1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: Oh, hello Internet, and welcome to Season to thirty second, 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: episode five of the Daily Night Cast up reduction of 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. This is This is This is a 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: podcast where we take a deep dive into america shared consciousness. 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: It's Friday. It's sing Friday. Thank you satan uh May 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: twenty two. It's NASCAR Day if you're so taking that 7 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,159 Speaker 1: kind of thing. It's also International Red Sneakers Day. I 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: don't know what that means. And also National Rescue Dog Day. 9 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: Shout I rescue dog. Shout out my dog Rimby rescue 10 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:38,239 Speaker 1: them like so good since that rescue. My name is 11 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: Miles Gray, a k A Miles. His eyes are twenty ten. 12 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: He can see better than Miles. His eyes are far 13 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: too good. He can see better than better than better 14 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: than you. Okay, shout out to who is that Melisson? 15 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: And all so cal Maryan on the discord because yes, 16 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: I got the lay sick. Yes my vision is ten. Yes, 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: I'm seeing ship on the moon. That's just how it is. 18 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: So thank you for you know, honoring that in the 19 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: form of song. And today I'm thrilled to be joined 20 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: by my guest co host, you know, one of my 21 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: favorite homies to get on the Linke with you know 22 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: somebody who's a hilarious comedian, a writer, actor, The iconic 23 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: podcast pod Yourself a Gun. The Sopranos podcast is in 24 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: its final season because it's a watching long show. It 25 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: only there's only so many things you can talk to 26 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: a finite amount exactly, the final season, the final countdown. 27 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: Please welcome today's guest co host Matt Lee. Hey, don't stop, 28 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: Matt Leeve and hold onto that madly feeling. And that's 29 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: a shout out to both myself and the final episode 30 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: of The Sopranos Switch for him recovery next movie. Man, 31 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: I'm so glad. Well, that's the question, isn't it. It 32 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: just it just goes black screen when you when you did, 33 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: I hit my fucking TV and I called my cable provider. Yeah, 34 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: the whole world did the same thing. They hit their 35 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: TV and they were like, no fun. Fuck. And then 36 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,119 Speaker 1: they saw the credits come up and they're like, this 37 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 1: is impossible. That David Chase and HBO would end the 38 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: greatest series of all time with a prank is the 39 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,679 Speaker 1: most insane thing that you can possibly think of for 40 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: an ending. But that's what they did. And you know what, 41 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: God Bless them, God, bless them for doing that, because 42 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: there's something about disdain for your fan base that I 43 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: that speaks to me and my soul, you know what 44 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: I mean, Like, you don't you don't let the fans 45 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: control your art. You control your art, and you let 46 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: the piggies lap it up. That's what I say. And 47 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: so yeah, so good for good for David h ending 48 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 1: the show with a prank the piggies lap it up. 49 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: Isn't that what Remembrandt said, That's what remem brand Once said. Yeah, 50 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: that was what Oscar Wilde one said. Uh, well, guess 51 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: who we have got in our third seed who finally, finally, finally, finally, 52 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: this person is coming to the stage, the metaphorical stage, 53 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: somebody who I've known for a minute, and I was like, 54 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: why you gonna need to come on Daily Sight guys? 55 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: Well the planets so happened to a line, and today's 56 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: guest is a wonderful human being who loves to share 57 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: his infinite knowledge with the people and make things, maybe 58 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: the most complex things, much easier to understand. Maybe take 59 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: something you like it may have straight up ruined it 60 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: for you. Who knows you may know him from the 61 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: show Adam ruins everything I know I do. You may 62 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: have known him from the College humor days, or maybe 63 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: you turned on Netflix today and you saw what is 64 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: this the G word with Adam Conover. Okay, I guess 65 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: that is today's guest. Please welcome the brilliant Adam Conover. Hello. Hello, 66 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,839 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's so wonderful being it. What an introduction, 67 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: my incredible straight off the dome? Straight off the dome? 68 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: Would you expect? What do you expect? How are you? Man? 69 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: I'll do it pretty good. I'm doing pretty good. The 70 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: show just came out. I'm like, this podcast is a 71 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: nice break from me name searching on Twitter to see 72 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: what people are saying about the show was really searching 73 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: your own name like that. Of course, I am who 74 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: doesn't do that. There's literally there's not a person in 75 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: the world who does not name search themselves, who have 76 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: even the smallest public persona. I'll tell you this. I 77 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: did it when I had a YouTube channel. I used 78 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 1: to do it, and I couldn't. I got so in 79 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: my own head reading other people's words about me. I 80 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: was like, oh, this doesn't help me at all. So 81 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: I actually I've I've like cauterized that part of my 82 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: ego that it's terrible, terrible, and there are many there 83 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: are many times that I have cut myself off from 84 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: doing it and I have stopped doing it. But right 85 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: now the show is coming out, and I'm also specifically 86 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 1: honestly trying to build more on social I'm doing TikTok. 87 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: I'm on a TikTok diet. I'm making myself make TikTok's 88 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: every day because I'm good. I'm good on there. My 89 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,919 Speaker 1: ship works on TikTok. I'm like, fuck, now I have 90 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: to invest time in TikTok because if I do, I 91 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: will become miserably more famous. And so I like have 92 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,799 Speaker 1: to spend time on there, and so I'm just having 93 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: to do it. At some point, I'm gonna have two detox. 94 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: But you want to know the sickest thing I do, 95 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: this is not even what I'm here to talk about. You. 96 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: One of the sickest thing that I do. Obviously, I 97 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: will search. You know how people when they want to 98 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: talk about someone but they don't want that person or 99 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 1: their fans to find it out, and they'll put stars 100 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: in I name searched myself with the stars in to 101 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,039 Speaker 1: see if people are talking about me when trying to 102 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 1: not find out that I am. And guess what fucking 103 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: anime avatars you furries. It's it's people on the deep 104 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: the deep deep part of Twitter us, and they're not 105 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: saying any of this. People almost never have that strong 106 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: of an opinion about me that they want to do. 107 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: But um, yes, I'm a true name search sicko right now. 108 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: Hopefully in a month I can take a break and 109 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: stop doing it. Yeah, I say keep it going, to 110 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 1: keep it going, Yeah, keep it going. It might as well. 111 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: Just you gotta know what the piggies are saying about you. 112 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: That's the thing. I mean, a comic, you know, a 113 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: stand up comic, you you expose yourself to the audience's judgment, 114 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 1: whether they laugh or not. So that's that's what got 115 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: me into this in the first place. And so name 116 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: searching on Twitter is the closest you get on social 117 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 1: media to seeing if you gotta laugh. I put a 118 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,679 Speaker 1: Google alert of myself that I've had on for years now, 119 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: and it was there's this other Matt Lead was like 120 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: a really good high school athlete and he gets a 121 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 1: lot of press, and I'm getting kind of tired of 122 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 1: his as the famous Matt Lead play. I think he 123 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: was playing baseball baseball name. Yeah, yeah, for sure, there's no. 124 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: There's no Matt was just like number one draft pick 125 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 1: of the NBA at lea yea, I have that too. 126 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: There's a guy and Adam Conover and I think Iowa, 127 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 1: who is like a champion pig raiser, Like he was 128 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: a high school student who was winning competitions, blue ribbons 129 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: for his pigs. And I followed his whole career because 130 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: I would get alerts for him. And then eventually he 131 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: joined like the Pork Board of Iowa or whatever. And 132 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: now he's like, uh, you know, a big muckety mucky 133 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: in the pork raising industry. Good for that, Adam Conover, 134 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: I said, kind of. I really like that, Adam Conover. 135 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: I gotta say, I mean, just the raising pigs is 136 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,559 Speaker 1: he's raising them to kill them. This man has killed 137 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: a lot of pigs. Well, sometimes you gotta kill the 138 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: pigs man, you know. He says that boils down. But yeah, 139 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna get to know you better, Adam 140 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: going to talk about the new show. We're gonna obviously 141 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: talk about, you know, just some things you've been looking into. 142 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: But first you gotta tell the listeners what we're gonna 143 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: be talking about today on this Friday. First, I just 144 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: want to you know, the continued disconnect between legislators and 145 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: workers continues, but in this context talking about the pandemic 146 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: and everyone insisting like, well, hospitalizations are well, that's fine, 147 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: completely unaware or just ignorant of the fact. What is 148 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: actually happening with healthcare workers? What is the last two years, 149 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: What has that been like that for them? And maybe 150 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: our system is already like past the point of being strained. 151 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: But again, we use these interesting metrics to soothe ourselves. 152 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: So we'll look a little bit past that and look 153 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: at the I guess, the human reality of that. All. Well, 154 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: also obviously got to talk about the Freudian slip of 155 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: the fucking century from George Bush too. Uh my goodness, Yeah, seriously, 156 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: I'm seventy five, hey man, war crimes are there, there's 157 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: there's a statute of limitations if you're seventy five, slip up. Okay, 158 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: So that and we'll also talk about a fucking new 159 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: research study that's come out that I want to just 160 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 1: used to dunk on my mom and all my teachers 161 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: that who told me video games will rob my brain. Okay, 162 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: study showing it actually can increase intelligence, and yeah, exactly 163 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: what is and what that is it? But first we 164 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: gotta ask you, Adam, what's something besides your name and 165 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: all the permutations using asterisks? Have you been searching? Oh 166 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 1: my god, here's the thing I was. That was what 167 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: I was gonna use for the answer to this question. 168 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 1: Was because I saw that they said, hey, you gotta 169 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: be ready with a Google search. I'm like, well, I 170 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: name search. And then I happened to just drop it 171 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: too early and ruin my entire answer this question. I 172 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 1: have once again ruined myself. How do I search? Here's 173 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: my problem. I don't use Google. I use duck duck Go, 174 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: and duck duck Go does not remember your search history. 175 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: Think back, think back. Come on, this is a good exthotic. Alright, alright, 176 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: let me find let the last thing you duck duck go. 177 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna look it up directly. I'm gonna find out 178 00:09:55,720 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: exactly what it was. Uh. Okay, I'm working on the last, 179 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 1: the literal last thing I searched for was. I'm working 180 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: on a new pitch, a pitch for a new television show. 181 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: I can't talk about what that is. But for the 182 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: pitch document, I had to write in some funny trivia 183 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 1: team names. It's a game show, is the idea. We're 184 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 1: pitching a game show and where there's gonna be teams 185 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:19,959 Speaker 1: and they're gonna pick names for themselves. And so for 186 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,439 Speaker 1: the pitch document, I looked up I was like, give 187 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: me a list of funny trivia team names, and I 188 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: found like a whole just like s c O shit 189 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 1: pile of like websites you would not believe would have 190 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: trivia team name lists, Parade dot com, Scary Mommy dot com, 191 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: and they're just full of shitty, really really terrible, offensive, 192 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: racist like trivia team names for if you if you 193 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: have for pub trivia, You're like, I I need to 194 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 1: come with a funny name and there's all these fucking lists. Um, 195 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: that was literally the last thing that I searched for. 196 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:56,959 Speaker 1: And you're trying to get inspired, Yes, I was trying 197 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: to get inspired. I was trying to rip off the 198 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: work of some unfunny people for my I love the 199 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: idea that there's rate like people like, all right, the 200 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:09,719 Speaker 1: winner is the greedy juice. Again, I don't know why 201 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: you guys insist on naming your team the greedy Juice, 202 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: But they're really good at I know it's spelled juice. 