Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two, seventy nine,
Speaker 1: Episode five of Daly's Guys Stay production of iHeartRadio. This
Speaker 1: is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
Speaker 1: America's share consciousness. And it is Friday in March seventeenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. My name's Jack O'Brien aka Pop Pop, Pop, Potatoes,
Speaker 1: Potatoes o'brium. That is courtesy of at least with the
Speaker 1: hot takes and the O'Reilly's auto parts jingle, which I
Speaker 1: was just listening to a version this morning where it's
Speaker 1: clear that like one of the one of the musicians,
Speaker 1: one of the vocalists really like got like either got
Speaker 1: high for the recording session or they just really like
Speaker 1: through their entire body and spirit into adding the O'Reilly
Speaker 1: that last O'Riley before the autopart. So congratulations to that artist.
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to be joined by a co host
Speaker 1: you know from guesting on this show. Of course you
Speaker 1: know I'm from stuff they don't want you to know,
Speaker 1: ridiculous history, the new limited series. Let's start a cool
Speaker 1: Please welcome the brilliant and talented Ben Bow. Yeah a
Speaker 1: kaas asked Twitter, and they said aka Casa Della Killa
Speaker 1: ak bb cool J aka Doctor Awkward aka mister bring
Speaker 1: the Bags, which I don't get, but I support mister
Speaker 1: bring the bags. You always bring those bags of knowledge
Speaker 1: to people. My A I am screen name in college
Speaker 1: and high school was ob cool Ja, So shout out
Speaker 1: my friend you. Yeah, that was a creation of my
Speaker 1: friend Chris, the legendary Chris, who I talked about a
Speaker 1: lot on this show. Well, Ben, wonderful to have you
Speaker 1: co hosting. You already dropped some knowledge on us that
Speaker 1: I want to talk about a moment. But first let's
Speaker 1: introduce our guests, shall we? Another Consummate podcast professional, one
Speaker 1: of the best in the business digital activists. You can
Speaker 1: hear her on her brilliant podcasts. There are no girls
Speaker 1: on the internet Internet hate machine. With cool Zone Media,
Speaker 1: it's bridget time. Oh my god, I love every time
Speaker 1: I come here, you all give me the best introductions.
Speaker 1: It was my heart, I mean. And we do offer
Speaker 1: that because we're as we're going to get into with
Speaker 1: Sesame Street, we are running into money difficulties. I will
Speaker 1: offer to do an intro for you that you can
Speaker 1: bring around with you. That is an NFT for the
Speaker 1: low low price of five thousand dollars, so just let
Speaker 1: me know after the recording. But Bridget so wonderful having you.
Speaker 1: The intro is always more than well deserved. How are
Speaker 1: you doing? You have new glasses that look fantastic. First,
Speaker 1: I just got new glasses, So I'm in that phase
Speaker 1: of getting a new item where you're just expecting compliments
Speaker 1: and when you get that and they're like thank you,
Speaker 1: I know, and that is correct and that is appropriate. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're great. Yeah. I was saying, I need I have
Speaker 1: five pieces of clothing that I wear on a regular
Speaker 1: basis because I need so many compliments to just have
Speaker 1: the confidence to wear anything. Otherwise it's just a white
Speaker 1: T shirt. Ben, you were saying before, because we were
Speaker 1: talking about the naming of dogs, and you were saying
Speaker 1: that studies have been conducted that suggests that dogs respond
Speaker 1: better to names that end in S or why yeah
Speaker 1: or I E. Yeah, it's right. Yeah, it's a weird thing,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, we talk about names pretty often, right,
Speaker 1: because names do have power. If it apparently, I don't
Speaker 1: look up the study and send you all, but apparently
Speaker 1: side shows that dogs will tend to be more more
Speaker 1: receptive to their their human roommates, parents, whatever however you
Speaker 1: want to answer primorifies. Uh, they'll be more receptive when
Speaker 1: their name ends in that I e. Or y sound
Speaker 1: or like a plural, which which is nuts to me
Speaker 1: because it explains so much. Right, It's like, why does
Speaker 1: every dog person we know, why do they inevitably have
Speaker 1: all these nicknames? Right? Yeah, you gotta find Finny boy. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did not respond to Finn. He ignored this shit
Speaker 1: on me. I was like, he can't hear very clearly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's nothing cuter than asking a pet owner like, what
Speaker 1: is your pet's name? And then give me the laundry
Speaker 1: list of other names doctor, like doctor Finnancy like yeah
Speaker 1: for sure, yeah, and then yeah and then like what
Speaker 1: I was thinking about common dog names. It's like Max,
Speaker 1: which has an ass on the end spot does not
Speaker 1: pass the test. Lassie though, you know these standard names
Speaker 1: and throwing a y on the end always a good idea.
Speaker 1: So I had a kid growing up with me had
Speaker 1: a wonderful, wonderful guy living with him named Buster. And
Speaker 1: Buster was a Golden Retriever who always seemed like very
Speaker 1: good energy, very affable, but didn't quite like didn't quite
Speaker 1: get what was going on, ye or Buster, And I
Speaker 1: think it's because I think it's this poor guy spent
Speaker 1: you know, over a decade not fucking knowing when people
Speaker 1: were talking to him. Yeah, that would be difficult. I
Speaker 1: think in my experience that's hard. All right, well, Bridget,
Speaker 1: we're going to get to know you a little bit
Speaker 1: better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners
Speaker 1: about the plate of just hot garbage news that we
Speaker 1: have for them today. Today's news cycle seems to have
Speaker 1: been it seems like all all the news outlets were
Speaker 1: just like turn it over to chat GPT. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna and tell them about like all the all the
Speaker 1: buzzwords from the last year. So we have we have
Speaker 1: the Taco Bell metaverse wedding what too? We have a
Speaker 1: review of the Taco Bell Metaverse wedding, officiated by Cal Penn.
Speaker 1: Of course it really can get mixed up in that.
Speaker 1: How did he get looped in? Definitely guy, it's you
Speaker 1: know that sweet sweet marketing money. The Tiger King is
Speaker 1: running for president from jail. There is a Sesame Street
Speaker 1: NFT that just got dropped. They're a little little behind
Speaker 1: the curve on that one. Admire that they're sticking to it.
Speaker 1: They're still just like, no, we think people are gonna
Speaker 1: want an NFT of cookie Monster leaning kind of seductively
Speaker 1: on an oven. He like seems like he's it seems
Speaker 1: like a dating profile pick of Monster, which is interesting choice.
Speaker 1: He owns the means of production. Man, He's showing people
Speaker 1: that he can make his own. That's power, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that and also the history of
Speaker 1: why Sesame Street needs to resort to selling NFTs and
Speaker 1: tickle Me's Elmo and all that shit. Before we get
Speaker 1: to any of that stuff, Bridget, we do like to
Speaker 1: ask our guests, what is something from your search history
Speaker 1: that is revealing about who you are? Something from my
Speaker 1: search history that is revealing about who I am is
Speaker 1: the phrase sexy boy. I'm recording a podcast about the
Speaker 1: rivalry between Brett Harry Art and Shawn Michaels, and in
Speaker 1: the script they were like, oh, Shaun Michaels, his walk
Speaker 1: on song at the time was a song called sexy Boy.
