Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three h four,
Speaker 1: Episode four of Daily Like Guys Day production of iHeart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's share consciousness. And it is Friday, September fifteenth day,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: What do we have some national days?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the first of us, the
Speaker 2: birthday of two Princes, Harry and Miles. That's It's National
Speaker 2: double Cheeseburger Day. It's National Online Learning Day. It's National
Speaker 2: Neo natal Day birthday Harry than exactly and I take
Speaker 2: that as meat too, National Linguini Day, National Tackle Kids
Speaker 2: Cancer Day, there's a lot, Tradesman Day, Shout out the Trades,
Speaker 2: National Cheese Toast Day, National felt at Day. Pow am
Speaker 2: I reck.
Speaker 1: They're trying to overshadow you with all these.
Speaker 2: I think that's the Yeah, it's it's a lot. It's
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, am I supposed to celebrate you and National
Speaker 1: Felt Hat Day on the same at the same time.
Speaker 1: You know, my heart is only so big.
Speaker 2: Where a felt birthday?
Speaker 1: Hat?
Speaker 2: How you doing man?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you doing anything? How you doing man?
Speaker 2: How you doing man? Are you doing anything special? Though
Speaker 2: for your for your birthday, I'm notoriously like not, I
Speaker 2: don't like I don't like attention on myself, like in
Speaker 2: a like in a way that I have to plan
Speaker 2: it kind of thing. Yeah, so when it's up to me,
Speaker 2: I'm really fine with just like doing nothing. But her
Speaker 2: majesty was like, you gotta do something. So I was like,
Speaker 2: I'll maybe have dinner or something like that. But anyway,
Speaker 2: it's such a dinner. Such an Earth sign of you? Yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: Are you an Earth sign?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what the things are because, uh,
Speaker 2: the guy's child is an Aquarius and I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's gotta be water and they're her. He's like, nah,
Speaker 2: it ain't. And I'm like, but it's got aqua in
Speaker 2: the fucking name. Like none of this should makes sense.
Speaker 2: So that's when like my shit is only limited to
Speaker 2: knowing like what time of year, what season we are?
Speaker 2: Thank you? Back up? Aquarius is air.
Speaker 1: T and that is an airy sound. Yeah, well, my name,
Speaker 1: enough about your birthday.
Speaker 2: Move on.
Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien aka NASA has discovered a
Speaker 1: planet in space. Now let's go, baby, it's got a
Speaker 1: water ocean. Its air is filled with farts, and it's
Speaker 1: bigger than Earth. Now let's go, baby, it's got a
Speaker 1: water ocean. It takes one hundred years for it's late
Speaker 1: to get here, but baby, if we make it, we
Speaker 1: can breathe a fart air.
Speaker 2: So let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go swim the water ocean with me. That is
Speaker 1: courtesy a blinky heck talking about that water ocean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: NASA discovery of a planet. They can't stop talking about
Speaker 1: how it's got a water ocean.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I tell my coworkers one time that I'm going to
Speaker 1: the Atlantic water ocean on vacation, and they accused me
Speaker 1: of sounding like a robot. But I guess NASA can
Speaker 1: get away with it. Must be nice NASA.
Speaker 2: When I saw that thing where it's like to the
Speaker 2: tune of Kylie Minorg's locomotion, I was like, I know that. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't know. I don't know. I'm but I'm guessing
Speaker 2: the melody matches up, So I think we're good. I
Speaker 2: think so. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 1: the birthday boy, mister Miles Grass.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, as Miles Gray aka, you gotta
Speaker 2: stump them Marling, kill them all here in the north
Speaker 2: the East. You gotta sprayed them all. We've been a
Speaker 2: girl until they are deceased. Don't need no prey your
Speaker 2: ration till then nation has got rid of these. Let's
Speaker 2: get exterminate and lantern flies invasive species. Okay, shut out
Speaker 2: to no clue for that Mary J. Blige inspired family affair,
Speaker 2: because I didn't know about how New Yorkers are all
Speaker 2: like obligated to stump the shit out of lantern flies.
Speaker 1: And mission yeah, mission of murder, walking around the city
Speaker 1: with murder in their hearts, like armed with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta got to keep that thing on your hip.
Speaker 2: So shout out to the people who are doing their
Speaker 2: best to keep the invasive species out yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined by
Speaker 1: a very funny comedian you've seen on places like their
Speaker 1: stand up special Gentleman Elf on Netflix. Internet Flickers I
Speaker 1: believe is the full name. Is that because of flicker Flicker,
Speaker 1: they flicker like what. I don't know anyways, their comedy
Speaker 1: has hundreds of millions of views on YouTube. Their stand
Speaker 1: up has been described as flick silly, brilliant. I watched
Speaker 1: the specials that very much so their effortless charm let
Speaker 1: them get away with murder is another quote, although their
Speaker 1: bio firmly states they've not cashed in the getaway with
Speaker 1: murdered chip you maybe.
Speaker 2: You should try it out as far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. They have not gone ahead and murdered.
Speaker 3: Except with those lantern flies.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Please welcome to the show, Dan, guys.
Speaker 3: Hi, let me tell you what. First of all, I've
Speaker 3: just met you. I feel like and I love you're
Speaker 3: bringing kind of old school morning radio DJ energy to
Speaker 3: this to this experience, like the way you guys are hype.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to I got to catch up. I just
Speaker 3: noticed today my coffee was decaf, which is very disappointing.
Speaker 2: Oh do you buy decaf? Intentionally?
Speaker 3: I forgot it existed, so I forgot to read about.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was just like coffee, and then I was like, ah,
Speaker 3: this is.
Speaker 2: The process of even decaffeinating, Like isn't it naturally there?
Speaker 2: Or like it's not like it's like some synthetic. I
Speaker 2: don't know why I'm asking people who don't even indulge
Speaker 2: in it. So how do they decaf in a coff.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's just some some manner of horticulture. Horticultural
Speaker 1: magician figured it out, I had.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh wow, coming through we're looking at the same
Speaker 2: Google thing right now. Yeah, liquid to dissolve and remove
Speaker 2: the caffeine in one of four ways. Okay, wow, all right,
Speaker 2: there it is. I had the thought this morning. Am
Speaker 2: I secretly drinking decaf because I felt very tired even
Speaker 2: after I drank a little bit of coffee. But it
Speaker 2: eventually hit I'm here, I'm up, I'm ready, I'm up.
Speaker 2: I'm up.
Speaker 1: To quote Biggie at the beginning of California, there it is.
Speaker 2: Whoa Cali? Great acting from Christopher's the best act thing
Speaker 2: we've ever we've ever heard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where where are you coming to us from?
Speaker 3: I am coming to you from Brooklyn, New York City.
Speaker 1: All right, so you're engaged in the war on the line,
Speaker 1: I am, And.
Speaker 3: It hurts my heart. They're very beautiful, these lanterns.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you?
Speaker 2: Are you? Are you doing your duty as a Northeasterner too?
Speaker 3: A lot of times I am. I am just squashing
Speaker 3: them when I see them. But I gotta admit sometimes
Speaker 3: I just see them and I do let them live, right.
Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, like, you're not invading my space. So
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just feel it's rich of us as human beings
Speaker 3: to call them an invasive species.
Speaker 2: Do you think they're not supposed to be here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially started in Africa and we were all over
Speaker 1: the fucking place. Now is anybody saying that we're invasive?
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe a conversation on the continent of
Speaker 1: North America.
Speaker 2: Probably these fucking invasive species over here. Fuck? Sorry, sorry, sorry, Look,
Speaker 2: my mom immigrated here. My dad's family got a weird
Speaker 2: right over here for a work exchange thing that didn't
Speaker 2: work out. Huh. I think it's called slave work training.
Speaker 2: That's how the state of Florida.
