1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet. I'm welcome to this Monday, September twenty 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: eight episode of The Daily Zy Guys. My name is 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: Jack O'Brien. I am joined as always by my co host, 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Mr Miles Gray, and we're thrilled to be joined in 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: studio by Mr Daniel O'Brien. No relations, Yeah, and then 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: I did annoy if that was as cool as the 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: one Miles did Minds from the Wayne's Brothers used to do. 8 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 1: Daniel is the creative director at Cracked and had a 9 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 1: video and best selling author. Yeah, and so are you? Yeah? Hey, hey, 10 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: it's Jack, best selling author. I think you did that 11 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: to set yourself mostly oh me, Yeah, I guess, I guess, 12 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: I guess subject of secret service investigations. Yeah, yeah, so 13 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: and so are all of you. Now, I did not 14 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: think about that talking to him. How'd that happened? Dan? 15 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,319 Speaker 1: I wrote an article for Cracked. You were working there 16 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: at the time, so it's as usual. You gave me 17 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: the assignment to do it, and I tried to push back. Um, 18 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: it was a UM, so you've kidnapped the President's daughters? 19 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: I think was a title that I submitted UM, and 20 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: then I believe it got changed to how to kidnap 21 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: the president's writers. Uh. It was a satirical guide about 22 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: what to do if you've accidentally kidnapped the president's daughters. 23 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: And about six months after it ran, the Secret Service 24 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: contacted our parent company at the time and they were like, hey, 25 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: do you know anyone named Daniel O'Brien. The Secret Service 26 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: would like to speak to him, and they had to 27 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: had to take down the article. And then I went 28 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: to the downtown l A office and they had print 29 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: outs of the article and just asked me a bunch 30 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: of questions about why I wrote certain things, and if 31 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: I had ever been in a terrorist group, and if 32 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: I did any terrorist things in my life, and I 33 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: just did a bunch of nose and a whole bunch 34 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: of jokes because I'm yeah, I'm broken, like I'm a 35 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: bad person. Because the Secret Service has a good, good 36 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: sense of humor. Yeah, that's that's what they're famous for. 37 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: Were you ever part of a terrorist group in college? 38 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: I'm like, no, it's just part of an acapella group. 39 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: What was the name of that group? Ship b Sharks 40 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: And the h I told him I wasn't a terrorist 41 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: and they could call my mom if they wanted, and 42 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 1: they said, we'd like to please give us her number, like, oh, no, 43 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: she doesn't know about any of this. And ever since then, 44 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: you get stopped every time you're passing through the t 45 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: s A. Three out of five times I get uh 46 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,839 Speaker 1: stopped and uh one or two times I went through 47 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: like a different room. There was like you need to 48 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: go into this room while we hold your passport for 49 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: a second. And then they said, okay, you can get 50 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: out of this room and go to your plane now. 51 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: And very often I get a little notice in my 52 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: checked baggage that they went through at well, I was 53 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: flying and asleep. You're welcome, Daniel Hey, speaking of terrorist organizations. 54 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:59,119 Speaker 1: The Democrats picked up two seats in a special election 55 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: this past Tuesday. Uh So this news was overshadowed by 56 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: the great NFL uh whatever you wanna call that freak 57 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: out American freak out, which we'll get into uh later. 58 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: But the Democrats picked up two seats in uh what 59 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: one of them is certainly not one we would have 60 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: expected Democrats to pick up. Uh, And Miles we were 61 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,119 Speaker 1: saying that this is significant. Yeah, it's a good precursor. 62 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: Like so in New Hampshire, this woman Cary Larner. She 63 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: won a special state house election, uh in a district 64 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: that Trump won like by twenty three points. Uh. And 65 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: also Republicans have a two to one advantage in registrations there. 66 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: So despite all that, she won this seat. Uh. And 67 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: then also in Florida, um, in the Miami area, another 68 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: Democratic candidate picked up a state Senate seat. So it's 69 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: really interesting because you know, uh, that's that makes it 70 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: what eight Republican seats that the Democrats have flipped in 71 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: here just in special elections, and those aren't like main 72 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: like Senate seats, They're not gonna like have a huge impact. 73 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: But you're saying that it's like a good weather balloon 74 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: for like things to come right right right. So like 75 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: even in when the Tea Party was on the rise, uh, 76 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: and like right after Obamacare had been passed, there were 77 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: a lot of uh yeah, special elections where Tea Party 78 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: or Republicans were flipping Democratic seats. Uh. And that eventually 79 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: was a precursor to the mid terms in where the 80 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: Democrats lost the House. So yeah, I think it's really 81 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: interesting because that means, like I think of the twenty 82 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: seven Republican held state legislative seats that have been up 83 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: for elections, intent of them have been flipped. Uh and 84 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: that's pretty significant to have like one third nearly one 85 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,039 Speaker 1: third go blue. Um, so you know, keep your eye 86 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: on that. We might see some significant pickups for the 87 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: Blue team. Uh in Um yeah, I mean the main 88 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: the like top voting population in the two thousand sixteen 89 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: presidential election was people who chose not to vote, so 90 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 1: I could I could definitely see people now who just 91 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: chose not to partake last time. Uh. Now you know, 92 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: deciding now that they've seen what that Yeah. Um, so yeah, 93 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: keep an eye on that and