Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh These are some of our favorite segments
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Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. Well, you are here for a banger
Speaker 1: of a guest, because in our third seat we have
Speaker 1: one of our favorites. Hilarious stand up comedian actor writer
Speaker 1: has written issues of Batman for a little outfit called
Speaker 1: DC Comments, and dropped a new stand up special called
Speaker 1: Burry Me Loose a year ago. Please welcome back to
Speaker 1: the show, the Brilliant, the Talented, you do TRAVA. What's happening?
Speaker 1: I'm back. It's me. You're doing a A k A.
Speaker 1: I didn't prepare a bunch of nicknames. I wish you
Speaker 1: would sit something upfront before we got to this point.
Speaker 1: And now I'm embarrassed, almost embarrassed myself. That was off
Speaker 1: the top of the dome. I stumbled a little bit,
Speaker 1: but we got it. Yeah. I do feel like that's
Speaker 1: a that's a lofty endeavor to take on off the cuff,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, that's a big risk you took. I
Speaker 1: respect that. Hey man, I'm here too. I'm here to
Speaker 1: take risk. That's what I do. Sorry, my voice cracked
Speaker 1: when I was shouting her name. I apologize. That's okay,
Speaker 1: I have that undignified. Yeah, I just get I get nervous,
Speaker 1: you know, it's okay. That's okay. By the way, I'm
Speaker 1: coming to you live from my Batman chair. You probably
Speaker 1: can't see it because it's dark as hell, But I
Speaker 1: got the Batman death Batman lighting. Oh yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: got the little you know, I got the screen shot
Speaker 1: from into the Spider Verse. Behind me, we're all black
Speaker 1: nerded out over here. Yeah, you got a bisexual lighting
Speaker 1: situation going, yeah, right now, definitely going. Yeah, if Batman
Speaker 1: was in high school, all right, yeah, I'd love to
Speaker 1: see it. Are you pitching something? Oh, it's already pitched
Speaker 1: in your work. All right, let's talk after the after
Speaker 1: the recording. Let's go. Are you is the DC stuff ongoing?
Speaker 1: Are you still still writing Batman stuff or at? What?
Speaker 1: And what was that like? You know? I yeah, it's ongoing.
Speaker 1: I just uh, I just finished my second one end
Speaker 1: of last year. You know. It's one of those things.
Speaker 1: It's cool. It's a badge. They're out there it's it's
Speaker 1: a very it's a very exciting thing, but you know it, Uh,
Speaker 1: it also doesn't pay the rent. So I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's fun, it's cool, but I'll do another one. When
Speaker 1: I do it, let me. I might be putting you
Speaker 1: in the hot seat here, But what comic books did
Speaker 1: you really gravitate towards when you first were coming up
Speaker 1: in the game. I was a manga kid growing up,
Speaker 1: so I was reading like Naruto and One Piece and
Speaker 1: all this stuff. I actually grew up on like comic
Speaker 1: book cartoons more than anything. I was like watching the
Speaker 1: the Spider Man animated series, Batman animated series, X Men.
Speaker 1: That's like what really got me into it, and so
Speaker 1: like you, Yeah, it was a little weirder that they
Speaker 1: asked me to do this up front because I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I read them, but I don't, like, I'm not a
Speaker 1: huge nerd like that. Well, how how did they find you?
Speaker 1: Because I was doing anime videos on YouTube? Got you?
Speaker 1: Got you? Oh wow, that's really cool. Yeah. I I
Speaker 1: also came up similar the the X Men cartoon, the
Speaker 1: Mask of the Phantasm Batman film. I probably wore that
Speaker 1: copy out. Yeah, a lot of that I wasn't super
Speaker 1: into the comics. Um that was more of my sister's bag.
Speaker 1: But now that I see they're coming back with the
Speaker 1: James Gunn slate of the Brave and the Bold title
Speaker 1: in there, that really got me excited because you know,
Speaker 1: the for you know, the comic book nerds out there,
Speaker 1: you guys are familiar that Brave and the Bold title
Speaker 1: coming from the Silver Age and Golden Age of of
Speaker 1: comics is really harkening back to like the foundation of comics,
Speaker 1: and I kind of I'm missing that with you know,
Speaker 1: the popcorn flicks and and Marvel and you know, I
Speaker 1: kind of I kind of enjoyed that, but I want
Speaker 1: to get back to the roots of like, you know,
Speaker 1: not just the entertainment factor, but the philosophy of comics. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, bro, I just I feel like, like a
Speaker 1: lot of people, I'm living the life that I wanted
Speaker 1: to live as a teenager right now, you know, where
Speaker 1: we're still semi in a pandemic and I'm just I
Speaker 1: tornted it. But like the entire X Men Batman catalog,
Speaker 1: just all of these kids wanted to read My whole
Speaker 1: life torrented very legally obviously, you know, for you know,
Speaker 1: for the law purposes. Yeah, I'm just like finally getting
Speaker 1: to to like a baseline level of knowledge that I
Speaker 1: wish I had my whole life that I felt like
Speaker 1: I didn't have access to. You know, I feel like
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of nerds that that grew up that
Speaker 1: like didn't have access to the ship that they liked.
Speaker 1: I was. I was just gonna say, there's so many
Speaker 1: people it's it's hard to keep up now, especially as
Speaker 1: a nerd now. I mean it's the you go online,
Speaker 1: there's so many takes. I I can't keep up. People
Speaker 1: are bringing up, you know, superheroes like oh, I've been
Speaker 1: a fan of this guy for thirty years. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I never heard of this dude in my life. The
Speaker 1: research is intense nowadays, for sure. Yeah, you know, it's
Speaker 1: one of the craziest imbalances of power. Is like going
Speaker 1: out as someone who's now written Batman, and I like,
Speaker 1: my my view on Batman is that like, dude is
Speaker 1: a fascist. He's a whole fascist. He's a I think
Speaker 1: that's very obvious, and it's and it's hard to write
Speaker 1: for for him and sort of think about the themes
Speaker 1: of it rather than like diving into this brooding character,
Speaker 1: like romanticizing him, and then like going out and tweeting
Speaker 1: stuff like that and getting responses from people that I
Speaker 1: know have read more of the comics than me, but
Speaker 1: they still think, like, no, he's not a he's not
Speaker 1: a cop are you talking about? Doesn't know he does it,
Speaker 1: and so I can't like argue with them. But even
Speaker 1: though I know the real world politics more than they do,
Speaker 1: but they know that they know that fake world politics more.
Speaker 1: It's so like it's such a bizarre Batman asks the question,
Speaker 1: what if there was a cop that was competent, didn't
Speaker 1: sunk up every single time that he tried to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, he sucks up, He fokes up a lot. Yeah, yeah, Residi,
Speaker 1: the recidivism rate of Batman is through the roof. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. Yeah, everybody's just right back. He also kidnaps
Speaker 1: children and puts them in harm's away like all the time,
Speaker 1: so you know, yeah, that's not super fun either. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a deep, deep commentary about Batman that is not
Speaker 1: even getting touched on. What if there was a cop
Speaker 1: who was like all the other cops except you dressed
Speaker 1: as a bat That's the question that, Batman, Yeah, what
Speaker 1: is something from your search history? I was looking at
Speaker 1: I looked through them, and the only appropriate thing to
Speaker 1: talk about is uh, I was looking for Beyonce tickets. Yes,
Speaker 1: I can't do it. I'm out. I'm out for a concert, Chrack.
Speaker 1: What was this time you went to a concert? The
Speaker 1: last time I went to a concert was it might
Speaker 1: have been the jay Z Beyonce show. How about you? Dan?
Speaker 1: How about you? I went and saw the Lovely Carly
Speaker 1: ray Jepson at the Greek Theater not too long ago.
