Speaker 1: What's up Andrew?
Speaker 2: Yo?
Speaker 1: How's it going? Man? Longtime?
Speaker 3: No talk?
Speaker 1: Man? You good?
Speaker 4: Are you good?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: It's funny texting me yesterday. He's like, hey, dude, I
Speaker 3: didn't want to bother you. He's like, but now I
Speaker 3: just wanted to check in. I was going to come
Speaker 3: back and be like, well, well.
Speaker 1: It was one of these because I was just like
Speaker 1: trying to like figure out. I was just like, no,
Speaker 1: he doesn't need to hear from He doesn't need to
Speaker 1: hear from me. In the first.
Speaker 3: Week, I don't need to hear I honestly like, I
Speaker 3: have so many texts from people checking in that I
Speaker 3: respond to within forty eight hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was surprised how quickly the question came up
Speaker 4: from miles like, seventy two hours after the fire, Where's Andrew?
Speaker 4: Where's Where's Andrew? On all this?
Speaker 3: I think like, yeah, what's he? I think I said
Speaker 3: where's Andrew at?
Speaker 1: With all this?
Speaker 4: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three, seventy four,
Speaker 4: Episode four of der Daily's Guys. It's a production of iHeartRadio,
Speaker 4: and it's a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 4: into americas shared consciousness. And it's Thursday February sixth, twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, that's me. Yep, sorry y'all.
Speaker 3: I'm still getting I'm still figuring out step by step.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, doing this one?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, from both sizes. Shit, oh man, that is.
Speaker 1: It is appropriate that Optimism Day is only one three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty fifth of the calendar. Yeah, it's about
Speaker 1: the right amount of optimism. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: That feels appropriate. Right now. My name is Jack O'Brien aka.
Speaker 4: We're going to drop kick dudes. Miles Gray, Karate Room,
Speaker 4: Illuma Nadi tofu. That one courtesy of Laccaroni on the
Speaker 4: discord in reference to what I I don't know wo karate?
Speaker 3: I think because I said I had a woke because karate.
Speaker 3: He said, Wo karate, go to my karate dojo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right in You're wo karate room there it is.
Speaker 4: I just needed the refresher. It's been a blurf.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Actually are when you when you reach a certain level
Speaker 3: of my wol Karate dojo. We replaced the black belt
Speaker 3: with the Black Lives Matter belt, right, it's fair, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's very with.
Speaker 4: The yellow Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 4: mister Miles Grass.
Speaker 1: It's Miles Gray.
Speaker 5: And I'm gonna use a gay again because my co
Speaker 5: host back and his houses just some rubble. He my
Speaker 5: co host back, all right, Still dealing with that, folks.
Speaker 3: Day by day the plot thickens with lawsuits, with the EPA,
Speaker 3: with the Army Corps of Engineers.
Speaker 4: You're still dealing with that. Man, God, you just get
Speaker 4: I'm sick of this guy fucking bringing up this disaster.
Speaker 3: Man, Like the city and the country's moved on after
Speaker 3: fourteen days, Why can't you.
Speaker 4: They are going to have some messaging in the end
Speaker 4: zone of the Super Bowl that acknowledges what L has
Speaker 4: gone through in the most oblique, roundabout way. So hopefully
Speaker 4: that will just help close things up for everybody.
Speaker 3: At least at least Kendrick shouted out the valley you
Speaker 3: know Fami speech, You know that that was that was big.
Speaker 4: Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our
Speaker 4: third seat by one of our favorite guests, one of
Speaker 4: your favorite guests, a hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer.
Speaker 4: You know him from the Yoh Is This Racist? Podcast?
Speaker 4: It's Andrew T and.
Speaker 1: I'm just pulling. I got pulled in last minute. So
Speaker 1: this is from Locaroni on Discord. Magnum T. I obviously
Speaker 1: a cab, but I do like how Locaroni. I assume
Speaker 1: I auto corrected to a lowercase I in TI. So
Speaker 1: I was just like, magnum T, does that mean the
Speaker 1: the is happening here?
Speaker 4: I do feel like we've always had in our bones
Speaker 4: a knowledge that the cops suck ship, and so there's
Speaker 4: been like because they kind of made up the profession
Speaker 4: of like private investigator like that, you know, investigators are
Speaker 4: just people. In reality, private investigators are just people who
Speaker 4: like take money from mentally ill people who are like,
Speaker 4: you've got to investigate this person who this gang stalking
Speaker 4: situation I've got going where all these people are walking
Speaker 4: by my house, or like you know somebody who I
Speaker 4: think is like trying to kidnap my dog or something.
Speaker 4: That's what private investigators are. But like we created this
Speaker 4: profession in like the movies where it's like, well, he's
Speaker 4: not a cop, so yeah he kind of he kind
Speaker 4: of hates cops, but he does cop things.
Speaker 3: He saw fron he used to be a cop but
Speaker 3: then got fired for doing like some racist shits.
Speaker 1: So right, yeah, bizarrely libertarian to imagine there should just
Speaker 1: be private detectives think or to me, yeah yeah, just
Speaker 1: like like yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, there's cops shirt, but
Speaker 1: there's my cops, there's.
Speaker 4: Tops, and then there's a cop who wears a Hawaiian
Speaker 4: shirt instead of So you try.
Speaker 3: Andrew from your time boxing, I remember you're an avid boxer.
Speaker 3: You should do catch tease hands.
Speaker 4: Catch cheese hands.
Speaker 3: That's a new boxing podcast with Andrew Tea.
Speaker 1: You know what, I like boxing, but I don't like
Speaker 1: watching But I know so little about like the sport
Speaker 1: of boxing. Yeah, I just like hitting stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm only watching I'm watching now because there's a Japanese
Speaker 3: boxer who is fucking killing it. He's like, yeah, they're
Speaker 3: champion like four divisions right now now, yeah, you know
Speaker 3: a way, and he's fucking nasty nasty.
Speaker 1: Well. That that is the thing about combat sports to me,
Speaker 1: is like I like it's so personality driven. Like I
Speaker 1: kind of just got out of the UFC once it
Speaker 1: kind of became so clear that they were all Nazis,
Speaker 1: like every single person and it is a Nazi and
Speaker 1: I lost enthusiasm for it like so fast.
Speaker 3: It was like what was the era of use there
Speaker 3: of UFC that you were like like where you were
Speaker 3: you like off ramped, Like when who was off ram?
Speaker 1: I mean it really started when they were like having
Speaker 1: UFC events in like April twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, and I was just like, oh, these people
Speaker 3: are bad people.
Speaker 1: Like I knew they were bad people, but I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're really bad, quite bad people. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know the last time I actually saw a UFC
Speaker 3: fight was at your place with Iffy when we watched
Speaker 3: around a Rousey get destroyed. I mean time do you
Speaker 3: kind of like like to watch people get beat up
Speaker 3: who you think are bad people, But it's just the
Speaker 3: number of bad people really started adding up and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're like they both are Nazis, so I can this
Speaker 3: be a double knockout?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, even even like I don't know, I
Speaker 1: mean there's people you know are bad, but like it
Speaker 1: just got laid so bare, how truly odious these people are.
Speaker 1: And it's like I knew, but like, did you catch
Speaker 1: that thing?
Speaker 3: Because one of the fighters was talking about how Hitler
Speaker 3: wasn't that bad of a guy and doing this whole
Speaker 3: revisionist history shit on his podcast and then he was
Speaker 3: fighting and then Dana White had to get out ahead
Speaker 3: of it, and he had like a note card with
Speaker 3: all this stuff that Hitler did bad.
Speaker 1: He's like, obviously Hitler's bad.
Speaker 3: Uh, He's like, look he's down at this Carlos.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, he looks down for like Holocaust stats, then looks
Speaker 3: down at like World War It's it was just so
Speaker 3: weird when like you couldn't naturally just be like that's
Speaker 3: appalling that you like chat GPT give me some like
Speaker 3: bullet points on how to be like Hitler bad?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's tricky because like I'm sorry, it's.
Speaker 4: Not tricky, but you're like, yeah, Hitler questions getting trickier
Speaker 4: these days, guys.
