Speaker 1: Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart Radio.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. I am as tired and as Chris Rock's
Speaker 1: cheek is sore. Oh I'm sorry, maybe not that so um.
Speaker 1: How's everybody doing? You watched Patriot yet yet? Do you know?
Speaker 1: Every week more people tell me, my god, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, Katie. You have changed my life with this recommendation.
Speaker 1: Why haven't these boys watched this show? And I will
Speaker 1: keep bringing it up as you show I've gotten I've
Speaker 1: gotten zero zero private messages thanking me for talking about
Speaker 1: the Vampire Diaries, and I'm I'm pretty disgusted by that,
Speaker 1: right right, there's something to be said about that. Everybody
Speaker 1: that sends me their praise, why don't you send that
Speaker 1: to Cody and Robert CEC. You can see c on
Speaker 1: Twitter DM ask them, Yeah, you can see see me,
Speaker 1: but c C see you see see them? All right?
Speaker 1: What have you been doing if not watching Patriot? Friends? Uh?
Speaker 1: Oh god, I watched through the first season of that.
Speaker 1: Phara nos show, not the documentary, but the fictionalized show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a friend, it's not bad. I also started watching
Speaker 1: Uh Tommy Lee and uh Pamela Anderson and Pamela Uh.
Speaker 1: Pretty good Seth Rogan performance. I thought, yeah, he's pleplays
Speaker 1: the guy who steals the sex tape. That's not a
Speaker 1: spoiler happened story. I am familiar of what this what happened? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm only like an episode in, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: it gets me. I have a I have learned. I
Speaker 1: was surprised to learn this, but I have a weakness
Speaker 1: for shows about famous criminal things from like the nineties,
Speaker 1: like I love the O. J. Simpson show. Love It. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you watch that? Tanya Harding Moving absolutely loved Dita.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the American crime story and the Clinton impeachment.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm all about that ship feeding pumping into my veins.
Speaker 1: Some crimes in the midnight. That's the one from recently,
Speaker 1: right with um? It was like a year ago. I guess. Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't know the names of anybody, but the guy
Speaker 1: they got to play, you know what, I thought was
Speaker 1: pretty good. Monica right, the wrong name. I thought, you
Speaker 1: don't know? Yeah, about Edie Falcon, who I think plays
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm very series Beanie Feldstein, Yes, plays Monica Lensky.
Speaker 1: You are on it, I am not. I'm going to
Speaker 1: go back to where I was. I enjoyed, Like it
Speaker 1: made me think that we need more TV shows where
Speaker 1: the villain is a Bill Clinton type, where he's like this,
Speaker 1: this really smooth, charming, kind of good old boy who
Speaker 1: you obviously like. Knowing the story, I came into it
Speaker 1: being like, well, Bill Clinton is one of the bad
Speaker 1: guys of this, but they do a good job of
Speaker 1: like making him a peer of very genial and and
Speaker 1: gradually sinister as the thing goes on, and I just
Speaker 1: think he's a he's a good he's a good character
Speaker 1: to be a bad guy. Love it. We love to
Speaker 1: see it portrayed on TV on TV, but now we
Speaker 1: love to see recognition of it. Um No one has
Speaker 1: yet hit the highs of Ross from Friends being o
Speaker 1: J's best buddy, but the Juice. I've been watching um
Speaker 1: uh the Well first off Minx on HBO. My friend
Speaker 1: uh just is on it and she's fabulous, and it's
Speaker 1: a really great fun show that I recommend about, you know,
Speaker 1: creating the female Gaze and the seventies and the first
Speaker 1: porn magazine for women, And that's fun. That's a fun
Speaker 1: little romp with lost of dicks to look at, um
Speaker 1: in a great cast with Jake Johnson, Cody um chemistry.
Speaker 1: The other thing I'm watching is the Inventing Anna, the
Speaker 1: Anna delbe then Delvie thing that like Sada rhymes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I showed Garrison the first Austin Powers movie recently. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've never seen it. Yeah, pretty sobering. It actually holds
Speaker 1: up pretty good. I'm not gonna ever there, so ye
Speaker 1: that they haven't seen Austin Powers is like wow, but
Speaker 1: the first Austin Powers holds up, holds up pretty good.
Speaker 1: I love I do love me some Mike Myers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: surprisingly like not problematic from a sexist sexism point of view,
Speaker 1: to the extent that, like most things from that period
Speaker 1: of time, you think you would definitely expect from that
Speaker 1: and the moments Yeah, well I don't know, didn't the
Speaker 1: robots have Like yeah, there's like robots that shoot out
Speaker 1: of their tips. There's also of a good scene where
Speaker 1: like the girls is like drunk and tries to make
Speaker 1: out with him. He's like no, no, no, that wouldn't
Speaker 1: be right. You know, you're isn't a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: in that movie pointing out the trope? Yeah, that stuff
Speaker 1: like it's not being like, look, isn't it fun? It's
Speaker 1: like this is what they this is what these movies are. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It has it has it's progressive. It's one
Speaker 1: of those things. It's remarkable because finishing that movie, you're like, boy,
Speaker 1: that was fun. I could I could go for another
Speaker 1: romp with with Austin Powers. And then you remember what
Speaker 1: the sequels were and you're like, no, you know what,
Speaker 1: that was all we needed. That was a challenge you.
Speaker 1: I challenge you to watch the sequels absolutely, not absolutely.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're amazing. Maybe they're amazing, you don't know. Anyway,
Speaker 1: what a Smith? How's it going? Is that we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about Will Smith and the cultural rosetta stone
Speaker 1: that is Will Smith slapping takes Twitter incredible together some
Speaker 1: some of the some of the top contenders for most
Speaker 1: incredible Twitter interactions. Yeah, the takes well, first of all,
Speaker 1: real quick, I guess my question is does anybody here
Speaker 1: have actual takes beyond like that was wild? I think
Speaker 1: it's kind of Yeah, I'm fine. I do actually kind
Speaker 1: of have a take? Yeah, I'm fine with it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I felt like I felt like when then
Speaker 1: when I saw Twitter the next day, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: Like my first thought was like, dang, nobody but Will
Speaker 1: Smith could get away with that. That was my very
Speaker 1: first reaction. Um, And did I think it's inappropriate to
Speaker 1: walk on stage? Yeah? Man, that's embarrassing for everybody. Don't
Speaker 1: put like that. Likely there's like a more chivalrous way,
Speaker 1: in the classier way to call him out, like even
Speaker 1: walking up on stage and taking the microway and saying
Speaker 1: what you want to say up there and then handing
Speaker 1: it back. That would be a better move. Regardless, had
Speaker 1: that ship gone down in a bar, you know, we
Speaker 1: all would have been cheering him. You know that its
Speaker 1: some fuck insulted his wife in a bar. Not only
Speaker 1: would we have cheered it, we would have expected it.
