Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three eighteen, Episode
Speaker 1: three of der Daley's I Guy Stay production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep divenue
Speaker 1: American share consciousness. And it is Wednesday, December twentieth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. My name's Jack O'Brien AKA. That's no bone,
Speaker 1: it's giant balls. There ain't no and I'm all that
Speaker 1: it could be along too. I know that you're gonna
Speaker 1: say Dixon balls aren't made of bone. That's just because
Speaker 1: you haven't seen mine. That is courtesy a blanky hack
Speaker 1: on the discord in honor of Richard Brooks, the physician
Speaker 1: who looked at the first dinosaur bone ever discovered and said, nah,
Speaker 1: that is a scrotum. That is not not a femur,
Speaker 1: just a scrotum belonging to a giant. Anyway, shout out
Speaker 1: to that man, Richard Brooks, to shut out to Blake. Yet.
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined my second seat today by
Speaker 1: today's guest co host, a brilliant comedian, writer, actor, the hilarious,
Speaker 1: the chaotic, the riding a recumbent bike in short shorts,
Speaker 1: Blake Wexland.
Speaker 2: Everybody a ka Blake's legs put the common surcumference there,
Speaker 2: plump plump, plump plum, plump plump, plump plum. That was
Speaker 2: not written by Paul Garaventa.
Speaker 1: That made me sick.
Speaker 2: I wrote that very blue show so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's very blue. We're thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: in our third seat by a hilarious comedian, actress writer
Speaker 1: who's facing words you've seen all over TV and stages
Speaker 1: across this great land sch writes for SML, among many
Speaker 1: other places. Please welcome the hilarious and talented rose By Baker.
Speaker 3: Thank you, guys.
Speaker 4: I don't have a song about my balls or anything.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1: Just to clarify, that song was not about my balls.
Speaker 1: It was about Richard Brooks, the physician who coined the
Speaker 1: name scrotum humanimous balls.
Speaker 4: Right, so right, yeah, yeah, I just got it. I
Speaker 4: mean I would take I would take the compliment if
Speaker 4: I were you. But that's fine.
Speaker 1: Giant balls, giant stony balls.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: How are you guys doing? You guys are on the
Speaker 1: East coast where you know it actually feels like Christmas?
Speaker 1: Is it beginning to feel a lot like or look
Speaker 1: a lot like Christmas?
Speaker 2: It does it is. I.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm actually doing decorations this year, which I've never
Speaker 4: really been one to do. But I had a baby,
Speaker 4: so now I'm like, let's yeah, let's make this whole
Speaker 4: place look like Santa's workshop. She's not gonna remember a thing.
Speaker 4: She doesn't even know she has hands.
Speaker 1: But he just looked at your baby and said, let's go.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I'm like, Christmas, you look like you could make toys.
Speaker 2: Why don't we decorate the place like shop?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: My wife and I went to the Rockefeller Center tree.
Speaker 1: Do you call it the Rockefeller Center?
Speaker 2: I did, and I was hoping nobody it's a Boston accent.
Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of you thought it was like
Speaker 2: jay Z. Yeah, no, it was. It is funny that
Speaker 2: I've heard that phrase in that context more than you know,
Speaker 2: the Tonight Show or anything going on at NBC, which
Speaker 2: I guess speaks to where my career is.
Speaker 1: But I do think it was telling you you look
Speaker 1: fancy like a Rockefeller not could you nicely? Could you? Actually? Yeah?
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, I've never been before. And we went
Speaker 2: on Saturday, which is probably the worst day that you
Speaker 2: could go, because that's when you know people aren't Yorking
Speaker 2: and everybody was there.
Speaker 1: But it was cool.
Speaker 2: It was a very it still felt festive as horrible
Speaker 2: as it was trying to get around down there, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it was cool, dude.
Speaker 4: It's like fighting off zombies.
Speaker 2: It's like, I can't imagine.
Speaker 4: If I need to wake up on a on a Wednesday,
Speaker 4: if I leave the building at like or even just
Speaker 4: like a Friday, like, I'll I get out there and
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, I'm awake now because I'm fighting for
Speaker 4: my life.
Speaker 1: Right, So it's coffee.
Speaker 4: It's it's crazy down there.
Speaker 1: I think I just hadn't been to a mall around
Speaker 1: Christmas in so many years that I had forgotten how
Speaker 1: terrible it is. You know, we'd just been shopping via
Speaker 1: the mail, via the internet. Have you guys heard about
Speaker 1: these things? The mail and me and on? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I went on Sunday night to the grove to pick
Speaker 1: up a couple of things with my two with my
Speaker 1: five year old and seven year old, and it was hell.
Speaker 1: It was truly like the worst, Like just five blocks
Speaker 1: away from the mall, all just stand still traffic like
Speaker 1: I was trying to leave an NFL game, Like it
Speaker 1: was just yea awful and then it never it never
Speaker 1: eased up, like everybody was fighting for parking spots and
Speaker 1: then furious once they got into them all because there
Speaker 1: weren't enough parking spots.
Speaker 4: You're like, if we ever get out of this, I'm
Speaker 4: just leaving the city. We're just driving past the house.
Speaker 1: I just left my car, and I was like, guys,
Speaker 1: don't look back, don't look back.
Speaker 4: The bag we got it.
Speaker 1: We have new last names now, all right, Well, Rosebud,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
Speaker 1: couple of things we're talking about a little later on,
Speaker 1: we're gonna look at a couple of these megachurch Christmas celebrations.
Speaker 1: The Righteous Gemstones is real, and it is glorious, y'all.
Speaker 1: It is a sight to be a whole not understated.
Speaker 1: They're not going not going understand with the Christmas celebrations
Speaker 1: this year. They see your Christmas workshop, Rosebud, and they say,
Speaker 1: what if we just recreated the Black Eyed Peas super
Speaker 1: Bowl halftime show instead? Yeah? What if we made up
Speaker 1: new Christmas color schemes that were like bright day glow? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just a fucking Night.
Speaker 2: But for more money than the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So much money. Well, we don't have to say taxes.
Speaker 1: That's right. The NFL, Right, the NFL is a church.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know that. Yeah, they have
Speaker 1: taxi exempt status for being on Sunday as a church.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about gen Z millennials saving libraries because
Speaker 1: we need a little bit of good news, and talk
Speaker 1: about people grinchifying their political opponents. We'll talk about Netflix's
Speaker 1: film Leave the World Behind. Have you guys seen this?
Speaker 1: Have you heard about this? It's like the number one movie.
Speaker 4: I've seen it. I mean, I mean I've heard about it,
Speaker 4: and I think I've seen the trailer, but I haven't.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen the movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's you just did punch.
Speaker 1: Up on it.
Speaker 4: Maybe I did, Yeah, maybe I did see it. What's
Speaker 4: it about?
Speaker 1: It's Ethan Hawk and Julia Roberts. You saw it and
Speaker 1: it was so memoried, like it literally came out a
Speaker 1: week ago. I know, you're like, oh yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: it made it left a huge impression. In addition to
Speaker 1: the World Behind left a huge on you.
Speaker 4: I Left the movie Behind?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Blake, have you seen it? I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2: But now I want to blake because it seems like
Speaker 2: a lot of people like me have been really enjoying it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: preppers and conspiracy, the mostly preppers.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So we'll talk about that all that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first, rosebub we do like to ask our guests,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history?
Speaker 4: Oh Jesus Christ, probably just going to be a bunch
Speaker 4: of symptoms, just me googling symptoms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so just a classic searchist.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just a classic search history. Do I am I depressed?
Speaker 4: Or am I realistic? That's one?
Speaker 2: There's a period at the end of that, by the way, Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: not a question.