Speaker 1: What lets try to say clubs only badly. The the
Speaker 1: liking combat sports thing is so like tricky because like
Speaker 1: these like any professional fighter is like like like has
Speaker 1: to have such a individualist worldview just to like put
Speaker 1: yourself in the ring and think I can beat up
Speaker 1: another person or I can win in a physical conversation
Speaker 1: with another person, Like it requires a certain type of
Speaker 1: like individualist personality coupled with head trauma, coupled with testosterone
Speaker 1: coupled with just like the right wing politics of fighting
Speaker 1: in general. These people are like hopelessly like both naive
Speaker 1: and prone to this. So I was just like I
Speaker 1: knew all this, and I still was like some of
Speaker 1: these guys are all right, but like they're not. Ye,
Speaker 1: they're not, and they never have been and they never
Speaker 1: will be. And I've been let me see, one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: Like I've been to four different fight gyms and they're
Speaker 1: all like it. It's it was just like crazy how
Speaker 1: like casually it would turn to like Nazi shit in
Speaker 1: you know, the locker room or just sitting around and
Speaker 1: like you know, there's exceptions, but like they are exceptions,
Speaker 1: Like the rule is like it is. It's just the way,
Speaker 1: like you know, even as depicted in fight Club, right,
Speaker 1: Like you just get these men together, like testing themselves
Speaker 1: for the first time and like facing anger in a
Speaker 1: way that they've like kind of never really dealt with,
Speaker 1: and like facing fear in a way that is like
Speaker 1: more real to them than most other ship and then
Speaker 1: you just turn into fucking Nazis.
Speaker 4: Yeah, feelings coming up. Yeah, yeah, I'm still like good
Speaker 4: old fashioned boxing. But I got into it because I
Speaker 4: was a fan of grown men slow dancing together. That's
Speaker 4: a passion. Men like clutch each other and slow dance
Speaker 4: a little bit, and so that that's more my passion.
Speaker 4: The punching rooms.
Speaker 3: Sweet whispers, sweet whispers into another man.
Speaker 1: You you have to check out just Brazilian jiu jitsu.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if you like that, bro rappling. Do you
Speaker 1: want to say hugging? It's it's the fists that actually
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: Level Yeah yeah, the guy is so fucking good at hugging.
Speaker 1: Ho shit, you should see you didn't even.
Speaker 4: Need a ghee, all right, Andrew. We're going to get
Speaker 4: to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 4: a couple of things we're talking about. We are officially
Speaker 4: in the Nico Harrison zone with the Trump administration in
Speaker 4: the sense that we're having to make up conspiracy theories
Speaker 4: to explain how bad they are at this. So what
Speaker 4: one of the latest conspiracy theories that actually makes a
Speaker 4: little bit of sense is like gold his Trump's passion
Speaker 4: for gold is why he's doing this. It's like just
Speaker 4: pure self motivated economic helping dumph.
Speaker 1: He's just the Leprechaun from the Leprechaw exactly truly.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 4: Did you ever see like that the end of the
Speaker 4: the show Deadwood, where like they have a version of
Speaker 4: like the Hurst ancestor who the first Hurst was to
Speaker 4: get wildly wealthy, and he's like this character who just
Speaker 4: like has like a deep spiritual like horniness to for gold.
Speaker 4: Like that's kind of what this presupposes about Trump is
Speaker 4: just that like adult It's like not it's not just
Speaker 4: like normal like gold gonna make me rich. But like
Speaker 4: have you noticed have you noticed like the where he lives,
Speaker 4: he lives in a palace of gold. He like just
Speaker 4: all all these different indicators that this person is just
Speaker 4: like part gold.
Speaker 1: He's got gold madness, like gold fever.
Speaker 3: He's actually what they called it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll talk about we'll check about the Democrats. There's
Speaker 4: some opposite. Yeah, a couple couple things that are somewhat
Speaker 4: encouraging along with like Chuck Schumer doing like and we're
Speaker 4: calling it, stop the steal. We need to create a
Speaker 4: Tuna melt moment. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of bad
Speaker 4: stuff from the Democrats that has not been inspiring. But yeah,
Speaker 4: and then we'll talk about the Super Bowl. Did you
Speaker 4: guys hear about the Big Game is coming up? They?
Speaker 1: Oh, the Big Game, the Big Game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, sorry, I'm in this weird I have this
Speaker 4: weird nickname for it that gets me in a lot
Speaker 4: of legal trouble. But yeah, the Big Game is coming
Speaker 4: up this weekend. So we'll talk about the NFL's decision
Speaker 4: to end racism messaging, to stop having that written in
Speaker 4: the end zone, you know, which some people are speculating
Speaker 4: for with no evidence backing it up, that it has
Speaker 4: something to do with the fact that Trump is going
Speaker 4: to be there and that every corporation is bowing down
Speaker 4: to him. But they do have other insincere statements ready
Speaker 4: to go in the end zone. So we'll talk about that,
Speaker 4: and we'll also talk about what New Orleans is enhanced
Speaker 4: super Bowl security will look like, because cooler will be
Speaker 4: banned guns not so much. Oh right, alright, say fella,
Speaker 4: But first we do like to ask our guest Andrew,
Speaker 4: what is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 4: who you are?
Speaker 1: Oh? Boy, this is this is gonna be a little,
Speaker 1: uh a little to a lot shameful. But I just
Speaker 1: purchased my first big old bag of MSG in my life.
Speaker 1: Oh and I'm but like, I'll just I'll just reveal
Speaker 1: this about myself. And it kind of came late in life,
Speaker 1: but not late enough to justify this. My parents basically
Speaker 1: have like white people views of Chinese American food.
Speaker 3: You're like, I had this, No, my mom has this.
Speaker 3: She has that internalized MSG ship too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I had a full blown argument with my mom. She's like,
Speaker 3: you have MSG. I'm like, why the fuck wouldn't I?
Speaker 4: What are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? But it's crazy, like like they literally say old
Speaker 1: racist white people shit. It gives you me a headache,
Speaker 1: It's bad for your joints, you know, all the shit
Speaker 1: and are just like, this is why you're hungry after
Speaker 1: eating food and Chinese restaurants. I use our own food.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. It's crazy how like they're to a large extent,
Speaker 1: my specific men. And I guess maybe you're your specific
Speaker 1: generation of like Asian immigrants.
Speaker 4: I think it is.
Speaker 1: It's like you know, like I'm just guessing miles, like
Speaker 1: if you if your mom came over anywhere in that
Speaker 1: similar like model minority time, Yeah, seventies eighties when it
Speaker 1: was like the America was only letting in the good ones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they really think they're better than other Asian people and
Speaker 1: they really love white people. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Or like she just tries to keep her head low,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, like in a way to
Speaker 3: be like, well, I don't whatever if they want to
Speaker 3: focus say MSG's bad, Like I don't need to focus to.
Speaker 1: I'm not fighting out.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like she was never like outwardly telling me to not
Speaker 3: eat MSG. As she saw this came out when she
Speaker 3: saw me have it at my house, she was like,
Speaker 3: but aren't you worried about so and so? I said,
Speaker 3: aren't you worried that you've digested anti Asian propaganda? Maybe
Speaker 3: you should worry about what you're ingesting'd that go?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, She was like it kind of fucked her up.
Speaker 3: She was like what and yeah, and also what's wild
Speaker 3: is too? Like in Japanese cooking there is MSG like
Speaker 3: it comes from dashi or yeah, like there's a way
Speaker 3: that we that we're using the cheak code. It's just
Speaker 3: not putting. It's not the chemically extracted version that was
Speaker 3: created by a Japanese chemist or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I had been dropping a little little chunk of
Speaker 1: seaweed and my rice cooker just yeah, not even pro tip,
Speaker 1: it's just very good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta put
Speaker 1: a little MS. She but yeah, it was one of
Speaker 1: those I mean, I I watched my grandma. I remember this.
Speaker 1: This is sort of formulative formative my grandma, my my
Speaker 1: kind of you know, also same same kind of generation,
Speaker 1: same kind of mindset. We were at some like a
Speaker 1: Chinese restaurant in probably sink Gerbo Valley, and she like
Speaker 1: pulled the waiter aside and was like, we don't know
Speaker 1: MSG in any of our food, and the waiter just
Speaker 1: like held back, choked back a laugh and was like sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I the waiter have that ability. First of all, yeah,
Speaker 4: and it was just like everything on the menu.
Speaker 3: Well because now, I mean most most restaurants have like
Speaker 3: you can see it because like it's emblazoned on their
Speaker 3: menus and in the front of their restaurant.