Speaker 1: I think it's about a month and a half. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's great. I love that. It was lovely, it was fun.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm completely prepared to cash out. I lost my
Speaker 1: ship during the Taylor Swift uproar. I'm a huge Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift fan, and I tried to get into the first
Speaker 1: I've seen it three times. The shows are always amazing.
Speaker 1: I I got kicked out of the Capital one like
Speaker 1: pre sale thing, and then I just quickly looked at
Speaker 1: the things, and I looked at my wife, and I
Speaker 1: just went to StubHub and I bought nosebleed seats for
Speaker 1: four dollars each. Yes, and it's not saying, I'm proud
Speaker 1: of your listeners. May not know this, but I'm an
Speaker 1: older Latino man. I you know, I were a bartend
Speaker 1: and covine. Uh, I've got a face working class Filipino
Speaker 1: and Mexican men all the time and tell them the
Speaker 1: same stories. That's wildly embarrassing. But I looked at my
Speaker 1: beautiful white wife in the face, and her and I
Speaker 1: have never been to a Taylor Swift concert together, and
Speaker 1: I told her, this is the last time we're doing
Speaker 1: anything like this. Forget it. There's no more concerts after this,
Speaker 1: and I pay for that. I looked at Beyonce. It's
Speaker 1: the very exact same thing. You could tell everything. You're
Speaker 1: getting access to pre sales and all this kind of ship,
Speaker 1: and I am simply out there's nothing that you can experience.
Speaker 1: I think at a Beyonce concert where it's gonna cost
Speaker 1: you a thousand dollars, twelve hundred dollars, fifteen hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: it's just not ever going to be worth it. That
Speaker 1: That's how I feel about it. And I love Beyonce,
Speaker 1: yeah I do too. It really seems like the whole
Speaker 1: I mean, it is a industry that is controlled by monopoly,
Speaker 1: and I feel like that's sucking it up for everyone
Speaker 1: right like that. That just feels like it's it's really made.
Speaker 1: Put a Sara taste in people's mouth. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: do it anymore. So I don't know what the future
Speaker 1: is for the concert industry, but it doesn't bum me
Speaker 1: out not to see the Queen, you know, holding hats
Speaker 1: with my beloved, you know, looking into her eyes. Uh,
Speaker 1: singing songs from Lemonade, you know, cheating songs, Yeah, cheating.
Speaker 1: Why are you so into this? She's just looking at me, crying,
Speaker 1: weeping slowly. I'll never forget when Lemonade came out, I um,
Speaker 1: it was on HBO Max for like three hours. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys remember this. And I had
Speaker 1: Chatterbox on my Sunday night show and Covina that I
Speaker 1: was gonna go to. I had an hour to take
Speaker 1: a napp. I was like, let me just start this thing,
Speaker 1: and I was like, so taken. Aback. I did cry,
Speaker 1: for sure, but just I just took in the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And I was so deeply moved just thinking about jay
Speaker 1: Z cheating on Beyonce. Yeah, yeah, he fuck up it
Speaker 1: really up. I mean The best thing to come out
Speaker 1: out of all that is that to find out the
Speaker 1: reason why Solange pushed him in the elevator it was
Speaker 1: beating on him. Is like the coolest thing I've ever
Speaker 1: seen that we have on tape. To have beyonce sister
Speaker 1: beating up jay Z for cheating on her. How cool
Speaker 1: is this? It's great. I feel like that would have
Speaker 1: been a lot of people's responses to hearing that he
Speaker 1: cheated on Beyonce, like it didn't need to be her sister.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like if his homie had found it,
Speaker 1: was like what stupid? Yeah, so you are going though,
Speaker 1: if you will be absolutely not, absolutely not, You're not going.
Speaker 1: I will not. I will. I probably will like the
Speaker 1: day or two. Uh, if there's something, I hate what
Speaker 1: I'm about to tell you, but it's it's sad. Everything's
Speaker 1: gotten so expensive. Did I have money? Okay, I'm not
Speaker 1: rich or anything, but I'm a wildly successful neighborhood bartender.
Speaker 1: I get I get a few commercials a year, so
Speaker 1: that's like a windfall of money. I don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about money, and I'm very grateful for that like that,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, going gross, I do the grocery
Speaker 1: shopping in the family. Every sandwich, now if you go somewhere,
Speaker 1: if you go somewhere to pick up a sandwich, is
Speaker 1: twenty dollars out the door. There's obviously I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just feeling taking advantage of Okay, I'm trying to feel
Speaker 1: like this is too much now. Granted I'm getting older,
Speaker 1: so I wonder if everyone just feels this way, which
Speaker 1: is if the thing is to just talk about money
Speaker 1: like this, but I can't. Yeah, it's the it's the inflation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like they just raised the prices on everything and
Speaker 1: there's nothing to stop them from from doing that. And
Speaker 1: they call it inflation, but it's really just corporations realizing
Speaker 1: that they face no consequences if they just charge more money.
Speaker 1: All they face is more money, which is good like
Speaker 1: that that gives them their friends during their earnings calls.
Speaker 1: Think they call them geniuses for doing that. Ship So
Speaker 1: it's you know, I know there's more complicated dynamics involved,
Speaker 1: but that seems to be the main one as far
Speaker 1: as I can tell. Sandwich inflation. Yeah, they're making a
Speaker 1: dollar for a smaller sandwich, which is infury. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, we went to a place and I don't
Speaker 1: want to call it out anyway. It was a fine
Speaker 1: sand which is even very tasty. But we spent fifty
Speaker 1: dollars the other day. This is like just walking out
Speaker 1: with the things and you know, hey, well you know, well,
Speaker 1: how lucky were we to spend the fifty That's all
Speaker 1: I got to say. Okay, okay, this is what happens
Speaker 1: when you're a wildly successful the ablehod bartender. Guys, all right,
Speaker 1: I have helped built that bar for fifteen sixteen years. Now,
Speaker 1: what's something you think is overrated? Either? I put a list,
Speaker 1: so it's either Harry Styles finding Nemo once you all
Speaker 1: were talking all zombie content, so y'all can pick which one. Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to hear about all the I mean Harry Styles.
Speaker 1: I think it is pretty I think we get that one, right.
Speaker 1: I am had no beef. I want to be clear
Speaker 1: that that young man has never crossed my mind in
Speaker 1: my entire black ass life. Not one time had I
Speaker 1: thought about Harry Styles. But it only took a few
Speaker 1: nights ago for him to become my number one enemy.
Speaker 1: I have to now retroactively go back and hate because
Speaker 1: I listen, I disrespect. You know, I'm not even get
Speaker 1: started to kind of beh I remember, I am. I'm surprised,
Speaker 1: y'all ain't hear me hit the ground from I can
Speaker 1: listen when listen, I knew the minute Trevor Noah, because
Speaker 1: he knew better. I was, no, I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: that enough unless respect of m Trevor no I knew
Speaker 1: the black community was not gonna let him say and
Speaker 1: then that was the fiance. So the minute you walk
Speaker 1: over to that white woman to ask her to say it,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, no, I didn't. I didn't see it.
Speaker 1: But that's an amazing move by him to be like
Speaker 1: you literally and he was like, hey, you want to
Speaker 1: say this in a minute. I was like, what's going on?
