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Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
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Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist in our third seat. Another tdzy Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer, brilliant stand up comedian you've seen on all
Speaker 1: the TVs and stages. It's Blair Saga up the Daily
Speaker 1: night guys. It's great to be back. I miss you
Speaker 1: guys so much. Oh my goodness, it's so great to
Speaker 1: have you back. What a what a combo we have? Hey,
Speaker 1: Blair the books? Yeah, I know, what a surprise. Miss
Speaker 1: Chris Crofton. Uh, this is exciting. This is I mean,
Speaker 1: this is We'll see, we'll see how this goes. This
Speaker 1: is a concoction. Yeah, hell of a hell of a Friday,
Speaker 1: ak Monday Monday. Yes, a lot of Friday energy coming
Speaker 1: to you on this month. Brilliant case of the Mondays today,
Speaker 1: if that's right? Yeah, the Monday scaris. People say that,
Speaker 1: don't they get? Yeah, Sunday scary, Sunday scary? What's Monday?
Speaker 1: Then the Monday? Just a case of the Mondays. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a case of they just don't even come
Speaker 1: up with a word. Yeah, and mordant mondays manic mondays.
Speaker 1: That that seemed off to me. My Mondays are never manic.
Speaker 1: There other Mausoleum Monday, Yeah, Mausoleum Monday is pretty good.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Blair is like I saw Blair, I met well.
Speaker 1: I don't know Blair well. I just know her from Daily's,
Speaker 1: like guys, but I met her through Johnny Pembertons and
Speaker 1: um and well at least he told me about her
Speaker 1: comedy and stuff. Anyway, I just am a big fan
Speaker 1: and I'm a big fan of us. Any comedy that
Speaker 1: fucking Blair does about food is all. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just wish she did whole specials about just food, and
Speaker 1: that's all about French fries, shoe string fries. Her out
Speaker 1: Blair's outrage about shoe string fries is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite fucking things. I don't think you want to humiliate me.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's my favorite. And this is the job
Speaker 1: of the co host is that you talk about the
Speaker 1: favorite jokes that the guest has done and then do
Speaker 1: an impression of them. Is that right? That's usually I'm
Speaker 1: so flattered. I that you even remember that joke from
Speaker 1: a long time ago, because I can barely remember what
Speaker 1: I had for breakfast this morning, So look gratitude. I
Speaker 1: don't really like shoe shing fries. Um. My thing about them,
Speaker 1: honestly is that you have to get a whole It's humiliating.
Speaker 1: And because you have to get a whole handful just
Speaker 1: to get the equivalent of one regular fry, it's like
Speaker 1: a horse eating. Hey, it's like you, it's it's hell,
Speaker 1: it's horror horrible. Hell. Yeah. I like it also just
Speaker 1: because it's like, how often are you hanging around roller
Speaker 1: rinks or something? You know what I mean? Like, when
Speaker 1: is this coming up? Surprised dining restaurant? I got it wrong,
Speaker 1: Blair only eats at the finest steakhouses. You're talking about
Speaker 1: pump I do love us. I do love a stickhouse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're talking about amused boches. I'm so sick of amused.
Speaker 1: What is something from your search history? Okay, there's there's
Speaker 1: too much in my search history, and I actually maintain it.
Speaker 1: I don't like being surveiled, but I do like my
Speaker 1: YouTube recommendation fee to be accurate. So okay, this is
Speaker 1: the penultiment which I find myself and a recent search
Speaker 1: term how to get between the terminals at Dallas Fort
Speaker 1: Worth International Airport. This came out of a recent traumatic
Speaker 1: incident where I was I barely escaped from Florida. Every
Speaker 1: time I go to that state, it's very difficult to leave,
Speaker 1: and then my mere presence there is actually in violation
Speaker 1: of a lot of the new laws of that Ron
Speaker 1: De Santis and crew have passed. So I'm a crime
Speaker 1: in Florida and so a fugitive and I try to
Speaker 1: get out and they just try to drag me back in.
Speaker 1: And in this case, I was trapped in another state
Speaker 1: with a wonky governor Dallas because American Airlines decided they're
Speaker 1: just not in the flying business anymore. Yeah, they're in
Speaker 1: the shuffle you around to different broken planes business for
Speaker 1: seventeen straight hours. Yep. Yeah, the options have become limited
Speaker 1: on the flying space. By the way, I just I
Speaker 1: hoping that your search has you said how to I
Speaker 1: thought you were going to say citizen, Just like, what
Speaker 1: does that mean? I was like, this is very late
Speaker 1: to be googling. It's never okay, it's never too late
Speaker 1: to learn and grow, all right, So don't shame knowledge seeking. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a good point, or the full searches how to
Speaker 1: citizen legal in Florida, question mark need to know banging
Speaker 1: on door? What were you doing? And just like personal
Speaker 1: business in Florida or I have no personal business in Florida.
Speaker 1: This was a financial obligation. I was there actually making
Speaker 1: my PBS show America Outdoors. We're on our second season
Speaker 1: and we were filming in Florida along the Swannee River.
Speaker 1: It was a really beautiful time if you don't count
Speaker 1: the food options on the side of the road to
Speaker 1: the fact that Dollar General has monopoly on all retail space.
Speaker 1: But the people, the nature, the connection to nature and
Speaker 1: Florida is underrated. It's it's really beautiful, it really it really.
Speaker 1: I was humbled by my time there, honestly. And I
Speaker 1: was in North Florida where I have not spent really
Speaker 1: much time in my life. So it was a voyage
Speaker 1: of discovery. Yeah, and I was ready to come home,
Speaker 1: you know. And Fort Worth didn't want to let you.
Speaker 1: American Airlines at Dallas Fort Worth. We cannot just blame
Speaker 1: the worst airport in the country. We must also assign
Speaker 1: responsibility to the worst airline. It's their hub though, right,
Speaker 1: They're like, we want you to come here, we want
Speaker 1: to see, we want you to see what we've done
Speaker 1: with the place. It was, it was, it was. It
Speaker 1: was exacerbated by the fact that I've had I have
Speaker 1: experiencing some hip panes and hip injury, and so the
Speaker 1: size of the airport truly becomes like a health hazard. Sure,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's everything's bigger in Texas. Like it's
Speaker 1: not just words people say, it's like design principles for
Speaker 1: worse living. And these these folks were just determined to
Speaker 1: put me through my paces. My pace was off. So
Speaker 1: the whole enterprise was physically an emotionally quite quite painful.
Speaker 1: I did there were moments of light, you know, some
Speaker 1: people helped me out. I had fellow passengers helping carry stuff.
Speaker 1: I had dudes with the cards helping me try to
Speaker 1: move through that airport at times, so all all was
Speaker 1: not lost and uh and we started. Uh. I guess
Speaker 1: it would call a hate group, like we hate American
Speaker 1: airlines together, and so that was It just feels like
Speaker 1: like the one hate group I could support. I definitely
Speaker 1: don't tend to support hate groups, but this one just
Speaker 1: feels really justified by based on evidence, and I'm all
Speaker 1: about evidence space choices. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I hope
Speaker 1: they're not a sponsor of your show. They are, but
Speaker 1: it's okay they I mean, they usually give us a
Speaker 1: pretty wed like an airship should. Yeah, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like everything in Texas is just contingent, like designed,
Speaker 1: contingent on the idea that you have access to a
Speaker 1: pickup truck. At all times. I thought I was getting
Speaker 1: from gate to gate, They're like, well, you're gonna wanna
Speaker 1: hopping or pick up? What do you mean? You know
Speaker 1: you don't travel with a pickup It would I actually
Speaker 1: my life would have been easier if I had a
Speaker 1: pickup truck and like mini guns, right yeah, always, and
Speaker 1: that feels like the Texas way. Yeah. There was a
Speaker 1: moment where I was like, maybe I'm just supposed to
Speaker 1: live here. Maybe I should get a truck and like
Speaker 1: three guns and just sorry, California, We're done. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: this is where I live now. That's always a good
Speaker 1: feeling when you're traveling and your your brain just says,
Speaker 1: maybe this is just where we live now. That was
Speaker 1: because I was like, dude, it was a fifty two
Speaker 1: minute layover became seventeen hours. Yes, like we got the
Speaker 1: free hotel thing happened. Yeah, And but at every turn,
Speaker 1: every turn, something went wrong, something like the hotel I
Speaker 1: went to. I thought I was smart. I made a
Speaker 1: reservation using some credit card points because I was like,
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be going to the free hotel. I've got points.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say at the hotel right at the airport,
Speaker 1: because no one thinks of that. And I get there
Speaker 1: and I'm so excited, and I have my reservations on
Speaker 1: the font. I ben prepared for the backlash, for the resistance,
Speaker 1: for the squashing of myself. It's like, here's my reservation code.