vote, vote your conscience. Yeah. Again, 94 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,679 Speaker 1: but probably a thing, as the god Ted Cruz says, Yeah, 95 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: just a story that slid under the radar because yeah, 96 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: there's a lot, I guess comparatively many other crazier things 97 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: happening that actually need attention. Yeah. And the other election 98 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: thing was that the guy Trump supported lost, but he 99 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: lost to somebody who was even fucking crazier than him. 100 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: So that's that's scary to me because I'm gonna keep 101 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: my eye on the Blue team obviously, but I'm also 102 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: gonna keep my eye on how many people that banned 103 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: supports get sorted through because because he has been legitimately 104 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: part of the vast right way a French conspiracy for 105 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: his entire life and even him out of the White House, 106 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,599 Speaker 1: he still is a guy who's like picking candidates he 107 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: likes and advancing their careers and and like, we don't 108 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: want that. We don't want this new version of Tea 109 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: Party fringe candidates to because these people are even to 110 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 1: the right of the Tea Party because like now we're 111 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 1: actually going into insane territory, like we have just straight 112 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 1: up racists who like are in homophobic islama, like any phobia. 113 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 1: You could fucking have Roy Moore, he's he checks the list. 114 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: So yeah, to have someone like that now enter the Senate, 115 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: like one of the highest of our congressional houses, Like, 116 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: that's uh interesting things. We'll see what happens, because yeah, 117 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: it's we're starting to actually see now that it's it's 118 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: going to be a Bannon's Party versus I guess whatever 119 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: the establishment GOP is, who knows what they are anymore. 120 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,039 Speaker 1: It's it's all kind of coming apart. Yeah. At the 121 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: same time, there was no non scary answer to that one. 122 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: It was it was either Trump, skuy or Bannon's guy one. 123 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: So I mean, uh, well, we'll have to see if 124 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: this guy performs really l in the general election, then 125 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 1: that maybe we can uh start peeing our little pants. 126 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: But he based off just like who picked two? Like 127 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: I feel like the name should have been flipped, like 128 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: Luther Strange was like the establishment geops candidate, and then 129 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: Roy Moore is like the fringe candidate. I think Roy 130 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: Moore sounds more like Luther Strange and Roy Moore sounds 131 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: more like an establishment GEOP pick. So they kind of 132 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: suck up the names. Yeah, just some just some story 133 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: notes for next time the universe, whoever is writing this show. 134 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: Another another timely story, uh, is that apparently the blacktivist 135 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: account was Uh. This is a fairly popular account that is, 136 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: I don't know, it's for black activists. It has more 137 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: followers than the Black Lives Matter page. And it turns 138 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: out it was just Russian trolls uh or the Russian government, 139 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: depending on what you choose to believe, whether you're Steven 140 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: Seagal or uh. But Vladimir Putin didn't have anything to 141 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 1: do with this. Yeah, idea that Ladimal Putin such a 142 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: wonderful pronunciation. Hey, you have some experience with Steven Seagal, Right, 143 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: didn't you like work with him on something? No, what, 144 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: there's a chance you're thinking of me, Jack, I was 145 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: the talking head expert on Steven Seagal for the A 146 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: n A biography of Steven. Yeah, I was not. I 147 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: was thinking of that anecdote. But that keep an eye 148 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: out for Dan's appearance on the Steven Seagal It's very dated. 149 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: Now we don't we don't talk about all his the 150 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: new phase of his career when he became a Russian. Yeah, yeah, 151 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: that that that It's it's crazy because that black divist account, 152 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:52,439 Speaker 1: like I mean, outwardly sort of seemed like it was 153 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: a social justice kind of page where I mean maybe 154 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: more inflammatory because like the kinds of things that they 155 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: were posting, uh were pretty much exclusively like clips of 156 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 1: police brutality with things like you know, we know where 157 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 1: the police stand and kind of having this pretty strong 158 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: anti police, anti government, uh like narrative behind it. But 159 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 1: like there were little indicators that it was clear that 160 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: this might not have been in Native English speker behind it, 161 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: because there was like wonky grammar here and there that 162 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 1: like you know, native speakers wouldn't use, and like they 163 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: would constantly use that backwards apostrophe for like whenever they 164 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: needed a real one, that one that's right underneath the 165 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,680 Speaker 1: escape key that no one knows why the funk that's there. 166 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: That's what they were using as an apostrophe. Um. And 167 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: then they were also posting a lot of like anti 168 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: Hillary posts and just like stuff about Jill Stein like 169 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: that it's like a vote for Jill Stein is for 170 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 1: peace and it's not a vote wasted. So you know, 171 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: they were clearly had some ulterior motives. I mean, just 172 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: wanted to split votes, cause the native effect all over again. 173 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: And yeah, who knows how well it worked, But like, 174 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: like I said, I had more Facebook followers than the 175 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: legitimate Black Lives Man Better page, so it had a 176 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: It has a pretty impressive footprint, which is a really 177 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 1: troubling thing for me, just because I mean, Russians hacking 178 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:16,319 Speaker 1: everything UH in my life is obviously terrifying. But knowing 179 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: that our president is UH just a loud funnel of 180 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,959 Speaker 1: hate and misinformation, that this story will be obfuscated so 181 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: much in talking points because now it's a real win 182 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: for racists on the right to link Russian hackers with UH. 183 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: What seems like a social justice cause that I don't 184 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: I don't like how this will get obfuscated down the 185 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: line into probably linking Russian hackers with Black Lives Matter. 