Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Carmen Electron.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, do we not do the German voice for
Speaker 2: Carmen Electron?
Speaker 1: Is that how you think Germans would say Carmen Electrone?
Speaker 1: I'm Jack bat over there. Well that's Blake what and
Speaker 1: he will be talking in his spot on German accent
Speaker 1: of the entire Utin talk. Oh that was actually good, Blake.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: We started talking about uh, Carmen Electra earlier, because it's
Speaker 1: kind of a roundabout the way we got here. We're
Speaker 1: talking about people with fake girlfriends from when we were
Speaker 1: in uh, when we were youngsters in our relative scouting
Speaker 1: troops or or parent paramilitary police organizations. Neither of us
Speaker 1: were in a paramilitary police organization, but we'll have to know.
Speaker 1: Brian the editor on one time to tell that sig cute,
Speaker 1: too cute and I had flat feet. Yeah, But anyways,
Speaker 1: we were talking about that and somebody was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they made up their girlfriend's name like Carmen Electra, and
Speaker 1: I was like, Carmel Electra is actually too good of
Speaker 1: a name for a kid to come up with, Like,
Speaker 1: that's that is an amazing name. Whoever made that name
Speaker 1: up is a genius, and we learned it was none
Speaker 1: other than Prince who met Carmen Electra as so I'll
Speaker 1: just read directly from I don't know the name of
Speaker 1: the website I found this song ta Le Wikarpedia, Wikipedia.
Speaker 1: Tara Lee Patrick is her name. She was Prince's muse
Speaker 1: and it was the Purple Rand singer who gave her
Speaker 1: the name Carmen Electra. Talking to Vanity Fair, she said
Speaker 1: she met him at his home when she was a teenager.
Speaker 1: After Robin Power. But I have to assume Prince also
Speaker 1: named spotted her in a nightclub in La What a
Speaker 1: weird life that would be that somebody spots you at
Speaker 1: a nightclub as a teenager, like presumably snuck in with
Speaker 1: a fake ID, and somebody named Robin Power is like, hey,
Speaker 1: could I take you to Prince's house? And then Prince says, hey,
Speaker 1: this amazing magical combination of syllables is your name, And
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, and that is the name you go
Speaker 1: buy from then on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is my friend Isabelle Thunderstrump. Like also, just
Speaker 2: so you know, it's everyone has a sick name here.
Speaker 1: That's incredible.
Speaker 2: I bet he spent no time on it. Too, Like
Speaker 2: I think that's just an off the top of the
Speaker 2: hell yeah, like one of his many skills. I would
Speaker 2: imagine he could just do that so quickly. Carmen Electra,
Speaker 2: Carmen Electra.
Speaker 1: I bet he like did it, Like, didn't even say
Speaker 1: I'm going to make up a name for you, you know.
Speaker 1: I bet he was just like, your car just started
Speaker 1: calling her Carmen Electra, and it was like, that's your name, now,
Speaker 1: just go with it. What else could her name be?
Speaker 1: Terror Electric? No, her name could be Tara Lee Patrick.
Speaker 1: A worse, worse job by your parents there, Carbon Electra. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty sure that that should have just been his job
Speaker 1: in a in a just world, that's what he would
Speaker 1: have done for a living. Is just named all babies.
Speaker 2: And you know, and this is why we're fucked. This
Speaker 2: is why we're like music and.
Speaker 1: We are fucked. Yeah. So obviously there was a horrible tragedy.
Speaker 2: A obviously would be my name if obvious, well obvious, welcome, obviously.
Speaker 1: Horrible tragedy when a black Hawk helicopter collided with a
Speaker 1: American Airlines flight that was going in for landing at
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan Airport. I think we can just go ahead
Speaker 1: and blame Donald Trump for the thing, not just because
Speaker 1: that's one hundred percent what he would have done if
Speaker 1: he weren't in charge, and what he did, in fact
Speaker 1: do to Biden just a true profiles encourage. As the
Speaker 1: bodies are being pulled out of the Potomac, he called
Speaker 1: a press conference and immediately started blaming Joe Biden, the
Speaker 1: past administration, and de color. So yeah, yeah, people of color.