Speaker 1: It's all like, oh, I have to hear this song.
Speaker 1: So that was one of the last things I googled
Speaker 1: was to hear Sean Michaels is walk on song sexy Boy, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, if you, if you, I recommend googling
Speaker 1: it and listening to it because it's pretty good. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so that was what he walked out onto the stage too,
Speaker 1: is it bo I? They? No, this was the nineties,
Speaker 1: this was boy. We didn't know. Only Big Boy from
Speaker 1: Outcasts knew that you could spell your name spell the
Speaker 1: word boy that way. Yeah, that's right. Wow, so sexy boy.
Speaker 1: The first Google result when you just put the words
Speaker 1: sexy boy into Google is the Shawn Michaels intro music.
Speaker 1: But it's not the first image result. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: that much, folks. Is it a sexy boy? It's a
Speaker 1: lot of sexy boys, a lot of ripped six pack abs,
Speaker 1: one in which yeah, I don't even want to describe
Speaker 1: what's happening, and that one. Since we're an audio show,
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's necessary to tell the
Speaker 1: Zeit gang that Bridget and I can see Jack's furrowed brow.
Speaker 1: What do you do it? Are you like trying to
Speaker 1: count apps? What's going on? How many apps are supposed
Speaker 1: to be on a Sexy Boy? Yeah? A lot. It's
Speaker 1: a lot to take in this this search history, but
Speaker 1: that thank you so much for sharing with it. I
Speaker 1: actually don't know that song. I never got into the
Speaker 1: whole ww FW. Like I was super into it for
Speaker 1: a couple months when I was like five, when like
Speaker 1: whole Coogan Andre the Giant, and then just like fell
Speaker 1: out of love with it. I think I discovered like
Speaker 1: playing guns instead of playing wrestling, and like just moved
Speaker 1: on to some other toxic little boy bullshit. I think ramp.
Speaker 1: My dad saw Rambo and described it to me, and
Speaker 1: I was like, well, this is my new personality. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was so influenced by Sylvester Stallone and like his
Speaker 1: whole thing is like haunted, scarred, damaged, like you know,
Speaker 1: can barely communicate because he's like holding in so much
Speaker 1: pain and just like so thoroughly toxic with his inability
Speaker 1: to talk about his pain, to access his own pain.
Speaker 1: As identified with this as a child. Was a child
Speaker 1: because Rocky and Rambo, Like, for whatever reason, I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: take me more. Yeah, Like I fantasized about getting beat
Speaker 1: up instead of beating people up because Rocky. That was
Speaker 1: like the majority of what Rocky was was him just
Speaker 1: getting the shit beat out of him. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: that guy can take a punch. I wish I could
Speaker 1: take a punch like that. I thought, look like Bridget.
Speaker 1: When you said sexy boy, I immediately thought of the
Speaker 1: song by the French Air Air. Yeah. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's it. I'm still relevant. I got my finger on
Speaker 1: a pulse or whatever. How weird would it be if
Speaker 1: a wrestler in the nineties his walk on song was
Speaker 1: air going by air like. He's a real, like high brow.
Speaker 1: He's cultivating a vibe here. Okay, okay, playing Moon Safari.
Speaker 1: It's a great idea. Somebody should just have be avant
Speaker 1: garde wrestler just the most hate it. They really wanted
Speaker 1: to create a villain that America would hate. Super metrosexual. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just just Artie, just Artie. You know what is something
Speaker 1: Bridget that you think is overrated? Something that I think
Speaker 1: is overrated is it's very specific and perhaps a little
Speaker 1: bit niche. I was in Vegas. I just came back
Speaker 1: from Vegas for podcast Movement Evolutions, and while I was there,
Speaker 1: I learned that I didn't know that. I don't know
Speaker 1: how I didn't know this, But did you know that
Speaker 1: Elon Musk's boring company has hollowed out part of the
Speaker 1: ground under Las Vegas to make what it's called the
Speaker 1: Vegas Loops like hyperloop. So this is this is where
Speaker 1: the confusion came from. On my part. I was thinking
Speaker 1: hyper loop, like that super fast underground thing, which like
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm no expert, but it sounded I
Speaker 1: was interested to see it. So we've been sold on
Speaker 1: hyper loop, which does sound kind of cool. This what
Speaker 1: actually exists is Vegas Loop, which is so much fucking worse.
Speaker 1: It is whatever you're thinking. It is so much less cool,
Speaker 1: and it's underground and it's just this underground road under
Speaker 1: part of Las Vegas where Tesla's drives and so it's
Speaker 1: essentially just like a fleet of a fleet of Tesla's
Speaker 1: driven by humans that drives underground goes about thirty to
Speaker 1: forty miles an hour. It doesn't go it doesn't go
Speaker 1: wildly fast. And that's the whole thing. When you go down,
Speaker 1: you think it's gonna be cool, because it's kind of
Speaker 1: like when do you to board those Version America flights
Speaker 1: where they'd have the lights, they have the lights, they
Speaker 1: have the lights, they've got some lights, they've got some music,
Speaker 1: and you think like, oh, I'm back to be whisked
Speaker 1: away on this like futuristic loop. It's just a dude
Speaker 1: driving a Tesla. Like that's the whole thing. Subway system
Speaker 1: with tesla's instead of trains. Uh yeah, pretty much, pretty much.
Speaker 1: And the whole time I was just like, this was
Speaker 1: this is the whole thing. It's essentially the same thing
Speaker 1: that happens above ground, but underground for some reason, Like
Speaker 1: I can't understand why it's supposed to be better to
Speaker 1: be underground. I can't. I can't get it. Anyway, very
Speaker 1: overrated it was. It just was really whacked, Like it
Speaker 1: just wasn't cool because they talked about this a lot.
Speaker 1: I remember him talking a big game and then I
Speaker 1: had lumped this into yet another one of the things
Speaker 1: that he talked a lot about, and it sucked and
Speaker 1: it turns out that he did or actually didn't happen,
Speaker 1: And it turns out it did happen, and it sucked,
Speaker 1: So that that is actually news to me. Wait, do
Speaker 1: a lot of people use it? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Everybody who I saw was like interested in the novelty
Speaker 1: as I was. I don't think it's something that people
Speaker 1: are using for their general transportation means in Vegas. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, so don't trust it, Like I don't
Speaker 1: yea that he is doing the work to make sure
Speaker 1: it is safe and not going to collapse in on itself. Personally, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did have a couple of questions because like if
Speaker 1: you were if you had a disability and you had
Speaker 1: a wheelchair or a mobility device, it's not clear to me,
Speaker 1: like like you can't really stop, but the people are
Speaker 1: really the people driving are very invested in like keeping
Speaker 1: keeping it going. So if you had a luggage or something,
Speaker 1: it wasn't clear to me what would happen. So certainly
Speaker 1: it's the kind I'm to say it worked about as
Speaker 1: well as an underground driving sits stem designed by Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: exactly what you think it would be. It is, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's designed as about as well as Elon Musk as
Speaker 1: you would imagine Elon must have four to thirty pm
Speaker 1: on a Friday energy, right, yes, exactly? What is something
Speaker 1: you think is underrated? Something I think it's underrated? Is
Speaker 1: this is going to be controversial? Checking your luggage when
Speaker 1: you're flying, I usually carry on. I checked had a
Speaker 1: bunch of bags, so I checked them all and I
Speaker 1: don't know what, I've been avoiding this whole time. Like
Speaker 1: it it went fine. It was nice to not have
Speaker 1: to I had a connection, so it was nice to
Speaker 1: not have to schlept bags from here to there. This
Speaker 1: whole time, I've been crapping on people who aren't able
Speaker 1: to get their stuff into a carry on. I think
Speaker 1: I'm I think I'm check bags for life. Now. It's
Speaker 1: it's really hit or miss. It's when when it doesn't
Speaker 1: go well, that's like they lose the bag, the bag
Speaker 1: takes an hour to arrive, as it did on my
Speaker 1: last flight that I took where we checked a bag.