186 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: It's just like a another scary thing. American racism is 187 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 1: a product of the KGB. Yeah, I mean, that's kind 188 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: of the brilliant thing about lad the mere Putin's whole strategy, 189 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: his whole like weird postmodern media misinformation strategy is like 190 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: misinformation on all sides. So until people are just like funk, 191 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: I don't like, I don't even have the energy to 192 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 1: believe anything anymore. So it is getting increasingly convenient to 193 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: find out that, um, the Russians did everything bad. Like 194 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: that's really handy for for me when I want to 195 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: decomplicate the world a little bit. It's sort of like 196 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: the final season of Breaking Bad, where you go so 197 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: many years of these complicated, interesting characters and then no, 198 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: it's the Nazis, Like it's been the Nazi, obvious choice, 199 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,559 Speaker 1: but I didn't even see them. Yeah, And so there's 200 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: a long proud history of Russia gaslighting Americans that will 201 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: eventually get into them do a bigger way toier piece. 202 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: But for instance, Uh, the KGB. Uh. KGB misinformation campaigns 203 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 1: were some of the first people to put out JFK 204 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: conspiracy theories that the CIA was behind the JFK assassination. Uh. 205 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,719 Speaker 1: They invented the concept of nuclear winter. Uh. They were 206 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: the first people to put out the idea that AIDS 207 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: was a government plot. Um. And they were apparently some 208 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,559 Speaker 1: of the first people to try and like bad mouth 209 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Jr. Like from both sides. Yeah, right, 210 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: Like they were trying to frame him. They were trying 211 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: to see the articles in African papers about how he 212 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,439 Speaker 1: was like an uncle Tom and how he was taking 213 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: government subsidies or whatever to sort of delegitimize him too Blacks. 214 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: But then you had on the other side, I mean, 215 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 1: like you know, they're saying he's one of the few 216 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: people who's had active measure campaigns against him from both 217 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: the FBI and the KGB. So that's a uh you know, 218 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: shows you how bossy m Okay really was. Both both 219 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: sides are trying to that's when you know you're powerful, um, 220 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: and just another like this this is something that's taking 221 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 1: place on the other side. Uh, something that when we 222 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 1: were covering the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Um, we found 223 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: like these Twitter accounts that were being retweeted by a 224 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,599 Speaker 1: lot of you know, right wing media people that were 225 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: supposedly like black guys who are calling themselves Harvey Loote crew, 226 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: and they were like, Yo, son, come down to this 227 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: store and help us loot it, and just really poor approximations, 228 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: like clearly white guy versions of what they think black 229 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: people speak, like exactly how you said it. And then uh, 230 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: and then we actually like found the four Chan thread 231 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: where they were like, hey, check this out. We're like 232 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: making it look like there's this looting thing and one 233 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: of the uh like racist dudes and the thread was like, Yo, 234 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:03,599 Speaker 1: that's not how they talk at all, man like. Um. 235 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: So yeah, anyways, it's there's a whole big, shifting misinformation 236 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: tropic sphere out there, and don't believe anything you see, 237 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: including this podcast. All Right, we're gonna take a quick 238 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: break to hear from some sponsors and then we'll be 239 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: right back and we're back. So uh, I did wanna 240 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: get back to the most important news story going on 241 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: right now, which is how people feel about the NFL 242 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: UM And just so, there's been just this outpouring of 243 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: hatred and anger. There's a new subgenre of YouTube clip 244 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: that is white football fan dousing player jersey in kerosene 245 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 1: and then like lighting it over a barbecue pit and 246 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: almost setting themselves on fire because they've over doused it 247 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: and kerosene. Uh. And I don't know that, like this 248 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: story is just not dying. I'd say maybe sixty percent 249 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: of the times that I've gone to the Drudge Report 250 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: to see what's going on with the right wing this week, 251 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: the headline has been in relation to you know, some 252 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: some just wildly unfair characterization of the protest and how 253 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: black NFL players hate our flag. Um, So it got 254 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: me thinking about just the the entire response to Colin 255 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:42,479 Speaker 1: Kaepernick's protest, and you know, there's this long, proud tradition 256 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: of uh, not just like fans, but also the media 257 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: being really uh like weirdly outdatedly racist and you know, 258 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: unfair towards black quarterbacks to the point that yeah, like 259 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: there's something about that position that they just can not take. 260 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I think we talked earlier this week that 261 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: there's like this sort of creepy racial like connotation to 262 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: the whole NFL, and like you have these owners where 263 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: they're like you know, evaluating players at the combine, like 264 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: they like stand up on stage and like lift weights 265 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: for them, and it's like these white owners and white 266 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: coaches and talking about like different black guys having like 267 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: great bodies and great strength and ship like that. Um. 268 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: And then you know, part of that hierarchy is that 269 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: I think white football fans really prefer for the quarterback 270 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: to be a white guy because the quarterback is kind 271 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: of the leader who's like telling everybody where to go 272 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: and sort of running the whole show. And so almost 273 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: the overseer right out there in the field field of 274 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 1: general exact for seeing anyway, saw some parallels there go on. 275 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: So every year you will see um like draft reports, 276 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: especially if there's like a high profile black college quarterback 277 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 1: who's coming out. Like when Cam Newton came out, there 278 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: was all this controversy about uh scandal that by all 279 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: accounts had been perpetuated by his father. Uh Like his 280 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: dad had like basically asked for money to help sway 281 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: where Cam ended up going to college after junior college, Uh, 282 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: like taking bribes to be like I'll send my son 283 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: to your and that was it was like mostly rumored. 