Speaker 1: There's all these like themed camps and stuff, and there's
Speaker 1: like you can do like missions.
Speaker 2: So oh so it's kind of like where the Star
Speaker 2: Wars Hotel failed, where if like people weren't Larpie. This
Speaker 2: one is like, now come, I get into character. Now
Speaker 2: this is the fucking apocalypse, Like don't yeah, Like I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: I live in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: You know you guys might see me on Twitch.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Like the most part is like the gear,
Speaker 1: you know, like I feel like you can still be
Speaker 1: like you can walk around and be like yo, I'm Miles.
Speaker 1: But they they're like if they see you in clean clothes,
Speaker 1: they're like, You're clothes are too clean, and they got.
Speaker 3: A whole like you got a white T shirt on.
Speaker 1: They're like yeah yeah, they're like no. And there's like
Speaker 1: this whole spot that's like all these like cults that
Speaker 1: exist in this like you know world, and there's one
Speaker 1: that they there, God is Dacedation, the God of dirtiness,
Speaker 1: and you can go under edition. Yeah oucations.
Speaker 3: Here you see my shirt my shirts all.
Speaker 1: Over Yeah yeah see there.
Speaker 3: It is, Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three sixty,
Speaker 3: episode three of Daily Days Day production of iHeartRadio America's
Speaker 3: Only Undecided podcast. We're still trying to figure it out
Speaker 3: over here. This is a podcast where we take a
Speaker 3: deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it is Thursday,
Speaker 3: October seventeenth, twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it's a national yo shout out to straight
Speaker 2: edge people because it's National Edge Day. Okay, if you
Speaker 2: not now you never were. As a straight edged friend
Speaker 2: of mine, I've heard say before National Mulligan Day, Black
Speaker 2: Poetry Day, National Pasta Day, and one from the credit
Speaker 2: card company is called National Get Smart About Credit Day.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 4: Uh, Mulligan Day.
Speaker 3: Feels like it could be a thing like that. That
Speaker 3: could be like a movie.
Speaker 2: Where it's like the day where you get to like
Speaker 2: the comedic purge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be yeah, exactly. It could be the
Speaker 3: privilege we get to like do ship and just nothing counts.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Wait.
Speaker 3: So storages people who are like, they just don't take it.
Speaker 1: They don't drink, they don't drink, they don't do drugs,
Speaker 1: they don't know smoking, sex, none of that.
Speaker 3: They don't do cocaine, even not even cocaine.
Speaker 2: I mean there are people who are like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean they may be a little bit more rigid with
Speaker 2: the sex. The straight edge people I know seem to
Speaker 2: be cooler about that. You know, they got they fuck
Speaker 2: and they have family.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I always thought they like they're punk though, right, A
Speaker 3: lot of them like, isn't there like a punk aspect
Speaker 3: to it? Or they like their music there's overlap.
Speaker 2: For sure, and like the hardcore scene. Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: Those people always terrified me anyways, I don't know, because
Speaker 3: they just have like intense energy.
Speaker 4: They were like real it.
Speaker 3: It felt like it was right on the verge of
Speaker 3: being like a religious thing.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Listen to more minor threat, listen to more minor threat,
Speaker 2: and you know you'll you'll you'll you'll feel embrace.
Speaker 4: You'll understand it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think if your term comes from a
Speaker 2: minor event.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one track at a time.
Speaker 3: One track a day, over and over for a year,
Speaker 3: so you get those ex cats, ex tats on your hands. Yeah,
Speaker 3: nothing against straight I mean, much better than what I
Speaker 3: was doing. I was, you know, you were drinking and
Speaker 3: using drugs too much in high school and college. And
Speaker 3: I wish I was straight edge. I wish I wish
Speaker 3: that was like a weird, like I overdid it as
Speaker 3: a straight edge person and then like now was moderation. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and moderation. Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien aka video teased.
Speaker 3: But when well it start video teas?
Speaker 1: But when when? Let me start that one.
Speaker 3: Courtesy of Zach van Noss on the disc. Yeah, we
Speaker 3: have of course shared some clips from our video episodes.
Speaker 3: We have not released any of the video episodes. We're
Speaker 3: just we're just so self conscious about how we look. Yeah,
Speaker 3: every time I'm like, Jack, be real with me, I
Speaker 3: look like shit, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just always noticed something like hanging out of my
Speaker 3: nose or like something weird that I'm doing with my hand.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine the videos come out? We got like
Speaker 2: wild face filters, yo, Yeah, would.
Speaker 3: Like look like those like four year old children with like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or like when Henry Cavill had the mustache cg Off,
Speaker 2: it's like sums up with his cheeks.
Speaker 3: What is upper lip just looks like a big smooth banana. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Miles has the facial hair of Pi May from Kill Bill.
Speaker 3: I'm like it could be more whimsical and wise. Anyways,
Speaker 3: it's it's coming. We're just trying to figure out the workflow.
Speaker 3: It's a little trickier than we thought at first, So
Speaker 3: we have a bunch of we're gonna like drop ten
Speaker 3: episodes on when we backlog. That's coming soon.
Speaker 2: Obviously, swear to God before the end of the month, Yes,
Speaker 2: swear swear.
Speaker 1: I swear to.
Speaker 2: Guy STG STG before then the month at worst end
Speaker 2: of not depending on who is.
Speaker 3: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 3: mister Miles Grass.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's left the comforts of the San Fernando Valley
Speaker 2: to be now dripping in mumbo sauce on the streets
Speaker 2: of the nation's capital, the Washington d C.
Speaker 3: I said, the Washington Washington dat.
Speaker 2: Here State University exactly. I'm just like again, I wish
Speaker 2: I had something else to add to that. I'm really
Speaker 2: enjoying the fall with temperatures here on the East Coast. Anyway,
Speaker 2: for those that don't know, I.
Speaker 3: Was on a I joined a call with Miles this morning,
Speaker 3: like a non TDZ call, and he joined the call
Speaker 3: in like his fall outer wear, taking a walk under
Speaker 3: a gray sky, and I was like, oh, Miles is
Speaker 3: in his zone and he guys, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 3: he looked fucking great. Yo, the best. You know, It's
Speaker 3: so funny.
Speaker 2: I have a friend of mine who's a New Yorker
Speaker 2: and she paid me the best compliment when we were
Speaker 2: in New York, like during the like it was like
Speaker 2: a November a couple of months ago, and I had
Speaker 2: like my like my coat on and shit and scarf,
Speaker 2: and She's like, Myles, I gotta say, like you kind
Speaker 2: of you kind of look like a New Yorker, like
Speaker 2: your energy.
Speaker 3: I love you.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh my god, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Well, I've been waiting for that.
Speaker 3: And I didn't even do it in a north faced
Speaker 3: bubble jacket. I really wanted to, but thank you so much. Well, Miles,
Speaker 3: we are thrilled to be joined in our third seats
Speaker 3: by one of the greats, one of our favorite guests.
Speaker 3: And it's been way too damn long to hilarious actor, improviser,
Speaker 3: stand up comedian who you've seen on Key and Peel, Workaholics,
Speaker 3: Comedy Bang Bang writes for TV shows like Grand Crew
Speaker 3: and Twisted Metal Twist. Please welcomes noted thought dad tm mmm,
Speaker 3: you can't use that. That's what that's his and you
Speaker 3: also know him from him.
Speaker 4: Actually, it's if you want to war.
Speaker 1: Well, yeas was that when if he came back on
Speaker 1: the pod, what's good you doing? Man?
