Speaker 1: It has begun, it has begun? Is it great?
Speaker 2: Has begun?
Speaker 1: Start anything? Mortal Kombat? I think that's what the guy
Speaker 1: says at the beginning of it of Mortal That's how
Speaker 1: he kicks off the Mortal Kombat tournament.
Speaker 2: Oh really, it has begun moral combat?
Speaker 1: But has it technically?
Speaker 2: Or is it you saying that that is beginning it?
Speaker 2: Because in that case, now it's becoming an SNL skuin.
Speaker 2: I love that the startup more the philosophy question. Did
Speaker 2: Mortal Kombat just start now when you said it has begun?
Speaker 1: Or well?
Speaker 3: Actually yeah, well actually.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is it? Scorpion?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm looking at the oh you're looking at the bylaws,
Speaker 4: scorpions shut out, Hello.
Speaker 2: The Internet, and welcome to season three point thirty nine,
Speaker 2: episode four of Daily Zygeist.
Speaker 1: Day production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we
Speaker 1: take a deep.
Speaker 2: Dive into America's share consciousness. And it is Wednesday, May
Speaker 2: twenty third, twenty twenty four, twenty four.
Speaker 1: May twenty third. Shine up those Abe Lincoln coins because
Speaker 1: it's National Lucky Penny Day and National Taffy Day, only
Speaker 1: two things being so this is this is a lean
Speaker 1: day for national days. So taffy and lucky pennies.
Speaker 2: It's your day all those people out there who are
Speaker 2: looking looking for the right day to celebrate. Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: this should be the daily zeitkeeist jaf TDC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, maybe we'll see. We'll have three. We'll have
Speaker 1: to lobby the city, you know, mayor Bass can give
Speaker 1: us the key. I proclaim this now daily Zeitsgeist to day.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have a lucky penny? Were you into
Speaker 1: that at all?
Speaker 2: There was one point where, like one of when we
Speaker 2: were moving, one of my dad's friends gave me a
Speaker 2: lucky silver dollar. Is that the one with Kennedy on it?
Speaker 2: Or is that a dollar?
Speaker 1: That's either dollar?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was a half dollar, and he
Speaker 2: was like, hey, this is like really important. You hang
Speaker 2: onto this. It's lucky, and I like it lasted like.
Speaker 1: A year and a half and then when you lost it,
Speaker 1: you had like a fucking break.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I lost it.
Speaker 2: I just spent that shit on.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, one pack of spearmint gum my good Man
Speaker 1: or two I guess because it used to cost twenty
Speaker 1: five cents back back in my day.
Speaker 2: Did you have like long lasting luck charms?
Speaker 1: No? No, because I was like one of those kids
Speaker 1: who the second it didn't work, I was like, this
Speaker 1: is bullshit? Then yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like I was so like about like absoluteses, you know,
Speaker 1: because I am a sith that when it's like I
Speaker 1: remember like praying, like going to like Lutheran school and
Speaker 1: like that concept was introduced to me and they're like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing, like because you asked God for stuff.
Speaker 1: In the second I didn't get some shit I prayed for,
Speaker 1: I was like, is a fucking joke, y'all? What are
Speaker 1: y'all doing?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Sports fans learn early on the prayer doesn't work like that.
Speaker 1: It turned no, no, no, just abandoned hope, y'all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and embrace the dollar not actually get Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, my name's Jack O'Brien a, but it ain't pee okay, No, no, no,
Speaker 2: it ain't pe Okay, it ain't pee looking at okay.
Speaker 2: Name courtesy of Andrew bub on the Discord, who said
Speaker 2: to the tune of it Ain't Me Babe by Bob
Speaker 2: Dylan or whoever.
Speaker 1: I like them, or whoever or whoever.
Speaker 2: The very Dylan Dylan song. Yeah, but anyways, I'm thrilled
Speaker 2: to be joined as always by my co host, mister Miles.
Speaker 1: Gras, Miles Gray. Okay, the Host with No Grain aka
Speaker 1: no Ho dank aka, the Lord of Lancasham, the Prince
Speaker 1: of North Hollywood. Miles great, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: having me. Also the Shogun with No Gun, the Showgun.
Speaker 1: Let's just go milun. Want to let that know. Don't
Speaker 1: fuck with guns. Swords though, got a lot of swords.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I have have got my hands real bad,
Speaker 6: trying to tricks with them, real bad, something nasty, just fumbling,
Speaker 6: oh yeah, just trying to throw it in the air
Speaker 6: Like I don't think that's a ninja move.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't care. I'm iterating.
Speaker 2: You flip it up in the air and then you
Speaker 2: start spinning around like a baton toass.
Speaker 1: Exactly like the whatever that like one rhythmic gymnastics scroutine
Speaker 1: is with like the little flagstick. Yeah, that shit goes hard.
Speaker 1: I saw a video of someone throwing it in a
Speaker 1: local competition, but there was like these light there was
Speaker 1: like a light grid above and she kept throwing it
Speaker 1: up like for her last trick, and it would get
Speaker 1: caught in the thing, so she'd panic and have to
Speaker 1: get a backup, and then she did it again and
Speaker 1: it got stuck, and then she just so defeated. After
Speaker 1: her routine, She's like, thank just like bowed.
Speaker 2: And I guess that's it because my fucking stick is stuck.
Speaker 1: Sticks lost my flagstick.
Speaker 2: Fuck well, Myles, we're throwing to be joined in our
Speaker 2: third seed by a very funny stand up comic currently
Speaker 2: performing in New York, Massachusetts coming up. She's a writer,
Speaker 2: actor host of the podcast Parenting. As a joke, it's oh.
Speaker 3: Fair eyes, it would be Oprah something Jewish.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go, you say Oprah.
Speaker 3: Well sometimes one time in my performing life, I was
Speaker 3: introduced on stage by you know, I was doing a
Speaker 3: fundraiser and the woman who has introduced me wasn't really
Speaker 3: used to being on stage, but she wanted to welcome me,
Speaker 3: and she blanked on my name and then she just
Speaker 3: searched for something and she just went Oprah and then
Speaker 3: lost faith and just went something Jewish. I was introduced
Speaker 3: as Oprah something Jewish.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: So sometimes I think that would sell tickets, honestly, Like,
Speaker 3: I just go with that, Yeah yeah, yeah, but you
Speaker 3: would be curious.
Speaker 2: You would be curious, for sure, for sure, oh man,
Speaker 2: we were just talking about Oprah this morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's like the bringer of all kinds of bad
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories for moms. Just thinking about that in the
Speaker 1: nineties and two thousands, because specifically I was I was
Speaker 1: on another podcast talking about rainbow parties and that was
Speaker 1: a thing that Oprah definitely mainstreamed when she had someone
Speaker 1: on her show and be like, what are the kids
Speaker 1: doing now? And it was a very pro clutchy episode.
Speaker 3: Right but anyway, right, right, the kids, they're always getting
Speaker 3: into bad stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all the kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but like this was definitely some producers and
Speaker 2: like faith ministers just getting horny talking about this stuff.
Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, yeah, the level of specificity of
Speaker 2: the Rainbow party, they just couldn't kind themselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My theory is that it's a It's something that
Speaker 1: started with adolescent boys who made it up with a
Speaker 1: fantasy world that they would they existed, and then that
Speaker 1: got seated through the zeitgeist and then like a Christian
Speaker 1: woman heard it and totally died and then had to
Speaker 1: write about it.
Speaker 2: Right, They were like I heard that she was, I
Speaker 2: heard Katie was doing that to like all the boys,
Speaker 2: and that's why And then like the mom credulously so
Speaker 2: boreded that she was like, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Well, good thing, A good thing. I'm a Christian pediatrician
Speaker 1: with a book deal because that's going to my.
Speaker 3: Next because we're going to make it go forward out there, everybody.
Speaker 3: Let's make it real.
Speaker 1: That's right, right, couldn't do it? How you been? I've been,
Speaker 1: I've been fined. I don't know.
Speaker 3: This is like I would I say fine, but I
Speaker 3: feel like the fine I say now and the fine
Speaker 3: I said last year, and the fine I said the
Speaker 3: year before, they're all different fines, and I feel like
Speaker 3: it's it's degrading. Honestly, the fine is getting.
