Speaker 1: Blake, what'd you get up to this weekend? Did you
Speaker 1: watch your E A G L E S Eagles Fly?
Speaker 2: I watched my J E T S Jets Jets Jets fly. No, yeah,
Speaker 2: I watched it was uh yeah, it was great.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 2: It's always a bummer when you see the other team.
Speaker 2: Just everyone was getting hurt at the end, including so
Speaker 2: those play they had a Have you seen those helmets
Speaker 2: that they wear, they're called the guardian helmets where big
Speaker 2: old helmets, Yeah, with like the padding on size exactly,
Speaker 2: but then they also will put like a sleeve over
Speaker 2: it that looks like the actual helmet, like like with
Speaker 2: the same art or whatever. Like you know how beautiful
Speaker 2: the art on helmets helmet art. Yeah, I remember when
Speaker 2: Da Vinci designed the first helmet and put it on
Speaker 2: top of a roof. But yeah, he got a concussion,
Speaker 2: which was like scary. It's just like such a violent
Speaker 2: sport where it's like even this guy who wears I'm
Speaker 2: sure his teammates make fun of him for wearing this
Speaker 2: big goofy helmet even though it's safer, you know, and
Speaker 2: he still like gets a concussion.
Speaker 1: Well, but it's just not mandatory, you know, click, but
Speaker 1: they're still like, let's let these guys who are in
Speaker 1: a horrifyingly toxic situation before. They're like, yeah, I got
Speaker 1: my bell rung pretty good, but I'm still gonna You know,
Speaker 1: the thing that makes me cool and good and makes
Speaker 1: my teammates respect me is that I still do my
Speaker 1: dangerous job with no regards to my own safety.
Speaker 3: Let's let them decide. Let's see what they think about
Speaker 3: this helmet.
Speaker 2: People also talk about how dangerous euphemisms are, you know,
Speaker 2: where it's like, oh, I got my bell wrung. It's
Speaker 2: like your brain is bleeding. You have a brain bleed,
Speaker 2: and it's going to affect everyone that you love in
Speaker 2: three years, three years after you retire.
Speaker 3: It's a metaphor in.
Speaker 1: That situation, is like the ringer in the bell is
Speaker 1: your brain, and the side of the bell is the
Speaker 1: skull is your skull. That's right concussion, that's a.
Speaker 2: It's liberty bell style because it's your skull's probably cracked
Speaker 2: at the point.
Speaker 3: The jokes this is what the corner you've backed me
Speaker 3: into head injury joke? Yeah, this is on you all.
Speaker 1: All I can picture is the statue of David with
Speaker 1: a football helmet on.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like with with like the big the
Speaker 1: big old floppy one, big old puffy one.
Speaker 3: But dick yet they fix his dick yet? Did they
Speaker 3: did break? Wait are you? Or did did David's dick
Speaker 3: actually fall off?
Speaker 2: I thought they were going to make it bigger.
Speaker 3: Yeah they didn't do that yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, update it for our modern era when you know, please,
Speaker 1: when people have everyone has seen porn and they're just
Speaker 1: like this is this is conspicuous at this point, guys,
Speaker 1: we've got you got to do something. Did you really
Speaker 1: hear that? Or that's just something that trying to get
Speaker 1: started for a while.
Speaker 2: This is a joke I wrote in the twelfth century,
Speaker 2: and I finally saw an opportunity to tell it in
Speaker 2: a medium that I didn't even know those going to exist.
Speaker 1: Is there any sculpture, any classic work of art where
Speaker 1: the person just has like a noticeably big dick, like
Speaker 1: I feel.
Speaker 2: The fertility sculptures typically have a real wang on them.
Speaker 1: I just feel I feel like it would be so distracting,
Speaker 1: Like they they started things out small and that's now
Speaker 1: the only thing that my brain will accept. And if
Speaker 1: there's like just an ancient Roman sculpture like white marble
Speaker 1: and just like a big weird dick.
Speaker 2: I got kicked out of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Speaker 2: because his statue had a huge cut and I screamed
Speaker 2: at the top of my lungs. Yeah, which was a bummer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, biggest dick on sculpture does not result in in
Speaker 1: the responses that I was hoping for. Yeah, what is
Speaker 1: the biggest penis sculpture ever built? But I feel like
Speaker 1: that's just going to be a penis? But you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, has it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Who has? Who?
Speaker 1: What's the ancient sculpture with the largest junk? These are
Speaker 1: the important questions that we need to be asking at
Speaker 1: this time.
Speaker 3: Since you've brought it up.
Speaker 2: I wonder if beauty standards you know obviously, how that's
Speaker 2: changed over like, you know, hundreds thousands of years were
Speaker 2: like yeah, because if I was, ah, I don't even
Speaker 2: like saying what I'm about to say.
Speaker 3: So let's just move past it. Let's not laugh about this.
Speaker 2: If I was a dictator, or I was a like
Speaker 2: ruler or an emperor, you have control over your statues.
Speaker 2: They're built while you're alive. You would put a big
Speaker 2: dick on them, but they didn't do it, so it's
Speaker 2: not like an oversight. I would imagine it just didn't
Speaker 2: matter back then. That's why we are.
Speaker 1: Kind of seeing what And I do appreciate the dictator,
Speaker 1: the restraint you showed by only kind of acknowledging the
Speaker 1: dictator pun, but you.
Speaker 3: Got to get in front of these things.
