Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three twenty three,
Speaker 1: Episode five of Day. It's a production of iHeartRadio and
Speaker 1: it's a podcast where we take a deep dive into America,
Speaker 1: share consciousness.
Speaker 2: Miles.
Speaker 1: We made it to the end of season three twenty three.
Speaker 2: They said we wouldn't. Three two three here Los Angeles. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let them know.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, February second, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Two two four yep. Oh boy, you get ready because
Speaker 2: it's National Groundhog Day. It's National bubblegum Day. Oh shit,
Speaker 2: it's groundhog Day. Oh is it? Oh? Is that what
Speaker 2: that means? I'm like National groundhog Day. I'm like for
Speaker 2: groundhogs rather than it's groundhog Day.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: National Heavenly Hash Day, which is not something that I
Speaker 2: would use to prevent my dreams, but actually a wonderful
Speaker 2: chocolate and marshmallow confection. It looks like National Tater Todd Day.
Speaker 2: And also shout out to Elmo. But for the any
Speaker 2: other people today, better not be catching you wearing that
Speaker 2: flue because it's National wear red Day.
Speaker 1: One of my best friends from growing up just hit
Speaker 1: like I don't usually do on the ground reporting on
Speaker 1: this podcast, but he hit me up and said that
Speaker 1: he has pretty good data suggesting that the ground hug
Speaker 1: thing is a myth and that whether or not the
Speaker 1: ground hug sees this shadow doesn't change whether there's two
Speaker 1: more weeks of winter. Yeah, that's Chris. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: Chris Man. He's usually a pretty reliable source.
Speaker 2: So I don't know we're Chris then, because that just
Speaker 2: completely that up ends my whole understanding of the planets.
Speaker 2: I'm not a flat earther.
Speaker 1: I am a groundherd ground hug earther, though I do.
Speaker 1: This is the one anti zidific belief that I hold,
Speaker 1: and everything else revolves around that. My name's Jack O'Brien,
Speaker 1: ak Elmo Sho, Big Bird dropped wet t shirt contest
Speaker 1: pop Oh No Sesame Streets Dark Now Brot's courtesy a
Speaker 1: rowdy drummer on the discord. Yeah, I think things have
Speaker 1: gotten leak in the in the world of Sesame Street.
Speaker 1: As we've just asked the innocent question, who between Almo
Speaker 1: and Big Bird would survive a fight to the death,
Speaker 1: Just very innocent, straightforward question that everyone's taken to a
Speaker 1: really dark place.
Speaker 2: It's activating with you, the listener shout outs because the
Speaker 2: things you're sending me and the Acha throw down. Yeah,
Speaker 2: stop ship down. I'm like, no, I agree, no, No,
Speaker 2: that's it's totally our fault.
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co
Speaker 1: host mister Miles Gray.
Speaker 2: You better run before I count up to three. Don't
Speaker 2: want this, mascle smoke here up on sess of me.
Speaker 2: I'll kick you, I'll beat you. I'll rearrange your wings.
Speaker 1: So beat it.
Speaker 2: Get your beat out of my face. Just beat it,
Speaker 2: beat it.
Speaker 4: Beat almost two feet tall and heat it. Your corneys
Speaker 4: can't even take light. I'll snap your legs and then
Speaker 4: turn out your life.
Speaker 2: Just beat it, okay, I mean stouty on the fucking
Speaker 2: discord with the gifts too, with the fucking the most
Speaker 2: intense knife fight we've ever seen in music video history
Speaker 2: from the beat It video that's more like a West
Speaker 2: Side Story kind of choreographed dance with just like hands
Speaker 2: chained together. Yeah, is that a thing that actually happened?
Speaker 2: Like was that that happened after that? Right? Like, let's
Speaker 2: bound our arms and knife fight. Wouldn't you just stab
Speaker 2: the dude's arm a bunch, because you like, right, that's
Speaker 2: what you would think. But anyway, That's the other thing
Speaker 2: that I always heard about that was that they were
Speaker 2: actual like gangsters that they got Like. Actually, so my
Speaker 2: dad used to used to work for Michael Jackson as
Speaker 2: his photographer and he the last gig that he worked
Speaker 2: was on the set of Beat It and they had
Speaker 2: straight up crips on that set, and like my dad
Speaker 2: has a whole he took a bunch of pictures of
Speaker 2: the extras. One of the most gangster fucking photos are
Speaker 2: these dudes who are on the beat It set, like
Speaker 2: wearing like leather fucking cowboy hats and trench. It was
Speaker 2: a different time, a different that is a different time.
Speaker 2: That's wild.
Speaker 1: The leather cowboy hats was like the tough shit.
Speaker 2: I got it. If you see this picture, you're gonna
Speaker 2: be like, who the fuck are these people? Those are
Speaker 2: the gangsters that were on the beat It set.
Speaker 1: I love the idea, Like that's what makes me love
Speaker 1: the idea that they're actual gangsters, because then they asked
Speaker 1: them to do the most West Side story ass thing
Speaker 1: a the do all right, and now you're gonna just
Speaker 1: have a fight to the death. But it's really about
Speaker 1: you know, dancing and expressing yourself and they nail it
Speaker 1: like it really feels like, well, Corey, Well there was the.
Speaker 2: One dude who is from New York Undercover, like who
Speaker 2: was in that video too, but like they were mostly
Speaker 2: just doing like they gangsters don't dance. The real gangsters
Speaker 2: were in the background. They were text failing it straight
Speaker 2: up texture. Yeah, yeah, Miles, We're.
Speaker 1: Thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a journalist.
Speaker 1: We've had New York Times bestselling authors on before. This
Speaker 1: guy has written for New York Times bestselling books. He's
Speaker 1: a podcast host now whose new show is The Puzzler,
Speaker 1: which is a daily.
Speaker 2: Put wait a second, this guy's coming for a fucking daily.
Speaker 1: Serves up fresh puzzles daily.
Speaker 2: No all right, I mean we're cannibalizing our own audience
Speaker 2: right now. Yeah, we'll allow it.
Speaker 1: Please, Welcome to the show, the Brilliant, the Talented, the
Speaker 1: Puzzling ajj G.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, delighted to be here. And we
Speaker 5: are daily. But we're like eight minutes long, so I
Speaker 5: know we're much competition.
Speaker 1: Oh, we don't even start talking about anything for eight minutes.
Speaker 2: Were bullshit?
Speaker 5: Can I add to that bullshit with one my favorite
Speaker 5: crazy sesame Street fact, yes, which is I looked up
Speaker 5: the history for some reason. It was some project the
Speaker 5: history of Oscar the grouchka and they introduced him, I
Speaker 5: think in the seventies because they wanted some socioeconomic diversity.
Speaker 5: They felt that they wanted someone more impoverished, so they
Speaker 5: put him in a garbage can. That is just to me,
Speaker 5: the craziest decision, right, Like, this is here you can
Speaker 5: you can relate to this. He's in a garbage can.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, poor kids, this is you exactly. You live
Speaker 2: in a steel trash can you smell it? Shit anyway,
Speaker 2: something like that, just for more repum Christmas ornaments.