Speaker 1: But in fact it was he who just froze hiring
Speaker 1: air traffic controllers. It is a you know, we we've
Speaker 1: talked on past episodes how this was inevitable, specifically that
Speaker 1: there is like a shocking rise in near collisions, near
Speaker 1: mid air collisions or like collisions in your at airport, yeah,
Speaker 1: near missus. For the past few years, people experts have
Speaker 1: been and sounding the alarm. But the Biden administration had
Speaker 1: tried to, you know, ramp up the hiring of you know,
Speaker 1: in response to people saying this is a fucking disaster
Speaker 1: in the making. They had ramped up the hiring of
Speaker 1: air traffic controllers. And then you know, Trump basically froze
Speaker 1: all hiring. But like people seem scared to like this
Speaker 1: is kind of wild, like a CNN employee tweeted something
Speaker 1: to the effect of, like, you know, blaming Trump for
Speaker 1: the collision, and then took it down and wrote, I
Speaker 1: fucked up, which just to give you an idea of
Speaker 1: like what's it like to be in the mainstream media
Speaker 1: right now? They seem to be scared as hell of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, despite the fact that the thing that he
Speaker 1: posted was a screenshot of a press release entitled Trump's
Speaker 1: Dangerous freeze of air traffic control hiring from eight days ago.
Speaker 1: But she's He's like, I better not post that. That's
Speaker 1: too too tramming. Yeah, the president wouldn't want that. So
Speaker 1: there hasn't been a serious commercial plane crash in sixteen years,
Speaker 1: but as mentioned, tons of close calls, usually involving aircrafts
Speaker 1: nearly colliding with one another. We talked before about a
Speaker 1: New York Times investigation from twenty twenty three that found
Speaker 1: that there have been just loads of these that many
Speaker 1: of which had not been made public, but that report
Speaker 1: made them public and experts were like sounding the alarm.
Speaker 1: But I guess the number of near accidents had more
Speaker 1: than doubled compared to data from a decade earlier, and
Speaker 1: the reason for that was a number of things having
Speaker 1: to do with nationwide staffing, shortage and underfunding and all
Speaker 1: the problems that this system for organizing a civilization is
Speaker 1: causing that we're seeing everyone where. I'm sure there will
Speaker 1: be a way that we can blame it on private
Speaker 1: equity at some point.
Speaker 2: It's just a matter of time. I can't imagine why.
Speaker 2: Maybe this is something to put throws some money at,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like airplanes colliding in the sky.
Speaker 2: I think the stakes might be high enough to you know,
Speaker 2: up that salary a little bit, maybe actually give these
Speaker 2: people benefits. You know, I'm assuming they don't because why
Speaker 2: why would anything be make any sense? But yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's horrifying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feel it feels like there things are going
Speaker 1: to get as bad as they possibly can. Like that
Speaker 1: that's just you know where like with this administration, and
Speaker 1: I feel like with this administration and like the media
Speaker 1: being in the position that they are where like everybody's
Speaker 1: just kind of pulling their fire or just like kind
Speaker 1: of going along with everything, like they'll be able to
Speaker 1: get pretty bad. I mean with the RFK hearings happening
Speaker 1: as we're recording this, and you know, this being example
Speaker 1: of just like these systems that need to function, that
Speaker 1: are complicated and require a bunch of funding. These are
Speaker 1: all things that like need to happen on a day
Speaker 1: to day basis to like keep our society functioning and
Speaker 1: like operating. If those things stop, which seems like they're
Speaker 1: going to or already have in this administration, then it's
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be bad, and we're gonna start
Speaker 1: seeing shit like this, and I don't know, yeah, but
Speaker 1: hopefully it like causes some sort of resistance that I
Speaker 1: just can't quite see where that's coming from. Right now?