Speaker 1: Yeah, on the job training. All right, Dan, we're thrilled
Speaker 1: to have you. We're going to get to know you
Speaker 1: a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going
Speaker 1: to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're
Speaker 1: talking about. We're talking about we're going to touch base
Speaker 1: with the out of touch Billy's, the silly Billy billionaires.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about Bill Maher bringing his terrible TV show
Speaker 1: back to air despite the strike, A new a new
Speaker 1: technology in the realm of caffeation, where we've got new
Speaker 1: caffeination technology, caffeinated cup of noodles or cup noodles, yeah,
Speaker 1: which I've been calling it cupo noodles. I did not
Speaker 1: notice they dropped the O in nineteen ninety three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it took me thirty years. I noticed it on this
Speaker 1: morning's doc.
Speaker 2: No One says. I mean it's funny because it's the
Speaker 2: original jazz Japanese product has always been called cup noodle,
Speaker 2: and then they're like, we got to adapt that for
Speaker 2: American people. It's like, yeah, it's a cup of noodles.
Speaker 2: And then but I think from this point forward people
Speaker 2: always call it a cup of noodles anyway, because you know,
Speaker 2: they don't we don't read things.
Speaker 1: I thought it was Irish. I thought it was cup
Speaker 1: of noodles with a parenthesy or a postphe. We might
Speaker 1: even talk about the iPhone twelve being too radioactive for France.
Speaker 1: Great news for me, who's been carrying an iPhone the
Speaker 1: same past three years.
Speaker 2: I mean it's perfect timing to be like, all right,
Speaker 2: I guess I get the new one since mine is radioactive. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what the fuck? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Anyways, all of that plenty more but first DM, we
Speaker 1: do like to ask our guests, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, okay, what is something for my search history?
Speaker 3: The two most recent I'm not sure if this paints
Speaker 3: me as I would like to be seen, but the
Speaker 3: two most recent our aviation recipe. I was making cocktails
Speaker 3: at home, okay, and I can tell you more about
Speaker 3: that in a minute. And tattoo infection. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 3: You got tattoo, I got some ink. This is the freshest. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, we got some stuff going on. Have Do
Speaker 3: you guys have tattoos?
Speaker 2: I have one? Yes, that I seventeen years ago and okay,
Speaker 2: still looks so sad.
Speaker 3: Now you probably don't know about second skin, which is
Speaker 3: a type of like bandage you can put on top.
Speaker 3: It's clear and it's sticky on one side. It goes
Speaker 3: right over the tattoo. It smooths over your skin and
Speaker 3: you're meant to leave it there for a minute, and
Speaker 3: you know it helps it heal whatever. I think my
Speaker 3: skin had a reaction to the adhesive of the second
Speaker 3: skin and it looks gnarly. But my Google search revealed
Speaker 3: as I suspected, I don't have a fever, it's not
Speaker 3: really painful, et cetera. I think it's going to be fine.
Speaker 1: It's like somebody it's like irritated lightly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, I wish I could show you.
Speaker 2: But is it to the point where like you're worried
Speaker 2: about the tattoo itself? Oh yeah, wow yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, the tattoo itself seems to be fine. It's
Speaker 3: just kind of flaky, you know how it gets. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but you know, I tend to think every every injury,
Speaker 3: every state is permanent. That's a problem I have. I
Speaker 3: was like, I don't like how it looks. This is
Speaker 3: it forever?
Speaker 1: Now I've got when I'm tired, I'm like, maybe this
Speaker 1: is it.
Speaker 3: I guess this is Yeah, Miles, I'm very curious about
Speaker 3: your seventeen year old tattoo. What is it?
Speaker 1: It is of my favorite football club in London, Arsenal.
Speaker 2: And I got it. Folks, never go get matching or
Speaker 2: never go get tattoos with a romantic partner, because it
Speaker 2: it does somehow begin some kind of countdown sequence to.
Speaker 1: Oh really, I didn't know that. I didn't know it
Speaker 1: was one half of oh well, like we both went.
Speaker 2: We both went, and I was like this was an
Speaker 2: anticipation of going to London. I was like, oh my,
Speaker 2: get it, like like I've been such a fan for
Speaker 2: years before that, and I got it, and the person
Speaker 2: I was dating at the time got like some other
Speaker 2: tattoo in a similar location, but we both went to
Speaker 2: the same artists and it was this whole thing. Most
Speaker 2: of the time people say, don't get matching tattoos. That's
Speaker 2: usually like that can be like superstitious. I've seen that
Speaker 2: from I guess my own friend circle. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: got it. And it's now just dude to sun and
Speaker 2: just kind of like a lot of motion in my wrist.
Speaker 2: It's just getting a little like blurry. I feel like
Speaker 2: I have glaucoma when I look at it, So you know,
Speaker 2: it might might need a bit of a touch up,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that happens to all tattoos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly, especially with stuff with like finer lines
Speaker 2: and things like that.
Speaker 3: You kind of looked out in that it does not
Speaker 3: seem like one half of a love tattoo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like half a heart when it's like, oh
Speaker 2: the other half, I'm like, I don't know, man. But yeah,
Speaker 2: the reason when you've talked about your tattoo infection thing.
Speaker 2: I thought there were like a bunch of viral tweets
Speaker 2: over like the last two weeks of people's horribly maintained
Speaker 2: fresh tattoos. Oh, someone had like letters like tattooed and
Speaker 2: they didn't take care of it, and like the skin
Speaker 2: just started like peeling off as if it was like
Speaker 2: a stencil. Oh no, like were you actually putting butter
Speaker 2: on it and like rubbing it was anyway, So I
Speaker 2: got worried for a second that it was something on
Speaker 2: that scale.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, I think it's it's ultimately. Okay, quick
Speaker 3: google and just check it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's not forever. And wait, what's the aviation?
Speaker 3: So aviation is a gin cocktail. And now that I
Speaker 3: have googled it and made it many times, I can
Speaker 3: tell you exactly how to make it. Where you're looking
Speaker 3: at two ounces of gin, three fourth ounce of lemon juice,
Speaker 3: one half ounce of Marichino liqueur, oh quarter ounce of
Speaker 3: cremee de violette, which gives it a nice little purple
Speaker 3: color and garnish with a cherry And there you go,
Speaker 3: gorgeous little gin drink.
Speaker 2: Wait is that is that? Because of isn't Ryan Reynolds's
Speaker 2: gin company called Aviation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, I gotta admit it's it's subpar
Speaker 3: gin and an aviation. There are better gins to have
Speaker 3: in your aviation.
Speaker 2: Oh So it's just like a term that's used around gin,
Speaker 2: so it made sense to brand it as Aviation. It's
Speaker 2: not like it comes from this specific company or something.
Speaker 3: No, No, I think he. I think it's a cocktail
Speaker 3: that exists. And then he must have just named his
Speaker 3: gym company that I don't know. I don't know a
Speaker 3: lot about his moves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not many people do. Not many people do, but
Speaker 2: we buy the stuff anyway.
Speaker 1: I got a couple unofficial biographies that can recommend for you.
Speaker 2: Guys on YouTube. These are really grainy, man.
Speaker 1: There's something just like so classy feeling about the early
Speaker 1: days of commercial like that that it reminds me of
Speaker 1: like that all the pictures in the like twa lounge
Speaker 1: or you know, like just old nineteen fifty celebrities flying
Speaker 1: around on like giant prop jets.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like that's That's what I'm feeling with the
Speaker 1: aviation gins. Yeah, when they didn't have seat belts or
Speaker 1: anything either.
Speaker 3: Nah, why you're smoking smoking in the sky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's like that restaurant in LA that does that,
Speaker 2: where like they they have like one of those old
Speaker 2: airliners that they like rehabbed. Yeah, you can do like
Speaker 2: the TWA experience.