203 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: Like the previous thing guys are for. To give you 204 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,319 Speaker 1: one more was, I was trying to find the most 205 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: effective climate charity and I was looking for websites that 206 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: evaluate climate related you know, charities, because I was looking 207 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: at my charitable giving and I was trying to figure 208 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 1: out what climate group I wanted to donate to, and 209 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: I was trying to find trying to find that. Did 210 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: you find a good one? I found? I found some 211 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: pretty good recommendations. The recommendations from a group called Giving 212 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,839 Speaker 1: Green dot Earth, which tries to use metrics to figure 213 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 1: out which are the most effective. Their recommendations are, let 214 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: me pull them up. There's one called Evergreen Collaborative. They 215 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: used to recommend Sunrise Movement, and I'm a fan of 216 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: sunrise movement, and so I was starting to dig into 217 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: their criteria. Why are they no longer recommending sunrise movement 218 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: where they recommending these other groups? And then I was like, wait, 219 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,079 Speaker 1: I had actual work to do. I can research this later. 220 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: And I closed right right, And that's what I did 221 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: earlier today, I like that, are these good answers or 222 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,559 Speaker 1: is this extremely born? You've learned something about me exactly? 223 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 1: We learned that you look. Guys, if you want to 224 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: funk with Adam con Over, just start doing some bullshit 225 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 1: tweets with this name some random ship and put all 226 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: the astericks you want. He will find you. You will 227 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: figure it out. You will try. Let's do an asterisk 228 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: on the second a. Let's do an asterisk on the 229 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: first day, right, every single permutation, like nine factorial exactly, 230 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: Man that luckily got that legendary hairline at him, because 231 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 1: they might start selling you Adam comb Over. WHOA. It's 232 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: creeped up a little bit, but I don't think it's 233 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 1: going any further. As I saw you in person, man, 234 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:57,559 Speaker 1: I was I was looking dead at your hairline the 235 00:12:57,559 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: whole time. I was like, God, damn it, he's still 236 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: got it. Yeah, you do have like you have hair. 237 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: Thank you. It's my one features, the one thing you 238 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: got going. I mean, aside from all the other great things. 239 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: Don't play yet what some of you thing is overrated? 240 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: At him? Oh my god, something I think is overrated 241 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 1: the first Okay, it's so like cliche of me to 242 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: say this, but I used to enjoy the Marvel movies. 243 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,719 Speaker 1: I used to like them, and I finally saw the 244 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: Spider Man movie and I was like, this is what 245 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:35,959 Speaker 1: this is what people were excited about that that Dr 246 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,199 Speaker 1: Octopus from the previous movie showed up. I enjoyed seeing 247 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: Dr Octopus, but then he had nothing to do in 248 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: this movie. He's just stands around and goes, I'm mad 249 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: to be in a cage, and that's about it. And 250 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: then the other two Spider Man's show up. We got 251 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: two other Spider Man's and they just stand around doing 252 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: stick like they're just like they're just like doing fucking 253 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,319 Speaker 1: a duo comedy act and like that's it. And they 254 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,320 Speaker 1: do that for like forty five minutes. They just stand 255 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,599 Speaker 1: around in a living room and go like you're a 256 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: Spider Man, hey by, and they just do like classed 257 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: the whole forty five minutes. Clap whole time because that 258 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 1: Spider Man from all Spider Man's remember, but you remember 259 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: from Spider Man. There's the meme each other, each other. 260 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: I mean it's like turning the turning the little bit 261 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: of fans service that's fun into the whole movie. Like 262 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: that's not a whole movie. The actual the movie itself 263 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: had no story whatsoever. The story was Peter Parker is 264 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: upset that his friends didn't get into the school of 265 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: their choice, and so he went and bothered Dr Strange. 266 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 1: He just was like being annoying at Doctor Strange and 267 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: then caused a big tragedy. In a story, you want 268 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: the problem to be caused by the character's fatal flaw, right, like, 269 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: whatever their character, your problem is, and then that causes 270 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: the story to start, and then they have to work 271 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: through that flaw in order to solve the problem. In 272 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: this case, the problem was caused by Peter Parker can't 273 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 1: shut up for thirty seconds. Great, nice little bit of comedy, 274 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: But that's what caused the whole thing. There's no story. Instead, 275 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: they're just like, hey, look, look, look we got Andrew Garfield. 276 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: Oh wow, you've got Andrew Garfield. I'm so fucking impressed. 277 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: He was self aware. He he knew that his Spider 278 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: Man was worse Spider Man, so it was fun because 279 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: he knew was it wasn't fun. I mean, look, I 280 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: I was on like a ten hour flight and it 281 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: ate up two and a half hours of the flight, 282 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: and so I'm not mad at it for that reason, 283 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: but in your mind you're like, what would you like 284 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: to have seen if if you're directing it, you got 285 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: three Spider Man's, three Spider Men's, you have endless Spider Man's. 286 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: What would you make well fighting together? I wouldn't have 287 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: made that. The New Spider Man movie they just fucking 288 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: did that in into this Spider Verse. They just did it. 289 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: They just did the multiverse and other Spider Man's show up. 290 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: And now they're doing that again. And then the new 291 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: Doctor Strange movie is again we're doing multiverse. Like these 292 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: motherfucker's made the same movie three times? What is the 293 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: what is going on? Like, you know, the Marvel movies 294 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: at their best. What I'm impressed by is that was 295 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: when they surprise you with what they're doing, Like the 296 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: first Tycho Wait Thor movie, I'm like, oh wow, that 297 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: felt original and fresh. I still have concerns about, you know, 298 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: the overall consolidation and like media control of like creativity 299 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 1: that like great people are exposed to Tycho Wa Titi 300 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: not in his original work, but in his you know, 301 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: in his use of Thor right. But hey, at the 302 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: very least I was like, oh wow, this is a 303 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: lot more character. This is interesting compared to all the 304 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: other Thorn movies. Right, at least let him make a 305 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: movie with his own artistic choices. Whereas that I don't 306 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: think they've let a single director do that. Sense. Well, 307 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: you know what they did was Ryan Johnson with The 308 00:16:55,080 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: Last Jedi. Right, Like, I enjoyed that movie. It's someone 309 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: else says they don't enjoy it. I have no problem 310 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: with that. But at the very least, Ryan Johnson was 311 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: empowered to make choices in the movie, right, and to 312 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: like do some ship And then he made that movie 313 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,159 Speaker 1: and they were like, no, we don't want people to 314 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 1: do that anymore. And they're like everything that he said 315 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: didn't happen. It all was, um, they all some people, 316 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: there was a wormhole and none of that happened. And um, 317 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,400 Speaker 1: Rose Tico, she doesn't exist. She was shot in the head. 318 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 1: She doesn't exist anymore. And and now um, okay, and 319 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: all your friends they all show up at the end 320 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: and Chewbacca's there and everybody shows up to help at 321 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: the end. Is that good? And nobody liked that either? Well, 322 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: that's the thing, is that that the problem is. And 323 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 1: I've said this before, I'll say it again. Don't listen 324 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: to the piggies. The piggies are there to eat the slop. 325 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:47,880 Speaker 1: They're not there to judge the slop there there, Exactly. 326 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: I'm tired of it, like people being like, oh no, 327 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: the piggies are mad, we should make the slot more. 328 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: They're like, it's like they're never all going to agree 329 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 1: on the slop their pigs. They need to find at 330 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: like their inner. Will Ferrell and that dog food sketch 331 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 1: from SnO and he's like, oh, that's right, you're a 332 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: dog exactly. That is the best take on this I've 333 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 1: ever heard. That's the best take on this. I've ever 334 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: running the slopouse and pigs are running the slot. Now, 335 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,400 Speaker 1: this is why I live by that. I'm so like, 336 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: that's why I like the Sopranos. David Chase, he said, 337 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: fuck you piggies, we're just gonna end with a prank. Well, 338 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 1: I think that's a bigger discussion about art right too. 339 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: It's like there's some artists who clearly express their artistic 340 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: vision and that's what they do. They said, here's my work, 341 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: respond to it, react to it how you will. Others 342 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: are clearly making art as a response to what they 343 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 1: see and how an audience is going to take that in. 344 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: And that's typically not the kind of art that is 345 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 1: the most you know, uh impactful. You know, it's usually 346 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,360 Speaker 1: these true expressions of artistry that wow, people like everything 347 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: everywhere all at once like that, and people are like, wow, 348 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: look at that. I don't think the piggies are running. 349 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: That's loop out that they just did that ship and 350 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 1: everyone's mind was blown. So yeah, you guys, see the 351 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: New Matrix, the New Matrix. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is 352 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,400 Speaker 1: the perfect counter example because the New Matrix is Lana 353 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: Wachowski saying, here's what here is what the fucking movie 354 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 1: was about. And I'm gonna tell you this is what 355 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: I was trying to do, and I'm gonna have a 356 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: direct conversation with you the audience. Hey, remember you remember 357 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: this movie I made? Remember this movie? Like? You love 358 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 1: this movie, didn't you? I love making the movie. But hey, 359 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: guess what, We're twenty years older now, right, things are 360 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: looking a little bit different and a lot of people 361 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: misunderstood the movie. But here's what it was actually about, 362 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,920 Speaker 1: and here are my thoughts on it now, and I'm 363 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: gonna share it, and here's my thoughts on the fact 364 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: that I'm making this fucking movie at all. It's kind 365 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 1: of bullshit that I'm even making this. But you know what, 366 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: here's what I believe about the world. Here's what I 367 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: believe about life, and this is my statement. And she 368 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 1: said that so directly. I've never felt a director more. 369 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 1: I remember felt more on the same page as the 370 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: director where they were like, here's what I'm about, and 371 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: I was like, I hear what you're about. I see it. 372 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: Thank you for telling me about it. And you know what, 373 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: that movie didn't do as well as it needed to 374 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: for they gave her so much money to make that 375 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 1: movie and it did not make the money back. And 376 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 1: thank God, like, thank god that that's what happened, because 377 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: that's how it should be. We want messy tours when people, 378 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 1: you know, everyone now is reevaluating the Star Wars prequels 379 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 1: and saying, oh, the George Lucas prequels were were better 380 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 1: than we than what we're getting now. And the reason 381 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: is George Lucas completely forgot how to make a movie 382 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,679 Speaker 1: when he was making those. He was like just like 383 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: he just like, how do you make a fight scene? 384 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: I don't know. He just forgot but at the very 385 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 1: least it was just one weird dude and his weird ideas, 386 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 1: you know, just like going going nuts, going like I 387 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 1: want uh, you know, Jamaican parody character and I want 388 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 1: to like all this horrible ship. But the very least 389 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: it was unique, you know what I mean. It was lumpy, 390 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 1: it was person it was an autour going nuts, And 391 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: that's what we want. We don't want all this, you know, 392 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: like over focused tested shit, you know, right. You want 393 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: to be able to watch a film and almost be 394 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 1: like from the feel of it, like oh, it's this director, 395 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: you know, and we and now so many times you 396 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: look at like I don't there's so many there's such 397 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,160 Speaker 1: a lack of like discerning traits in a lot of 398 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 1: like mainstream cinema that you're like, I don't know, that's 399 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: a two hour long thingm is like one of the 400 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 1: worst movies ever made, And it's so wonderful to watch 401 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,439 Speaker 1: because you know it's coming direct from this guy's warped mind, 402 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: and it's like, at least it's that it's not this 403 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 1: like mass produced you know thing. There's no there's no 404 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 1: he's not trying to make a general audience do anything. 