284 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: People like don't really know the details, but that was 285 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: used to be like this guy's bad news. Cam Newton's 286 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 1: like not like you shouldn't draft him. And I think 287 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: we've actually learned since then that Cam Newton's father is 288 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 1: is just a bunch of Russians. Um. But there was 289 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 1: this moment so I I had totally forgotten that Rush 290 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 1: Limbaugh used to be a NFL commentator on ESPN. Nice 291 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: work ESPN. Uh, and back in two thousand two, he 292 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 1: came out with this statement keep the Quarterback White, where 293 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 1: he talked about how he thought there was a bias 294 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: toward black quarterbacks. He thought that people wanted Donovan McNabb 295 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 1: to succeed like more than they wanted white quarterbacks to succeed. Uh. 296 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 1: And so former NFL quarterback Warren Moon, who is one 297 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: of the great quarterbacks of all time, who is a 298 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: black man, uh, was like started a support group for 299 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: black quarterbacks. And this got some press from people being like, 300 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: what a weird, weirdly specific support group, But uh, he 301 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: has really found a role like counseling black quarterbacks because 302 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: it is apparently like a really psychologically difficult, like challenging 303 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: on every front position to be in and I also 304 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: just like another indicator that there's a complicated relationship to 305 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: black quarterbacks. Uh. Warren Moon started this UH support group 306 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 1: with a guy named Doug Williams, and I was like, 307 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:25,199 Speaker 1: Doug Williams never heard of him. I asked Miles and 308 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: Dan before this if they had ever heard of Doug Williams, 309 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 1: and they were like, uh, right that. I told them 310 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: he was an athlete there, like a baseball basketball. Uh. 311 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,679 Speaker 1: Turns out he was the quarterback for the Washington Redskins 312 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: when they won the Super Bowl. UH, and was the 313 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: Super Bowl m v P and like had one of 314 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,879 Speaker 1: the great Super Bowls of all time. But we've just 315 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: kind of deleted him from our memory. Uh. And even 316 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 1: like Warren Moon has been sort of diminished in the 317 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:06,159 Speaker 1: lore of the NFL. Like he he's uh huge, like 318 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 1: passing yard leader, like he he has like some of 319 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,640 Speaker 1: the best stats of all time, but you don't really 320 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: think of him that way. Um. When war Moon came 321 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: out of college, he was basically the best college quarterback 322 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 1: the year that he came out. UH, And the NFL 323 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: wouldn't like even let him try out for as a quarterback, 324 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: so he started his career in the Canadian Football League 325 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 1: as a quarterback. What do you mean They wouldn't let 326 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 1: him try out. They were like, you can try out 327 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,120 Speaker 1: as a running back or a wide receiver, but we 328 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: like it was just if he was drafted, he was 329 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: like under the condition that like he wouldn't be able, 330 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 1: he wasn't eligible to the NFL, just like he was 331 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: basically the person who broke the color barrier. And it 332 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: was like eighty four that's how deep the yeah, um 333 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 1: he eventually so he went he went to the Canadian 334 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,640 Speaker 1: Football League. He was like, no, I'm pretty sure I'm 335 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: a quarterback, guys, right, And went to the Canadian Football 336 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: League and like broke all their records and won the 337 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: championship for the Canadians, like took over the worst team, 338 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: like won the Super Bowl there like four years in 339 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: a row. And the NFL was like, okay, I guess uh, 340 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: And there was a huge bidding war and uh, the 341 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,199 Speaker 1: Houston Oilers got him. That's where he spent the like 342 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: formative years of his career. Um and got like a 343 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: record breaking contract at the time. And he said, like 344 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: that's where a lot of the damage was done like 345 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,199 Speaker 1: psychologically to him, Like the first couple of years they 346 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 1: were pretty bad still, um and he just said it 347 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,120 Speaker 1: was like so awful, like the way that people treated him, 348 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,199 Speaker 1: Uh in Texas, can you believe it? But like he 349 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: was saying that even when he was having a good game, 350 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 1: people would be like, man, your dad out there chucking 351 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: the ball around like he's chucking a watermelon. Like that 352 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,719 Speaker 1: was a direct quote from him, because his like kids 353 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: were in the stands and like his kids were like 354 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,880 Speaker 1: traumatized by this. Um. So I don't know there there's 355 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 1: sounds like, yeah, support group would be a good, right 356 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: support group. Uh. There's a study that also has found 357 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 1: that black starting quarterbacks. This was a two thousand fifteen 358 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 1: study found that black quarterbacks are benched way quicker than 359 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: white quarterbacks. Like all other things being equal, there's just 360 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: less patients if they make a mistake, Yeah, quicker and 361 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:45,400 Speaker 1: replaced by a backup quarterback, and they are able to 362 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 1: tell that it is like not as justified as the 363 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 1: benching of white quarterbacks, because the teams improve less when 364 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 1: the black quarterback is benched. So when white quarterback has benched, 365 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: it's because he really should have been bench and like 366 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: the team actually gets better when a black quarterback is benched. 