Speaker 1: Well, hello the Internet.
Speaker 2: I am talking very loud because I'm excited that in
Speaker 2: the season three thirty four, episode five of The Daily Zeitgeist,
Speaker 2: a production iHeartRadio, thank you for doing that, was saying hi,
Speaker 2: work Jack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh did you do the yah? Oh like hi y'ah? No? No,
Speaker 1: oh okay, I'm like, just right now, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: switch it up. I got a pacation thing later work.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, you got the normal dude, So I'm talking
Speaker 2: about that. But yes, this is a podcast where we
Speaker 2: take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Friday,
Speaker 2: April nineteenth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: It's Friday.
Speaker 2: I hope y'all are fucking ready to do whatever y'all
Speaker 2: do on the weekends, and I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2: But what is April nineteenth? Officially? It's National Clean out
Speaker 2: your Medicine Cabinet Day. Yes, because you're having a party
Speaker 2: with high schoolers coming over, don't let them take to
Speaker 2: your medicine cabinets. Clear all that shit out.
Speaker 1: I have a feelteen baby, yeah, right, four nineteenth.
Speaker 2: If this feels like a thing, big farms, like get
Speaker 2: rid of your like expired meds. You can buy new ones,
Speaker 2: like it's kind of like what they're saying here. It's
Speaker 2: also National North Dakota Day, National Amaretto Day, National Garlic Day,
Speaker 2: National Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day, and don't forget that
Speaker 2: that was four nineteen.
Speaker 1: And National Hanging Out Day.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: It's such a look this is America, baby, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. We got we got a lot on
Speaker 2: any given day here. It can be garlic, it can
Speaker 2: be you know, right wing. Yeah, it could be, is
Speaker 2: what we always say in America.
Speaker 1: But anyway, are you trying to make are you trying
Speaker 1: to make this show less white when on the day's
Speaker 1: Jack is not here? You know, just I have to
Speaker 1: spread my trilingual wings, you know what I mean? I
Speaker 1: mean and try.
Speaker 2: I gets two and a half.
Speaker 1: I mean my Spanish is pretty basic.
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, because you know when Jack, when I
Speaker 2: start speaking foreign languages, he does things like stop talking
Speaker 2: code around me.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, you gotta you gotta spread your wings.
Speaker 2: Like, hey, people who have mixed families like that where
Speaker 2: a parent is an immigrant, some I know, some American
Speaker 2: families are they say, like if foreign language was discouraged
Speaker 2: in at home luckily on this show. We don't discourage
Speaker 2: it here, we embrace it.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: But guess what my Miles Gray AKA and I said, hey, yay, yeah,
Speaker 2: he yay.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, my voice is gone.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, my voice is gone because I was
Speaker 2: screaming for non blondes while I was doing karaoke in Japan.
Speaker 1: That is a reference.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Kleil Universe for my voice in the
Speaker 2: first couple of days was real touch and go because
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I blew like a whole vocal cord
Speaker 2: screaming good. But yeah, yeah, I mean that's the thing
Speaker 2: about when I I'm not a great singer, but a
Speaker 2: little bit of alcohol in me, I will I will
Speaker 2: scream like my life depends on it. But anyway, I'm
Speaker 2: through to be joined by my guest co host, a
Speaker 2: fantastic person, my new lunch homie. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Here we have luck.
Speaker 2: We have salty salads.
Speaker 1: Is what we do.
Speaker 2: We very salty food when we hang out. That it
Speaker 2: does what it does. I needed some water afterwards, dude,
Speaker 2: I drink. I couldn't believe how parched I was after
Speaker 2: that salty salad. Anyway, and look he's a fantastic writer, comedian, producer.
Speaker 2: What I mean is it all? He does everything in
Speaker 2: this town. He even hosts a podcast. You already noticed,
Speaker 2: the legendary podcast. You know it's this racist Please welcome
Speaker 2: to the microphone, mister Andrew D.
Speaker 1: I I came up with an A. I was trying
Speaker 1: to think of an AKA this morning, and I was like,
Speaker 1: if I was a different, like, you know, stand up
Speaker 1: type Joe Rogan podcast person, they would have called me
Speaker 1: Andrew t fake mister T A k A b A abacus.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, And I couldn't. I couldn't get that out
Speaker 1: of my head, even though it's both racist and whack.
Speaker 1: So that's what I bring to the table. You say,
Speaker 1: b A A bachus You know, I just that was
Speaker 1: that was my I was trying to I was riding
Speaker 1: that line, and then it was time to record. So
Speaker 1: that's where I'm at. I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it. Well, guess what, Andrew, We have a
Speaker 1: fantastic guest today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, someone who's a fantastic actor, comedian, improvisor, also does
Speaker 2: many things. Also has a fantastic podcast, Jocular, a podcast
Speaker 2: from a queer sports angle. Okay, and it is a
Speaker 2: newly arrived podcast, I believe, only launched in March of
Speaker 2: this year on Adam McKay's hyper Object Industries. Please welcome
Speaker 2: to the microphone, the brilliant, the talented, the athletic Katie Kershaw.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Hello.
Speaker 2: Welcome Katie. How are you? How are you?
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. This is your first time
Speaker 1: on the show. Thank you it is.
Speaker 3: This is amazing. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3: This is awesome. I have two other hosts of the podcast,
Speaker 3: and you've got the least athletic one.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, well hell better than us? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I also talk about sports too, but and I do
Speaker 2: it seated, and I dream of doing the thing things
Speaker 2: I talk about in the sports podcast. What's your sports like?
Speaker 2: Did you play a lot of sports? Do you like?
Speaker 1: How do you?
Speaker 2: How did you get into sports that led to now
Speaker 2: hosting a sports podcast with Your with Your with Your Home.
Speaker 3: Well, I grew up in Kentucky, which is basketball country, right,
Speaker 3: so it's kind of like ingrained in you. Everyone in
Speaker 3: my family played basketball. You grew up watching basketball, and
Speaker 3: I played it as a kid. And then at one
Speaker 3: point the coach who was like my mom's best friend
Speaker 3: I was in like fifth grade, tried to send me
Speaker 3: into the game and I said, I can't. I'm having
Speaker 3: a conversation. And then at the point yeah, he came
Speaker 3: up to my mom and was like, I just don't
Speaker 3: think she's got it.
Speaker 1: Wow. And then the podcast scouts were there like, I know, perfect.
Speaker 3: Okay, she's watching vod like watching basketball and she's talking conversation.
Speaker 3: We've got a great idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, call Adam McKay now, now get him on the
Speaker 2: phone now. I don't care if podcasts aren't invented yet,
Speaker 2: they're a thing. They're gonna happen. Yeah, well, dope it.
Speaker 2: It's great to have you. Where are you coming to
Speaker 2: us from? Are you in the City of Angels as well?
Speaker 3: I am a Highland Park.
Speaker 1: Baby, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I've been going. I've been going to Highland Park a lot.
Speaker 2: Like I feel like I'm at hermo Seal, like every
Speaker 2: other weekend for someone's birthday.
Speaker 1: Is so easy. Everything. Yeah, it's like outside. You don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about anything. You can bring a baby,
Speaker 1: you can bring a dog. Come on through and you
Speaker 1: bring a baby dog. You can bring a baby dog.
Speaker 1: They're not vaccinated yet. You could have.
Speaker 2: They got freckles, you know, always always a plus when
Speaker 2: you got pickles. Why you you don't like?
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 1: Like? You said freckles with such confidence and freckles, you know,
Speaker 1: like homie freckles. Like I get it. I was just
Speaker 1: a little too familiar, little too familiar.
Speaker 3: The formal name, the Christian name of pickles.
Speaker 2: Pickles, right, deep fried pickled cucumbers.
Speaker 1: This is what we like to say around here. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, I'm just saying too much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, that's fine. I mean, look, I'm people.
Speaker 2: I'm a freckle freak. Baby, I like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate it.
Speaker 2: You know that song a down on Cripple Creek, they
Speaker 2: saying this man is a frequal freak. I audition for
Speaker 2: the band and I did not get in. But anyway,
Speaker 2: here we are. Let's talk. Let's give the listeners a preview.
