Speaker 1: Did you grow You didn't grow up in Canada, did
Speaker 1: you No?
Speaker 2: Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Allentown, Pennsylvania. What is growing up in Allentown? Like with
Speaker 1: that Billy Joel song being out there, is it like,
Speaker 1: what is the role of that song in the life
Speaker 1: of someone growing up in Allentown?
Speaker 2: It was kind of weird because it's like in your head,
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, this is a song about where I
Speaker 2: am from. And I'm of the age that that song
Speaker 2: was very popular when I was like young, yeah, child,
Speaker 2: and and my dad worked at the Bethlam Steel and
Speaker 2: so did my grandfather.
Speaker 1: God damn man and singing your life like exactly the
Speaker 1: words exactly.
Speaker 2: Lost his job when they shut the factories down. And
Speaker 2: my grandfather was a World War two vet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so like you know, I mean, I was just
Speaker 1: gonna say, like, the song is vague enough, it's just like, well,
Speaker 1: we're living here, We're in allen I've never had a
Speaker 1: song specifically describe what I was doing. So so but
Speaker 1: that ship like even the verses are describing your life.
Speaker 1: That's wild. Hello the Internet, ed, Welcome to season three,
Speaker 1: ninety five, episode five of Dirnily Site. Guys, it's a
Speaker 1: production of iHeartRadio. It's a podcast where we take a
Speaker 1: deep dab into America share consciousness. That it is Friday,
Speaker 1: July fourth, twenty twenty five. It's what have we ever
Speaker 1: recorded a July fourth episode? We're just like doing an
Speaker 1: episode on a holiday.
Speaker 3: We're absolutely hostile towards this nation. We don't even acknowledge it.
Speaker 3: And yes, we'll just I guess is that is it
Speaker 3: more of a July or that we work on a
Speaker 3: national holiday?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly what's up, Bob?
Speaker 3: What's up dog day to day or not?
Speaker 1: Why are we here working on July fourth?
Speaker 3: My bad by guy? Yeah?
Speaker 1: This is also I mean the big oh, I think
Speaker 1: this is a bunny. They think this is a bunny.
Speaker 1: Yep ye, Winnie the fucking Pooh. Wait, where is that
Speaker 1: video clip?
Speaker 3: I was trying to queue it up because that's really
Speaker 3: the only thing worth talking.
Speaker 1: That's the only day. That's the only thing we honor
Speaker 1: on July fourth is the It's Winny, It's Winnie the
Speaker 1: fucking Pooh. Today.
Speaker 3: There it is, here we go. Oh, you thought this
Speaker 3: was a rabbit.
Speaker 2: They thought this was a rabbit. That's funny, exactly, thank you, Yeah,
Speaker 2: fourth of July.
Speaker 1: You heard it.
Speaker 3: I heard it. Okay, shout out hitting like graba on
Speaker 3: TikTok for that iconic fourth. That's the only way to celebrate.
Speaker 3: You better pull it. You think this is you thought
Speaker 3: it was a rabbit the exactly they thought this was
Speaker 3: a democracy.
Speaker 1: This was a democracy.
Speaker 2: Democracy, y'all.
Speaker 3: Fuck the fourth of July.
Speaker 1: And in any ways, I mean it could be you
Speaker 1: could turn that into a political cartoon about how Chinese
Speaker 1: spies are behind everything. You know, sure, because the she
Speaker 1: looks like wait, Winnie the Pooh, you.
Speaker 3: Know what else it is? Okay, it's also I like this.
Speaker 3: It's National Caesar Salad Day.
Speaker 1: Wow, Caesar salad come through on a day when nobody
Speaker 1: is eating Caesar salads exactly, like this is our day.
Speaker 3: Shout out to the I believe the chef, the person.
Speaker 3: I think it was created in Mexico, So I think
Speaker 3: it's very yeah, says our Cardini. So yeah, shout out
Speaker 3: that one. And also it's Alice in Wonderland Day also
Speaker 3: whatever that means.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the wedge would be the more appropriate salad or
Speaker 1: just a nice fruit salad, watermelon.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't eat a salad on fourth of July, just
Speaker 3: generally if No, isn't that.
Speaker 1: Sleg beef just animal fat.
Speaker 3: Just go to like a food chemical plant and be like,
Speaker 3: can I get like seven gallons of night traits?
Speaker 1: I don't care what.
Speaker 3: Kind can this beer?
Speaker 2: Bong this thing really quick?
Speaker 1: Anyways? My name is Jack O'Brien aka Booch. Your bill
Speaker 1: is lame. Your bill is lame, bitch, Your bill is lame.
Speaker 1: No one curd to see a halcyon salad on the discord.
Speaker 1: Just trying to give Chuck Schumer some ideas instead of
Speaker 1: just doing being like, we're not going to call it
Speaker 1: beautiful anymore, we're gonna call it the act. This would
Speaker 1: have been more fun if he just came kicked in
Speaker 1: the door.
Speaker 3: Jesus, I don't think we're far off from some white
Speaker 3: liberal in Congress like performing ludicrous.
Speaker 1: Ooh, bitch, and your bill is lame. Your bill is lame.
Speaker 3: Oh the bill's out. We're about to It's like Jesus Christ,
Speaker 3: sit down.
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 1: mister Miles Grass.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's getting shakier. Is shakeier straight out here rocking
Speaker 3: his uh existential dreadlocks. It's sob Marley aka Miles Great
Speaker 3: thank you so much for having.
Speaker 1: Me existential dreadlock.
Speaker 3: Ye may, I was just having a I was having
Speaker 3: a wild one this morning. I was like, ah, I
Speaker 3: have I have weight on my soul somehow. I think
Speaker 3: it's just again, this is just a theme in the US,
Speaker 3: but on July fourth specifically, there's just something about it's
Speaker 3: hitting different today.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, extra good right, yeah good, Yeah that's what
Speaker 1: you mean. First off, just real quick getting feedback. People
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we love Zayi Gang is expanding, so welcome to
Speaker 3: new listeners.
Speaker 1: Welcome the new listeners.
Speaker 3: All thrilled to have you once you realize that you've
Speaker 3: been listening to a second rate show.
Speaker 1: But hey, it's it's it's it's good enough. It's good
Speaker 1: enough anyways. Uh yeah, thrilled, thrilled to have you. Everybody.
Speaker 1: Let's try getting the word out XO XO Myles. We're
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a
Speaker 1: very funny comedian and New York Times best selling author.
Speaker 1: His third album without pictures and first special with pictures
Speaker 1: just dropped from Blonde Medicine. Please welcome. It's Jim too.
Speaker 1: Thank you. What's up, Jim?
Speaker 2: Nothing? That was a good intro. I appreciate that, man.
Speaker 2: I don't think I made any of that up. No,
Speaker 2: you nailed it all right, good, well you needn't make
Speaker 2: that up either. We took you at your word on
Speaker 2: a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, not gonna lie. I did not fact check.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I did watch the special though, which is very funny.
Speaker 1: So I guess that's fact checking. Yeah, yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 2: The New York Times bestseller thing is true, but people
Speaker 2: don't believe it. But the qualifier is it was a
Speaker 2: It made the number ten on the Animals list, and
Speaker 2: it was a parody book about humans of New York.
Speaker 2: So I have a title people. Because he's New York
Speaker 2: Times bestseller, people are thinking it was this like some
Speaker 2: novel some.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, yeah novel. Yeah yeah, yeah. I'm also
Speaker 1: a New York Times bestseller with a huge ass risk.
