Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Daily Guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah for December eleventh, twenty twenty three, twelve eleven, twelve eleven,
Speaker 1: two weeks away a countdown Santa's birthday. That's right, we're
Speaker 1: right there, right on the prespass.
Speaker 2: Can we canonically change Christmas to be about Santa's birthday?
Speaker 1: And then Phils righty was born with a little white beard.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: We were just talking about the character Leo from the
Speaker 1: latter Lethal Weapon movies, the Joe Pesci character.
Speaker 2: Okay, I get I o, kay, fucking lives rent free
Speaker 2: in my head man for no reason.
Speaker 3: They fuck you at the drive room is.
Speaker 1: So just etched in there. I think that was also
Speaker 1: like one of the early early rated R movies that
Speaker 1: I saw, so.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it was. It was funny.
Speaker 2: I could get away with watching shit like Lethal Weapon
Speaker 2: because it was as long as it was kind of comedic.
Speaker 2: My mom would like, look past the wanton violence. She's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: that part was funny. He was taking a pooh, but
Speaker 2: he could have died on a bomb.
Speaker 1: That's right too. They all kind of run together to.
Speaker 3: They all run together for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, my name is Jack. Oh Brian,
Speaker 1: that's Miles Gray. And this is the episode where we
Speaker 1: tell you what happened over the weekend, both news wise
Speaker 1: and with us and in our lives and in our lives.
Speaker 1: And we like to open things up by telling you
Speaker 1: a couple of things we think are overrated and then
Speaker 1: some of the wee thing's underrated. Miles, do you want
Speaker 1: to kick us off with?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Over, over, over, I'm going to say, and this isn't
Speaker 2: like nothing new, but just giving you an example of
Speaker 2: what I was interacting with over the weekend. Uh, nostalgia
Speaker 2: like nostalgic marketing. Marketing are nostalgia commodifying on this nostalgia?
Speaker 3: I fucking hate how powerful it is.
Speaker 2: When they get you with just using memories from our
Speaker 2: youth to sell us more shit. And why I am
Speaker 2: certainly someone that is a nostalgia freak. There are times
Speaker 2: where it like hits me in this weird way, like
Speaker 2: it's the Ring of Power or some shit.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, fucking lean into this shit. And other
Speaker 3: times I'm like, are.
Speaker 2: You just dissatisfied with your life in the past, And
Speaker 2: I'm like, what the fuck was that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need this fucking old Wu Tang poster that
Speaker 2: I had when I was fourteen, and I will not
Speaker 2: hang up, but.
Speaker 3: I will have it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be my question, like do you actually
Speaker 1: like put it up?
Speaker 3: This is right? Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you buy shit to just for the fucking weird
Speaker 2: consumer high. But you know, like again, like I love,
Speaker 2: I love all things from the past. I will never
Speaker 2: shit on someone's love for yesteryear. But when it when
Speaker 2: it gets commodified, that's when it's a weird moment. Okay,
Speaker 2: for example, they are real. They've re released one of
Speaker 2: my favorite toys from childhood, the Playmates manufactured teenage Mutant
Speaker 2: Ninja Turtles action figures. Okay, I spent fucking hours playing
Speaker 2: with these little fuckers, Okay in the bathtub in my
Speaker 2: fucking house, pulling out the couch cushions, making like big buildings.
Speaker 2: I will like knock over with the fucking you know,
Speaker 2: with my turtle bus and shit. And you know, I
Speaker 2: was like, this seems like really cool, and the thought
Speaker 2: of being being reunited with these little plastic fuckers for
Speaker 2: fifty dollars seems like a no brainer. But then there's
Speaker 2: like this cynicism again that I feel like I'm like,
Speaker 2: am I buying this shit because I'm a collector and
Speaker 2: this is meaningful to my collection. Or is this just
Speaker 2: a way to reconnect with the time of my life
Speaker 2: that was simpler and innocent and that's something that feels
Speaker 2: like a refuge in adulthood.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I like both of those are equally valid though, of.
Speaker 2: Course, But the thing is I don't collect Ninja turtleshit right,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: So, like that's where I'm like, I am buying it
Speaker 3: because I collected shit.
Speaker 2: I'm buying it, I think, just because I'm like, I
Speaker 2: want to have that again, and then when I get it,
Speaker 2: inevitably ten minutes will pass.
Speaker 3: I'm like, why the fuck did I buy these little plastic.
Speaker 1: Fuck for words?
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, So like the that's where, like you
Speaker 2: kind of I find a little bit of a philosophical quagmire.
Speaker 3: Not even it's not even philosophical.
Speaker 2: It's really just trying to figure out why the fuck
Speaker 2: I want the thing, and if it's truly because I
Speaker 2: really do, or again because it's like just that consumerist
Speaker 2: trap that says true freedom comes when someone hands you
Speaker 2: a bag and asks if you want the receipt in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially like the if you get the thing and
Speaker 1: then don't ever use it or look at it. I
Speaker 1: bought I bought that when we were at NBA con
Speaker 1: I bought that outcast Atlanta Hawk's jersey.
Speaker 3: You were you were, you know you were tortured when
Speaker 3: you buy though, too. I'll give you that.
Speaker 1: Like, I'm not gonna I don't think I'm gonna wear this.
Speaker 1: Am I gonna wear this? I'm probably gonna wear this.
Speaker 1: I haven't worn a basketball jersey in twenty years really.
Speaker 3: But just but I love Outcats.
Speaker 1: But the feeling of buying it and carrying it around
Speaker 1: for a little while was fun. And but yeah, then
Speaker 1: it just kind of sets my closet.