Speaker 1: I do feel like we're kind of seeing what a
Speaker 1: modern like what modern sculptures of Donald Trump would look like,
Speaker 1: if you know, because people have made those photoshops where
Speaker 1: he's just like a jacked action hero. Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 1: sure those guys have huge dungs, and of course that's
Speaker 1: probably what we're going to see one hundred years from now,
Speaker 1: is all sculptures replaced by jacked Donald Trump's with huge dongs.
Speaker 3: All right, So.
Speaker 1: Brian has everybody, Yeah, Brian has shared some male fertility
Speaker 1: sculptures and they are these seem to be more ancient
Speaker 1: than like the ancient Greek sculptures, Like those are the
Speaker 1: only ones I know. They're like, they're real old and
Speaker 1: they have big dicks. So I feel like the small
Speaker 1: dick thing is more of a like fake that Western
Speaker 1: culture went through because everyone was like, what you you
Speaker 1: think that's small what you know.
Speaker 3: Like David, he's got those yeeks. You go around the
Speaker 3: back of the sculpture.
Speaker 1: This is I mean, this is the thing that I'm
Speaker 1: constantly pointing out.
Speaker 3: You are that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like we If you want to know what has
Speaker 1: happened to our bodies, just go to the louver and
Speaker 1: look at the butts on every sculpture.
Speaker 3: Are just.
Speaker 1: They're caked up. They really they're toned. They got nice big,
Speaker 1: big butts, nice high butts, and uh yeah. They would
Speaker 1: look at us and be like, well, what what happened
Speaker 1: to our species?
Speaker 3: Was there?
Speaker 2: I would even take the art off the wall and
Speaker 2: see if there's a reverse of the paintings, to see
Speaker 2: if there's a back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why you're not allowed on the loop.
Speaker 2: No, it sucks because I used to love going there.
Speaker 2: And then you know, curiosity did kill the cat and
Speaker 2: by that, I mean it killed my ability to go
Speaker 2: to the Lord, to go to the Yeah, yeah or
Speaker 2: whatever whatever it is, that grub fucking grub of a
Speaker 2: museum wherever.
Speaker 1: The lore, Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three,
Speaker 1: seventy one, episode one of the week Trend edition. Uh
Speaker 1: my name is Jack O'Brien and I'm thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined by our special guest co host, mister Blake Wacker.
Speaker 3: It is Blake Wax. Are you doing an AKA not
Speaker 3: for this? Right? I don't do aks for this? No,
Speaker 3: I don't. I won't. I won't either.
Speaker 1: I just negotiated to my contract to my rider. I
Speaker 1: don't have to.
Speaker 3: But you're totally totally welcome to.
Speaker 2: No, I won't. I'm going to save it. We have
Speaker 2: a very special guest later today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do, all right, Blake, thank you for stepping in.
Speaker 1: As Miles continues to be out dealing with the horrors
Speaker 1: of the wildfires. If people didn't catch our Friday Trending episode,
Speaker 1: Miles of his family lost their home in the wildfires. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a gofund me that we will link off to
Speaker 1: in the show notes on this episode in the description. So,
Speaker 1: but the you know, I've been chatting with him on
Speaker 1: and off over the weekend, and he's just overwhelmed by
Speaker 1: the outpouring of support. And you know, people who can
Speaker 1: give or people just you know, uh send sending through
Speaker 1: their love and helping however they can. So yeah, as
Speaker 1: zak Kang has really stepped up. It's been really cool.
Speaker 1: To see and we appreciate y'all. We are gonna talk
Speaker 1: about the wildfires in a little bit, but before we
Speaker 1: get to it, we like to start things off extra
Speaker 1: stupid and let you get to know us a little
Speaker 1: bit it better by telling you a couple of the
Speaker 1: things that we think are overrated and that we think
Speaker 1: are underrated.
Speaker 3: Blake, I kind of sprung this on you.
Speaker 1: You didn't know that you're going to have to do
Speaker 1: an overrated and an underrated. So I can kick us
Speaker 1: off and then I can't. I can just go through
Speaker 1: the overrated and the underrated, and then you can. You
Speaker 1: can you can chime in.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to say that there.
Speaker 2: It will be completely indiscernible whether or not I had
Speaker 2: a whole weekend to prepare for this, or whether or
Speaker 2: not I just threw it together compared to like my
Speaker 2: normal underrated overrated, so no one will notice.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we'll discover this is the move you're you're
Speaker 1: still getting overrated. Underrated is just on the spot, all right,
Speaker 1: my overrated Obviously a lot of important things going on
Speaker 1: right now in the news around the world, but I
Speaker 1: did have to call out the decision to show Mark
Speaker 1: Wahlberg's bald head in the trailer for his new movie
Speaker 1: Flight Risk.
Speaker 3: Did you see this trailer? Like?
Speaker 1: It was played a number of times during football yesterday
Speaker 1: and just over the weekend.
Speaker 3: I did see it.
Speaker 2: I was watching My My, My Heart and Soul, the
Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles of yesterday and ye Ga, yes Eagles. And
Speaker 2: I couldn't tell what it was at first because the sound.
Speaker 2: I wasn't really paying attention. And yeah, I thought, like,
Speaker 2: first of all, I didn't identify Mark Wahlberg right away.
Speaker 2: I didn't know it was a promo for a movie.
Speaker 2: I thought maybe it was some funny bit that was
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 1: It seems like an SNL sketch or a like joke
Speaker 1: commercial type things. It's so unnerving, it's crazy, So for
Speaker 1: people who.