Speaker 1: Because it's not my name. I I you know, co
Speaker 1: wrote a book that had a bunch of other authors,
Speaker 1: but it made the list. Still, man, that's still counting.
Speaker 3: You're not you're flexing a New York Times bestseller out here.
Speaker 1: You don't, you don't.
Speaker 2: You don't take that.
Speaker 1: I guess we haven't been in the same room for
Speaker 1: a while, so you haven't seen my belt, but that
Speaker 1: I have made. But it's like a match on t
Speaker 1: they give him out. You got a belt buckle, the jacket,
Speaker 1: the belt buckle.
Speaker 2: It's the only the only way you can use the bathroom,
Speaker 2: the employee bathroom. If you go into a Barnes and Noble,
Speaker 2: you have to show them the belt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like, all right, this person, he's one of
Speaker 3: our kings. Yeah, he's not gonna be shooting junk in
Speaker 3: the stall. He's actually going to use the bathroom the belt.
Speaker 1: But you're allowed to bring the book into the bathroom.
Speaker 1: When you're in New York Times bestseller.
Speaker 2: You can read it's it's a loan out. You could
Speaker 2: do it, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Jim. We're thrilled to have you. We're going to
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're going to tell the listeners. A couple of things
Speaker 1: we're talking about. We're talking about how tariffs are messing
Speaker 1: up our dang fireworks shows. You know that partially just
Speaker 1: a story that the media loves to tell. Holiday adjacent shortage.
Speaker 1: Every year, it's Valentine's Day carts, I think, Halloween candy,
Speaker 1: Christmas trees. Sometimes we're running out of Christmas trees this year.
Speaker 1: Usually it's bullshit of some sort or another. But are
Speaker 1: fireworks cash? Not mine, not the one that I have
Speaker 1: buried in my backyard, but America in general's firework cash
Speaker 1: is heavily reliant on imports from China, and they're thinking
Speaker 1: it's going to be a little bit more expensive this
Speaker 1: year and then next year, which is as we're all
Speaker 1: ready to celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Oh
Speaker 1: shit if we make it. Yeah, you know, they're like,
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be any fireworks, But we'll talk about
Speaker 1: why that might not be the worst thing in the world. Uh,
Speaker 1: and drones in particular, we'll talk about Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: just his ongoing mental decline. Yeah, I call it good
Speaker 1: for the don't tell Mom.
Speaker 3: The Babysitters Dead presidency.
Speaker 1: Yeah, follow up, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: They're like, Okay, now they're in charge, Like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: are they who is? Who is?
Speaker 1: And will there be a heartwarming store like where Christina
Speaker 1: Applegate like kind of learns how to be an adult
Speaker 1: and learns responsibility and falls in love. Do we think
Speaker 1: do we see that for the people who are actually
Speaker 1: running the country behind the scenes, like Stephen.
Speaker 3: Miller, we'll see I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd love to see that for him. He's going
Speaker 1: to be love to see on a nice date where
Speaker 1: he goes to a Toys r Us and bounces on
Speaker 1: the bouncy body. You remember that, Yeah, yeah, from on
Speaker 1: the Babysitters Dead. I remember only I remember.
Speaker 2: I only remember the dishes.
Speaker 1: The dishes are done. Yeah, that was the other the
Speaker 1: other front. He couldn't have possibly thought that's what she
Speaker 1: meant due to the dishes. He didn't think that's what
Speaker 1: the dishes. Anyways, we'll talk about that. We will check
Speaker 1: in with our good friend doctor Phil. We're concerned. You know,
Speaker 1: we're checking in as concerned friends because he had to
Speaker 1: declare bankruptcy.
Speaker 3: Oh shit, Christian soldier goes down in the war against Look.
Speaker 1: That's right, all that plenty more, but first, Jim, we
Speaker 1: like to ask our guests around here, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history that is revealing about who you are?
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I just went when I saw
Speaker 2: this question, I just went back and thought about recent
Speaker 2: search histories, and the most recent thing has been skateboard wheels. Okay,
Speaker 2: I start. I mean, I've been skateboarding because I was
Speaker 2: a kid. Oh, but I was like, this year, this summer,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna get back on the board a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: I put it off last year.
Speaker 2: So so then I I decided to get some new wheels,
Speaker 2: and I started searching for them, and then I I
Speaker 2: can't just graze the surface of anything, so I just
Speaker 2: I've just been searching for the perfect size and dorometer
Speaker 2: that i'd like to put on my board, and I
Speaker 2: found them. If anyone's curious, fifty eight millimeter ninety three
Speaker 2: a derometer.
Speaker 3: What kind of bearings you got in there, dude, China.
Speaker 2: Reds oh, A right, base level bearings. I don't like
Speaker 2: to go fast.
Speaker 3: I get it, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1: Derometer is a word that I'm not familiar with.
Speaker 2: That's like how hard they are?
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: I was gonna. I was gonna be like, uh, I
Speaker 1: think you mean diameter Jim. But okay, I'm glad I
Speaker 1: didn't do.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that reveals anything about who I am,
Speaker 2: but no, it reveals way.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a skateboarder would make up about the hardness,
Speaker 3: because like duro means hard in Spanish. You know, Like, dude,
Speaker 3: what's the dourometer on those wheels?
Speaker 1: That's probably how it came about, probably not, but hey, hardometer? Like, nah,
Speaker 1: that doesn't sound good. How about the dirometer?
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, hell yeah?
Speaker 1: What's the dourometer on that hairdo?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the volume on that thing.
Speaker 3: I cut a water moon and half on those spikes
Speaker 3: or what? Dude?
Speaker 1: What is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 2: I wrote? I wrote down a couple of things. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say. Riding bikes places.
Speaker 1: Yeah, riding bikes places is great, one of the great joys.
Speaker 2: It's truly great. I mean, in New York it's great
Speaker 2: as it is terrifying, but it's still great. Drawing even
Speaker 2: if you're bad at it, I think is underrated. I
Speaker 2: think it's it's good to try. Yeah, and ordering food
Speaker 2: in person, like pick up order and pick up at
Speaker 2: Starbucks by walking in, saying what you want, and then
Speaker 2: and waiting in line.
Speaker 3: Not using an app to not use Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Shade on the app people. But I think it's I
Speaker 2: have a theory that you have to improve your odds
Speaker 2: of having good interactions with other humans as much as
Speaker 2: you can. So the more actual interactions you have, the
Speaker 2: better your odds that you will get good ones.
Speaker 1: Right, So you just collecting good interactions? It sounds like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, you could look at it
Speaker 2: that way. You're greedy collecting interactions. You're getting a better
Speaker 2: sample size of interactions to decide whether or not people suck.
Speaker 2: People are good?
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah? If you default the app, people fuck is suck.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm going to use the app. I don't have
Speaker 3: to talk to anyone then yeah.
Speaker 2: Well you've only talked to three people, so yeah.
Speaker 3: Well I hate my mom, dad, and grandma.
Speaker 1: Do you have a thing that you draw? Like? I
Speaker 1: can draw sharks pretty well because I drew a lot
Speaker 1: of them when I was waiting ages like four to seven,
Speaker 1: So that's the one thing I can still draw. You
Speaker 1: got Do you got a thing that you can draw?
Speaker 2: I draw little cartoon faces a lot.
Speaker 1: That's fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was a caricatu artist at Dorney Park when I
Speaker 2: was a teenager.