Speaker 2: Do you remember that really weird plot? Did you watch
Speaker 2: Breaking Bad?
Speaker 1: Yes? I did.
Speaker 2: I I would say a flawless show except for this
Speaker 2: one bizarre plot line of like the air traffic controller
Speaker 2: being the dad of like Kristin Ritter and then like
Speaker 2: falling asleep and then that weird like it was. I
Speaker 2: would say not a on a scale of one to
Speaker 2: ten on like a nearly perfect show as far as
Speaker 2: it being a bizarre plot line. I'm like, on a
Speaker 2: normal show would be like a seven or and eight,
Speaker 2: but on that show, or like a two or three,
Speaker 2: but on that show, it's like a eight or a
Speaker 2: nine because the show is so perfect. But I just
Speaker 2: remember watching that and I'm like, wait, what the fuck? Yeah,
Speaker 2: why did that happen? Just yeah, bizarre thing I did.
Speaker 1: I actually liked that plot personally, but just such an asshole.
Speaker 1: I'm such an asshole.
Speaker 2: I hated the way it ended personally the whole show. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't finish. I didn't watch the finish the final season.
Speaker 2: I was bored out of my fuckingly. No, no, no, of
Speaker 2: course I watched it. I like the whole Walt plot,
Speaker 2: you know, the whole time. I just would fast forward
Speaker 2: through the Walt parts. And I like the Purple Lady.
Speaker 2: The Purple Lady, Yeah, oh yeah, yeah I do. Actually
Speaker 2: I did really like her. I was speaking with a tone,
Speaker 2: but I did actually really like her.
Speaker 1: I thought it was good up until the second or last.
Speaker 1: I have a loose fan theory that I've talked about
Speaker 1: before on the sh so I won't get into it, but
Speaker 1: that he the whole last episode is him just imagining
Speaker 1: it because it doesn't like everything just went exactly the
Speaker 1: way he would want it to. It was like suddenly,
Speaker 1: like Walter White wish fulfillment.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 1: So just back to kind of where we're at and
Speaker 1: like what you know, what we saw coming, like what
Speaker 1: everybody saw coming. The Biden administration tried to get funding
Speaker 1: to hire more air traffic controllers. There was this FAA
Speaker 1: Reauthorization Act of twenty twenty four, which passed both the
Speaker 1: House and the Senate, requiring the FA to set maximum
Speaker 1: hiring targets to increase air traffic controller staffing. But the
Speaker 1: bill also contained a measure specifically allowing for more traffic
Speaker 1: at Ronald Reagan Airport, which is one of only two
Speaker 1: airports in the US owned by the government, and opponents
Speaker 1: of that measure pointed out that this would mean dangerously
Speaker 1: overloading the airport's operational capacity to benefit one airline. And
Speaker 1: so I don't think it was American Airlines. I think
Speaker 1: it was Delta, but like a Delta funded pack basically
Speaker 1: got that thing inserted into the legislation so that it
Speaker 1: was allowing for that airport to be overloaded with flights
Speaker 1: so that they could make more money in so that
Speaker 1: politicians could you know, they were on board with it,
Speaker 1: probably both because of the Delta pack but also because
Speaker 1: it allowed them to fly home more easily, like more
Speaker 1: flights out of Washington. Interesting yeah, it's remarkable that Trump
Speaker 1: immediately went up and started putting the finger that like
Speaker 1: as the tragedy was unfolding. But like both parties, you know,
Speaker 1: they pushed through that bill with the overloaded Reagan thing
Speaker 1: in there. But yeah, the helpful part of the bill
Speaker 1: was essentially eradicated by Trump's illegal hiring freeze, where he
Speaker 1: was immediately like stopped all federal funds on things. And
Speaker 1: on top of that, as soon as he took off,
Speaker 1: as he fired the heads of the Transportation Security Administration
Speaker 1: and Coastguard before their terms were up, and eliminated all
Speaker 1: the members of a key aviation security advisory group. So
Speaker 1: you know, just all the big swing and dick fire everybody.
