Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three oh one,
Speaker 1: Episode three of Days Like I Stay, production of My
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Speaker 1: deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Thursday, August
Speaker 1: twenty fourth, twenty twenty three. My name is Jack O'Brien
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Speaker 1: my arms back. Benjamin but and me med bets Baby.
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Speaker 1: of our new friends in to ask them if they
Speaker 1: know about med beds, if they're in proximity to any medbeds.
Speaker 1: At the moment, I am thrilled to be joined in
Speaker 1: my second seat by a very funny guest co host,
Speaker 1: an acclaimed stand up comedian and expert oscar picker. It's
Speaker 1: Nick Turner.
Speaker 2: I guess it's true. I'm not Miles.
Speaker 3: I'm a one night stand, but I still need love
Speaker 3: because I'm a different man. These pods never seemed to
Speaker 3: go to plan. I don't want you to leave, Miles.
Speaker 3: Hold my hand, Oh won't you?
Speaker 2: Gray with me.
Speaker 4: Wow ah, miss, there's more.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's not more than I planned.
Speaker 4: But it was beautiful. It's good to say with what joy?
Speaker 4: What a just the light of positive energy.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was wonderful to have you here, Nick turn
Speaker 1: And that was beautiful. I didn't know you had that
Speaker 1: in you know, your your vocal range, well you did,
Speaker 1: got that soulful.
Speaker 2: I think this is like my tenth time singing on
Speaker 2: this show. And if you don't know by now.
Speaker 1: But that was that was maybe a high point. I
Speaker 1: gotta say thank you, thank you, thank you. Anyways, Nick,
Speaker 1: we are fortunate, blessed, thrilled to be joined by two
Speaker 1: very funny writers. Season two of their adult swim show
Speaker 1: Teenage Youth in Asia is out now. Please welcome Melyssa
Speaker 1: Nutting and Allison Lena.
Speaker 2: What's up, guys, Thanks for having us?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, yeah, we are.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: He didn't want, you know, two people usually, but he
Speaker 4: wanted someone to offset me today, so we needed to.
Speaker 6: I didn't write any songs. I didn't.
Speaker 1: That's okay, okay, it's not expected. It's just something that
Speaker 1: we like to do to express ourselves up top and
Speaker 1: let the guests know that we are not serious.
Speaker 2: As people.
Speaker 1: We are fools. How are you guys doing? How's uh
Speaker 1: where where are you coming to us from?
Speaker 6: We're by We're bi coastal.
Speaker 1: I'm in La Okay, I've heard of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm in New York City.
Speaker 1: That's Alison in New York City.
Speaker 5: I'm in sort of Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: There you go, Sunset Park. I spent some time there.
Speaker 2: It's rough, rough in the nineties.
Speaker 1: Sunset Park.
Speaker 5: What time is the Oh it's it's forty eight.
Speaker 1: Oh no, there's a rap song that's Sunset Park.
Speaker 2: What time?
Speaker 5: Nope, Yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 2: Actually, Sunset Park is the only place I ever called
Speaker 2: nine one one. I lived in a couple of apartments
Speaker 2: in Sunset Park.
Speaker 1: Hey, congratulations, thank.
Speaker 2: You, thank you.
Speaker 4: I was cornered in a in a bakery by uh
Speaker 4: by some youthes m you know.
Speaker 2: The young kids. You know, they figured it out.
Speaker 5: I assume once through kiwis at my at my friend
Speaker 5: and he was really he wanted to know how much
Speaker 5: they had paid for the kiwis. How could they afford
Speaker 5: to throw such expensive fruit? But it is work, so yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's been season the cheaper How did how do
Speaker 1: they do in terms of like I feel like the
Speaker 1: best projectile of throw at someone is an egg, right,
Speaker 1: but like that then you get you have the rotten
Speaker 1: tomatoes you could In terms of like burstability, how I
Speaker 1: feel like a kiwi would kind of retain its structural
Speaker 1: integrity a little too well.
Speaker 6: I find the exterior of the kiwi to be like
Speaker 6: the texture I find very unpleasant. Like if someone were
Speaker 6: to hold me down and forcibly rub a kiwi kind
Speaker 6: of across my arm, that would feel that would really
Speaker 6: be a way to punish me more than throwing it
Speaker 6: on me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I prefer a nice, clean shaven fruit.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't need the whiskers.
Speaker 4: You can eat a kiwi outside though, did you know
Speaker 4: that you did? Have you ever seen anyone do that?
Speaker 4: I grew up like that.
Speaker 1: But you can like also eat a banana peel like
Speaker 1: you don't want to, but like, yeah that's amazing. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: people still love it grows. It reminds me of the
Speaker 1: people who eat the whole apple. And I'm just like
Speaker 1: I don't. All right, man, Like you got a thing,
Speaker 1: clearly that's a that's your thing, and that's good, good
Speaker 1: for you, But I don't. I don't need it all right,
Speaker 1: Melissa Allison, We're going to get to know you a
Speaker 1: little bit better at a moment. First, we're going to
Speaker 1: tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Bentonville, Arkansas. For some reason,
Speaker 1: there's like a Wall Street Journal article. I'll just read
Speaker 1: the headline from the Wall Street Journal article. This small
Speaker 1: Ozark's town, m dash home to Walmart headquarters, MDSH is
Speaker 1: becoming a new capital of cool. I just want to
Speaker 1: talk about this from a philosophical perspective. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the fire festival and all of that plenty more. But
Speaker 1: my first, Allison and Alyssa, what is something from your
Speaker 1: search histories that is revealing about who you are?