Speaker 1: It was originally called aviation because that was the customary
Speaker 1: thing to make for your pilot after takeoff. You wanted
Speaker 1: to make it, get him a.
Speaker 2: Couple Wait, really, i'd believe that.
Speaker 3: I'm believing it as well.
Speaker 2: You really had a narration your face is w No.
Speaker 3: You had the narration voice of like just reading straight
Speaker 3: off Wikipedia.
Speaker 1: I absolutely believed it flies better when he's a little
Speaker 1: bit drunk when yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: The fifties anything. I would believe anything. It's like, give
Speaker 3: him that drink, let him goose a couple of stewardesses.
Speaker 2: That's right, what's wrong a little goosen? Please use the
Speaker 2: technical term because that's a little too euphemistic.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know that I knew that term until
Speaker 3: just right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what what's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 3: Overrated? Capitalism? We know it. Everybody was tired of living
Speaker 3: in this system.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're huge fans, but okay, tell us what's wrong
Speaker 1: with capitalism? I guess I don't know.
Speaker 3: Just the way I guess it exploits human beings, animals.
Speaker 3: Nature is destroying the planet is grinding us, all, crushing
Speaker 3: us all. Yeah, completely anti democratic, unequal. Now listen, do
Speaker 3: I have a solution? Not quite, not exactly. I'm half there.
Speaker 3: I'll tell I will tell you what's.
Speaker 1: Rave away from it is I think a solution.
Speaker 2: It is capitalism. Yes, then don't do that.
Speaker 1: Giving me hip skin cancer presumably from my IPHUND twelve.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, you gotta do what I did. You got to
Speaker 3: skip from the ten ten straight to the fourteen. You
Speaker 3: got to get on your ex's family plan. Wow, and
Speaker 3: ingratiate yourself to her parents and just stay there.
Speaker 1: What a ten grade? I mean, I'm about to go
Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen, but maybe maybe I should wait. That's
Speaker 1: it's three years feels like a long time to wait.
Speaker 1: And I was kind of taking pride in the fact
Speaker 1: that I've waited so long to upgrade. And it turns
Speaker 1: out the only thing that that has got me is
Speaker 1: excess radiation.
Speaker 3: Okay, counterpoint, stay with it longer, more radiation. What powers
Speaker 3: might you accrue?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 3: What cool things might happen?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a lot of unwanted body hair, like
Speaker 2: on your hand, like from where your pocket is.
Speaker 1: Probably it's a real tuft of hair here that smoke
Speaker 1: away where my case just like a perfect rectangle of
Speaker 1: no hair because oh right, like everything else is hairy,
Speaker 1: but just a yeah, weird, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3: That's why you'll get your matching toe too.
Speaker 1: A little bit. I know, I am wondering on the
Speaker 1: tattoo thing. Is forty three too old to get your first?
Speaker 3: No, No, not at all. That's a perfect time. Actually,
Speaker 3: you've lived so much life, you know what you like,
Speaker 3: your body's in the second half quite frankly, like you're
Speaker 3: you're committing, but not for so long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it'll exactly less.
Speaker 2: It'll look good in like twenty years still, you know,
Speaker 2: right like versus like a lot of tattoos you get
Speaker 2: when you're young and then you start being like, I
Speaker 2: gotta kind of maintain some of these or they just
Speaker 2: end up looking like sail or energy. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: What's I think what's exciting about that is you could
Speaker 3: go really big and bold for your first tattoo. I
Speaker 3: mean I started at eighteen, I was getting little tiny stuff,
Speaker 3: piecing it together, you know, little stickery type of stuff.
Speaker 3: You could just go, I'm going full sleeve. I'm getting
Speaker 3: the chest tattooed. Whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ben Affleck, Ben Affleck, phoenix backtat, phoenix backtap.
Speaker 1: Have you seen that, Dan, I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't think I have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ben Affleck has the wildest phoenix back tattoo. Here.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'll bring it up.
Speaker 1: So have you ever seen the cover or the movie
Speaker 1: poster for the film Red Dragon?
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I was about to say I couldn't
Speaker 3: imagine that it would be good but terrible. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's not great, but it is better than I thought
Speaker 3: it might be.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's cracking a little bit in places
Speaker 1: for some reason. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that part of the design.
Speaker 2: I think there must be some yeah, because it seems
Speaker 2: like consistently going through. But hey, look, he's a phoenix
Speaker 2: rising from the ashes.
Speaker 3: Listen. I'm I'm body positive, and I will say there's
Speaker 3: something about that tattoo that really accentuates the muffin top.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's friend. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Also, does making fun of people's tattoos count as being
Speaker 1: not body positive?
Speaker 3: Listen? I think now that it's I think, at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, all tattoos and I have a
Speaker 3: bunch actually look kind of stupid. Like they're all kind
Speaker 3: of bad. There's really no such thing as like a
Speaker 3: great tattoo. They're still fun to get, I think, and
Speaker 3: it's like a fun way to decorate your body. But
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I think we gotta make fun of tattoos.
Speaker 3: You make tattoos, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, not to say that I mean bad, but
Speaker 1: let's have fun. We look, this is going to be flaky.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna show you my most recent tattoo. I
Speaker 3: got this in my forties. You guys. It looks like
Speaker 3: it came looks like I'm a huge fan of jam bands,
Speaker 3: and I got it in the nineties when I was
Speaker 3: like nineteen. I just let the artists do what he wanted.
Speaker 3: And then I was like, eh, I don't love it.
Speaker 3: It's brand new. It's a brand new damn this this
Speaker 3: mushroom here.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, there you go.
Speaker 1: Mushrooms are definitely having a moment.
Speaker 2: Are they're having a moment? For sure?
Speaker 3: Mushrooms are all right, But there's so many more, let's say,
Speaker 3: beautiful mushrooms than this jam band space age, whatever is
Speaker 3: going on. Yeah, black light poster, thank you. And it's
Speaker 3: like is this my personality? Not really, but people are
Speaker 3: going to think so now and whatever.
Speaker 1: You have to adopt a mushroomy kind of yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean to be fair, I have weaned myself off
Speaker 3: anti depressants. That is my mental health care plan is
Speaker 3: to just do mushrooms like every three months in the wood.
Speaker 2: There you go, yeah, yeah, there are benefits. There are
Speaker 2: proven benefits. So you're not you're not far off. You're
Speaker 2: not off.
Speaker 3: You guys micro dosing, you macro dosing.
Speaker 2: I do it all. Yeah, I do it all micro
Speaker 2: to macro, but mostly micro because that's been the I
Speaker 2: I yeah, it's been like wonderful. But even like for
Speaker 2: like socially on the weekends, like where I used to
Speaker 2: maybe like want to drink a time or like do
Speaker 2: shit like that.
Speaker 1: I found just a little bit of psilocybin gets me vibe.
Speaker 3: Oh I like that idea. I've never I have never
Speaker 3: experienced it in that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like knocker before beer, never fear, little psilocybin gets
Speaker 1: you back.
Speaker 2: You know, there you go, but you don't go quite.
Speaker 2: You go a little bit over, you know, like what
Speaker 2: a microdose would be, but not enough to go like
Speaker 2: you know, asking like is this forever?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did not get to it for this is
Speaker 3: is this forever? Place? But last time that I did mushrooms,
Speaker 3: like a month or so ago, I definitely found myself
Speaker 3: wrapped in my hammock in the woods, weeping, but in
Speaker 3: a cleansing way, like an inside shower, love it cry
Speaker 3: and then and then kind of emerged from the hammock
Speaker 3: as if from a womb reborn into the world, which
Speaker 3: is ray.
Speaker 1: It's one of the one of the things that capitalism
Speaker 1: doesn't afford us is like that that we're probably missing
Speaker 1: most as people, is just like a good cry wrap
Speaker 1: in the woods.