Speaker 1: Some people would say, like, man, that was too far,
Speaker 1: but it's not beat him with a chair or like
Speaker 1: hit him with a broken No, he like gave him
Speaker 1: an open palm slap. Do I also think that he?
Speaker 1: But yes, I also think no, he shouldn't have done it.
Speaker 1: And I think that perhaps they're going through some ship.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening in his life, and like
Speaker 1: what fight with him and Jada might have proceeded this moment,
Speaker 1: some conversation where he needed to go whatever ship. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but obviously he's going through something. There's also
Speaker 1: that that's lacking from this whole conversation of like, and
Speaker 1: then the other thing I really hated. While I'm just
Speaker 1: ranting and ranting, I believed it because I didn't want
Speaker 1: to be contributing to the online conversation anymore. But yeah,
Speaker 1: when I first logged on, seeing lots of people put
Speaker 1: in like calling saying, saying Will Smith behaving like a thug,
Speaker 1: talking about some people some peo people, sit down and
Speaker 1: like I really respected, like like with anything, this is
Speaker 1: my recommendation, down until he gets the oscar and then
Speaker 1: give him a standing over. Right, Well, then there's that,
Speaker 1: But I mean, in general, my my feelings about Twitter
Speaker 1: takes the next day after things are like you better
Speaker 1: sit and watch for a minute, because there's going to
Speaker 1: be this first reactionary and then the people of color
Speaker 1: are going to speak up and say actually and make
Speaker 1: the real points, like actually, it's a really big deal
Speaker 1: for a black woman to be publicly shamed about her
Speaker 1: hair loss. It's a it's something that most of us,
Speaker 1: don't you, most of you guys don't even know or
Speaker 1: pay attention to what this means, like actually, and so
Speaker 1: maybe it's an opportunity for everybody to listen and learn
Speaker 1: instead of spouting off or how Garrison has cobbled together.
Speaker 1: The shocking amount of people compare this to the motherfucking
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine. Okay, Planting, Well, it's just this, it's
Speaker 1: this beautiful thing where we can't have two things going
Speaker 1: on in the world that are that are just completely separate,
Speaker 1: like any rational person would be like, Okay, even if
Speaker 1: you agree these are both worth talking about, there's nothing
Speaker 1: there's no similarity, like nothing, no through line connects these,
Speaker 1: right Will Smith hitting a guy because he made a
Speaker 1: joke about his wife has nothing to do with a
Speaker 1: land war in Europe, But because they're both happening at once.
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't just like let things be things.
Speaker 1: Everything has to tie into everything, Like what if I
Speaker 1: want to get people to click on stuff, God, I
Speaker 1: can make it about the war. We should read some
Speaker 1: of these yeah, so yeah, well, yes, I just think
Speaker 1: it's like it's okay to be like, wow, that joke
Speaker 1: is pretty insensitive. Um, and specially when the Oscars, which
Speaker 1: I disagree with. I actually think most people at the
Speaker 1: Oscars there should be one office. But but it did
Speaker 1: make a better show. But that Chris Rock had also
Speaker 1: he also like made a documentary about this issue. Specifically,
Speaker 1: it's a pretty documentary. It's called good Hair, and it
Speaker 1: was inspired by his daughter asking why she doesn't have
Speaker 1: good hair. Um, so like the issue that Katie alluded
Speaker 1: to is like something he's aware of, but like but
Speaker 1: so like so it's it's like, yeah, insensitive joke. Um,
Speaker 1: you know. It's also like he said it anyway, and
Speaker 1: also like yeah, uh fine, like obviously like his right
Speaker 1: to get offended, Like every every step of the way,
Speaker 1: it's like, ah, I shouldn't have done that. I understand
Speaker 1: why he did, Like every every step of the way.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like, yeah, probably shouldn't have gone up
Speaker 1: a stage and slapped the guy like on TV. But
Speaker 1: I got why, Like all the steps, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it, wouldn't shouldn't do that, But I don't
Speaker 1: know I get Will Smith's actions. Like fundamentally, if we
Speaker 1: take everything else out of this. I don't get why
Speaker 1: Chris Rock was getting up on stage at the Oscars
Speaker 1: in two and making a joke about the film G
Speaker 1: I Jane. Yeah, just on its face, saying repeatedly, explain
Speaker 1: to people what that movie was. So everyone keeps going,
Speaker 1: is she are they making one? I know, I think
Speaker 1: he this was like a writer's room situation. I think
Speaker 1: he got on stage and and like look at the
Speaker 1: room and made a decided to do some crowdworks like yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's I mean, it's very funny that it was
Speaker 1: about a G. I. Jane joke, but also like and
Speaker 1: him saying like it was literally he said, like it
Speaker 1: was a g I Jane joke, but I will positive
Speaker 1: it wasn't, said dude, dude, it was a GI Jane joke,
Speaker 1: but I will I would put forth that it was
Speaker 1: not a GI Jane joke. The joke was about her hair,
Speaker 1: Like it's not it's not a G I Jane joke, Like,
Speaker 1: that's right, not what was? But a lot of people
Speaker 1: learned what Alabecia was. That's true. Yes, that's true. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: so let's read some of these the yeah it takes
Speaker 1: beyond wow. Well Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage to
Speaker 1: the Oscars. That's fucking wild. Beyond that take, which I
Speaker 1: think is reasonable to have, Um, what are your favorite
Speaker 1: I gotta say one last comment on the slab itself.
Speaker 1: You can really tell how much time Will Smith has
Speaker 1: put into the craft of being an action star because
Speaker 1: that was that was a good looking slab. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say that. Yeah, I do want to say, Actually again, God,
Speaker 1: this it's just what an interesting day it had been. Um,
Speaker 1: the a lot of people like obviously are like thinking
Speaker 1: about like, well is this Uh, it was staged. It
Speaker 1: was totally staged for whatever reason, while also getting mad
Speaker 1: at this weird Kirston dunch joke. Um, but the Kirston
Speaker 1: Dunch joke she was in on and it was it
Speaker 1: was even if she wasn't in on it. It was
Speaker 1: a complimentar Kirston dunce. It's the most standard joke that
Speaker 1: you do with the Oscars, which is, I don't know
Speaker 1: this famous person whatever who cares. Um. The idea that
Speaker 1: people were mad about it and didn't understand it and
Speaker 1: needed her to apologize is like whatever, Okay, But um,
Speaker 1: people are like, oh look Chris Rock, like it's so
Speaker 1: totally staged. You can see him like preparing for it.