Speaker 6: Well? I just bought a Cooking with Colombo recipe book. Wow,
Speaker 6: I'm very excited about I just started rewatching Colombo from
Speaker 6: season one. It really holds up. It's a real sort
Speaker 6: of like tour Divorce of classism y. You know, you
Speaker 6: get to watch rich people go to jail. You know,
Speaker 6: he's like rumply and humble, and it just has a
Speaker 6: lot of characteristics I feel, you know, we could use
Speaker 6: right now.
Speaker 1: It's this is wild. Yesterday's Search History was also somebody
Speaker 1: talking about like searching for Colombo, like being obsessed with Colombo.
Speaker 6: It's in the zeitgeist, you know, really like Poker Race
Speaker 6: is like inspired by Colombo.
Speaker 1: We already had this conversation yesterday, so talked about poker Face.
Speaker 1: Also talked about how it's like the origin of like
Speaker 1: all really great TV writers, like The Family Tree can
Speaker 1: be traced back to Colombo. But I did not know
Speaker 1: that there was like a classist sort of rich people
Speaker 1: going to jail vibe to it.
Speaker 6: So, yeah, the murderers are so far I'm I'm you know,
Speaker 6: still still in season one, but they're all very wealthy,
Speaker 6: and they often say things like, you know, to Colombo,
Speaker 6: like uh, you know, I imagine this would be a
Speaker 6: bit out of your price range, you know like that.
Speaker 6: And the other day was calculating how he would have
Speaker 6: to work for like ninety years without eating just to
Speaker 6: live in you know, one guy's house for a year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, damn, all right. You know what, after yesterday's Search History,
Speaker 1: I was like, I know what Colombo is. I've known
Speaker 1: what Colombo is, but now I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: start watching Colombo. So thank you for that.
Speaker 2: Watching Colombo too.
Speaker 5: This is I have a bad theory on why that's
Speaker 5: what all the Colombo. I've never seen even an episode
Speaker 5: of Columbo, but I have a theory about why all
Speaker 5: the killers are rich people. It is because they only
Speaker 5: wanted to hire white people in all those parts, and
Speaker 5: then they were what could all these white people like
Speaker 5: they have to all be fancy to end be killers
Speaker 5: because otherwise it'd be too like damn typical or something.
Speaker 2: But that's right.
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch Colombo anymore.
Speaker 5: That is the kid.
Speaker 6: Be like, yeah, like, where is that on like the
Speaker 6: progressive scale? If you're hiring them because you're acknowledging.
Speaker 1: You know, like the white people are the worst evil, but.
Speaker 6: You're also restricting acting roles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well if all of the protagonists are white people
Speaker 1: as well, maybe not great.
Speaker 2: How about you?
Speaker 4: You could have remember when like diversity was just making
Speaker 4: white gang members, right, that the diversity was that a
Speaker 4: gang a gang was like two white people do leattails.
Speaker 2: But that they're like, oh that's that wasn't it? Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah the other way, Alison, what's something from your search history?
Speaker 5: Mine's also mine's a movie. But I so Joe Firestone,
Speaker 5: who's on our show and is a stand up comedian,
Speaker 5: Joe should know. So her and I I was we
Speaker 5: were trying to figure out what to do on Friday night.
Speaker 5: And I like to make people go to the movies.
Speaker 5: And because I like going to the movies, and I
Speaker 5: like to see like, you know, old movies in the theater.
Speaker 5: So I gave her a bunch of suggestions. So I
Speaker 5: did a big research and of all the like old
Speaker 5: movies and theaters in New York.
Speaker 1: And I like old movies that like came out two
Speaker 1: three weeks ago. Is that what you mean?
Speaker 5: No, like real, like I don't know what they call it.
Speaker 1: Four weeks ago. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: And so one of my favorite movies is playing called Content.
Speaker 5: It's Bridget Bardow Godard movie. And so I said, Joe,
Speaker 5: do you want to see this? And she said is
Speaker 5: it scary? Which like just literally I said, Joe, you
Speaker 5: should watch what just watch the trailer and and so
Speaker 5: then I sent her that that was also in my
Speaker 5: search history and and we are going. I gave her
Speaker 5: a bunch of there was a there's a lot of
Speaker 5: really good revival movie theaters right now in the city
Speaker 5: playing all kinds of things. But I'm very excited. I
Speaker 5: haven't seen it in the theater in a long time,
Speaker 5: so I'm excited we're going Friday night.
Speaker 1: This is something I want to call out about Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Is Los Angeles. I think we talked about this also
Speaker 1: on yesterday's episode that like, Los Angeles really prides itself
Speaker 1: on having like old movie theaters that show old movies,
Speaker 1: but like other cities have that too. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: New York City's got a lot of them. I think, Yeah, you.
Speaker 4: Sound like someone who's never lived in New York. Jack,
Speaker 4: everything's cooler in New York even somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I know it's the best, Alison. What is
Speaker 1: something that you think is overrated?