Speaker 3: Haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: Starts out, he's a pilot flying a prisoner Tofra Grace,
Speaker 1: no big deal to New York to testify in a case,
Speaker 1: testify against a mob boss.
Speaker 3: And he's the pilot. It's him.
Speaker 1: It's the law enforcement executive you know next to him,
Speaker 1: the you know, big big time law enforcement person, a
Speaker 1: free it's like the DA or something.
Speaker 3: But it's not just like some cop.
Speaker 1: And then over Grace in the back and they're in
Speaker 1: this tiny little prop plane because they don't they don't
Speaker 1: give a shit about this guy getting there at all.
Speaker 1: And as he greets them in the extended two minute trailer,
Speaker 1: which I had to go watch the first half of,
Speaker 1: I didn't even make it all the way through because
Speaker 1: such is my dedication.
Speaker 3: To this show. I want to spoil it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, he greets them. He has a Southern
Speaker 1: accent and what appears to be a full head of
Speaker 1: hair under his backwards baseball cap. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: a strap back or what are those things called snap strap,
Speaker 1: it's a snapout, so like it's got that little window
Speaker 1: where you can like see the hair, and he's got it.
Speaker 1: Nothing out of the ordinary here. This is just a
Speaker 1: Mark Wahlberg movie where he has cool head of hair
Speaker 1: and is trying to speak with a Southern accent.
Speaker 3: In a way that is I don't recommend Mark Wahlberg
Speaker 3: try and speak with a Southern accent going forward. It's bad.
Speaker 3: The word is it bad?
Speaker 1: I think bad is really the definition that's been given.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you pulled any Australian person off the
Speaker 1: street and we're like, try and talk like Forrest Gump.
Speaker 1: Here it was like yeah, with absolutely no preparation, spun
Speaker 1: him around five times and then made him try.
Speaker 2: He did say, I do declare over and over and
Speaker 2: over again.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's his character is going for good news.
Speaker 1: This character does not appear to actually have a Southern accent,
Speaker 1: appears to be like a mob enforcer from from the northeast, but.
Speaker 3: Does have hair. She does have hair. You wore his hair.
Speaker 1: And then they started noticing some things about Mark Wahlberg,
Speaker 1: the pilot. Blood spatter on his clothing, the the idea
Speaker 1: of the pilot he had just killed to take the
Speaker 1: job is on the ground. He didn't bother cleaning that up,
Speaker 1: and they're like, uh oh uh, you know, a fight
Speaker 1: breaks out and his hat comes off accidentally, and just
Speaker 1: bald as the day is long up top, just male
Speaker 1: pattern baldness like Jeff van Gundy bald up.
Speaker 2: Top and baldness.
Speaker 3: Like pattern baldness exactly.
Speaker 1: And it's not played as a joke, I don't think
Speaker 1: where it's not supposed to be.
Speaker 3: It doesn't doesn't interact with the.
Speaker 1: Tone of the trailer in such a way where it
Speaker 1: becomes a comedy. At that point, it's just like he's
Speaker 1: he's menacing. Mark Wahlberg is a bad guy. I have
Speaker 1: to asso this is a very thin movie. The fact
Speaker 1: that they felt like they needed to give away this
Speaker 1: aspect of the movie, like it during the trailer that
Speaker 1: mark the big twist that Mark Wahlberg is. I don't
Speaker 1: know what's more surprising, Mark Wahlberg playing a bad guy
Speaker 1: or Mark Wahlberg being bald.
Speaker 2: But this is his big oscar bait thing. I think
Speaker 2: where it's, you know, to play different roles because he's
Speaker 2: often like the action star, and that's not what this is.
Speaker 2: He's not an action star. He's not like a bad guy,
Speaker 2: this edgy, you know guy. He's bald, so he's not
Speaker 2: any of the things I just mentioned. He's made a
Speaker 2: career switch to bald, and I think that is going
Speaker 2: to bring him to the next level.
Speaker 1: You think this is you think he's going to get
Speaker 1: nominated for an Academy Award. I mean it is Whale.
Speaker 2: So she Brendan Fraser. He was Georgia of the Jungle.
Speaker 2: We all know that, and then obviously he did the Whale.
Speaker 2: This is Mark Wahlberg's the Whale. But he's but he's bald.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Brian the editor points out, he hasn't been a
Speaker 1: bad guy really since Fear. I mean he wasn't he
Speaker 1: was kind of bad ish No the Departed. I think
Speaker 1: he turns out to be like the last and only
Speaker 1: good one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he was just dumb. He wasn't bad. It
Speaker 3: was stupid, right.
Speaker 1: It is being directed by Mel Gibson, and the Academy
Speaker 1: does love to reward him for his directorial efforts. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he if this was his movie
Speaker 1: that he was counting on to like propel him into
Speaker 1: the Academy. I don't think I don't think that was
Speaker 1: the right decision. It seems to be more of a
Speaker 1: you know, at best like the top top top that
Speaker 1: this movie could deliver on as probably cliffhanger, which I
Speaker 1: this movie doesn't appear to be any cliffhanger. But it's
Speaker 1: just it's so funny looking. It's it really looks like
Speaker 1: an snl skit Like it's amazing that they were just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then his characters hair is going to be connected
Speaker 1: to his hat. The disguise is his hair is connected
Speaker 1: to his hat.