405 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: But like see his weird thoughts and they're bad and 406 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: it's wonderful, and I think that's like, yeah, Demolition Man, 407 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,120 Speaker 1: I'll always point to that. Marco Branbia, the director of that, 408 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 1: is an artist. He's a visual artist, and that was 409 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 1: the one film he made. But because the studios were 410 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: trying to like get butt in on everything, He's like, 411 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,959 Speaker 1: I'm an artist, What the funk are you doing in 412 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 1: the movie I'm trying to make. And then they're like, 413 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,160 Speaker 1: all right, well, Demolition Man was pretty cool. You want 414 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: to do another one. He's like, no, I never want 415 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: to make a film with people again because I'm an artist. 416 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 1: And now he does like amazing visual like video installations 417 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: that are fucking breathtaking. Like if you're ever I alway 418 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 1: talking about it, if you're at the Standard in New York, 419 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: if you look in the in the elevators, you'll see 420 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: like this animated thing of like stitch together film clips. 421 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,880 Speaker 1: As you go up or down the elevator, they're either 422 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 1: ascending to heaven or descending into hell. That's a work 423 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 1: of Marco Brambilla's, but it's usually done on a much 424 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: larger scale like he's doing, like you know, thirty foot 425 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: by sixteen foot high like video projections that are in 426 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: three D that are absolutely ridiculous. So if you ever 427 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: have the chance to encounter any of his work, absolutely 428 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 1: check it out and be like, Yeah, that fucking guy 429 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: made Demolition Man and called it quits. So moving on, underrated, Adam, 430 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: what something is? Oh my god, you think is underrated? 431 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 1: I probably should not go on at such great length 432 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 1: about these things because it's you know, you have a 433 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 1: lot of show to get to and I'm ranting a 434 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: rate the show. We're talking, we're chatting. I want to 435 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 1: hear from you. Thank God, what is underrated? Um that 436 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: I really enjoy it, it's just because I'm in the 437 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: middle of watching it right now. Better Call Saul is 438 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: better than Breaking Bad. Better Call sauls and better show 439 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: than Breaking Bad than it ever was. Um, it's subverting 440 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,919 Speaker 1: Breaking Bad in a really interesting way. The characters are 441 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 1: much more interesting. It surprises you at every turn. They're 442 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 1: really deep into it now, like a tenth as many 443 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: people are watching it as watched Breaking Bad. But like 444 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: the whole Walter White thing, let's be honest, kind of sucked. 445 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 1: Not that interesting. It was all the other stuff that 446 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: they were doing on the show that made it special, 447 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 1: and they're doing it all on Breaking Bad. It makes 448 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,199 Speaker 1: like better call Saul makes like the worst asshole of America. 449 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: Suburban like Arizona or no New Mexico. Excuse me, suburban 450 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 1: New Mexico looks so interesting and I love it. Incredible productions, design, 451 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: incredible performances. I would kill for Kim Wexler. The I'm 452 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: only up to episode four, so if something bad happens 453 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: to Kim Wexler, don't tell me, okay, and and don't 454 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: write it in a review of the Netflix show either 455 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: to try and yeah, don't spoil it, from which I 456 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 1: will find out, do not put it in add start 457 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 1: um see star over Adam, Kim wex Or dies, don't 458 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: fucking tell me that. Don't say that. Yeah, I think 459 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: it was like I remember when it first came out. 460 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: I was all in because I like Breaking Bad, and 461 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: then I was like, damn, this has got like we're 462 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 1: getting some real depth now behind everybody. Like before you're like, man, 463 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: look at Oden Kirk. He's he's a hilarious scumbags Breaking Bad, 464 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 1: and then you're like, fuck, okay, like really much darker. Yeah, Yeah, 465 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: the best episodes are just him doing lawyer stuff. Like 466 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: there's a bunch of episodes where it's just like somebody's 467 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: got a problem, and it's like, I would love to 468 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: see the version of Better Call Soul. That's just a 469 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: lawyer procedural show where it's just like a scummy defense 470 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 1: attorney like gets people off and it's just law and 471 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: order style, no arc, you know, because that's really entertaining 472 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 1: to me is just seeing him like, you know, try 473 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: to try to help people in a somewhat selfish way. 474 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: Enjoy it. Yeah, good one. I like that one. So 475 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: I haven't started the latest season yet, but because I 476 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: I get like really impatient, and I've always waited for 477 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: the season to end so that I can just fly 478 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: right through it because that's that's I do the same 479 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 1: thing I because I know I'm gonna binge and there's 480 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 1: nothing worse than Yeah, you hit that wall and you're 481 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: just like, what are you doing with my day? Yeah? 482 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: Then you can't find the thing to do with your day, 483 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 1: and severance is over. I'm like freaking out. I need 484 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: more severance in my life. Whenever I've been to a 485 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 1: live show, my luck is always the last episode. I 486 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: watched is like the day after it aired, and I 487 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: fully have like one week to wait until then. I'm like, yeah, yeah, 488 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 1: why this fucking Tim. He's like this, all right, Well, 489 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,879 Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back to 490 00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: talk about these news things. Ye, and we're back. The 491 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: continued disconnect between the people who make the laws and 492 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 1: the humans who have to do the work continues because 493 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: we're constantly here about how the you know, the pandemic 494 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 1: actually isn't that bad anymore? Right now, then chill, you 495 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,360 Speaker 1: can take your mask off and planes, you can yell 496 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: at people wearing masks. It's great, Yeah, exactly, do what 497 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: you gotta do. And you know, again, the message is 498 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: sort of like, there's nothing to fear, nothing's going on. Sure, 499 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: we don't know much about long covid or haven't really 500 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: funded the pandemic response to this point, but it's all 501 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: to the g y'all just trust we And the main 502 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: thing that they point to is that, oh, you know, 503 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: hospitalizations aren't going up. That's a good thing. Case numbers 504 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: maybe going up. But the thing we're really looking at 505 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: their hospitalization is because the last thing you want to 506 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: do is overload the hospitals. And crippled health care system, 507 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,360 Speaker 1: and we don't on overwhelm the people that are working there. Well, 508 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 1: even though that figure may hold in some places, they're 509 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 1: also we're starting to see hot spots in the U 510 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 1: s where hospitalizations are increasing. So as much as it's 511 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: nice to remind ourselves of how low things may have 512 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 1: been at a certain point previously, I think the biggest 513 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,120 Speaker 1: thing that is being missed and Ed Young at the Atlantic, 514 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: Who's you know, want of like a Pulitzer for his 515 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 1: coverage on COVID pandemic really points to the fact is like, yeah, 516 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 1: sure you're talking about that. He's like, for people who 517 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 1: are really looking at this situation, you're completely missing the point, 518 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: which is the healthcare workers and where morale is and 519 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,120 Speaker 1: what that looks like. The state of the health care 520 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:43,239 Speaker 1: system and the morale is absolutely's catastrophically low. Right now. 521 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna read from uh Ed Young's piece here 522 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,879 Speaker 1: quote even inquired or periods healthcare healthcare workers are scrambling 523 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 1: to catch up with backlogs of work that went unaddressed 524 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,360 Speaker 1: during COVID surges, or patients who sat on health problems 525 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,199 Speaker 1: and are now much sicker. Those patients are more antagonistic 526 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 1: verbal and physical assaults are commonplace now. Healthcare workers can 527 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: also still catch COVID, keeping them from their jobs, while 528 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,879 Speaker 1: surges elsewhere in the world create supply chain issues that 529 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,199 Speaker 1: keep hospitals from running smoothly. All this on top of 530 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: two years of devastating COVID surges, means that healthcare workers 531 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: are so exhausted and burned out that those words have 532 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:24,679 Speaker 1: become euphemisms. That's the state of the people who like 533 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 1: are you know. Remember in the beginning of the pandemic, 534 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: there countless selfie videos of stressed out healthcare workers on 535 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,919 Speaker 1: the front line saying, y'all, please, this is not a 536 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: fucking game. Yeah, Miles, care yourself, Miles. I went outside 537 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 1: every single day with my pots and pants and I 538 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 1: bang those motherfucker's all right. So I don't know why 539 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 1: you're getting on my ass now because I did my 540 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: part the pants. It's not the pan banging, sir. We 541 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: we also said, as healthcare officials, please use social distancing, 542 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 1: please wear masks, and I'm not doing all that ship no, 543 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: but I will slap my hands together at seven every 544 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: night for the healthcare workers or the lakers, depending on 545 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: which is on first, depending what time of the years, 546 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: and if it's the postseason, nope, never mind. So I 547 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 1: guess I'm just stopping for the health care workers, and 548 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: it it's just a very like you know, many of 549 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: us are doing the thing. We look at line graphs 550 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: and we're like, yay, line go down or like line flat, 551 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: and you know, sure for right now, But many healthcare 552 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: workers they're still dealing with this two year nightmare they've 553 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: experienced of constantly traumatic experiences of counting or of zipping 554 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: up countless body bags while screaming at the public and 555 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: pleading with people. They're saying, you're not y'all are living 556 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: your outside world life, but the inhospital world is a 557 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: completely different one, and we're trying to get you to 558 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: connect to the humanity of it all. But I mean, 559 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: I like, he goes on in the article to talk 560 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: about how disconnected a lot of healthcare workers feel from 561 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: just the regular world, like like very similar to combat veterans, 562 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 1: where they only feel that other people in health care 563 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: actually understand the ordeal and how difficult it's been when 564 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 1: they're saying, like, man, it's so easy, like and we're 565 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: actually the ones that are going through that, like a 566 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: really hard time having repeat this over and over again. No, 567 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: it's really serious, But I have a like, I do 568 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: have a little bit of a beef with how especially 569 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 1: on social media, people have a conversation about the pandemic 570 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,959 Speaker 1: is over. No, it's not right because people who are going, oh, 571 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 1: the pandemics over, everything's fine, right, That's not true. There 572 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 1: are still really serious problems like right, right, But there 573 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: are also people who are going who go, no, you're wrong, 574 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 1: the pandemics not over. How dare you go outside? How 575 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 1: dare you spend time with your friends? Or how dare 576 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: you go back to work? Right? And they turn it 577 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: back on individuals and they say, as individuals, you guys 578 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: should be behaving differently. You should be social distancing like me, 579 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 1: I still don't go to the park without wearing a mask, right, 580 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: And I think that is the wrong thing to say, 581 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: because the reality is, if you look at what public 582 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 1: health experts, every public health expert said at the beginning 583 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: of the pandemic, social distancing and you know, staying away 584 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: from other people. That was a way for us to 585 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 1: buy time for the vaccines and for all the other 586 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: treatments that we were developing. Right, And no, one thought 587 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: that we could continue to you know, social distance indefinitely. 