Speaker 1: What's going on? With what's going on? I was like
Speaker 1: an old white lady, and I you know what, you know,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I was prepared a little bit like if
Speaker 1: they had said bad bunny. I want you to understand,
Speaker 1: I would be I would be talking ship like, not
Speaker 1: not the same way, but in my home. I'd be
Speaker 1: talking mad ship, but not online in the same way,
Speaker 1: because I would understand I can't intellectually defend it from
Speaker 1: the same position. I get it. Global impact, undeniable, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: highest grossing tool. I can't deny these stats. But Harry Styles, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just such an industry award where it's just like
Speaker 1: the music industry rewarding itself, like the people that they
Speaker 1: want to be, like, we look what we built. And
Speaker 1: when my man said, did you had a speech? He said?
Speaker 1: He said, he said, this don't happen to people like me.
Speaker 1: He said that, and I was like, if I jumped
Speaker 1: through this confused and tackle this child, I am curious.
Speaker 1: I was like, I know you're not saying that. Look
Speaker 1: at Beyonce and how Black House pays. It's like, literally
Speaker 1: every phrase of that sentence needs to be interrogated. What
Speaker 1: what do you mean by things like this? What do
Speaker 1: you They were trying to defend that. You know, they're like,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, he means because he was four. I
Speaker 1: was like, what, man, but even that is bullshit. Poor
Speaker 1: fucking anyone who grew up poor doesn't have Grammys. That's yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: there's never been a poor white guy. Why you showed it?
Speaker 1: Get it out the mud? Harry Okay, so him, I'm
Speaker 1: now officially a Harry Style heter whatever. Finding Nemo. You're
Speaker 1: out on Yeah. I've been finding Nemo haitos hater since
Speaker 1: day one, Like as a child, it was one of
Speaker 1: the first movies. Like, it wasn't the first time I
Speaker 1: walked out of the theater. That was as Moses Jones, um,
Speaker 1: I like that. You're a young person just walking out
Speaker 1: of movies. Like, listen, I remember I was, I was trapped.
Speaker 1: I would have walked out. What happened was you know
Speaker 1: I have I have five siblings and my parents. You know,
Speaker 1: they were tied us and they sent us to a
Speaker 1: movie theater all day. They thought it was like a
Speaker 1: full set of tickets. It was like Lelo and Stitch
Speaker 1: finding me all these things out. I get to finding Nemo,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what is this incredibly stressful movie? And
Speaker 1: I have felt that way every day. That is the
Speaker 1: most stressful film. So dark, like the anxiety is not
Speaker 1: flared up. I'm like, okay, So his mama, dad, he's disabled,
Speaker 1: His daddy is a single, daddy's struggling. His dad. He
Speaker 1: don't listen first and almost I never liked his little
Speaker 1: lie right, don't listen. I I can't stand anymore. His
Speaker 1: daddy gave that man one instruction, No, don't go there,
Speaker 1: don't go there. He can go happen a little ching
Speaker 1: up there now, Daddy stressed out for the entire filming
Speaker 1: because now you're stuck in a pet shop and yeah,
Speaker 1: Daddy's only what did they what did they give him
Speaker 1: as as a companion, as comic relief Fish with the
Speaker 1: men shop, I've never Dory breaks. That is the most stressful,
Speaker 1: and you know what, you know what upset me. That's
Speaker 1: what I don't like about the gas, like the pixel
Speaker 1: who I was responsible? Because I'm like, how is this
Speaker 1: not incredibly depressing and tragic to people? Why does nobody
Speaker 1: but me see this? They love Dorry like this is cute.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you are not stressed out this outside? But
Speaker 1: then they had the nerve to come up with Finding
Speaker 1: Dory and I never I didn't finish it because I
Speaker 1: didn't make it past the first It's admirable you put
Speaker 1: it on honestly, even try even starting it, I was like,
Speaker 1: so terribly traumatic, sad backstory to explain why Fish has
Speaker 1: the mencha almost like you know it's tragic and sad
Speaker 1: that the mention why am I watching this? Why am
Speaker 1: I watching it? So Finding Nemo terrible. I don't know
Speaker 1: why people like that. I don't know if people are sick.
Speaker 1: It's not even like a musical. I don't even understand it,
Speaker 1: Like I don't understand why my generation clung to with
Speaker 1: the way they did. It's not like like Lion King
Speaker 1: and all these other people of soundtracks, a little Mermaids soundtracks.
Speaker 1: Finding Nemo has nothing but I lost fish, a single
Speaker 1: daddy and a fish with the mencha. I feel like
Speaker 1: a Pixar has like a white floard that's just like
Speaker 1: the like a pool going for who can get the
Speaker 1: most depressing ship into a children's food And they're just
Speaker 1: ramping it up each time. Y'all set up, y'all see up.
Speaker 1: Then I just saw the opening thing and I was like,
Speaker 1: get an opening where up wall he lose his wife,
Speaker 1: and his wife it together and love, they can have kids.
Speaker 1: They can have kids. Yeah, you like cry three different
Speaker 1: times like the first five minutes, like why is this
Speaker 1: like this? Yeah, so that and then all zombie content.
Speaker 1: I'm saying it for the same reasons I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't understand me to be like vampires. I get well
Speaker 1: less so for Maids makes sense. Zombies what about what
Speaker 1: about that the cay and people doing feet, Like, why
Speaker 1: do you want to see a bunch of the Sarahs
Speaker 1: walking around place? What does this tho be? All? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't. I will say the one thing that I
Speaker 1: finally watched the last of a show this weekend, and
Speaker 1: what I will say is it is actually really mercifully
Speaker 1: light on actual zombies on the screen. That thing I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, this is it's like better than the game,
Speaker 1: which is just like all fucking zombies all the time.
Speaker 1: Not all, but it's like it's good about regards. But
Speaker 1: then in the same van, I think that's the whole point.
Speaker 1: I think that's the whole point of zombie content is
Speaker 1: it's not the zombies. It is an excuse like they're
Speaker 1: the most unobtrusive, easy to evage like monster. But the
Speaker 1: whole thing is that society has crumbled and people are
Speaker 1: like dying to live in a world where society has crumbled.
Speaker 1: So and I also to keep coming out with zombie
Speaker 1: content after COVID is crazy people who would kill themselves.
Speaker 1: We won't even people don't wanna wein masks you think
Speaker 1: people do when combattle and fighting the surviving zombies? What
Speaker 1: do you even what are you even fighting a little?
Speaker 1: What do you want to? Why do you want to
Speaker 1: do this? Do you want to be in a zombie world?
Speaker 1: The minute they tell me, if they come and tell
Speaker 1: me there's zombies running the streets and the zombies looking
Speaker 1: for you, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna end it
Speaker 1: and them take myself up the game. I'm not I
Speaker 1: thought letting zombies what and I gonna be rounding. And
Speaker 1: also I don't like the way the zombies have to work.
Speaker 1: Why and everything zombie related? No, for real? Why zombies
Speaker 1: won't never be dead zombies and just be chilling? Why
Speaker 1: does zombies have to be like like working for the
Speaker 1: night walking Dead? Why is it like that? Why are
Speaker 1: you trying to Why aren't trying to recruit that even
Speaker 1: have an agenda? What's the what's the purpose? So? What
Speaker 1: do you do? Yeah? Yeah, The dating apps have started
Speaker 1: to do dumb ship like making you answer like quirky
Speaker 1: questions and my favorite one that I've ever personally answered
Speaker 1: iss like what is your zombie apocalypse plan? And it's
Speaker 1: like my plan is to keep eating people's brains until
Speaker 1: someone kills me zombie right, No, I'm zombie from day one.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I don't even the one getting bit.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I'll try that that or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: y'all will go be a zombie. Not me, I would.
Speaker 1: I would, honestly. I would probably engage in mass destruction.