Speaker 1: So you're not a bad You're not a bad drawer
Speaker 1: the way that I know.
Speaker 2: But that's my point. I think, even if you're bad
Speaker 2: at it, you should give it a shot. Just give
Speaker 2: it a shot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's encouraging from somebody who actually knows how to draw,
Speaker 3: because I started doing like adult coloring books and shit,
Speaker 3: I love I love that. Yeah, and then that's that's
Speaker 3: led me more into like drawing, and I realized, like
Speaker 3: I keep drawing faces the same way I did when
Speaker 3: I since like fifth grade, with like the big bubble
Speaker 3: eyes and like the same nose, and I'm like, I
Speaker 3: have no other way to draw faces.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can do I can do an okay
Speaker 1: I and but but I just don't know, like like
Speaker 1: the face always comes out fucked up, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah that thing where somebody said that Lonzo Ball looks
Speaker 1: like seventh grader trying to draw Drake, right, Like that's
Speaker 1: kind of how like my my version of faces. Like
Speaker 1: it's just like it's hard to say what is wrong,
Speaker 1: but something's very wrong, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I did recently a thing or like maybe
Speaker 3: right after the fire. Her Majesty and I were like
Speaker 3: just trying to be less on the TV and there
Speaker 3: was like that trend going on social media where like
Speaker 3: couples would do like a hand drawn portrait of each
Speaker 3: other other like for like five minutes. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: it tested every fiber of our marriage because what I
Speaker 3: turned around, she was like she was actually aghast with
Speaker 3: how poor my drawing skills were, and she's like, are
Speaker 3: you even trying to draw me? Or you just drew
Speaker 3: like any fucking face and made like these wispy smigel
Speaker 3: hairs on.
Speaker 1: Top of I'm like eagle hairs. Suit.
Speaker 3: I suck. I'm so fucking bad at drawing. But it
Speaker 3: was actually pretty entertaining because she was she's actually good
Speaker 3: at it, and I was just shame she nailed you
Speaker 3: drawing as much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were like, God, damn, I finally see myself.
Speaker 3: You got the stink lines and everything.
Speaker 1: Shut up, mo. Yeah. The two things that I drew
Speaker 1: growing up is, uh, sharks and then you know, like
Speaker 1: sharks eating people, and then I would I would always
Speaker 1: draw Michael Jordan, but I couldn't draw his face, so
Speaker 1: I would just draw him from the back doing stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you put there, everybody knows who it is.
Speaker 1: They're like, damn, that's actually pretty good. But yeah, get
Speaker 1: that silhouett smooth, smooth back of the head so you
Speaker 1: don't have to like draw hair.
Speaker 3: Did you get a sense of like this curvature of
Speaker 3: the skull or did it just look like a thumb
Speaker 3: from behind?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I think I got pretty good at drawing the back
Speaker 1: of the I'm much better at drawing the back of
Speaker 1: the head than the being.
Speaker 2: Like, I'm going to get the shape of the back
Speaker 2: of a head and have somebody recognize it.
Speaker 1: Yes, as the back of a head. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, man, I'm gonna have to get back out there.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, like drawing sharks at that age is
Speaker 2: like a really that's like a that's big social currency.
Speaker 1: It was pretty like that. That was what I was
Speaker 1: known as. That was like, my my first identity was
Speaker 1: guy who likes jaws and draws draws. Those are my
Speaker 1: two things.
Speaker 3: The little boy who cannot read can't draw jaws.
Speaker 1: That was the part they didn't say out loud around me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't speak yet, but we think he may have
Speaker 1: some savant quality man and then like you know, always
Speaker 1: always a leg that had been bitten off, you know,
Speaker 1: just like floating to the bottom, like at the beginning
Speaker 1: in Jaws. I definitely drew some sharks scenes that at
Speaker 1: one point a teacher like pulled me aside and was like,
Speaker 1: did you draw this? Like what a little concerned about?
Speaker 3: Like how you're like, yeah, fifteen bucks, got it? Or
Speaker 3: what cash right now? Regal work? Wait, you got to
Speaker 3: send us through the group chat a shark drawing Jack,
Speaker 3: because now my interest is fucking peaked. I need to
Speaker 3: see I'm.
Speaker 1: Not like good for an adult, they were good, I
Speaker 1: just I know.
Speaker 3: But knowing you and you coming out with like I
Speaker 3: can draw a shark pretty good, I'm like, now I
Speaker 3: want to see the Jack O'Brien child shark draw.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I'll be merched.
Speaker 3: That could be merched because we have no I think
Speaker 3: we're about to not have a merch store.
Speaker 1: Merch store. Shit.
Speaker 2: If your style is consistent with the sharks, it doesn't
Speaker 2: matter how bad they are either like it, if they
Speaker 2: all look like you draw them, then you're then you're
Speaker 2: making art. Then you're onto something.
Speaker 1: I would say when my kids like first started drawing
Speaker 1: and I sat down with them and drew a shark
Speaker 1: and they were like, goddamn, like you you can draw huh.
Speaker 1: And then they asked me to draw something else and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, you can only draw sharks. They for
Speaker 1: me immediately that sucks.
Speaker 3: Oh, because they had that moment, they're like, daddy's a good.
Speaker 1: Drop's a good artist. Maybe we're fuck he's an idiot.
Speaker 1: Fuck he was tricking us, Jim, what's something you think is?
Speaker 1: And also riding bikes place is great, great underrated, just
Speaker 1: three great underrated right right in a row. Riding bikes
Speaker 1: like miles you're underrated. A while back was just like
Speaker 1: swinging on a swing. Like swinging is just like the
Speaker 1: closest we get to flying, you know, it's just like god,
Speaker 1: something it does to your equilibrium. I think biking is
Speaker 1: also like that. It's like biking is just like you're
Speaker 1: kind of coasting, you know, like moving through space.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's in your ear stimulation that you get that
Speaker 3: we haven't had since primates apparently is what they say.
Speaker 1: It like really turns my brain like up a notch.
Speaker 1: Where like I used to like ride bikes a little
Speaker 1: bit like off roads, you know, like as a as
Speaker 1: a kid, and like you're just like, look, you know,
Speaker 1: your head's on a swivel. Feel feel like you're really present? Yeah,
Speaker 1: very present would be Yeah. Yeah, all right, Jill. What's
Speaker 1: something you think is overrated? Overrated? Retirement? Planning for retirement?
Speaker 1: Uh huh?
Speaker 2: Video games as a lifestyle as me sounding old and
Speaker 2: then and then turning your life into content in an
Speaker 2: overwhelming way. Not the way we do it right professional entertainers.
Speaker 2: But uh no, you know where it's just it's all consuming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure. Wait, so I'm guessing your life
Speaker 3: is intersecting with all three of these on some level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't planned for retirement.
Speaker 3: What's the point?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: And uh, I mean I guess I know there is
Speaker 2: a point. I just not a.
Speaker 3: Little nihilistic about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure, Right, video games? I do love same,
Speaker 2: but I've realized that I it's like not a serious addiction,
Speaker 2: but it's like I can't touch that stuff or it
Speaker 2: will consume me. I can only play like little little
Speaker 2: puzzle games and things, you know, something.
Speaker 3: Like Elder Scrolls or something would take your life away.
Speaker 2: Well, the last game I got obsessed with was called
Speaker 2: The Long Dark. Oh yeah, it's like a survival crafting game.
