Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season two eighty, episode
Speaker 1: three of Thy Stay production of by Heart Radio. This
Speaker 1: is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
Speaker 1: American share consciousness. And it's Wednesday, March twenty second, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three as of this recording. No arrests yet. I
Speaker 1: don't think, right, Jody, you got your eyes on the
Speaker 1: news ticker, and I could have told you that. I
Speaker 1: may have told you that yesterday. Yeah, I mean, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's usually such a reliable source, yea. Anyways,
Speaker 1: my name's Jack O'Brien aka plump Pers. I got plumpers,
Speaker 1: milky hit white plumpers, plumper plumpers. I got plumpers, milky
Speaker 1: thick white plumpers. That is supposed to be thunder by
Speaker 1: Imagine Dragons. I did my best. That is courtesy a
Speaker 1: fighter of the night man on the discord. That is
Speaker 1: an evil song man thunder by Imagine Dragons because it
Speaker 1: is very catchy to the five and six year old mind,
Speaker 1: and it is just the bitchiest. He's just like, everybody
Speaker 1: laughed at me, but now you'll all be crying in
Speaker 1: the nosebleeds at my concert because I am imagine dragons. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined by today's special guest co host.
Speaker 1: You know him from many a podcast his new podcast
Speaker 1: with Ted and Pushkin as Good Sport. It's Jody Aberga.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me back. What percentage of your day
Speaker 1: is spent? Comamp with the little Songs? For the beginning
Speaker 1: of this show, we have a we have a thriving
Speaker 1: discord and they feed him and I scroll through and anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I will find out after we
Speaker 1: hit record, whether I know how to sing that song,
Speaker 1: whether it's within my vocal range. Um, not a ton
Speaker 1: of prepperation, but I do appreciate it, and there's some
Speaker 1: real geniuses in the discord. We also bring up a
Speaker 1: question of who gets to refer to themselves as having
Speaker 1: a quote vocal range. That's right. If you can hit
Speaker 1: one note, that's a range, right, that's range. Uh well, Jody.
Speaker 1: We're thrilled to be joined by two very funny comedians
Speaker 1: who together host the podcast Blocked Party, which you're not
Speaker 1: going to believe. This also very funny. Please welcome to
Speaker 1: the show, John Cullin and Stephan he Hey, guys, thanko,
Speaker 1: thanks for having us On. Yeah, thank you, thanks for
Speaker 1: doing the show. Guys, your show is very funny. You're
Speaker 1: recently talking about an issue that I've been noticing more
Speaker 1: and more recently, um, which is, you know, you talk
Speaker 1: a lot about social media and the ways in which
Speaker 1: social media is getting worse. Um where the way is
Speaker 1: Google is getting worse. I was told that things were
Speaker 1: going to get better, and it does not seem to
Speaker 1: be the case with Google is pretty much unusable as
Speaker 1: of late. Google is all like if you search for anything,
Speaker 1: it's like three ads and then fifty things created by
Speaker 1: like an ai bought and it's just like impossible to
Speaker 1: use now. But even like Twitter, not even Twitter, especially
Speaker 1: Twitter Twitter, Yeah, but we're owned by Elon must Yeah,
Speaker 1: even managed to get fucked up. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you noticed today, but there's a thing going on where
Speaker 1: you'll click on a tweet and then it'll say it's
Speaker 1: been deleted, but it hasn't been deleted. So that's like
Speaker 1: a new thing. Yeah, it is sort of fun that
Speaker 1: it is like getting broken in new and exciting ways
Speaker 1: every single day. So I do sort of appreciate that.
Speaker 1: For the longest time, when Twitter was functional and kind
Speaker 1: of a big part of my life. I kind of
Speaker 1: would tell myself, Actually, the best version of Twitter would
Speaker 1: be one in which I write a tweet but no
Speaker 1: one sees it right, just getting out of my system,
Speaker 1: but then not have to deal with any of the
Speaker 1: fall back. And now I think I actually am living
Speaker 1: that out and I don't live in the dream. I
Speaker 1: don't like it. No, I don't like it. Elon must
Speaker 1: made that possible for you. Man, I don't know what
Speaker 1: everybody is complaining about. Well, this was my theory, like
Speaker 1: from day one of Donald Trump when he was that
Speaker 1: his his team should have created a basically a fake
Speaker 1: Twitter for him and just let him like rage type
Speaker 1: into a phone and tell him that it was like
Speaker 1: doing great, um, but never actually haven't brought into the
Speaker 1: well that's smart. It's like because I remember hearing a
Speaker 1: new story a while back, where I think it was
Speaker 1: in Germany. Outside like a senior center, they put like
Speaker 1: a fake bus stop for the for the Alzheimer's patients,
Speaker 1: so they think they're waiting for the bus. Would be
Speaker 1: the same sort of idea. Basically, I think they should have.
Speaker 1: I think they should have got Trump on the Dawn
Speaker 1: Cherry plan, which if you're not a Canadian. We are,
Speaker 1: We're both Canadians. You're not a Canadian sports watcher, Dawn
Speaker 1: Cherry is sort of um. He was like a hockey
Speaker 1: prognosticator for a long time, and they let him be
Speaker 1: on the air well into his senile years. And then
Speaker 1: when they first gave him Twitter, the rumor was that
Speaker 1: he couldn't use Twitter, he couldn't figure it out. He
Speaker 1: was in his seventies, and the rumor was that he
Speaker 1: would call a number and the number would go to
Speaker 1: an interns voicemail and he would tell the intern what
Speaker 1: he wanted the intern to tweet, and then the intern
Speaker 1: would tweet it in all caps. Because Don Cherry's whole
Speaker 1: thing was yelling, you know, kind of a Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith type deal. And yeah, they could have got Trump
Speaker 1: on that plan. They should have had. It should have
Speaker 1: been a step between him and tweeting. Just call a voicemail.
Speaker 1: They can edit out the crazy stuff and you know,
Speaker 1: and then deliver it to the masses. I think that
Speaker 1: was the method for a while there, minus the editing
Speaker 1: out of the crazy stuff. Yeah, I think he I
Speaker 1: don't think he's ever typed anything with his tiny fingers before.
Speaker 1: I think it's all you know him dictating two various people. Listen,
Speaker 1: people who are not familiar with Don Cherry, we'll be
Speaker 1: shocked to hear from John's description of him that he
Speaker 1: ended up getting canceled and said some pretty awful things air. Yeah,
Speaker 1: terrible thing, Well he said, he said terrible things for
Speaker 1: like years, right, and it really just took a while
Speaker 1: until he said one thing in particular that was like
Speaker 1: quite heinous. Um. But he was canceled. Culture to catch up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was famous for and I guess he's still alive. Um.
Speaker 1: But uh, and his I mean, I don't want to,
Speaker 1: like say, go listen to his podcast, but his podcast
Speaker 1: is truly insane. Um. The intro music, how would you
Speaker 1: describe it, John, Um, Well, he used to put out
Speaker 1: these videos every year called rockham sock'em which was a
Speaker 1: rock'em sock 'em Hockey, which was a compilation of hockey
Speaker 1: hits and goals and saves from the previous year, narrated
Speaker 1: by Dawn Cherry and often, for some reason, all of
Speaker 1: the clips and these videos were set to bad techno
Speaker 1: sounding music, nineties techno, nineties techno. And so that is
Speaker 1: the opening of his podcast and It starts with him
Speaker 1: staying his famous phrase, all right, let's go, and then
Speaker 1: the techno music kicks in. So yeah, I would describe
Speaker 1: it as like early nineteen ninety two bad techno music
Speaker 1: with Don Cherry soundclips over and he's like ninety years
Speaker 1: old now too, so it like fits even less D
Speaker 1: did Don Cherry. Is he the origin of the reason
Speaker 1: why everyone well, well why and also why everyone says
Speaker 1: let's go all the time. Yeah, I'm fascinated with trying
Speaker 1: to track down how let's go became the go to
Speaker 1: catch crass. That's an interesting theory because he was possible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was saying it like I remember growing up watching
Speaker 1: him on Hockey nine Canada every Saturday, and he would
Speaker 1: say it a lot. And that was in like the
Speaker 1: mid nineties, late nineties, so oh yeah, even earlier, maybe
Speaker 1: he would do the gun. He would do a gun
Speaker 1: like it would be like and do a finger gun
Speaker 1: to the camera, So that could be something worth dive into.