Speaker 1: Maybe the most depressing idea I've ever come across in
Speaker 1: research was this thing. I don't know that it's necessarily true,
Speaker 1: but it's a really dark idea that basically, you know,
Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln suffered from depression melancholy is what they called
Speaker 1: it back then, and wound and a gunshot wound was
Speaker 1: also a hell he was that was in his search history.
Speaker 1: Do I have a gunshot wound? Or what's going on?
Speaker 4: Or am I just depressed?
Speaker 1: Or is this the worst fucking play ever? But it's
Speaker 1: basically this theory that because he was suffered from depression.
Speaker 1: It made him a really good president because he saw
Speaker 1: things more realistically than everyone else. And just depression is
Speaker 1: basically the absence of the candy coating that the rest
Speaker 1: of us use to get through our day to day lives.
Speaker 1: And that when I read that, it really bummed me out,
Speaker 1: and I thought, I have to share this with the
Speaker 1: audience of my comedy podcast. So that's what I'm doing
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: That's why Grant was such a terrible president because he
Speaker 2: had such like, you know, an amicable personality.
Speaker 1: He was always looking on the bright side. Well, he
Speaker 1: was drunk for most of the timeoholic, Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: an alcoholic, so that helped him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a profound search history. I would say it
Speaker 1: is the central question of our time. Am I depressed
Speaker 1: or am I realistic?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: I think it's not.
Speaker 1: It's both, But yes, you are both, and you would
Speaker 1: make a great wartime president.
Speaker 5: Yes, I've always said that.
Speaker 4: I have always said that. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 4: Girl dad content? I think I'm all set on the
Speaker 4: girl dad content. I keep seeing it because I had
Speaker 4: a daughter and I'm just seeing like these dudes that
Speaker 4: are acting like heroes because they they were brave enough
Speaker 4: to love their girl offspring. You know, I'm just kind
Speaker 4: of like, yeah, you're not a hero, You're just doing
Speaker 4: your job. It's like it's it's like me, I just
Speaker 4: it's starting. I'm like, you're a dad. You're just like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I had a girl dad. I just called him dad.
Speaker 1: That's what that.
Speaker 4: It's just like I don't know why, but I'm it's
Speaker 4: they bugs me. I'm just every time I see it,
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, here we go, another macho guy into
Speaker 4: too two. Yeah, looking trying to look like a hero.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's that one like PSA where it's like this
Speaker 1: big brownie guy doing i'm a little tea pot with
Speaker 1: his daughter and it's like fatherhood, Like can you fucking
Speaker 1: believe it? Holy shit, this guy's tough, but he's being
Speaker 1: un tough around his little girl.
Speaker 4: I know. I'm like, you're acting like you adopt it.
Speaker 4: You just had a kid, right, leave it. I'm just
Speaker 4: annoyed with it. So yeah, girl dad content. That's that's
Speaker 4: the overrated thing for me.
Speaker 1: Right now, I am up my shirt so you can't see.
Speaker 4: My girl dad T shirt shirt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it kind of started with a literal
Speaker 2: Bronnie dad, where Bronnie James's father, lebron James, was like
Speaker 2: posting a ton.
Speaker 1: Of girl dad content.
Speaker 2: And then I think like most of other men saw
Speaker 2: a strong man doing something and they were like, oh,
Speaker 2: I must be I must be a girl dad as well,
Speaker 2: not that I am one. It's like I need to
Speaker 2: become a girl dad. Yeah, that's a great one.
Speaker 1: How do I become girl dad? Yeah? Real men cry too,
Speaker 1: strong man cried to mister Lebowski. Yeah, it's that like
Speaker 1: over like when when a very basic idea is like
Speaker 1: profound to somebody. Dude. Sometimes even I cry and I'm
Speaker 1: like a guy. Yeah, it's like, yeah, you're a human
Speaker 1: fucking being. What are you talking?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I'm like, okay, no, but it's like I'm
Speaker 1: a guy at the same time that I'm crying, Like you're.
Speaker 2: Not listening because you're a girl.
Speaker 1: I'm a guy. Oh man, Yeah, and you are saying like,
Speaker 1: but but like shout out to the girl mom content
Speaker 1: out there, right, you got gotta don't.
Speaker 4: I don't see that. I don't see girl mom content.
Speaker 4: I've literally never seen someone be like I'm a girl,
Speaker 4: I'm a mom, but I'm a girl. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: it's like, I'm sure it's out there because it's the Internet,
Speaker 4: but I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it is nice to be a boy dad.
Speaker 1: I'm a boy dad, and that's that's nice because I
Speaker 1: don't have to learn any of the difficult lessons that
Speaker 1: those commercials are suggesting girl dads have to learn about, right,
Speaker 1: you know, about vulnerability.
Speaker 4: About like that, right, how to cry on camera?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just study the ancient Spartans and you know,
Speaker 1: teach my kids about Roman, ancient Roman phalanx warfare. And yes,
Speaker 1: of course, that's that's what boy dads do.
Speaker 4: I came home last night and Andy was watching something on YouTube.
Speaker 4: It was like growing up in the most conservative part
Speaker 4: of Russia and it was just him and the baby
Speaker 4: were watching this on YouTube. I was like, what are
Speaker 4: you doing?
Speaker 2: No, sweetheart, you play your cards right, This could be
Speaker 2: us in a few I.
Speaker 4: Was like, are you watching? Are you watching just like
Speaker 4: places that like wives can't talk back? Are you just
Speaker 4: like imagining a life far far away?
Speaker 1: Yeah, a wistful tear away.
Speaker 2: This was right after he Andy put his credit card
Speaker 2: away after getting two day shipping on a France national
Speaker 2: team Jersey.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, yes, exactly, that's your That is my life.
Speaker 2: Actually, that's the whole thing. There is something with girl
Speaker 2: dads too, where I almost see maybe I'm imagining this,
Speaker 2: but there almost seems like a flirtatious like virtue signaling
Speaker 2: like I'm a girl dad and I'm also willing to
Speaker 2: cheat on my wife. Seems like the vibes from.
Speaker 4: These videos, Yes, it feels like they're trying to get
Speaker 4: pussy by with their daughters. That's that is another thing
Speaker 4: that I'm like, it's really gross. Like there's literally one
Speaker 4: where the guy was like, when you're a six foot
Speaker 4: five dude, like macho dude, but you still aren't have
Speaker 4: to girl dad. And it was like him on stage
Speaker 4: with his daughter in a tutu, and I was like,
Speaker 4: you don't need to be listing your height, dude.
Speaker 1: You know, I was just gonna say body fat. Was
Speaker 1: gonna he wrote his body fat out and then deleted
Speaker 1: it because he was like, yeah too much, maybe too much?
Speaker 4: Yeah with an annual income.
Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, that that's a bummer. I didn't realize that
Speaker 1: that there was that edge to it, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I guess that's true with any like hyper masculine
Speaker 1: thing that they're they're probably that subtext, right, what what's
Speaker 1: something you think is underrated?
Speaker 4: Vaping?
Speaker 1: Nice?
Speaker 2: Because the tide has turned against vaping?
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you quitting?
Speaker 4: Or I just got back to it after you know,
Speaker 4: pregnancy and having a child, And I gotta say that
Speaker 4: first hit, I was like, is there a heroine in there? Like, right,
Speaker 4: this is the greatest feeling I've ever had.
Speaker 1: Have you ever vaped? Jack? Or yeah, I'm like seven
Speaker 1: months off of it currently. Good for you.
Speaker 2: Sorry you're in your final trimester.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And I just can't wait to get this
Speaker 1: kid out of me, so I can't Yeah. Yeah, Now,
Speaker 1: I just like I got I got real sick one time,
Speaker 1: and and like I found myself like like in a bed,
Speaker 1: like coughing and like so sick, and then like just
Speaker 1: quietly like vaping into my sleeve, and I was like,
Speaker 1: that's fucking terrible, Like just like the darkest. Didn't feel good,
Speaker 1: didn't feel vulnerable like a like a girl dad should
Speaker 1: all felt weak.