Speaker 1: Less, the vibes have I've been on a downward slope
Speaker 1: recently for sure. Yeah, that's why it's just fine to
Speaker 1: just say fine, fine, Yeah, I'm existing, I'm existing and
Speaker 1: the existence is not too painful, but there's pain.
Speaker 3: I was thinking, like, I've never met someone that has
Speaker 3: said live in the dream and not been completely sarcastic
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. No. Fine is good.
Speaker 2: It's also the word for what you use when you've
Speaker 2: lost an argument, you know, yeah, fine, fine, fine whatever,
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, live in the dream. Someone said, I was there
Speaker 1: living the dream like earnestly to me, I would take
Speaker 1: that as like an act of violence against me. Oh
Speaker 1: you're living the dream right, Oh okay.
Speaker 2: You like that guy who is too good for Anger Management?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, wells dumping that up, tumping that up.
Speaker 2: Just a kid that Miles knew as when he was
Speaker 2: younger said that he walked out on the movie Anger Management.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was so bad. And I said, oh, so
Speaker 1: you're a tough guy. Huh, And then I choked him
Speaker 1: out until he was unconscious. And it was and look, look,
Speaker 1: my parents were splitting up. I had a lot going on.
Speaker 1: Lot on my plane. I was such a great like
Speaker 1: thing sponsor. Oh you're because you walk out of Anger Management,
Speaker 1: you think you're better than me. I have now become violent.
Speaker 2: So if my theory was oh well, of course, like
Speaker 2: Miles really loved Anger Management and he was like felting
Speaker 2: this guy was insulting something that he loved. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't see still hasn't seen it.
Speaker 1: I seen it. I didn't like that. I didn't like
Speaker 1: the vibe I did. Yeah that was me back then.
Speaker 2: You know what, So you're better than Jack Nicholas Nicholson
Speaker 2: better than.
Speaker 1: The bear, Jack Nicholas the golf you're.
Speaker 2: Better than handler.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And what were the repercussions? What were the repercussions?
Speaker 3: Were you sent to therapy?
Speaker 1: Were you no? No, no, it was just one of
Speaker 1: the things that happened in the shadows at school and
Speaker 1: you swore them to see chres you don't.
Speaker 3: That's amazing because I got a call from the nurse
Speaker 3: at my kid's school today telling me that in gym,
Speaker 3: my kid threw a ball and he ran for it
Speaker 3: at the same time as another kid and they rammed
Speaker 3: into each other and they want and now he has
Speaker 3: a bit of a fat lip.
Speaker 1: And I was like, uh huh, so why are we
Speaker 1: on the phone?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, because you see the number of the
Speaker 3: kids school on your phone and like me, you're like huge,
Speaker 3: of course. I was like I had to calm myself down.
Speaker 3: I was walking in tight circles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, just to prepare yourself to answer, okay, hello,
Speaker 1: yeah right, I like a fuck yeah, that's every day,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I get that, but no,
Speaker 1: this didn't to be honest. I remember, I was like
Speaker 1: I told a teacher. I was like he's he fell
Speaker 1: because they saw this thing after man.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and like when he woke up and like
Speaker 2: tried to explain what happened, like it makes so little
Speaker 2: sense though, like wait what so like what the fuck?
Speaker 2: And he's like, go and talk to the dean about this,
Speaker 2: and then it was just like still shrouded in mystery
Speaker 2: that it just kind of ended there. Anyway, I feel
Speaker 2: terrible for it. I've moved on, I've grown since then,
Speaker 2: and after I've done and I was like eight or nine,
Speaker 2: I started like throttling someone's neck, like this kid at
Speaker 2: my on my playground. He was like a year older
Speaker 2: than me, but he was like smaller and and the
Speaker 2: like person like who oversaw lunch just like pulled me aside.
Speaker 2: I was like, what the wait, wait, you're not like that?
Speaker 2: What are you doing right? Right right?
Speaker 1: I know, I'm sorry, I just lost it. He uh.
Speaker 1: He insulted anger management, and I kind of was. I
Speaker 1: was like that as a kid because I didn't know
Speaker 1: how to express myself, so I bottled everything up and
Speaker 1: then would explode like every three years and do something wild.
Speaker 1: But anyway, shout out therapy.
Speaker 2: I think what she meant was, you're not usually like that.
Speaker 2: You usually just burst into tears. What the fuck was that?
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, the same response, and you just turned into
Speaker 1: like a nuclear core meltdown, like what full?
Speaker 3: As they say, my friends, hurt people, hurt hurt.
Speaker 1: People, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: Like a teacher calling a eight year old who's sobbing full?
Speaker 2: What what ful? We're going to get to know you
Speaker 2: a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going
Speaker 2: to tell the listeners a couple of the things we're
Speaker 2: talking about. Uh, we're going to talk about the latest
Speaker 2: victim narrative update from the Mega world, because they they
Speaker 2: got some theories as to what's going on with Trump.
Speaker 2: Great all American story about Elvis's Graceland home being foreclosed on.
Speaker 2: It was a headline all over the place in the
Speaker 2: past week, and now it turns out that it was
Speaker 2: kind of a scam. Oh, but that they're there's like
Speaker 2: all sorts of dark disagreements happening with Elvis's state and
Speaker 2: just a just an interesting story for our time. All
Speaker 2: of that plenty more. But first off, here we do
Speaker 2: like to ask our guest, what is something from your
Speaker 2: search history that is revealing about who you are?
Speaker 3: I mean, I would say, revealing about what I'm dealing
Speaker 3: with right now is you know, I host this podcast
Speaker 3: all about parenting. I have a parent, and this morning
Speaker 3: we got an email from the school that they love
Speaker 3: sending this email. The subject line is how many days
Speaker 3: of school are left? They're like twenty two days left
Speaker 3: of school? Triggering, triggering, I know where your child is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I was like, last minutes. I mean basically I
Speaker 3: was just looking at last by what I'm calling last
Speaker 3: minute summer camps.
Speaker 1: Yeah city, Yeah sure.
Speaker 3: And there's this one because I have this theory that
Speaker 3: I didn't go to summer camp as a kid, didn't
Speaker 3: go to sleepway camp. The camp for me growing up,
Speaker 3: you know, in the owners of six, we had a
Speaker 3: house with the backyard was particularly special or nice, and
Speaker 3: and the summer was go to the.
Speaker 1: Backyard, stay there. Yeah yeah, well like.
Speaker 3: Or go find a friend or whatever. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: for sure, no camp. Like my parents were going to
Speaker 3: spend money and any of that stuff. They didn't have
Speaker 3: it to spend. But here in New York it's all
Speaker 3: ultra programmed. People do sleep away camps with their kids
Speaker 3: when they're like four years old, which I find like,
Speaker 3: oh what four year old is that? But anyways, uh,
Speaker 3: and all of this stuff and we have to do
Speaker 3: some mixture of that. But the one I want kind
Speaker 3: of exists and it doesn't really cost a lot, which
Speaker 3: is someone has a space or a home. I don't
Speaker 3: even know, and it is they call it like the
Speaker 3: Montessori method, but I think that's just to make it cool,
Speaker 3: where they just have a bunch of different rooms with
Speaker 3: some stuff in it, like one has this kind of toy,
Speaker 3: the other one has video game and the kid's self guide.
Speaker 1: Fun and uh, I.
Speaker 3: Think yeah, And I think there's like medium supervisioned by
Speaker 3: a bunch of teenagers that are probably making TikTok videos.
Speaker 1: The whole time.
Speaker 3: And you know, and then like a boxing ye, hey,
Speaker 3: get on there.
Speaker 1: Oh Pineapple? Did you know they made pineapple? Actually?
Speaker 3: And uh yeah, and then like a box full of
Speaker 3: Cheetos or something like that, you know, and.
Speaker 1: The loose loose in a cardboard box. Just yeah, just
Speaker 1: dump the cheetos into that box there, they'll be all right,
Speaker 1: they'll be right for another And that's that's what I want.