Speaker 2: And well see that's why I like we're saying, my
Speaker 2: Woo York Knicks jersey becomes like art on my rack
Speaker 2: of jersey.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna I'm gonna rocket.
Speaker 2: When I go to Japan because finally it'll be like
Speaker 2: real winter ship. I could wear it fucking underneath my
Speaker 2: bubble jacket.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Wear it over your bubble jacket, you know.
Speaker 3: Dude, looks so tight. Layer it I overrated?
Speaker 1: Is uh menthol and things that aren't cigarettes. I've got
Speaker 1: I've got two products in my shower that make my
Speaker 1: face just like slightly burn a little bit, like make
Speaker 1: my head and the parts around my eyes feel like
Speaker 1: the inside of my mouth when I've got an Altoyd
Speaker 1: in you know. They's like, yeah, just like a little
Speaker 1: burned tingle. One is a head and shoulder shampoo, which
Speaker 1: I tried to look it up first of all. Yet yes, uh,
Speaker 1: I know you're you're shocked, right that I need head
Speaker 1: and shoulders, But you were back all the time. I
Speaker 1: know that exactly, exactly, that's right. The first plot twist
Speaker 1: that I knew was that head and shoulder that but
Speaker 1: you don't have Dan Driff exactly. Damn that was Kaiser
Speaker 1: soz along. But yeah, I don't think we got it
Speaker 1: at TJ Max. And I don't I can't find this
Speaker 1: specific type of head. Yeah, like I think it was
Speaker 1: like they were just they threw it out there like
Speaker 1: one bottle of shampoo as a as a weather balloon
Speaker 1: to see how how it reacts.
Speaker 2: Is it is it that they used TJ Max as
Speaker 2: the weather balloon site or is it Last Chance Saloon.
Speaker 1: Last Chancellon, Yes, definitely Last Chancellor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just like they like nobody's fucking with this,
Speaker 2: which is funny.
Speaker 3: That's why it's always a trap.
Speaker 2: I remember my mom bought like a soap or something there,
Speaker 2: and she was fucking gonna, like, you know, waste a
Speaker 2: year of her life searching for it.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, that's the thing at TJ Max, Like,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that that's it, Like you know, like
Speaker 2: half the time it is shit that is discontinued.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think I don't have I didn't like
Speaker 1: take a picture of my shampoo bottle for this episode's
Speaker 1: to day, but in I'm pretty sure it's called like
Speaker 1: negative five degrees celsius or something like that, and it
Speaker 1: has like a block of ice on the thing, and
Speaker 1: it just, yeah, it just makes my eyes feel like
Speaker 1: something is happening to them, like the my mucus membranes
Speaker 1: on my head. You know, I'm not not washing my
Speaker 1: face with Shane poo. But the ship just like.
Speaker 3: Kind of leaks down, right.
Speaker 1: And then the other one. I think the shampoo made
Speaker 1: me realize that a face watch that I have has
Speaker 1: the same thing, just like a little bit more subtle.
Speaker 1: And I looked at the ingredients list and menthol is
Speaker 1: right in there on both of them. And again, I
Speaker 1: feel like there's a lot of people who are probably
Speaker 1: into this because of just how common it is on
Speaker 1: you know, your pharmacy shelves. And maybe it's part of
Speaker 1: my anti peppermint bias. And I totally respect everybody's right
Speaker 1: to like peppermint. I just feel like it it might
Speaker 1: be overrepresented, but I based on some feedback I've gotten,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong. Your eyes, Yes, peppermint twitter was all
Speaker 1: up in my ass and it tingled, it tingled. No,
Speaker 1: But it seems like the goal is to be like,
Speaker 1: see it's working, Like that's how you know it's cleaning
Speaker 1: your scalp is because your scalp feels like you know,
Speaker 1: it had a slight burn, like you're you're recovering from
Speaker 1: a slight burn. Well, I don't know. I feel like
Speaker 1: the bubbles is how I know it's working. That's like
Speaker 1: what mine I don't have dandriff, Yeah, I don't have. No,
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah. My brain is just like bubbles is
Speaker 1: that's toothpaste, face soap, hand soap. Everything gotta have bubbles.
Speaker 1: If it's bubbles, I'm in. That means I'm clean. I
Speaker 1: don't need the smoke and mirrorge to make me feel
Speaker 1: like I'm having the dirt and oil like gently singed
Speaker 1: off my body.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a slippery slope, you know.
Speaker 2: It's like they're they're like these eye drops that I
Speaker 2: would get from Japan that are mentolated.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that seems dude.
Speaker 2: The commercial, Okay, the commercial was like an office worker,
Speaker 2: dude at his desk all day, just blue light fucking
Speaker 2: hammering his eye balls and ship and then he'd like
Speaker 2: get on the train and it's like blight bright fluorescent lights.
Speaker 3: He gets home, it's TV these lights.
Speaker 2: And they're like they're saying like, yo, You're like you
Speaker 2: got to give your eye like a little bit of
Speaker 2: a refresher.
Speaker 3: And he puts this shit on and like when it
Speaker 3: hits like.
Speaker 2: Ice cubes explode, like as if the splash from the
Speaker 2: eye drops hitting his eyes like ice. Yeah, and the
Speaker 2: whole thing's like like the whole commercial is like so
Speaker 2: fucking sensational where he's like, I gotta do I And
Speaker 2: I would always bring that back for.
Speaker 3: All the stoners and be like, Yo, try this eye
Speaker 3: drop and they'd be like what the fuck?
