Speaker 1: Although today is really busy. We're hosting the podcast awards.
Speaker 2: So you're hosting the podcast.
Speaker 1: Awards, and we squeeze you in.
Speaker 3: We're in Austin right now, about to hop in a
Speaker 3: hop in a bus over to the theaters.
Speaker 4: Oh that's why you guys couldn't record in person. I
Speaker 4: was going to say, I was trying to find a
Speaker 4: time in Los Angeles. I just got back from Los
Speaker 4: Angeles yesterday, but I figured I was only there for
Speaker 4: the weekend, so.
Speaker 1: That you also haven't recorded since since before the And.
Speaker 3: I mean we have like once or twice, but it's
Speaker 3: like we what it was actually last year at south By,
Speaker 3: we like recorded in the same room and it was
Speaker 3: like so weird. Let's just like go to our own
Speaker 3: hotel rooms and like do zoom. We're used to the delay.
Speaker 3: I can't keep up with Miles without the delay, you know.
Speaker 3: So now we're we're in I think Jack might literally
Speaker 3: be mere feet below me in the on the separate floor.
Speaker 2: The way it should be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it should sound as stale as most of the recordings.
Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three, seventy nine,
Speaker 1: episode two of.
Speaker 2: Der Day's Eye Geist. It's a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: It's a podcast where we take a deep dive into
Speaker 1: American share consciousness. That it is Tuesday, March eleventh, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. Hell, what a Monday it was yesterday? Mm hmm,
Speaker 1: glad it's over checked. You should y'all.
Speaker 3: Y'all don't know, just got the hostess with the mostests
Speaker 3: on the iHeart Podcast Awards.
Speaker 1: But hey, let's not take the focus away from today.
Speaker 3: Three eleven Okay, shout out to my favorite rap rock group,
Speaker 3: three eleven because.
Speaker 1: Amber is all I can figure parts right now?
Speaker 2: What's the three eleven one?
Speaker 1: Amber?
Speaker 2: Who? Amber is the color of your energy?
Speaker 1: Nah?
Speaker 2: What's the other one?
Speaker 1: Down?
Speaker 3: Down?
Speaker 1: Down exactly? I want? Like, that's how the dude was rapping?
Speaker 5: Bro?
Speaker 1: You know that? Do you know why they're actually called that?
Speaker 2: You know? K eleventh eleventh K I know.
Speaker 3: And they had to come out and be like, dude,
Speaker 3: we are not on some KKK ship.
Speaker 1: That was like the of the New York Public Service
Speaker 1: Public I think it was.
Speaker 3: Something about like the school they went to a Nebraska
Speaker 3: I think they're from Nebraska.
Speaker 1: Or some ship anyway.
Speaker 3: Ask It's also National FUDO Director of Mortician Recognition Day,
Speaker 3: National promposal day. Don't be racist out here with some
Speaker 3: fuckery with your prom polls.
Speaker 1: In fact, fuck it. I don't want don't do stuff ship.
Speaker 3: You know people always like, yeah, the people always do
Speaker 3: some black face that ship. They were like, I should
Speaker 3: be picking cotton, but instead I picked you for you know,
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: I knew exactly what you were talking about, and you
Speaker 2: were like, don't do the racist stuff.
Speaker 3: There's always so know why this is like, this is
Speaker 3: like white kids first dabble into like edgy racist ship
Speaker 3: thinking it's all.
Speaker 2: And so they just go right to racism.
Speaker 1: Well, I hear it all the time at home and
Speaker 1: it's acceptable.
Speaker 3: My mom think thought this was funny when I workshopped
Speaker 3: it with her national worship of Tools day.
Speaker 1: This is so wild.
Speaker 3: Okay, shout out Tesla owners and national Johnny apple Seed Day.
Speaker 3: All right, well, shout out to Johnny apple Seed. My
Speaker 3: son was asking me like the difference. He was like,
Speaker 3: what they are like some myths that are real?
Speaker 2: Right? He was like, like.
Speaker 1: The guy with the giant blue ox, that's not real.
Speaker 2: I was like, correct, he was like, but Johnny.
Speaker 1: Appleseed is real. I was like, I guess kind of
Speaker 1: sounds like it shouldn't be. But yeah, I mean, just
Speaker 1: a guy playing a bunch of apples, dude, I mean,
Speaker 1: what a superpower to have. My name is Jack O'Brien
Speaker 1: aka Potatoes O'Brien, and I'm thrilled to be joined as
Speaker 1: always buy my co host, mister Miles Great, Miles.
Speaker 3: Great, AKA, you've got a fascist car. Elon's a man
Speaker 3: who's boot you can lick pusting down to Tesla store.
Speaker 3: France knows how to deal with old legark shit.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Shout out to hanahamic View for that one.
Speaker 3: Fast I was also I heard like a country version
Speaker 3: of Fast Car while in Austin and that felt violent. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just like, yeah, I've got a Fireou's car or and
Speaker 3: I'm like, hold on, who's.
Speaker 2: You just have a Southern access singing it?
Speaker 3: No, this was a full on there was slide guitar
Speaker 3: in everything. This was the country version of Fast Car.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Texas Baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and I guess, oh, I think it's the
Speaker 3: Luke Combs version. Probably that's the first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the one, doesn't he the one who
Speaker 1: like did it at the Grammys and then brought out
Speaker 1: Tracy Chapman and by comparison. Everyone was like, Tracy Chapman
Speaker 1: is the greatest musician.
Speaker 2: Of all time. Yeah right, people, I guess had.
Speaker 1: Only heard his version, and we're like.
Speaker 2: Whoa, that's so fucked up.
Speaker 3: Oh that makes sense, okay, so right, that was the
Speaker 3: reason the revival happened. So I guess hearing it now knowing,
Speaker 3: I guess as a as a millennial from born in
Speaker 3: the eighties, like I know the original work, it's just again,
Speaker 3: hearing it was upsetting. So let's just let the Tracy
Speaker 3: Chapman version bangl but.
Speaker 1: Remake as like remake that most fell short of the original,
Speaker 1: you know, right?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Also, the girl put your records on like what viral
Speaker 4: during the pandemic, but the cover band what viral? Like
Speaker 4: it was at They were called writ Momney or something.
Speaker 4: And I think I think we just need to make
Speaker 4: covers illegal. Like if you love this song that much,
Speaker 4: just tell your followers is stream the original?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. There has to be like a guilt.
Speaker 3: At a certain point, you're like, y'all please, it really
Speaker 3: isn't me, it's it's the original work. Yeah, literally, sorry
Speaker 3: I did that.
Speaker 2: Oak Ja Bryan.
Speaker 1: That doesn't work to the village rit momney was a
Speaker 1: pretty good one. Miles were thrilled to be joined in
Speaker 1: air a third seat by a hilarious comedian who's about
Speaker 1: to make her off Broadway debut with her stand up
Speaker 1: show How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents. She's also the
Speaker 1: creator of Emily and Paris.
Speaker 6: It's Abby govern Da.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Hey guys, I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 2: Not the creator of Emily in Paris.
Speaker 4: That was just a massive information campaign, man, that was
Speaker 4: extremely successful.
Speaker 2: So what happened you after?
Speaker 3: After Emily in Paris was somehow nominated for Best Comedy
Speaker 3: Series at the Golden Globes, you just were like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 3: I created the best Comedy Series, and like started saying
Speaker 3: some wild shit about Emily in Paris. And this is
Speaker 3: the tweet February twenty.
Speaker 4: The original viral was like, as the creator Emily in Paris,
Speaker 4: I just say, why the fuck were we nominated for
Speaker 4: a Golden Globe?
Speaker 2: My curse? Yeah, yeah, why the were we nominated for
Speaker 2: Golden Globe?
Speaker 4: I made that show as a frank and then like
Speaker 4: several news that lets like tweeted it as if it
Speaker 4: was real and I got reached out to by like
Speaker 4: the BBC. I talked about it in my solo show.
Speaker 4: Actually it's a lot of fun and it was a
Speaker 4: lot of fun, Like it was a very fun month
Speaker 4: that that went viral.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were like a prank.
Speaker 4: Whoa yeah, yeah, I like got back to the past
Speaker 4: and the crew and the actual creator.
