Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three oh five,
Speaker 1: Episode four of Daily's Like Ice Day. Production by iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's shared consciousness. And it's Thursday, September twenty first,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know what that is. You know what
Speaker 2: it means? Do you know what it means?
Speaker 1: Of course I know what it means, do you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it means it's National Pecan Cookie Day. It's also
Speaker 2: National Chai Day and National New York Day. Okay, we
Speaker 2: got it all, So shout out to.
Speaker 1: Everybody in New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah you ready for that to celebrate the empire state.
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm in my triple reposition. I'm in an
Speaker 1: athletic stanton. I'm ready for New York Day to case go,
Speaker 1: great town, Great Town, New York. This is the state
Speaker 1: I heard there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you can make it any.
Speaker 1: Of the saying anyway, my name's Jack O'Brien, aka.
Speaker 3: What you got you got to put to little cream cheese,
Speaker 3: What you got you got to put to little onion?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: What you got you got to put a little caper,
Speaker 3: you put the little lots and now you got to
Speaker 3: choose the bagel. Realize now you want a little butter,
Speaker 3: maybe some fresh slice a cucumber. Miss me with sweet
Speaker 3: bagels at the Blunder, the worst bagel of all, you
Speaker 3: wonder cinnamon ray cinnamon, ray, cinnamon raisin, cinnamon, ray, cinnamon, ray,
Speaker 3: cinnamon raisin, cinnamon, ray, cinnamon, ray, cinnamon raisin.
Speaker 1: I can't tell if it's a bagel of bred donuts.
Speaker 1: That is courtesy of Oh Hi more on the discord.
Speaker 1: We'll give it away rhcp aka. That felt like it
Speaker 1: was never gonna end once I started doing it for
Speaker 1: me and presumably for you. I'm thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: as always by my co host mister m Olds Miles.
Speaker 2: Boom boom, boom boom, Bone face, bone face boom.
Speaker 1: Tell me what you're.
Speaker 2: Gonna do when there ain't no more white pride. Tell
Speaker 2: me what you're gonna do when you're kicked out of
Speaker 2: blood tribe. I'm sorry, this is tribe that was yet
Speaker 2: hitting down to a body. Or would you say south
Speaker 2: Side for a party?
Speaker 1: Uh, hey, what'stric south thinking there's a party?
Speaker 2: That's what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what?
Speaker 2: Bone face headed south to Florida thinking it was a party.
Speaker 2: Only to find out that he was kicked out of
Speaker 2: his little neo Nazi gang. So you know, face bone.
Speaker 1: Boom boom boone face smiles. We are thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined in our third seat by a very talented actress, writer,
Speaker 1: comedian whose movie American Ish is set for release in October.
Speaker 1: Please welcome the hilarious I's a Fatima.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, hello, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2: Oh, thanks being here. That's the that's the frog. Now
Speaker 2: that we got the pleasantries out of the way, how
Speaker 2: are you? Are you in New York, New York?
Speaker 4: And it's New York ding, It's New York Day and
Speaker 4: Chai is my thing? Like I make a that's like
Speaker 4: the best chie you'll ever drink. And you're like, I
Speaker 4: literally I did not know it was a Chie appreciation Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, on this day of celebration for you.
Speaker 2: And do you like pecan? Do you like pecan cookies?
Speaker 2: Do you like Pecan's? Pecan?
Speaker 4: An amazing pecan pie. I grew up in Mississippi, you guys,
Speaker 4: it's like in the like I make a pecan every
Speaker 4: every Thanksgiving, I host, usually I host, and when I
Speaker 4: do it, there's a pecan pie on my table.
Speaker 2: What's the secret? Just a lot of butter.
Speaker 4: It's like a tub of butter in it. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: yeah syrup you know you have to make people make
Speaker 4: it with weird chip. I'm like, what is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, put the chemical syrups on. That's where we get
Speaker 2: them good flavors. Right, yes, all right?
Speaker 1: Do you get back to miss Hippy much?
Speaker 4: You know what? My parents moved to Dallas, Texas after
Speaker 4: we all grew up, and so now it's like I
Speaker 4: don't really go there anymore. So that's like Dallas has
Speaker 4: become my home, even though I've never lived there. That's right,
Speaker 4: family is yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, got what part of Cippy did you grow up in?
Speaker 4: What part of Mississippi? It's a small college town, kind
Speaker 4: of progressive. Really, it's called Starkville. It's where Mississippi State
Speaker 4: University is.
Speaker 2: Okay okay, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, okay, Now and now
Speaker 2: I want to Now I want to try a Peacoan pie,
Speaker 2: and I want to try your chai, and I want
Speaker 2: to go to New.
Speaker 4: York next time.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, next time New York.
Speaker 4: Just hit me up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just randomly. I'm like, hey, you remember remember what
Speaker 2: you said? I don't care if it's a bad time
Speaker 2: for you Giving, It's.
Speaker 1: Just show up on Thanksgiving with.
Speaker 2: A napkin already tucked in my collars. I'm like, so,
Speaker 2: would have you ever had Derby pie? The pompie vary?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I made Kentucky Derby Pie. That's another thing. I've just
Speaker 4: been doing it my whole, like sense childhood. My best
Speaker 4: friend's mom's recipe.
Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, what's Therby pie?
Speaker 1: It's just pecan pie with chocolate chips, and my experience,
Speaker 1: yeah great, less.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like it better than the pecan pie. Sometimes I
Speaker 4: feel like, but I don't know, I prefer the pecan pie.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I could. I mean, like,
Speaker 2: chocolate's fine, but I was fine with it even without
Speaker 2: the chocolate, So I see how Yeah, yeah, I'm good
Speaker 2: as long as has that of the opinion.
Speaker 1: Most things can be plussed up by adding chocolate, Like
Speaker 1: you just sprinkle some chocolate chips on a cheeseburger. I'm in.
Speaker 4: Also, the Derby pie requires much more butter.
Speaker 1: So Kentucky, Yeah, Kentucky. The other recipe that my mom
Speaker 1: picked up in Kentucky is what a hash brown cast role?
Speaker 1: And you will not be surprised to know that that
Speaker 1: is mostly butter. Yep, what is it?
Speaker 4: Just like good you guys?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean I'm.
Speaker 1: Not rounds butter like just translucent. Everything in the room
Speaker 1: becomes translucent. The amount of sharing the air with past
Speaker 1: brown cast role.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oil cloud takes over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well ISAA. We're going to get to
Speaker 1: know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: a couple of the things we're talking about. Uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna look at how both parties are responding to the
Speaker 1: Auto Workers of America being on strike, a real opportunity
Speaker 1: for both of them that they seem to be squandering,
Speaker 1: just fumbling. But speaking of butter, they they are butter
Speaker 1: fingering this thing. We're going to talk about Elon Musk
Speaker 1: a job. We're going to talk about a job opportunity
Speaker 1: for anybody who's in the market. He's he's offering to
Speaker 1: implant his brain chip into human brains and the perks
Speaker 1: are great. We're gonna talk there's there's a John Wick
Speaker 1: TV show and the casting is questionable. And then we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about McDonald's flesh burning Coffee. It's because this
Speaker 1: is back again, and actually it turns out has never
Speaker 1: left right, and it's just, uh, you know, anytime, any
Speaker 1: any story that like you remember from your childhood, where
Speaker 1: we're we're siding with the corporate, the big corporation against
Speaker 1: like a greedy person, it might be worth a second look.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna take a second look at that idea
Speaker 1: that like people are just scamming McDonald's for McDonald and
Speaker 1: what what's actually happening with McDonald's coffee, all of that
Speaker 1: plenty more. But first Isa, we like to ask our guest,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history?
Speaker 4: H I you it's all over if you google my name.
Speaker 4: A Dirty Packy Lingerie, which is a comedy one woman
Speaker 4: show that I first performed in twenty eleven. And you know,
Speaker 4: Islamophobia is still a thing, so it's still hot and
Speaker 4: I continue to perform it all over the world and
Speaker 4: it's twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Three, so right, yeah, gillmar is still on the air,
Speaker 2: so we know it's well and truly alive for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you performed that, yeah, like the fringe too as well, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was yeah, so the Yeah, it was at
Speaker 4: the Edinburgh Fringe shortly after it started here in New York,
Speaker 4: the NMUR Fringe and then it's been to like weird
Speaker 4: ass places like I performed it at turk Monistan, which
Speaker 4: is a craziast dictator ship. I was like, where what
Speaker 4: is that? Like I had to look up on the
Speaker 4: back and it was crazy town. And I took it
Speaker 4: to Pakistan and then a bunch of times in Europe
Speaker 4: and the UK.