Speaker 2: Everybody thought it was Mason shit. And then afterwards you're like, yo,
Speaker 2: it does feel like different. Put it clean exactly, but
Speaker 2: is it better? I have no idea. I really do
Speaker 2: think it's it's just that feeling that you go through
Speaker 2: and it's like, dude, just a little bit.
Speaker 1: Of we like this would be the sort of thing
Speaker 1: that I would have enjoyed, like well high, you know,
Speaker 1: like makes like a little bit like hinglywashed.
Speaker 2: Look I have face watched that does that, and I
Speaker 2: don't appreciate it, okay.
Speaker 3: Like it's just weird.
Speaker 2: Like as I'm good, I'm like, like just I just
Speaker 2: wanted to feel clean, not like like I don't need
Speaker 2: to feel any others. There's no sensation of clean of
Speaker 2: aside from my feeling like, okay, it's not oily or whatever.
Speaker 1: I know I'm clean because my face dries out and
Speaker 1: that's that's my version of clean. That's like wrinkles.
Speaker 2: When I see the wrinkles for me, when I smile,
Speaker 2: I want to see a bunch of dead skin crack.
Speaker 1: You can hear my face when I smile, and that's
Speaker 1: how you know my face is clean.
Speaker 3: So dry.
Speaker 1: Also, looking in the Reddit thread where somebody complained about this, uh, inevitably,
Speaker 1: somebody was like this is just the younger generation being
Speaker 1: too soft. But I just I just want to say,
Speaker 1: I like a little bit of pain with my bathroom routine.
Speaker 1: I take, you know, I do flossing and take my
Speaker 1: ship to the torture chamber with floss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you fust away. Your dentist actually has been like
Speaker 2: reprimanding you, right, like.
Speaker 1: Trying to chill the fuck out. Man.
Speaker 3: That's oh, you're just soft the younger generation. He's like,
Speaker 3: I'm sixty seven, So the first.
Speaker 1: Time we've actually had to recommend dental patient to the therapist.
Speaker 1: We have a dental therapist. But you're clearly working through
Speaker 1: some shit with you flussing.
Speaker 3: This is so weird that you chose flossing as the
Speaker 3: medium for this thing.
Speaker 1: To just get your shit out. All right? Uh? Underrated?
Speaker 1: What's you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Underrated?
Speaker 2: First of all, I will say it again, puppet shows.
Speaker 2: I saw another puppet show. I saw a puppet Nutcracker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I told you any a Halloween one. There's I'm saying,
Speaker 3: there's just something very pure about puppetry. I don't know
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 2: I think it's like one of these art forms that
Speaker 2: have existed for like centuries.
Speaker 3: But you I don't know, there's something pure about it.
Speaker 2: And I found myself like, oh, the one that was
Speaker 2: like so one of the puppeteers was manipulating like a
Speaker 2: little dog running and I was.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, look at the dog.
Speaker 2: I was like, dude, in my mind afterwards, I saw
Speaker 2: her majesty we had the baby. I said, I'm like,
Speaker 2: what was your favorite puppy? Mine was the dog. She
Speaker 2: was like what, Like, dude, the dog was so cool.
Speaker 2: The dog was so tight. But the thing that I
Speaker 2: think is underrated is how easily I can get caught
Speaker 2: up in reality TV sensationalism.
Speaker 3: Uh. I was watching that.
Speaker 2: Squid Game Show like sick bro, Like I'm you can
Speaker 2: hear right now, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm not doing too great. But I was
Speaker 3: like laid out and.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, fucking let me watch the Squid
Speaker 2: Game Show the first episode right, like there's all kinds
Speaker 2: of learning, all these the cast, the characters. But I
Speaker 2: have to say, without the without the power of the
Speaker 2: original narrative show behind it, I would really say there's
Speaker 2: to be a boring ass reality show like it only
Speaker 2: resonates because it's like they're really trying to go like
Speaker 2: match the original Korean drama. But the producers, no, fuck
Speaker 2: it look reality TV. Like I watch a lot, they
Speaker 2: know what the fuck they're doing. They know how to
Speaker 2: squeeze every bit of emotion out of anything. And I
Speaker 2: got to say that first episode that had the mother
Speaker 2: and son doing the red light green Light challenge and
Speaker 2: shit was she crossed the line and they were embracing
Speaker 2: each other. I almost started full voice scream crying because
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3: And have you seen it? Did you see the first episode?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: So I mean this isn't really Apol's partly a spoiler
Speaker 2: because the show is so long, but like they're doing
Speaker 2: red light green Light and you find out two of
Speaker 2: these of the contestants are a mother and son, and
Speaker 2: the sun gets across the line and like in the beginning,
Speaker 2: like people are getting hit with paintballs and shit to
Speaker 2: sort of represent being shot. We talked about this in
Speaker 2: like a past episode. But he's like waiting for his
Speaker 2: mom to cross the line, and like the clock is
Speaker 2: ticking down and she's like older, and she's like trying
Speaker 2: to like do her best to make it, like is
Speaker 2: she gonna make and she makes it and she's so
Speaker 2: happy and he's just like, Mom, you did it, and
Speaker 2: they're jumped up and down, and it was so sensationalized
Speaker 2: the way they made it all slow motion.
Speaker 3: Like is she gonna get fucking Mrked? We don't know?
Speaker 2: Or will she entered the embrace of her son's loving arms,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I was done.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's.
Speaker 2: Like it's like this is us where like they go
Speaker 2: for like vague life experiences that like hit very broadly
Speaker 2: and then turn that ship up to fifty and make
Speaker 2: your emotions explode. And so I'm such a mama's boy,
Speaker 2: So like that moment really had me thinking, like what
Speaker 2: if my mom had to enter a death match so
Speaker 2: she could win in muney like, and I'm like, and
Speaker 2: then she made it?