Speaker 2: I think they stole this because this was an old
Speaker 2: slapstick vehicle where a guy would be wearing a two
Speaker 2: pay and it would be a string attached to the
Speaker 2: two pay and then like a gust of wind would
Speaker 2: come and then they'd yank the string, the two.
Speaker 3: Pay would fly off to reveal Yeah, yeah, and he's
Speaker 3: chasing it around the stage exactly. Plane.
Speaker 2: That's why they needed a bigger plane so he could
Speaker 2: chase after his hair more efficiently.
Speaker 1: Then the second act of the movie is him chasing
Speaker 1: his hair around the plane and it just keeps like
Speaker 1: taking a nose dive. He yeah, I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: he is a person who is unrelentingly committed to two things.
Speaker 1: One like blurring the line between his super heroic movie
Speaker 1: characters and his reality. You know, like, yes, if he
Speaker 1: had been there on nine to eleven, I would have
Speaker 1: gone different.
Speaker 3: Et cetera.
Speaker 1: And in this case he is himself a plane hijacker,
Speaker 1: which is pretty wild. And then also just an unrelenting
Speaker 1: devotion to hotness, to his own hotness, wait, waiting up
Speaker 1: at two in the morning to lift and work out.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it's a it's a brave new
Speaker 1: look for one of our bravest.
Speaker 3: One of our men.
Speaker 2: Yea, our best and brightest and bravest.
Speaker 3: Bravest performers. He's still hot.
Speaker 2: We don't want to say that he's I know we've
Speaker 2: been making fun of but he's still obviously an eight
Speaker 2: point nine at the lowest hair gun. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, he plummeted points all the way to
Speaker 2: an eight point nine. He demands the like at every
Speaker 2: shot where he doesn't have his hair on, like he
Speaker 2: has to like have his abs out in some way, like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, his shirt came off too, as his
Speaker 2: head came off. I guess those were connected. Anyways, I
Speaker 2: was about to say, I hope this is like I
Speaker 2: was about to say, O, yeah, it is like big dick,
Speaker 2: because we were talking about like statue dicks in the opening.
Speaker 2: But then if that gets cut out, then I just
Speaker 2: said that, and then there would be no reaction. We'd
Speaker 2: move on to like why the fuck did he just
Speaker 2: say that?
Speaker 3: I should have said keep statue dick stuff. That's whenever
Speaker 3: also in your contract. Yeah, that's our promise to you.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Any anything has that brought up, anything that
Speaker 3: you think is overrated, Blake, it has.
Speaker 2: Actually, it reminds me a lot of the salt that's
Speaker 2: used to salt streets when it's cold out or when
Speaker 2: it's about to freeze. It doesn't remind me of that
Speaker 2: at all. I just looked outside for an overrated and
Speaker 2: that's what I came up with. And yeah, but I
Speaker 2: do believe that, Yeah, fuck that stuff. There has to
Speaker 2: be a, may I say, a better way of salting
Speaker 2: the street because it's also really bad for dogs' feet too,
Speaker 2: where that's a tip also where we just got, like
Speaker 2: our dog, these booties that are crazy. And also if
Speaker 2: if you put boots on a dog, they walk around
Speaker 2: like a horrific marionette, like someone who's like marionetting who's
Speaker 2: also in an earthquake, Like is what the dog looks like.
Speaker 2: And it's adorable, it's the cutest thing. But we put
Speaker 2: them on his feet, not necessarily because of the cold
Speaker 2: snow or ice, but because of like this chemical, this
Speaker 2: blue shit, and it messes it just messes up your car.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like there has to be something that isn't
Speaker 2: as chemic, can't be good for the environment either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you work.
Speaker 1: On that, CEES, they work on some better salt. Yeah, CBS,
Speaker 1: c CES not CVS they just had their consumer tech conference,
Speaker 1: the big big conference with uh yeah, I thought twenty
Speaker 1: guy but they yeah, we'll probably talk about it on
Speaker 1: tomorrow's episode. But it was just the stuff that they
Speaker 1: come through with, like this is an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: like we saw a common problem that everybody has, and
Speaker 1: instead it's always just as.
Speaker 2: I've drone that looks like a little boy that can
Speaker 2: to steal more money from the middle class. It's like, wait,
Speaker 2: why are you making that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but anyways, we work on salt that doesn't destroy
Speaker 1: our pups little toesies because yeah, I remember one of
Speaker 1: our dogs back when we lived in New York got
Speaker 1: one of those it's a big chonky salt, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like big old chunks that then like kind of
Speaker 1: turns into mush when it meets the snow. But got
Speaker 1: one of those salts in his paw and it was unpleasant.
Speaker 1: And yeah, then we put the little footy things on
Speaker 1: and hated that almost as much. He was like, what
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 2: Just be in pain? Just let me be in pain,
Speaker 2: because this sucks wearing these boots.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, c yes, I want World's fair vibes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Brand that editor pointed out, like that's what we're looking for,
Speaker 1: not this where it's like refrigerator with AI. The big
Speaker 1: takeaway this year was like the Rumbas, but like now
Speaker 1: they have arms so they can like take socks out
Speaker 1: of the way and move them.
Speaker 2: They can tie your shoelaces together as a prank, and
Speaker 2: so when you stand over your fall down, Yeah exactly,
Speaker 2: it's punk.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, now rumbos but now they do pranks. It's like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we want to see rich guys electricute elephants again for
Speaker 1: no reason. That's no, that's not true. We want better
Speaker 1: road ice. Okay, better road ice, all right, my underrated
Speaker 1: blank since you so rudely asked, So six year.
