Speaker 1: No one could even sniff the bit out. And then
Speaker 1: that like when it happened, it.
Speaker 2: Was blue or that he wrote all that like that
Speaker 2: was and I did the like a live blogger from
Speaker 2: the crowd to oh fun.
Speaker 3: So he wrote all that stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Was all cross That's great, a cool thing. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was nuts great special. Yeah, Jack, who do you know?
Speaker 4: I don't know anybody. I don't know any of this ship, man,
Speaker 4: I don't know you. I wasn't even born yet when
Speaker 4: this ship was backen, so.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even born again yet.
Speaker 4: I hadn't accepted Christ into my leg at that point.
Speaker 4: So like, really not a lot of memories from back
Speaker 4: and then the dark ages, as me and my pastor
Speaker 4: call it.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: You guys are really close, really.
Speaker 1: Me and my pastor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you gotta get yourself. Get yourself a pastor
Speaker 4: that looks at you like my pastor looks at me.
Speaker 2: Guys, more crypto than most.
Speaker 1: Almost all, Yeah, it does.
Speaker 4: He's got to sleep in our room because sometimes the
Speaker 4: past the crypto deals pop up in the middle of
Speaker 4: the night because they're happening offshore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well the devil's got the sec or whatever, so he's.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's true. Instead of a collection basket, it's
Speaker 1: just an iPad that's ENCRYPTID that you can go various coins,
Speaker 1: collection crypto wallet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three, seventy seven,
Speaker 4: Episode three of them Dirtilyaykay are Shying After production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 4: into america share consciousness. It is Wednesday, February twenty sixth,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. It is the seventh birthday of my youngest. Oh,
Speaker 4: shout out to that young man.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday to that young man.
Speaker 4: Happy birthday to that young man. It's not that I'm
Speaker 4: like keeping his name off for you know, privacy purposes.
Speaker 1: I just can't remember it right now, so it's hard
Speaker 1: to keep track. How many do you have? Check too? Yeah,
Speaker 1: when it gets up to that number.
Speaker 4: It's when you get up to two, it can be tricky.
Speaker 4: I can the little little guy there he is. There's
Speaker 4: my buddy, little young What I call him, My name
Speaker 4: is Jack O'Brien aka Jeez drool from everything I'm naming cream,
Speaker 4: get the dairy, Dairy and all my meals, y'all. That
Speaker 4: one courtesy of panoramic view on the discord also got
Speaker 4: hen Tron calling me Jack quote eggnog pervert O'Brien.
Speaker 1: This in reference yesterday's episode where I was.
Speaker 4: Talking to our young guest Garrison Davis and they were
Speaker 4: saying they still like feticini alfredo and clam chowder and
Speaker 4: and I was like, I'm too old to eat such
Speaker 4: cream based stuff, and then realized that I still drink
Speaker 4: agnog like even when it's not Christmas.
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a year round for you. Yeah, I fucking
Speaker 1: love agnogy, guys, I can't help I remember when I
Speaker 1: was like a PA in La, which meant like I
Speaker 1: was like a non unionized team stir was essentially how
Speaker 1: they used us, like unloading trucks. When that sounds a
Speaker 1: lot tougher than what I believe the actuality of being
Speaker 1: a PA is of my lie and in unis Teamster.
Speaker 1: I remember, like we would also get lunch, of course,
Speaker 1: and there's a place called Boston Nova on Sunset, I think,
Speaker 1: which yeah, you have.
Speaker 4: To pronounce it, that's right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: And they had this full like bacon like or like
Speaker 1: Fetcini carbon era alfredo like that I would have for
Speaker 1: lunch in my early twenties because and then I would
Speaker 1: unload trucks in the eat and it made no difference whatsoever.
Speaker 4: Now when you're young versus one year old, like hangovers
Speaker 4: now are feel like.
Speaker 1: A terminal disease.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they feel like you are you were dying
Speaker 4: from something, and back then it was just something that
Speaker 4: you would like kind of get through. Right anyways, Yeah,
Speaker 4: cream is different. I guess it's worse now that I
Speaker 4: like do it knowing that it's gonna give you diarrhea,
Speaker 4: whereas back then, I just I don't think I knew.
Speaker 4: I was just like I love Fetichini Alfredo and often have.
Speaker 1: Uh, diarrhea is just this is just life, I guess.
Speaker 2: I guess everybody's loudly shitting their pants twice a week.
Speaker 4: You know why they gotta give me the nickname about it.
Speaker 4: I'm sure it's happening to everybody else.
Speaker 1: Anyways.
Speaker 4: Uh. Thrill to be joined in our second seat by
Speaker 4: a brilliant comedian writer actor special is Daddy long Legs.
Speaker 4: He's the coiner of the disgusting phrase plumpers to describe
Speaker 4: his thighs.
Speaker 1: It's Blake Wexland. This is Blake Wexler aka strap Strap
Speaker 1: that's what I get. Shove that wooden swab down my neck.
Speaker 1: But I've got shows to plug. That's why I'm talking
Speaker 1: to you in my office with this bug a boo.
Speaker 1: I've tested positive for strap throat on the strap throat goat,
Speaker 1: but I'm fine. Everything's okay. I'm on antibiotics. I'm pro antibiotic,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's great that it's really going around or
Speaker 1: it's going around.
Speaker 4: Our eldest again don't really remember his name, but had
Speaker 4: seven recently. He's eight, and then our young guess is
Speaker 4: turning seven today. Blake, trying to keep up.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, I don't if you think you have trouble
Speaker 1: remembering who your kids are. I still want to.
Speaker 4: Give you the aka Phantom of the nine to eleven Memorial,
Speaker 4: because you do haunt the nine to eleven Memorial. You
Speaker 4: were explaining where you are in the world, and you
Speaker 4: just made reference eight minutes from ground.
Speaker 1: For having art attack from all the evog.
Speaker 4: Eight minutes at any time from the World Trade Center. Anyways,
Speaker 4: welcome to the Phantom.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I would love to know what the nutritional
Speaker 1: information is on egg nog, and we will get to
Speaker 1: that in the third break ohet it's so wild it is,
Speaker 1: it's like a different substance.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, it is like kind of a
Speaker 4: non non Newtonian substance, and that it's like neither solid
Speaker 4: nor liquid, it's like somewhere in between. But it's also
Speaker 4: like the the number of calories per like thymbol of
Speaker 4: that is so mindful. It's like the most calorically dense
Speaker 4: food that has ever been created.
Speaker 2: It's just like it's like an it's like eggs and
Speaker 2: cake frosting or something.
Speaker 4: Basically it is a more viscous cake frosting. It's like
Speaker 4: a cake frosting that drinks easy basically.
Speaker 1: So easy drinks cake frosting drink.
Speaker 2: That's also like subjective whether or not it drinks easy
Speaker 2: but goes down easymore.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. That's why. It's also why all.
Speaker 4: The method actors who gain weight for the rolls and
Speaker 4: they're like, I like, would just melt a pint of
Speaker 4: ice cream, or I think Sylvester Sloan for Copland eight
Speaker 4: pancakes every day just drink fucking egg It's like there
Speaker 4: for you, what are you doing? You're just like trying
Speaker 4: to be dramatic, but like you, all you need to
Speaker 4: do is drink a pint of egg nugget day and
Speaker 4: you're good golden. Anyway, I've been telling them that, but
Speaker 4: they want to answers about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, water balloons.
Speaker 4: Sorry, go ahead, Blake. We're thrilled to be joined in
Speaker 4: our third seat by a very funny comedian, actor, writer,
Speaker 4: improviser who's special, spiritually filthy. Y'all ought to go check
Speaker 4: out right now one of our favorite guests on the
Speaker 4: show Old Friends Reunited, Blake and it's more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having Sweet Bros.