Speaker 5: I'm having a tough time deciding between two things. One
Speaker 5: is the summer. I really don't care for it, like
Speaker 5: start to finish, don't like probably our most common answer
Speaker 5: to overrated. And then the second then okay, you the
Speaker 5: duplas brothers an actually Elma expanded any brother related team
Speaker 5: interest always overrated, always more than you need. For some reason,
Speaker 5: people around the world love to see brothers doing things together.
Speaker 5: I guess that's cute form or something, but not me.
Speaker 5: I don't care for it.
Speaker 6: There's a whole other team twinsest thing with brothers that happens.
Speaker 1: About that.
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, I have a brother. What am I doing wrong?
Speaker 6: She just said that people love to see brothers doing things,
Speaker 6: and no, no, no, I was just bringing up that,
Speaker 6: like there's a there's a pornographic contingent to the phenomenon
Speaker 6: al speaking of. I was just giving further supporting evidence.
Speaker 6: I thought I was being helpful.
Speaker 1: I think it's an interesting theory that the Cohen brothers
Speaker 1: are the result of everybody being I'm like, what if
Speaker 1: those two brothers had sex with each other, like the
Speaker 1: deep down, that's really what everyone's interested in.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I think they just think it's so
Speaker 5: fun that these brothers like want to work together step brothers. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't know people, Yeah.
Speaker 2: But uh.
Speaker 4: I also recently realized that Joel Cohen was one of
Speaker 4: the writers of Toy Story, as was Josh Whedon, and
Speaker 4: I just thought, wow, that was before.
Speaker 6: I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joseph Whedon, Yes.
Speaker 5: Yes, they're like writers of toy No.
Speaker 2: There's four Wow. But for like an animated movie, you know,
Speaker 2: that's that's.
Speaker 1: Not that anything. Coin went out on his own and
Speaker 1: directed Garfield.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, okay, but in a group of brothers, like
Speaker 4: when there's four or five brothers, you know, there was
Speaker 4: never more than too talented one. It's just like a
Speaker 4: gang mentality. You just see so many people coming. You're like, whoa,
Speaker 4: look at all this talent. But it's still just the
Speaker 4: one or two guys. It's still only Alec Baldwin and
Speaker 4: maybe a little Daniel Baldwin.
Speaker 5: It's still saddled with a lot of brothers out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Hughes brothers, the who made menace to society
Speaker 1: and then like immediately or and then they made dead
Speaker 1: presidents and then split up. Yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: There is just something that people are like, God, it
Speaker 1: would be so fun if these brothers like kept doing
Speaker 1: stuff together. Yeah.
Speaker 5: People are said, there's new brothers. I didn't see the movie,
Speaker 5: but that it's not called Talk to the Hand, but
Speaker 5: whatever that movie's called. Those has Australian brothers behind it.
Speaker 1: Yes, and people really like that one.
Speaker 5: I couldn't tell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could tell from the trailer the brothers had
Speaker 1: made it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they listed their names.
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you meant like you saw the first
Speaker 1: James and you're like, wait, a second. Get No, probably.
Speaker 2: Brothers.
Speaker 5: They're rarely sexy.
Speaker 1: Rarely are the brothers.
Speaker 2: They're more often sexy, all right.
Speaker 5: But they don't. They don't work together that much those brothers, right,
Speaker 5: they happen to be brothers that both. I don't have
Speaker 5: a problem with that, Like if your brother is also
Speaker 5: out there, I don't. I don't enjoy the brothers that
Speaker 5: that have this, that work together as a team. I
Speaker 5: think I find that to be overrated. Yeah, what's the question.
Speaker 2: What about if they have different names like Estevez and Sheen,
Speaker 2: can they work together?
Speaker 5: I don't. I'm sure America wants them to and then
Speaker 5: it works. YEA.
Speaker 1: Beach Boys a fan. We don't like the Beach Boys.
Speaker 1: The Beach Boys, right, we can all agree on that.
Speaker 5: I like Brian Wilson, but I don't know if brothers
Speaker 5: seems to be a bit of a pill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Alyssa, what is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 6: Well, I'm not going to say New York. No, you
Speaker 6: just all clearly are big fans. I think showering. For me,
Speaker 6: showering it just feels very like punitive. It feels kind
Speaker 6: of like a there's no dignity in it, you know,
Speaker 6: it feels like a punishment.
Speaker 5: Cold, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't enjoy it. It's so boring. I mean
Speaker 6: it's it's mind numbing. That's a huge thing. It really
Speaker 6: like rips you out of your routine.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: It's it's hard to have a fluid thought, you know,
Speaker 6: coming from like the desk into the shower and back out.
Speaker 6: I mean it's just like this like assault of the senses.
Speaker 1: And I got a lot of fluid thoughts, like get
Speaker 1: this fluid off of me? Right, Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: showering there's too many thoughts. Like I don't know, you're
Speaker 1: like kind of alone with your thoughts, which can be
Speaker 1: a good thing and a bad thing.