Speaker 2: And I'm and those games like really get me. And
Speaker 2: I'm like spending hours playing this game, trying to survive
Speaker 2: in the game in a very slow, drawn out way,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, this is I need to be doing
Speaker 2: this in my life.
Speaker 1: I'm not surviving in life.
Speaker 2: I need to be like crafting and collecting resources in
Speaker 2: real life.
Speaker 1: But I'm sill a retirement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, five hours at a clip, like collecting sticks to
Speaker 2: build a fire in a video game, but instead.
Speaker 3: You're a bush pilot in like it was a Canada
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it stranded alone.
Speaker 1: So yeah.
Speaker 2: That and then turning my life into content is just
Speaker 2: one of those things where I'm that age, you know,
Speaker 2: and like with this specials, it's like, Okay, you got
Speaker 2: to build up the YouTube channel, keep posting social media,
Speaker 2: and it's like every moment you start to think like
Speaker 2: should I be filming this?
Speaker 1: Could I make this into something?
Speaker 2: And that's the thing that nobody had to do fifteen
Speaker 2: years ago, right, And it's like it is weird should.
Speaker 1: We have to do this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it feels like it's it's this this
Speaker 3: thing happens too, when people do a lot on social
Speaker 3: media and then start doing a thing that is really
Speaker 3: passionate for them, and like you're like, I used to
Speaker 3: post so much on social media, but for me, I
Speaker 3: was getting jokes off or being stupid on Instagram because
Speaker 3: I didn't have an real creative outlet, Like I had
Speaker 3: a job that I fucking hated, right, and then once
Speaker 3: I started doing this, like I became so fulfilled from
Speaker 3: like doing this shit on mic and talking about and
Speaker 3: that like my social media just like output just completely
Speaker 3: fell off because my bucket became completely filled in this
Speaker 3: other direction. But I also see too, how like I
Speaker 3: have other friends who are always thinking about like content,
Speaker 3: and I'm like that must be so fucking exhausting, Like
Speaker 3: I can bear. I mean obviously record like twice a day,
Speaker 3: but to then add the what's my social media output
Speaker 3: gonna be? Uh? It fucking gives me anxiety.
Speaker 2: Right to have no like turn off, no no thing
Speaker 2: where you're like, all right, I'm I'm shutting this out.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to.
Speaker 3: The beach, go ride my bike, exactly right.
Speaker 2: And that'd be like, you know, because I do it.
Speaker 2: Tell me like I'm gonna go for a bike ride.
Speaker 2: Uh shit, I should probably charge my GoPro and then
Speaker 2: probably take pictures along that. Yeah, and I'm like, uh yeah.
Speaker 1: Superproducer on A. Hosny, a original producer of this show,
Speaker 1: is always like like you should be like you could
Speaker 1: have massive follower numbers for like like one of my
Speaker 1: sons is really funny and just like thinking about that
Speaker 1: is like I don't know there's I forget who the
Speaker 1: thinker is. I know who it is, but I forget
Speaker 1: his name. The guy who like kind of speaks with
Speaker 1: a lisp, who's like Eastern European, oh slaslaw saso. Yeah, yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: he like talks about how like the there is a
Speaker 1: huge price that we pay in capitalism to just like
Speaker 1: sell your soul to like act excited and like commodify
Speaker 1: your own subjectivity to be like this is good and
Speaker 1: like try and like bend your entire like yes, the
Speaker 1: entire way that we like think about the world and
Speaker 1: like you know, being in meetings and acting excited about
Speaker 1: like a corporate thing and like just how that like
Speaker 1: kills you slowly, Like that is a price that you're paying.
Speaker 1: That's not nothing, that's like you're selling off your free
Speaker 1: will and subjectivity as a human being, and like to
Speaker 1: do that to your relationships with like the people around
Speaker 1: you who you love and be like you just have
Speaker 1: that idea of like selling invade your actual like personal
Speaker 1: life like feels fucking crazy to me. It feels like
Speaker 1: I feel like it would it would break me. By
Speaker 1: the way I was joking, she's not she's not telling
Speaker 1: me to actually do that, but no, no, no, it does.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, I feel like there are families
Speaker 1: that do that and it sounds really.
Speaker 2: Hard or like, yeah, like you know, going to turning
Speaker 2: a Costco trip into like this thing that becomes you know,
Speaker 2: like the Costco guys.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: They can never go to the grocery store and just
Speaker 2: pick up food again.
Speaker 1: Right, there's so much pressure on every Costco trip, Right,
Speaker 1: one of the great joys of American life going to
Speaker 1: Costco with out an.
Speaker 3: Aim, yeah and being anonymously. It's like that guy's had
Speaker 3: so many fucking samples. He just keeps turning his hat
Speaker 3: front or back to pretend like he just wasn't here
Speaker 3: two seconds ago.
Speaker 1: Every time.
Speaker 3: Man, yeah, I missed those lunches. That's how my grandpa
Speaker 3: and I will go have lunch back. What it's called Fedco.
Speaker 1: Fed was called Fedco.
Speaker 3: There was a there was a costco type store called
Speaker 3: Fedco that we would go to and it was Sample City, baby,
Speaker 3: and we would do fed Co lunch, me and my grandpa.
Speaker 2: So many fucking sample Fedco. Sounds like a socialist grossery
Speaker 2: store does fed Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've been fed that's that's that's what he's gonna have.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, those are FEDCO's coming to New York.
Speaker 1: I heard that's right.
Speaker 3: Oh shit, it was. Actually it was the Federal Employees
Speaker 3: Distributing Company. Oh, a membership department store that was in
Speaker 3: southern California nineteen forty eight to nineteen ninety nine. Wow,
Speaker 3: oh shit, this ship was Oh it was a nonprofit
Speaker 3: consumer op founded by Post office employees. Oh so it
Speaker 3: was like shot out my Grandpa warm Bro taking me
Speaker 3: to the fucking people's store.
Speaker 2: It was like the exchange for military folks.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, it was right there on.
Speaker 1: I bet it sucked then, right, If it was funded
Speaker 1: by the government, it must have been fucking terrible.
Speaker 3: I don't know, man. We could go and we would
Speaker 3: get fucking fed at fed Co.
Speaker 1: Okay, but the DMV miles. The DMV sucks. So everything
Speaker 1: that is funded by the government must forever and ever
Speaker 1: and always.
Speaker 3: And I would eat a handful of frozen meatballs and
Speaker 3: walk out of there with some ill fitting shoes.
Speaker 2: But you had to wait in line for a couple
Speaker 2: hours right.
Speaker 1: At gunpoint. Yeah, under under paintings of Barack Obama. They
Speaker 1: already had them back then, they already knew all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about how they're still in our fucking American freedoms.
Speaker 1: And we're back. And on fourth of July, no less,
Speaker 1: the tariffs are coming for our fireworks. Seeing as how
Speaker 1: the US pyrotechnics industry is quote heavily reliant on imports
Speaker 1: from China, people are kind of looking with foreboding at
Speaker 1: these tariffs because it's not it's like one part of
Speaker 1: the economy that hasn't been taken over. But like there's
Speaker 1: not like a big apple store like place that sells fireworks,
Speaker 1: you know, it's all still just like fucking I don't know.
