he's just kind of like the aloof like aw shuck's
Speaker 3: silly white guy and he's supposed to be. You know,
Speaker 3: he's like used to people treating him like he's a
Speaker 3: golden retriever. So he's extra confused when people don't like
Speaker 3: something he did or didn't do, like the incident where
Speaker 3: he tussles Trump's hair and then he's like what would
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 4: Like I'm so what happened?
Speaker 1: Or the terrible bored ape.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this happens time and time again. I really just
Speaker 3: think he's like everyone really likes me, right, and then
Speaker 3: people will be like, well, no, not this thing, and
Speaker 3: he's like what why?
Speaker 4: And I can't help you?
Speaker 2: Bro?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you from education, you breaking character and laughing on
Speaker 1: SNL only got you a few years of endearment. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like it ends. It ends after a while. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like after that, many people, like one person posted, wow, cool, dude,
Speaker 1: maybe you can build something that pays your staff since
Speaker 1: you see him unwilling to, and yeah, pretty much all
Speaker 1: the comments are like pay your fucking writers. And then
Speaker 1: someone on Twitter at Undefeated Matt treated to say, if
Speaker 1: you have Blue Sky account, we're pulling Jimmy Fallon over there.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I I was a writer of the Tonight
Speaker 2: Show for a couple of years, and I have to
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on there now, but I
Speaker 2: do know that when the pandemic happened. I wasn't there
Speaker 2: when the pandemic happened, but that Jimmy out of his
Speaker 2: pocket paid everybody for a couple of months at least,
Speaker 2: So I lot of me that he has done that
Speaker 2: stuff before. I don't know what's going on now, but
Speaker 2: like he has, he has reached into his pockets before
Speaker 2: and paid people for a while without life, and shit's
Speaker 2: going down. The only hope that he continues or whatever.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and look, I you know, shout out to
Speaker 1: your good your good ex employee for sticking enough. I
Speaker 1: think the issue the issue though, I think just perceptually
Speaker 1: right in our Yeah, yeah, no, And I know what
Speaker 1: you mean because like Gordon did it, many other people
Speaker 1: did it as they should because they're millionaires and they
Speaker 1: get paid millions of dollars. And you again, they're not
Speaker 1: where they are. The hosts of these shows are not
Speaker 1: where they are without their staffs, especially their writing staff.
Speaker 1: They're monologue ms.
Speaker 2: I mean no, And I know, like I know tons
Speaker 2: of people on the staff, and like there are people
Speaker 2: there's like you know, costume designers and set makers who
Speaker 2: are worried about paying their mortgage. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 2: it's like it's very real, very immediately for hundreds of
Speaker 2: people who aren't writers. Like that's and that's like one
Speaker 2: of the one of the crazy things that we have
Speaker 2: to do when we go on strike is we are
Speaker 2: doing it knowing that we are affecting the jobs of
Speaker 2: assistants who are being let go, like you know, so
Speaker 2: like so many people crews everywhere, So many people are
Speaker 2: being affected by this who didn't have a say, who
Speaker 2: didn't have a vote, and like that weighs heavily on
Speaker 2: all of our all of our minds, and so it's
Speaker 2: like that's why we just want this shit to like
Speaker 2: get fixed as soon as possible, because we want not
Speaker 2: just us to go back to work, we want everyone
Speaker 2: to go back to work, and like and and yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know it's but I think that's why there's
Speaker 2: so much solidarity with the WGA, because like other you know,
Speaker 2: like the team Stirs or IATZI, which is another for
Speaker 2: peop who aren't aware of like at show business, like
Speaker 2: another major union in the film industry. Like they're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: because if you guys get it right, like that only
Speaker 2: increases our chances to better our situation as well. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and SAG AFTRA they're starting, they're talking about going on strike. Now.
Speaker 2: I mean that's it's always been where the Writers Guild
Speaker 2: we we like they start it, and then other groups
Speaker 2: that just may not be as collectively unified will like
Speaker 2: then be like, okay, we can get behind this too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like yeah, this we're gonna start with the Writers Guild though, absolutely,
Speaker 2: because they're.
