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Speaker 1: which is like a very threatening way to say someone
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Speaker 1: my god, that is the nicest introduction. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: so much for having me on the podcast. You will
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Speaker 1: having me. Jamie Loftus did the thing. Jack O'Brien, my woman, King,
Speaker 1: Anna Hosnia, You're a gene yes, Justin Smith, you are
Speaker 1: all of us. So there we go. I was really
Speaker 1: I was waiting for our audience to send that to us,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad you brought it. Was it you who
Speaker 1: tweeted that it slept on how she says Hong Chow,
Speaker 1: no one was talking about Everyone was talking about Angela Bassett,
Speaker 1: but no one was talking about how she was, Like
Speaker 1: Hong Chow, Dolly was really slept on. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring that into the discourse. I it resonated.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it days later, same same. I feel
Speaker 1: like we just like covered that briefly, but it has
Speaker 1: really resonated. It's like the adena adele desime John troubled
Speaker 1: to thing that just has sort of not gone away,
Speaker 1: like that performance, I feel like is just still with us.
Speaker 1: It's gonna get really, it's gonna be. It's we're enjoying
Speaker 1: it now and then we're and then we're gonna be
Speaker 1: upset that people because then everyone is going to learn
Speaker 1: about it, and then it's going to be bad for
Speaker 1: a while, but then it'll come back. It's like we're
Speaker 1: at impressions comes in waves. Yeah, absolutely, I agree. I
Speaker 1: brought it it the other day and Crickets Jack O'Brien,
Speaker 1: nothing not from me. Yeah, I feel like I haven't
Speaker 1: fully absorbed, absorbed too, like all of the intricacies I
Speaker 1: will be. I'm one of the people who will be
Speaker 1: making references to it in eight years like people are
Speaker 1: over it. Yeah exactly, that's finally taken about doing the
Speaker 1: thing in. Yeah exactly. I mean it takes that long
Speaker 1: for it to marin. It's such a rich text. It's
Speaker 1: a rich text, thank you. And so it is not
Speaker 1: my fault, Jamie, richness of the text. It's actually that
Speaker 1: I am treating it appropriately and taking my time getting
Speaker 1: into it. You know, Grect, I was being a huge bitch.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm glad you picked up what I was.
Speaker 1: I got. Well, I just got the message you sent
Speaker 1: me on Zoom. What is something from your search history?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm gonna be painfully honest right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: there is one thing, and one thing only in my
Speaker 1: search history all weekend. This is a shame for myself
Speaker 1: that I'm admitting this, but it is all vander Pump
Speaker 1: Rules related. How do we know about Do we know
Speaker 1: about this epic drama that has unfolded over the weekend
Speaker 1: by any chance in the Oh my god, I can
Speaker 1: I can give you the quickest rundown of all time.
Speaker 1: All Right, so that's what our shows about. Actually, let's
Speaker 1: let's just do that. Vander Pump Rules, Let's go. Vander
Speaker 1: Pump Rules is the greatest reality television show ever created.
Speaker 1: I don't watch other reality shows. I have no basis
Speaker 1: for this whatsoever. I don't know if I've ever seen
Speaker 1: a real housewives. But this show is a bunch of
Speaker 1: monstrous single was started monstrous single people that live in
Speaker 1: West Hollywood working at a restaurant, acting like absolute dipshits
Speaker 1: because they all had no money and they would spend
Speaker 1: it all. But now they all have money and it's
Speaker 1: so much worse. But this is this is the rundown?
Speaker 1: Is this one guy, Tom Sandoval cheated on his girlfriend
Speaker 1: of nine years with Raquel. I'm just gonna start. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna throw the names out there with Raquel. These
Speaker 1: are all characters on the show, unless yes, Raquel has
Speaker 1: been making out with Tom Schwartz, Tom Sandoval's business partner
Speaker 1: and best friend who just got divorced from his wife
Speaker 1: Katie of twelve years. After Riquel called off her engagement
Speaker 1: to James, who used to date Kristen, who used to
Speaker 1: date Tom. It's great. Good they all dating each other.
Speaker 1: It's like high school theater. Yeah, they're really given up.
Speaker 1: Like whatever we thought Tristan thompsonn drama was with Chloe Kardashian.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is this is ten trillion times worse.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. I'm in a chokehold. I can't stop. Okay,
Speaker 1: I love this. I love this. I also love that,
Speaker 1: you know, like vander Pump Rules is a great name.
Speaker 1: Like I've been to what's the bar and we hold
Speaker 1: that is from somebody from that show, Sir sir. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's so many now, yeah, they're so but that
Speaker 1: was the original one, right, that's the that's like the
Speaker 1: og I've been there. I just love the name. I've
Speaker 1: never watched it. I only watched The Challenge and The Bachelor,
Speaker 1: and then I had a reality show podcast where I
Speaker 1: had to pretend like I actually watched reality shows. So
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, I lie, uh but they paid me so.
Speaker 1: But I just really just love that name. It has
Speaker 1: like the best name I think out of any of
Speaker 1: the Rules. It's kind of giving Odyle Rules a little Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so you say, and the drama is there it's so great.
Speaker 1: My question is, like, are they all sleeping with one
Speaker 1: another because they know that they're all characters on the show,
Speaker 1: and like they want, like the way that a royal
Speaker 1: family will intermarry within the family, because they want to
Speaker 1: consolidate power and like keep all the money for it,
Speaker 1: keep all the power for themselves. Like, is there is
Speaker 1: something because that that web of social and sexual connections
Speaker 1: between the characters like is reminds me of like the
Speaker 1: Habsburg family tree, you know, like it's just so interwoven,
Speaker 1: and I wonder if there's some incentive there. I feel
Speaker 1: like that was a very generous comparison. Yeah, well if
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I mean it didn't end up so
Speaker 1: well for the Habsburgs. But I'm sure they think they're
Speaker 1: the royal family. I mean they are I would say,
Speaker 1: unfortunately the royal family a bravo right now, you know,
Speaker 1: so they I think there's something to that. These particular
Speaker 1: people in question. I don't know how samns words. They
Speaker 1: are absolute losers. So I just think people people in
Speaker 1: public probably won't sleep with them. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I just assume blanket statement. You see this man's face,
Speaker 1: he looks like a generic Harry Styles want to be
Speaker 1: in the worst way, and because there's a good way
Speaker 1: to look like a generic Harry Styles want to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's a base model Harry Styles. That's good.
Speaker 1: But no, this guy looks like he wants to be
Speaker 1: a Hairy Styles so bad and he sees a flare
Speaker 1: pants and he just buys it like that's there's no
Speaker 1: questions asked. But it's I mean, my favorite part about
Speaker 1: the whole thing. And I listen. I know you guys
Speaker 1: don't know this drama, but I'm so excited to talk
Speaker 1: about it. But this whole thing, the best part is
Speaker 1: that he dressed up as his mistress for Halloween in
Speaker 1: front of his current girlfriend and they all hung out together.
Speaker 1: How crazy is it? Drama? How crazy is that drama?
Speaker 1: That is just like you? Yeah? And then yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's such a mess. I am, I'm under a spell.