Speaker 1: It's going to be here. Yeah, thanks you being bros.
Speaker 3: Sweet.
Speaker 1: That was the other name that we're considered for the podcast.
Speaker 2: Sweet Beautiful Bros.
Speaker 1: Sweet some sweet sweet beautiful Bros. SBBs.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Mark, I'm doing good Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Apparently Blake was informing before we started that he and
Speaker 2: I met seventeen years ago, because we're both credible sixty
Speaker 2: four years old, sixteen years old with David Cross.
Speaker 3: We met. Was it in La Blake?
Speaker 1: It was in Boston, So I was going to Emmerson,
Speaker 1: which was right across the street from that theater that
Speaker 1: you both were at.
Speaker 3: Amazing. Yeah, that's what we filmed that special.
Speaker 1: Oh no way, I think and yeah that makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they would film a lot there. That's great. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's special.
Speaker 4: I can see you on on stage yeah yeah, on
Speaker 4: a comedy tour. Six months sober, that's yeah.
Speaker 1: It's off t be a tough one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like six months sober at the time.
Speaker 3: It crosses my idol and he had written he'd written
Speaker 3: I drink for a reason, which I totally read and
Speaker 3: was like, okay, well, like.
Speaker 1: Me too. I want to just pick up the sobriety
Speaker 1: thing in eight months.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll see you in a year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice, good Lord, good for you.
Speaker 4: Thrilled to have you here, thrilled to have you both.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be honest excited to have you both. We're
Speaker 4: gonna get to know you a little bit better in
Speaker 4: a moment more at first. A couple of things we're
Speaker 4: talking about. I just want to like, look at some
Speaker 4: of the headlines about these Nazi salutes. They seem to
Speaker 4: be gaining popularity amongst some leaders on the right, and
Speaker 4: the media seems to be like, what, well, what the
Speaker 4: heck was that thing he's doing with this?
Speaker 1: Did did he no, they're a bug loose. He swam
Speaker 1: under a bug.
Speaker 4: So I just want to look at them, and then
Speaker 4: look at Nick went as his reaction as compared to
Speaker 4: the mainstream media's reaction, and then I want to look
Speaker 4: at these point of view you wake up in enter
Speaker 4: historical like period Ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the Black Plague,
Speaker 4: and just you know, test them for historical accuracy, because
Speaker 4: I feel like they're like being created at a rapid pace,
Speaker 4: and you know, five million views each on some of
Speaker 4: these fucking things. I don't know if you guys have
Speaker 4: seen them.
Speaker 1: I watched one of them, and it's it's as fucked
Speaker 1: as you'd think it would be.
Speaker 2: I do somehow manages to be as fuck did you as?
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: I've got some complaints, but I've also got a rave,
Speaker 4: one very specific rave for them, So we'll talk about
Speaker 4: that plenty more. But first mort we do like to
Speaker 4: ask our guest, what is something from your search history
Speaker 4: that's revealing about.
Speaker 1: Who you are?
Speaker 2: You know, as the skateboarding liaison did this podcast, what
Speaker 2: I was looking at. I was just in Arizona for
Speaker 2: the Slow Impact Gathering, which is this like kind of
Speaker 2: academic skateboard conference thing. So I was looking at the
Speaker 2: schedule for that, but it is so sick. It's put
Speaker 2: on in this dude, Ryan Leigh, who's profer New Balance
Speaker 2: and sci fi fantasy and so many highlights. I got
Speaker 2: to do stand up for like one hundred skateboarders in
Speaker 2: the Kylo Town skate Shop out there, which is a
Speaker 2: rad skate shop. Go sick, met some pros. Just sixteen
Speaker 2: year old More was just thrilled with the whole thing.
Speaker 1: It was that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you are skateboarding as you're doing stand up
Speaker 4: and they're skateboarding.
Speaker 1: Along with you.
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I broke my wrist. Ye nice slow impact.
Speaker 3: It's called slow impact. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2: It's like there's a there's a guy, uh the student
Speaker 2: in Ted Schmid who's got a PhD in architecture, and
Speaker 2: he took us a ride and gave us a tour
Speaker 2: of a s u where he just talked about like
Speaker 2: this building was built by Frank Lloyd right son and
Speaker 2: this ledge is one of the earliest flat top ledges
Speaker 2: in Arizona.
Speaker 3: Like ship like that.
Speaker 4: It was like very niche and very Yeah, it was
Speaker 4: Frank Lloyd Right's son, like a great architect and also
Speaker 4: a skater.
Speaker 2: He was a not a skater, his son in law,
Speaker 2: but very clearly was like Frank Lloyd right, but made
Speaker 2: a building there and it's huge. And then Frank wood
Speaker 2: right son in law, has one that's like kind of
Speaker 2: standing in its shadows, sort of sadly in this like
Speaker 2: edipal complex way that put it out. Yeah, it was Wow,
Speaker 2: it never ends.
Speaker 1: That's Frank Lloyd right. I'd hate the bait Flank Lloyd wrong.
Speaker 1: I also I think this no bit. I think my
Speaker 1: wife read like a slightly erotic novel about Frank Lloyd right,
Speaker 1: and I think it was called Loving Frank. If I'm off,
Speaker 1: hold on if I'm off, Loving Frank book.
Speaker 3: More like Frank Horny Right.
Speaker 1: It is thank you also thank you also really good guys.
Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, it was about an adulterous affair that he
Speaker 1: had with a woman. All right, there you go. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you want to get Hornyman.
Speaker 4: And other steamy descriptions like that in the book. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so here comes Frank Lloyd right, and there's this woman
Speaker 4: and they're gonna get it on.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know. He took off whatever the
Speaker 1: hell it was.
Speaker 2: You described it as somewhat erotic and then that's exactly
Speaker 2: what your description was.
Speaker 1: That is the genre. Actually, it's not erotic fiction. It's
Speaker 1: somewhat erotic fiction.
Speaker 4: I tried, and they tried it, and it was pretty okay.
Speaker 4: They weren't sure if they were going to keep doing it.
Speaker 2: But you know, he had jack.
Speaker 4: Oh no, that's so clinical. There's some wild, wild stuff.
Speaker 4: I went and saw a falling water. I think that's
Speaker 4: the big famous house outside of Pittsburgh that Frank Lloyd
Speaker 4: right made. And there's a story from his past that
Speaker 4: I don't I don't have in front of me. It's
Speaker 4: basically like this horrible horror movie style massacre that happened
Speaker 4: at his house to his family, like while he was
Speaker 4: out of town.
Speaker 1: That is a little known story that I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're worth looking up.
Speaker 4: It's a it's just a I'll give you a little
Speaker 4: Wikipedia wreck if you if you want to look up
Speaker 4: Franklod Wright's family.
Speaker 1: Frank Lloyd Wright's family. Yeah, fucking wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like at like this beautiful house that he had
Speaker 4: built and then like one of the people who worked
Speaker 4: there just went wild with an axe one day on
Speaker 4: the whole family.
Speaker 1: Crazy story, holy moly.
Speaker 4: I bet that's not in your little uh kind of
Speaker 4: sort of erotic fiction book, Blake. I sorry, I said
Speaker 4: Frank horny, right, yeah, Jesus guy was horny, though I
Speaker 4: think he was out of an affair.
Speaker 1: So you know.