Speaker 2: Right, where was what place gave you the most unexpected
Speaker 2: like great audience, Oh that's so weird.
Speaker 4: But turk Monistan, Yeah, it's like the Yeah, I just
Speaker 4: there was some like National Treasure actor dude who was
Speaker 4: in the audience one night and he said he didn't
Speaker 4: He came up with a translator after the performance and
Speaker 4: he said he doesn't speak any English, but he was
Speaker 4: crying and he's like I understood everything you said. And
Speaker 4: it was just really wow performing And it popped in
Speaker 4: my mind when you asked me who. And I think
Speaker 4: that's the power of art and storytelling, right, And it's good.
Speaker 2: It's good, yeah, especially connect Yeah, when it overcomes language
Speaker 2: barriers like that. First.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as an artist, I've had a similar experience. I
Speaker 4: remember going to a festival where I was performing in
Speaker 4: Italy and I was watching someone else perform in Italian
Speaker 4: and it was spectacular and I got it, and I
Speaker 4: don't speak the language at all, so I think it's like,
Speaker 4: that's yeah, that's the.
Speaker 2: Power of art.
Speaker 1: That's cool. What is uh, what's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: What I think is overrated is celebrity worship culture in America?
Speaker 1: It is terrible?
Speaker 4: What is that?
Speaker 2: But we gave up on God, so we need new God?
Speaker 4: Would live your own life, though, right, It's like really, yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't get it.
Speaker 2: What aspect? I mean, what spurred this? And you what
Speaker 2: did you observe? And you're like, we're doing this again. Huh,
Speaker 2: we're bowing at the prostrate at the feet of the Gardashi.
Speaker 4: It's a tiny bit personal too. Well, we'll get into
Speaker 4: it later, but yeah, I mean, I don't I don't
Speaker 4: want to get into specifics because I don't want to
Speaker 4: name names. But it's for instance, it's like, I'm an artist, right,
Speaker 4: and I'm very much an independent artist, and I do
Speaker 4: sometimes work in mainstream things, but a lot of my
Speaker 4: art that I create is very much independently done. Sure,
Speaker 4: I have friends who are like, oh my god, I
Speaker 4: can't come see your show, Ey said that because this
Speaker 4: weekend I'm going to see Adele and a Pain a
Speaker 4: thousand dollars for my ticket, and I love adel I
Speaker 4: love Dell, but I'm like, bitch, does not need your
Speaker 4: thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I need to put.
Speaker 4: Twenty dollars and bring five of your friends and come
Speaker 4: see my show. So it's like that kind of thing,
Speaker 4: and like, right now I'm dealing with this again. I
Speaker 4: have a future film coming out and we just got
Speaker 4: told by the people were working on the marketing end
Speaker 4: of They're like, oh, well, there's like two really big
Speaker 4: films coming out that weekend, guys. So it's like I'm right,
Speaker 4: it comes see yours And I'm like, great, Like we
Speaker 4: need like more of this, like you know, glitzy like whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, wait does the Americans come out October sixth?
Speaker 2: Is that what I read?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And we talked about we talked about the congestion of
Speaker 2: the calendar, the film calendar because Taylor Swift's movie comes
Speaker 2: out the thirteenth, and that caused like a ripple effect
Speaker 2: with every other studio be like, all right, that scary
Speaker 2: movie we had, we can't do it on Friday the
Speaker 2: thirteenth anymore, because that's Taylor Swift is re entering at that's.
Speaker 1: Second scariest date ten to six three.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so that's another thing that I'm dealing with
Speaker 4: my film right now. I lost theaters and screens because
Speaker 4: Taylor Swift is one of them. And then there's another
Speaker 4: really huge Bollywood film that's coming on. I'm like, God,
Speaker 4: damn it, that's also an audience South Asian, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: just god.
Speaker 1: Is it unique to America? Would you say the like
Speaker 1: celebrity worship? Is it more happen in America than other
Speaker 1: places that you've been.
Speaker 4: Do It's so weird in America too, Like why are
Speaker 4: we obsessed with the queen and like the you know,
Speaker 4: the royalty in the UK, it's so weird, Like people
Speaker 4: are having these parties to like watch marriages over I'm like,
Speaker 4: what is happening? Yeah, yeah, it's like weird in America,
Speaker 4: but you know, I think the whole everybody does it everywhere, right,
Speaker 4: the whole world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people just getting so caught up because they share
Speaker 2: the same birthday as one of the royals. I think
Speaker 2: that's really just weird behavior for sure.
Speaker 1: You know, Miles is the same birthday as the same
Speaker 1: birthday as miles.
Speaker 2: I thank you, thank you so much, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, and I think, like, but it is
Speaker 2: everywhere too, Like I look, you know, I'm Japanese too,
Speaker 2: and I look in Japan, we have like it's called
Speaker 2: idol culture, Like we literally call these celebrities fucking idols,
Speaker 2: you know, And it's just this, you know. I think,
Speaker 2: why everywhere so.
Speaker 4: Much responsibility on these poor little people too. I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe some of them also just want to make art. Guys,
Speaker 4: they just want to make just like you know what
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like they don't mind it though they
Speaker 1: like they don't. It's like a I think there's a
Speaker 1: trap where they like what they want it and pursue
Speaker 1: it with the single mindedness of Captain Ahab. But then
Speaker 1: like once they get it, they're like, oh, my life
Speaker 1: is over. I don't have like a life anymore, right,
Speaker 1: or like.
Speaker 2: I can't go to the store or every person I
Speaker 2: interact with I have to worry that they're trying to
Speaker 2: get something from me because of the status. But hey,
Speaker 2: it comes with a lot of money to rest your
Speaker 2: sad little head on.
Speaker 1: Usually when you ask them, they're like, yeah, but I
Speaker 1: would not trade it for anything. I go back to
Speaker 1: being like you no, no, no, no, no no no,
Speaker 1: what is what something you think is underrated?
Speaker 4: All right, here's what I think is really underrated that
Speaker 4: I have discovered recently. Do you guys know what zo
Speaker 4: there is?
Speaker 1: I don't think I do. Okay, It's like a.
Speaker 4: Very specific spice that existed the least usually so I
Speaker 4: was familiar with zo there. But then recently a friend
Speaker 4: of mine went to Palestine to this village that her
Speaker 4: family is from, and there's a lady in the village
Speaker 4: who's like, I don't know, old lady who makes it
Speaker 4: with her own hands. And she she's like, what do
Speaker 4: you want Isa from Palestine? And I'm like, I don't know, whatever,
Speaker 4: bring me something. So she brought me a giant bag
Speaker 4: of Zosther and I have been sprinkling this ship on
Speaker 4: top of everything. It goes on top of like avocado toast,
Speaker 4: on top of fried eggs, regular eggs. I just put
Speaker 4: it this morning afternoon for my lunch on like uh, tomato, mazzarella,
Speaker 4: cheese and pesto, and then Zostre is so good.
Speaker 2: I feel like a h T E R apostrophe a R.
Speaker 4: I think zost there. It is pronounced so good it is.
Speaker 4: It just goes with everything.
Speaker 1: According to me.
Speaker 2: There was a I remember for a while, I remember
Speaker 2: like Trader Joe's tried to like hop in the mix there,
Speaker 2: and I was like, are we is this? Is this
Speaker 2: the correct form of it that we're indulging in here?
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean I feel like Twitter Joe's also
Speaker 4: did like chocolate hummus or something at one points just disgusting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jack, didn't you try it? And you said yeah
Speaker 1: and it was good. Yeah. I'm also the person who
Speaker 1: puts chocolate chips in my hamburgers. So you know, Ali
Speaker 1: Aliat chocolate every further record he puts peanut, but yeah.
Speaker 4: Hamburger, I can't.