Speaker 1: It's I open my phone, I try to look at
Speaker 1: other things and I literally can't. You can't. Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 1: I can't. You can't looked as you are. I I
Speaker 1: really am. What is something then that you think is overrated?
Speaker 1: All right now? Not everyone's gonna agree and Jack you
Speaker 1: know that I typically you and Miles both know I
Speaker 1: typically don't like saying things are over rated. Everybody's got
Speaker 1: their own experiences. Big concerts, you know, I mean, Ticketmaster
Speaker 1: is a pain in the key star anyway, thank you, Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm agreeing. I'm yeah. Oh, don't be silent. I'm raising
Speaker 1: my voice. Don't be silent anymore. So, Uh, big concerts,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody was excited to get back to them
Speaker 1: after a shutdown in the US occurred. I don't want
Speaker 1: to one. I'm not gonna say which one, but I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, first off, fucking ticket Master. And then secondly,
Speaker 1: there are lines everywhere. Every every imaginable drink is way
Speaker 1: more expensive than it should be. And then you get
Speaker 1: in and there's this massive press of people, and if
Speaker 1: you're in a paranoid position like I usually am, you're thinking,
Speaker 1: where are the exits? What if this goes wrong? These thousands,
Speaker 1: there are several hundreds of people are very excited, usually
Speaker 1: to hear maybe three four songs, and then uh, it's
Speaker 1: just a bad look, you know what I mean. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I'm getting old. I don't know, it's just what
Speaker 1: do you guys think are big concerts overrated. Plus your
Speaker 1: peepers can't see the damn artists on stage. You know,
Speaker 1: It's that I don't know. I find concerts to be
Speaker 1: things that I don't look forward to and always like
Speaker 1: what they do to the like artists work like after
Speaker 1: I've seen them is usually worth it to me, Like
Speaker 1: I like it, I really like for whatever reason, like
Speaker 1: just seeing someone perform live makes me really appreciate their
Speaker 1: work a lot more and I love that creates some
Speaker 1: value for me. But yeah, I mean I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: also not, Like I haven't been to a big concert
Speaker 1: in many years, so I don't know if I've ever
Speaker 1: been what qualifies as a big concert, like in an
Speaker 1: amphitheater or something, you know, right, But as a person
Speaker 1: with crowd anxiety, I am extremely on your side, Ben,
Speaker 1: I don't like and you know, and it started. It
Speaker 1: hasn't always been that way it started, you know. I
Speaker 1: used to be able to go to big music festivals
Speaker 1: outside and not have a problem, and then I kept
Speaker 1: going to them, and then I started feeling really crazy
Speaker 1: and being like I need to leave. You know, so
Speaker 1: many people, it's been so many people since COVID, it
Speaker 1: has not improved my cat is really upset that I'm
Speaker 1: not paying attention to her, so she just knocked something
Speaker 1: on my my laut shout out, shout out, Mila International
Speaker 1: Women's Day Queen. Yes, yeah, no, I can't do that anymore.
Speaker 1: Um and And I always kind of thought sometimes they
Speaker 1: see video, you know, people go see Beyonce or whatever
Speaker 1: and got those like nosebleed seats, and you know, there's
Speaker 1: big screens that show you the artist. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: you might as well just be watching a video of
Speaker 1: the concert, right, Yeah, it's I mean, it's not for you.
Speaker 1: I was back. The fun part, sorry, just the fun
Speaker 1: part of that is that you're watching the screen and
Speaker 1: then taking a video of the screen, so you're watching
Speaker 1: the screen through your screen, so there's like four levels
Speaker 1: of things happening, but you are in the same physical space.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, And it reminds me of like one
Speaker 1: time I went to go see this rapper and I
Speaker 1: was trying to I had like a disposable like flash camera,
Speaker 1: and so I raised it up to try and take
Speaker 1: a picture of the rapper on stage. And what I
Speaker 1: ended up with, because of the strength, you know, the
Speaker 1: limited strength of the flash, was a picture of a
Speaker 1: bunch of people raising their cell phones. You can't see
Speaker 1: what's going on on stage at all, but the only
Speaker 1: accurate picture of a concert ever taken. That's how they
Speaker 1: know you were really there. Yeah. Yeah, so like the
Speaker 1: thing that I will just say, there's a brief backstory
Speaker 1: here in Atlanta, Georgia, an up and coming musician named
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift had a concert. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you all have heard of this person, but I see
Speaker 1: big things for them in the future. And everyone in
Speaker 1: the everyone in the places I would go to walking
Speaker 1: around my usual sketchy reprobate cruise, they were all very
Speaker 1: excited and we're all like, oh, Ben, we're going to
Speaker 1: this Taylor Swift concert. And I would say, well, you're
Speaker 1: the You're like the fortieth person I know who is
Speaker 1: going now, and you might want to hurry up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like, I think there's gonna be a line, dude,
Speaker 1: and U it just soured. Men. You know, no disrespect
Speaker 1: to the artist, because touring is one of the primary
Speaker 1: ways they make their money. Now that so many big
Speaker 1: studios or production companies have become poisonous fl my time,
Speaker 1: but when somebody does a residency in Las Vegas, I
Speaker 1: think that's the only way to truly see someone, because
Speaker 1: then the crowd is thin enough because everybody is kind
Speaker 1: of they're doing the same show after day. They have
Speaker 1: it down by heart. You're getting to see a robotic
Speaker 1: version of them. I don't know. This is all to say,
Speaker 1: I really want to see Katy Perry in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: I've just come to that conclusion in the last twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. Yeah, I'm going Carrot Top. But you know what,
Speaker 1: let's meet up for dinner. Okay, Amory, what's something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated? Well, this isn't going to do anything
Speaker 1: to disprove Ben's accusations that I am an old woman,
Speaker 1: but they're both elderly things. But I'm gonna I'm sticking
Speaker 1: to my guns, and I'm gonna say flossing. Flossing is
Speaker 1: highly underrated. You don't know all the shit you're missing
Speaker 1: in your teeth until you start flossing, and then once
Speaker 1: you start, you'll never go back because you know exactly
Speaker 1: what's in there and what you got out. And everyone
Speaker 1: should be flossing. So I'm sticking to it. Spicy take
Speaker 1: thank you. I am now flossing daily for the first
Speaker 1: time in my life really yet to have my teeth
Speaker 1: cleaning like chi follow up, like final exam. It's how
Speaker 1: I'm viewing it. So I'm like, I've never had a
Speaker 1: cavity in my life, and I'm like thinking that, like
Speaker 1: for some reason, this is going to be like the
Speaker 1: first time I had, Like so you get yeah, I
Speaker 1: get a cavity from flossing somehow. Talked to a dentist
Speaker 1: who is saying that, like your mouth is constantly at
Speaker 1: war between like cavities and gum disease, Like those are
Speaker 1: the two things that can be going on in your mouth,
Speaker 1: but like it's kind of one or the other because
Speaker 1: they're like caused by like bacteria that are like at
Speaker 1: war with one another. And so if you're not a
Speaker 1: cavity person, you probably are dealing with gum disease and
Speaker 1: or like vice versa. I would party in there at
Speaker 1: the very least, like cavities, gum disease or party like
Speaker 1: there's a part in your mouth. Yeah, there's a party
Speaker 1: in your mouth. Yeah the bread smell like sh Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then how about you? What's something you take is underrated?