Speaker 1: I like, Missouri is one of the states I've lived
Speaker 1: in where fireworks are totally you know, sold everywhere, and
Speaker 1: it's just side of the road shops like it feels
Speaker 1: like you've traveled back in time when you go buying fireworks, And.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen the big one like stores in Ohio,
Speaker 2: like Phantom Fireworks. They're like, oh, those are like Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: So they do have the slick They do have a
Speaker 2: big box version. Oh yeah, I mean, I don't know
Speaker 2: how slick they are. They still feel like warehouses. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it was called Phantom Fireworks. When you're driving
Speaker 2: from like New York to Allentown on seventy eight, there's
Speaker 2: a big fireworks store and you see them like in
Speaker 2: Ohio and stuff too, or like West Virginia or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's called Phantom Fireworks Helly and that's all they sell.
Speaker 3: There was also do you see like that explosion at
Speaker 3: the California Yeah, the fireworks facility up in Yolo County.
Speaker 1: It's up north. It's one of the things from the
Speaker 1: Naked Gun that comes reil everyone. It's one of the
Speaker 1: most unrealistic parts of the Naked Gun that actually is
Speaker 1: based on reality, is the fireworks factory explosion. Yeah. Those
Speaker 1: happen every once in a while and they do not
Speaker 1: stop for a good minute. There is just a chain
Speaker 1: reaction of everything in the building going up.
Speaker 3: I'm curious. I don't know, do you are you noticing
Speaker 3: less preemptive Fourth of July fireworks because usually I feel
Speaker 3: like fireworks are happening not I mean they're always NonStop
Speaker 3: really in LA, but usually this week before Fourth of July,
Speaker 3: I hear so many more fireworks, and I've heard them
Speaker 3: here and there. But I just I'm not sure if
Speaker 3: I guess we might not be in this patriotic of
Speaker 3: a mood. Or maybe it's the fires that has people
Speaker 3: less interested in in bang bangs and mass in their neighborhoods.
Speaker 3: But I don't know if it's also the tariffs man.
Speaker 1: Could be the tariffs could also So there's also just
Speaker 1: a lot of local firework displays are getting phased out.
Speaker 1: I think partially it's expensive. Partially it's the fucking environmentalist
Speaker 1: they hate our freedom.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: That is like how it's covered in like some of
Speaker 1: the local news reports. I was looking at one from
Speaker 1: hang A Mass where they were talking about the environmental
Speaker 1: repercussions of fireworks, which are not fake. There's a toxic exhaust,
Speaker 1: there's just like explosions, so it's like traumatizing both dogs
Speaker 1: and like wildlife, not just like domesticated pets, but like birds,
Speaker 1: and everyone's getting the fuck out of there. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize this that like the blue and red colors we
Speaker 1: see in fireworks are because of copper and lithium like
Speaker 1: that that's what's in there. It's not just like it's
Speaker 1: such as like food dye that they're putting in the explosions,
Speaker 1: Like that's kind of My brain was always just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's probably they just like do a
Speaker 1: little color, put a little color in there, and it
Speaker 1: makes that color. Now you have to have like weird
Speaker 1: chemical reactions happening to make those colors.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: The smoke obviously generates particulate matter, smells like a gunfight
Speaker 1: and terrible for people with PTSD, terrible for dogs. So
Speaker 1: a lot of people are replacing them with drone shows,
Speaker 1: which I have seen a couple in my time in person.
Speaker 1: They are really cool. Like I was watching one guy
Speaker 1: who's so hang on, like I said, left the fireworks
Speaker 1: behind for environmental reasons and now they're doing drone shows.
Speaker 1: And the guy that they were interviewing, who is the
Speaker 1: head of the company that puts on the drone show
Speaker 1: is like we never do the same effect twice, Like,
Speaker 1: you will never come to one of our shows and
Speaker 1: see something like you've seen before. It's always going to
Speaker 1: be different, tough guys, which is the exact opposite of
Speaker 1: fireworks like.
Speaker 2: Predictable.
Speaker 1: I had a feeling that's where they were going with
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 3: But do you even remember a firework like specifically, like dude,
Speaker 3: then there was that one that went yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 3: we don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It is funny in that sense that it's like I
Speaker 3: just want to hear the bangs and the and the
Speaker 3: flashes of light. I couldn't tell you. I'm not like
Speaker 3: as for as many fire professional fireworks display as I've seen,
Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you like the kinds of them. There's
Speaker 3: the ones that little cracklers, and then there's like the
Speaker 3: big fucking gigantic ones at the end. I feel like
Speaker 3: that's where my knowledge ends.
Speaker 2: Basically, it's not about the fireworks, it's about the friends
Speaker 2: you make along the way.
Speaker 1: That's right exact the fireworks show. All my best friends
Speaker 1: I met at various fireworks shows absolutely the So for
Speaker 1: some reason for me, fireworks are like always annoying and
Speaker 1: boring if I intend to go see a fireworks show,
Speaker 1: but if I like accidentally happen upon one, or like
Speaker 1: I'm driving and there's a fireworks show off to the side,
Speaker 1: like that's the best. Like that's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: there's fireworks. Yeah, Like it really I think because like
Speaker 1: if you're going and sitting and watching it, it like
Speaker 1: puts it in the context of like a movie or
Speaker 1: like some sort of entertainment, and in that context it sucks.
Speaker 1: But in the context of just like a thing that's
Speaker 1: happening in the landscape that you like typically live in,
Speaker 1: you're just like off to the side, suddenly there's like
Speaker 1: explosions happening. There's one year, like before we had kids,
Speaker 1: where like my wife and I forgot that like it
Speaker 1: was the fourth of July and we were like doing
Speaker 1: a lot of running at that time, and so we
Speaker 1: like took a run down by the beach and like
Speaker 1: it was as like the big like Santa Monica firework
Speaker 1: show was going off. So we're just like running by
Speaker 1: as like this massive firework show was like going off,
Speaker 1: and it was really it was really cool. But like
Speaker 1: so that's like the firework thing I remember, I never
Speaker 1: like intend to go to a firework show and walk
Speaker 1: away being like, ah, they've really done it this time,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: I guess a drone show, you do, remember it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: that eagle turned into a football ye suddenly, Yeah, like
Speaker 3: you can at least describe that rather than go it
Speaker 3: went boom and then it was red.
Speaker 2: It tells me you get a story of the birth
Speaker 2: of our nation through silhouette drawings of eually and flags.
Speaker 3: And yeah, as Brian the Editor to point out, and famously,
Speaker 3: drones are made in America and aren't subject to Chinese
Speaker 3: tariffs at all, because every drone you see in the
Speaker 3: sky made right here in the US of A. And
Speaker 3: not oh wait, nope, nope, they're most okay, they're from
Speaker 3: the news.
Speaker 1: Is the part of their life cycle is not once
Speaker 1: you use them they explode, So that's good. You can
Speaker 1: kind of like hang on to them for next year.
Speaker 2: Hopefully they also don't accidentally fire off in the direction
Speaker 2: of a crowd when something gets knocked over right right.
Speaker 3: I wonder if the guy who like does that drone
Speaker 3: show just has to rack his brain to figure out
Speaker 3: how he's going to fucking up the ante every time
Speaker 3: he doesn't new yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, the marching band director trying to figure out new
Speaker 2: patterns to.
Speaker 1: He's like losing his hair and clumps. He's like, I
Speaker 1: just don't almost got it.
Speaker 3: Almost I stopped doing acid man, but I might have,
Speaker 3: you know back.