Speaker 2: Girl dads don't use beds. They sleep they stand like
Speaker 2: a yeah, they.
Speaker 1: Sleep standing up with yeh in a athletic stance next
Speaker 1: to their daughter's bed, just ready to kill anyone comes
Speaker 1: Yeah with a loaded head, Daddy, what are you doing
Speaker 1: to sleep? Just fucking love you so much? I don't
Speaker 1: think that's a good way to work through that emotion. Nor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's an unwritten, like long read article
Speaker 1: about how vaping is, like secretly it's good for you,
Speaker 1: well because it's replacing cigarette smoking, which is so bad
Speaker 1: for you, right right, compared to vaping, isn't it is?
Speaker 1: Like that's always I guess That's what I always told
Speaker 1: myself when I was vaping, and then I never really
Speaker 1: like looked it up to double check. I was just like, nah,
Speaker 1: it's fun.
Speaker 4: I feel like when you don't know what the end
Speaker 4: looks like, it's at least we can assume. I think
Speaker 4: it's whatever you want it to be, Like it could
Speaker 4: be worse or it could be better. We really won't
Speaker 4: know for another ten years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. For me, I was like, it's
Speaker 1: like sleeping in a room with a humidifier that where
Speaker 1: the water is like, yeah, the water's been bathed in
Speaker 1: by a smoker, basically.
Speaker 2: Say something so dark where I everything is fine, but
Speaker 2: I had.
Speaker 7: A family member like a doctor goes oh, you have cancer,
Speaker 7: and we're all like, oh my god, and they go,
Speaker 7: it won't be the cancer that kills you though, and
Speaker 7: we're like, oh, okay, that's why, like something else will
Speaker 7: kill you before that. You won't live long enough for
Speaker 7: the cancer to kill you. Was like essentially what the.
Speaker 2: Doctor was saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, something else,
Speaker 2: and we are going to take a quick commercial break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back listening to big money doctor. Your
Speaker 1: relative was like get delivering a prognosis that was like,
Speaker 1: you have cancer, and the cancer is not what's going
Speaker 1: to kill you, because you have this other thing that
Speaker 1: is like way worse, worse.
Speaker 2: So my I have a relative who's older and they
Speaker 2: were told by a doctor who's not a family member
Speaker 2: or a friend. I'm working on that. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: befriend the doctor, but because they say things like this,
Speaker 2: but they were like, yeah, a great bedside manner, and
Speaker 2: they we bunked up after this news. Uh but yeah,
Speaker 2: I know that's what they were saying. They were like, oh, hey,
Speaker 2: like you're old, so the cancer You're too old for
Speaker 2: cancer to kill you. Was essentially what they were saying,
Speaker 2: which is which you can take it both ways. You
Speaker 2: can be like, oh my god, that's so depressing. My
Speaker 2: body is going to shut down before the cancer gets it,
Speaker 2: or it's like, well I beat cancer in a way.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's a sprint, not a marathon. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's the other way. Yeah, and we will be right,
Speaker 2: we I know I am. We are up against it
Speaker 2: against Yeah, I'm sweating profusely.
Speaker 1: Why do you keep making the wrap it up gesture
Speaker 1: while you are speaking.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm because I'm doing this into a mirror.
Speaker 1: All right, we are going to take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. And we're back. And guys, I'm
Speaker 1: so jealous of megachurches. The there's two Texas megachurches that
Speaker 1: went viral on TikTok this week for their extravagantly gaudy
Speaker 1: Christmas shows, the Preston Wood Baptist Churches. The Gift of
Speaker 1: Christmas show featured a performance of the Little Drummer Boy,
Speaker 1: which looks like a fever dream about Tron Legacy starring
Speaker 1: the Blue Man Group. Hell yeah, it's really it does.
Speaker 1: Like the first thing I thought was like Tron and
Speaker 1: also but like derivative Tron, so like the Black Eyed
Speaker 1: Peas super Bowl halftime show, does anybody remember that? Is
Speaker 1: that a touchdown for anybody else? It was like twelve
Speaker 1: years ago. I feel like, let's get it started right
Speaker 1: like that. You're yeah, right, yeah, Like that was definitely played.
Speaker 1: But they they were coming off a string of like
Speaker 1: seven identical hits and then they were the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: halftime show, and I just remember the whole thing was
Speaker 1: like kind of glowing, the dark day glow, like people
Speaker 1: who had just had the idea for the first time,
Speaker 1: like what if aliens? Yeah, and yeah like that That's
Speaker 1: kind of what this reminds me of. Also, there's like
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff is like graffiti.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there was a graffiti backdrop, like, uh, it
Speaker 4: was giving like Hamilton.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's giving Hamilton big time. Like the graffiti is
Speaker 1: like the graffiti written by those white people during the
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter protests where they were like kill whitey,
Speaker 1: but it was like written in calligraphy and you're like,
Speaker 1: that's not real, man, that's definitely you writing that on
Speaker 1: your own garage. But also I'm no expert. But wasn't
Speaker 1: the whole point of Little Drummer Boy that a poor
Speaker 1: child had no riches to give? The baby Jesus and
Speaker 1: had like just had the immaterial gift of music. I
Speaker 1: am an expert and that's true. You are an expert.
Speaker 1: That is what your senior thesis was was written about what. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this is basically like that song written by people
Speaker 1: who are like lighting cash on fire on stage.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's like a there's a there's a clip of
Speaker 6: Ashley and Jessica Simpson singing Little Drummer Boy in like
Speaker 6: a really cunty way from like years.
Speaker 1: Ago, and that's how you know the content.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like and it's like that things like that
Speaker 4: is one hundred percent what is going on here. They
Speaker 4: are just cut Christmas carols.
Speaker 1: All day that needs to be its own, Like that's
Speaker 1: what I call Christmas music collection County Carols. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: whole family. But yeah, they it like true like the
Speaker 1: so there's drummers on stage, Like suddenly there's a dag
Speaker 1: low backlit thing on stage where it's like the lyrics
Speaker 1: to the song written in shitty graffiti, and then the
Speaker 1: drummer starts flying through the All of the drummers just
Speaker 1: take off from the stage like it's a fucking pink
Speaker 1: concert and they're just drumming through the air while like
Speaker 1: dancers start dancing below, and the whole thing just makes
Speaker 1: Celine Dion's Vegas act look understated by comparison.
Speaker 4: I mean, I was at Mariah Carey's Christmas concert two
Speaker 4: nights ago looking at these tiktoks. I was like, I
Speaker 4: was ripped.
Speaker 1: Off, Like yeah, it's cheap.
Speaker 4: It made it made Mariah Carey's Christmas concert look like
Speaker 4: a small church is little like recital. Yeah, like Mariah, Sorry, yeah, sorry, Maria.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: The church defended itself to the press, stating that they're
Speaker 1: not ashamed to pull out all the stops in celebration
Speaker 1: of the birth of Jesus Christ during the Christmas season.
Speaker 1: They even offered to pray for those of us ridiculing
Speaker 1: their show. I just love it anytime they say Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ both together, it is like such a specific and yes,
Speaker 1: it's written in italics. Yeah, it's written and spoken in italics.
Speaker 1: So a few days later, Cross Town, another Texas megachurch,
Speaker 1: went viral for its Christmas show, which featured a literal
Speaker 1: flying Santa sled which we all remember from the from
Speaker 1: the Gospel, and a Nativity scene with an elephant elephant.