Speaker 1: F I'm planning to the extended go the let's go
Speaker 1: like it was kind of let's go, Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1: And then Tom Brady you know, like like it's like jazz,
Speaker 1: you know, Uh, Tom Brady is the Coltrane to Don
Speaker 1: Cherry's Davis, you know, and he comes along and he
Speaker 1: really pushes things along and and and and reappropriates let's
Speaker 1: go and then you know. But yeah, I mean people
Speaker 1: have been saying let's go in sports contexts for for
Speaker 1: a long time, right, it's just the saying it constantly,
Speaker 1: And now it's now it's jumped out of sports, right
Speaker 1: and it's just basically a it's I mean, it is
Speaker 1: the default expression of enthusiasm in any context now, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of bizarre to me. I'll say when I'm
Speaker 1: when I'm playing soccer in real life, or when I'm
Speaker 1: playing like FIFA or like John and I play NHL
Speaker 1: a lot, and like it's very common for us to
Speaker 1: say that after we score a goal or something. So
Speaker 1: and I'm like, thirty four, Like, it's not I don't
Speaker 1: it's not okay. Yeah, No, I think I think it's fine.
Speaker 1: It's acceptable. We don't have to hate every new trend
Speaker 1: that comes along. I think that's a fine one. That
Speaker 1: doesn't bother me. I think there's a lot of performative
Speaker 1: like this new thing that people everybody's doing all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, it's like, that's that's a fine one for me.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it because of Don Cherry to be clear, Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: it is a homage. Yeah, all right, John Stephan, We're
Speaker 1: going to get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
Speaker 1: couple of the things we may talk about. There is
Speaker 1: a new story about a deadly fungus that I am
Speaker 1: here to tell you, I don't think if I had
Speaker 1: to guess, and I am not part of the CDC's
Speaker 1: Mycotic Diseases branch um, but the CDC's Micotic Diseases branches
Speaker 1: on their bullshit again, They're they're saying this is something
Speaker 1: we need to be worried about. If I had to guess,
Speaker 1: I think this is maybe a reaction to the last
Speaker 1: of us um and scientists getting excited when people are
Speaker 1: listening to them so famous lat Like I would love
Speaker 1: to be the guy who's like, don't listen to this,
Speaker 1: like the day before the Apocalypse. But we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about maybe this Fox News producer's lawsuit against
Speaker 1: Fox News. The reviews have started trickling in for Ben
Speaker 1: afflex Air, and they are incredibly positive, So we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the same with the flame and hot Cheeto's origin story.
Speaker 1: So we're just this has been a trend on the
Speaker 1: daily zygeist of late, but this new wave of brand
Speaker 1: related movies and the idea that brands are to modern
Speaker 1: American culture what royalty was to Shakespearean culture and like that,
Speaker 1: this is just what our movies are going to be
Speaker 1: about from now on. So we'll talk about all of
Speaker 1: that plenty more. But first, John Stephen, what is something
Speaker 1: from your searchest three that is reeling about you? John?
Speaker 1: You want to kick us off? Sure? I look, you
Speaker 1: know you said you you Jack. You've been listening to
Speaker 1: a little bit of block Party the last few days.
Speaker 1: And while look, I'm a pretty white guy and just
Speaker 1: searched I think probably the most white guy thing I've
Speaker 1: ever searched. This happened last week and Stephan was actually
Speaker 1: present for this, but I had to Google search how
Speaker 1: to get kombucha out of a laptop. We were just
Speaker 1: about to record an episode of block Party and I
Speaker 1: spilled about half a can of kombucha on my MacBook
Speaker 1: Air keyboard and how I knew it was a Mac? Yeah? Yeah, exactly, Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: quick about it kimbucha has never been spilled on That
Speaker 1: would have actually been a first in history. You can't
Speaker 1: google it. There's no results if you look up kombucha
Speaker 1: PC spill um. But yeah, so I did spill a
Speaker 1: kombucha on my MacBook and I was, yeah, googling how
Speaker 1: to take care of that, And turns out I took
Speaker 1: it into the Apple Store and blockily didn't hit the board.
Speaker 1: So I only look at that. I only owe them
Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty dollars for a dome. It's bad. Well,
Speaker 1: the guy the genius bar would have been like, what
Speaker 1: it's like the most common This happens like ten times
Speaker 1: a day. Yeah, so let me ask kombucha. He just
Speaker 1: looks you up and down, like, let me guess, um,
Speaker 1: the I feel like there's a big portion of LA's population.
Speaker 1: That would have been like, that's actually good for your
Speaker 1: computer and you actually don't need to take it in.
Speaker 1: You should just let it rock a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: gonna grows some healthy biomes in there. Yeah, how about you,
Speaker 1: Steth And what's something from your search history? Well this,
Speaker 1: so this is something. John's gonna hear this and be
Speaker 1: like of course, and he's gonna kind of be mad
Speaker 1: at me. I think too. But I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of like uh digital like card games, so like Hearthstone,
Speaker 1: I got like way too into and still kind of am.
Speaker 1: And this is a reason development for me, Like reason
Speaker 1: is in like the past, like four or five days.
Speaker 1: But I've started playing a game called Marvel Snap, and
Speaker 1: so my search term is Marvel Snap beginner decks. And
Speaker 1: have any of you played the game Marvel Snap? I'm
Speaker 1: assuming no. I mean I'll ask John. I know what
Speaker 1: the answer is, John, have you played Marvel A Life? Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. The thing is, I don't like this
Speaker 1: has taken over my life. It's a very fast paced,
Speaker 1: very addictive digital card game. You can play on your
Speaker 1: phone or on your computer, and the games are like
Speaker 1: two to three minutes long, so you can play like,
Speaker 1: you know, one to four of them on the toilet,
Speaker 1: depending on kind of what's going on there. And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm just like hooked to the point where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like going to be dangerous for me, Like
Speaker 1: there's no doubt in my mind. It's it's incredibly addictive
Speaker 1: and you collect a Marvel like an individual card and
Speaker 1: then like that is yours. Like I feel like this
Speaker 1: is backing up into NFTs somehow, just in my brain.
Speaker 1: I feel like it just barely dodged being connected to NFTs.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and the thing is, like, I'm not even
Speaker 1: like a Marvel guy necessarily, Like I've stopped watching the
Speaker 1: Marvel movies and like I so it's not that, it's
Speaker 1: just that the gameplay itself is like so perfectly and
Speaker 1: like tightly designed to the point where I think John
Speaker 1: would actually like it, because John's a big board game
Speaker 1: guy and like strategy games and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: So I think there's a chance he would like it.
Speaker 1: But it's just like such a hard sell to get
Speaker 1: John past the Marvel stuff. I think, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Man? I love what Avengers s dot T
Speaker 1: dot A dot t dot I dot oh dot M
Speaker 1: I saw that the thing that's coming out. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't want movies, but I Avengers station. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's a I can't read what what did you just spell? Station? Yeah? Station,
Speaker 1: don't add for it. I think it's I don't know
Speaker 1: what stations. I think that's a local thing in Vancouver
Speaker 1: actually have only Oh, you're right, Yeah, it's a completely
Speaker 1: immersive and educational experience that brings visitors into the world
Speaker 1: of the Avengers. Not educational in there. They probably got
Speaker 1: like a grant for funding because they have to work
Speaker 1: about Marvel. That's learned about the entire MC. But what
Speaker 1: does station stand for st? That's how much scientific training
Speaker 1: and tactical intelligence operative network. Okay, this is where the
Speaker 1: minds that used to work for the CIA have gone to.