Speaker 1: It's it's a bummer. It's real. It's really tough to
Speaker 1: just be like kind of waiting there with everybody that
Speaker 1: you were just on the plane with and never wanted
Speaker 1: to see again. One yeah, right, right right, You're like,
Speaker 1: I'm standing next to this this guy who is a
Speaker 1: way too open with his feet as well, take my
Speaker 1: shoes off again? Yeah, let me learn more about you, bro.
Speaker 1: What kind of bag do you store your socks in?
Speaker 1: Because I think you just have the one pair. But also,
Speaker 1: like I gotta say I'm with bridget on this some
Speaker 1: team bridget On on the checking bags when it works out,
Speaker 1: because I'm I'm a sucker, and I love that moment.
Speaker 1: For me, it always feels like the climactic moment of
Speaker 1: a rom com, you know, when I see my bag
Speaker 1: again and I'm like, oh, we've been you know, we've
Speaker 1: been hundreds of miles away and here you are coming
Speaker 1: towards me, and I know it's you. I knew from
Speaker 1: the first, you know what I mean, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like hugging the bag and yeah, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know anthropomorphizing. Maybe I don't think my bag cares about
Speaker 1: me the way I care about Don't be so hard
Speaker 1: on yourself. Don't say that then you do you do
Speaker 1: you guys? Tie a little ribbon? Do you have? What's
Speaker 1: your How do you know it at first sight? Because
Speaker 1: bags are I do feel like bags have evolved, like
Speaker 1: the way that nature keeps evolving into crabs, like animals
Speaker 1: keep evolving into crabs. I feel like all bags have
Speaker 1: evolved into the same, like black, gray, hard bodied, rectangular
Speaker 1: suitcase that looks like it could have been made by
Speaker 1: you know, one of the three internet bag companies. Do
Speaker 1: you guys have a little little piece of spirit, little
Speaker 1: piece of as on there I do. I have very
Speaker 1: distinctive stickers, So I usually travel with two bags. One
Speaker 1: is like very distinctive, no one whatever mistake it for theirs.
Speaker 1: It's like bright orange, definitely mine. The other is the
Speaker 1: classic black Oway bag, which I think I did get
Speaker 1: for free from for like making a podcast. Add like
Speaker 1: everybody has, well, everybody who had a podcast got that bag.
Speaker 1: We all had podcasts, So everybody has that bag now.
Speaker 1: And it's a good bag. It's durable. I've had it
Speaker 1: for years and like, like truly it is like the
Speaker 1: day you start a podcast that shows up at your
Speaker 1: house with your microphone. But so I have to have
Speaker 1: all kinds of distinctive stickers on it, right because there
Speaker 1: are so many of those bags. And I also to
Speaker 1: that question, I I like to have, like I have
Speaker 1: no stickers on a car because I feel like that's
Speaker 1: uh presumptuous. Somehow people are already driving. They don't want
Speaker 1: to have to learn more about me. I'll just use
Speaker 1: my turn signals and be quiet. But but like, like
Speaker 1: with the bag, especially because they're relatively ubiquitous and I'm
Speaker 1: partially colored blind, I have a bunch of like just
Speaker 1: travel stickers, the ones they do from when you check
Speaker 1: a bag and I just haven't haven't cleaned it, So
Speaker 1: I'm always thinking, oh, yeah, there's the one, the beat up,
Speaker 1: shitty one. I knew you from the first Welcome back.
Speaker 1: But you know, but I think it is smart when
Speaker 1: people have you know, sometimes people make a statement. Everybody
Speaker 1: makes a statement right at different times. And I kind
Speaker 1: of love seeing weird bags in the baggage claim. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this guy either is super into snowboarding
Speaker 1: or maybe it's a cello right. One thing I do
Speaker 1: know is he has very specific views on you know,
Speaker 1: to bet back in the nineties. Sure from is like
Speaker 1: free to bet thing. I think that's cool. I think
Speaker 1: that's cool. And if you check a bag, like to
Speaker 1: your point, Bridget, you can especially if you have a
Speaker 1: connecting flight. It's like the logistics is just sort of magical.
Speaker 1: I can never do that. I could never figure out
Speaker 1: how to follow every you know, watch every falling sparrow
Speaker 1: from like one airplane to the next. But it's oppressive. Yeah, Ben,
Speaker 1: to your point about that you don't put stickers on
Speaker 1: your cars, do you ever see one of those cars
Speaker 1: that just has way too many stickers on it? Where
Speaker 1: it's like you are trying to tell out way too
Speaker 1: many things, even if there are things that I like
Speaker 1: or agree with. At a certain point, it's like it
Speaker 1: makes you're advertising too much to the world, even if
Speaker 1: it's things that I'm aligned with us too much. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's too much. And they're always like usually include get
Speaker 1: off my ass, And it's like, will you clearly want
Speaker 1: me somewhere close to you so that I can read
Speaker 1: the dissertation that you've put together. Those stickers, the bumper
Speaker 1: stickers are like, so, I don't know. They do not
Speaker 1: have affect industry wide fact checker, I will say, because
Speaker 1: there are quotes attributed to Einstein that I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: are like van Halen lyrics or something. You know, what,
Speaker 1: what do you guys think about vanity plates? Oh? I
Speaker 1: used to have one. What you're saying said love This
Speaker 1: is so cheesy. It said love to teach, because I
Speaker 1: was a teacher at the time and I really did
Speaker 1: love to teach. I think, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: That's a good I like the ones where you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm never going to condone being high in traffic.
Speaker 1: So for the purposes of this story, I was writing shotgun,
Speaker 1: and I got to the point where I thought regular
Speaker 1: license plates were vanity plates that I just smart enough
Speaker 1: to understand. Yeah, I was like, H four, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: keep following that guy. I gotta write this down. Follow
Speaker 1: that man. Decode. Also, there was a stunt that I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's been replicated widely, but it's an
Speaker 1: interesting thought, is that there was a study that the
Speaker 1: people who were most likely to engage in road rage
Speaker 1: incidents were It had nothing to do with like, you know,
Speaker 1: so some of the things that you might have liked
Speaker 1: with whether they were in a pickup truck or like
Speaker 1: a different kind of truck, which would have been my
Speaker 1: first guess. It was actually people who had bumper stickers
Speaker 1: were like that was the only statistically significant differentiator between
Speaker 1: like how likely they were to get into a road
Speaker 1: rage incident, and like, I think the theory was that
Speaker 1: if you have bumper stickers, you view your car as
Speaker 1: like an extension of your personhood more than anything else,
Speaker 1: and so like you view it as a personal insult
Speaker 1: if you're cut off, as opposed to just a thing
Speaker 1: that happens to everyone. You know, Wow, this is like
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I don't drive is because
Speaker 1: I feel like I would be a road rage person.