Speaker 2: Real elephant straight up, and then another church across town
Speaker 2: used all their money to breed a type of reindeer
Speaker 2: that actually has a red nose over centuries, and finally
Speaker 2: debuted it as well, Yeah it's radioactive and yeah.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, yeah, backfired and it also had laser eyes and
Speaker 1: it killed most of the congregation.
Speaker 4: Even worse, it actually it lives two hundred and fifty years,
Speaker 4: which is worse.
Speaker 1: It's unkillable.
Speaker 4: You can't kill this reindeer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, last year that there's also like, uh, sorry for
Speaker 1: I guess we love Jesus too much. Okay, we built
Speaker 1: an unkillable reindeer that has laser eyes and glowing nose. Sorry,
Speaker 1: if we love.
Speaker 4: Jesus, now, who's going to take care of it?
Speaker 1: We please? It's killed most of us. Last year in Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: church got at ten Jim for its show featuring the
Speaker 1: traditional Yule Tide. Bon Jovi covers that they're living on
Speaker 1: a prayer and a reboot of Ariana Grande seven Rings
Speaker 1: with new lyrics like oh, mother, Mary, I pray she's
Speaker 1: slaying and lashes and diamonds, tithes and something else.
Speaker 2: My computer just praying. I'm guessing praying, I'm guessing praying.
Speaker 1: I didn't praying, Yeah, praying, Yeah, tithes and offerings praying
Speaker 1: would have been better, but yeah, me, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I love everything about this. I love that it's like
Speaker 1: an arms race of gaudiness. I love that their response
Speaker 1: is somewhere between like, Okay, then I guess you can
Speaker 1: arrest me for loving Jesus too much. Didn't know that
Speaker 1: was a crime, and also like, what's the matter, loser? Jealous?
Speaker 1: Like that feels like the real vibe. It's like, oh, sorry,
Speaker 1: does your church suck? Maybe that's the problem.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, and obviously, or we have a hotter Santa
Speaker 2: with a tighter beard, like they're making like everyone sexier.
Speaker 1: Two yeah, yeah, truly, I bet they're Santa has a
Speaker 1: six pack.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Santa has huge tits.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, we really apologize. Maybe if you pray harder,
Speaker 2: you'll get a sexier Santa with bigger tits.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I am desperately jealous. I truly wish my parents,
Speaker 1: Like I lived in Kentucky for three years and this
Speaker 1: was an option for like all my friends in Kentucky
Speaker 1: got were like part of one of these major like Evangelical, Disneyland,
Speaker 1: Ice Christianity type megachurches like that one of the good
Speaker 1: like basketball games after school was a Fellowship of Christian
Speaker 1: Athletes game where you would like play for an hour
Speaker 1: and then you would like go listen to somebody like
Speaker 1: testify for a half hour, and I I fucked up. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like at halftime the half of that show,
Speaker 1: it like it seems pretty easy, Like it seems like
Speaker 1: they mostly leave you alone to enjoy the light show.
Speaker 1: As long as you say that, like you're saved. That's
Speaker 1: the main thing you have to be like, yeah, I've saved.
Speaker 1: I led Jesus into my heart and it was like
Speaker 1: a tiny orgasm of the soul and now we are
Speaker 1: good here, so you can move on to the next
Speaker 1: person because I'm just enjoying the bond jove.
Speaker 4: I feel like mega churches don't get in your business either,
Speaker 4: Like they just I don't know. I'm like, if you're
Speaker 4: gonna if you're gonna make that much money, you better
Speaker 4: put on a show, like right, you could you could
Speaker 4: just have a Christmas thing where they don't do anything.
Speaker 4: I'm like, if I am part of a megachurch, I
Speaker 4: want I want mega church. I want I want them
Speaker 4: to go big.
Speaker 1: Yeah, live up to the name. Please thank you.
Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, where is this money going when I just
Speaker 2: gave you an iPhone into the collection chart? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the elephants wild.
Speaker 4: You gotta know, it's got to go somewhere, and at
Speaker 4: least it's going to I don't know, at least it's
Speaker 4: going to them getting entertained. It's not it's not going
Speaker 4: to the church's lawyers. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's going to the church of lawyers too.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you can't. You can't suspend six private citizens
Speaker 1: above one hundred feet above the floor of your amphitheater
Speaker 1: without getting some pretty good legal representation. I feel like.
Speaker 4: That's really that's really a great point. It's really a
Speaker 4: great point. But at the same time, what I'm saying is,
Speaker 4: at least they're putting that money towards entertaining people and
Speaker 4: hopefully not covering up molesting them.
Speaker 1: You know, hopefully. We cannot speak to that, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't speak to that.
Speaker 4: But you know, yeah, one dollar towards display riders is
Speaker 4: a dollar less to cover that's right.
Speaker 1: Or we could just tax churches.
Speaker 4: Because yeah, that's or wet then that's yeah, that could be.
Speaker 1: And then use that money for things like I don't
Speaker 1: know libraries, for instance, it's a slippery slope. Yeah. A
Speaker 1: new study released by the American Library Association revealed that
Speaker 1: Gen Z and millennials are visiting libraries way more often
Speaker 1: than older generations. They there's so much news that is
Speaker 1: just like the various trappings, various ways of dressing up
Speaker 1: the idea that like gen Z and millennials are poor,
Speaker 1: like they don't have any money and Baby boomers kept
Speaker 1: it all and yeah, but that's what we're off.
Speaker 2: They're more likely to pick up food off the street
Speaker 2: and eat it, cleaning the street, you know, because like
Speaker 2: the other they're poor to for food. Is that what
Speaker 2: it is?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah. Basically, fifty four percent of gen Z millennials
Speaker 1: visit an honest to goodness physical library this past year,
Speaker 1: and they have a preference for print books not digital one,
Speaker 1: which I fully identify with because yeah, like just any
Speaker 1: break from the phone is a screen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, dude. When I don't look at my phone
Speaker 4: for an hour, I feel like I've done community services
Speaker 4: so great. I feel like I've done something good in
Speaker 4: the world. And all I've done is that in my
Speaker 4: house not looking at my phone. I'll be even if
Speaker 4: I'm watching TV. If I do it without looking at
Speaker 4: my phone, I feel like I just helped the world.
Speaker 2: Right, It's incredible. Do you hold onto your books too,
Speaker 2: Like do you have bookshelves in your homes as well?
Speaker 1: Or do you give them away?
Speaker 4: I have bookshelves full of books I've never even opened. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I never will. I'll just look at them.
Speaker 1: I'm very streamlined. We just uh we we have like
Speaker 1: book burnings in our backyard that we just you know, get,
Speaker 1: you know, make a show.
Speaker 2: You do them right too. Yeah, you have a guest
Speaker 2: list for those. My wife and I used to have
Speaker 2: separate bookshelves for like my books and her books, and
Speaker 2: it got so embarrassing of like the Smart Ship that
Speaker 2: she reads, and then for me it was like Jaleen
Speaker 2: Roses autobiography.
Speaker 1: The Second Printing and from the Road. So yeah, we
Speaker 1: had to start mixing them up. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is something nice just having a physical book,
Speaker 2: like a tangible book in your hand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really love it. Yeah, magazines. I still like
Speaker 1: having magazines, and because the print industry is dying, like
Speaker 1: they're very thin, so they're easier to carry around. There's no,
Speaker 1: there's not there's no advertisements in them, so you just yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I don't know. The library system is extremely
Speaker 1: vulnerable right now thanks to budget cuts and you know,
Speaker 1: some right wing trolls, so we maybe we it would
Speaker 1: be worth it to like text text church doesn't give
Speaker 1: it the libraries. This is the craziest Yeah. But or
Speaker 1: or we could just keep escalating the the mega church
Speaker 1: Christmas performances. I do think that by just focusing on
Speaker 1: the Christmas performances, we are letting them off easy with
Speaker 1: regards to the other big celebration because East the Easter
Speaker 1: performances are pretty fucking terrifying. They because they like some
Speaker 1: of them go like really bloody that there are definitely
Speaker 1: examples where they're like anti.