588 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 1: It's impossible to do. It's impossible to It's not just 589 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: like the fact that oh would shut the economy down. 590 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: It's literally people just simply will not do it. If 591 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 1: you look at the public, if you look at public health, 592 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: you have to look at what people will agree to do, 593 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: and like the public will not do it on a 594 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: mass level. And so you know, saying to people like 595 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: just individually, wagging your finger at people and saying you 596 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 1: shouldn't be going to the mall anymore, you know, like 597 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 1: you're you're you're having too much fun drinking with your friends, right, 598 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: is really really unproductive. We should be yelling at the 599 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: people who have you know, designed our health care system, 600 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: the people in power who are letting these workers down. 601 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: The fact that we have eviscerated, you know, our local 602 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: public health departments, which is something we talked about on 603 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 1: my new show The g Word out now on Netflix. 604 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: Like most thank you, I'm good for the segue. We 605 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 1: haven't mentioned the show in like twenty minutes, so I 606 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: have to bring it up. We you know, we do 607 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: a whole episode on what the U s Fucked up 608 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: about the pandemic. And the big silent thing that we 609 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: sucked up that most people don't know is that we 610 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 1: spent the last thirty years cutting the budgets of our 611 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: local public health departments. It could be providing support to 612 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: all those healthcare workers you know we've been. We've broken 613 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 1: the backs of the healthcare unions, of the nurses unions 614 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 1: that would you know, uh, protect those workers and advocate 615 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: for better conditions for them. All those sorts of things 616 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 1: that you know Congress won't pass a COVID relief bill. 617 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: Those are the issues. But we as we have become 618 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: so focused on individual behavior that even the folks who 619 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,720 Speaker 1: are reading ed Young's articles, right, we are often taking 620 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: the wrong lesson and yelling at everybody else about their 621 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: individual behavior rather than yelling at those in power about 622 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: saying you need to fix the systemic issues that are 623 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 1: causing Right. That's that I'll get off my podium. But 624 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 1: that's something about know, and that's absolutely correct, right, Because 625 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,320 Speaker 1: the way we talk about workers in this like abstract 626 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: is the story is like man shout out to the 627 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: front line, workers, shout out to the heroes and things 628 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 1: like that. But meanwhile, like the attitude is almost like 629 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 1: they want these people to have like near like mythical 630 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,560 Speaker 1: levels of grit where they're like shout out to you, 631 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: We're gonna fucking grind you down the dust, like thank 632 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 1: shout out to their their strength without saying this whole 633 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: this whole situation is fundamentally fucked up. Like you're while 634 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 1: you're while you insist on like thanking the healthcare workers 635 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: like hold the line, you're actually doing nothing that acknowledges 636 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: the humanity of those people and the fact that they 637 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 1: aren't invincible, but they have limits. That people are leaving 638 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: the profession, that veteran healthcare workers are leaving in higher 639 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 1: numbers too because of just pandemic burnout, and that's creating 640 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: a generational knowledge gap that other people who work in 641 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: healthcare like it. Actually it's wild, and you don't have 642 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 1: these veterans here. They can't pass that information on, and 643 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 1: when they're replaced, it's usually with inexperienced people, and things 644 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 1: aren't gonna run so smoothly because we'd have these like 645 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,239 Speaker 1: just these the nuances of the continuity of people having 646 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,840 Speaker 1: their careers is completely gone out the window in service 647 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 1: of like well whatever, man, these reckless policies that we 648 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,600 Speaker 1: do to please the Chamber of Commerce is just gonna 649 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,719 Speaker 1: fall onto the healthcare workers. But they're okay. Shout out 650 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,840 Speaker 1: to their grid, Shout out to the to all the 651 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: firefighters out there. As I'm lighting matches and throwing them 652 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: in a dry brush, you're like, so brave. It's like, 653 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 1: well hold on, He's like, look, I got a brand 654 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:39,399 Speaker 1: to deal with, Zippo. I gotta throw. So the thing 655 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 1: that is interesting though, I was actually gonna, you know, 656 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: very naturally pivot to your show at them, like in 657 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: the g word. Watching the first two episodes, the thing 658 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,279 Speaker 1: that and I told you after watching it, I was like, man, 659 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:53,239 Speaker 1: I really like that you're humanizing what what the you know, 660 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 1: what the government is because we think about the government 661 00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 1: in this abstract and we just go, but that's those 662 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,320 Speaker 1: are two fucking people, you know. It's the it's the 663 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,320 Speaker 1: you know, when so many people are employed by the 664 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 1: federal government and in you know. The series is based 665 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,279 Speaker 1: on the Michael Lewis book The Fifth Risk Undoing of Democracy, 666 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 1: and in it what I what I think is really 667 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 1: important is that people begin to understand that it's there 668 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 1: are actual human beings doing all of this work day 669 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 1: to day for a lot of the ship that we 670 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,880 Speaker 1: take for granted, and we get so caught up in 671 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 1: this binary of like of Republican or Democrats sometimes that 672 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,160 Speaker 1: we also forget that, like they're just people who are 673 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,240 Speaker 1: going out every day doing the simplest things like checking 674 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 1: that the meat that we eat isn't completely fucked up 675 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,280 Speaker 1: or knowing, you know, how to alert people to inclement weather. Yeah, 676 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,719 Speaker 1: I mean, like, I'm sure for you being inspired to 677 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,360 Speaker 1: do the show, you saw that there's a need for 678 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: I guess getting people sort of in touch with sort 679 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,000 Speaker 1: of how this relationship works. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean the 680 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,319 Speaker 1: whole theme of the show, the whole purpose of the 681 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: show is that we spend you know, years, uh like 682 00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,239 Speaker 1: two years every four years arguing about who's going to 683 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,239 Speaker 1: run the government. Almost none of us know anything about 684 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 1: what the government actually does or the people that make 685 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,960 Speaker 1: it up. And so, like you say, healthcare workers, like 686 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 1: the people who are inspecting our meat. We go to 687 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: a Cargill meat processing plant and meet the folks who 688 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,359 Speaker 1: are there every single day checking your meat from the U. 689 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 1: S d A. They're mandated to be there in the plant. 690 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,040 Speaker 1: They're standing there on the line and they're checking every 691 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:25,799 Speaker 1: single piece of meat that you eat to make sure 692 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,319 Speaker 1: that it's safe. And like what are their lives actually like, 693 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,399 Speaker 1: you know, and what is it like to do that work. 694 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,880 Speaker 1: You know. U s d A workers like got COVID 695 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 1: at a massive rate because the you know, the meat 696 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,640 Speaker 1: inspection workers were considered essential workers because we have to 697 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,840 Speaker 1: make sure the food supply keeps going. But they were 698 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,279 Speaker 1: in a very cold environment where you know, they're indoors. 699 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 1: It's a perfect environment for, uh, for COVID to spread. 700 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 1: And they all got COVID. And we're talking you know, 701 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,440 Speaker 1: April and May of like way pre vaccine. They were 702 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,480 Speaker 1: like serious outbreaks. A lot of people died. But that 703 00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:02,360 Speaker 1: is like a fundamental government service that was put into place, 704 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: you know at the beginning of the last century or 705 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,359 Speaker 1: like a hundred years ago, because people were dying left 706 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,359 Speaker 1: and right of poison meat all across America. And you know, 707 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:15,839 Speaker 1: the government, upon shout out to Upton Sinclair, incredible dude, 708 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,520 Speaker 1: you know, Teddy Roosevelt passed the Federal Meat Inspection Act. 709 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 1: It mandated the U. S d A had to have 710 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,480 Speaker 1: representatives in every single meat processing facility and they check 711 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:26,960 Speaker 1: all the meat. They have a big button they can 712 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,520 Speaker 1: hit that stops the line whenever they see something that's wrong. 713 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:35,080 Speaker 1: And that's like a fundamental service the government provides that, 714 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,560 Speaker 1: like most people don't know that it's doing and people 715 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,399 Speaker 1: certainly don't know that like your fellow Americans are doing 716 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,400 Speaker 1: that work and they are in there so that you 717 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,759 Speaker 1: will be safe. Yeah, Like I had no idea that 718 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,560 Speaker 1: people who like volunteer to help like keep our weather 719 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:52,640 Speaker 1: reports accurate. Yeah, you know how we're privatizing weather reporting 720 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,520 Speaker 1: up way too. I mean the show is really dope 721 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,960 Speaker 1: because you really dive into these things and in the open, 722 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:01,760 Speaker 1: like for people don't know this is a co production 723 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:05,120 Speaker 1: with Higher Ground, which is the Obama's production company. And 724 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,480 Speaker 1: at first, like I'm not gonna lie at him, I'm like, okay, 725 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,800 Speaker 1: so what does that mean for what you talk about? 726 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,120 Speaker 1: You know, because you have the idea of ex president 727 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,719 Speaker 1: who is making content, and you're like, how critical is 728 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,319 Speaker 1: this going to be? How sober of an analysis will 729 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:27,279 Speaker 1: this actually be about the government? And there's I mean, 730 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,200 Speaker 1: people just people should watch the opening that just watch 731 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,400 Speaker 1: the show because you kind of address that up top 732 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,000 Speaker 1: that there's really nothing off the table. And I was 733 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,520 Speaker 1: even like, what about drone strikes? Talking drone strikes and 734 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:43,400 Speaker 1: this Obama produced a production and we do it. We 735 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,919 Speaker 1: do a segment on drone strikes in episode four and yeah, 736 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,919 Speaker 1: I mean, look I knew. So here's how the show 737 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,600 Speaker 1: came about. Obama's company had optioned this Michael Lewis book, 738 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,840 Speaker 1: The Fifth Risk. I had read the book the previous 739 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,560 Speaker 1: year and I was like, this book's incredible, Like I 740 00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:59,880 Speaker 1: I want to do stories about this, you know. I was, 741 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,920 Speaker 1: I could do this book as a TV show. And 742 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,520 Speaker 1: then like six months later, I get a phone call 743 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,680 Speaker 1: from my manager, Hey, President Obama optioned this book and 744 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,839 Speaker 1: they're looking for a comedian to adapt it. You want 745 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,560 Speaker 1: to go pitch what you would do, and it's like, hell, yeah, 746 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: I do. I went and I pitched the angle. I 747 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,520 Speaker 1: want to do a comedy investigation of all the things 748 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,640 Speaker 1: the government does, both good and bad. Introduced them to 749 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,280 Speaker 1: the people who make it work, talk about systemic problems, 750 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,479 Speaker 1: and they said, great, let's do it. Netflix said let's 751 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,040 Speaker 1: do it, and I you know, but I had to 752 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,120 Speaker 1: say to them, hey, this is going to be a conflict. 753 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,640 Speaker 1: If people are going to know what's going on, the 754 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:33,040 Speaker 1: audience is smart. And they're gonna be worried that, like, hey, 755 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,880 Speaker 1: is this could just possibly be impartial when a former 756 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,920 Speaker 1: president's name is you know, executive produced by Barack Obama. 757 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,279 Speaker 1: And so I need editorial independence on the show. This 758 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,480 Speaker 1: needs to be my show, not Barack Obama show. I'm 759 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,160 Speaker 1: not gonna be saying what he wants me to say. 760 00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be saying where my investigation takes me. And 761 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,839 Speaker 1: they said, yes, that's you have that right, you can 762 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,200 Speaker 1: do that. Fantastic, But now I need to communicate that 763 00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,239 Speaker 1: to the audience. Um. And so we wrote a whole 764 00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,520 Speaker 1: scene at the beginning where I made that very clear 765 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,560 Speaker 1: and specifically. I then looked for topics I would do 766 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,560 Speaker 1: that I knew people would think we would not be 767 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,880 Speaker 1: able to do, right. Um, that's that's my approach of 768 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,480 Speaker 1: doing television. When I was on True TV, I did 769 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,480 Speaker 1: episodes that were about gigantic advertisers that people would say, hey, 770 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,640 Speaker 1: if advertisers are paying your salary, no way that you 771 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,600 Speaker 1: can you touch this on the show. And we went 772 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,799 Speaker 1: for those super hard. We also did entire episodes where 773 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,600 Speaker 1: we took apart the networks relationship with advertisers from how 774 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,879 Speaker 1: that affects the show, and you know, went really deep 775 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,200 Speaker 1: on it, and that, to me is the best I 776 00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:33,000 Speaker 1: can do. Well. I I take the approach, you know, 777 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,120 Speaker 1: the cliche of you know, your first night in prison, 778 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,600 Speaker 1: go punch the biggest guy in the nose. That's what 779 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,279 Speaker 1: I do is I say, what is the biggest fight 780 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,000 Speaker 1: that I can pick that will enable me to do 781 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:44,680 Speaker 1: ship that people think I won't be able to do, 782 00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,400 Speaker 1: and then I'm going to go to the mattresses for it. 783 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,520 Speaker 1: So you chose Obama, which is that's pretty dope? I 784 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:54,799 Speaker 1: like it, or like, who am I gonna punch the nose? Program? 