Speaker 3: Oh man, we did it, we did it, You're back.
Speaker 4: Everybody doubted us.
Speaker 3: They said, no way this guy gets back on the podcast,
Speaker 3: and that in your fucking faces.
Speaker 2: Losers looking you know, I remember, like I remember the
Speaker 2: last couple of times, like we were trying to have
Speaker 2: you on. You were in a writer's room, and you're
Speaker 2: also like you had your very busy schedule, and it's funny.
Speaker 2: I would like, this is what I love about our
Speaker 2: fans when people are like, oh man, if he's not
Speaker 2: on the show, or at least he's not on the show,
Speaker 2: like is there is there beef for something? People people
Speaker 2: do many things, they don't have time to do our podcast,
Speaker 2: our second rate podcast.
Speaker 3: And then we got to catch him and here you
Speaker 3: are back in the flush. We actually just sprung this
Speaker 3: on you. You were at walking out of one writer's room
Speaker 3: into another, and we just put a microphone in your face.
Speaker 3: So we appreciate you stopping for the next hour and
Speaker 3: sitting Oh look.
Speaker 1: I'm happy. I always love doing the pod. I love
Speaker 1: to hop on. So we Yeah, it was truly like, yeah,
Speaker 1: my pleasure and now I'm here with the Fellas.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, our new show WTF with the Fellas.
Speaker 3: And the logo does look identical to the other WTF.
Speaker 3: I grew a beard and had the my face in
Speaker 3: a very similar cartoon. It's obviously me though, if you
Speaker 3: look closely, look closely, look at all the sweat, and
Speaker 3: you know, Maren can take all those cease and desists
Speaker 3: and shove him up his ass.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, you like that? How you like that?
Speaker 4: Maren?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: If you We're going to get to know you a
Speaker 3: little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to
Speaker 3: tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be talking about Kamala's plan for black men.
Speaker 3: That's been a big story, is that, like her support
Speaker 3: is waning among black men, and you know, not nobody
Speaker 3: talking about the fact that Trump won white women overall
Speaker 3: last time, which is fucking crazy. But yeah, so anyways,
Speaker 3: that's been a story. We're going to dig into it.
Speaker 3: We're also going to talk about something positive that the
Speaker 3: government is trying to do. The FTC just finalized a
Speaker 3: click to Cancel initiative. They're cracking down on places that
Speaker 3: make it incredibly difficult to cancel services. Great, so great,
Speaker 3: the final boss there would be who are you thinking
Speaker 3: would be the final boss for you? I'm thinking, oh,
Speaker 3: the hardest mother for the hardest motherfucker to cancel anything
Speaker 3: from the spectrum will yeah, let it. It's they won't.
Speaker 2: Cable companies, Yeah, the cable, the cables. It's from the beginning,
Speaker 2: cable companies. I think mart is still the final boss.
Speaker 1: God damn yeah, because they never let you do it,
Speaker 1: Like you call in and then they make you talk
Speaker 1: to a different yeah, let me person, and then that
Speaker 1: person is then giving you all these options instead of
Speaker 1: what you want to do, and they're always trying to upset, like, uh,
Speaker 1: the last I just I wasn't even trying to cancel.
Speaker 1: I just needed to. I moved, so I needed to
Speaker 1: switch my service. And like I realized months later that
Speaker 1: they added like a whole bunch of new stuff and
Speaker 1: I was like what, I didn't even ask for that,
Speaker 1: and they're just like oh, oh okay, and then they
Speaker 1: just like, you know, changed it. But it is like
Speaker 1: so wild how there's just almost this incentive to be like,
Speaker 1: we gotta do something else, we gotta, we gotta switch
Speaker 1: it up, sweetened the deal. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: We're obviously gonna talk about I mean, I don't know
Speaker 3: how we didn't put this first Russell brand that apparently
Speaker 3: has access to a magical amulet. Yes, and he's he's
Speaker 3: selling it. You can you can get actually like an
Speaker 3: actually magical thing for two hundred and forty dollars like that,
Speaker 3: like defying all the laws of science and physics. So
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about that. I don't I don't know
Speaker 3: why we're talking about any of this other shit. He's
Speaker 3: just basically proven the existence of God. We might we
Speaker 3: might also talk about the in fact the pumpkin patches
Speaker 3: are scams all of are that plenty more? But first,
Speaker 3: if we do like to ask our guests, what is
Speaker 3: something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
Speaker 1: Oh? Okay, So for mine, I have the block iPhone
Speaker 1: offloading apps, and Jack Antonov the first one block iPhone.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you know, you're trying to
Speaker 1: save space on your iPhone and so you go in
Speaker 1: and you know you you have it offload apps you're
Speaker 1: not using. But there's some apps that you just download
Speaker 1: to use, like like I have the gift the app
Speaker 1: so that I can use gifts in my text. So
Speaker 1: we have that turned on. Since I never open that
Speaker 1: app because I only use it as a sticker in text,
Speaker 1: it just keeps getting offloaded and I'll have to notice
Speaker 1: when I'm trying to use it and I can't find it,
Speaker 1: and it truly is like bonkers that So I went
Speaker 1: to look to see if there's a way to like
Speaker 1: block specific apps from being offloaded, and they're like, nope, no,
Speaker 1: we don't have that. And you would think that there's
Speaker 1: so many things that I think the that Apple does
Speaker 1: that I'm like, you would think that eventually you would
Speaker 1: have knocked this out really quick, right like like but
Speaker 1: like I still you know anyone.
Speaker 2: Here, like I can't type fuck in a text message
Speaker 2: or that I've been like dope, yeah, put it as
Speaker 2: a contact.
Speaker 1: I guess. Or even if you use like any air
Speaker 1: pods and you happen to live with someone else who
Speaker 1: has air pods and they have that new feature that's
Speaker 1: like this Airpod's tracking you and you're like, nope, this
Speaker 1: is someone this is this is someone I live with.
Speaker 1: I know it's not, and like there's no way to
Speaker 1: turn that off. There's no way to be like, hey, learn.
Speaker 3: The air tags. You're being hunted like three hundred times
Speaker 3: a week and oh, I'm okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And with a new update, they were basically saying,
Speaker 1: you know, oh, you'll be able to like acknowledge that
Speaker 1: you know it and then like, I it still doesn't work.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you would think it'd be the
Speaker 1: simplest one. And you know, that whole feature was reactionary
Speaker 1: because they got called out where people were like, yo,
Speaker 1: you people can use your air tag feature to stalk people.
Speaker 1: So now they just it feels like they're punishing us
Speaker 1: where it's like, well, then you can't turn it off
Speaker 1: you want it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, right right there you go in your face direction.
Speaker 3: Now our product sucks. So yeah, yeah, the air tags, right,
Speaker 3: those things are super annoying. What's something you think is underrated.
Speaker 1: There's a game that came out called War hundred, War hundred,
Speaker 1: Warhammer forty K Rogue Trader. Everyone's been on the Space
Speaker 1: Marine two train, I have to it's amazing. It's a
Speaker 1: banger game. And Rogue Trader came out right around the
Speaker 1: same time that boulders Gate came out, which is amazing,
Speaker 1: and everyone loves it and it's a great game. But
Speaker 1: I feel like with what's happening with you know, A
Speaker 1: Space Marine two, everyone's like excited about the Warhammer lore
Speaker 1: and they're looking into it, and every day there's like
Speaker 1: a tweet thread about people being like, what this is cool?