Speaker 1: We're good. And she's like, that's for tomorrow night, and
Speaker 1: I was like, no, no, it's for today, March eleventh.
Speaker 1: Yet today, because of the beauty of time and the
Speaker 1: amount of it that American Airlines wasted, today had become Saturday.
Speaker 1: So I gets to my hotel. We were like two
Speaker 1: fifteen in the morning. I have to get up at
Speaker 1: six to try to make the next light out. We
Speaker 1: get on the plane. It's the third plane we've been on,
Speaker 1: and the crew was like, we got you. We don't
Speaker 1: know what happened with those jokers last night? We got
Speaker 1: you and we're like, okay, great, yeah, we like high five,
Speaker 1: like we think the war is over, you know, like
Speaker 1: everybody's people are kissing in the aisle like it's great.
Speaker 1: You know, babies are being conceived, and the captain has
Speaker 1: to come on the microphone and he's like, folks, I
Speaker 1: can't believe I have to say this, but something wrong
Speaker 1: with the plane. So we're gonna need everybody to get off. Ye,
Speaker 1: go to terminal five miles from here and try again.
Speaker 1: We will get you home. And at this point, babies
Speaker 1: are you know, screaming profanities. Yeah, yeah, so yeah. Google
Speaker 1: helped a little this helping me understand that airport because
Speaker 1: the last time I was there, I saw a barber
Speaker 1: shop in it, like in the terminal, and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: that's a business for regular life, but if you live there,
Speaker 1: you do need a haircut. That makes sense, Yeah, thrown
Speaker 1: depots in there, right. I do remember seeing the hotel
Speaker 1: being like, what, like, I guess I could see, but
Speaker 1: but that is a bad sign that the hotel should
Speaker 1: not be that close. If you shouldn't be like yeah,
Speaker 1: Gate thirty seven a Gate thirty seven b highest regency gigs.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, these are not the same choices. It's
Speaker 1: been bad enough for long enough that they built a barbecurity.
Speaker 1: They know, like the whole hotel is approved. Yes, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: nail clippers in the entire hotel. What is something you
Speaker 1: think is overrated? I was It's so interesting because I
Speaker 1: was looking at these and I was like, Man, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be difficult for me because I actually have
Speaker 1: a list of things that are annoying me. Let them know.
Speaker 1: It's like the first thing on my list, and I
Speaker 1: think overrated. The first thing on my list definitely is
Speaker 1: the term latinext. I'm so tired of hearing it, and
Speaker 1: I just did a talk on it also at Redline
Speaker 1: where I kind of had to like shares information where
Speaker 1: I'm like, I really don't understand why we're kind of
Speaker 1: persisting in this space, and I don't think a lot
Speaker 1: of people really are having that discussion. The majority of
Speaker 1: people in the community don't really use it. So I
Speaker 1: finally like, it's absolutely annoying to me that it's still here.
Speaker 1: It's sticking around, and it's everywhere I can't escape it. Right,
Speaker 1: is the word that you prefer is Latino like for
Speaker 1: broad or what what? What is the preferred word for you?
Speaker 1: For me, I prefer to just be called Puerto Rican
Speaker 1: in Cuban. Sure, it's much more descriptive, right, so that
Speaker 1: you understand what my cultural nuance is, right, myle you? Yes?
Speaker 1: And so the term Latino in general to me or
Speaker 1: Hispanic or all of these other kind of terms that
Speaker 1: jumble us all in together, just continue this process of
Speaker 1: us being all seen as the same, right, continuing that
Speaker 1: monolitht So for me, it's kind of like Latin X.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, you've heard it, right, you can
Speaker 1: shine a turd, but it's still a turd, right, You're
Speaker 1: trying to modernize a term that's already like super offensive
Speaker 1: and messed up. So like, I really don't understand the
Speaker 1: need for the hegemonic like nature of it, right for
Speaker 1: it to now have an English ending, like have the
Speaker 1: woke version of the hegemonic insulting term. Yeah, we're good here, okay,
Speaker 1: I put Yeah, well that's good. Yeah, I think informative. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good to hear about that, because I've heard a
Speaker 1: little bit about it in general. Yeah, that it's sort
Speaker 1: of been imposed from outside or brought in by people
Speaker 1: who didn't ask for new words or additional words that
Speaker 1: aren't is helpful, right, And there was already like a
Speaker 1: gender inclusive word in Spanish, so latine already existing. So
Speaker 1: it's interesting to see the X kind of get thrown
Speaker 1: in where you're like, dude, we don't we don't use
Speaker 1: an X ever, Like it's there, but don't talk about it,
Speaker 1: like how did you put it at the end of
Speaker 1: the word, Like this is so confusing, And it just
Speaker 1: seems like English now is really starting to meld in
Speaker 1: and we've kind of moved from a new level of
Speaker 1: Spanglish to just the bastard treat of these languages together.
Speaker 1: Yeah wow, what what is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 1: Something I think it's underrated? Is this is going to
Speaker 1: be controversial? Checking your luggage when you're flying. I usually
Speaker 1: carry on. I checked, had a bunch of bags, so
Speaker 1: I checked them all. And I don't know what I've
Speaker 1: been avoiding this whole time, Like it it went fine.
Speaker 1: It was nice to not have to I had a connection,
Speaker 1: so it was nice to not have to schlept bags
Speaker 1: from here to there. This whole time, I've been crapping
Speaker 1: on people who aren't able to get their stuff into
Speaker 1: a carry on. I think I'm I think I'm check
Speaker 1: bags for life. Now. It's it's really hit or miss.
Speaker 1: It's when what when it doesn't go well, that's like
Speaker 1: they lose the bag, the bag takes an hour to arrive,
Speaker 1: as it did on my last flight that I took
Speaker 1: where we checked the bag. It's it's a bummer. It's real.
Speaker 1: It's really tough to just be like kind of waiting
Speaker 1: there with everybody that you were just on the plane
Speaker 1: with and never wanted to see again. One yeah, right,
Speaker 1: right right. You're like, I'm standing next to this this
Speaker 1: guy who is a way too open with his feet. Well,
Speaker 1: take my shoes off again. Yeah, let me learn more
Speaker 1: about you, bro. What kind of bag do you store
Speaker 1: your socks in? Because I think you just have the
Speaker 1: one pair. But also, like i gotta say, I'm with
Speaker 1: bridget on this, some team bridget On on the checking
Speaker 1: bags when it works out, because I'm I'm a sucker
Speaker 1: and I love that moment. For me, it always feels
Speaker 1: like the climax moment of a rom com. You know,
Speaker 1: when I see my bag again and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: we've been you know, we've been hundreds of miles away
Speaker 1: and here you are coming towards me, and I know
Speaker 1: it's you. I knew from the first, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Like, you know, I'm like hugging the bag
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, yeah, I don't know anthropomorphizing. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't think my bag cares about me the way I
Speaker 1: care about Oh, don't be so hard on yourself. Don't
Speaker 1: say that, Ben. Do you guys tie a little ribbon?
Speaker 1: Do you have? What's your How do you know it
Speaker 1: at first sight? Because bags are I do feel like
Speaker 1: bags have evolved, like the way that nature keeps evolving
Speaker 1: into crabs, like animals keep evolving into crabs. I feel
Speaker 1: like all bags have evolved into the same, like black, gray,
Speaker 1: hard bodied, rectangular suitcase that looks like it could have
Speaker 1: been made by, you know, one of the three Internet bags.
Speaker 1: Do you guys have a little little piece of spirit,
Speaker 1: a little piece of jazz on there? I do. I
Speaker 1: have very distinctive stickers, So I usually travel with two bags.
Speaker 1: One is like very distinctive, no one whatever mistake it
Speaker 1: for theirs. It's like bright orange, definitely mine. The other
Speaker 1: is the classic black away bag, which I think I
Speaker 1: did get for free from for like making a podcast.
Speaker 1: Add like everybody has we all had everybody who had
Speaker 1: a podcast got that bag. We all had podcasts. So
Speaker 1: everybody has that bag now. And it's a good bag.