Speaker 2: It was insane, like it's it is really funny.
Speaker 4: I was like twenty two and living with my parents
Speaker 4: when this went viral.
Speaker 2: It was in like twenty twenty one. The BBC is
Speaker 2: on the phone. Yeah, then that's it.
Speaker 4: It was just like this show is so bad that
Speaker 4: people earnestly thought that like some twenty three year old
Speaker 4: who lives with her parents like made the show. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was really it was a fun time to be
Speaker 4: on the internet. It was it was like free posts woke,
Speaker 4: Like it was fun to still be on the internet.
Speaker 4: Like being racist still had consequences in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: Days, remember that vaguely now now.
Speaker 4: Like if you're racist on the internet, they hand you
Speaker 4: like a two hundred million dollars podcast deal and like
Speaker 4: a TV series. Back in my day, back when at
Speaker 4: the peak of woke, there used to still be consequences
Speaker 4: for being racist.
Speaker 2: That was fun. Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 4: You tweeted a slur and people would like tweet out
Speaker 4: your home address and like text your high school and like,
Speaker 4: you know, make sure make sure you didn't get hired
Speaker 4: for a work for another decade. Now, Like you tweet
Speaker 4: out a slur, you get a million followers and a
Speaker 4: podcast deal.
Speaker 2: It's crazy, it's crazy work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're like, hey, man, do you want to
Speaker 3: be the new face of Black Rifle Coffee?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, literally, why not?
Speaker 3: I just like that one of the tweets that you
Speaker 3: did in that sort of string of the Emily and
Speaker 3: Paris off. Yes, I am an Indian woman who created
Speaker 3: a show about a white girl in Paris. Why would
Speaker 3: I care about telling diverse stories when I can tell
Speaker 3: not diverse stories and make twenty million dollars from it.
Speaker 2: You guys did your research. This is hilarious. Is so funny.
Speaker 1: All right, Abby, 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 the listeners a couple of things we're talking
Speaker 1: about today. We're going to talk about poor jd Vance
Speaker 1: getting her asked by people that he had to walk
Speaker 1: three miles to talk to and We're going to talk
Speaker 1: about Trump comparing himself to Elvis, which I think is
Speaker 1: the first apt comparison he's made between himself and a
Speaker 1: historical figure. We'll ask the question whether being a fascist
Speaker 1: asshole could possibly be bad for business in certain consequences.
Speaker 1: Certainly not in most circumstances, but maybe in the tesla
Speaker 1: version of things. So we'll talk about that, and we'll
Speaker 1: check with Mickey seventeen the Loungeon Hose new movie. I
Speaker 1: didn't see it yet. It came out. It didn't do bad,
Speaker 1: but it didn't do great, considering that it cost one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen million dollars to make. So we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that as compared to next week's big movie, The
Speaker 1: Electric State from the Rousseau Brothers, The brother Beyond the
Speaker 1: Aventure Movies. That one's at twenty three percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 2: And it costs like three hundred and twenty million.
Speaker 1: To me, it is one of, if not the most
Speaker 1: expensive movie of all time. Oh, oh shit, do you
Speaker 1: have a new Cutthroat Island?
Speaker 2: I mean, oh, we might, we might have you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a while for Sabboths Cutthroat Island. Yeah,
Speaker 3: But before we get to any of that shit.
Speaker 6: Abby.
Speaker 1: We do like to ask our guests, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
Speaker 2: Oh, I looked up young Joni Mitchell. I did not
Speaker 2: know who Joni Mitchell was. And I have a defense.
Speaker 4: So, like when I was in middle school, in high school,
Speaker 4: I used to get made fun of for not knowing
Speaker 4: classic rock or like any of those rock folk bands.
Speaker 4: Like my friends were really big fans of like Kiss
Speaker 4: and you know the Yeah.
Speaker 2: Definitely, And I didn't know this.
Speaker 4: And then I realized as an adult that the reason
Speaker 4: I didn't know those bands is because my friends parents
Speaker 4: grew up in America, And so your parents grew up
Speaker 4: in America.
Speaker 2: They were kids. When they listened to that, they put
Speaker 2: you onto it.
Speaker 4: When you're growing up with them, they're like, oh, this
Speaker 4: is what I listened to when I was twelve. My
Speaker 4: parents are immigrants, like they grew up in India, So
Speaker 4: my parents were fluent in English when they immigrated here,
Speaker 4: but there were certain things that they listened to NonStop
Speaker 4: to help them master conversational American English because they learned
Speaker 4: like British English in the schools. So like my parents
Speaker 4: when they first immigrated here. They had the Britney Spears album,
Speaker 4: they had the Backstreet Boys album, and they watched Seinfeld
Speaker 4: and Friends NonStop to like see how Americans talk to
Speaker 4: each other. So like back I know that there was
Speaker 4: a Backstreet Boys versus in Sync like war in the
Speaker 4: nineties and everyone was seen in sync. I was seen
Speaker 4: Backstreet Boys because that album was like on repeat in
Speaker 4: the car.
Speaker 3: Which Millennium, Yeah yeah, that one, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: So I was so anyway, Amanda Seyfried went on Jimmy
Speaker 4: Fallon and She's in California by Joni Mitchell and it's
Speaker 4: a beautiful song.
Speaker 2: It was my first time hearing it ever, like a
Speaker 2: couple of days ago.
Speaker 4: And then everyone on Twitter was like, Amanda Seifreed needs
Speaker 4: to play Joni Mitchell on the biopick, And.
Speaker 2: I was like, who is Joni Mitchell?
Speaker 4: Like every now and then, like some like classic rock
Speaker 4: or folk singer goes viral on the Internet because everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 4: who's going to play them in the biopick? This person
Speaker 4: that we all know and are familiar with. And I
Speaker 4: had never heard of Joni Mitchell before I had this
Speaker 4: was my first time here one of her songs. So
Speaker 4: I did like an extreme deep dive on her a
Speaker 4: couple of days ago, and I'm impressed. I have to say,
Speaker 4: Amanda Sidford should play her and the biopic. Also, her
Speaker 4: songs are just very beautiful. And of course I listened
Speaker 4: to a lot of folk songs that come out in
Speaker 4: like the twenty first century, and it was cool to
Speaker 4: listen to Joni Mitchell's songs because I can hear the
Speaker 4: kind of origins of modern folk music obviously go back
Speaker 4: to like Jonie's songs that she was releasing in the seventies,
Speaker 4: eighties and nineties.
Speaker 1: Wow, we're getting a lot of like young actors performing
Speaker 1: folk song.
Speaker 2: Like it didn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Timothy Shallomet performed like a Bob as Bob Dylan
Speaker 3: on Yeah Bob.
Speaker 4: Dylan, another person that I didn't know until like people
Speaker 4: started talking about him last year.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were both good looking people when they were young.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: Well shout out to the Backstreet Boys, I think correctly.
Speaker 1: I think he three judges the Backstreet Boys favorably over Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wait, did Amanda Seipfried when she was performing with Joni Mitchell?
Speaker 3: Did she do it when Joni Mitchell did blackface or
Speaker 3: the other.
Speaker 2: Time Joni Mitchell did blackface. Yeah, bro, yeah, I kind
Speaker 2: of loved to do it. I feel like a couple
Speaker 2: of times.
Speaker 3: But she had a character that she called art nouveau,
Speaker 3: what she called her black face character.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah, yeah. She picked up Joni Mitchell
Speaker 2: for me so quickly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, it.
Speaker 3: Was the music bangs, but there was there's a there's
Speaker 3: a whole I'm like, pretty sure's a whole Wikipedia section.
Speaker 2: Ok, that's crazy.
Speaker 4: See this is why you like when you're When I'm
Speaker 4: a fan of a white person in their eighties, I'm
Speaker 4: always like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, here's praying.
Speaker 4: Let me go in the Wikipedia controversy section and hope
Speaker 4: that it's not too much of.
Speaker 2: A war zone in there.
Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety four, where she told the La Weekly,
Speaker 3: I write like a black poet. I frequently write from
Speaker 3: a black perspective.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean she's basically black, so that she should
Speaker 1: get to do it, you know, to get to fill
Speaker 1: the black face. I feel, yeah, yeah, you want to
Speaker 1: Ji Mitchell great black artists. I think you're right though.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting point about like, because when I got
Speaker 3: to middle school and everybody was into the doors and
Speaker 3: led Zeppelin, I was definitely starting from zero because my
Speaker 3: parents were like into Billy Joel and Shade, and like
Speaker 3: I never they never played like classic rock for me,
Speaker 3: that was just like not a thing that existed in
Speaker 3: our house. And then and then like yeah, got caught up,
Speaker 3: But that that is kind of an interesting idea of like, yeah,
Speaker 3: what your parents were into does shape.
Speaker 1: Like your whole kind of background of music. Now I
Speaker 1: only listen to you know, shitty R and B from
Speaker 1: the eighties.
Speaker 2: Now listen to Billy Joel and.
Speaker 1: All right, Abby, what is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 2: Underrated?
Speaker 4: I am listening to a lot of South Asian musicians
Speaker 4: who I just don't think get their flowers enough. Like
Speaker 4: I think that there's just so many talented young musicians
Speaker 4: who are sonically just taking.
Speaker 2: A lot of risks, and I feel like it.
Speaker 4: I feel like I have bought in early if that
Speaker 4: makes sense, Like I feel like I'm buying apple Stock
Speaker 4: in the eighties by being fans of these people on
Speaker 4: you know, Spotify when they have like ten twenty thousand
Speaker 4: monthly listeners. There's this one musician whose new album I'm
Speaker 4: obsessed with. His name is b J the Music Man,
Speaker 4: Like that's his like stage name, and he has this
Speaker 4: amazing album that just blew up to like two million,
Speaker 4: three million streams kind of not kind of out of nowhere,
Speaker 4: but two million, three million streams is like really really
Speaker 4: impressive for your debut album. But the song, I mean,
Speaker 4: the album is just that, like every song is just
Speaker 4: like so pleasurable to listen to. You can tell that
Speaker 4: there was a lot of intention and care into the
Speaker 4: crafting of the song and the production of the music.
Speaker 4: And I love him, Like I hope he blows up
Speaker 4: and gets the TikTok fame and the Spotify checks and
Speaker 4: the accolades that like so many other young viral musicians
Speaker 4: get to experience now, Like I'd love to see like
Speaker 4: a young Indian dude get those kinds of accolades, you know.
Speaker 4: So I'm like really excited for his career and seeing
Speaker 4: where he goes.
Speaker 1: V J VJ dub music man. Yeah, yeah, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're jumping in early. Like his SEO isn't
Speaker 1: very good even like he's.
Speaker 4: But it's about to be better. I mean, I've given
Speaker 4: all of that this episode, oh I hope. So, I
Speaker 4: mean given all about the fact that his debut album
Speaker 4: is so streamed is just like so impressive to me.
Speaker 4: It's called mind Altering Substance, and it kind of every
Speaker 4: song is I believe. I saw on his Instagram that
Speaker 4: he like studied psychology or pre matter something, so he
Speaker 4: has an extensive knowledge of the brain and so every
Speaker 4: song is meant to evoke like some sort of brain sensation.
Speaker 3: Really cool, Yeah, I liked I like this sort of
Speaker 3: style of like like these Indian artists, Like he's using
Speaker 3: his background with like, you know, studying the brain his music. Then,
Speaker 3: like you know, when that dude Hanuman kind had that
Speaker 3: fucking track blow up over the summer, like, I'm like,
Speaker 3: it makes sense for a guy with a finance background
Speaker 3: to then be rapping like on some ball or ship.
Speaker 3: He's like, well, obviously I'm stayed with finance, so I'm
Speaker 3: going to learn how to stunt that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is from Houston as well, so that's cool.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I think there's definitely I think they're on
Speaker 3: their way, well on their way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is that why so many rappers are endorsing Trump now?
Speaker 1: Is because of that connection between finance and.
Speaker 4: Maybe Hanuman Tide got in trouble for performing for Nrandra
Speaker 4: Modi who is the Trump of India? Like if yous,
Speaker 4: like if you took Donald Trump and made him like
Speaker 4: a hundred times worse and and like everyone was kind
Speaker 4: of like, hey, like your music is literally about like
Speaker 4: one of your.
Speaker 1: Lyrics the state hip hop bro.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah exactly. I mean the India rap scene is
Speaker 4: really cool. Actually so v or divine. I forget how
Speaker 4: it's pronounced as like one of the big rappers to
Speaker 4: like make Indian rap mainstream. And what happened is there's
Speaker 4: something called the cast system in India, and people who
Speaker 4: were born lower casts are just kind of cast to
Speaker 4: the side by society. I mean, lowercast people are more
Speaker 4: likely to experience violence, more likely to experience like police
Speaker 4: brutality and stuff. And so rap was kind of a
Speaker 4: very serious art form in that of you, which is
Speaker 4: the slums of Mumbai. And so a lot of these
Speaker 4: rappers came from the slums of Mumbai because they were
Speaker 4: talking about like all of the discrimination that they face
Speaker 4: in their music. And the Indian rap songs are all
Speaker 4: in Hindi or Marati like their local languages, but you
Speaker 4: can really hear the sounds of how Black American hip hop,
Speaker 4: you know, inspired Indian rap, and then Indian rap hit
Speaker 4: the world stage when the Bollywood movie gully Boy starring
Speaker 4: rend Vier Sing. Rend Verer Sing is like this heart
Speaker 4: throb in India that everyone's obsessed with. And the movie
Speaker 4: and the soundtrack were both produced by NOV. And so
Speaker 4: that's really cool that NOV, who was like a pioneer
Speaker 4: of rap music in the United States, then decided to
Speaker 4: go to India and help them like make the art
Speaker 4: of rap mainstream there as well, and so to kind
Speaker 4: of become a famous rapper. And he you know, he's
Speaker 4: from Houston, but he got signed to an Indian music label,
Speaker 4: like he was producing rap in India. But to then
Speaker 4: like go and perform for Neurandermady. Everyone was like, come on, dude,
Speaker 4: like this is not what the art form of and
Speaker 4: like you know what rap is.
Speaker 3: He's like, oh what's Oh really, all the great hip
Speaker 3: hop artists perform for their shitty leaders.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Look in America you have net New and Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 6: Yeah exactly, Yeah, was.
Speaker 1: On Fuck Trump and he's performing for Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, let me say, like a Vibe shift just
Speaker 4: sixteen in twenty twenty four is like insane, like Oscar
Speaker 4: Dilla renta dressed Share advance, and all those big fashion
Speaker 4: houses were like testing in twenty sixteen. They're like, we're
Speaker 4: not dressing their Republicans. Now all of them are dressing
Speaker 4: their republic It's so crazy to see.
Speaker 3: We're gonna see some long ass ties on the runways
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 4: Am I gonna get you guys in trouble by the
Speaker 4: way for talking politics?
Speaker 1: No, no, that's kind of what we do.
Speaker 3: No, you perfect, Like you said, you've listened to this show.
Speaker 3: We've we've been all we get ourselves in trouble.
Speaker 4: I mean, let me say, liked in politics is like
Speaker 4: so controversial. So I'm so sorry in advance if I
Speaker 4: get you death threats because of this.
Speaker 1: Oh no, well, the music side of it, I will say,
Speaker 1: this is exactly what what I look for when we
Speaker 1: have somebody on who is you know, young enough to
Speaker 1: be my daughter? It's it's cool to be put onto
Speaker 1: like a new world of music that I knew nothing about.
Speaker 1: So yeah, thank you for that.
Speaker 2: That's very Yeah, of course, Wait, am I young enough
Speaker 2: to be? You did say that you had a son?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got two of them in thirty eight. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're thirty eight years old. But yeah, you're you're technically
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, forty four and you're twenty.
Speaker 2: Two, right, I'm twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven, you're twenty two when you did the Emily
Speaker 1: in Paris in Paris.
Speaker 2: All right, sorry, I got that number in my brain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and my brain don't work so good now on
Speaker 1: account of the forty four seventeen Yeah, I possible. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 4: I mean it's not overrated, It's like decidedly not overrated.