Speaker 1: Out of fish skeleton's poor kid, we get it, we
Speaker 1: know how you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel like that depiction of Oscar the Grouch
Speaker 2: as a child made me believe that it was possible
Speaker 2: to live in a garbage can. Mm hmm, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. They're like, well, right, things are a bout.
Speaker 2: I guess that that could be a place that you
Speaker 2: might dlow. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5: It's it's comforting or good.
Speaker 2: Things are good or bad, Yeah, depends on your point
Speaker 2: of view. AJ.
Speaker 1: Your show has what's been described as a batman villain
Speaker 1: ass name. Have you considered taking a major city hostage
Speaker 1: using your puzzles or maybe a mayor or something to
Speaker 1: confuse the police and rob Banks?
Speaker 5: Interesting, now I had not until now.
Speaker 2: I'm just putting it out there. Yeah I know that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, podcasts needs some monetization, so thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's a great idea. Yeah, full the City of
Speaker 2: Millions hostage.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I love the puzzler. Come on, that's why
Speaker 5: you guys are so good. Yeah, that's why you've been
Speaker 5: around for so long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we still haven't followed through with our plan to
Speaker 2: take an entire metropolitan area hostage, but you.
Speaker 1: Know the number of hostages who are just waiting around
Speaker 1: for the dailies. Like anyways, AJ, we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 2: Every once in a while.
Speaker 1: We like to check in with this Trump guy. You know,
Speaker 1: this guy's always in the news. Things not going so
Speaker 1: great for him in the current news cycle, so we'll
Speaker 1: check in about that. Peter Teel is bringing a banger
Speaker 1: idea that's been kicked around by people like him for
Speaker 1: a while. But the idea of Olympics with peds like
Speaker 1: just you know, this is the the display of our
Speaker 1: greatest like scientific advances. Look what we made in the
Speaker 1: lat folks. Larry David attacked Elmo on Laft TV. So
Speaker 1: we have new data on the point Big Bird v Elmo,
Speaker 1: all of that plenty more. But first, AJ, we do
Speaker 1: like to ask our guest, what is something from your
Speaker 1: search history?
Speaker 5: I my favorite recent search was for the or spraint
Speaker 5: spr A I N T. Which I had not heard of,
Speaker 5: but it has its own Wikipedia page and it is
Speaker 5: otter dung, the the feces of the little cute water
Speaker 5: mammal Otter. And I saw it because I was doing
Speaker 5: We we create puzzles for our guests, like you will
Speaker 5: get your own special puzzles, and this puzzle involved in Otter,
Speaker 5: and I looked at their Wikipedia page and there was
Speaker 5: a link to Spraint and uh, yeah, it's the feces
Speaker 5: of honors. But it's apparently like very special feces that
Speaker 5: smells like what did they say, freshly moan hey? Freshly real?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that is like sometimes you'll smell some
Speaker 1: horse ship that smells good. Actually like it actually like
Speaker 1: that smells good.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I smell a worseshit.
Speaker 1: That's like that smells like oatmeal. Spring should actually be
Speaker 1: the past tense of sprint, but there you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or sprained. I thought that was like kind of
Speaker 2: like slang for a sprain my ink.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, like and tainted reminded me of taint in
Speaker 5: the general area exactly.
Speaker 2: So I love that the sides of the taint the spring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just spray out from the taint and you get
Speaker 1: the spring.
Speaker 2: I'm also like you, it does seem special because I've
Speaker 2: never seen like images of like animal feces, but with
Speaker 2: so many people holding it in their bare hand. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like it's a baby bird. I mean, like, ooh, I
Speaker 2: got a little sprint here for y'all. Check this out.
Speaker 1: They're holding the sprint like it's a baby bird. Like
Speaker 1: that just a delicacy that they're tuck into.
Speaker 5: Yeah, smelling, they're getting the essence right.
Speaker 2: Are there any uses for it outside of just holding it?
Speaker 5: I did not see that that. Yeah, I think that's yeah.
Speaker 5: If you ever have me back on I will do
Speaker 5: far more research on springs.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm definitely.
Speaker 5: But their ship smells.
Speaker 2: Everything smells like freshly moaned head and they're right, this
Speaker 2: guy's getting close. What's something you think is overrated? All right?
Speaker 5: For this one, I decided to do this the biggest
Speaker 5: argument I've had in my family in the last week,
Speaker 5: which was I was saying how much I enjoy watching
Speaker 5: movies on double speed, and my wife and kids were
Speaker 5: just furious. So my overrated is watching movies at regular speed.
Speaker 5: And because you know, I wanted to see Flowers of
Speaker 5: the Killer Moon, but I'm not gonna. I just did
Speaker 5: not want to spend four hours doing that. So I
Speaker 5: rented on YouTube and you can put it on double speed,
Speaker 5: and it was fantastic.
Speaker 1: The way it was meant to be seen by a
Speaker 1: white man at double speaking.
Speaker 2: On my yeah, on the toilet.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm sorry, I know maybe the experience was like, well,
Speaker 5: I still felt emotions, I just felt them faster.
Speaker 2: I just you know, they're lying at you.
Speaker 5: My my argument is I'm a writer and I don't
Speaker 5: I'm not going in and yelling at people who skim
Speaker 5: my books or yeah, I'm like, do what you want,
Speaker 5: here's my book, do you want?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: So, but yeah, I know that my filmmakers and art
Speaker 5: and are not are on my family side that this
Speaker 5: is a terrible thing, but I mean no offense. I
Speaker 5: listened to you on double speed, and.
Speaker 2: Why not. I mean, I think it's all I do.
Speaker 2: I do that with Like, I watch a lot of
Speaker 2: reality TV, and sometimes I can get through it faster
Speaker 2: by watching it at one and a half x speed,
Speaker 2: like because there's so much dramatic pausing that when you
Speaker 2: actually condense the information down, you're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, great,
Speaker 2: I got the gist of that inane content pretty quickly.
Speaker 5: But with oh yeah, now if you cut out the
Speaker 5: repeats when they say and then let's remember what happened
Speaker 5: before the commercial break, like yeah, there's literally like eight minutes.
Speaker 2: Of actual new stuff, right, That's right, That's that's true.
Speaker 2: I've never tried to watch a movie at two x speed.
Speaker 2: I've listened to books at two x speed, and some
Speaker 2: of them I'm like, you know, flying through getting everything,
Speaker 2: and sometimes it's like too dense and I just do not,
Speaker 2: Like I'm I'm thirty minutes and I'm like, I don't
Speaker 2: know what the fuck just happened here?
Speaker 5: Right, Well, there are some shows and movies definitely don't
Speaker 5: like Deep. I remember I tried to watch that at
Speaker 5: double speed and I was like, what the hell is
Speaker 5: going on because they are so fast and witty.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like a.
Speaker 5: Slow movie that's you know, got lots of nature shots
Speaker 5: like you mentioned.