Speaker 1: There's like a cookie dough hummus. It's not like it's
Speaker 1: just the main the base ingredient is chickies and.
Speaker 2: So don't do it.
Speaker 4: Don't do it, don't do.
Speaker 1: There's so much sugar, Like, there's so much sugar, and
Speaker 1: that is mainly what I'm in it for, is like
Speaker 1: all the sugar and chocolate chip.
Speaker 2: The hummus is merely a delivery vehicle for the sugar. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's just something I cannot just separate the two. I'm like,
Speaker 2: that should not have chocolate near it, and it's savory
Speaker 2: not agreed. Yeah, like a berry fest.
Speaker 1: You put a little bit of that on some pretzels
Speaker 1: and you got a little chocolatey salty mixture. All right,
Speaker 1: so zos uh, people need to check it out. Z
Speaker 1: A A T A R. Yeah yeah, check it out.
Speaker 4: Put it on from like the Palestinian woman in her
Speaker 4: little village. Figure it out, people, because that's like the
Speaker 4: best door I've ever had. Honestly, it's so good.
Speaker 2: So right right right yeah, Jack, really you're like, are
Speaker 2: you looking at like where to buy it right now?
Speaker 1: That's trying to from a connect Yeah. Yeah, we could
Speaker 1: get that pretty good.
Speaker 2: I mean there's there's good there's decent markets out here
Speaker 2: that uh that keep it so well.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll talk about in a city. I'm sure you'll
Speaker 1: be able to find it. Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. All right, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll come right back and talk about some news. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back and we're back, and yeah, we were
Speaker 1: kind of waiting to see what the parties would do
Speaker 1: about this, you know, increasingly powerful moment for labor where
Speaker 1: yet another union major union is striking in the United States,
Speaker 1: and both parties appear to just be ignoring it or
Speaker 1: giving like very loose like lip service type, hey, we
Speaker 1: love an American worker over here, but not really you know,
Speaker 1: proposing anything concrete that would actually support unions.
Speaker 2: No, And right now it's like a race of will
Speaker 2: Trump or Joe Biden make it to the picket line first.
Speaker 2: They're like, who is gonna do Who's gonna get that
Speaker 2: photo op? Because that's really what it is. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if the policies are gonna to back up what
Speaker 2: their actions are, but they're like, who's gonna do it?
Speaker 2: And right now the Republicans they're definitely seeing this as
Speaker 2: a way to try and like talk about how like
Speaker 2: make this thing about like they're gonna make ship all
Speaker 2: the EV vehicle manufacturing to China, which is not true,
Speaker 2: and then also talking of then also to be able
Speaker 2: to be like and Joe Byron is just getting like
Speaker 2: his pro union stuff is getting out of control, and
Speaker 2: you know, we just what we've seen this sort of
Speaker 2: strategy play out, because I mean, right now we have
Speaker 2: to remember that you know, politicians, they're they're creatures of
Speaker 2: capital who have no consciousness. So they're merely a sentient
Speaker 2: pile of political takes that are some are paid for
Speaker 2: by the Koch brothers. Case in point, Nicki Haley and
Speaker 2: Tim Scott, who are both running for the nomination in
Speaker 2: the presidential primary. Nicki Haley recently told Neil Cavudo that
Speaker 2: these these auto workers are just they're just being greedy
Speaker 2: as heck with this really bad, bad line. But hey,
Speaker 2: here we go Nicki Haley talking to Neil Kovudo about
Speaker 2: this dang auto strike.
Speaker 5: Well, I think that's it tells you that when you
Speaker 5: have the most pro union president and he talents that
Speaker 5: he is emboldening the unions, this is what you get.
Speaker 5: And I'll tell you who pays for it is the taxpayers.
Speaker 5: You know, here, from what I understand, the union is
Speaker 5: asking for a forty percent race. You know, the companies
Speaker 5: have come back with a twenty percent race. I think
Speaker 5: any of the taxpayers would love to have a twenty
Speaker 5: percent raise and think that's great.
Speaker 2: They keep doing this thing where they talk about it. It's like,
Speaker 2: well what about the taxpayers, right, It's like, yeah, but
Speaker 2: this is very specific to this union, and also how
Speaker 2: are they paying for Again, their argument is gonna be
Speaker 2: like the prices are just gonna go up, and that
Speaker 2: who pays for it?
Speaker 4: That's always a Republican argument, right, They're always trying. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they're always trying to like pay people against each other
Speaker 4: and just be like, yeah, this is like you're going
Speaker 4: to pay for us, so don't vote for this.
Speaker 2: Right, and also like like leaving out really important facts
Speaker 2: like they offered a twenty percent raise that would be
Speaker 2: like over four years. And also they're not willing to
Speaker 2: like budge on like how inflation's already eaten into the
Speaker 2: wage gains they've had from past negotiations. So it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is not They're not being like something like I
Speaker 2: want double my money and I don't deserve it. It's
Speaker 2: like these people are asking for the bare minim, like
Speaker 2: a fraction of what they're actually owed for their labor.
Speaker 1: But anyway, just that her the talking point that Biden
Speaker 1: is the most pro union president, like that that feels
Speaker 1: like something that she would only think is like a
Speaker 1: diss because she only hangs out with like auto executives
Speaker 1: like h you know, like she only hangs out with
Speaker 1: people who are in the c suite of fortune five
Speaker 1: hundred companies and like therefore thinks, uh, I mean this
Speaker 1: guy he likes unions, he's pro worker, and you need
Speaker 1: this loser. And it's like you're about to try and
Speaker 1: run against him, and you think this is good for
Speaker 1: you in a democratic election.
Speaker 2: It has huge like that wouldn't be me, that's disgusting
Speaker 2: being co union. But if you listen to her own
Speaker 2: words from earlier this summer, that's exactly the reality that
Speaker 2: she operates in, which is like unions are fucking disgusting.
Speaker 2: This is her talking to some group of wealthy donors.
Speaker 5: But you know, the other thing that we did that
Speaker 5: was really important was I didn't want any company to
Speaker 5: come to South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Which was governor.
Speaker 5: I would not never wanted a US company. I didn't
Speaker 5: want them to taint our water at.
Speaker 2: All, taint our water at all. Wow, fired up, baby,
Speaker 2: fired up, fired all the way up.
Speaker 1: You see, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Also interesting, Just to point out again, I think it
Speaker 2: goes without saying automakers have been making money handover fists
Speaker 2: the last few years, like just obscene profits. And also
Speaker 2: guess who's guess whose pay actually did go up forty
Speaker 2: percent the fucking CEOs of course. But again here she
Speaker 2: is caping for them and being like, then this is
Speaker 2: what you get, man, people just advocating for them. So
Speaker 2: it's really disgusting. So yeah, what a grim fucking take
Speaker 2: from Haley. And then we shouldn't be surprised though, because
Speaker 2: Tim Scott is also from South Carolina, and uh, let
Speaker 2: me just play this little bit of a sound bite
Speaker 2: for the other primary candidate from South Carolina because this take.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's worse, but here, I'll just
Speaker 2: I'll let I'll let y'all decide.
Speaker 4: I think Ronald.
Speaker 3: Reagan gave us a great example when federal voice strike
Speaker 3: that you strike your fire.
Speaker 1: Simple concept to me. Use that once again. Absolutely, The
Speaker 1: second thing I would do though, is very important.
Speaker 2: This is it. The second thing isn't important. The first
Speaker 2: part was or he going, Yeah, Reagan showed us something
Speaker 2: really cool. You strike and you're fired. Mm hmm. So
Speaker 2: simple concept to me. And you know, just just a
Speaker 2: side note, it is illegal to fire private sector workers
Speaker 2: for merely you know, exercising their rights to strike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but unless Reagan's the president, in which case you
Speaker 1: can do it. Well, they were federal workers.