Speaker 1: He like what he's waiting for Will Smith to like
Speaker 1: walk up to him, and like he's smiling and and
Speaker 1: like it doesn't it seems like he doesn't know what's
Speaker 1: going on or whatever. Like I just wanted to point
Speaker 1: out Chris Rock has um a nonverbal learning disorder. Um So, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's talked about it the past couple of years. Um
Speaker 1: I think like in yeah, just a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: there's a piece on it, so like he didn't register that,
Speaker 1: Like that's not how he like, uh operates socially necessarily
Speaker 1: by life, seeing like Will Smith walk up to him
Speaker 1: like he's gonna slap and go oh, I understand this situation.
Speaker 1: Um So, I don't know someone walks on stage, I'm
Speaker 1: certainly not anticipating what their move is, is that they're
Speaker 1: going to hit me. If you don't think that somebody's
Speaker 1: going to stop you, I think he might walk on
Speaker 1: stage and grab the mic. I'm gonna actually argue on
Speaker 1: the other side, really because I I if I am,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Katie that if I'm you, I probably
Speaker 1: don't think that. But I have said a lot of
Speaker 1: things that have made people hit me in the face
Speaker 1: in the past. And so if I am on stage
Speaker 1: making fun of Will Smith's wife and I see him
Speaker 1: walking up to me, my ash, you know what, I
Speaker 1: probably went a little too far. That's about to call
Speaker 1: cock me. That's all right, some of these tweets, Yeah,
Speaker 1: do we want to go to a bad break first?
Speaker 1: All right? Okay, sure, you know who won't slap Chris
Speaker 1: Rock in the face, because how would they ever be
Speaker 1: in a position to do that. That's not a realistic
Speaker 1: thing to expect from our sponsors. It's not impossible. It's
Speaker 1: not impossible, but not likely unless it's one of those
Speaker 1: like gag hand slap things. That's right, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think I approved any sponsor like that. So we're
Speaker 1: probably safe, well together everything. Let's finally get to these takes.
Speaker 1: So the first one, we have a lot of people
Speaker 1: decided that a couple like the number one thing to
Speaker 1: compare this to again was was the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: So there's like this take where they've got someone has
Speaker 1: replaced Will Smith's head with the Russian flag and they're
Speaker 1: they're slapping a flag of the Fascist as Off Battalion,
Speaker 1: which is a Ukrainian militia unit um that's by Coba.
Speaker 1: Who is Coba was Stalin's name, so it's it's some
Speaker 1: sort of like online communist guy. Uh. And then there's
Speaker 1: another take that I think is even better. White people
Speaker 1: on here crying about how violence is never okay, but
Speaker 1: fropping at the mouth for the US to invade Russia,
Speaker 1: which is also very funny. I just like, why can't like,
Speaker 1: why can't be different from each other? Why the second
Speaker 1: like not being comparison. I will say at least these
Speaker 1: these are broadly in line with what just like people
Speaker 1: do jokingly about everything, where it's like, well this is
Speaker 1: a thing that went viral, so let's attach it like
Speaker 1: these are These are tongue in some of them, like
Speaker 1: the woman walking away and the guy and the girlfriend
Speaker 1: turning over their shoulder and sacking. Yeah, this is impossible
Speaker 1: to describe, but the person walking away and the boys
Speaker 1: media and the the girlfriend is zelenski um. This one.
Speaker 1: What Will Smith did Chris Rock is the same as
Speaker 1: what Putin did to Ukraine. Putin felt threatened and disturbed.
Speaker 1: Will felt threatened and disturbed. And we all love violence,
Speaker 1: Let's admit it. War is the same as hitting. It's
Speaker 1: hitting cities. I bet Putin loved it. I feel why
Speaker 1: Will did it? Unreal? Cheek or dead now, just like
Speaker 1: civilian casualties. It's because he's like literally that take as
Speaker 1: saying that Will look Will Smith. Uh Like Putin felt
Speaker 1: threatened by civilians in Ukrainian cities, so he had to
Speaker 1: level those cities and kill tens of thousands of women
Speaker 1: and children in the same way Will Smith felt threatened
Speaker 1: by Chris Rock and head like it's nonsense and just
Speaker 1: based on the fact that there was a single person
Speaker 1: responsible for making the statement that made Will Smith angry
Speaker 1: and he slapped that single person. It would be a
Speaker 1: just comparison if Will Smith had slapped everybody on stage
Speaker 1: at the Oscars. I just like walked through the crowd
Speaker 1: hitting every person, and it would be like, wow, he
Speaker 1: really is kind of doing a Putin at the strange
Speaker 1: and like I said, it was about like an unrelated
Speaker 1: joke from like a year or two ago, it was
Speaker 1: about Chris Rock joining NATO. Then we would all be like, well,
Speaker 1: I guess this does compare to the situation in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure why. I also like the the
Speaker 1: like it's it's more Will Smith is putin, but there's
Speaker 1: some Will Smith is Zelinsky is. It's like, whatever you want,
Speaker 1: just just see made comment. The instant that that slap
Speaker 1: went viral, I was like, y'all, this this is going
Speaker 1: to be. You are going to see a lot of
Speaker 1: takes comparing to this the situation in Ukraine and both
Speaker 1: men will be standings for both nations. In the very
Speaker 1: next day, there was an article in some fucking website
Speaker 1: that that is a bigger name website than it has
Speaker 1: any right to be, with the title like the Will
Speaker 1: Smith doctrine has no place in one of the best
Speaker 1: outstanding Oh god, so good. It's just well. And then
Speaker 1: I also wanted to mention before this even um, it
Speaker 1: really frustrated me the way a bunch of actors and
Speaker 1: link Sean Penn specifically starts saying like, I'll give back
Speaker 1: my statue if the Oscars of the Academy by ze
Speaker 1: Lensky to talk the funk are you talking about out here?
Speaker 1: Are you making your documentary? Do you think do you
Speaker 1: think for a second that man has time? Well, it's
Speaker 1: also just like in Middle of the Night where they
Speaker 1: are also like he is broadcasting, why do you need it?
Speaker 1: Why do you need it at the Oscar? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's what do you like? Like, I don't think
Speaker 1: has Zelinsky made any statement about wanting to speak at
Speaker 1: the Oscars. It's nonsense, like he's got things to do.