Speaker 3: I have one more story that I think is interesting
Speaker 3: from the Skate Weekend, which is that, Okay, there's this
Speaker 3: pro named Tom car Angelov. He's sick, he's pro for
Speaker 3: New Balance, and he's he's like an interesting, artful dude,
Speaker 3: which skateboarding is an art form, whether you recognize it
Speaker 3: or not.
Speaker 1: So he did.
Speaker 2: He had this interview where he was talking about he
Speaker 2: goes to this podcast on you guys are pro cop
Speaker 2: I know that you guys, don't you hate the beautiful?
Speaker 2: Why can't you listen to them when they say no
Speaker 2: skating here? Why can't you listen to them?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: God, So this dude does this did this thing where
Speaker 2: he's a cinephile, So he goes to all these different
Speaker 2: places and looks for skate spots and he's super into
Speaker 2: John Carpenter. So there's just there's this whole thing where
Speaker 2: they follow him around like all of Pasadena to all
Speaker 2: these different parts where they filmed Halloween and that he's
Speaker 2: like skating spots around there. And my wife is friends
Speaker 2: with John Carpenter kind of like he's a big gamer
Speaker 2: and she is in the gaming industry. She does voice
Speaker 2: she's like the head of a you know, franchise, she
Speaker 2: does video game voices. Wow, And I sent I had
Speaker 2: her send John Carpenter this interview with this skateboarder, and
Speaker 2: then he responded so that I was able to tell
Speaker 2: Tom Caranjelov Hey, John Carpenter saw that video. I know
Speaker 2: that for sure, and he was like, dude, that made
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, like he was.
Speaker 3: So hyped to hear this.
Speaker 4: It was just a very just a true life highlight
Speaker 4: for me. Yeah, that's such a fun sort of epilogue
Speaker 4: to a career. Like John Carpenter great one of the
Speaker 4: great filmmakers, maybe the greatest of like the eighties, And
Speaker 4: people are like, why doesn't he make movies anymore?
Speaker 1: Did he pass away?
Speaker 4: And it's like no, he just like discovered video games
Speaker 4: and he was like, holy shit, these are so fucking fun.
Speaker 1: This is sick. Just doesn't make movies anymore.
Speaker 4: People are like, why don't you make movies? Like video
Speaker 4: games are really fun. Like, Yeah, he's just like to
Speaker 4: get high and watch video games.
Speaker 2: It's like an angsty teen in his basement.
Speaker 1: He's like, I don't want to work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, basically and anyplace he We went and saw him
Speaker 2: at the Palladium and it's pretty sick. He has a
Speaker 2: band that just plays John Carpenter's style music and there's
Speaker 2: like smoke effects and it's like pretty dark.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah he made oh cool, he made a lot
Speaker 4: of the music for his movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is more? Something you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Underrated? This is a very personal one.
Speaker 2: I'm going sunscreen, Okay, Yeah, I'm under I'm a fairer gentleman.
Speaker 2: I'm on the fair side of the complexion. And just
Speaker 2: being in an Arizona this weekend, I realized if I
Speaker 2: wasn't constantly she lacking myself with like seventy SPF, which
Speaker 2: is basically glue, Like if you use that shit, it's
Speaker 2: just like, yeah, you're just like wearing it. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: like wearing a weird what color you are now it's
Speaker 2: like a suit or something, because that guy bright white.
Speaker 2: But if I wasn't having that, I would look like
Speaker 2: I just got out of like a skin graft surgery.
Speaker 2: I would be bright red and like peeling and stuff,
Speaker 2: you know, totala yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking about like getting older where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you can't drink as much, you can't have as much
Speaker 1: cream based products. But it is like I do find
Speaker 1: myself not caring what you know. Yeah, like whatever whatever.
Speaker 1: Now I have a sunshirt beach yeah, yeah for the
Speaker 1: beach for my living room. In the shower, we have
Speaker 1: a skylight that has been decimating my skin stage four
Speaker 1: skin cancer from the skylight.
Speaker 2: Is justly turning into like like a middle aged health
Speaker 2: tips podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all right with me, spoke. We didn't pick
Speaker 1: up video games, you'll you'll be great.
Speaker 4: We also offer what is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with a nice cold take here and
Speaker 2: say social media.
Speaker 1: Guys, come on what I know?
Speaker 3: But like, what are we do? What the fuck?
Speaker 2: It's first of all, it was we're all working for
Speaker 2: Meta for free every single day. That's all we do
Speaker 2: is raise money for Meta and it. You know, initially
Speaker 2: it's supposed to like connect artists to their audience and
Speaker 2: you can have lots of followers and they will ever
Speaker 2: see your post because of the way the algorithm works.
Speaker 2: It's terrible for mental wellness. It's fucking every like, we
Speaker 2: share all this important political information and yet somehow the
Speaker 2: country seems to continue. It doesn't get more progressive.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: The only the only thing I think we should all
Speaker 2: just like fucking gently the lead our apps put the
Speaker 2: phone down, walk away, unless you are on TikTok and
Speaker 2: your algorithm is like my wife's, which is just like
Speaker 2: a kitten yawning so loud it scares itself. Like if
Speaker 2: that right, If that's your algorithm, that's good for mental health.
Speaker 4: Just put your wife in charge of all social media.
Speaker 4: She's like, all right, this one is I can't see
Speaker 4: how it's going to be harmful. And then in three
Speaker 4: years we have kitten Hitler that is.
Speaker 2: Like you think it's gonna get Like, you know, if
Speaker 2: we every day, if I watch a duck that can
Speaker 2: play the piano, like, I just have a better afternoon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: That being said, follow me.
Speaker 1: On, where can people follow you more? Where can people
Speaker 1: find you?
Speaker 4: It does feel like, Yeah, I think like part of
Speaker 4: it is that we used to have church or bowling
Speaker 4: leagues or like places to actually connect with other people.
Speaker 4: Like through all the things that you know, there's nothing
Speaker 4: wrong with what you said, but it was church or leagues.
Speaker 1: Those are the only two that's it.
Speaker 4: Well, there's like also other things that I'm drawing up,
Speaker 4: like like lions clubs or clubs.
Speaker 1: You know, like American region. Yeah, we were all in
Speaker 1: the army.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but like people just had these things
Speaker 4: that they did with each other when they were done working,
Speaker 4: and you would like interact, You would like see people
Speaker 4: with your eyes and like pick up all the like
Speaker 4: subtle clues of like their body language and like just
Speaker 4: have this social experience that like the human organism was
Speaker 4: like designed for. And now that shit all went away. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's being replaced by social media, which is like hacked
Speaker 4: into the circuitry. That's like around that. And I think
Speaker 4: it's probably best if we just view it as a
Speaker 4: brain pairasite. That is, like when you look at like
Speaker 4: what it has done to Elon Musk, what it has
Speaker 4: done to like market, Like these are people who like
Speaker 4: start out as like you know, quiet nerds who are
Speaker 4: like left leaning, and then like you know what, whatever,
Speaker 4: it just seemed, for whatever reason, it seems to like
Speaker 4: take the human brain down this one specific.
Speaker 2: Direction until you're in like wielding a chainsaw on stage
Speaker 2: in the middle.
Speaker 1: Of the day. Middle of the day.
Speaker 4: I think it's for a while, like there's this thing
Speaker 4: that they used to talk about in philosophy that was
Speaker 4: like the singularity when robots come and like they're so
Speaker 4: much smarter than us that like they called it AI
Speaker 4: back then, So like that's this whole A movement was
Speaker 4: picking up on that. But the idea was like that
Speaker 4: there will be a point where like there's going to
Speaker 4: be this organism that comes and can like take over
Speaker 4: control of like human kind. And I thought for a
Speaker 4: while that like that is the Internet. The Internet like
Speaker 4: has done this to us. It's like taken over control.