Speaker 2: But like I and you're also like, oh right, this
Speaker 2: is my body, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a hard it's a moment. It's a
Speaker 1: time for a hard truth.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It's a very corporeal experience. Yeah, it's like you're watching
Speaker 6: things like go down and drain, you know, like things
Speaker 6: like suddenly a metaphor truly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's also one of the last places you can't
Speaker 4: use your phone, and so that you know, that really
Speaker 4: irks me. It's like that, I think showering and getting
Speaker 4: your haircut. The only two places now you can't use
Speaker 4: your phone.
Speaker 1: You can't use your phone when you get your haircut.
Speaker 2: Do you use your phone? Do you like scroll through
Speaker 2: your phone when you're getting a haircut?
Speaker 1: I just hire someone to hold it in front of
Speaker 1: my face for me and scroll. Let's say, scroll.
Speaker 2: Yes, it reads my eyes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it's rude, I guess.
Speaker 2: But if it's not rude, I'm doing it. I'm starting.
Speaker 1: No, No, I definitely don't unless like somebody, like there's
Speaker 1: something happening, like I'm getting messages or something. Otherwise, Yes,
Speaker 1: I find it rude, Like I am such a people
Speaker 1: pleaser that I like getting my hair cut as an
Speaker 1: intensely uncomfortable experience for me because I'm just like, oh God,
Speaker 1: what do I say? What do I do?
Speaker 2: What do I like?
Speaker 1: And yeah, I just like want whoever's cutting my hair
Speaker 1: to like me for some reason. It's bad scene. It's
Speaker 1: bad scene in there, all right. Should we take a
Speaker 1: quick break and come back and do underrated? Let's do that.
Speaker 1: Let's take a little break.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back and Alyssa, Yeah, what's the thing that
Speaker 1: you think is underrated?
Speaker 6: I guess looking at your phone while you're getting your haircut.
Speaker 2: I think I can't believe you just said that, you know.
Speaker 6: Like I mean, women, it takes it like it takes
Speaker 6: about four to five hours. You know you can't talk.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you need to talk that, I think, just like
Speaker 6: also in general, Yeah, you know, if I'm like getting
Speaker 6: the legs waxed or whatever, you know, that can be me.
Speaker 1: Time for sure. I think maybe like if the haircut
Speaker 1: was less of a like if there if there was
Speaker 1: more downtime in between, but like for me, it's like
Speaker 1: a half hour constantly being worked on. Thing. Like if
Speaker 1: they were like come in they were like okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna cut and then like leave this, Like are they
Speaker 1: cutting your hair for four hours?
Speaker 6: When you get a haircut, they're doing a lot of
Speaker 6: the hair, doing a lot to it.
Speaker 1: Well, all right, I'm gonna start using my phone when.
Speaker 6: I try it.
Speaker 1: Just see.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean it probably works for Trump, you know, I
Speaker 6: bet he.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: There's also probably like like a price of haircut, Like
Speaker 4: if you're spending three hundred dollars on a haircut, you
Speaker 4: look at your phone.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I do look at my phone that's fair. I mean,
Speaker 6: I don't. I don't want to, you know, I don't
Speaker 6: want it to seem like the like you know, my
Speaker 6: stylist would be like crying because she just lost custody
Speaker 6: of her children, and I'm like not now, you know,
Speaker 6: it's not that kind of vibe. It's like they have
Speaker 6: lives of their own. You know, they're talking to other stylists.
Speaker 6: You know that is happening. It's a real Yeah. I
Speaker 6: feel like we've all kind of agreed upon it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: It seems like a community. Yeah, a community thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It sounds like maybe I'm wrong on this one, and
Speaker 1: I can. I could just start using my phone, which
Speaker 1: is great, Zichang. Let us know if if you have
Speaker 1: strong opinions one way or the other on using the
Speaker 1: phone when geting a haircut. Alison, do you have anything
Speaker 1: that you think is underrated?
Speaker 5: I do. It's I guess I really more than I thought,
Speaker 5: and probably more than some people. I really like watching
Speaker 5: a man sing a song and it can go a
Speaker 5: lot of ways. And I recently my friend suggested we
Speaker 5: go to this diner that was way out kind of
Speaker 5: in the rockaways in Brooklyn, and there was a man
Speaker 5: in this diner in their chandelier room that did a
Speaker 5: Elvis impersonation at like seven pm on Saturday, and there
Speaker 5: was people. He encouraged people to day ants and sing
Speaker 5: with him, and he just sung basically Elvis songs and
Speaker 5: other songs from long ago, and it was incredibly fun,
Speaker 5: just a very I had zero expectations and was actually
Speaker 5: sort of dreading it, and then it was. It was
Speaker 5: truly like a delightful evening. There were most of the
Speaker 5: people in there were around eighty years old, and then
Speaker 5: there was just some other completely rare. It was the
Speaker 5: most Brooklyn thing I'd done in a while, and like
Speaker 5: real Brooklyn, not gentrified Brooklyn. But yeah, it was I
Speaker 5: highly suggested, and it was incredibly underrated that it was
Speaker 5: at the new Floridian Diner out on Flatbush and anyone listening,
Speaker 5: I couldn't recommend it more.
Speaker 1: What is a chandelier?