785 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,279 Speaker 1: So yeah, we did a we did a segment on 786 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,479 Speaker 1: drone strikes and how you know they went up ten 787 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,040 Speaker 1: times in the Obama administration. That was when it really 788 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,480 Speaker 1: that program really went nuts. And it is an incontrovertible 789 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,720 Speaker 1: fact that it led to the deaths of many, many, 790 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:17,880 Speaker 1: many more civilians that would have been killed otherwise. And 791 00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,600 Speaker 1: the reason is that drone strikes present a moral hazard 792 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,319 Speaker 1: that it allows you know, the those in power, going 793 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,520 Speaker 1: all the way up to the president, to order strikes 794 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,879 Speaker 1: that they would not order otherwise because there's no risk 795 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,800 Speaker 1: to an American pilot because they're unmanned. Right. You wouldn't 796 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,759 Speaker 1: send a bomber, You wouldn't send a fighter jet because 797 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,320 Speaker 1: you don't want you know, Bobby from Ohio to crash 798 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,480 Speaker 1: land in uh, you know, Syria. But you would send 799 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,239 Speaker 1: an unmanned drone because you don't care as much. And 800 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,640 Speaker 1: so as a result, we end up using those weapons 801 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,480 Speaker 1: a lot more often, a lot more people die, and 802 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,239 Speaker 1: specifically a lot of civilians die. And you know, I 803 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,239 Speaker 1: do did not work with Obama directly on the show, 804 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,640 Speaker 1: apart from his appearances, but the people who worked for him, 805 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,360 Speaker 1: who I worked with, were like, oh, are you sure 806 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,200 Speaker 1: you want to do that? And I was like, uh, 807 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,160 Speaker 1: I do want to do that, and they were like, well, 808 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,239 Speaker 1: it's gonna be pretty tough, and I was like, bring it. 809 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,880 Speaker 1: You know what I like, If you guys got a problem, 810 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,560 Speaker 1: you gotta tell me. And you know, but the thing is, 811 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:12,640 Speaker 1: everything that we talked about on the show is a 812 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:17,040 Speaker 1: completely mainstream analysis. We are using, you know, independently reported 813 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,719 Speaker 1: facts and figures you know, from like fucking people who 814 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,600 Speaker 1: research military technology and research civilian deaths. And so they 815 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,839 Speaker 1: didn't honestly have anything that they could argue with and uh. 816 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,960 Speaker 1: You know, it was made apparent to me that Barack 817 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:33,279 Speaker 1: Obama disagreed with our segment. But they they knew they 818 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,640 Speaker 1: couldn't come to me and say, well, you can't do it, 819 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,239 Speaker 1: because then it would undermine the entire premise of the show. 820 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,560 Speaker 1: They were they were smart enough to know that, hey, 821 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,000 Speaker 1: we granted this guy editorial independence, so he has it. 822 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,840 Speaker 1: And as a result, we did the segment as scripted. 823 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,480 Speaker 1: And it's to their credit that they gave us space 824 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,920 Speaker 1: to do that because they knew that. You know, this show, 825 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,240 Speaker 1: in order to be credible, needs that space to survive. 826 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,040 Speaker 1: So for that reason, I hope that people when they 827 00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:00,920 Speaker 1: watch it, see that. And by the way, we're very 828 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,439 Speaker 1: transparent about all of this on the show. I hope 829 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:05,759 Speaker 1: that gives people confidence in it. You know, that's and 830 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,680 Speaker 1: that's the best we can do making content under capitalism. 831 00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,160 Speaker 1: The best you can do is fight as hard as 832 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,960 Speaker 1: you can and be transparent about your process with your 833 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,200 Speaker 1: audience and try to do it with integrity. And at 834 00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:16,759 Speaker 1: the end, the audience gets to tell you whether or 835 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,279 Speaker 1: not you did a good You did a good job. 836 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:19,440 Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, that's how I 837 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,359 Speaker 1: sleep at night, is by knowing I fought as hard 838 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,799 Speaker 1: as I could. Right, Well, I mean it comes out 839 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,640 Speaker 1: in the show. So thank you man. Anybody who's interested, 840 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,439 Speaker 1: and if you've liked any of Adam's past work, there's 841 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,239 Speaker 1: there's no way you wouldn't enjoy this one. Oh Government, 842 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:38,120 Speaker 1: that's the G word. Yeah, I thought it was God. 843 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:47,280 Speaker 1: I was waiting to Obama like Obama blah blah blah 844 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:51,360 Speaker 1: and God and God. It's a little bit. Look, the 845 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,160 Speaker 1: title is the G word. We don't want to talk 846 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:54,720 Speaker 1: about it. No one likes to talk about the government. 847 00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,719 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about it. That's the title exactly. See, 848 00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,520 Speaker 1: MAT's a little that's a little slowly. It takes me 849 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,320 Speaker 1: a little. I like when there's more how many Spider 850 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:08,320 Speaker 1: Man are in the show? Garfield's there and he but 851 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,200 Speaker 1: he's playing me from all the dimension and he's like, 852 00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:16,680 Speaker 1: oh are you okay? I'm sorry, I'm noting at you 853 00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,560 Speaker 1: guys look at the camera and wink at me. I 854 00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,600 Speaker 1: hope you wink at me. By the way, how funny 855 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,000 Speaker 1: was it? Just like Andrew Garfield is just you know 856 00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,080 Speaker 1: what he's doing is he's doing a Ben Schwartz impression. 857 00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:30,480 Speaker 1: That's what he's doing. He's he's doing Ben Schwartz. I 858 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,440 Speaker 1: just realized that is what it is, super Ben Swartz. 859 00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:38,040 Speaker 1: Tony McGuire is trying to keep up, and he's just like, 860 00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:39,719 Speaker 1: I don't know if he was on, if he took 861 00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:41,640 Speaker 1: a zan X or something. He's just sort of blissed 862 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:45,560 Speaker 1: out and like, hey guys, yeah, look man, I've been 863 00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:50,040 Speaker 1: gambling all night. Man. Yeah, he's like me and Leo 864 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,640 Speaker 1: have just been having sex with models for the last 865 00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:54,960 Speaker 1: ten years. I don't know. Yeah, I'll do your spider 866 00:44:56,080 --> 00:45:00,200 Speaker 1: in joke, I've been I've been inhaling vape smoke seven 867 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:04,600 Speaker 1: years straight, like it was a fucking scuba tank. All right. 868 00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:08,719 Speaker 1: Speaking in the Presidents, gotta gotta touch in really quick 869 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:13,279 Speaker 1: with George Bush the two uh my man, who that 870 00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:18,080 Speaker 1: brought hundreds of thousands of lives? Uh basically killed because 871 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,239 Speaker 1: the invasion killed hundreds of thousands of people. Man, he's 872 00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,799 Speaker 1: a goat. Huh. I told death and destruction to an 873 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,680 Speaker 1: entire region. I mean, he knows a bad invasion when 874 00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,759 Speaker 1: he sees one. And when he was speaking recently at 875 00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,279 Speaker 1: his own foundation, he really just he just wanted to 876 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,400 Speaker 1: let people know he's he wasn't born yesterday. He sees 877 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,279 Speaker 1: what's going on, So let's just hear the president way 878 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:45,280 Speaker 1: in on what's happening around the world. In contrast, Russian 879 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:51,959 Speaker 1: elections are rigged. Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated 880 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,160 Speaker 1: from participating in the electoral process. That's gonna happen in 881 00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:58,279 Speaker 1: the UN. The result is an absence of checks and 882 00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:04,320 Speaker 1: balances in Russia and the decision of one man to 883 00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:09,719 Speaker 1: launch a holy, unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq, I 884 00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:24,400 Speaker 1: mean of Ukraine. Alright, anyway, hundreds of thousands of fucking 885 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:29,680 Speaker 1: people died. But that's rough. That's the that's the biggest 886 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:34,680 Speaker 1: punch line of all all the dead. Iraqis like, that's 887 00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:38,000 Speaker 1: a wild I don't know, I mean, like, what was 888 00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,160 Speaker 1: that weird line? He grumbled after I think you said 889 00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:51,759 Speaker 1: Iraq too anyway? Alright, anyway, Oh he said Iraq to 890 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:56,080 Speaker 1: Iraq too, yes, which that leads me to believe that 891 00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,800 Speaker 1: he's actually very self aware that everyone the person he 892 00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:03,040 Speaker 1: was describing as like, you know, the decision of one man, 893 00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:06,840 Speaker 1: so you and our laterally, you know, invade a country. Uh, 894 00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:10,880 Speaker 1: you know, like he knows that's hands him. You know, 895 00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:15,800 Speaker 1: he's very aware, and it very well may haunt his dreams, 896 00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,560 Speaker 1: which makes me feel better about the about That was 897 00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,920 Speaker 1: what I got from this. My question to the panel. Now, 898 00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:29,120 Speaker 1: is he haunted because I, in my mind I thought 899 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,360 Speaker 1: he he was buying aquifers up and ship like it 900 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:36,760 Speaker 1: was nobody's business, doing watercolors, like he didn't absolutely funk 901 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,960 Speaker 1: up the whole part of the earth. I think that 902 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:43,960 Speaker 1: he does, you know, watercolors and paintings and ship. I 903 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:47,440 Speaker 1: think it's because he is. I think he is haunted 904 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,960 Speaker 1: by it. Because if there's one thing about George W. 905 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:54,240 Speaker 1: Bush that I you know, in all fairness remember, rather 906 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,440 Speaker 1: than just like, yes, he's a war criminal. Yes he 907 00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:01,520 Speaker 1: is legitimately the worst president of our lifetime. But he 908 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:06,879 Speaker 1: also was someone who didn't seem like necessarily associate path 909 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,840 Speaker 1: but someone who seemed like he just desperately wanted to 910 00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:15,799 Speaker 1: please the people around him. Yeah, and I completely agree 911 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:19,200 Speaker 1: with that. The guy called uncle yes, yeah, people who 912 00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,839 Speaker 1: grew up with who just he just wanted to impress them. 913 00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,520 Speaker 1: You know, people literally ran all the gears of government, 914 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,800 Speaker 1: you know. And I think when he was in office, 915 00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,799 Speaker 1: he was just like people around me are saying, we 916 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:35,160 Speaker 1: gotta go after wreck, let's do it. Colin Powells. Here, 917 00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,719 Speaker 1: here's Dick. You know, they're all say, okay, guys, I 918 00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:42,080 Speaker 1: mean if you were in that situation, maybe you would 919 00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,240 Speaker 1: have said the same thing if you had been born 920 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,080 Speaker 1: into where he you know, if you put yourself through 921 00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:50,160 Speaker 1: all that. Not to not to defray his responsibility at all, 922 00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:54,160 Speaker 1: but like, yeah, he's like you know, sometimes when I 923 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,000 Speaker 1: watched him, I'm like, he's just kind of a sweet dumbass. 924 00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:00,399 Speaker 1: You know. That's that's like why people when they're like, oh, 925 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,600 Speaker 1: he's painting now, because you sort of see a little 926 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:08,240 Speaker 1: glimmer of a personality that he doesn't that power. Yeah. Yeah, However, 927 00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:13,799 Speaker 1: it doesn't change the fact that he's like he is, Yeah, 928 00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,040 Speaker 1: he is a war criminal and he is you know, 929 00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,080 Speaker 1: like for all the bad that Trump has done, it's 930 00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:24,520 Speaker 1: like the Trump never did a unilateral invasion of of 931 00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,560 Speaker 1: a country where he was president. Not that he wouldn't 932 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:29,560 Speaker 1: have loved to do it if if there had been 933 00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,480 Speaker 1: political will to do it. Um, he just happened to 934 00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,560 Speaker 1: be you know, uh, the president at a time when 935 00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,440 Speaker 1: people were so sick of going to war for no reason. 