Speaker 2: We won't be talking about our health food habits, but
Speaker 2: we will be talking about Marjorie Taylor Green is now
Speaker 2: ironically leaning into her former anti Semitic conspiracy theory, or
Speaker 2: maybe she's being serious. He wants to bring back the
Speaker 2: space lasers. But for real, this time, we'll ask about
Speaker 2: that well, we'll also ask what's happening with New Yorkers
Speaker 2: because there is a bacterial infection that is on the
Speaker 2: rise that is due to a substance that seemingly feels
Speaker 2: very New York, but it's also a bitch. It kind
Speaker 2: of freaks me out this story. And while we're in
Speaker 2: New York, we'll talk about the New York Times, not
Speaker 2: about their amazing journalism, but they're amazing games. They're puzzle games,
Speaker 2: and why therapists are worried that they're seeing a they're
Speaker 2: seeing a bit of a trend in the wrong direction
Speaker 2: with some of the New York Times puzzle games. And
Speaker 2: then we'll just check in with the Trump jury selection process,
Speaker 2: because it's a fucking circus already. People are getting impaneled
Speaker 2: and then immediately here were like, yeah, I can't do it. Sorry, no,
Speaker 2: actually I don't think I can be objective here. I
Speaker 2: have too strong an opinion on this, or maybe they
Speaker 2: realized it could lead to a lot of fractment. We
Speaker 2: just don't know, but we will talk about that all
Speaker 2: that many other things. But first, KK is okay, k oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: do people call you KK?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's like a definitely a back home nickname.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that feels like a high school nickname for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, for sure. Well, I will be like
Speaker 2: I am familiar with freckles, I will be familiar with
Speaker 2: how I refer to you, Katie Kirshaw. What is something
Speaker 2: from you search history or a recent screen shot on
Speaker 2: your phone that says a lot about who you are?
Speaker 2: Reveals something about who you are.
Speaker 3: I didn't even think about a recent screenshot.
Speaker 2: You don't have to.
Speaker 1: Just if you have either one, either one works. I
Speaker 1: feel like they're equally telling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that screen shot can't share, I would say exactly.
Speaker 3: I was looking at my search history and my girlfriend
Speaker 3: and I just moved, so it's really kind of house oriented.
Speaker 3: So I looked up guide to buying a washer.
Speaker 1: Oh so if anyone.
Speaker 3: Has any tips on buying a washer, I need them.
Speaker 2: We're adult in hung we're now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's not like which vaporizer can fuck up five people
Speaker 2: at once? It's what do I need high efficiency? Do
Speaker 2: I need a front loader? Do I need a top loader?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 2: Did you end up like on like wirecutter or like
Speaker 2: one of those things that Google inevitably is like, hey,
Speaker 2: they pay us enough to put their results up top.
Speaker 3: Yes, of course I did. I was on a best
Speaker 3: Buy guide. I was everywhere. I think, I'll I don't
Speaker 3: know what will go. We're we're looking at a bunch
Speaker 3: ofs this it's so lame, but that is it's going
Speaker 3: to be a top loader.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh okay, yeah, roadloader.
Speaker 3: There's like you get mold like in the ring of it.
Speaker 3: It never dries out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That, or sometimes you get like old like if you
Speaker 2: use those pods. I've noticed like old detergent will collect
Speaker 2: like in the front and I have to like constantly
Speaker 2: like scoop out goop.
Speaker 1: Now it's like just it looks like primordial ooze. Oh interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I bought my first non like off a guy in craigslist. Appliance.
Speaker 1: I did get like somewhere in twenty twenty one, maybe
Speaker 1: like a new washer dryer, And I turns out do
Speaker 1: my exact same thing I do when I'm getting wine.
Speaker 1: Was that I just straight up got the second cheapest one,
Speaker 1: and it's so far it's been fine. I feel that.
Speaker 2: Because I mean, I don't know, I don't want the
Speaker 2: cheapest one. Yeah, exactly. I mean I feel like, for
Speaker 2: the most part, they're sturdy, but I don't know. Zeygang.
Speaker 2: If you know a lot about washing machines, please please
Speaker 2: do reach out to Katie or I and I can
Speaker 2: pass information along. What would you need to be looking
Speaker 2: for because like if yeah, in my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 2: does it clean? Okay, Like I don't need to do
Speaker 2: like infrared whatever or be connected to that. Just don't
Speaker 2: get anything that's connected to the Internet. I would just
Speaker 2: say that we don't need God no, because I saw
Speaker 2: a thing about how people's appliances like that are connected
Speaker 2: take up are downloading a lot of information like oh
Speaker 2: the point Yeah, you're like, ob why is it using
Speaker 2: this much of my internet? So yeah, the internet is
Speaker 2: kind of let's get away. Oh my god, I just realized.
Speaker 1: I just because it started getting warm and Los Angeles
Speaker 1: turned on my my new window unit AC that does
Speaker 1: have internet connectivity, and I do think my household bandwidth
Speaker 1: has gone down?
Speaker 2: Does it for real?
Speaker 1: Oh? Really? Now I'm probably making a connection, that is it?
Speaker 1: But as you say it now, I'm like, it's the
Speaker 1: fucking right. It's like the like the old yeah dad,
Speaker 1: things like too many guys are on the internet, right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Katie, what is something you think is underrated.
Speaker 3: Something I think is underrated is the Costco chicken bake.
Speaker 2: Oh go on.
Speaker 3: I feel like all of the attention, all of the
Speaker 3: T shirts, all the merchandise is about the hot dog.
Speaker 3: It's delicious, don't get me. I love the hot dog,
Speaker 3: of course, but do I leave wanting a little bit more? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And also too full? Yeah, it doesn't balance it out,
Speaker 3: but the chicken bake feels like I'm getting everything together.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, no, I'm thank you, thank you for
Speaker 2: saying this. Actually not, of course, because we all know
Speaker 2: one hot dog does not make a meal. That's that's
Speaker 2: just it is what it is. We're from America, Like,
Speaker 2: the hot dog is like a half bag of chips, basically, and.
Speaker 3: That hot dog is too big to justify two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one point five of those yeah, yes, yes, exactly right.
Speaker 2: Right, three three, three per couple basically. Yeah, it's sort
Speaker 2: of how we'd like, you.
Speaker 1: Know here, I don't know if you've been here before.
Speaker 1: We kind of do it family style.
Speaker 2: I would probably say, for you know, the two of
Speaker 2: you probably go with three of the hot dogs.
Speaker 1: Everyone has a hot dog and then you lady in
Speaker 1: the tramp the other hot dogs exactly exactly. It's whoever
Speaker 1: you're with, regardless of relationship.
Speaker 2: Is like the chicken bake, I just the feeling is
Speaker 2: basically like just cheese and bacon and flavor, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, how would you how would you describe it in
Speaker 1: a culinary aspect.
Speaker 3: The way that my mouth is watering right now? I
Speaker 3: would say the the flavor profile of the chicken bake
Speaker 3: is complex.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you.
Speaker 3: You were not going to be able to kind of
Speaker 3: nail it down upon first bite, right because you have
Speaker 3: the crunchy parmesan on top.
Speaker 2: Mm hm.
Speaker 3: The bread is nice and fluffy, but not too much
Speaker 3: because it's still like half crust.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has to hold it in, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So the filling I from my sense memory is chicken, bacon,
Speaker 3: cheese and almost like a caesary type yeah.
Speaker 2: Dressing, Yeah, I'm just I'm looking at the official description now.
Speaker 2: It's chicken breast strips, mozzarella provolo and parmesan cheeses, smoky bacon,
Speaker 2: creamy sesar dressing in green onions. That's green onions. That's
Speaker 2: what the green is.
Speaker 3: That's the secret.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a vegetable. I And this might be apocryphal,
Speaker 1: but I feel like I heard that it basically came
Speaker 1: like like sort of like when you're stoned in fourteen
Speaker 1: and working at a fast food restaurant, you just like
Speaker 1: put it together because I thought it was supposed to
Speaker 1: be the pizza dough, and then they like took the
Speaker 1: famous Costco chicken pieces and then just cracked open their
Speaker 1: like pre made Caesar salad box and like throw all
Speaker 1: that shit together. Basically, Oh my god, that's what happened.
Speaker 2: Do you think you're at Costco lore like that?
Speaker 1: I the answer is yes, Yeah, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I just don't know if this is
Speaker 1: false or like a fun little story, but I believe
Speaker 1: that is. Like all the ingredients are off the shelf,
Speaker 1: components of other ship they already had in the store,
Speaker 1: right right, right, Well, I mean look again, it's like
Speaker 1: it's like building a car at auto Zone. Check this
Speaker 1: ship out right, except there's no frame or doors.