Speaker 2: I can deal with that. That's probably some kind of
Speaker 2: like speed comprehension test is to like take like a
Speaker 2: Tina Fey written show or ip and watch that as
Speaker 2: like three X speed, to be like, yeah, did you
Speaker 2: catch all that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, she watched this episode of thirty Rock
Speaker 1: three speed and give me a solution.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Terrence Malick, two X Speed like probably just looks
Speaker 1: like a regular like an eighties movie. It says like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is this is normal.
Speaker 5: Well, sometimes I think when I listen to MPR normal speed,
Speaker 5: I mean double speed, it just sounds like normal talking
Speaker 5: people talking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah they're not like so they're they're there's not
Speaker 1: the pauses and yeah that makes sense to me. Older movies,
Speaker 1: I will say, incredibly slow. Yeah, just long periods with
Speaker 1: people being like all right, we've got a head to
Speaker 1: the store to like meet up for the package drop
Speaker 1: and then watch them stand up from that table, walk
Speaker 1: to the car, get in the card, to the support.
Speaker 1: It's like it's realistic.
Speaker 2: Then like wall you hold on, I forgot my walin Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll turn around right hey, make sure you hang your
Speaker 2: coat up before you go inside. I will.
Speaker 1: There are shots in the Godfather of like somebody's just
Speaker 1: walking down a hallway for a long period of a
Speaker 1: great movie and maybe like at the time people needed
Speaker 1: that breather or something, but it's just.
Speaker 5: Like man and even old comedies, it's hilarious. I remember
Speaker 5: watching the Marx Brothers and they had like they're doing
Speaker 5: their ANTIQ stuff, which is it's not that antic compared
Speaker 5: to what happens now. But then they'll do a five
Speaker 5: minute harp solo, like Harpo will come out and actually
Speaker 5: play the harp for five minutes in a comedy movie,
Speaker 5: and you're like, what the hell.
Speaker 2: Is going on? Well, I mean that legacy kind of
Speaker 2: lived on in our eighties and nineties films where like
Speaker 2: some band inexplicably had a full on song performance in
Speaker 2: the middle of a film when you're like, what, like
Speaker 2: why did they do?
Speaker 1: The Blues Brothers is I mean, I've always said that
Speaker 1: John Belushi is like a little bit puzzling to me
Speaker 1: because I think because he, like Chris Farlee's was my favorite,
Speaker 1: like comedic figure growing up, and his whole stick was
Speaker 1: like kind of an evolutionary Blushi. But yeah, the Blues
Speaker 1: Brothers like when they just like break into long moments
Speaker 1: of them doing like white guy blues for you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, who is this for? Other than you guys?
Speaker 1: We other than the performers who made this movie. Blame
Speaker 1: the cocaine man, blame thee you fucking sick dude, and
Speaker 1: then we do like a harmonica song.
Speaker 2: But everybody fucking loves that shit. Like people.
Speaker 1: I know so many people who are like, oh have
Speaker 1: you seen The Blues Brothers though.
Speaker 2: Oh you like comedy, Who are you hanging around a
Speaker 2: bunch of cops? Yeah, it's cops.
Speaker 1: It's mostly cops, and the cops that I played cards with.
Speaker 1: What AJ is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 5: Well, this one I'm gonna go a little phil philis
Speaker 5: because a couple of days ago, I did a book
Speaker 5: event where I interviewed the author of a book called
Speaker 5: Uncertain or Uncertainty. I'm ironically I'm uncertain about the title.
Speaker 5: That's pretty funny, but it was all about how, yeah,
Speaker 5: we've got to stop being so certain and I just
Speaker 5: would love to see in a debate, Like if someone
Speaker 5: asks Joe Biden something and he said, you know what,
Speaker 5: I'm not sure. I'm gonna have to think about that.
Speaker 5: I'll get back to you. I just feel that level
Speaker 5: of humility would be good for our society because I
Speaker 5: there's also that phrase deep seated beliefs. That's like, oh,
Speaker 5: I have I have one deep seated belief, which is,
Speaker 5: don't be an asshole, try to reduce suffering everywhere and
Speaker 5: increase happiness. Other than that, everything is shallow seated everything. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean I'm open to at the end.
Speaker 2: Wind Yeah yeah, mine is that obviously that if a
Speaker 2: groundhog sees a check, I want to believe anything else
Speaker 2: that is unfucking shakable. Yeah, okay, so deep it's Chris.
Speaker 2: We're gonna need better We're gonna need better sourcing on this, man. Yeah,
Speaker 2: don't give me some science ship because they're all in
Speaker 2: on the fucking hoax. Man. Oh yeah, let me hear
Speaker 2: from a groundhog. I want to hear a straight from
Speaker 2: the source.
Speaker 1: Phil. The book looks like it's called Uncertain The Wisdom
Speaker 1: and Wonder of Being Unsure by Maggie Jackson.
Speaker 2: Is the sad part though, about Biden doing that is
Speaker 2: that everyone immediately go, look, how fucking.
Speaker 5: Exactly that is the problem I'm not sure about.
Speaker 1: Ah, you see, could you could I get back to
Speaker 1: you after consult with my staff.
Speaker 2: Get back to us. What do you mean.
Speaker 5: That would that would not be a good strategy I
Speaker 5: suppose for being elected.
Speaker 2: But to your point, like, yeah, we are in such
Speaker 2: a world where everyone must know every single thing about it,
Speaker 2: every single thing at every moment. That yeah, we've always
Speaker 2: tried to say, like just we got to normalize just
Speaker 2: saying like I don't, I don't know. I can all
Speaker 2: look into it, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mustn't know all those things like it's
Speaker 1: for yeah, for the purposes of conversation, like people put
Speaker 1: a great emphasis on it, but you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: need to know that shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just yeah. I think I embodied that ethos when
Speaker 2: I was maybe my sophomore year of college, that I
Speaker 2: knew every single thing about every topic that ever existed
Speaker 2: at every moment. Very stressful. Coincided with probably my most
Speaker 2: severe use of drugs and alcoholic stuff.
Speaker 1: There's just so much pressure, man, I gotta knowing how
Speaker 1: the fuck am I going to read all these Wikipedia
Speaker 1: articles like fucking ten thousand show up every god DMD
Speaker 1: and that's why white houses need like a drug dealer
Speaker 1: on staff at all times. Earlier this week, with the
Speaker 1: Trump White House having just non stop prescription medication, just whatever,
Speaker 1: just a Willy Wonkas factory of whatever prescription medication you
Speaker 1: can imagine, do you get the one that makes me
Speaker 1: like float to the top of the Oval office?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, lifting drink? Yeah, one second, let me get that.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: come back and talk about one of the guys who's
Speaker 1: trying to get back to the White House. Mister Donald
Speaker 1: Trump will be right back, and we're back, so back.
Speaker 1: The headlines have turned less confident that Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: going to be the next president, it would seem. I've
Speaker 1: seen headlines saying, like the polling's bad for him, seeing
Speaker 1: headlines saying there's a lot there's a lot of polling
Speaker 1: suggesting that if he gets convicted, like half of his
Speaker 1: support will dry up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which feels wrong.