936 00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,480 Speaker 1: I mean, the invasion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is 937 00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,000 Speaker 1: there is practically no difference to find between the United 938 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,719 Speaker 1: States invasion of Iraq apart from the fact that the 939 00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,400 Speaker 1: United States was not trying to literally like annex the 940 00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,640 Speaker 1: country and make it a state. But apart from that, 941 00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,000 Speaker 1: like you know, I guess we just didn't finish the job, 942 00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,440 Speaker 1: like we didn't make it a full colony. Was like, 943 00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,160 Speaker 1: all right, now we're gonna leave, and you guys do 944 00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:05,680 Speaker 1: whatever the right Everybody get their infrastructure contracts and pump 945 00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:10,520 Speaker 1: their gas. Yeah exactly, But like, yes, it was a 946 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,960 Speaker 1: unilateral invasion of a country almost no international partners, right, 947 00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,480 Speaker 1: a couple Tony Blair, bring them along. But apart from that, 948 00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,239 Speaker 1: you know, and it didn't cause as much of an 949 00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:23,399 Speaker 1: outcriest Russia because we're more powerful, or we were more 950 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,680 Speaker 1: powerful at the time than Russia is now. And that's it. 951 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,440 Speaker 1: That's the only white supremacy was working in favor of 952 00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:34,640 Speaker 1: that too, because because the victims are looking European, that's 953 00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:40,800 Speaker 1: suddenly they were like yeah, yeah, you know, it happened 954 00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:47,319 Speaker 1: to white people like you. No proper person could come 955 00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:49,879 Speaker 1: back like sixteen seconds and find some cool stuff too 956 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:54,680 Speaker 1: that you get outraged. But but but George W. Bush, 957 00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,880 Speaker 1: I find his post presidency interesting because I agree with you. 958 00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:02,879 Speaker 1: He seems like he's seems not traumatized, but just sort 959 00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,799 Speaker 1: of like I can't, I can't do it, Like he 960 00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,560 Speaker 1: doesn't like he seems like a like a broken man. 961 00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:12,320 Speaker 1: He has this childlike demeanor where versus Okay, let me 962 00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:14,520 Speaker 1: tell you about Obama a little bit, because I shot 963 00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,000 Speaker 1: with Obama right and to shoot with him, it's like, 964 00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,319 Speaker 1: you've got we had one hour in his schedule and 965 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:23,839 Speaker 1: he and it was in his office in d C. 966 00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,160 Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, the middle floor of this 967 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:29,120 Speaker 1: anonymous office building, and you know, it's like we had 968 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,080 Speaker 1: our crew of like eight people, ten people, um who 969 00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,360 Speaker 1: are who we were shooting with. And it's like, Okay, 970 00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:36,520 Speaker 1: you guys are gonna his people are Okay, you're gonna 971 00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:39,000 Speaker 1: wait here in the lobby and then at exactly lutenant one, 972 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:40,920 Speaker 1: you're gonna take the elevator upstairs. When you go upstairs, 973 00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:42,120 Speaker 1: you're gonna go down the hall. You're gonna go in 974 00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:43,480 Speaker 1: the room and the left and you're gonna stay in there, 975 00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:45,879 Speaker 1: make no noise because he's on the floor. Okay, then 976 00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:47,960 Speaker 1: he is going to he is in the presidential office. 977 00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,240 Speaker 1: He he is going to walk down the hallway and Adam, 978 00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:51,759 Speaker 1: you will be standing in the hallway here. You will 979 00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:52,960 Speaker 1: shake hands with him when it comes and then you 980 00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,040 Speaker 1: will enter the set where you will shoot um. And 981 00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:56,759 Speaker 1: it was like it was like his his movements are 982 00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,480 Speaker 1: being scripted around. Like they were like, we don't want 983 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,719 Speaker 1: the crew. He's doing something else in the other room, 984 00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:03,440 Speaker 1: and we don't want him to like the crew to 985 00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,080 Speaker 1: like walk by him, you know what I mean. It's 986 00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:09,400 Speaker 1: very much like to the point where like one of 987 00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,920 Speaker 1: our pas, this hilarious dude, Evens wonderful dude, one of 988 00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:16,720 Speaker 1: our pas accidentally was in the hallway when President Obama 989 00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:18,480 Speaker 1: walked in, and it was so impressed upon him that 990 00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:22,560 Speaker 1: that should not happen. That Evens goes, oh ship runs away, 991 00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,600 Speaker 1: like makes side contact with him, and it's like, oh 992 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:29,040 Speaker 1: ship and runs. But like so he's living his life 993 00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:31,560 Speaker 1: as though he's still the president, you know, like he's 994 00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:33,960 Speaker 1: got in addition to having Secret Service detail. It's just 995 00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:38,160 Speaker 1: his movements are so scripted, right, George W. Bush is 996 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:43,280 Speaker 1: not living this way, you know, is just like chilling 997 00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,320 Speaker 1: out on a porch somewhere, and like people are wandering 998 00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,200 Speaker 1: in and out. I'm sure, Like, in fact, what do 999 00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:53,120 Speaker 1: you mind talking to him when he comes into the hallway. Yeah, 1000 00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,879 Speaker 1: just trying to get people off the street. Like, hey, 1001 00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:01,040 Speaker 1: you guys know I had an institute I have. I'm 1002 00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:05,440 Speaker 1: gonna make a library too. It's gonna be great. Okay, 1003 00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:11,360 Speaker 1: that's that's fine. See he's like, you know, Obama literally 1004 00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,000 Speaker 1: left office, and he's like, how can I continue using 1005 00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,839 Speaker 1: the power of what I'm I am doing to do 1006 00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:18,719 Speaker 1: the things I want to do in the world. You know, 1007 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,560 Speaker 1: he's like, really, he's got his communication strategy, he's got 1008 00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,200 Speaker 1: his policy strategy. He's thinking about it in such a 1009 00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:26,719 Speaker 1: focused way. George W. Bush lapt office and he was like, 1010 00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:29,840 Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm not doing anything. It'll do the library. 1011 00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:33,000 Speaker 1: But like, I'm gone, I'm taking a back. You know. 1012 00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:35,360 Speaker 1: It's like, oh, wait, you're not gonna direct anymore movies, 1013 00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,680 Speaker 1: Like I only did it because my dad's Michael Ovits, 1014 00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:40,520 Speaker 1: and I don't want to do it anymore. Like it's 1015 00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,000 Speaker 1: like that same like where nepotism is like, yeah, I 1016 00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:44,480 Speaker 1: got me in the door, and I don't even really 1017 00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:45,960 Speaker 1: know if I wanted to do this. That's why you 1018 00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,000 Speaker 1: don't really see me engaging with it after the fact. 1019 00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:50,719 Speaker 1: Plus I'm haunted by all the dark shit I had 1020 00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,680 Speaker 1: to do and maybe that's my karma. I don't know. Hey, Allen, 1021 00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:59,080 Speaker 1: check out my watch? Is this cool? Yeah? What a life? 1022 00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,600 Speaker 1: And does Jenna Bush still called Dad? I don't know. 1023 00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,239 Speaker 1: A friend of mine in college pointed out to me, 1024 00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,759 Speaker 1: this is during the George W. Bush administration. But they 1025 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,160 Speaker 1: were like, at one point George W. Bush was like 1026 00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,560 Speaker 1: part owner of the Texas Rangers, if you remember that. 1027 00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:13,879 Speaker 1: And my friend was like, you know, George W. Bush 1028 00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,239 Speaker 1: is an alternate universe where he just becomes the commissioner 1029 00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,160 Speaker 1: of baseball, and he would be such a good commissioner 1030 00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:22,279 Speaker 1: of baseball. He would get to make jokes, you know 1031 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,799 Speaker 1: what I mean, go to baseball games. Don't we all 1032 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:26,320 Speaker 1: want to live in that universe? Like, oh, that'd be 1033 00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:29,200 Speaker 1: something he would be good at. We wouldn't be responsible. 1034 00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:32,680 Speaker 1: There's the thousands of people, right and Donald Trump is 1035 00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:36,719 Speaker 1: just a bitcoin broh, Like I love that universe. That 1036 00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:41,520 Speaker 1: would have been the fucking perfect one. Apin drink this 1037 00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:46,920 Speaker 1: lyurrip juice and yeah, some people pointed out, maybe it's 1038 00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:50,680 Speaker 1: neo Nazi semia semiotics who knows. I mean, yeah, let's 1039 00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:52,799 Speaker 1: be real. Let's be real. I'm not dumb. You know 1040 00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:56,720 Speaker 1: what time it is. I'm trying to mainstream white supremacy. Alright, alright, 1041 00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,319 Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back 1042 00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:13,720 Speaker 1: to talk about the strength of video games, and we're back. 1043 00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:17,279 Speaker 1: Video games have been very important for me throughout my 1044 00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,040 Speaker 1: life outam. I know they're a huge part for you, Matt, 1045 00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,759 Speaker 1: are you were you a big child of the game. 1046 00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:27,399 Speaker 1: I played video games, um, when I I played PC 1047 00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,239 Speaker 1: games when I was in high school and college. Uh, 1048 00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:33,880 Speaker 1: and now I play uh PSPs four. There you go. 1049 00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,600 Speaker 1: So I love I love video games. I love them. There. 1050 00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,440 Speaker 1: I play everything, man, I play all the time. And 1051 00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:44,840 Speaker 1: I'm still working through Elden Ring, which is enormously long. Um. 1052 00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,680 Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I follow video games more closely 1053 00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:50,439 Speaker 1: than I follow anything else. I listened to probably spent 1054 00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,520 Speaker 1: more time listening to podcast about video games than I 1055 00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:56,000 Speaker 1: do playing them. But you know, I've started collecting retro 1056 00:55:56,360 --> 00:56:00,120 Speaker 1: video games. I gotta fucking cr team monitor in here 1057 00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:07,320 Speaker 1: and I both Okay, I didn't know they made the 1058 00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:12,080 Speaker 1: critical race they monitor. Yeah, turn it on and it's 1059 00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:15,560 Speaker 1: like and it's like whiteness is false. White does not exist. 1060 00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:23,360 Speaker 1: It doesn't display white at all. Shades of grid. Um. So, 1061 00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:25,399 Speaker 1: I don't know if I definitely heard this growing up 1062 00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,480 Speaker 1: in the you know, being a growing being born in 1063 00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,480 Speaker 1: the eighties and in the early nineties of always from 1064 00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,960 Speaker 1: my mom and like grandparents were like, don't look at 1065 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,680 Speaker 1: the TV. It's gonna rot your brain. You're playing video 1066 00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:37,839 Speaker 1: games all the time. I's gonna rot your brain. Why 1067 00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:40,880 Speaker 1: are you playing Super Ninten Why are you playing Mario Paint? 1068 00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:44,400 Speaker 1: I'm like, because this ship is dope, okay, and it 1069 00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:46,520 Speaker 1: came with a mouse that I plug into my Super 1070 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:52,400 Speaker 1: Nintendo funk with me. Oh yeah, Mario taught me typing 1071 00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,960 Speaker 1: thank you? Do you guys have heard at school dud 1072 00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:59,359 Speaker 1: Mario teaches type? I had that on my Mac when 1073 00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:04,640 Speaker 1: I in like three. Yeah, okay, not Theendo release, so 1074 00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:06,719 Speaker 1: I kind of object to it. But yeah, okay, got 1075 00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:11,600 Speaker 1: you funk licensing deal. Um. But yeah, I think we've 1076 00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:13,040 Speaker 1: for a while. I think that was like sort of 1077 00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:15,520 Speaker 1: like the accepted thing that parents would be get really 1078 00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:17,880 Speaker 1: sort of nervous about it too much. Video games is 1079 00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:22,320 Speaker 1: gonna is actually bad for you. Well, guess what the 1080 00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:27,640 Speaker 1: Carolinska instituted in Sweden has conducted a pretty lengthy study 1081 00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,120 Speaker 1: on thousands of kids in the US to see how 1082 00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,680 Speaker 1: playing video games affected their intelligence. In this case, they're 1083 00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:37,560 Speaker 1: just their general cognitive abilities, not like did their vocabulary 1084 00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:41,080 Speaker 1: expand or whatever, just testing their general cognitive abilities. So 1085 00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:45,480 Speaker 1: they looked at nine thousand kids aged nine in ten 1086 00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:47,160 Speaker 1: and had them do a battery of tests just to 1087 00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:49,480 Speaker 1: sort of set a baseline. Then they followed up with 1088 00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:52,280 Speaker 1: about five thousand of these kids about two years later 1089 00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:54,760 Speaker 1: to run the tests again and to see if there 1090 00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:57,360 Speaker 1: were any differences that they could find. And here's something 1091 00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:00,040 Speaker 1: they found. Quote, on average, the children spent two and 1092 00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,200 Speaker 1: a half hours a day watching TV, half an hour 1093 00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:04,800 Speaker 1: on social media, and one hour playing video games. The 1094 00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,600 Speaker 1: results showed that those who played more games than the 1095 00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:12,000 Speaker 1: average increase their intelligence between the two measurements by approximately 1096 00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,880 Speaker 1: two point five i q points more than the average. 1097 00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:18,160 Speaker 1: No significant effect was observed positive or negative of TV 1098 00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:21,720 Speaker 1: watching or social media. So they said, okay, that, but 1099 00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:25,040 Speaker 1: maybe that tracks me because TV social media seems pretty passive. Now, 1100 00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:27,120 Speaker 1: not to say, who knows the toll that takes on 1101 00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:30,360 Speaker 1: someone's emotional well being? Because they do say. Look, we 1102 00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,640 Speaker 1: were we were not checking for the effects of things 1103 00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:36,600 Speaker 1: like on things like physical activity, sleep well being, or 1104 00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:40,680 Speaker 1: school performance, very narrowly on their cognitive ability. But the 1105 00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:43,200 Speaker 1: results seem to be in line or are in line 1106 00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,640 Speaker 1: with other studies that claim that screen time doesn't impair 1107 00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:48,760 Speaker 1: children's cognitive abilities, and in fact, gaming can help him 1108 00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:53,000 Speaker 1: boost things. I have a theory about this study, yes, 1109 00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:56,560 Speaker 1: but first of all, it comports with my own experience 1110 00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,040 Speaker 1: because one thing that I read years and years ago 1111 00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:01,120 Speaker 1: is that the may thing video games help you do 1112 00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:05,440 Speaker 1: is that they teach you how to navigate human design 1113 00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,960 Speaker 1: software systems. Right, So when you you when you play 1114 00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,160 Speaker 1: a video game, right, you used to playing a video game, 1115 00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:13,800 Speaker 1: You don't generally need to read an instruction manual. Right. 1116 00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:15,920 Speaker 1: You can turn the game on if you played them 1117 00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:17,960 Speaker 1: a lot, and you're like, Okay, what are the verbs 1118 00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,640 Speaker 1: that the game designer gave me? How can I use them? 1119 00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:22,800 Speaker 1: And then you know you're in a level and you're like, 1120 00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:25,560 Speaker 1: the game seems like it wants me to go this way? Right, 1121 00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:27,920 Speaker 1: Like you start to you start to understand, this is 1122 00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:30,160 Speaker 1: a whole playground that someone is created for my benefit. 