Speaker 1: Like, wait, I want yeah, I should get residuals to
Speaker 1: as a fucking performer.
Speaker 5: One.
Speaker 2: I also got to say, this is the first, like
Speaker 2: since I've joined the Writers Guild. I've been a member
Speaker 2: for like five six years now, this is the first
Speaker 2: big strike I've been a part of. And you guys,
Speaker 2: like when you're in the Writer's Guild and they're going
Speaker 2: on strikes, the speeches are so good that are like
Speaker 2: getting you pumped to go on strike. I mean they're
Speaker 2: just like we have been down here as rats in
Speaker 2: the ground, and now it's time to come together, and
Speaker 2: you're just like, oh my god, yes, yes, strike. That's incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean Adam Conover like had a very fantastic
Speaker 1: sort of sound bite at the beginning of it, which
Speaker 1: I think captured the imagination of many people were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: man like fuck yeah, like try and do something, and
Speaker 1: you're in a situation to do it to better the
Speaker 1: situation that we're seeing where again, everywhere you look, labor
Speaker 1: is being exploited and all of the wealth is being
Speaker 1: concentrated at the top with no regard for the people
Speaker 1: that are actually creating.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm stoked about too, and like speaking to
Speaker 5: the solid air of the other unions, like but like
Speaker 5: I was out pickning yesterday and there was like nurses
Speaker 5: on the line with it. Like it feels like also
Speaker 5: just in general, this wave of like labor in America
Speaker 5: finally coming like finally people being like.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, that's right.
Speaker 5: That's why things were better for like the middle class
Speaker 5: like yeah thirty years ago, because we like fought to
Speaker 5: make it better, right I mean, and like people finally
Speaker 5: coming together to like do that. I grew up in
Speaker 5: the valley, the San Fernando Valley is a kid. So
Speaker 5: many people who worked in the industry, like that's where
Speaker 5: they settled, right, Like it's because like you didn't have
Speaker 5: the money to like live in Beverly Hills, like crew
Speaker 5: writers be like that they settled in the same f
Speaker 5: Nando Valley and there were people who, like I had
Speaker 5: friends whose parents had a very perfectly middle class life
Speaker 5: in the eighties and nineties just from like writing on
Speaker 5: one show and being able to do that, and that
Speaker 5: was affording them things like home ownership and other things,
Speaker 5: paying for college, and it wasn't like, oh, man, like
Speaker 5: this thing ends and then like they're not actually like
Speaker 5: the pay is terrible and there's no better. Like it's
Speaker 5: it's so different, and I think every person can speak
Speaker 5: to their industry like it wasn't like this thirty years ago,
Speaker 5: like you could fucking live off this shit. But you know,
Speaker 5: these hyper capitalists have figured it out by saying, what
Speaker 5: if we just took all the money and didn't share it?
Speaker 1: So yeah, obviously all of our support is with the
Speaker 1: WGA right now because it's absolutely imperative, and like I said,
Speaker 1: I mean, podcasting absolutely needs to. I mean like we're
Speaker 1: seeing it like places here, like iHeart is like in
Speaker 1: the Union talks because many, yeah, many, like many industries
Speaker 1: are experiencing this thing where it's like, well, you're you're
Speaker 1: selling all these ads against our war, but where is
Speaker 1: the proper you know, distribution of all that, because again,
Speaker 1: it looks like it's just shot up to the top,
Speaker 1: and then everyone's like, Okay, what's the how's the stock price?
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 1: back just to wrap it out with some movie talk
Speaker 1: after this and we're back, look over your shoulder if
Speaker 1: you're driving, please because people might be driving like straight
Speaker 1: up assholes, because a new Fast and Furious movie is out.
Speaker 1: Fast X is coming out today this weekend. It's out there.
Speaker 1: People are I don't know, they're probably has anyone ever
Speaker 1: not liked to Fast and Furious because like it's not
Speaker 1: like you're there for the the mellow drama, will they
Speaker 1: won't they You're there for the fucking just obscene like
Speaker 1: vehicular porno that.