Speaker 1: You don't get funding unless you agree to spy on
Speaker 1: my right to literally kiss my ass and spy on
Speaker 1: people for being too diversity that it turns out, shockingly
Speaker 1: came back to bite us all in the ass. So
Speaker 1: still very early, but just a horrifying situation all around.
Speaker 1: And really, yeah, it's just like a race between how
Speaker 1: bad he can be at his job and like how
Speaker 1: much power he can grab before it becomes evident to
Speaker 1: everybody that like he's a failed leader who is going
Speaker 1: to kill a lot of people. It seems like the
Speaker 1: situation that we're.
Speaker 2: In, and how quickly he because he called the press
Speaker 2: conference to do it, where it almost reminds me of
Speaker 2: like a child, you know, like you walk into the
Speaker 2: room and the kid just goes nothing, and it's like, wait,
Speaker 2: what did you do?
Speaker 1: What did you do? What you do?
Speaker 2: What you're doing? In this case, Yeah, he fired all
Speaker 2: the people who were in charge, and that's funding away
Speaker 2: from preventing disastrous like this.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be back,
Speaker 1: and we're back. Well. Ai the world of ai, and
Speaker 1: what goes around comes around. News open ai is complaining
Speaker 1: about being plagiarized by the Chinese AI model deep Seek.
Speaker 1: They're saying that deep seek used open ais data unfairly
Speaker 1: and without compensation, and that's not fair. Okay, that's wrong.
Speaker 1: This is a headline from four oh four Media open
Speaker 1: ai furious deep seek might have stolen all the data
Speaker 1: open ai stole from us. Obviously hilarious considering that open
Speaker 1: ai is essentially powered by plagiarism. It's made by out
Speaker 1: of plagiarism to help the seamless plagiarizing of things. You
Speaker 1: know a plagiarism engine. Yeah. One report from last year
Speaker 1: found that sixty percent of open AI's GPT three point
Speaker 1: five outputs contained some form of plagiarism.
Speaker 2: Sixty percent was how couldn't it? How could it not?
Speaker 1: It's just remixing existing content.
Speaker 2: No, it's learning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you hate to see it, folks. You really do
Speaker 1: love being in a country where I'm like openly rooting
Speaker 1: against the everybody in power because they're so bad and
Speaker 1: going to just make things worse and worse. Yeah, how is.
Speaker 2: Deep Seek the good guy? I don't want to root
Speaker 2: for deep Seek. It don't make me root for deep Seek.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty frustrating, pretty bad situation. Are you a
Speaker 1: white Lotus person? You're a white Lotus fan?
Speaker 2: Blake, I am. I love I love it and I'm
Speaker 2: psyched for Goggins. Baby, I'm a huge Yeah.
Speaker 1: So they just I'm like big Goghead myself, Like the
Speaker 1: Goggins and Vice Principles is like one of my favorite
Speaker 1: characters of all time.
Speaker 2: A very underrated show, very funny. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: For people who don't know it's Goggins. The Danny McBride
Speaker 1: in just one of the most unhinged shows like Righteous Gemstones,
Speaker 1: but it's about vice principles, but in a school, yeah,
Speaker 1: in a school.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, we got two big trailer HBO trailer drops
Speaker 1: in the past couple of days. One of them is
Speaker 1: White Lotus Season three, which looks about like what I
Speaker 1: would expect from a White Lotus in Thailand. My one
Speaker 1: note of caution, I don't know if that that doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense. But the one thing that I wasn't saying,
Speaker 1: Walton Goggin seems to be playing someone who's like just
Speaker 1: like kind of exhausted, and I feel like I like
Speaker 1: him when he's got a little verve to him. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got a little uncle baby Billy, he's got a
Speaker 1: little uh, you know whatever his character's name was, and
Speaker 1: vice principles.
Speaker 2: If you can take away that guy's charisma, you got it.