1123 00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:33,160 Speaker 1: Here's the goal and so I can poke around and 1124 00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,680 Speaker 1: figure out how I'm supposed to achieve the goal. Right, Well, 1125 00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:37,840 Speaker 1: there's two paths. One of them probably leads to a 1126 00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:40,280 Speaker 1: treasure chest. The other one probably takes me towards the 1127 00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:42,560 Speaker 1: final boss. And that's the critical path you used to 1128 00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:45,000 Speaker 1: understand things like that, right, And so the theory that 1129 00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,160 Speaker 1: I read years ago was that that makes children less 1130 00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:52,360 Speaker 1: intimidated by technology generally, right, And I experienced that myself, 1131 00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:55,160 Speaker 1: like when I The reason I'm working in comedy today 1132 00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:58,600 Speaker 1: is because when I was in college, I taught myself photoshop, 1133 00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:01,560 Speaker 1: and I taught myself video edit ing on Final Cut Pro. 1134 01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:03,400 Speaker 1: And I was in a college sketch group and I 1135 01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:05,680 Speaker 1: became the post production guy, you know, who did all 1136 01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:08,160 Speaker 1: the video editing. And I just taught myself video editing 1137 01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:10,280 Speaker 1: by like, all right, let me pop open the final 1138 01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:13,000 Speaker 1: cut and like start rooting around those menus. What does 1139 01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,120 Speaker 1: this menu do? What does that? What does that control 1140 01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:17,440 Speaker 1: panel do? Like, I'm I'm not scared of it. I 1141 01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:18,880 Speaker 1: don't need someone to teach me how to do it. 1142 01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:20,280 Speaker 1: I can just sort of figure it out. I read 1143 01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,920 Speaker 1: the manual too, but you know, so it gives you 1144 01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:26,439 Speaker 1: that sort of fluency, and that's something that like comes 1145 01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:30,880 Speaker 1: in really handy in America nowadays, and especially I bet 1146 01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:33,160 Speaker 1: that helps you do better on an i Q test. Now, 1147 01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,560 Speaker 1: i Q tests are bullshit. I did a whole segment 1148 01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:39,280 Speaker 1: about them on Adam Ruins everything. They don't measure, you know, 1149 01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,080 Speaker 1: any sort of like that. You shouldn't take them as 1150 01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:44,280 Speaker 1: an objective measure of intelligence. They're they're measuring how well 1151 01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:47,000 Speaker 1: you do on that particular test, but they're not measuring 1152 01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:50,120 Speaker 1: like anything inherent about you. However, I have taken one recently, 1153 01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:53,200 Speaker 1: and it's a whole lot of like how quickly can 1154 01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:56,240 Speaker 1: you fit the you know, can you like what are 1155 01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,400 Speaker 1: they called tan grams or tesselations or something where you 1156 01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:00,480 Speaker 1: fit like the little polygon pieces is like into a 1157 01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:03,440 Speaker 1: square and stuff like that. How well can you remember 1158 01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:07,040 Speaker 1: numbers backwards? Things like that, and like if you've played 1159 01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:10,280 Speaker 1: a lot of video games, it's very video gaming stuff. 1160 01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:12,040 Speaker 1: You're like, oh, okay, this is what it's trying to 1161 01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,600 Speaker 1: get me to do. This is the challenging part. I 1162 01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:17,400 Speaker 1: can if I focus on this, I should be able to, 1163 01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:19,960 Speaker 1: you know, do better on it. But I really enjoyed 1164 01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:21,680 Speaker 1: doing the i Q test for the same reason I 1165 01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:24,160 Speaker 1: like playing video games, and so I feel like this 1166 01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:26,080 Speaker 1: is I feel like it's not making you more intelligent, 1167 01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:27,600 Speaker 1: but I bet it does make you. If you play 1168 01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:28,960 Speaker 1: a lot of video games, I bet you do better 1169 01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:30,720 Speaker 1: on an i Q test. I think it's more like 1170 01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:33,920 Speaker 1: in line with playing an instrument. Right, that you grew 1171 01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:36,160 Speaker 1: up playing an instrument, You're you're gonna be. You're just 1172 01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:39,919 Speaker 1: developing different skills than if you weren't like music. There's 1173 01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:42,640 Speaker 1: timing your hand eye coordination to read music, to know 1174 01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:46,040 Speaker 1: music theory and like the relationships between notes and things 1175 01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:49,520 Speaker 1: like that help a lot. And I even just even subtly, right, 1176 01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:52,120 Speaker 1: I just noticed for me, like you know, I'm I'm 1177 01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:55,520 Speaker 1: I'm also Japanese. So growing up in the in the US, 1178 01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:59,480 Speaker 1: the my or my Japanese education mostly came from my 1179 01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:02,640 Speaker 1: mom speaking to me and mostly only speaking to me 1180 01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:05,760 Speaker 1: in Japanese to build my ability to speak two languages. 1181 01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:08,280 Speaker 1: Reading was a little bit different because that when I 1182 01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:10,720 Speaker 1: turned the TV on, it's always English, and like I would, 1183 01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,960 Speaker 1: I would have to seek out Japanese material to begin reading. 1184 01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:17,320 Speaker 1: When game Boy came around, they were like and I 1185 01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:19,840 Speaker 1: was playing Japanese game Boy games. So many you know 1186 01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:22,200 Speaker 1: because back in those those days, like there was no 1187 01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:24,720 Speaker 1: spoken audio dialogue that played out of the TV. It 1188 01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:26,680 Speaker 1: was all text. You had to read and hit a 1189 01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:30,320 Speaker 1: to continue the fucking dialogue. And that very quickly got 1190 01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:33,840 Speaker 1: me to begin reading Japanese at a much quicker pace 1191 01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:36,040 Speaker 1: than I did if I was like using a book 1192 01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:39,120 Speaker 1: or whatever, because I was so inherently rather being like 1193 01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:41,040 Speaker 1: I don't know how, I don't know what this says 1194 01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:43,320 Speaker 1: or whatever, I was like fuck it. Through the repetition 1195 01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:45,240 Speaker 1: of trying to read this over and over. It gave 1196 01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:47,880 Speaker 1: me those skills. So there's these little things that you 1197 01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:49,560 Speaker 1: do pick up, and I don't know if that's necessarily 1198 01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,720 Speaker 1: the secret to you know, having uh, you know, having 1199 01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,720 Speaker 1: super brain, but it's like, I like, we're all saying, 1200 01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:58,800 Speaker 1: like we can all connect these little dots to little 1201 01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:00,800 Speaker 1: things that we picked up or kill as we picked up. 1202 01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:04,120 Speaker 1: I'm so jealous of you for having that childhood experience 1203 01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:06,920 Speaker 1: with Japanese because I mean, obviously I grew up like 1204 01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:12,000 Speaker 1: so many American kids did with Japanese imported culture being 1205 01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:15,439 Speaker 1: you know, just like video games were like the entry 1206 01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:18,360 Speaker 1: point and then also you know, anime and everything else. 1207 01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:21,360 Speaker 1: But like God to have had the ability to play 1208 01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:25,240 Speaker 1: Japanese video games growing up, like oh, it also had 1209 01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:27,919 Speaker 1: to me an insufferable prick because I was like, y'all 1210 01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:31,440 Speaker 1: are late to Pokemon, y'all are late to Power Rangers, 1211 01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:34,240 Speaker 1: y'all are late to this, And I'm like, I'm onto 1212 01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:37,320 Speaker 1: the next ship. Y'all are late to n Tie. Y'all 1213 01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:42,760 Speaker 1: are late, y'all are late to Yeah, so many been 1214 01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:47,720 Speaker 1: watching women have sex with octopuses exactly. Also, y'all are 1215 01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:51,439 Speaker 1: late for old Enough too. That ship as old as fun. Yeah, 1216 01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:55,080 Speaker 1: them kids doing them tours decades ago. Kids are from 1217 01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:58,480 Speaker 1: forty now, funk out of here. But yeah, it is. 1218 01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:01,800 Speaker 1: It is like an interesting thing that video games also 1219 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,440 Speaker 1: were like mo like a motivating force for me because 1220 01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:07,640 Speaker 1: because my mom insisted or my parents are like, you 1221 01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:10,840 Speaker 1: gotta focus on and study. I'm like, I'm doing fine 1222 01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:12,680 Speaker 1: in school. If I can do fine in school, let 1223 01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:14,960 Speaker 1: me play video games. And that's all I want. Like 1224 01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:17,800 Speaker 1: my you know, my parents weren't would never buy me 1225 01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:20,400 Speaker 1: video games, like and they were only they only came 1226 01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:23,160 Speaker 1: around every report card if I did if I had 1227 01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:26,520 Speaker 1: straight a's, then they're like fuck it, fine, you could 1228 01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:28,560 Speaker 1: have one game. You could rent, you could go rent 1229 01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,160 Speaker 1: a game, and that sort of feedback loop was sort 1230 01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:32,880 Speaker 1: of my way of being like, oh, I'm getting this 1231 01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:35,840 Speaker 1: fucking game. The die Hard Trilogy just came out on PlayStation. 1232 01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:39,840 Speaker 1: Watched me mark my fucking tests, and so you know, 1233 01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:41,720 Speaker 1: there was a bit of a that's the game you 1234 01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:45,200 Speaker 1: wanted to play die Hard Trilogy. It was so bad, 1235 01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:47,520 Speaker 1: oh man. It was like a three part game that 1236 01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:50,760 Speaker 1: was like a multi genre game where the first level 1237 01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:53,800 Speaker 1: is like a shooter, and then I think the first 1238 01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:56,000 Speaker 1: two levels are like like shooter games, like sort of 1239 01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:59,040 Speaker 1: like Area fifty one style shooters, and then the die 1240 01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:02,400 Speaker 1: Hard with a Vengeance like node within the trilogy game 1241 01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,480 Speaker 1: was like a crazy taxi kind of thing where you 1242 01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:09,320 Speaker 1: were like driving around New York exactly and like like 1243 01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:13,040 Speaker 1: the worst Sam Jackson voice actor like actors, like you know, 1244 01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:14,680 Speaker 1: saying all kinds of wild ship. But I remember at 1245 01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:16,600 Speaker 1: the time I love die Hard with a Vengeance. I 1246 01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:20,000 Speaker 1: was like, sure, I need this game, need this game. Yeah, 1247 01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:21,960 Speaker 1: And it was terrible. That's how I know who Chester A. 1248 01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:25,480 Speaker 1: Arthur was and what President twenty first President of United 1249 01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:28,080 Speaker 1: States exactly learned that from die Hard movies. Let me 1250 01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:31,360 Speaker 1: let me offer a cautionary tale for any parents or 1251 01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:34,360 Speaker 1: future parents out there who are like, video games are bad. 1252 01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:36,880 Speaker 1: TV is bad. It's uh, it's all gonna rob my 1253 01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:40,600 Speaker 1: kids brain. My parents took out our TVs when I 1254 01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:43,960 Speaker 1: was in fifth grade because my brother started getting bad 1255 01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:47,000 Speaker 1: grades and on our my grades also, and my sister's 1256 01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:49,080 Speaker 1: grades were starting to suffer a little bit. We had 1257 01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:55,040 Speaker 1: no TV from like from fifth grade until eleventh grade 1258 01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:57,960 Speaker 1: until nine eleven. Nine eleven was the day we got 1259 01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:01,000 Speaker 1: our TVs back because nine eleven happened and my parents 1260 01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:03,720 Speaker 1: wanted to watch it. So sad day for America, good 1261 01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:08,000 Speaker 1: day for the lead family. But I, uh, in that 1262 01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:11,080 Speaker 1: intervening time, I didn't get to play video games. I 1263 01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:12,440 Speaker 1: didn't get to watch it. I had to go to 1264 01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:15,920 Speaker 1: other friends houses to like fucking watch you know, TV 1265 01:06:16,120 --> 01:06:20,400 Speaker 1: and ship. I came to everything late, and uh, I 1266 01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:24,800 Speaker 1: will say, what instead happened is I just discovered drugs 1267 01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:29,640 Speaker 1: and started Uh in like sixth grade, I started smoking weed. Uh, 1268 01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:32,000 Speaker 1: you know, I started doing hardest stuff. A little bit 1269 01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:35,840 Speaker 1: later after the TV was gone. TV was gone, and 1270 01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:37,680 Speaker 1: I was like, well, because so what what do I 1271 01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:40,400 Speaker 1: what what's left to do? And I was like, I'll 1272 01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:43,480 Speaker 1: just hang out with you know, friends, and um, a 1273 01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:46,280 Speaker 1: lot of times those friends had weeds, so we started 1274 01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:49,880 Speaker 1: smoking it. And I'm just saying, I think that more 1275 01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:52,480 Speaker 1: harm was done to me by not having TV and 1276 01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:56,960 Speaker 1: video games in my life then when we actually you know, 1277 01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:00,320 Speaker 1: you know, then yeah. So I'm just saying, Uh, the 1278 01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:04,480 Speaker 1: TV made me, I think, you know, not as dumb 1279 01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:09,000 Speaker 1: as the drugs made me. So get that in mind, everybody. 1280 01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:10,560 Speaker 1: I mean, it looks also, look, you knew who the 1281 01:07:10,560 --> 01:07:13,840 Speaker 1: twenty one president was not because of school, exactly because 1282 01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:16,680 Speaker 1: of that actor who played that trucker in die Hard 1283 01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:20,479 Speaker 1: with a Vengeance. That's right, Arthur is cousin TV. Keep 1284 01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:24,600 Speaker 1: what about the little Gallant jug challenge that Simon had 1285 01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:26,800 Speaker 1: him do in Central Park with They'll filling up the 1286 01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:29,800 Speaker 1: water jugs? I was even I was playing along with them, 1287 01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:33,959 Speaker 1: being like, how do they get that? And I learned 1288 01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:36,760 Speaker 1: all sorts of ship. We also say the most popular 1289 01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:39,800 Speaker 1: games for kids right now, right, let's go through what 1290 01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:44,160 Speaker 1: they are. Minecraft incredibly wholesome, the biggest video game of 1291 01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:47,680 Speaker 1: all time. Minecraft incredibly wholesome. It's fucking legos. It's like 1292 01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:50,360 Speaker 1: the best thing ever. It is it and you play 1293 01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:53,919 Speaker 1: it with your friends, you build a world together. It's unbelievable. 