Speaker 1: Like I drive a little bit, but I really don't
Speaker 1: drive a lot. Uh when I'm behind the wheel, Like
Speaker 1: if somebody is trying to murder, like kind of box
Speaker 1: me out to merge, I will kill us both, Like
Speaker 1: I don't care, like we will die in this car. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get. I believe that I believe the bumper sticker
Speaker 1: to road rage correlation. Yeah, it's like you probably feel
Speaker 1: much more like this is my this car is my
Speaker 1: property and an extension of me, and I will protect it,
Speaker 1: which I hate to say. It's like an instinct that
Speaker 1: I get. And I wonder if they I've never had
Speaker 1: a bumper sticker, but I do wonder if when you
Speaker 1: have a bumper sticker, you start assuming people are driving
Speaker 1: a certain way around you based on You're defensive. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't like Einstein. You don't believe that I ran
Speaker 1: a half marathon, like I'm gonna take this to the death.
Speaker 1: You're you're you're like laying on your horn and to yourself,
Speaker 1: you're just muttering, Well, this guy doesn't fucking coexist. That's right,
Speaker 1: you know. I h I see it and this is
Speaker 1: just further cementing my no bumper stickers on my car situation.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's great, You're right, though, it's it's
Speaker 1: a lot. I think people always want to sort of
Speaker 1: tell a story, right, because we are the stories we
Speaker 1: tell ourselves. But to you guys, point how many should
Speaker 1: there be a limit? Should somebody like right right to
Speaker 1: our local representatives and say, hey, I know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on, but like three bumper stickers, max,
Speaker 1: you know, like let's bring people together. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I believe there should be a limit
Speaker 1: on bumper stickers. And also signs in your yard. Like again,
Speaker 1: even even if it signs of things that I agree with,
Speaker 1: it's like, we get it. Three is plenty three. You
Speaker 1: don't need you need, you don't need to like, let's
Speaker 1: just keep it reasonable. Three. It's a diminishing return exactly.
Speaker 1: And some people like try to build, Like there's houses
Speaker 1: that are like we do this this week and we're
Speaker 1: gonna like, I don't know, it's it reminds me of
Speaker 1: like those like mini library things that I think are cool.
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of people are like this
Speaker 1: is how we build community. And it's like, well, you're
Speaker 1: not really interacting with anyone. Feels like yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm glad those exist. I just don't know
Speaker 1: that they're the answer. This just a Jack o'bride library hater.
Speaker 1: I told you that was an offline thought. I'm still workshopping,
Speaker 1: so I mean, Jack, it's not like you ever see
Speaker 1: like crowds of people hanging around a free little library,
Speaker 1: you know, talking about the buck We have one like
Speaker 1: right next like in between our neighbor's house and our house,
Speaker 1: and it's yeah, you don't you don't see people like
Speaker 1: hang out there, but you see people like walk up
Speaker 1: by themselves. It gets a lot more traffic than I
Speaker 1: would have expected. It's pretty, it's definitely useful. It's just, yeah,
Speaker 1: people don't hang together at the at the free yard library.
Speaker 1: It's a free yard library we got. I do want
Speaker 1: to give a quick shout out not to Durellis here
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and activists. Artist friend of mine named Aileen
Speaker 1: Lloyd has created on the heels of the book banning
Speaker 1: stuff that's happening around the country, has created a what
Speaker 1: what she's calling a little contentious free library, which is
Speaker 1: all banned books like that. Yeah, yeah, she's way cooler
Speaker 1: than me. But but yeah, it's like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's a real problem. If you're preventing people from being
Speaker 1: able to encounter knowledge, you know, at a at a
Speaker 1: formative age, then that, I don't know, Yeah, different might
Speaker 1: different in the future. That might be the like we'll
Speaker 1: all have to have little libraries where we give out
Speaker 1: books that are banned elsewhere because yeah, their schools aren't
Speaker 1: doing it in some states. So all right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll come back and get into
Speaker 1: the Taco Bell metaverse wedding. And we're back, and Taco
Speaker 1: Bell is in the metaverse. I don't know this. So
Speaker 1: Taco Bell held a contest where the winner, yes, the winner,
Speaker 1: got to have their wedding in a digital Taco Bell
Speaker 1: in the metaverse. That was what you want. That feels
Speaker 1: like a punishment to me. But the ceremony happened at
Speaker 1: the end of last March. But people who attended, just
Speaker 1: I don't know, broke their media embargo. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And it's just truly, I don't know that this story
Speaker 1: made me feel as empty as any story we've covered
Speaker 1: in a long time. But I did have to talk
Speaker 1: about it. So the bride and grooms avatars faced each
Speaker 1: other across a sacred fire. It was so the wedding
Speaker 1: was a traditional Indian ceremony other than the fact that
Speaker 1: it was in a taco bell In the metaverse, it
Speaker 1: was hosted by Calpen. The bride and grooms avatars faced
Speaker 1: each other across a sacred fire made of taco bells
Speaker 1: signature fire sauce. See, okay, okay, all right, you're on board. No,
Speaker 1: I look, I get it. Wait a second, I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, okay, now I'm back in. I didn't
Speaker 1: know it was Signature fire sauce. But I gotta be honest.
Speaker 1: This um is gross, and I wish everybody like marriage
Speaker 1: is tough, you know what I mean, Like, I wish
Speaker 1: everybody the best of success finding your person. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like even better than that roten Com moment with
Speaker 1: your bag at baggage Claim, right, It's like that forever
Speaker 1: and that's really noble and cool, and that is, for
Speaker 1: most people, the height of romantic luck. So you're saying
Speaker 1: this is even more than seeing your bag. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: we're we're very statement. But okay, Bridget and I are
Speaker 1: being paid by big checked bag, I guess right. But okay,
Speaker 1: there's like again, you know, a good friend of mine,
Speaker 1: actually my best friend, uh is, he's getting married pretty soon,
Speaker 1: and he was telling me all all like how stressful
Speaker 1: it is and how messed up in crazy planning this
Speaker 1: thing gets. And so he and his partner they have
Speaker 1: decided to elope, which I think is cool, you know,
Speaker 1: cut past the nonsense and then make it their own.
Speaker 1: So maybe for this couple it's their dreaming thing. Maybe
Speaker 1: they were like, hey, we met it a Taco bell
Speaker 1: or like you know the metaverse. Yeah, yeah, Gordon front
Speaker 1: wraps are really the glue of our partnership. My problem
Speaker 1: here is not the Taco bell theming I will say
Speaker 1: that they but the official Taco bell, theming, the fact
Speaker 1: that it is. I don't know, I just feel bad
Speaker 1: for like, if you want to diminish the amount of
Speaker 1: stress associated with an event, adding a corporate sponsor who
Speaker 1: has notes on everything, like, it just seems like not
Speaker 1: the not the way to go. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: like the idea idealized version that like they pitched when
Speaker 1: Taco Bell, you know, signed onto this idea and contest
Speaker 1: is probably that it's like, Yeah, they just start expressing
Speaker 1: their love and they're two couple weirdos who just love
Speaker 1: Taco Bell. But in practice, for anyone who has been
Speaker 1: involved with sponsored content and trying to get any amount
Speaker 1: of art through past past corporate sponsors who have notes,
Speaker 1: I just like, I don't know, it seems seems difficult.