Speaker 4: Is drift has its haters, but.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah yeah people hate that.
Speaker 5: That would be the one car WI version, right is
Speaker 5: like the movie is like, are they going to drive
Speaker 5: the car?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, drive the car.
Speaker 1: Just drive.
Speaker 5: He's just almost like, I don't know, no, just I'm
Speaker 5: in the mood to drive the car.
Speaker 1: What was the car now? Was it Hans car or
Speaker 1: one in Fast Furious? Too too Fast, too Furious.
Speaker 3: I remember Little bow Wow's character had had a hulk
Speaker 3: like Scion XB I remember and.
Speaker 1: I remember that was like Devin Aoki was in everything,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, if he had acting skills or not.
Speaker 1: There Yo, that Steve sit.
Speaker 4: In here Nepple baby, we love you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh for people don't know her and Steve Aoki's dad
Speaker 1: started Ben.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah but what yeah, oh my god, Rocky, Yeah
Speaker 3: I did not know that. Yeah, yeah, I remember Dom
Speaker 3: shows up at the end, his car is in there.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the car was in that one.
Speaker 3: I'd have to go back and watch.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we digress, because again, this is about people's safety.
Speaker 1: That's what this show is about, first and foremost. And
Speaker 1: and you know, we've come a really long way, you know,
Speaker 1: from this from a movie franchise that began merely with
Speaker 1: this simple story about stealing soon to be worthless DVD players.
Speaker 1: And look at where we're at. We're at the fucking
Speaker 1: tenth one. The question is now, will Fast ten usher
Speaker 1: in a wave of people driving like absolute maniacos. There's
Speaker 1: been a lot of suggestions that the Fast and Furious
Speaker 1: movies influence people's behavior. So when the first film came
Speaker 1: out way back in two thousand and one, there were
Speaker 1: reports of quote increase in street racing in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: This is the headline that, like I said, Fast and
Speaker 1: Furious fuels increase in street racing. But even that article,
Speaker 1: as you read it, they admit that the street races
Speaker 1: occurred the first weekend the movie came out, which is
Speaker 1: not really enough time to be like, yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: organize mass street races because we're inspired by this and
Speaker 1: ours article also says a that street racing raids are
Speaker 1: regular for the LAPD. Street racing has been around since
Speaker 1: time immemorial, so like.
Speaker 4: These are forties or something in La specifically, come on,
Speaker 4: we saw grease.
Speaker 5: They were racing La high Man. What the fuck was that?
Speaker 1: And also secondly, the cops operation was quote explicitly time
Speaker 1: to coincide with the release of the movie, so it's
Speaker 1: like copaganda in a way. They're like, oh, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: on our ship man because you know, these fast and
Speaker 1: furious freaks to the headlines.
Speaker 2: Let's go get it. It'll be viral exactly.
Speaker 5: We've got a movie tie in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll movie tie in for a homeless encampment sweeps.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we're gonna tie it in, but
Speaker 1: we're like, yeah, man, we had to you saw Fast
Speaker 1: and Furious.
Speaker 2: Is there a Fluster movie about camping coming out soon?
Speaker 2: We could probably tie it in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, right exactly, So the movie didn't. If anything,
Speaker 1: the movie inspired the raids, not the fucking racing. When
Speaker 1: the sequel came out, some people even blamed a string
Speaker 1: of deaths around the country on Too Fast, Too Furious. Uh,
Speaker 1: the studio was like, this is very odd cause and
Speaker 1: effect that you're bringing up. They bring up the case
Speaker 1: of William Lakhass junior had quote just pulled out of
Speaker 1: a gas station and his mother corvette when two cars
Speaker 1: zipped by and flashed their hazard lights of the seventeen
Speaker 1: year old in a challenge to race like pass Forward Florida.