Speaker 1: Right for the Marvel Cinematic u direction, Like everybody's talking
Speaker 1: about STEM, we need we need our own, right, what's
Speaker 1: the acronic for us? Seven? Where did where did the
Speaker 1: Marvel Cinematic Universe lose you? Because I have a pretty
Speaker 1: specific answer that I feel like it was. Um, was
Speaker 1: it Guardens, the Galaxy two? I think No. I was
Speaker 1: kind of on and off. But the last one I
Speaker 1: saw in theaters because it was kind of like, well,
Speaker 1: there's nothing to do this weekend, let's just go see
Speaker 1: a movie was the last Thor movie. And it was
Speaker 1: to the point where we almost like walked out of
Speaker 1: it because we were it was just not maybe it
Speaker 1: just not for us. I mean it's it's not aimed
Speaker 1: at us, maybe necessarily, but it just like really pissed
Speaker 1: me off. I guess like everything about it that was
Speaker 1: loving thunder. Yes, yeah, um, I would imagine dragons. I
Speaker 1: thought I thought Christian Bale was good, but see I
Speaker 1: do have range, Jody, But Jack, where where did it lose? You? Like?
Speaker 1: Right around the same time with watching the Doctor Strange
Speaker 1: one from Sam Ramie, Like I was like, oh, this
Speaker 1: could be cool. It was like and it had like
Speaker 1: cool moments in it, but it just I feel like
Speaker 1: every time I watched one of them, it inevitably gravitates
Speaker 1: back towards a lightning fight like Cgne like if I
Speaker 1: I think they just need to set an internal rule
Speaker 1: for themselves that if a giant like purple lightning portal
Speaker 1: opens in the sky, we have made a mistake and
Speaker 1: need to like, you know, go back and rejigger things
Speaker 1: because yeah, yeah, it's the beam stuff is just like
Speaker 1: it's everyone has the same power and then everyone gets
Speaker 1: hit by the beam and they're just like kind of
Speaker 1: they're just like singed a little bit. They're like fine,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like daffy duck logic. Yeah. Um so yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't like Marvel necessarily, but the game
Speaker 1: itself is like it's incredible, Like within like a day,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is like taking over my
Speaker 1: entire life. And yes, all right, well let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll come back. We'll do some overrated, underrated
Speaker 1: and maybe get to some news. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: and we're back, and Stephane, let's stick with you. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is overrated? This is something that
Speaker 1: I discovered last year, but I would say kind of
Speaker 1: just like regular like soft bath mats are now those
Speaker 1: are overrated to me now, um, because I was at
Speaker 1: an Airbnb. I went to Twitch Con in San Diego
Speaker 1: last year, and at the Airbnb, they had these bath
Speaker 1: mats that are like like hard almost like almost like
Speaker 1: hard like the bamboo ones. No, it was almost like
Speaker 1: hard like clay or like stone kind of um, and
Speaker 1: they were like incredible. It was like, I can't go back.
Speaker 1: John shaking his head. I mean, well I was. I
Speaker 1: was at like a normal Airbnb and they just had
Speaker 1: these these We saw the math mats and and we're
Speaker 1: like this is interesting. And then there's a stone that
Speaker 1: absorbs water. I'm I, yeah, I've heard about this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I I guess going like the regular bathmat to
Speaker 1: me is now overrated because of how much I like
Speaker 1: this stone bath mat. Did you have one? Yeah? Of course,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you came home from twitch Con and
Speaker 1: you bought a stone bath mat. Yeah, that's like a
Speaker 1: normal thing to do. How much was it? Well, look,
Speaker 1: let's move on to the next question. Well, my question
Speaker 1: on that is like shipping what a what a shipping
Speaker 1: like that like getting a stone delivered to your house.
Speaker 1: It would be lighter than pet And I guess, like
Speaker 1: my worry was like if you step on it in
Speaker 1: like the wrong way, will it like crack because it
Speaker 1: does sort of feel that way, but it is actually
Speaker 1: pretty solid. It seems like um. But it was shipped
Speaker 1: in like a huge box with like tons of like
Speaker 1: extra packaging and stuff, right like the box they put
Speaker 1: the Arc of the Covenant in at the end of
Speaker 1: Indiana Jones just arrives on your front front. The box
Speaker 1: was like legitimately the size of like if you bought
Speaker 1: like a huge TV. And then the bath mat is
Speaker 1: just like normal bath mat size. So it's like very strange, um,
Speaker 1: but it's it's very nice. It's just nice to to
Speaker 1: step on it. It absorbs the water by this ninety
Speaker 1: dollar one. No, it was less than that, but not
Speaker 1: much by the tone of your voice. Okay, just well,
Speaker 1: and I was also in that's in Canadian dollars, so
Speaker 1: like that's that's like that's like nothing, right, So yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: moving on, how about you John with something you think
Speaker 1: is overrated. So there's been this recent trend in my
Speaker 1: internet algorithm where I've really cornered the market on Instagram
Speaker 1: and Facebook when I check it occasionally, where I'm now
Speaker 1: almost exclusively getting played like inspiring sports videos like it'll
Speaker 1: just oh, Josh Allen, you know, threw a ball around
Speaker 1: with this kid who or you know who's sick or whatever.
Speaker 1: And I love now. I'm a huge sucker for all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Athletes being nice to kids. Love it.
Speaker 1: The only problem is I'm now sucked into this sports
Speaker 1: video vortex where Instagram also thinks I want to see
Speaker 1: videos of what teams are playing on the JumboTron during
Speaker 1: a game. Um, and I've got I've got news for you.
Speaker 1: Not interested? Um, if I'm not at the game, I
Speaker 1: don't care who in your crowd looks like the lion
Speaker 1: from Madagascar. I don't care that you oh we lit
Speaker 1: up the visiting team with this little insult or with it. Wow,
Speaker 1: I think it's way over rated. I don't need to
Speaker 1: see a video of the JumboTron at a sports game, no,
Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, that is a really not a transferable
Speaker 1: like Uniti team. And I've written for the JumboTron, Like
Speaker 1: I I worked for the Vancouver Canucks for a while
Speaker 1: writing wows for the JumboTron, which is a very Canadian thing.
Speaker 1: I think, um, and wait, wait you wrote you wrote jokes?
Speaker 1: Are you like we're coming routs? Yeah? Like more jokes.
Speaker 1: So I auditioned to be the Canucks in arena host
Speaker 1: at different times and I was rejected both times, which,
Speaker 1: if you know about the state of the Canucks franchise
Speaker 1: right now, probably a blessing. I think I dodged a bullet.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they knew I was a comedian, so they
Speaker 1: wanted to start doing some more funny like in house stuff.
Speaker 1: And one of the main things they were doing, which
Speaker 1: you will see on your Instagram algorithm if these sports
Speaker 1: JumboTron video shows up, is one thing they'll do is
Speaker 1: they'll try and catch an opposing fan looking at their
Speaker 1: phone and then they will imagine, like there's a text
Speaker 1: conversation happening to them and another, so it'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: here's a Flames fan. Let's imagine what the two Flames
Speaker 1: fans are texting each other. And I would write the
Speaker 1: like I would write the jokes for the for the
Speaker 1: text stuff. So that was kind of like the main
Speaker 1: thing they had me do and it was actually pretty good.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I would enjoy the hell out of that
Speaker 1: in arena in arena, probably not on Instagram, yeah, but exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I will say, like the the in arena stuff you
Speaker 1: obviously have to be there for. But the stuff I
Speaker 1: do like is, um, who's the Chicago Bulls mascot, Benny
Speaker 1: the Bully. I will never get tired of seeing Benny
Speaker 1: the Bull just dump uh, like a huge plastic bag
Speaker 1: full of popcorn on someone like that. That is funny
Speaker 1: every single time to me. But that is humiliating someone
Speaker 1: I'm on board of course, absolutely. That goes without saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't need the kiss caam No, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think some of those are funny, and I mean
Speaker 1: they're clearly staged, but some of those, some of those
Speaker 1: are pretty good. Or that the dance offs you know
Speaker 1: with the units here we have an insider. Here are
Speaker 1: some of the kisscams staged? Oh almost everything, yeah staged? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, no, no question me. I think that they
Speaker 1: are consistently finding couples where the woman refuses to kiss
Speaker 1: the guy and gets super upset and then dumps her
Speaker 1: soda on his head and storms out of the arena.