Speaker 1: I want to get into it. And I feel like
Speaker 1: Rogue Trader was supposed to be Bouldersgate for Warhammer, like
Speaker 1: what Bouldersgate was for D and D, where a bunch
Speaker 1: of people got into D and D. That's what Rogue
Speaker 1: Trader could have been. But I think that Warhammer does
Speaker 1: not know how to push stuff. They like being the
Speaker 1: cool nerdy thing that they don't put too much effort
Speaker 1: in because like if you look, they're not even really
Speaker 1: like following anyone on Twitter, Like they're only like following
Speaker 1: like they're like a couple of writers and stuff, Like
Speaker 1: they're not even following like you know, Henry Cavell or
Speaker 1: any like pretty big you know, celebrities who are like
Speaker 1: tied to the brand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like we follow Fuco and yeah, they're.
Speaker 1: Following nine people. It's all of their video games and
Speaker 1: a and the secret level Amazon thing that they're featured
Speaker 1: in and the game and the people who produce their
Speaker 1: games and everything that's kind of connected and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cool and all, but like you're not community building
Speaker 1: at all and you're doing your thing and like I said,
Speaker 1: like it is a it is. It is like Kleenex
Speaker 1: in in London. They don't need any advertising, do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah everyone Jack's often yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: you'rejagging off to it. But it is like I feel
Speaker 1: like they are missing growth that they could have, but
Speaker 1: they are. I do think that they don't feel the need.
Speaker 1: I think they got burned by Blizzard and they don't
Speaker 1: want to be they they don't want to put that
Speaker 1: work in right man.
Speaker 2: That's I was when I saw that. I saw an
Speaker 2: ad for that in the PlayStation store and I was like,
Speaker 2: that doesn't look like the people from Aliens Space Marines.
Speaker 2: And then I was like that's different and I realized
Speaker 2: it was Warhammer and I because they're because aren't they
Speaker 2: called space Marines or I guess colonial marine?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Colonial and alien? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3: What what's something do you think is overrated?
Speaker 1: If you? Oh man, I think uh I put composure,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like, you know, everyone's trying to
Speaker 1: be like I think there's this everyone wants to be chill,
Speaker 1: everyone wants to play. No one that we need to
Speaker 1: be gassing people up. We've been inside for a long time.
Speaker 1: I think that we should be comfortable being excited about things,
Speaker 1: celebrating and champion people. I think, don't be weird about it,
Speaker 1: for sure, but like be excited, be like be a
Speaker 1: cheerleader for the things that you like, because that's the
Speaker 1: only way you can like spread you know, information about it.
Speaker 1: Right yeah.
Speaker 3: I feel like channel Channel no alliles the way you
Speaker 3: came in the one hundred, like yeah, don't don't race
Speaker 3: with COVID.
Speaker 1: It was so funny to see black Twitter just praying
Speaker 1: for his downfall. That was great, you know, and it's like, yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: you you came in swinging for absolutely no reason, Like
Speaker 1: what was that for, right, right? Right? Yeah, because like
Speaker 1: I think I think just just on paper, he was wrong,
Speaker 1: you know, like that would be like you know when people,
Speaker 1: you know, if like the Premier League was like World
Speaker 1: Champions was like, well you got to go to the
Speaker 1: World Cup, and it's like everyone in the World Cup
Speaker 1: is in the Premier League, And I think it's the
Speaker 1: same thing for the NBA. Everyone you saw in that
Speaker 1: Olympic tournament. Every best player in every country's team is
Speaker 1: in the NBA. So what are we talking about.
Speaker 3: So we're talking about him coming in and being like,
Speaker 3: I'm a world champion because I sprinted against the best
Speaker 3: in the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was like, oh see why the NBA finals
Speaker 1: called themselves the world champions. Like, bro, people only care
Speaker 1: about you every four years. We didn't know you existed
Speaker 1: until your vandrum mouth. Like it really was annoying because
Speaker 1: it's like it is such a like it really felt
Speaker 1: like it came from the place about like I should
Speaker 1: be celebrated more. It's like, nah, you just run fast,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: People well, because he he achieved the thing that I
Speaker 2: think was commendable, which was that he wanted to bring
Speaker 2: more like just more of a focus and emphasis like
Speaker 2: on all the athletes. So like that part is good,
Speaker 2: but to your point, there is a fine line. It's like,
Speaker 2: don't do that by like slagging off you know, the
Speaker 2: NBAA and shit like that, And I get, you know,
Speaker 2: it's just.
Speaker 1: Just like it was funny watching the NBA, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Basketball Olympics and watching these teams and You're like
Speaker 1: every star player that they're up against in every country
Speaker 1: is from in the NBAA So it's like so this,
Speaker 1: like watching it kind of defeated his purpose because it's like, no,
Speaker 1: because all these guys and they do better because they
Speaker 1: get to team up with other very good people, right,
Speaker 1: you know, versus you know, playing with the people who
Speaker 1: could make it out the hood. You know, like, respectfully,
Speaker 1: these are all great basketball players. They all can ball
Speaker 1: me up. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying
Speaker 1: is that the level you have to be at to
Speaker 1: be in the NBA is very hard to achieve and
Speaker 1: to like compare it, it's like, yeah, dude, like there's
Speaker 1: like there is no like, no one is flying from
Speaker 1: other countries to run out here. So that's why we
Speaker 1: have the Olympics. No one is flying from other countries.
Speaker 1: Like the World Championships for track and Field is the Olympics.
Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, as much as the
Speaker 1: Olympics want to say it's the World Championship for basketball,
Speaker 1: I firmly believe that if now it's the NBA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the highest level of competition is that.
Speaker 4: I think he was wrong about that.
Speaker 3: I do the way he walked into the one hundred
Speaker 3: meter dash, like and he was just fully just freaking
Speaker 3: out the like in the run up to that race
Speaker 3: was I want to see that more like we had
Speaker 3: where we've existed in this paradigm for a long time
Speaker 3: where it's like you come up with composure, you like
Speaker 3: enter the and then you like let loose like Lebron
Speaker 3: has his you know, hand clap with the dust. Jordan
Speaker 3: like was always very calm and composed before the game.
Speaker 1: I just like.
Speaker 3: Somebody coming in and just just crashing out their mind
Speaker 3: before the race even starts, just like letting that energy out. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was was a lot of fun. So that's that's
Speaker 3: why I think he's a lack of composure king in something. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the both on Twitter and in the lead up to
Speaker 3: a race.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I and that I respect, you know, and
Speaker 1: I and I do respect the energy. I think it's
Speaker 1: kind of like Miles set everything up until when you're
Speaker 1: trying to like you know, cast off the NBA. It's yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't just be like, hey man, we're doing cool ship.
Speaker 2: Pay attention to this. This is dope, Yes it is.
Speaker 2: And you know, luckily it's like most sports, you need
Speaker 2: a Netflix doc menory to make that people to be like,
Speaker 2: you know what, track and field is actually kind of
Speaker 2: dope when I see like the totality of it, just
Speaker 2: like how you know Formula one was, you know, obviously
Speaker 2: had a huge boom after that.
Speaker 3: I only have thirty percent of my time for sports.