Speaker 5: It was a part of this diner that had a
Speaker 5: chandelier in it, the light song the whole time, and
Speaker 5: they did have alcohol, which as soon as I was gone,
Speaker 5: that was my very first question. And then it was
Speaker 5: like two hours We're in there. There's like a special
Speaker 5: menu that was in the chandelier room. Anyway, Yeah, it
Speaker 5: was really fun.
Speaker 1: I think this works nicely to transition us into Bentonville, Arkansas,
Speaker 1: because Bentonville, Arkansas, as mentioned, this small Ozark's town happens
Speaker 1: to be hom a Walmart head quarters is becoming the
Speaker 1: new capital of cool. This is a Wall Street Journal article.
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, as we've frequently talked about on the show,
Speaker 1: is where we go to find out what is cool.
Speaker 2: Well, it's on the streets, you know, on the streets.
Speaker 1: They did they tell you what's happening in the streets,
Speaker 1: So I don't know it just it triggered a lot
Speaker 1: for me in just this idea because it seems like, Okay,
Speaker 1: they had a plan. This is where the Waltons live.
Speaker 1: They want people to forgive them for what they've done,
Speaker 1: you know, hoarding a immoral amount of wealth, and so
Speaker 1: they're going to turn their hometown into Brooklyn. Essentially like
Speaker 1: feels like what they're going for. They're like, we're going
Speaker 1: to do an art museum. We're gonna like lure all
Speaker 1: these Michelin star chefs down here. And this article just
Speaker 1: takes it at face value and is like, yes, let's
Speaker 1: do it. This place is great I'm just gonna read
Speaker 1: some direct quotes and then I just want to open
Speaker 1: it up, open the floor up. But the reason I
Speaker 1: think that the diner with the chandelier room transitions nicely
Speaker 1: is because it's it's a very Brooklyn thing that I
Speaker 1: feel like they wouldn't think, like the Waltons would not
Speaker 1: see the appeal of that in trying to create their
Speaker 1: cultural hot spot. But all right, this is from the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal author. I had my reasons to take
Speaker 1: a closer look. My husband James, and I live in
Speaker 1: the Denver suburbs and crave little culture. We also have
Speaker 1: a thing for visiting you there.
Speaker 5: So people from the Denver suburbs also wrote the article.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Denver suburbs.
Speaker 5: That's an very important thing.
Speaker 1: Her husband's name is James. Also we will find out
Speaker 1: their son's name is Guy. We also have a thing
Speaker 1: for visiting small towns because they tend to be more
Speaker 1: navigable for us parents of a toddler than a megalopolis. Bentonville,
Speaker 1: which celebrates its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary this year,
Speaker 1: seemed to fit the bill. It also happens to be
Speaker 1: where Sam Walton opened Walton's five and ten in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 1: Today it's home to Walmart's corporate headquarter. Yes, I wrote
Speaker 1: that by so I said, what a weird coincidence that
Speaker 1: it happens to be where Sam Waltson opened his store.
Speaker 1: So she also right, so off we went for a
Speaker 1: long weekend with our three old son. Guy, she really
Speaker 1: wants you to know the names of the people in
Speaker 1: our family. We flew in on Thursday afternoon during torrential
Speaker 1: rains to a rolling kelly green countryside that looked like
Speaker 1: the Rye grass fields of Ireland.
Speaker 2: Maybe she just really wanted to hit his gender.
Speaker 1: It's my son, this guy got Yes, what is that illegal?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: I just I love them trying to put like the
Speaker 1: grass in an Arkansas company town in the context of
Speaker 1: like the Irish countryside. Like it just like they just
Speaker 1: want to cram something like natural and unspoiled into Maybe.
Speaker 5: They did pay them to write this article.
Speaker 1: I'm very curious, but like it seems like it is
Speaker 1: part of a long standing, long term plan and buy
Speaker 1: them that has just been they've been beating people over
Speaker 1: the head with it. Like there's things on social media
Speaker 1: all about this town.
Speaker 5: They're flying people in from the Denver suburb from.
Speaker 1: The Denver suburbs, just piping people in. Let me continue. Bentonville,
Speaker 1: home to fifty seven and sixty eight people as of
Speaker 1: July twenty twenty two, continues to grow into what feels
Speaker 1: like a company town as envisioned by Norman Rockwell and
Speaker 1: the curators of MoMA, which a devastating sentence that I
Speaker 1: don't think they intended to be devastating. The second annual
Speaker 1: Format Festival, from September twenty second to twenty fourth, will
Speaker 1: mix art and music at the Momentary, a satellite venue
Speaker 1: to Crystal Bridges, which is like some brunch spot that
Speaker 1: they went too earlier. Scheduled acts include Leon Bridges, LCD
Speaker 1: sound System, and Alanis Morris. That Bentonville, it turns out,
Speaker 1: and this is the thesis statement, is a bit of
Speaker 1: a Coolsville. But so far as I could see without
Speaker 1: a whiff of pretension, Okay, yeah, this is right.