Speaker 1: The hold my nip subreddit. I really like the whole poe.
Speaker 1: I know I know what it sounds like, the hold
Speaker 1: my Nip subreddit, And this is of course something that
Speaker 1: we've discovered through making endless thread over the years and
Speaker 1: looking at a lot of stories on Reddit, and you know,
Speaker 1: you get into some weird subs, and I got into
Speaker 1: this suble a while ago. Now it's part of the
Speaker 1: constellation of cat related subreddits. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've heard of my hold my beer of course, you know,
Speaker 1: hold my shar name, Oh my man, that cold, my cosmo.
Speaker 1: And so this is this is just footage of cats
Speaker 1: high on cat nip, and it's I find it to
Speaker 1: be very you know, just to bring me a little
Speaker 1: bit of light and joy when I'm feeling when i'm
Speaker 1: feeling gloomy. Good high animals, that's a yeah. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: I'm not pro high. I'm not pro getting your animals
Speaker 1: high necessarily, So I'm not sure. I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe folks feel weird about katnip in general, but I
Speaker 1: will watch it on the internet and I will enjoy
Speaker 1: it so amazing. We we just found out about shower
Speaker 1: Orange as a subreddit, so this is a yeah, had
Speaker 1: a whole yeah. Yeah, still haven't partaken, did you guys
Speaker 1: for for the purposes of research, partake in the show. Yeah, yeah, bended,
Speaker 1: I think you recorded some in the show, right, Wow,
Speaker 1: yeah I did. I still haven't tried it. I don't
Speaker 1: know what's wrong with me. It's amazing. It lives up
Speaker 1: to the hud. I mean, I've had a showers oil.
Speaker 1: Citrus oil in general in your zone is a good thing,
Speaker 1: I think, but in the shower too. One of our
Speaker 1: listeners that, uh, actually pomelo shower Pomelos are the pomelo.
Speaker 1: I guess that's how you pronounce that. Anyways, it's a
Speaker 1: grape fruit. Rights, Yes, it's a grape fruit with a
Speaker 1: lot of like puffy padding around it. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like a sweeter grape fruit. They are wonderful. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. And
Speaker 1: we're back and yeah, so there were a couple of
Speaker 1: Florida stories. By the way, did everybody enjoy their shower oranges?
Speaker 1: Are we are we all shower orange people? Yeah? West,
Speaker 1: I mean we're all sopping wet and on some Yeah.
Speaker 1: I unfortunately couldn't decide because I hadn't done enough research
Speaker 1: on how to peel the orange. And you know, there's
Speaker 1: so many opinions out there, whether you show just break
Speaker 1: it in half or you know, I just sort of
Speaker 1: I dove in like a starving monkey and would I would,
Speaker 1: I would recommend that approach. That was good advice. Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 1: I'm a part of the showering Orange community. Am coming
Speaker 1: out as that Wow. Congratulations, brave Wow gave us the
Speaker 1: scoop in everything a comedian we should and will milk
Speaker 1: comes out as a shower Orange community. This will be
Speaker 1: just as powerful as that Ellen thing. Yeah, just as big.
Speaker 1: In Florida, just a couple stories from last week about
Speaker 1: Florida politicians trying to turn the state of Florida into
Speaker 1: a like dystopian right wing police state and like more
Speaker 1: than they already have. I guess with the book bands,
Speaker 1: this seems like it's an overall strategy where Rond de
Speaker 1: Santis is like picking a fight with every everyone who's
Speaker 1: not a right wing like mega person, and then we'll
Speaker 1: use that to as like free publicity for his campaign,
Speaker 1: which has kind of been his That's what his entire
Speaker 1: career has been based on. So first, last week there
Speaker 1: was one that I think we can mostly dismiss as
Speaker 1: just like a stunt. It was from a Republican state senator,
Speaker 1: a Senate bill that they're trying trying to use to
Speaker 1: render the Democratic Party non existent, dubbed the Ultimate Cancel Act,
Speaker 1: and they're they're like, this is where, oh, you want
Speaker 1: to cancel us, Well, we're canceling the Democratic Party. People
Speaker 1: there is like now, you know, right wing politicians really
Speaker 1: do have a way with just like the most like
Speaker 1: lobotomized turn of phrase that you could possibly come up with,
Speaker 1: but it usually that it's sticky. It sticks in my head.
Speaker 1: That makes no sense, and it's like it's sticky, Well
Speaker 1: not my shoe. Well you were doing it wrong, jack,
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be getting sticky. I ripped it open after
Speaker 1: I got out of the shower, and a very good
Speaker 1: ambassador for our community right now, I'll say that much.
Speaker 1: Some people have compared the bill to when the Nazis
Speaker 1: did away with all other political parties, but it seems
Speaker 1: like it's more of a like publicity stunt intended to
Speaker 1: expose the hypocrisy of cancel culture and the guy who's
Speaker 1: behind it, like, I mean, he's very powerful, like he
Speaker 1: used to be the head of the Republican Party in Florida,
Speaker 1: but he does just seem like kind of a carnival
Speaker 1: barker who's looking for an audience. Like I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know again, I can't see this actually happening or
Speaker 1: if it does like actually affecting policy all that much.
Speaker 1: But it just that's that's what's hard about Florida these days,
Speaker 1: is like it's easy to be like Rhonda Santis is
Speaker 1: just like talking about Disney and not paying attention to
Speaker 1: things that actually affect people's lives. But then he actually
Speaker 1: signs laws affecting taxation and is just like super powerful,
Speaker 1: and then like bands books in children's libraries and like
Speaker 1: the we see like video of people of empty elementary
Speaker 1: school libraries. You know. Yeah, I mean I've had friends
Speaker 1: whose books are no longer like allowed in Florida. It's
Speaker 1: like it's ridiculous, and I like that. Uh, it's it's
Speaker 1: fun to dunk on Rhonda Santis and we should and
Speaker 1: we're right to do it. But I think, yeah, like
Speaker 1: one of the scariest things about him is that he's
Speaker 1: like not an idiot like he'd and I feel like
Speaker 1: he's like developing this and maybe this falls under this
Speaker 1: category because like the language of the ultimate Cancel Act,
Speaker 1: Like it sounds like like mustache twirling cartoon villain, like
Speaker 1: cancel the filings of a political party if the party's
Speaker 1: platform is previously advocated for or been in support of,
Speaker 1: like involuntary servitude or slavery. Like it's just like word salad.