Speaker 4: I just haven't watched Separance yet, so I just like
Speaker 4: feel left out when people are talking about it. But
Speaker 4: now it's like everywhere people are like, oh I checked
Speaker 4: in the Luman, My Audi is like this, my India
Speaker 4: is like this, and I'm like I.
Speaker 2: Gotta just get you know, I just I got to
Speaker 2: just get Apple TV.
Speaker 4: But the thing is, like with every other streaming service,
Speaker 4: I just like text my friends like, hey, can I
Speaker 4: have your password? But I guess Apple TV is the
Speaker 4: one that they make it pretty hard to share, Like you.
Speaker 2: Have to like you really have to get your face.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's Apple TV to FaceTime somebody and watch it
Speaker 3: off their TV and they'll FaceTime in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, easy Yeah, Apple TV I think is overrated, but
Speaker 4: I should.
Speaker 2: I should get it, Like it's the only reason it's
Speaker 2: overrated to me is because I don't have it.
Speaker 4: And you know, everyone's ted Lasso didn't work on me.
Speaker 4: Like everyone was like watching and obsessed with ted Lasso,
Speaker 4: and I was like, and I survived ted Lasso in
Speaker 4: the sense that, like I went through that press cycle
Speaker 4: and I didn't get Apple TV.
Speaker 2: So I was like, man, if a TV show is like.
Speaker 4: Gripping and genuine as head Lasto doesn't get me to,
Speaker 4: you know, sign up for Apple TV.
Speaker 2: Wait, lost me truly.
Speaker 4: But Severance, like my friends like live and Die by Severance,
Speaker 4: Like I have not heard a single negative thing about Severance,
Speaker 4: So that's gonna be the one that gets me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like, yeah, I I generally am like
Speaker 3: a month late at least on shit like this, so
Speaker 3: I'll like let it happen.
Speaker 2: And then if.
Speaker 1: People are like, oh that actually they like stuck the
Speaker 1: landing and everything's good, but you do miss out on
Speaker 1: the highs and lows of everybody. Yeah, they were like
Speaker 1: that last episode sucked, it ruined the thing, and then
Speaker 1: like the next episode they're like they actually redeemed the
Speaker 1: last episode, We're well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've preferred a wait until like a show is
Speaker 4: out completely so that because I remember when my friends
Speaker 4: were really into severn in twenty twenty two and then
Speaker 4: they had to wait three years for season two. Like
Speaker 4: I would much rather just like sit down and watch
Speaker 4: it all at once then go through it with everyone else.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Especially it has like a mystery box element to it
Speaker 1: where it's like it's like Lost. I feel like Lost
Speaker 1: really shaped me in this way. Like I I quit
Speaker 1: on Lost, right. I think it was the second episode
Speaker 1: of season two. I was like, Oh, they actually don't
Speaker 1: know what they're doing, Like they don't know the answer
Speaker 1: to all the questions that I want answers to.
Speaker 2: And I was right for that.
Speaker 1: So now I will quit on a show so fast.
Speaker 1: I will just yeah the I'm the most die easy
Speaker 1: fan in the world.
Speaker 2: When it comes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was like, let it go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's too precious, but yeah, Severan's really having a
Speaker 1: moment right now.
Speaker 2: Is it? Are you done with the season or is
Speaker 2: it still coming out? It's still coming out, goddamn. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I will say the first season was I think one
Speaker 1: of the better seasons of TV that I've seen so
Speaker 1: shout out to Severn.
Speaker 2: Miles.
Speaker 1: To your point, the filmmaker Ben Steeler has said, the
Speaker 1: way that it's intended to be watched is uh via
Speaker 1: FaceTime with a friend showing you their screen on face time.
Speaker 2: I think, okay, you see it, well, you won't turn
Speaker 2: it up.
Speaker 3: Hold on, yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1: He's the director of U. I think he directs most
Speaker 1: of the episodes, right, he's definitely like the creator and
Speaker 1: directed some of them, like including the pilot.
Speaker 2: Good to Know.
Speaker 1: Okay, see, you'll see a lot of Zoolander in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot he directed. What else did he direct Zulander?
Speaker 1: He directed Zoolander Tropics under Reality Bites is a weird one.
Speaker 1: He directed Reality Bites, like the most nineties ass movie
Speaker 1: where they're just like like, yeah, he directed Cable Guy.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 3: come back and we'll talk some news.
Speaker 6: We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back. And the fallout from the Trump administration abandoning
Speaker 1: their partnership their ally Ukraine has continued. It's just it's
Speaker 1: not that popular. It's not that popular. I'm not in
Speaker 1: my head this morning, before we even started talking about
Speaker 1: taking a shower, singing, I just wake up with the
Speaker 1: randommest ship in my head, and I was also I
Speaker 1: had an in Sync song in my head this morning,
Speaker 1: looking weird. No rhyme or reason. I was listening to
Speaker 1: n Sync last night. It's just comes comes up in
Speaker 1: my I like that. You're saying that as if you
Speaker 1: were listening to in Sync last night.
Speaker 3: You're like, I was not listening at none.
Speaker 1: Read the allegations around me listening to n sink last night.
Speaker 3: Uh that's not I'm just saying I must have spent
Speaker 3: a little more time on you, dude. So anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 3: over the weekend, Dad Vance sorry Jadie Vance, woke up
Speaker 3: to a group of protesters near his home in Cincinnati
Speaker 3: that were again not pleased that he continues to be
Speaker 3: a skin bag made for regurgitating Kremlin talking points, especially
Speaker 3: when it was, you know, talks about stuff in Ukraine
Speaker 3: and you know Trump is already freezing intelligence sharing with Ukrainians,
Speaker 3: and you're like, what the fuck is going on? He's like,
Speaker 3: but that's almost done, because Zelenski did apologize, but also Loki,
Speaker 3: I am helping Putin.
Speaker 2: Let's not get it.
Speaker 3: Fucked up, so but he has to continue to act
Speaker 3: like there's this other struggle happening to sort of justify
Speaker 3: why he's trying to give Russian some kind of Russia
Speaker 3: some kind of tactical advantage. But then a lot of
Speaker 3: Americans are still under this belief, you know, from the
Speaker 3: movies and you know the propaganda over the years that
Speaker 3: America stands with its allies. You know, we stand with
Speaker 3: there the same way we expect those allies to stand
Speaker 3: with us when we do illegal wars in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: Stand by us.
Speaker 3: And the willing, yeah, or Coalition of the coerce, I
Speaker 3: don't know, whatever it is they got involved, sullied their images,
Speaker 3: such a weak ass name to the Coalition of the Willing, Jesus,
Speaker 3: that's the best you they're willing to go along with this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like I know, I invited like seventy people to
Speaker 3: my birthday party, but shout out to the three homies
Speaker 3: that came because your parents felt bad for me.
Speaker 1: I call this the Coalition of the Willing. They should
Speaker 1: have like gone with Coalition of the Rider dies or something,
Speaker 1: but they want like coalition of the Willing, Like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the empire pros I think maybe that would have
Speaker 3: worked better, bros. But anyway, they weren't happy about what's
Speaker 3: happening with Russia or the America completely, just doing a
Speaker 3: one to eighty on everything. And you know, jd Vance
Speaker 3: had an interaction with some of these people. This is
Speaker 3: how he described his interaction with some protesters. Quote today
Speaker 3: while walking my three year old daughter, walking my three
Speaker 3: year old daughter, Okay, a group of Yeah, this is
Speaker 3: a tweet that he put out of leash.
Speaker 2: So it's actually not as bad as it sounds.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's in general, he thinks people need to be walked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, they always like to walk at night. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on, but anyway, he goes. I was.
Speaker 3: I was stopped by a group of Slavo Krainy protesters
Speaker 3: followed and they followed us around and shouted. As my
Speaker 3: daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared, I decided to speak
Speaker 3: with the protesters in the hopes that I could trade
Speaker 3: a few minutes of conversation for them leaving my toddler alone.
Speaker 3: Nearly all of them agreed. It was a mostly respectful conversation.
Speaker 3: But if you're chasing a three year old as part
Speaker 3: of a political protest.