Speaker 4: A yeah, yeah, well not that not that part. Let
Speaker 4: you right up to it. That there was a bit
Speaker 4: of a time.
Speaker 2: That I apologize, okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I do like I do like that they
Speaker 5: that there's a lot of blood and gore at least,
Speaker 5: you know, like let's go, let's go Old Testament.
Speaker 1: Yeah mm hmmmm. I think they like just leave Easter
Speaker 1: to be about bunnies and candy eggs, but get your
Speaker 1: gore out during Halloween. Like I think they there's a
Speaker 1: thing called hell House that they used to do that's
Speaker 1: like a megachurch themed haunted house. But it's basically like,
Speaker 1: this is what's gonna happen to you if you don't
Speaker 1: let Jesus into your heart.
Speaker 2: It sounds awesome if you're right to that, Like, if
Speaker 2: you're into a haunted house. What's better than that?
Speaker 1: Like really the trick of yeah, like the ultimate movie
Speaker 1: trick of just being like, I don't know, the bad
Speaker 1: guy's a nun. Maybe, like, you know, religion just as
Speaker 1: amps everything up ten x. So why not have these
Speaker 1: megachurches just start doing the haunted houses as well? They
Speaker 1: would probably.
Speaker 2: Suck and even the face value of people actually believe this,
Speaker 2: like and then putting that like that's kind of the
Speaker 2: other fear, Yeah, like parallel fear that you can have simultaneously.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just put slash that at the end for
Speaker 1: the non church people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: Let's uh, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back. And it is that time
Speaker 1: of the year when the doctor suits classic the Grinch
Speaker 1: just gets shoehorned into every political message. Right now, this year,
Speaker 1: we've got Trump's lawyers citing how the Grinch sol Christmas
Speaker 1: to argue against Jack Smith's prosecution timeline. They're like, he's
Speaker 1: given us too much work for Christmas break. They said,
Speaker 1: this proposed schedule would require attorneys and support staff to
Speaker 1: work round the clock through the holidays, inevitably disrupting family
Speaker 1: and travel plans. It is as if the Special Council
Speaker 1: quote growd with his grinch fingers nervously drumming, I must
Speaker 1: find some way to keep Christmas from coming? But how
Speaker 1: And then they like cite doctor sus how the Grinch
Speaker 1: stole Christmas Random House nineteen fifty seven, and the publisher
Speaker 1: It is like how lazy Trump's lawyers are. It's like
Speaker 1: me writing a fucking paper in third grade, you know,
Speaker 1: eighth grade, just trying to like pad out the word
Speaker 1: count as much as possible.
Speaker 2: Why have I read read?
Speaker 1: I know I brought the Grinch.
Speaker 2: It's really the only thing I can think of right now, actually,
Speaker 2: so we might as well cite that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green is currently selling Biting Grinch wrapping paper
Speaker 1: because there's no better way to stick it to the
Speaker 1: Democrats than paying twenty five dollars for a single roll.
Speaker 1: Of wrapping paper. But that's you know, there's thereness.
Speaker 2: I think the wrapping paper is the gift right there?
Speaker 1: You got the gift itself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, the box is empty. Why would you
Speaker 1: think there's something in the box. Look at the wrapping paper.
Speaker 1: That's the gift. That's the gift.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and now are you proving you can use it
Speaker 4: for next Christmas?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 4: It's like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: But the Biden Grinch comparisons kind of pale in comparison
Speaker 1: to the onslaught of Trump as Grinch memes we got
Speaker 1: during his presidency. There were just so many Grinch Trump there.
Speaker 1: They were like viral videos and twenty twenty a liberal
Speaker 1: pack made an ad comparing Republican centers Kelly Loffler David
Speaker 1: perdue to the Grinch, Republican Group launched a five figure
Speaker 1: digital ad depicting top Democrats as Grinches. There were definitely
Speaker 1: viral videos with Trump as the Grinch. There was a
Speaker 1: whole Grinch parody children's book about how Justin Trudeau stole
Speaker 1: Canada's freedom with COVID safety measures that somehow became a
Speaker 1: best seller. So it's tough, like part of these like
Speaker 1: stop doing this, this is dumb, and but it clearly
Speaker 1: just like resonates people are just like the Grinch is
Speaker 1: having a moment.
Speaker 4: It's funny to me that they really feel like it's
Speaker 4: like sticking it to each other, that they're really getting
Speaker 4: each other with this. Yeah, you know, just they're like, oh, well,
Speaker 4: everybody hates the Grinch. It's like he's actually a pretty
Speaker 4: beloved character.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the fucking protagonist of all the stories that
Speaker 1: he's in.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, like he's the only monster that's got his
Speaker 4: own movie. Yeah, you know, like it's got his own
Speaker 4: like beloved, happy ending movie. It's like, oh, thank god,
Speaker 4: the Grinch is good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he has a dog.
Speaker 4: I mean he's like, yeah, you know, he is kind
Speaker 4: of like an unpaid intern, but you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his dog is true. But he loves it. He
Speaker 1: loves you.
Speaker 4: Looking at me so happy, he's so happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It ignores the fact that the Grinch ultimately become
Speaker 1: good and returns everybody's Christmas presence and like loves Christmas
Speaker 1: by the end of the movie. And I feel like
Speaker 1: it's gonna be extra ineffective on younger people who grew
Speaker 1: up with like the newer Grinch movies, like the the
Speaker 1: Jim Carrey Grinch movie from two thousand. I think the
Speaker 1: Who's are just like.
Speaker 2: Total assholes from that long ago. Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2: They're like rich kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah it it blew my mind. Like we are
Speaker 1: at the twentieth anniversary of the movie. Elf, that finding
Speaker 1: that out made me feel fucking blew away into a
Speaker 1: cloud of fucking ash and dust. But yeah, messed up. God. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the Grinch and in the Jim Carrey movie is
Speaker 1: also like mad at them because they bullied him and
Speaker 1: ostracized him purely based on his looks. That's like everybody
Speaker 1: who's like raised on that is going to be like, what, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: if Biden's the Grinch, like you guys, guys are awful,
Speaker 1: you guys are terrible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Biden, as we all know, he's been ostracized
Speaker 4: purely based on his looks.
Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 4: Exactly, and his ability to ride a bike effectively, The.
Speaker 1: Grinch and he both seem equally dry. They both seem
Speaker 1: like they would go up in flames if like a
Speaker 1: single like ember brushed against them. For some reason, the
Speaker 1: Grinch has always seemed very dry, especially the Jim Yeah,
Speaker 1: am I the only one?
Speaker 2: Come on?
Speaker 4: I feel like he seems a little wet.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's Jim Carrey grinch.
Speaker 2: Let's not fight, let's not fight on here. I don't
Speaker 2: like this cross talking.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, so help me God. Yeah he does,
Speaker 1: he does. He always seems to like manage to be
Speaker 1: a little bit dry to me. But maybe maybe he.
Speaker 4: Is made of muppets, which does seem flammable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because he's around. Is the snow melting
Speaker 2: in the cave, because that's what I'm thinking to a
Speaker 2: cave is traditionally wet. But if an iglow, an igloo
Speaker 2: is not really wet, is it because it's so cold?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: How cold is it there?
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry that I started this. I abologize.
Speaker 1: No, I need to go to the hospital.
Speaker 4: So sorry.
Speaker 2: A segment What is an igloo?
Speaker 1: How is that's when we go to live when we
Speaker 1: have a live show for this podcast, that's going to
Speaker 1: be the the thing the crowd yells? How what.