Speaker 3: What what if that was us? And then I took
Speaker 3: it and went, what the fuck is wrong with me
Speaker 3: right now? So, but yeah, they got me.
Speaker 1: Do they talk about like the thing that we know
Speaker 1: we got in the originals quick game that like why
Speaker 1: they need the money or is that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: People talk about it, Okay, yeah, a lot of people,
Speaker 2: Like from the first couple episodes I saw it's very vague.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, for my family.
Speaker 2: No, I have like a rare something that like only
Speaker 2: four point five six million dollars will help, Like.
Speaker 3: That's the exact amount I need.
Speaker 2: It's just a lot of like I mean, like anyone,
Speaker 2: it's just like, what what couldn't I do to better
Speaker 2: my life with four and a half million dollars?
Speaker 1: Pre text also shut up Red Lake green Light, good game.
Speaker 1: I was playing playing a little red Lake green Light
Speaker 1: this weekend with some some young and some guys.
Speaker 3: Some guys I am in the parking.
Speaker 1: Something so underrated for me being old. I just want
Speaker 1: to the degree to which I am not hearing the
Speaker 1: siren call of the Panera lemonade that.
Speaker 3: Took another life. Ps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the fact that I have not like this
Speaker 1: is normally the type of shit that I would be
Speaker 1: backing out of my driveway on my way to get
Speaker 1: before the person finished the phrase like heart explode, you know,
Speaker 1: but I can like almost hear the absence of the
Speaker 1: voice in my head telling me to go out and
Speaker 1: get that ship, like you know, like the yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's you know, when you live in the
Speaker 1: city and you go out to the like beach or
Speaker 1: country or woods, and you can actually like hear the
Speaker 1: sound of silence. That's kind of what it's like in
Speaker 1: my head right now with uh, with regards to my
Speaker 1: my lack of interest in getting like I used to
Speaker 1: drink the those five hour energy things they they had,
Speaker 1: so those had a ton of caffeine in them. They
Speaker 1: used to drink the like extra strength ones, like multiple
Speaker 1: a day just to like get through the day. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it just like yeah, it's and I think
Speaker 1: it was just like anything to not feel like whatever,
Speaker 1: not not feel whatever I was feeling at that moment.
Speaker 2: You know, you'd rather have like the overarching feeling just
Speaker 2: be like heart racing, yea, like heart.
Speaker 1: Racing down to crash down to and I don't know,
Speaker 1: it just feels like when I was young, I had
Speaker 1: this misconception that like you like this is as good
Speaker 1: as it gets, and then like it gets worse. And
Speaker 1: that's true, like physically, you know that it gets harder physically,
Speaker 1: but like mentally, you really you really learn some tricks
Speaker 1: as you get older, and you just like learn how
Speaker 1: to be okay, or at least you know, I have
Speaker 1: sometimes I've learned to how to sometimes be okay without
Speaker 1: the you know, Panera charged lemonade coursing through my veins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: telling me to you know.
Speaker 2: Well, it's yeah, like we take all those feelings that
Speaker 2: are like when you're in your twenties, You're like, what
Speaker 2: the fuck is all this shit? I'm like feeling right now,
Speaker 2: And then you get older You're like, no, no, no, this.
Speaker 3: Might be trying to communicate to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, listen to your body, listen to your brain
Speaker 1: a little bit more. But yeah, like there was a
Speaker 1: time when I was like, really, I didn't realize it
Speaker 1: at the time, but so much of like how I
Speaker 1: felt about like just kind of a hopelessness was based
Speaker 1: on the idea that like and then you get older
Speaker 1: and it just sucks. Like you know what, I don't
Speaker 1: want to get fucking old. That's horrible, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's not bad. And in fact, like they've done studies.
Speaker 1: I remember we we did this article on like myths
Speaker 1: in wellness culture and uh back back at Cracked, and
Speaker 1: like one of them was that people actually report getting
Speaker 1: happier as they get older, and that like fucking bleom.
Speaker 1: I was like what, no, at them and they're freaking
Speaker 1: me out. Yeah yeah, yeah, anyways, uh yeah, give it
Speaker 1: a chance get older, and you know, you figure some
Speaker 1: things out.
Speaker 3: I wonder in your head, I saw it like a
Speaker 3: tweet that was blowing up or.
Speaker 2: Someone was like, like, it fucks you up, Like when
Speaker 2: when you're there's something where something that says like it
Speaker 2: really fucks you up. When you turn twenty nine and
Speaker 2: you realize how close you are to thirty nine and
Speaker 2: like all these people like, oh fuck, no, thirty nine now,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, y'all.
Speaker 3: It's it's not bad. It's not bad.
Speaker 2: I'm actually surprised, And part of me is like thinking,
Speaker 2: I'm like, am I okay? Because I don't like whatever
Speaker 2: I thought thirty nine was supposed to feel like, it's
Speaker 2: not bad at all, Like it's it's truly about how
Speaker 2: you're you know, how you look at your life, and
Speaker 2: if you're looking at like at thirty nine, I'm going
Speaker 2: to be decrepit and you know, like I won't be
Speaker 2: spry anymore or something like that. I mean maybe, but
Speaker 2: like you know, if all things are are doing okay,
Speaker 2: just embrace it.
Speaker 3: You'll be okay.