Speaker 1: Like no, honestly, I would, Like I think that's that's
Speaker 1: why people like, yeah, that's people they're uh, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the zombie Land. But I feel like there's a part
Speaker 1: in that movie where they're like riding dirt bikes through
Speaker 1: the White House or some ship, like it's that's that's
Speaker 1: the dream that people have is just like society falling down,
Speaker 1: no longer having to go to your job, and like
Speaker 1: the whole idea that, yeah, but the the idea that
Speaker 1: it's easier to imagine the end of the world than
Speaker 1: the end of capitalism. I feel like it's just that's
Speaker 1: the only version of a world without capitalism that people
Speaker 1: can imagine, so they just they just go with that.
Speaker 1: They're like, this is better than the soul sucking, you know,
Speaker 1: soul withering day to day grind. The more you talk,
Speaker 1: the more convinced I amn't going into end of Blood.
Speaker 1: Like I'm listening out this is where we're at. I
Speaker 1: think it's like, but it's it's also like a version
Speaker 1: of capitalism people can comprehend, which I think it's like,
Speaker 1: it's just like when your only job is to like
Speaker 1: run from these dudes and like get enough calorie, is
Speaker 1: to survive one more day, and that's it, Like people
Speaker 1: can understand that competition. Of course, yes, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I was getting to my uber and I realized
Speaker 1: I left my key upstairs and I had to run
Speaker 1: up the stairs fast to get my key and run
Speaker 1: back down and I was in the uber fighting for
Speaker 1: my life, like trying to breathe, like stressed that. I
Speaker 1: was like, this isn't how life is supposed to be
Speaker 1: me being rush like this is a little run with
Speaker 1: a lot on me. Now you're talking everyday obstacle course,
Speaker 1: and from zombies, zombies that are expanding their army get
Speaker 1: every day. People that want to be apocalypse are like
Speaker 1: cross fit people. They're just like this would be fine,
Speaker 1: I could do a lot of pull ups. I think
Speaker 1: it's just the idea of like a walkable city, like
Speaker 1: a walkable like Suburbs, is so outlandish to people that
Speaker 1: like that's what they need to invent to make it possible.
Speaker 1: They're just like, man, could you imagine just being able
Speaker 1: to walk down the middle of the street. That would
Speaker 1: be That would be amazing. It's like, man, that was
Speaker 1: that was, you know, seventy years ago people could do that. Undepressing.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is underrated? What's underrated is
Speaker 1: just smoking flower, just smoking grass, smoking actual weed, no infusions,
Speaker 1: no diamonds, no t h And I'm a fan of
Speaker 1: all that ship. But there's something pure about just having
Speaker 1: a Manta pucciano versus like a twelve different ingredient cocktail,
Speaker 1: Like the idea of like someone put the energy into
Speaker 1: growing this flower and to making a top shelf, and
Speaker 1: then you grind it, concentrate it, slip it, flap it,
Speaker 1: fuck it, jam it into something, you know, a banana
Speaker 1: flavored fucking paper or whatever. All that jazz that happens,
Speaker 1: all fun and games. But I think I've I think
Speaker 1: one part I'm saying this is because I fucking blown
Speaker 1: my tolerance out my asshole. I can like can't afford
Speaker 1: to be a stoner anymore. And there's something like I
Speaker 1: got into weed because it was like it's natural, man.
Speaker 1: And now I'm smoking, like this is the distillation combined,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's like I'm getting a little outside
Speaker 1: of natural now, I get a little more science. It's
Speaker 1: not this is not the weed that whenever you talk
Speaker 1: about like Willie Nelson smokes weed and is still like,
Speaker 1: you know, live forever. It's like he's not smoking like
Speaker 1: twelve different infusions on top and like and so in
Speaker 1: my head it's I've been trying to do that with
Speaker 1: food too, you know, going back to more like whole foods.
Speaker 1: Like the thing you're eating, the ingredient is the name
Speaker 1: of it, Like, oh, I'm having chicken, what's in it?
Speaker 1: It's chicken, chicken down vibe. I haven't look, I haven't
Speaker 1: gotten high, and maybe two years however, I will sell
Speaker 1: no God, it's well also, yeah, my partner's sober, and
Speaker 1: my partner we're talking about that later, is sober. And
Speaker 1: so I just don't want to be the only one high,
Speaker 1: you know, in the house, unless you know, when the
Speaker 1: baby can get high, then we won't hang. But I
Speaker 1: love flowers. There's no high, like just good flowers. That's it.
Speaker 1: I am so convinced of this fact. Well, the fucking
Speaker 1: shatter and what's the other one, the dabs and all
Speaker 1: the things to get you too high. I'm someone who
Speaker 1: doesn't have a high tolerance, but two or three hits
Speaker 1: of really good flower, and I'm not talking about vaping,
Speaker 1: and I'm not talking about I mean, yeah, I'll smoke,
Speaker 1: not a split, like I don't want it with tobacco,
Speaker 1: but just straight flower is so beautiful. It's just perfect.
Speaker 1: It's a perfect sucking high. Yeah. When I I I
Speaker 1: am sober, and but when I was smoking weed, I
Speaker 1: I don't think any of those things existed, and the
Speaker 1: flower would get me way too high, really, like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, everyone hates me. Well, that wasn't the flower.
Speaker 1: That was your personality, persity exactly. I wouldn't blame the
Speaker 1: weed for that, Jack, Yeah, it wasn't just in my head. Everyone,
Speaker 1: sometimes you are right. But yeah, I feel like Willie
Speaker 1: Nelson was smoking some ship that was like grown on
Speaker 1: a farm in Kentucky that was defended by those sharp
Speaker 1: sticks with poop on them. Yeah, like that just like
Speaker 1: the real Yeah, well like you like when you I
Speaker 1: went to like New Zealand for a few weeks once
Speaker 1: with my wife and like nothing is labeled organic there,
Speaker 1: and like a kiwi was like told us it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: nothing's organic. Everything's organic, so we don't have to write it.
Speaker 1: And it's just like, oh, it's a get Like that's
Speaker 1: a possible world where it's like, oh, the default is
Speaker 1: the safest way that everything has grown and processed and
Speaker 1: ship the kiwi. Wait was it a fruit kiwi or
Speaker 1: a person kiwi? It was a fruit kiwi that was
Speaker 1: talking to me, but they were from New Zealand, so
Speaker 1: technically it was a kiwi kiwi. Yeah. It's like a
Speaker 1: delicacy there to like get something that's like grown in it,
Speaker 1: like the American version, like they're uber wealthier, Like I
Speaker 1: have a section of the like these are from farm cows.
Speaker 1: They're depressed and the meat is bad, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: just like the Americans. It's like eating like flag Rod.
Speaker 1: It's like the animals treated so poorly the food taste better.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, and we're back and the media like I'm
Speaker 1: mostly observing this through headlines that I just like see
Speaker 1: shuffling across the New York Times drug report CE and
Speaker 1: then there's always like an update on like no classified
Speaker 1: documents and Biden's beach house last week and now they're
Speaker 1: looking for classified documents and pencils, and I haven't given
Speaker 1: a ship about this story, like from the start. And
Speaker 1: at first I was like, and that's because I'm anti Trump,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, I was like critical of myself
Speaker 1: for not giving a shit about it. But it's just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know they there. I couldn't be less concerned
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden is like hoarding documents to sell them
Speaker 1: to other countries, like because he's like trying to make
Speaker 1: money off of being the president. Like that's what we
Speaker 1: were interested in from Trump, and that does sound like
Speaker 1: some ship Trump would do. Joe Biden is not that cool,
Speaker 1: Like he's not doing that ship. He's not that interesting.