Speaker 2: Do you gotta do it?
Speaker 1: Exactly? That's what I'm saying. Like he's playing like a
Speaker 1: rich white guy who's like tired, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like that's those guys are the fucking worst,
Speaker 1: Like I'm so tired of That would be my one
Speaker 1: problem with like past seasons is like there they are.
Speaker 1: They do have a bunch of really boring, insufferable people
Speaker 1: at the middle of it. Some of them, it's pretty
Speaker 1: I don't know, you're like, oh, I do know that person,
Speaker 1: and that is an incisive dissection of that type of person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is funny. Or oh if if he was
Speaker 2: able to make a neo Nazi in Justified likable, you know,
Speaker 2: like he might be able to do it with a
Speaker 2: rich guy on vacation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I still left.
Speaker 2: And they're both pretty bad. Yeah, and some are the same.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, Sorry, I needed my fruit.
Speaker 2: You need listen. Never get between Jack and his fruit.
Speaker 1: Don't get between me and my mango. Did you ever get.
Speaker 2: That advice as a kid. My wife and I were
Speaker 2: laughing about this the other day, where like our moms,
Speaker 2: it gave us like very similar advice about being safe
Speaker 2: around dogs. Where one makes sense, it's like, never touch
Speaker 2: a dog when it's eating it's food is one where
Speaker 2: it's like, okay, I can see that. But then there
Speaker 2: was another one where my mom was very seriously like,
Speaker 2: never ever touch a dog's tail, And I like don't
Speaker 2: know what the thinking was behind that. So I think
Speaker 2: until my late twenties, I would just like you can't.
Speaker 2: Even if you're petting a dog and it's friendly, you
Speaker 2: touch that tail, that thing will flip. That thing will
Speaker 2: get rabbied immediately. And it's like, I guess you can
Speaker 2: just touch a dog's tail. It doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's like a little Rabies switch. You didn't know exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a lever. We didn't have dogs growing up because
Speaker 1: my little sister had a phobia of dogs, and so
Speaker 1: we just never had them, and my parents I didn't
Speaker 1: know they existed. I got out into the adult world
Speaker 1: and I was like, what the fuck is that? Yo?
Speaker 1: What is so good? God sing? What is on that belt?
Speaker 1: Your character? What was on that extremely large belt thick string? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The only the only dog advice I had gotten entering
Speaker 1: adulthood was to let sleeping dogs lie, yeah, which was
Speaker 1: usually given to me by priests for some reason.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I remember about saying that. And
Speaker 2: this was after you were diagnosed with having the dog
Speaker 2: in you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I have been that dog in me. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the dog is very sick and docile. It's just the
Speaker 1: dog I had ready always rolls over and shows its
Speaker 1: stomach to other dogs. The dog guy got in me. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my last dog was really cute guy, the
Speaker 1: eyes facing in like just all different directions, just a
Speaker 1: complete mess, wheezing all the time. But the land Speed records,
Speaker 1: he would say Finny was his name in rolling over
Speaker 1: and showing his belly to anything and anyone and any
Speaker 1: dog was really kind of remarkable. He was just like, Hey,
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to see this. I love that Finny
Speaker 1: boy rip to a real one. And finally we got
Speaker 1: Quentin Tarantino, who gave a talk at sun Dance. I
Speaker 1: guess this is around the time that his he he
Speaker 1: had announced that his final movie was going to be
Speaker 1: called The Critic. He's going to be about a film
Speaker 1: critic who he liked writing film criticism in the late seventies,
Speaker 1: and then he was like, nah, fuck that. And now
Speaker 1: he just like gave a sun Dance interview where he
Speaker 1: claimed that movies haven't been a thing since twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: basically saying like the pandemic allowed distributors to shorten the
Speaker 1: windows between theatrical release and home video releases, but he's
Speaker 1: taken that to be like, and therefore none of these
Speaker 1: movies count. They're not real.
Speaker 2: They're long specials that They're specials, is what they are.