Speaker 1: It's like no MSG, no MSG.
Speaker 3: And I know and I know someone with a legit
Speaker 3: MSG like allergy, but like that's very rare. I think
Speaker 3: it's a very specific thing rather than everyone who kind
Speaker 3: of claims blanket sort of like yeah.
Speaker 1: But also like MSG, I'm just like again, seaweed tomatoes,
Speaker 1: parmesan cheese. Have you ever had a dorito? Like it's
Speaker 1: it is genuinely everywhere, so like I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's also why a lot of like Asian snacks taste
Speaker 3: so good to white.
Speaker 4: People too, And they're like whoa, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I think somebody's got a bunch of MSG. It's called
Speaker 1: flavor magic.
Speaker 4: But to blame them, blame MSG for like food that
Speaker 4: makes you still more hungry at the end of it,
Speaker 4: Like they really specific in their concern over that one,
Speaker 4: whereas like every food innovation of the past forty years
Speaker 4: after the Tobacco Company took over the food industry has
Speaker 4: been specifically designed for that. But They're like, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: just just on Chinese food. That's that's a problem.
Speaker 3: It's really I don't know what they're cooking up over there.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, you love it, Myles. Do you remember the
Speaker 4: Risa verse in wool Wear where he says, but he
Speaker 4: ate too much monosodium glue tomate and polyscoor bait and
Speaker 4: drunk grape concentrate with sodium benzo eight. He was like, yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: that was very specific.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, that's where he was in his
Speaker 3: you know, the the beginnings of wolke Rizza, you know,
Speaker 3: and or basically him just reading the back of a
Speaker 3: nutrition label.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I had heard of monosodium glue tomate, but
Speaker 4: the rest I'm still lost.
Speaker 1: Keep your sword straight, you know, I think, my god,
Speaker 1: your weight?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he.
Speaker 1: The chicken thigh? Is it the was it the Wu
Speaker 1: Bible or what the what the fuck was that book
Speaker 1: he wrote called, Yeah, like the Towel of Wu. Maybe
Speaker 1: there was. There's just a passage about where he makes
Speaker 1: the argument that Alla stands for arm leg leg, armhead,
Speaker 1: the entire man, maybe the black Man. I don't remember exactly,
Speaker 1: but I was just like, this is such an an
Speaker 1: incredible reach. I just love that, like the confidence I
Speaker 1: don't have anywhere close to the confidence to say something
Speaker 1: or think of something like that. It was amazing.
Speaker 4: Acronyms are very powerful. Yeah, and we're out of the
Speaker 4: I guess we're what's it going to take?
Speaker 1: Acronym Acronyms require like we need to but that's more
Speaker 1: like five you know, yeah, yeah, existing argument, I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: is where there is that? Yeah?
Speaker 4: That's like leg armhead Yeah yeah, just beautiful stuff is
Speaker 4: kind of what is something you think so underrated?
Speaker 1: Andrew underrated? I just watched for the uh jos this
Speaker 1: racist Premium suboptimal bundle. We watched with a new new
Speaker 1: friend of not new friend, but a new coworker of yours,
Speaker 1: if I can say lu Cardiiegler and producer Kevin Bartel.
Speaker 1: We watched the first Fast and Furious movie with zig
Speaker 1: had never seen it before, and that's weird. If everyone
Speaker 1: knows Cody Ziggler, there's nothing more seeming his personality than
Speaker 1: the first Fast and Furious movies.
Speaker 3: When I feel like he just has seen so many films,
Speaker 3: I feel like I was generally like, yeah, of course
Speaker 3: you probably consume that, even passively.
Speaker 4: But I gotta be honest, guys. I started on Too Fast,
Speaker 4: Too Furious, and I've seen everything since I saw Too Fast,
Speaker 4: Too Furious in the.
Speaker 6: Theaters that you started with. Yeah, Too Fast is by
Speaker 6: far the worst. I know, it's diabolical, it's really I was.
Speaker 6: I was a big John Singleton fan. I was in
Speaker 6: my Au Tour era. I was like, they got Singleton
Speaker 6: for the Fast and the Furious franchise.
Speaker 1: In that too.
Speaker 3: That's when I was like, yeah, come on, bro man,
Speaker 3: that was That was. That was an era, the Devin
Speaker 3: Aoki era.
Speaker 1: That's so nice these peak nineties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or so the first one is good, right, you're saying.
Speaker 1: I know, I was gonna say it's my underrated is
Speaker 1: movies filmed in La like two blocks from my apartment
Speaker 1: because it is wild. Basically like every shot in Echo Park,
Speaker 1: I Andrew t m just off screen, like you feel like,
Speaker 1: I swear to God, I'm about to be in this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's insane. How Like, basically I'm not to docks myself,
Speaker 1: but Echo Park's pretty dense. I'm just off camera in
Speaker 1: every shot in and around Torretto's house, right, and Torretto's
Speaker 1: like little office. It's just so much of like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: that's my street. They just jumped a car on my block.
Speaker 3: The times I've seen like my neighborhood in the in
Speaker 3: a movie was in Crash when Matt Dillon arrests pats
Speaker 3: them down illegally on Ventura and Terrence and Terrence Howard like.
Speaker 1: That whole scene. I'm like, that stayed, that's right down.
Speaker 3: And I hate that fucking movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all I'm also just because of the Echo
Speaker 1: parkness of it. I'm also like Training Day basically takes
Speaker 1: place right around my first apartment I lived in in
Speaker 1: Acho Park. This is this sounds like a great tour.
Speaker 3: You could do the Andrew home filming location tour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, where's Andrew? Just imagine like little Peanut the
Speaker 1: chihuahua just off camera every time every time Toritto's at
Speaker 1: his house. But yeah, it was one of those like, yeah,
Speaker 1: movies filmed in La two blocks from my house. Yeah, Matt, mattacific.
Speaker 4: But do you so Like there's some things that I
Speaker 4: know too much about and it makes it hard for
Speaker 4: me to watch movies about, like a basketball I can't
Speaker 4: really watch basketball movies. Oh I watched too much real
Speaker 4: basketball and I'm just like that person doesn't know how
Speaker 4: to like hold, just like something unnatural about it.
Speaker 3: But like, what is that the last slam dunk at all?
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, you've mentioned it. I think it's your
Speaker 4: work of media before.
Speaker 1: You got to watch that movie and tell me if
Speaker 1: it's good basketball, because to me it seemed like it
Speaker 1: it's all like rotoscoped like animation. I don't know it
Speaker 1: look good to me. Sorry, what what.
Speaker 4: Was does it get in the wet? Like is there
Speaker 4: like geographical errors that you're like, wait a second, that's
Speaker 4: not where that.
Speaker 1: They They do go from Echo Park to Neptune's Nest,
Speaker 1: Neptune's Net just to eat fries, and it does seem.
Speaker 4: Like Neptune's Net is where it's yeah time, you really
Speaker 4: shouldn't be wasting gas like that.
Speaker 1: It's like an hour and a half in traffic, and
Speaker 1: it does seem like they just eat fries and have
Speaker 1: a conversation and then dip back to the main platform.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember the beginning of World Trade Center. I
Speaker 4: think that's the like the nine to eleven Nicholas Cage
Speaker 4: movie where it like went past my apartment and then
Speaker 4: like like it's the more morning of nine to eleven,
Speaker 4: and they're like going down south in Manhattan. They go
Speaker 4: like past my apartment, like down Lower West Side, and
Speaker 4: then like they're like in the Midtown and then like
Speaker 4: they're moving up the city. Yeah. Yeah, and then it
Speaker 4: really took me out.
Speaker 3: Of Oh, you know the you know, our offices are
Speaker 3: in Valentine's Day, the twenty ten movie with Anne Hathaway.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, they shoot in I'm like, I'm watching, like
Speaker 3: this is our building. Oh, I get tell by the
Speaker 3: concrete walls. I'm like, what is going on? Yeah, and
Speaker 3: then she like walks out takes off down the shit.
Speaker 3: You're like, yeah, there it is okay.
Speaker 4: Damn.