Speaker 2: You're a ship person.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 7: She kind of let me just say, can I say,
Speaker 7: he tweets like, so, Millennial, I don't know how to
Speaker 7: explain it, like you a person, Like he tweeted something
Speaker 7: like today I saw a half poodle, half German shepherd
Speaker 7: and I have some questions, like so Millennial, And I
Speaker 7: was like, you are the vice president of the United States,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna need you to start acting like it.
Speaker 5: So anyway, yeah, he tweeted that right before like going
Speaker 5: into the Oval Office meeting with the lindsay, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: need some answers on this poodle mix.
Speaker 6: That I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: But after that Zolensky meeting, his Slytherin was showing.
Speaker 2: Up.
Speaker 3: But anyway, there are there is video. So first of all,
Speaker 3: there's like a few things about this protest. The people
Speaker 3: that were protesting near his house were kept very far
Speaker 3: away because he's the fucking vice president, and there was
Speaker 3: like a checkpoint to even enter his neighborhood, so these
Speaker 3: people were not even close to him getting his paper
Speaker 3: out in the front, like as if you would do
Speaker 3: that and be suddenly stunned to see protesters. He was
Speaker 3: walking around and then as people were converging on it,
Speaker 3: he came across this group of people. But like again,
Speaker 3: even when he stands with them, he starts off just
Speaker 3: saying bullshit. He's like, you know, when he's talking about
Speaker 3: who the aggressor is or whatever, people are talking like
Speaker 3: you can't stand with Russia, and he's like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: that's your understanding of what's happening here, and they're like, no, no,
Speaker 3: that's a lie you're saying to our faces. He then
Speaker 3: goes on to be like, you guys are scaring my
Speaker 3: meat shield. Okay, I have to go, and you guys
Speaker 3: need to fucking respect that. Let me just play this moment.
Speaker 3: You can mostly hear what he's saying, but it's a
Speaker 3: very interesting interaction given the way he describes that he
Speaker 3: was like chased away by a group of people who
Speaker 3: just wouldn't let leave his toddler alone.
Speaker 2: And I told you, I talked to you for five minutes.
Speaker 6: Have people run around and yell and I can.
Speaker 3: Talk to you.
Speaker 2: And I said, by talking to her, he's.
Speaker 3: God, you're just so unlikable. And I think the whole
Speaker 3: thing around this, like please just leave her alone.
Speaker 1: It's like we're talking to you. No one's a dressing literally.
Speaker 6: Year old daughter.
Speaker 1: She is in physical proximity to me. I did walk
Speaker 1: up to you with her, but uh, he said I
Speaker 1: would talk. I could have just avoided it. But again,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: He is doing that thing where he still thinks that
Speaker 3: maybe people on planet Earth, in real physical reality want
Speaker 3: to talk to him. Yeah, and he's just finding out
Speaker 3: very quickly. You can't just say.
Speaker 4: Where they get a hot wife and they suddenly think
Speaker 4: they're like more palatable than they actually are. Like Lusha Vans,
Speaker 4: she's spineless and I hate her, but she's gorgeous, like
Speaker 4: credit where credit is due, And I just feel like
Speaker 4: she opped his style because now he thinks that people
Speaker 4: enjoy being around him and that he has charmed to
Speaker 4: some degree, you.
Speaker 1: Know right, He's like, Yo, you see my you see
Speaker 1: my wife? Usha? Dude?
Speaker 4: Fuck yeah, I'll never forgive her for co signing him. Yeah,
Speaker 4: this is a problem in that in like, I love
Speaker 4: Indian women, I love being an Indian woman. I take
Speaker 4: so much pride in my Indian heritage. I do think
Speaker 4: that some of us hold like way too easy for
Speaker 4: like a mid ugly republic.
Speaker 2: He can do, and.
Speaker 4: I think Usha Van's legitimizing jd Vance by marrying it
Speaker 4: just like a train wrack all around. And now they
Speaker 4: have three a Asian kids who are gonna make being
Speaker 4: half Indian their entire personality for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 3: You know, I feel bad for these kids because whether
Speaker 3: it's him taking his like toddler daughter around and being
Speaker 3: like you wouldn't yell at a man with a baby,
Speaker 3: would you? For saying all the wrong things in public,
Speaker 3: like hit a man with glasses. Usha Vance also now
Speaker 3: has like all these like public facing duties as the
Speaker 3: you know whatever that title is, the couches concubine or something.
Speaker 3: But the whole thing was like her in she had
Speaker 3: to go to Turin for the opening of the Special Olympics,
Speaker 3: and like just seeing her like kind of walk around
Speaker 3: saying nothing like she also took their son.
Speaker 1: This kid looks so fucking over it. Like again, I mean, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3: Just leap, like, just let the kid fucking stay at home,
Speaker 3: Like you don't have to bring this kid. He doesn't
Speaker 3: want to go to fucking Italy to like whatever do
Speaker 3: this and have a bunch of people yell about how
Speaker 3: America sucks at his mom.
Speaker 2: Who's only varied to the.
Speaker 4: Literally the only reason they bring their kids everywhere so
Speaker 4: that they can like take the moral high ground to
Speaker 4: being like you wouldn't yell at a girl with a kid,
Speaker 4: would you? It's like, yeah, I would, actually, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Won't leave him home because JD keeps trying to create
Speaker 1: the kids. You know, yeah he does great training or
Speaker 1: out him for talking about Pokemon or something. Then he
Speaker 1: goes on about Pokemon. Who should you got to take
Speaker 1: him with you to Turin?
Speaker 3: I can't. I'm going to walk the three year old.
Speaker 3: Do we have the baggies for when she goes poo poo?
Speaker 3: I do have to shout out that this does lend
Speaker 3: a little more weight to this podcast because apparently Trump listens.
Speaker 3: We we found out over the weekend.
Speaker 1: So last weekend, Abby I noted that Donald Trump seems
Speaker 1: like the person most destined to die on the toilet
Speaker 1: since since Elvis himself. And this weekend Donald Trump tweeted
Speaker 1: out a picture of himself side by side with Elvis
Speaker 1: and was like a lot of people comparing me to Elvis?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 1: I think he is taking it as as a comparison
Speaker 1: of their looks, But I do just he he likes
Speaker 1: comparing himself to like Martin Luther King juniors your podcasts.
Speaker 3: He must write, yes, yes, I'm a huge fan. It's like, no,
Speaker 3: the President summoned me here, He's I do think he.
Speaker 2: Nailed it with this one though, Like I like.
Speaker 1: He, you know, I think let less less worthy of
Speaker 1: the George Washington comparisons and the Martin Luther King junior comparisons,
Speaker 1: but Elvis, like, I feel like they're sweet spot being
Speaker 1: people who spend a like fifty percent of their gross
Speaker 1: income on commemorative plates and coins. Like is like they
Speaker 1: they share some DNA. They're both like Elvis and him
Speaker 1: are both like anti drug, anti drinking people who were
Speaker 1: like fucking are just like riddled with prescription medication abuse.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think the one difference is the like
Speaker 1: Trump probably would be happier as a Vegas performer, you know,
Speaker 1: if you just could just get up and riff, whereas
Speaker 1: like Elvis was a Vegas performer and like wanted to
Speaker 1: be the like he went and visited Nixon and like
Speaker 1: handed him a golden fucking revolver, like he was a
Speaker 1: character in that Jack Handy joke. But also like was
Speaker 1: like I'll go undercover and I'll fucking rat out.
Speaker 3: Oh you'll go undercover, most famous energy you're at the moment, Okay, yes,
Speaker 3: please go undercover wearing a cape handed Nixon a golden revolver.
Speaker 3: Nixon looked fucking terrified. But yeah, So they're just like
Speaker 3: the same in many ways, but they just ended up
Speaker 3: at like different places then. I think Trump at least
Speaker 3: different places than he should have. I think in like
Speaker 3: ninety nine percent of the timelines, he's just in Vegas
Speaker 3: right now, dying a slow death, like going up on
Speaker 3: stage and singing, singing the standards and riffing about how
Speaker 3: Robert Pattinson is hot and needs to like ditch whatever
Speaker 3: girl he's dating right now.
Speaker 2: He's dating at the time. That's so funny. And he's
Speaker 2: doing a residency at the.