Speaker 2: So and then he also, I remember it was like yeah, man,
Speaker 2: I'll help you guys out, like on the campaign trail,
Speaker 2: and then utterly turned his back on them. So you know,
Speaker 2: it's this is kind of the state of things. And
Speaker 2: meanwhile you have Democrats like not sure what to do
Speaker 2: here when clearly you think of like Macomb County, Michigan
Speaker 2: and how vital that's been in the past few elections,
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe it's good to side with the
Speaker 2: auto workers or workers in general, but like as you
Speaker 2: were saying Jack earlier this week, it like forces them
Speaker 2: to like if they're going to fully embrace worker rights,
Speaker 2: that means they have to do it at the expense
Speaker 2: of the corporate donors. And that's just like that's just
Speaker 2: a bridge too far, just that it's like the needle
Speaker 2: they can't thread because like I mean, we can't bite
Speaker 2: the hand that feeds. We can make noises at the
Speaker 2: workers that have them say like yeah, yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 2: feels good, but like you know, we're still yet to
Speaker 2: figure out who's going to make it to Michigan first.
Speaker 2: Right now, It's like Trump is going to be going
Speaker 2: to Michigan in the next week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, He's going to do a rally in Detroit the
Speaker 1: night of the next debate Republican, Like that's going to
Speaker 1: be his counterprogramming to the Republican whatever debate. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, none, I feel like none of this
Speaker 1: really matters because Trump is going to be the nominee.
Speaker 2: Like it does.
Speaker 1: I still don't see a future where he's not the nominee.
Speaker 1: Nobody has like described a coherent path for him not
Speaker 1: to be, Like even if he's in prison, it feels
Speaker 1: like he's going to be the nominee. Yeah, So it's
Speaker 1: really just like, what what is he going to do
Speaker 1: about this? And is he going to take that opportunity
Speaker 1: to actually like, you know, say the right things. Obviously
Speaker 1: we saw his presidency the first time around. He certainly
Speaker 1: didn't do any of the right things and just completely
Speaker 1: abandoned labor and the working people that you know, elected
Speaker 1: him to be president. So yeah, we know he's not
Speaker 1: going to do the right thing, But it does feel
Speaker 1: like a huge opportunity for either side from an electoral
Speaker 1: standpoint to you know, take a whack at like this.
Speaker 1: These people need help and nobody is helping them, and like,
Speaker 1: you guys actually have the power to do something about
Speaker 1: it because you're like, you know, at the heads of
Speaker 1: your parties. Yeah, right, this is the agenda, like anyone's
Speaker 1: willing to do it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think it's also really not totally clear
Speaker 2: that this is actually going to impact Republicans in a
Speaker 2: negative way, Like like you're saying Trump was like, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: I'll raise the minimum wage. He didn't, And there are
Speaker 2: a lot of empty promises. And his percentage, like his
Speaker 2: support from working class voters as defined by pollsters, which
Speaker 2: are people who don't have a college degree, he only
Speaker 2: lost one percentage when he went from fifty one percent
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen to fifty in twenty twenty. And then meanwhile,
Speaker 2: his share of non white working class voters rose from
Speaker 2: twenty percent in twenty sixteen to twenty six percent in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. So it's there's like and there's like sociologists
Speaker 2: have been like, you know, like trying to figure out, like,
Speaker 2: how is it that in these places that has such
Speaker 2: strong union cultures that you still have these voters who
Speaker 2: break away. I'm like, yeah, I'm voting for the anti
Speaker 2: labor person. And one of the main things they talk
Speaker 2: about is that because the union presence has been just diminished,
Speaker 2: so like in such an aggressive way that like union
Speaker 2: halls and the way that union members used to interact
Speaker 2: is like gone, like where they aren't like their sort
Speaker 2: of worldview isn't reinforced by being around other union members
Speaker 2: or being near like a union hall and things like that,
Speaker 2: and now it's just sort of like, yeah, I'm in
Speaker 2: a union, but I'm also like, I socialize with these
Speaker 2: other people, and now that's kind of more my identity
Speaker 2: more so than being a union member. So you know,
Speaker 2: we shall see how it all shakes out, but it's
Speaker 2: I think they're also.
Speaker 1: Probably reacting to the fact that the Democrats aren't exactly
Speaker 1: a pro union, pro labor party at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in general, like the amount of support for unions
Speaker 2: has just gone down across the board, so there's really
Speaker 2: no one coming to the rescue aside from you know,
Speaker 2: maybe these like union leaders and things like that. So
Speaker 2: it's becoming, you know, just a situation where there's a
Speaker 2: lot of like they're shedding a lot of voters and
Speaker 2: like the wrong directions, but still aren't just doing this
Speaker 2: easy thing, which is like, I don't know, maybe speak
Speaker 2: directly to like their quality of life rather than trying
Speaker 2: to get people to be like did you see we're
Speaker 2: having a soft landing from the recession that almost happened.
Speaker 2: And people are like, I'm sorry, I can't. I have
Speaker 2: to work three jobs.
Speaker 1: I don't have time to watch the news to hear
Speaker 1: about how good the economy is going under Biden because
Speaker 1: I have to work three jobs unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, my reality is very different than what's on CNBC.
Speaker 4: So listen, these voters aren't like there's so much of this,
Speaker 4: like the Mexicans are rapists, you know, they're like more
Speaker 4: like build the wall. They don't know their own rights,
Speaker 4: they don't have, you know, Also the life circumstances that
Speaker 4: they're in. Sometimes you guys mentioned this like you know,
Speaker 4: three jobs or whatever, there's not enough time to kind
Speaker 4: of have introspection and think about the things they need
Speaker 4: and the union work and how really voting for somebody
Speaker 4: like Trump is affecting them in the long run.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I think that's the Republican parties, you know, strong suit,
Speaker 4: that's what they do. Yeah, every information and hate and
Speaker 4: then just like you know, to get what they want.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It's interesting how everything kind of moved toward the left
Speaker 1: once during the shutdown, when people were no longer forced
Speaker 1: being forced to work like all waking hours. People were like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, force and then they went back to
Speaker 1: work and we're like, never mind.
Speaker 2: Never mind, build the wall, build the wall. Building I
Speaker 2: had This.
Speaker 4: Is such a weird experience during right before the election.
Speaker 4: I remember I was in a cab here in New
Speaker 4: York City with a this guy, white guy, and he's like,
Speaker 4: I'm a third generation taxi private in New York City.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, oh, that's amazing, okay, great, And then
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, well, we're talking about the elections and
Speaker 4: he's like yeah yeah. He goes, literally he goes, who's
Speaker 4: that guy wants to build the wall? I would vote
Speaker 4: for him?
Speaker 1: Like wow, I was like, damn, that's what.
Speaker 2: That's so wild.
Speaker 1: When you're like, you don't even know Trump's.
Speaker 4: Name, I'm like, what is happening right?
Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't have don't have time for politics. I
Speaker 2: just like the idea of a big old wall because
Speaker 2: because walls are cool. Yeah, wait, what's it meant to
Speaker 2: keep out? I just thought we were trying to do
Speaker 2: something to do like a new Wonder of the world.
Speaker 1: Building the wall man, That is funny. I do wonder
Speaker 1: if that's what Trump had in mind, because remember he
Speaker 1: like had that riff on Tucker Carlson about the Wonders
Speaker 1: of the World and like, well he was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, like maybe they should maybe they should build
Speaker 1: another Wonder of the world one why.
Speaker 4: Baby his name all over it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course it would be just like that if
Speaker 1: we just let him build just a big the Great
Speaker 1: Wall of America, as Brian put it, Uh like I
Speaker 1: feel like maybe he'd just shut the fuck up and
Speaker 1: go go off somewhere.
Speaker 2: Probably need to go to the fucking Great Mall of America. Yeah,
Speaker 2: kick it with that.
Speaker 1: The Great Mall of America already exists, myles.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I'm saying, just just basking there, folks.
Speaker 1: You can see it from space. If we just let
Speaker 1: him right Trump across the Mojave Desert, like would would.
Speaker 2: Can't we just do like a gigantic light array, like
Speaker 2: a night.
Speaker 1: Array that you could see from space. You could just
Speaker 1: see his name from outer space. Maybe we'd be good.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 2: All you do is it's like it's like Speed where
Speaker 2: they were showing Dennis Hopper that like video footage on
Speaker 2: the Loop to have you think everything was under control.
Speaker 2: You just do it once you capture it and you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: you want me to pull up the space feed Donald
Speaker 2: here it is hopin there.
Speaker 4: You go my man to pitch him this idea, you guys.