Speaker 1: You'll be okay if you're in the NBA and the
Speaker 1: only thing you care about is how well you perform
Speaker 1: in the end. N then yes, I feel you. It's
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot harder. And the MVP Leb James. Yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out to the Lakers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, shout out the Dodgers to just signed show he Tani,
Speaker 3: the boy is in heaven.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back. We're back, and Alex Jones
Speaker 1: is back on Twitter. Baby, how many more?
Speaker 2: How many more stones can they pile on our chest
Speaker 2: before we fully cave and we gotta leave? I mean, Alex,
Speaker 2: what it's just this is wild too, this because when
Speaker 2: he came back, everybody started sharing that Elon Musk tweet
Speaker 2: about how you would never reinstate him. And then here
Speaker 2: we are right back at it because again Elon Musk,
Speaker 2: I mean, not that we should be surprised, but it's
Speaker 2: just like hell site every day it's gonna be the
Speaker 2: It's like we're closely reaching the full on dictionary definition
Speaker 2: of hell.
Speaker 1: Yeah he did. Elon Musk had tweeted or I guess
Speaker 1: wrote in a twenty twenty two blog posts he literally
Speaker 1: referenced his infants on Sid's death as one reason why
Speaker 1: he could never let Alex Jones back stating, my firstborn
Speaker 1: child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat.
Speaker 1: Have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths
Speaker 1: of children for game, politics or fame.
Speaker 2: Psych Yeah, I just did in that statement too. Whoops,
Speaker 2: you'll see that one come back around is kind of wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he did the Twitter poll. Seventy percent of
Speaker 1: the you know, people who hang on his every word
Speaker 1: and still pay attention to what he says or in bots,
Speaker 1: voted to bring history's worst nutraceutical pitchman back. Jones had
Speaker 1: been subjected to a permanent ban back in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: Uh and yeah, now he's saying, are we a platform
Speaker 1: that believes in freedom of speech? Or are we not?
Speaker 1: Adding shaw right shwing? Are these references not cool? Look
Speaker 1: at I'm gonna hurl.
Speaker 3: Dude, it smells like mun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are we a platform that believes in freedom of speech?
Speaker 3: Or are we not? They? In fact, we're not.
Speaker 1: We're not. Yeah, they suspended hundreds of palestin any accounts.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you know, some people like the founder of
Speaker 1: the anti gun violence group Mom's Demand Action pointed out
Speaker 1: pre speech isn't the same thing as defamation like.
Speaker 3: That, Yeah, right, right, right, right right, al.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's laws in place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's I mean, like Alex Jones is so radioactive,
Speaker 2: like the fucking guy got banned from Pinterest.
Speaker 3: That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: I didn't realized interest.
Speaker 2: Everything about his existence on the internet is radio act.
Speaker 2: Like of course, all the big fucking companies are like
Speaker 2: absolutely not, Like when LinkedIn and Pinterest are also like no,
Speaker 2: what the fuck you.
Speaker 1: Can't do it on Pinterest?
Speaker 3: Yes, sorry, not here, not here board you're.
Speaker 1: Too spicy or whatever. Pinterest is a series of boards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean just yeah, you can sort of
Speaker 2: aggregate a bunch of little bits of media pictures.
Speaker 1: Aggregation.
Speaker 2: I use it just to look at bubble jackets in
Speaker 2: the summer and just long for the winter's embrace. But yeah, Twitter,
Speaker 2: I mean, somehow Twitter was the last one to not
Speaker 2: fucking take.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that, like back of the day that
Speaker 1: you know, he had been He had already been banned
Speaker 1: by YouTube, Facebook, Apple, Spotify, LinkedIn, Pinterest for violating various
Speaker 1: rules against harassmen and hate speech, and then Twitter was
Speaker 1: like the last hold out. They'd been like dragging their
Speaker 1: feet on banning him, and then eventually did and now
Speaker 1: and now he's.
Speaker 2: Back, and all of it is never done like in
Speaker 2: the actual interest of like what the experience is like
Speaker 2: for the people using it or what the common good is.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, like a lot of people fuck with
Speaker 2: Alex Jones on Twitter, so if like we banned him, then.
Speaker 3: Like that might hurt like our user base.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't want to alienate supporters who make up
Speaker 1: a substantial chunk of Twitter users. So Twitter's been trash,
Speaker 1: turns out.
Speaker 2: But I know, it's just like it's like, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: like a like a terrible cooking ingredient. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's bad for you. He's like, but you
Speaker 2: can you can do good stuff with it too. They
Speaker 2: can kind of do good stuff with it, like you know,
Speaker 2: don't don't don't don't talk all kinds of shit about Crisco. Right,
Speaker 2: it does does help something taste good. Didn't tell me
Speaker 2: your favorite stuff. Actually it's verifiably terrible for you. But like,
Speaker 2: come on now, speaking of.
Speaker 1: Trash, the US veto to ceasefire at the UN Security
Speaker 1: Council meeting. Yeah, basically so. Security Council General Antonio Uteras
Speaker 1: invoked Article ninety nine, which was a rare move that
Speaker 1: only happens when the Secretary General believes that a matter
Speaker 1: gravely threatens the maintenance of international peace and security forced
Speaker 1: to vote for a ceasefire in Gaza, and the US
Speaker 1: alone used their fucking veto power. Everybody else was in
Speaker 1: favor of it except the UK, who I guess the
Speaker 1: US have been like, come on, man, no, don't just
Speaker 1: we'll just we'll just don't show up. Let's just play
Speaker 1: hooky today, right right right right right, yeah, stand from voting.
Speaker 2: It's just like it's just solf a man, another just
Speaker 2: fucked up cynical note in this whole thing, like you know,
Speaker 2: the reason behind it too, is so weak and so
Speaker 2: fucking embarrassing and humiliating and makes me just so fucking angry.