Speaker 1: But it seems like even with the Disney stuff and
Speaker 1: the horrible book, that he's really saying like it almost
Speaker 1: reminds me of times that like, you know, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: would do like the dumbest thing he could think of
Speaker 1: when he was about to pass some really scary legislation,
Speaker 1: so you would talk about the dumb thing and not
Speaker 1: pay attention to the thing that actually harms people. And
Speaker 1: it feels like DeSantis is like really getting a feel
Speaker 1: for that pattern. Yeah, I know, because part of it,
Speaker 1: like it's obviously like righteous to dunk on him. And
Speaker 1: it also it reminds me of that remember that video
Speaker 1: going around a like well more lists, we'll see who
Speaker 1: cancels who like Jordan Peterson, Yeah, guy, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it reminds me of that video. It's so we'll see
Speaker 1: who cancel. He sounds he sounded so weird, he said,
Speaker 1: like he's about to like take off in a flintstone
Speaker 1: car exactly. Oh god, I know, but yeah, he wields
Speaker 1: a lot of power. He's a very like he's like
Speaker 1: a he is a very powerful and scary figure that
Speaker 1: can do a lot of harm in in his state. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so the other one that on its face seems
Speaker 1: kind of similarly just easy to dunk on and dismiss,
Speaker 1: but actually is probably very scary in reality. They're going
Speaker 1: after bloggers. They proposed a bill that would require bloggers
Speaker 1: to register with the state if they're going to write
Speaker 1: any stories about DeSantis or other Florida politicians, which is
Speaker 1: pretty scary. Yeah, I mean it's and they like the
Speaker 1: way they're doing it. They're like they would be required
Speaker 1: to submit monthly reports, including disclosing their pay or else
Speaker 1: risk being fined by the government. Which is this a
Speaker 1: scheme to expose how underpaid bloggers are or like that
Speaker 1: they're not paid because I don't know what they think
Speaker 1: bloggers are being paid? Or what do do I not
Speaker 1: know what bloggers are? Is that? Well, I does the
Speaker 1: person who wrote this know what bloggers are? That seems
Speaker 1: like a really really broad like Perez Hilton was a blogger,
Speaker 1: like who I've not read a blog in so many years?
Speaker 1: Is this a tumbler specific piece of let's just say it, like,
Speaker 1: who's funding all these tumblers that are making memes about me,
Speaker 1: Rhonda Santis? Like they just assume, I don't know, because
Speaker 1: they do have a big like contingent of their strategy
Speaker 1: is paying bloggers who just write like hagiographic like just
Speaker 1: love letters to Ronda Santis. So like I'm wondering if
Speaker 1: they assume that because they have to they need like
Speaker 1: billionaire secret funders for all their media that like that's
Speaker 1: true of everyone criticizing them as well, and so that's
Speaker 1: where they're coming from. But it really seems misguided. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, like it could very easily be
Speaker 1: the first step in like a very slippery slope right
Speaker 1: where it's like they're doing it in my space first,
Speaker 1: and they're like, oops, now we're gonna do it on
Speaker 1: another platform, Like they okay, so you guys don't do
Speaker 1: blogs anymore? We get it? Yeah, okay, okay, okay, reset,
Speaker 1: Like that's it's just oh god, I do. I Mean,
Speaker 1: this is like a really scared I mean, it seems
Speaker 1: like they're just trying to what like suppress any potential
Speaker 1: criticism of De santists, and just like curb free speech,
Speaker 1: sick love that. Um well, yeah, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: if this vocabulary choice blows up in their face, that
Speaker 1: would be kind of funny. But it just sounds like
Speaker 1: you could apply like isn't like technically Twitter is like
Speaker 1: micro blogging? Am I like inventing that? I feel like
Speaker 1: that's what it was called when it came out question
Speaker 1: mark an expression of your opinion is a blog? Any
Speaker 1: tweet about RHN de Santis will need to be officially
Speaker 1: licensed by the Florida government. How do you fucking enforce
Speaker 1: something like that? I mean, I yeah, it's just I
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess I just hope that they're not
Speaker 1: smart enough to be able to even follow through with
Speaker 1: such a thing. But yeah, it does feel pretty suppressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And he's to unionize all my psychic friends
Speaker 1: in Florida. Right. The last time I talked to a
Speaker 1: psychic in Florida, he was like and it was like
Speaker 1: I think it was like he was like dissing me
Speaker 1: a little bit. Oh, I don't remember the last time
Speaker 1: I've said diss But he was like, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: He you know, he's like, well, as far as where
Speaker 1: you're going to end up, you are not welcome in Florida.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my god, wait, that's actually
Speaker 1: kind of a compliment, right, I know, well it's like
Speaker 1: I I was, I mean it, but he was like
Speaker 1: he loved being in Florida. But he was like, clearly
Speaker 1: something's off. And then Florida is not for you, honey,
Speaker 1: Florida is not for me. And it's like, you know what, fine,
Speaker 1: I accept that was he saying you're not allowed in
Speaker 1: Florida or you're not allowed to retire to Florida. Said
Speaker 1: he just sort of said me in Florid or at
Speaker 1: a that we it's not where you end up is
Speaker 1: a weird Yeah, yeah, I mean, and it's he I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's fascinating. He says, guy Lewis Gates. He's got
Speaker 1: a YouTube channel. I watch it. He's doing all sorts
Speaker 1: of stuff. But yeah, I don't I don't know. He said,
Speaker 1: I have no place in Florida. Florida is not for me.
Speaker 1: And then he's like maybe she's a little more bicoastal.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, yeah, there you go. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Lewis. Yeah, thank you. Congratulations to you, James.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the opposite of Marxism. The
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal had this article that Americans are encountering
Speaker 1: more problems with companies, products and services than ever before,
Speaker 1: and a higher proportion of them are actively seeking quote
Speaker 1: revenge for their troubles, a new study has found, which
Speaker 1: is intense. So that what do they mean by revenge?
Speaker 1: It's I think it's like writing nasty comments, like sending letters,
Speaker 1: you know, doing reaching out to the company, and yes,
Speaker 1: just any sort of follow up action that's taken. Yes,
Speaker 1: but they the revenge is definitely what drew my attention.
Speaker 1: But it's also I don't know, so it's up. So
Speaker 1: some revenge is getting back together. But they're called customers
Speaker 1: want revenge. Yes, seventy of the one thousand customers surveyed
Speaker 1: said they had experienced service problems in the last year,
Speaker 1: which is up sixty six percent from twenty twenty. And
Speaker 1: you know, more and more of them are seeking this vengeance,
Speaker 1: you know, a kill bill style revenge saga against Southwest
Speaker 1: Airlines or you know training that is the picture that
Speaker 1: used was a you know, some Southwest Airlines consumer facing
Speaker 1: person at an airport looking like they were twelve hours
Speaker 1: away from all of their hair falling out from just
Speaker 1: having to deal with just horrific toxicity. Well, shit, I
Speaker 1: wonder why, right exactly, I hope nobody, nobody is actually
Speaker 1: yelling at the people who are working because they're not
Speaker 1: in charge of the fuckery, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like every time, every time you have a problem at
Speaker 1: the counter of someplace, yelling at that person is not
Speaker 1: going to get back to the person who is responsible,
Speaker 1: you know exactly that I don't know. I think it's
Speaker 1: very convenient for corporations to do that exactly. You know,
Speaker 1: there's like my immediate thought is, of course, this has
Speaker 1: to do with all the supply line bullshit, where like
Speaker 1: I know, somebody who got their catalytic converter strolling off
Speaker 1: their car needs a new catalytic converter, and so they're
Speaker 1: having a problem, where all of the mechanics are like,
Speaker 1: we don't have any, and we don't know when we're
Speaker 1: gonna get any, so we don't know when we can
Speaker 1: fix your car, and so it's not a customer complaint
Speaker 1: towards the mechanic. The mechanic has nothing to do with it,
Speaker 1: but there's definitely customer dissatisfaction. So you know, if you
Speaker 1: were to survey and be like, do you have problems
Speaker 1: being a consumer, we'd be like, yeah, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to do. It's not because the service is bad.