Speaker 1: Like whatever, you're the man has a full place. Like
Speaker 1: the ego its the Oscars, the egoism of thinking that like, well,
Speaker 1: we are the elite of the world, we should be
Speaker 1: lending our stage to this man. It's the motherfucking American
Speaker 1: Oscars that nobody cares about. People in Hollywood don't even
Speaker 1: who was it? Fucking was it de Niro? Like it
Speaker 1: was a Pacino? I think it was one of the
Speaker 1: I think it was Picino. Yeah, just like forgot that night,
Speaker 1: Like literally he just forgot um, which we all did
Speaker 1: in till Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. Yeah exactly. That
Speaker 1: was the moment I learned the Oscars were that night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Albaccino confirms he forgot state us. Like the Sean Penn thing.
Speaker 1: It's so funny to because like, Okay, man, give your
Speaker 1: oscar back. Yeah, like like what will that? What will that? Do? Know?
Speaker 1: Who remembers? Like who has the actual the physical Oscar statue.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna Is he still fucking over there making
Speaker 1: his documentary? Is my question also, And I was just
Speaker 1: thinking about that too, like yeah, you're right, just fine,
Speaker 1: give it back, Coody, like the statue back, um, but
Speaker 1: like he can't because he's in Ukraine. I guess, Oh,
Speaker 1: he didn't say he could give it back. He said
Speaker 1: he smelt it. He's in he's in Poland. He got
Speaker 1: out of Ukraine very quickly. Like even that egoism and centering.
Speaker 1: I know we've probably talked about it then, but it
Speaker 1: really gets it's what Sean Penn does. But like some
Speaker 1: people defending him, like, well, what's wrong with that? What's
Speaker 1: wrong with that? Are you think? Do you think that
Speaker 1: there aren't Ukrainian filmmakers that are documenting what's happening to
Speaker 1: their home? Does this man need to come and get
Speaker 1: in the fucking way and take up resources. No, it's
Speaker 1: not like it's one of those things. A lot of
Speaker 1: journalists have died covering this war as actual journalists, as
Speaker 1: opposed to like showing up and then immediately bouncing when
Speaker 1: it got which is like good, he should have left
Speaker 1: when the invasion started, but like he should also not
Speaker 1: have just been like you Sean Penn, you are you
Speaker 1: are Sean ass Pen, Like you know you're not needed there,
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to be there. Putting you there are
Speaker 1: not best. It's like that dude who just let British
Speaker 1: kid who showed up in Afghanistan to be like l
Speaker 1: O L I'm on vacation and Afghanistan as a fool
Speaker 1: is falling. Get the like no, no, like this is
Speaker 1: very serious. A lot of people's lives are being destroyed,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are dying. Like it's not about
Speaker 1: you go go away. I can't believe how much I
Speaker 1: used to risk not respect him, but like there's no
Speaker 1: Sean Penn. But like in general, I used to just
Speaker 1: being younger and naive and then like thinking adults were
Speaker 1: smarter here, like they must be, and like just how
Speaker 1: fucking dumb. That's part of it. Like I did used
Speaker 1: to care about the oscars. I used to think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's magic and all of this and entertain in these filmmakers.
Speaker 1: But now I know that these what bullshit. It is
Speaker 1: that none of these actors necessarily deserved the praise, you know,
Speaker 1: and and they're anyway, and then they go off and
Speaker 1: do ship like this. The only moment, the only things
Speaker 1: that the Oscars I cared about were Samuel Jackson got
Speaker 1: a It was like an honorary thing. But he got
Speaker 1: the statue, and I like to see him happy. I like,
Speaker 1: I like Saduel Jackson. It's just nice to see him smile.
Speaker 1: And then al Pacino just absolute, just completely forgetting the Oscars.
Speaker 1: I know that there are some films that one that
Speaker 1: mean a lot to people. I think that some people
Speaker 1: might every year people care about any of them. But
Speaker 1: I haven't seen whatever just about any of the movies
Speaker 1: for this year, so I don't feel qualified to speak
Speaker 1: on you know, any historic wins you can. You can
Speaker 1: get that from your entertainment. Did not get nominated, which
Speaker 1: means that all of the Oscars are invalidated. That's my stance.
Speaker 1: So you do support Will giving his so statue back? No,
Speaker 1: I support Nicholas Cage getting a statue, but not of
Speaker 1: the Oscars, just a statue of him. He must have
Speaker 1: won an Oscar before. I think he's always a little
Speaker 1: too weird. He's uh for that. It makes sense that
Speaker 1: he would have gotten something that's so good. I want
Speaker 1: to rewatch. But man, incredible and oh, Katie, I think
Speaker 1: you would. Actually, it's it's all right, Robert, I'll watch
Speaker 1: Pig if you watch Patriot. I'll get in there one
Speaker 1: of these days. I'll get in there when I'm finished
Speaker 1: watching Seth Rogan Be a Handyman and Tommy Lee's Mansion.
Speaker 1: He was also nominated for adaptation That makes Sense. I
Speaker 1: said that. I said that, I think the second kind
Speaker 1: of ridiculous. Obviously, there's a bunch of silly takes from
Speaker 1: people like Max Blumenthal of The Gray Zone being like
Speaker 1: this was staged in order to distract from as off
Speaker 1: battalion atrocities, or like this was uh normal, aston being
Speaker 1: like this was staged in order to uh stop um
Speaker 1: fucking people from talking about Biden's comment about Putin that
Speaker 1: people were all free flipping out at That's all very silly.
Speaker 1: But I think the silliest takes and there's like a
Speaker 1: specific brand of these from kind of centrist liberals that's like,
Speaker 1: this is unsettling because normalizing casual violence. And like, my dudes,
Speaker 1: number one, if you are if you are going to
Speaker 1: criticize Will Smith for normalizing casual violence, all of the
Speaker 1: movies where he casually beats and murders people as an
Speaker 1: action star, probably better than the time he slapt Yeah anyway,
Speaker 1: like it's it's it's astonishing, And just like in general,
Speaker 1: Hollywood exists to normalize certain kinds of violence, Like a
Speaker 1: huge amount of every any year of the money made
Speaker 1: in movies is movies that are made with the participation
Speaker 1: of the U. S. Defense Department, um, like especially throughout
Speaker 1: the early and middle stages of the of the War
Speaker 1: on Terror. Um And then like, how are you going
Speaker 1: to claim that Will Smith giving a mild slap to
Speaker 1: Chris Rock is normalizing anything when we have all just
Speaker 1: been watching cities get level by thermobaric everywhere. You can't.