Speaker 3: Anyway, for those that are interested, do you do your
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Speaker 1: When I worked when I worked at Comedy Central. And
Speaker 1: this probably is not a huge surprise to people familiar
Speaker 1: with cable TV budgets, but a shocking number of like
Speaker 1: Comedy Central shows, anytime they're in an office is shot
Speaker 1: in like one of the one of the boardroom things,
Speaker 1: in one of the Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just like now you know at the Company Central office,
Speaker 4: We've got in office. Let's take a quick break, we'll
Speaker 4: come back, We'll hear you're overrated, We'll get into some news.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back, and we'd back Andrew T what
Speaker 4: is something that you believe to be overrated?
Speaker 1: I actually am losing faith that this is a one
Speaker 1: I haven't said before, but it's too late for me
Speaker 1: to come up with something else. I think it's overrated
Speaker 1: being the best, or even being very good, highly overrated.
Speaker 1: I think I'm I'm in my era of even if
Speaker 1: you're bad, just be better than a few people in
Speaker 1: the in the in your competition. That's my new thing.
Speaker 1: This is the genesis of this in the recent incarnation
Speaker 1: is I for complicated ish but not that complicated. But
Speaker 1: some of it I actually can't tell on my reasons.
Speaker 1: I have gotten a like fairly high end poker coach,
Speaker 1: and so one of the things, I'm not like that
Speaker 1: serious a poker player, but I've like sort of stumbled
Speaker 1: under this high end poker coach and as a result,
Speaker 1: I have been forced to play, not forced I'm electing to,
Speaker 1: but part of this the businesses.
Speaker 4: You've been taken hostage by a pretty high end poker
Speaker 4: poker coach.
Speaker 1: Someone volver just off camera. Yeah, well, yeah, that's the same.
Speaker 1: It's actually a vindesel. But I have been trying doing
Speaker 1: something that I have been like largely avoiding because I've
Speaker 1: been mostly playing online. For anyone who's been paying attention
Speaker 1: at all to my poker, which they shouldn't be, but
Speaker 1: I've been basically having to go to the casino and
Speaker 1: play poker in LA trying to hit like twenty hours
Speaker 1: a week the Hustler casino. I went to commerce the
Speaker 1: other day. These are all existing poker rooms. I would
Speaker 1: all to play in other poker games, but we're not
Speaker 1: going to talk about those. But I you know, I
Speaker 1: just don't like live poker. I don't like the people
Speaker 1: when you play online, it just seems too slow. But
Speaker 1: I'm playing at the like low stakes poker, trying to
Speaker 1: get in some hours. And I am I just want
Speaker 1: to say, I am not a good poker player, but
Speaker 1: what I am is head and shoulders above the worst.
Speaker 4: Poker players to come through like a place like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you know, partially it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of an ego thing, but I'm just like, I just
Speaker 1: don't play hands with any of the good players, Like
Speaker 1: I simply will just fold unless I have a monster,
Speaker 1: but I will just not be in pots. If anyone
Speaker 1: who hasn't made an enormous, evident mistake is in the pot,
Speaker 1: I don't need to play with this. I'll just play
Speaker 1: with the people who I know make humongous mistakes. That's guy,
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Yeah. So I'm not good, but I'm just better.
Speaker 1: So maybe, yeah, maybe the thing that I'm starting to
Speaker 1: say is like, it's okay to be bad, but better
Speaker 1: than the rest is good enough as long as you
Speaker 1: know where you.
Speaker 3: Are, right right right, Yeah, I don't think that because
Speaker 3: you're not out here being like, I'm the second fucking
Speaker 3: coming of you know, what's that dude?
Speaker 1: Phil?
Speaker 3: Was that Phil Ivey or some shit? Right, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: not that.
Speaker 1: I just I know exactly who I am, and I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to take pots from the people that are
Speaker 1: just there to gamble or are drunk or there to
Speaker 1: have fun.
Speaker 4: Or you're doing them a favor in many ways, but
Speaker 4: just taking yes and no, let me unburden you got
Speaker 4: I had. If I had that three hundred and fifty dollars,
Speaker 4: I would want somebody to unburden me of it. To
Speaker 4: quote that guy who was writing about the Harley, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: Harley Cruft anyways.
Speaker 1: Anyway, just be good, like as long as you know
Speaker 1: where you are in the uh like skill tree, pecking
Speaker 1: order or whatever, want to say, as all you know
Speaker 1: where you are in the pile. Just just you know,
Speaker 1: just know who you're better than in whatever capacity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but also know who's.
Speaker 3: Got you to because you or even when he might
Speaker 3: got you, because who cares?
Speaker 1: Why take the risk? Why take the risk? The fuck?
Speaker 4: All right, let's let's talk about the news. It's a
Speaker 4: hard news cycle to talk about. In this second trouble administration,
Speaker 4: there's just so much shit happening new wild, you know,
Speaker 4: unprecedented claims being made on a daily basis. We talked
Speaker 4: on yesterday's trending about Trump's claim that he is king
Speaker 4: of Gaza, that he's just going to come through and
Speaker 4: turn Gaza into a like the grove, like he's Jack.
Speaker 3: Let's be fair excited the.
Speaker 4: Right at least, But it's an exciting investment opportunity that
Speaker 4: he wants to get you up on. But you know,
Speaker 4: he's also turned the government and all of it's like
Speaker 4: fiscal responsibilities over to Elon Musk, who appears to just
Speaker 4: be fucking dismantling the thing. It's so chaotic that we
Speaker 4: are now in what I'm calling the Nico Harrison zone.
Speaker 4: Nico Harrison is the guy who made the Luka Doncic
Speaker 4: trade in the past week, and the trade was so bad,
Speaker 4: so immediately like evident to everybody that people immediately were like, Okay,
Speaker 4: we got to come up with we got to start
Speaker 4: coming up with conspiracy theories to explain what is actually
Speaker 4: happening to be nobody could be that stupid. And so
Speaker 4: that feels like what we're doing with the Trump administration
Speaker 4: right now as well, because people are suggesting that he
Speaker 4: is trying to basically raise the price of gold. That
Speaker 4: there's been suggestions in the past, like Ralph Nader suggested
Speaker 4: that Trump basically with his faux trade war with Canada
Speaker 4: and Mexico where he threatens it comes up to the
Speaker 4: edge of it happening, and then like walks it back
Speaker 4: without getting any concessions, you know, like nothing that Canada
Speaker 4: and Mexico hadn't already agreed to. Despite what you will
Speaker 4: read in a lot of mainstream outlets, they're like Trump
Speaker 4: wins another one. But yeah, people who are actually paying
Speaker 4: attention to being honest about it, like that was weird.
Speaker 4: That he basically tanked the markets for twelve hours. And
Speaker 4: Ralph Nader I've been saying for a while, like we
Speaker 4: need a Ralph Nader type who will like, you know,
Speaker 4: advocate on behalf of consumers, because, to be honest, I
Speaker 4: did not know Ralph Nader was still alive. But he
Speaker 4: he has the theory that Trump is just basically doing
Speaker 4: a pump and dump thing where he you know, he
Speaker 4: or people financially tied to him know what he's going
Speaker 4: to do, know that he's going to scare the market
Speaker 4: and then withdraw and so everything will surge back, and
Speaker 4: so he just like is making trades in a way
Speaker 4: that makes him billions of dollars. It's never been proven,
Speaker 4: but it's there's a lot of reporting that suggests this
Speaker 4: might have been going on in his first administration. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: I know. That's that's what's hard because I mean, first administration,
Speaker 4: Trump totally a different guy.
Speaker 3: And yeah, cool, Well, I mean I think they're I
Speaker 3: think everything's true, you know, I think that Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: he's bad at like he rhetorically he's an absolute novice
Speaker 3: and it's just a senile old person who people have
Speaker 3: to take seriously because of the office he holds, and
Speaker 3: so much chaos comes along with that, even as evidenced
Speaker 3: by that Goozta thing or even BB Netanyahu was like
Speaker 3: the the fuck are you saying right now? Like he
Speaker 3: says whatever he needs to. He also wants to enrich
Speaker 3: himself and all the time, like at any possible moment,
Speaker 3: and he also loves to like outsource thinking to other people.
Speaker 3: That's why, like the the Elon thing is like, there's
Speaker 3: you know, a lot of there I've I've read another
Speaker 3: because there's other conspiracy theories also about what Elon Musk
Speaker 3: is up to, and a lot of people are pointing
Speaker 3: the fact that like he's you know, he just built
Speaker 3: this colossus, it's called Colossus, this huge AI data center
Speaker 3: in Tennessee, I think, and that basically he's gearing up.