Speaker 1: It's because the ship's not there, yes, and the I
Speaker 1: mean also I think the service is bad in a
Speaker 1: lot of these cases, like with the airlines or you know,
Speaker 1: even with car companies, Like the car companies used to
Speaker 1: like prior to the pandemic, we're like more cons it
Speaker 1: was like more of a buyer's market, and now it's
Speaker 1: more of a fuck you, this is what we have
Speaker 1: market like and they're understaffed, yes, because they're wildly fucking understaffed.
Speaker 1: Everybody is so completely understaffed, like the Southwest Airlines thing
Speaker 1: is like all of the benefits of this current system
Speaker 1: fall to like the c suite and the people who
Speaker 1: are making decisions like at the higher levels and the
Speaker 1: companies who are the only thing they have to pay
Speaker 1: attention to in order to do their job and to
Speaker 1: feel like they're successful at the job. Is like how
Speaker 1: wall Street, Like Wall Street is the only incentive that
Speaker 1: they have to care about. And then all of the
Speaker 1: customer facing employees and the customer the consumers themselves are
Speaker 1: just like fighting a war between each other and just
Speaker 1: like becoming more and more miserable, and like this isn't
Speaker 1: I think this is invisible, Like this is the sort
Speaker 1: of thing that we just kind of It's like this
Speaker 1: is water type thing. It's like the weather is getting
Speaker 1: slowly worse, but we are not noticing it because we're
Speaker 1: just living in it day to day. But you know,
Speaker 1: all of these consumer indices are have gotten like way
Speaker 1: way worse since they started tragging them in like the
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. They just get worse and worse and worse
Speaker 1: because everything has gotten less and less and less regulated.
Speaker 1: And the only thing that these companies have to pay
Speaker 1: any attention to is their stock prices, so they cut employees.
Speaker 1: They you know, they just do these things that make
Speaker 1: it impossible for the people at the lowest levels who
Speaker 1: are dealing with the consumers and make the consumers experience worse.
Speaker 1: And of course none of this is mentioned in the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal article. The only thing, the only way
Speaker 1: that it registers to them is they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: they every time an angry consumer contacts a company that
Speaker 1: company's losing money, and that's one way to view it,
Speaker 1: But of course I don't think that makes sense just
Speaker 1: because it's a wasting their time so you have to
Speaker 1: like spend resources on dealing with it and also probably
Speaker 1: is like bad marketing, so I guess. But if you
Speaker 1: deal with it, well, then the customer will come back,
Speaker 1: and so then are you making money? But you have
Speaker 1: to pay money to deal with it. Well, like that's
Speaker 1: the damned thing about this market, like the if you're
Speaker 1: going to let the free market run your country, you
Speaker 1: have to acknowledge that this essentially means your country doesn't
Speaker 1: work like this this system tell me more jack, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like well, like they're just they feel like that's wasted
Speaker 1: time and wasted money, like spent dealing with angry customers,
Speaker 1: and if we all just agree to treat customers like shit,
Speaker 1: then like they don't really have another option. Well, this
Speaker 1: also kind of feels like one of those things where
Speaker 1: it's like you know that the fallacy that like the
Speaker 1: rate of left handedness went up after left handedness stopped
Speaker 1: being categorized as like a medical deficiency and started being
Speaker 1: categorized as just an alternate way of fucking writing yes,
Speaker 1: and so then the rate went up because people weren't
Speaker 1: being forced to write with their non dominant hand anymore.
Speaker 1: And this feels like that where it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: now that we have the Internet and Yelp and every
Speaker 1: company has to have a website, in a Twitter and
Speaker 1: an Instagram, there are so many more ways for angry
Speaker 1: customers to tell you how angry they are. So it's
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're angrier or if they just
Speaker 1: have easier access to you to tell you that they're upset.
Speaker 1: Because it used to be when you were mad at
Speaker 1: an airline that you could basically go fuck yourself, but
Speaker 1: now you can tweet at them and they have to
Speaker 1: pay attention. Right. But I mean they've been investing in
Speaker 1: like cute social media, like Southwest Airlines is like h
Speaker 1: mondays am I right, And then like so they have
Speaker 1: like somebody who they you know, pay a lot of
Speaker 1: money to like give their corporate brand a fucking like
Speaker 1: lovable personality, and at the same time, like satisfaction west
Speaker 1: Southwest Airlines couldn't be lower because that's like they don't
Speaker 1: fucking need to care about the consumer, because that is
Speaker 1: how the system is set up. It's just allowing them
Speaker 1: to focus on creating shareholder value. Yeah, let's okay, this
Speaker 1: something I want to go back to here. So the
Speaker 1: American Customer Satisfaction Index, in my experience on a couple
Speaker 1: of a couple of different projects, innocuous names are sort
Speaker 1: of a flag and I want to figure like, is
Speaker 1: it crooked? That's my question? Is it like the American
Speaker 1: Consumer Satisfaction Index brought to you by Raytheon or whatever?
Speaker 1: You know, like like is this? I mean, it's very easy,
Speaker 1: through any number of proxies and platforms to make something
Speaker 1: like that that appears to be a nonprofit. And again,
Speaker 1: the people working there, the people doing that research may
Speaker 1: actually not know the ultimate arbiters of it, you know,
Speaker 1: like what is also I don't trust the Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal I'm sorry, no, I don't either. But it's just
Speaker 1: funny to see how they I think they're taking a
Speaker 1: real like signal that they're getting that the consumer experience
Speaker 1: across all these different things is getting worse, and they're
Speaker 1: just treating it as like a symptom that like corporate
Speaker 1: CEOs need to pay attention to, like when crunching the
Speaker 1: numbers on their spreadsheets, as opposed to like a very real,
Speaker 1: like broad scale problem that is happening in the country
Speaker 1: where like they just like don't have to give a
Speaker 1: shit about, like, you know, the consumers of their products
Speaker 1: or the people who work for them at the lower level,
Speaker 1: and they keep firing people because it's like fashionable to
Speaker 1: do so. And so it's just this world that is
Speaker 1: being run by people who like have absolutely no connection
Speaker 1: and to what our lived experiences are like out in
Speaker 1: the world interacting with their products unless they to Sara's point,
Speaker 1: unless they see the tweet, unless they see one of
Speaker 1: those other platforms, or like it's probably not them who
Speaker 1: as TikTok. It might be one of their kids, and
Speaker 1: their kid is running up and telling the parent, oh,
Speaker 1: there's something bad. You know, Like the president of Norfolk
Speaker 1: Southern lives here in Atlanta, and you know before the yeah,
Speaker 1: right before they heat hit, maybe one of that guy's
Speaker 1: kids came up and said, oh, my god, dad, that
Speaker 1: looks like people aren't super happy with everything. And he's like, well,
Speaker 1: tell me more about this social media you know, Monty
Speaker 1: Burn's hands and whatnot. I mean, it's I think it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful point that first off, there's some nomenclature too,
Speaker 1: to unpack. Calling people customers or consumers is a little
Speaker 1: tricky because it makes them sound like they're not people. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: so it does. Though even if with the problems that
Speaker 1: you've pointed out here, it does still feel like things
Speaker 1: are on the rise, but there's a dangerous disconnect and
Speaker 1: trying to attribute the reasons for that. Like you made
Speaker 1: the great point about understaffing, people aren't like, of course,
Speaker 1: there's a longer line. I was. I was in Amsterdam
Speaker 1: a while back, and I like got to the airport
Speaker 1: early to get a plane out because I knew, you know,
Speaker 1: there were pending strikes. There were also very few people
Speaker 1: working at the airport. And when people are in a
Speaker 1: terrible situation, airports are often a terrible situation in general.