Speaker 1: He he is doing this by accident. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It's just a talking point for Fox News to be like,
Speaker 1: well what about this? But I feel like the mainstream
Speaker 1: media just I don't know. They they like have this
Speaker 1: logic puzzle in their brain where they're like, well, if
Speaker 1: president also has documents he's not supposed to, then other
Speaker 1: president who did it gets away free. And it's just
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's not I think it's kind of
Speaker 1: like in a Nurse of Machine too. Once you have
Speaker 1: like a headline that you know, whoever is running the
Speaker 1: website or producing the show, and they're seeing, like, oh,
Speaker 1: ratings go up when we mentioned this thing. We didn't
Speaker 1: expect the documents situation to go where it went with Trump.
Speaker 1: We expected it to be like a one day story.
Speaker 1: And then it's like, oh, hey, here's some more. Oh
Speaker 1: hey here whoa, this is looking nefarious, this is looking weird,
Speaker 1: and you know, and they're like, oh ship, President Biden,
Speaker 1: oh ship, and it just becomes more of like a like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: this story got mentioned and it gets headlined. So now
Speaker 1: here's another thing. We'll just bridge these two things together
Speaker 1: and here you go, here's another story for tomorrow. It's
Speaker 1: so lazy. Yeah, I just don't understand what the president
Speaker 1: can do with classified documents at home that he wouldn't
Speaker 1: just do at the office like he's not in Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm picturing him just reading Ninja scrolls and doing the
Speaker 1: same drouote to for five episodes. But beyond I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't understand what what the concern is and how
Speaker 1: much of this is just old men having poor record keeping.
Speaker 1: Like I just I don't where's what's a story here?
Speaker 1: I just don't give a thing. The Trump one is intriguing.
Speaker 1: That is vaguely because they were like, hey, you have
Speaker 1: these documents. He's like I do like get him back
Speaker 1: and he was like fuck you. And then he was
Speaker 1: like I it's like I don't. I don't have those documents.
Speaker 1: And then they're You're like, hey man, we're here, like look,
Speaker 1: the documents are right there. You were holding them. That
Speaker 1: that was weird. And he's the type of person he
Speaker 1: does have like nefarious relations with like the Saudias and
Speaker 1: all all sorts of wild ship. So like it's just
Speaker 1: it's a it's another one of these things where you're
Speaker 1: like trying to pretend that Trump is like other presidents,
Speaker 1: and it's just like that's that's not that's never going
Speaker 1: to be the case. I mean, bro, I I got
Speaker 1: a frame magazine cover Rustle from the Vice Offices in
Speaker 1: is that bad? You know? And I should I give
Speaker 1: that bad? I don't understand, Like what's the problem. They
Speaker 1: canceled the show? Yea. So now the way these searches
Speaker 1: are being conducted is like they're confirming with the person
Speaker 1: and the persons like, okay, coming in, I think Pence
Speaker 1: might actually plant documents so that people think he's more
Speaker 1: interesting because he's so whack. Like the the idea that
Speaker 1: they're searching in pensive is just like so sad the
Speaker 1: way this motherfucker's up to anything, or is like not
Speaker 1: so careful that he would actually do it. But like
Speaker 1: I feel like, to like get the pop and to
Speaker 1: get the headline, I think Pence might like plant some
Speaker 1: documents and there just like hey man, these are from
Speaker 1: j store. What is it? They're like research papers? These
Speaker 1: are available. Yeah, alright, on the subject of kind of
Speaker 1: relearning stuff, scientists believe they've just discovered the secret to
Speaker 1: Rome's self healing concrete, which I didn't really know that's
Speaker 1: what was going on with Rome's concrete. I didn't know
Speaker 1: that there was like a recipe that Rome had figured
Speaker 1: out and that we like that just got lost and
Speaker 1: that like, oh man, we should have should have hung
Speaker 1: on to that one. But yeah, it's always interesting to
Speaker 1: me to be reminded that like we forget ship all
Speaker 1: the time, like we lose books to history, we lose
Speaker 1: important secrets recipes. Yeah, it's something with limestone, right, some
Speaker 1: like crazy yeah, recipe situation. Yeah, it's like hot a
Speaker 1: lot like hot lime it seems to be, which I
Speaker 1: think that's also just like a flavor of toastito, but
Speaker 1: like I think it's like hot, Like yeah, it's something
Speaker 1: that like interacts with it in a way that like
Speaker 1: creates heat and that like they thought that what they
Speaker 1: were seeing was like an error and and they were
Speaker 1: like there's all these like white chunks throughout the thing.
Speaker 1: I guess they didn't mix it well enough. And it
Speaker 1: turns out that was like the signature that they should
Speaker 1: have been using to be like, oh no, they were
Speaker 1: really onto something. And when this ship cracks and that
Speaker 1: like all you need to do is get it wet
Speaker 1: and it reforms. Right, we lost so much cool ship
Speaker 1: to history, like we don't even know about. Like wasn't
Speaker 1: there like a like a birth control plant or something
Speaker 1: existed around the time as well that we're completely extinct
Speaker 1: and like something what was that, something like flamethrower technology
Speaker 1: or some ship that they Greek yeah, Greek fire ye
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Just I mean I'm I constantly wonder like
Speaker 1: how much cool ship like because this stuff is equivalent
Speaker 1: to what we're you know, I mean, maybe even more
Speaker 1: technologically advanced than what we're dealing with today, and I
Speaker 1: think we kind of have a bias of like if
Speaker 1: it's old, it's not worth it. But this is fascinating.
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, so so we got this cool technology,
Speaker 1: and I know, I see, I understand that it's cool
Speaker 1: and practical and all this stuff. But what we could
Speaker 1: do is let the mafia infiltrate all the workers unions
Speaker 1: we can, and we can just build infrastructure that's that's
Speaker 1: destin the crumble in like two to five years, and
Speaker 1: you know, we just will stimulate the economy by having
Speaker 1: these people. That's what I think. That's really it, though
Speaker 1: I do. I I like, even like without the mafia,
Speaker 1: Like you sell more concrete if you know, like you
Speaker 1: sell more iPhones if they break after a couple of years,
Speaker 1: like after the fourth update, Like yeah, phone, like I think.
Speaker 1: And also, like I just realized, so making concrete accounts
Speaker 1: for seven percent of global emissions, and concrete is the
Speaker 1: most consumed material on Earth, second only to water. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I uh read or watched or something very recently that
Speaker 1: we could cut down of all production and consumption and
Speaker 1: have plenty for everybody everybody in the world, right, But
Speaker 1: we don't want to. But we want to it's not
Speaker 1: creating jobs, you know it. We're not creating jobs, and
Speaker 1: that's what's most important. You've got to create jobs that
Speaker 1: don't meet anyone's needs very well. Either you need three
Speaker 1: or four of them just to live. But you yeah,
Speaker 1: they them busy so that they have to work, so
Speaker 1: that they never stopped for a moment and be like
Speaker 1: wait a fucking second here, we got to deify the state.
Speaker 1: We have to deify the state. That's what it's all about, everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really do think it's important. Like my understanding, even
Speaker 1: even the fact that they've known that there was this
Speaker 1: better form of concrete and they just haven't been able
Speaker 1: to like figure it out, completely blows up my understanding
Speaker 1: of like our scientific capabilities, which admittedly is driven mostly
Speaker 1: by movies like Face Off an Iron Man. But like,
Speaker 1: you know, I just assume you take a little chunk
Speaker 1: of the Roman concrete and you put it in like
Speaker 1: a little machine, you analyze it. Yeah, like my we've
Speaker 1: looking matter analyzer and it's like this, it is this
Speaker 1: and this and this, and then you're like boom. I
Speaker 1: mean it's like you said, they just thought they didn't
Speaker 1: mix it well and they never tried to like just
Speaker 1: do it that way. It's just like recreate this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I think that's the military industrial
Speaker 1: complex Shi, because you know, all sciences, the military and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Like you mentioned iron Man every like every couple of years.