Speaker 3: It is a zero sum competition between basketball and track
Speaker 3: and field, and I will now be shifting my fifteen
Speaker 3: percent of my focus to track and party five. That's
Speaker 3: not how anybody works. All right, let's take a quick
Speaker 3: break and we're gonna come right back, and we're gonna
Speaker 3: talk about some news stories. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 3: we're back. We're back, and yeah, So this has been
Speaker 3: a story, I mean, the the Dems in disarray story,
Speaker 3: which is always there. It's always there in the background
Speaker 3: of the mainstream media. They're always ready for a democratic slide,
Speaker 3: democratic catastrophe, a democratic fuck up, and there's plenty of
Speaker 3: that to go around. But that's not They don't focus
Speaker 3: on the policy towards Israel, but they do like to
Speaker 3: look at polls and take some wild extrapulation. Love hand ringing.
Speaker 2: They love the hand ringing because there's a lot over
Speaker 2: declining support for Harris among black men, or you see
Speaker 2: headlines are like what makes Trump appealing to blackmail voters?
Speaker 3: Or Harris is struggling with.
Speaker 2: Black men, And I get that there has been a
Speaker 2: trend in the wrong direction for you know, black men
Speaker 2: over the last couple election cycles, but these headlines seemed
Speaker 2: like this was a full blown crisis. And then I'm
Speaker 2: looking at polling and I'm you know, Kamala is doing
Speaker 2: as well as Biden did in twenty twenty, So I'm like,
Speaker 2: what are we doing exactly? And I get that, you know,
Speaker 2: this is all about it's all about turnout and margins,
Speaker 2: So even a five percent decline could mean, you know,
Speaker 2: the difference between a Trump or Harris presidency. But across
Speaker 2: the board, it's clear that Harris just has been underperforming
Speaker 2: with just men as a demographic across the board, no
Speaker 2: matter like in every cohort. So in the fourth quarter
Speaker 2: of this election, she's released a plan for black men
Speaker 2: after doing a listening tour in cities like Atlanta, Charlotte,
Speaker 2: and Detroit, and based on those conversations, she sort of
Speaker 2: laid out this whole policy plan and the sort of
Speaker 2: the tent poles are. The first one is like providing
Speaker 2: like one million loans that are fully forgivable to black
Speaker 2: entrepreneurs and like getting like twenty thousand dollars to help
Speaker 2: start businesses. Another one is supporting a regulatory framework for
Speaker 2: cryptocurrency and other digital assets.
Speaker 3: Now, I do.
Speaker 2: Understand that as a demographic like this predates on black
Speaker 2: men in terms of as being investors the most. So
Speaker 2: I understand that if you're looking at crypto as a whole,
Speaker 2: you're like, well, you know, black investors are typically more
Speaker 2: vulnerable than others. A National Health Equity initiative that addresses
Speaker 2: things like sickle cell disease, diabetes, mental health, prostate cancer,
Speaker 2: and other things that are disproportionately impact black men, legalized
Speaker 2: recreational marijuana, creating like just like better pathways to get
Speaker 2: like black men into teaching jobs and other sort of
Speaker 2: like just high paying jobs and things like that. Now,
Speaker 2: these like I think they're important, and most of these
Speaker 2: policies are actually just her sort of like existing platform,
Speaker 2: but they're just sort of recontextualized so black men can
Speaker 2: understand how they also benefit from like these certain policies.
Speaker 2: But then I'm also like a little confused here because
Speaker 2: I'm sure on these listening tours she heard a lot
Speaker 2: about policing and the violence, just the violence that that
Speaker 2: black men disproportionately experience at the hands of police, and
Speaker 2: her policies are kind of offering the same sort of
Speaker 2: milk toast policy prescriptions that just don't get to the
Speaker 2: root of the matter. Like there's language about building trust
Speaker 2: between law enforcement and the community and banning chokeholds, but
Speaker 2: the lack of trust and deadly tactics sort of come
Speaker 2: from our unaddressed issue with anti black racism and white supremacy.
Speaker 2: So I was thinking, hey, maybe slified immunity could would
Speaker 2: we dare to utter those words and other laws and
Speaker 2: loopholes that are sort of in place that allow police
Speaker 2: to act with impunity, And like with the legalizing marijuana,
Speaker 2: I was hoping maybe you could see something about, you know,
Speaker 2: actually expunging records and freeing people who have been locked
Speaker 2: up for possession charges, because that's another thing that disproportionately
Speaker 2: affects people of color, especially black people. So the thing
Speaker 2: that like also just kind of strikes me here is
Speaker 2: that there's this whole this emphasis on like the problem
Speaker 2: with like her black male support and this sort of
Speaker 2: sudden emphasis to me, feels like it's partially beginning to
Speaker 2: scape like it's half pandering, but also beginning to scapegoat
Speaker 2: black men as a potentially like like af Kamala loses,
Speaker 2: it's because these black men turned up for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: And like again, like I said these, I think these
Speaker 2: I'm glad that she's articulating this kind of like these
Speaker 2: policy prescriptions that are affecting black men, but I think
Speaker 2: they could go further. Another question I have is why
Speaker 2: don't you just do that from the beginning of your
Speaker 2: campaign rather than this late in the game when there
Speaker 2: are all these headlines questioning your ability to get support,
Speaker 2: because I mean, let's see, black people are the most
Speaker 2: consistent supporters of Democrats, Like yeah, just across the board. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so like let's let's not get into this, like whoa, whoa,
Speaker 2: what's going on here? And That's what I'm saying, like
Speaker 2: where is the smoke? Where is the analysis for white voters,
Speaker 2: because that's also a huge, huge, like this is this
Speaker 2: is a huge demographic of people that are openly embracing
Speaker 2: fascism as well. But to then suddenly have headline after
Speaker 2: headline talking about like black men and what is she
Speaker 2: going to do? Just feels a little odd and just
Speaker 2: kind of just I was feeling some type of way
Speaker 2: about it, like I just didn't if that's what I
Speaker 2: felt like. It was sort of setting up to sort
Speaker 2: of be able to like, if if this election goes
Speaker 2: to Trump, then it's gonna be like, well, it's the
Speaker 2: people who didn't turn out because of Gaza and then
Speaker 2: black men because they love Trump and Crypto and these
Speaker 2: other I think you're happy guys avoiding yeah, and avoiding
Speaker 2: real progress, which I think again, like we always have
Speaker 2: talked about on the show, that is what is the
Speaker 2: most energizing when you're trying to win a race, Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I feel like, you know, this just
Speaker 1: really feels like we're already getting the head start on
Speaker 1: the blame game that tries to come out of the election,
Speaker 1: and the blame is always on the voters and not
Speaker 1: the politicians and how they chose to connect on them
Speaker 1: and the ways that they've waffled and the ways that
Speaker 1: they've you know, never addressing things that you might have misstepped,
Speaker 1: Like you know, you kind of energized a group of
Speaker 1: voters by kind of seemingly being like more left than Biden,
Speaker 1: and then you come out and be like, well, hold up,
Speaker 1: we will make sure we have some Republicans you know,
Speaker 1: in here, and then you're then you're like ignoring the
Speaker 1: backlash that comes from that because it's like, yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: like like this is the reason people were excited for
Speaker 1: you was it felt like we're gonna, like, you know,
Speaker 1: see some real change, and you're not going to see
Speaker 1: change if you're trying to parlay the people who are
Speaker 1: trying to push Project twenty twenty five, which is a
Speaker 1: complete mess and terrible. Yeah, so it's to me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like all the strategizing seems very reactionary, and
Speaker 1: it seems very like it's it just seems like the
Speaker 1: classic thing we always see, right where a lot of
Speaker 1: overpromising and we're waiting to see it be delivered on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like it also paints this picture of
Speaker 3: Trump as having like more diverse support. Yeah. Then then
Speaker 3: we think, hey, guys, I know there's a lot of
Speaker 3: like we're a very divided country. They love to talk
Speaker 3: about how divided we are, but hey, there's nothing special
Speaker 3: here about Trump. It's just Republicans and Democrats. If you
Speaker 3: think he's uniquely bad then, like you're overreacting. He's going
Speaker 3: to like his policy, like just what's the massive like
Speaker 3: mass deportation thing that he's openly proposing like every day
Speaker 3: on the campaign truck, They're going to have concentration camps
Speaker 3: for people who are here legally because they are black
Speaker 3: and brown essentially, like that that is what is going
Speaker 3: to happen. Like that's maybe the story I would focus
Speaker 3: on as opposed to like this version of Trump. But
Speaker 3: hey man, there's there's a lot more support out there
Speaker 3: for him than you'd think. It's like, yeah, what about
Speaker 3: like what is going to happen if he wins?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: And there's also you know that the time came and
Speaker 2: went really to really capitalize on the momentum we had
Speaker 2: in society to really try and push through some kind
Speaker 2: of substantive change around law enforcement. And that was in
Speaker 2: the beginning of Joe Biden's presidency, when he had the
Speaker 2: trifecta yeah you know what I mean, and and pofit went.