Speaker 4: It is like you know, controlling us. It's just it's
Speaker 4: such a weird thing to say, to be like the
Speaker 4: Internet is the high but it's like this hive mind
Speaker 4: that is like powered by us individually or like collectively
Speaker 4: that like nobody has control over, and it like changes
Speaker 4: how people behave in like a really profound way that
Speaker 4: seems to be like bent on air destruction. If you
Speaker 4: like view it as a whole like from a distance,
Speaker 4: so I would I would second, you're overrated alternated.
Speaker 2: And it's like they spend millions upon millions to make
Speaker 2: it hyper addictive.
Speaker 3: And the thing about addiction is it is progressive. So
Speaker 3: like you get sicker and sicker. Yeah, and you don't
Speaker 3: realize that's happening because there's part of the part of
Speaker 3: the thing is self denial, so that all of a
Speaker 3: sudden you're like ignoring your children, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Then all of a sudden you're like screaming, I am
Speaker 3: become meme.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, when you're fifty six or whatever, when
Speaker 2: you should you know what I mean, when you should
Speaker 2: be like meaning good to your grandchildren at that point,
Speaker 2: you know, like gently settling back into the like the
Speaker 2: sundowning of your life.
Speaker 1: You know, dying. You should be dying, not whatever the fuck?
Speaker 1: This is not killing rage rage rage. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and enough enough of that ship.
Speaker 1: Shut up, Shut up, you guys, stop it. Just shut
Speaker 1: the fuck up, and we're back. And hey, hey, so
Speaker 1: we uh talked.
Speaker 4: On yesterday's episode. You know, seapack happened. I always I'm
Speaker 4: calling that right, Yeah, seapack not. I get those two
Speaker 4: confused in my brain. I don't know why I So
Speaker 4: there were a couple of Nazi salutes, namely, you know,
Speaker 4: Steve Bannon did one that the crowd seemed to respond
Speaker 4: positively to.
Speaker 1: And then so what took him so long? Like how
Speaker 1: has that not been his eightieth that he's done? You
Speaker 1: know at this point, right, sack of ship. It's been
Speaker 1: such a sack of shit, like openly for so long.
Speaker 1: Like it's like, all right, well, I guess it's free rate,
Speaker 1: Like he wouldn't even have done it.
Speaker 2: But while the people that like are evil and look evil,
Speaker 2: you know, that's like evil people are like really hot,
Speaker 2: so it's hard, you know what I mean. But he is, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is very super visial. But he's melting from the inside.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, the Yeah, there's a thing like nominative determinism
Speaker 4: where people with the name Dennis are more likely to
Speaker 4: be dentists. And it's like so stupid that it's like
Speaker 4: hard to even like to talk about because people.
Speaker 1: Like he should be Snazi.
Speaker 4: But I'm saying, like, there, I feel like there's a
Speaker 4: appearance Steve, yeah, right, like he looks evil and therefore
Speaker 4: like something in him is like gravitating in that direction.
Speaker 1: He's like I might as well right, yeah, But I
Speaker 1: just the way the media in the US in particular,
Speaker 1: seems to be responding to these things.
Speaker 4: I guess I don't know what I want them to do,
Speaker 4: but like calling it, like phrasing it as a question,
Speaker 4: I guess it is getting on my nerves. We have
Speaker 4: this headline here, did Steve Bannon flash a Nazi salute
Speaker 4: at Seaback? Like that's what you get if you just
Speaker 4: google Steve Bannon Nazi salute?
Speaker 1: It's did Steve? Is it a legal thing? And if so?
Speaker 1: Can someone can we please have that go through the
Speaker 1: court so we can start calling it a Nazi salute? Please?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Is that because that's the only thing I can think of,
Speaker 1: is that, Oh, we don't want to be sued for
Speaker 1: saying it's a Nazi salute and then it would have
Speaker 1: to be decided by this wonderfully progressive Supreme Court. Oh
Speaker 1: is it a Roman salute? Fucked total fucked argument or
Speaker 1: a Nazi?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That is it?
Speaker 4: Because like there there is a headline like right next
Speaker 4: to it in the doc. Like I took a screencap
Speaker 4: of just the results, and like right next to it
Speaker 4: is Bannon gives Nazi salute at seapack, and that one's
Speaker 4: from like a website that has the extension dot CZ
Speaker 4: so I think, you know, a non American website feels comfortable.
Speaker 2: I thought that was a comedy sports website, which is
Speaker 2: a form improv team.
Speaker 1: The political arm of companies is strong.
Speaker 3: Aguestion of your least favorite political leader.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a tweet from like ball Sacks Sports.
Speaker 4: Have you seen these like the handle at ballsack Sports
Speaker 4: And they're like, he's a fucking Nazi. You got like
Speaker 4: like somebody who like tweets like random sports shit all
Speaker 4: the time, just like woke up. I guess yesterday was
Speaker 4: just like what the fuck these guys, these guys are
Speaker 4: fucking Nazis.
Speaker 1: What's happening? Well, it's parody anymore.
Speaker 2: No, it's like, yeah, the end, you know, And I
Speaker 2: don't believe anybody can tell the future. And I also
Speaker 2: think we need to be very aware of what's happening.
Speaker 2: It's like the progression, the frightening possibility for progression is like,
Speaker 2: are is there something wrong with these internment camps? You're like,
Speaker 2: can we fucking call it what it is?
Speaker 1: Right exactly?
Speaker 4: So, you know, I think people have seen the video
Speaker 4: right now, but like I also, I just want to
Speaker 4: play this clip of Nick Fuentes, who is like the
Speaker 4: go to like open Nazi, like he's a Nazi, Like
Speaker 4: he's like, yeah, I'm a Nazi, like I like Hitler.
Speaker 4: And he has responded to both the Elon Musk salute
Speaker 4: and the Steve Bannon salute in the same way, which
Speaker 4: is like kind of like kind of weird that he's
Speaker 4: like one the one person who seems to be clear
Speaker 4: on this. And I wonder if it's just because like
Speaker 4: he recognizes, like, oh yeah, there's like no, nothing bad
Speaker 4: is going to come of this for me. Now like
Speaker 4: my side has won, I can like speak openly about
Speaker 4: what this is.
Speaker 1: But let me just play this clip real quick.
Speaker 5: Bannon gets up there and says, I think Trump's gonna
Speaker 5: run in twenty eight. He goes, we want Trump, and
Speaker 5: then he throws up a straight up Roman salute.
Speaker 7: It's it's getting a little uncomfortable even for me, even
Speaker 7: I'm starting to feel like that guy in the picture
Speaker 7: that wouldn't hail Hitler.
Speaker 1: We all know that reference. Uh all right, so.
Speaker 4: And then I mean he had the same reaction to
Speaker 4: the Elon Musk one, which again the media was like
Speaker 4: we got to give the guy the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, Like that was a serious Roman.
Speaker 7: It wasn't even like like a subtle like a wave
Speaker 7: like one of these like a Laura Ingram, Remember when
Speaker 7: Laura Ingram did that. That was a straight up, like
Speaker 7: sigile like loving Hitler energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't know.
Speaker 4: So that's the guy who seems like he knows so
Speaker 4: much about Nazi salutes that he has like references to.
Speaker 4: He's like, I feel like the guy in that one
Speaker 4: picture we've all seen where like everybody's giving the Hitler salute,
Speaker 4: and like he's not. You know, this guy he has
Speaker 4: like a historical amount he wrote he worked on Kanye's
Speaker 4: political camp Pain and was like writing Hitler based ideas
Speaker 4: into Kanye's presidential campaign.