Speaker 5: Still want to take their three year old to look
Speaker 5: at fine art? I mean that that's that usual place
Speaker 5: you take your three year old, well on vacation. Must
Speaker 5: be super fun for them, But I just I have
Speaker 5: heard about I don't know much about this, but they've
Speaker 5: been collecting art a long time. The Waltons like other
Speaker 5: you know, wealthy people, and then they reach a point
Speaker 5: the wealthy where they just decide they need to like
Speaker 5: build their own museum. And I've been to a few
Speaker 5: of these around the world of just wealthy people who
Speaker 5: they usually are in kind of weird places, right, But
Speaker 5: I think I just I'm curious if they collect any
Speaker 5: art by people that are alive, the Waltons, or is
Speaker 5: it all because that could be kind of messy. You
Speaker 5: may get on the wrong side of what the Waltons
Speaker 5: are all about.
Speaker 2: But if they.
Speaker 5: Only collect dead artists, I guess it makes it a
Speaker 5: lot easier.
Speaker 2: Wait, what's the complication there?
Speaker 4: You know, I was thinking of the broad here in
Speaker 4: Los Angeles when you said, you know, just the wealthy
Speaker 4: guy has too much art and opens it up. But
Speaker 4: I know that he uh commissioned a lot of art
Speaker 4: from people who are alive. But why is that messy?
Speaker 5: Because like you're then making art for Walmart, and you
Speaker 5: may be an artist that has, you know, opinions that
Speaker 5: run south of the thousands of things that you could
Speaker 5: have a problem with Walmart about maybe you say those
Speaker 5: things out loud. I don't know, I would just assume
Speaker 5: they don't want too much dissension over at Walmart headquarters.
Speaker 5: But maybe I'm wrong, Maybe they love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why would an artists care about Walmart? Like if anything,
Speaker 1: Like they probably aspire to like have their paintings put
Speaker 1: on trapper keepers and like you know these things like
Speaker 1: different school supplies. Like I feel like that would be cool.
Speaker 2: I want to get my art on an air fighter.
Speaker 5: Whoever owns the keep Hairing estate right now? Like the
Speaker 5: single place the.
Speaker 1: Road, Yeah, the broad is like currently, you know, it's
Speaker 1: the biggest la art museum and also has like has
Speaker 1: a Herring exhibit right now.
Speaker 2: It's certainly the hottest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so everything.
Speaker 7: Literally I'm just a little worried about going to Bentonville
Speaker 7: because there's not that many people in it, so you
Speaker 7: would assume there's like one percent of the place's Walton's
Speaker 7: and as we all know, Walton's are allowed to kill
Speaker 7: people while drunk driving and get.
Speaker 4: Away with it, And so I'm just really like nervous
Speaker 4: for my kids down there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I lived in Columbia, Missouri at a time
Speaker 1: when there was a local scandal because the basketball arena
Speaker 1: was named after one of their daughters who as they
Speaker 1: were doing the naming of the basketball arena, it was
Speaker 1: revealed that she had just like paid for her classmates
Speaker 1: to write all her papers for her in college. But
Speaker 1: that's like what they do is they just like taken
Speaker 1: all the money from any honest business around the country
Speaker 1: just like come through and like just sucked it up
Speaker 1: from like those communities, and then they've used it to
Speaker 1: rename things around the country after themselves. And that's kind
Speaker 1: of how the how the system works. And then they
Speaker 1: they've also like taken over their home city and they
Speaker 1: they claim to be the mountain bike capital of the
Speaker 1: United States. Bentonville, it is completely flat. There's like there's
Speaker 1: an article in uh on Reddit on Arkansas. They're like,
Speaker 1: it's kind of weird that they self claiming the mountain
Speaker 1: bike capital title is a bit laughable since Bentonville is
Speaker 1: as flat as the Arkansas Delta.
Speaker 2: We might have to rename the mountain bike the cool bike.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think so.
Speaker 6: I don't know what the Wall Street Journal says. It's cool,
Speaker 6: like it's got to be.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That is a large degree of culture today,
Speaker 1: or a large part of culture today is like people
Speaker 1: traveling and like going to art museums and like rich
Speaker 1: people can just like so and I guess this has
Speaker 1: always been true, but like it's like this just very
Speaker 1: specific example of like oh, but it's like it has
Speaker 1: so many cute brunch places and the like really cool
Speaker 1: art like you just trying to create like a cultural
Speaker 1: hotbed out of thin air while you are the worst
Speaker 1: fucking people.
Speaker 7: Ye.
Speaker 1: Just it's it's interesting.
Speaker 4: Also they're like, I don't know how much they're taking
Speaker 4: into account how much you need nightlife to get people
Speaker 4: to come to a place, and you need to like
Speaker 4: set up it's going to be bachelorette parties, and it's
Speaker 4: just like you can't have one without the other.
Speaker 1: Right right, I'm guessing there's not a thriving like underground
Speaker 1: comedy scene in Bentonville.
Speaker 2: There's only three mics.
Speaker 6: There's Bentonville like on the thunder Down under tour circuit
Speaker 6: or like a year a year, Okay.
Speaker 4: It feels like when you go to Palm Springs, you're
Speaker 4: driving like from LA You're driving the desert for an
Speaker 4: hour and then suddenly, for some reason, there's a jungle
Speaker 4: in the middle of the desert where they've just sucked up.
Speaker 2: All the water from everywhere.
Speaker 4: They have all the buddy and all the water, and
Speaker 4: you could have trees and all the brunch.
Speaker 6: There is a there's so much brunch there.
Speaker 2: The brunch.