Speaker 2: But we made it. It's like, man, we got we
Speaker 2: got a pedanal engine. But I mean this she can
Speaker 2: kind of go downhill it were technically, Yeah, it's got lights,
Speaker 2: it'll move, It's got got a shitload a wiper blade
Speaker 2: fluid I'll tell you that shitloaded. We got a ton
Speaker 2: of that, and you know, some loose wheels. Katie, what's
Speaker 2: something you think is overrated?
Speaker 3: Overrated? I think giving friends advice. I think it's the
Speaker 3: worst idea. We should stop doing it.
Speaker 2: Okay, give me, give me an example. Put me in
Speaker 2: the situation where I'm fully embracing this take.
Speaker 3: Okay, So if somebody is like, you know, I'm seeing
Speaker 3: this guy and I just don't know, what do you think?
Speaker 3: I'm not dating that person. I don't know what they're like. Intimately,
Speaker 3: I don't I don't fucking know. We don't have the
Speaker 3: same taste right first off, wouldn't date a man anyway,
Speaker 3: So it can't really help you there for sure. Ye,
Speaker 3: Like we're friends.
Speaker 2: When you said I'm dating this guy, I'll tell you
Speaker 2: right now, like.
Speaker 3: If we're friends, then we have the same probably like
Speaker 3: mental illness, Like we have the.
Speaker 2: Same emotional morbidity.
Speaker 3: I'm not the person and I'll probably not like the
Speaker 3: person you're dating anyway, so I might just be like
Speaker 3: not or maybe he's nice and has like good snacks
Speaker 3: and is really friendly, then I'll say hang on to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been in situations like that, I agree, And
Speaker 2: now I'm like, now that you say it, I'm like,
Speaker 2: there are friends you have who have like the weirdest
Speaker 2: dating habits, And it does get to a point like
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's a fucking thing I can
Speaker 2: say to you that will help, because there are so
Speaker 2: many other ships that are like entangled in.
Speaker 1: This that it's not just like what do I do?
Speaker 1: Do I like dump them? I'm like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's that's the actual solution to what's going on here,
Speaker 1: just generally rank like they're not the problem right right
Speaker 1: from my perspective, you are actually the problem.
Speaker 3: But I don't seen every relationship.
Speaker 1: Yeah you can.
Speaker 2: For me, You're the common denominator here. So I don't
Speaker 2: know what else to say aside from like you do better.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It also is very unlikable to point out people's real flaws.
Speaker 1: It turns out.
Speaker 3: Like it turns out yeah, people don't like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: It was like, well, it just feels like, you know,
Speaker 2: like you kind of don't like being single, you know,
Speaker 2: like the second year off one, you're onto the next,
Speaker 2: and I feel like it's really those spaces in between,
Speaker 2: as Dave Matthews says that you could really just kind
Speaker 2: of find yourself and maybe make a better decision. Like
Speaker 2: you don't know everything about me, you don't know what's
Speaker 2: going on with me. I'm like, see this is what
Speaker 2: just let's just talk about this.
Speaker 3: Let's not talk right right, Yeah, And those friends that
Speaker 3: come to you for every life decision, it's like I
Speaker 3: really truly don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: We can talk about it. I'll just help you decide where.
Speaker 1: We're eating dinner right right exactly?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, just like kind of talk shit and watch tv.
Speaker 2: KK every time you say we just just get chicken bakes?
Speaker 2: Every time can we say something else? And every time
Speaker 2: I ask you relationship advice, you always ask me if
Speaker 2: I've looked in the mirror recently.
Speaker 1: Wait, just to go back a little tidy bit. I
Speaker 1: felt like I didn't want to say this because it
Speaker 1: would reveal too much about myself. But did you guys
Speaker 1: see that shit on the internet where people were getting
Speaker 1: one Costco dog a chicken bake. You bite off the
Speaker 1: top of the chicken bake like a cigar and then
Speaker 1: jam the hot talks.
Speaker 2: No oh no, oh no, that is fucking wild.
Speaker 1: No, I mean obviously I would eat it, but.
Speaker 2: I feel like it was bad. That seems like that's
Speaker 2: a that's a bridge tooth. We don't need to We
Speaker 2: don't need to mash it up, you know what I mean? Listen,
Speaker 2: I don't like Glizzies in unexpected places is not something
Speaker 2: I'm really like.
Speaker 1: What about Glizzies in a white cream and hot season dressing?
Speaker 2: M Wait, I'm back now, Actually, now that you say
Speaker 2: it like that, yeah, wait, but wouldn't it displace a
Speaker 2: ton of the filling?
Speaker 3: If you right, it's gonna be a mess.
Speaker 1: You just got to loosen it up. Where's that?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: My god? Made it seem like it made it seem
Speaker 1: like this was not That was not the hard part.
Speaker 1: The structural part is not the hard part. Don't get
Speaker 1: hung off on the on the engineering, right, don't worry
Speaker 1: about that. But the filling displaced me. That is bound
Speaker 1: to occur.
Speaker 2: When do you when you.
Speaker 1: An object with that kind of problems? Bro? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you do with the bun? You just
Speaker 3: have a loose bunch?
Speaker 2: I thenk you do, just have a loose fun No,
Speaker 2: that's your napkin now, or maybe that's your like bacon. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it plops out the bottom into your bun and then
Speaker 2: you eat that. This is this is getting so gross.
Speaker 2: But do people like it or people saying like, dude,
Speaker 2: this is the bomb, like adding hotdog to.
Speaker 1: Chicken be I mean, I think the problem with especially
Speaker 1: I don't want to say the kids today, but with
Speaker 1: the kids today on their Internet and their apps, is
Speaker 1: you're you're so incentivized to be like this is amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no way to know, like like you're not like
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to be on TikTok being like that's
Speaker 1: all right, I probably won't finish right right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's because that's like, yeah, like like the I
Speaker 2: remember early on, like in the pandemic when people were
Speaker 2: like these like Midwestern nurses were trying like Indian food
Speaker 2: for the first time, and they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: y'all like this, I'm sorry, this is like chicken tico
Speaker 2: must must salad.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's so good. It's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I never had flavors like this. Yeah.
Speaker 2: What about did you see when people were drinking beer
Speaker 2: with a glizzy straw ew? Yeah, and people are like,
Speaker 2: don't knock it till you try it. I'm like dude,
Speaker 2: I no, no, yeah, it's like fucking there's no planet,
Speaker 2: and then you don't want like a ice cold beer
Speaker 2: soaked fucking frank to eat at the end. Oh gosh, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: It's really I mean look, ninety percent like of the
Speaker 1: food content on this is Me hot take, Yeah is
Speaker 1: truly it's because people cannot fucking cook, and so all
Speaker 1: of the life hack industry is like every one of
Speaker 1: those gadgets.
Speaker 2: If you know how to use a knife.
Speaker 1: It would not need this thing, right right, Like it's crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so weird. And I do think genuinely it's because
Speaker 1: there's not like homec in high schools anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't even have homech in high school. I
Speaker 2: barely did. Yeah, it was phased out by the other Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because it's because it's women's work and and and truly
Speaker 1: it was like I was like, oh, this is the
Speaker 1: only class that taught me something useful in high school.
Speaker 2: Like you need to get in that wood shop man around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna be making a lot of fucking benches
Speaker 1: in my life.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be biting the end off a chicken bake
Speaker 2: and fucking tossing in a glizz. All right, let's take
Speaker 2: a break and take an an acid tablet just from
Speaker 2: thinking about that, and we'll be right back after this.
Speaker 2: And we're back the things we talk about between segments.
Speaker 2: It's truly it could be its own podcast. But here
Speaker 2: we are talking about the news and Marjorie Taylor Green. So, look,
Speaker 2: she famously blamed wildfires un quote Jewish space lasers and
Speaker 2: many people are like, these are the kinds of anti Semitic,
Speaker 2: like racist freaks that were electing into Congress, and you know,
Speaker 2: but doesn't really like to talk about it now that
Speaker 2: she's in office, even though it's like one of the
Speaker 2: things a lot of people are like, that's that's the
Speaker 2: kind of stuff that Marjorie Taylor Green talks about. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you saw that clip from earlier this
Speaker 2: year where in like a reporter from the UK asked
Speaker 2: her about it and it did not go well.
Speaker 1: Did you guys catch this here?
Speaker 2: I'll allow me to refresh your memory.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 2: So this reporter asked about the you know, the kinds
Speaker 2: of people that are attracted to the Republican Party and
Speaker 2: the conspiracy theories that abound on the right.