Speaker 4: Will he trade that in for running for another election?
Speaker 4: Will he do it?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yes, it's all because he's like, I
Speaker 2: can't go to jail. So that's if that's not on
Speaker 2: the table. I'm sorry, it's then I can't. I can't agree.
Speaker 1: And the version in his head would have to be
Speaker 1: they were begging me for they they they were begging
Speaker 1: me to let them put my name on the Majave Desert.
Speaker 2: I guess if you just did that kind of like
Speaker 2: third grade psychology and you like begged Donald Trump to
Speaker 2: do like those certain things, like like you gotta do
Speaker 2: this please, you know, just he's like, eh, the powers
Speaker 2: on my side.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of you know, job recovery, Elon Musk is
Speaker 1: now hiring looking for some human volunteers for his brain chip,
Speaker 1: looking for people with either quadriplegia caused by spinal injury
Speaker 1: or als to get the implant, with the goal being
Speaker 1: to grant people the ability to control a computer, cursor
Speaker 1: or keyboard using their thoughts alone, which would be very cool.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the musk of it all.
Speaker 2: No city would be cool, but the musk of it all.
Speaker 1: The musk of it all. Yeah, I mean, so there's
Speaker 1: a couple mitigating factors. First of all, it remains to
Speaker 1: be seen how many people will rush out to volunteer
Speaker 1: for this study, considering that the company reportedly killed roughly
Speaker 1: one thy five hundred animals during testing to this point,
Speaker 1: with some pigs being euthanized allegedly because the device was
Speaker 1: implanted in the wrong position, which that feels somewhat haphazard.
Speaker 2: I think all they have is that one video of
Speaker 2: the monkey that was playing pong with its mind still
Speaker 2: is like that one shining example of like, look what
Speaker 2: it does, dude. This monkey played pong without a controller,
Speaker 2: just using its mind, and then we had to euthanize
Speaker 2: it fifteen minutes later because it was in the wrong place.
Speaker 1: Because it beat Elon at pong and she doesn't allow
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Uh. But yeah, you know, at
Speaker 1: least participants in the incredibly risky study will be paid
Speaker 1: nothing nice. Yeah what do you mean by that?
Speaker 2: For sure?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you will be compensated for study related costs,
Speaker 1: such as travel expenses to and from the study site.
Speaker 1: Like how specific it is, Like it's.
Speaker 2: Basically like, we'll pay shipping for your corpse so we
Speaker 2: can do this fucking experiment on you. How's that? How's that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Which is wild because he is the world's richest person,
Speaker 1: but he just, you know, I feel like he is.
Speaker 1: This is all part of his goal for himself to
Speaker 1: you know, to try and turn himself into RoboCop so
Speaker 1: he can fly to Mars and uh, you know, repopulate
Speaker 1: half half a planet with his seed.
Speaker 2: We brought it back to Detroit with RoboCop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there you go. Always always get you right.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back and uh, there's a new
Speaker 1: John Wick spin off TV show on Pacock. It's called
Speaker 1: The Continental from the World of John Wick. For people
Speaker 1: who love John Wick really want to know about the
Speaker 1: inner workings of that hotel. I actually don't know how
Speaker 1: much are they Are they going to like get real
Speaker 1: into the minutia of back of house and right right
Speaker 1: of what it takes to.
Speaker 2: Run a hotel that's kind to contract killers? Yeah, is
Speaker 2: that the deal is that I've only seen the first
Speaker 2: I've seen like one and a half John Wicks. That's
Speaker 2: really that's like the hang, remember, because when y'all went
Speaker 2: all together, had a dang baby at home that I
Speaker 2: couldn't just bring. I couldn't bring a new born to
Speaker 2: on Wick, So you know, that kind of fucked my
Speaker 2: night up.
Speaker 1: Honestly, you totally could have and the baby would have
Speaker 1: followed everything perfectly. But yeah, I don't know. I find
Speaker 1: the reviews for these movies to be somewhat out of
Speaker 1: proportion to the quality of the movies. Like I think
Speaker 1: that whatever is resonating about John Wick, like we're going
Speaker 1: through something and like these will be movies that we
Speaker 1: look back on and we're like, huh, we really we
Speaker 1: really fucking loved those things. Huh. There's a TV show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But anyways, the reviews for the show are I guess
Speaker 1: it's a prequel about the character played by Iamic Chane
Speaker 1: in the movies. The reviews are mostly okay, but it
Speaker 1: does seem something One detail keeps coming up, and that's
Speaker 1: the fact that it features mel Gibson. Oh sick, a
Speaker 1: little bit of stunt casting. Mel Gibson.
Speaker 2: I Yeah, I feel like there are a few of
Speaker 2: them are just looking at it doing a curse research
Speaker 2: of like entertainment sites. Some mentioned like Mel Gibson explicitly
Speaker 2: as part of the review in the headline, and then
Speaker 2: others were kind of like whatever, but definitely there are
Speaker 2: a lot of reviewers are like, what the fuck is this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, some people are kind of bothered because, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a franchise built largely on Giano Reeves being
Speaker 1: like very nice, unproblematic and also really fun to watch
Speaker 1: killing people, and now that universe like hinges on Mel Gibson,
Speaker 1: which just feels like a weird fit. He apparently plays
Speaker 1: like some crime boss who at one point viciously murders
Speaker 1: a gay man, which is cool, So why was he
Speaker 1: cast that? What this is?
Speaker 2: This is the part that really bugs me out is
Speaker 2: when they asked the producers, Yeah, fucking why Yeah, Albert.
Speaker 1: Hughes from the Hughes Brothers, uh, from Who May Menace
Speaker 1: to Society? Like that movie that completely changed my life
Speaker 1: when I was like twelve. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is the coolest fucking thing ever. He defended the
Speaker 1: casting of Gibson by claiming the personal stuff is not
Speaker 1: my business to talk about this the fo. I love it.
Speaker 4: When Hollywood has this amnesia and it comes to certain people,
Speaker 4: they're like, oh, we don't. Yeah, he's an abuser and
Speaker 4: like whatever, molested children, but that's his personal thing. It's
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not talking about mother, so I'm just
Speaker 4: talking in general. In Hollywood. Also, like when it's a guy,
Speaker 4: they're so forgiving, too forgiving. It's like, oh, that's lunch.
Speaker 4: She was right by an executive.
Speaker 1: She's a whore, right, like j Jackson's Janet Jackson's nipple
Speaker 1: was out. She's at it all.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, right, she's that's it done. Yeah, it's so
Speaker 4: crazy to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this this quote is really something where he says,
Speaker 2: I cast mel based on his past work that I
Speaker 2: grew up on, and I think he fit the role perfectly.
Speaker 2: I think once fans see it, they'll understand why the
Speaker 2: personal stuff is not my business to talk about. I'm like,
Speaker 2: first personal, this guy was using the N word in jack.
Speaker 2: I think, as you said, in ways that like you
Speaker 2: had never even imagined or heard before.
Speaker 1: Like some of the most disturbing shit I've ever heard,
Speaker 1: Like the words he was using, the context he was
Speaker 1: using them. Also, just the sounds like the gueneral sounds
Speaker 1: he was making. There's like the clips where he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just like fucking terrifying, Like you ever look at
Speaker 1: like from a an industry that is very quick to
Speaker 1: be like I don't know, like once you know this
Speaker 1: thing about them or once I've seen them play this
Speaker 1: in this movie, like they're still like very hesitant to
Speaker 1: cast a gay actor as like a straight man in
Speaker 1: a movie, and right like there are closeted leading actors
Speaker 1: like to prove it like to this day, the like
Speaker 1: Hollywood executives are, they can't get around like certain aspects
Speaker 1: of people's reality, like real life personality, but then they
Speaker 1: have really short term memories for some things like you
Speaker 1: know yeah.
Speaker 2: And also like I'm like the stuff with Mel Gibson
Speaker 2: was all very public, but yes, that's fine. It's not
Speaker 2: like you're prying to be like do you have a
Speaker 2: take on him being like a vile racist, anti Semite?