Speaker 1: Yes. Anyways, guys, mark it down on your bucket list. Bentonville, Arkansas.
Speaker 1: I feel like an author needs to like go there
Speaker 1: for a week and just take acid and see see
Speaker 1: what is revealed about an.
Speaker 4: Author from like the suburbs of Boise or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something like someone who's real, like from the suburbs
Speaker 1: of Boise. She could have just said Denver, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: talk about real culture such as fire Festival too.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back.
Speaker 2: Big news.
Speaker 1: Fire Festival two is tickets are on sale. This is
Speaker 1: from the same person, Billy McFarland who organized the first
Speaker 1: one and then subsequently went to jail for it, and
Speaker 1: this one will feature amenities such as it's not clear
Speaker 1: and musical acts that are as yet unspecified. The website
Speaker 1: has narrowed the dates down to sometime in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: probably end of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: He's got to talk to his po Yeah.
Speaker 1: The website just lists the location as the Caribbean, complete
Speaker 1: with a Google Maps link to the Caribbean. See like
Speaker 1: just that that's all way you click on it. It's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is geographically this is what the Caribbean looks like.
Speaker 1: And the first hundred tickets have already sold out. This
Speaker 1: connects back to the previous stories like I feel like
Speaker 1: this Bentonville is going to fool a lot of people.
Speaker 1: If this is fulling people.
Speaker 4: I think it's like maybe the most genius marketing I've
Speaker 4: seen in a while, just like putting out one hundred
Speaker 4: tickets for five hundred dollars each that he could easily
Speaker 4: buy himself and then say, okay, we sold out the
Speaker 4: first round and then now there's articles in every paper
Speaker 4: in the country and it's brilliant.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Do they have any like wedding packages. I'm just wondering.
Speaker 5: They should do divorces quick ones, like how people would
Speaker 5: go to Reno and you could get a divorce like
Speaker 5: in twenty four hours. Could be a good destination thing
Speaker 5: they could have there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as part of the firefest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope that Tens set up.
Speaker 1: CBS News did some follow up work and interviewed some
Speaker 1: of the people who bought tickets, they said, if anything,
Speaker 1: it'll just be a really cool vacation. Our main concern
Speaker 1: is that we don't know if big headliners will be
Speaker 1: willing to, you know, take that risk to be in
Speaker 1: something so controversial. We're going to stay optimistic, like we're
Speaker 1: worried about them, like not, We're clear that we're good.
Speaker 1: We're not worried about, you know, whether this thing's going
Speaker 1: to actually happen or not. But what about the headliners.
Speaker 1: They might for some reason be skeptical that this thing
Speaker 1: might might not go off without.
Speaker 2: A head I think they're coming back. I do it.
Speaker 2: That's like the biggest thing they've had.
Speaker 6: While I just remember all that like were people like
Speaker 6: locked in an airport with no food, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the cheese sandwiches.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Like, I don't think the biggest problem was headliners not
Speaker 6: showing up, right, I think that was like somewhere down
Speaker 6: on the list, Yeah, of issues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they almost had to suck a dick to get
Speaker 1: enough water so that people like didn't die on the island.
Speaker 1: I met that guy Andy King by the way.
Speaker 2: Public appearances afterwards. I saw him of the thing.
Speaker 6: Oh is he on cameo. I really like to be
Speaker 6: I would get a cameo.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He has signed up for another Firefast, claiming that it
Speaker 1: will be the ultimate redemption.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, you do something that like shakes the world
Speaker 4: and it's there's nothing you're going to be a part of.
Speaker 4: That's going to be like such a fun thing, even
Speaker 4: though I mean in retrospect it has to. But like
Speaker 4: I'm glad I did I was part of that. That's
Speaker 4: really cool. Yeah, and I'm not Billy McFarlane. That's like
Speaker 4: the best part.
Speaker 6: I'd love that he can't stop, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I just find that so interesting about people sometimes, how
Speaker 6: they really want to they just live to get money
Speaker 6: for selling experiences that aren't.
Speaker 1: Valid, aren't actually experienceable.
Speaker 4: He also started like a Ponzi scheme involving concert tickets
Speaker 4: and like tickets to like events that didn't even have
Speaker 4: like the oscars are doing this.
Speaker 2: Yes, he loved he would actually yeah, they would.
Speaker 4: He'd be like one hundred dollars to this, and then
Speaker 4: he would just go buy a ticket for five hundred
Speaker 4: dollars and do that and just to get it going
Speaker 4: so more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, put money in and then you know, he would
Speaker 2: stop doing it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Conment like really can never stop. I mean, whatever
Speaker 5: their thing is, the convent of the world, cannot stop
Speaker 5: doing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell us it looks exhausting, but to them, it's like, no,
Speaker 1: that's just breathing. That's like how I get from one
Speaker 1: day to the next.
Speaker 5: Like, they have to be in prison or dead. There's
Speaker 5: no way the other way to make them stop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then if you let them back out of prison,
Speaker 1: they are going to just be like, Okay, that was crazy,
Speaker 1: but right back at it. This isn't even the first
Speaker 1: like project he's touted. He also tried to launch a
Speaker 1: pirate themed treasure hunt in the Bahamas, first post prison project.