Speaker 3: I feel like all these hyper like your kid's gonna
Speaker 3: walk at it here a stem certified. It's like engineer
Speaker 3: of a architecture, like what whatever is what they always offer?
Speaker 3: You look at it on the page, and I mean
Speaker 3: I'm often like I want to go to the summer camp.
Speaker 1: It's insane. Yeah, man, is it like super competitive? Like
Speaker 1: how like preschools are like getting being like oh we
Speaker 1: like as you say, last minute summer camp be like fuck,
Speaker 1: that was something I had to do in March.
Speaker 2: It's that like first comforst serve ship. So it's so
Speaker 2: competitive for like how type A are your parents?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And right our case not very type Z.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, so there was a few I was
Speaker 3: I was a little bit yeah, concerned, but it seems
Speaker 3: the one that I want is available. They just want
Speaker 3: you to give you They just wanted you to give
Speaker 3: them a chunk of money.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Mmm, I don't ask most question. It's at a
Speaker 1: home or a space whatever, like you're never allowed in,
Speaker 1: but we need that money and all cash up front. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: just put a sack. Why did you specify unmarked bills? Yeah, nonsequential. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Why did you say small bills?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Nothing A five?
Speaker 2: What is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Underrated? You know, maybe this is related. I didn't think
Speaker 3: about it. As related. I didn't think of my underrelated
Speaker 3: underrated as related to my Google search. But I was like,
Speaker 3: no one talks about the upside of dropping the ball all.
Speaker 3: It's like, I'm actually a very I'm actually a personality
Speaker 3: that is not very like. I don't drop the ball. Honestly,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: So you're a little type on middle type A.
Speaker 3: But recently, just because of life, I've been dropping the
Speaker 3: ball here and there, And at first I was feeling
Speaker 3: really bad about it because every every external factor tells
Speaker 3: you that you should feel like crap about it, and
Speaker 3: as a well, I should really feel really bad because
Speaker 3: what what is my contribution If I'm not Karen, Everyone's
Speaker 3: goddamn balls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, drop no ball lady. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But it turns out that sometimes when you drop the ball,
Speaker 3: like you don't get back to something, like you just
Speaker 3: forget about things, or you don't do summer camp on
Speaker 3: time or whatever. It's uh, look it solved. Like it's
Speaker 3: amazing you could drop balls and you just get more
Speaker 3: efficient at solving them quickly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the part of the ball dropping process
Speaker 1: is also giving yourself, like the confidence in yourself that
Speaker 1: you can address any kind of anomaloust thing that happens,
Speaker 1: any deviation from your set out plan, any contingency, because like,
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking of like what my therapists are and
Speaker 1: I can't drop the ball, And it's like, but don't
Speaker 1: you trust yourself that even if the ball is dropped,
Speaker 1: that you would be able to figure it out. I'm
Speaker 1: like me, aw, damn, yes, wow, I do trust my
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm dropping the ball because I know
Speaker 1: I can pick it back up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I won't be paying you this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that cool?
Speaker 1: I'm going to drop the ball.
Speaker 2: One thing I need you to not drop the ball.
Speaker 3: I might drop the ball in this payment though, So yeah,
Speaker 3: I got to think of, like, you know, there's a
Speaker 3: bunch of things in this world that we always talk
Speaker 3: about it, like, you know, but there's so many people
Speaker 3: talking about trauma and how trauma fixed your life, and
Speaker 3: I'm sometimes like, what's the upside of trauma? Like sometimes
Speaker 3: you know, you don't have to diet because I'm so
Speaker 3: consumed with your trauma. You're not You're not eating sugar.
Speaker 1: Right at all? Yeah, I didn't realize I'm not taking
Speaker 1: care of myself. But the hey, look I had other
Speaker 1: parts that go along with it. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The older I've gotten, the more I've realized that I'm
Speaker 2: incredibly bad at judging, Like what is going? Like, I
Speaker 2: feel stressed out about the wrong things. I like worry
Speaker 2: about the wrong things.
Speaker 3: And then oh should you be worrying about? Uh oh,
Speaker 3: now I'm worried. Do I worry about the wrong things?
Speaker 3: What should I be worried about?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: I just like, you know, events or something that I'm
Speaker 2: like dreading end up being fine or good. And then
Speaker 2: you know the stuff that.
Speaker 1: Just say, Jack, it's the migrant convoys that are headed our.
Speaker 2: I just spend I mean I've been I've been pitching
Speaker 2: this story to Miles forever.
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's just it's senophobic fear a monk they're
Speaker 1: talking about on the news man.
Speaker 2: You can see the corkboard behind me. But there's there's
Speaker 2: some things that I need people to listen to.
Speaker 1: Is that dread on the corkboard? Oh you read right? Yeeah? Yeah? Guy?
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just I feel like a lot of
Speaker 2: you know, I talked to an older person one time
Speaker 2: and they were like, if I had non like, now
Speaker 2: what I or if I know, if I'd known, then
Speaker 2: what I know now, like I wouldn't have worried about
Speaker 2: ninety five percent of the shit that I spent my
Speaker 2: life worrying about. Yeah, that's like you to say, easy
Speaker 2: for you to say, asshole. But like when I look
Speaker 2: back at like an old to do list full of
Speaker 2: things that are like stressing me out that I have
Speaker 2: to get done, Like I don't even remember what most
Speaker 2: of them are, Like.
Speaker 1: They're just so insignificant, so dumb. Yeah.
Speaker 3: On the other side of that, I feel like anytime
Speaker 3: someone's you know, doing the an older person is doing
Speaker 3: a reflection of like, you know what I think about
Speaker 3: it now, was really I just spend time with loved
Speaker 3: ones and you know, friends and family. And you're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: but you you made a fortune, right, you didn't do
Speaker 3: that for a very very, very very very long time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: now you're saying we should all spend time with loved ones,
Speaker 3: yet you've been doing that for like thirty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a millionaire biography who's just like in retrospect,
Speaker 2: I pulled myself up by the bootstraps and it was
Speaker 2: really easy and I didn't need anybody, but like.
Speaker 1: I just want all I should have spent time with
Speaker 1: my family. What is something you think is overrated? You
Speaker 1: know what? I don't like mocktails.
Speaker 3: Mocktails are going crazy right now around everyone with their mocktails.
Speaker 3: And I guess there's as I was going to say,
Speaker 3: there's like a rise of sobriety, but no, it's just
Speaker 3: alcohol because everyone's microdosing.
Speaker 1: Heroin or whatever they're doing. Yeah, yeah, microd heroines. So
Speaker 1: just just a little bit, man.
Speaker 3: And a little bit much better at the office, so
Speaker 3: much better.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So there's you know, so there's this big thing mocktails.
Speaker 3: And they're served in you know, Marchiiti glasses and cocktail wear,
Speaker 3: and they have garnishes and often they have a taste
Speaker 3: profile that is supposed to feel like, you know, something
Speaker 3: kind of interested, and and they're seven dollars or eight
Speaker 3: dollars or twelve dollars way more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what they are. Juice. Juice, Yeah, juice.
Speaker 2: It sometimes tastes like shit though, like a like a tequila,
Speaker 2: like it has tequila in there, but it doesn't.
Speaker 3: What is you know, it would be okay if I was.
Speaker 1: Drunk at the end of the right that would make
Speaker 1: it better maybe worth the money. Yeah, they've do it's
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty genius that they've just found a
Speaker 1: way to upsell people on juice, right because like I
Speaker 1: remember the other day I had a mocktail because I
Speaker 1: just wasn't drinking or whatever. It's like, oh, this seems interesting,
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, this just tastes like a fucking
Speaker 1: good juice. But it's because they said it had like
Speaker 1: you know, pea flour and like it turns it blue
Speaker 1: or whatever that I'm like, oh shit, it turns it blue,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And then I'm like, I
Speaker 1: paid thirteen dollars for what tastes like apple juice with grenadine.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, exactly, with like a a sort of
Speaker 3: like burnt lemon floating on top of it.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, don't eat the burnt lemons. By the way,
Speaker 2: I've tried that. I've been like, they look tasty, look
Speaker 2: like I want you to like kind of look candied,
Speaker 2: and then you bite into them and you're like, oh.