Speaker 1: You can't further normalize violence in American culture. It can't
Speaker 1: from gun violence every fucking day. We're like, I'm literally
Speaker 1: holding a gun right now, Like it's out like this
Speaker 1: is the United States, Like we grew up before school
Speaker 1: shootings and now they're a thing like their drills every day,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, they like I will add one more. I
Speaker 1: thought we were done oscars with our reaction this, but
Speaker 1: I got one more hot in the tank. Um. Everyone.
Speaker 1: There are some good points of like oh, like distracting
Speaker 1: from the significant wins or the Best Picture, CODA winning
Speaker 1: Best Picture and all this stuff. Um, I would argue
Speaker 1: that you're the one doing that. Every every one of
Speaker 1: us talking about all this instead of CODA winning. Are
Speaker 1: the ones that are doing that by us, UM, caring
Speaker 1: about that more than everything else. We care about that,
Speaker 1: So we're talking about that. Um, But that's on us.
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, I think it's fine. I don't
Speaker 1: have any problem with I think it's silly when people
Speaker 1: like Matthew dan Kona, who wrote that article about the
Speaker 1: will Smith doctrine Ukraine. By the way, Matthew ancona former
Speaker 1: editor at The Spectator, award winning political columnist, columnist, and
Speaker 1: and fellow at All Souls College in Oxford, UM, just
Speaker 1: like that that is worth making fun of, uh and
Speaker 1: even insulting. But like at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: for the rest of us just laughing at this on
Speaker 1: Twitter like a famous guy slapped another famous guy live
Speaker 1: on stage. And look, I'm also not saying that. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that it's wrong for us to like have
Speaker 1: a moment of like, look it it's a thing happened,
Speaker 1: that it happened. We all just have that moment but
Speaker 1: in general, I'm like Will was doing something that's about
Speaker 1: his life and his relationship and and the rest of
Speaker 1: us are making it a distraction, you know what I mean. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's human nature, sure, but anyway, Yeah, maybe I'll regret
Speaker 1: this take tomorrow, but right now, I don't know. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it is what it is. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: also like it was it's fucked up to see like
Speaker 1: that happened, and then five minutes later, like, yeah, Scott
Speaker 1: was very funny. It's like the funniest thing that could
Speaker 1: have happened. It's like it's like so bizarre, it's like funny,
Speaker 1: it's surreal. It's like it is fun up and like
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize I thought he won before that.
Speaker 1: And then I think that they would have asked him
Speaker 1: to leave if they didn't know that he was going
Speaker 1: to win the award. No, I don't I think that
Speaker 1: someone's I don't think that they knew what the reaction
Speaker 1: would be online because it's all about traffic. No, I
Speaker 1: think you know that, like, well, he hit a dude,
Speaker 1: so everyone's gonna want to see repeated cuts to like him.
Speaker 1: We out a guest of this ceremony. Finally people are
Speaker 1: carrying with the oscars again. Um. I will say one
Speaker 1: thing I wasn't expecting so obviously, like everyone's got to
Speaker 1: take every and like some of it is tribal, some
Speaker 1: of it is just like here's my funked up opinion
Speaker 1: about it. Um. And I was expecting a lot of like,
Speaker 1: uh canceled culture stuff and like you know, sensitivity to
Speaker 1: like oh you did, and like people who think that like, uh,
Speaker 1: it's not Oh like I saw some do you mean,
Speaker 1: like people like cancer? Well I saw that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: and just like there's there's a certain type of Republican
Speaker 1: where I was like the honest, the honest response that
Speaker 1: you you should be giving, like don't do your little
Speaker 1: culture wars stuff. If you're true to yourself and you're real,
Speaker 1: what you're gonna say is, uh, it was fine. I
Speaker 1: saw a man insult another man's wife and he went
Speaker 1: up and he defended his wife, and then Chris Rock
Speaker 1: acted like and and didn't like he didn't like complain
Speaker 1: or cry or do anything, and then they moved on.
Speaker 1: That was that like that's like the conservative like that's
Speaker 1: what you actually believe, you think, And I just want
Speaker 1: to say. Good for and do not cut the context.
Speaker 1: Good for Marjorie Taylor Green for sticking to that. She
Speaker 1: said exactly that she like the only one I've seen
Speaker 1: has been like, yeah, it's like here's what you think
Speaker 1: I would think, And I'm gonna say it. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna try to I'm not gonna try to warp it
Speaker 1: into like Dr Seuss is canceled, whether or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: It's just this is how fine, this is how I
Speaker 1: want life and society to be. And it was and
Speaker 1: that's the end of that. It's not very funny society
Speaker 1: to be, but it's like at the basic level. But
Speaker 1: I think everyone's actions in that instance made complete sense
Speaker 1: to me, and I have no issue with anything that happened.
Speaker 1: We have somehow gotten too full segments out of this.
Speaker 1: You got damn right, we did. Um, thank you will
Speaker 1: and Chris Rock for for giving us content. Oh do
Speaker 1: you want to take a quick break and then we'll
Speaker 1: get into that to his da, we'll get we'll get
Speaker 1: JayR pilled Bulson Narrow seems like you're gonna get sucked
Speaker 1: up and die. Just seem like get you very sick. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: hold on just a bit longer and we'll finally get
Speaker 1: to some act actual Good lord, No, there's no other
Speaker 1: news than the news we've discussed. We'll get get everything.
Speaker 1: So Don Calpuccino didn't attend, then, Hello, and welcome back
Speaker 1: to the news show. They don't only talk about the news.
Speaker 1: That's right. And this is the first moment of the
Speaker 1: show that you have been listening to. There's nothing before it.
Speaker 1: This is a record for us. I think that was
Speaker 1: kind of news. That was kind of news only discussing
Speaker 1: the most important things happening in the world. Like so,
Speaker 1: in a similar manner to how Will Smith slapped Chris
Speaker 1: Rock on camera. Okay, now I understand was slapped by
Speaker 1: the fact that a couple of years ago he was
Speaker 1: stabbed in the stomach while on campaign, and now his
Speaker 1: ship regularly backs up and it has to be sucked out.
Speaker 1: That's what happens. I mean, he is always in the hospital,
Speaker 1: isn't he He's sometimes he's like a right, like, let's
Speaker 1: be fair. Sometimes it's a bird. You can't. Obviously a
Speaker 1: lot of the times when he goes to the hospital, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's because of the time he got horribly stabbed in
Speaker 1: the stomach. But he also has had to go to
Speaker 1: the hospital a number of times because he keeps getting
Speaker 1: COVID like three times. That's the thing. It's like it's
Speaker 1: got stabbed, so like constantly needed ship siphon out of him.