Speaker 1: To me, Like I feel, yeah, oh he's gonna double down,
Speaker 1: and yeah, Like it just feels like this is yet
Speaker 1: another example of people waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Speaker 1: With him and then like he just uses the other
Speaker 1: shoe to beat us up, like that's just every time,
Speaker 1: oh a shoe. Well, surely now that we've seen him
Speaker 1: try to actually overthrow the government, like if that, if
Speaker 1: that doesn't do it, like what is a conviction going
Speaker 1: to do? We saw him like do a coup live
Speaker 1: on TV, like try to do a coup, fail, be
Speaker 1: like a sore loser about it on TV, and then
Speaker 1: like nothing, it doesn't change shit.
Speaker 5: I remember when he was president, I had every time
Speaker 5: a new scandal came up, I would tweet. I had
Speaker 5: it on like a cut and paste tweet, like this
Speaker 5: is the four thousand, three hundred and seventy eight straw
Speaker 5: that's gonna break the camel's back and then it never did,
Speaker 5: and then I would put a nine on the end.
Speaker 5: And yeah, I mean, I think the truest thing he
Speaker 5: ever said was he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue
Speaker 5: and still be elected.
Speaker 2: I think we're more slowly moving towards that. But yeah,
Speaker 2: like again, like this last week, a lot as we
Speaker 2: had like the monetary damages from the EG and Carrol
Speaker 2: defamation case that's like eighty three million, potentially we could
Speaker 2: see a decision about his business and the fines he's
Speaker 2: facing there, which could be upwards or near three hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy million. That could happen this week, it might
Speaker 2: happen next week, and then like yeah, like you say,
Speaker 2: the pulling. So there's just like just a few other
Speaker 2: things that are a lot of people are talking about
Speaker 2: before we get to the conviction part. Is for so far,
Speaker 2: he's already spent about sixty million on legal fees this
Speaker 2: last year and it's all coming from his donors, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. And so there's a there's a
Speaker 2: reporting about how the legal for him to take money
Speaker 2: from unfortunately and unfortunately it's illegal. It's like everything's more
Speaker 2: of like it just raises ethical questions. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of things raised ethical questions in our fucking
Speaker 2: world today, and we were just like leave it at that.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, ethically, but yeah, financially, he can just
Speaker 2: keep you know, rinsing his supporters for every little penny
Speaker 2: they have to you know, pay his fees, like like
Speaker 2: defending himself in court. And so the coffers seemed to
Speaker 2: be emptying and at the moment, looks like he's spending
Speaker 2: more than he is raising. But before you go and
Speaker 2: put your party hat on and throw your Mueller time
Speaker 2: mugs in the air, just remember that this guy can
Speaker 2: raise mountains of cash at will, like I mean, even
Speaker 2: his stupid NFTs or people are buying. So as much
Speaker 2: as it's like, oh, he's out spending the pace that
Speaker 2: he can raise, it's just it. I don't think that
Speaker 2: is that big of a deal. But again shows just
Speaker 2: sort of how spread thin he is at the very least,
Speaker 2: or that money that could be going to like the
Speaker 2: campaign is just going to legal fees.
Speaker 1: The NFT thing I feel called out by, Okay, like
Speaker 1: that's I don't have to like his politics to have
Speaker 1: invested wisely in the NFTs. Like I didn't have to
Speaker 1: be a big Ken Griffy junior fan to like, you know,
Speaker 1: have his rookie card. Yeah, I guess this was a
Speaker 1: sound investment. Okay, Yeah, and you should you invested in Man.
Speaker 1: I am upside down on these.
Speaker 2: Just so you know, just for the record, and I'm
Speaker 2: glad AJ is here to see this. You brought that up,
Speaker 2: not me this time, so.
Speaker 1: I mean you kind of brought it up by being
Speaker 1: like some people do.
Speaker 2: But but here's the other thing, there's plenty of polling
Speaker 2: that Joe's Biden is not doing well in key swing states.
Speaker 2: So it's interesting when to see like the sort of
Speaker 2: inverse of that sort of be like hallelujah, Trump's polling
Speaker 2: is starting to shift in the wrong direction. A lot
Speaker 2: of that is showing that like independents are much like
Speaker 2: like He's be like much likelier to flock to Biden,
Speaker 2: like by six points, like in sort of a generic race,
Speaker 2: and even like with five people in the race, Biden
Speaker 2: is still a few points of of Trump. And also
Speaker 2: the like, the one thing I think is true is
Speaker 2: that the gender gap is actually widening when it comes
Speaker 2: to between Biden and Trump, because obviously the Republicans are
Speaker 2: running on a campaign slogan of I am the manager
Speaker 2: of your uterus now, and that isn't quite bringing everybody
Speaker 2: to under the same tent. But yeah, this feels like
Speaker 2: the one true thing that like people can stand on,
Speaker 2: like a number is being bad with women.
Speaker 1: It's like yeah, yeah, shit, yeah, they're.
Speaker 5: Like, oh my thought the problem. I think, well, first
Speaker 5: of all, I like to hear about the money. I'm
Speaker 5: one thing I would love to see as a public defender,
Speaker 5: like if he has to just to.
Speaker 2: Like if you can't afford an attorney one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he just got every bridge in Manhattan, Like
Speaker 1: over the course of his career, every lawyer he's been
Speaker 1: involved with, he is like, you know, just burned that bridge,
Speaker 1: like ruined their life. So like if he was just like, wait,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, we're out of attorneys in the
Speaker 1: whole city of New York.
Speaker 2: Public defend are pretty upstanding people, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like that's such thankless work. They've got it. Yeah. Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Met dealers and then Donald Trump like it's one of
Speaker 5: their six hundred cases. But the other thing about polling is,
Speaker 5: I'm it makes me very nervous polling any because the
Speaker 5: Trump base is so anti authoritarian, so wary of establishment,
Speaker 5: that if someone calls and says they're a pollster, they're
Speaker 5: either going to hang up or they're gonna lie, or
Speaker 5: they're gonna tell them fuck you. So I don't know,
Speaker 5: maybe there's some stealth polling, like you can like pretend
Speaker 5: you're not a polster and be like, isn't it a
Speaker 5: Trump great? I'm going to vote for him.
Speaker 1: Trumpercover is one of their kids at the dinner table.
Speaker 2: What do you think, dad, Wait, what's rue to you?
Speaker 2: I'm I'm rick Ricky Trump. Come on, daddy, what do
Speaker 2: you think? What's your feeling on where the base is at?