Speaker 1: Moments later, he crashed into a concrete light pull and
Speaker 1: was killed. And then they said, another victim in a
Speaker 1: string of deaths around the country. So they said this
Speaker 1: is all to blame on two Fast, Too Furious, a
Speaker 1: movie about street racers that hit theaters three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: But again, like you said, this has been around forever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And also I think nowadays, if you are gonna
Speaker 3: ask like a young person who just got their driver's
Speaker 3: license and maybe has access to a cool car or
Speaker 3: something like where they learned how to like participate in
Speaker 3: takeovers or shutdowns or side shows or whatever.
Speaker 4: It's probably TikTok. I'm not gonna lie you.
Speaker 3: I'll spend hours and hours and hours on Instagram and
Speaker 3: TikTok just looking at the insanity of people just like
Speaker 3: shooting fireworks at cops who will just sit there and
Speaker 3: do nothing and just let them fuck around in an
Speaker 3: interception for forty minutes, just like waving guns at each
Speaker 3: other and stuff. I love the chaos, but it's obviously
Speaker 3: not safe and there's people who don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 1: So you see the one where they shut down the
Speaker 1: Golden Gate Bridge, Yes.
Speaker 4: Bro, and they have the drone footage from there is amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like this furious, Yeah, put this in fast
Speaker 3: and furious, not the other way.
Speaker 1: What we need to do is we need to unite
Speaker 1: the street Racers and the Writers Guild of America for
Speaker 1: some real disruptive kind of demonstrations, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'll be like, yo, we fuck with you man, and
Speaker 1: like we look we're down to like we're down to
Speaker 1: maybe figure out some content.
Speaker 3: Here we hang out the side of a charger with
Speaker 3: a fucking strike post like yeah, and bumping some big.
Speaker 1: Put it onfucking two wheels on its side, and you're
Speaker 1: scraping the ground with the picket sign like.
Speaker 2: Just like paper mache scripts on the cars.
Speaker 5: So just kind of ye, it looks like getting out
Speaker 5: on the picket line. It's just all about honking, Yes,
Speaker 5: just like honk. That's a huge part of the street.
Speaker 1: What about what about that ship that burt I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I get to fucking sidetrack, but I saw it like
Speaker 1: outside of Warner Brothers, like honking is illegal, Like you're
Speaker 1: trying to make it seem like you can't honk. And
Speaker 1: then the mayor of Burbank was like, nam man, y'all
Speaker 1: fucking honk? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Fuck yeah, honk illgal, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5: There's this whole button in the middle of your fucking
Speaker 5: steering wheel that was made to support union.
Speaker 1: Use the buta on that ship. And also shout out
Speaker 1: to the people in other cities where productions are happening
Speaker 1: that are also getting their shit together to shut down productions,
Speaker 1: because that's that's one of the things that a lot
Speaker 1: of studios are trying to do, is like maybe we
Speaker 1: can absconde back to Georgia. But it's like, no, think
Speaker 1: they're starting to figure all out and like sending out
Speaker 1: fake call sheets and stuff. It's a whole like information
Speaker 1: war happening with like you know, shutting these sets down.
Speaker 1: But we digress back to The Fast and the Furious.
Speaker 1: Whether or not the movies actually led to more street
Speaker 1: racing or not. Researchers they they did their best, and
Speaker 1: they said they could find a loose link between the
Speaker 1: releases of Fast and the Furious and increases in speeding violations,
Speaker 1: not necessarily you know, fucking racing, basically saying like, you know,
Speaker 1: people got too hopped up on watching dom Toretto and
Speaker 1: his charger, so you know, they left the theater in
Speaker 1: their fucking cam reacting like they had nitrous shit like
Speaker 1: in there and trying to hit the switches. The study,
Speaker 1: which even their authors admit it's like limited, but they
Speaker 1: analyzed traffic violations in Maryland, found a large increase in
Speaker 1: the average speed of drivers who received speeding tickets on
Speaker 1: the weekends after Fashion and Furious releases, and the percentage
Speaker 1: of people nailed for extreme speeding, which is like forty
Speaker 1: miles over the limit nearly doubled. It's like, oh, they
Speaker 1: juxtaposed that when a Hunger Games movie came out didn't
Speaker 1: go up, so they're like, I mean there might be something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but more people became archers when games. A lot
Speaker 2: of bow and arrow accidents like that increased huge, like
Speaker 2: archery schools. Yeah, absolutely, Like it was a huge trend
Speaker 2: in kids taking archery from Hunger Games. So movies totally
Speaker 2: affect what you want to do and like and do stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Queen's Gambit guys, remember that I wanted to play chess
Speaker 2: so bad when that show came out. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: totally understand watching a car movie and being like, man,
Speaker 2: I want to fucking drive oh fast.