Speaker 3: Dome, Yes, exactly, just doing the YMCA over and over
Speaker 3: and over again. It's like thirty six minutes straight listening
Speaker 3: party of their appeal.
Speaker 1: About racism, you know, in many ways, In many ways,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are saying we're basically the same.
Speaker 3: I also, I too stole a rock and roll from
Speaker 3: the Blacks, did you, Yes, Yes, I did? I did
Speaker 3: it well, Yeah, he really would. I think he just
Speaker 3: wan I picture, Like, do you remember in Kingpin, like
Speaker 3: the Bill Murray's character Big Ern McCracken, Like how he's
Speaker 3: just like wearing a gaudy outfit and like random women
Speaker 3: would come up to him and give him a kiss
Speaker 3: and he's like, okay, babe, okay, thanks so much. Like
Speaker 3: that's what that's That is the world that he's trying
Speaker 3: to live in. That was the wildest shit about that
Speaker 3: eldest movie was the part where he's in Vegas and
Speaker 3: he just like keeps making out with all of his fans.
Speaker 3: Like every woman who comes up, he like insists on
Speaker 3: fully kissing them on the mouth.
Speaker 2: Shit. He's like, what, babe, they're fans. This is what
Speaker 2: they expect from me. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, cheeseburgers, man, laugh the cheese finers. I know.
Speaker 1: That's just the most impacted bowels in the history human
Speaker 1: gi tract.
Speaker 2: So funny.
Speaker 3: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back,
Speaker 3: and we're back.
Speaker 2: We're bad and we're bad.
Speaker 1: And just real quick. There's been a lot of people
Speaker 1: noting that Tesla not been doing great his shares, which
Speaker 1: is like the majority of his wealth, Like the you know,
Speaker 1: stock price of Tesla has been plummeting. It's the longest
Speaker 1: losing streak for Tesla in it's fifteen years as a
Speaker 1: public company, all right, And his net worth has fallen
Speaker 1: by one hundred and two billion dollars since he took office.
Speaker 1: I guess he's not a politician, but yeah, I it's
Speaker 1: not just because of his relationship with Trump. After supporting
Speaker 1: the far right AfD Party in Germany, Tesla registrations reportedly
Speaker 1: fell by seventy six percent, even as electric vehicle registrations
Speaker 1: rose by thirty one percent. So it's like that German
Speaker 1: noogular in Germany for some reason. That and like the
Speaker 1: AfD Party are the ones who were like, can we
Speaker 1: let this Nazi stuff rest? You guys Like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we made a mistake, but let's like, we don't need
Speaker 1: to make it. I think, I think legitimately he was like,
Speaker 1: they don't need to like make it their whole identity.
Speaker 2: Cheeze, Just like fucking you.
Speaker 1: Don't have to make it a thing that you're reckoning
Speaker 1: with that terrible period in your country history. Be like America,
Speaker 1: just shove it down, ignore it and then let.
Speaker 3: It and then it just comes out as involuntary aggressive
Speaker 3: Nazi salutes convulsion. That's just those control of his own
Speaker 3: fucking limbs. Like doctor Strange love this whole ship though, too,
Speaker 3: And it's like, oh his net worth fell by one
Speaker 3: hundred two billion, It's like it makes it all this
Speaker 3: shit seems so abstract, Like what are these people?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: It's like a batting average. I'm like, Okay, I don't
Speaker 3: know you bat three h five?
Speaker 1: Yeah, huh? Your your value?
Speaker 3: Like how I guess really we should always have a
Speaker 3: valuable How much can they pull up right now? With
Speaker 3: straight cash? I'm tired of this. Yeah, that's what I
Speaker 3: want to know. How liquid people are, That's what That's all.
Speaker 3: This other stuff is too abstract. Unless he lost literally
Speaker 3: one hundred two like he's like, oh my one hundred
Speaker 3: and two billion dollars is gone, then I'm not going
Speaker 3: to take It's just too These sums of money are
Speaker 3: too vast and like sort of meaningless at a certain point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I'll never see that much money in this lifetime,
Speaker 4: So why do I care?
Speaker 2: If?
Speaker 3: Oh I don't know, Abby, I think I think you're
Speaker 3: headed places. I think you might see a hundred one
Speaker 3: hundred bills. That's why I feel like some of some
Speaker 3: of the stuff that you talk about your comedy maybe
Speaker 3: could dial that back because you might be a billionaire
Speaker 3: too one day, you.
Speaker 6: Know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I think it is not true at all. Just think
Speaker 1: about it. If you keep creating great shows like Emily
Speaker 1: in Paris, it is Costa Rica's GDP is what he
Speaker 1: has lost since Wow off.
Speaker 3: Yeah that sounds like a bad thing that one fuck
Speaker 3: bag has that just generally, folks, I think we got
Speaker 3: to really I'm glad. I'm glad we're poisoning the brand
Speaker 3: of Tesla and the next next station here for this
Speaker 3: train is to poison the just whole concept of billionaires
Speaker 3: fully please.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there was an article in The New
Speaker 4: Yorker or something that was, like I knew that, like
Speaker 4: it would be a handful of men, men that would
Speaker 4: dismantle our democracy. I just didn't expect them to be
Speaker 4: such fucking losers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like that headline. Yeah, Yeah, it's so true.
Speaker 4: Like Elon just gives the vibes of that guy that
Speaker 4: you didn't give a chance to in high school who
Speaker 4: like makes it his whole personality to like prove you
Speaker 4: wrong when like most normal people just like move.
Speaker 2: On, you know, right, and Elon was not.
Speaker 4: I mean, like I've never liked Elon, but he was
Speaker 4: not just distinctly right way. He refused to continue working
Speaker 4: with Donald Trump in twenty seventeen when Donald Trump pulled
Speaker 4: out of the Paris Climate Accords, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe it would have been he came was like,
Speaker 3: uh yeah, there there is reporting from the time where
Speaker 3: he called him and his administration a bunch of fucking idiots.
Speaker 2: But yeah, not so.
Speaker 3: I mean, he definitely I think, like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I feel like one of the early signs was the
Speaker 3: kids in the Thai cave and then he got upset
Speaker 3: at the guy for saying a submersible wasn't going to
Speaker 3: like work to save them. He's like, well, you're a pedophile,
Speaker 3: and we're like, what the all right, dude, here we go.
Speaker 1: Let him go.
Speaker 2: He's out of here, folks, he's gone.
Speaker 1: In addition to the financial was Tesla has become a
Speaker 1: target for protests this past week, Tesla charging stations have
Speaker 1: been set on fire, Tesla lots have been shot at,
Speaker 1: although that just might be if that's in America, that
Speaker 1: just might be standard a stray gunfire where we need
Speaker 1: to find out. And one dealership in Manhattan was occupied
Speaker 1: by hundreds of non violent protesters and again not just
Speaker 1: a US phenomenon. In Berlin, a construction site for the
Speaker 1: expansion of a Tesla factory was set on fire, which
Speaker 1: police are investigating his arson. And in Milan, protesters chained
Speaker 1: to include themselves to cars at a Tesla store. And
Speaker 1: we talked about, as we talked about last week, we
Speaker 1: are continuing our protest of every time we see a
Speaker 1: cyber truck just giving him a sad thumbs down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad that. Yeah. I was just in La
Speaker 2: and every time my friends saw cyber truck should be.
Speaker 4: Like ihill and I'd be like wow, like this is
Speaker 4: one of my friends who's not very politically like involved
Speaker 4: at all. I was like wow, Like the Tesla brand
Speaker 4: has completely been poisoned.
Speaker 1: They're just like, no, I just don't like the design.
Speaker 2: It is an ugly car. The cyber truck specifically, it's
Speaker 2: not great.
Speaker 1: It's truly an aesthetic argument for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's I mean, there's also like there was
Speaker 3: another picture too, I saw, I think it from Chicago
Speaker 3: with all these cops protecting a Tesla dealership, and I'm like, dude,
Speaker 3: if you if we needed like more indication of like
Speaker 3: what this all looks like, like truly just in your face,
Speaker 3: like and now the cops are here to protect Elon
Speaker 3: Musk's toy store and yeah.