Speaker 2: I feel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably before everyone was keeping track of your time
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, people were spending you know, twenty
Speaker 1: percent of their time just weeping.
Speaker 2: Just get it.
Speaker 3: So what are you saying, should I start a wellness
Speaker 3: retreat in the woods? I'm doing it. I'm charging nine
Speaker 3: hundred nine ninety Yeah exactly. Just capitalism just immediately eats everything.
Speaker 2: Right, right right, And they're like, yeah, they got the mushroom.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I am committed to the lifestyle.
Speaker 2: Now. Yeah, Look, you could you could easily grift with
Speaker 2: that tattoo for sure, over someone who's a little overly trusting.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I don't even remember if we have we
Speaker 1: done underrated yet?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Oh we have not.
Speaker 1: That's how much this overrated and underrated and search history
Speaker 1: has been. I forget where we are. What is dan
Speaker 1: something you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Okay, this is something I firmly believe. I'm very interested
Speaker 3: in your take on it. Aging is under Oh I think?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, great, great, it's actually secretly the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I've done this thing. Where As I approach forty,
Speaker 2: I just turned thirty nine. As I approach forty, I'm
Speaker 2: like always questioning like do I feel too young for
Speaker 2: my measurable age? Like I've had this thing in my
Speaker 2: mind where I was like I thought like I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be all fucking dead and shit, but more like, yeah,
Speaker 2: not feel like I'm still very like exuberant and have
Speaker 2: like that sort of same like like appetite for life
Speaker 2: that I did ten years ago. And then along with that,
Speaker 2: like the calm that comes with life experience and being
Speaker 2: able to be honest about your feelings and you know,
Speaker 2: doing that kind of self work and becoming more self
Speaker 2: aware gives me such a greater appreciation for like how
Speaker 2: I live than I ever could when I was like
Speaker 2: completely care free in my twenties. So yeah, I've I've
Speaker 2: only loved the progression of time, at least from my
Speaker 2: corporal experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is absolutely Where do you weigh
Speaker 3: in on this?
Speaker 1: Jack? I Yeah, I talk about this a lot that
Speaker 1: like physically, you kind of know how to do stuff
Speaker 1: more like weirdly, so like I actually feel like I'm
Speaker 1: getting better, Like they're definitely the aches and pains, but
Speaker 1: like I'm getting better at like tennis, even though I
Speaker 1: don't like play much tennis, Like I just like know
Speaker 1: how to do stuff with my hands better. Mentally, you
Speaker 1: know how to you know what you like, get to
Speaker 1: read books like they, I mean they've done studies like measurably,
Speaker 1: happiness goes up as you as you age.
Speaker 2: But there I think.
Speaker 1: I think capitalism likes to likes the myth that you're
Speaker 1: you know, you need something, you got to need to
Speaker 1: like live it up as a youth because this is
Speaker 1: as good as it gets, and likes to keep us
Speaker 1: frenzied and stupid in our youth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what. Yeah, yeah, that's why I have like
Speaker 2: this per sort of perceptual thing I have to get
Speaker 2: over where I'm like, oh, I'm ex age, like I
Speaker 2: should wear more long pants or something rather than shorts
Speaker 2: or like sandals. And I'm like, I'm just gonna continue
Speaker 2: like living in my happiness no matter what, however old
Speaker 2: I am on paper. But it is weird that like
Speaker 2: all the time, I'm like, do I am I like
Speaker 2: acting right for my age? But I'm like, what the
Speaker 2: fuck concept am I even trying to subscribe to here,
Speaker 2: like in terms rather than just being like it's some
Speaker 2: life is something you experience, and the thing that you
Speaker 2: have to center is like your own like happiness and
Speaker 2: well being and don't be a piece of shit to
Speaker 2: other people. And as long as you're doing that, were
Speaker 2: your fucking basketball sorts and sandals to Trader Joe's, They're
Speaker 2: gonna say.
Speaker 3: The gen zs the youngers. I don't know what that
Speaker 3: next level younger is. They might make fun of, they
Speaker 3: might make fun of the middle aged man in his shorts.
Speaker 2: At the Trader jokes they do, and they do.
Speaker 3: That's their right exactly, and I and.
Speaker 2: To me, I'm like it's like part of nature. And
Speaker 2: I'm like, thank you, young ones for chirping at me,
Speaker 2: like this motherfucker.
Speaker 1: Washed this shit, and I'm like, thank you. Especially I'm comfortable.
Speaker 1: I was just talking about I think that there's an
Speaker 1: interesting possibility that, like, you know, there's this thing called
Speaker 1: the Flint effect that says that each subsequent generation is
Speaker 1: smarter than the one that comes before it. They're like
Speaker 1: a little bit faster. Old people seem slow because they
Speaker 1: are a little bit slower because they're from like a
Speaker 1: slower generation where thing everything was slower. So maybe that's
Speaker 1: why it like looks to be not as fun because
Speaker 1: like things are being written, like you know, the thinking,
Speaker 1: and like a lot of the communication is being done
Speaker 1: by young people. But as long as you're okay with
Speaker 1: that and you're not like going kicking and screaming and
Speaker 1: being like fuck you, you're dumber than me, you're wrong.
Speaker 1: It is the kids that are wrong, then, like in
Speaker 1: terms of your actual happiness, Like, as long as you're
Speaker 1: willing to admit like kids are smart and like they'll
Speaker 1: they'll be fine without you, Yeah, they'll do better without you,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna be all right. Yeah, And it actually
Speaker 1: does living your life actually does get easier and more fun.
Speaker 3: It really does, and I'm realizing. I want to you
Speaker 3: a very quick antidote about my grandma, who has now passed.
Speaker 3: She passed at the age of ninety seven, but when
Speaker 3: she was about ninety five, she was an incredible role
Speaker 3: model for aging and staying vital and young. She had
Speaker 3: so many friends, she had more social plans than I do.
Speaker 3: And she lived in Tennessee. She lived alone, and I
Speaker 3: was visiting her after a gig. One time. I came
Speaker 3: back to her house pretty late. It was like, I
Speaker 3: don't know, maybe midnight. I think it was after midnight,
Speaker 3: and I walked in the front door and she greeted
Speaker 3: me at the door. She's like so tiny in her
Speaker 3: little long white nightgown. And I was like, oh, I'm sorry, Graham,
Speaker 3: did I wake you up? And she was like no,
Speaker 3: I was just watching Breaking Bad. She shuffled back and
Speaker 3: we stayed up to like two to morning, just watching
Speaker 3: Breaking Bad. Like she loved that shit. And that was
Speaker 3: like when she was ninety five years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah you can because you don't have a bedtime, you
Speaker 1: can watch Yeah, who's gonna tell me?
Speaker 2: Who's gonna check me.
Speaker 3: I she was both scandalized and probably had a little
Speaker 3: crush on Walter White.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, no, I can't get I get that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but yeah, and I think to your point, shack of
Speaker 2: like looking at older generations, like my concept of an
Speaker 2: older person would be like my grandparents who grew lived
Speaker 2: a very difficult life being born in like the late
Speaker 2: twenties thirties, and you're like, damn, like you can you
Speaker 2: can just tell what that life did to them, and
Speaker 2: you can see how technology sort of lightens that physical
Speaker 2: burden because people look like are looking younger and younger
Speaker 2: as they age, just because of our all of our
Speaker 2: technological advancements. But yeah, to that end, like I would
Speaker 2: always be like, oh, man, like, am I gonna have
Speaker 2: to just wear like leather woven sandals and walk wheels
Speaker 2: slow rather than just know figuring out what your own
Speaker 2: thing is and not having that sort of not having
Speaker 2: to be sort of lived comparatively and trying to make
Speaker 2: sense of that. Yeah, through comparison. I think that's big.