Speaker 1: He's got a bunch of times. And also like was
Speaker 1: rude to animals who end up attacking him, or like
Speaker 1: his his vibe offended an animal that went after him.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. I don't know. I just have there's some
Speaker 1: comedy someday about all the ways death is trying to
Speaker 1: claim Pulson Arrow, like something, some bumbling comedy of this
Speaker 1: man constantly escaping death. I don't know. I don't know it.
Speaker 1: It's also like it's incredible because also that EMU attack
Speaker 1: was while he was quarantining for COVID. It's very funny.
Speaker 1: It's the only pictures you'll see of him with a
Speaker 1: mask on pretty much. Yeah exactly. It's a lot more
Speaker 1: funny him flee from an EMU with a mascot. I
Speaker 1: don't know why. Yeah, tell us more about what's happening
Speaker 1: with him, And I mean, we don't know he's in
Speaker 1: the hospital. He sucked at the hospital, like in either
Speaker 1: like right at the start of the year, too or
Speaker 1: at the very end of the last year, it happens
Speaker 1: a lot to him. Was hospitalized in January for an
Speaker 1: intestan that was clear he did not need surgery. But
Speaker 1: it says this thing. It says there's there's several times
Speaker 1: of being hospitalized and not needing surgery, but because they
Speaker 1: just gotta they gotta suck the poop out of his
Speaker 1: nose and then get him to give like a thumbs
Speaker 1: up in the hospital bed where he looks like one
Speaker 1: of those like weed commercials where like sunk into the
Speaker 1: couch because you're he's just it's very funny. Why is
Speaker 1: he still in charge? You know? Um, because he's the powerful.
Speaker 1: Yes it feels yes, yes, one of those feels like
Speaker 1: he shouldn't be Maybe definitely feels like he shouldn't be. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I keep a photo album, like a digital
Speaker 1: photo album. We we got paid to endorse them last year. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they sent me one. It's an Ori digital frame. Um,
Speaker 1: it's only pictures of Bolonnaro in the hospital and it
Speaker 1: sits in my living room. Yeah, it's it's just all
Speaker 1: and a picture of him getting stacked. We need he's
Speaker 1: getting like ship sucked out of his nose. He's lying
Speaker 1: on his back in a hospital bed. Every day. When
Speaker 1: I get up, I just look over and I see
Speaker 1: first thing, a different picture of JayR. Bolson Yaro dying,
Speaker 1: like a little video of it for like enough time
Speaker 1: for us to see a couple of the picture cycle
Speaker 1: throws at some point on your convenience. I would love
Speaker 1: to see that, of course, thank you. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I recommend everybody do. Go find pictures of
Speaker 1: j your Bolson Yaro, print them out, you know, put them,
Speaker 1: put them up in your house, put them in your
Speaker 1: kid's bedroom. Um, you know, get those deflated thumbs ups. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're getting married, instead of putting together like a
Speaker 1: photo album of you and your spouse, your future spouse,
Speaker 1: maybe show your friends and family Jay your Bolton Yaro
Speaker 1: in the hospital. Nice thing. Maybe I'll show them a
Speaker 1: little perspective for a baby shower. Yeah, I've got one.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, I was wondering what to give them. So
Speaker 1: you can always give people the gift of Jay or
Speaker 1: Bolson Narrow slowly dying in hospital. Oh god, I might
Speaker 1: have to do that now. That sounds fun. It really
Speaker 1: really helps. So Biden's got a new budget. And you know,
Speaker 1: you could really say that that Biden is the Will
Speaker 1: Smith here slapping open handed everyone who thinks that we
Speaker 1: spend too much money on law enforcement in the Defense Department. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's really really violence. He's really given Smith to our
Speaker 1: collective chiefs. Will Smith. Not having that's right enough, not
Speaker 1: having any social have the environment, that's right. It's the
Speaker 1: flat to mere putin of the United States continuing to
Speaker 1: spend all of its money on weapons for authoritarian I
Speaker 1: do think we should, as opposed to healthcare, a pretty
Speaker 1: big milestone um, which is the defense budget finally exceeding
Speaker 1: eight hundred billion dollars. I know I'm opening that bottle.
Speaker 1: You know, Cody, when we first started to hanging out,
Speaker 1: I got that bottle of champagne and I was like, Cody,
Speaker 1: one of these days they're going to get that Defense
Speaker 1: Department budget past, and then I'm gonna crack this open.
Speaker 1: And you said it's never gonna happen, Robert's never gonna happen. Well,
Speaker 1: who's having champagne tonight? Maybe champagne Smith of alcohol anyway, congratulate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So he's he's clearly gearing up for the mid terms
Speaker 1: and is making it's one of those things. I think
Speaker 1: it's bad to defense department anymore money. I think it's
Speaker 1: bad to give federal law enforcement, ice, even local law
Speaker 1: enforcement anymore money. That doesn't mean it's a bad move politically.
Speaker 1: This might work out for the Democrats politically. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just so. I mean, it's obvious and obvious signal
Speaker 1: to move movement more center and to be ignoring anything
Speaker 1: the progressive say. And it's like, well, it's evidence that
Speaker 1: the kind of crime panic um stuff that that the
Speaker 1: Republicans have been pushing heavily and the media has worked
Speaker 1: in the media has worked. The media loves talking about crime. Um,
Speaker 1: it's evidence that a lot of the demonization of homeless
Speaker 1: people and of migrants has has really worked, um historically.
Speaker 1: Like he's also like he'll jump with that chance that
Speaker 1: he knows how to do that. So long it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can do this. This is like in my natural form,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't argue for like giving the police
Speaker 1: less money and moving funds to other programs or anything
Speaker 1: like that, but I can. I can. The essence of
Speaker 1: being a moderate really of being like, oh, is it
Speaker 1: kind of tipping in that action? Never mind like just
Speaker 1: going away and never sticking firm in a direction. I
Speaker 1: mean so much just goes against even what he has
Speaker 1: talked about in his own campaigning. You know, there's so
Speaker 1: much reversal that we're seeing from him. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: so Obviously. The bleak thing is that at the moment,
Speaker 1: you'll see this from a couple of ways one of them,
Speaker 1: and this is generally how news will frame it as, like,
Speaker 1: most Americans don't support defunding the police. It's not a
Speaker 1: popular policy position. It's also accurate to note that it's
Speaker 1: massively more popular than it was before, like it do
Speaker 1: a significant surge. Also, if you describe what defund the police,
Speaker 1: the phrase means it's supported by people. It's the same
Speaker 1: thing with the no fly zone stuff, where it's like
Speaker 1: you support no fly zone? Yes, what if that's what
Speaker 1: it means this? Oh then overall, Um, I think what
Speaker 1: Biden is doing here is popular. Now part of what's
Speaker 1: going to determine, Like it's one of those things increasing
Speaker 1: funding for police is something that people tend to support
Speaker 1: when polled. Um, that doesn't mean that this is actually
Speaker 1: going to get the Democrats anywhere electorally, because in part um,
Speaker 1: the kind of the odds that this will have any
Speaker 1: sort of impact on the kind of crime that people
Speaker 1: are worried about in time for the midterms is pretty nil.