Speaker 3: This is one line of thinking is that he's he's
Speaker 3: convinced Trump that you can outsource most of the government
Speaker 3: work to AI, and he has the capabilities to do that,
Speaker 3: and that's how he can now sit at the fucking
Speaker 3: in the in the fucking driver's seat of some techno
Speaker 3: fascist AI world takeover thing. And that's why other billionaires
Speaker 3: are getting in line. So there's like, I mean, there's
Speaker 3: so many things right now that are all seemingly true,
Speaker 3: but could also just feel like nah, I can't be it.
Speaker 3: But I also feel like that's also part of the
Speaker 3: point too, just to get people again, Like we were
Speaker 3: talking about this on Monday, they most people in the
Speaker 3: country to be like in an absolute state of paralysis
Speaker 3: while this is going on in order to just achieve
Speaker 3: whatever incremental stuff they need in the time being. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's like I see, I see all of it
Speaker 3: potentially being true. It's more just like we need a
Speaker 3: probably a little more time to really know get some
Speaker 3: more details, to really see where this thing is headed.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I feel like there's probably like like it's
Speaker 1: like true except for the grand intentionality of it.
Speaker 4: I think that's right. I could see a world where
Speaker 4: he's reading these theories and be like, oh shit, that's
Speaker 4: actually smart, like we should.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I right, yeah, because it just feels
Speaker 3: like one of those things.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, his financial guys know that there's
Speaker 1: going to be chaos, and they have a little tip
Speaker 1: just because he'll ramble exactly what his thoughts are. But
Speaker 1: you don't need to have like god level sixty chess
Speaker 1: to do these things. You can also just you know,
Speaker 1: like like the insider trading business. It's just like Trump,
Speaker 1: what are you going to do tomorrow? Great?
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you create incredible amounts of chaos, like that
Speaker 4: is a place where people who are open to corruption
Speaker 4: and people who have a ton of power and wealth
Speaker 4: already are going to thrive. Like that's what we saw
Speaker 4: during the pandemic, Like the extremely wealthy got absurdly like
Speaker 4: way way richer like that. You know, it's why disaster
Speaker 4: capitalism is such a thing, and it does seem to
Speaker 4: be Like so why if if his only goal is
Speaker 4: to enrich himself and the other people who he like
Speaker 4: he's said before, his only his only real guiding principle
Speaker 4: is he only trusts people who've made like billions of
Speaker 4: dollars basically, So that's those are the only people that
Speaker 4: he has around him. So if his only goal is
Speaker 4: to you know, enrich himself and the billionaires around him,
Speaker 4: who are the only people he listens to, he's going
Speaker 4: to this is what it would look like. You create
Speaker 4: an incredible amount of instability and then profit.
Speaker 1: I'll just figure it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just figure it out. You just you know,
Speaker 4: take advantage of the fact that you have access to
Speaker 4: all of the transacting that's gonna happen because people are
Speaker 4: fucking panicked, and so like, yeah, the gold thing specifically,
Speaker 4: like gold is considered a safe haven asset because like
Speaker 4: it's the only investment that thrives in times of like
Speaker 4: high inflation and market volatility and geopolitical uncertainty. And obviously
Speaker 4: that is that's if you could name like a thesis
Speaker 4: statement for like what he's trying to accomplish, like that
Speaker 4: seems to be it. You know, it's a mark volatility,
Speaker 4: geopolitical uncertainty. And then it just tied back to the
Speaker 4: fact that like if he can be said to have
Speaker 4: like any sort of like spiritual affinity, it would seem
Speaker 4: to be for gold. Like from day one, he's just
Speaker 4: like paved everything in gold, warn gold. All of his
Speaker 4: buildings are gold. He's been like a day one, like,
Speaker 4: I think you should invest in gold. Project twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five specifically calls for a return to the gold standard.
Speaker 1: Which, like, I know that these people are stuck in
Speaker 1: the fucking eighteenth century, but Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, that nobody has thought that was a good idea.
Speaker 4: Who's been paying attention for a long time. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know. It would be terrible for a number
Speaker 4: of reasons that people have noted that it would, like
Speaker 4: it would have made the Great Depression worse, which it
Speaker 4: seems like we're headed for one of those, and just
Speaker 4: on top of being fundamentally undemocratic. But again, if you
Speaker 4: think of it as just like he his only goal
Speaker 4: is to enrich himself into the like billionaires who are
Speaker 4: the only people he actually listens to, then yeah, that's
Speaker 4: the point, right, that would be the entirely well.
Speaker 1: But but I guess what I mean though, is like
Speaker 1: the it's it's the point in a general sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's not.
Speaker 1: Like all right, here's what I'm gonna do. You know,
Speaker 1: Like he thought the terrorist thing would work, and he
Speaker 1: he's like doesn't care that it doesn't. It's just that
Speaker 1: like as an ancillary thing, you know, his money. Guys
Speaker 1: are like, great, this is just do you dog, and
Speaker 1: like we'll figure out we'll figure out the details. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about this. But it's not like he I think,
Speaker 1: like he doesn't have it. He doesn't have that kind
Speaker 1: of brain and doesn't need that kind of brain. So
Speaker 1: why would he acquire that kind of brain? I just
Speaker 1: I don't know, But yeah.
Speaker 3: He's just the kind of person though. He just needs
Speaker 3: other people to all up him some ideas constantly, and
Speaker 3: that's how they benefit. They're like, you know, get get
Speaker 3: in his ear, and then he might do that shit
Speaker 3: and then Trump thinks it's a good idea for other reasons.
Speaker 3: Other people like this will appeal to Trump for X,
Speaker 3: Y and z, but really we'll get our shit out
Speaker 3: of it. Yeah, and yeah, it just happening so fast,
Speaker 3: and now even the Wall Street Journal was like, um,
Speaker 3: can we maybe all the all of this winning isn't great,
Speaker 3: you know, for like the markets.
Speaker 1: It is interesting.
Speaker 3: You just see like the Wall Street Journal being one
Speaker 3: of the more not I mean not that they're really
Speaker 3: coming out as opposition, but how voltally they are.
Speaker 1: They're starting to become.
Speaker 3: They're like, you're making all the stock people a little
Speaker 3: nervous here with all this truly, like all this instability
Speaker 3: you're creating, I mean, you.
Speaker 1: Know, eventually, like fucking some reality has to come home
Speaker 1: to roost for some of this shit, like you oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the most evident one is the RFK business. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you can you can have all your beliefs
Speaker 1: about big pharma vaccines just work, like someone will have
Speaker 1: polio in America or like there will be a polio
Speaker 1: pandemic in America soon if this keeps going, and like okay,
Speaker 1: like what like like just their ideas do not actually work,
Speaker 1: so like like that reality is gonna like manifest itself eventually.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know whether I.
Speaker 3: Mean, I think the first things, like getting rid of
Speaker 3: US AID and stuff like that, like those shockwaves are
Speaker 3: going to be felt immediately outside of the country. And
Speaker 3: then when you look at whatever fuckery is going on
Speaker 3: with the payment systems, and if they really start like
Speaker 3: sticking their fucking fingers in the gears of that ship
Speaker 3: and shit starts fucking jolting, then that will be felt
Speaker 3: like in the US. And it's already you know, they're
Speaker 3: they're already there. You can already see how municipalities are
Speaker 3: trying to sort of preempt any chaos by shutting certain
Speaker 3: programs down and things like that. So it's already happening.
Speaker 3: But I just had I don't think you just reached
Speaker 3: that critical mass quite yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, like what, yeah, people are going to stop
Speaker 4: getting benefits and like payments and like that that I mean,
Speaker 4: that's already happening, and like whether the you know, the
Speaker 4: bureaucrats are specific, whether that side of it, whether they
Speaker 4: stop getting paid, like people downstream are definitely gonna stop
Speaker 4: getting their payments, and it's just a matter of like,
Speaker 4: is anybody going to notice when the elderly stopped getting
Speaker 4: or thinking.
Speaker 1: Do something about it, you know, like please?
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of which, the Democrats have started talking say
Speaker 4: some stuff showing up, like trying to show signs of
Speaker 4: an opposition.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's what everyone was wondering. Yes, So is
Speaker 3: anybody gonna say anything about this? Like do I just
Speaker 3: have to read headlines that are so fucking frightening.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing, obviously, because these people on the
Speaker 3: writer are absolute cowards, they decided to really do all
Speaker 3: this dirt over the weekend when Congress had adjourned, like
Speaker 3: members out of DC, and they're like, yeah, this is great.