Speaker 1: And we are going to have to wear leather woven
Speaker 1: sandals and walk real slow.
Speaker 3: But you just have to That's great?
Speaker 1: Yeah, please, all right, Well let's take a quick break,
Speaker 1: and we'll come back and talk about some elderly folks
Speaker 1: who aren't doing so well with being out of touch.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back, and we got
Speaker 1: we got a new a new dispatch from the guy
Speaker 1: who told us that millennials wouldn't be broke if they
Speaker 1: didn't eat so much avocado toast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought I thought that guy just went into hiding,
Speaker 2: But he's back with a with an even shittier take.
Speaker 2: He basically, I'm just gonna plad this guy's clip. He's
Speaker 2: at a business conference and he's basically saying out loud
Speaker 2: the thing that most billionaire business owners are always thinking.
Speaker 4: I think the problem that we've had is that we've, yeah,
Speaker 4: we have people decided that they didn't really want to
Speaker 4: work so much anymore through COVID, and that has had
Speaker 4: a massive issue on productivity. You know, tradees have definitely
Speaker 4: pulled back on productivity. You know, they have been paid
Speaker 4: a lot to do not too much in the last
Speaker 4: few years. And we need to see that change. We
Speaker 4: need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump forty
Speaker 4: fifty percent in my way. We need to see pain
Speaker 4: in the economy. We need to remind people that they
Speaker 4: work for the employer, not the other way around. I mean,
Speaker 4: there is a there's been a systematic change where employees
Speaker 4: feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them as
Speaker 4: opposed to the other way around. So it's a dynamic
Speaker 4: that has to change.
Speaker 2: We've got so just like he goes on to say,
Speaker 2: we got to kill that, We got to kill that attitude.
Speaker 1: Like, I'm sorry, Wow, what I was wondering earlier you
Speaker 1: said something about trade ease and I was like, what
Speaker 1: is that?
Speaker 2: Trade? Trades people? Yeah, yeah, trade. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He seems cool and like he's in touch and just
Speaker 1: looking out for the common man.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What a monster. Holy shit. I mean, but this
Speaker 2: is the kind of thing we've seen this way of
Speaker 2: thinking play out in our own economy, like with the
Speaker 2: Federal Reserve as they try to quote tackle inflation, which
Speaker 2: is really diluting worker power and FED chair and private
Speaker 2: equity mogul Jerome Powell gave this very euphemistic description of
Speaker 2: how they intend to tackle inflation and when he said
Speaker 2: basically over the past few weeks, he said, fixing inflation
Speaker 2: will quote require a.
Speaker 1: Sustained period of blow trend growth and some softening of
Speaker 1: labor market conditions, and as he put it, quote by
Speaker 1: reducing hiring demand, that would give us a chance to
Speaker 1: get inflation down, get wages down, and then get inflation down.
Speaker 2: Wow. So he means people need to get kicked in
Speaker 2: the teeth in the labor market, so they'll take lower
Speaker 2: wages because the thinking here is that higher interest rates
Speaker 2: mean companies can borrow less and to still make profits,
Speaker 2: they have to lay people off, as we've seen this
Speaker 2: happen over the course of the year, and if more
Speaker 2: people are unemployed, then they can pay lower wages and
Speaker 2: then presumably lower the cost of their goods. Allegedly, that's
Speaker 2: the concept that they they point to, but all of
Speaker 2: the research shows that the wages are not driving inflation,
Speaker 2: despite every billionaire wanting to kind of keep this narrative going.
Speaker 2: It's like, we got to pay these people so much
Speaker 2: now that I don't know what to do except price
Speaker 2: gouge the customer. It's everybody knows it's supply chain issues,
Speaker 2: it's arising energy costs, a fucking housing crisis, and profit
Speaker 2: hoarding by corporations. That's what it is. Yeah, So we're
Speaker 2: just sort of caught in this like very like, are
Speaker 2: really trying to like say these things out loud. He's
Speaker 2: now that guy who just spoke Tim Gerner. He's like, ah,
Speaker 2: sorry about that. Didn't mean to kind of a hot
Speaker 2: take from me. It's just really he apologized for saying, wow,
Speaker 2: it's it's a very it's like kinda yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And also the thing about him, he's also a millennial,
Speaker 2: the avocado toast guy, so he was just trying to
Speaker 2: be like, as a millennial, that's figured it out to
Speaker 2: my fellow Millenni's layoff the avocado toast, will you mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I did not expect him to be Australian. I've seen
Speaker 3: the headlines. I've never heard him speak before. I didn't
Speaker 3: know exactly who he was. Australians generally are the most
Speaker 3: laid back, chill people, and I've been there a bunch.
Speaker 3: Their avocado toast is super expensive, but that's because in
Speaker 3: part they are actually paying their Like cafe workers make
Speaker 3: like twenty five dollars an hour. You don't tip over there.
Speaker 3: It's just not part of the system because for the
Speaker 3: most part, people are making a living wage. This guy,
Speaker 3: he's he's the antithesis of everything I know about Australians,
Speaker 3: that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the least chill azzie I know.
Speaker 3: I don't know why he can't just be vibin with
Speaker 3: some psilocybin.
Speaker 1: Yeahlicyb but everybody enough.
Speaker 2: I wonder what kind of revelation he would have on
Speaker 2: a mushroom trip, though, I.
Speaker 1: Wonder, like he is, I know a lot. There's like
Speaker 1: a lot of Silicon Valley people and people like that
Speaker 1: who do take psychedelics, and I think that they do
Speaker 1: show the limitation of that because it can be just
Speaker 1: like bent to whatever is of interest in your interests.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it can cure psychopathy or whatever's greed.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The story and ones like it always frustrate me
Speaker 1: because I will be like, it really seems like the
Speaker 1: reason prices are going up is because they're raising prices,
Speaker 1: and that feels bad because they're not raising people's wages
Speaker 1: to go with the prices. And then when they have
Speaker 1: to talk about the fact that they're raising the prices
Speaker 1: on the things we have to buy but not paying
Speaker 1: us anymore. When they talk about that, they say that
Speaker 1: it's actually we have it too good. Yeah, And when
Speaker 1: I say that, like everyone's like somebody will be come in,
Speaker 1: like in the discord or something. They'll be like, actually,
Speaker 1: I'm an economist, and your understanding of this is ass
Speaker 1: backwards and it's actually market forces that are like forcing
Speaker 1: this shit, like and I just I don't know, like
Speaker 1: maybe I'm missing some large piece of the puzzle, but
Speaker 1: it really feels like the whole idea of economics and
Speaker 1: all of this shit is just like noise that has
Speaker 1: been utilized to concentrate power and wealth in the hands
Speaker 1: of like a very few, and we have this thing
Speaker 1: where like now all of the economic indicators are telling
Speaker 1: us like things are good, guys, we should be happy,
Speaker 1: but nobody's happy because things aren't actually good for anyone
Speaker 1: except them, right, So it's it's just very frustrating. It
Speaker 1: feels like it's like an attack on like the very
Speaker 1: like I don't know they've done this thing, like whoa.
Speaker 1: Like capitalism is overrated in the sense that it's like
Speaker 1: not a good way to run the world, but I
Speaker 1: think it's underrated in how just like persistent and all
Speaker 1: encompassing and brilliant it is, and like this is just
Speaker 1: one of those ways that it like invades language and
Speaker 1: attacks meaning. You know, it attacks our ability to create
Speaker 1: meaning and even fucking like talk about what is happening
Speaker 1: around us right in a way that is really frustrating
Speaker 1: and deflating. And I think is the real reason that
Speaker 1: it's like so hard to get any sort of revolution
Speaker 1: like going is because it's just so fucking complicated and capitalism.