Speaker 1: They were not thinking of looking at the systemic causes.
Speaker 1: There are people, you know, with a family, and they're
Speaker 1: trying to get their family to the fucking other airport
Speaker 1: where they've got the layover because nobody can afford a
Speaker 1: direct flight for places, you know, and and they want
Speaker 1: someone to blame. And so a lot of people on
Speaker 1: the front lines of any customer service thing, they're having
Speaker 1: to be the scapegoats for the people at the top,
Speaker 1: and I think it's just gross, you know, like I
Speaker 1: don't know. And then those people are being forced to
Speaker 1: work like that understaffing leads to people who are you know,
Speaker 1: being forced to work with the threat of like not
Speaker 1: having healthcare or being able to feed their family. And
Speaker 1: then like the Wall Street Journal will publish an article
Speaker 1: being like, why are Americans so unhappy? Is it their phones?
Speaker 1: Is it because they have the language to describe unhappiness
Speaker 1: now that they are going to therapy, And it's like, no, motherfucker,
Speaker 1: you have like a brutal Americans are discovering rage, right
Speaker 1: they know, like they have the language to address it now,
Speaker 1: and so they are therefore like aware of their unhappiness
Speaker 1: and they're like, what is happening here? Like how has
Speaker 1: it gotten worse than the seventies? And it's because therapy
Speaker 1: is therapy? No right jacket's mental health. It's been a
Speaker 1: scam the whole time. All it does is make people
Speaker 1: unsatisfied and make women unsatisfied with home life. That but
Speaker 1: that is like a legitimate thesis that is getting spread
Speaker 1: around out there instead of no, the overall economic conditions
Speaker 1: are worse because you have just allowed Wall Street to
Speaker 1: run the entire country, and that is what happens. Like
Speaker 1: the market doesn't functional, doesn't functionally work, doesn't create a
Speaker 1: functioning society, It creates this. I'm telling you the problem
Speaker 1: within houses. Just the doors are too small, says the Fox.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: there's an older, excellent speech about that. But but this
Speaker 1: this idea is kind of nuts too, because we have
Speaker 1: to realize that there are there are plenty of like
Speaker 1: younger generations. If I were a parent right now, I
Speaker 1: would be a little concerned, which I know sounds very
Speaker 1: Fox News, but I'm going somewhere good with it. If
Speaker 1: I was a parent right now, I would I would
Speaker 1: be concerned about a kid who one day probably will
Speaker 1: get a job at some point and has to deal
Speaker 1: with this like how understaffed can a place be? How
Speaker 1: how how long can align get? Who can who can
Speaker 1: afford these things? Like if you are working in at
Speaker 1: a whole center, right, in many cases your job is
Speaker 1: to get yelled at for like eight hours, not counting
Speaker 1: your mandatory overtime. And is that like when your kid
Speaker 1: tells you about the dream job, when they're like oh,
Speaker 1: I want to be you know whatever the first werewolf
Speaker 1: faster not on the moon. And then you say, well,
Speaker 1: already had many werewolf faster knots on the moon. Yes,
Speaker 1: you're you're a Comcast fit. I think you should. You
Speaker 1: should be on the front lines of the Comcast phones
Speaker 1: or experience whatever they're calling truly, Yeah, yeah, I am
Speaker 1: a parent. It's a nightmare. Uh yeah, they will all
Speaker 1: be one company and their most because I mean that's
Speaker 1: the thing is that like we read about, like there
Speaker 1: are these characters who like get turned into the main
Speaker 1: characters of the news, and they're all the CEOs. They're
Speaker 1: like the Elon Musks and like the you know, the
Speaker 1: people the Wall Street Journal like give names and faces too.
Speaker 1: But the vast majority of the country is the people
Speaker 1: who are on just like eating shit every day because
Speaker 1: of the decisions made by those people. And then the
Speaker 1: only way that that shit eating registers is in like
Speaker 1: these vague fucking like surveys where they're like consumers indicate
Speaker 1: that they're like less satisfied and more likely to just
Speaker 1: quote go fucking berserk as a result of the bad
Speaker 1: you know, It's just like if thigs was so hard
Speaker 1: for the peasants. Why do they have so much time
Speaker 1: to raise so much rabble about this? Exactly? Rowse, damn
Speaker 1: it whatever, leave it. And that's the truth, is that
Speaker 1: we don't have enough time to raise the rabble because
Speaker 1: we are trying. We're being worked like end to end,
Speaker 1: and like that's the thing that I think we saw
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty when things like slowed down and everyone
Speaker 1: like looked around was like, fuck all of this, and
Speaker 1: then the economy open back up, and again people don't
Speaker 1: have enough time to raise rabble as they as they
Speaker 1: do in at least other countries around the around the
Speaker 1: globe anyways, true nightmare shit from the Wall Street Charnal.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break. We'll be back to talk
Speaker 1: about sunny d with vodka. And we're back And Creed
Speaker 1: three made all the money fifty eight point seven million
Speaker 1: in North America, more than one hundred million globally, the
Speaker 1: biggest opening ever for the Creed Rocky franchise or a
Speaker 1: sports movie. Which that's crazy. That's surprising some big sports movies.
Speaker 1: That's surprising to me. Yeah, Ali, it made more than Ali. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I guess also, yeah, adjustifore inflation, I guess but
Speaker 1: like us when Ali came out, take us we're six dollars.