Speaker 1: This is a this is made of wax.
Speaker 2: Essentially eating the wax lemon in the middle of the table.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get the like a sort of visual
Speaker 1: thing of like don't wanting do you want to visually
Speaker 1: be like, well, if other people drinking alcohol and I'm not,
Speaker 1: then this sort of helps that for sure. But I
Speaker 1: ask you, Jack, as someone who's sober, does the mocktail
Speaker 1: appeal to you from in that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sometimes, like just to like I like a spicy mocktail.
Speaker 2: Sometimes just because that's you know, like a real gingery
Speaker 2: like knock your clear. But for the most part it
Speaker 2: doesn't bother me to like not appear to be drinking anymore.
Speaker 2: But it did when I first stopped drinking, for sure,
Speaker 2: and like mocktails were cool for that. But also you know,
Speaker 2: just seltzer water and the lime also works well for that.
Speaker 3: But I think I think the mocktail culture is mocking
Speaker 3: people who are sober, Like I think it's I think
Speaker 3: it's for people who are playing like literally who are
Speaker 3: playing with different drugs. Yeah, because for people that are sober,
Speaker 3: there's no way you should be charged twelve dollars like that.
Speaker 1: Is insults, Yeah, yeah, the double insults. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: there's it's like, what happened to the cost saving benefit
Speaker 1: of not drinking alcohol all the time? It's like, whoa,
Speaker 1: you know, that's why I mean, like, you know, good
Speaker 1: trip is always if you're not drinking, just say you're
Speaker 1: the designated driver, and usually bartenders just hook you up
Speaker 1: with non alcohol typically, right, is that right?
Speaker 2: I've never tried it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean like when I was doing like event
Speaker 1: bar managing and stuff and just having to take like
Speaker 1: a lot of bar classes and hanging around that like scene,
Speaker 1: Like the designated driver thing was always kind of like
Speaker 1: a way to be like, yeah, dude, I'm can I
Speaker 1: just get a soda with a line. I'm a like
Speaker 1: DD tonight.
Speaker 2: They're like, yeah, yeah, even though I don't drink, I
Speaker 2: insist that the people who drink actually drive me home.
Speaker 2: So that's I have a weird I'm weird like that.
Speaker 1: And just driver. Of course, it's always dancing. I know
Speaker 1: about this one.
Speaker 3: You got to find your risk somewhere, right.
Speaker 1: Ten just doesn't matter where you get pulled over, you
Speaker 1: just snitch on the driver drunk.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 2: back and talk about some.
Speaker 7: News and we're back and yeah, so there's the Republicans
Speaker 7: have kind of mastered the art of making themselves the
Speaker 7: victim in any situation, no matter what.
Speaker 2: They love to talk about cancel culture, love to talk
Speaker 2: about how the left is obsessed with like being the victim,
Speaker 2: and truly, he couldn't be any truer of them.
Speaker 1: Racism is happening to me actually by pointing out was
Speaker 1: like everything. It's honestly, it would be impressive if it
Speaker 1: weren't so predictable and nonsensical. But the fact that they
Speaker 1: try it every time, I think is commendable. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this week we had to endure all kinds of nonsense.
Speaker 1: We had people shrieking outside of the courthouse. We had
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories so bad it does a disservice to actual
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. But first up, I just want to talk
Speaker 1: about the carnival of ass faced suits aka Trump's chorus
Speaker 1: of siccophants that he has outside the courtroom. They have
Speaker 1: diligently stood by Donald Trump as he concludes his Stormy
Speaker 1: Daniel's hush money trial, where again he's facing over thirty
Speaker 1: felony charges for falsifying business records. And it was like
Speaker 1: these events tended to be like half Vice president auditions
Speaker 1: and half like who can cry the hardest about Trump
Speaker 1: being persecuted? Yeah, like the most unbelievable way. This week's
Speaker 1: winner is Texas lieutenant Governor, what are you doing over there?
Speaker 1: For Dan Patrick? He made a really interesting point about
Speaker 1: how Trump is being targeted. I won't say, I won't
Speaker 1: say by who, because it's it's better when you just
Speaker 1: hear it out of his mouth to say, who's going
Speaker 1: after Trump? Let's hear it, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patricks.
Speaker 5: To the average America, what happens to any of you
Speaker 5: if the courts of New York come after any of
Speaker 5: you because of something you said, because you said something
Speaker 5: the ruling class didn't like. And that's what all these
Speaker 5: other countries are about. They shut down the ruling class.
Speaker 5: They want to be any They want to be sure
Speaker 5: that anyone that speaks up against the ruling class disappears.
Speaker 1: Oh, they want Donald Trump to disappear.
Speaker 5: They want to send him to jail. They want to
Speaker 5: take him off the main stage because they know here's
Speaker 5: their biggest danger, to take in the ruling class down. No,
Speaker 5: you know why Donald Trump is not the ruling class.
Speaker 2: Remember running class be facing seven and thirty years in prison.
Speaker 1: What a pathetic question a member of the ruling This
Speaker 1: is so fucking wild. I mean, so he's getting to
Speaker 1: get jobbed by the ruling class.
Speaker 3: I love the phrase the ruling class. By the way,
Speaker 3: I think that summarizes democracy and just a couple of
Speaker 3: nights works of America, right right, right, yeah, Just in
Speaker 3: case you thought we were all.
Speaker 1: Right, I would say, to stand up there, as the
Speaker 1: lieutenant governor of one of our most backward states right
Speaker 1: now is and talking about a former president of the
Speaker 1: fucking America, I would say, by definition, y'all are part
Speaker 1: of the ruling class. Like I don't think you need
Speaker 1: to google this one, but again, the way they have
Speaker 1: to twist their little brains up to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 2: Like Trump's ivy league educated son who's like masquerades as
Speaker 2: like a blue collar guy by like shooting shooting things
Speaker 2: and like having a Goateea, he's like up there with
Speaker 2: him and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: They're all just regular people. They're just like us. They're fine,
Speaker 3: They're fine. I would I would love to see just
Speaker 3: a march of people in their ruling class where I
Speaker 3: want to see some I want to see some capes.
Speaker 1: I want to see some crowns.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and I feel bad for them for a
Speaker 3: long time. I would say I've been like but what
Speaker 3: about the ruling class.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think, like I think there's a point
Speaker 2: like early on, when he first started performing well in
Speaker 2: the polls, I think a lot of people would roast
Speaker 2: him for looking like shit and like having bad like
Speaker 2: hair and makeup, like and that. I don't know, Like now,
Speaker 2: it feels like most of the criticisms of Donald Trump
Speaker 2: have to do with things he actually did while president
Speaker 2: of the United States, or like his aspiring authoritarianism. But
Speaker 2: I do, like, just in retros, I wish that hadn't
Speaker 2: been the way that a lot of people approached it,
Speaker 2: because I do think it left an impression like the
Speaker 2: sort of you know, he's.
Speaker 1: Never going to be one of the Manhattan elites.
Speaker 3: Right right, although it was the like, you know, in
Speaker 3: the beginning, it was like he's a fool, and then
Speaker 3: quickly became he's a villain, right you know, that wasn't
Speaker 3: just like no one everyone was just like what, yeah,
Speaker 3: we thought you wanted to make fun of his hair?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was the gentle time. Right now,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's it's like, well, he was the president,
Speaker 1: so he's no longer in the I don't know, I
Speaker 1: think that may be the logic again, but sir, also
Speaker 1: again Lieutenant governor of Texas to say that out loud
Speaker 1: while y'all are doing everything to rule over how people's
Speaker 1: bodies are used by the people who are operating their
Speaker 1: own bodies. Like that's real rich to like you say
Speaker 1: something they don't like or I'm sorry, we don't like
Speaker 1: you know, they're going to get you. We're gonna get you. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I mean they fuck uh. Even he caught himself up,
Speaker 1: he was like, hey, no, because they'll get the other
Speaker 1: rule ruling c it's all.
Speaker 5: On.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me just play that again, because like it
Speaker 1: is wild that he's like he gets someone, he gets
Speaker 1: downhill momentum, going for it. But really, because it's so absurd,
Speaker 1: he can't stick the landing because there is no landing pad.