Speaker 1: I feel like the biggest science news is they're making
Speaker 1: a real Iron Man suit, and nobody is like for who?
Speaker 1: Not one time is I have I seen an article
Speaker 1: that's like for who who is that for? Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: making real they're making Gundams. Though they're making real Gundams.
Speaker 1: They did, uh the last like Boston Scientific robot that
Speaker 1: they showed everybody like it they the way they the
Speaker 1: context they put it in was a construction site, but
Speaker 1: it was like it's like massively powerful bipedal robot that
Speaker 1: is like that like came from a sitting position like
Speaker 1: leaped to its feet, did a backflip like through this
Speaker 1: massive like bag of weights onto this platform over its head,
Speaker 1: left onto the platform, and it's like they built a
Speaker 1: gazebo in twenty minutes. Like that's not what that was for.
Speaker 1: You don't need that for the fucking constructions like that,
Speaker 1: Like what is that having killing? Like had it going
Speaker 1: through a you know, obstacle course with machine guns or something,
Speaker 1: if you like, just be honest, what you're building this ship.
Speaker 1: And even even when it comes to this concrete ship,
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna, like, even if they figure it out,
Speaker 1: like the way you know, we're gonna get the water
Speaker 1: down version of that, it's not gonna heal itself. They're
Speaker 1: gonna make it so you have to replace it even more,
Speaker 1: you know how they give us the cheap ship where
Speaker 1: it doesn't work right, right, yeah, right. They got the
Speaker 1: police dogs already, uh, the little black mirror police dogs
Speaker 1: out there, and I've seen people push those over right,
Speaker 1: you know, they're very vulnerable. That's the thing. That's what
Speaker 1: That's what I was saying about. Like, so I had
Speaker 1: a big thing like earlier, like a few weeks back,
Speaker 1: where I was talking about how amazing, like somebody figured
Speaker 1: out something about the second bounce in our in the
Speaker 1: human gait, like the the human like how we walk
Speaker 1: is this incredibly complex thing, the like defied scientific understanding
Speaker 1: for a while. And I was making fun of all
Speaker 1: the robots that they've tried to make walk on two
Speaker 1: feet and like they just always seem like they're not
Speaker 1: good at that, and somebody sent me this video of
Speaker 1: the new Boston Scientific Construction killer robot to to like
Speaker 1: just prove it. But yeah, I feel like when you
Speaker 1: get them in the field and it's like not you
Speaker 1: can't program it. So so they're like they know where
Speaker 1: everything is, and you know, it's like the Testlas self
Speaker 1: driving car unless they've like scanned the course and like
Speaker 1: cleared it ahead of time. You know. But there might
Speaker 1: be a banana appeal in in in its path right
Speaker 1: ends everything. Think about all all of that, and they
Speaker 1: they figured out how to make the titties bouncing debt
Speaker 1: or alive in like two thou two, but we're still
Speaker 1: but we're still stuck on walking. Yeah, this shows you
Speaker 1: where he where our priorities are as a nation, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? That's right. I put the second
Speaker 1: hitch in my step to afoid crease in my my Jordans.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's before That's what I Yeah,
Speaker 1: by the way, you do a great Jordan's and your
Speaker 1: special Yes, oh hey, thank you? You wear uh the
Speaker 1: blue the greats? Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people shop
Speaker 1: on mids, but those are fired. Yeah. No, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of those they were actually, uh, they
Speaker 1: were stolen when I was in Oakland on tour. But
Speaker 1: you know, I had a good run with him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here you go, never got him creased before beforehand. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The problem with those is the Swede you know, the colors,
Speaker 1: like the crease on the you know, we don't have
Speaker 1: to get into all that. Yeah, yeah, but they do
Speaker 1: turn greenish, yeah, yes, they do. Yeah. Right, and then
Speaker 1: there's uh. In the last week, Labor Department announced a
Speaker 1: surge in new jobs. Biden is taking credit for the
Speaker 1: job boom, arguing that it's now crystal clear that his
Speaker 1: economic package was rock solid. But rock solid package from okay,
Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah, he's he's very rile. But it was
Speaker 1: actually led by bars and restaurants opening back up after
Speaker 1: the vacancies start sparked by the pandemic. And it's there's
Speaker 1: also a vast downward trend in so like technology, finance
Speaker 1: and manufacturing firms are laying off workers, and then like
Speaker 1: leisure and hospitality is adding jobs. So that that's what
Speaker 1: we're seeing. But like the quality of jobs is going down,
Speaker 1: but there's just like more of them. The quality of
Speaker 1: life you can live with between like the tech job
Speaker 1: and the leisure and hospitality jobs is like the it's
Speaker 1: a shame that Again this goes back to our point earlier.
Speaker 1: They seems like just there's an active push to just
Speaker 1: preserve jobs that will grind you into dust, so you
Speaker 1: have absolutely no time to think you might need to
Speaker 1: have two or three, four of them just to make
Speaker 1: it by. And I truly do think we brought this
Speaker 1: up a number of times on on the podcast, but
Speaker 1: I think they really do not want to have what
Speaker 1: happened in happened again. And it seems to be in
Speaker 1: the system incentivizes you know, this this immune system you
Speaker 1: bring up a lot jack of like just there's like
Speaker 1: a sentient capitalistic organism that just wants to preserve the
Speaker 1: jobs and the things that are going to grind us
Speaker 1: down to the point where we just cannot think, yeah,
Speaker 1: make the most money. It doesn't matter if it's make
Speaker 1: the most money for the most people. This just make
Speaker 1: the most money, so the most money needs to be
Speaker 1: changing hands, Like that's what the system is designed two.
Speaker 1: You know, drive towards, grow towards, and then protect once
Speaker 1: it once it has it. Yeah, I can't I don't
Speaker 1: remember who the specific exemple is. But I feel like
Speaker 1: there's been a big spike and people kind of going
Speaker 1: mask off with that rhetoric and explicitly saying this is
Speaker 1: the time we need to punish their working force and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and we need to limit the power of the buying
Speaker 1: power of the working class and all of these things.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I feel like they're being a lot
Speaker 1: more explicit about it because people are stuck in this
Speaker 1: mindset that there's no alternative to capitalism, even though we
Speaker 1: have this critique of it. Which is why I which
Speaker 1: is why I talk about domer ship up top. I
Speaker 1: think people are so stuck in that mindset that this
Speaker 1: is the way it has to be right, And you know,
Speaker 1: there are obviously barriers to finding our way out, but
Speaker 1: there are barriers to just being in it as is.
Speaker 1: So you know why this is uncomfortable. So yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it really is impossible for like that there's this
Speaker 1: I forget who said it, but it's that it's easier
Speaker 1: to picture the end of the world that it is
Speaker 1: to picture the end of capitalism, because we're like capitalism
Speaker 1: is so thoroughly you know ingrained, and not only our society,
Speaker 1: but like just in everyone's mind set, so so like
Speaker 1: it's either like a modern day world like where that
Speaker 1: a movie takes place in, or it's like the apocalypse.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, everything has fallen apart that nobody
Speaker 1: can imagine some alternative where it's just like now things
Speaker 1: are things are actually better here. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: do know who said this that capitalism seems just inescapable,
Speaker 1: But so did the divine right of kings. That was
Speaker 1: Ursula Lagwin, you know, and that's realist fun that I
Speaker 1: I feel like there is a way out market that
Speaker 1: you only said that should in the eighties. You know,
Speaker 1: that's not that long ago, you know, I don't know. Dog,
Speaker 1: they said I couldn't write on the Garfield reboot, and
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like, what do we need a
Speaker 1: Garfield reboot for? There's another way, there's another Let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll come back and talk about balloons
Speaker 1: and other fun things, and we're back and yeah, in
Speaker 1: the context of the conversation, we're just having the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and in the context of like just everything the state
Speaker 1: of professional football where people die get injured, you know,
Speaker 1: die on the field and are brought back to life
Speaker 1: and then everyone's like, oh, we're good because they when
Speaker 1: he woke up, he asked if his team one and
Speaker 1: then like the other big draw of the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: is the ads. It's so humbling, it's so dark. It
Speaker 1: feels like we're cheering for commercials. We're like so excited
Speaker 1: to be sold stuff. It's like it's we're all like
Speaker 1: as Super Bowl is just a big clusterfuck tag sail
Speaker 1: and we're like and I have forty people over my
Speaker 1: house to watch it every year. It's like, holy sh it.