Speaker 3: The Deputy Ambassador said.
Speaker 2: That he like said he vetoed it because these are
Speaker 2: the reasons. He's like, there wasn't enough condemn Hamases in
Speaker 2: the document, yes sentence, yes exactly. It should have been
Speaker 2: called the Condemned Hamas Act. And also because the Security
Speaker 2: Council ignored his suggestions to add more like fucking sentences
Speaker 2: that were like giving the US like big en up
Speaker 2: the US for like getting involved, and also like not
Speaker 2: talking about like all of the like saying like horrific
Speaker 2: attack or like specific things that happened on October seventh. Like,
Speaker 2: so they basically got upset that they weren't allowed to
Speaker 2: propagandize the resolution itself, which again I don't think even
Speaker 2: if they did, they would have I don't think they
Speaker 2: would have voted for it. But I think it's better
Speaker 2: to use that as the excuse rather than like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, we're like we're all systems go on, you know,
Speaker 2: just making it rain fucking bombs and shit over there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: This veto was soon followed by reports that Blinken had
Speaker 1: invoked emergency powers to bypass Congress and supply nearly fourteen
Speaker 1: thousand tank rounds to Israel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is and again, like we'll talk about a
Speaker 2: dimension of this in a way on our episode, our
Speaker 2: Tuesday episode. But like, yeah, when you think that you
Speaker 2: can just go say, oh, we have to just destroy
Speaker 2: al Qaeda and it that's it, or we just have
Speaker 2: to get rid of Hamas and that's it, and not
Speaker 2: actually address any of the underlying things that are happening
Speaker 2: or understand that a power vacuum is created. Then what
Speaker 2: it's just so short sighted and like again we're watching
Speaker 2: the US do its thing, and also see how how
Speaker 2: weak the UN is, like when it's like trying to
Speaker 2: be like all right, this is an emergency, this threatens
Speaker 2: like global peace. Okay, the US out okay, never mind, right,
Speaker 2: never mind?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that seems like it shouldn't be. We shouldn't have
Speaker 1: vetos for you know, international.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's how they had to make that charter,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Yeah, then, because then the
Speaker 2: whole global South could just be like, aha, I guess
Speaker 2: what America. Yeah, we're coming for that ass for the
Speaker 2: ship that y'all did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's uh, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back. And we're back. And I
Speaker 1: just keep thinking about that Mitchell and web sketch the weight.
Speaker 1: Are we the baddies? It's just like full on yeah, truly,
Speaker 1: like such thoroughly cowardly movie villain behavior, like nitpicking bullshit
Speaker 1: and the wording and demanding that it like say nice
Speaker 1: things about the US. Well, now, well they're trying to
Speaker 1: fucking save human lives.
Speaker 3: What did it say? What did it say? We did?
Speaker 3: Did it say? We helped? M debatable debatable.
Speaker 1: We have skulls on our hats. We were the only
Speaker 1: ones voting to keep killing, to not do a cease fire.
Speaker 2: And the and the reason was because we had a
Speaker 2: reason really to say that, that's why it's bad.
Speaker 3: We just turned it into our egos. Also, this this
Speaker 3: we kind of need this to be propaganda to with this.
Speaker 1: Could you sweeten the pot in terms of like saying
Speaker 1: we're cool anyways? Uh? In other news, a big retail
Speaker 1: group retracted their startling claim about organized shoplifting.
Speaker 2: You fucking losers, The National Retail Federation.
Speaker 1: Remember we've looked, we've been on this shit.
Speaker 2: Alec Carritt Santas has been putt just always constantly been
Speaker 2: sounding alarm as well as well as many others.
Speaker 3: But Alec was definitely our endpoint to this about.
Speaker 2: Being like, there's no fucking crime wave, you pieces of shit.
Speaker 2: There's no fucking like they're like organized shoplifting rings aren't
Speaker 2: bringing the aren't bringing corporations like Target and fucking Walgreens
Speaker 2: to their fucking knees. And so the National Retail Federation,
Speaker 2: which is the trade group who was always saying that,
Speaker 2: like who said nearly half of the industry's ninety four
Speaker 2: point five billion dollars in missing merchandise in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: one was the result of organized theft. They had to
Speaker 2: basically retract that because it was likely closer to five percent.
Speaker 1: Oh, they just misplaced the decimal point. Dude, that happens
Speaker 1: to me all the time. That's no, I add a
Speaker 1: zero A wow, my five person they.
Speaker 3: Said in like this the article of New York Times.
Speaker 2: It's sort of going on through all the data and
Speaker 2: like the retraction it said.
Speaker 3: Quote.
Speaker 2: In fact, retail theft has been lower this year in
Speaker 2: most of the country than it was a few years ago,
Speaker 2: according to police data. Some exceptions, including New York City, exist,
Speaker 2: but in most major cities, shoplifting incidents have fallen seven
Speaker 2: percent since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: It's not the version that I've been told.
Speaker 3: Oh really, you don't say.
Speaker 1: New York Times say anything about their role.
Speaker 2: No, No, where is their retraction too.
Speaker 3: Do they need did someone else need to maybe file
Speaker 3: a retraction?
Speaker 1: Yah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, But it's uh, you know, it's like one of
Speaker 2: those things too. All you need is you need enough
Speaker 2: sensational video clips of like black and brown people running
Speaker 2: through a store taking stuff, and then you can be
Speaker 2: like and this is why we need more draconian laws.