Speaker 2: They're not movies.
Speaker 1: I think we need to fight for movies personally, Like
Speaker 1: I feel like streaming content for the most part is
Speaker 1: fairly disposable and movies are like better, And there's still
Speaker 1: an appreciable difference between the two for me, like movies
Speaker 1: stick with me and streaming content just like never really
Speaker 1: sticks to me other than like a handful of shows
Speaker 1: like The Wire and some seasons of Breaking Bad. But
Speaker 1: in the real world, Yeah, the real world, did you say?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, of course, And I burnt through that this week,
Speaker 2: the whole all forty eight.
Speaker 1: I'm caught up on the real world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm ready for the next, the next one. I
Speaker 2: actually never I don't think I've ever watched it, but
Speaker 2: I yeah, when it comes to streaming, it does stick
Speaker 2: with you because you don't have more of it, I guess,
Speaker 2: like because it's as if like, Okay, I met these
Speaker 2: people that I really liked I'm talking about like movies,
Speaker 2: and then like I don't get to see them ever again.
Speaker 2: And then with series, especially if the whole like multiple
Speaker 2: seasons are out, it's like, oh, I get to keep
Speaker 2: hanging out with these people over and over and over again,
Speaker 2: and then by the time they leave, it's like, all right, well.
Speaker 1: I was ready for them to leave halfway. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: It's particularly funny take given that twenty nineteen just so
Speaker 1: happens to be the last year that he released a movie. Hmmm,
Speaker 1: So which one was that? Is the Hollywood one? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Lifetimes Hollywood, Hollywood Forever, forever, Hollywood Nights, Hot stays in
Speaker 1: Hollywood Nights.
Speaker 2: You should bring back movies. Tarantino a guy who bought
Speaker 2: a fucking movie theater.
Speaker 1: No more movies. He now says that he's working on
Speaker 1: a play instead of making the final film he's been
Speaker 1: talking about for years. So they maybe we're gonna cut
Speaker 1: out at nine. But I don't know. Uh, that's all
Speaker 1: I got, man, I don't fucking know. Uh. Bad day
Speaker 1: at bad bad times in this country.
Speaker 2: But at least Quentin Tarantino's writing a play.
Speaker 1: These Quentin Tarantino's writing a play. So that's something we
Speaker 1: can all think. I'd see a play written by him
Speaker 1: like his His dialogue is entertaining.
Speaker 2: And with live rounds and whatever whatever he's gonna do
Speaker 2: keep things interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well, those are some of the things
Speaker 1: that are trending on this Thursday, January thirtieth. We are
Speaker 1: back tomorrow with the whole lest episode of the show Blake.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you, see you all
Speaker 1: that could stuff?
Speaker 2: People can find me and follow me at Blake Wexler
Speaker 2: on all social media stand up. I have some live
Speaker 2: dates coming up martch thirteenth. You can see me live.
Speaker 2: It's like a play, like you know, yeah, it's like
Speaker 2: a play me to make.
Speaker 1: A Tarantino play. There will be life rounds.
Speaker 2: It's examply well as always and rounds of applause.
Speaker 1: Oh that's what I meant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh so yes, no, of course, yeah, I just
Speaker 2: like saying synonyms for things. March thirteenth, Fort Collins, Colorado
Speaker 2: at the Comedy Fort March fifteenth the Ice House, which
Speaker 2: is in Los Angeles, and then April fifth through the
Speaker 2: sixth they'll be in Minneapolis at Sissipis And all those
Speaker 2: tickets are available in my social media bios and at
Speaker 2: Blake Wexler dot com.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, Well, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for all the thank you all the guest hosting work
Speaker 1: you've put in. We appreciate it.
Speaker 2: It's always fun and yeah, obviously thinking about Miles and
Speaker 2: his family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, should be back soon. That is going to
Speaker 1: do it for us this afternoon. We are back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with the Who, last episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
Speaker 1: the vaccine, get your flu shots, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.