Speaker 1: It is such a dark crystallization and it came from
Speaker 1: like a good place where it's like peak competition. We
Speaker 1: you know, this is good for us, and get some steam,
Speaker 1: blow some steam off. We don't have to fight each
Speaker 1: other in the streets because we could say funck Philly
Speaker 1: or whatever. But now now it's become so fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: People are people are like literally dying not to mention
Speaker 1: like the fucking butterfly effect of what happens to players
Speaker 1: post playing in the NFL. But like we are still
Speaker 1: going ahead with this, like uh we we we we
Speaker 1: take our shoes off to get on planes because like
Speaker 1: I know that to someone something people say all the
Speaker 1: time because one time a guy like had a shoe
Speaker 1: bomb on now one time, not just one time. People
Speaker 1: have died play football or paralyzed and we have not changed.
Speaker 1: We're like, we go, all right, we asked them if
Speaker 1: they're concuss now when we make them wait seven days,
Speaker 1: but for they sacrifice their body for for us again
Speaker 1: and any instance like this, because they activate like the
Speaker 1: money right wing people who are like they're getting football
Speaker 1: players make a fortune. They can fucking deal with whatever.
Speaker 1: And it's like football players make good money, but it
Speaker 1: pals a good parison to owners, people who sell the ads,
Speaker 1: like the people who build the stadiums, the people like
Speaker 1: all that ship is where the real money is. Yes,
Speaker 1: if a player is making ten million, if if a
Speaker 1: team is willing to make pay a player ten million dollars,
Speaker 1: imagine how much money they get from that. Like when
Speaker 1: you hear the Friends, all the Friends cast all got
Speaker 1: paid a million dollars an episode, while I guarantee NBC
Speaker 1: was making way more than six billion dollars in episodes.
Speaker 1: No one will lose money, like no executive will choose.
Speaker 1: You just can't. But the idea that it's like if
Speaker 1: if this quarterback is getting paid twenty million dollars. We
Speaker 1: need to make at least twenty one million dollars to
Speaker 1: say solid ticket price just go up. Advertising sales go
Speaker 1: through the roof. Everyone's got fucking Gillette on their helmet
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know what I mean, Like the ship
Speaker 1: is we bury ourselves, like we put ourselves in the
Speaker 1: hole to begin with. Sorry, this is just coming from
Speaker 1: a guy who was like a levin Super Bowl boxes
Speaker 1: and fingers a cross. Something happens for me and I
Speaker 1: finally afford Cobra Health insurance this year. No, I think
Speaker 1: that's a really good point. I mean, I appreciate it
Speaker 1: just because my analysis of football is effectively that. Just
Speaker 1: like I tried to watch try to watch the Niners
Speaker 1: Eagles game because I'm from the Bay, and I turned
Speaker 1: it on for a second and I was like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: I fucking hate football because it's just ads. I can't
Speaker 1: deal with this. I would like to just see the plays.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see the ads. And also it's
Speaker 1: insanely violent. I mean, football is, it's not gonna end.
Speaker 1: It's only gonna get worse and worse and worse until
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, it turns out there was like you know,
Speaker 1: like like some kind of I don't know, fucking underground
Speaker 1: ring of trading cheer leaders or some ship like something
Speaker 1: discussing keep going because you know, you've got so much
Speaker 1: yellow king shit, Like from the True Detective Costa we
Speaker 1: went to we went to Jerry Jones's ranch and off. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, we juice on like baby toes or something like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what what what is it going to be,
Speaker 1: but it'll keep on going and going and going. Goodell
Speaker 1: will be there the whole fucking time. He's still gonna
Speaker 1: be there, not not going anywhere. But I do think
Speaker 1: you could to suggestions how to change football. One bring
Speaker 1: back to touch, not bring back start the two touch
Speaker 1: tag football touch. They did that at the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: Actually they did flag football, and the players were like
Speaker 1: that was actually really fun. Really I didn't feel like
Speaker 1: going to that. Yeah, yeah, they did something with two
Speaker 1: hand touches. I'm like, yeah, that that is absurdly different
Speaker 1: cult and requires a lot of athletic grace to be like,
Speaker 1: get the get the flags off people. And then the
Speaker 1: other is just you know, season means of production, democratize
Speaker 1: the entire thing and have players have buy in and
Speaker 1: not Yeah, they they own it, They will own the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 1: bring up, fucking players should get revenue share and that
Speaker 1: will motivate them to play better than anything else. If
Speaker 1: players get revenue share and residents get revenue share of
Speaker 1: like tickets, or it brings money into your city that
Speaker 1: like the MetLife Stadium is sold out or whatever, if
Speaker 1: it helps at all that we have in the community, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't have it. Can't just keep going to guys
Speaker 1: who don't even live anywhere. Millionaires, billionaires who was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I sold the naming rights to this stadium, and now
Speaker 1: your fandom has to stand in a stadium named for
Speaker 1: fucking health insurance. The thing is that those are fun
Speaker 1: taxpayer funded in a lot of cases, like this building
Speaker 1: projects we pay for and then they take that end
Speaker 1: and charge you to park fucking six miles away and watch.
Speaker 1: The entire system is just meant like built to siphon
Speaker 1: money upwards. I pray that like, in like fifty years,
Speaker 1: we're talking about football and cars the way we think
Speaker 1: about smoking and drinking and driving, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I really hope that like fifty years from now, people
Speaker 1: are like, can you believe we were doing that, Like, like,
Speaker 1: how many people weren't paralyzed if you were to take
Speaker 1: a bet in fifty years? What what goes first? Football
Speaker 1: or cars? Um? It's hard. I honestly believe they're like
Speaker 1: weirdly tied. They're like in trans together. They're like that's
Speaker 1: like heart and lungs of the American body. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't fully know. I can't imagine a world. I
Speaker 1: think football can go first because cars are too individualistic
Speaker 1: and like anything that's like can you stop doing this thing?
Speaker 1: There are a non zero number of people who will
Speaker 1: do it more just because they were asked to not
Speaker 1: do it, right, Like the amount of people I know
Speaker 1: personally who said I'm not taking the vaccine. You know,
Speaker 1: me trying to tell me to do something I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna do that, ship the amount of people I I have,
Speaker 1: like six people I can count that didn't get vaccinated
Speaker 1: because someone said they should, right, that's insane. Like I
Speaker 1: agree with disagree I agree with disagreeing. I agree with
Speaker 1: disagreeing on fucking someone telling you what to do, But
Speaker 1: I don't think like you should be like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to wear a seatbelt because you want me to.
Speaker 1: Each you know all this country is about. It's about
Speaker 1: tricking us into having solidarity with one another. It's like
Speaker 1: tricking us into thinking doing the individualistic thing, but actually
Speaker 1: we're just helping each other. Right briefly, on just a
Speaker 1: rundown of the there there will be no crypto ads.