Speaker 1: It's durable. I've had it for years. I'm like, like, truly,
Speaker 1: it is like the day you start a podcast that
Speaker 1: shows up at your house with your microphone. But so
Speaker 1: I have to have all kinds of distinctive stickers on it, right,
Speaker 1: because there are so many of those bags. And I
Speaker 1: also to that question, I like to have, like I
Speaker 1: have no stickers on a car because I feel like
Speaker 1: that's uh presumptuous. Somehow people are already driving. They don't
Speaker 1: want to have to learn more about me. I'll just
Speaker 1: use my turn signals and be quiet. But but like,
Speaker 1: like with the bag, especially because they're relatively ubiquitous and
Speaker 1: I'm partially colored blind, I have a bunch of like
Speaker 1: just travel stickers, the ones they do from when you
Speaker 1: check a bag, and I just haven't haven't cleaned it.
Speaker 1: So I'm always thinking, oh, yeah, there's the one, the
Speaker 1: beat up, shitty one. I knew you from the first
Speaker 1: welcome back, but you know, but I think it is
Speaker 1: smart when people have you know, sometimes people make a statement.
Speaker 1: Everybody makes a statement right at different times. And I
Speaker 1: kind of love seeing weird bags in the baggage claim.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm like, oh, this guy either is super
Speaker 1: into snowboarding or maybe it's a cello right. One thing
Speaker 1: I do know is he has very specific views on
Speaker 1: you know, to bet back in the nineties. Sure from
Speaker 1: is like free to bet thing. I think that's cool.
Speaker 1: I think that's cool. And if you check a bag,
Speaker 1: like to your point, Bridget, you can, especially if you
Speaker 1: have a connecting flight. It's like the logistics, it's just
Speaker 1: sort of magical. I can never do that. I could
Speaker 1: never figure out how to follow every you know, watch
Speaker 1: every falling sparrow from like one airplane to the next.
Speaker 1: But it's oppressive, Yeah, Ben, to your point about that
Speaker 1: you don't put stickers on your cars. Do you ever
Speaker 1: see one of those cars that just has way too
Speaker 1: many stickers on it where it's like you are trying
Speaker 1: to tell out way too many things, even if there
Speaker 1: are things that I like or agree with at a
Speaker 1: certain point, it's like it makes you're advertising too much
Speaker 1: to the world, even if it's things that I'm aligned
Speaker 1: with us too much. Yeah, yeah, it's too much. And
Speaker 1: they're always like usually include get off my ass, and
Speaker 1: it's like, will you clearly want me somewhere close to
Speaker 1: you so that I can read the dissertation that you've
Speaker 1: put together. Those stickers, the bumper stickers are like, so,
Speaker 1: I don't know. They do not have a fact industry
Speaker 1: wide fact checker, I will say, because there are quotes
Speaker 1: attributed to Einstein that I'm pretty sure are like van
Speaker 1: Halen lyrics or something. You know, what, what do you
Speaker 1: guys think about vanity plates? Oh? I used to have one.
Speaker 1: What you're saying? It said love This is so cheesy.
Speaker 1: It said love to teach, because I was a teacher
Speaker 1: at the time and I really did love to teach.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, that's a good one. That's a good
Speaker 1: I like the ones where you know, I'm never going
Speaker 1: to condone being high in traffic. So for the purposes
Speaker 1: of this story, I was writing Shotgun and I got
Speaker 1: to the point where I thought regular license plates were
Speaker 1: vanity plates that I just smart enough to understand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, h four, no, no, no, keep following
Speaker 1: that guy. I got to write this down. Follow that man.
Speaker 1: Decode also there was a study that I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's been replicated widely, but it's an interesting thought,
Speaker 1: is that there was a study that the people who
Speaker 1: are most likely to engage in road rage incidents were
Speaker 1: It had nothing to do with like, you know, so
Speaker 1: some of the things that you might have liked went
Speaker 1: whether they were in a pickup truck or like a
Speaker 1: different kind of truck, which would have been my first guess.
Speaker 1: It was actually people who had bumper stickers were like
Speaker 1: that was the only statistically significant differentiator between like how
Speaker 1: likely they were to get into a road rage incident,
Speaker 1: and like, I think the theory was that if you
Speaker 1: have bumper stickers, you view your car as like an
Speaker 1: extension of your personhood more than anything else, and so
Speaker 1: like you view it as a personal insult if you're
Speaker 1: cut off, as opposed to just a thing that happens
Speaker 1: to everyone. You know. Wow, this is like one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I don't drive is because I feel
Speaker 1: like I would be a road rage person. Like I
Speaker 1: drive a little bit, but I really don't drive a lot.
Speaker 1: Uh when I'm behind the wheel, Like if somebody is
Speaker 1: trying to murder, like kind of box me out to
Speaker 1: merge I will kill us both, like I don't care,
Speaker 1: like we will die in this car. Yeah, I get.
Speaker 1: I believe that. I believe the bumper sticker to road
Speaker 1: rage correlation. Yeah, like you probably feel much more like
Speaker 1: this is my this car is my property and an
Speaker 1: extension of me, and I will protect it, which I
Speaker 1: hate to say. It's like an instinct that I get.
Speaker 1: And I wonder if they I've never had a bumper sticker,
Speaker 1: but I do wonder if when you have a bumper sticker,
Speaker 1: you start assuming people are driving a certain way around
Speaker 1: you based on You're defensive. You're like, oh, you don't
Speaker 1: like Einstein, you don't believe that I ran a half marathon. Well, like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this to the y. You're you're you're
Speaker 1: like laying on your horn and to yourself. You're just muttering, Well,
Speaker 1: this guy doesn't fucking coexist. That's right. You know, I
Speaker 1: tell you one thing. I uh, I see it, and
Speaker 1: this is just further cementing my no bumper stickers on
Speaker 1: my car situation. You know, it's it's great, You're right, though,
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot. I think people always want to
Speaker 1: sort of tell a story, right because we are the
Speaker 1: stories we tell ourselves. But to you guys, point how
Speaker 1: many should there be a limit? Should somebody like right
Speaker 1: right to our local representatives and say, hey, I know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff going on, but like three
Speaker 1: bumper stickers, Max, you know, like let's bring people together.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I believe there should
Speaker 1: be a limit on bumper stickers. And also signs in
Speaker 1: your yard. Like again, even even if it signs of
Speaker 1: things that I agree with, it's like we get it
Speaker 1: plenty three. You don't need you, you don't need to, like,
Speaker 1: let's keep it reasonable, return exact. And some people like
Speaker 1: try to build commit Like there there's houses that are
Speaker 1: like we do this this week and we're gonna like
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it reminds me of like those
Speaker 1: like mini library things that I think are cool, but
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are like this is
Speaker 1: how we build community, and it's like, well, you're not
Speaker 1: really interacting with anyone. Feels like yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm glad those exist. I just don't know that they're
Speaker 1: the answer. This just a Jack o'bride library hater. I
Speaker 1: told you that was an offline thought, I'm still workshopping,
Speaker 1: so I mean, Jack, it's not like you ever see
Speaker 1: like crowds of people hanging around a free little library,
Speaker 1: you know, talking about the buck. We have one like
Speaker 1: right next like in between our neighbor's house and our house,
Speaker 1: and it's yeah, you don't. You don't see people like
Speaker 1: hang out there, but you see people like walk up
Speaker 1: by themselves. It gets a lot more traffic than I
Speaker 1: would have expected. It's pretty, it's definitely useful. It's just yeah,
Speaker 1: people don't hang together at the at the free yard library.
Speaker 1: As a free yard library we got. I do want
Speaker 1: to give a quick shout out nothing Durella is here
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and activists artist friend of mine named Aileen
Speaker 1: Loyd has created on the heels of the book banning
Speaker 1: stuff that's happening around the country, has created a what
Speaker 1: what she's calling a little contentious free library, which is
Speaker 1: all banned books like that. Yeah, yeah, she's way cooler
Speaker 1: than me, but but yeah, it's like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's a real problem if you're preventing people from being
Speaker 1: able to encounter knowledge, you know, at a at a
Speaker 1: formative age than that. I don't know, yeah, different might
Speaker 1: different in the future. That might be the like we'll
Speaker 1: all have to have little libraries where we give out
Speaker 1: books that are banned else where because yeah, their schools
Speaker 1: aren't doing it in some states. So all right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll come back and get
Speaker 1: into the Taco Bell metaverse wedding and we're back and
Speaker 1: am I like when you think of a Dutch city
Speaker 1: or like the Netherlands or Amsterdam or you know, like
Speaker 1: do you pick what? What? What do you picture? How
Speaker 1: do you what do you see in your mind's eye?