Speaker 1: I mean I was already I remember playing like on
Speaker 1: PlayStation or maybe just put PlayStation two. There's a game
Speaker 1: called Midnight Club that was like a street racing game,
Speaker 1: and I was totally into that shit. Then Fast and
Speaker 1: Furious came out and I was like, oh, I'm really
Speaker 1: into this game, and then Need for Speed started changing
Speaker 1: all theirs. They started switching it up anyway. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like an old video game head number man. Remember
Speaker 1: that Need for Speed that had the Yin Yang Twins
Speaker 1: song when you loaded.
Speaker 4: Up midnight club Dub edition. You remember that edition?
Speaker 1: Maned to go to best show.
Speaker 2: I didn't play the other one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I used to go to a lot of dub shows,
Speaker 1: especially when I worked in radio anyway. So again, the
Speaker 1: researchers conceded that it doesn't obviously suggest cause and effect,
Speaker 1: but that there was some kind of link there somewhere there.
Speaker 1: But you know, like it's probably more so that, like,
Speaker 1: if you're into driving fast, you're probably going to go
Speaker 1: see Fast and Furious because you're getting your jolly's like that.
Speaker 1: But one measurable nuisance that is caused by the film
Speaker 1: are for the residents of this very quaint neighborhood just
Speaker 1: west of downtown where Domto lifts, okay, and the people
Speaker 1: live that that live there. They've been complaining regularly about
Speaker 1: fans racing and doing donuts in the neighborhood nearly every night.
Speaker 1: That they protested the filming of the film because they're like,
Speaker 1: you're fucking up our neighborhood, Zach. Do you know any
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with anybody who lives in that party have?
Speaker 2: Yeah, man night, we have like four friends who live
Speaker 2: within blocks of that spot, and they have said that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, the one thing, it's a cool neighborhood,
Speaker 2: we like it. The one thing is, you know, it's
Speaker 2: the Don Turetto spot, So you know, there's just always
Speaker 2: car every The main thing that people do is show
Speaker 2: up with their cool car and just stop traffic to
Speaker 2: take a photo of it, like on the So it's
Speaker 2: just like constant traffic jams of people in line to
Speaker 2: take a photo of their car in the middle of
Speaker 2: the street and then nighttime race their car down the
Speaker 2: street because it feels also like fast and furious. So yes,
Speaker 2: it's a huge I can absolutely attest that that is
Speaker 2: a problem that's happening year round for them.
Speaker 1: Of the people who live near there, it's always funny
Speaker 1: like people who live near those like a home like
Speaker 1: that whose exterior served as like an iconic film or
Speaker 1: TV moment, like the people who absolutely like want to
Speaker 1: fuck up, like the visitors to the Walter White House
Speaker 1: in New Mexico, like how they.
Speaker 2: Just throw pizzas on it, like oh yeah.
Speaker 1: But like the owners of the house are like militant
Speaker 1: noth like, get.
Speaker 5: The fuck away from this fucking house.
Speaker 1: They're like, we get that it was Walter White's house
Speaker 1: and yeah, the love of just being family, you know,
Speaker 1: over there and cracking a brew open, which is also
Speaker 1: really interesting. The film also has a huge effect on
Speaker 1: beer sales, Like, while Corona did not pay to have
Speaker 1: their product featured in the films, the franchise like the
Speaker 1: people who make the movie, they're like, all in all told,
Speaker 1: we've gave them about fifteen million in free advertising when
Speaker 1: you really add it up, and like one of the
Speaker 1: producers like, why don't I have that shit just delivered
Speaker 1: to me on the fucking daily. I bet that was
Speaker 1: probably like a really low energy wave for them to
Speaker 1: be like, this is how we're going to get fucking
Speaker 1: Corona free for life.