Speaker 1: Like if you look at the Guinness Book World Record,
Speaker 1: like the biggest drone show ever, they're really fucking kind
Speaker 1: of mind blowing. The one thing that I was disappointed
Speaker 1: by though, you know the one whereas there's the big
Speaker 1: viral like skeleton about to step on you. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that one. I think that one's a fake because yeah,
Speaker 1: because they're like you can't actually make them move that fast,
Speaker 1: Like that thing is moving way too fast. And also
Speaker 1: you can like tell that no, like when you look
Speaker 1: at the street shot, nobody's actually looking up. Everybody's just
Speaker 1: like walking like it's normal. So they just like pasted
Speaker 1: it over top of everything. A fucking illusion in my life,
Speaker 1: I know, but there are real ones that are pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: I just don't think they can move quite that smoothly
Speaker 1: as of yet. Yeah, but I mean just look at
Speaker 1: like how New Jersey reacted to people flying drones over
Speaker 1: their state. They're like the fucking aliens are here, So
Speaker 1: there's like something inherently impressive about it that will fill
Speaker 1: people with awe. So I don't know, Zychang, let us know,
Speaker 1: first of all, if we're missing some aspect of fireworks
Speaker 1: that can be I will say, like setting off the
Speaker 1: time that I did live in Missouri and like my
Speaker 1: friend came and visited me, and we got very drunk
Speaker 1: and at like three in the morning one night, just
Speaker 1: like went out into a like open field and just
Speaker 1: started setting fireworks off and that was That was fun.
Speaker 1: I don't recommend it, but that was super fun.
Speaker 2: Yeahersal fireworks show is still pretty solid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. But yeah. And then a drone show
Speaker 1: if anybody's seen it particularly good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, send a good one, Send us a good one
Speaker 3: that's not a skeleton. Well whatever, even if it's fake,
Speaker 3: who gives a ship.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we're back.
Speaker 3: We're back.
Speaker 1: And doctor Phil also back in the news declaring bankruptcy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he definitely he leaned into his role
Speaker 3: of like chief boot liquor, boot throweders slash c list
Speaker 3: propagandist for the Trump regime, like with the televised ice
Speaker 3: raids in like Chicago and La.
Speaker 1: I thought he must be like looking at numbers that
Speaker 1: were like, this is what the people want from you,
Speaker 1: you know, because I.
Speaker 3: Think he's just got bad rich guy instincts basically, yeah.
Speaker 4: And he's like, and hey, what is a Nazi. Let's see,
Speaker 4: let's let's break it down. Well, I is not wearing swastikas,
Speaker 4: so they're not Nazis.
Speaker 3: Any other questions. Let's move on hail Trump. But yeah,
Speaker 3: when we talked about the ice Raids special like a
Speaker 3: few months ago, I mentioned that a lot of his
Speaker 3: integration with with Trump and like that media apparatus has
Speaker 3: been to try and prop up his own failing anti
Speaker 3: woke entertainment network called Merritt Street Media. Again, I don't
Speaker 3: know if that's like a reference to like bootstrapping non
Speaker 3: dei shit because it's based on merit, or it's also
Speaker 3: MSM and he can laugh at them. I don't know,
Speaker 3: it's doctor Phil. He might not even fucking know that
Speaker 3: at all. But anyway, after barely a year on the air,
Speaker 3: he's had to be, like you said, Jack, a common
Speaker 3: Michael Scott walk into the street and declare bankruptcy. But
Speaker 3: he's also suing TBN Trinity Broadcast Network because that's obviously
Speaker 3: the largest distributor of Jesus content on Earth. The Unholy
Speaker 3: Union that brought us Merritt Street Trinity, but is very Catholic.
Speaker 1: But I feel like this can't be Catholic, right, the
Speaker 1: Holy Trinity?
Speaker 3: No, but the Triune God. You know, I think we can. Well,
Speaker 3: we'll mention it, you know, we'll mention.
Speaker 1: It, okay for Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now he's like he's doing this thing where it's
Speaker 3: he's bankrupt, but now he has to sue Trinity Broadcast
Speaker 3: Network because he's saying it's there. It's not his fault
Speaker 3: for having it to me. Yeah, he was saying, quote,
Speaker 3: the network's broadcast partner backed out of its obligations and
Speaker 3: instead quote abused its position as a controlling shareholder. As
Speaker 3: a result, Merritt Street claims it was forced to quote
Speaker 3: pay or incur obligations to third parties in excess of
Speaker 3: one hundred million dollars. And they're saying, basically, the Jesus
Speaker 3: Network fucked us and now we need to sue them.
Speaker 1: Sounds like there's nobody watched his bullshit channel and so
Speaker 1: he's like a lot of people, a lot of money
Speaker 1: among thieves over there.
Speaker 3: I know, right, not at all, not at all, And
Speaker 3: I mean I think, let's be honest, trying to launch
Speaker 3: a fucking cable channel in the Year of Our Lord
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, Like, are you fucking dumb?
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna think we're gonna put move that
Speaker 1: investment and move it over to print magazines. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: venture books.
Speaker 3: We're doing flip books now.
Speaker 1: But again, I think we're doing those pens where you
Speaker 1: like flip them upside down and the girl's closed come off.
Speaker 3: He look at that mobile.
Speaker 2: Silent film production company Nickelodeon's, hey, that's something.
Speaker 1: Might be something I don't know, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess we can't be surprised because he's just
Speaker 3: a millionaire hopped up on his own God complex. So
Speaker 3: of course he's going to be like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: people want me to have my own channel. He said
Speaker 3: when he launched the channel.
Speaker 4: That I feel like this is a channel that you
Speaker 4: can just turn on and leave on all day because
Speaker 4: we'll have something that appeals to you throughout the day,
Speaker 4: like doctor Philry runs and a bunch of non like
Speaker 4: nonsense Jesus content.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's just something you just turn on
Speaker 1: in a room where you're not even at all, right,
Speaker 1: you don't even have to know it's all, and then
Speaker 1: you just like trick the advertisers into thinking that you're
Speaker 1: watching and we make money if that's cool.
Speaker 3: Oh, like the TV version of like those Spotify songs,
Speaker 3: like when those bands would like just play our silent track. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so we get the like just play it overnight, so
Speaker 3: we get some Spotify money.
Speaker 1: I will say, like if we want to go real
Speaker 1: old media for him, just like one of those traveling
Speaker 1: like wagons, like because he's a fake doctor. Yeah, like oil, yeah,
Speaker 1: snake oil, just like a covered wagon where he goes
Speaker 1: from town to town and like kind of reads the
Speaker 1: news of the world, like in that Tom Hanks movie,
Speaker 1: which one is that it was called the News of
Speaker 1: the World. A lot of a lot of people saw it.
Speaker 1: I guess what's that from? But is that recent? That's it?
Speaker 1: You know that that was a type of entertainment back
Speaker 1: in the day where you just like kind.
Speaker 3: Of went from that Tom Hanks movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was called News of the World. I forget
Speaker 1: who made it. Should have been a thing, but it
Speaker 1: just like, wasn't I think it might come during the pandemic?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it came out in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: What the fuck?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is sounding like only familiar enough to think
Speaker 2: maybe I dreamed it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he went in a covered wagon from town
Speaker 1: to town and read the news. That was what.
Speaker 2: That was the like, it didn't change from one town
Speaker 2: to the next.
Speaker 1: No, he just like he was the guy who had
Speaker 1: a subscription to the newspaper.
Speaker 2: I was just like, all right, here we go, sick
Speaker 2: sharing your login.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but just like an actual snake oil like road
Speaker 1: show would make sense for him, I feel like and
Speaker 1: steer into the curve, doctor Phil, Like, just because this
Speaker 1: antiquated type of media didn't work out for you, I
Speaker 1: feel like you just keep going deeper into the past.