Speaker 3: That support Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Love conspiracy theories, including yourself.
Speaker 2: He seems to attract lots of conspiracy theorists.
Speaker 5: Well, let me tell you you're a conspiracy theorist. And
Speaker 5: the left and the media spreads more conspiracy theories. We
Speaker 5: like the truth, We like supporting our constitution, our freedoms
Speaker 5: in America.
Speaker 3: First, what about Jewish space lazers? Tell us about Jewish.
Speaker 5: Why don't why don't you go talk about Jewish space lasers?
Speaker 3: And really, why don't you fuck off? How about that?
Speaker 6: And I whoa, that's what we call got him?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, easy, I love how just just the
Speaker 2: it's that dry delivery.
Speaker 1: Why don't you tell us about Jewish space lasers? You know,
Speaker 1: you know, you know what?
Speaker 2: Well, why don't I love?
Speaker 6: How?
Speaker 2: Again? Why don't you?
Speaker 1: And then it just had to turn into why don't
Speaker 1: you fuck off? Yeah?
Speaker 3: You couldn't get it out of her mouth? Why don't
Speaker 3: you think? Fuck you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, truly, like when you get like owned in like
Speaker 2: some in like a roast battle or something in middle
Speaker 2: school where like your it fries your circuits and you
Speaker 2: actually have no more comebacks and you have to go
Speaker 2: why don't you fuck fuck off?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Weird? The whole thing was just like, why don't
Speaker 1: you well, why don't you your conspiracy series?
Speaker 3: Oh no, man, okay, child, she's a child, and it works.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: And that's what sucks the most, because what do you
Speaker 3: say to someone when they're like, actually, you're doing conspiracy theories?
Speaker 1: What you what?
Speaker 3: You respond with no, you you are no, And then
Speaker 3: it's just endless.
Speaker 1: Actually it's you.
Speaker 2: No, I would pause it that you have the record
Speaker 2: of conspiracy theory. Actually don't. You're the fucking conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, then okay, then we'll just go back and
Speaker 2: forth here. But then she went on social media and
Speaker 2: Marjorie Taylor Green and claimed she would like an amendment
Speaker 2: to the Israel Ukraine Aid Bill that would allow the
Speaker 2: US to use Israel's for whatever reason, uh, space lasers
Speaker 2: on migrants at the fucking border. She said, I've previously
Speaker 2: voted to fund space lasers for Israel's defense, and it's like,
Speaker 2: there's again, there's no such fucking thing. You're probably trolling
Speaker 2: at this point. American needs to take our national security
Speaker 2: seriously and deserves the same type of defense for our
Speaker 2: border that Israel has and proudly uses. And what are
Speaker 2: we talking about like some shit from that like the
Speaker 2: movie The Creator where like you just want a fucking
Speaker 2: beam to come down from the heavens and just like
Speaker 2: vaporize everything. And it's I don't know if she's conflating
Speaker 2: The Creator with actual technology either way, it's just very weird,
Speaker 2: Like if she's trolling, you're using this like dumb anti
Speaker 2: Semitic conspiracy theory to then fold that into a bill
Speaker 2: where you're talking about Israel, like an aid package to Israel,
Speaker 2: and you're like, this is like the weird most fucking
Speaker 2: American joke or non joke take I've ever heard. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's where we're at with this one.
Speaker 3: She's so unhinged. Yeah, he's so fucking unhinged. Like I
Speaker 3: it is like when you're talking to like a crazy person,
Speaker 3: you can't ask them too many questions, like because like
Speaker 3: we're not I'm going to get to the root of this,
Speaker 3: but I want to like dive into her brain and
Speaker 3: be like, but where where she who created this?
Speaker 1: Did you eat it? Right?
Speaker 2: It's like that thing I bet people like how comedians
Speaker 2: will go like full right wing when they're like, nah,
Speaker 2: I think my material do will do but like I
Speaker 2: think I get more attention if I do this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she seems to just she does that but with like
Speaker 2: even less, like with zero talent, and it's just purely
Speaker 2: like a zombie set to like attention and just does
Speaker 2: whatever it takes, like literally whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: I think there's at some point in like two thousand
Speaker 1: and I guess like sixteen seventeen somewhere in there, it
Speaker 1: feels like she maybe just got like the Memento disease,
Speaker 1: and it's just like she has like a set of
Speaker 1: like like not principles, but like ways to react, but
Speaker 1: doesn't really know what the facts are going to be,
Speaker 1: so she just like does the thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah like John g killed your wife, like she has
Speaker 2: to get her tattoos every.
Speaker 1: Morning, embarrassing or was it cool Israel? Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I'm doing some just free form word association here,
Speaker 2: and I think that's what happened. But yeah, I mean again,
Speaker 2: just shows like how further and further we get to
Speaker 2: be having like a serious government, and that could like
Speaker 2: how do we expect sucking anything when, like you know,
Speaker 2: I would argue three quarters of Congress and that's being
Speaker 2: generous is filled with people who are not really thinking
Speaker 2: about like lived outcomes for people. It's more like, how
Speaker 2: do I keep the ride going of being able to
Speaker 2: put congress person in front of my name?
Speaker 1: This is what happens when you give white people the
Speaker 1: right to vote. I'm sorry, avoided.
Speaker 3: We've had it for too long. It would be I
Speaker 3: think it would be good if we just took a pause,
Speaker 3: yeah right, yeah, yeah, yeah, we need a pause just for.
Speaker 1: Like the the exact amount of time that other people.
Speaker 1: I should just be the right to vote for as
Speaker 1: long as you've had it, you don't have it, and
Speaker 1: vice versa, right right, right, okay, yeah, just to see,
Speaker 1: please see what happens. It couldn't be worse.
Speaker 2: No, honestly couldn't at this point. Like if we somehow
Speaker 2: were like, yeah, man, well we voted you know, Oprah
Speaker 2: president somehow, that's that's how that vote went. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I don't think things will
Speaker 2: get better. They won't get worse, but I think we
Speaker 2: I think the capitalists could trust a president Oprah though, too,
Speaker 2: so I think I think things would Oh yeah, pretty well.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, this is it. This it's so interesting
Speaker 1: watching this also type of right wing anti Semitism, because
Speaker 1: because she's also voting to send twenty six billion billion
Speaker 1: dollars Israel, So like, what what is happening here?
Speaker 2: I know that's why it's such a head fuck. Like
Speaker 2: just when you look at all the layers of it,
Speaker 2: you're like, you're putting this language in a bill that's
Speaker 2: proposed aid to Israel and Ukraine. But then being like,
Speaker 2: but you know there's space laser technology they got.
Speaker 3: You're like, what what they that's like the evangelical like
Speaker 3: Christian I don't really know her church life.
Speaker 1: I think you could make a pretty good guy, you know.
Speaker 2: They still haven't got the lead side of their.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they they need Israel to exist, right, Like they
Speaker 3: have to have it to exist, and.
Speaker 2: They need the Holy War to start the end of
Speaker 2: the world Jesus.
Speaker 3: Right right, yeah, I mean yeah, I grew a Baptists
Speaker 3: in the South, like the most anti Semitic people like
Speaker 3: not my family where a group, but sure are those
Speaker 3: people that are like, but we have to protect Israel.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, what, right, what is going on? Because
Speaker 3: when it all brings up, Jesus can come back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess that's the part that right, it seems
Speaker 1: like a contradiction, but it's just not yeah, because it's
Speaker 1: rather up in some other weird ass magical thinking. It's like,
Speaker 1: and then what will be cheaper when Christ returns?
Speaker 2: What are we saying here? But like, buddy he comes back?
Speaker 3: Where where is he going? Is he's staying for long?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Where does he live? This story? Is he just gonna
Speaker 2: is Jesus gonna be like, hey, man, can I crash somewhere?
Speaker 2: And they're like, oh yeah, please please es crashing my place,
Speaker 2: crashing my place. You're gonna love it. You're gonna love it.
Speaker 2: I got pictures of you everywhere I didn't. Kind of awkward, awkward.
Speaker 1: A little awkward concerning the fact you don't look like
Speaker 1: this sort of Anglo angliciened.
Speaker 2: Version that I thought you were.
Speaker 1: Are you sure you're Jesus because your hair is kind
Speaker 1: of curly? Yeah, that's the real thing, real, real Jesus,
Speaker 1: real Jesus showing up is probably in a detention cell
Speaker 1: in a in a like a Texas type situation.