Speaker 1: You know, we can work hard, capitalism works harder. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad you brought up revolution. I didn't want
Speaker 3: to have to say it. Don't want to. I don't
Speaker 3: want to have to say it needs to be violent,
Speaker 3: but I will say it's all these people seem to
Speaker 3: respond to in terms I don't know that it has
Speaker 3: to be so complicated. What freaks me out and I'm
Speaker 3: taking this conversation completely sideways, but what freaks me out
Speaker 3: is how capitalism has kind of eaten our modes of
Speaker 3: communication or how I don't even this is these are
Speaker 3: new ideas and I'm saying them out loud for the
Speaker 3: first time. I'm just feeling empowered on this podcast where
Speaker 3: you know, we're all we're all hooked into the internet
Speaker 3: and we're not in control of that that can that
Speaker 3: can be censored and taken away from us at any time,
Speaker 3: I really think, Yeah, we got to get out there,
Speaker 3: we got to be we gotta get in the communities.
Speaker 3: We got to be talking to each other, coming up
Speaker 3: with alternate modes of communication, and we do actually have
Speaker 3: to get this revolution going.
Speaker 2: And we need to scare the fuck out of these people.
Speaker 2: But they're just going to be like, then I'll just
Speaker 2: go deeper into the core of the earth in my bunker.
Speaker 3: Absolutely No, they all have bunkers in New Zealand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Uh, But like this is just like this
Speaker 2: perspective of the ruling class, Like market forces are not right,
Speaker 2: Like this idea that like workers should be grateful that
Speaker 2: they're paid sub subsistence wages while they get to fuck
Speaker 2: off to a tropical island. No, that doesn't fucking square
Speaker 2: with me. And not a single one of these mutant
Speaker 2: fuck jobs would ever dare say that maybe they are
Speaker 2: the ones should take a hit to their fucking wages.
Speaker 2: Never do you.
Speaker 1: Think you're a million times better and like smarter than
Speaker 1: us because you have a million times more money than
Speaker 1: any any of us. Have you have all are a
Speaker 1: million times you know how to assemble this fucking automobile. Right,
Speaker 1: go ahead, ashole, get on the fucking line.
Speaker 2: You're gonna fuck up and hurt yourself because you know
Speaker 2: what the fuck you're doing, because you've you know, lacked
Speaker 2: your way up to the top, because of the class
Speaker 2: that you come from or the place you've were able
Speaker 2: to climb to. And I think that's what really a like,
Speaker 2: I think that's what's really fucked up, is that there's
Speaker 2: this continuation if you're just watching like CNN or some shit,
Speaker 2: where they're never gonna be like I mean, and maybe
Speaker 2: one maybe one like side commentator might be like, well,
Speaker 2: why don't CEOs make less? Like why why are we
Speaker 2: not asking someone who makes twenty five million dollars a year?
Speaker 2: Can they?
Speaker 1: They'll say that, but they'll treat it like it's a
Speaker 1: childish complaint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, exactly, And because the whole because what they're
Speaker 2: saying is the whole game is that you should aspire
Speaker 2: to get to that point. You don't want to stay
Speaker 2: at this low point because that's for that's like, that's
Speaker 2: the worst, and we're not interested in making the lives
Speaker 2: better for people who have to work like wage jobs
Speaker 2: or whatever. And it's just the Yeah, and I think
Speaker 2: that's the part that a lot of people they just
Speaker 2: feel that inherent unfairness of it all. And then you
Speaker 2: get people like Larry Summers who just like second that
Speaker 2: from like a tropical island, and he's like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like the workers need to like pipe down, like
Speaker 2: this is wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Uh, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll come back and talk about what a great comedian
Speaker 1: Bill Maher is and how much we want to seeing
Speaker 1: him just without the writers, without those writers getting in
Speaker 1: the way of his hilarious hot takes.
Speaker 5: We'll be right back, and we're back, and all right.
Speaker 1: So Bill Maher is feeling empowered by how Drew Barrymore
Speaker 1: brought her show back and everyone was just like, all right,
Speaker 1: it's cool, we're good. Oh wait, no, that didn't have
Speaker 1: really badly. He's like said some horrible shit about the
Speaker 1: writer's strike and like how writers demands are kookie, and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it received a bunch of criticism
Speaker 1: that he should have listened to, but instead I think
Speaker 1: he got his feelings hurt for being criticized, and is
Speaker 1: now was just like, well, fuck it, I'll do I'll
Speaker 1: do this show right without the writers because he said
Speaker 1: that he well, he's defending his decision by stating writers
Speaker 1: are not the only people with issues, problems and concerns.
Speaker 2: M M yeah, I like that. I think is he
Speaker 2: doing the same thing about just trying to swap out
Speaker 2: writers to be like I'm concerned about the people who
Speaker 2: are like working on the stage and things like that.
Speaker 2: You see there is a I mean, like you know,
Speaker 2: I know people that are Nayatzi who are in solidarity
Speaker 2: with SAG and the WGA, and I know that that
Speaker 2: labor action works. Yeah, this is how but this is
Speaker 2: also like the very convenient like rationale. They used to
Speaker 2: be like, well, I do care about people, these other
Speaker 2: people and and I'm not trying to undermine what's happening
Speaker 2: with these other labor unions. But we did we see it, Bill,
Speaker 2: we see what see what you're doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I asked Zi Gang, like some brave
Speaker 1: Zi Gang member, watch watch this what watch what it
Speaker 1: looks like? Like I can't do it. I can't watch
Speaker 1: his show when he comes back.
Speaker 2: Writers, I didn't even want.
Speaker 3: He had a show anymore, to be honest, it's so bad.
Speaker 1: It's so fucking bad. But the only time you like
Speaker 1: get an unguarded moment from him is like suddenly he'll
Speaker 1: like get defense and be like, oh, come on, why
Speaker 1: are you guys laughing? I mean really like that's like
Speaker 1: his whole energy. So like I'm just what the fuck
Speaker 1: is that show going to be? I mean, it's gonna
Speaker 1: probably be like scab writers, But like, also, he's just
Speaker 1: so aggressively unfunny and shitty.
Speaker 3: He's he's been just smarming and mugging and smirking at
Speaker 3: the camera for years, So he can keep doing that
Speaker 3: without writers, for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can probably just Yeah, I feel like the
Speaker 2: whole show could just be him scoffing at like.
Speaker 3: Just little noises coming out of him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Really wages, Oh kooky Healthcare. The WGA called them a
Speaker 1: disappointing because they apparently had higher expectations for Bill Maher
Speaker 1: than the rest of the world, but said that mar
Speaker 1: is a WGA member and therefore cannot perform any writing
Speaker 1: services himself. So he's going to He's not even gonna
Speaker 1: be able to write his own jokes. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to watch him try and act like he's making the
Speaker 1: stuff up off the off the cuff, right.
Speaker 2: I like how he's like I won't do a monologue, okay,
Speaker 2: to honor the spirit of the strike, because I couldn't
Speaker 2: improvise one if I fucking tried. But I wonder, I
Speaker 2: wonder do you think he's like secretly like, fuck man,
Speaker 2: get some scabs in here, or do you think his
Speaker 2: ego is big enough he's like I don't fucking need
Speaker 2: writers to do my shit.
Speaker 1: Watch this, Like what version do you think we're getting
Speaker 1: that he's.
Speaker 3: Truly I'm going to ego. I just I just feel that.
Speaker 1: From egovert Yeah, didn't rather than go on the scab route.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he's probably been shielded for long enough by
Speaker 1: his career as well from like the people around him,
Speaker 1: that he thinks he's actually funny enough to pull this off.
Speaker 3: What what is the structure of the show, So okay,
Speaker 3: he doesn't do a monologue, what is it? And how happy?