Speaker 1: I went there once, so I know, but I just
Speaker 1: see like rivers and bikes and people walking in those
Speaker 1: um waffles with powdered sugar on them. But I do
Speaker 1: think it's a majestic place of beauty where it's like
Speaker 1: sort of feels like it's from a children's story. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: picture like fucking people in exercise clothing, like hot people
Speaker 1: and extra size closing clothing, like walking by canals and
Speaker 1: talking about like you know how much healthcare they have? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just going to the doctor. B Yeah, Like I think
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to the dentist today because my
Speaker 1: two is not really aching, but it's starting to like
Speaker 1: I can feel something coming on. Yeah, do you think
Speaker 1: he would I should go Hans, And Hans is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it should go. It's free. Just drop in
Speaker 1: at the dentists. Maybe maybe go for a two fer
Speaker 1: and get a get a health check up. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then also like Windmills, I guess, you know, with like
Speaker 1: some guy who's like wise inside it or some lady
Speaker 1: who's wise with like a hump and they was like,
Speaker 1: don't forget to use moisturize rhodion or whatever that stuff
Speaker 1: you were saying was rhodesia or whatever rodeola. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like that is in my brain. And like
Speaker 1: I assumed that was always the way it was. And
Speaker 1: apparently during the like fifties, sixties, seventies, they bought into
Speaker 1: the American style like city building, and they like bought
Speaker 1: in heart. They like filled up the like some of
Speaker 1: the their canals with cement and replaced the canals with
Speaker 1: like highways, and there's just like these pictures where it's
Speaker 1: just like four lanes of traffic in the middle of
Speaker 1: these cities that we now associate with like Mike riding
Speaker 1: and wait, so they change that. They like they they
Speaker 1: removed the cement from the canals. Yeah yeah, what a
Speaker 1: what and what happened? What what made them come to
Speaker 1: some radical decision to change everything? So like among things
Speaker 1: like you know, it just being a nightmare to live
Speaker 1: in a city that is just jam packed, Like you
Speaker 1: walk out your front door in a car whizz by,
Speaker 1: like yeah yeah yeah like America. Yeah yeah, So people
Speaker 1: like children were getting hit by cars all the time,
Speaker 1: like and you know, the air was like disgusting, but
Speaker 1: it was like a I guess it was nineteen seventy one,
Speaker 1: the daughter of In nineteen seventy one, three thousand people
Speaker 1: were killed by cars. Five hundred of people killed that
Speaker 1: year where children, And that probably happened today in America,
Speaker 1: right yeah, I mean they like so today we have
Speaker 1: three times the number of automobile deaths that they do
Speaker 1: and like per capita and the reason for that. So
Speaker 1: one of the children that was killed was the daughter
Speaker 1: of a journalist, and he wrote a front page article
Speaker 1: that with the headlines stopped murdering our children, and that
Speaker 1: just like that. It wasn't like everyone was like, yes,
Speaker 1: you're right, we should stop murdering children. Like it was
Speaker 1: a long process, but like and there were other factors,
Speaker 1: like it was there was like gas prices started shooting
Speaker 1: up because it was the seventies. So I can't imagine
Speaker 1: a reality like that where gas costs too much. They
Speaker 1: were paying like seven dollars right now, right, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: fucking crazy. Yeah, you know what you is here in
Speaker 1: Tennessee like three fifty Yeah, which is still like too much,
Speaker 1: Yeah it is, but like yeah, that's how they keep
Speaker 1: it low, and then they can they jack it up
Speaker 1: for liberals because liberals can be like, oh, well, you
Speaker 1: know it's because of this and that and maybe because
Speaker 1: of supply chains and you know, like but you know,
Speaker 1: Republicans are like they have to keep it artificially low
Speaker 1: and like red states because otherwise the Red states will
Speaker 1: go crazy because they just do like God tells us
Speaker 1: the gas prices. Yeah, who's the you know, like it's
Speaker 1: just funny if the gas prices were seven dollars here,
Speaker 1: because everyone here is a conservative, they would they would
Speaker 1: they're storm the capital again. Yeah, just every day, just
Speaker 1: keep storm. Jesus names the gas prices. Who is interfering
Speaker 1: with the with Jesus? Yeah, with gas Jesus. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: really is. It seems to be that simple. The like
Speaker 1: companies were just like we need to we we like money,
Speaker 1: and like the pandemic slowed down how much money was
Speaker 1: coming in, so I wanted to open back up. We
Speaker 1: are going to charge more money for everything. Like that
Speaker 1: really seems to be the more distance we get from it,
Speaker 1: like all the all the gas companies are having just
Speaker 1: like record breaking profits. But like the reason I like
Speaker 1: the story is so interesting is because, like it just
Speaker 1: I assume, I think we like tend to get focused
Speaker 1: on like the way things are and assume they've always
Speaker 1: been that way. And like there's this one drawing of
Speaker 1: like what Amsterdam was supposed to look like, and it
Speaker 1: looks exactly like a city in Texas. Like it's just
Speaker 1: you know being choked by like all these lanes of
Speaker 1: like highways and stuff like it, or like the b
Speaker 1: QE like in you know, like parts of New York
Speaker 1: that are just like all these highway interchanges and shit.
Speaker 1: But they like we're able to back away from that
Speaker 1: because like that that article led to a movement. People
Speaker 1: started like protesting and just like laying down in the streets,
Speaker 1: and like you know, after gas prices shot up, it
Speaker 1: became fashionable for like the Prime Minister like urged people
Speaker 1: to use less energy change their lifestyles. He announced a
Speaker 1: series of car free Sundays, which is my favorite idea,
Speaker 1: Like can we just try a car free Sunday like
Speaker 1: fucking once in America? And I feel like people would
Speaker 1: see that their lives are like livable and it's cool
Speaker 1: too for your kids to just be able to like
Speaker 1: run wherever they want and not be worried about getting
Speaker 1: like run over. Literally that would never happen. That would
Speaker 1: never happen because like you're taking away are right to drive? Are? Ah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like what do you think we're closer to the car
Speaker 1: free Sunday or the actual purge happening in the I
Speaker 1: feel like closer to the purge. Away we could have
Speaker 1: a car free Sunday is when the aliens finally come
Speaker 1: down and if they say you have to have a
Speaker 1: car free Sunday. But yeah, they introduced really moderate, like
Speaker 1: incremental changes, Like guys, just just hear us out. We're
Speaker 1: not saying you have to for just saying car free
Speaker 1: Sundays one day every couple of months, car free Sundays,
Speaker 1: and you can only use your phone one hour a
Speaker 1: day except for for phone calls. Yeah, I'm taking those
Speaker 1: would be some badass aliens. The city's also began like
Speaker 1: passing policies to discourage driving. They like made parking in
Speaker 1: city center super expensive. They removed some parking spots entirely.
Speaker 1: They reduced speed limits, so like there are things that
Speaker 1: can be done that have worked in the past, Like
Speaker 1: they turned some areas into car free zones. Like all
Speaker 1: these things that like seem completely impossible, Like we think
Speaker 1: of the United States, I possible in this country, reekly
Speaker 1: because this country thinks that cars are like an extension
Speaker 1: of their fucking like Blair just said, like freedom. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like toxic men. I mean I think about toxic
Speaker 1: masculinity constantly now because of what's happening in Tennessee with
Speaker 1: the drag show ban and and the fuck the abortion band,
Speaker 1: I mean the state. I mean, I just move back
Speaker 1: here because I could afford it better, you know. But
Speaker 1: it's like it's a nightmare, and it's all these fucking men,
Speaker 1: these alcoholic men who are running things. I mean, like
Speaker 1: we keep electing alcoholics. We're fucked. Everybody in Tennessee is
Speaker 1: an obvious drunk. Every person that every member of the legislature.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the culture here. They all fucking drink
Speaker 1: their heads off. You know what drinking makes you do,
Speaker 1: It makes you fucking crazy. I used to be an alcoholic.
Speaker 1: I know you're a nut. You make laws about crazy
Speaker 1: shits because you think you're I don't know, like a
Speaker 1: human meteor. Like alcohol makes you grandiose. That's the last
Speaker 1: thing you want in a leader. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: but I was thinking about cars. You know that that
Speaker 1: is what Men feel more powerful in a car than
Speaker 1: they feel it's the only place now because they're like,
Speaker 1: at least I can't get canceled in my car like
Speaker 1: no one less, you know, I can ride around with
Speaker 1: my fucking dick out and fucking four wheel drive and
Speaker 1: all this bullshit. And it's just it's just men are
Speaker 1: so have been told there are only two ways to
Speaker 1: be mad, or or or madder. I don't even know,
Speaker 1: you know, like there's two ways a man can be
Speaker 1: calm or mad. The only time I'm calm is in
Speaker 1: my truck. And if you try to take away my
Speaker 1: fucking truck, then I'm gonna go fucking crazy because that's
Speaker 1: my only other setting. Yeah, well, I think I think
Speaker 1: I always say this on this show. But like conservatives,
Speaker 1: like their whole thing in their head is that they
Speaker 1: are against big government. But then now there's all this
Speaker 1: like insane control coming over in all people's lives. But
Speaker 1: if they if you had the car thing, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: even be about what the issue is about. It would
Speaker 1: be about taking away that something they can't do. There's
Speaker 1: no self awareness. But I guess our government with the
Speaker 1: two were always it's just about winning at this point.