Speaker 2: Toys store rap pretty over everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, And finally we still haven't seen Mickey
Speaker 1: seventeen but it did come out. I'm excited to see it.
Speaker 2: It was to see it. I know, it looks so cool.
Speaker 1: He doesn't miss and like even when it's like not
Speaker 1: my favorite movie, Bun June ho, it's like very interesting,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: I think he always has something interesting to say. And
Speaker 4: I haven't even seen the movie, but it seems to
Speaker 4: be about the disposability of like workers in a you know,
Speaker 4: capitalist six system. Yeah, like how like Amazon and all
Speaker 4: of these like large corporations treat the human human life.
Speaker 2: As like very disposable.
Speaker 4: I loved Parasite, but I will say that when Paris
Speaker 4: I came out in twenty nineteen and everyone was like
Speaker 4: floored by like the class commentary, I was very like,
Speaker 4: like I loved to Paris. I don't get me wrong,
Speaker 4: but I grew up watching Indian movies, specifically South Indian movies.
Speaker 4: Like there's each region of India has a different has
Speaker 4: its own version of Hollywood. Bollywood is the most famous.
Speaker 4: It's like the North Indian one. But I never watched
Speaker 4: very many Bollywood movies. I'm South Indian, so I watched
Speaker 4: a lot of Hollywood movies. Hollywood is the South Indian Bollywood,
Speaker 4: which is the Indian Hollywood, and a lot of those
Speaker 4: movies are a lot of class commentary. And so I
Speaker 4: think Asian cinema as a whole is just like white
Speaker 4: years ahead of Western cinema. And I'm just like so
Speaker 4: grateful that bog june Ho has chosen to share his
Speaker 4: talents with the Hollywood audience. And I'm firmly of the
Speaker 4: belief that more Asian cinematographers need to.
Speaker 2: They don't need to.
Speaker 4: I would like like they would be doing us a
Speaker 4: favor by transitioning over to Hollywood, because I just love
Speaker 4: everything that bog june Hoe does and so I'm really
Speaker 4: excited to see Mickey seventeen.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's really well put. And yes, US cinema has
Speaker 1: a tough time with class. I feel like they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll they'll have class conflict, but then it's got to
Speaker 1: end with the people overcoming class conflict, right right.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, And I think, well, I think the reason
Speaker 4: in Asian countries, like the population is so much bigger,
Speaker 4: there's like last government regulation and this isn't me like
Speaker 4: you know, excuse or like being like, oh, America is
Speaker 4: better and by anyways. But I think, like when I
Speaker 4: go to India to visit family, it's like really undenied
Speaker 4: able to like.
Speaker 2: The poverty is like there for you to see.
Speaker 4: Like the type of poverties that exist in Asian countries
Speaker 4: you wouldn't even think existed in twenty twenty five unless
Speaker 4: you saw it with your own eyes. And so I think,
Speaker 4: of course it makes sense that the film industries in
Speaker 4: these countries would be a lot more head on and
Speaker 4: a lot more ahead of the curve about addressing the
Speaker 4: class messages like in their movies. And I just loved
Speaker 4: everything that Parasite had to.
Speaker 1: Say, right, But I think part of the reason it's
Speaker 1: not in people's face they're like they don't see it
Speaker 1: is because Hollywood movies and TV shows are like, oh,
Speaker 1: we don't want to show like poor people like we
Speaker 1: do love poverty. Yeah, no, thank you. This this blogger
Speaker 1: will live in a three million dollar apartment in Manhattan,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, an impossible place for them to live.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think so much of it too, is
Speaker 3: like all of our American storytelling is to sort of
Speaker 3: distract from all of the inequality and depression.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And in Asian.
Speaker 3: Cinema, it's like confronting it always and so like, even
Speaker 3: to your point, Jack, like, even when there is a
Speaker 3: bit of class tension, it's like and at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, the rich white woman understood the woman
Speaker 3: of color a little bit, and then they got over
Speaker 3: it and they just got back to it, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, They just got back.
Speaker 2: To because it's so true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like that's what the Rocky franchise started as,
Speaker 1: like a cinema verite thing about like a poor boxer
Speaker 1: and it ends with him being like a fucking millionaire
Speaker 1: who like waiting the Collie War for beating up I've.
Speaker 2: Never seen the Rocky movies. It is not actually how
Speaker 2: it ends it. Yeah, I mean Rocky Communists.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So first one, he's like a poor down his
Speaker 3: luck boxer who like grits it out and almost wins
Speaker 3: a big fight, but like love conquers all in the end.
Speaker 3: The second one, he wins against the guy who beat
Speaker 3: him in the first one and like becomes world champion.
Speaker 3: The third one he's like a millionaire celebrity, and the
Speaker 3: fourth one he owns a robot. He drives like a
Speaker 3: Lamborghini for like a fifteen minute Lamborghini montage and then
Speaker 3: goes to Russia and fights like a Russian like robot
Speaker 3: guy who's like on all the steroids and stuff, and
Speaker 3: just like beats him with pure American pluck while while
Speaker 3: wearing red, white and blue American flag trunks.
Speaker 2: That is crazy. It's been amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's just like the it's a great thing
Speaker 3: for introducing the idea of like there might be some
Speaker 3: ideas and like political content behind these movies. Like watching
Speaker 3: that as like even an eight year old, you're like,
Speaker 3: huh yeah, a little heavy. Yeah, But anyways, the movie
Speaker 3: didn't do great at the box office Magey seventeen.
Speaker 2: You know, it was number one.
Speaker 1: It did cost one hundred and eighteen million dollars to make,
Speaker 1: and so people are like, it's not it's not a success.
Speaker 1: But I do just want to note that coming out
Speaker 1: this weekend is Electric State, new movie from again the
Speaker 1: Roussell brothers who made the Avengers movies. They also made
Speaker 1: The Gray Man those like two hundred million dollars and
Speaker 1: this one stars million Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.
Speaker 3: And it cost three hundred and twenty million dollars to make,
Speaker 3: and like not even like I don't feel like I've
Speaker 3: seen that much marketing for it, So it's not like
Speaker 3: they like they spent three hundred and twenty million dollars
Speaker 3: on the.
Speaker 1: Pre that's the pre marketing cost, bud, that's right, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my, And it is being called by Indie Wire
Speaker 1: quote joyless and an argument for letting the movies.
Speaker 2: Die, which is not what we want to see.
Speaker 1: This is so fucked up, dude.
Speaker 3: It's it's these gigantic three hundred and twenty million dollars
Speaker 3: swings that end up drying out and destroying all the
Speaker 3: smaller productions that keep Los Angeles alive or just the
Speaker 3: industry in general alive. Like there's such a lack of
Speaker 3: work right now, and it's because they're doing shit like
Speaker 3: spending three hundred and twenty million dollars on whatever the
Speaker 3: fuck the Electric State is that sounds like so fucked
Speaker 3: up description of like Elon Musk's takeover of like the
Speaker 3: United States government. Right, Yeah, it's like welcome to the State. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Chris Press Spectacular Adventure. Yeah, Chris Pratt rarely steers us
Speaker 3: fro Chris Prett, you lost the streets, bro, That's what
Speaker 3: happens when you lose the streets.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's truly that thing that rarely steers us wrong. I
Speaker 2: feel like if I see almost in a movie, I'm like,
Speaker 2: uh nope. I always like World movies are so joyless.
Speaker 1: Like what you're talking about three of my favorite movies
Speaker 1: right now due He's Friends with the Raptor. No, he's joking.
Speaker 2: I'm joking. I'm joking, he's joking.
Speaker 4: Or I like Passengers, but he was kind of like
Speaker 4: a weird character in Passengers, like why would you wake
Speaker 4: a woman up?
Speaker 2: Like why would you bother her? Like that? All right?
Speaker 1: He woke up against her will just be yeah, so
Speaker 1: bored and lonely.
Speaker 2: I do know what you say. I do love the
Speaker 2: Guardians of the Galaxies movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah he does. He that is his lane. Yeah yeah, yeah, Well, Abby,
Speaker 1: it's been such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeus.
Speaker 2: It was so fun. Where can people.
Speaker 1: Find you and follow you and all that good stuff?
Speaker 1: See you.