Speaker 1: But that is still surprising to me. I mean Rocky
Speaker 1: four was like, I mean, I guess it's different, like,
Speaker 1: but Rocky four like was the number one movie for
Speaker 1: like half of the year that it came out. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess they just didn't people. They only release like
Speaker 1: eight movies back then, so you just knew to catch
Speaker 1: it the next weekend. Yeah, and now movies only say
Speaker 1: theaters for six days or some shit, like it'll be
Speaker 1: create to be on streaming next month, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but even it even beat D two Mighty Ducks Part two,
Speaker 1: so wow, doing something right, But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: The other story that like kind of emerged was that
Speaker 1: Michael B. Jordan and Tessa Thompson went to couples therapy
Speaker 1: in character for the movie. Tessa Thompson said, I think
Speaker 1: the moral of Create three is that all people should
Speaker 1: go to therapy. That's pretty much the moral of Create three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people should go to therapy as themselves, but going as
Speaker 1: someone else seems to work pretty well too. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: very funny. I did see KRE three, so I'm not
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not gonna give I'm gonna try my
Speaker 1: best to not give any spoilers, so no spoilers. However,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just give my opinion on the movie. So
Speaker 1: if you don't want to hear anything, I will just
Speaker 1: say that to you right now. I had never seen
Speaker 1: any of the Creeds before this week. Oh, I just
Speaker 1: get that out there. And like, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: like the writers. I know the dude who wrote the
Speaker 1: first movie, not Ryan Coogler, but his writing partner Aaron Covington.
Speaker 1: Shout out Aaron, who also was a writer on Grand Crew,
Speaker 1: which is out now, so please go watch it. But also,
Speaker 1: like I just never got around to watching it. I
Speaker 1: don't know why. I don't know why. It was a
Speaker 1: movie I've always wanted to see. But I decided to
Speaker 1: watch both Creeds this week before I went to go
Speaker 1: see Creed three because I really wanted to see Creed
Speaker 1: three because it looked the trailer looked dope. Jonathan Majors
Speaker 1: is having himself a year. He looks fantastic in it.
Speaker 1: I wanted to see the movie. I watched Creed one,
Speaker 1: Creed two. Fantastic, truly fantastic, fucking movies Creed two, I
Speaker 1: was highest ship when I'm watched it got me emotional.
Speaker 1: It was a movie. Is such a good movie. Create
Speaker 1: three is a good movie. It's a good movie. It's
Speaker 1: a good movie. WHOA Okay, go watch it. Go watch it.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you in the grand scheme of movies, it
Speaker 1: is a good movie. It is worth the watch, It
Speaker 1: is worth the time to go and enjoy some time
Speaker 1: at the movie theaters left me left. Wasn't my favorite Creed?
Speaker 1: Wasn't my favorite Creed. I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: a spoiler or not. I don't think it is. But
Speaker 1: I thought it was too short. That's what I'll say.
Speaker 1: I think the movie is too short. The movie is
Speaker 1: missing key elements that time would have given the movie
Speaker 1: that the other two movies had. And and I don't
Speaker 1: know what that is. And I've noticed this recently, like
Speaker 1: a lot of movies are starting to like shorten their
Speaker 1: run not a lot, because there's still some three hour
Speaker 1: fucking movies, but the movies are starting to shorten their
Speaker 1: run time a little bit, and studios are starting to
Speaker 1: make a conscious effort to all right, maybe you don't
Speaker 1: need to be in a movie theater for two and
Speaker 1: a half hours, And I've always said this, if a
Speaker 1: movie is good, I don't give a fuck how long
Speaker 1: it is a movie. If a movie is good, we'll
Speaker 1: be there. And I know not everybody's the same, but
Speaker 1: if the story is compelling, a great movie can make
Speaker 1: two and a half hours seemed like ninety minutes, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: A bad movie can make two and a half hours
Speaker 1: feel like a whole fucking day. So like that, that's
Speaker 1: my take on that. I thought the movie was too short.
Speaker 1: I thought the movie was missing some things, but the
Speaker 1: movie is still good. Michael be Jordan's great. These niggas
Speaker 1: look amazing in this movie. John and the Major's is
Speaker 1: just oh my god, on another planet right now. They
Speaker 1: really crushed it with marketing wise. They really they really
Speaker 1: knew their audience to some degree, because man, it was
Speaker 1: a lot of just wet bodies. So I'm like, well, well, well,
Speaker 1: well I've never seen a boxing movie before, but it
Speaker 1: was spicy just for thirty second Taylor trailers. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the pitch to studio executives was like, we all know
Speaker 1: Jonathan Majors exists, what if he was wet? Yeah, like
Speaker 1: start exploding. Yeah, that guy's just like Scrooge mcducking his life,
Speaker 1: diving into money right now, he's got to have so
Speaker 1: much money Quantumnia this movie back to back. I mean,
Speaker 1: I want to see I want to see his bank account. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also love Craft and yeah he's on the Netflix
Speaker 1: move the harder we fall, like he's just been and
Speaker 1: he's great. That's the good thing. I love. I love
Speaker 1: when an actor is having their moment. I love when
Speaker 1: a black actors having their moment. And I love that
Speaker 1: when on top of their black ass moments, they're also
Speaker 1: fucking fantastic, so it's like they deserved this. They're not
Speaker 1: just having a moment because they're having a moment. They're
Speaker 1: having a moment because they are fantastic. And it's like
Speaker 1: Jonathan May just has it. He is on another planet
Speaker 1: right now as far as acting goes, and he's he's
Speaker 1: doing a damn thing and I love it. He really
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be like he's on his trajectory
Speaker 1: to be one of the best actors of our generation,
Speaker 1: hands down. He's Yeah, he's having his rehershala Ali moment
Speaker 1: from like two three years ago, right right, But even
Speaker 1: that felt like Mahershali was like a little, tried to
Speaker 1: tried to keep it like so there wasn't so much
Speaker 1: Mahershali that like we didn't we we weren't left wanting more.
Speaker 1: But Jonathan Major's is just like suddenly everywhere and everyone's like, yes,
Speaker 1: feed me, please more. That's a good point that I
Speaker 1: don't know. You never hear people say a movie is
Speaker 1: too short, Like if a movie is a good hang,
Speaker 1: sometimes it feels too short, and the only complaint is
Speaker 1: like cranky film critics being like I have to pick
Speaker 1: up the kids, wrap it up. It's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know that represents most film fans, Like, yeah, if I'm
Speaker 1: enjoying myself, I'll hang you know, oh yeah, on it.
Speaker 1: It beats going out to bars. Yeah, such a homebody nowadays,
Speaker 1: and I'm like it feels like I'm doing so much
Speaker 1: more than i am. When I go to a movie
Speaker 1: that's really long, I'm like, yes, I had a full
Speaker 1: night of fun. I didn't go out, I went, I
Speaker 1: came home at midnight, and I feel so accomplished at
Speaker 1: a three film. I love going to I love I'm
Speaker 1: a theater head. I love going to the movies. I
Speaker 1: love the experience as an amazing AMC A list for life,
Speaker 1: you know, for those of you who don't have AMC's
Speaker 1: in your town. It's a movie subscription program but basically
Speaker 1: one month cost the price of one fucking ticket. And
Speaker 1: it's amazing. You could see like nine movies a month.
Speaker 1: So I'm in the theaters all the damn time. And
Speaker 1: when I say this movie was short, it wasn't just like, oh,
Speaker 1: wish that it was longer so I could have been
Speaker 1: enjoying myself more. I just felt like there were key
Speaker 1: parts of the story something that they rushed through that,
Speaker 1: especially with me jesseeing both creats like this week, So
Speaker 1: it's very fresh in my mind how those stories let
Speaker 1: all their beats breathe in the way that it needed to.