Speaker 1: You think that's happening like like a few times a
Speaker 1: week around in arenas around the country. I mean, catching
Speaker 1: very boring kisscams, I guess because I've never seen that happen.
Speaker 1: The new bit they they're doing a lot is like
Speaker 1: they'll do the they'll show a kiss cam and then
Speaker 1: a woman and a man will start kissing, and then
Speaker 1: another man shows up, Yeah, and they sort of like, oh, like, oh,
Speaker 1: he doesn't Scotti doesn't know, you know, what is he doing?
Speaker 1: Like he's like cheering so hard he doesn't notice his
Speaker 1: wife is like kissing the guy on the other side
Speaker 1: or something. Is that the fre he's coming back from
Speaker 1: the bathroom or so. Yeah, the joke will usually be
Speaker 1: that she is kissing like so, let's say it's at
Speaker 1: that Canucks game kissing a guy in a Canucks Nucks
Speaker 1: Jersey and then her husband by friend or husband will
Speaker 1: come backward flames Jersey. Yeah, and this is good stuff.
Speaker 1: Elaborate humiliations opposing team. I love it's funny. Those are real.
Speaker 1: I've got a Marvel snap. What is uh? What of
Speaker 1: the thing? Is underrated? John? Yeah? Sure, underrated. I'm sticking
Speaker 1: sort of sports theme algorithmically themed skate videos. I'm not
Speaker 1: a I'm not a skateboarder. I used to a skateboard
Speaker 1: to get around a little bit, but not a huge skateboarder.
Speaker 1: But god, I love a good skate video. Nothing better.
Speaker 1: Just pausing on Instagram. Wow, this is a great skate video.
Speaker 1: I love it. It's harmless most of the time, just
Speaker 1: a great way to pass the time. You're a big
Speaker 1: Tony Hawk pro skater player, all yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean anything. I'm just saying, I you know,
Speaker 1: I love I just love to watch a good skate video.
Speaker 1: I think they're underrated. I think not enough people appreciate
Speaker 1: how hard skateboarding is and how impressive a lot of
Speaker 1: these videos are. In my opinion, that video game did
Speaker 1: ruin skate videos for me for a little bit, because
Speaker 1: I was like this, these people aren't shit compared to
Speaker 1: what I can do. And on n sixty four, I
Speaker 1: haven't played video games since then sixty four, but have
Speaker 1: a use, Steph, And what's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 1: I would say goldfish crackers as like a snack for adults, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I think people think of goldfish crackers and they think, oh,
Speaker 1: that's that's like a that's like a child snack, that's
Speaker 1: for children, and you know what they would be right However, Uh,
Speaker 1: they're just a very nice snack to have, although I
Speaker 1: do feel like because I always get like the huge
Speaker 1: carton of them, and you never feel worse than when
Speaker 1: you were like elbow deep inside the carton trying to
Speaker 1: get the goldfish at the bottom of it. I guess
Speaker 1: you can pour it out into a bulb. I don't
Speaker 1: do that. I'm just reaching in um. But just just
Speaker 1: the regular flavored, not the because there's the goldfish ones
Speaker 1: where there's like no flavor to it, right, just the
Speaker 1: saltine flavor. Almost. Yeah. I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 1: like purchased original Yeah, I think those are called original, right?
Speaker 1: They blue box white crackers, Yes, just a disaster. They're
Speaker 1: more like soup crackers. I guess right, like you put
Speaker 1: them in soup. But to me, original goldfish are like
Speaker 1: the orange ones and like the orange total right, and
Speaker 1: they're fantastic as a sack. I think I would say underrated.
Speaker 1: I feel like people don't talk about them when they're
Speaker 1: talking about like best snacks. So yeah, goldfish crackers for me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're actually the origin story of goldfish crackers is in
Speaker 1: development Warner Brothers, and I think it's gonna be great. Actually,
Speaker 1: I mean we might as well just like get right
Speaker 1: into Ben Affleck's Air because it premiered at south By
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Ben Affleck called the premier the most important
Speaker 1: night of my professional life. And the reviews are in.
Speaker 1: They're literally all positive, like it's one hundred percent. There's
Speaker 1: only nine reviews in I guess, but not the first
Speaker 1: nine that came in. It's one hundred percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 1: And I just want to like read a description of
Speaker 1: like from one of these reviews. Afflex successfully captures nikes
Speaker 1: heartwarming and hilarious marketing journey while paying respectful homage to
Speaker 1: all involved. Air is a tremendous underdog story filled with
Speaker 1: lovable characters. Um, it's just like there's something so strange
Speaker 1: to me about all of this, and yet like it
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense. But it's also like to be like
Speaker 1: the underdog journey of Nike's marketing decision to make Air
Speaker 1: Jordan shoes. Well, it's one of those movie concepts that
Speaker 1: feels like, oh, this is like a funnier die fake
Speaker 1: trailer from like twenty fourteen. Yeah, but it's real, and
Speaker 1: like it sort of reminds me because I didn't. I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised it's getting good reviews because it has a
Speaker 1: really good cast and I'm sure I will watch this
Speaker 1: movie eventually. I don't think I'm going into theaters to
Speaker 1: see it. But um, there was that McDonald's movie, The Founder, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that was a great movie, right, and I and
Speaker 1: I think going into it, I was like, how is
Speaker 1: how is this going to be good? And it's because
Speaker 1: they made The Founder McDonald's into like a huge dick, yeah,
Speaker 1: just a monster yeah, And so it was that was
Speaker 1: I really enjoy that movie. So if this is I
Speaker 1: guess this won't be the same sort of style of
Speaker 1: movie necessarily. But if the McDonald's movie can be good,
Speaker 1: then I don't see why Air can't be good either.
Speaker 1: It will not be the same style. It turns out
Speaker 1: it's like it is the It turns Phil Knight and
Speaker 1: Sonny Vaccaro like into these underdogs who like coming up
Speaker 1: with a marketing concept around the air Jordan's shoe, which
Speaker 1: I totally fell for. I am gonna see this movie.
Speaker 1: I am like, I'm pretty sure I'm going to enjoy it.
Speaker 1: But it's you know, this is an important myth for
Speaker 1: my life, like my childhood. I still wear Jordan's I
Speaker 1: Love I Love Air Jordan's. This completely captured me so
Speaker 1: like seeing what happened behind the scenes, but it's also
Speaker 1: upsetting to me that this is this is what we've got.
Speaker 1: It totally makes sense. These are the most powerful and
Speaker 1: influential forces in our civilization. They of course we would
Speaker 1: want to watch movies about them. But it's just weird.
Speaker 1: How does it? How does it make you feel that
Speaker 1: like the kind of big first swing at a Jordan movie? Um,
Speaker 1: not a documentary obviously, but the movie is like this
Speaker 1: weird kind of sideways angle in at it. Would you
Speaker 1: Jo of sorts? No? No, I would not, because I
Speaker 1: don't like I think that. My first question was, like, wait,
Speaker 1: who did they get to play Michael Jordan and they
Speaker 1: completely like cut around him, and uh, like I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know like about the ethics of this and
Speaker 1: like it's but it it seems like the thesis of
Speaker 1: the movie is like he's just this sort of like
Speaker 1: god like entity and they're trying to like move around
Speaker 1: him and harness. But yeah, like that that is one
Speaker 1: of the things. One of the not uniformly positive things
Speaker 1: somebody said was just like George gets just one word
Speaker 1: to say, and when he's present, the film shoots and
Speaker 1: cuts around him. It's unintentionally hilarious when in one crucial
Speaker 1: boardroom scene, he hastily turns his head away to study
Speaker 1: something on a wall before you can catch a proper
Speaker 1: glimpse of which is its like like an Austin Powers opening.