Speaker 2: But I think again, the other thing that a lot
Speaker 2: of people are thinking about, and to reference the mothertime
Speaker 2: coffee mugs, the group of people who were like, these
Speaker 2: are the things that will save us, not just you know,
Speaker 2: my actually stupid investment creating laws that what may actually
Speaker 2: create you know, stricter guidelines for that many people, you know,
Speaker 2: still hoping that the courts are going to get Trump's
Speaker 2: ass before the election. But here's the thing. It is
Speaker 2: looking pretty unlikely that any of the trials of any
Speaker 2: kind of substantial consequence will start or end in time
Speaker 2: for a conviction to happen before election day. That's that's
Speaker 2: just the state of things right now as you look
Speaker 2: at it. Like in Georgia, right Fani Willis is currently
Speaker 2: dealing with a scandal after one of the attorneys representing
Speaker 2: a defendant laid out these allegations of impropriety in her office,
Speaker 2: namely that she was like having a relationship with one
Speaker 2: of the special prosecutors who had, like their relevant experience
Speaker 2: seemed not quite as substantial as it might need to
Speaker 2: be for something like this, and just also being overpaid,
Speaker 2: and like many legal analysts don't think that's enough for
Speaker 2: you know, to really cast the sort of aspersions you
Speaker 2: need to be like, Okay, well they need to actually
Speaker 2: get rid of this prosecution team. But if the judge
Speaker 2: does decide to do that and another team of prosecutors
Speaker 2: would have to be brought in, there's a whole other
Speaker 2: process that would have to take place, and that is
Speaker 2: just going to cause massive delays. So we're still we're
Speaker 2: still unsure where what's going on with that, And as
Speaker 2: of this time, like Fannie Willis hasn't made really much
Speaker 2: up like direct comments about this. So that's one thing
Speaker 2: that is like wobbling the timeline for the Georgia Rico case,
Speaker 2: which felt like that one was like every day we
Speaker 2: were like, whoa, maybe this thing might do some shit.
Speaker 5: But my oh sorry interrupt, but yeah, Mike, worry is
Speaker 5: that even a conviction, is that necessarily going to stop them?
Speaker 5: Because I remember researching this a little and deeply, but
Speaker 5: you Jene Debs ran for president while in jail, yes,
Speaker 5: and that like whatever four percent of the vote, So
Speaker 5: I don't know if a conviction is the way out.
Speaker 2: I mean, oh, I mean it would only be Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it would just be one of those things
Speaker 2: that it would be so unprecedented that it would really
Speaker 2: cause the Republican Party to have questions be like, how
Speaker 2: do you if the guy looks, you know, the best
Speaker 2: case scenario, he's convicted and has to go to prison,
Speaker 2: Like what happens from there? That's just crazy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, like that we have every day is an unprecedented Selwich, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's why the overall it's not
Speaker 2: this isn't the basket people need to be putting their
Speaker 2: eggs in. It's like a judicial route to sort of
Speaker 2: save us from the mess that we've made in this
Speaker 2: country over the last few decades. And then in the
Speaker 2: Jack Smith DC case, things are slowing down because the
Speaker 2: higher courts are still trying to determine whether or not
Speaker 2: Trump has the immunity that he's fantasizing about. And from
Speaker 2: there he can appeal that one decision, go to a
Speaker 2: higher court and then appeal again to the surprise Court.
Speaker 2: So that could take very you could take it really
Speaker 2: long time. If like with that timeline, you can always delay, right,
Speaker 2: and in court, if you have the money, you can
Speaker 2: always delay, delay, delay, Yeah, And but now looking at
Speaker 2: just sort of like the questions that need to even
Speaker 2: be answered now and the courts that are determining those things, like,
Speaker 2: we're just adding more complexity to this. And obviously in Florida,
Speaker 2: Judge Eileen Cannon is doing what any loyal Lackey would
Speaker 2: do and has slowed the pace down to the point
Speaker 2: that people are like, oh, is this thing like completely
Speaker 2: inert now? So not a lot to necessarily get excited
Speaker 2: about on the legal front. So you know, I think
Speaker 2: just let's not hinge your hopes and dreams on Trump
Speaker 2: being convicted in time and just prepare for a messy
Speaker 2: election season and you know that's the only people or
Speaker 2: that are going to be able to do anything or
Speaker 2: I don't know, whoever's voting, whoever's like, you know, counting
Speaker 2: votes and not doing the murky work that the Democrats
Speaker 2: are doing or some shit like there's just going to
Speaker 2: be a I don't know, it's just going to be
Speaker 2: We're stuck with this, guys, So get ready, like, no,
Speaker 2: no court's going to save us from this. And to
Speaker 2: your point about the polling. It doesn't like I feel
Speaker 2: like a lot of the time, there's one of these
Speaker 2: posters who came on, like on CNN or MSNBC recently
Speaker 2: and was talking about the difficulty in talking with Trump
Speaker 2: voters because like, a lot of the time you don't know,
Speaker 2: like sometimes they'll say what they think you want to hear,
Speaker 2: or sometimes they'll say what they want people to think.
Speaker 2: They are, like, they're like, I'm not a depraved maga person.
Speaker 2: Of course I'm not going to back that. It's like
Speaker 2: because I'd rather say that and be like, I'm all in.
Speaker 2: So sure, it's a very the target is very Uh,
Speaker 2: it's up and down.
Speaker 1: The polling I'm seeing quoted everywhere is that you know,
Speaker 1: Biden's now up six international poll I think, But it's
Speaker 1: from Quinnipiac, which is the poll that, even when I
Speaker 1: believed in polling like years ago, was the one where
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, well, we throw Quinnipiac out right.
Speaker 1: Quinnipiac doesn't mean shit like that. One is always skewed
Speaker 1: in favor the Democrats, just like res Musin is generally
Speaker 1: skewed in favor of the Republicans. Yeah, so I don't know,
Speaker 1: doesn't feel all that reassuring to me, and polling is
Speaker 1: the opiate of the dumb dumbs, including myself. I just
Speaker 1: I reach for it when I need to get to
Speaker 1: sleep at night.
Speaker 2: Well, of course, yeah, you don't want to be like, oh,
Speaker 2: Project twenty twenty five in full swing and ye whatever,
Speaker 2: whatever the fuck that brings, and you're like, please six
Speaker 2: points okay for maintaining the status quo, because that's what
Speaker 2: rich I think is so hard and difficult for many
Speaker 2: people too. It's like we can be doing so much
Speaker 2: better and we're just offered like very nominal change, if
Speaker 2: any at all. Like we're back to, like even with
Speaker 2: the Biden campaign, just being like ro man, remember that
Speaker 2: one I said four years ago. I'm using it again.
Speaker 2: Let's do something about it.
Speaker 5: I feel like I try to remind myself that they're
Speaker 5: eight months and that just don't pay attention to the polls. Now,
Speaker 5: maybe the polls will have something to say like a
Speaker 5: month out, but now it's like paying attention at like
Speaker 5: the first few games of whatever the NBA or something.
Speaker 1: Living dying with like opening day for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the first week of baseball season, and you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: fuck fire, the manager.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, it's uh, it's like it's it's like
Speaker 1: worrying about the weather report three months out, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, none of the truly, truly, truly, truly. All right,
Speaker 2: let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about Peter Thiel and the Olympics, and we're back.
Speaker 1: We're and on Wednesday, Pressure Lease came out announcing the
Speaker 1: formation of the Enhanced Games. This is the best I mean,
Speaker 1: is he gonna just go full Madge like, like again
Speaker 1: not to doctor Moreau talking about yeah, but like batman
Speaker 1: villain shit, Like oh, they're like, yes, we will celebrate
Speaker 1: true human excellence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, rise my mutants and throw this javelin seven hundred meters.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Peter Thiel and a group of investors believe that
Speaker 1: the world is dying to see athletes on a bunch
Speaker 1: of peds.