Speaker 2: The reviews of the show were, It couldn't have been worse.
Speaker 2: Nothing was textualized.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just us getting them to shout and
Speaker 1: then right, yeah, anyways, stop, I feel like that the
Speaker 1: time has passed. This is the Grinch thing is for
Speaker 1: is being the anti Grinch agenda is being pushed by
Speaker 1: like news producers in their fifties, you know, who don't
Speaker 1: don't know the truth about the Grinch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's by boomers for boomers.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I don't know how to say that altogether, like
Speaker 4: you would say fou bu, but it's something like.
Speaker 1: It is there.
Speaker 2: It's just sort of a semi yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The Grinch is like ultimately by the end of
Speaker 1: the movies kind of like a girl dad to Cindy
Speaker 1: lu who, you know, Like he really kind of shows up.
Speaker 1: He's not the you know, father, but he's the father
Speaker 1: who shows up. Whatever that's saying is about stepfathers, you.
Speaker 4: Know, the original girl dad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, he's the father's step that's so worship him.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about leave the world behind. This
Speaker 1: is a movie. I went and saw it in theaters.
Speaker 1: I was so excited about it. I don't think that's true.
Speaker 1: That is true? Is that true? That is true? I
Speaker 1: saw the trailer. I was like, this looks cool. The trailer,
Speaker 1: not the one. There's like a minute and a half
Speaker 1: trailer that I think most people have seen. There's another
Speaker 1: one with like an LCD sound system song that is
Speaker 1: really cool. I really loved the trailer. It's one of
Speaker 1: my The trailer is one of my favorite movies of
Speaker 1: the year. The movie is not one of my favorite
Speaker 1: movies of the year. The movie ends up like I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't want to spoil anything, but I
Speaker 1: think you can probably if you've seen if you know
Speaker 1: anything about it. It like kind of has the message
Speaker 1: that we get in a lot of movies like this
Speaker 1: that like the preppers were right was right alone essentially,
Speaker 1: but it is certainly striking a chord. It's the number
Speaker 1: one movie. It's been the number one movie on Netflix
Speaker 1: since it came out, and I think they're saying it's
Speaker 1: going to be the top movie of the year, and
Speaker 1: there's there's a bunch of things that are I think
Speaker 1: it was helped by the fact that Elon Musk complained
Speaker 1: about the movie despite the fact that he didn't watch it.
Speaker 1: He's been There's a part where Tesla's come alive basically
Speaker 1: and start attacking the protagonists, and it's not as like
Speaker 1: dumb as that sounds, but it kind of is.
Speaker 4: While you're watching, if there's a moment where you're taken
Speaker 4: out of it and you're like, Okay, this is why
Speaker 4: am I stressed out right now?
Speaker 1: Like this is very stupid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is dumb. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's basically you know how for a long time
Speaker 1: in action movies, like action movie villains would just be
Speaker 1: like hack hack the building and make it blow up,
Speaker 1: and they would just like type five computer keys and
Speaker 1: then the building would blow up. This is like that,
Speaker 1: but like on a global scale. It's just like we're
Speaker 1: under cyber attack. The cars can come alive. Now, it's
Speaker 1: just like every kind of ill informed, technophobic article that
Speaker 1: has been published in the mainstream media over the past
Speaker 1: twenty years, just like compiled into.
Speaker 4: One place one movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then and then they're also just like what
Speaker 1: rich people should have books.
Speaker 4: There's also racism, yes, and as like as like a
Speaker 4: b story, there's like there's like racism that just sort
Speaker 4: of seems to settle down.
Speaker 1: Right yeah in the middle of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and yeah, that part kind of weird me out.
Speaker 4: There was like a weird like moment between the two characters.
Speaker 1: The mom and the Roberts.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and I was like, this is so wait,
Speaker 4: is this the end of the Is this the end
Speaker 4: of her being racist? It was like yeah, and then
Speaker 4: it just never gets addressed. After that, I was like,
Speaker 4: what the where did that storyline go? Like?
Speaker 1: Was there were certain.
Speaker 4: Things where I was like, Okay, there's like some loose
Speaker 4: ends that really just it kind of ends the way
Speaker 4: a sketch would end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh you didn't watch past the credits. So they
Speaker 2: address all of it like if you if you watch past.
Speaker 4: The credits, Oh okay, okay, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Bailed too early. I see the post credits sequence where
Speaker 1: they together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I always forget to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, essentially revealed ant man, is this is part of
Speaker 1: the Marvel Shared Universe? I think, like what one question
Speaker 1: that was constantly on my mind the whole movie is
Speaker 1: like how much are we supposed to hate the this family?
Speaker 1: Like the Julia Roberts Ethan Hawke. I'm like, because I
Speaker 1: did like this is as much as I've disliked a
Speaker 1: protagonist of a movie like that, just both of them
Speaker 1: seem they are unlikable, Yeah, deeply unlikable, like portraits of
Speaker 1: what is wrong in with like a lot of people
Speaker 1: in our world, but like and then and then they
Speaker 1: don't seem to like clean it up. It's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: well they're better now, it's just they Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: it's like they they don't really change.
Speaker 4: And even the other family, like his wife like just
Speaker 4: like I think died or something they never addressed, but
Speaker 4: like it's assumed that his wife is dead, like twenty
Speaker 4: four hours before we meet him. And then he's like
Speaker 4: having this moment with Julia Roberts, and I'm like, wait,
Speaker 4: didn't your wife Like just what the I'm like, all
Speaker 4: of you are really emotionally just not air.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, yeah, it's sorry. I just I haven't seen
Speaker 1: my wife in three days, so obviously you know I'm
Speaker 1: very lonely. Yeah. Yeah. So Elon Musk called it out
Speaker 1: because he was like, teslos can charge from solar panels.
Speaker 1: Even if the world does go full mad Max, there
Speaker 1: is no more gasoline, so what our cars are gonna
Speaker 1: be fine, which like is in no way a reaction
Speaker 1: to what is happening in the movie. Like I don't
Speaker 1: even know what he thought based on that response, but
Speaker 1: it did certainly help people be like, oh, this movie
Speaker 1: is something that I can watch.
Speaker 4: It's so upsetting too to know that if there was
Speaker 4: a cyber attack that Elon Musk would be on X
Speaker 4: saying the world has gone full mad Max, like that
Speaker 4: is how he would address it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: That's the last like the last book that that trouble
Speaker 2: Royer read was The Grench. He's only seen Matt Max
Speaker 2: and his response does it make sense either? Where it's
Speaker 2: like if there were like inventory robots that try to
Speaker 2: like keep having sex with the mail cashiers and the
Speaker 2: owner was like, yeah, but they have great battery life.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like, no, that's not really the point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is over a weekend. What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Really not the problem? Yeah, No, that's great about the batteries,
Speaker 4: but that's.
Speaker 2: Not the problem. Congratulations. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other big reason that it's become a focal point
Speaker 1: of conspiracy theories is that it is produced by the
Speaker 1: Obamas as part of their like overall deal with Netflix.
Speaker 1: They are like producers. They came on the way producers do.