Speaker 2: And I get that it's easy to point fingers at
Speaker 2: the holdouts mansion and Cinema and things like that, and
Speaker 2: that is true, but that that was really the time
Speaker 2: to really begin to be like, let me let me
Speaker 2: show improve. I know I count on the support of
Speaker 2: black voters, and now let me repay that. The other thing, too,
Speaker 2: is like when you really look at the polling, look
Speaker 2: at like swing like swing states like Wisconsin for white women,
Speaker 2: the race is very very tight. It is like it's
Speaker 2: like a dead heap pretty much. And to then be like,
Speaker 2: what is what's going to happen with with black men
Speaker 2: and things like that. Now, I understand that may be
Speaker 2: more sexy than calling out like other white voters and
Speaker 2: things like that, but again we have issues with like
Speaker 2: their misogyny, because there are some men who would just
Speaker 2: never vote ever for a woman. It doesn't matter how
Speaker 2: much you talk about squeezing off your glock and shit
Speaker 2: like that. And there's also this sort of white supremacist
Speaker 2: angle too that we're just not there's no there's no
Speaker 2: grappling with like there's no analysis of that either. So
Speaker 2: it's much easier just look at numbers and be like, well,
Speaker 2: black men are supporting a little bit less than normal.
Speaker 2: There's the problem when we have these other much larger
Speaker 2: voting blocks that we need to sort of have some
Speaker 2: kind of I don't know, more meaningful analysis around rather
Speaker 2: than create this headline. And for me, again, it does
Speaker 2: feel like we're doing diet scapegoating, preemptive scapegoating, which just
Speaker 2: makes me very uncomfortable because I just don't no, no,
Speaker 2: that that ain't it.
Speaker 3: That ain't it all right? This next one I feel
Speaker 3: like another thing that they could have run on and
Speaker 3: made a bigger deal about. So the FTC just finalized
Speaker 3: their click to Cancel initiative, which basically prevents companies from
Speaker 3: trapping consumers in unwanted subscriptions by forcing them to jump
Speaker 3: through unnecessary hoops. So it requires that companies, including streamers,
Speaker 3: make it as easy to cancel subscriptions as it is
Speaker 3: to sign up for them. Like that sounds like a fantasy,
Speaker 3: and like just say that, just be like, hey, this
Speaker 3: is what we're doing for We just did this, like
Speaker 3: because we recognize that these companies are fucking annoying to
Speaker 3: deal with and they're making your life more difficult.
Speaker 1: Right right.
Speaker 2: This goes along with our Remember we were talking when
Speaker 2: the terms and conditions story came up, and they're like,
Speaker 2: we got to figure out a way to streamline terms
Speaker 2: and conditions, Like it can't be like, hey, man, if
Speaker 2: you're if your partner dies having food at Disney World,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry that you signed up for Disney Plus because
Speaker 2: that actually indemnifies us. Yeah, like like this like that
Speaker 2: kind of thing along with this. This is the kind
Speaker 2: of stuff that like you don't need any policy experience
Speaker 2: to understand.
Speaker 3: You're like, yeah, man, why is it so fucking hard
Speaker 3: to cancel any kind of membership? A lot of people,
Speaker 3: like I guess like Planet Fitness started to trend on
Speaker 3: social media because of this. I famously do not go
Speaker 3: to gym's because I'm not great about my health. I
Speaker 3: drew it at home.
Speaker 2: But if you do, you know, are you what do
Speaker 2: you have any experience of Planet Fitness or just know
Speaker 2: that gym memberships are up like up there with some
Speaker 2: of the worst ones to try and get out of.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean definitely I been trying to. I've
Speaker 1: been getting I had a gym membership through my health
Speaker 1: care and that has been like I have not been
Speaker 1: able to get out of it, Like you want to
Speaker 1: get into your right now. Just reminded me like I
Speaker 1: gotta cause and they're always trying to get you to
Speaker 1: like call them and be like yeah, if you call us,
Speaker 1: and then you call them and then they're just because
Speaker 1: they know that, like most people are not trying to
Speaker 1: be confrontational. Most people are not you know, trying to
Speaker 1: They're just trying to wear you down. And yeah, and
Speaker 1: then you just either give up or they're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll just give you three months and then if you
Speaker 1: still don't after that, you can do it. But then
Speaker 1: they're hoping after three months you forgot and then you're like,
Speaker 1: it's just terrible.
Speaker 2: It definitely is like fuck boy relationship tactics where it's like, no, no.
Speaker 3: You don't want to break up. Hold on, talk to
Speaker 3: hold on? Can I put you on the phone with
Speaker 3: my cousin. You know my cousin.
Speaker 2: You love my cousin, and she's always had your back.
Speaker 2: Hold on, she wants to talk to you. She's like, look,
Speaker 2: he's trying to change you know that, right. He really
Speaker 2: loves you. He cares about you, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Even to prove it, he will give you an Apple
Speaker 2: TV four K for your home, okay, and we can
Speaker 2: bring down the monthly cost about ten dollars, because that's
Speaker 2: to your point, like that's what spectrum feels like. You
Speaker 2: get passed around, you get promised all kinds of shit.
Speaker 3: They like.
Speaker 2: I feel like at one point they like this person
Speaker 2: on the verge of tears to be like, is there
Speaker 2: anything we can do to keep you? I'm like, I'm
Speaker 2: moving out of your service area.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: There's literally nothing you can do. I no longer reside
Speaker 2: in an area that you serve. Therefore I must cancel there.
Speaker 3: Like, but you can.
Speaker 2: Also you could mobilely experience our cable. I was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry this man, They're gonna kill me. They're gonna
Speaker 2: fuck kill me if you cancel this. I knew what
Speaker 2: you were fucking against me, just like everybody over here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're like what, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: It's also the tactics the police use to coerce a
Speaker 3: false confession out of people. They just like, don't let
Speaker 3: you leave. They just keep coming back to you. They
Speaker 3: just won't take note for an answer until you're just
Speaker 3: so exhausted.
Speaker 2: Different detectives come in, Hey, tell me the story again. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I just got here. Can you just break it down
Speaker 2: for me from the top?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 4: Sorry, ship change man? Hey?