Speaker 3: Nobody's in towent, Like the babysitters here. The babysitter ain't
Speaker 3: even here. And they get back Monday, so we can
Speaker 3: do whatever the fuck we need to. So they come
Speaker 3: back Monday. Then we start hearing more than just sort
Speaker 3: of tweets that were being sent out over the weekend,
Speaker 3: and the Democrats held a rally in front of the
Speaker 3: Treasury on Tuesday, like literally around the same time when
Speaker 3: Trump was with bb net and Yahoo talking about how
Speaker 3: the US is going to take ownership of Gaza and
Speaker 3: how like Palestinians.
Speaker 1: Are They're just gonna have to find another place to go.
Speaker 1: So we heard from a lot of different people.
Speaker 3: First, let's play something from Senator Chris Murphy, who has
Speaker 3: since the election really kind of like being like, is.
Speaker 1: Are we the Are we the problem?
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe are He's kind of like trying
Speaker 3: to figure out, yeah, how far he's going to have
Speaker 3: to drift from the establishment. But this was his first
Speaker 3: sort of remarks around just how, you know, indebted to billionaires,
Speaker 3: this whole system has become. It's a bit ironic though,
Speaker 3: coming from a party that's also justice entrenched in billionaire money.
Speaker 3: But nonetheless, this is the opposition for the moment.
Speaker 7: We don't pledge allegiance to the billionaires.
Speaker 1: We don't we don't.
Speaker 7: Pledge allegiance to Elon Musk, We don't pledge allegiance to
Speaker 7: the creepy twenty two year olds.
Speaker 1: Working for Elon us.
Speaker 7: We pledge allegiance to the United States of America. And
Speaker 7: so I want to make sure that my mother gets
Speaker 7: her security to their Social Security check, not because she
Speaker 7: pledges allegiance to Elon, but because she pledges allegiance to
Speaker 7: the United States of America. I want to make sure
Speaker 7: your neighbor gets their tax refund not because they pledge allegiance.
Speaker 4: To the billy in their class, but because they pledge
Speaker 4: allegiance to the United States.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Now, fine.
Speaker 4: That's great. Do they need to do? We need to
Speaker 4: pledge a llegiance for their humanity. You say the pledge
Speaker 4: and then we'll get you here.
Speaker 1: You want this ship right now of the Union.
Speaker 4: Take your hat off.
Speaker 3: So yeah, then we had many other people speak. I
Speaker 3: also just want to call out Sydney camlogger Dove, who
Speaker 3: is from California, like represents the area like you know,
Speaker 3: like southern Los Angeles area. She brought it in like
Speaker 3: she came with some fire, okay. And she also did
Speaker 3: a nice, nice reference to a Damon Wayne's beloved Damon
Speaker 3: Wayne's character.
Speaker 8: As total corruption for an unhinged, unqualified, unvetted.
Speaker 9: Billionaire like Elon Musk and hand sycophants to come in
Speaker 9: to our treasury to try to take control of our government,
Speaker 9: to have access to all social security numbers.
Speaker 8: Our social security.
Speaker 9: Payments are not a good benefits all of the information
Speaker 9: that we use when we are trying to get a
Speaker 9: motherfucking tax return.
Speaker 8: Yes, and you gotta take our money, Hammie, don't play that.
Speaker 3: Wow, alright, there we go.
Speaker 1: Where am I? Where's where's gen x at?
Speaker 4: I love that?
Speaker 3: I love that, But like you know, again, where this
Speaker 3: is just there's so much happening there right now, just
Speaker 3: starting to figure out how they're articulating their opposition. I
Speaker 3: think her point is connects a little bit better than like,
Speaker 3: don't pledge your leaders to billionaires to America. It's better
Speaker 3: be like that's my mother fucking money. Yes, let's not
Speaker 3: forget that is not someone else's money. This is you
Speaker 3: know why your.
Speaker 1: Check looks so fucking light?
Speaker 2: You know, I love these They taking all that that's
Speaker 2: over there, and they're fucking with that money too, and
Speaker 2: you need to actually understand that that that is, those
Speaker 2: are the things that don't to support you and your
Speaker 2: community and you down the road.
Speaker 3: When you need it. If there's even social security at
Speaker 3: that point. But yeah, you know it's right now, it's
Speaker 3: just kind of tough because we're getting a lot of
Speaker 3: fiery words, but we need to see what is the action,
Speaker 3: because you know, like you've seen like this is truly
Speaker 3: elevated AOC in a way that past moments in you know,
Speaker 3: political history, or at least past moments in her career have it,
Speaker 3: because now she seems to be the one of the
Speaker 3: few people articulating things at least a little bit clearer
Speaker 3: than some of the establishment Democrats who are just obviously
Speaker 3: really good at reading a room and then figuring out
Speaker 3: how to co opt that energy to just kind of
Speaker 3: swing things back to theoliberal bullshit. And so it's interesting
Speaker 3: to see how this sort of evolves because there's clearly
Speaker 3: no one voice that's fully making the point that is
Speaker 3: going to like pierce through. And that's where I'm just like, okay,
Speaker 3: let's see. I see that y'all are saying like literally
Speaker 3: like we need to shut this city down, like this
Speaker 3: is war what they're trying to do to the government.
Speaker 1: But those words are.
Speaker 3: Great, but now like this needs to see, like how
Speaker 3: does this manifest on Capitol Hill with what you guys
Speaker 3: do as legislators and the things you can do like
Speaker 3: file lawsuits and launch investigations and things like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's just been so clear, like
Speaker 1: the reason we are in what we are is because
Speaker 1: the Democrats are doing exactly what they want to be doing.
Speaker 1: Like like I think we're just at the point where
Speaker 1: we have to acknowledge like it's not like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: being out maneuvered. They're maneuvered. They like the Nancy Loosi's
Speaker 1: of the world. This is what they want it like,
Speaker 1: or this is what they're capable of accepting, like you know, right,
Speaker 1: they're not evil, but they are evil. It's yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just like, how the fuck do you not have? Like
Speaker 1: I guess it's just like anyone that got rolled by
Speaker 1: Newt Gingrich shouldn't get us, say anymore because I lost
Speaker 1: like twenty years ago, right right, like like shut the
Speaker 1: fuck up, please shut the fuck up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, they got us right where we won
Speaker 4: us right right, like where they're at.
Speaker 3: They're like, oh man, the way we're gonna fundraise off
Speaker 3: of this? L Yeah, like no, like you there's someone
Speaker 3: posted a meme on Twitter. I forget who, but it's
Speaker 3: just sort of like the fucking trolley car dilemma with like.
Speaker 1: You could flick the switch. Yeah, and it said like
Speaker 1: you could pull the switch or or lose your way
Speaker 1: to fundraise forever. Yeah, and like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. I mean it's going
Speaker 3: to the only way out is to fully abandon all
Speaker 3: of those ideas that again, like to your point Andrew
Speaker 3: brought us here, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Is there anyone doing like is that when you say
Speaker 4: AOC has been vocal and like kind of better at
Speaker 4: articulating that is that kind of where she's headed, because
Speaker 4: I mean she could she could just go in that direction.
Speaker 4: She doesn't have to listen to Nancy Pelosi anymore. Like
Speaker 4: it felt like she was struggling with like, you know,
Speaker 4: Nancy Pelosi and the powers that be in the Democratic Party,
Speaker 4: but like that functionally, like I don't know if it's
Speaker 4: if it if the Democratic Party recognizes that, but like
Speaker 4: functionally the Democratic Party has never been well more oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, powers I say that more. And like she's
Speaker 3: trying to speak directly to American people about like not
Speaker 3: in a like a wonky way of more just being
Speaker 3: like yeah, dude, they're fucking everything up. But like this
Speaker 3: is the point people need to fucking like we just
Speaker 3: have to weather this and then figure out how we
Speaker 3: push back, and there will be ways to push back.
Speaker 3: That that that like, that was a little bit better
Speaker 3: than just going out there like this is bullshit, right,
Speaker 3: and that's fine and it is, and it's I'm glad
Speaker 3: that you're on record saying that this is bullshit, but
Speaker 3: also like there needs to be some semblance of a
Speaker 3: leader too to say this is what needs to be done. Again,
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that I don't know who the best
Speaker 3: option is, but that sort of very clear eyed direction
Speaker 3: is right now not really there.