Speaker 2: I mean, it'll probably just be having guests on and
Speaker 2: then but then he'll probably not have a single guest
Speaker 2: like because you know, he'll have like all kinds of I'm.
Speaker 1: Rule babes should let me hug them.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have a feeling he's just gonna have
Speaker 2: you know, like he'll have his roundtable of talking heads,
Speaker 2: but probably not a single person who would point out
Speaker 2: how absurd it is for him to bring the show
Speaker 2: back and go completely against the strike. So I'm sure
Speaker 2: he'll have like, you know, James cave Alon or something,
Speaker 2: and like some other stand up comedian who had recently
Speaker 2: been canceled, so they can.
Speaker 1: Be like, I don't understand why they want.
Speaker 2: All these new wages, and that'll just be the show
Speaker 2: and they can just agree with each other that they're
Speaker 2: not bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the heck comedians are eating right now.
Speaker 2: Man, they're.
Speaker 1: David Spade and Snake Oil like that show. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe he's not a heck. I haven't been up on
Speaker 1: his I haven't been watching his stand up lately.
Speaker 3: But he's like the inside of a bill maher Babushkadal
Speaker 3: really like I didn't realize how much these people had
Speaker 3: in common intil just right now. But yeah, there are
Speaker 3: these kind of, yeah, diminishing versions of the same.
Speaker 2: Guy right right right, Yeah, because snake Oil comes out, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like in the middle of the strike and won't
Speaker 2: need writers, I guess.
Speaker 1: Because it's because of the genius of David Is it cake?
Speaker 1: But for everything else.
Speaker 2: Is it business?
Speaker 1: Is it business? I didn't. I didn't realize. Jay Leno
Speaker 1: came back during the strike in two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight and like performed monologues that he
Speaker 1: claimed to have written himself again even he was himself
Speaker 1: a guild member. But there were of course rumors that
Speaker 1: he had help, and the WGA considered investigating his authorship,
Speaker 1: but then ultimately he got.
Speaker 2: Got out of it.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk chimed in and suggested that Mars should share
Speaker 1: some share more clips of his strike breaking show on
Speaker 1: X so he's got all the good guys on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it is really like interesting that they're all just
Speaker 1: lining up with one another, all the worst pieces of shit.
Speaker 2: They're trying so hard.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I wonder what the next because you know, someone else
Speaker 2: is gonna feel emboldened now right if Bill Maher is
Speaker 2: doing it, I wonder who the next person is. And
Speaker 2: I just I don't know if it's gonna everyone's gonna
Speaker 2: be like, oh well, I see that one. I get that.
Speaker 2: I think most people are, at least from people that
Speaker 2: have any sort of interest in the strike. I think
Speaker 2: most people are just gonna be like this is fucking nonsense, Like,
Speaker 2: go ahead, Like.
Speaker 1: I could almost believe that Drew, not that Drew Barrymore
Speaker 1: should have come back, because she should have showed solidarity,
Speaker 1: but I can almost believe that, Like I've never seen
Speaker 1: her show, but I would have to assume that it's
Speaker 1: like her out there, just like giving off Drew Barrymore vibes,
Speaker 1: like and that's kind of what a lot of the
Speaker 1: show is. But Bill Maher is like he he shared
Speaker 1: all every last piece of talent and you know, relevance
Speaker 1: from his body like in the early nineties. I feel
Speaker 1: like there's there's no way this isn't going to be
Speaker 1: a complete disaster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, without writers, it's probably just going to
Speaker 2: be like just unrestrained Islamophobia is one of his other
Speaker 2: loves when he gets to talking like that's basically what
Speaker 2: it is out there. Yeah right, so forgot, Yeah, prepare
Speaker 2: for an even more unadulterated version of that.
Speaker 3: That sounds like it could be a title of his
Speaker 3: new show as well, like it just has that feeling
Speaker 3: unrestrained islamophobia. Yeah, yeah, I'm curious.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I feel like I didn't even know he still
Speaker 3: had a show and I want to take a peek
Speaker 3: at this absolute disaster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of. I am intrigued. It's it's going
Speaker 1: to be interesting. But you just said you couldn't do it, Jack,
Speaker 1: save yourself, Save yourself. Yeah, you know, I want to
Speaker 1: hurt myself, you know.
Speaker 2: Oh all right?
Speaker 1: Well you know clips will be on uh like pleasure
Speaker 1: spiked with pain. It'll be on X formally known as Twitter,
Speaker 1: those clips. This fucking Newsweek article about this was like,
Speaker 1: you know what Elon Musk told his more than ten
Speaker 1: million followers on X formerly Twitter, that well, I just
Speaker 1: like I don't know. I'm still I'm still not allowing that.
Speaker 1: I will not allow it, like just say Twitter, it's
Speaker 1: it we You don't need to call it X just
Speaker 1: because he's calling it X like it's it's confusing, it's
Speaker 1: wasted energy, it's wasted words. Are they worried that they'll
Speaker 1: get sued by Elon Musk or do they think that, like,
Speaker 1: is that part of their aisle guide it? It seems
Speaker 1: like it was like a just across the board decision
Speaker 1: to call it like now start saying X formerly known
Speaker 1: as Twitter, and it's so dumb.
Speaker 2: Gets mad, dude, he gets mad. I forget what. I
Speaker 2: wish I could remember half the tweets I read. But
Speaker 2: someone was like, yeah, it's really rich that the guy
Speaker 2: who's always into dead naming is suddenly being like, don't
Speaker 2: call it Twitter anymore?
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, yeah, we don't need to buy into this
Speaker 3: guy's delusion. Collectively we can Twitter. Is that something you
Speaker 3: can be sued over? I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it feels like. The corporate media
Speaker 1: has at least all been like, Okay, so this is
Speaker 1: actually what we have to do, because we're serious people.
Speaker 2: Musk told us we have to even though yeah, you
Speaker 2: can still go to Twitter dot com. So, yes, which
Speaker 2: one is it? Is it Uchi Wally or is it
Speaker 2: one mic? X dot com X dot com? Do they
Speaker 2: say X?
Speaker 1: They just called it X call it so fucking we
Speaker 1: followers on X what place? And followers are on X man? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they can't stop grinding their teeth. That's right, all right?
Speaker 3: Well, in a little bit particularly dark dating app. Sorry,
Speaker 3: just had this chip right, the logo, everything about it X. Yeah,
Speaker 3: find your next X on X.
Speaker 1: It's very Yeah, it looks unprofessional, it looks like ship.
Speaker 1: But he's been trying to he's been trying to name
Speaker 1: something X for so long in addition to his.
Speaker 4: X.
Speaker 1: Right, but like he wanted to name PayPal X. I
Speaker 1: think back then, yeah, and then they were like what no.
Speaker 1: And then he's just gotten so rich that now all
Speaker 1: the people who could say what no to him.
Speaker 2: Are like, yeah, I guess I'm fired. There's space X.
Speaker 2: There's a model X tesla, like it's everything's just xed out.
Speaker 2: We get it, man, it's ninety eight. I think it's
Speaker 2: full letter.
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Does someone say a show that mushroom tattoo?
Speaker 1: All right? And finally, in some in a bit of
Speaker 1: good news, cup noodles now with caffeine. I think we
Speaker 1: don't just say anything beyond that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, only in Japan, though only in Japan, where you know,
Speaker 2: dehydrated noodles are the fuel source of many people who
Speaker 2: like to play video games. Don't stop. It's a kind
Speaker 2: of like a trope, like single guys, like their apartment
Speaker 2: is just filled with like empty cup noodle containers. It's
Speaker 2: like the easiest way to feed yourself. So just as
Speaker 2: a Japanese person, it makes sense to be like, dude,
Speaker 2: there's some fucking caffeine in that ship now, and now
Speaker 2: we can get them to do it. It just does
Speaker 2: it all now for people who just want to just
Speaker 2: not have to move too far.