Speaker 1: So it's a question of will Biden kind of harping
Speaker 1: on the fact that we did increase, you know, fund
Speaker 1: the signaling actually the signaling do it? Or will people
Speaker 1: still be like spooked enough by crime? Are they're gonna
Speaker 1: blame Democrats for that? YadA YadA, YadA. UM. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like this is one of those things where it's very
Speaker 1: possible Biden is making the intelligent decision politically. I just
Speaker 1: think it's bad, just like I think it's bad to
Speaker 1: spend eight billion dollars on defense or eight point one
Speaker 1: billion dollars on ice UM. But that doesn't mean it
Speaker 1: won't work because most people seem to support doing those things,
Speaker 1: which is bad. But that it's not Joe Biden's job
Speaker 1: to do good things. It's Joe Biden's job to win
Speaker 1: re election. And like I have to say that part
Speaker 1: of my disappointment with this um because yes, you're right,
Speaker 1: maybe this is the way that he needs to go.
Speaker 1: Because even in in circles of people that I know
Speaker 1: and people that are pretty liberal and in general, once
Speaker 1: you sit down and talk to them on issues, um,
Speaker 1: so many people are talking about Yeah, but crime, and
Speaker 1: there's so much that's pervasive, that's happening, and there's so
Speaker 1: many talking points that it is impossible to break down
Speaker 1: and push back against it. Plus you you you add
Speaker 1: into that inflation, which we all know is certainly not
Speaker 1: only Joe Biden's fault. There's a lot of stuff happening
Speaker 1: in the world, and he walked into a situation. Maybe
Speaker 1: there are short term things that he could have done differently,
Speaker 1: but in general, inflation, I don't know. I can't speak
Speaker 1: to that, but in general, inflation is is bigger than him.
Speaker 1: Any person in power right now would be dealing with
Speaker 1: it right step stepping in a year into a pandemic
Speaker 1: that there's more he could have done about. But due
Speaker 1: to social issues in the United States, it wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: go well. It was gonna go well. And then you
Speaker 1: add in this war and all all the things. Okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah, there's a lot going on. There's a lot
Speaker 1: going on, so all of that, like he's gonna handle this,
Speaker 1: uh that situation. So I understand politically what's happening, but
Speaker 1: it's sucking disappointing. And it's also but disappointing is how
Speaker 1: many people, um kind of buy the line and the
Speaker 1: panic the panic lines and like, oh yeah, crime is rising,
Speaker 1: and what are we going to do about the unhoused
Speaker 1: population and what are we going to do about this?
Speaker 1: And like nothing's changed in the last eight months since
Speaker 1: he's actually been off, as my glad, things have gotten worse.
Speaker 1: That's what's always so frustrating too, is it's like, do
Speaker 1: you think that it might um needed that we meet
Speaker 1: and might need a minute? Do you think that like
Speaker 1: the problems that you're you're scared about, like the fact
Speaker 1: that aspects of society are collapsing, that increasingly huge numbers
Speaker 1: of people have fallen totally through the cracks that there's
Speaker 1: absolutely no control over, like for example, the degree to
Speaker 1: which landlords can gouge people for rent, the fact that
Speaker 1: food prices are raising um while wages are not raising,
Speaker 1: the fact that like things are getting a lot more
Speaker 1: desperate for people, while the international system seems to be
Speaker 1: spending out of control. Is it possible that like that
Speaker 1: has more to do with the fact that we continue
Speaker 1: to shackle ourselves to a system that trends inevitably towards
Speaker 1: um violence and uh, what's the word I'm looking for,
Speaker 1: um inequality than it has to do with specifically Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: That he's more of like an art he's more of
Speaker 1: an avatar of the system than a cause of it.
Speaker 1: Like he certainly is not making it better, but he's
Speaker 1: not making it better because you elected him to represent
Speaker 1: a thing that can only go in one direction. Like,
Speaker 1: that's that's the guy Joe Biden is. That's the guy
Speaker 1: he's always been. And he's only gonna he's only gonna
Speaker 1: he's not gonna press hard on the gas. But he's
Speaker 1: only going to press on the gas. Um. Yes, so
Speaker 1: I'm not Yeah, I'm not in maybe overthrow the government. Look,
Speaker 1: ums not, he's not in the car on the road.
Speaker 1: You necessarily wanted to be honest. Yeah, and he probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't be driving. Look, he's old, his eyesight is not great.
Speaker 1: They'll just go, we gotta get Puttin out of there.
Speaker 1: Talk about that real quick minutes him talking about Puttin
Speaker 1: talking about that gas machine. Joe Bie, You know what,
Speaker 1: I loved that, and I loved particularly that people immediately
Speaker 1: were like, well, he's irish and you know how the
Speaker 1: Irish incredible. That was not a kind of racism. I
Speaker 1: expected to come back in two like, okay, we're talking
Speaker 1: about the fighting Irish. Very fun Okay, okay, man. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe he's actually maybe it's he's tired. Maybe it's not
Speaker 1: the Irish thing. Maybe he's like, um, it's just you know, look,
Speaker 1: obviously he's no Donald Trump. And Donald Trump's rambles an
Speaker 1: off book dialogues and off prompt or all of that
Speaker 1: was exhausting and awful and and and very very glad
Speaker 1: to not have funny sometimes all the time and funny
Speaker 1: sometimes ever and then hold on one And when he
Speaker 1: was talking to that kid about Santa, there's so many
Speaker 1: good things. Um uh bad too at some things. And
Speaker 1: that was bad. That was a bad mistake that he made.
Speaker 1: I saw that you should line and was like, he
Speaker 1: said what, Look, I said what I fundamentally, I agree
Speaker 1: fundamentally with the sentiment where it's like, yeah, Putin is
Speaker 1: a brutal dictator who probably shouldn't have the unilateral ability
Speaker 1: to end all life on earth. It would be great.