Speaker 1: Well currently she is the best option is given that.
Speaker 4: Giving it.
Speaker 1: But it is just like like especially with like the
Speaker 1: like older establishment democrats, it is this like circle of
Speaker 1: like you gotta do something, we need you to call
Speaker 1: us to make us do something.
Speaker 4: Are you talking about call your senator? That's yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: but I gotta know, you know, I got to hear
Speaker 4: from you, wonder and I am lonely and horny.
Speaker 3: Guys, if my donors just keep calling me, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do what they say, you know, purely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just how like how much can you publicly
Speaker 1: pass the buck, like fucking take some responsibility and do
Speaker 1: something please.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, and it's it's kind of like,
Speaker 3: it's sad to see that the women of color in
Speaker 3: Congress yet again are some of the most vocal people
Speaker 3: who are really connecting to what is happening, like the stakes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I'm just like, oh god, the fucking irony again
Speaker 3: is that you know, we're we're counting on, like we're
Speaker 3: counting on a group of people that fundamentally this party
Speaker 3: just ignores too abandoning. Yeah, it impeded, but yet again,
Speaker 3: and I think that's what's so heartbreaking too, just even
Speaker 3: in the summer of twenty twenty, you see people, despite
Speaker 3: being absolutely shit on repeatedly by this country, that there
Speaker 3: is a belief that somehow this place can be better.
Speaker 3: And yeah, to see to see those people step up
Speaker 3: and and you know, trying to lend their voice at
Speaker 3: a time like this, it's like just the ironies. It's
Speaker 3: kind of like, it's it's kind kind of difficult to watch.
Speaker 3: At the same time, I'm like, man, because these are
Speaker 3: these are the same people that they were. They were
Speaker 3: going to run you all out on a rail for
Speaker 3: deigning to acknowledge the humanity of Palestinian people. Right, but
Speaker 3: now because you have allowed voice to talk up against Trump,
Speaker 3: and now it's like, oh maybe it's man just can
Speaker 3: do something.
Speaker 4: Mhm, all right, let's uh, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 4: We'll come back and we'll talk about the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: And we're back, and big, big hit for people who
Speaker 4: wanted to end racism. The NFL is going to remove
Speaker 4: the words end racism from the field during this year's
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. From the so as we all know the
Speaker 4: words end racism. We're right there above Kansas City Chiefs,
Speaker 4: the Kansas City Yeah.
Speaker 1: Just out of you from the television podcast.
Speaker 4: Yes, and just doing doing the heavy lifting of fighting
Speaker 4: systemic racism in the United States. But they have announced
Speaker 4: that they will now be removing that and they didn't
Speaker 4: specifically say whether this was a move designed to play
Speaker 4: Kate trump ism specifically since he's going to be attending
Speaker 4: the game. So we have to assume their heart is
Speaker 4: in the right place, as we always do with the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is like all corporate like diversity or
Speaker 1: inclusivity anything, which is like it's never been about doing
Speaker 1: the right thing. It's all about what they thought would
Speaker 1: make them the most money. That kind of the only
Speaker 1: scary thing about everyone abandoning as much of this is that, look,
Speaker 1: we've seen so much that the business people at the
Speaker 1: high end are remarkably like passive sheep as far as
Speaker 1: like reading what they think the trends in America are.
Speaker 1: But it is a little troubling that's somewhere along the line.
Speaker 1: Clearly someone has been like it is now somehow the
Speaker 1: makeup of America has changed. Is now more profitable to be.
Speaker 4: Racist, to be racist? Yeah, which is alway white supremacy
Speaker 4: is the like, do we think that they're actually saying
Speaker 4: that in boardrooms or are they like I think the
Speaker 4: I think the language around DEI has and also their
Speaker 4: experiences with doing the most half hearted, willfully empty version
Speaker 4: of DEI over the past few years and then being like,
Speaker 4: well that didn't work, I think allows them to just
Speaker 4: call it like we're actually moving away from DEI initiatives now, Well,
Speaker 4: I mean it was a way of talking about it.
Speaker 1: It's always been an arm of their pr like, it's
Speaker 1: never been an arm of the core business. So they're
Speaker 1: just electing to believe that their public relations is better
Speaker 1: served through racism, which you know, their businesses is by
Speaker 1: and large have always been that. So it's like it's
Speaker 1: really just like what face paint they're like trying to
Speaker 1: put on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's never good when those guys put on face paint.
Speaker 4: I'll say it's actually it's actually I talked about like
Speaker 4: an NFL game I was watching this year where they
Speaker 4: like came back from these ads that are you know,
Speaker 4: like million four million dollars short films like the you
Speaker 4: know they have like Hollywood filmmakers like that, you know,
Speaker 4: spare no expense when they're making these things, like the
Speaker 4: productions are all of the highest level of production resources
Speaker 4: they have, and they cut back to this NFL game
Speaker 4: and they have like their attempt at like doing anything
Speaker 4: with like social justice in mind was like showing like
Speaker 4: a poorly lit shot of like somebody holding a check
Speaker 4: on the sideline for like eight thousand dollars for like
Speaker 4: Detroit Public schools. They're like Detroit Public Schools d da
Speaker 4: da da da dah, like just like blew through it,
Speaker 4: like it was the fucking you know, boiler plate at
Speaker 4: the end of a car ad. And then we're like
Speaker 4: and now like Carrie Underwood performs like there's like giant explosions,
Speaker 4: and it's it's just like and then now they're like,
Speaker 4: well we tried, and it's like, no, you like did
Speaker 4: the opposite of try. You made it seem like this
Speaker 4: shit is stupid. With every ounce of what you were
Speaker 4: bringing to it. You just ignored it. You didn't try
Speaker 4: and tell a story, you didn't try and do anything.
Speaker 4: You just made it seem like it was fucking vegetables,
Speaker 4: like it was homework for people that you had to
Speaker 4: get to before you got back to the entertaining stuff.
Speaker 4: And now they get to because they did that, Like
Speaker 4: not only did they not solve the problem that was
Speaker 4: supposed to be about, but now they get to be like,
Speaker 4: we tried and it actually backfired. Is like, Noah, didn't backfire,
Speaker 4: Like you just treating it like shit with like zero
Speaker 4: thought and like open derision is what backfired.
Speaker 3: Right Exactly. It's like it's there's just an addiction to
Speaker 3: white supremacy and patriarchy that they cannot be excized, and
Speaker 3: until it is, you cannot count on the people to
Speaker 3: address those issues, you know what I mean. It's like
Speaker 3: in that version, it sounds like when you know, like
Speaker 3: I've had friends who go into rehab, and they did
Speaker 3: not make a good faith effort there. They just weren't
Speaker 3: ready to and then blamed rehab for why it's bullshit,
Speaker 3: and actually they're like, it's just a weird Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: like a way to be like, you didn't you're not
Speaker 3: actually engaging with it in a way that anything would change.
Speaker 1: So of course, just preserve your own ego.
Speaker 3: You're going to arrive at the conclusion that this thing
Speaker 3: doesn't work and you're okay. And that's not the greatest metaphor,
Speaker 3: but I'm just saying like in the sense or like
Speaker 3: I did this, Like even in my own relationships, like
Speaker 3: couples therapy, I didn't want to go, so I was like.
Speaker 1: Not, I was not.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, I was like and then I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't think this shit work.
Speaker 1: And it's like, no, bro, you are not working work
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, And I'm like, well, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I don't have the wisdom to accept that critique right now,
Speaker 3: So I'm just get angry.
Speaker 1: I did have we jump in on that. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: there's a cover, which is that, like to the extent
Speaker 1: that there's a small silver lining to any of this. Obviously,
Speaker 1: like all these corporations ending these like programs is not
Speaker 1: or like programs or point of view or pr positions
Speaker 1: is not like good. But to Miles's point, it's also
Speaker 1: worth highlighting how little they were actually doing even with
Speaker 1: these programs. So it's like, yes, things are being taken away,
Speaker 1: but it is less than they said was being given,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. It's not nothing, I understand, it's
Speaker 1: not nothing, but like they were never trying, so like
Speaker 1: they never actually gave a shit. So like, yes, like
Speaker 1: opportunities are being taken away, and like just like a
Speaker 1: positive light on people who aren't white men is diminished. However,
Speaker 1: it's less diminished than it seems because it was never
Speaker 1: there in the way it was before.