Speaker 1: It's never actually about what's best for anyone. It's about
Speaker 1: beating the other party. And aside from that, I also
Speaker 1: think that there should be when the aliens come down,
Speaker 1: that they should ban the politicians from having Twitter. I'm
Speaker 1: still fucking annoyed at these politicians on Twitter acting like
Speaker 1: every tweet is the goddamn wrestling promo. Like I missed
Speaker 1: the old days when they were just fake smiling in public,
Speaker 1: like freaking Richard Nixon and doing bad shit in private.
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to see them openly just being
Speaker 1: nuts every day. It's like terrifying to the really scary.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it's like the joker. They're all like the joker,
Speaker 1: you know, like everyone tries to outjoke or the other one. Well,
Speaker 1: how about if we outlaw you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they you know everything, you know,
Speaker 1: they just want to outlaw everything, just to out out
Speaker 1: outlaw their other joker. You know what it's like, you
Speaker 1: think you're the joker. Watch this? Yeah. Richard Nixon, by
Speaker 1: the way, when last time there was inflation, he just
Speaker 1: came on and was like, companies, if companies try to
Speaker 1: raise prices for the next month, they'll be like under arrest,
Speaker 1: like something that today would be seen as like the
Speaker 1: most socialist thing that's ever been done. Yeah, everything, everything
Speaker 1: is socialist if it doesn't mean YEA unrelated a little bit.
Speaker 1: But that star series on Watergate with the Julia Roberts
Speaker 1: was absolutely incredible? Was it really? Yeah? Well I enjoyed
Speaker 1: the hell out of it. Was so good. It was
Speaker 1: really about Martha La La La La La. But what
Speaker 1: I forgot her two other names? Lad? Is that no Martha? Um?
Speaker 1: I forget the name? Is Julia Roberts play Richard Nixon? No?
Speaker 1: So bad? I want that kind of casting. I would
Speaker 1: be so interested in biopics or biopics, which is it?
Speaker 1: I mean, I can never no, Julia Robbers played Martha
Speaker 1: Martha the whistle Bower, Martha the whistle bro I want
Speaker 1: Samuel Jackson. Yes, I want to see Samuel Jackson as
Speaker 1: Amelia Earhart. That's kind of shit I'm talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see that. I'm tired of them casting
Speaker 1: who will look like the person. It's so fucking stupid
Speaker 1: and juvenile, like, oh, we have to get an actor
Speaker 1: that looks like that's so dumb. I mean, that's Martha
Speaker 1: ever think of in the War Old Yeah, like casting
Speaker 1: in a in a meeting, being like he doesn't look enough,
Speaker 1: like I thought we were here for art. But guys,
Speaker 1: everybody laughs and jumps out the window. But one thing
Speaker 1: quickly about aliens, to Blair's point, is like I wish
Speaker 1: they would come down and bosses around two and I'm
Speaker 1: starting to lose faith in the aliens. I just want
Speaker 1: to mention that because they've been buzzing around here for
Speaker 1: what fifty years or whatever, just I don't believe they're
Speaker 1: aliens anymore, because if they were aliens, they wouldn't give
Speaker 1: a fuck. They would show up and get in our faces.
Speaker 1: They're not like, oh, they're just investigating. That's horseshit. Why
Speaker 1: would they ever waste they don't give up? What are
Speaker 1: they afraid of us for? Why wouldn't they just come
Speaker 1: down and start patting us on the head. I just
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm I'm a big believer in everything. I
Speaker 1: can believe in anything. I believe in bigfoot, I believe
Speaker 1: in ghosts. I believe in every goddamn thing. But aliens
Speaker 1: fucking do it already, Like come down here and shoot
Speaker 1: us with a ray gun, or fucking tell us to
Speaker 1: have no cars on Sunday, or just get it over with.
Speaker 1: Stop just buzzing around the sky and drive diving underwater
Speaker 1: and stuff. Come on, stop diving underwater and I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: People are like, and what the fuck are they doing underwater?
Speaker 1: Or tell him to come up here and kick Mitch
Speaker 1: McConnell's fucking ass. He fell down to him. Fuck that.
Speaker 1: I hope he falls down a million times. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: Talk a Bell held a contest where the winner, yes,
Speaker 1: the winner got to have their wedding in a digital
Speaker 1: Taco bell in the metaverse, that was what you won.
Speaker 1: That feels like a punishment to me. But the ceremony
Speaker 1: happened at the end of last March, but people who
Speaker 1: attended just I don't know, broke their media embargo. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know, and it's just truly, I don't
Speaker 1: know that this story made me feel as empty as
Speaker 1: any story we've covered it in a long time. But
Speaker 1: I did have to talk about it. So the bride
Speaker 1: and grooms avatars faced each other across a sacred fire.
Speaker 1: It was so the wedding was a traditional Indian ceremony
Speaker 1: other than the fact that it was in a taco
Speaker 1: bell In the metaverse, it was hosted by Calpen. The
Speaker 1: bride and grooms avatars faced each other across a sacred
Speaker 1: fire made of taco bells signature fire sauce. See, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, you're on board. No, I look, I get it.
Speaker 1: Wait a second, I feel like yeah, I'm like, oh okay,
Speaker 1: now I'm back in. I didn't know it was Signature
Speaker 1: fire sauce. But I gotta be honest, this um is
Speaker 1: gross and I wish everybody like marriage is tough, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, I wish everybody the best
Speaker 1: of success finding your person. You know, it's like even
Speaker 1: better than that Roten column moment with your bag at
Speaker 1: baggage claim, right, it's like that forever, and that's really
Speaker 1: noble and cool, and that is, for most people, the
Speaker 1: height of romantic. Look, so you're saying this is even
Speaker 1: more than seeing your bag. Yeah yeah, yeah, ok yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: we're we're very statement but okay, Bridget and I are
Speaker 1: being paid by big checked bag, I guess. But okay,
Speaker 1: there's like again, you know, a good friend of mine,
Speaker 1: actually my best friend, uh is, he's getting married pretty soon,
Speaker 1: and he was telling me all all like how stressful
Speaker 1: it is and how messed up in crazy planning this
Speaker 1: thing gets. And so he and his partner they have
Speaker 1: decided to elope, which I think is cool, you know,
Speaker 1: cut past the nonsense and then make it their own.
Speaker 1: So maybe for this couple it's their dreaming thing. Maybe
Speaker 1: they were like, hey, we met it a taco bell
Speaker 1: or like you know metaverse. Yeah yeah, Gordita front wraps
Speaker 1: are really the glue of our partnership. My problem here
Speaker 1: is not the taco bell, theming I will say that,
Speaker 1: the okay, but the official taco bell, theming, the fact
Speaker 1: that it is. I don't know, I just feel bad
Speaker 1: for like, if you want to diminish the amount of
Speaker 1: stress associated with an event, adding a corporate sponsor who
Speaker 1: has notes on everything, like, it just seems like not
Speaker 1: the not the way to go. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: like the idea idealized version that like they pitched when
Speaker 1: Taco Bell, you know, signed onto this idea and contest
Speaker 1: is probably that it's like, yeah, they just start expressing
Speaker 1: their love and they're two couple weirdos who just love
Speaker 1: Taco Bell. But in practice, for anyone who has been
Speaker 1: involved with sponsored content and trying to get any amount
Speaker 1: of art through past past corporate sponsors who have notes,
Speaker 1: I just like, I don't know, it seems seems difficult.
Speaker 1: I also like the fact that they keep saying that
Speaker 1: they want a contest to become the first people married
Speaker 1: at a Taco Bell in the metaverse, as though this
Speaker 1: is going to be an ongoing thing that we'll be
Speaker 1: looking back on them as the fucking George Washington's of
Speaker 1: this thing that we all then went on to do
Speaker 1: as a people. Yeah, I mean, people do have like
Speaker 1: really strong feelings about Taco Bell. Like I have no
Speaker 1: trouble believing that this couple maybe met in a Taco
Speaker 1: Bell and Taco Bell was a big part of their relationship.