Speaker 2: And broaden now too, like Jesus Jesus was a community
Speaker 2: organizer too, you know what I mean? Like, who'd you
Speaker 2: work for? Obama?
Speaker 1: Like? Sure? Whatever?
Speaker 2: All right, Let's move on to New York City. So
Speaker 2: going through a lot right now, between the Trump legal
Speaker 2: circus and having Mayor Eric Adams just the city could
Speaker 2: use just some some good news, you know, just a
Speaker 2: win right now. And sadly this story is not a
Speaker 2: that at all. But yeah, yeah, apparently the city is
Speaker 2: in the midst of record breaking infections for the life
Speaker 2: threatening bacterial infection known as leptosporosis. This is something can
Speaker 2: cause a wide range of symptoms, including non specific ones
Speaker 2: like fever, headache, chills, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea, cough, but
Speaker 2: if it goes untreated, can be severe and life threatening
Speaker 2: kidney failure, liver damage, jaundice, hemorrhage, bloody eyes, respiratory distress.
Speaker 2: And you're probably asking yourself, how does one become sick
Speaker 2: with this bacteria? Well, the main culprit for transmission is
Speaker 2: rat piss. Once rats are infected, they shed it through
Speaker 2: their urine and it jumps to humans through direct contact
Speaker 2: with open wounds and mucus membranes. You can already tell
Speaker 2: this is this This story is not going to be happy,
Speaker 2: and it's probably going to shed a larger light on
Speaker 2: issues we have societally. But just to give you perspective,
Speaker 2: between twenty one and twenty twenty, the city averaged about
Speaker 2: three cases per year. But the pandemic led to a
Speaker 2: rat rat boom. Is that a thing you'd say, a
Speaker 2: rat boom? Yeah, a rat boom. People will be saying that, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was a rat boom. And the population just exploded,
Speaker 2: and by last year the city had twenty four cases
Speaker 2: in a single year. They went from three eight, like
Speaker 2: so eight it ate xd pretty quickly. Yeah, And a
Speaker 2: lot of headlines are like, hah, rat piss. But the
Speaker 2: reasons that the cases are going up are connected with
Speaker 2: dire living and working conditions and climate change. Obviously, because
Speaker 2: someone who is living in a you know, their brownstone,
Speaker 2: brownstone that they've owned, probably isn't interacting with like rat
Speaker 2: urine or things that have been you know, inner like
Speaker 2: contaminated with it. Because like in those instances living or
Speaker 2: working environment with like that means it's in the soil
Speaker 2: or maybe materials that are frequently contaminated it with with
Speaker 2: rat urine, like trash bags or food waste bins. And
Speaker 2: also the other thing is that like the bacteria itself
Speaker 2: is very fragile, so experts are like, usually they die
Speaker 2: in extreme heat or cold, so that only leaves like
Speaker 2: a very specific window for infections to go up. But
Speaker 2: because of the warmer and wetter temperatures due to fucking
Speaker 2: climate change.
Speaker 3: Yeah sorry, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you
Speaker 3: for bringing.
Speaker 2: So man, it's actually pretty cold for la right now.
Speaker 2: So oh so i'd argue, cool, where's your global warming?
Speaker 1: Now? Well I guess okay, so I like that we
Speaker 1: got new words for for summer now, okay, cool, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's global warming. I don't even know which side we're any.
Speaker 2: It's more it's more fun to be unseerious and anti scientific,
Speaker 2: and also because it allows you to deny the Dyer situation,
Speaker 2: I think is why it's more fun to be like
Speaker 2: this happen. But yeah, so it's it's just extended the window.
Speaker 2: And now they are really trying, like Eric Adams was
Speaker 2: like trying to do a war with the rats and
Speaker 2: saying like they could maybe potentially sterilize the rats with
Speaker 2: like heavily salted pellets that they eat. All of them
Speaker 2: are not you know, maybe house security, maybe house carrying.
Speaker 1: A teeny tidy chicken bake with a hot dog it
Speaker 1: had for every rat in New York City.
Speaker 3: If so, I'm on board, Adams contact me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like yeah, Katie, Katie, something has rat makeup on.
Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, man, I'm out here having too many.
Speaker 2: Give me that pellet please, Like they're not actually chicken bakes.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I thought New York had like a ratsar.
Speaker 2: They did have a rats are. I know, hey, Katie,
Speaker 2: why why? Why is the rats are on trial right now?
Speaker 6: You know, I'm sure that's exactly this story should also be,
Speaker 6: like what about the fucking rats? Are y'all hired someone
Speaker 6: to be the NYC rats are and we're still talking
Speaker 6: about this.
Speaker 3: That's it's And also summertime sandals. So many people are
Speaker 3: gonna get rat piss yeah on their feet?
Speaker 2: Yeah, luckily, and yeah, don't have you know again, well,
Speaker 2: the other thing is too it mostly it's the ninety
Speaker 2: eight percent of the infections have occard with men. So
Speaker 2: I don't know, I do with that information what you will,
Speaker 2: But I have a feeling again it's like it's it's
Speaker 2: it's people in dire situations. I don't think you're not
Speaker 2: gonna get it to your feet, even though Times Square
Speaker 2: feels like it might have a lot of rat pe everywhere.
Speaker 2: It's you're you're probably fine the last time. If you
Speaker 2: look up what's been going on with the rats are?
Speaker 2: The last headline I saw the rats Are says, stop
Speaker 2: feeding the pigeons. If you want the rats gone.
Speaker 3: With the pigeons, that's not your job.
Speaker 2: The rats are. I feel like, I think, are we
Speaker 2: kicking the rat can down the road here? Rats are
Speaker 2: by saying like, first of all, like I can't do
Speaker 2: my job if everyone's feeding the fucking pigeons. It's an
Speaker 2: impossible task.
Speaker 1: And the way Eric Adams runs New York, he might
Speaker 1: as well make them. These various people dress up as
Speaker 1: their jobs. So he's someone in a rat costume yelling
Speaker 1: at someone in a pigeon costume. Right, it might as well.
Speaker 1: It would not be less effective. Yeah, the current government.
Speaker 2: Dude, you know what else they've been doing, according to
Speaker 2: the ratsar Kathleen Karate has also said they've been pumping
Speaker 2: carbon monoxide into the rat burrows, so they're just it's
Speaker 2: all our chemical warfare the rat burrows into the rat burrows,
Speaker 2: as they call it.
Speaker 3: It's like the Queens of Rats like, yeah, we then rats.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh my gosh, so anyway, that's that's where we
Speaker 2: are with the rap problem. Let's stick around New York
Speaker 2: by really talking about the New York Times. Do y'all
Speaker 2: play Wordle? The game Wordle familiar? I think we're all
Speaker 2: familiar right with the game world, Yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 3: I used to play every day. And then as soon
Speaker 3: as I use the same word every day, and as
Speaker 3: soon as that got like the number one, oh, I
Speaker 3: can't return, I was like, I'm done.
Speaker 2: I have I did too much to say about Wordles. Well, okay,
Speaker 2: let me set this up. Let me set the table,
Speaker 2: and I will allow you to say more than enough.
Speaker 2: So it's huge, and I think again we've either played
Speaker 2: it ourselves or we know someone who plays religiously. But
Speaker 2: now the New York Times puzzle game and a few
Speaker 2: of the other games too, have mental health professionals a
Speaker 2: little concerned because they're hearing more and more people be
Speaker 2: like I can't focus on anything but Wordle or doing
Speaker 2: these other games, or I'm spending an inordinate amount of
Speaker 2: time playing the game. They're just saying like they're doing
Speaker 2: stuff like I can't do my job, or others like
Speaker 2: I'm I've canceled plans with like close friends, so I
Speaker 2: could just kind of whordle out. I think these are
Speaker 2: probably more severe cases, but enough therapists have heard enough
Speaker 2: that the Daily Beasts is like, let's just survey some
Speaker 2: therapists really quick and hear how many people are hearing this,
Speaker 2: and apparently it was more than just a few. One
Speaker 2: of the therapists said, some of our patients have expressed
Speaker 2: anxiety about the puzzles because they cannot finish them or
Speaker 2: don't have enough time to do them every day, or
Speaker 2: others have said. One therapists said seen anxiety and patients
Speaker 2: who fear being asked about their scores by their peers
Speaker 2: or comparing their own scores with those posted on social media.
Speaker 2: Quote this is one from doctor Laurence Sweitzer, a psychologist,
Speaker 2: said people are thus looking for external validation or something
Speaker 2: from other people, rather than looking for something within themselves.