Speaker 1: And you just get a handful of videos, a handful
Speaker 1: of examples, and then you just keep showing those over
Speaker 1: and over again. And that's what's sticks in people's brains.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you can conjure up like a video every
Speaker 2: four months, yeah you're good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The power of the fucking media, for sure. I think
Speaker 2: that's also more so than like this retraction. I think maybe,
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe you guys need to.
Speaker 1: Do a little soul searching, right, interesting, Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: also interesting, like why are they bothering to retract it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we'll see.
Speaker 3: But I think because enough people were like the math
Speaker 3: ain't math.
Speaker 1: In uh huh, So they just had to. They just
Speaker 1: felt the pressure to be like Okay, well, first of all,
Speaker 1: like you guys know, we're a lobbying group, right, we
Speaker 1: lie for a living. That's kind of our thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just because this other outlet was like just
Speaker 2: completely poking holes in like how the fuck is that?
Speaker 3: Even? Like it was truly like how is that possible?
Speaker 2: Like we're looking at other data, like it doesn't square
Speaker 2: with anything we're seeing even from like the reports from
Speaker 2: these companies. But they did double down. They were, like
Speaker 2: they said, even though they retracted it.
Speaker 3: No no, no.
Speaker 2: After their retraction, wow, they said, quote, we stand behind
Speaker 2: the widely understood fact that organized retail crime is a
Speaker 2: serious problem impacting retailers of all sizes. At the same time,
Speaker 2: we recognize the challenges the retail industry and law enforcement
Speaker 2: have with gathering and analyzing an accurate and agreed upon
Speaker 2: set of data.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, all right, Krispy Kreme Donuts? Have it invaded France?
Speaker 1: Despite the fact that Paris is just brimming with delicious
Speaker 1: pastry shops, there is now a Krispy Kreme in Paris
Speaker 1: and uh. To keep with the theme of this episode
Speaker 1: that marketing is evil and effective. They they like plastered
Speaker 1: the entire city with gorilla marketing like posters and shit
Speaker 1: like that, and it is wildly successful. When it opened
Speaker 1: last week, four hundred people lined up outside. Some have
Speaker 1: been there as early as ten pm the night before,
Speaker 1: which makes sense because the first ten people in line
Speaker 1: won a year's supply of free donuts.
Speaker 2: That's like a thing that I'm honestly, I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't know if I need a fucking year supply of fucking.
Speaker 1: The year supply of free Krispy Cream donuts would be
Speaker 1: so bad for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah, But also like it just stresses me
Speaker 2: out too, because like when donuts start getting stale, that's
Speaker 2: when I start eating more. Like I remember buying like
Speaker 2: a dozen Krispy Kremes to race against the clock. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then like you have that one bite, you're like,
Speaker 2: oh shit, they're going, They're going, and you're fucking I gotta,
Speaker 2: I gotta just fucking stuff them now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Not good, not good, not good.
Speaker 1: I do feel like this is such a so squarely
Speaker 1: in the wheelhouse of like American capitalism and consumerism, Like
Speaker 1: it's I'm gonna keep my eye on this one because
Speaker 1: it feels people line up outside. I'm just like, did
Speaker 1: they work for the CIA? Did they? How did this?
Speaker 1: Like in the same way that that Saddam Hussein toppled
Speaker 1: statue was, you know, they showed that every two minutes
Speaker 1: on CNN, Like this is this is kind of like
Speaker 1: the peacetime version of that. It's like we won, Like
Speaker 1: this is the ultimate cultural victory. Krispy Kreme has taken
Speaker 1: over Paris. They think they're too good for us, but look,
Speaker 1: they love our shit. Yeah, can't get enough of it.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh yeah, oh so I'm guessing your quason
Speaker 2: is not actually even comparable to the mighty circle that
Speaker 2: is the glazed donut.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I do get like, I feel like
Speaker 1: nobody's impervious to like these are different categories of human experience,
Speaker 1: you know, like a croissant made in Paris it's poetry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is poetry, whereas like a Krispy Kreme donut is
Speaker 1: pushing the scientific boundaries of sugar saturation.
Speaker 2: Right right, you know how much still like it actually
Speaker 2: is it ceases to be bread and you're actually just
Speaker 2: eating granulated sugar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just yeah, it's just marketing mixed with you
Speaker 1: know the fact that they've been recruiting the greatest minds,
Speaker 1: uh coming out of you know, the greatest scientific institutions
Speaker 1: in the world to come work for fucking donuts.
Speaker 2: Like how do you make that glaze just create such
Speaker 2: a dopamine response that people are going to line up
Speaker 2: for days? But I mean, you know, like it's if
Speaker 2: if the if the quaso.
Speaker 3: Is poetry, then the what the donut is? Uh like
Speaker 3: a cool machine gun? Yeah? What it like? I don't
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't even know how to compare it, but I
Speaker 2: guess it is just one of those things too where
Speaker 2: we'll see how.
Speaker 3: Lar it lasts, you know, like if it because it's
Speaker 3: like the thing anytime.
Speaker 2: I remember when Krispy Creams were opening up like outside
Speaker 2: of their original like market, it was the same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: But I mean, I guess they must be doing well
Speaker 2: because it's not like it's like the Krispy I remember
Speaker 2: when there was like one that opened in Burbank and
Speaker 2: it was like a fucking mob scene.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and but that was just that's it's still going strong.
Speaker 2: I think, so maybe maybe we were introducing them to
Speaker 2: the power of a very sweet donuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The the marketing that they did, by the way,
Speaker 1: was illegal, like they just uh plastered the entire city
Speaker 1: with posters, and the deputy mayor like was like, well,
Speaker 1: Krispy Kreme, you corporation that is publicly traded. I think, hmm,
Speaker 1: you should expect a pretty big fine coming. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Guess what, buddy, that's forty euro per poster you put up.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's coming out of your end.