Speaker 2: Cut to you've got to drop that fact if you've
Speaker 2: got that fast and they're like, you know, are helping
Speaker 2: out Corona for a long time. Do you guys think
Speaker 2: that white tank tops sell better when fast and Furious
Speaker 2: movies come out like the Don Touretto.
Speaker 1: Probably, I'd imagine if you're bald, you buying, you're buying
Speaker 1: a white tank and you may be.
Speaker 2: Doing Yeah, it's a good reminder for bald men to
Speaker 2: go pick up a new white.
Speaker 1: You oh yeah, I mean like every time comes I
Speaker 1: shaved my head, reshave it, but get it looking good.
Speaker 2: Bald man's confidence goes up three D whenever there's a
Speaker 2: near fast and yeah.
Speaker 1: How many how many bald men in white tank talks
Speaker 1: are this is they think? How many bald men in
Speaker 1: white tank tops are getting in car accidents after fast
Speaker 1: and furious that's we need? And how many of them
Speaker 1: are increasing in how much they much they mentioned family,
Speaker 1: Like I've been like mentioning family more.
Speaker 4: You been asking the right questions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm certain you know I pulled you over family?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, get out of the car. Get out
Speaker 1: of the car, you fucking touretto on it.
Speaker 2: Our twentieth bald man in a white tank tops that
Speaker 2: we've arrested today.
Speaker 5: Uh, just all the mug shots the week after.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, because like, okay, this is interesting. We
Speaker 1: got to look at all the states that have public
Speaker 1: mug shots and after a pastor how many tank top
Speaker 1: bald guys are we going to see? They're just like
Speaker 1: all like like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all their mouths are in the they're saying family.
Speaker 2: You can see, like I think if we like show
Speaker 2: the dugshots they're saying the word family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man, so uh yeah, I mean shout out
Speaker 1: to all of you getting fast and or furious, but
Speaker 1: please do it safely and you know, please wear white
Speaker 1: tank tops responsibly. Uh, Zach, Matt, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining us on the daily Zeitgeist. Where can people
Speaker 1: find you? Follow you and obviously catch High Science?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well watch High Science on HBO Max or
Speaker 2: Discovery Plus or Max now that it's all becoming Max. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be on Max, so check that out. You
Speaker 2: can find me on Instaga at z Poytress or on
Speaker 2: Twitter at big Zach Poitris.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, big Zach.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess I'm my Twitter is the one that
Speaker 5: I stare at more than the other ones, and I'm
Speaker 5: at Matt Kleinman.
Speaker 1: But how you spell that? Man? You spelling that?
Speaker 5: Oh right? Ka l I m m an no e
Speaker 5: that he got dropped when the when the ell Asil
Speaker 5: one of those my name is spelled wrong, dude.
Speaker 1: When the Ameta guns made you change your name. It's
Speaker 1: my favorite. One of my favorite Sopranos scenes where Phil
Speaker 1: Leotardo talks about how they were really Leonardo and then anyway,
Speaker 1: great scene from my Sopranos fans. Yeah, and what's a
Speaker 1: tweet or a work of media or social media that
Speaker 1: you guys are loving?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I was. Well, So it came out this
Speaker 5: week the the hard Drive, right do you guys know
Speaker 5: the website hard Drive? And I don't know if you
Speaker 5: guys have already talked about this on the show. They
Speaker 5: had like a complete reviewing of every n sixty four
Speaker 5: game this week. WHOA, they dropped this massive article where
Speaker 5: they went back and played every single game that was
Speaker 5: released for the Nintendo sixty four and reviewed that. That's
Speaker 5: amazing and it's it's like two hundred and some odd
Speaker 5: games and it's like a complete I've just been like,
Speaker 5: have a tab open of it and just page through.