Speaker 1: They're like, Okay, we're gonna lend you our name and
Speaker 1: some money, and you have to put up with me
Speaker 1: like reading the script and writing notes on it. And
Speaker 1: you just have to read the notes. You don't have
Speaker 1: to do anything about them, but you do have to
Speaker 1: read them. And that's that's what happened. And people are
Speaker 1: like the Obamas are trying to tell us something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like theorizing that it's some kind of warning from
Speaker 1: the Obamas about like what's coming the whole thing. It's
Speaker 1: just like, I think that's like what I disliked about
Speaker 1: it is like it is a dumb person's idea of
Speaker 1: like what a smart person would think is like going,
Speaker 1: like is dangerous about the current state of the world
Speaker 1: is yeah, like, oh man, they can they can hack anything, bro,
Speaker 1: they can fucking hack anything. Dude. You fucking yeah your
Speaker 1: microwave they could fucking hack that, dude. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like retelling the the plot lines of it. It's
Speaker 4: almost as if it makes you feel like you're high
Speaker 4: and you're pitching a movie to your friend. Yeah, right,
Speaker 4: like yeah, and then like maybe I don't know, like
Speaker 4: some tesla's could like chase the family down and I
Speaker 4: don't and maybe they got to find a bunker. And
Speaker 4: also there's racism.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the scariest monster of all And we'll say that
Speaker 1: in the movie.
Speaker 2: We'll say say that, Yeah, and the friend you're pitching
Speaker 2: it too, is President Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild to me that they decided. I think
Speaker 1: I think he like read the book and so that
Speaker 1: that was like it was probably like on one of
Speaker 1: his lists of you know, novelists. But the the conspiracy
Speaker 1: theory that is pretty convincing is of course connecting this
Speaker 1: movie to Matthew Perry's death. After all, he used to
Speaker 1: date Julia Roberts. He died on her birthday. I don't
Speaker 1: probably don't have to connect all the dots after that, right, Like,
Speaker 1: you guys get it. There's an eclipse on the poster,
Speaker 1: and the next eclipse is on Matthew Perry's birthday. Leave
Speaker 1: the World Behind one ninety two, Eclipse one ninety two,
Speaker 1: Chandler one ninety two. Bunker Commodist, Roman Emperor Commodist died
Speaker 1: year one ninety two by drowning. Everything is put in
Speaker 1: on purpose by the elite. Perry knew his time was coming,
Speaker 1: and so he uh, you know, made a deal to
Speaker 1: collect you know, to get out. That's that's from an
Speaker 1: actual Reddit post. And then someone responded more like by
Speaker 1: the Obama's aka elite. Yeah, so pretty I mean that
Speaker 1: one makes you think, right, like the Eclipse commedists. But
Speaker 1: what I don't have to say anymore. You guys are
Speaker 1: connecting the dots on your own, so I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, it will be a part two to
Speaker 2: this episode where we can discuss this further of god
Speaker 2: knows how many too.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to get killed here, you know. So
Speaker 1: there's there's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be actually a subsequent one to ninety two episodes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is episode just the three of us working
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 4: Just trying to figure out just getting to the bottom
Speaker 4: of this, going frame by frame, getting after it.
Speaker 1: Part of the problems that like the movie really does
Speaker 1: have like hidden details, like they the director who is
Speaker 1: sam Ismail, the director of Mister Robot, So it's like
Speaker 1: that's that's where the giant cyber attack comes from. Like
Speaker 1: it's that that's kind of that guy's thing. And also
Speaker 1: it's like in a novel, it did not come from
Speaker 1: the Obamas. The director did hide like a bunch of
Speaker 1: six six sixes in the beginning and ending of the movie,
Speaker 1: so there there are like they were playing into it.
Speaker 1: There's also like a hidden QR code in the CNN map,
Speaker 1: so that so it definitely is matt the Matthew Perry conspiracy.
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree because they hit the
Speaker 1: six there.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean you can't argue with that
Speaker 4: kind of logic.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know, guys, keep your eyes open, That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying, rock solid. Did you like the movie, Rosebud?
Speaker 4: I actually did like the movie, And then the more
Speaker 4: I thought about the movie, the less I liked it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but I really liked the experience of watching it. It
Speaker 4: was just like then I got Then I started thinking
Speaker 4: about it, and I was like, there's a lot that
Speaker 4: doesn't make a ton of sense here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, yeah, there's really cool moments though, for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was really cool. It was just
Speaker 4: like a fun movie. It was fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the fun movie that then is like
Speaker 1: sending secret signals to the dumbest people on earth to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, you're right. Everything you've ever been worried
Speaker 1: about is writ vote.
Speaker 4: Trump, and they're so thirsty need to be told. Any
Speaker 4: kind of affirmation for them is like anything. They're just
Speaker 4: it's like, so I knew that was gonna happen while
Speaker 4: I was watching, but it's like you watch that and
Speaker 4: it's like there's all this all these plots, there's so
Speaker 4: much action in one movie and so little like character development,
Speaker 4: and then you watch like May December and it's like
Speaker 4: there's a lot of character development and nothing is happening.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, can I get one thing?
Speaker 1: What? Just?
Speaker 4: Can we just get a movie that's like you get both?
Speaker 1: I don't know, something good? Please? Can I just.
Speaker 4: I don't mean to say that either of these movies
Speaker 4: are bad, because I've enjoyed both of them, but yes,
Speaker 4: I that's essentially yeah, I guess I.
Speaker 2: Just really like for me now, I'm I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I am no bit gonna watch this movie now, Like yeah,
Speaker 2: you said, like I I sometimes you want to watch
Speaker 2: a movie where you don't have to think about anything
Speaker 2: and it's that entertains you. So yeah, but yeah, maybe
Speaker 2: I'll I mean, once I scan the QR code, who
Speaker 2: the hell knows what's what's going to happen?
Speaker 1: But yeah, because they like kept it a secret when
Speaker 1: it was in theaters, like it was in like five theaters,
Speaker 1: like I had to. I saw the trailer. I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: this isn't theaters and has been for like three weeks.
Speaker 1: It made like forty five dollars in its theatrical run,
Speaker 1: and then but it dropped on Netflix. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: they're really like doing this director wrong. And then I
Speaker 1: guess they knew what they were doing. And I do
Speaker 1: feel like it is like kind of designed for being
Speaker 1: watched on Netflix, Like it's just because it's got like
Speaker 1: cool things that happen in it that you don't want
Speaker 1: to don't want the audience to think too much about,
Speaker 1: and so you know, they just kind of look up
Speaker 1: from their phones every once in a while and they're like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, that's the Tesla's are crashing. Anyways, Rosebuds, Such
Speaker 1: a pleasure having you. Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Guys, Where can people find you? Follow you all that
Speaker 1: good stuff?
Speaker 4: You can find me on Netflix. I'm i got a
Speaker 4: short set on Netflix's Verified stand Up right now, and
Speaker 4: I'm also on there for That's my Time with David Letterman.
Speaker 4: But go check out Verified stand Up. And then I'm
Speaker 4: on Instagram and TikTok as Rosebud Baker and I'm no
Speaker 4: longer on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Nice, Wow, what happened? What's wrong? You don't love it?
Speaker 4: Just you know, just just mental health. No I just
Speaker 4: I couldn't anymore health I couldn't anymore. I was like,
Speaker 4: but you know, I still I'll log into Andy's sometimes
Speaker 4: and just like read people's tweets because I do. I
Speaker 4: do miss that part of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I do amazing. Is there a work
Speaker 1: of media that you've been enjoying a work of media? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just anything anything you've watched. Sure, Hers, I just.
Speaker 4: Meant I feel like I just mentioned it, but that
Speaker 4: but May December, I'm like right in the middle of it.
Speaker 4: I was watching it right before the podcast, and it's
Speaker 4: it is good, like it's there's I also haven't seen
Speaker 4: Natalie Portman in a wild Yeah, so nice to see her.
Speaker 1: She's incredible, she's great. Everybody in the movie's really good.
Speaker 1: It's Yeah. That that was one that just like fucking
Speaker 1: stuck with me. After I watched it, I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 4: Does it Let me ask you this. Does it pick
Speaker 4: up in terms of like cause I'm I'm in it,
Speaker 4: I'm in it, I'm it's weary. I know it sounds
Speaker 4: like I hate it, but.