Speaker 5: And then oh yeah, my partner's gonna hey, you fucking asshole. Yeah,
Speaker 5: someone's fucking dead because of you. Now cop to it
Speaker 5: and you're like, I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it could be so easy. Aren't that the
Speaker 1: thing with.
Speaker 3: With like car accidents or you ever told if you,
Speaker 3: like the first car accident you get your parents like,
Speaker 3: don't say I'm.
Speaker 2: Sorry, don't y yeah, because that will is that true?
Speaker 2: Like like by apologizing, they will be like, oh, that's
Speaker 2: your sorry, bro, even though I rear ended you. The
Speaker 2: fact that you, the person I rear ended, said I'm
Speaker 2: sorry means now you are just like you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? Is that is that I'm guessing? Is that
Speaker 2: just like an urban legend about not saying I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Or yeah, I don't know, Actually I don't, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I've I've heard stories even outside of you know, car
Speaker 1: accidents where it's like whatever you do, don't say it's
Speaker 1: okay or it's fine, just just say.
Speaker 3: You know, you gotta get them on video right away. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: So one injury lawyer says it could negatively impact your
Speaker 2: insurance claim.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it can't.
Speaker 3: It's all it's all over. The second that happens. You're
Speaker 3: involved in like a a legal event, you just need
Speaker 3: to r You need to be careful, like to run
Speaker 3: everything through a lawyer. Get your lawyer on FaceTime. That's
Speaker 3: just so wild because like even if it was like
Speaker 3: you're you're like, oh my god, are you okay, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm so disappointed that you drive a Hyundai, Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you can't be you can't be human.
Speaker 4: It's a terrible system.
Speaker 3: I immediately come out like I'm so sorry if they
Speaker 3: cause I'm like Brett and pulp fiction. What do I
Speaker 3: look like? Do I look like a bitch?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, oh brain bread what.
Speaker 1: Say what again? Say what again? Motherfucker?
Speaker 3: You know I got red? God, damn, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: You can you can take my wallet.
Speaker 3: Just you don't even just have to take a picture.
Speaker 2: Now, when you get an accident, you come out and
Speaker 2: you're like, what does Marsalis Wallace look like? Just re
Speaker 2: ended me? Yeah, he's going hard.
Speaker 3: All right, Let's uh, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 3: we'll be back to talk about Russell Brand, this guy
Speaker 3: I remember him from.
Speaker 4: Get him to the Greek? What's he up to these days?
Speaker 3: Let's oh the one? Oh yeah, what a cast?
Speaker 1: Jonah Hill is shaking.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, And or're back and We're back. Russell
Speaker 3: Brand born again. Accused rapist Russell Brand went viral this
Speaker 3: week for a TikTok ad in which he promotes a
Speaker 3: like and this is a quote magical amulet made by
Speaker 3: a company.
Speaker 4: Called Airr's Tech.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm ares tech.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It protects you from the evil signals in the world
Speaker 3: and it can be yours for mirror the the low
Speaker 3: low price of two hundred low nine dollars ninety nine cents.
Speaker 3: Hey one more time, two hundred thirty nine dollars ninety
Speaker 3: nine sense. Isn't there a deal where it's like but
Speaker 3: that boat or you can get two for three forty
Speaker 3: or some sit like they're doing it like they're selling
Speaker 3: t shirts outside a concert. They're like, hey man, one
Speaker 3: for twenty two for thirty, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean.
Speaker 3: The video opens with him emerging from the bushes.
Speaker 1: Have you seen it?
Speaker 2: If he I saw this like these little kind of
Speaker 2: like in the commercial. Did you see the Russell Brand
Speaker 2: like commercial.
Speaker 3: Where the commercial is like emerging from the bushes is
Speaker 3: a bad look for somebody who's been accused of being
Speaker 3: a sex crim to be okay just with bushes. So
Speaker 3: picture this Russell brand is emerging from Jack says literal
Speaker 3: shrubs with a tiny carry on bag and one of
Speaker 3: those clip on microphones you see on all the TikTok videos.
Speaker 6: Hello, I'm just back from Narnia, where I had a holiday.
Speaker 6: Mister Tumnus Aslan, all those guys and as you know,
Speaker 6: airports on places for Wi Fi and all sorts of
Speaker 6: evil energies. Think all the phones out there?
Speaker 3: Okay? Wait is that music part of the ad? I think?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is that just some ship you listen to on your
Speaker 3: end to get pumped up for our podcast recording? No, no, no,
Speaker 3: this is from the airs tech TikTok.
Speaker 2: I'm also just trying to connect the does he came
Speaker 2: back from Narnia but you go through TSA?
Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, to go through Narnia.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm having followed. I'm having trouble following just
Speaker 2: the basic through line. You're okay, but he's back from
Speaker 2: Narnia and he's talking about you know how TSA is
Speaker 2: when you go to Narnia.
Speaker 3: Okay, all of the.
Speaker 6: Signals corruptible and corrupting. Luckily, I wear this magical ambula
Speaker 6: from airstech that keeps me safe from all of the
Speaker 6: various signals out there.
Speaker 1: And also I mean, look at this out strong arm.
Speaker 3: I think it's people. No, it's empty.
Speaker 2: He's lifting the suitcase with one very quickly. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's clearly just this fucking scam from the beginning.
Speaker 1: But it's just so funny.
Speaker 2: I just got back from Narnia, and you know how
Speaker 2: TSA is when you go through the wardrobe, like so,
Speaker 2: I like, you had my.
Speaker 3: Doubts, guys, but then I saw the graphic that they prepared.
Speaker 3: So on the left you have a radio tower that
Speaker 3: says radiation source, radio towers giving a lot of you know,
Speaker 3: I walked by radio tower the other day and I
Speaker 3: like the right half of my body was tan.
Speaker 4: That's how much radiation you're catching off.
Speaker 3: That coming off that a bunch of wiggly sperm with
Speaker 3: air arrowheads, and it says non coherent radiation. Then it
Speaker 3: goes into like just one of those like floral design
Speaker 3: things that you make with like one of the circle
Speaker 3: things circle pen things, and it says transformer. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: what was that called a spirograph spirograph. Yeah, it just
Speaker 3: has a spirograph and it says transformer, which, yeah, And
Speaker 3: then the transformer takes the non coherent radiation and turns
Speaker 3: it into coherent radiation, which are straight arrows, and those
Speaker 3: are going into a guy and being bounced back off
Speaker 3: of him because coherent radiation. It's just the wildest pseudo
Speaker 3: scientific bullshit.
Speaker 2: It's even saying pseudo scientific means you have to mention
Speaker 2: the word science. It's like being like, yo, where this
Speaker 2: cheerio around your neck and ghosts won't bother you? Okay, yeah, probably,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, how do you prove that?
Speaker 2: But sure it has a lot of Look, you just
Speaker 2: got a lot of sacred geometry contained within, so you will.
Speaker 2: Someone on at BA backlog reviewer on Twitter just did,
Speaker 2: like they said, I did a zepto second of googling
Speaker 2: just to look at the claims on this website, and
Speaker 2: it's just it's like they're like, Okay, look where they're getting.