Speaker 1: From a fucking lieutenant governor talking about the ruling class.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna play it again. And that's what all
Speaker 1: these other countries are about.
Speaker 5: They shut down the ruling class. They want to be
Speaker 5: and they want to be sure that anyone that speaks
Speaker 5: up against the ruling class disappears.
Speaker 7: They want these other countries shut down the ruling class.
Speaker 2: I mean that's true in respect that like the people,
Speaker 2: the wealthy are the most powerful they've ever been in
Speaker 2: this country. So like he did like start himself down
Speaker 2: a path towards like saying something that is true, and then.
Speaker 1: They want to be Yeah, who the ruling class? What sir?
Speaker 2: Just other countries shut down the ruling class by making
Speaker 2: them pay taxes and not letting them make all the decisions.
Speaker 1: Yeah you yes. The next we have a reminder just
Speaker 1: about how important basic reading comprehension is because Marjorie Taylor Green,
Speaker 1: who is currently getting cooked in her congress beef with
Speaker 1: Representative Jasmine Crockett, also from Texas, decided to take the
Speaker 1: focus off her bleach blonde, bad built, butch body as
Speaker 1: it was cited during that congressional tiff earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Oh so there was this whole moment. I should just
Speaker 1: actually play it for you because it is. It's wild.
Speaker 1: Basically what happened was they were this was during hearing,
Speaker 1: an oversight hearing, a committee hearing where they're gonna like,
Speaker 1: I think reprimand or impeach Merrick Garland for not releasing
Speaker 1: these tapes from like the investigation that Robert heard it
Speaker 1: into Joe Biden. And you know that's where his conclusion
Speaker 1: were like he's a confused old man, and the Republicans
Speaker 1: wanted to unseal like all these tapes and shit, obviously
Speaker 1: for their dark aims and the deals. He was like, no,
Speaker 1: there's no fucking way we're doing that. So then they're like, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna fucking get mad at you and in our committee.
Speaker 1: And in that Jasmine Crockett says, do it do do
Speaker 1: you even know what we're here for? And then Matt
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green says, I mean, do you even know
Speaker 1: what you're here for? Because I think maybe your fake
Speaker 1: eyelashes are kind of messing up like what you can
Speaker 1: even read. And everyone's like, okay, why are we talking
Speaker 1: about people's appearances? And then Jasmine Crockett was like, can
Speaker 1: I just clarify something like if we're talking about people
Speaker 1: and it's and we're not actually making like insults about
Speaker 1: their appearances. So it's like, so if I talked about
Speaker 1: her bleached blonde, bad built, butch body like and it
Speaker 1: like James Comer was fucking He's like, huh what it's
Speaker 1: just so bad? And now Jasmine Crockett is like making
Speaker 1: merch and selling it to like support other Democratic candidates,
Speaker 1: and Marjorie Taylor Creaen was like I am built strong,
Speaker 1: and like uploaded a video of her doing like dead
Speaker 1: lifts and cleans and ship and everyone's like, this is the.
Speaker 2: Most chaotic version of every exercise that you've ever seen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you had that, you had that loaded
Speaker 3: in your brain for you don't just come up with blonde,
Speaker 3: bad built butch body out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean right off, she's got she's got a
Speaker 1: fierce tongue, you know what I mean, Like if you
Speaker 1: fuck with her, she claps back pretty quickly, so I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean it may have been off top, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 3: As as an ad lib, that's ye, just yeah, gorgeous
Speaker 3: piece of poetry.
Speaker 1: Well, and like now too, this whole thing has turned
Speaker 1: off with other people like sampling her saying that and
Speaker 1: making their own songs, like there's like a country version.
Speaker 1: It's come like its own Drake and Kendrick Lamar Bief
Speaker 1: except in Congress. And that's our reality now. So therefore
Speaker 1: it does not have many many listens, no, or a
Speaker 1: lot so many that people like breaking down each part
Speaker 1: like okay, so bleach blonde, now take the bee and
Speaker 1: eat like, Okay, we get it, but anyway, she wants
Speaker 1: to take the focus off of that controversy and remind
Speaker 1: people that the FBI and Joe Biden are trying to
Speaker 1: do assassinations on Trump. So Trump on social truth to
Speaker 1: this thing, he said, quote wow, I just came out
Speaker 1: of the Biden witch hunt trial in Manhattan the quote
Speaker 1: icebox and was shown reports that cooked Joe Biden's dj
Speaker 1: and their legal and unconstitutional raid of mar A Lago
Speaker 1: authorized the FBI to use deadly parenthetical lethal force. Now
Speaker 1: we know for sure that Joe Biden is a serious
Speaker 1: starch to democracy. He's mentally unfit to hold off his
Speaker 1: twenty fifth Amendment at the ferries attack twenty fifth AMENDMT
Speaker 1: and Marjorie Taylor Green Green quote tweeted that and said
Speaker 1: I made sure that he knew the Biden DOJ and
Speaker 1: FBI were planning to assassinate President Trump and gave the
Speaker 1: green light. Does everybody get it yet? We are What
Speaker 1: are Republicans going to do about it? I tried to
Speaker 1: oust our speaker who funded Biden's DOJ and FBI, but
Speaker 1: Democrats stopped it. Paul Gossar also joined on the bullshit
Speaker 1: and said that Biden quote ordered the hit on Trump
Speaker 1: at mar A Lago Christ But of course, again this
Speaker 1: is just they saw records about like the authorization of
Speaker 1: a raid, and that they saw like again quote, this
Speaker 1: is according to the Justice Department policy, law enforcement officers
Speaker 1: are allowed to use force only when no other safe
Speaker 1: alternatives appear to exist. That's just like boilerplate standard cop shit.
Speaker 1: And even like conservative pundits who like love to fucking
Speaker 1: embrace Trump, like those who had a background like in
Speaker 1: the FBI or law enforcement, were also shitting on this one,
Speaker 1: saying like this is boilerplate shit, y'all, like and truly nothing.
Speaker 1: So go eat a fucking burger please. Yeah, so you know.
Speaker 2: It feels like it's taking it up a notch like it,
Speaker 2: Oh he doesn't once you're saying like he's trying to
Speaker 2: kill me, Like you're basically calling your followers out if
Speaker 2: they aren't at least ready to like do something about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's also it speaks to his level
Speaker 1: of sinility, because if you've had an elderly you know,
Speaker 1: relative be like I think the nurse is steaming right
Speaker 1: like my scrabble pieces. It's like, oh, we're getting paranoid,
Speaker 1: now what's going on? But again to your point, like
Speaker 1: the rhetoric is meant to make put as much like
Speaker 1: you know, emotion, anger, violence, like into this election as
Speaker 1: possible to try and motivate people.
Speaker 3: But also you know, they're kind of you got to
Speaker 3: appreciate the fact that they're kind of there's no other
Speaker 3: cards to play, like they've played the ball and now
Speaker 3: they're just straight to like, well, he's trying to kill them.
Speaker 3: It's like that right, well that really we're just going
Speaker 3: right to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he is, all right, so what do we
Speaker 1: do anything else? Got it? Good? No, we got to
Speaker 1: stop them. That's who the I think because this is
Speaker 1: their rhetorical like strategy against what the Democrats are saying
Speaker 1: the Republicans are, which like they're a threat to democracy,
Speaker 1: like they truly want to just like fucking nuke any
Speaker 1: sense of democratic norms, like what little we have left
Speaker 1: in this country, just completely obliterate them. So they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're a threat to democracy. You tried to assassinate Trump.
Speaker 1: Who's the real threat to democracy? And everyone's like, right,
Speaker 1: what the fuck are you talking about? Like Trump wasn't
Speaker 1: even there when the raid happened. So like, are the
Speaker 1: FEDS that laughably bad at their job that they botched
Speaker 1: the assassination attempt at a time when the target wasn't
Speaker 1: even in the red? Okay, sure, but whatever.
Speaker 3: You say, whatever, whatever stories you are weaving in your
Speaker 3: little I know, it's like death of democracy. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: we're gonna I'm killing the We're killing the other guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: wait a second, the ruling clax, the ruling class. It's like,
Speaker 3: while Biden in like sort of the Democratic main strategy
Speaker 3: going into November seems to just just merely be like
Speaker 3: crying about how bad the Republicans are, their opponents are
Speaker 3: also crying to their base about how mean the Democrats are.