Speaker 1: Remember that was the thing.
Speaker 4: He's a bit of an expert in like all the
Speaker 4: worst fucking possible ways. He seems to be pretty clear
Speaker 4: on like what's going on here. It's just so weird
Speaker 4: to me that the US media is still framing it
Speaker 4: as a question or saying he's being accused of doing
Speaker 4: something that in the article, like right above it, there's
Speaker 4: a video of him doing of him doing the thing
Speaker 4: that he's being accused of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially when everything else is so click baity, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like, well, I I guess it
Speaker 2: maybe is the possibility of a defamation suit or whatever,
Speaker 2: but why is this the one thing that they're avoid
Speaker 2: like avoiding using the most sensationalistic terms to.
Speaker 1: Describe Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Watch it. It must be like legally defensive. I don't
Speaker 4: know where.
Speaker 1: And when you watch these pieces of shiit do it too,
Speaker 1: Like it's it's almost like watching a kid, like they
Speaker 1: know they just did a bad like they did something naughty,
Speaker 1: you know where, even like uh fucking melt face elon,
Speaker 1: Like when he was doing it, he looked around afterwards
Speaker 1: to be like, hey, what is about to happen now
Speaker 1: that I just did that? And even Bannon, who looks
Speaker 1: like a guy who just says hello to people that
Speaker 1: way on the street, but even after he did it
Speaker 1: was like like he kind of paused a little bit.
Speaker 1: There was a little bit of a hitch before because
Speaker 1: they're like, I can't believe I'm about to do this thing.
Speaker 1: Like even the worst people in the entire world are like, oh, like,
Speaker 1: what's about to happen? After I do this, like when I.
Speaker 4: Gave somebody the middle finger for the first time when
Speaker 4: I was like six years old, and I'm just like,
Speaker 4: you know, fucked yeah, or that.
Speaker 2: Thing where you like throw a ball at somebody and
Speaker 2: you you somehow are like, oh no, it's accidentally headed
Speaker 2: right for their face, you know, so you turn around
Speaker 2: and pretend it wasn't you, and you blame Frank because
Speaker 2: you're a coward. But like, and it's amazing that even
Speaker 2: Fuenes is a parent, looks like he's having a bit
Speaker 2: of a dark knight of the soul in the same
Speaker 2: kind of way where it's like, oh, wait, you're you're
Speaker 2: actually allowing us to try to do this, Like it's
Speaker 2: one thing to troll and pretend like, wasn't the Holocaust
Speaker 2: kind of cool, dude, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, you're in a position of power,
Speaker 2: you've got there's got to be some part of your
Speaker 2: human soul that is like starting to recognize the terror
Speaker 2: a little bit, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think that's I think that's how I
Speaker 4: don't know, I think he is having fun with like
Speaker 4: this moment where everybody's like looking to him as the
Speaker 4: Nazi to be like, wait that was you would tell
Speaker 4: us if that was a Nazi salute, right right, right?
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think like he's able to, I guess
Speaker 4: because he is an open and avowed Nazi just say
Speaker 4: what it is, which like I think anybody with eyes
Speaker 4: can see that it's But.
Speaker 2: It's like if the fucking teams from four Chan all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, we're like the vice president, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, like yeah, you know, they're like.
Speaker 4: Whoops, right, one of the leaders, like France has a
Speaker 4: lot of like really scary far right parties, and one
Speaker 4: of the leaders was scheduled to speak at Seapack and
Speaker 4: like canceled his appearance after that because even he was like,
Speaker 4: oh that was like a straight up we can't do that, right,
Speaker 4: But I guess, like it just it feels like whatever
Speaker 4: the forces are on high that are like, you know,
Speaker 4: affecting you know, how American society operates. It's just like
Speaker 4: America is the place where like that is okay, and
Speaker 4: like France and you know, Germany and England are places
Speaker 4: like there there are these like protest like pieces of
Speaker 4: protest art that are going up over overseas that there's
Speaker 4: a poster that says goes from zero to nineteen thirty
Speaker 4: nine and three seconds the test will swasta car.
Speaker 1: That is fun. That went up. I think in the
Speaker 1: UK it's great, But like I I feel like people
Speaker 1: are either like too scared to call it out in
Speaker 1: America or they're just like don't care. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 4: But it's like it's starting with the media, the media
Speaker 4: being like allegations are flying that this thing happened in
Speaker 4: this video.
Speaker 1: That we're about to show you. It's just like what
Speaker 1: it's not allegations at that point, is it. And I
Speaker 1: just don't get the Nazi thing too, where it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, if you hate groups of people, Like I'm
Speaker 1: speaking very analytically, but it's like, all right, if you
Speaker 1: hate Jews, you can just hate Jews. You know, like
Speaker 1: like there's a it's not a cool team that you're
Speaker 1: associating with where it's like they lost he you know,
Speaker 1: they lost, they got their ass kicked in a war,
Speaker 1: like he was dumb in a drug addict, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's like, all right, so there's no cool Nazi
Speaker 1: for a reason, you know. So it's it's just such
Speaker 1: an odd thing where you know these people who are
Speaker 1: supposed to love America, and it's like, so do you
Speaker 1: watch Saving Private Ryan the first part and then just
Speaker 1: boo Tom Hanks every time it comes.
Speaker 4: Maybe we've been talking about how how much Tom Hanks
Speaker 4: hatred there is and like speculating maybe it was because
Speaker 4: he was like pai like the person who caught COVID
Speaker 4: and everyone was like, oh no, Dad has COVID, Like
Speaker 4: this is real. But maybe it's that maybe they're just
Speaker 4: like you know, watching Saving Private Ryan, being like this
Speaker 4: movie focus on the bad guy the whole time.
Speaker 2: Still it's it's almost it's similar to the way they
Speaker 2: they hate mister Rogers, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 2: if you watch that Mister Rogers documentary, which is beautiful
Speaker 2: and heartbreaking, there's like footage of Fox News just Base
Speaker 2: calling him effectively a pussy.
Speaker 3: Like it's not you know what I mean. And so
Speaker 3: there's this like group of men in America.
Speaker 2: There's a type of masculinity America that is so lost
Speaker 2: and so feels so un worthy, and they're so desperate
Speaker 2: to feel superior, so desperate to have any kind of
Speaker 2: power that they're like, oh yeah, the guy in the
Speaker 2: jack boots, he he had it together. At least at
Speaker 2: least had a sharp outfit, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like it's truly bizarre.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the only way that he expressed power was
Speaker 1: in like overt acts of violence and weird hand gestures.
Speaker 1: And that's what speaks to me at this moment. And
Speaker 1: that's cyanide pill and horse cock in it. You know,
Speaker 1: it was a big strong you little big. It was
Speaker 1: a huge fear. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be.
Speaker 4: On that. Sini Pill had a horse cocke horse.
Speaker 1: Take a quick break and we'll be right. Then print
Speaker 1: that and we're back. And have you guys seen these
Speaker 1: have you seen this? You heard about this?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Have you seen these po v you wake up in
Speaker 4: historical period videos?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: They're going viral on TikTok. We've got the underscore ai
Speaker 4: o V underscore lab. Yes, so they are AI generated.
Speaker 4: So first of all, I just want to I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have some complaints.
Speaker 1: About these videos a little bit. I do want to say.
Speaker 2: I hope those complaints are somewhat humorous.
Speaker 1: That's what that's I'm with morn on this one. I
Speaker 1: do have a compliment that is in no way humorous.