Speaker 2: There's like a source that you can like for their
Speaker 2: whole sort of fake you know, quasi science shit, pseudo
Speaker 2: scientific shit. And it's like a link to a Russian
Speaker 2: encyclopedia that's just like a like a definition of the
Speaker 2: term coherence. So like when they have stuff in there
Speaker 2: to make it look and this shit is backed up,
Speaker 2: don't They click on this cyrillic hyperlink and you will
Speaker 2: end that. Unless you can read currillic, you wonder what
Speaker 2: the fuck is going on? And then like other sort
Speaker 2: of groups. But then you look at the people and
Speaker 2: like they're all kinds of these like just straight up grifters,
Speaker 2: whore like you can change your you can change cancer
Speaker 2: just with your mindset. So there, they must be a
Speaker 2: good company here. I'm selling this stuff.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, shockingly it has been debunked by experts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, huge shot.
Speaker 3: The holographic response is how they say it works. They're just,
Speaker 3: oh truly just taking words from science fiction that like
Speaker 3: and the loosest term of use of the term science
Speaker 3: fiction because transformer is one of one of the words.
Speaker 3: They're taking those terms and just like throwing them out
Speaker 3: holograph transformer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, emphasis on the word fiction, a lot of emphasis
Speaker 2: on the word fiction. But this grifter shit is just
Speaker 2: so like I get it. Like ever since he just
Speaker 2: had to be like, oh yeah, I'm doing like the
Speaker 2: Jordan Peterson thing. Now, all you can do is just
Speaker 2: do this kind of nonsense where you're just like praying
Speaker 2: on you know, they're weirded out and uninformed to be like,
Speaker 2: that's right. If the five G could do this to me,
Speaker 2: so I do need this four hundred dollars whatever the
Speaker 2: fuck this is or two thirty nine plus shipping, I'll
Speaker 2: be fair. Air's Tech is an official partner of the
Speaker 2: UFC though, So actually, I'm back. We're back there.
Speaker 4: Regard everything we just said. I think we're good here.
Speaker 7: You should have started with that. Well, then we don't
Speaker 7: have a story. If there's everything we say after that
Speaker 7: is moot. Yeah, as long as Dana White's fucking with it,
Speaker 7: we're good. We need to like make a list.
Speaker 3: Of all the people who are like donating to Trump
Speaker 3: and like you know, cool with Trump, just so we
Speaker 3: can and do jack, just so we can look back
Speaker 3: in five years when they want us all to forget
Speaker 3: or you know, see them coming when they're part of
Speaker 3: his like official ministry that is killing people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he'll be the new Health and Human Services Director,
Speaker 2: Dana White.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And finally, uh, staying in the realm of scams.
Speaker 3: And this is a this is a much older one,
Speaker 3: but every year it feels like somebody realizes something about
Speaker 3: punkin patches, which is you go have you guys been
Speaker 3: to the punkin patch you take I think after this, yeah,
Speaker 3: so don't. A lot of times you go to the
Speaker 3: pumpkin patch and it is a bunch of pumpkins that
Speaker 3: have just been dropped in a muddy field, and like,
Speaker 3: for some reason, like my brain was just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's pumpkin patch. That's where the pumpkins are. They're in
Speaker 3: the field. But people were like, no, I actually saw them.
Speaker 3: And they're taking the pumpkins out of like a Kroger
Speaker 3: truck and dropping them in the field to make it
Speaker 3: seem rustic and then get you know, because they're like
Speaker 3: pretty muddy because they've been sitting in the in the field.
Speaker 3: You feel like you're getting something actually rustic and naturally grown.
Speaker 2: Which I yeah, I love this. That's why especially it
Speaker 2: works for city people, you know what I mean to
Speaker 2: the pumpkins, I want you.
Speaker 1: Want to feel like you're doing something rustic. You don't
Speaker 1: necessarily want to do something rustic. So I think I
Speaker 1: guess mission accomplished in that.
Speaker 2: But you put it out of your mind too, because
Speaker 2: any person who knows how things grow, you're like, this
Speaker 2: is not even connected to the ground, Like I just
Speaker 2: lift this fucker up like that?
Speaker 3: How did it grow?
Speaker 2: Until I remember, I'm I think the first time I
Speaker 2: actually saw pumpkins being grown was like two years ago.
Speaker 3: I was wandering.
Speaker 2: I was in Seattle, and I was like walking to
Speaker 2: this neighborhood and this dude was growing the biggest fucking
Speaker 2: pumpkin in his front yard and this ship was It
Speaker 2: looked like an alien fucking life form with all that
Speaker 2: shit vines and huge roots and shit.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, this is not like those parts
Speaker 3: setting Yeah, yeah, exactly glowing, and I'm like, this is
Speaker 3: different than it. Yeah, this isn't like the spot.
Speaker 2: Under the power lines I go to and I'm picking
Speaker 2: up but I mean this This guy, Burt at Burt
Speaker 2: News tweeted, I did not realize the whole.
Speaker 3: Punkin picking phenomenon was coming to a field where people
Speaker 3: have placed pumpkins to pick them up. We are quite
Speaker 3: quite mad. Yeah, they just drop them so you can
Speaker 3: then pick them up and be like I did a
Speaker 3: pumpkin thing. So, farmers in a lot of these cases
Speaker 3: claimed that the arrangement is mainly due to health and
Speaker 3: safety reasons because pumpkins grow on thick and this is
Speaker 3: my favorite word that I've learned today thick peduncle stems,
Speaker 3: which can be hard to cut. So they sounds like
Speaker 3: you're describing my legs stems, big big old peduncles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta get them peduncles checked out, yea.
Speaker 3: Or or or as an uncle that your family tells
Speaker 3: you to stay away from.
Speaker 1: So it apparently.
Speaker 3: Means that peduncle. No, no, no, no, no, keep them up. That's
Speaker 3: called the police. It apparently means the main stem. But
Speaker 3: yeah it does. In pronunciation, it sounds like a description
Speaker 3: of a big, dumb fat and in spelling it does
Speaker 3: just look like petted uncle.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ptah.
Speaker 4: So either way you're winning.
Speaker 3: So a lot of these pumpkin patches don't actually grow
Speaker 3: their pumpkins. They procure them from third party vendors and
Speaker 3: place them in patches, And a representative from the New
Speaker 3: York State Department of Agriculture was like, ah, so you're
Speaker 3: onto us. When the New York Times like looked into
Speaker 3: this and they were like, yeah, I don't know, and
Speaker 3: then this other like official was like, so, yes, sometimes
Speaker 3: they will buy additional pumpkins when their crop yield is low,
Speaker 3: And the New York Times looked into it and was
Speaker 3: like that's not actually true. They're mostly just buying them
Speaker 3: from a grocery store distributor and sprinkling them through the field,
Speaker 3: which like that lie of like they just do it
Speaker 3: when their supply is low. Reminds me of like the
Speaker 3: mall Santa's they are actually dudes who were with Santa.
Speaker 3: It's like you found out the lie, but then you
Speaker 3: just like make up like slightly smaller lie to tape
Speaker 3: on top of it. I guess right.
Speaker 1: I wonder if too.
Speaker 2: It's like a location thing obviously, like you can't you
Speaker 2: can't be chopping up peduncle stems in any state, Like
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's probably certain parts of the country that
Speaker 2: are better for harvesting and growing pumpkins. Yeah, but and
Speaker 2: just in the same way, like I've seen those whimsical
Speaker 2: Hallmark movies where they're like Christmas tree places where you
Speaker 2: literally cut they saw down the fucking tree that you
Speaker 2: take home, like the one that's actually growing. So why
Speaker 2: not just like just keep it real? And if I
Speaker 2: get that they precut them, because these stems are just
Speaker 2: like super gnarly to deal with, But wouldn't that be
Speaker 2: the fun. It's like you're like this one and then
Speaker 2: someone comes over with like the gnarly hacksaw or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then you're like, oh shit, we fucking chopped this
Speaker 2: fucker and took it home.