Speaker 3: And I think it should be noted that neither are
Speaker 3: really putting forward ideas to get the electric electorate excited
Speaker 3: about the future at all.
Speaker 1: It's like this guy fucking sucks, and like this guy
Speaker 1: turned to kill me, and you're like, what the fuck, dude,
Speaker 1: what about a child tax credit?
Speaker 3: I know, I would love to hear one piece of policy.
Speaker 3: I would love to hear one vision, one idea other
Speaker 3: than you know, to kill me. Are he's gonna kill me?
Speaker 3: And AI is taking more jobs, right, you know what?
Speaker 3: And I was like, AI is coming after animators and
Speaker 3: designers take the president, Like, why don't we get check
Speaker 3: GBT against both of these dudes.
Speaker 1: Run AI as a candidate's third party, like third late candidate,
Speaker 1: put the put open, put open AI at a podium.
Speaker 3: I mean, if there's a job that could maybe be
Speaker 3: taken over by a data source, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the memory recall would be impeccable from that, right,
Speaker 1: they just would absolutely floor the other two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe polling would just be finally accurate, right.
Speaker 1: Who knows? Who knows? You got to pick up the
Speaker 1: phone first.
Speaker 2: This combined with the like Supreme Court having people who
Speaker 2: are like pro authoritarian overthrow or like willing to like
Speaker 2: back the big lie person like on a personal level,
Speaker 2: and then this level of the how like people in
Speaker 2: the House, it just feels like, I don't know, like
Speaker 2: things can always be way worse, and it feels like
Speaker 2: a second Trump presidency would find ingenious new ways to
Speaker 2: just be so much worse and like violate people's human rights.
Speaker 3: I can't believe this is the time of this is
Speaker 3: when I became an American citizen. Okay, right, It's true.
Speaker 3: I guess I like joining things, says they end. If
Speaker 3: I join things, they end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like, oh, the movie's ending now I just
Speaker 1: got here. Well, maybe there's a post credit scene I
Speaker 1: can catch maybe it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, that nurse is stealing my scrabble tiles,
Speaker 2: Miles and okay, I wish you wouldn't use that as
Speaker 2: your exams, all right, because that's denying what.
Speaker 1: A little too early in the day for you to
Speaker 1: start saying this kind of stuff, Jack, It's usually later
Speaker 1: in the day when the sun goes. I know it.
Speaker 1: I know she's stealing him hot tip. Don't the tuna today? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Nods in. Are you sure
Speaker 1: that's why I smell like that. I don't never even
Speaker 1: said anything about an odor at all. You were gonna, though,
Speaker 1: you were gonna.
Speaker 4: I could see you thinking, like, all right, well, I
Speaker 4: gotta get back home.
Speaker 2: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 2: back and talk about Elvis. And we're back and right now.
Speaker 2: Elvis's old home, Graceland, is the subject of a heated litigation.
Speaker 2: It was set to be foreclosed and sold out of
Speaker 2: public auction on Thursday because, apparently, like according to news
Speaker 2: stories that we saw last week. The late Lisa Marie
Speaker 2: Presley allegedly owed three point eight million in an unpaid loan,
Speaker 2: but then his granddaughter, the actress Riley Keo, sued to
Speaker 2: block the foreclosure. And now, like the evidence that's coming out,
Speaker 2: people are like, Okay, so let's look into this company
Speaker 2: that claims they got this loan, and like they they
Speaker 2: have like emails that have like LLC spelled with like
Speaker 2: three l's.
Speaker 1: And like that that's because it's a legit limited liability.
Speaker 3: Thank you lucky, I was going with the.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the company that runs Graceland, Elvis Presley Enterprises EPE,
Speaker 2: is claiming that the loan from a company called Nasony
Speaker 2: Investments is fraudulent and that Lisa Marie Presley never borrow
Speaker 2: money from Naseny Investments, never gave a deed of trust
Speaker 2: to Nasty Investments, and adding to the sketchiness of the loan,
Speaker 2: the notary who's listed on the documents said that she
Speaker 2: never met Lisa Marie Presley nor notarized any documents for her.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, the trial still happening now. Kurt Naseny
Speaker 2: is like one of the nasties that's associated with it,
Speaker 2: and he's like, I don't know, man, Like I ask
Speaker 2: the attorneys. He just keeps saying, the attorneys can make
Speaker 2: comment exclamation point.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So like his punctuation is like a little unhinged off
Speaker 2: the bag, right, I love minding Colon's And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: the attorneys can make comment exclamation point.
Speaker 1: All right, fine, he said, I left the Ferman twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: It should not be named in the filing. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's like, but it's named after you, man, it's named
Speaker 1: after my brother.
Speaker 2: Brother.
Speaker 3: Oh, there's there's so many families involved in this, and
Speaker 3: that's part of the problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's part of the problem.
Speaker 3: It's just like people passing stuff around to people who
Speaker 3: never wanted anything to do with it in the first place, right,
Speaker 3: except for, of course the beneficiary.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they had no they have no physical address
Speaker 2: beyond two PO boxes and an address that turned out
Speaker 2: to be a post office. They're like, oh, you want
Speaker 2: our like real non PO boxes? Yeah yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: exactly how much is it worth to you? His email
Speaker 2: signature has an out of service phone number. The other
Speaker 2: employee has the LLC spelled with three l's, and the
Speaker 2: email doesn't return that they won't return email.
Speaker 3: So the reason someone that used to be a talent
Speaker 3: agent in New York, Like they write those skills new actors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the agent in thirty Rock I remember, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like this combines the two great
Speaker 2: like obsessions America of America. So the great obsession of
Speaker 2: America's past Elvis and the obsession of America's present and
Speaker 2: future is scams. And just like everybody shamelessly trying to
Speaker 2: scam each other out of and so you have the
Speaker 2: what appears to be, you know, allegedly appears to be
Speaker 2: like an illegitimate scam, like hastily thrown together of this
Speaker 2: like fake organization being like she promised us money. So
Speaker 2: we get Graceland now, right, And then there's the more
Speaker 2: legitimate scam of Elvis Presley Enterprises. So first of all,
Speaker 2: there's like a dispute, like a familial dispute where right
Speaker 2: KEYO and Priscilla Presley or like beefing over who is
Speaker 2: the sole trustee.
Speaker 1: So it's like.
Speaker 2: Grandma ors granddaughter. But the county registrar, first of all,
Speaker 2: reportedly has no record on file of a deed related
Speaker 2: to Graceland so it's just like good old fashioned Southern bookkeeping.
Speaker 3: On a cocktail napkin somewhere exactly, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: And then Graceland itself appears to be kind of a
Speaker 2: scam in and of itself, like they get tons of
Speaker 2: tax breaks from the city they aggressively fought for more
Speaker 2: purely to fund an expansion that would add a hotel,
Speaker 2: airplane hangar, because you always need one of those, and
Speaker 2: a factory where locals would assemble Elvis merchandise such as
Speaker 2: chia pets.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we need these tax incentives so we
Speaker 1: can build a fucking factory.
Speaker 2: For nich An Elvis chia pet factory.
Speaker 3: Is that what we need the plane for? To bring
Speaker 3: in the airplane?
Speaker 1: Obvious logistics too, to distribute the merchandise also right on
Speaker 1: one business one.
Speaker 2: And so Elvis Presley Enterprises threatened to relocate the entire
Speaker 2: house to another city like Nashville or even Asia or
Speaker 2: the Middle easte. Yeah, the magicne the Middle East.
Speaker 3: Were anything the largest competitors to Memphis, Nashville or Asia.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, Like it's wild, Like the threats they've even
Speaker 1: made when they're like, oh, you don't think we're real.
Speaker 1: It's a quote. We've had substantial offers to take every
Speaker 1: piece of wooden panel and move it. Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: Pop men will be working on this.
Speaker 1: Man. Have either of you.
Speaker 2: Ever been to Graceland.
Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't either.