Speaker 3: Old kid lies? Is my underrated?
Speaker 1: Like, my six year old is at a time and
Speaker 1: a lot of his friends seem to be at this
Speaker 1: time too, where they're just discovering their ability to lie,
Speaker 1: and some of them are really like exploring the studio
Speaker 1: space with it really you know, pretty good. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: my six year old is it's kind of like living
Speaker 1: with Bill Clinton. Like I ask if he's brushed his
Speaker 1: teeth and he assures me he has, and then when
Speaker 1: I figure out he absolutely has not, he argues that
Speaker 1: he was telling the truth because he interpreted my question
Speaker 1: to be had he ever brushed his teeth at all
Speaker 1: in his entire life? And he had the night before?
Speaker 2: Did you brush your teeth tonight? Is that how I
Speaker 2: have to now?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: Now That's where I'm at, because otherwise we'll get into
Speaker 1: a debate about the definition of like have.
Speaker 3: I guess have you brushed your teeth? It's very broad. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Like he some of his friends like the lies he
Speaker 1: brings home. Like one of them claims to be a
Speaker 1: world class hacker. I've talked before about one of them
Speaker 1: who claims he's never touched the color pink in his life.
Speaker 1: Like that's not just like doesn't like he's never touched it.
Speaker 2: He stood up at dinner at a nice restaurant and
Speaker 2: slammed his fist on the table and said, I've never
Speaker 2: touched the color pink exactly.
Speaker 1: There's also one that claims to not only just have
Speaker 1: never seen a unicorn, but never thought of one also,
Speaker 1: which I've never I've never even thought about it.
Speaker 2: I have no fun time for those horn horses. I
Speaker 2: have other things to do. Why would I think about unicorns.
Speaker 2: It's like you sound like someone who thinks a lot
Speaker 2: about unicorns. Not only have you thought about it once,
Speaker 2: it's probably your prevailing thought at all times is about unicorns.
Speaker 3: Right exactly. It's such a weird overreach.
Speaker 1: I've never thought even as we're talking about this right
Speaker 1: now and I'm saying the world word unicorn, I've actually
Speaker 1: never thought of a unicorn before.
Speaker 3: Never that.
Speaker 1: It also doesn't have a mom and has was never
Speaker 1: a baby according to him, So just legendary shit coming
Speaker 1: out of the first right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that kid kind of rules. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Mom never had a mom, was never a baby, like
Speaker 1: you losers. So I don't know what any of you
Speaker 1: are talking about.
Speaker 2: That kid has two moms and also a small most
Speaker 2: age and is still a baby.
Speaker 3: It's still is.
Speaker 1: Wearing diapers, and it's likecond a passifire, as he says,
Speaker 1: is there anything you thinks underrated?
Speaker 4: Blake?
Speaker 2: So I have liked the unicorn kid. I've never thought
Speaker 2: about Eddie Redmain before in my life, and I've never
Speaker 2: thought about him. And then my wife was out of
Speaker 2: town this weekend, so what I did is I went
Speaker 2: crazy and watched all of the Jackal the Day of
Speaker 2: the jackal On Peacock in like however many hours it
Speaker 2: was is like just how I spent my every waking
Speaker 2: minute of my day watching it. And you know it's
Speaker 2: not a genius tell it's no flight risk. But he
Speaker 2: does have a good head of hair in that movie.
Speaker 2: But I never I think I wasn't too familiar with
Speaker 2: Eddie Redmaan as an actor. I don't know what he's
Speaker 2: like as a human being, but I only saw him
Speaker 2: in those like Harry Potter knockoff movies where his name's
Speaker 2: like like Slinky Scalamander or something, and I'm like, this
Speaker 2: guy's a loser, and then he was cool and The
Speaker 2: Fantastic Beasts, Thank You Another and just unicorns in that movie.
Speaker 2: The most Fantastic of Beasts is a unicorn. But yeah,
Speaker 2: he was really good in it, Like I found him
Speaker 2: like very There's just something about him. I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's his face or like, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: He was very captivating it so like underrated.
Speaker 3: Are you encountering acting for the first time.
Speaker 1: There's something I don't know, like his like his face,
Speaker 1: he like pretends it's almost like he's a different person
Speaker 1: as he's his.
Speaker 2: Name's Charles, but I know his name's Eddie, so I
Speaker 2: don't know if he's lying.
Speaker 3: Doing this thing with his face where I don't know.
Speaker 2: He had a sniper rifle. But I'm like, I thought
Speaker 2: he was an actor and here he is as a sniper.
Speaker 2: So whatever talent that is, I'm not familiar with it,
Speaker 2: but it's it's unbelievable and he should find work doing it.
Speaker 1: He started as newt s commander. That's a Fantastic Beast.
Speaker 1: Beast filmstic Fantastic Feasts is my favorite streaming show that
Speaker 1: a Chef's Table spin off. He does seem to be
Speaker 1: that quality of actor that's like, wait, you're doing a
Speaker 1: TV thing like you kind of like I remember this
Speaker 1: with the first season of Fargo and Billy Bob Thornton. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just being like this is incredible, Like to have an
Speaker 1: a level of actor that's like that, Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like there's a handful of those where it's just like
Speaker 1: when they're in a streaming series, it just like elevates everything.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen The Jackal One, but I kind of
Speaker 1: got that sense just from the trailer that it was
Speaker 1: going to be like, oh shit, I actually like wish
Speaker 1: that was a movie, like it was a trailer for
Speaker 1: a streaming series that I was like, I just wish
Speaker 1: this was a movie so I could watch it, because
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna waste eight hours on
Speaker 1: this ship.