Speaker 4: Uh, this is the first time I've seen p o
Speaker 4: V used correctly on TikTok. Ever, is it like these
Speaker 4: videos are from the point of view of some a
Speaker 4: character who is waking up like that, he looks down
Speaker 4: and you see his feet type thing.
Speaker 2: Like AI is it's nerdy enough to get the to
Speaker 2: get the perspective correct.
Speaker 4: Yes, as opposed to like POV you just saw like
Speaker 4: this happened and like that. That is a thing that
Speaker 4: is used all over TikTok and they never know what
Speaker 4: POV means.
Speaker 1: Like you can see your own nose right right, You
Speaker 1: could just like.
Speaker 4: Just see yourself. It's just it means nothing. On the
Speaker 4: other hand, it's basically like a movie of the weak
Speaker 4: level commitment to historical accuracy. And this is not shocking
Speaker 4: because not only do they use AI to generate the
Speaker 4: videos like that makes That's what I assumed it meant
Speaker 4: when it was like AI videos. They're using AI and
Speaker 4: like blending together all this different source material to get
Speaker 4: these videos that ostensibly look like they take place in
Speaker 4: ancient Egypt or you know, during the Black Plague. But
Speaker 4: the person also uses AI to do all the research.
Speaker 4: He just asks chat GPT to research a time period
Speaker 4: and then asks for information about like what people would
Speaker 4: have looked like and done. And as we've seen, chat
Speaker 4: GPT and AI fucking sucks at answering questions like that.
Speaker 4: Google asked it for cheese facts for their super Bowl
Speaker 4: commercial and the Cheese Factor came back with that they
Speaker 4: featured in their super Bowl commercial.
Speaker 1: Was a Gouda is I think responsible for like sixty
Speaker 1: percent of cheese consumption in the world, like some some
Speaker 1: fact that is like so obviously false that like a
Speaker 1: cold show that, but not say this is a Nazi salute?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: What the fuck is going on? We're trying to destroy truth.
Speaker 4: So you have when you have a thing that is
Speaker 4: about fact and is saying things definitively, you want it
Speaker 4: to be not true so that when something definitively horrible
Speaker 4: happens that you can be like, we don't know, I mean,
Speaker 4: fucking Google says Guda is responsible for most cheese consumption.
Speaker 4: Obviously that's not true, but you know what is truth anymore?
Speaker 1: Thank you, We'll be right back. You're listening to iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: on ninety six point six. The six.
Speaker 4: Six Wait ninety six is called the six Yeah what
Speaker 4: a weird choice by that.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they were doing over there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but let's let's take quick looks at some of these
Speaker 1: to all these videos, POV, you're a famous painter during
Speaker 1: the Renaissance. Is that I don't want to watch this one?
Speaker 4: So this one's during the Black Plague. A lot of
Speaker 4: horrible shit happening real quick. You see a rat that
Speaker 4: is also a cat walk by Ah, that's what that was. Yes,
Speaker 4: this person is you're buying bread off the filthiest person ever,
Speaker 4: giving the bread to another person, and your hands they
Speaker 4: the hands are always visible.
Speaker 1: That that must be like something that the AI dictates.
Speaker 1: Then you give the give the medicine to an old
Speaker 1: sick man, so there's a story.
Speaker 4: They're not just trying to tell you about history. They
Speaker 4: are storytellers. And then the person falls over dead. So
Speaker 4: it's like, your dumb ass, you shouldn't have given that
Speaker 4: medicine to it.
Speaker 2: Can I just say that those like the Uncali the
Speaker 2: Uncanny Valley thing there is like perfectly executed because the
Speaker 2: eyes of the people suffering from the Black Plague are
Speaker 2: the most haunted eyes I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like that is horrifying, but they all like kind
Speaker 4: of have beautiful eyes. In the case as you're dying
Speaker 4: some plague, you would be everybody would be kind of
Speaker 4: hot and look like they're in like a perfume commercial
Speaker 4: about the Black Death.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they all kind kind of look like Winona Ryder
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your skin is covered in dirt mix because all
Speaker 1: they're doing is like mixing all the faces from media
Speaker 1: and so like it's mostly actors presumably, and.
Speaker 4: People looking a little gaunt. All right, this one, we're
Speaker 4: getting to see Pompeii on the day of the eruption.
Speaker 4: That that that part is weird. I think it's just
Speaker 4: a glitch of the AI. The guy's like holding his
Speaker 4: hand out and then opens his mouth but doesn't Nothing
Speaker 4: is said.
Speaker 1: Well, you know how all the Renaissance painters were like, hey,
Speaker 1: uh like and subscribe to my work before they drew
Speaker 1: it on a ceiling, right exactly? Well fou that I like? Right, So,
Speaker 1: but all this like feels like, I don't know, could
Speaker 1: be realistic. Ish. Uh you know what's coming next?
Speaker 4: This mount Mount Vesuvius, a piece of pottery just like
Speaker 4: flies up for no reason.
Speaker 1: Wait, where is hands? Where are the hands? How am
Speaker 1: I supposed understand what happening if there's no hands. Yeah, POV.
Speaker 4: This person is pretty chill for being in a POV.
Speaker 1: Look at that one, do you guys see towards it?
Speaker 1: They're running towards it just goes full rolling, Emrick.
Speaker 2: It immediately becomes a river of fire and.
Speaker 4: Fire and then there's like a fire laser beam coming
Speaker 4: down the street like it's the fucking the aliens from
Speaker 4: Independence Day are attack like.
Speaker 2: AI red save the cat, you know, with the cat
Speaker 2: in the tree. But it doesn't understand like that. It
Speaker 2: can very easily go too far where it's no longer
Speaker 2: entertaining at all. It's just a nightmare.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: This might be the strip talking, but this is the
Speaker 1: most relaxed I've been in weeks watching that video. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. It really suited me watch.
Speaker 1: There is something soothing about it. I will say, like
Speaker 1: there's just the rhythm of the videos. There's like a
Speaker 1: ya shlomo.
Speaker 4: You feel you feel like you're in a dream like
Speaker 4: that has always been the coolest. I think whoever ultimately
Speaker 4: harnesses what is good about AI will dig into the
Speaker 4: fact that they just feel like a fucking the wildest
Speaker 4: dream you've ever had, you know, like they feel like
Speaker 4: an acid trip mixed with just a dream that you
Speaker 4: remember vividly.
Speaker 2: Is it because it's like it's so real, but it's
Speaker 2: detached from reality in the same way that dreams are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like there's no narrative logic to like the images.
Speaker 4: You have to like kind of harness it and like
Speaker 4: press as hard as you can on both sides, just
Speaker 4: like keep it on the rails.
Speaker 1: A little bit.
Speaker 4: There are some great ones where they don't do that,
Speaker 4: and it's just like person in a laundromat turns into
Speaker 4: like a rocket that is flying through the air, turns
Speaker 4: into like an amazing tropical fish, turns into like all
Speaker 4: these like wild, beautiful visuals.
Speaker 2: I wish they all did and like that. It is
Speaker 2: like POV You're like an eighties musician in a synth band,
Speaker 2: but it just ends with like a volcano and fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Producer Bay dropped the load of the chat that
Speaker 1: says waking up in North Korea and it's it's the
Speaker 1: dumbest video I've ever seen in my life. You have
Speaker 1: to watch it. They totally they totally mailed it in
Speaker 1: on this one. It's like also shorter, like there's so
Speaker 1: much they could have done with it. They always so.
Speaker 4: I feel like they're just like they've skinned one video
Speaker 4: and then just replaced details around. It.
Speaker 1: Seems to be the thing, right.
Speaker 2: Man, Even AI's cutting corners.
Speaker 1: That's even Ai. That is basically all AI does.