Speaker 1: I also like the fact that they keep saying that
Speaker 1: they want a contest to become the first people married
Speaker 1: at a Taco Bell in the metaverse, as though this
Speaker 1: is going to be an ongoing thing that we'll be
Speaker 1: looking back on them as the fucking George Washington's of
Speaker 1: this thing that we all then went on to do
Speaker 1: as a people. Yeah, I mean people do have like
Speaker 1: really strong feelings about Taco Bell. Like I have no
Speaker 1: trouble believing that this couple maybe met in a Taco
Speaker 1: Bell and Taco Bell was a big part of their relationship.
Speaker 1: And I didn't have Taco Bell for the first time
Speaker 1: until like five years ago, so I am not in
Speaker 1: that particular group. But yeah, we weren't allowed to eat
Speaker 1: it when I was growing up like a weird a
Speaker 1: weird role my mom had no Taco Bell, no mountain dew,
Speaker 1: but all the other stuff was fine. Yeah, all fine.
Speaker 1: I don't know why she just like had a thing
Speaker 1: well for mountain dew. She said it was because this
Speaker 1: is this is her words, not mine. It was quote
Speaker 1: for white trash. We weren't allowed to drink. I think
Speaker 1: Taco Bell might have been in the mix as well.
Speaker 1: My family didn't encourage it. I will say that I
Speaker 1: never went out to dinner with my family to Taco
Speaker 1: Bell necessarily, but you know, I got it like after
Speaker 1: you know, a game or something like if I you know,
Speaker 1: we we just it was the thing that was open
Speaker 1: that we could like scarf down in the fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: we had and yeah, it's such perfect point, just like
Speaker 1: so delicious. I don't know. They lit up something in
Speaker 1: my brain that I have been unable to increase from there.
Speaker 1: And the same is true of mountain dew. When I
Speaker 1: lived in Kentucky, I became addicted to mountain dew and
Speaker 1: have never been able to fully like I don't I
Speaker 1: don't go frequently because of or like drink mountain dew
Speaker 1: frequently because for self care reasons, because like if I
Speaker 1: have a twelfth pack of mountain dew at my house.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be able to not drink at all,
Speaker 1: But what if you could do it in the metaverse?
Speaker 1: Brow Now we're talking be thank you. No, that's mountain
Speaker 1: dew was originally slang for moonshine. That's the etymology of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't tried it, but I do agree with your
Speaker 1: mom Bridget. Oh my god, actually onto something but that like, wow,
Speaker 1: you've never tried I've never tried it. I've tried the
Speaker 1: red kind, but I've never had regular mountain deergular, you
Speaker 1: get the you get the overall. Yeah, wait, Ben, have
Speaker 1: you did you say you've never tried it? M I've
Speaker 1: never tried mountain dew. I probably this is like asking
Speaker 1: someone if they've always been vegan. There was probably something
Speaker 1: in the drinks. But anytime there was a mountain dew
Speaker 1: situation Asian available, there was some other soda or something
Speaker 1: to drink. So I would end up I would end
Speaker 1: up going with that. And also growing up, some of
Speaker 1: my relatives I didn't care for we're into mountain dew.
Speaker 1: There was super into mountain dew, and I would look
Speaker 1: at them and I would be like, better you than
Speaker 1: me my friends. You know, so like, okay, but Taco
Speaker 1: Bell though the appeal, the late night appeal back in
Speaker 1: the day, you know, you got like twelve eighteen bucks.
Speaker 1: You're high in a car following another car because you
Speaker 1: think it's a vanity license flight. They grow into a
Speaker 1: Taco Bell. Yeah, and then you're like, I'm living like
Speaker 1: I am the fucking emperor of bad decisions. You know
Speaker 1: what two case ideas grow into euros yo, you know yeah,
Speaker 1: oh man, cheesy Gordia crunch I just discussed like Miles,
Speaker 1: I think turned me onto it. Like I loved Taco
Speaker 1: Bell and I wasn't even getting the best stuff growing up.
Speaker 1: What's the good order? I mean, cheesy gord ud casady
Speaker 1: I've always had. And then I like to get a
Speaker 1: grilled stuffed chicken burrito with That's the healthy part of
Speaker 1: my order. Grilled stuff chicken burrito extra grill, like put
Speaker 1: it on the grill for a little extra time if
Speaker 1: we don't mind. But something you could ask for that, yeah,
Speaker 1: well done, Yeah you brito, well done. But then I'll
Speaker 1: freelance and then of course with the biggest Baja blast
Speaker 1: that they will allow me to carry out. You're in
Speaker 1: deep water my friends, Like, like, I had no idea
Speaker 1: this was a thing. So wait though, I get like
Speaker 1: once a year at this point. But and I don't
Speaker 1: tell my kids or my wife. Yeah, it's just like
Speaker 1: a dark trip to under start of the night. I
Speaker 1: turn my headlights off, dark night of the soul. Oh,
Speaker 1: I got bridgie. He's got like a fake mustache on.
Speaker 1: So wait though, wait though a wedding in the metaverse,
Speaker 1: you gotta tell us these uh, these folks get married.
Speaker 1: They were in person, right, This wasn't like a remote
Speaker 1: like they were together. They kissed, They kissed each other's
Speaker 1: faces like real people in love and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: which is all like that almost makes it because then
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, so they are really like married now,
Speaker 1: like this was really their wedding, because like the picture
Speaker 1: that you see of it is like two people deeply
Speaker 1: in love kissing one another and then they're like weird
Speaker 1: avatars and a purple like on a purple throne, like
Speaker 1: kissing each other above. But so the vows were written
Speaker 1: by chat GPT, so like the story seems like it's
Speaker 1: being written by chat GPT because just like all the
Speaker 1: stupidest buzzwords coming together here the vows were written by
Speaker 1: chat GPT. It was within a video game, so it
Speaker 1: wasn't even really the metaverse. But like, I don't know
Speaker 1: how to feel about that, Like I'm not I'm no
Speaker 1: metaverse snobs. So if they want to do it in
Speaker 1: de CenTra Land the video game, it just seems like
Speaker 1: it was a poorly orchestrated publicity stunt by Taco Bell,
Speaker 1: which has to hurt a little bit when like the
Speaker 1: big viral marketing campaign that is sponsoring your wedding, like
Speaker 1: doesn't even put it in the real metaverse. But I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. But if they pay for
Speaker 1: the wedding though, I mean, at that point, it's just
Speaker 1: like yeah, absolutely, like that's that's great. However, but like
Speaker 1: also the wedding in the metaverse, so like not really
Speaker 1: sure did they I guess this is like I'm sort
Speaker 1: of sort of breaking my brain. Did they pay for
Speaker 1: a ceremony? I RL? Or only within the metaverse? Also
Speaker 1: does a Taco Bell within the metaverse have employees? Like
Speaker 1: I have a lot of questions, Yeah, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: they have employees. One thing that we do know for
Speaker 1: sure is that and this is my favorite point because
Speaker 1: it's like you suspect, Okay, the core brand is going
Speaker 1: to have some notes and ideas that they're gonna want
Speaker 1: to implemented. The one place we got to see this
Speaker 1: is that in addition to having cal Penn host their wedding,
Speaker 1: they also had a twitch streamer like he who was
Speaker 1: narrating the whole thing to the point that the guests
Speaker 1: of the wedding couldn't hear what was happening. He a
Speaker 1: play by play, yes, like a play by play, but
Speaker 1: not even like he was just a twitch streamer. They
Speaker 1: were like, here, do your thing, like had no relation
Speaker 1: to the couple. So he's just like over the top,
Speaker 1: keeps singing. No one so this is no one could
Speaker 1: hear what was going on because the twitch streamer Taco
Speaker 1: Bell hired kept singing about Taco Bell throughout the ceremony.