Speaker 5: And I like, I think maybe because I like obviously
Speaker 5: like had in sixty four and was renting a lot
Speaker 5: for Blackbuster, but also I had like a game Pro
Speaker 5: subscription during that time. I'm like shocked at the number
Speaker 5: of like games that I recognized and either played or
Speaker 5: like knew about, right and to like finally really hear
Speaker 5: about them. And also from now, it's a really spectacular
Speaker 5: piece of work, very comprehensive. I can't recommend it.
Speaker 2: Enough love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and I guess universally they're panning the
Speaker 1: Superman game because isn't that sort of.
Speaker 5: Yeah, although it's not they've they've it's actually they didn't
Speaker 5: consider it the absolute worst. There a few that were worse.
Speaker 5: Is the ver what is?
Speaker 2: What's the word?
Speaker 5: You have to look at the you know, like the
Speaker 5: thing here I pull it out.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're not saying that as a tease. You just
Speaker 2: don't know. You don't remember. No, I don't know it was.
Speaker 5: I think it was another superhero game though.
Speaker 4: That makes sense.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Zach, what about you?
Speaker 2: You know, man, I we're actually we're both watching the
Speaker 2: show Silo right now on Apple, and I realized that
Speaker 2: you can really easily hook me into any show where
Speaker 2: you go like all of humanity is living in a cave? Like,
Speaker 2: will that? Will that work out? I'm in you know,
Speaker 2: if you say, like all of humanities living in the trees, right,
Speaker 2: why what will that mean? I'm like, I don't know
Speaker 2: how that changes. I will check that out, dude, I
Speaker 2: will absolutely check that out. So you put any people
Speaker 2: in some sort of just like one place or something
Speaker 2: right right? Right?
Speaker 1: Ask the question why I'm in Yeah, there we go,
Speaker 1: There we go. Do you find out what the worst
Speaker 1: game was.
Speaker 5: Matt, Yeah, yeah, it's it's another Uh it's Batman beyond
Speaker 5: Return of the Joker.
Speaker 2: Oh shit.
Speaker 1: We were just talking about how the Joker would be
Speaker 1: a great podcaster, but he he sledged specifically, so.
Speaker 5: That one and then Karma Geddon sixty four they ranked
Speaker 5: worse than Superman, which makes me feel better because I
Speaker 5: always felt bad about not playing Karma Eddon right, because
Speaker 5: I was one of the most played like demos that
Speaker 5: I played on my computer. You know those games where
Speaker 5: you just had one level, you just have the demo,
Speaker 5: and you like kept playing it because you'd never I
Speaker 5: could never go to my parents and say, can you
Speaker 5: buy me Karma Geddon?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Oh man, shout out to Karmageddon, shout out those those
Speaker 6: long lost games.
Speaker 1: Justin thank you so much for joining me. Now, where
Speaker 1: can people find you? And all that? And there is
Speaker 1: there a work of social media or media that you're digging? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can find me on Instagram at j con
Speaker 3: the Smith that's at j C O N t H
Speaker 3: E S M I t H. Lately, Hulu has been
Speaker 3: killing it with the nineties hip hop documentaries of late
Speaker 3: by which I mean I've seen two. The J Dilla
Speaker 3: one is fantastic, course, but the Tupac one was the
Speaker 3: one that really was a huge surprise for me because
Speaker 3: I it's called Dear Mama. I was avoiding it for
Speaker 3: weeks because I was like another Tupac documentary. I don't
Speaker 3: really you know, what else can I learn. I've seen
Speaker 3: so many of these, it's fantastic. I sat there for
Speaker 3: like six hours and just absorbed all this stuff because
Speaker 3: it really isn't about him. It's equally his mom holds
Speaker 3: a weight in there. And it was released a little
Speaker 3: bit before Mother's Day and it's incredibly touching and heartwarming.
Speaker 3: If you know anything about Tupac, the gangster side of
Speaker 3: him came out a little bit later in life, but
Speaker 3: he was a sensitive young boy at a certain point,
Speaker 3: and you really see him for who he is in
Speaker 3: this documentary. I think that's the first time like I
Speaker 3: really didn't want to hear about like, oh, who really
Speaker 3: killed him? Or what I wanted to hear more about,
Speaker 3: like the person, and this really does that. So if
Speaker 3: you're interested in that, you can check that out.