Speaker 2: Waiting for them to complete the factory and the six thousand,
Speaker 2: two hundred seat are ren know that they're also asking
Speaker 2: for I'm just.
Speaker 3: Waiting for them to I hear they might relocate to Toronto.
Speaker 3: You know that's also up there too, So who knows?
Speaker 1: It's like Nashville Nashville, Yeah, right, exactly. I mean I
Speaker 1: feel like every time I've asked people who have gone,
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, I mean, if if you really like it,
Speaker 1: if you really like Elvis, sure, if not, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: Vere's like, oh my god, man. I felt like I
Speaker 1: was at the taj Mahal or some ship's right.
Speaker 3: I learned stuff I didn't know about one of the
Speaker 3: greatest American artists ever.
Speaker 1: Like, wow, this is what his living room looked like. Cool?
Speaker 3: All right, tours over Supposedly, you know, you can't go upstairs, right,
Speaker 3: like the bedrooms and uh, the you know, alleged place
Speaker 3: of death is all curtained off. You can't even go
Speaker 3: to the good parts. Yeah, toilet, Yeah, that's okay. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you can't even see that.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I know, that's like that's where i'd start the tour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, exactly. It begins and ends with this toilet,
Speaker 1: is what I was. That's how you structure the tour. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's and.
Speaker 3: Also it should be like next to it should be
Speaker 3: the public toilets, so it could be like oh cool yeah.
Speaker 1: Or replica yeah yeah, and yeah, there's no urinals. It's like,
Speaker 1: now you've got a piece sitting down and you can
Speaker 1: die like Elvis did here.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, the dream.
Speaker 1: So who's good? Who's good?
Speaker 3: So there is no deed there, there is no deed,
Speaker 3: there is no company.
Speaker 2: The thing, the fake loan, I think it feels like
Speaker 2: that's gonna they're gonna like get to the bottom of
Speaker 2: that one. But the one that feels like they're gonna
Speaker 2: get away with it is the Graceland like basically getting
Speaker 2: taxpayer dollars for Graceland expansions. You know, a lot of
Speaker 2: people are asking why a city that regularly ranks among
Speaker 2: the nation's poorest is giving several hundred million dollars in
Speaker 2: tax breaks to a long dead rock Stars House museum
Speaker 2: where the cheapest ticket costs forty one dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the.
Speaker 2: Answer is because that's how America works. That's how like
Speaker 2: almost every like professional sport team like arena, like that's
Speaker 2: how those get built. It's yeah, this is yeah, and
Speaker 2: they have like billionaire owners and right they're like, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: we're going to need you to pay for us, or
Speaker 2: we're going to take your team from this giant market
Speaker 2: to Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Do that. I mean, just do that, trust me. I
Speaker 1: don't the second that shit leaves Tennessee. I don't think
Speaker 1: people are like, oh cool, Graceland is in Orange, California now.
Speaker 2: Right, like and somebody could just build Graceland right there,
Speaker 2: like rebuild it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly like on this site stood Graceland. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I mean you could art direct that tomorrow. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's just another thing like the way people build things
Speaker 3: and how we build sets and everything, like you could
Speaker 3: not tell you could do an exactly replica in every
Speaker 3: one of these cities, and you know, everyone would fight
Speaker 3: over which one they think is real. And then I
Speaker 3: have this question obviously, like you know there's plenty of
Speaker 3: people out there who are like Elvis, Elvis, but as
Speaker 3: the population yeah age so yeah, and it's not like
Speaker 3: the music. The music is not exactly enduring. It's been
Speaker 3: you know, it has been riffed upon and covered and
Speaker 3: changed and influenced as so many people. But that exact music,
Speaker 3: I would say, is not I don't hear like it's.
Speaker 1: Not part of the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, maybe it isn't in Tennessee. Maybe you go
Speaker 3: to Tennessee and no.
Speaker 1: It's it's all diminishing returns. I think that's why they're
Speaker 1: so all in, because it sounds like Graceland is the
Speaker 1: one thing that consistently makes money because like in this
Speaker 1: Rolling Stone article they talk about how like, you know,
Speaker 1: ten years ago, the estate was pulling in quote sixty
Speaker 1: million dollars uh selling memorabilia. That number fell by thirty
Speaker 1: percent sales from memorabilia. D oh, So this state overall
Speaker 1: was doing sixty and then that fell by thirty percent.
Speaker 1: Memorabilia dropped from nearly four million dollars in twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: to less than one point five million dollars in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that would be a good indicator that you're right, O.
Speaker 2: Fear that like people are not and also there's probably
Speaker 2: diminishing returns when you've sold like three million of Elvis's
Speaker 2: teeth and they're like, wait a second.
Speaker 1: How many teeth to this fucking guy? Only one million
Speaker 1: limited edition? One million left exactly Yeah this in a
Speaker 1: Guardian poll in twenty seventeen found that thirty percent of
Speaker 1: respondents aged eighteen to twenty four had never heard even
Speaker 1: one of Presley's songs. Wow, so yeah, yeah, they gotta
Speaker 1: they gotta go meta with Elvis somehow. They gotta figure out.
Speaker 2: They tried with Baz Luhrmann being like, yeah, this actually
Speaker 2: was a civil rights icon.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, don't ask how old Lisa Marie was
Speaker 1: when they met. Sure, you've heard this song, but have
Speaker 1: you heard his song like make an older lady so home?
Speaker 1: Don't thrust your hips Elvi? I really I have.
Speaker 3: To also really just think of like the shape of
Speaker 3: the chia head that would allow the grass to grow
Speaker 3: in a way that would.
Speaker 2: Replicate, replicate Elvi. Hard One It's hard is because his
Speaker 2: hair was so like specifically and rigorously koifed, like how
Speaker 2: would a chia pet work?
Speaker 3: It would have that mold would have to be very
Speaker 3: three D or you might have to room. Is that
Speaker 3: part of a chia that you have to go in
Speaker 3: and groom it? You have to give it a haircut?
Speaker 3: Do you have to give it a chia HAIRCUTT?
Speaker 1: Please? You know what? Please let me know? I mean
Speaker 1: because now like it's just wild because now we eat
Speaker 1: chia seeds, I know, you know what I mean, like chiaia.
Speaker 1: They're like, I don't know, man, smear this ship on
Speaker 1: a fucking terra cotta skull and you're like, it's a
Speaker 1: chia pet. And now it's like I only eat these
Speaker 1: yogurt smoothie is with chia seeds in it. Like, it's
Speaker 1: also interesting to see the evolution of the chia sees.
Speaker 3: Amazing, that's amazing, right from Chris Chris crappy Christmas present
Speaker 3: to like an overnight oats explosion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right exactly. It's like, now I pay seventy dollars
Speaker 1: at Arawan for three chia seeds.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The Elvis chia that I'm seeing like a label
Speaker 2: for I can't tell.
Speaker 1: If this is real. I don't think it's real, but it.
Speaker 2: Looks like shit. I mean, it's just it looks like
Speaker 2: a green chairy curl.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's nothing that no, uh uh huh.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think no one's I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone's actually made it. And I think but I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess in a way they know their market because
Speaker 1: the only person who would buy a fucking chia pet
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four would be someone who's like, yeah, Elvis, yes,
Speaker 1: I'll put it next to my whatever other fucking chia
Speaker 1: pets there were.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't even know a hedgehog.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, I'm trying to think of like who
Speaker 2: would be appropriate for that. I'm guessing Bob Ross, I
Speaker 2: feel like has like chia esquet sounds right.
Speaker 1: I think there was a Bob. It's funny it auto
Speaker 1: filled into Bob Ross chia pet. But I don't think
Speaker 1: that's actually it. Oh wait, John Donald Trump? Oh wow, No,
Speaker 1: you know what, dude, chia pet has a whole. I
Speaker 1: thought I was due. I thought I was mistaken. Uh no,
Speaker 1: oh boy, here we go, freedom of choice, Donald Trump? Wow? Wow?
Speaker 2: So chia is like full right wing, like Heartland, oh spice, wow.
Speaker 1: Look you know what I mean. Look, they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: if if there's customers, we're not going to say, no,
Speaker 1: you can get a Wednesday Adam. Oh, they're really out.