Speaker 1: Legion except the O in legion is a que for
Speaker 1: probably Q and on reasons but I have no idea
Speaker 1: spoke through every minute of the ceremony. He shouted out
Speaker 1: his followers and made up little songs proclaim his love
Speaker 1: for Taco Bell as he showed off his avatar's various
Speaker 1: outfits during the wedding. Wow he sounds like a rowdy wedding.
Speaker 1: Guess that you have to throw out of your wedding
Speaker 1: because they've had one too many. But like during the ceremony,
Speaker 1: it's like, how at the ceremony? How can I make
Speaker 1: this wedding about me? He said, you know which that
Speaker 1: happens that he heard war stories. I you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't want to I've never met these folks. Wish
Speaker 1: them the best again. Yeah, at the top them, it's
Speaker 1: just we live in Hell, all of us, and this
Speaker 1: is amazing. And Hell is a combination Taco Bell, the
Speaker 1: metaverse wedding chapel. Yeah, oh my gosh, what other things
Speaker 1: you're going to happen in the metaverse? What other is
Speaker 1: Taco Bell gonna have a funeral contest next? Like? Are
Speaker 1: they gonna have a kincinera? Like, what's what's going on?
Speaker 1: Who would? Who would think this is a good idea?
Speaker 1: I want to meet the couple that steps up and
Speaker 1: has their divorce in the metaverse. Yeah, like if you're
Speaker 1: to be about that life, Yeah, Like they didn't look
Speaker 1: at the by laws in the entirety of their wedding,
Speaker 1: including like the consummation. Everything has to happen in the metaverse,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what if they kill Bell present narrating
Speaker 1: all of the whole thing. Wait wait, wait though, wait
Speaker 1: less less less question. What if what if there is
Speaker 1: something I think you're onto someone with the fine print?
Speaker 1: What if there is something where they cannot get divorced?
Speaker 1: And less Taco Bell signs off right, Taco Bell like,
Speaker 1: we don't love this for our Yeah, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if it was in the contract. I'd be surprised
Speaker 1: if they upheld it if, like, I'm sure they put
Speaker 1: it in the contract, being like, because now this is
Speaker 1: gonna be America's sweethearts. Everyone's going to be paying attention
Speaker 1: to the the first couple to get married in a
Speaker 1: metaverse Taco Bell. And then now that it has happened,
Speaker 1: and everyone's just like, oh my god, we live in hell,
Speaker 1: they're probably like, never mind, you guys, do your thing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm sure the contract gives gives them rights
Speaker 1: to the first two offspring from the children, you know,
Speaker 1: or front from the wet from the marriage. All right,
Speaker 1: so let's take a quick break and then we'll talk
Speaker 1: about more insane news. All right, Big news, Uh, we're back,
Speaker 1: Big News. Tiger King Joe exotic guy is running for
Speaker 1: president from jail to remind you if you didn't watch
Speaker 1: the whole thing or manage to like strategically forget that
Speaker 1: you watched it, that part of the pandemic. Currently serving
Speaker 1: twenty one year federal sentence for taking out a hit
Speaker 1: on his rival and also for unlawfully killing at least
Speaker 1: five tigers because he's a bad person. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: The story is just that we talked about fractals yesterday
Speaker 1: with our guest Baritunde Thurston, and like the idea of
Speaker 1: like small patterns that like explode and like turn your
Speaker 1: whole society into the thing that is happening at the
Speaker 1: smaller level. And like this way in which I and
Speaker 1: I don't know which came first, but like toxic narcissism,
Speaker 1: like debilitating narcissism, like people just have their mind and
Speaker 1: life taken over by a narcissistic personality disorder being the
Speaker 1: cheat code to get famous. This just seems to be
Speaker 1: like another example of that replicating itself. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's just the overall conditions of social media
Speaker 1: and the attention economy and all of that just leading
Speaker 1: to that but it does seem like this overall sickness
Speaker 1: we have as a civilization. It's like results in a
Speaker 1: world where Joe Exotic is still a celebrity. Hey, George
Speaker 1: Santos is running too, You know what I mean, they
Speaker 1: look at me. Casino of social media is in full effect.
Speaker 1: I imagine, I imagine Jack, that you are very divided.
Speaker 1: Which of these two candidates most deserves your vote? Wait,
Speaker 1: George Santos is running for president? Well, I mean unless
Speaker 1: he's lying about it. Yeah, I mean that's such a
Speaker 1: non sequitor. But the weirdest lie that he told is
Speaker 1: that he was one of the producers on the Broadway
Speaker 1: adaptation of Spider Man Turn Out the Dark. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it also was like what like, yeah, that production was
Speaker 1: like a disaster. People got hurt. I think somebody got,
Speaker 1: like one of the actors got very hurt. Why wout
Speaker 1: you want to Why would you want to be like, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was part of that production. I produced that Actually,
Speaker 1: Like what, like, what a weird thing to lie about? Yeah? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That's his genius. Yeah, he picks very specific
Speaker 1: things that nobody else would lie about. Like he didn't
Speaker 1: say he was on he said he was on Burut
Speaker 1: College's volleyball team, which they don't have a volleyball team,
Speaker 1: and like New York is not known for its volleyball.
Speaker 1: So he like gets in these like little like you know,
Speaker 1: corners where nobody would even think to look, and lies
Speaker 1: about that. I apologize. Accuracy is important he has he's
Speaker 1: running for reelection. I don't know if he's quite president,
Speaker 1: just get elections. Well, you know, he knows how to
Speaker 1: say in the new campaign. Yeah, but I I mean,
Speaker 1: but he's no, he's no tiger king. I saw tiger
Speaker 1: kings like most of us during the pandemic, right, and uh,
Speaker 1: And I don't understand a lot of quote unquote reality television,
Speaker 1: but I fucking love tigers, you know, I love animals
Speaker 1: like that. So I'm like, oh, let's see what's happening.
Speaker 1: I was thoroughly unprepared. It was like a later season
Speaker 1: of Walking Dead where zombies occasionally show up and it's
Speaker 1: mostly just regular people who are bad at communicating. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, why don't you change the title of this
Speaker 1: to like a guy? There are also, hey, Ben, there
Speaker 1: are also some tigers in here occasionally, right, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: tiger content severely lacking and he's still locked up for
Speaker 1: how long this guy Joe twenty something years, twenty one years,
Speaker 1: so like well passed to the end of his first term.