Speaker 4: I'm on Instagram, I'm on Twitter, against my better judgment,
Speaker 4: I'm on YouTube, and I'm on TikTok. My solo show
Speaker 4: is going off Broadway next week. Ye from March nineteen
Speaker 4: through twenty second, I'm doing four nights, five shows at
Speaker 4: the Soho Playhouse, which is very historic off Broadway venue.
Speaker 4: And I'm so proud of the solo show that I've
Speaker 4: put together. It's the story of how I told my
Speaker 4: parents that I wanted to be a stand up comedian,
Speaker 4: how our relationship fall apart because of it, and how
Speaker 4: we built our relationship backup together after my brief sit
Speaker 4: in a mental hospital following a suicide attempt, and I
Speaker 4: just I'm really proud of those storytelling. My director, Greg
Speaker 4: Wallach is just so immensely talented. Once he signed on,
Speaker 4: like it was just elevated to something new and spectacular,
Speaker 4: And I feel like I set out to change the
Speaker 4: conversation with this show in terms of how we talk
Speaker 4: about immigrant parents, how we talk about parents in general,
Speaker 4: how we talk about ourselves in the pursuit of art,
Speaker 4: and granting kind of everyone grace as most people are
Speaker 4: just figuring life out for the first time.
Speaker 2: And I think I achieved that goal.
Speaker 4: Like I've you know, performed this show like fifty sixty
Speaker 4: times now across the world to thousands of people, and
Speaker 4: I love meeting And most recently I was in Los
Speaker 4: Angeles and like, these two sisters brought their parents to
Speaker 4: the show, and so many people tell me that they
Speaker 4: bring their like so many people bring their parents to
Speaker 4: the show, and so many people tell me that it
Speaker 4: started a lot of important conversations at home about like
Speaker 4: mental health and about the pursuit of something other than
Speaker 4: you know, traditional outs. And I am really proud of
Speaker 4: the show that I've put together. This moment where I'm
Speaker 4: going off Broadway next week feels like the culmination of
Speaker 4: like three years almost of hard work, and I'm just
Speaker 4: so excited. Hussin and Aj is presenting it, Daniel Slass
Speaker 4: is producing it to amazing groundbreaking comedians who shaped me
Speaker 4: as a comedian. Both of them are storytelling stand up comedians.
Speaker 4: They don't ever really just do like hours of comedy.
Speaker 4: They do hours of comedy with through lines where they
Speaker 4: talk about themselves and their own reflections, and I feel
Speaker 4: like their existence and success kind of paved the way
Speaker 4: for someone like me to come and tell my story.
Speaker 4: And I'm just everything about this moment just feels so
Speaker 4: full circle and perfect and amazing, and I am so
Speaker 4: excited to share it with the world sounds amazing.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Zi Gang. Make sure you get out there, yea, yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: is New York site gang?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, they're out here, They're out here. Where can Is
Speaker 3: there a work of media that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I have been binging a lot of TV shows, although
Speaker 4: you know now that you ask me.
Speaker 2: I'm like completely forgetting. Oh, let me tell you this one.
Speaker 4: So there's three charity partnerships for the off Broadway, and
Speaker 4: one of them is the Ore Foundation. And the Ore
Speaker 4: Foundation just released a Netflix documentary called Buy Now, and
Speaker 4: it's about the last. It's about the world, but mostly
Speaker 4: the last tendency to over consume and how all of
Speaker 4: these websites like Amazon, TikTok, Instagram are now incentivized to
Speaker 4: sell us things that we don't need. But one thing
Speaker 4: that we forget with all of this marketing is that
Speaker 4: everything that we've ever thrown away in our lives so
Speaker 4: me you guys, like, everything from the moment we're born
Speaker 4: that we have used and thrown away is not gone.
Speaker 4: It's just somewhere else on the planet. And so the
Speaker 4: documentary Buy Now traces a lot of so a lot
Speaker 4: of the clothes that we throw away in the West,
Speaker 4: like in the United States, in the UK, it ends
Speaker 4: up actually washed up on the shores of Ghana in
Speaker 4: these gigantic, gigantic like chemical clothing mountains. And By Now,
Speaker 4: as documentary is meant to raise awareness about how our
Speaker 4: overconsumption and the last really affects developing countries mostly and
Speaker 4: how we can make the conscious decision to consume less,
Speaker 4: to de influence ourselves from like the latest like makeup trend,
Speaker 4: you know, like ownership trend what have you that they're
Speaker 4: trying to sell us on TikTok Instagram, and just reminding
Speaker 4: ourselves that we really don't need anything more than what
Speaker 4: we need.
Speaker 2: There you go, that's fair. It sounds great, very cool.
Speaker 2: Miles Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Is there a working media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, No, it's the consumption thing. I saw the
Speaker 3: trailer for that documentary, I was like, oh, this is
Speaker 3: going to be really good and then all things and
Speaker 3: I was like, all right, I already get the point. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but you can find me everywhere. They have at Symbols
Speaker 3: at Miles of Gray, you can find Jacket on the
Speaker 3: basketball podcast Miles and Jackets America, Boosty's you can find
Speaker 3: me talking ninety day Fiance on four twenty Day Fiance.
Speaker 1: Check that out every week.
Speaker 2: And yeah.
Speaker 3: Let me see a thing I like from Internet at
Speaker 3: Internet hippopot The thing I like from Internet is this
Speaker 3: mocking elon. It says, yeah, we're doing cancel culture counseling,
Speaker 3: government contracts parenthetical. People start protesting my garbage cars. This
Speaker 3: is illegal under the laws of man and god fuck
Speaker 3: d that's funny.
Speaker 1: I like to tweet from Ronnie there ron we Underscore
Speaker 1: on Twitter, who tweeted, it's so funny that when they
Speaker 1: were inventing hockey, one guy was like, hey, what if
Speaker 1: we had a jail, Like I love your soccer on
Speaker 1: ice idea, but what do you think about jail A
Speaker 1: little jail for bad people in reference to the penalty box,
Speaker 1: which is a fun little bit. That's funny, And I
Speaker 1: also like from Rod at Rodamus Prime on Twitter, who
Speaker 1: tweeted Sterling K. Brown got to be the most ripped
Speaker 1: for no reason as actor on the planet. But he
Speaker 1: just got the twelve pack ads but picking roles where
Speaker 1: he plays the head of HR at a greeting card company.
Speaker 1: Oh can one of my favorite Yeah yes please.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Wait.
Speaker 4: This is the one that I just saved to my
Speaker 4: phone because I was like, this is so funny. I'm
Speaker 4: sure you guys have seen it too. Walking around in
Speaker 4: public sober. Every single one of these people is uglier
Speaker 4: dumber than the last. There must have lat mongrel school
Speaker 4: out really time, walking around cooked. There is beauty in
Speaker 4: every soul. There is miss spell And I was like,
Speaker 4: that's so funny. From James at Fearing for twenty on.
Speaker 1: Twitter, Nice Fearing four twenty man after my own.
Speaker 2: Heart, all right.
Speaker 1: You can find us on Twitter at daily Zeikeeist and
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Speaker 1: You can go to the episode wherever you're listening to it,
Speaker 1: check out the description and you will see the footnotes
Speaker 1: notes where we link off to the information we talked
Speaker 1: about in today's episode. We also link off to a
Speaker 1: song we think you might enjoy. Hey, Miles, is there
Speaker 1: a song that you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 3: Yes, this is a little bit of fun house music
Speaker 3: but mixed with day Last soul.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: This is actually the it's called Saturday's remix, but the
Speaker 3: Omi Kasa remix.
Speaker 1: Oh M, I C A s A.
Speaker 3: This is only on a SoundCloud from what I can find,
Speaker 3: but it's it's a good one. It gets your shoulders going,
Speaker 3: and it's a nice throwback Saturday Saturday. And I mean, look,
Speaker 3: especially with fucking daylight savings completely fucking everything up. Listen,
Speaker 3: let's think about better time that Saturday before we were
Speaker 3: shoved forward one hour violently. So anyway, this is Saturday
Speaker 3: is the Omi Kasa remix?
Speaker 2: All right, we will look off to that and the footnotes.
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Speaker 2: Thank you guys so much for having me