Speaker 2: Yeah they're not wrong.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would watch it this. That's not the problem.
Speaker 5: The problem is moral.
Speaker 2: But right, Yeah, the press of these is interesting, he says. Quote.
Speaker 2: Just as the ancient Olympics were revived and renovated in
Speaker 2: eighteen ninety six for the Victorian world, the Enhanced Games
Speaker 2: is once again renovating the Olympic model for the twenty
Speaker 2: first century. In the era of accelerating technological and scientific change,
Speaker 2: the world needs a sporting event that embraces the future,
Speaker 2: particularly advances in medical science. Yeah. Yeah, so, like we're saying,
Speaker 2: this would be an athletic competition where the athletes are
Speaker 2: encouraged to dope, use stimulants and bank steroids in order
Speaker 2: to answer the question how many people can we see
Speaker 2: have simultaneous heart attacks during a two hundred meter sprint?
Speaker 2: And I think the odds are are pretty good. And yeah,
Speaker 2: the rules that are currently being used are dumb because
Speaker 2: fairness is for the week, and also who gives a
Speaker 2: fuck if they die? And they've said, hey, we get it,
Speaker 2: this can be dangerous. They said there will be quote
Speaker 2: health checks before and after competitions. Okay.
Speaker 5: What I love is that if this goes like in
Speaker 5: five years, it's just gonna be nuts because you'll have
Speaker 5: crisper and like you'll have athletes with like cheetah legs,
Speaker 5: like you know.
Speaker 2: Oh that are hinged differently too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like why not? I mean, medicine is moving that fast.
Speaker 5: It'll be wild. And yeah, I would totally watch it,
Speaker 5: you know, ethically, it's like bear baiting. It's like about
Speaker 5: as Yeah, you know, it's a horrible idea, but but
Speaker 5: it is compelling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like I remember Daniel Tosh had a bit
Speaker 2: about this in one of his early specials about being like, yeah,
Speaker 2: let him fucking do all of the fucking enhancing drugs,
Speaker 2: Like let's just see what the fuck that looks like.
Speaker 2: And so I think we all do have this like
Speaker 2: morbid fascination just to be like, yeah, how far can
Speaker 2: the human body go if you just open the door
Speaker 2: to all these enhancements. But I think it's just dumb
Speaker 2: of them to act like this is a noble pursuit
Speaker 2: when you like clearly with like people like Peter Teele involved,
Speaker 2: they just want to cash in on a drug addled
Speaker 2: freak show where they can like basically use like their
Speaker 2: comp like pharmaceutical or medical companies to be like and
Speaker 2: look at team whatever company this is, like look how
Speaker 2: fast their guys go off?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like Tim Peiser team Yeah, yeah, Team Olco, like
Speaker 1: in the powerlifting Yeah, Team USSR just a team of
Speaker 1: scientists from the nineteen eighties. USSR comes through. It's like
Speaker 1: the doctors behind Ivan Drago.
Speaker 5: I do remember I wrote an article once about the
Speaker 5: history of the Olympics, and early in the Olympics, doping
Speaker 5: was not even an issue. And I remember the winner
Speaker 5: of the first modern marathon I think it was eighteen
Speaker 5: ninety six stopped in the middle of the marathon to
Speaker 5: have a glass of wine and maybe a shot of
Speaker 5: whiskey or something, so which I thought was like, that's
Speaker 5: the best, Like that is the marathon I can deal with.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so it maybe he's right, this is more
Speaker 5: like the original.
Speaker 2: I mean to that point though, too. I think I'd
Speaker 2: also enjoy watching an Olympics where people were absolutely fucked
Speaker 2: off their faces trying to compete.
Speaker 5: Too, like drug history, but for the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just totally enhanced just oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Like because that would be wild to see someone like
Speaker 2: an archery or some shit be like, dude, every day
Speaker 2: these people had to polish off like whatever, like whatever
Speaker 2: drugs were giving them that to completely fuck up their
Speaker 2: equilibrium and there's still hitting it. Then I would be like, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody has that friend who like is is a
Speaker 1: better like test taker one stoned, you know, Like I
Speaker 1: feel like sometimes there would be like actual world records
Speaker 1: set by like one person. Yeah, like an archery or
Speaker 1: like yeah dark, yeah you do it.
Speaker 2: You do the sub two hour full marathon because you're
Speaker 2: just drunk and you're like just so like dissociated for
Speaker 2: I don't know, I got there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man, it would just be it'd be so
Speaker 1: interesting to see what the upper limits were, to see
Speaker 1: what Like I one time I was watching an NFL
Speaker 1: game and there were before like during the Star Spangled banner,
Speaker 1: one of the players had these enormous tears pouring out
Speaker 1: of their eye and.
Speaker 2: The size of the tears were enormous.
Speaker 1: The tears like the drop drop The droplets were massive.
Speaker 1: And then I've read somewhere that that is like one
Speaker 1: of the side effects of like a type of performance
Speaker 1: enhancing drug that like people just aren't aware of. So
Speaker 1: like it would just be interesting to see the side
Speaker 1: effect that I'd be like, oh, yeah, okay, I recognize this.
Speaker 2: This girl crying one gallonteer drops.
Speaker 5: Instead of the gatorade dump you could just dump.
Speaker 2: That guy just stands over you.
Speaker 5: But my question was it because he was emotional? Was
Speaker 5: that a signific or just was the implication?
Speaker 1: But it was like it was very strange the amount
Speaker 1: and you know, kind of stone faced, but just like
Speaker 1: giant tears pouring out of.
Speaker 5: That is hilarious. Well, I love it too, because it's
Speaker 5: a It's a conversation I've had a hundred times with
Speaker 5: my friends like, well, let's have a major league where
Speaker 5: it's all in. Yeah, And then the other the opposite
Speaker 5: conversation I've had with my friends is like, what if
Speaker 5: you had a league that was totally the field was
Speaker 5: totally even, so, like if you were born with a
Speaker 5: certain advantage, this would take away like you know, sand
Speaker 5: bags on horses. So if you're seven feet tall, you
Speaker 5: have like three pounds on your legs so that the
Speaker 5: five foot two guy can get in there and play
Speaker 5: against you. And what would that look like? Not very popular,
Speaker 5: I'm guessing.
Speaker 2: That one would.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be for like men in their forties
Speaker 1: to watch, Like I could be out there, man, oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if it's like this, dude, I got Lebron day, man, Lebron.
Speaker 1: Would still be so good like Lebron, Like that's what
Speaker 1: we're seeing in his old age, like he's still just
Speaker 1: like you know, it doesn't matter, he's just a basketball computer.
Speaker 2: I mean for like the people that you know, they're
Speaker 2: always doping scandals and things like that. I'm always curious,
Speaker 2: like just how far ahead would they really be outperforming
Speaker 2: athletes who are quote unquote clean, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Because what if the times were exactly the same as
Speaker 2: good It's like you just have mediocre athletes getting like
Speaker 2: thin two one hundred, like five one hundreds of a
Speaker 2: second of Usain Bolt And you're like, right, okay.