Speaker 1: He should definitely not be in power as the US president,
Speaker 1: who shouldn't travel to the border of the country that
Speaker 1: he governs and say that that's not not a good call.
Speaker 1: It's not a good call. That's a that's a that's
Speaker 1: a behind closed doors because yeah, he's there for peace talks,
Speaker 1: right or maybe that one was talking to NATO, but
Speaker 1: he's there for peace talks. It's not really a negotiating
Speaker 1: regime change. Those guys got poisoned. I don't know their names. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this, but it definitely seems like I mean,
Speaker 1: that happens a lot around around the Russian border. But
Speaker 1: there's just a lot of polar him around the porter.
Speaker 1: What do you about to look it's fine, it's not,
Speaker 1: it's just plum, but it is. I do think you
Speaker 1: get these people who are like, there's also this this
Speaker 1: tendency to massive overreaction where it's like, well, now we're
Speaker 1: gonna have World War three. It's like, no, just because
Speaker 1: Joe Biden said a thing that Putin has known for
Speaker 1: a while, he's thinking, doesn't mean Putin's going to suddenly
Speaker 1: start firing the missiles because, among other things, fundamentally, I
Speaker 1: don't think he's feels particularly in danger. Like there's been
Speaker 1: the same kind of ship we see we saw from
Speaker 1: like liberals when Trump was in office, where there's all
Speaker 1: these conspiracy theories about things they're going to take Puttin
Speaker 1: out of office, and there's just this big conspiracy theory
Speaker 1: about like I'm a secret FSB agent and there's like
Speaker 1: resistance to the Putin regime and like people are gonna
Speaker 1: he's having trouble holding onto power, and don't trust any
Speaker 1: of that. There's no no real evidence of it. Everything
Speaker 1: I'm seeing like, I have not yet seen a reason
Speaker 1: to believe that Putin is not fairly solidly in power.
Speaker 1: And it would be deeply surprising if he were overthrown
Speaker 1: at this stage. All those angry staffer accounts from four
Speaker 1: years it is the foreign policy equivalent of that people,
Speaker 1: and it's like he's pretty good at centralizing power and
Speaker 1: keeping it. Question. Yeah, did you guys see I haven't
Speaker 1: seen this. Somebody mentioned it yesterday and I'm just asking
Speaker 1: you on our show if you see Nope, not that.
Speaker 1: Did Ellen Musk say something about he thinks Putin might
Speaker 1: be the richest man in the world. Yeah, sure, in
Speaker 1: the same way that like Bizars of Russia were, because
Speaker 1: technically all of the do you think he could be
Speaker 1: that much of a billionaire, not in terms of because
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of pointless to say because he doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's like, were the Roman empires, the emperors the richest
Speaker 1: people who have ever lived? Well in terms of a
Speaker 1: bank account, I don't even know if any of them
Speaker 1: had any kind of like accounting the bank because they're
Speaker 1: the emperor, right, the state belongs to them. Um. So
Speaker 1: you can make a case that, like whatever any given
Speaker 1: Roman Empire emperor at the height of the empire was
Speaker 1: the richest person who ever lived, and you could make
Speaker 1: the state that like one of the Russian tsars, which
Speaker 1: the richest person who ever lived. And that's the case
Speaker 1: anytime you have a situation where there is a state
Speaker 1: that is extremely powerful and a single dude is effectively
Speaker 1: the owner of it. Um. So yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: could you can make that case. It's kind of meaningless
Speaker 1: because I guess the point that I'm gonna outflaw is like,
Speaker 1: what the funk is he talking about? Anyway? Yeah, wealth
Speaker 1: as an autocrat is different from like wealth as a businessman,
Speaker 1: Like they mean different things, like to the extent like
Speaker 1: who could buy the most expensive things? I guess they
Speaker 1: both could. To the like I don't feel like had
Speaker 1: a bridge taken down for his meaningfully, there's I don't
Speaker 1: think there's really anything that like Elon Musk or Jeff
Speaker 1: Bezos could buy that Putin could not um, whereas there
Speaker 1: are things that Putin could buy that they could not U.
Speaker 1: But uh so, yeah, but I don't think it really
Speaker 1: matters because we're not sorry to derail this into Elon.
Speaker 1: Do you think Musk could poison people with polonia? I
Speaker 1: do actually suspect he could pull that off. All right.
Speaker 1: If you can't poison someone with two hundred billion dollars,
Speaker 1: why even have two dollars exactly, which he doesn't. It's
Speaker 1: it's stocks and ship whatever. I think it might be
Speaker 1: time to wrap up. I don't know. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Tremor Lacelle Dillard stage name flow Rider. You talking about
Speaker 1: Roberts breakout single Low was number one for ten weeks
Speaker 1: in the United States? My man, what the fun you're
Speaker 1: talking about? Come on, what is this conversation? Now? What
Speaker 1: are we doing? No, we're talking about flow Rider is
Speaker 1: debut studio album Mail on Sunday reached number four in
Speaker 1: the US. You vision banger? It was a banger? I
Speaker 1: can't remember it he represented San Marino with the Eurovision
Speaker 1: Song Contest in Rotterdam, and how about two overall? Not bad? Uh?
Speaker 1: He's he's played alongside Pitbull and Kesha and t Pain
Speaker 1: flow Rider. Anyway, this the Will Smith of Altros slap
Speaker 1: in the face of our listeners, and that's just pretty good.
Speaker 1: But I've got one more flow right as slapped the
Speaker 1: face of the Eurovision Song Contest when he represented San Marino,
Speaker 1: a country that I don't know that he'd heard of
Speaker 1: before the Vision Song Contest. Katie save us please. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is real or not, but
Speaker 1: it's a tweet. Oh good. So it says the devil
Speaker 1: works hard, but the updated of the Macbeth Wikipedia page
Speaker 1: works harder. And it's a screenshot of the Wikipedia page.
Speaker 1: At the Academy Awards, Chris Rock congratulated Denzel Washington on
Speaker 1: his performance in The Tragedy of Macbeth, verbally saying the
Speaker 1: name of the Scottish play allowed in the Delby Theater.
Speaker 1: Moments later, Rock was slapped by Will Smith after making
Speaker 1: a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith coincidence, Are
Speaker 1: you not supposed to say of the theater? Not supposed
Speaker 1: to say that out loud in the theater. It's bad
Speaker 1: you call the Scottish play and sto us. I guess
Speaker 1: I had heard that anyway. I brought it home mish um.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm done. You know, I bet who?
Speaker 1: You know who I bet knows not to say the
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