Speaker 3: But I guess it. Chop that fucker chopping. Yeah, hey man,
Speaker 3: chop that fucker too. They're like, are you buying it?
Speaker 3: Like nah, nah, chop this shiit. I want to see
Speaker 3: that shit. But I get to, you know.
Speaker 2: But these things are now like more than just pumpkin patches,
Speaker 2: because there's like there's a lot of these things like
Speaker 2: in LA that aren't places like in a fucking right
Speaker 2: aid parking lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's basically the exact same place that you would
Speaker 3: find where you buy Christmas trees.
Speaker 4: They have pumpkin patches and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah they shift like general. I thought they had
Speaker 3: pumpkins growing under the cement during the summer, and then
Speaker 3: they sprang forth this.
Speaker 2: First through the asphalt. Give us all delight. There's a
Speaker 2: spot I went to with the geist child. They charged three.
Speaker 2: First of all, this was in a fucking parking lot. Okay,
Speaker 2: the credit to them. They're not acting like these shit
Speaker 2: just grow on the ground, like they're all stacked up
Speaker 2: really cool and shit, there's like really hot like eight
Speaker 2: foot piles of pumpkins on hay bales and shit.
Speaker 3: It was three dollars a person.
Speaker 2: To get in, including my baby.
Speaker 3: Also charge an entrance.
Speaker 2: Fee too, Yeah, just to take a gander at the
Speaker 2: fucking pumpkins you would then buy. Also, there were no
Speaker 2: there were no labels. There are no price labels on
Speaker 2: any of this ship. It was kind of like, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: just see what they tell you at the front. They're
Speaker 2: gonna weigh it, and I'm like, yeah, there can I see,
Speaker 2: like what's your pricing? Sort of like rubric iss here.
Speaker 2: It feels kind of odd. Then they have like a
Speaker 2: jankie ferris wheel that's like, you know, maybe like incredible carts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: basically it only goes like eight feet high, and a
Speaker 2: petting zoo where they're like, oh, yeah, you want to
Speaker 2: feed the goat? Yeah, yeah, we got we got some
Speaker 2: food right here. It's eight dollars for this apple. Yeah,
Speaker 2: to feed a goat.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, nah, and you better stay the fuck
Speaker 3: away from that goat. By the way, Yeah, you can
Speaker 3: feed the goat, but you better stay the fuck away.
Speaker 3: He's twisting. Yeah, so I'm fucking twisting.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So agritourism. This is this is a I think one. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a billion dollar industry in the US, like including all.
Speaker 4: The pumpkin patches.
Speaker 3: What is it called agritourism, agra tourism, agriculture tourism. Oh
Speaker 3: there's also like you got your corn mazes, you got
Speaker 3: your wagon rides, and guilty. One farmer pointed out he
Speaker 3: was willing to turn his corn field into a maze
Speaker 3: because it meant sacrificing one thousand dollars worth of corn
Speaker 3: for one hundred thousand dollars worth of aggritainment, So damn
Speaker 3: it makes sense. People just want to feel like they're
Speaker 3: in they're on a farm doing farm shit.
Speaker 2: I'm curious rural zeitgang or people who know about shit
Speaker 2: like this. When you see it, is it like a
Speaker 2: total turnoff because you're like, this is fuck. This ain't
Speaker 2: no fucking pumpkin patch. You don't just go buy it
Speaker 2: at the grocery store like everyone does and just like,
Speaker 2: you know, get on with your carving.
Speaker 1: But I don't know it's because I guess like the
Speaker 1: idea really is just like you want to walk around
Speaker 1: and kind of chat and it's like romantic in that way.
Speaker 1: But I also, yeah, I think that it's there is
Speaker 1: like I wonder if there is like a like a
Speaker 1: situation where it's like, oh man, you know this is like,
Speaker 1: this is like I wanted the experience of what a
Speaker 1: pumpkin patch looks like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like Disneyland for Hallmark movies basically, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: it's the Hallmark movie of Disneyland's Yeah. Well, if you
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Speaker 4: Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: Oh man, I've really been digging The new Dan Dan
Speaker 1: show that's on Netflix is the anime. Uh so I'm
Speaker 1: checking that out and everyone says, and I'm gonna just
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Speaker 4: Mm hmm, high school teacher.
Speaker 3: I don't know that one. I guess not everybody says
Speaker 3: that because.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I guess you know you're the loop, oh
Speaker 1: high school teacher loop, you know. But yeah, everybody was
Speaker 1: pretty much talking about that.
Speaker 3: Everybody's into that one. That's the that's the like English teacher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, English teachers on their English teacher. So you didn't know.
Speaker 1: I just said the.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: But when you started being like, hey, what's that show?
Speaker 3: High school teacher, English teacher?
Speaker 1: My bad bad, you know, I just I was real
Speaker 1: hyped about it.
Speaker 3: Miles, Yes, Where can people find you? Is there a
Speaker 3: work of media you been enjoying?
Speaker 2: Find me on Twitter, Instagram and the like at Miles
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Speaker 3: Or you talking about the NBA.
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Speaker 3: A couple of things I like.
Speaker 2: First one is I love this like Abe Simpson meme
Speaker 2: that people are using to just like, you know, just
Speaker 2: talk about old people shit on Twitter. You know, there's
Speaker 2: like just like it's a picture of Abe Simpson, the
Speaker 2: grandpa from The Simpsons, sitting on a tree stump with
Speaker 2: all the kids gathered around, and people are just putting
Speaker 2: all kinds of like washed shit in the caption. And
Speaker 2: this one it's it's Abe Simpson talking to kids and
Speaker 2: it says and a relationship with flavor flave, what's the price?
Speaker 3: This is so funny. I love flavor love references.
Speaker 2: And then another one is from at oh I'm sorry
Speaker 2: that was posted by I didn't even say who that
Speaker 2: was posted by.
Speaker 3: That was from at rebel kunt r e b E
Speaker 3: l l E c u n T.
Speaker 2: And then the last one is from at Matt Underscore
Speaker 2: Dad twenty twenty said, we went through my kid's iPad.
Speaker 2: My wife is upset, but Latina Torque compilation has me
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Speaker 3: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien
Speaker 3: tweet I've been enjoying Robespierre at its flan again tweeted.
Speaker 3: Ever since I was little, I knew that I wanted
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Speaker 4: That's good something to aspire to.
Speaker 3: You can ever trained me on Twitter at Jack Underscore
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Speaker 4: Than to our footnotes, we.
Speaker 3: Look off to the information that we talked about in
Speaker 3: today's episode, as well as a.
Speaker 4: Song that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 3: Miles, what song do you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 2: This is an artist from Montreal, Quebec that goes by
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Speaker 2: Dutla and it's just like kind of like a boppy,
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Speaker 3: Kind of track.
Speaker 2: You know, sounds like something that you know daft punk
Speaker 2: would or Justice ends up sampling and flipping. But more
Speaker 2: than that, it's just like a nice little easy tune
Speaker 2: and just good background because you know, look, we're getting
Speaker 2: into the thick of things, so you might as well
Speaker 2: play music that creates a positive environment, and I think
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Speaker 3: So this is un Dutli Bye t all right. We
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Speaker 1: Bye bye bye