Speaker 1: Perhaps yes, very zen.
Speaker 2: On the flip side, it's self judgment when we feel
Speaker 2: like we sucked at something people are doing. I weird,
Speaker 2: I'm myself. I'll just say my piece. I'm I'm so
Speaker 2: competitive that if I'm bad at something, I say, man,
Speaker 2: fuck this game, and I stopped playing.
Speaker 1: So that's yeah.
Speaker 2: So I never got hooked on wordle because the first
Speaker 2: couple of times I was asked that, I'm like man
Speaker 2: to say, and I went on with my life.
Speaker 1: Get wordle is a guessing game for idiots. It is
Speaker 1: not a real game. It is there's some skill, really, Yeah.
Speaker 1: The thing is it's like people are like, I go
Speaker 1: to it in two It's like, then you guessed it.
Speaker 1: It's fine, but you didn't anagram it. You didn't do
Speaker 1: like a high level like letter frequency analysis after your
Speaker 1: first gast. You just got lucky, which is like fine,
Speaker 1: but like it's not really losable unless you're incredibly unlucky
Speaker 1: or like really not good at games. Right, But I
Speaker 1: would just throw out because there's lots of like you know,
Speaker 1: like dopamine hit phone games for bosos that are out there.
Speaker 1: I would just posit that wordle hits a particular group
Speaker 1: because it's people who think they are smart and but
Speaker 1: also probably are more likely to have like the means
Speaker 1: or live in like the culture to like have a
Speaker 1: mental health professional for instance. Right, and this is not
Speaker 1: materially different than candy crush or like fucking whatever. It's
Speaker 1: a guessing game for bozo's. It's a little finger tappy
Speaker 1: thing that you get rewarded. It's like it's like blackjack
Speaker 1: or a slot machine, and it is as addictive as
Speaker 1: those things. But we only hear about wordle because they
Speaker 1: are New York Times readers, but missed of the New
Speaker 1: York Times readers. They're on their couch. Oh doctor, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: I was supposed to have dinner at Chipriani's. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: I couldn't because I was playing wordle and I was
Speaker 2: too humiliated from not getting the wordle.
Speaker 1: But I will say in the early days of world
Speaker 1: I was like, this is idiotic. What's the actual pack
Speaker 1: of words? So it's not about like basically I came
Speaker 1: up with the maximum. This the the game that I
Speaker 1: found fun was trying to think of four words that
Speaker 1: covered as many letters as possible without you know, duplication
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So perpetually my first four ward
Speaker 1: old moves. And this is for me, me more than everyone,
Speaker 1: and you can find others. But it was was proud
Speaker 1: of coming up with darts, chink, globe, and jumpy and
Speaker 1: that only leads q w f z x V unused,
Speaker 1: and so after that it is trivial to get out. Truly,
Speaker 1: that is only for you. Yeah, they were like, hey, Katie,
Speaker 1: what words the use?
Speaker 2: All right? Jumpy stop Actually New York.
Speaker 1: When New York Times bought it, they stopped letting it
Speaker 1: used chink and then so I think they may have
Speaker 1: put it back. But that's what I got. I want
Speaker 1: to tuck these people.
Speaker 2: I can say, don't take away my innate advantage here,
Speaker 2: but you don't need.
Speaker 3: The left to babysit you and you.
Speaker 1: But no, it's it's like this, especially when you have
Speaker 1: the U placed. It's like the essentially knocks the queue
Speaker 1: off the listen. I like word games, and this is
Speaker 1: like for idiots.
Speaker 2: Well, I think because you probably arrived there by being like,
Speaker 2: it's not like it's just about the brute force of
Speaker 2: trying to eliminate letters rather than like inherently because there's
Speaker 2: no clue, right, Like, it's just yeah, yeah, the first
Speaker 2: word in and then you have to narrate it down
Speaker 2: from there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think if you were a very high level
Speaker 1: like computer, you could probably do some sort of like
Speaker 1: fucking frequency analysis or whatever. But that's not what people
Speaker 1: who are quote good at word alor right, Well.
Speaker 3: So they have like a thing to analyze your words
Speaker 3: after now, right, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So it's like the the word bot like and you
Speaker 3: just click kind of it shows like, okay, you got
Speaker 3: it in four, most people got it in three. This
Speaker 3: is the most commonly used start word like right, it goes.
Speaker 1: I think that data is biased though, because I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people that don't give up at or
Speaker 1: go past four, who would if they played the whole
Speaker 1: game end up at five or not getting it just
Speaker 1: close the thing right. I don't think most people get
Speaker 1: it at three because it's not like you can't. I
Speaker 1: mean not that you can't, but it's not like worth
Speaker 1: you're just guessing. Yeah, Like, yeah, Katie, did it ruin
Speaker 1: your life? What was your journey with the world with Wordle?
Speaker 3: There was a time where it was like sharing scores
Speaker 3: back and forth, like my sister and I very competitive,
Speaker 3: and then I just kind of stopped doing Wordle. And
Speaker 3: then I had a resurgence because a friend of mine
Speaker 3: started sending me his score. So we like didn't really
Speaker 3: even communicate outside of that. We were our texchain was
Speaker 3: just like Wordle scores. And then I got it in
Speaker 3: one and was like okay, I've done what I can do.
Speaker 3: But now every morning my girlfriend and I get up,
Speaker 3: we drink coffee and play Connections right, the Mini and
Speaker 3: the bit cross Road, and our day doesn't really start
Speaker 3: until those three things are done. Wowah, and Connections is
Speaker 3: can really kind of move your day back and.
Speaker 1: Forth if you like Connections. So Connections was stolen from
Speaker 1: a British game show called Only Connect. Oh it's much
Speaker 1: harder on the British game show.
Speaker 4: Well, without a doubt, without a yeah, it's like yeah
Speaker 4: I would and I probably shouldn't say this on this
Speaker 4: on broadcast media, but somehow almost every episode of Only
Speaker 4: connect is available on YouTube.
Speaker 1: So highly record that was that was our on the
Speaker 1: last show I worked on. Our our like Writer's Room Break,
Speaker 1: was watching an episode of Only connect because but I
Speaker 1: highly recommend it. It is it is like well watch it's
Speaker 1: just like the problem is because it's British and it
Speaker 1: is I think it's considered the hardest game show like around,
Speaker 1: so it's very difficult and it's further exacerbated like I
Speaker 1: almost think like with some study and work, I could
Speaker 1: do like an American version, And by that I mean
Speaker 1: I don't even like like baseball, but like so many
Speaker 1: of their things are like which cricketer da da da da.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, it's just not in my and
Speaker 1: then like a lot of like royal family succession stuff that.
Speaker 1: Again I'm not an expert in the presidents, but if
Speaker 1: they just kind of like tilted the flavor a little
Speaker 1: more towards America, I think I would do it, and
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: But like the fucking British one is, yeah, replace cricket
Speaker 2: with baseball. Yeah, I'm like kinda there.
Speaker 1: The Royal family with CEOs of American companies, yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, it needs to be like besos,
Speaker 3: it needs to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but those are royal. Highly recommend. Connecting Wall will
Speaker 1: make you feel like watch a bunch of it's called
Speaker 1: the Connecting Wall the third round, and once you watch
Speaker 1: a couple of those, going back to connections will make
Speaker 1: you feel like, oh your places.
Speaker 3: For yeah, my god, I can't I can't wait. My
Speaker 3: coworkers and I used to send our connection scores and
Speaker 3: then I would notice a friend of mine she would
Speaker 3: just sit our entire lunch break and just stare at
Speaker 3: connections and like would refuse to get one wrong, to
Speaker 3: the point where I was just like giving her answers
Speaker 3: so choices wouldn't go away. It had to be perfect.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think it interrupted her life enough to,
Speaker 3: you know, talk to a therapist about it. I mean,
Speaker 3: god willing, the worst thing in my life to talk
Speaker 3: about with a therapist is word All. Like what a gift? Yeah,
Speaker 3: what an absolute gift. I hope to get there one day.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, now I love them. I love those games.
Speaker 3: I gotta say, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: The other day someone like showed me one of the
Speaker 2: newer ones and I was like, oh man, I could
Speaker 2: see how this could suck me in. But I think
Speaker 2: the second my whole thing is like I don't like
Speaker 2: being frustrated, so the second I am, I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't give a fuck about the comparing my shit to
Speaker 2: somebody else's. I feel fucking inft right now. But the game,
Speaker 2: the games are well designed to know they are going
Speaker 2: like Wordle is not designed to be a good game.