367 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just because of the coach doesn't like him 368 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: or something. Now, Jack, I think it was last year, 369 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: but it might have been the year before Cam Newton 370 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: came out. He'd been getting a bunch of late, very 371 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 1: rough hits, and he stated that he's if Tom Brady 372 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,199 Speaker 1: was getting those hits or any other white quarterback, the 373 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 1: refs would be calling it. But because refs sort of 374 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: like the systemic racism where they they assume black people 375 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,679 Speaker 1: can take more pain than white people, they're just not 376 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: calling the fouls. Is that was there a study on that? 377 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 1: I don't look into it, and I don't know. I 378 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: don't know if there's been a study on that, but 379 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,439 Speaker 1: I could definitely believe that. I also feel like, you know, 380 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: his performance. The last time that there was a big 381 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,360 Speaker 1: article about uh Warren Moon being a counselor to black 382 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: quarterbacks was ahead of the Super Bowl, when Cam Newton 383 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: was in the Super Bowl and they were just talking 384 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 1: about how how far the how far we've come. Now 385 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: Kim Newton is like the star of the super Bowl. 386 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 1: But man, when he had a bad Super Bowl and 387 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 1: like it was like down, like down in the dumps 388 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 1: after like losing the Super Bowl, people were fucking unforgiven 389 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: tap dancing on his fucking grave. It was. It was 390 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 1: really really ugly because he was a guy who was 391 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: really funny and a joy in press conferences and was 392 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: always dancing and was just like like a fun guy. 393 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 1: And then he lost the Super Bowl and was sad 394 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: and making angry faces, and there were so many pieces 395 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: on the internet that were like, a, this is what 396 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: he's like there it is now we see this this 397 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: angry and then a bunch of you know whatever whatever 398 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 1: code words there was fashionable back then. What's anything to 399 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: say even about the foul is not getting called or 400 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,199 Speaker 1: the yeah when he was getting laid hits at not 401 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 1: being called, because that bias is demonstrated in how pain 402 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 1: medication is prescribed to black patients. Black patients are like 403 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: by a very large margin on or prescribed pain medication 404 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: because of that same sort of bias that people have, 405 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: like white people just assume black people have higher pain thresholds. 406 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: It's fucking crazy. Um, yeah, so they treat us like superheroes, 407 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: but they don't give us the respect of superhero. They 408 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 1: can handle pain, they run faster, they hit harder, but 409 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't want to have them 410 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 1: hanging around my team or throw my fucking ball like exactly. UM, 411 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: I agree with everything. You just thank you so much. 412 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: Do you have something else to say? Um? Yeah, so 413 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: that's all I have. I just think that you know, 414 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: there's obviously a lot of smoke there, and uh, that 415 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: probably has something to do with why a black quarterback 416 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 1: dealing during the national anthem has turned into the biggest 417 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: tragedy in the history of like these people's lives. It 418 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: leads to a fun tangent that I'm enjoying. Uh, stay 419 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: with me because the present then on Twitter is talking 420 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,159 Speaker 1: about how the NFL will definitely change its rules if 421 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 1: fans stopped showing up to the games and stopped watching them. 422 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: They're getting such low ratings. So the president is actively 423 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: encouraging racists to stop watching football. And I like the 424 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: idea of racists losing things they like because it's like, 425 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 1: all right, the President said no more football, and then 426 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: Steph Curry refused to go to the White House. Alright, 427 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 1: basketball's out. What teams? Can I support? Pittsburgh Penguins? Fuck yeah, 428 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 1: I really hope. I just don't like the Jan Dpper 429 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 1: Sportsman of the Year award this year and then plus 430 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: like most hockey teams are like so many Russians. He's like, 431 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,360 Speaker 1: you can't just gave me the way. It's like you're surrounded. Yeah, 432 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: there was a tweet I was reading was like in 433 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 1: the Great American Divorce, It's like, I love that progressive 434 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:51,159 Speaker 1: somehow got custody of football and conservatives are getting like 435 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: Russians and hockey. Right, It's like, who knew that conservatives 436 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:00,679 Speaker 1: were pro Russian? Um Alright, So in the time we 437 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,199 Speaker 1: have left in this segment, we're going to do our 438 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 1: weekly check in with the Bloyd's baby. That that should 439 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: be our on my own sound. Uh. So we were 440 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: checking with the tabloids every once in a while because 441 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: the tabloids have been known to break some stories. They broke. 