Speaker 2: Well you know, maybe if you like get the flu
Speaker 2: or something, you can you can watch it. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's more it's like eleven hours of But it's
Speaker 2: one of those things we're having a guy of that
Speaker 2: acting quality in a series where normally the feeling after
Speaker 2: you see a movie is like, oh, okay, well I
Speaker 2: guess I won't see that guy again, you know, like
Speaker 2: that guy that I enjoyed watching for an hour, forty minutes,
Speaker 2: two hours, and it's like, oh wait, I get to
Speaker 2: see this guy again and again and again and again,
Speaker 2: and I do it nine more times. But yeah, it's
Speaker 2: I don't know if this if the show's good necessarily,
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's problematic elements of it, but he's great
Speaker 2: in it.
Speaker 1: So I love that assassin, like, you know, story, give
Speaker 1: it me, put it right in my veins.
Speaker 2: Assassins. I love like eight guys in a room like
Speaker 2: that that like a Tarantino, eight cowboys in a in
Speaker 2: a barn or whatever.
Speaker 3: Like that movie. Yes, yes, that I like Poland eight
Speaker 3: Cowboys in a Barn. Yeah. One.
Speaker 2: There's one woman in this whole movie, in this seventeen
Speaker 2: hour movie, there's one woman and.
Speaker 3: The horrifying things that are done to her. Jesus my god. Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, Eddie Redmain, if you had given me here,
Speaker 1: maybe I can do this with you.
Speaker 3: If you haven't looked at up? What age would you
Speaker 3: guess Eddie Redmain is now? Yeah? Of course now, Blake, yes,
Speaker 3: now when when? Who are you talking about? And Eddie Redmain?
Speaker 3: You're talking about? Okay, guy, who's good Eddie Redmain? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would say he's.
Speaker 2: Redd Edward Yeah, thirty eight, Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Would have gone like twelve thirteen. For some reason, he's
Speaker 1: perpetually been a child in my brain. He's forty three
Speaker 1: years old. Whoa, which I he's been around for a while.
Speaker 1: Like that makes sense to the logical part of my brain,
Speaker 1: But the elderly part of my brain.
Speaker 2: Is like, whoa red Man, the red Main boy with
Speaker 2: Red Maid. Yeah, it's the Freckles. Freckles infamously aged, incredibly
Speaker 2: well white.
Speaker 1: Male, always always all right, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: we'll come back, We'll talk about some.
Speaker 4: News, and we're back. Let's get sat Let's get Sack.
Speaker 4: SA said, all right, the wildfires are as of this recording.
Speaker 3: You know, it's Monday morning.
Speaker 1: We had a couple days with fairly good conditions where
Speaker 1: they were able to get some of them under control,
Speaker 1: but they're still burning. I wouldn't say under control, more
Speaker 1: under control. There's still like the level of containment is
Speaker 1: pretty small as of this recording, and they are expecting
Speaker 1: the wins to kick back up on Monday night into
Speaker 1: Tuesday and Wednesday. So really, you know, an ongoing situation
Speaker 1: that has already impacted a lot of people in horrible ways.
Speaker 1: I'd say one of the big stories that's emerging is
Speaker 1: the insurance companies are probably going to be no longer
Speaker 1: solvent after this. The government is going to have to
Speaker 1: bail them out or just like directly pay people for
Speaker 1: their homes or the ability to rebuild or not, as
Speaker 1: we saw in the first Trump administration when you tried
Speaker 1: to cut funding to California during wildfires. And yeah, people
Speaker 1: are just saying the whole like they're just you know,
Speaker 1: if the homes become unensurable, then the whole real.
Speaker 3: Estate market tanks.
Speaker 1: It's just like a bleaku outlook for people who think
Speaker 1: economic factors are the only thing that's real. Fortunately, there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who are just regardless of
Speaker 1: that shit, going out and working their ass off around
Speaker 1: the clock. Again, want a shout out Zeigang for coming
Speaker 1: through for Miles and just the outpouring of support and
Speaker 1: donations for his family, But I'll let him speak to
Speaker 1: his experience when he's back. But yeah, just elsewhere, the
Speaker 1: food and donation centers seem to be you know, just
Speaker 1: tons of staff, and which is a good thing because
Speaker 1: just so much stuff is churning in from people who
Speaker 1: are trying to help. Like the real test obviously will
Speaker 1: be whether we can like keep this level of community
Speaker 1: action up after it's no longer front page news. But
Speaker 1: for now, I feel like the story of the fire
Speaker 1: that I've seen is just people stepping up for one
Speaker 1: another as a lot of the you know, systems that
Speaker 1: are supposed to step up end up kind of failing.