Speaker 1: I didn't watch it in chunks, so I have I'm
Speaker 1: having a hard time, Like I didn't I didn't walk
Speaker 1: away from it being like nothing happened. But then I
Speaker 1: have talked to people who walked away from it being like,
Speaker 1: well that just sort of ended. But I thought it
Speaker 1: was like really kind of perfect.
Speaker 4: Like I'm building a lot of tension. I just want
Speaker 4: I just need something to happen.
Speaker 1: I will say the musical cues, the overly dramatic musical
Speaker 1: cues like never pay off. Literally, I think that like
Speaker 1: they are meant to be over overly dramatic.
Speaker 4: Okay, well yeah they're doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Speaker 1: Yeah they are. Yeah, but the performances are great and
Speaker 1: they are yeah. The Yeah, it's it's very strange, very.
Speaker 4: I wish you asked me if there if there's media
Speaker 4: I've been enjoying. I need to say again, I am
Speaker 4: enjoying this. I just I can't seem to enjoy anything
Speaker 4: without also criticizing it in my brain, which is again
Speaker 4: getting back to am I depressed or realistic?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I had the same thing with like the new
Speaker 1: Wes Anderson movie that's like on a lot of people's
Speaker 1: like year end lists, and I saw that and it
Speaker 1: was at a time when I was like going through
Speaker 1: something and just like not in a good place mentally,
Speaker 1: and I hated it so much and now I'm like,
Speaker 1: maybe I just need to like rewatch it.
Speaker 4: The short one.
Speaker 1: No, this is destroyd City. It's like it has like
Speaker 1: a really fun, like desert nineteen fifties aesthetic, because like,
Speaker 1: I hate it Tom Hanks in the Bill Murray role actually,
Speaker 1: but he's great. Yeah. Oh Bill Murray might be in
Speaker 1: there somewhere. I forget. But yeah, I just like didn't
Speaker 1: like the way it was written or something. But that
Speaker 1: might just be because I was in a shitty mood.
Speaker 1: So I might have to go back and watch it.
Speaker 2: I hope you're feeling better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my god, thank you so much too, wel Blake.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you as their working media you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying?
Speaker 2: Yeah, people can find me. January fourth, I'm headlining Vermont
Speaker 2: Comedy Club in Burlington, Vermont. I know a lot of
Speaker 2: Zeitgeist people came out last time, so hope to see you.
Speaker 2: And then February third, I'm doing a show at my
Speaker 2: hometown club Helium in Philly, where it's a talk show
Speaker 2: and it's called the Reviews are In and and my
Speaker 2: guests read Yelp reviews and Google reviews that we've left
Speaker 2: for products and companies and restaurants, so it's kind of
Speaker 2: away or you realize how insane you are, either positively
Speaker 2: or negatively for leaving reviews. So that's February third and Philly,
Speaker 2: and then my stand up special Blake Lexler Daddy Long
Speaker 2: Legs is streaming on YouTube and the audio version just
Speaker 2: came out, so wherever you get music, you can listen
Speaker 2: to it. And media that I've been enjoying hyena videos
Speaker 2: where I've been.
Speaker 1: I don't like use hashtags.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they're for, but I looked at
Speaker 2: hashtag hyenas on Instagram and like, they're really cute.
Speaker 1: They're really cool, where like.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of hyena cubs and big ones and
Speaker 2: they're like the laughing noises they make are great. And
Speaker 2: there's this one girl who's like really sweet with all
Speaker 2: like and then I like she has a wildlife sanctuary
Speaker 2: and she like cuddles tigers and stuff, and it is
Speaker 2: really cute, but you have to put it outside your head, like, oh,
Speaker 2: a horrific tragedy is going to happen here a year
Speaker 2: and a half. But there is a lot of really
Speaker 2: cute stuff there, so Yeah, yenas. Look at hyenas. They're
Speaker 2: cool with each other. They they laugh, they're great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: hyena videos.
Speaker 4: I just looked, looked it up and they're they're covered
Speaker 4: in blood, just.
Speaker 1: Us Blake and there they their faces look like they're
Speaker 1: shaved raccoons, like they're Have you ever seen a shaved RECs?
Speaker 1: Like the scariest thing. No, it's cute.
Speaker 2: So yeah, No, they're covered in blood and they laugh.
Speaker 2: I don't understand where what did you? Yeah, they're really
Speaker 2: have you ever seen.
Speaker 1: That hilarious feel good Christmas movie The Smile?
Speaker 4: Yeah, these are terrifying.
Speaker 1: Well, you're looking at the wrong ones.
Speaker 2: Rosebud is pulling up the worst pictures. A manageable like
Speaker 2: a manageable of like of anything unmanageable. That one's carrying
Speaker 2: a little one, right or what is it?
Speaker 1: Anger reason?
Speaker 4: It looks like it's eating a baby.
Speaker 2: Me, I think they're carrying them.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm gonna keep looking. I'll keep looking.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna think. I don't know what's wrong with me.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, Blake has such a sweet one,
Speaker 4: and I like made me want to look it up,
Speaker 4: and then I was covered.
Speaker 1: Oh blood is sick.
Speaker 4: It's probably my algorithm. Honestly, Yeah, no, I like it.
Speaker 1: I like what you showed me. That was the thing,
Speaker 1: all right, workI media I've been enjoying is this tweet
Speaker 1: from Chris van artstale in. It was an infographic that
Speaker 1: said the first episode of that seventies show aired on
Speaker 1: August twenty third, nineteen ninety eight. It takes place on
Speaker 1: May seventeenth, nineteen seventy six, eighty one and thirty three days,
Speaker 1: twenty two years earlier. If it aired today December eighteenth,
Speaker 1: so this was on Monday at twenty twenty three, the
Speaker 1: first episode would take place on nine to eleven. So
Speaker 1: that's just a good thing to keep. Like, just tweeted
Speaker 1: that I said that nine to eleven show.
Speaker 4: That's flat. I need to know whose brain.
Speaker 1: Chris Benart's dale on. That's wild tji. You can find
Speaker 1: me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can find
Speaker 1: us on Twitter at Daily Zeigeist. We're at the Daily
Speaker 1: Zeikeeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and
Speaker 1: a website Daily zeikeist dot com where we post our
Speaker 1: episodes and our footnotes where we lay off to the
Speaker 1: information that we talked about in today's episode, as well
Speaker 1: as a song that we think you might enjoy. Super
Speaker 1: producer Justin Connor, is there a song that you think
Speaker 1: people might enjoy?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yes there is. Jack.
Speaker 3: If you like music so mellow that it sounds like
Speaker 3: the drummer is trying to play after his parents went
Speaker 3: to sleep, then you'll love this song.
Speaker 1: Seriously.
Speaker 3: The high hat taps are lighter and more timid than
Speaker 3: the ones of British Orphan gives when asking for more suit.
Speaker 1: Wow, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that means a lot of you, guys. That was
Speaker 3: my contribution to the mamable commentary on this song being
Speaker 3: so chill. But anyway, the song is called Norton Commander
Speaker 3: Garage Session by men I Trust and you can find
Speaker 3: that song in the footnotes.
Speaker 1: Footnotes the Daily Zite guys, the production of iHeartRadio. For
Speaker 1: more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 1: Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
Speaker 1: That is gotta do it for us this morning. We
Speaker 1: are back tomorrow with a special Christmas episode and then
Speaker 1: that's it. We're out. We're done, Except we have a
Speaker 1: bunch of like holiday Evergreen Holiday episodes we've been recording
Speaker 1: over the past couple of weeks to keep you guys
Speaker 1: in context. Well well bright, yeah, so we'll talk to
Speaker 1: you all then. Happy happy holidays, Blake, happy holidays, Rosebud holidays.
Speaker 1: See you on the other side. Bye.