Speaker 1: I didn't have taco bell for the first time until
Speaker 1: like five years ago, so I am not in that
Speaker 1: particular group. But yeah, we weren't allowed to eat it
Speaker 1: when I was growing up like a weird a weird role.
Speaker 1: My mom had no taco bell, no mountain Dew, but
Speaker 1: all the other stuff was five. Yeah, all fine. I
Speaker 1: don't know why she just like had a thing well
Speaker 1: for mountain dew. She said it was because this is
Speaker 1: this is her words, not mine. It was quote for
Speaker 1: white trash. We weren't allowed to drink. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: taco bell might have been in the mix as well.
Speaker 1: My family didn't encourage it. I will say that I
Speaker 1: never went out to dinner with my family to Taco
Speaker 1: Bell necessarily, but you know I got it like after
Speaker 1: you know, a game or something like if I you know,
Speaker 1: we we just it was the thing that was open
Speaker 1: that we could like scarf down in the fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: we had and yeah, it's such perfect point, just like
Speaker 1: so delicious. I don't know, they lit up something in
Speaker 1: my brain that I have been unable to increase from there.
Speaker 1: And the same is true of mountain dew. When I
Speaker 1: lived in Kentucky. I became addicted to mountain dew and
Speaker 1: have never been able to fully like I don't I
Speaker 1: don't go freak because of or like drink mountain dew
Speaker 1: frequently because for self care reasons, because like, if I
Speaker 1: have a twelfth pack of mountain dew at my house,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be able to not drink at all.
Speaker 1: But what if you could do it in the metaverse?
Speaker 1: Brow now we're talking be thank you. No, that's mountain
Speaker 1: dew was originally slaying for moonshine. That's the etymology of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't tried it, but I do agree with your
Speaker 1: mom bridges. Oh my god, gone too something, but that like, wow,
Speaker 1: you've never tried I've never tried it. I've tried the
Speaker 1: red kind, but I've never had regular mountain dew. Regular,
Speaker 1: you get the you get the overall. Yeah, wait, Ben,
Speaker 1: have you did you say you've never tried it? M
Speaker 1: I've never tried mountain dew. I probably this is like
Speaker 1: asking someone if they've always been vegan. There was probably
Speaker 1: something in the drinks. But anytime there was a mountain
Speaker 1: do situation available, there was some other soda or something
Speaker 1: to drink. So I would end up I would end
Speaker 1: up going with that. And also growing up, some of
Speaker 1: my relatives I didn't care for. We're into mountain dew.
Speaker 1: There was super into mountain dew. And I would look
Speaker 1: at them and I would be like, a better you
Speaker 1: than me? My friends? You know, so like okay, but
Speaker 1: Taco Bell though, the appeal, the late night appeal back
Speaker 1: in the day. You know, you got like twelve eighteen bucks.
Speaker 1: You're high in a car following another car because you
Speaker 1: think it's a vanity license flight. They go into a
Speaker 1: Taco Bell. Yeah, and then you're like, I'm living like
Speaker 1: I am the fucking emperor of bad decisions. You know what?
Speaker 1: Two case ideas grow into euros yo, you know yeah,
Speaker 1: oh man, cheesy gordita crunch I just discussed like Miles,
Speaker 1: I think turned me onto it. Like I loved Taco
Speaker 1: Bell and I wasn't even getting the best stuff growing up.
Speaker 1: What's the good order? I mean, cheesy gordo casady I've
Speaker 1: always had and then I like to get a grilled
Speaker 1: stuffed chicken burrito with That's the healthy part of my order.
Speaker 1: Grilled stuff chicken burrito extra grill, like put it on
Speaker 1: the grill. For a little extra time if we don't mind,
Speaker 1: but something you can ask for that, yeah, well done.
Speaker 1: Yeah for your brito, well done. But then I'll freelance
Speaker 1: and then of course with the biggest Baja blast that
Speaker 1: they will allow me to carry out. You're in deep water,
Speaker 1: my friends, Like, like, I had no idea this was
Speaker 1: a thing. So wait though, I get like once a
Speaker 1: year at this point. But and I don't tell my
Speaker 1: kids or my word. Yeah, it's just like a dark
Speaker 1: trip to under the star of night. I turn my
Speaker 1: headlights off, dark night of the soul. Oh, I got bridgie.
Speaker 1: He's got like a fake mustache on. So wait though,
Speaker 1: wait though, a wedding in the metaverse, you gotta tell
Speaker 1: us these uh, these folks getting married. They were in person, right,
Speaker 1: This wasn't like a remote like together. They kissed, They
Speaker 1: kissed each other's faces like real people in love and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, which is all like that almost makes
Speaker 1: it because then you're like, oh, so they are really
Speaker 1: like married now, like this was really their wedding, because
Speaker 1: like the picture that you see of it is like
Speaker 1: two people deeply in love kissing one another, and then
Speaker 1: they're like weird avatars and a purple, like on a
Speaker 1: purple throne, like kissing each other above. But so the
Speaker 1: vows were written by chat GPT, so like the story
Speaker 1: seems like it's being written by chat gpt because just
Speaker 1: like all the stupidest buzzwords coming together here, the vows
Speaker 1: were written by chat GPT. It was within a video game,
Speaker 1: so it was even really the metaverse. But like, I
Speaker 1: don't know how to feel about that, Like I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm no metaverse snob. So if they want to do
Speaker 1: it in de CenTra Land the video game, it just
Speaker 1: seems like it was a poorly orchestrated publicity stunt by
Speaker 1: Taco Bell, which has to hurt a little bit when
Speaker 1: like the big viral marketing campaign that is sponsoring your wedding,
Speaker 1: like doesn't even put it in the real metaverse. But
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't give a shit. But if they
Speaker 1: pay for the wedding though, I mean, at that point,
Speaker 1: it's just like yeah, absolutely, like that's that's great. However,
Speaker 1: but like also the wedding in the metaverse, so like
Speaker 1: not really did they I guess it's like I'm sort
Speaker 1: of it's sort of breaking my brain. Did they pay
Speaker 1: for a ceremony? I RL or only within the metaverse?
Speaker 1: Also does a Taco Bell within the metaverse have employees,
Speaker 1: Like I have a lot of questions. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they have employees. One thing that we do know
Speaker 1: for sure is that and this is my favorite point
Speaker 1: because it's like you suspect, okay, the corporate brand is
Speaker 1: gonna have some notes and ideas that they're gonna want
Speaker 1: to implemented. The one place we got to see this
Speaker 1: is that, in addition to having cal Penn host their wedding,
Speaker 1: they also had a twitch streamer like he who was
Speaker 1: narrating the whole thing to the point that the guests
Speaker 1: of the wedding couldn't hear what was happening. He a
Speaker 1: play by play, yes, like a play by play, but
Speaker 1: not even like he was just a twitch streamer. They
Speaker 1: were like, here, do your thing, like had no relation
Speaker 1: to the couple. So he's just like over the top,
Speaker 1: keeps singing. No one so this is no one could
Speaker 1: hear what was going on because the twitch streamer Taco
Speaker 1: Bell Hired kept singing about Taco Bell throughout the ceremony.
Speaker 1: Legion except the O in legion is a que for
Speaker 1: probably Q and on reasons, but I have no idea
Speaker 1: spoke through every minute of the ceremony. He shouted out
Speaker 1: his followers and made up little songs proclaiming his love
Speaker 1: for Taco Bell as he showed off his avatar's various
Speaker 1: outfits during the wedding. Wow, he sounds like a rowdy
Speaker 1: wedding guess that you have to throw out of your
Speaker 1: wedding because they've had one too many. But like during
Speaker 1: the ceremony, it's like, how at the ceremony? How can
Speaker 1: I make this wedding about me? He said? You know
Speaker 1: which that happens that ever heard worst stories? I you
Speaker 1: know what, I don't want to I've never met these folks.
Speaker 1: Wish them the best again, Yeah at the top them,
Speaker 1: it's just we live in Hell, all of us. And yeah,
Speaker 1: this is amazing, and Hell is a combination Taco Bell
Speaker 1: the metaverse wedding chapel. Yeah, oh my gosh, what other
Speaker 1: things you're going to happen in the metaverse? What other
Speaker 1: is Taco Bell gonna have a funeral contest next? Like?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna have a kincinera? Like, what's what's going on?
Speaker 1: Who would? Who would think this is a good idea?