Speaker 3: Yeah i'd say that, or you know, maybe try infomercials
Speaker 3: something you know, but don't let your hustle.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean, supplements are evergreen. You know, they've
Speaker 1: been selling supplements since since entertainment was a guy telling
Speaker 1: you what the what the lamp flickers on the cave
Speaker 1: wall looked like that one kind of looks like an elephant.
Speaker 3: Got it kind of feels like as much as I
Speaker 3: laugh at this concept, I'm like, dude, this kind of
Speaker 3: sounds like a podcaster of the reconstruction period of America. Right,
Speaker 3: It's like, hey man, too lazy to find shit out,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you some stuff through my biased perspective. We
Speaker 3: want to take it as fact, all right? Moving on,
Speaker 3: news from the Orient coming.
Speaker 1: Out all right, Well, from one failed venture to the next,
Speaker 1: we have Chuck E Cheese being like, what if Dave
Speaker 1: and Busters didn't exist?
Speaker 3: So they the games were more shit?
Speaker 1: This is such a This is just like an idea
Speaker 1: that seems like they had to have come up with
Speaker 1: it in a locked room only, like not knowing what. Anyway,
Speaker 1: for any adults who want to visit Chuck E Cheese
Speaker 1: without kids but don't want to be put on some
Speaker 1: kind of a list, there's now Chuck's Arcade with multiple
Speaker 1: locations opening up in malls across America right now, catering
Speaker 1: to lifelong fans of the brand, old people, and it
Speaker 1: won't just feature new confusing video games like that, what
Speaker 1: was the dark game that, Jim? You were upsessed with? Dark?
Speaker 1: Long Dark, The Long Dark? Fuck that? How about that.
Speaker 3: Donkey King, Donkey King?
Speaker 1: It's weird the Donkey Kong.
Speaker 2: We would want to relive the arcade portion of Chuck
Speaker 2: E Cheese and not the concerts.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, well they will. They will have a cancer.
Speaker 1: They there will be animatronics that are like we've heard you.
Speaker 1: We're bringing back the The animatronics are going.
Speaker 2: To be aged up, you know, like like when you
Speaker 2: see like your favorite band from high school and they're
Speaker 2: all just kind of old and slower and down a key, just.
Speaker 3: Just moving a little bit slower. This is so fucking sad.
Speaker 3: So they're opening Chucky Cheese like lights for adults in
Speaker 3: dead mall spaces, Like it just feels like this weird
Speaker 3: capitalism zombie like infecting another host where it's like and
Speaker 3: then the Chucky Cheese thing came for the old Express
Speaker 3: or Limited two storefront space where people these pictures, Man,
Speaker 3: I feel so bad for even the actors and their
Speaker 3: promotional materials look like they can't be fucking bothered to
Speaker 3: have fun in this place, Like like the people look
Speaker 3: so young. This one guy's got a fedora and they're
Speaker 3: playing ski ball and you're like, oh, come on, buddy,
Speaker 3: this guy he's not even look he's playing What is
Speaker 3: this fucking tablet a table it's like glide air. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've been out of it. I've been out of the
Speaker 3: arcade game.
Speaker 1: I called it. Donkey King Man. Yeah, like the is
Speaker 1: so funny.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a new Netflix show, like Tiger King,
Speaker 3: but like way lower stakes.
Speaker 2: That's the unlicensed ripoff of Donkey Kong, right right, yeah,
Speaker 2: Donkey Donkey king Ah yeah in the app store that
Speaker 2: steals your identity.
Speaker 1: Right right right right right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I uh god, I just don't This just feels like
Speaker 3: such a like last minute gasp for Chuck e Cheese.
Speaker 3: Although hey, I know there's one in the Mall of
Speaker 3: Georgia in Beford, Georgia, and there's one definitely an Oklahoma city.
Speaker 3: So is that gang? I have you been to one?
Speaker 3: Is it popping?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I can't tell.
Speaker 1: I don't think I can recommend this. Yeah you can't.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I mean, at least in a regular Chuck e Cheese,
Speaker 3: they have beer and you can watch like financially stretched
Speaker 3: out parents get into fist fights.
Speaker 1: Right yeah, Like, I mean, it just feels like so
Speaker 1: these are specifically not for children like that, that just
Speaker 1: feels like.
Speaker 2: They carting at the door with Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hold on, these are fakes. Beat it kid.
Speaker 1: There is Dave and Busters like that is a thing
Speaker 1: that happens there. There's like Dave and Busters is already
Speaker 1: a Chuck e Cheese that has a big bar in it,
Speaker 1: and like people are on dates there and it is
Speaker 1: a weird like cross section.
Speaker 2: They let kids in, right, so yeah, bonuses they have
Speaker 2: to not let kids in at all.
Speaker 1: Right, it's like children's birthday parties mixed with like people
Speaker 1: on first dates having like too much to drink.
Speaker 2: So Chuck e Cheese is now going to be a
Speaker 2: swinger's arcade.
Speaker 1: I mean the lighting is definitively bisexual lighting. Everything is
Speaker 1: like purple pur.
Speaker 2: Sanitize that ballpit every night, yeah, because we have to.
Speaker 3: I'm just like the crowd of people who are adults
Speaker 3: are like, man, I want to play video games, but
Speaker 3: I don't want any kids around. Are probably just playing
Speaker 3: video games at home. Yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm not not all of the miles.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: I went to a year old workplace for one of
Speaker 1: my kids birthdays, ultrazone, Ultra Zone, and there was a
Speaker 1: guy who rolled up by himself, long jeworts, leather vest,
Speaker 1: leathered glove just a whole heap of the coins like
Speaker 1: they have their own like proprietary coins that the video
Speaker 1: games operate on. Jack posted up at one game that
Speaker 1: he really liked and was like getting so annoyed when
Speaker 1: kids would like come over and even like watch him play,
Speaker 1: and uh.
Speaker 3: Wow, they're fucking character a bit like it feels like
Speaker 3: a Tim Robinson character exactly. I know Brian that addressed
Speaker 3: the chatl and be like, was it DDR was a
Speaker 3: dance dance Revolution. No, it wasn't that the georts and
Speaker 3: the leather vest I go, oh, this motherfucking player DDR.
Speaker 3: I bet because we had so. I used to work
Speaker 3: at this laser tag place and there were the DDR
Speaker 3: adults who would come in on Friday nights and just
Speaker 3: fucking take over that section of the very narrow arcade
Speaker 3: at Ultra Zone, the Ultimate Laser Tag Venture.
Speaker 1: One of the best places for children's birthday parties. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this is they're basically like, what if we just cut
Speaker 1: off that entire stream of income, the main true have
Speaker 1: been come and instead assumed. I also don't even know
Speaker 1: if they have a bar here, like it doesn't know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like they do they don't, which they don't,
Speaker 1: So it's chuck e Cheese. It's for adults without alcohol,
Speaker 1: whereas the Chucky Cheese that's not for adults does have alcohol.
Speaker 2: I feel exactly you're leaving a vacuum for a hardcore
Speaker 2: drug dealers to fill at this adult.
Speaker 3: Right just right there arcade.
Speaker 1: You've got to get the hard stuff if I sold,
Speaker 1: I know right, that's right.
Speaker 3: Right right exactly, like you know, it'll make this shitty
Speaker 3: tiny arcade even better, or some psychedelics to fill you
Speaker 3: with absolute dread when they hit.