Speaker 2: Is there anything about that? Like because he's come out
Speaker 2: and like these are his words, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: Albert like just fucking say you're a Mel Gibson fanboy
Speaker 2: and you're just not bothered by the heinous shit that
Speaker 2: this guy says, because you're fulfilling some like sadass like
Speaker 2: wish you've had since you were a kid. That's what
Speaker 2: that sounds like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's also been famous and a successful director
Speaker 1: since he was a kid. Like they directly managed to
Speaker 1: society when they were like fucking like teenage. They're so
Speaker 1: young when they made that. So you know, it's not
Speaker 1: not to excuse anything, but just as context that this
Speaker 1: statement reminded me of, I was like, oh, yeah, you are.
Speaker 1: You've been famous since before cell phones were a thing, right,
Speaker 1: And but yeah, it's just I don't know, every time
Speaker 1: mel Gibson gets put in a movie or in anything,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, it's it's just really revealing about like
Speaker 1: what the powers that be in Hollywood, like what they secretly,
Speaker 1: in the privacy of their own hearts, think is okay
Speaker 1: versus what bothers them, you know, because they are bothered
Speaker 1: by they're like, hey, you just you know, am I
Speaker 1: gonna believe this guy is an action hero when I've
Speaker 1: seen him like on the Red Car with his husband,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Right right right then?
Speaker 1: With mel Gibson there, you know, for some reason that
Speaker 1: doesn't bother them, and that's not something they would ever
Speaker 1: come out and say, but they say it with their
Speaker 1: actions and with their casting decisions, right.
Speaker 2: Right, right. Yeah. I thought it was like for a while,
Speaker 2: it was just one of those things. I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe he is gone for a while, and then it
Speaker 2: was like one thing after the next and next thing.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like people are just having to write
Speaker 2: about mel Gibson again. And some people are like, you know,
Speaker 2: point to the fact that he's just been scandalized since
Speaker 2: the beginning, or at least in the last fifteen years,
Speaker 2: and then others are just acting like, yeah, and mel
Speaker 2: Gibson's back in the soon, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Huh Okay, Like remember this guy from Lethal Weapon?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, no, I remember him from the terrible
Speaker 2: calls to his daughter. Yeah, that I can't shake from
Speaker 2: my memory.
Speaker 4: Oh was that that was?
Speaker 2: Was that his ex wife?
Speaker 1: Then? Yeah? The calls to his the mel Gibson calls
Speaker 1: were calls to his I think fiance who was young
Speaker 1: enough to be his daughter, but not to his daughter. Uh.
Speaker 1: The calling someone a rude little pig when they were
Speaker 1: like five years old was Alec Baldwin.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, see I forget and also someone else's was
Speaker 2: just like.
Speaker 1: And he turned out. But isa as somebody who has
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, you've been in lawn or
Speaker 1: you've been in like some mainstream stuff like what.
Speaker 4: I've been in the ship for long enough. Long enough
Speaker 4: you'll end up doing ship.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, and be extremely talented like yourself. But what
Speaker 1: uh like when when you see a story like this,
Speaker 1: like what what what does it make you think about? No?
Speaker 4: I think it's like the look, we all know it, right,
Speaker 4: It's the old boys club. This is what Hollywood is,
Speaker 4: and they just like kind of you know, these old executives.
Speaker 4: They want to see themselves on screen. So this guy whatever,
Speaker 4: he's a fan of you know Mel Gibson's it's great.
Speaker 4: So he's like, yeah, well I want to put him
Speaker 4: up on the screen, and that looks. It's like you know,
Speaker 4: for me and a lot of my friends, it's like
Speaker 4: people of color women, it's just like so complicated because
Speaker 4: again you just said it, it's like we're talking about
Speaker 4: people being gay, you know, and then they can't be
Speaker 4: a superhero. But for us, it's like, oh, you're a
Speaker 4: brown woman, then okay, you'll just you'll play battered and
Speaker 4: abused and that's all you can be, you know. And
Speaker 4: I mean there's a bit of a shift. It's nice.
Speaker 4: It's nice to just play a doctor on Law and
Speaker 4: Order and that's something to do with my ethnicity for change.
Speaker 4: But it's taken me, like I've been doing this for
Speaker 4: twelve thirteen years. I've been in this industry. You know,
Speaker 4: it's taken that long for us to get to this point.
Speaker 4: It's twenty twenty three. It's nice, but you know, a
Speaker 4: lot more needs to happen. Yeah, we keep telling these
Speaker 4: same stories, like why do we need to do a
Speaker 4: prequel to John Wick? It's fine, John Wick is cool.
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, we also tell other kinds of stories.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing is that the movies made a lot
Speaker 2: of money, and then that doesn't require me to think
Speaker 2: too critically about the things we make, because then I
Speaker 2: can use the watching my industry.
Speaker 4: That's all of Hollywood, right, It's like, what's made me money,
Speaker 4: let's just do it again.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Forever there was like this myth that was being perpetuated,
Speaker 4: like people, films with people of color don't do well.
Speaker 4: Black films don't do well. Films with female leads don't
Speaker 4: do well, and then none of it is true. Right,
Speaker 4: it's all been proven.
Speaker 1: Because Denzel Washington's my favorite actor. Okay, I am not
Speaker 1: saying not to do The Equalizer because I don't like
Speaker 1: Denzel Washington. What I'm saying is nobody will go to
Speaker 1: see this movie because other people are racist, and therefore
Speaker 1: we should do a fifteenth movie starring someone named Chris.
Speaker 1: You know that that's the only type of action movie
Speaker 1: that people will say and then they find out to
Speaker 1: be wrong, like always, they're fucking so dumb.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and but it like even like with McKinzie,
Speaker 2: like the capitalist specialist and analysts who come in, they're like, y'all,
Speaker 2: you'll make more fucking money if you just include more
Speaker 2: people in the fucking everything we're telling you this as
Speaker 2: the people who are like, this is how you fucking
Speaker 2: turn the cash machine on, well, they won't believe.
Speaker 1: Like they won't believe you until like a bunch of
Speaker 1: people who went to Harvard and have consultant on a
Speaker 1: business card come in and tell you the thing that
Speaker 1: anybody who's witnessed the rise of fest and the Furious
Speaker 1: for the past thirty years could have fucking told you,
Speaker 1: you know, right, But yeah, yeah, yeah, but what does
Speaker 1: Pete Buddha, Judge's college roommate have to say about it?
Speaker 1: That's what I need to know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who knows? Who knows?
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some flesh burning coffee, because it's
Speaker 1: happened again. McDonald's is getting sued after an eighty five
Speaker 1: year old suffered first and second degree burns from coffee
Speaker 1: ordered in a San Francisco drive through. The woman had
Speaker 1: to go to the emergency room after McDonald's staff refused
Speaker 1: to help her was left with a slew of medical expenses.
Speaker 1: Scarrrang and this story should be familiar to everyone who
Speaker 1: was around on the nineties because there was famously a
Speaker 1: lawsuit over a hot McDonald's coffee. It became a national punchline,
Speaker 1: and all the jokes were in the direction of you
Speaker 1: believe these people their surprised coffee's hot, and they spent
Speaker 1: coffee on themselves and they get a million dollars with
Speaker 1: this stuff for kidding me.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of bad stand up around, like
Speaker 2: caping from this seventy nine year old.
Speaker 1: Oh you never had coffee before? Yeah, yeah, that was
Speaker 1: one of the things that I don't think I realized.
Speaker 1: So the person in that lawsuit, and by the way,
Speaker 1: it was bad stand up, and it was like a
Speaker 1: monoculture where like one of the most watched things every
Speaker 1: night was Jay Leno doing bad stand up, you know,
Speaker 1: right right, just like saying these fucking terrible jokes. But so,
Speaker 1: the person in that lawsuit was a seventy nine year
Speaker 1: old woman who just wanted McDonald's to help pay her
Speaker 1: medical bills after she was hospitalized for eight days and
Speaker 1: required skin graft surgery as a result of the super
Speaker 1: hot coffee scam. Scam.
Speaker 4: I want to know where this was. Where did she
Speaker 4: get burned on her legs? Just in her lap?