Speaker 1: All the crypto companies pulled out, which was like that
Speaker 1: was the big feature of last year's Super Bowl, was that,
Speaker 1: like it was all crypto and people are like, this
Speaker 1: is the new normal, this is get ready for the
Speaker 1: era of crypto, and then everybody got so drastically fucked
Speaker 1: over by that. Again, it was just it was what
Speaker 1: we were talking about, the upward siphoning of people's money,
Speaker 1: but just without any product around it to like disguise
Speaker 1: what was happening. So it's just like, hey, give us
Speaker 1: all your money. Hey, that money's not here anymore. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so that didn't have a long shelf life and those
Speaker 1: are those ads are all gone. Do you guys remember
Speaker 1: the QR code that was just bouncing around for like
Speaker 1: three minutes. Fourteen million dollars they spent to put that
Speaker 1: QR code up. There was the Larry David one for
Speaker 1: which he has been sued or is being sued. Matt
Speaker 1: Damon coming out telling us like he got roasted for
Speaker 1: the like yeah, read the fucking room, people like yeah,
Speaker 1: Like fortune favors the brave, and the brave thing to
Speaker 1: do is give me all your money. And there's so
Speaker 1: much ship at play that angers me in this and
Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna rattle off some of some of
Speaker 1: the things I driving me crazy. First, all we know,
Speaker 1: we were just talking about how everything in America is
Speaker 1: like how much money you have, obviously, and that's because
Speaker 1: if you don't have money, you're more likely to die.
Speaker 1: Like money, unfortunately, equals staying alive in this country. So
Speaker 1: you're a person with a couple of g's, and Matt
Speaker 1: Damon says, hey, give me a couple of g's and
Speaker 1: you should be able to take out ten g's in
Speaker 1: a little while. And someone goes, that's amazing. I could
Speaker 1: stay alive longer if that works. Now, Matt Damon is
Speaker 1: taking this ad. He's getting a huge pay day. He
Speaker 1: is a millionaire, and he's getting a huge pay day
Speaker 1: because he cannot even fathom being without money no less,
Speaker 1: and to him, without money is x amount of millions
Speaker 1: of dollars. So he needs to take that ad or
Speaker 1: else he will have less money and be at higher
Speaker 1: risk of dying. People. And then people harness that energy
Speaker 1: in the crypto company, and people at the top are
Speaker 1: making money off of all these people who know they
Speaker 1: need the money to live. These people are going to live.
Speaker 1: They're getting the stem cell dips and fucking norc out
Speaker 1: whatever the funk they do, and all that ship is
Speaker 1: at play, and they just know money is the only
Speaker 1: way we could stay alive. This is you know, this
Speaker 1: is just like you know there we really need to
Speaker 1: redo Glen Garry, Glenn Ross. But with Crypto, you know,
Speaker 1: like the whole it's just the whole thing, because it
Speaker 1: is because my mind just keeps coming back to, like
Speaker 1: it's men. It's men who are gullible as funk when
Speaker 1: it comes to money. And speaking of like Lemming mentality,
Speaker 1: like the only way you can convince a lot of
Speaker 1: dudes to do something everyone else is doing is if
Speaker 1: you trick them. You tell them they're going to get
Speaker 1: rich by it, and trick them by saying, like you're
Speaker 1: on the inside, I know this is a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: ad that millions and millions and millions of people are
Speaker 1: watching right now. But only you, sir, Ian on the couch.
Speaker 1: Only you know the real truth. You're going to invest
Speaker 1: right now. It's just like it's like, it's like what
Speaker 1: happens when I see Jennifer Aniston in a commercial, Like
Speaker 1: I'll fucking do anything she wants to sell me, like
Speaker 1: I will buy literally, well, you just touched on another layer.
Speaker 1: Fuck Matt Damon and Jennifer Aniston for doing commercials. Commercials
Speaker 1: used to be the place where a broke ass actor
Speaker 1: could get their health insurance or they could feed their
Speaker 1: family for a year. Now Jon Hamm's doing H and
Speaker 1: R block commercials. Matt, he's got a fucking Einstein costume
Speaker 1: on trying to sell me Verizon. These guys that those
Speaker 1: jobs you. It used to be corny to sell out,
Speaker 1: and it used to be don't sell out. Do art.
Speaker 1: You're an artist. You're an artist, Cecily Strong, artist, fletch.
Speaker 1: But but now it's no longer about art. We equate
Speaker 1: qualitative success like financial success. With qualitative we our banks.
Speaker 1: He is considered a great artist because his ships els
Speaker 1: for a lot of months. Like it's like that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean he's good at art like people are. Like Avatar
Speaker 1: is a good movie because it made a lot of money,
Speaker 1: and like no, Avatar made a lot of money because
Speaker 1: it is a good movie, like like it's it's not.
Speaker 1: And so now we there's no judgment to someone who's like,
Speaker 1: I'm in an ad like Larry David, the fucking king,
Speaker 1: fucking I'm not gonna sell sell out the King of
Speaker 1: I'm just myself on my show, and then he does that,
Speaker 1: that's what does he need money for? You? Seinfeld residuals
Speaker 1: could build a fucking school, a school in every city
Speaker 1: in America. But it's so great, like we have the
Speaker 1: last laugh, guys, because like last last year, it was
Speaker 1: like ship this is our reality. To Jack's point, like
Speaker 1: this is just gonna be it. And then Sam Bateman
Speaker 1: free to lose his fourteen billion dollars and oh he'll
Speaker 1: be fine. But it implicates so many people, including all
Speaker 1: politicians on all sides, and the fact that we were
Speaker 1: all just sort of walking down this primrose path together
Speaker 1: and no one was like adequately warning us, Like there's
Speaker 1: absolutely no kind of again for the gullible dudes out there,
Speaker 1: there's no kinds of protections around something like crypto and
Speaker 1: what Bank and Freed actually want to do was to
Speaker 1: make it all legit basically be a legitimate bank and
Speaker 1: then get all of the assistance that banks already do.
Speaker 1: So we want to replace banks with these things that
Speaker 1: are not banks because they have a different name, but
Speaker 1: are essentially banks exactly. We want to replace these banks
Speaker 1: with banks that I'm in charge of, so that more money.
Speaker 1: Oh that's an interesting disruption, what a fucking tech disruptor.
Speaker 1: I want. I want to sell you pizza instead of
Speaker 1: these assholes. Hey, thanks pal. Yeah, the met Damon commercial
Speaker 1: I was just like we might have been able to
Speaker 1: see the everything you guys are talking about in this ad.
Speaker 1: I had forgotten the details. But that Damon strides through
Speaker 1: a c g I Hall of Adventurers past one a
Speaker 1: man who might be Christopher Columbus is probably Christopher Columbus,
Speaker 1: So great, great choice on your hero. There to a
Speaker 1: mountain climber. Three, a right brother for a man attempting
Speaker 1: to kiss a woman at a bar. So like, if
Speaker 1: there's like some Chad ship in there, like you want
Speaker 1: to be a Chad, don't you? Bro five a group
Speaker 1: of multi racial gender balance futuristic astronauts. So wait, but
Speaker 1: that's all except for the last one. It's again all
Speaker 1: foddered for gullible dudes. Yeah, I swear I got Francesco
Speaker 1: you saying that made me think, like if they just
Speaker 1: didn't add of like you want to get rich and
Speaker 1: get pussy, give send a thousand dollars here, and I
Speaker 1: think I think that company would make fucking ten million
Speaker 1: dollars immediately and way more honest. You're gonna be explorer,
Speaker 1: You're gonna discover a content. Shut up, just like get rich,
Speaker 1: get pussy, You know what I mean. That's way more honest.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, that's gonna do it. For this week's
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