Speaker 1: They have like, you know, a tray of flowers following
Speaker 1: his face around. But that I think that's the only
Speaker 1: way to tell this story until like, you know, twenty
Speaker 1: thirty years from now, when like nobody remembers what it
Speaker 1: was like to actually watch Michael Jordan. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it is a little strange or I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is. It's it's something that you know, it's like
Speaker 1: here's a story about a black athlete, one of the
Speaker 1: first like people to really like gain some agency and
Speaker 1: build some real capital. And the story they tell about
Speaker 1: that is about all the like schlubby white executives surrounding him,
Speaker 1: heroes Jody yea heroes man. But you know, I was
Speaker 1: just scanning headlines about this, and it's like one after another,
Speaker 1: the headlines are all like Ben Affleck talks about why
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan isn't in the movie, like, here's why Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan isn't. I mean, it's just going to be the
Speaker 1: question around this movie, and Ben Affleck's I think very
Speaker 1: carefully crafted response to it is like Jordan is so recognizable,
Speaker 1: so steeped in the culture that like to put him
Speaker 1: in in any way. People know who he is and
Speaker 1: they would like ring hollow or whatever, which, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think there's probably other reasons why
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan isn't portrayed in the movie necessarily, though I
Speaker 1: guess he was involved behind the scenes a little bit
Speaker 1: and sort of at least given the blessing to the
Speaker 1: to the film. I would be interested to know if
Speaker 1: if John, because John famously does not watch movies yea,
Speaker 1: so he I think he watches like one or two
Speaker 1: movies a year. Maybe will this be on the list, John, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm going to the theater baby more. I love the
Speaker 1: Underdog Story and Shoe Doog of course my favorite book
Speaker 1: of all time, and I'm really looking forward to digging in. No,
Speaker 1: I I'm sure. Maybe why shouldn't say I'm sure I'll
Speaker 1: see it because that's never does seem like the type
Speaker 1: of movie you would see though, Like I mean, our
Speaker 1: block party listeners understand that John sees like no movies,
Speaker 1: but when he does see a movie, it's one that
Speaker 1: you would like, never expect. So I think a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago we were talking about movies you had seen,
Speaker 1: and you had almost seen Up in the Air. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, maybe I'll see It's it's
Speaker 1: very anything with air in the type. Yeah. Air is
Speaker 1: a big Ye, the air up there are is a
Speaker 1: big for me. Do love that pawn air I also love.
Speaker 1: And the one thing I thought stuck out when you know,
Speaker 1: looking at some of the the stuff around the show
Speaker 1: was that quote that you said, Jack about Ben Affleck
Speaker 1: saying it's the most important night of his life. That
Speaker 1: was the funniest thing to me, because that, to me
Speaker 1: is like the equivalent of spring training right now and oh,
Speaker 1: he's in the best shape of his life. He put
Speaker 1: a lot of work in this winteris are the best
Speaker 1: shape of his life, He's going to be ready to go.
Speaker 1: It's very similar to that. It's like, this is not
Speaker 1: the most important night of your life been up for
Speaker 1: you to say, but there's what was the because what if?
Speaker 1: What if? Was the article like the the twice married
Speaker 1: Ben Affleck referred to this as the most special, the
Speaker 1: most important night of my professional life. Everyone, I would
Speaker 1: say that was probably when you won the Academy Award
Speaker 1: and launched yourself into a yeah, yeah, I don't it's um.
Speaker 1: It is just I think one of the we are
Speaker 1: going to just be getting these movies now, uh, NonStop.
Speaker 1: And it's just the the detail that Nike becomes an
Speaker 1: underdog in this telling, like a you know, the billionaire
Speaker 1: founder of Nike becomes an underdog, and like that's the
Speaker 1: version we get feels like it's in it's not healthy
Speaker 1: for the overall like body politic of very civilization when
Speaker 1: you know, I think movies like The Founder and The
Speaker 1: Social Network are probably a little bit more important because
Speaker 1: they show that like people, like they're behind the scenes
Speaker 1: of these things that are already celebrated as triumphs. Um
Speaker 1: are people fucking other people over? Yeah, it's like correctly
Speaker 1: showing them as like sociopaths. Right. I feel like that's
Speaker 1: probably not going to happen in this one if Nike
Speaker 1: signed off on it, right, No, yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: absolutely they're not. The inevitable conclusion of like ip Yeah
Speaker 1: Films is going to be a movie about the like
Speaker 1: founding of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie franchise or something,
Speaker 1: Oh my god about all the Sony Exacts or whatever.
Speaker 1: Oh totally dead after Spider Man three and this one
Speaker 1: man like the Underdog story. Yeah yeah, God, the movie
Speaker 1: poster it just gonna be his like worn like baseball
Speaker 1: cap with like a spotlight on it, you know, and
Speaker 1: all the scenes are at Bruce Springs theme concerts with
Speaker 1: a bunch of fifty year old exacts making deals with
Speaker 1: each other. I mean, it is just that's how people
Speaker 1: view the American dream in general. Right. It's even like
Speaker 1: if you are a NEPO baby or or you know,
Speaker 1: the whole there was that narrative of oh, Kendall Jenner
Speaker 1: is the first self made billionaire or whatever the hell
Speaker 1: that that whole thing was a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and it's like, no, no, none of this is like
Speaker 1: in a very rare case. You know, it's sort of
Speaker 1: the true American dream where people come from nothing and
Speaker 1: you know, they start these multi billion dollar companies, but
Speaker 1: most of the time there isn't really a true underdog
Speaker 1: in the situation. But everybody wants to believe that every
Speaker 1: that's the that's the key sort of piece of the
Speaker 1: American dream is, oh, I was down on my luck.
Speaker 1: I had nothing going on, and generally leaves out the
Speaker 1: part where even if you did come from nothing, um,
Speaker 1: you stepped on as many heads as possible on the
Speaker 1: way to the top. That's the only way to get there.
Speaker 1: You know, it always has to be this. Oh, it
Speaker 1: was just such a lovable person. You know, my dad
Speaker 1: didn't own an Emerald, mind, he just owned several shares
Speaker 1: in it. Okay, so let Brad's get this straight. So
Speaker 1: I never even saw an Emerald growing up. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: Ceo biography, there's there are all these ways that success
Speaker 1: in you know, capitalism and the Western world gets laundered
Speaker 1: from being you know what, I think it was. Jody's
Speaker 1: uh partner, Malcolm Gladwell wrote wrote, uh uh yeah, um,
Speaker 1: but he he did like a deep dive into like
Speaker 1: comparing the CEO biographies and the stories of how people
Speaker 1: become the richest humans on the planet with the reality.
Speaker 1: And I bring this up all the time, but I
Speaker 1: think it's one of the most important and kind of
Speaker 1: details about our culture that like gets left out is
Speaker 1: like all of them did, like found a thing they
Speaker 1: could exploit and exploited it over and over and over again,
Speaker 1: Like it was just a very boring transactional predatory thing.
Speaker 1: Like all you become unreasonably wealthy by being like a
Speaker 1: very successful predator and praying perfect chance. I'm just saying, yeah, um.