Speaker 4: Also in the silver lining category, guys, the end racism
Speaker 4: message will be replaced by like they've been working in
Speaker 4: the lab to like find the most insincere statements and
Speaker 4: we've got it takes all of us and choose love.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Both both seem like they would be slogans from the
Speaker 4: back of the jersey of like white players during the
Speaker 4: NBA bubble. Yeah, the education reform education, Andrew t as
Speaker 4: always such a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist.
Speaker 4: Where can people find you, follow you all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: You can find me. This Racist is my podcast. We
Speaker 1: just did a premium dropped a premium watch along with
Speaker 1: two hours and change of us talking over Fast and Furious.
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 4: Are you a fan? Because my thinking on it has
Speaker 4: had always been like they started getting really good at
Speaker 4: like four or five.
Speaker 1: Yes, they didn't really start getting amazing until five. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I weirdly have seen every single one of them in
Speaker 1: the theater opening weekend except for I think nine. I
Speaker 1: think so, But I wasn't like a huge fan until Look,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a commerce. There's a commitment, especially in
Speaker 1: the later ones, to racial diversity that is undercut by
Speaker 1: the pretty heavy headed misogyny of the movies. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a push, but you know, sort of
Speaker 1: grading on a blockbuster curve. Yeah, by far the most diverse, and.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, yeah, they are like exhibit a of
Speaker 4: like when when you read those like Sony hack emails
Speaker 4: and they're like, guys, we just can't have movies that
Speaker 4: don't star white men that look like me. I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: those are just the facts. It's like this is a
Speaker 4: great example of like why it's so it's just like
Speaker 4: incredibly wrong.
Speaker 1: You know, and and to go back, I know, to
Speaker 1: the depressing conversation from earlier, it's like, you know, people
Speaker 1: of color, queer people, women are still going to exist
Speaker 1: and for the medium term future, they're still going to
Speaker 1: have some sort of even if capital is the only
Speaker 1: thing that matters, They're still a buy a like demographic
Speaker 1: with buying power and so like on some level they
Speaker 1: still matter, and like their power or your power, our
Speaker 1: power can still be felt. It's unfortunate that it has
Speaker 1: to be felt through how we spend our dollars, but
Speaker 1: like that's another avenue. They can be felt through how
Speaker 1: we work and what we do, and like where we
Speaker 1: choose to work and how you know, what we do
Speaker 1: when we choose to be at work. So for now,
Speaker 1: like there's relatively little like coercion in terms of those things.
Speaker 1: So like fucking use that power, like while we have it. Yeah, anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: fast and furious.
Speaker 4: Is there a work of media you've been enjoying Besides,
Speaker 4: I literally.
Speaker 1: Don't remember if I said this one already, but I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed the movie Presence, which has its flaws, but
Speaker 1: it's a Steven Soderberg movie that's how that's it's in
Speaker 1: the trailer. It's kind of a spoiler, but it's just
Speaker 1: in the trailer. But it's a like indie ghost story
Speaker 1: told from the pov of the ghost, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: I have thoughts, it's not perfect, but it's oh shit.
Speaker 1: Maybe I did mention it on this podcast because I remember,
Speaker 1: all right, well, I fucking enjoyed presence. I also enjoyed
Speaker 1: hard truths. I did also watch the re release of
Speaker 1: Seven recently, which I enjoyed less than I did when
Speaker 1: I first saw Seven. Remarkably reactionary in terms of its
Speaker 1: view of what the city is you.
Speaker 4: Want to stay there. It's written from the same intellectual
Speaker 4: perspective as Hallmark movies, where they get it the fuck
Speaker 4: out of the city.
Speaker 1: There is there is like I get the general comment
Speaker 1: on the degradation of you know, humanity, and I know
Speaker 1: it's I think David Fincher wants, but the actual nuts
Speaker 1: and bolt of like what's actually wrong with people boils
Speaker 1: down to a remarkably bill O'Reilly view of what New
Speaker 1: York is.
Speaker 4: Yea, oh man, get to get out there, You'll get
Speaker 4: you'll turn so perverted, you'll have you'll kill get your sex.
Speaker 3: People, you'll take that Wu Tang interstitial skin about he
Speaker 3: feeding and feeding you literally exactly. And to somebody, did
Speaker 3: they give the Wan clan residuals on that because with the.
Speaker 1: Fun that dude they I mean that the gluttony one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's straight out of the Wu Tang song.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, sure there was that one dude who they
Speaker 3: put his nuts on the dresser and hit that shit
Speaker 3: with a bat like black like wound.
Speaker 4: And then everyone was just kind of like.
Speaker 10: Oh, oh yeah, yeah you were talking. I fucking I
Speaker 10: fucking yeah. They're like they had amend the script. They're like,
Speaker 10: this is I'm this.
Speaker 4: Is this is the Wu Tang script. Is bang that
Speaker 4: shoe like that bang.
Speaker 3: Put that put a cold hang on a hostile sticky
Speaker 3: g ass like.
Speaker 4: From the slats, Shall and miles.
Speaker 1: Where can people find their working media?
Speaker 4: You've been in.
Speaker 3: Jarry back to Wu Tang folks, Uh yeah, find me
Speaker 3: at miles of gray everywhere. They got to add the
Speaker 3: must find us on the basketball podcast. I was a
Speaker 3: jackob Man boosties. Find me on four to twenty de
Speaker 3: fiance talking ninety day Beyonce. Uh.
Speaker 1: Some tweets.
Speaker 3: I found a tweet I liked uh, Gritty is the
Speaker 3: way at Gritty twenty twenty two zero two zero two
Speaker 3: is the one who posted that Camraocrats trolley car dilemma.
Speaker 3: But the tweet that I like is from at Prime
Speaker 3: Underscore Backer. It said Democrats were quicker to respond to
Speaker 3: students protesting a genocide than to the richest man on
Speaker 3: earth trying to unilaterally shut down a government agency.
Speaker 4: I had one with a very similar sentiment, just prove
Speaker 4: us wrong, Democrats. That's I'm sure they're gonna be like,
Speaker 4: that is not fair. Proof us wrong. Let's see it then, Yeah,
Speaker 4: get out there, Jesus Christ. Uh. You can find me
Speaker 4: on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien and on blue Sky
Speaker 4: at jack Obi one tweet up or sorry something from
Speaker 4: Blue Sky I've been enjoying us From defunct defunct land.
Speaker 4: He just tweeted a screencap from what appears to be
Speaker 4: an old newspaper article that says, the Pillsbury dough Boy,
Speaker 4: no matter what anyone says, would look great on a bicycle. Quote,
Speaker 4: riding a bicycle is something very appropriate for the dough
Speaker 4: boy to do. Tim Johnson said Saturday, it's in his
Speaker 4: personality and defunctly just tweeted that and said, nodding my
Speaker 4: head in agreement, just like reading yes exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, popping fresh, popping fresh, love to ride that bike,
Speaker 3: what pills?
Speaker 4: Very dope. Boy's been all over the zeke Guist lately
Speaker 4: for some reason. I'm seeing him tweeted, tweeted.
Speaker 3: It's probably just all part of our pop culture regression.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it would be great on TikTok.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's his time has come. You can
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Speaker 4: to the episode wherever you listen to it, check out
Speaker 4: the description of the episode, and you will find the footnotes,
Speaker 4: which is where we link off to the information that
Speaker 4: we talked about in today's episode. We also link off
Speaker 4: to a song that we think you might enjoy, Miles,
Speaker 4: is there a song that you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a fun kind of rock tune.
Speaker 3: I think these It says it said New Zealand to
Speaker 3: New York, so I'm guessing they're probably kei we and
Speaker 3: that the band is called Balu Brigata b A l
Speaker 3: u b r I g A d A and the
Speaker 3: track is called so Cold, and.
Speaker 1: It's just like you know, I like, just just.
Speaker 3: Some something to have on a little bit with words,
Speaker 3: not like the last couple of instrumentals I've been talking about.
Speaker 1: So check this one out.
Speaker 3: So Cold by Balda Bahata.
Speaker 4: Great combination of syllables bahutag all right.
Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 4: That's gonna do it for us this morning, back this
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Speaker 4: to you all then. Bye bye