Speaker 1: Okay, I got yeah, her stomach and leg interesting, So
Speaker 1: she so this is the crazy thing. She offered to
Speaker 1: settle with McDonald's for twenty thousand dollars. She was like, please,
Speaker 1: just like my bill, I want is for you to
Speaker 1: cover what it costs to get skin graft surgery in
Speaker 1: this country, something I required because you serve your coffee
Speaker 1: too fucking hot. And they decided McDonald's was like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna fight this. This is an unfair injustice to big
Speaker 1: corporations everywhere, and America at that time, because we were
Speaker 1: going through something, was like, yeah, leave McDonald's alone. Essentially,
Speaker 1: we've always.
Speaker 4: Been going through something, so let's.
Speaker 1: We're always going through something. It's just it takes time
Speaker 1: of like you know, takes a little while to look
Speaker 1: back and be like, oh right, we just loved corporations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, before we had some the beginning of any semblance
Speaker 2: of class consciousness too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had it for a while and then the
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties happened and it just fucking completely evaporated.
Speaker 1: But anyways, the jury awarded her more than two point
Speaker 1: seven million dollars. The judgment was ultimately reduced to six
Speaker 1: hundred and forty thousand dollars, far less than you know,
Speaker 1: the Toby song, which I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: remember this, probably I didn't remember it because I don't heith,
Speaker 1: but he had a song with the lyrics Plasma getting bigger,
Speaker 1: Jesus getting smaller, spill a cup of coffee, make a
Speaker 1: million dollars. So bars, yeah, but yeah, just about how
Speaker 1: America is going to hell in a hand basket. The
Speaker 1: So McDonald's was happy to take the case to trial
Speaker 1: because the publicity actually helped them thanks to their smear
Speaker 1: campaign intended to deflate the public backlash, and in the
Speaker 1: public eye, the victim was viewed as a scammer trying
Speaker 1: to make money off of a spill that was totally
Speaker 1: her fault, because, after all, coffee is supposed to be hot, right,
Speaker 1: the coffee is excessively hot, that's what the jury found.
Speaker 1: So it's around one hundred and eighty to one hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety degrees. That is how hot McDonald's serves their coffee.
Speaker 1: The optimal drinking temperature for hot beverages is around one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty two one hundred and fifty degrees. But
Speaker 1: McDonald's was in the middle of a promotion saying that
Speaker 1: their coffee would still be hot by the time you
Speaker 1: got to your desk at work. So they're like, pick
Speaker 1: up the coffee on your way to work. It's still
Speaker 1: going to be hot when you get there. That was
Speaker 1: an actual ad campaign. They were serving it way too hot.
Speaker 1: They got sued a number of times. This is the
Speaker 1: one that got publicized. Was one of seven hundred lawsuits
Speaker 1: related to the tempe ofture of McDonald's coffee. McDonald's and
Speaker 1: it never went away. They were just this is a
Speaker 1: thing that corporations do, Like this is the thing that
Speaker 1: that they found car companies will do where they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we know this car is going to kill probably like
Speaker 1: two hundred to three hundred people because of this like
Speaker 1: manufacturing defect. But it's actually like what we're going to
Speaker 1: lose in the lawsuits is actually less than what we're
Speaker 1: going to lose if we do a total like product
Speaker 1: recall to fix the de effect. So like corporate, yeah, that's.
Speaker 4: Every corporation, right, Well, look at the food we eat,
Speaker 4: and look at all the shit that's in it that's
Speaker 4: killing people, Like there's carcinogens literally in things like parts
Speaker 4: like coke or whatever else this name one, and corporations
Speaker 4: don't care. They know it's going to be killing people.
Speaker 4: They're just like, yeah, we're just gonna sell it.
Speaker 2: They're just good.
Speaker 1: That's like they're good saving money. We like, I think
Speaker 1: we swallowed that a long time ago and need to
Speaker 1: like spin it back up and like re evaluate it.
Speaker 1: Like that assumption that they are just going to kill
Speaker 1: us in order to make more money, like that is
Speaker 1: that's like absolutely good, right peak bad guy shit Like
Speaker 1: that's not that's unacceptable as a way, like, especially as
Speaker 1: we've gotten more and more towards like down the road
Speaker 1: of letting these be the ultimate decision makers, Like that's
Speaker 1: these are the people that the president is so afraid
Speaker 1: of that he won't even like side with unions even
Speaker 1: though it would be like unquestionably an electoral politics win,
Speaker 1: because he just can't because these are the people who
Speaker 1: actually make decisions. But yeah, so for instance, with the
Speaker 1: McDonald's thing, not only did we like totally side with
Speaker 1: them when they burnt a like grandmother and like refuse
Speaker 1: to pay for her medical bills, they have continued to
Speaker 1: have like predictable burnings happen from their coffee because they
Speaker 1: have not changed. They are still serving their coffee at
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty to one hundred and ninety degrees
Speaker 1: fahrenheit instead of lowering the temperature and the other thing,
Speaker 1: even though they no longer have the like still hot
Speaker 1: when you get to work at campaign, it makes it
Speaker 1: like their coffee, I guess stays a little fresher when
Speaker 1: it's that hot, and so they don't have to make
Speaker 1: pots of coffee throughout the day. So keeping their coffee
Speaker 1: like scalding hot, like dangerously hot when it served you
Speaker 1: actually saves them a million dollars a day. So that
Speaker 1: is why they do it, because it keeps them having
Speaker 1: to rebrew the coffee like every couple hours, so they
Speaker 1: can just like keep the super hot coffee all day basically,
Speaker 1: and you get less fresh coffee that can badly burn
Speaker 1: you and send you to the hospital, but it doesn't.
Speaker 1: And the trade off is that McDonald's gets to save
Speaker 1: a million dollars a day, and we are tacitly approving
Speaker 1: of that. Basically, this is.
Speaker 4: Insane, you know what. I also feel like i've been
Speaker 4: lied to about McDonald's right now, because so I don't
Speaker 4: drink coffee, but I do drink tea, and there's a
Speaker 4: McDonald's by me, and sometimes I swing in and I
Speaker 4: just like, grab a tea and go, and they refuse
Speaker 4: to put the tea bag and the no, they'll put
Speaker 4: the milk in and the water in, but they refuse
Speaker 4: to put the tea bag in. And I asked someone.
Speaker 4: I was like, well, why didn't you just put it
Speaker 4: in and mix it all up? And they're like, oh, no, no,
Speaker 4: we don't do that because it's a safety issue because
Speaker 4: you know, we don't want touch, we want you to
Speaker 4: open the lid and do it. So basically it's not
Speaker 4: us to open Yeah, it's this whole explanation I got,
Speaker 4: And now I'm like, I feel like they're just lying.
Speaker 4: What's up, McDonald's. You won't change the temperature of your coffee,
Speaker 4: but you won't put the tea bag in the tea
Speaker 4: Like what's up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, huh Yeah. It seems like they're like, no, that
Speaker 1: shit burns people. We don't. We don't fuck with that.
Speaker 1: That's on you all.
Speaker 2: Your Yeah you drink that. Nah, I miss me with that. Nah.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is wild. But again, like you're saying that,
Speaker 2: they know, it's like, well, we can absorb hundreds of
Speaker 2: people burning the shit out of themselves with the coffee
Speaker 2: because at the end of the day, the payout is
Speaker 2: going to be less than the money we save every
Speaker 2: fucking day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like we could.
Speaker 2: We could do about fifteen of these a day and
Speaker 2: we're still good as long as we keep that shit.
Speaker 2: Because the boiling point of fucking waters like two hundred
Speaker 2: and twelve degrees and you're serving it at one ninety,
Speaker 2: Like come the fuck on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Like the I guess proper brewing temperatures between
Speaker 1: one ninety five and two hundred and five. But then
Speaker 1: you like usually the coffee then sits for a little
Speaker 1: bit and goes down to a temperature that is safe
Speaker 1: to drink and handle, and like trying to drink coffee
Speaker 1: at that temperature, you can't taste anything, Like.
Speaker 2: No I could drink I could drink pea that was
Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety degrees and I wouldn't know. You'll try,
Speaker 2: and I tell you how steros to improve it.
Speaker 1: It's sterile, Jack, and I'm tired.
Speaker 2: It's tired of saying it's a sterile COVID cure. But
Speaker 2: here we are, here.