Speaker 1: But the like so that there is already this whole
Speaker 1: body of you know, like bookstores are filled with the
Speaker 1: CEO biographies revisionist histories where like everybody told them they
Speaker 1: couldn't do it, and they like came in and like
Speaker 1: cowboyd their way through the boardroom. And I feel like
Speaker 1: we should hope for, you know, because these brand movies
Speaker 1: are coming, we should we should hope for versions that
Speaker 1: are like The Founder, which somehow guy made and also
Speaker 1: told a story that was critical of like the founder
Speaker 1: of McDonald's and didn't have to change the name of
Speaker 1: the company. So did you see did you read The Founder?
Speaker 1: I did not know. Yeah, So I think it's part
Speaker 1: of it is like The Founder is written by Ray Croc,
Speaker 1: and he kind of says like, yeah, I stole it
Speaker 1: from the McDonald brothers, and I did that, Like wow,
Speaker 1: that's part of the reason why like it. It's short,
Speaker 1: it's only like one hundred and fifty or two hundred pages,
Speaker 1: and he is actually very honest. I mean, obviously there's
Speaker 1: some revisionist stuff in there, but as far as like
Speaker 1: a CEO autobiography or memoir goes, it is found the
Speaker 1: honest one. Yeah, exactly where he you know, I think
Speaker 1: that's how that one maybe got made was Ray Croc
Speaker 1: was pretty honest about like, yeah, the McDonald brothers were
Speaker 1: kind of whimps, and so I just like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: a big psycho. Yeah it rocks. I'm a big psycho.
Speaker 1: They were like kind of nice guys, and that was
Speaker 1: you can't succeed in business being a nice guy. So
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, why don't I a psycho and
Speaker 1: take this over and I cut them out of the deal.
Speaker 1: No problem, because huge houses and bingo bengo. There you go.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to that Fox News story. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the deadly strain of fungus that is about to turn
Speaker 1: you on to zombies. We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And a Fox News producer named Abbe Grossberg, who worked
Speaker 1: with both Maria bartar Romo and Tucker Carlson the you
Speaker 1: know what a one to what a combo? Yeah, just
Speaker 1: filed two lawsuits against the channel, alleging that their legal
Speaker 1: team engaged in wrongful conduct while preparing her for her
Speaker 1: deposition in the Dominion case, the case that's being brought
Speaker 1: against them for saying that the election was stolen and
Speaker 1: that dominion voting machines were faulty or at least like
Speaker 1: helping perpetuate that. The allegations are that Fox's lawyers coached
Speaker 1: her to avoid mentioning prominent male executives and on air
Speaker 1: talent to protect them from any blame while effectively throwing
Speaker 1: herself under the bus, and they pressured her to downplay
Speaker 1: a text exchange with the senior vice president of Weekend
Speaker 1: News in which he instructed her in regards to a
Speaker 1: segment with Rudy Giuliani, there will be no fact checking today.
Speaker 1: There's just so much good ship coming from the dominion
Speaker 1: thing like, yeah, the texts from Tucker Carlson being like
Speaker 1: Trump is a disaster, Like we all know this. This
Speaker 1: is all such bullshit, like everything that we're having to
Speaker 1: repeat on air as such bullshit. And then I love
Speaker 1: the ones where they're talking they're like making fun of
Speaker 1: their listeners and viewers, where are like, oh, boy, our
Speaker 1: viewers for are a bunch of stupid, ignorant hogs that
Speaker 1: we hate lot. Yeah, And like, I think the way
Speaker 1: around that is to do just what like me and
Speaker 1: John do on the podcast is just like say that
Speaker 1: explicitly at the top of every show, just to get
Speaker 1: it out of the way. Basically we respect that more.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Yeah, that's how we start every show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: slop in the trough. Yeah, there you go. I was
Speaker 1: struck by how much they would couch their decision making
Speaker 1: in the context of it's what our viewers expect, right,
Speaker 1: And there was that little that was that week after
Speaker 1: the election where Fox had you know, called Arizona and
Speaker 1: sort of like actually proclaimed that Biden probably are actually one.
Speaker 1: And they started losing viewers to Newsmax. And it was
Speaker 1: a story that Fox executives told themselves, but you know,
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, our listeners are leaving us and
Speaker 1: they're going to Newsmax. And the reason they're going to
Speaker 1: newsmaxes because Newsmax is telling them lies about how the
Speaker 1: selection was stolen. And so we owe it to our viewers.
Speaker 1: It's like this really weird logic and like almost a cover,
Speaker 1: you know, that they're giving themselves. We owe it to
Speaker 1: our viewers to embrace these lies because it's and it's
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, I mean, obviously there's so
Speaker 1: many things that are broken about that logic, but it
Speaker 1: was just a friend journalism, I think, yeah, yeah, journalist journalism,
Speaker 1: you know. But you but that's how you hear politicians
Speaker 1: talk too, right. Um, they say like I can do
Speaker 1: whatever I want to wash in DC, and I could
Speaker 1: stand up on my principles. Then when I go back
Speaker 1: to my constituents, all they want to talk about as
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's laptop. So I owe it to my constituents,
Speaker 1: you know. And it's just this like really messed up
Speaker 1: um inversion of that, like you know, in theory, which
Speaker 1: should be a pretty like honorable motivation. It's also wildly
Speaker 1: disingenuous of them to claim like Web Newsmax is pushing
Speaker 1: it is forcing our hand when they've been like Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson's producers listened to the most right wing like talk
Speaker 1: radio just you know, the equivalent of like Coast to
Speaker 1: Coast am of like right wing conspiracy theories and Alex
Speaker 1: Jones that that was actually very unfair to Coast to
Speaker 1: Coast AM. I shouldn't I shouldn't have said that, but
Speaker 1: like you know, their level of fact checking, uh, and
Speaker 1: they listen to that and let that lead like their editorial,
Speaker 1: you know, agenda is just like whatever the craziest shit
Speaker 1: is that's resonating with people, and they've been doing that
Speaker 1: from Jump. Well, yeah, Tucker Carlson talked about like ratings.
Speaker 1: Most of the texts were not about news, they were
Speaker 1: about this is killing our ratings. Yeah. Yeah, you'll see
Speaker 1: it with like insane like qan on people on Twitter
Speaker 1: where they'll say at this like they're so far gone
Speaker 1: that they'll be like, oh, news Max and Fox News
Speaker 1: have gone woke, like yeah, because because they're not feeding
Speaker 1: them the exact conspiracy theories they want to hear. And
Speaker 1: it's just like, I mean, you can never please these people.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to just go more and more far right,
Speaker 1: which I guess is sort of what they're doing anyway.
Speaker 1: But um, it's it's just so funny to see people
Speaker 1: completely straight faced thinking that because Newsmax had to like
Speaker 1: legally apologize for something that they have now gone woke.
Speaker 1: Um it's just like so insane to me to see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we just got a quote yesterday from I think
Speaker 1: it was Kevin McCarthy that Biden is siding with woke
Speaker 1: Wall Street. So that's you know, the other uh fully
Speaker 1: woke out institution is Wall Street. Yeah, yeah, the damn
Speaker 1: stock markets go and woke? What are they over there?
Speaker 1: That's right, you know. I mean one of the things
Speaker 1: that just there's so many things in this revelation which
Speaker 1: I actually think is like going to really hurt Fox.
Speaker 1: I mean I actually think like this is this might
Speaker 1: be a turning point momentum, both financially but just in
Speaker 1: the public kind of imagination. You overall lawsuit or the
Speaker 1: specific revelations in this uh suit that she's bringing. Oh
Speaker 1: not this specific soup, but the overall kind of like
Speaker 1: that story. Yeah, yeah, the story that's that's coming out
Speaker 1: about Fox that you know, I think most people just
Speaker 1: kind of knew, have known for a long time, but nevertheless, um,
Speaker 1: it's out there and in a way that I think
Speaker 1: is actually seeping through. But you know, one of the
Speaker 1: things that also just strikes me, and I think about
Speaker 1: this too with like Trump World as well, it's like
Speaker 1: these people spend so much time like putting out fires,
Speaker 1: squabbling with each other, like you know, doing hush payments,
Speaker 1: like like coaching people on how to talk to lawyers
Speaker 1: and like dealing with it. And I'm just like, when
Speaker 1: do you have time to do because I've worked at
Speaker 1: a news organization and like it's a lot of work
Speaker 1: just to do the thing that goes on TV and
Speaker 1: then I do all this other work of like being sketchy.