Speaker 1: If you don't, if you're sick of energy drinks that
Speaker 1: don't taste like curry and pork, you know that's this
Speaker 1: this product is for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I are there other foods that are caffeinated.
Speaker 3: Like there's a type of chocolate called Awake with a
Speaker 3: little owl on.
Speaker 2: It, right, right, right, But I guess not like they're
Speaker 2: like comeing to fucking Jimmy John's for our caffeinated foot
Speaker 2: longs or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean wide away Hamburger.
Speaker 3: Who doesn't want to chew an energy drink? I mean
Speaker 3: it's honestly the perfect thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get your jaw working while your heart starts a pumping.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I don't know. This story will just go
Speaker 1: down for me as the moment that I realized they
Speaker 1: dropped the Oh, that's the first time I noticed it.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I finally noticed it. We've done
Speaker 1: stories about their pumpkin spice cup noodles. We've done stories
Speaker 1: about their offbeat breakfast cup noodles. Maybe I have realized
Speaker 1: it before, but it didn't stick.
Speaker 2: Ah so no, Yeah, I was. I had a lot
Speaker 2: of instantly lunch more than a couple news Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: you know that chicken one that was That was like
Speaker 2: for a while. I remember I just told my moms
Speaker 2: like that's all I need to eat, Like, that's all
Speaker 2: I need to get at the store, Like I'll just
Speaker 2: seat that because it's I just have to pour hot
Speaker 2: water on and I'm good.
Speaker 3: There's nothing like a flavor pack. I could use more
Speaker 3: flavor packs in my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, do they just sell loose flavor packets of
Speaker 2: like Instagram?
Speaker 3: That's incredible?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just give me that.
Speaker 1: Let's put that on fucking everything, my popcorn and ship.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, new business, new rules, and flavor packets for
Speaker 2: a nice way to.
Speaker 1: Pep up your movie popcorn. Folks. This is the kind
Speaker 1: of shit you're gonna get without writers, that's right. Uh well, Dan,
Speaker 1: such a pleasure having you on the daily Zeitgeist. Where
Speaker 1: can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Thank you? Just google Dan Smith you'll find something. Listen.
Speaker 3: My online presence is chaotic. I have a new album
Speaker 3: out on eight hundred pound It's called Chiweeni in a
Speaker 3: tank Top, which is also my gender identity and you
Speaker 3: must respect it. And I prepared for this like I've
Speaker 3: never prepared for anything so hard in my life. So
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you cities you can find me
Speaker 3: out soon. Toronto September twenty first to twenty third, Toronto,
Speaker 3: Portland September thirtieth, Seattle October sixth and seventh, And those
Speaker 3: are the most most recent ones coming up.
Speaker 1: All right, amazing, Chiweeni is a chihuahua and.
Speaker 3: Doug yeah, absolutely, yeah, it's visual was clear ever koweeding
Speaker 3: a tank top. It's part of a larger riff about
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know, being a they that whatever,
Speaker 3: who cares? None of the words are right. Call me
Speaker 3: anything you want.
Speaker 1: Amazing and is there a work of media that you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yes, So about a chapter away from
Speaker 3: finishing the book Hysterical. The last name is bassist. I
Speaker 3: don't know how to pronounce the first name E l
Speaker 3: I s s A Eliza Alissa alyssa bassist. It's a
Speaker 3: memoir called Hysterical, and it's just so freaking good. It's
Speaker 3: really about her personal struggles with health and silencing her
Speaker 3: own voice, and then it's just really smart and goes
Speaker 3: into just all sorts of things like women's literature and
Speaker 3: history and healthcare. And it made me feel smart reading it,
Speaker 3: and it does not make me feel smart trying to
Speaker 3: summarize it. Hysterical by bassist. It's really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing. And Miles, where can people find you? What's
Speaker 1: the work media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, find me Twitter, all the places, basically
Speaker 2: Miles of Gray at Miles of Gray. If you like basketball,
Speaker 2: check Jack and I out on our basketball podcast, Miles
Speaker 2: and Jack Got Mad Books.
Speaker 1: If you like ninety day fiance, check me out on
Speaker 1: my ninety day fiance podcast called four to twenty Day Fiance.
Speaker 1: You know what the fuck's going on right there when
Speaker 1: I say that.
Speaker 2: And also check out The Good Thief, which is a
Speaker 2: true crime show where we are pursuing the real life
Speaker 2: Greek robin hood and it's all of eight episodes are
Speaker 2: out now. And when I say true crime, it has
Speaker 2: no murder or like fucked up violence or anything like that.
Speaker 2: It's just good old fashioned robbing millionaires and giving money
Speaker 2: away to people that need it. So it's a very
Speaker 2: good show. Some tweets I like, oh man, there's Okay,
Speaker 2: so there's like when Bill Maher tweeted that he was
Speaker 2: bringing the show back, he'd like, did this whole long thing.
Speaker 2: It's like real Time is coming back, unfortunately sans writers
Speaker 2: are writing. It has been five months and it has
Speaker 2: to It is time to bring people back to work.
Speaker 2: The writers have important issues that I simplifize with blah
Speaker 2: blah blah at Harry M. Wood took that whole statement
Speaker 2: and just said, I know we're not supposed to be
Speaker 2: working during the strike, but I couldn't resist giving this
Speaker 2: a quick edit pass and just blacked out selected words
Speaker 2: and this statement, and it reads like this Real Time
Speaker 2: is coming back. Unfortunately, we all were hopeful this would
Speaker 2: come to an end. But I love to see people
Speaker 2: and I'll say it up front to the audience. The
Speaker 2: show will not be good, full stop. The heart of
Speaker 2: the show is bullshit and that will continue. The show
Speaker 2: will discipline.
Speaker 1: That's incredible, that's great, well done.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was really enjoying the Bill Maher stuff. Somebody just
Speaker 1: tweeted a Gabe delay. Dela Hey tweeted a rare misstep
Speaker 1: for Bill Maher Molly Mary O'Brien tweeted my job NFL
Speaker 1: team graphic designer, my mission to make a bird look
Speaker 1: as mean as possible. Yeah, all right. You can find
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Speaker 1: our episode and our footnote no where we link off
Speaker 1: to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
Speaker 1: as well as a song that we think you might
Speaker 1: enjoy mile, Yes, what song do you think people may
Speaker 1: be enjoy?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I'm we're blessed today that my internet has not
Speaker 2: and power did not go down simultaneously when I had
Speaker 2: a song lined up to put everybody onto yesterday's episode.
Speaker 2: But now I can't say we're gonna go out on. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't say. It's called Cannock Chase, and I don't
Speaker 2: know if I'm pronouncing that right, but it's c A
Speaker 2: N N O c K and then the second word
Speaker 2: to c cha s E. And it's by Lobby Sifray,
Speaker 2: who is like an iconic artist who I did not
Speaker 2: know of, but I knew that this this man's work
Speaker 2: was sampled so many times and he was this he
Speaker 2: is still alive. But in the seventies, this openly gay
Speaker 2: musician who talked all like just the lyrics were hitting
Speaker 2: real topics that people were like we're feeling back then,
Speaker 2: and it's like it's like this, like funkier, like black
Speaker 2: James Taylor from the UK kind of vibe. The guitar
Speaker 2: picking is really good. So just check this album out
Speaker 2: if you liked any of those words I said, you
Speaker 2: must check this song out. It's by Lobby l A
Speaker 2: B I, Ciff Ray s I F F R E
Speaker 2: and it's called Cannock Chase. But yeah, you'll check this
Speaker 2: one out.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: We will link off to that in the footnote. Todaily Zeit,
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