Speaker 2: It's designed to be you want to play this tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Well. And also because it's been a huge boon to
Speaker 1: the New York Times business because like once they once
Speaker 1: they bought it for like something like the low seven
Speaker 1: figures from like the engineer who put it out. They
Speaker 1: were like, we're seeing like adoption rates that are unprecedented,
Speaker 1: like in the tens of millions. So so everyone think
Speaker 1: about where your wordal money is going.
Speaker 2: Just you know, yeah, right exactly, Yeah, yep, to do
Speaker 2: copaganda and the like. Here we go.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick, quick, quick, quick.
Speaker 2: Break and we'll be right back to talk about jury
Speaker 2: duty and we're back. Just want to touch on the
Speaker 2: Trump jury duty selection process because that's been going on
Speaker 2: all this week and his hush money trial. We all know.
Speaker 2: Jury duty is the process of waiting to be called
Speaker 2: can suck. I you know, in the pre internet days,
Speaker 2: you used to have to just have to take a
Speaker 2: book with you and read it in the waiting. And
Speaker 2: I remember I would just bring screenplays with me because
Speaker 2: I was like, well, that's like a watching TV. Like
Speaker 2: I really that was like my thing was just like
Speaker 2: go get a screenplay and just read that, like like
Speaker 2: rent or rent one check one out from the library.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're the most la fucking kid. That's
Speaker 1: the most bullshit thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm reading. I'm reading the inglorious bastards fucking
Speaker 2: screenplay waiting to see if I can just weasel my
Speaker 2: way out of my civic duty to potentially help a person.
Speaker 1: Oh it's so weird. Tarantino just wrote the N word
Speaker 1: all the way down the Margins house. Damn, this dude
Speaker 1: really rote it. Whoa I thought they were just given
Speaker 1: the actors the free reigns. Oh no, maybe I don't
Speaker 1: one account anyway, but yeah, no, it is the most
Speaker 1: la shit because like, that's my dude TV. It's TV
Speaker 1: of the mind. Just read the script and you're good.
Speaker 2: You don't need video the lord. But anyway, little hack.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes if you can get your your jury
Speaker 2: duty moved to Burbank, it can go a lot quicker
Speaker 2: and you'll find out much sooner rather than later. And
Speaker 2: you're right by an Ikea, So you can eat Swedish
Speaker 2: meatballs for lunch. Okay, delicious, that's my thank you. Look,
Speaker 2: I knew we were on the same page, culinarily speaking,
Speaker 2: when we are always lit talking about Costco food hacks.
Speaker 2: You gotta there's no way that ven diagram, there's no
Speaker 2: way that that overlap is a Swedish meatball. It is
Speaker 2: what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But anyway, when jury selection got underway on Monday, uh,
Speaker 2: they came away with zero jurors and like part of
Speaker 2: that too is Trump being like I thought I had
Speaker 2: unlimited like knockout points, like where he could you know, say,
Speaker 2: I want to I want to strike this one. I
Speaker 2: want to strike this will be like, no, you only
Speaker 2: get a set amount, and he's like, well, you should
Speaker 2: get more, like someone playing a carnival game for the
Speaker 2: first time.
Speaker 1: But then why did they give him more?
Speaker 2: But why did it more? Yeah, give it more. That's
Speaker 2: his right. He's the president. He's I mean, the stakes
Speaker 2: are so much higher because he might be, you know,
Speaker 2: held accountable and maybe not based on the way we've
Speaker 2: seen these other legal cases go. But like over half
Speaker 2: of the potential jurors were quickly dismissed because they all
Speaker 2: admitted they're like, yeah, I don't know if I can
Speaker 2: be impartial, to be honest, Like, I just don't if
Speaker 2: I'm being really honest here, there's no I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: be like yep, yep, guilty. I don't need to hear shit,
Speaker 2: Like let's just go in, we'll go right back out.
Speaker 2: And it seems like almost no one could ever be
Speaker 2: impartial in this case unless you're Michael ian Black. I
Speaker 2: think he wrote something about it. He's like I don't
Speaker 2: like Trump, but I can definitely be impartial. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we've heard enough from it. Both the defense and the
Speaker 2: prosecution have copped to the fact that it's quote nearly
Speaker 2: impossible to find someone with quote no opinion of Trump.
Speaker 2: And then by Tuesday they picked seven people. But that
Speaker 2: wasn't going to last because this whole process involved getting
Speaker 2: all these details out where like reporters were putting this
Speaker 2: information out about like some of the people that had
Speaker 2: been impaneled. One juror had said he already served on
Speaker 2: a jury for a case between Donald Trump and MERV
Speaker 2: Griffin in the eighties.
Speaker 1: He was also familiar with the fuck is wrong with
Speaker 1: New York? That's crazy?
Speaker 2: And then he said and then the same person said
Speaker 2: he was also familiar with relatives of the Central Park five,
Speaker 2: but he was dismissed by the prosecutors because he said
Speaker 2: that he quote appreciated Trump's style of humor.
Speaker 1: What just a bro for a fellow bro.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he keeps me laughing, He keeps laughing.
Speaker 1: It's wild.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, I served on that. I was like,
Speaker 2: and I also know parents of some of the Central
Speaker 2: Park five. You know, the wrongly accused teens. So that
Speaker 2: may have put a sour spot in you, but no,
Speaker 2: but also I kind of it didn't kind of fuck
Speaker 2: with his humor. That is, that might be the closest
Speaker 2: you could get to someone with no opinion on Trump.
Speaker 3: I mean, have somebody to be like, I separate the
Speaker 3: art from the artist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was just like like fifty Timberlands in a
Speaker 1: trench coat, right, that's like, how do you get there?
Speaker 1: That's crazy? Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Lawyers are also working with like jury consultants who are
Speaker 2: like people who like quickly fucking come through social media
Speaker 2: posts to be like did they fucking like? What did
Speaker 2: they say? So it's just a so it puts people
Speaker 2: in this weird situation where like someone will go up
Speaker 2: and the jury consultants were like, Okay, here's their thing,
Speaker 2: and like they're gonna basically read out their tweets shitting
Speaker 2: on Trump, but with Donald Trump in the fucking room.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: One person apparently shared a lock them up post, Another
Speaker 2: posted a meme of Trump being decapitated. Another made post
Speaker 2: suggesting that the fictional superhero team the Avengers would defeat Trump,
Speaker 2: while also at the same time, this person expressed quote
Speaker 2: amorous thoughts from Mark Ruffalo that was all included. They
Speaker 2: was like, and you kind of are thirsty for Mark
Speaker 2: for the hull. Huh, Like you, what do we say
Speaker 2: back of the envelope? Do we imagine like billable hours
Speaker 2: is going into this? Oh my god, oh my god,
Speaker 2: of thousands per hour?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: More, couldn't. I feel like any of us could. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure I think most of us know how to
Speaker 2: comb someone's social media posts for stuff. You know, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, I.
Speaker 3: Could do it in a second. Yeah, I'd love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, yo, I find you anything well because
Speaker 2: I know I know ways they my word ship, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. It might not always be Trump Baby.
Speaker 2: You need to search Orange, you need to sern mushroom.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of other TeamWorks god that you need
Speaker 2: to look up to get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the other thing is too. Obviously. There's concerns
Speaker 2: also that the jurors who do get selected could face
Speaker 2: harassment because Trump even himself was admonished by the court
Speaker 2: for intimidating candidates by you know, the judge was like, Yo,
Speaker 2: what the fuck? This is no, shut the fuck up,
Speaker 2: and and this is we actually need to keep this
Speaker 2: as anonymous possible, and one former federal prosecutor has expressed
Speaker 2: concerns over jurors, over the safety of jurors because quote,
Speaker 2: they're not supposed to be outed in this way, like
Speaker 2: by having all this information and the media is it's
Speaker 2: like they're going out of their fucking way to expose
Speaker 2: the selected jurors as much as humanly possible without actually
Speaker 2: giving their names. Like the Washington Post referenced the length
Speaker 2: of time that a juror worked at a small bookstore
Speaker 2: also named the bookstore before deleting the info. And then
Speaker 2: like on Fox News, Jesse Waters was going through every
Speaker 2: juror one by one, giving all this information except for
Speaker 2: a name, and suggesting Trump wouldn't be getting a fair
Speaker 2: trial because they were all like teachers and New York
Speaker 2: Times readers, and you know then when he said they're
Speaker 2: all people who like to dance, like the fuck is
Speaker 2: this footloose? And then Trump later was like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: get it, man, they're all undercover quote undercover liberal activists.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it's the other thing is too there was
Speaker 2: this other woman who's like she had to come back
Speaker 2: after she was selected. She's like, I actually need to.