Speaker 5: Well, one thing I remember ten years ago, you're however
Speaker 5: long it was when Oscar Pretorious, right, the convicted Now
Speaker 5: he's a convicted murderer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he he's out now, isn't he.
Speaker 5: Yeah he's out, Yeah, but he free Oscar.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But I watched a Ted talk right after him, and
Speaker 5: the guy predicted that in ten years every runner in
Speaker 5: the Olympics would have artificial limbs because you can design
Speaker 5: them to be faster, right, And that hasn't come true.
Speaker 5: But I wonder why not? Like what is what happened?
Speaker 5: Is it just because they're not enough people doing it?
Speaker 5: Or is it that yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that level of body modification. Some people are like,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't mind not having a limb amputated
Speaker 2: for a carbon fiber blade leg, but who knows, maybe
Speaker 2: just need someone to really make that fashionable. I'm just
Speaker 2: I just feel like powerlifting is probably where you're gonna
Speaker 2: see the most like difference probably, Although I just saw
Speaker 2: like a video of this guy who's like a bodybuilder
Speaker 2: influencer who had like a caffeine induced heart attack because
Speaker 2: like he's just doing so many crazy stimulants to train.
Speaker 2: So it just this idea seems just so many things
Speaker 2: can go wrong.
Speaker 1: Just everyone looks like the liver king.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if motherfuckers aren't jumping like nine feet in
Speaker 2: the air casually, then we're not really you know, like
Speaker 2: I feel like it's not going to quite pay off
Speaker 2: on the promise of being like what happens if everyone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's why you need the gene splicing. So they
Speaker 5: like like they look like alligators and things, so it's
Speaker 5: like really interesting to watch. Otherwise it's like, you know, Okay,
Speaker 5: they ran five seconds faster, right right.
Speaker 2: It's like Mutant Boy from Florida with his crocktail. Uh,
Speaker 2: like his gatortail is like just crushing the one hundred
Speaker 2: meter freestyle. Uh yeah, those are the things we want.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well, speaking of none of that, I
Speaker 1: guess Larry David attacked Almo on Live TV. Hey, mutant freaks,
Speaker 1: you know, mutant freaks, Yeah, performance enhancing. We don't know
Speaker 1: what Elmo was on in this appearance, but you know,
Speaker 1: we we've been we've been debating what whether Elmo would
Speaker 1: win in a fight with Big Bird that Elmo's I
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about how big Bird has eyes
Speaker 1: facing forward, so definitely a predator. But then Miles he
Speaker 1: pointed out Elmo's eyes are as close together as we've.
Speaker 2: Ever seen as forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so like Elmo is, you know, possibly an apex predator,
Speaker 1: possibly a super predator. But yeah, just broadly, this kind
Speaker 1: of has nothing to do with that. But he made
Speaker 1: an appearance on the Today Show, Elmo did, and man,
Speaker 1: it just keeps raining ship on Elmo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gus, because like, yeah, obviously this was that tweet
Speaker 2: that went viral. Bobby like, hey, just check it in
Speaker 2: with you guys. How's everyone's existential dread? And they're like, whoa,
Speaker 2: this was not the ratio I was seeking here on
Speaker 2: this tweet. But yeah, this is him on the Today
Speaker 2: Show talking about that tweet, and then randomly Larry David
Speaker 2: shows up to mush his face. I don't know, well,
Speaker 2: you decide.
Speaker 6: Let's go over to Alpha check of the weather and
Speaker 6: wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.
Speaker 2: Larry David, smushing his face, he took a swipe at
Speaker 2: the dads permission before you touch people. Nor did you
Speaker 2: hear his That was Elmo's dad, like like like fog
Speaker 2: horn leghorn?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, his dad.
Speaker 6: His dad talks like this. He's like kind of a
Speaker 6: Southern fried jazz hippie. But then we kind of fucked
Speaker 6: up how I view Elmo. Like when I saw that,
Speaker 6: I was like, man, I didn't I didn't want to
Speaker 6: see his dad like I didn't. I didn't want to
Speaker 6: know that stand italy by that his dad has like
Speaker 6: a soul patch, you know. Yeah, his dad looks like
Speaker 6: the dad who wasn't really there for every birthday.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's like, hey, Elmo, you get my Columbia
Speaker 2: House CDs that I said those were I got for
Speaker 2: a penny that I thought you'd love.
Speaker 1: His dad smells like sandal wood and weed for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like in a little bit of petuli. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can't have a soul patch and not be fucking
Speaker 2: with the petuli. But yeah, like like Larry David at
Speaker 2: the end, he just yelled off everyone somebody had to
Speaker 2: do it, and I'm like, I wasn't sure what he meant.
Speaker 2: Was it? That is Larry David team Big Bird and
Speaker 2: he's just letting him know what time it is, Like
Speaker 2: he's like, bro, it's ugly for you every single time
Speaker 2: I see you because all day?
Speaker 1: Or is it that they made up the Big Bird
Speaker 1: or like that was just something Molly overheard a parent
Speaker 1: talking to their kid about. Ye, Like it's not a
Speaker 1: national debate, Like no.
Speaker 2: This is all stems from Molly overhearing a father and
Speaker 2: daughter talk about this. A ro who could be Almo?
Speaker 2: Who would win in a fight?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because well Big Bird was having like a big
Speaker 1: social media moment this like very crafted. Big Bird shrunk
Speaker 1: to small and like was like how am I going
Speaker 1: to get back to being big? And like it was
Speaker 1: getting some traction but not that much.
Speaker 2: Mostly from nazis on Twitter, and then Almo just drops
Speaker 2: it and is like how's everybody doing? And like everyone's like,
Speaker 2: oh shit, Almo.
Speaker 1: So we're like there's definitely some tension there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sure.
Speaker 5: I mean I think of it more like you know,
Speaker 5: the thought experiments, like how many babies would it take
Speaker 5: to kill John Cena, Like, that's I think it would
Speaker 5: take a few Elmos to take down. So that's right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: how many Elmos would you need?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah. It's like it's interesting though, too, like how
Speaker 2: people like their response to the clip wasn't necessarily like
Speaker 2: why would Larry do David do that? So a lot
Speaker 2: of people were like, why the fuck didn't Elmo's dad
Speaker 2: do something? This man just pulled up on your fucking
Speaker 2: child and wushed their mother fucking face in and he's
Speaker 2: just like, hey, hey, hey, now hey, uh what the
Speaker 2: what the fuck was that? So for me again, another
Speaker 2: data point in the fight between Elmo and Big Bird.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry, like I think you know, as
Speaker 2: a parent, you grabbing my kid, that's instant smoke for you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's just that's guaranteed. But man, if Elmo's own daddy
Speaker 2: ain't built for it, what's what chance the Elmo got,
Speaker 2: you know? Even if he's speaking in third person. So
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't. I don't like how it looks.
Speaker 2: I don't like how it looks for him.
Speaker 5: Well a lot of I mean, the third person I've
Speaker 5: noticed is like elite athletes, serial killers sometimes talking the
Speaker 5: third person.