Speaker 1: It's just I just part of me just marvels that
Speaker 1: kind of like when do they have the time to
Speaker 1: do all this chicanery behind the scenes. So you're coming
Speaker 1: away more impressed than anything. I think. I think they're
Speaker 1: good producers, think they're at some level. I mean the juggling.
Speaker 1: Juggling is impressive. It's true. UM, just some other details
Speaker 1: from this report again by a Fox News employee, UM,
Speaker 1: who was of course immediately countersued and put on administrative leave.
Speaker 1: But as of you know what, while we're talking, she's
Speaker 1: still a Fox News employee. UM that Tucker Carlson's offices
Speaker 1: featured large pictures of Nancy Pelosi wearing a plunging swimsuit.
Speaker 1: The staff casually makes anti semitic and misogynistic comments. Mister
Speaker 1: Carlson's staff held a mock debate about whether they would
Speaker 1: prefer to have sex with Miss Dixon or her Democratic opponent,
Speaker 1: Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and that so like there's this detail
Speaker 1: of like her first full day on the job working
Speaker 1: for Tucker Carlson discovered that the Manhattan workspace was decorated
Speaker 1: with the Pelosi picture. Then the next day, Justin Wells,
Speaker 1: mister Carlson's top producer, called her into his office and
Speaker 1: asked her whether Miss ms Bardaroma was having a sexual
Speaker 1: relationship with the House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy. That was
Speaker 1: day two of very healthy. Yeah, it sounds cool as hell.
Speaker 1: And look, I don't want to be a pure want
Speaker 1: to be a third Fox News. But isn't every swimsuit
Speaker 1: of plunging swimsuit anyway, right, plunging into the pool? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have many many a plunge John. They repeat that
Speaker 1: line multiple times in that and I know I like
Speaker 1: the idea of a plunging swimsuit. Yeah, thats just that
Speaker 1: wording got got approved. Um yeah. But then when she
Speaker 1: complained about being harassed by male producers, HR told her
Speaker 1: that she was not performing her duties. Um so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's in some level, it's kind of what you would
Speaker 1: expect from Fox News, but it's still horrifying to see
Speaker 1: it in detail, like what would it actually looks like
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. Nobody likes to see how the sausage
Speaker 1: gets made, but you have to be impressed by their
Speaker 1: ability to just juggle it all. As Jody Abrigant can
Speaker 1: be quoted as saying, I can't wait to see Dominion
Speaker 1: in theaters March right, starring Ben Affley. I mean that
Speaker 1: there already was that Fox News bombshell. Yeah, all of
Speaker 1: the details that I've learned from the various like dominion
Speaker 1: reporting and you know, reporting on on the lawsuit is
Speaker 1: like that movie must have had to cut so many
Speaker 1: details for just being like two over the top, because yeah,
Speaker 1: they still made it seem like there wasn't out in
Speaker 1: the open, just you know, uh, these sorts of things happening,
Speaker 1: all right. So a deadly fungus is supposedly you know,
Speaker 1: it is trending on Google yesterday. Transition. I well, I
Speaker 1: do just want to let you know that increasing number
Speaker 1: of fungus samples resistant to the common treatments for it
Speaker 1: are are appearing. I don't know. I tend to think
Speaker 1: that when a threat so perfectly matches a pop culture
Speaker 1: event that recently was incredibly popular, to be skeptical. Um
Speaker 1: so um. I have a less popular opinion that Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Dahmer never ate anybody, um, because he was arrested after
Speaker 1: Silence of the Lambs came out, and I think he
Speaker 1: was just an alcoholic who didn't clean up of his murder.
Speaker 1: Love this theory. I love that you voluntarily wedge that
Speaker 1: in with no real hook. This is a great event
Speaker 1: that you're about here, new deadly fus. Yeah, other news,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Dahmer did he really eat anybody? Did he? I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's a theory. These are John level. John
Speaker 1: is very segus too. So well, you guys have a
Speaker 1: nice little song for reference, Yeah, to reference your amazing seguys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you just say the segue is good, it's a
Speaker 1: good segue. Yeah, it's But anyway, the other details that
Speaker 1: leading me to think this might not be something that
Speaker 1: everybody needs to worry about. Do check your strawberries though
Speaker 1: there was a strawberry recall. We we talked about that
Speaker 1: on yesterday's Trending Frozen strawberries are might give you pepe,
Speaker 1: So definitely everybody check that out. I think I saw
Speaker 1: something about that on John's Gonna Hate This. But one
Speaker 1: of my favorite websites it's called I Was Poisoned dot
Speaker 1: com and it's I don't know if you guys know
Speaker 1: about it. It's like a crowdsourced website where people can
Speaker 1: post about if they got food poisoning and where they
Speaker 1: think they got it from. Wow, And it's like very
Speaker 1: useful on its face, but also sometimes people will it's
Speaker 1: not it's not useful adults, it's somewhat useful. Maybe gonna
Speaker 1: eat KFC tonight, I should check out I was poison
Speaker 1: dot com to see if he's got Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: worth checking out. But what's really funny about it is
Speaker 1: that occasionally people will upload just like the nastiest picture
Speaker 1: you've ever seen of like the end result of their
Speaker 1: food poisoning, and it's like, we would believe you if
Speaker 1: you just said you pute, like we didn't need to
Speaker 1: see it. Yeah. Um, So it's a very it's a
Speaker 1: very good website. I really like it. But John John
Speaker 1: hates it. Someone that did that have any relation to
Speaker 1: the sort of help a thing or No, you were
Speaker 1: just kind of doing a jack. I think the strawberry
Speaker 1: stuff they post stuff about, like, yeah, exactly, So it
Speaker 1: is they mixed in real news with just diarrhea and
Speaker 1: vomit pictures, which is actually a pretty good metaphor for
Speaker 1: our podcast as well. Um, anyways, it's not it's not new.
Speaker 1: The fungus isn't new. The numbers are the result of
Speaker 1: the pandemic. And you know, with a lot of attention
Speaker 1: from the medical community being paid to screening for COVID,
Speaker 1: less emphasis was put on screening for this. But it's
Speaker 1: a it's a thing that they've known about. We're worried
Speaker 1: about this for a long time and have an eye
Speaker 1: on so just in case anybody is out there concerned
Speaker 1: that the Last of Us is about to happen to them. Uh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. It feels like it's just trying to get
Speaker 1: you to click on an article. FYI see the last
Speaker 1: of Us Pedro Pascal boy. I hope that happens. Thank you, amen, John,
Speaker 1: Pedro Pascal will still exist whether or not there's like
Speaker 1: a fungus infection going around the world. You don't know, Okay,
Speaker 1: fair enough? Yeah, but will he escort me around while
Speaker 1: I act like a little baby? So yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: good point right there. Yeah, good point. Yeah, Thank you,
Speaker 1: John Stephan. Such a pleasure having you on the show.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having us the last As
Speaker 1: you referenced off the top of the show. We have
Speaker 1: a podcast called The Blocked Party where we bring on
Speaker 1: a guest every week to talk about a time they
Speaker 1: were blocked on social media. We've had some some great
Speaker 1: guests on the show recently and in the past, Tony Hawk,
Speaker 1: Nicky Glazer. You talked about Emily Heller before we got
Speaker 1: on air. There's some great episodes there. You can check
Speaker 1: you out drill on right. You've had him on a
Speaker 1: few times show a few times we've had some weird
Speaker 1: Twitter guys on the show, and he does look like
Speaker 1: a wrinkled Jack Nicholson and for kind of wild. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So you can check that out wherever you get your pods.