Speaker 4: Dear Mama. On Hulu.
Speaker 3: And also I was lucky enough to get my sleeves
Speaker 3: started for my tattoo by an outstanding artist and professor
Speaker 3: at usc by the name of Danny Cansino. She's a
Speaker 3: local LA artist who's been blowing the fuck up lately.
Speaker 3: In fact, if you're in the area, she has a
Speaker 3: solo exhibition on display at the Charlie James Gallery titled
Speaker 3: This Is My Blood. It's a love letter to her city,
Speaker 3: her heritage, her culture. It's got Mexican spirituality all up
Speaker 3: in it. If that interests you, you should go check
Speaker 3: it out. And you can follow her on Instagram at
Speaker 3: Danny Cansino at d A n I E c A
Speaker 3: N s I n O.
Speaker 1: Somebody getting that sleeve done for a fucking free after Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm like.
Speaker 4: That we weed out. She's yeah, yeah, yeah, shout.
Speaker 1: Hey, shout out. Yeah yeah. I'll fuck with Danny too, man.
Speaker 1: I want to get a free tattooed though. Uh let's see.
Speaker 1: You can find me at Miles of Gray. On most
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Speaker 1: We've been talking about the postseason. Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: Celtics man. Oh man, Jimmy Buckets doing his thing, and man,
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum absolutely turned to a ghost in that fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Don't know what happened the invisible man, but look as
Speaker 1: if this recording don't know what happened in Game two
Speaker 1: of the Lakers Nuggets series. So I could be a
Speaker 1: sad boy as well, so who knows? Who knows? You
Speaker 1: can also find me on my uh, you know, reality
Speaker 1: show podcast with Sophia Alexandra about ninety day Fiance called
Speaker 1: four to twenty Day Fiance. You know what the fuck
Speaker 1: is up? And let's see some tweets I like At
Speaker 1: wbe Z tweeted hundreds of workers showed support for WGA
Speaker 1: TV and film writers and their third week of strike
Speaker 1: against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and
Speaker 1: then at Daisy Gardner sort of quote teeted then said,
Speaker 1: you got to feel pretty dumb if you could have
Speaker 1: given the writers what they wanted for the cost of
Speaker 1: a few private jet rides for your executives, but you
Speaker 1: refused and accidentally kicked off a nationwide labor solidarity movement
Speaker 1: hashtag WGA Strong. Yeah, that's true. And at Julie Underscore
Speaker 1: bush Quote tweeted that Daisy Gardener tweet and said, I'll
Speaker 1: never forget when an exec told me privately that the
Speaker 1: amount I was getting paid was literally the amount the
Speaker 1: execs were blowing on private jets to locations for no
Speaker 1: particular reason. It just shows you, like that the money's there,
Speaker 1: it's just not being properly distributed. It's for fucking indulgences.
Speaker 1: And at samo yedcoor tweet Hey nice man bun haha,
Speaker 1: fucking sucks you hipster asshole. He turns around and reveals
Speaker 1: he is a samurai from the Tokugawa shogun Age. Oh fuck,
Speaker 1: so specific, but I love that samurai reference. You can
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Speaker 1: in our footnotes Thank you justin where we post all
Speaker 1: of the links to the articles we talk about and
Speaker 1: uh also the song.
Speaker 5: We write out on.
Speaker 1: What are we going out on? This is a track
Speaker 1: from the artist tlim Shug which the letters are being
Speaker 1: slit switched around from slim Thuck. Okay, I recognize that,
Speaker 1: but this is tlim Shug and this person is like
Speaker 1: a Brooklyn based like producer. This track that they put
Speaker 1: out like that we're going on. It's called DK zero
Speaker 1: zero one. It sounds like sort of a fly Low
Speaker 1: adjacent house track, like a really interesting production of like
Speaker 1: really great percussive textures on it and like haunting sort
Speaker 1: of vocal sample that might be twim Shug themselves, but
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. So check this one out. DK zero
Speaker 1: zero one all one word to you know, take that
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