Speaker 1: I want to meet the couple that steps up and
Speaker 1: has their divorce in the metaverse, Yeah, like if you're
Speaker 1: to be about that life, Yeah, like they didn't look
Speaker 1: at the by laws in the entirety of their wedding,
Speaker 1: including like the consummation. Everything has to happen in the metaverse.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what if they kill Bell present narrating
Speaker 1: all of the whole thing? Wait wait, wait though, wait
Speaker 1: less less less question? What if what if there is
Speaker 1: something I think you're onto someone with the fine print?
Speaker 1: What if there is something where they cannot get divorced?
Speaker 1: And less Taco Bell signs off right like, we don't
Speaker 1: love this for our Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: it was in the contract. I'd be surprised if they
Speaker 1: upheld it if like, I'm sure they put it in
Speaker 1: the contract, being like, because now this is going to
Speaker 1: be America's sweethearts. Everyone's going to be paying attention to
Speaker 1: the the first couple to get married in a meta
Speaker 1: first Taco Bell. And then now that it has happened,
Speaker 1: and everyone's just like, oh my god, we live in hell.
Speaker 1: They're probably like, never mind, you guys do your thing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm sure the contract gives gives them rights
Speaker 1: to the first two offspring from the children, you know,
Speaker 1: or front from the wet from the marriage. All right,
Speaker 1: so let's take a quick break and then we'll talk
Speaker 1: about more insane news. And we're back, and so is
Speaker 1: comedy in Texas. Joe Rodan turned an old Alamo drafthouse
Speaker 1: into Austin's newest comedy club, Mecca, dubbed the Comedy Mothership,
Speaker 1: which is a bumber because of like ties In. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's such a it's such a bumber that
Speaker 1: he is like both he's like into psychedelics and aliens,
Speaker 1: but also like really shitty right wing political takes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but so he's like Comedy Mothership. Tickets to the opening
Speaker 1: week where forty dollars sold out and have been going
Speaker 1: online for five hundred dollars plus a two drank minimum.
Speaker 1: There's this one comics. Oh you know Roseanne bar truly
Speaker 1: like she was one of the opening opening weeks. Terrible comics. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but there's a profile of the this comedy location and
Speaker 1: it opens with a woman is standing outside the theater
Speaker 1: holding an unvaxed sperm sign up and that's what they're like,
Speaker 1: So you know you're in the right place, Joe Rogan's
Speaker 1: new comedy club Mecca. In addition to Joe Rogan, the
Speaker 1: lineup feature comics like Roseanne bar who praised the club
Speaker 1: for daring to have a green room where comedians are
Speaker 1: openly drunken high. Has she been in a green what
Speaker 1: the funny? That's kind of nice talking about I've been
Speaker 1: elsewhere every green ro not every green room, but I've
Speaker 1: I've been in I've been in green rooms where people
Speaker 1: are smoking and there's always beers and ship or drinks
Speaker 1: and things like that. This isn't new, at least in
Speaker 1: my experience. Yeah, it's not exactly cutting edge, but um,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not surprised that she thinks that that
Speaker 1: is cutting edge. Yeah, okay, yes, very very true, very true.
Speaker 1: The crowd was reportedly mostly dudes with beards and baseball caps,
Speaker 1: and the jokes on the opening nights were like gay
Speaker 1: slurs and jokes about trans people, of course, and they
Speaker 1: so they banned phone usage, so like you have to
Speaker 1: seal them in the pouches. That's a good thing though.
Speaker 1: That's that they do a lot of clubs. Most clubs
Speaker 1: do that now, which is I mean all the clubs
Speaker 1: I performed that. To do that, it's a much better experience.
Speaker 1: It's a much better experience. It's not even like the
Speaker 1: whole thing like recording someone. I get that's one thing,
Speaker 1: but really it's just about audience distraction. That's that's that's
Speaker 1: the principal thing of it. The people like people will
Speaker 1: be on their phones while you're absolutely there. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And it's like the it's the worst thing that you
Speaker 1: can possibly encounter is someone on their phone. The first
Speaker 1: show I ever did after the pandemic, I mean granted
Speaker 1: this is after the pandemic, but well not after. It
Speaker 1: was like the first show I did when they were
Speaker 1: starting to do shows again. It was an outdoor show.
Speaker 1: There was just two ladies in the front row and
Speaker 1: they were both on their phone, Like, you know, this
Speaker 1: is insane, Like you you can't you left your house
Speaker 1: to do the thing you're doing, your mean doing your
Speaker 1: house for the last eight months, right yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I also can't really blame him because it's like people
Speaker 1: forgot how to behave you know. Yeah, we're all broken
Speaker 1: at yeah point. Yeah, but the phone back thing, I
Speaker 1: think that's just that's just general. When you can get
Speaker 1: away with it, what people do. It's just expensive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's expensive. It's probably like not the audience his first choice.
Speaker 1: But I think in this case they're like, well, he
Speaker 1: also disagreed with mask Man dates, so we'll let him
Speaker 1: take our phones to you know, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He He's also like, this is like I can say
Speaker 1: whatever I want without getting canceled. Here. I feel like
Speaker 1: he's not been he's been like opposite, the opposite of canceled.
Speaker 1: Like he's just built most yeah, massive media empire by
Speaker 1: just saying yeah, punching down. And then he's like, finally
Speaker 1: I have a place where I can speak freely. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is the thing. He has a place where
Speaker 1: he can speak freely outside of the place where he
Speaker 1: can speak freely, which is his own show, his own podcast. Sure, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, of course, the funny thing about, oh,
Speaker 1: here's a place where I can speak freely and not
Speaker 1: be canceled, and you know, you can't record it and
Speaker 1: anything like that, which I agree it's a good policy,
Speaker 1: just because you know, as comedians, you know, I always
Speaker 1: want your shit to be recorded and then live on
Speaker 1: the internet. If you don't want it on the internet,
Speaker 1: if you're working material blah blah blah blah blah. But um,
Speaker 1: but there is a there is a part of me
Speaker 1: that's just like, well, if you believe what you're saying,
Speaker 1: what you're worried about it getting out for if you
Speaker 1: think it's a you know, like that means you know
Speaker 1: you're saying some shit. That means you know you're saying
Speaker 1: some shit. If I know I'm about to say some
Speaker 1: shit that could get me in trouble, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you lock your phones up too. Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: lock them up real quick. We're about to talk, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep it in here because this might get
Speaker 1: me in trouble. But if it's some shit I believe,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, man, fuck you, I believe this shit.
Speaker 1: Say that ship with my whole chest. Say it with
Speaker 1: my whole chest, like the Immemorium is perfect, thank you,
Speaker 1: and I should stay in charge of it, all right.
Speaker 1: The Mandalorian is back for season three, facing a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on the home front from my kids really
Speaker 1: want to watch this ship. They're like six and five,
Speaker 1: they don't get to watch you. It's like a little oh,
Speaker 1: they're not quite old enough. You think, yeah, they're just
Speaker 1: not not old enough. I think based on arbitrary ship
Speaker 1: that I've like heard read somewhere on a on a
Speaker 1: forum somewhere. But the so the this is good news
Speaker 1: for fans who need who like two shows in which
Speaker 1: Pedro Pascal escorts a highly important youth through dangerous train.
Speaker 1: It's kind of why, like, what is the same thing
Speaker 1: that gets a typecast? I mean it really is a
Speaker 1: typecast though, because it's like that thing where you know,
Speaker 1: we like what you did here, We're just gonna have
Speaker 1: you do it some more because it's working. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: have you do it until you die. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: doing this thing because you're just he's got the voice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's good. He's daddy and also like daddy, like kind
Speaker 1: of the two types of daddy that he's multi faceted daddy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's Daddy's daddy. Daddy's right. He also does the same
Speaker 1: thing and the Last of Us show, where he's you
Speaker 1: know how the Mandalorian's sort of an imperfect hero, like
Speaker 1: he makes mistakes but he always ends up winning. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Same with the Last of Us guy. Yeah yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like it's typecast down to the details of the character.
Speaker 1: There you go. But fortunately the last of us. Way,
Speaker 1: what if we could see his face, It's it's beautiful, right, like,
Speaker 1: that's we should we should just keep his face visible.
Speaker 1: So Gina Kara Kara No no, no, no, no no no no,
Speaker 1: famously shaped camp by Disney after putting a bunch of
Speaker 1: right wing bullshit on social media, including posts comparing being
Speaker 1: a conservative to being Jewish and Nazi Germany, and so
Speaker 1: her character Kara Dune will not be joining Grief Cargo
Speaker 1: din jar In Grogo mof Gideon So so super producer
Speaker 1: Justin was telling me to not point anything out about it,
Speaker 1: or he was saying, I did not say that the
Speaker 1: oldest observation in in the book, which is you can
Speaker 1: make you can make fun of the goofy names because
Speaker 1: they are goofy. I'm just it's it's it's just not
Speaker 1: it's not very creative joke, is all I was trying
Speaker 1: to say. I'm just saying they're great names. They're very
Speaker 1: like they I don't know, I'm curious what the like
Speaker 1: writer's room, like, how much of the writer's room is
Speaker 1: devoted to naming because Grief like, they're just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're so specific, they're always like just perfect. What wasn't
Speaker 1: move move bop? What? What? What was the names again?