Speaker 2: These participations, participation trophies we gave AI.
Speaker 4: So you wake up North Korea in twenty twenty five
Speaker 4: looks like this year an apartment yet an apartment in
Speaker 4: the lower East Side. But okay, actually doesn't look bad. Wait,
Speaker 4: that's not where he was before. And that's the video,
Speaker 4: and now you've learned everything you need to know about AI,
Speaker 4: about North.
Speaker 3: Korea, and Ai they learning about our leader.
Speaker 4: I like that the paper that they're writing on looks
Speaker 4: like somebody wiped their ass with it for some reason,
Speaker 4: Like they can't they can't gotta you gotta reuse your
Speaker 4: toilet paper for writing down notes about dear leader the
Speaker 4: details that his So they the BBC, because they're good
Speaker 4: at content, had historians watch these videos because these videos
Speaker 4: are like blown up. They have like five million views,
Speaker 4: and the historians were pointing out like some of the
Speaker 4: stuff was a little pedantic, a little neil de grass
Speaker 4: tyson Ish where it was like they're reading the glyphics
Speaker 4: from left to right and actually it should be right
Speaker 4: to left. But some of it, some of the things
Speaker 4: they point out is just like oh, that would have
Speaker 4: like made the video so much more interesting. Like they
Speaker 4: point out like they did Chernobyl one and they were
Speaker 4: saying they like made the technology shittier than it actually was,
Speaker 4: and like the technology in Chernobyl and in the Soviet
Speaker 4: Union at that time was actually like pretty impressive in advance,
Speaker 4: which is like not what you would expect. So and
Speaker 4: that's what is interesting about it. Like the they point
Speaker 4: out that, like the bread. You may have noticed that
Speaker 4: every story like focuses on a person holding a piece
Speaker 4: of bread in front of the camera for some reason.
Speaker 4: That's because I don't know that worked for them in
Speaker 4: one video, so they added it to all the rest
Speaker 4: of their videos, just a person holding out bread as
Speaker 4: we do.
Speaker 2: I hope everyone like starts to turn in the bread
Speaker 2: in the car, right, bread a piece.
Speaker 1: Of bread, You're a bread man. Now they start hiring
Speaker 1: editors like because it's got because it's such a big business,
Speaker 1: and it's like I'm where the fun is the bread
Speaker 1: in this video. Where's the bread in the JFK assassination?
Speaker 1: Hold up a piece of bread, shoots through a bread
Speaker 1: silencer like a baguette silencer.
Speaker 2: Dude hit a bunch of butter comes out of the
Speaker 2: back of his head.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's now we're thinking, like, but they were like
Speaker 1: the bread didn't look like that. What did it look like?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah sorry. JFK is just a gingerbread man. She has
Speaker 1: her hair in a bun.
Speaker 3: Big.
Speaker 1: Oh you didn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a driving them.
Speaker 1: It just gets lazier.
Speaker 4: Anyways, this is I I think if you actually used
Speaker 4: a human to do the research before making these videos,
Speaker 4: they could be cool, but they instead cooler. Instead, they
Speaker 4: have just farmed everything out to chat GPT, which are
Speaker 4: you guys encountering people in your lives being like, hey,
Speaker 4: I just like stuck this into chat GPT, like I
Speaker 4: used AI to fill out this thing for for us,
Speaker 4: Like that's so so there you go.
Speaker 1: It's like this fucking sucks. I'm so bad that every
Speaker 1: time it's I found it's either people who are being
Speaker 1: very lazy, and I think that's the best version of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like doing this. I'm going to do
Speaker 1: a chat GPT or they have no creative bone in
Speaker 1: their body whatsoever, and and they're dumb. And I actually
Speaker 1: that sounded mean. I mean, I mean could have met
Speaker 1: any other way, I think.
Speaker 4: But I think it's like for a lot of people,
Speaker 4: it's a it's like a thing to brag about. It's
Speaker 4: like remember when like people first had iPhones and they're like, look,
Speaker 4: this iPhone can like do a lightsaber.
Speaker 1: Yeah it makes a fart noise.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, like it's just a thing to be like,
Speaker 4: I have this thing, and I do I know how
Speaker 4: to use it, even though the thing that it does
Speaker 4: is fucking stupid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. I think that's a better
Speaker 1: point where it's almost like a shiny new toy basically
Speaker 1: like hey, look at this cool new toy that you
Speaker 1: don't know how to use or don't have or have
Speaker 1: chosen not to use. And I'm using it. But then
Speaker 1: it's like that's not a good toy. That toy sucks.
Speaker 1: But there's other toys.
Speaker 4: These people all think this will swear up and down,
Speaker 4: this is the future and like everything is going to
Speaker 4: run by AI.
Speaker 2: Which is I'm having this experience. I don't know why,
Speaker 2: but I was using it for it seemed like it
Speaker 2: was better like a year ago. I don't I'm not like,
Speaker 2: you know whatever, like in my day AI, but like
Speaker 2: I basically learned how to do this kind of podcast
Speaker 2: studio I have in my room almost exclusively from because
Speaker 2: I'm not like very technologically gifted or whatever. Right, But
Speaker 2: now it's like saying, yeah, it seems like it's gotten
Speaker 2: way worse. I don't know, I think I think it has.
Speaker 2: Isn't there something about It's like now it's also drawing
Speaker 2: from AI. So it's like this sort of like like
Speaker 2: this r rot misinformation loop that that's probably why that
Speaker 2: gooda thing happened, you.
Speaker 4: Know, right, Yeah, yeah, just inevitable, like devolving because it's
Speaker 4: pulling on itself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And this isn't isn't very This isn't like a
Speaker 2: funny take. But I really think my thing is Like
Speaker 2: I don't actually think AI is the problem. I think
Speaker 2: capitalism is the problem. Like AI is just a tool,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like, if it's a great tool,
Speaker 2: an artist will use, an actor whoever, will utilize it properly.
Speaker 2: But the problem is is that we're all almost facing
Speaker 2: eviction all the time, so we can't afford to lose
Speaker 2: any fucking jobs. Whereas that that wasn't the problem. We
Speaker 2: could just use this ship to make things easier for us.
Speaker 1: You know, no, not you, not you. You can't use
Speaker 1: it for that.
Speaker 3: The companies can use it for that. Well you understand
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. The companies own their property,
Speaker 1: so they're not going to be infected. They paid off
Speaker 1: their mortgages. But yeah, it's they can use it to
Speaker 1: point yeah yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 4: The the most thoroughly pointless one they made a Titanic
Speaker 4: one like POV you're a person on the Titanic, as
Speaker 4: if the movie that the movie Titanic doesn't exist. But
Speaker 4: then I think they realize that they like, yeah, I
Speaker 4: think they realize it's pointless because halfway through that video,
Speaker 4: like as the hallways are like flooding with seawater, the
Speaker 4: camera like dips below the water and a shark is
Speaker 4: coming coming down the hallway. I think they were just like,
Speaker 4: you know what, the one way we could have made
Speaker 4: Titanic better is if there'd been fucking sharks on the boat.
Speaker 1: I think on pieces of bread, big loaves, a mother
Speaker 1: holding its child. But it's it's a bread, it's a
Speaker 1: bread loaf.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think it's not like I think AI
Speaker 2: has a fucking anxiety disorder. Like every it feels like
Speaker 2: it's having intrusive catastrophizing thoughts like no matter what, it
Speaker 2: can only discuss like terrible catastrophes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it also, Yeah, it just averages out
Speaker 4: things that have come before and then also does what
Speaker 4: you what it thinks you want it to do.