Speaker 1: I will say, yeah, he's playing to ask Liz Cheney
Speaker 1: to be his running mate. He's also like running on
Speaker 1: the like he's saying that, like one of his big
Speaker 1: platforms is corruption in the Partment of Justice, which is real,
Speaker 1: like and Trump is hitting on that too. The Department
Speaker 1: of Justice is a complete shit show and like one
Speaker 1: of the most toxic, like just all the FBI, like
Speaker 1: all these things that Trump gets to be the person
Speaker 1: who like points out it's very frustrating, but he at
Speaker 1: least knows how to imitate the parts of I think
Speaker 1: he kind of got forced into focusing on Department of
Speaker 1: Justice because he is in jail and convicted of attempted murder.
Speaker 1: But can you do that? Can you? Can you become
Speaker 1: when you're yeah, yeah, I believe it's constitutionally permitted. I'm
Speaker 1: going to write that down in my nose. Wasn't he
Speaker 1: angling to get a pardon from Trump? Like he was
Speaker 1: like yeah, he was like waiting waiting on the call
Speaker 1: before Trump left office. I think that was like a
Speaker 1: big part of season two or for some reason, I
Speaker 1: have like some memory of him like waiting on a
Speaker 1: pardon from Trump. I don't think I watched season two.
Speaker 1: If I did, I'm very disappointed in myself. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember there being like a big thing where he
Speaker 1: was like putting all his chips on Trump was going
Speaker 1: to pardon him, and then it didn't happen. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Tiger King part of the pandemic was really weird when
Speaker 1: we were all just like glued to it. Yeah, our
Speaker 1: collective fever dream, you know, when when everybody was incredibly
Speaker 1: afraid with good reason. But then also, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: because you're right. I remember these conversations I would have
Speaker 1: was strangers, you know, we're all like, we're all like
Speaker 1: massed up, so everything has like this tension because they're
Speaker 1: looking at each other's eyes, you know. Yeah, and uh,
Speaker 1: and then you would have these covers and Tiger King
Speaker 1: got mentioned, yeah in in these just very short right. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm from Atlanta. We all talking to each
Speaker 1: other constantly, you know, in any line or elevator. But
Speaker 1: yet Tiger King and you would pointed out off air
Speaker 1: Jack he's running as a libertarian. Yeah, libertarian with a
Speaker 1: campaign of shutting down the IRS, assassinating Putin, and making
Speaker 1: undocumented migrants pay fifty dollars of months to avoid deportation,
Speaker 1: which is an idea he says he got from Billy's.
Speaker 1: But real winner, this guy assassinating Putin. It's funny. They're like, so,
Speaker 1: but you're you're saying you're gonna kill He's like, yep,
Speaker 1: you quote that wherever you want. Well, does he think
Speaker 1: this CIA is going to read that and go, oh shit,
Speaker 1: lightbulb moment will all right, let's talk about Sesame Street
Speaker 1: NFT is because the NFT market is exploding right now,
Speaker 1: and we this is another edition of stock Corner Jack
Speaker 1: stock Corner. So the NFT market is. I'm shocked that
Speaker 1: there are still NFTs, but uh, you know, I guess
Speaker 1: these things take a while to develop. And there is
Speaker 1: a new sixty dollars cookie Monster NFT, the first of
Speaker 1: a series of official Sesame Street team to NFTs, brought
Speaker 1: to you by the letters W, T and F. These
Speaker 1: are just hitty JPEGs, like they are just Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't even know what to say about this.
Speaker 1: Did they just announced this? Yeah, they just announced this.
Speaker 1: I feel like, if they'd announced this last year, I
Speaker 1: might be like, perfect sense, we wouldn't have had to
Speaker 1: talk about it at all. I would say that, but
Speaker 1: I would be at least like, Okay, it's kind of
Speaker 1: in the zeguy. Sure, yeah. But so people are disappointed
Speaker 1: in this and they're they're like, but Sesame Street is
Speaker 1: the educational show for everyone. Why would you be charging
Speaker 1: money for a jpeg? Like, why would you be making
Speaker 1: a product that is the equivalent of like seventy dollars
Speaker 1: bottled water? You know, it's just like dumb. Nobody needs
Speaker 1: it and what what are you doing? So our writer
Speaker 1: Jam did kind of a deep dive into the history
Speaker 1: of funding Sesame Street, because when it was created, it
Speaker 1: was that this idea that like we will publicly fund PBS,
Speaker 1: Sesame Street will air on PBS and be like get
Speaker 1: half of its budget from public funding. And then Nixon
Speaker 1: came into the White House and was immediately he was like,
Speaker 1: I love Sesame Street, but I can't stomach the government
Speaker 1: funding a single dollar of this, and you know, just
Speaker 1: attacked public PBS essentially, and they've just been having to
Speaker 1: like struggle and grind to just get fund enough money
Speaker 1: to keep the show afloat all of the years, you know,
Speaker 1: they've had to like lobby, they've had to like do
Speaker 1: DoorDash commercials. There was a Sesame Street door Dash commercial
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl a couple years ago that people
Speaker 1: were like, guys, door Dash is not a good company
Speaker 1: for you to be hanging out with, watching watching your
Speaker 1: kids hang out with like bad I don't know, like
Speaker 1: smoke cigarettes or something. It's like, why is Big Bird
Speaker 1: doing hanging out with DoorDash executives. But it's been Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just been violating its ethical ideals for since the start,
Speaker 1: because the Republican Party, like starting with Nixon, just has
Speaker 1: had its crosshairs on Sesame Street because not just because
Speaker 1: like it's not you know, the when it started, the
Speaker 1: show's budget was eight million dollars, so it's not like
Speaker 1: this massive government expenditure. But I think what it represents
Speaker 1: to the Republican Party is like something and great that
Speaker 1: was openly created from public funding and like a great
Speaker 1: work of art that was like openly you know, it's
Speaker 1: just like too much of a success. And so ever
Speaker 1: since an extent, like Nuke Game, Rich also like got
Speaker 1: in on it, and like in the nineties, was like,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be giving them any money because they sold
Speaker 1: tickle me elmos so they can fund their budget as
Speaker 1: much as they want, which just yeah, it's completely misguided.
Speaker 1: And but but I think they're afraid of what Sesame
Speaker 1: Street represents. And in this country, like just any beacon
Speaker 1: of socialism is, you know, the country is allergic too
Speaker 1: coming for libraries. Yeahs have been. Yeah, libraries and Sesame
Speaker 1: Street the number one evils that are the threat America. Yeah. Sure,
Speaker 1: somebody called the Tiger Gang. Let them know the real enemy, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: But I like, Okay, so this is the thing. Sesame
Speaker 1: Street is a wholesome kind of connecting point for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. It's difficult to look at something like
Speaker 1: that and vilify it. And I will say, this is
Speaker 1: an opportunity for me to reference a weird Nixon fact
Speaker 1: bridget Jack Psyching. I recently learned that Richard Nixon genuinely said,
Speaker 1: I woten thought that if they're a bit of a
Speaker 1: good rap group around in those days, I might have
Speaker 1: chosen a career in music instead of politics. What. Yes,
Speaker 1: he was a rap fan. He said that, you know,
Speaker 1: he almost he heavily implies that he would have gone
Speaker 1: into music instead of politics. I don't know what he
Speaker 1: was listening to, but this was found in a nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety seven tour through the Nixon Presidential Library. So was
Speaker 1: it like something he said at the end when like
Speaker 1: just random neurons were firing off in his dying brain.