Speaker 3: Guy.
Speaker 1: I just we need to stop with fines. Like that
Speaker 1: was the second like There was also a story on
Speaker 1: NPR this morning about how, you know, Trump is not testifying,
Speaker 1: but they were also going through his you know, just
Speaker 1: defiance of the gag order that was put on him,
Speaker 1: and they were like, despite multiple fines, it's just like fines, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh wow work for anyone? Who are the people who
Speaker 1: need whose behavior needs to be changed? And they're yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like classist and you know, discriminatory against people who
Speaker 1: are poor, Like, yeah, that's all.
Speaker 2: Fines are unless there's like something to actually create like
Speaker 2: a tiered system of like what an individual is fine
Speaker 2: based on their income or whatever, or corporation like they
Speaker 2: have to be like devastating. But you know now they're
Speaker 2: just like little taxes now that people can collect, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know they take into account before they make
Speaker 1: the decision. They're like, okay, well, how many people could
Speaker 1: they possibly find us?
Speaker 2: Okay, what could what possibly could a class action lawsuit
Speaker 2: be for the deaths?
Speaker 3: What like ten people die?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, one hundred million dollars. Oh yeah, then it's
Speaker 1: super profitable, Like I'd be not doing my job to
Speaker 1: not risk those ten people's last And then finally, the
Speaker 1: Golden Globes noms dropped Big News May December. Is a comedy.
Speaker 1: I don't know if people saw that one, but it is.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2: That movie is about a woman who's gonna play like
Speaker 2: a Mary kay Laturno type character.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it's selling mary Kayla Turner around to like
Speaker 1: research research, that's a comedy. That's a comedy, baby.
Speaker 2: You know well, I mean I say that like as
Speaker 2: if I don't understand what's going on. They do that
Speaker 2: because the studio cynically put it. They they sent it
Speaker 2: for consideration as a comedy because they build the dramatic
Speaker 2: categories too congested. So that's why The Martian was one.
Speaker 2: It's just a dumb hack to try and get a
Speaker 2: fucking award. The Martian is fucking mel Brooks compared to
Speaker 2: The Spider.
Speaker 1: I've seen them both.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is there anything remotely comedic about it?
Speaker 1: I mean it's like it's darkly like some of the
Speaker 1: takes could be seen as darkly comedic. It's like they
Speaker 1: have these super melodramatic musical cues that I think are
Speaker 1: like definitely ironic. It's it's a really good I thought,
Speaker 1: but in a way that is like tragic and that
Speaker 1: not Yeah, it's just definitely shines a light under some rocks.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just it's just a way to sneak
Speaker 1: nominees into a category that might be less competitive, but
Speaker 1: it also has to piss off like the filmmakers to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, and Natalie Portman, your performance was.
Speaker 3: Hilarious, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, going up against the all the.
Speaker 2: I studied a lot of vaudeville, you know, I really
Speaker 2: wanted to nail the subtleties of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's two new categories, one for uh stand up Performances,
Speaker 1: which seems to be an award for stand up comedians
Speaker 1: who put out specials that are like late in their
Speaker 1: career and below their normal standards. Yep, it's like just like,
Speaker 1: I guess the biggest names who put out specials this year,
Speaker 1: they didn't even give it to Like Mulaney didn't get nominated, nominated,
Speaker 1: but like Sarah Silverman, Chris Rock, uh, you know, all
Speaker 1: the big Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't look, I'm not I'm gonna cast aspersions here.
Speaker 2: I don't think the Hollywood Forum press is equipped to
Speaker 2: actually determine what is good stand up comedy. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you may have a bit of insight to it.
Speaker 1: The other new category is one we've speculated in the past,
Speaker 1: or it feels like they're going for a thing that
Speaker 1: we've speculated the past, Like I suggest that having one
Speaker 1: category for best film and one category for best movie, right,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe something could be both, but you
Speaker 1: know that that would be some of the conversations. But
Speaker 1: basically things that are like, you know, a great work
Speaker 1: of art versus things that are just like a good
Speaker 1: time at the movies successfully like executed. They seem to
Speaker 1: kind of do this. They called it a cinematic and
Speaker 1: box office achievement, but it it's weird. It just seems
Speaker 1: like they like, right now, it's just an industry award
Speaker 1: based on who donated the most, Like Guardians of the
Speaker 1: Galaxy Volume three is in there, john Wick WI chapter four.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess I saw John Wick Chapter four.
Speaker 1: I wasn't crazy about it. But some people seem to
Speaker 1: really like it, and some people really like Guardians of
Speaker 1: the Galaxy movies. But it just feels like I wish
Speaker 1: the emphastist was on the like cinematic achievement by a
Speaker 1: movie that did well at the box office sort of
Speaker 1: just like here's some movies that did well at the
Speaker 1: box office, because then it's clear why this exists.
Speaker 2: Did you do one hundred million? Did you do at
Speaker 2: least one hundred million in domestic box office? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just the bar.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Which it did allow them to throw a non
Speaker 1: to Taylor Swift, which will probably help with ratings.
Speaker 3: Oh come so, Taylor, bring Travis. It's gonna be a
Speaker 3: fucking moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right. Those are some of the things that
Speaker 1: are trending on this Monday morning and trended over the weekend.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
Speaker 1: the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 1: kind to yourself, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about supremacy.
Speaker 1: We will talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Fight Fight, h