Speaker 1: We are of well Ia. Such a pleasure having you
Speaker 1: on the show. Where can people find you? Follow you,
Speaker 1: watch your movie, all that good stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm on all the socials. The film is on
Speaker 4: all the socials as well, So the film is just
Speaker 4: just American Ish film. It's also on our website americanishfilm
Speaker 4: dot com. You can go there and see our all
Speaker 4: of our upcoming theatrical release stuff that's happening. And you
Speaker 4: can just find me at Isaa Fatima. And we actually
Speaker 4: in New York have a stand up show coming up
Speaker 4: called Muslim Girls DTF who stands for discuss their faith?
Speaker 4: Wink wink.
Speaker 1: It's part of what else?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You did, that's right? What you think? Is there something.
Speaker 2: Something?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So that's going to be a part of New York
Speaker 4: Comedy Festival this year on November fourth, s City Wine
Speaker 4: Ery in New York and then maybe we'll take it
Speaker 4: on the road and come to another other cities as well.
Speaker 1: Dope.
Speaker 2: And the movie is going to be on demand too, yeah,
Speaker 2: at some point as well.
Speaker 4: It actually is. And I can't share that information at home,
Speaker 4: but I will, Okay, No, I like that that it Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 4: let's let the ink dry real quick.
Speaker 2: And I know that theatrically it's New York, Arizona, and California.
Speaker 2: Did I read that correctly?
Speaker 4: For American issues? It's coming theatrically in those three states
Speaker 4: for now.
Speaker 1: And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 4: So there's a writer who I know. His name is
Speaker 4: Saber Peersa that he just recently posted this on Instagram
Speaker 4: and I ordered the book. But he was a writer
Speaker 4: on Moonnight? Are We one of the better? I feel
Speaker 4: like it's one of my favorite shows in the genre.
Speaker 4: He posted a link to a book that a bunch
Speaker 4: of Hollywood writers on strike have created, like a picture book.
Speaker 4: It's called Elves and the Shoe Upmakers. And if you
Speaker 4: buy these books, all of the proceeds, one hundred percent
Speaker 4: of them go to artists currently on strike.
Speaker 2: Oh dope, Okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And they have an Instagram and you can find
Speaker 4: them there.
Speaker 2: No oskay, Now when to get that Elves and the Shoemaker.
Speaker 1: Okay, Miles, where can people find you? Is there a
Speaker 1: workimedia you've been enjoying?
Speaker 2: You can find me pretty much everywhere at Miles of
Speaker 2: Gray if you're able to input something like that into
Speaker 2: the social media platform. And also find Jack and I
Speaker 2: on our basketball podcast, Miles and Jack Got mad Man.
Speaker 2: You can also find me on the true crime show
Speaker 2: The Good Thief. Or we're on the search for the
Speaker 2: Greek Robin Hood who was actually kidnapping millionaires and redistributing
Speaker 2: the wealth to the people that kind of needed it,
Speaker 2: but also including himself too, We're not gonna lie, and
Speaker 2: also he needed it too, but also the farmer that
Speaker 2: he stole the tractor from to do a bank robbery.
Speaker 2: He got some cash to you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: And a note that says sorry, I had to use
Speaker 2: your tractor. I filled it up with gas. I'll do
Speaker 2: some cash, no hard feelings, and also find me on
Speaker 2: four to twenty talking about ninety day fiance with Sophia Alexandra.
Speaker 2: Let's see a tweet or.
Speaker 1: Why oh he needed a tractor to do a bank
Speaker 1: robbery like I Jack. Everybody's wondering this. Those those are
Speaker 1: so slow. There's the slow vehicles on the highway, slowest vegas.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you need just.
Speaker 2: To be an obstruction in a road, you know, so
Speaker 2: you can make your speedy getaway. It's not like you
Speaker 2: like this is my getaway tractor.
Speaker 1: Right. Oh okay, gotta got it all right.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you need the horsepower to move some things, you know.
Speaker 2: Let's just tune into the show. Tune into the show
Speaker 2: and too. I like it is from Eliza Skinner at
Speaker 2: Eliza Skinner tweeted The thing about the Hollywood strikes that
Speaker 2: I don't see anyone covering is the blatant disregard and
Speaker 2: total lack of respect that the AMPTP has for the audience,
Speaker 2: their customers. They're committed to making them pay more and
Speaker 2: more for a lower quality product. This thread goes on
Speaker 2: they don't care what the audience wants, and they don't
Speaker 2: care about making better content for them. They only care
Speaker 2: about making cheaper content, for instance, room size. These companies
Speaker 2: have learned that you can make a sitcom with fewer writers,
Speaker 2: so that's what they want to do. And it goes
Speaker 2: on for more, like a little bit more. But it's
Speaker 2: it's truly a thing that I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people are missing, even consumers themselves, is that this whole
Speaker 2: thing is them also trying to dumb down, like what
Speaker 2: we're just calling it content. It's not art, it's not television,
Speaker 2: it's not cinema. It's fucking content to serve ads in
Speaker 2: front of or just to siphon up subscriptions. Yeah. So anyway,
Speaker 2: I think that is something that we can talk about more.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore, O'Brien
Speaker 1: and and on threads if Elon Musk decides to make
Speaker 1: me pay for Twitter at Jack Underscore, Oh underscore, Brian Uh.
Speaker 1: Some tweets that I've been enjoying. Harris and wy Rob's
Speaker 1: tweeted two truths and a lie, Oh you mean a
Speaker 1: regular conversation? Cold Healing tweeted it's cute how they call
Speaker 1: a arugula rocket in Europe because they never figured out
Speaker 1: how to go to space and that word was open
Speaker 1: and then drill tweeted. Gaming scholars are now agreeing that
Speaker 1: Luigi's mansion became haunted from a quote jonestown situation. You
Speaker 1: find us on Twitter at daily Zeikeist. We're at the
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Speaker 1: episode done, our footnote throw link off to the information
Speaker 1: that we talked about in today's episode, as well as
Speaker 1: a song that we think you might enjoy. Hey, Miles, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I do. Just want to remind everybody yesterday's
Speaker 1: was absolutely absolute master class bang banger.
Speaker 2: It was a banger.
Speaker 1: Been listening to it NonStop. So I just want to
Speaker 1: give a nod to that one, the one about uh,
Speaker 1: you know, jerking man NonStop, endless drinking man and just a.
Speaker 2: Lot of London slaying that you're gonna have to Probably
Speaker 2: some people might laugh at you as you said it.
Speaker 1: So good is like a techno mixed with rap song
Speaker 1: that it is. But do you have a new one?
Speaker 2: I mean I've got a new one. It's it's look,
Speaker 2: you can't you can't just have non stop neck breakers
Speaker 2: on here. We're going to be held liable for any
Speaker 2: kind of neck injury.
Speaker 1: Okay for just just just pulling off the doors to
Speaker 1: get sued for a million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but guess what, we'll fight it. We'll fight that, Okay.
Speaker 2: So what I want to do is something I've been
Speaker 2: listening to a lot of slowed down you see on YouTube,
Speaker 2: because that's just like on TikTok you just see a
Speaker 2: lot of like just tracks that you're so familiar with, Like,
Speaker 2: how about if we do the half pace with the
Speaker 2: most haunting reverb. But this is a version of Big
Speaker 2: Thiefs track simulation Swarm, but it's the slow down reverb
Speaker 2: version and that guitar solo, it's like it kind of
Speaker 2: hits like Joeline at half speed. Because I really like
Speaker 2: this track in general. I love I love the lead
Speaker 2: singer and her songwriter and yeah, anyway, it's all good.
Speaker 2: It's all good.
Speaker 1: So this is simulations.
Speaker 2: You know, her majesty kind of gives you know, puts
Speaker 2: those Caucasian artists in front of me, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: And I'm like.
Speaker 6: Rhythms yeah, but that guitar solo is fucking wild out,
Speaker 6: like to the point where I was just on a
Speaker 6: YouTube rabbit hole trying to see if people could even
Speaker 6: rip the solo the same way that I think Adrian
Speaker 6: is the name of the singer of Big Thief.
Speaker 2: How they play it. So anyway, check this out, but
Speaker 2: just search simulation, swarm, reverb, slow down YouTube check this
Speaker 2: out as haunted.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, well we will link off to that
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