Speaker 2: I need to. I need to resign from the position
Speaker 2: because there was so much information. My family was like this,
Speaker 2: you like, because they said, like where I worked, where
Speaker 2: I lived, what my job was. It was enough information
Speaker 2: for people who knew me to be like, oh this
Speaker 2: is this is homegirl. So right now they're in a
Speaker 2: fucking weird bind. And the judge that's presiding over the
Speaker 2: case quote immediately reprimanded the press for offering too much
Speaker 2: information about the jurors and told them to please stop
Speaker 2: talking about like these details because you're fucking up. You're
Speaker 2: putting them at risk, and you're also at this point,
Speaker 2: they're like, there's going to be a rat jury probably
Speaker 2: by the end of this.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm going to suggest a ratchery.
Speaker 2: I think that would be I mean that would be
Speaker 2: a jury of his peers. Yeah, just get the get
Speaker 2: the all your worldle money is going into paying for this.
Speaker 2: Hey man, Look, improvisers, here, that's how you elegantly wrap
Speaker 2: up a nice old not a spoon river Harold. But look,
Speaker 2: pick whatever form you want, because we brought it all
Speaker 2: back here.
Speaker 1: Katie Kershaw, thank you so much for joining us on
Speaker 1: the daily side. It was great having you, where do
Speaker 1: people find you, follow you? And is there a work
Speaker 1: of social media that you've been enjoying.
Speaker 3: You can follow me at This is Katie Kershaw and
Speaker 3: you can also check out the pod at jocular Pod
Speaker 3: on Instagram and TikTok. And the piece of social media
Speaker 3: I've enjoying is kind of a person. Her name's Carrie
Speaker 3: Levine and she's the Godmother of diamonds, and it's just you.
Speaker 3: Do you know her?
Speaker 1: I feel like I've heard this name. I need to
Speaker 1: see the face.
Speaker 3: I love her. I watch her the most soothing videos,
Speaker 3: just the most New York woman.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, with the hair, yes yes.
Speaker 3: I want uncut gems too, starring ye the Godmother of diet.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, phenomenal. Cannot recommend it enough.
Speaker 1: Got the cigar and everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, she's got the pictures. She's everyone's godmother.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's so many.
Speaker 1: It's so much.
Speaker 2: So it's funny because there's so many godmother of something
Speaker 2: on social media these days that I'm like the Godmother
Speaker 2: of travel. Oh, the godmother, yes, okay, yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh I'm familiar with that godmother.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so many. We have so many godmothers. Thank you,
Speaker 2: thank shout out to all the godmothers out there truly
Speaker 2: also are do you what are your favorite teams? When
Speaker 2: I forgot to ask you someone who talks about sports,
Speaker 2: do you have a favorite sport or do you have
Speaker 2: a favorite team?
Speaker 1: Like, what what's your o?
Speaker 3: My favorite sport is basketball. I would say my favorite
Speaker 3: team in college it's gonna be South Carolina because I
Speaker 3: love don Staley so much. I just love to watch
Speaker 3: her coaching. It's insane and professionally, I gotta say the
Speaker 3: Sparks and I'm hoping that this year we can really
Speaker 3: kind of rebuild. We've got some really great people coming
Speaker 3: into the Sparks. And then Angel City is my son.
Speaker 2: Yeah maybe we'll win another game. Yeah, come on, maybe. Hey,
Speaker 2: we're struggling in l A right now, We're struggling. City
Speaker 2: has been a bummer. I did not realize.
Speaker 1: I hadn't been watching the televised games, and my seats
Speaker 1: are not close enough to really see the bench. I
Speaker 1: did not realize how like, how much of a British
Speaker 1: lady the Angel City head coaches. I don't remember her name,
Speaker 1: but I I love her. I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: she looks like she just woke up in Abitha. I'm
Speaker 1: fucking I love this.
Speaker 3: Let's go. Let's yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we got a fucking chab. We're getting free points
Speaker 7: in it. One day it worked out out there, Andrew.
Speaker 2: Where do people find you? Follow you, hear you?
Speaker 1: And what's the work of social media that you've been digging?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Just and I guess, uh is this racist?
Speaker 1: I forgot it was social media? So instead whatever any
Speaker 1: the literal opposite of social media. I watched this movie
Speaker 1: last night that I think is like not easy to find,
Speaker 1: but they were showing at an Alamo, a Japanese movie
Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety five called Anatomia Extinction. It's only fifty
Speaker 1: five minutes long. It's the prequel to Tokyo Gore Police,
Speaker 1: and it was a d light. It was fucking crazy. Wow.
Speaker 2: I can only imagine what what some of these special
Speaker 2: effects were.
Speaker 1: Yeah, real, real weird special effects, real like kind of
Speaker 1: like from nineties Japan medium budge right, yeah, just like bizarre.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, Well can people still catch that or
Speaker 2: was it like a I doubt it? Well, hey, try
Speaker 2: and catch the next one. That's why I got to
Speaker 2: be on your p's and q's Bruh, you can't. Let's
Speaker 2: see a work of social media. I don't have a
Speaker 2: work of social media that I've been enjoying.
Speaker 1: Per se. Oh, I've been playing. I've been playing a
Speaker 1: video game.
Speaker 2: That's it's called Rise of the Rolling It's a it's
Speaker 2: another Samurai thing, and I'm it's it's fun.
Speaker 1: It's fun. That's all I can say.
Speaker 2: It's actually the it's funny. I was telling a friend
Speaker 2: of mine, it's the most Japanese designed game. Like I
Speaker 2: can tell the second I look at a menu, the
Speaker 2: way menu is laid out, I'm like, oh, this is
Speaker 2: a design in Japan, or like if it's way too
Speaker 2: detail oriented, I'm like, this is this is the right
Speaker 2: dose of Japanese game design that most American people would be.
Speaker 1: Like, how come sprint is it when you push down
Speaker 1: the left stick?
Speaker 2: Because that you know, there's a literacy to gaming in
Speaker 2: the West that we experience anyway, So I'm playing that.
Speaker 2: Give me your tips. I'm terrible at counter sparking. If
Speaker 2: you play the game, you know what that means. But
Speaker 2: let me know how how do I get the timing better.
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Speaker 2: thank You, where we post all the links to all
Speaker 2: of the articles that we talked about today, as well
Speaker 2: as a song we're going to ride out on. I'm
Speaker 2: feeling a little bit. I long to be back in
Speaker 2: Japan with my friends and family, so let's go out.
Speaker 2: I want to encourage people. This song is great, but
Speaker 2: the music video is fucking even better. And most of people,
Speaker 2: if you're like online a lot and you know about
Speaker 2: cool stuff online, you've probably seen this video. It's by
Speaker 2: a band called Sakka Action. It's spelled sa ka na
Speaker 2: ct i owen like sakana, which is the Japanese word
Speaker 2: for fish anyway, but Action put that together however you like,
Speaker 2: the title is going to be even harder for you
Speaker 2: to spell, so let me first say it and then
Speaker 2: I will spell it out. The title is westerday at us.
Speaker 2: It means I can't forget, it's unforgettable. And the way
Speaker 2: you spell that w as u r r A r
Speaker 2: n A and oh naasa nai no. I got end
Speaker 2: of the times by that, I know I'm a mentalist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and sleep. Just put everybody down.
Speaker 5: Do.
Speaker 2: The video is great because they really lean into like
Speaker 2: this like early nineties, late eighties sort of camera style
Speaker 2: with green screen and it's all one continuous shot and
Speaker 2: the bassis is so fucking good. Anyway, It's a great band,
Speaker 2: great video. Check it out, rewind it if you need
Speaker 2: me to spell it again because I can't spell it
Speaker 2: again without putting people to sleep. That's going to do
Speaker 2: it for us this week. We will be back on
Speaker 2: Monday to tell you what's trending over the weekend. Make
Speaker 2: sure you can check out the best of episode on Saturdays.
Speaker 2: You can get just a helping of all the best
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Speaker 2: listen to all the episodes, and that'll do it. We
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Speaker 1: Bye bye,