Speaker 1: That that's my that's my complaint on Creed three. However,
Speaker 1: go watch that ship two Black leads Michael B. Jordan's
Speaker 1: directoral directorial debut as beautiful movie. Shot. Well, a good movie,
Speaker 1: Felicia were shot. You know, give it up for our mom.
Speaker 1: Felicia shot. It's a good time, y'all. It's a good time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like they don't even fit the boxing, the fight in
Speaker 1: at the end. They're just like you get the first
Speaker 1: round and then they're like, YadA, YadA, YadA, you know
Speaker 1: who wins. Anyways, that means true kind of they focus
Speaker 1: more on the therapy aspect in that one wasn't really
Speaker 1: therapy happy. Like That's what My main takeaway from this
Speaker 1: review from Tessa Thompson is that it's a film, a
Speaker 1: boxing film about therapy first fighting second. Okay, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I was this this orm. I was sitting at a
Speaker 1: bar one time in twenty when I think the first
Speaker 1: Creed came out in twenty fifteen, right, I was sitting,
Speaker 1: um sometimes yeah somewhere. Yeah, I was sitting in a
Speaker 1: bar and I remember so specifically because the guy next
Speaker 1: to me, he was like, oh oh, I just like
Speaker 1: couldn't couldn't keep himself together. And the bartender is like,
Speaker 1: are you okay. He's like, Creed's ruining my life and
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there so invested. And then he begins to
Speaker 1: tell the bartender that he used to date Tessa Thompson.
Speaker 1: I don't think any of this is true, but he
Speaker 1: says he used to date Tessa Thompson and that she
Speaker 1: left him for the movie Creed. He's like, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't, that doesn't track. Your your name is you
Speaker 1: have a you know, a supreme shirt on your name
Speaker 1: is Nick. I don't think so. No, No, same bro.
Speaker 1: I would have just been like, same bro. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think yeah, I think he needs to watch this movie
Speaker 1: and maybe he'd Tessa Thompson's words. Also, I hope it
Speaker 1: is true. I hope, I hope you did day testa
Speaker 1: tomstand and she left him to go film Creed, Because
Speaker 1: what a ludicrous thing to be upset about, Like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: good call by you. Yeah. I just if you if
Speaker 1: you go to a bar and you're just going, oh,
Speaker 1: and you make noises, I don't trust anything that's coming
Speaker 1: out of your mouth after that. I think it's all lies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: m like what happened to you today? Everything? Okay? They
Speaker 1: got they got like big movies coming out every weekend
Speaker 1: this month, which is the first time I can remember that.
Speaker 1: Like Scream six is next week, Shazam to the week
Speaker 1: after john Wick four. We just need a five and
Speaker 1: we would have the whole thing. Yeah, you would have
Speaker 1: to dungeons and dragons on her amongst thieves. I don't
Speaker 1: among fee's rather March thirty first, which I don't know
Speaker 1: how that one's gonna do. But yeah, I'm very listen,
Speaker 1: I'm very excited. Why is this dude called me? Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm very excited for I got to get off my chest. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, if you can get me back in contact
Speaker 1: with Tessa. She left me to du create three two
Speaker 1: man and she never came back. She never came back.
Speaker 1: But now completely forget Oh, I love that. I'm loving
Speaker 1: you look for the past. From like basically two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine up until two twenty, the blockbuster lane has
Speaker 1: been filled almost exclusively with MCU And I'm not knocking
Speaker 1: at at all. I had a fucking great time last
Speaker 1: decade watching the book that was the MCU, like Unfold
Speaker 1: on Tell on the movie screen. So this isn't me
Speaker 1: complaining about that. But as someone who's an actor, who's
Speaker 1: an entertainer, who does movie like film and TV and
Speaker 1: have loved this medium since I was a child, I
Speaker 1: am loving the reemergence of the original summer blockbuster like
Speaker 1: when we were kids, when like Independence Day was a blockbuster,
Speaker 1: and like Men in Black basically Will Smith and then
Speaker 1: he or like even like Liar Liar being a blockbuster
Speaker 1: movie kind of like or Jaws. Like I'm loving that
Speaker 1: life their own genre of Yeah, there's the Will Smith movie,
Speaker 1: there's Jim Carrey movie, there's a Bruce Willis movie. Those
Speaker 1: were their own genres. They were their own genres, and
Speaker 1: and I'm love it. I love that Top Gun was
Speaker 1: fucking like a big movie last year. Like I love
Speaker 1: that Create three is a big movie right now. Like
Speaker 1: I love that these non MCU movies are coming back
Speaker 1: to the theaters and saying we are putting asses and
Speaker 1: seats again. And it's a pretty it's a pretty dope
Speaker 1: thing that I hope continues. So I'm excited before this
Speaker 1: this year of movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it does feel
Speaker 1: like we've been like I've had this sense that, like
Speaker 1: some some movies over the past couple of years have
Speaker 1: done better than they would have otherwise because there was
Speaker 1: just nothing else like coming out for four weeks like that.
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody was scared of Avatars, so they
Speaker 1: just like didn't release that much after Avatar came out.
Speaker 1: But it's it's not like Hollywood to leave money on
Speaker 1: the table. But I guess, I guess, you know, film
Speaker 1: productions are so you know, they take so long. You
Speaker 1: have to be green lighting these things so far in
Speaker 1: advance that I do feel like they've probably recognized that
Speaker 1: and started ramping up production, but we're just we're just
Speaker 1: now seeing it. I feel like there used to be
Speaker 1: a box office battle that you actually didn't know who
Speaker 1: was gonna win. Back in the day, you're like, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: these two movies. I mean a lot half the time
Speaker 1: it was two similar movies coming out, and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: why is this happening? Two movies about bugs? Do we
Speaker 1: need this many movies about bugs? But yeah, it was
Speaker 1: you never knew which one was gonna win, and it
Speaker 1: was really exciting to watch. And now you just go knowing, Okay,
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna see this movie. No one's gonna see this movie,
Speaker 1: and that sucks. I want more movies like that one,
Speaker 1: but no one's seeing Yeah. Yeah, I think they should
Speaker 1: release two movies about planet destroying asteroids every weekend. Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: for in perpetuity. That's my Well, we're the two bug movies.
Speaker 1: A Bug's Life, I mean, oh oh, oh, okay, got it,
Speaker 1: aunt tu and ants and ants of course. But I
Speaker 1: just I just read something because I'm so invested in
Speaker 1: like those dual movies where they always have the same
Speaker 1: premise coming out within like a month of each other
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, and that one was truly out of spite.
Speaker 1: I just found out that Bug's Life and Ants. It
Speaker 1: was like a director from Disney went to make Ants
Speaker 1: and was like, well, they're making a movie about bugs,
Speaker 1: somebody get me a script, and then they made one. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like also Win No Strengths Attached and Friends with
Speaker 1: Defense came out. This is Zach, same fucking movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they exist in my brain as the same movie, like
Speaker 1: they are the same movie. Yeah, you could spice them together.
Speaker 1: I feel like you could. Just a lot of no
Speaker 1: strings in those films, neither one one. All right, that's
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