Speaker 1: And I also have a podcast about new metal. You know,
Speaker 1: and I know the Daily Zeitgeist fans are huge morn
Speaker 1: at Limp Biscuit people. It's a monthly podcast me and
Speaker 1: and Brian Quinnby, formerly of street Fight Radio and now
Speaker 1: of the podcast Guys. We review a yeah, a classic
Speaker 1: new metal album every month. People seem to like it.
Speaker 1: That one's fun too. Block Party you can check out
Speaker 1: at block Party pod on Twitter and the podcast is
Speaker 1: at the pod underscore cast and we spell cast with
Speaker 1: a K. Yeah, yeah of course. Yeah. And I have
Speaker 1: a Twitch stream we stream nightly. It's with Jesse Farrar
Speaker 1: from your Kickstarter sucks if you're familiar with that podcast,
Speaker 1: and it's called The Go Off Kings Twitch dot tv
Speaker 1: slash Go Off Kings. Nice. And is there a tweet
Speaker 1: or work of media, probably social media that you guys
Speaker 1: have been enjoying. I've been watching the New Party Down
Speaker 1: season and it is fantastic. They did not lose a
Speaker 1: single step. Um, and I've been I've been really enjoying it.
Speaker 1: I've rewatched the first two seasons to kind of get
Speaker 1: ready for this one. Um, and it's it's great, just
Speaker 1: a very funny show. Yeah back and I started watching
Speaker 1: the New Party Down last night. It's I would actually
Speaker 1: argue it's better. I think that's I think they've figured
Speaker 1: really good joke tone a little bit better in this
Speaker 1: new season. Very good. Um. I was gonna be that
Speaker 1: guy and share a tweet that I did myself because
Speaker 1: it's from the podcasts Patreon, so it's not actually I
Speaker 1: was just sharing a story, but we got basically the
Speaker 1: most unhinged Patreon message I've ever received, and I've I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. Uh And so I figured your listeners might
Speaker 1: like it and I would share it with you. So
Speaker 1: someone to keep in mind, someone donated to our patreon,
Speaker 1: so they paid us to send this message. Um, I
Speaker 1: haven't heard one second of your podcast. It's a great
Speaker 1: way to start, greatly to start a message to someone.
Speaker 1: I'n't heard one second of your podcast, but I signed
Speaker 1: up for your Patreon because I feel like I need
Speaker 1: to be involved in a new metal apologist discussion. Let
Speaker 1: me be frank. New metal was the most artistically bankrupt, idiotic, cynical,
Speaker 1: and probably toxic genre in music history. It really sucks,
Speaker 1: and this is we have a four year podcast talking
Speaker 1: about this genre. I would like to offer my assistance
Speaker 1: and expertise on an episode dedicated to metal bands that
Speaker 1: briefly became new metal. I'm thinking Slayer's Stain of Mind,
Speaker 1: Anthrax's Inside Out, Machine Heads, the purd Red. I'll even
Speaker 1: talk about the talent load and reload, although in retrospect
Speaker 1: those seem less like a cynical catch in and more
Speaker 1: like James Hetfield's less than stellar ability to copy his
Speaker 1: newfound favorite bands. Anyway, while I will never agree with
Speaker 1: someone who concludes that Limp Biscuit was ever pretty good,
Speaker 1: I really want to have this conversation. Thanks, and so
Speaker 1: I replied to that by saying, Unfortunately, we do think
Speaker 1: Limp Biscuit is one of the best bands ever, so
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that convo will work out. Thank you
Speaker 1: for thinking of us, though, and then he replied, um,
Speaker 1: do you understand that you are objectively incorrect? Try listening
Speaker 1: to Limp Biscuit to find out again. We have covered
Speaker 1: five Limp Biscuit album show already and the show is
Speaker 1: the literal first episode of the show is about Limp Biscuit.
Speaker 1: And then he stopped donating to the show. And when
Speaker 1: you stopped donating on Patreon, you have the option to
Speaker 1: fill out an exit survey, and his comment on the
Speaker 1: exit survey was, I thought these guys wouldn't be morons
Speaker 1: who actually liked the two of us discuss. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: right there. Maybe he stopped contributing because he thought it
Speaker 1: might be a conflict because once you guys hired him
Speaker 1: to do the coverage that he was advertising that that
Speaker 1: could do. Did you say this person submitted this comment
Speaker 1: like anonymously or like could you have even no, I
Speaker 1: see who it was? You out their name? They submitted
Speaker 1: under a name, and it's a fairly common like it
Speaker 1: wouldn't there would be options like it wasn't a sort
Speaker 1: of you know, I would imagine there's you're probably the
Speaker 1: only joke and like it. You know, it wasn't that
Speaker 1: type of It was common first name, common last name.
Speaker 1: But there is an like a sort of bit part
Speaker 1: actor that has that name, and I looked at their
Speaker 1: Twitter and they do kind of tweet like that, So mind,
Speaker 1: I'm sort of hoping that that's who it is. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you guys the name off air so you
Speaker 1: can also amazing. Oh yeah, Jody, pleasure having you. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for listening today. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Um, well,
Speaker 1: not much has changed since yesterday, so I you know,
Speaker 1: I haven't made a new podcast since yesterday, so um,
Speaker 1: but people can listen to good Sport wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcast. Als will have this Radiotopia history show this
Speaker 1: day in political History. People can check that out. And yes,
Speaker 1: since yesterday, what have I consumes? What if I? Um, actually,
Speaker 1: you know what I'll recommend. I'll recommend this app that
Speaker 1: I really love and I do a little work with
Speaker 1: them Photosclosure. But it's called Hark and it's a like
Speaker 1: a podcast discovery app, and it solves something that I
Speaker 1: certainly have always felt, which is like feeling very overwhelmed
Speaker 1: by podcasts. And what they do is they take little
Speaker 1: snippets from a bunch of different shows and make little
Speaker 1: playlists out of them. And so it's a great way
Speaker 1: to get a sense of a bunch of different shows,
Speaker 1: and then often I find myself saying, oh okay, I
Speaker 1: have a sense of that that's not for me, or
Speaker 1: oh wow, I can you know, find out find a
Speaker 1: new podcast. So it's it's hark uh, it's it's actually
Speaker 1: great and um they're nice people and I'm I'm into
Speaker 1: what they're up to amazing. Don't use that app to
Speaker 1: find podcasts besides this one. This is the only thing.
Speaker 1: It's just a direct link. You open the app, it
Speaker 1: just goes daily. I feel like I do. I do
Speaker 1: really like Locked Party. I highly recommend that. I also
Speaker 1: just James Urbaniac tweeted that Ron de Santis is the
Speaker 1: same age as Jason biggs um and I'm having a
Speaker 1: hard time with that. But I do love a good
Speaker 1: blank as the same age as blank. Uh. Not that
Speaker 1: one got me. You can find me on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at
Speaker 1: daily Zeitgeist. We're at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We
Speaker 1: have a Facebook fan page and a website Daily zeitgeist
Speaker 1: dot com, where we post our episode and our footnotes,
Speaker 1: where we link off to the information that we talked
Speaker 1: about in today's episode as well as a song. Usually
Speaker 1: super producer Justin is out, Um, super producer Brian, is
Speaker 1: there a song that you think our listeners might enjoy? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So this song is by Elle Michelle's Affair featuring Bobby Arosa.
Speaker 1: It's called Stack a Deck and it's just what I've
Speaker 1: been hooked on for the last like two three days.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like m like a funky ballad. I guess.
Speaker 1: Definitely a love song and a lot of card game metaphors. Hey,
Speaker 1: we were talking about card games earlier, right, so yeah,
Speaker 1: is it? Is it specifically Marvel snap metaphors? Well, you'll
Speaker 1: just have to listen to finals. Yeah, I guess you will,
Speaker 1: all right. We will link off to that in the footnote.
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