Speaker 1: Because it feels like he lasted long like that, we
Speaker 1: just kind of decided that he wasn't going to be
Speaker 1: an ex president that people paid attention to. But like
Speaker 1: there's a photograph that always blows my mind of Nixon
Speaker 1: and RoboCop like at the same event. Yeah, because they
Speaker 1: were at like some boys and girls club event together,
Speaker 1: Like it just somebody dressed as RoboCop, not the real
Speaker 1: RoboCop everyone from the documentary. But like it seems like,
Speaker 1: well that can't be because those like RoboCop is from
Speaker 1: a different time period than Nixon. But he was still
Speaker 1: around and out there and just being like I didn't
Speaker 1: do anything wrong. I got screwed, Like yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was definitely in a big former president energy, you say,
Speaker 1: you know I, oh, yeah, well I could have also
Speaker 1: in awesome music. But you know, just you know, it's
Speaker 1: not my fault. It's the world's fault. So I am
Speaker 1: not a fan of Nixon. To be absolutely transparent about it,
Speaker 1: it does not surprise me that he and his ilk
Speaker 1: object to free education an inequitable, wholesome way. But also
Speaker 1: NFTs are stupid. Can I say that one show? Okay,
Speaker 1: absolutely not, because zeke cooin is still coming. We're still
Speaker 1: developing it. It will be released. We're targeting a Spring
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six launch for ze coin. It just takes
Speaker 1: a lot. We just have a lot of notes on
Speaker 1: the design of the JPEG, the pixel placements. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: of course, I mean Bridge, you know more about this
Speaker 1: than I do. So, like, what's our NFTs? Are they
Speaker 1: a GRIFFT? Is this something? Total scam? Yeah, total complete scam.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I was at south By Southwest this time
Speaker 1: last year and everything was an FT, this crypto that
Speaker 1: that was the thing. And I'm not at south By
Speaker 1: right now, but I've lots of friends who are and
Speaker 1: I'm hearing that that this is like NFTs who we
Speaker 1: don't know her, Like the quickly everybody was like maybe
Speaker 1: not and how like it was people had like gone
Speaker 1: all in on it just a year ago and today
Speaker 1: it's like not a thing. Anymore a total scam. It
Speaker 1: breaks my heart that Sesame Street has to resort to
Speaker 1: and also resort to it and get there kind of late.
Speaker 1: Like again, like if this has been announced last year,
Speaker 1: I might have been like, all right, but yeah, been
Speaker 1: to your point about the way that public television, particularly
Speaker 1: for children, has been like scrutinized and attacked. You know,
Speaker 1: you were like, oh, it's very wholesome. You know, they
Speaker 1: really what could they find to be upset about the
Speaker 1: way that folks on the right are trying to politicize
Speaker 1: Sesame Street, to target it, to be like this is
Speaker 1: why we need to defund it. I remember when Big
Speaker 1: Bird got quote unquote got the COVID shot and they
Speaker 1: were like, oh, like this is so political, and I
Speaker 1: have to say I respected sesame Streets a stance of
Speaker 1: being like, nope, we're just you know, amplifying what the
Speaker 1: American Association of Pediatrics has said. It's good for kids,
Speaker 1: and so that's what we're gonna do. The way that
Speaker 1: Republicans continue to try to target and scrutinize and weaponize
Speaker 1: Sesame Street precisely because it is a source of kind
Speaker 1: of wholesome often like identity based education, for children. I
Speaker 1: think it's really disgusting and it's sad then that they
Speaker 1: have to resort to what is just a scam Like
Speaker 1: NFTs are not a good investment, It is not a
Speaker 1: good use of anyone's money. It just makes me, it
Speaker 1: breaks my heart, and I think it really is a
Speaker 1: testament to the fact that we do live in this
Speaker 1: like new tech hell I guess, like like a tech
Speaker 1: hellscape where even Sesame Street has to go the NFT route,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, but Cookie Monster does look like he
Speaker 1: wants to fuck me, right, Like that's what's happening, and
Speaker 1: that's like, that's yeah, clearly they're like, maybe you're interested
Speaker 1: in NFTs now. Button isn't like an NFT of Cookie
Speaker 1: Monsters hinge profile exactly either way, Jack, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get all the way through, Like you're not even gonna
Speaker 1: get through the first thirty minutes. So whatever, you guys
Speaker 1: watch on Netflix because Cookie Monsters got a vibe there,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, have Flix and it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be very chill. That's a cool timely reference, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: Bridget very figure on the pulse, Yeah, Bridget, such a
Speaker 1: pleasure having you as always Where can people find you,
Speaker 1: follow you all that good stuff. Oh well, it's always
Speaker 1: a pleasure to join the Viking. People can find me
Speaker 1: on Instagram at bridget Marine DC, on Twitter at bridget Marine,
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Speaker 1: is it Stevens? Yeah? I think that's right. Step makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they hated each other. Oh, that's right. And is there
Speaker 1: a work of media that you've been enjoying? There is
Speaker 1: a work of I guess I'll call it a work
Speaker 1: of media. It's a little niche, but I had never
Speaker 1: seen this video of Azalea Banks doing an impression of Ti.
Speaker 1: It's so mean, but it's also the funniest thing I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. Please look it up. Like I was dying
Speaker 1: laughing at Azzalia Banks doing an impression of Tea Ben.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Is there a work of
Speaker 1: media you've been enjoying? Yeah, you can find me at
Speaker 1: Ben Bulling Bowl I in on Instagram. You can find
Speaker 1: me at Ben Bolling hsw on Twitter. Work of media
Speaker 1: unrelated that I've been really enjoying. I got I got
Speaker 1: super into just very low fi pov walking chilled music
Speaker 1: tours on YouTube. So my my YouTube history is probably
Speaker 1: quite boring right now because it's just the perfect eye
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Speaker 1: night through very nice cities. It's delightful. I'll send it,
Speaker 1: I'll send it. I'll send it to you guys. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien
Speaker 1: tweet I've been enjoying Sana at Fruit Lover tweeted I'm
Speaker 1: watching Nathan for you with my mom and she keeps
Speaker 1: asking me what's wrong with this guy? It just feels
Speaker 1: like exactly right parent response to Nathan. You can find
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Speaker 1: our foot notes where we link off to the information
Speaker 1: that we talked about in today's episode as well. It's
Speaker 1: a song that we think you might enjoy. Hey, super
Speaker 1: producer Justin is there a song that you think people
Speaker 1: might enjoy? Yeah? The only way I can describe this
Speaker 1: song is that it sounds like if someone smoked angel
Speaker 1: dust and then freestyled over the Rugrats or Sesame Street.
Speaker 1: I guess theme song in a traphouse basement. Okay, you
Speaker 1: get in situations. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's very specific. But
Speaker 1: I'm just calling it how I see it, full sits.
Speaker 1: I think you'll agree with me. So this song is
Speaker 1: called Jig a Dame by Maxe Cream and you can
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