Speaker 1: Moved by something you said, move something, Grief, Cargad, Cargad,
Speaker 1: din jar In. They're just they roll off the tongue
Speaker 1: like a like a delicious menu item. Moth Gideon. I
Speaker 1: think you were talking about moth Gideon. Moth Gideon with
Speaker 1: chicken please and I'll have a how's that grief cardoon?
Speaker 1: Is it pretty good? It's great? Do you want egg
Speaker 1: with that? We can do a fried egg on top.
Speaker 1: And then Carra Dune is like more in the Luke
Speaker 1: Skywalker like family, where it's just like, well, this is
Speaker 1: a normal name with like some some cool shit. We
Speaker 1: have a twenty ounce Carra Dune. It's uh well marbled
Speaker 1: and it's um from our farms in New Zealand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: carratdoon kind it's sort of between a poor house and
Speaker 1: a ribby. It's just a steak. Yeah, that's all it is.
Speaker 1: Kidsa city style. I mean, like it would be fun
Speaker 1: listen to off your stein of Groku. There you go,
Speaker 1: of course you can, of course you can. I do
Speaker 1: think like there are people who like come up with
Speaker 1: these names. Obviously, Yeah, there are. That's not a groundbreaking
Speaker 1: thing to say, but I think it's twofold. I think
Speaker 1: there are they they really think of the names, because
Speaker 1: it sounds like you can just be like, what's ther name?
Speaker 1: How about blank tar? You like, all right, cool blan tar.
Speaker 1: But then there's like, then there's somebody in that same
Speaker 1: room who's like, but what does that mean? What is
Speaker 1: it derived from? What it like? Who takes it way
Speaker 1: too seriously? Because you know, they believe in the Lord
Speaker 1: of the world and everything like that, and so I
Speaker 1: believe they definitely have people who truly think, what would
Speaker 1: the parents name this kid based on the place they are,
Speaker 1: the region they are, the type of names because yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely like blank tarb is not good. Sorry to say,
Speaker 1: yeah it would. It wouldn't work like that. Alternatives were
Speaker 1: it was gonna be named like bucket skunked or like
Speaker 1: Scorpian face Yeah, yeah, which and guardians Galaxy is a
Speaker 1: great name. Scorpion face. Yeah. Creaky Jack Jack Oh, I
Speaker 1: like that. That's actually kind of like that. I'm just
Speaker 1: into that nickname. M creaky Jack. Oh, creaky Jack. Anyways,
Speaker 1: they didn't really come up They didn't like fully write
Speaker 1: her off. The Mandalorian asked Carl Weathers what happened to
Speaker 1: Don and he responds that she was recruited by special
Speaker 1: forces for a new job somewhere off screen, and old
Speaker 1: soap opera trick always leave the door open, Always leave
Speaker 1: the door open open. I did like her character, though,
Speaker 1: I gotta say that's the problem. Yeah, there's a good
Speaker 1: character on the Showers. Yeah she's like a badass, right,
Speaker 1: like just yeah, yeah, she was probably bring her back.
Speaker 1: You know, look, I'm a fan. I'm a fan of wrestling,
Speaker 1: and there's an old adage and wrestling never say never, right,
Speaker 1: And I you know, like the thing is this show,
Speaker 1: I don't know when the show is gonna end. Uh.
Speaker 1: If it has an unlimited amount of seasons, they can do.
Speaker 1: But if it has enough seasons, we have a short
Speaker 1: term memory. Unfortunately, as a generation and society, I guess
Speaker 1: they didn't bringing her back and be like, you know
Speaker 1: that was t You can come back and have an
Speaker 1: episode and then there would be a big controversy. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like one of those things where I don't agree
Speaker 1: with anything she said. But during that time a lot
Speaker 1: of people were losing their losing their mind and if
Speaker 1: she had, if she had walked back what she said,
Speaker 1: She's like, guys, I was going crazy. I was drinking
Speaker 1: a lot alone at home. I don't know why, I says,
Speaker 1: I'm so stupid. That would be I think there would
Speaker 1: be universal like Okay, yeah, um, we're always liked going nuts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but she seems to be doubling down. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what hurts because it's like, I mean, also,
Speaker 1: what a dump thing that doubled down on? What a
Speaker 1: just a truly not very interesting and stupid, Like that's
Speaker 1: what does she even say? She said something about like
Speaker 1: mask mandates being similar to how the Jews were treated
Speaker 1: in Nazi Germany. Yeah, something like that. Just the classic
Speaker 1: non comparable thing that she knows it's not. It's just
Speaker 1: you just don't do that. Yeah. Yeah. She has been
Speaker 1: busy starring in movies made by The Daily Wire, including
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two's Terror on the Prairie, which made officially
Speaker 1: eight hundred and four dollars and it's one day theatrical run,
Speaker 1: making up one of the biggest box office failures of
Speaker 1: the year, also the title with the most RS in
Speaker 1: it of all time. Term Yes they were going for
Speaker 1: breaking the record for ours. This is why we don't
Speaker 1: believe y'all conservatives like, yeah, if you really like you
Speaker 1: know what, get her out of liberal Hollywood and less
Speaker 1: watch we're gonna watch him. You gotta do better than
Speaker 1: eight hundred and forty dollars if you did. If you did,
Speaker 1: numbers would be like, oh, they really believe they shit,
Speaker 1: all right, but eight hundred and forty dollars. That's how
Speaker 1: you know you bullshit. And you watch them same movies
Speaker 1: we do, and you like the same movies we do.
Speaker 1: You like the same actors and actress as we do.
Speaker 1: You don't give a shit about all the liberal Hollywood
Speaker 1: stuff outside of just talking points on Facebook. We'll tell
Speaker 1: you what the problem was. Jackies lasted by its target
Speaker 1: audience for being too woke because two woke no ways,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, cram your woke action heroes down our
Speaker 1: throat bench man. That's that's just that's that's sad though.
Speaker 1: That's one of those things where you're just I feel
Speaker 1: bad for everybody and find out yeah, god, oh that's
Speaker 1: so pathetic, so pathetic, Oh man, fucking Christ. Of course,
Speaker 1: of course, the circumspect about the kind of you know
Speaker 1: some of those quotes here in the not too distant future,
Speaker 1: but Jesus two woke. That is just man. Wow, Where's
Speaker 1: where's Arnold Schwarzenegger as the action star in Stay or No?
Speaker 1: Who do they like? Kevin Sorbo? Yeah? Yeah, Chris Pine
Speaker 1: is probably pretty popular or not. Chris Pine, Chris Spine,
Speaker 1: Chris Prets, Chris Pratt probably across the board, but Chris Pratt.
Speaker 1: Chris Pratt still like Chris Pritte is like a religious motherfucker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he still is very active in like what they
Speaker 1: would consider liberal Hollywood. He yeah, you know, I'm saying
Speaker 1: He's just say I feel like he hasn't offended either side,
Speaker 1: Like he's probably okay. In their book, it's called too
Speaker 1: Dumb to Fail to fail this one telling me they're
Speaker 1: gonna be seeing Mario. They're gonna be seeing Mario this
Speaker 1: month or whenever it comes out with the Republicans. That's right, hey,
Speaker 1: Republicans by Nintendo Entertainments comes to Yeah, Mario is big
Speaker 1: in the Republican That would be hilarious. It's just huge.
Speaker 1: They love him. The Italian Americans have flocked to see
Speaker 1: Mario and are outraged this depiction of Italian Americans. Why
Speaker 1: does he have to be a plumber, Why does have
Speaker 1: to be so big? This is unfair. The way that
Speaker 1: our big complaint is that his ass is that they
Speaker 1: did not give him enough ass. Mario, he hadn't asked me.
Speaker 1: He used as a weapon. It's a weapon weaponized as
Speaker 1: flipped and on his ass so hard it would cause
Speaker 1: an earthquake, and they just d asked him. He's been
Speaker 1: food time. Food can be very high in calories. What
Speaker 1: what oils in there? There? You got a lot of
Speaker 1: oils that go right to them hips and ass. That's right,
Speaker 1: damn all right. That's gonna do it for this week's
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