Speaker 1: Like since prison, he has tried to launch a pirate
Speaker 1: themed treasure hunt and the Bahamas a documentary about how
Speaker 1: that business. The Treasure Hunt would help him to pay
Speaker 1: back the twenty six million dollars he still owes, and
Speaker 1: then that like never happened. He also announced Firefest one
Speaker 1: point five, which was a Broadway musical that he planned
Speaker 1: to mount. That never happened. So he's he's just.
Speaker 5: A skincare line. So he got a skincare line.
Speaker 2: Oh that sets your skin on fire?
Speaker 1: That's obviously next.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then and then diet supplements. You know, is
Speaker 5: there like the usual trajectory.
Speaker 1: He was running for president.
Speaker 4: Yeah, solitary for seven months and just laid there and
Speaker 4: just thought of ways to capitalize on the brand, and
Speaker 4: then did the ball.
Speaker 1: It's just mean numbers swirling around his head like in
Speaker 1: a beautiful mind. But it's all the way. The math
Speaker 1: was incorrect.
Speaker 5: What do you think that blood lady will think of
Speaker 5: when she comes out of jail? What's the Elizabeth Holmes. Yeah,
Speaker 5: she's she's got to be dreaming. She's going to spend
Speaker 5: like six years in jail or something.
Speaker 2: Right. I can't wait to see how high her voice
Speaker 2: is after a jail.
Speaker 5: I hope she comes up with a festival mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Kind of shocking that she hasn't already.
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe if there's like mosquito born viruses that people
Speaker 6: get at the fire festival in the Caribbean Ocean, Elizabeth
Speaker 6: Holmes's company can test for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a whole vertically integrated suite of scam companies.
Speaker 2: Now, I have no opinion about this. I'm just asking
Speaker 2: you guys.
Speaker 1: You just suddenly turned into a Southern lawyer by the way,
Speaker 1: I have no thing about this, Yehanna, can.
Speaker 4: We get some ale conditions in this? No Elizabeth Holmes
Speaker 4: awaiting sentencing that she knew was going to be you know,
Speaker 4: ten twenty years whatever. She had two kids. Oh wait,
Speaker 4: what do you think about that?
Speaker 6: Sociopath? I think she's using them as pawns, you know,
Speaker 6: to try to get a reduced sentence or you know,
Speaker 6: delay her sentence or look sympathetic and human. You know,
Speaker 6: I think it's truly sick.
Speaker 2: She like moved to.
Speaker 4: A farm, Like look, how normal I am?
Speaker 6: Right, right, yeah, I mean she really benton Arkansas and
Speaker 6: her image, you know, Bentonville, Arkansas.
Speaker 1: All right, Allison Alyssa, thank you guys so much for
Speaker 1: being on Where can people find you? Follow you all
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Speaker 1: Them nice And do you guys have a work of
Speaker 1: media that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 5: Okay, I got one. I saw Sam Campbell last night,
Speaker 5: who's an Australian to meet at Para and Connor O'Malley show,
Speaker 5: and he was so funny. Anyway, Sam Campbell, I'm sure
Speaker 5: he'll if you haven't already heard of him. It was super,
Speaker 5: super great, bizarre and hilarious.
Speaker 2: I think everything's funnier in an Australian accent personally.
Speaker 1: What about you, Alyssa, what's a what's a work of
Speaker 1: media that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 6: Sorry? I think yeah, I'm really deep in the Columbo trenches.
Speaker 5: I apologize.
Speaker 6: There's not a not a lot of oxygen for other things.
Speaker 4: Really, would you recommend people started at episode one? Or
Speaker 4: is there one episode that that's the best out of
Speaker 4: the first season intro because it's you know, it's it's
Speaker 4: just a you know, crime of the week thing, you
Speaker 4: know you don't Yeah.
Speaker 6: No, that's true. It is just an episodic. There's there's
Speaker 6: an episode and they have really fun names, but there's
Speaker 6: an episode where a lady gets a makeover in season
Speaker 6: one and like like sometimes you kill somebody and then
Speaker 6: like you just want to like get a makeover is
Speaker 6: sort of like the theme of that episode, but it
Speaker 6: actually like kind of worked. You know, like it looks
Speaker 6: really good. You know, she looks like better after she
Speaker 6: became a murderer, like by about eight hundred percent then
Speaker 6: she looked before she became a murderer, Like suddenly she
Speaker 6: starts like caring about her appearance and like like bearing
Speaker 6: her midriff, and she gets kind of like this sassy
Speaker 6: haircut and you know really like steps up as girl
Speaker 6: boss of this company. And it was kind of invigorating
Speaker 6: to watch.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm into it all right, Nick, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for guest hosting. What's the work media you've been enjoying
Speaker 1: and where can people find and follow you? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been watching those untold documentaries on Netflix. They
Speaker 4: had like the Balco doping scandal and they had one
Speaker 4: about Jake Paul and uh I. They like take stories
Speaker 4: about things that you hate and tell you like maybe
Speaker 4: there that's not you know, the whole story, but that
Speaker 4: it's like really thirty for thirty level sports documentaries, those
Speaker 4: untolds on Netflix, and I really highly recommend them and
Speaker 4: my next stand update on October twentieth in Salem, Oregon
Speaker 4: at the Infinity Room.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
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