442 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: They called that Michael Jackson was six had six months 443 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 1: to live, like exactly six months to the day before 444 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: he died. Uh. They knew Prince was addicted to pain killers, 445 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 1: that Russell Limbaugh was addicted to pain pills and to cook, 446 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:41,360 Speaker 1: that Tiger Woods was cheating, that uh, that John Edwards 447 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: was cheating, that Kevin Hart was cheating in the ad 448 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 1: a Democratic election too, like they took down Gary Hart 449 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: to write and that Swayzy was dying. So let's see 450 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 1: what The other thing to note is that they are 451 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: wildly conservative. Um, Donald Trump is, or at least there 452 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:08,880 Speaker 1: wildly pro Trump. Donald Trump is uh, like best friends 453 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,959 Speaker 1: with the guy who's like the editor in chief and 454 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: main publisher of am I American Media, Inc. Who owns 455 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,199 Speaker 1: The Enquiry basically owns all the tablets, like twelve of 456 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: the most indisputably terrible people in the world, and they're 457 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: all friends and it's crazy. They're just yeah, they're just 458 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: having weird dinner parties where they say awful ship. Um. 459 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: So apparently it's open knowledge now that Val Kilmer has cancer, 460 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: but they knew that before anyone else, so they're bragging 461 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: about that. Inquirer gets all the scoops all the time, 462 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: and then they just brag about stuff they knew before 463 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,959 Speaker 1: everyone else if you want to brag there, like we 464 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: outed this person having cancer for anyone, right, But that's 465 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: their currency. I guess. Um they sound Kim and Kanye surrogate. 466 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: They're they're doing the good thing and bluring her face, 467 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 1: but she is apparently like the best surrogate, like the 468 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: luxury automobile. The agency they went to to look for 469 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 1: a surrogate. She was. They said she was literally the 470 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: poster woman, like she was on like literature that was 471 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: promoting the agency. So yeah, she is like the one. 472 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: Uh she I think like had a successful surrogate pregnancy 473 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: that Kim and Kanye really stoked on. Apparently Kim was 474 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: really stoked on the fact that she was a massive 475 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,239 Speaker 1: keeping up with the Kardashians fan. Um, so you know, 476 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: there's nothing like I guess maybe they felt like that 477 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: makes her like Kim or something like because she likes 478 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: to show. But then they're like kind of like interesting 479 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: demands that like him and Kanye have like well they're 480 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 1: not like crazy, but it's like eating organic food, like 481 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: no smoking or drinking obviously. But then there's one it's like, yeah, 482 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: she had to study French in Mandarin during the pregnancy. 483 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: Like I don't know if you tell me if I'm wrong. 484 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: Are there any studies I suggested if you're studying a 485 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 1: foreign language, your child will come out with that sort 486 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 1: of like no sane ones, you know, yeah, I mean 487 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: you should play music, I think is one of the 488 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: things I think that wasn't one you can't ship in 489 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: there like they do. You remember, No, no, you have 490 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: like listened to because one like this ultrasounds of Jack 491 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: as a baby like corning turn it up, uh turn 492 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: me up in the headphones. Uh No, they're one of 493 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: one of the relaxation things they give you for newborns. 494 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: Are like things that sound like the inside of the womb. 495 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: And it's just like this like loud cacophony of like 496 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,880 Speaker 1: it sounds like you're inside like a water balloon. Yeah, 497 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 1: it sounds like you're like it's basically what you'd expect 498 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: if you think about it, Like it sounds like there's 499 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 1: like all these loud pipes and stuff like got worrying 500 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: around you, and it's because you are like in the 501 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: middle of a living construction basically. But at the same time, 502 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 1: I don't I can't speak Mandarin and I can only 503 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: I can't help but blame my mother for that not 504 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 1: studying it. Yeah, no, that's fair, that's totally fair. Uh So, 505 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 1: while we're on the subject of the Kim and Kanye surrogate, 506 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: uh Dan brought to our attention just want one of 507 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 1: the greatest things we've found on the internet. It sounds 508 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: like the Upton Sinclair of our Time, ends of muckraking, 509 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: like just hard hitting investigative journalism. What's his name, Sean Blasington. 510 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 1: He's a YouTuber, slash rapper, slash uh truth speaker, like 511 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: conspiracy theorist. He does a bunch of videos. Some of 512 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: them are just about video games that he likes, some 513 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 1: of them are about music. But his most important work 514 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 1: that he's doing are these expose s that he calls documentations, 515 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: and he's got the hot scoop on a lot of 516 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: huge scandals that really opened my eyes. And one of 517 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 1: them is about be On saying jay Z's sham marriage 518 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 1: and the fact that they used Solange as the surrogate 519 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,719 Speaker 1: for their baby for Blue Ivy. Yeah yeah, yeah, well, 520 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 1: which there are a lot of very sane people who 521 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 1: think that she on on with Blue Ivy. There there's 522 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,240 Speaker 1: like a video where she like sits down and you 523 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 1: can see the belly collapse. Uh. Just the the idea 524 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 1: that Solange is the surrogate is just like putting all 525 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 1: conspiracy theories like together. Uh. And and and he was 526 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: saying that the whole elevator fight that was captured from 527 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 1: that security camera was over the surrogacy. Right, so we're 528 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: gonna actually listen to his one of his documentations. You 529 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 1: never ever in your entire life saw a picture of 530 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: jay Z tongue kissing Beyonce, gripping her, filling up on 531 00:32:53,880 --> 00:33:00,240 Speaker 1: her breast, or doing anything intimated or gripping her. But 532 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 1: send it to me and I will mail you back 533 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. Everybody was able to see the surveillance 534 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 1: tape in the elevator, but no one has been able 535 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 1: to hear the audio tape. But that's where I come in, 536 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 1: because I have the secret tape right here. Okay, I'm 537 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: gonna put this. This is crazy, this is the world say. 538 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you right now, don't say ship because 539 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 1: this is between me and Jack. Ain't gonna say nothing, 540 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,240 Speaker 1: and you'll launch you what you're tripping for. I told 541 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 1: you I left baby Blues at the babysitter. Motherfucker. You 542 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: gonna tell me the baby said it is? I let 543 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 1: the bleak. Baby said the baby Memphis bleak. I let 544 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 1: don't motherfucker the back. At this next point, you know 545 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: this was a bad idea. We should have never let's 546 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 1: launch be the mother agreed to do this here you go, 547 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 1: you dropped your shoes. There you have it, jay z 548 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: is so Launch's baby finally hit the gabblcord is adjourned. 