Speaker 1: This has to be on like a top ten list
Speaker 1: of like worse places to be on psychedelics. It's like
Speaker 1: an arcade.
Speaker 3: Oh the memories that would come rushing to you to
Speaker 3: be in a dead mall and have like a Chucky cheese.
Speaker 1: And just as of the people who are there, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh no, no.
Speaker 1: Just any games that you witnessed at Chuck's arcade might
Speaker 1: kill you, Like it might just be if he runs
Speaker 1: like Alyx like you might just be like, I can't
Speaker 1: live anymore. This is too bad.
Speaker 2: We're just sitting in one of those games where you
Speaker 2: like hold the gun and you're hunting aliens or something,
Speaker 2: and then it's like stereo sounds, people screaming at you
Speaker 2: and zombies coming towards you. Yeah, overwhelming.
Speaker 3: Oh I would try to do that.
Speaker 2: I would absolutely try it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just have a like a sober buddy like to
Speaker 3: get you out. It starts go like, come on, Jim,
Speaker 3: come on, Jim, come on, Jim, let's go.
Speaker 1: We've got an extraction situation.
Speaker 2: Let's play some ski ball and bring you down.
Speaker 1: You mean skull ball. They're all skulls I'm.
Speaker 3: Holding Okay, shit, all right, let's go to it's.
Speaker 2: What you're playing, whack a mole, and it's just like
Speaker 2: all your high school bullies and people you were mean
Speaker 2: to you through your whole life.
Speaker 1: It's Scott again. God damn you. I feel like I
Speaker 1: could go either way on like being on mushrooms and
Speaker 1: playing ski ball. I might just like have incredible touch,
Speaker 1: or I might like not even be able to get
Speaker 1: it up the alley, you know, just can't get it
Speaker 1: there so weak. Oh god, well, Jim, two's what a
Speaker 1: pleasure having you on the dailies. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you? See your special all that good.
Speaker 2: Stuff specials up on YouTube? You could subscribe to me
Speaker 2: there at Jim Two's Jim T. E ws And that's all.
Speaker 2: My social media is at Gym two's as well. So
Speaker 2: Instagram and YouTube is one of the most active.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, man, And is there a work of media
Speaker 1: that you've been enjoying.
Speaker 2: I just watched the Minecraft movie last weekend. A Minecraft movie,
Speaker 2: Minecraft movie.
Speaker 1: I also watched it last weekend.
Speaker 2: I thought it was great.
Speaker 1: It was fun.
Speaker 2: I never I've never played Minecraft, but uh, I really
Speaker 2: liked that movie. You know, I know it's for eleven
Speaker 2: year old boys, but I am an eleven year old boy.
Speaker 3: Yeah at heart.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Momoa. Momoa's character fun just he plays a good loser. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a big hit with my children, and I
Speaker 1: was along for the ride. Jack Black is a delight
Speaker 1: And then we watched School of Rock. Has become like
Speaker 1: my kid's favorite musician besides I.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jack Black performances, So what if he's on drugs
Speaker 3: the whole time? You can explain it to your.
Speaker 1: Kids, That's right. They do ask why people do drugs.
Speaker 1: They have been asking me why do people do drugs?
Speaker 1: Why do people drink alcohol?
Speaker 3: The real question is why don't you man?
Speaker 1: You'll know soon enough. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, because real Miles.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Is there a workimedia you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying?
Speaker 3: Yeah, find me fucking everywhere at Miles of Gray. Check
Speaker 3: out the last episode of Miles and Jack op Battens
Speaker 3: Boost He's ever That was last week. And also if
Speaker 3: you want to hear you talking about ninety day Fiance,
Speaker 3: catch me on four to twenty day Fiance. Some works
Speaker 3: of media like past guest friend of the show Josh
Speaker 3: Gondleman at Josh Gondleman b Skida social post it It's
Speaker 3: fun how every hotel room has a bunch of lights
Speaker 3: that don't make it any brighter. Yes, someone who's all
Speaker 3: these fucking switches for what? For fucking what? And then
Speaker 3: another one was I mentioned this piece by that was
Speaker 3: in It was an opinion piece in The Guardian by
Speaker 3: v formerly eve Ensler, just talking about just living in
Speaker 3: the US right now and how the just the energetically
Speaker 3: it feels like absolute poison. But I just want to
Speaker 3: read this little paragraph that my dad send this to me,
Speaker 3: like he's like, this is actually a pretty good moment.
Speaker 3: But I think this is just important quote to live.
Speaker 3: As Young said with two existing opposite thoughts at the
Speaker 3: same time, survival right now depends on our ability to
Speaker 3: swim in this duality, to not linger in the pain,
Speaker 3: but to allow ourselves to be moved by it, to
Speaker 3: not whitewash reality, but also not to take up lodging
Speaker 3: in the house of despair. This is the dance of
Speaker 3: our times. We must become agile and flexible, to feel responsible,
Speaker 3: but not so guilty. We are immobilized to feel rage,
Speaker 3: but to learn how to direct it into action and
Speaker 3: passion and purpose, to lift ourselves to a more existential,
Speaker 3: absurdist place where the fascists cannot touch us. Not a
Speaker 3: disassociation or numbness, but the but finding the grace, energy
Speaker 3: and humor that come when we commit ourselves more deeply
Speaker 3: to one another. And I just thought that was very
Speaker 3: poignant right now to to sort of hear that Young.
Speaker 1: Just appared to.
Speaker 3: Look, you're the you're the philosophy expert. But maybe this
Speaker 3: idea of being able to live No, Steve Jack, Steve Steve.
Speaker 1: Young, all right, my favorite philosopher. No, that's that's that's
Speaker 1: an amazing quote. That's awesome work, Amedia. I've been enjoying
Speaker 1: on Twitter. So Danny at Beyonce Garden tweeted, y'all, my
Speaker 1: brother just woke up from a fifteen year coma crime
Speaker 1: face and slick at Nick's still here tweeted, tell him,
Speaker 1: bron still doing it. I've seen that happen elsewhere. I've
Speaker 1: seen anytime someone wakes up from a code that is
Speaker 1: the piece of news that everybody urges them to. I
Speaker 1: feel like that would be if I was just waking
Speaker 1: up from a fifteen year coma. I feel like that
Speaker 1: would be the wildest I mean that probably not the wildest,
Speaker 1: but the best news, the biggest good news. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Like, wait,
Speaker 1: what the fuck do you mean? Like, how's that possible?
Speaker 1: How's that even possible? Anyways? You can find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter at jack Underscore Brian. You can find me on
Speaker 1: Blue Sky at Jack o b the Number One. You
Speaker 1: can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily
Speaker 1: szeikes where at the Daily Zekeist on Instagram, you can
Speaker 1: go to the description of the episode where you're listening
Speaker 1: to it and find the footnotes, which is where we
Speaker 1: link off to the information that we talked about in
Speaker 1: today's episode. We also link off to a song there
Speaker 1: that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a
Speaker 1: song that you think that people might enjoy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a really nice bouncy sort of like
Speaker 3: new R and B alt R and B track. It's
Speaker 3: called Rosie r O s I E. Great name, uh
Speaker 3: and it's by the band figmore f I G M
Speaker 3: O R E. Again, just some nice music to have
Speaker 3: you feeling light and joyful, because yeah, let's just use
Speaker 3: music for that. It's good fuel for joy. So so
Speaker 3: m vibe all right.
Speaker 1: We will link off to that in the footnote. The
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