1294 01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:58,280 Speaker 1: Minecraft Fortnite another game about building full of secrets, right 1295 01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:00,920 Speaker 1: that Fortnite has so many secrets basically designed for you 1296 01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:03,080 Speaker 1: to talk about with your friends, and kids play it 1297 01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:05,560 Speaker 1: with each other. It's a social game, right. And then 1298 01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:10,760 Speaker 1: among Us was another huge game with kids intensely intensely social, right, 1299 01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:13,080 Speaker 1: all learning how to like figure out which one is 1300 01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:14,800 Speaker 1: the alien, which is something I think we all need 1301 01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:16,960 Speaker 1: to be able to do. Yeah, you need to find 1302 01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:21,559 Speaker 1: the liars in your life. That all of the liars 1303 01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:25,080 Speaker 1: and snakes, right exactly. So when I get fundraising text 1304 01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:31,920 Speaker 1: from Nancy Pelosia, I'm like, this is sucks. Sucks. And 1305 01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:36,200 Speaker 1: the way, how does fourteen dollars help you codify a rope? 1306 01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:39,800 Speaker 1: Please help me understand that? And even if you played 1307 01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:41,760 Speaker 1: video games, You're like, I don't understand. If I pay 1308 01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:44,240 Speaker 1: the fourteen dollars, do I get the codified rope power up? 1309 01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:49,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. You get a banana suit? Yeah, good enough. Yeah, 1310 01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:52,439 Speaker 1: here's some poster board and also don't forget and here's 1311 01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:54,599 Speaker 1: a mail in ballot. Don't forget us in November. Okay, 1312 01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:57,360 Speaker 1: all right, well Adam, thanks so much for coming on 1313 01:08:57,400 --> 01:08:59,960 Speaker 1: the show Man. Pleasure speaking with you, and I'm glad 1314 01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:02,320 Speaker 1: you were finally able to stop by because you know, 1315 01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:05,920 Speaker 1: we see each other in real life constants. So this 1316 01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:08,200 Speaker 1: is a this is a great, great moment to bring 1317 01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,840 Speaker 1: it all together. It was wonderful to be here. The show. 1318 01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:12,439 Speaker 1: The news show is called The G Word. Can I 1319 01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:14,439 Speaker 1: just give a proper plug? Well, I'm gonna tell you 1320 01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:16,519 Speaker 1: right now. I said, where do people find you? Follow you? 1321 01:09:16,520 --> 01:09:18,960 Speaker 1: Where did they here see you? And also tell us 1322 01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:21,920 Speaker 1: that tweets you like. So the news show is called 1323 01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:24,080 Speaker 1: the G Word. It's all about the federal government. Six 1324 01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:27,680 Speaker 1: episodes there on Netflix right now. Please watch them, just 1325 01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:29,000 Speaker 1: so you know. If you want to support a show, 1326 01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:30,760 Speaker 1: best thing to do on Netflix is watch all of 1327 01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:33,240 Speaker 1: it as fast as you can. If you watch, just 1328 01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:35,200 Speaker 1: just even if you don't watch the last two episodes, 1329 01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:37,960 Speaker 1: just fucking hit play and let them just finish because 1330 01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:42,280 Speaker 1: then I get Netflix points. Basically, Um, that's what they 1331 01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,280 Speaker 1: want to see as people is people finish the show. 1332 01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:47,160 Speaker 1: So um, please watch it. Uh. If you want to 1333 01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:48,960 Speaker 1: watch my old show Adam Ruins Everything, which you're very 1334 01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:51,679 Speaker 1: proud of, it's all available on HBO Max All sixty 1335 01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:55,320 Speaker 1: five episodes are available there. I do a podcast called Factually, 1336 01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:59,599 Speaker 1: where every week I interview a different fascinating expert about 1337 01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:01,400 Speaker 1: all the ship that they know that I don't know 1338 01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:03,559 Speaker 1: and that you might not know. We have some of 1339 01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:08,800 Speaker 1: the best nonfiction writers, journalists, incredible people on I break 1340 01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:11,760 Speaker 1: down all of their incredible research in a really digestible way, 1341 01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:13,760 Speaker 1: make it really funny. I'm really proud of that show 1342 01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:16,559 Speaker 1: comes out every single week. It's called Factually. You can 1343 01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:18,880 Speaker 1: get it wherever you get your podcasts. And I'm at 1344 01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:22,040 Speaker 1: Adam Conover wherever. Follow me on TikTok. I I post 1345 01:10:22,200 --> 01:10:27,040 Speaker 1: uh funny uh informational videos on TikTok basically daily. So 1346 01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:30,120 Speaker 1: there it is, there it is. Wait, do you have 1347 01:10:30,160 --> 01:10:33,360 Speaker 1: any like works of Twitter that you liked recently? Oh? 1348 01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:36,320 Speaker 1: My god, my own or other people's anyone? I want 1349 01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:38,200 Speaker 1: to talk about my own? Is that? Okay? I had 1350 01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:42,000 Speaker 1: the most viral thread I ever did on Twitter recently. Um, 1351 01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:44,640 Speaker 1: and it was about Rick Caruso running for mayor of 1352 01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:52,160 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Gallery or what does he do in the grove? 1353 01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:56,800 Speaker 1: He gave us that and he's Mr Private Property over everything. Yeah, 1354 01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:59,640 Speaker 1: so this guy is a real quick This guy's a 1355 01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:02,160 Speaker 1: bill an Air real estate developer. He's running for the 1356 01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:06,160 Speaker 1: mayor of Los Angeles. He's flooding the town with ads. 1357 01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:09,200 Speaker 1: You can't watch a Dodgers game or any other you 1358 01:11:09,240 --> 01:11:12,200 Speaker 1: can't watch Jeopardy without seeing like tons of these ads. 1359 01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:14,559 Speaker 1: He looks so kindly in the ads, but he is 1360 01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:17,639 Speaker 1: a fucking right wing Republican and he's going like, I'm 1361 01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:19,639 Speaker 1: ri Cruso, I love l A and I want to 1362 01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:22,880 Speaker 1: clean up l A. Now that sounds really good if 1363 01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:25,080 Speaker 1: you don't know much, but if you know the history 1364 01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:28,280 Speaker 1: of of right wing politics in California, you should be 1365 01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:30,720 Speaker 1: pretty scared of the phrase clean up l A. Uh. 1366 01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:34,080 Speaker 1: This guy's anti abortion. He's donated like hundreds of thousands 1367 01:11:34,080 --> 01:11:37,360 Speaker 1: of dollars to make McConnell and ship. And his homelessness 1368 01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:42,479 Speaker 1: strategy is building like gigantic warehouses to like force all 1369 01:11:42,479 --> 01:11:46,000 Speaker 1: the homeless people into rather than building like permanent housing 1370 01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:48,040 Speaker 1: um and like working with people one by one. He 1371 01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:51,120 Speaker 1: wants to like he's like literally literally his homelessness plan 1372 01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:53,160 Speaker 1: is building. You can look at on his website, that's 1373 01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:55,160 Speaker 1: what it says. He wants to build a gigantic shelter 1374 01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:58,200 Speaker 1: out in palm Dale and like fucking forced people like 1375 01:11:58,240 --> 01:11:59,920 Speaker 1: a way out in the middle of the desert. Or 1376 01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:03,120 Speaker 1: rible dude. He spent thirty million dollars so far on ads, 1377 01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:05,080 Speaker 1: And what people don't realize is he could win the 1378 01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:08,560 Speaker 1: election in June because if he wins, because of l 1379 01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,680 Speaker 1: a's weird rules, if he wins over in the primary, 1380 01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:14,519 Speaker 1: he goes straight to the office that he skips the general. 1381 01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:17,679 Speaker 1: So it's really important people vote for anybody, but Caruso, 1382 01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:19,479 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I know you don't. I don't even do 1383 01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:22,160 Speaker 1: political ship like this that often, but this guy is 1384 01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:23,720 Speaker 1: what you do in l A. I mean, we know 1385 01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:25,479 Speaker 1: you and your your vote. I mean, if you're in 1386 01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:27,599 Speaker 1: if you're in l A politics, we know you're pretty 1387 01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:30,479 Speaker 1: vocal about l A policy. So yeah, I am. I am. 1388 01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:31,920 Speaker 1: And and that's, by the way, part of what we 1389 01:12:31,920 --> 01:12:34,000 Speaker 1: talked about on the G word. Local politics. You're can 1390 01:12:34,040 --> 01:12:36,519 Speaker 1: have so much more impact than on national politics. I 1391 01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:39,439 Speaker 1: just ignored Nancy Pelosi and I focus local. So anyway, 1392 01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:41,720 Speaker 1: I did a tweet threat about this guy, most viral 1393 01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:43,799 Speaker 1: tweet that I've ever done. And so that's my favorite 1394 01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:45,720 Speaker 1: tweet lately, is me trying to get the word out 1395 01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:49,599 Speaker 1: about this motherfucker who we gotta stop. Yeah, absolutely, And 1396 01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:52,320 Speaker 1: you know, like, don't forget. Like many of the land 1397 01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:55,000 Speaker 1: developers in the in the city of Los Angeles, they 1398 01:12:55,080 --> 01:12:57,320 Speaker 1: usually end up becoming the you know, the commissioner of 1399 01:12:57,320 --> 01:12:59,800 Speaker 1: the l A Police Commission. Yeah, this guy, this guy 1400 01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:02,559 Speaker 1: is the MEAs police department. But by the way, also, 1401 01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:05,080 Speaker 1: why do we have homelessness the housing crisis? Why do 1402 01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:07,680 Speaker 1: we have a housing crisis? Housing has gotten so expensive. 1403 01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:11,400 Speaker 1: This guy's a luxury real estate developer. Why would we 1404 01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:14,919 Speaker 1: elect the dude who caused the problem to solve the problem. 1405 01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:20,800 Speaker 1: He makes malls with choot your train. Yeah, I like 1406 01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:24,920 Speaker 1: malls with choot your train. Turn l A to mall within. 1407 01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:30,439 Speaker 1: I want katsu Ya near me. Now look, I go 1408 01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:33,479 Speaker 1: to the Americana and I go there to see movies 1409 01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:37,040 Speaker 1: at the AMC. Shitty function, fucking projection. The movies look 1410 01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:41,080 Speaker 1: terrible at that movie theater. The food sucks. That's Rick 1411 01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:44,920 Speaker 1: Carusoe's fault, al right, So don't get If you want 1412 01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:47,479 Speaker 1: to send a bun, you can go give him money 1413 01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:49,080 Speaker 1: if you like, but don't, for the love of God, 1414 01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:52,320 Speaker 1: don't vote for him for mayor. Please don't know, Please don't. 1415 01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:54,920 Speaker 1: Matt What about you man? Where can people find you? 1416 01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:57,120 Speaker 1: Follow you and check you out? Well? You can follow 1417 01:13:57,160 --> 01:14:01,960 Speaker 1: me on Twitter or Instagram, Twitter at matt Leeb, Instagram 1418 01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:06,240 Speaker 1: at matt Leeb jokes and uh you can please listen 1419 01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:09,800 Speaker 1: to my Sopranos rewatch podcast, Pod Yourself a Gun, the 1420 01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:13,920 Speaker 1: world's only Sopranos podcast. We are this is our last season. 1421 01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:17,160 Speaker 1: Uh and not only do we just watch the episode 1422 01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:20,879 Speaker 1: and talk about it, but I do uh parody songs. Basically, 1423 01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:24,280 Speaker 1: I just take a song and I do the synopsis 1424 01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:27,000 Speaker 1: of the Sopranos episode in the in the style of 1425 01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:31,000 Speaker 1: that song. It sounds lame, I know, but it's actually great. 1426 01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,599 Speaker 1: And Miles has been on. He had a great time 1427 01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:36,320 Speaker 1: and it's been on and it's been on, I mean 1428 01:14:36,479 --> 01:14:40,439 Speaker 1: just like uh Jack was on. Yeah, yeah, the whole 1429 01:14:40,520 --> 01:14:42,840 Speaker 1: the whole night Cruise been on. So check it out 1430 01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:46,960 Speaker 1: before uh you know, we finish and um yeah, Pod 1431 01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:49,599 Speaker 1: Yourself a Gun and uh froadcast, which is our regular 1432 01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:51,880 Speaker 1: podcast in which we talk about movies. Teat you like 1433 01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,280 Speaker 1: would you like it? On the twitters? Um, I really 1434 01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:59,200 Speaker 1: liked this from Crodo Soprano at Uncle June. He wrote 1435 01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:03,160 Speaker 1: as rom Miller is the Ralph Siferetto of Hawaii, which 1436 01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:08,200 Speaker 1: I which I really liked, just you know, Ralph Sinfarretto 1437 01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:10,320 Speaker 1: in the Soprantos. He was just kind of a wild card. 1438 01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:13,280 Speaker 1: He would just do random acts of violence and kind 1439 01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:16,840 Speaker 1: of laugh about it, and uh like, gleeful random acts 1440 01:15:16,880 --> 01:15:20,040 Speaker 1: of violence is seems to be Ezra Miller's thing now, 1441 01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:23,720 Speaker 1: so yeah, huh uh. Let's see a tweet that I 1442 01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:33,360 Speaker 1: like is from Sean Johnson at Sex with your Uncle. Okay, cool, great, 1443 01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:38,439 Speaker 1: handle well you are for your tweeted. Imagine if Oasis 1444 01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:42,080 Speaker 1: said basketball instead of wonder Wall. I think that would 1445 01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:50,759 Speaker 1: be cool. Stupid James Hamblin at James Hamblin tweeted before 1446 01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:54,800 Speaker 1: you criticize Elon Musk's politics, remember he's the reason we 1447 01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:57,040 Speaker 1: have the hyper loop train that gets you from l 1448 01:15:57,080 --> 01:16:01,640 Speaker 1: A to San Francisco in one hour that we do not. 1449 01:16:02,439 --> 01:16:04,400 Speaker 1: You can find me at Miles of Gray on Twitter 1450 01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:07,519 Speaker 1: and Instagram. Also check out the new basketball podcast Mad 1451 01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:11,400 Speaker 1: Boost these Uh. We had Robert Orion this latest episode. 1452 01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:15,759 Speaker 1: My Laker heart imploded in into itself and I couldn't 1453 01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:20,599 Speaker 1: stop like asking so many dumb questions. And he's the nicest. 1454 01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:23,360 Speaker 1: He's the nicest man, the nicest man. I'm will tell 1455 01:16:23,360 --> 01:16:25,519 Speaker 1: you more about it after this uh and also check 1456 01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:28,479 Speaker 1: out fiance. If you're in the ninety day, UH. You 1457 01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:30,800 Speaker 1: can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. We're at 1458 01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:33,240 Speaker 1: the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We've got a Facebook fan 1459 01:16:33,320 --> 01:16:35,559 Speaker 1: page and a website, Daily zeit geist dot com where 1460 01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:40,519 Speaker 1: we post our episodes and our there it is. Yeah, 1461 01:16:41,040 --> 01:16:44,799 Speaker 1: I did, came through. Came through where we post obviously 1462 01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:47,360 Speaker 1: all the articles we talked about, as well as the 1463 01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:49,920 Speaker 1: songs that we write out on. This week we are 1464 01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:53,160 Speaker 1: writing writing out on this track called Golden Green by 1465 01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:56,320 Speaker 1: this artist Emma Jean fac Ray th h A C 1466 01:16:56,520 --> 01:17:00,160 Speaker 1: k R A Y. She's a multi instrumentalist vocal us, 1467 01:17:00,479 --> 01:17:02,680 Speaker 1: which I love. I love when people are like, you know, 1468 01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:05,920 Speaker 1: one person bands and they have such a dope sound. 1469 01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:08,920 Speaker 1: This is one like if you like bad, bad, not good, 1470 01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:10,719 Speaker 1: you know, and you like kind of like that newer 1471 01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:12,960 Speaker 1: new jazz kind of style, but also you know you 1472 01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:14,840 Speaker 1: like a little hip hop in your life or something 1473 01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:16,880 Speaker 1: that feels like it would have been sampled by mob Deep, 1474 01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:20,240 Speaker 1: then check out her work because it's really really good 1475 01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:24,240 Speaker 1: and it's all coming from Emagen, so check that out. 1476 01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:26,760 Speaker 1: So check that song out right out on that and 1477 01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:29,080 Speaker 1: we'll see you later to tell you what's trending. Until then, 1478 01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:30,160 Speaker 1: bye by