Speaker 1: And the main system we're seeing fail is the market,
Speaker 1: Like uh uh, well, yeah, there's all sorts of shit
Speaker 1: happening with landlords, and well we'll we'll get into it,
Speaker 1: but just generally LA has like the lowest ever soil
Speaker 1: moisture right now because of you know, we let the
Speaker 1: market cook for a good hundred years and the result
Speaker 1: is we no longer can survive in parts of the
Speaker 1: planet and people are I don't know, yeah, the reporting
Speaker 1: on well and then like what's going to happen to
Speaker 1: the market and the insurance just seems like, well, this
Speaker 1: is the end of that. It would seem like, well,
Speaker 1: we'll see, uh what happens. But it feels like that
Speaker 1: is no longer. You can't even like really have that
Speaker 1: conversation anymore that like, well, how's the market going to
Speaker 1: respond to the shit?
Speaker 2: Like well it's so gross, Yeah, it's it's all and
Speaker 2: it's all bad. Where like it's one of those things
Speaker 2: where each you know, piece of paper you turn over,
Speaker 2: there's just more bad.
Speaker 3: News on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is something too where like even if the
Speaker 2: government does help the just if you remember, like during COVID,
Speaker 2: the disbursement of funds is kind of prehistoric where they
Speaker 2: send paper checks out, so yeah, or like those weird
Speaker 2: prepaid cards and these people are trying to be paid
Speaker 2: for something that happened where they don't have an address anymore,
Speaker 2: so even if they do fucking and that sounds like
Speaker 2: a simple thing where it's like, wait, why wouldn't they
Speaker 2: just you know, even ach it to like a bank
Speaker 2: account or whatever, like yeah, these are all like that's
Speaker 2: even fucked.
Speaker 1: So I saw, Yeah, I saw an interview with Gavin
Speaker 1: Newso somewhere like the the idea that we have to
Speaker 1: be careful about giving out funds to the wrong people
Speaker 1: started coming up where it's like we gotta be we
Speaker 1: gotta worry about fraud here people, and it's like just
Speaker 1: fucking find a way to get the money to people,
Speaker 1: and if like people commit fraud, you can get investigate
Speaker 1: that later. Yeah, you get there, ask later.
Speaker 2: It's crazy And I've noticed too, Like obviously you said
Speaker 2: it perfectly, but when I search my name on the
Speaker 2: zekeeist reddits and discords, which I do fifteen times a day,
Speaker 2: I did stumble upon how generous everybody was. I'm joking,
Speaker 2: it's it is really really cool. Of it's the like
Speaker 2: and you know, I don't I don't have a stake
Speaker 2: in this podcast, so I'm not kissing to be honest,
Speaker 2: I truly I've used the phrase waste of time. Uh,
Speaker 2: exclusively describe it. But the or the I should say,
Speaker 2: like the listeners, the Zeit gang are It's amazing to
Speaker 2: see a group. If I were you, I would be like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is who I want to be fans of the
Speaker 2: thing that I'm doing. And I think that's you know,
Speaker 2: I know in stand up you see a lot of
Speaker 2: comedians behave in a horrendous way and then they go
Speaker 2: and do shows and they do shitty like you know,
Speaker 2: like punching down material, and then they look at at
Speaker 2: their audience and they see the stupidest fucking people in
Speaker 2: the entire world coming to your their shows. This is
Speaker 2: the opposite of that where it's like, oh, if you're
Speaker 2: doing good work and you're doing you're trying to progress
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, you're not trying to progress humanity.
Speaker 2: I know, even though you call me every single day
Speaker 2: and you go, Blake, I just progressed humanity.
Speaker 3: But like, if how do we continue to progress humanity?
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're on the right side of things and
Speaker 2: you put out great stuff all the time, like, that's
Speaker 2: who you want to be consuming it. So it is
Speaker 2: cool in a tangible way to see that these are
Speaker 2: the people who are who are listening to the.
Speaker 1: Show, and the people who stopped listening along the way
Speaker 1: because they're not someone stops talking, have let us have
Speaker 1: let us know, so we're yeah, you know, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the people who stopped listening and donating, you know.
Speaker 1: The landlords illegally jacking up rent prices. Again, it's like
Speaker 1: early days. The reporting is not like super buttoned up
Speaker 1: at this point, and like a lot of the stuff
Speaker 1: is coming through the local news, which, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: like watching the local news, I saw a reporter just
Speaker 1: like start being like I think that fire was like
Speaker 1: started by a person just randomly with like no basis whatsoever,
Speaker 1: thought it wasn't yeah, yeah, just coming up with a
Speaker 1: villain like a Hollywood movie plot that he could graft
Speaker 1: on top of the horrible, senseless tragedy that's happening. But
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people are talking about landlords
Speaker 1: that are illegally jacking up rent prices by as much
Speaker 1: as fifty percent, despite stern warnings from Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Speaker 1: And things are so bad that even one of the
Speaker 1: stars of Selling Sunset is complaining about this issue, and
Speaker 1: he was recently implicated in a one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: illegal kickback scheme. So imagine how shitty you have to
Speaker 1: be to lose the moral high ground to that guy.
Speaker 2: Well, the kickbacks, that's different, it's a different vertical of
Speaker 2: the jacking up rent.
Speaker 1: But he was just pointing out that, like he's seeing
Speaker 1: crazy amount of bad shit happening in the real estate markets.