Speaker 1: And so it's just building into expectations. And that is,
Speaker 1: as I've always said, exactly how great art is created.
Speaker 4: Average everything before it, imitate that, but do it in
Speaker 4: a way that you think people want to see it,
Speaker 4: and in no way upsets expectations.
Speaker 1: That's how you create great art.
Speaker 2: Do no curious exploration in any in any capacity. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: push no boundaries.
Speaker 4: Yep, that's right, push PNB pushing no boundaries. Mort Burke,
Speaker 4: what a pleasure having you on the daily Zeitgeist. Where
Speaker 4: where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 2: Such a blast, dude, Thanks for having me Guys always
Speaker 2: super fun. Yeah, you could just find me at mort
Speaker 2: Burke on Instagram and that should I plug a couple things? Yeah,
Speaker 2: sweet hell ya We've got my lovely wife and I
Speaker 2: have a podcast called Rebrand. You can find us Rebrand
Speaker 2: the podcast on Instagram. We got like eighteen episodes out.
Speaker 2: We just did one with Beth May of Dungeons and
Speaker 2: Daddies where we rebranded the oscars. Every episode there's an
Speaker 2: episode we rebranded Ghost, not Ghost the movie that'd be sick.
Speaker 1: We should do that.
Speaker 3: We rebrand Ghosts. We rebranded men. The first one is
Speaker 3: Bagel Bites. So anyway, it's super funny. We're really proud
Speaker 3: of it. Check out Rebrand.
Speaker 2: That's great, and also watch Mythic Quest on Apple TV.
Speaker 2: I'll be pop up popping up in an episode in
Speaker 2: a couple of months.
Speaker 1: Here I think, oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Rebrand Ghosts, the sequel to the movie Ghost, the James
Speaker 4: Cameron one where he walked into the office, ghost S
Speaker 4: dollar Sign.
Speaker 3: It's just a throuple. So it's like two ghosts on
Speaker 3: Patrick Swayze.
Speaker 1: When is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 3: I was looking.
Speaker 2: I always want to go like the the The Internet
Speaker 2: is always like hearing gone here and gone. So I
Speaker 2: always like reading old Rob Delaney tweets because he was
Speaker 2: such a hilarious like he was so funny on tweets
Speaker 2: and everybody immediately forgets about it all the time. Here's
Speaker 2: so Here's one from twenty twenty three, robbed Delaney. My
Speaker 2: wife wanted to make love tonight, had to take a
Speaker 2: rain check. I'm still so fucking angry about the Chinese
Speaker 2: spy balloon. I've never known rage or fear like this.
Speaker 1: That one. Wow.
Speaker 2: I just like it was huge and then we forgot
Speaker 2: about it. Like I love we have disappeared, like the
Speaker 2: don't taste me bro guy. I just like how quickly
Speaker 2: we move on.
Speaker 1: I like turtles so many good things. I love that.
Speaker 2: I thought you were just saying you like turtles. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what I do like I am like that kid on
Speaker 2: the internet. I love you can't argue I love turtles.
Speaker 4: Blake, where can people find you their work media you've
Speaker 4: been enjoying.
Speaker 1: People can find me at Blake Wexler on all social media.
Speaker 1: I have some live dates coming up. March thirteenth, I'm
Speaker 1: at the Comedy for It and Fort Collins, Colorado, and
Speaker 1: then March fifteenth, this is a big one. If there's
Speaker 1: any zeitgang in La, I'm headlining the Ice House in Pasadena.
Speaker 1: Those tickets are available. It's a Saturday at seven. It's
Speaker 1: very reasonable. So March fifteenth, Ice House in Pasadena and
Speaker 1: then April fourth through fifth, albeit sissyfis in Minneapolis, and
Speaker 1: that LA show is gonna have some fun special guests
Speaker 1: on it. Not that you need them, I'm enough. And
Speaker 1: the work of social media that has been kind of
Speaker 1: torturing me in a both I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: I mean it's bad. It's speaking of these AI videos.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they get sent to me, maybe
Speaker 1: because I can't stop watching them, But what's called Vibe
Speaker 1: Generator Official, and they make the most fucked up like
Speaker 1: it's like what if countries were animals, but all the
Speaker 1: animals are like jacked and shirtless, know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: And then you're like.
Speaker 4: Where they cast various things and they're like the like
Speaker 4: America the movie, and then it's like different actors playing
Speaker 4: various like but they're all played by yeah.
Speaker 1: Buff and like shirt they're all like and then there's
Speaker 1: one called uh sorry, Tidy World Police and it's like
Speaker 1: basically they have like young boys from each country next
Speaker 1: to one of these beasts like from the country it's
Speaker 1: it's crazy. So if you want to lose your damn mine,
Speaker 1: don't watch like, honestly, don't watch these, don't watch these.
Speaker 1: Edit this all out. It's uh, it's crazy. It's the
Speaker 1: most it's worse than those pov Those POV videos are
Speaker 1: like Oscar bait compared to whatever the fuck these things are.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. So if you want to see jacked animals
Speaker 1: for some reason.
Speaker 2: Check if you turned into a furry like if you
Speaker 2: would be forced to have a fetish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a very specific one. So for yeah,
Speaker 1: work of media.
Speaker 4: I've been enjoying presumably that right, I will call I
Speaker 4: just This is a little news item that we missed.
Speaker 1: But this is from NBA sent Sentel. Wait, oh, is
Speaker 1: this gonna be fake? Never mind? I think awed jack.
Speaker 4: Did you read that the Mavericks organization announced the will
Speaker 4: band fans from wearing Luka Doncic jerseys.
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny. No, but that's sure not real.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you this is now a middle age self
Speaker 2: help podcast.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, can you help me? Is this wrong? This
Speaker 1: one's fake?
Speaker 4: I've just been enjoying this onion headline from a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago, Happy person must either be stupid or evil.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 4: I think is really good for the moment. And then
Speaker 4: the body of the article there's a twist at the end.
Speaker 1: He just got some.
Speaker 4: Ketamine and that's why he's happy. He's clarified that he
Speaker 4: will be unhappy again later. There's a third option, that's right. Uh.
Speaker 4: You can find me on Twitter at jack underscorel Brian.
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Speaker 4: You can go to the episode wherever you're listening to
Speaker 4: this and check out the description, and there you will
Speaker 4: find the footnotes, which is where we link off to
Speaker 4: the information that we.
Speaker 1: Talked about in today's episode.
Speaker 4: We also loick off to a song that we think
Speaker 4: you might enjoy. When Miles is out, super producer Justin
Speaker 4: comes through with the recommendation, super Producer Justin, is there
Speaker 4: a song that you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I found the song on SoundCloud the other
Speaker 6: day and after our recording yesterday, Miles and Bay and
Speaker 6: I just stayed behind and jammed out to this. And
Speaker 6: this is a re edit of a popular song system
Speaker 6: of a Down's Chop Suey, but it's reimagined as a
Speaker 6: Jersey club style dance track. And that description might turn
Speaker 6: off some of you, but I promise missing out. It's
Speaker 6: it's so fun you.
Speaker 4: Whoever that turns off, I don't want you to listen
Speaker 4: to this podcast.
Speaker 1: It's not for you. It's not for you.
Speaker 6: I don't know how to pronounce the name of these
Speaker 6: artists because I just found out about them yesterday. But
Speaker 6: this is Chop Suey, osive O, S I V E
Speaker 6: and think pink. There's no eyes in either of those words.
Speaker 6: And this is their re edit.
Speaker 1: And you can find that song in the.
Speaker 4: Footnotes footnote Uh yeah, go find them in the footnotes
Speaker 4: after this.
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