549 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: There's when you talk about never seeing them tongue kissing 550 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,600 Speaker 1: or being intimate. I thought he was crazy at first, 551 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,360 Speaker 1: but then I looked and there's not a single picture 552 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 1: of full intercourse penetration of the two of them between between. 553 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 1: I think you just didn't look hard enough. I mean, 554 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 1: he's got to be that. I mean they are a 555 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 1: married couple. All married couples put videos and photographs of 556 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 1: that on the internet. I mean, that's how the wedding ends, 557 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,760 Speaker 1: because because everyone needs to believe that you're really married 558 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: for it. Also, Jack, you have a child, and I 559 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever had Have you ever had 560 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,239 Speaker 1: a babysitter yet? Have you used a babysitter yet? No? Never? 561 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 1: But the idea that he said you left at the 562 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,520 Speaker 1: babysitter's house and I don't even know who the babysitter is. 563 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 1: How often are you leaving your child at a babysitter 564 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,840 Speaker 1: that no one knows, like you just called the babysitter anyway, 565 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,400 Speaker 1: I'm just trying to find holes in it. I believe 566 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: because it is pretty air tight. Other than other than that, 567 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,400 Speaker 1: that's the one thing that I'm kind of like m 568 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 1: because I believe that Memphis bleak is the baby shop. 569 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: That's his bleak for for people who aren't jay Z fans. 570 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 1: Is like the shame on you rapper from like the 571 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: late nineties that jay Z was like trying to make 572 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: into a star that never made it. But like it's 573 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,520 Speaker 1: like he's just I think it's like stream of consciousness, 574 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 1: like conspiracy theory making this contributes to nothing, but the 575 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:25,799 Speaker 1: specificity of his using uh tongue kissing instead of like 576 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,800 Speaker 1: French kiss or anything like that. To me, UH is 577 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,160 Speaker 1: a Bismarck Key reference because when he was he went 578 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,440 Speaker 1: to his this girl he was seeing Blah Blah Blah's 579 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,799 Speaker 1: dorm room. They opened the door and guess what, I 580 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,479 Speaker 1: saw a fellow tongue kissing my girl in her mouth. 581 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,920 Speaker 1: And I thought, that's a weird way to say that. 582 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,359 Speaker 1: And now it has found new life in Sean Blasington. Right, 583 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 1: that doesn't do anything. There's no real connection there. I 584 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,120 Speaker 1: just think he listened to Bismarck Key and like I 585 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,160 Speaker 1: like that. I mean, he was tongue kissing. I think 586 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,360 Speaker 1: based on how elementary his raps are, like, he's definitely 587 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,560 Speaker 1: listened to like the He's of the Imperial Gold Lyrical 588 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,799 Speaker 1: Miracle kind of MC style. But yeah, I mean Memphis Bleak. 589 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,640 Speaker 1: I'm still kind of loving that because I haven't heard 590 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,200 Speaker 1: Memph Bleak's name in so long. I'm glad to know 591 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,759 Speaker 1: that he has a gig babysitting because he needs something 592 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,359 Speaker 1: to do and Jay is still taking care of him, 593 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 1: which is nice. He's still you promised help him out 594 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 1: and he's giving him some babysitting money. Yeah. Um, we're 595 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,400 Speaker 1: out of time on the tabloid tip unfortunately, so I 596 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,960 Speaker 1: will just have to tell you to everybody should take 597 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,799 Speaker 1: a look at Steven Tyler, Jennifer Garner, halle Berry and 598 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,360 Speaker 1: Shacks toes. All of their toes are really weird. Because 599 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 1: that's an actual report inside there, right, it's called what 600 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,520 Speaker 1: is it? What's that section called Nasty Feet of the 601 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:44,760 Speaker 1: Stars Wow, and by a really anxious person. The caption 602 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,600 Speaker 1: on Steven Tyler's feet is uh, the Aerosmith, an American 603 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,800 Speaker 1: idol judge can paint his nails any color he wants, 604 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 1: but there's no way to camouflage those terrible toes. So yeah, 605 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,799 Speaker 1: and your fucking face, Steven Tyler jerk. All right, we're 606 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,520 Speaker 1: gonna take a quick break and be right back, and 607 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:08,880 Speaker 1: we're back right. So uh, for the last five minutes 608 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 1: of the show, Dan, we have a recurring segment called 609 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:17,360 Speaker 1: the Underrated Zgeist Influencer. Uh, and you had sort of 610 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,360 Speaker 1: a off the beaten path one. Yeah, this is gonna 611 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,680 Speaker 1: sound weird to be an underrated Zygeist influencer. But George 612 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 1: Washington never heard of him, Okay, right, his teeth were 613 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:31,160 Speaker 1: made of wool. Yeah, um, but specifically this guy. When 614 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:35,800 Speaker 1: George Washington died, um, there was a hunger for stuff 615 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,719 Speaker 1: about him because everyone knew who was a hero. He 616 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,239 Speaker 1: was like one of the first celebrities in America. And 617 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,240 Speaker 1: there was an Internet or TV or real news obviously, 618 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:49,240 Speaker 1: and one guy just went around saying, I know George 619 00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,600 Speaker 1: Washington and his friend, I'll tell you. Give me some 620 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,080 Speaker 1: money and I'll tell you stuff about him. And he 621 00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,800 Speaker 1: built almost all of the myths that we know about Washington, 622 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,479 Speaker 1: and like later buried in other books are a bunch 623 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:05,279 Speaker 1: of Washington's contemporaries to talk about how angry and mean 624 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,880 Speaker 1: and irritable and shrieky he was, but the stories that 625 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: made it to the top where the fake ones about 626 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:15,360 Speaker 1: him being this like really noble, soft spoken, gentle, powerful leader. 