Speaker 2: So maybe maybe, and maybe maybe seeing his father be
Speaker 2: emasculated like that just on live television, maybe just the
Speaker 2: thing that really pushes him over the line. When the
Speaker 2: bell rings in that fight.
Speaker 1: Elma looks like in the clip, Elmo looks a lot
Speaker 1: like I did it whenever anybody would like fuck with
Speaker 1: me as a kid, like just being like.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, totally masculine, and then wait and then wait
Speaker 2: to cry until your mom picked you up from school. Yes,
Speaker 2: yeah that's me. That was just not anything, because the
Speaker 2: very first word that comes out was going to be good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you okay, Jack, say something? Now say something?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yeah, I feel like Elmo, like me,
Speaker 3: not built for it. But I think Lady David needs
Speaker 3: to test you never know.
Speaker 2: You'd be surprised what people unleash when they have it,
Speaker 2: you know, bottled in for so long too. That's true.
Speaker 2: It could come out people be like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: Elmo did not have to desecrate big Us corpse like that.
Speaker 2: That was just a little bit. I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 2: know he had that in him. But it's the darkness
Speaker 2: Helm Well.
Speaker 1: Aj Jacobs has been a real pleasure having you on
Speaker 1: the daily ze Daily zeite Geist, where can people find you?
Speaker 2: Follow you? All that good stuff?
Speaker 5: Well, I loved it, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 5: You know, the usual stuff A J. Jacobs on whatever
Speaker 5: toxic social media there still is, and uh yeah, the puzzler.
Speaker 5: That's what you should do is listen to the Puzzler
Speaker 5: on iHeart Media. It's every day, but only eight minutes,
Speaker 5: so you can still listen to your Daily zeite Geist
Speaker 5: before or after whatever you go for.
Speaker 2: And maybe Jack and I be on and will not
Speaker 2: cry if we don't get nailed all the puzzles. I
Speaker 2: can't guarantee that. I can't wait. I can't wait.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've given us permission to be completely uh sadistic,
Speaker 5: So this is.
Speaker 2: Very what'd you think? What do you think of that puzzle?
Speaker 2: You call my mom? Call my mom? I rolled over
Speaker 2: my phone with my desk chair. Amazing. Is there a
Speaker 2: work of media you've been enjoying? Aga?
Speaker 5: You know what I like to watch nowadays is Netflix
Speaker 5: shows that are set in other countries, but they're only
Speaker 5: a little bit different. Like I would watch, you know,
Speaker 5: an Italian show thinking like, oh, I'm going to learn
Speaker 5: about the culture, and like the only difference is the
Speaker 5: light switch.
Speaker 2: Is slightly different.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so it's a little a little sad because
Speaker 5: it's like it used to be that countries were completely different.
Speaker 5: But I guess there's something comforting about it as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So yeah, there's one. Actually I did like an Italian
Speaker 5: Netflix show called The Law. According to Lydia Poet, I
Speaker 5: think it was I'm only sixty percent sure, but it
Speaker 5: was about the first Italian lawyer, first woman Italian the
Speaker 5: first woman Italian lawyer, not the first Italian lawyer.
Speaker 2: Very good.
Speaker 1: All right, Miles, where can people find you as their
Speaker 1: working media you've been enjoying.
Speaker 2: Let's see you can find me on the AT based
Speaker 2: platforms at Miles of Gray. Let's see you can find
Speaker 2: Jack and on our basketball podcast and Jack got mad boosties.
Speaker 7: And you know I'm watching I'm watching that reality TV
Speaker 7: at one and a half X, you know, because I like,
Speaker 7: I respect the content, but then I recap it over
Speaker 7: on four to twenty day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra.
Speaker 2: So come come come visit me over there? Will you?
Speaker 2: Some tweets I like? First one is from at site
Speaker 2: Chris that tweeted site Chris Hill site Chris. Yeah no,
Speaker 2: see ite site or no, you know what it is.
Speaker 2: It could be city, Chris. I don't know with an
Speaker 2: H on the end, how people make fun of how
Speaker 2: man cunions say city, but the treats said quote, Hey, sorry,
Speaker 2: I didn't reply. My wife was making me watch our
Speaker 2: five month old for a bit. But I'm back now
Speaker 2: you're so hot loll and then open Mike Egle past
Speaker 2: guest front of the show at Mike Underscore, Egle tweeted
Speaker 2: Taylor SWI Taylor Swift should invite Colin Kaeberneck to her
Speaker 2: super Bowl suite for the added chaos. I love that.
Speaker 2: That's a great idea. She should absolutely do that. The
Speaker 2: right would actually someone would actually cease to exist. I
Speaker 2: think like the outrage would be so they somehow physically
Speaker 2: could not handle it, like turn into pink mist on
Speaker 2: the spot.
Speaker 1: A couple of people on Twitter were retweeting this old
Speaker 1: performance by Radiohead on SNL. There's just like every once
Speaker 1: in a while there's an old SNL performance that I
Speaker 1: just can't stop watching, and this is Radiohead performing the
Speaker 1: national Anthem from Tom Tom York is is really you
Speaker 1: know Tom York.
Speaker 2: In it up? So I enjoy that, Go seek it out.
Speaker 1: Zach Pugh was one of the people who tweeted it,
Speaker 1: and then I also enjoyed this from Eddie Robson.
Speaker 2: I felt called out by this one, and he said, Oh,
Speaker 2: January has been going on so long, when will it end?
Speaker 1: Well, now it has and what have we got February?
Speaker 2: Well done, you idiots? And yeah, that's how I was feeling.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Uh, you can find me enjoying tweets like that on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can find us on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Daily Zeikeeis. We're at the Daily Zeikeeist on Instagram.
Speaker 1: We have a Facebook fanpage and a website Daily zeitgeist
Speaker 1: dot com where we post our episodes and our footnotes
Speaker 1: no where we link off to the information that we
Speaker 1: talked about in today's episode, as well as a song
Speaker 1: that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 2: Miles, what song do you think people might enjoy it?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Luckily, one of my favorite bands, Hiatus Coyote from Australia.
Speaker 2: They have a new single out and they haven't put
Speaker 2: an album out since twenty twenty one and I and
Speaker 2: before that they're out. Took like six years for the
Speaker 2: that album to come out, so We've been blessed with
Speaker 2: a new single called Everything's Beautiful, and this track is
Speaker 2: very beautiful, uh, just giving a gift and giving us
Speaker 2: that rhythm in an odd meter and Nay Palm's voice
Speaker 2: is fantastic, the bass playing and drumming is fantastic. Everything
Speaker 2: about this band is so dope.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And so I hope you enjoyed this going into your weekend,
Speaker 2: and hope that Everything's Beautiful because that's the name of
Speaker 2: this track by Hiatus Coyote.
Speaker 1: All right, we will link off to that in the
Speaker 1: foot notes. The Daily Guys is a production of iHeart
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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for us this week. We are
Speaker 1: back on Monday morning to tell you what is trending
Speaker 1: and we will talk to you all that.
Speaker 2: Bye bye bye