Speaker 2: Here, Willie Nelson. Nelson, but how are you They got rogues.
Speaker 1: I don't worry about it. It's our it's our wacky
Speaker 1: version of shoes.
Speaker 3: These are not even real, a bit downhill, Like they
Speaker 3: can have a ghost face from scream.
Speaker 1: I know, what is that? Whose hair? You've like never
Speaker 1: seen one? Wait, they're also selling a Christmas story the
Speaker 1: night Light, like the leg lamp talking clapper. That's not
Speaker 1: even a chieta thing. Okay, there we are, Bob Ross.
Speaker 3: We've got Bob I mean to play to everybody. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 3: Chucky the.
Speaker 1: Chucky, Yeah, a hedgehog, Like.
Speaker 2: Everybody should go check out chia dot com slash collections. Uh,
Speaker 2: let me let me.
Speaker 1: Get you that u r L. It's w w W dot.
Speaker 2: But the it's like such a shitty it's such a
Speaker 2: shitty website. And I love that this was like what
Speaker 2: they were basing their pitch for for the like factory,
Speaker 2: the Elvis factory. They're like, yeah, we could even like
Speaker 2: maybe make some eldest Chia things.
Speaker 1: Wow. Oh the Golden Girls, who do you want Blanche
Speaker 1: Dorothy Rose or Sofia.
Speaker 3: I mean, why would you only have one? That's that's
Speaker 3: a really weird question. It's a whole you get.
Speaker 2: All every golden girl, please thank you, but with chia hair.
Speaker 1: Well if you're ah, what a pleasure having you on
Speaker 1: the daily. I know what I want?
Speaker 3: A chea of you guys, that's what I want.
Speaker 2: Oh h Pharaoh, that's auto part owns Berg.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, when we reach that summit, it'll obviously be
Speaker 1: known across the land that you can it is daily
Speaker 1: guys day. So yeah, exactly, Welcome to national And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be the first chia pet that has male pattern
Speaker 1: baldness represented and how the grow on the head. Yeah
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I would like that one for the chia pet when
Speaker 2: I get my hair cut, so it all works out,
Speaker 2: let me get the chia.
Speaker 1: What the fuck is that? Man?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: It's nineteen ninety nine, that's all I know. The like,
Speaker 1: I guess I can give you a perm and a
Speaker 1: color job this curly and green?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah you think this is
Speaker 2: an accident? Come on, oh Fiah, where can people find you?
Speaker 2: Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, As I like to say, the best place to
Speaker 3: interact with me is on Venmo. I'm at oh Fira.
Speaker 3: That's the only place I was actually able to get
Speaker 3: at Opeira, So I always get excited. It's just my
Speaker 3: first name. But no follow me on the socials. I'm
Speaker 3: at oh Fira E and all my shows are listed
Speaker 3: at my website as well at Fiara Eisenberg dot com.
Speaker 1: Listen to my.
Speaker 3: Podcast parenting as a joke. And if can I say,
Speaker 3: if you're in Boston next week?
Speaker 1: Is that cool? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Please, I'm in Boston next week. I rarely get to
Speaker 3: go out to Boston. Actually it's North Shore. It's Beverly, Massachusetts,
Speaker 3: which is fifteen minutes from city center. And let me
Speaker 3: tell you, I'm gonna be a bally keep saying Boston
Speaker 3: and all the people like it's not Boston. There's nothing
Speaker 3: I like more than not Boston.
Speaker 1: Pride off Boston. It's Beverly.
Speaker 3: But that's on Wednesday, the twenty ninth at a lovely
Speaker 3: theater called off Cabot. And so yeah, I'm go to
Speaker 3: be headlining doing some stand up.
Speaker 2: Come on over, amazing. Is there a work of media
Speaker 2: that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: Is there you know what a work of media I
Speaker 1: have been enjoying?
Speaker 3: I guess I'm a little bit late to this maybe,
Speaker 3: but I recently finished The Gentleman.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Guy Ritchie the show.
Speaker 3: And yeah, the show. I would I mean, I gobbled
Speaker 3: that up. I would have a hundred of those. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that is that is so my speed. It's got great dialogue,
Speaker 3: the characters, it's action. I mean everything about it was life.
Speaker 1: It felt like Guy Ritchie like back doing the thing
Speaker 1: that he did well, which is like interesting characters and
Speaker 1: all of that.
Speaker 5: Like it.
Speaker 1: There's a bit of a fall off. I feel like
Speaker 1: after Snatch and I was struggling to find that. That's right,
Speaker 1: you had it? Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 2: I loved Miles. Where can people find you? What's the
Speaker 2: work of media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: Uh, what do you say? Goddamn it? What happened enjoying? Oh?
Speaker 1: Is it enjoying? Goddamn it?
Speaker 2: People should pronounce the g's at the end of the words.
Speaker 1: Go ringa damn it. Yeah. Find me at Miles of
Speaker 1: Gray wherever they have at symbols. You can find Jack
Speaker 1: and I on the basketball podcast Miles and jacko Mad
Speaker 1: boost these. You can also find me talking ninety day
Speaker 1: Fiance on four to twenty Day fiance with Sophia Alexandra
Speaker 1: Uh and a tweet I like is from at the
Speaker 1: Garrett just quote there's always these CNBC or fucking Forbes
Speaker 1: dot com things written about what gen z or millennial
Speaker 1: workers are fucking doing. Now underneath this latest one quote
Speaker 1: tweeted this headline that said millennials are quiet vacationing rather
Speaker 1: than asking their boss for PTO. There's a giant workaround culture,
Speaker 1: and the at the Garrett just be hey, shut the
Speaker 1: fuck up. You know what?
Speaker 3: Can I just say that when I was I was
Speaker 3: working at office for years to make ends meet, and
Speaker 3: I was also starting to audition, you know, for commercials
Speaker 3: and whatever, and I would I would be like, I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna go get a bagel, and I would like
Speaker 3: run across town and put on makeup and like wait
Speaker 3: in an audition room and do an audition and then
Speaker 3: like you know, leave and.
Speaker 1: Get back and licking your fingers.
Speaker 3: With like with like a different shirt on and totally
Speaker 3: made up. And you know, that was that was what
Speaker 3: was always like wherever bagel Huh. I was like, sorry, yeah,
Speaker 3: it has been happening for a while, just in different iterations.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember like leaving for like job interviews
Speaker 1: or other things like at your job. And I remember
Speaker 1: like just not being on top of my ship. And
Speaker 1: I said dental appointment like twice in like three two weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything all right? Yeah, why well you just keep going
Speaker 1: to the dentist, dude, What the fuck? Man? I got
Speaker 1: terrible fucking cabinies. Man, that's fucked up.
Speaker 2: Even ask back to the dentist again. Anyway, here I go.
Speaker 1: Oh, I just hate going there. Oh you know what,
Speaker 1: I probably won't We'll probably won't even be back later today.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be so mad. Stuff amazing.
Speaker 2: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brian. Uh.
Speaker 2: John Phipps tweeted, there's nothing museums like more than having
Speaker 2: a big entrance that is clearly the entrance in which
Speaker 2: you absolutely cannot use to enter the museum anymore. That's
Speaker 2: a very fun experience the La Natural History. You can
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Speaker 2: the information that we talked about in today's episode, as
Speaker 2: well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 2: My what song do you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 1: I think they may enjoy this track from an artist
Speaker 1: named Cha zeal c h e z I l e uh.
Speaker 1: And it's just kind of like a dreamy indie rock track,
Speaker 1: just kind of you know, it wasn't like intense or aggressed.
Speaker 1: It just kind of felt, you know, dreamy. And who knows.
Speaker 1: The lyrics might be well like wicked wick could be
Speaker 1: wicked frigging violent or something, but I don't think it is.
Speaker 1: It's called Beanie b e A n I E. And
Speaker 1: this is by Chazel, So just some dreaminess just to
Speaker 1: begin our are warm down into the week, chezy all right.
Speaker 2: We will link off to that in the footnotes. The
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Speaker 2: That's gonna do it for us this morning, back this
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Speaker 1: To you all then. Bye bye,