627 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,319 Speaker 1: And it's just because this guy was like, what what 628 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,240 Speaker 1: would be a compelling what do we want to believe 629 00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,480 Speaker 1: about Washington? Okay, I'm gonna just tell people that's what 630 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 1: it is. And he was like faking diaries and like, 631 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,479 Speaker 1: this is George Washington's fucking diary. Give me five dollars. 632 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,600 Speaker 1: There you go, I have it. I wanted to a 633 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,280 Speaker 1: tour of his house. Come on, Cherry Tree. The Cherry 634 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,319 Speaker 1: Tree story was just like some ship he like came 635 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,520 Speaker 1: up with because he was trying to fill in Cherry 636 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:44,560 Speaker 1: Tree and fill in some fake diaries. Freaky. He had 637 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,319 Speaker 1: a really high pitched voice and and like and like 638 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,719 Speaker 1: would is it when he was yelling at people, I'm 639 00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:54,399 Speaker 1: not crossing the Delaware in that. For me, the real 640 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,000 Speaker 1: real joint is in this is like it's it's influenced 641 00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,400 Speaker 1: us because we think George Washington is this noble figure 642 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:03,759 Speaker 1: and uh commanding our troops in the war for Independence, 643 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,160 Speaker 1: and like all these people who like we're brave and 644 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,840 Speaker 1: we're gonna fight. I think about the truth of Boston 645 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,719 Speaker 1: soldiers on the American side, who a lot of them 646 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,319 Speaker 1: just like fucked off and left, and Washington couldn't get 647 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,560 Speaker 1: anyone in line, and a lot of them would just 648 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 1: get bored. And the Revolutionary War, you'll recall, we had 649 00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:26,200 Speaker 1: a terrible shortage of guns and ammunition, and a lot 650 00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,600 Speaker 1: of that was um sad we had to mount down 651 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,640 Speaker 1: on our peter. A lot of that was these soldiers 652 00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,759 Speaker 1: would get bored and start fires with their guns to 653 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 1: cook food on and then just like shoot their guns 654 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,920 Speaker 1: into the air, like there's no war to fight right now. 655 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,560 Speaker 1: I'm so bored and they're just blasting their guns. And uh, 656 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,080 Speaker 1: Washington wrote so many letters they were like, I can't 657 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,839 Speaker 1: get these fucking idiots in line. I can't get them 658 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,960 Speaker 1: to do anything. I hate Boston. They have a place 659 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Speaker 1: called Mount Hordham where it's like a like a common 660 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,640 Speaker 1: thing for a red list, red district type place at 661 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,440 Speaker 1: the time, and just the idea of the real Revolutionary 662 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:06,640 Speaker 1: War being a bunch of angry, deserting Bostonians firing guns 663 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,280 Speaker 1: into the air and hanging out at a mountain brothel 664 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,319 Speaker 1: and doing like jackass type stunts. Yeah, I'm gonna start 665 00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 1: with musk. Start the cigarette with my musk. Uh, that's crazy. 666 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,440 Speaker 1: And so Washington was just like an exasperated parent. He 667 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,719 Speaker 1: wasn't like this guy who went through the war like 668 00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,400 Speaker 1: like the story I had always heard is that like 669 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:32,920 Speaker 1: he was basically invincible and like he would get like 670 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:37,000 Speaker 1: shot thirty times during a battle and like the bullets 671 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,319 Speaker 1: he'd walk out of the battle completely unscathed, with like 672 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,200 Speaker 1: bullet holes in his jacket. Uh, that that's not true. 673 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,919 Speaker 1: I think that is true. I put in my book. 674 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,719 Speaker 1: So let's say that part of nice. Yeah, Dan is 675 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:54,320 Speaker 1: a president expert. It's on your business card, right, Yeah. Um. 676 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,440 Speaker 1: I just love the idea though, Like of course, like 677 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,680 Speaker 1: in the era where there's no way to fact check that, 678 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,680 Speaker 1: like one fucking guy could just like turn like the 679 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,520 Speaker 1: originary myth of our founding fathers, like on a teers moment, 680 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,200 Speaker 1: like just touring around and doing that kind of thing. 681 00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,000 Speaker 1: Because he'll be doing it for a while and then 682 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,920 Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson will walk up and me like that's bullshit. 683 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 1: I knew the guy had a good run in Virginia. 684 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,239 Speaker 1: Let's see what I can get in Kentucky. Yeah, and 685 00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,120 Speaker 1: I'm sure you get like free beers. She's like, hey, man, 686 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,279 Speaker 1: if you buy a couple of rounds, I'll tell you 687 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,120 Speaker 1: about the real George Washington. You want to hear the 688 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,960 Speaker 1: cherry tree one again, But I've never heard that the 689 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,839 Speaker 1: cherry wife. And then there was a guy who, after this, 690 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:37,360 Speaker 1: I think, basically decided, Okay, it's really in America's interest 691 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:41,160 Speaker 1: for there to be like a cult around George Washington, right, 692 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,919 Speaker 1: and so then he like sort of raised all these 693 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:49,080 Speaker 1: stories to the forefront. And then Barnum had like George 694 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 1: Washington's wet nurse or something like really claimed to have 695 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:58,760 Speaker 1: the oldest woman alive. It was like just an old woman. 696 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,520 Speaker 1: And he was like, yeah, she's George Washington. She breast 697 00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:08,640 Speaker 1: fed George Washington. That's the thing that used to happen. Um, Well, 698 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:15,000 Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for death in my circus or whatever. Yeah, exactly. Uh, 699 00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:20,200 Speaker 1: that is a wonderful underrated zeygeist influencer. What's that guy's name? 700 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,480 Speaker 1: Do you know? No? Cool? Wouldn't it be great if 701 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,160 Speaker 1: I did? No? No, no, the president that know. The 702 00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:32,640 Speaker 1: guy who told the stories was vladim All right, well, Daniel, 703 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,239 Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure having you on. Uh, Where can 704 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:40,239 Speaker 1: people find you? Twitter at d O B Underscore I 705 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,439 Speaker 1: n c uh and that's sort of the only place 706 00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:47,200 Speaker 1: I want people to find me, Okay, all right, and 707 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,360 Speaker 1: uh yeah, that's gonna do it for Monday. We'll be 708 00:42:50,400 --> 00:43:07,000 Speaker 1: back tomorrow. A speak U