Speaker 1: And even Kim Kardashian came out, and this is another
Speaker 1: story that we'll be kind of digging into more deeply
Speaker 1: in the coming days. But Kim Kardashian, speaking of reality
Speaker 1: stars coming out and suddenly making good points, spoke out
Speaker 1: against the fact that these fires are being fought in
Speaker 1: large part by slave labor thanks to California's prison labor laws,
Speaker 1: which allow inmates to make between thirteen cents and fifty
Speaker 1: two cents hourly while risking their lives fighting fires. Their
Speaker 1: maximum day rate is between five to eighty and ten
Speaker 1: twenty four, which is yeah. And this is like a
Speaker 1: thing that was up. It was on about initiative we
Speaker 1: could like stop this from happening, and people were like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, let's let's see where this slavery thing
Speaker 1: takes us.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't one of those ballot initiatives that had
Speaker 2: like a confusing wording where it's like vote yes if
Speaker 2: you do do not do agree with it.
Speaker 3: It was just like do you want the slavery? Have
Speaker 3: I ever? Yeah? When? When do I want it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The but yeah, I mean what one of the people,
Speaker 1: a former incarcerated firefighter, pointed out the conditions in California
Speaker 1: prisons are so terrible that fighting wildfires is a rational choice,
Speaker 1: Like it's maybe the safer choice for people to get
Speaker 1: out of, you know, the prison. So yeah, this is
Speaker 1: stuff that we've covered before with regards to the thirteenth Amendment,
Speaker 1: but it's, uh, we're seeing it play out in real
Speaker 1: time with real prison inmates who are being paid literal
Speaker 1: slave wages of fighting these fires for us. So we'll
Speaker 1: continue to cover that. I do just want to My
Speaker 1: loser of the weekend has to be Marjorie Taylor Green,
Speaker 1: who just.
Speaker 2: For the eightieth weekend in a row.
Speaker 1: Taylor Green, she she made a like I feel like
Speaker 1: this has to be when you go to like conspiracy
Speaker 1: theorist school and maybe there isn't one, and that's the problem,
Speaker 1: but you got so many conspiracy theories going and like
Speaker 1: you can't bring up one like, So she brought up
Speaker 1: her conspiracy theory that the global elites were able to
Speaker 1: start hurricanes at will this weekend and was like, why
Speaker 1: don't they do the thing that I claim they can do?
Speaker 1: So it's just that has to be like Alex Jones
Speaker 1: has to have called her and Bill lake Mark.
Speaker 2: So if in her mind she it's like, wait, so
Speaker 2: if I birthday cake candles blow on them, they go out.
Speaker 2: So why doesn't the elite use more wind to blow
Speaker 2: out the fire?
Speaker 1: Yes, that is a question that my six year old
Speaker 1: wanted to know. This is easily. WHOA, But like, wind
Speaker 1: usually blows the fires out. And I was like, I
Speaker 1: wish you had a smarter dad to be able to
Speaker 1: explain that to you.
Speaker 2: Well, and then says, I don't have a father.
Speaker 1: That's a big part of my origin store WHOA, I
Speaker 1: don't have a dead.
Speaker 3: I don't have a dead. Yeah, you play pretend you
Speaker 3: don't know me. Uh but yeah.
Speaker 1: So last year she was claiming that the government had
Speaker 1: created the horrible hurricane season with cloud seating technology, which
Speaker 1: is a technology where you put silver. I had dine
Speaker 1: in the cloud, I believe to get it to start
Speaker 1: raining and basically, it is a thing that.
Speaker 3: Can have that they can do. You shoot these you.
Speaker 1: Know, rockets full of the substance into the atmosphere, they
Speaker 1: explode out. It does cause it to start raining. If
Speaker 1: there are existing clouds with a lot of moisture in them,
Speaker 1: it can like help it help push it over the
Speaker 1: edge and create a small amount of rain for a
Speaker 1: brief period of time. And she has taken that and
Speaker 1: been like, they have a machine that controls the weather essentially,
Speaker 1: which great work conspiracy wise, but you gotta just not
Speaker 1: bring that up when we're having a conspiracy, a massive
Speaker 1: national tragedy that could be solved by that technique.
Speaker 3: You have to pretend you never said that. You don't
Speaker 3: bring it up.
Speaker 1: But she came out and was like, why aren't you
Speaker 1: making it rain like I claim you can? And everyone's like, well,
Speaker 1: let's you're the one who fucking made that up. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about?
Speaker 3: So we have to go back and talk about this.
Speaker 2: We already said you're an idiot for that thing, right,
Speaker 2: and now we have to You make us so tired, Yeah, Marjorie,
Speaker 2: you make us so fucking.
Speaker 1: Tired, exhausted. But anyways, this is one of the many times. God,
Speaker 1: I wish she was right.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately it turns out she's thinks she's wrong on this one.
Speaker 3: I don't think you can just create a hurricane out
Speaker 3: of thin air.
Speaker 1: So let's take a quick break and we'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about a couple stupid things that happen in
Speaker 1: pop culture. We'll be right back, and we're back, and
Speaker 1: big story that you might have missed over the weekend
Speaker 1: dunkin Donuts. Like, as if things didn't seem apocalyptic enough already,
Speaker 1: people at four percent out of dunkin Donuts locations went
Speaker 1: to their donkeys and found them without donuts. And also
Speaker 1: if you went to one and it was without donuts,
Speaker 1: and you went to another one and it was without donuts,
Speaker 1: two different, totally different explanations, it would see. One said
Speaker 1: due to supplying chain issues and inclement weather. Another said,
Speaker 1: due to a donut manufacturing error. We currently do not
Speaker 1: have your favorite donuts at this time. We apologize. Please
Speaker 1: enjoy our munchkins in the meantime. So it's real. It's
Speaker 1: strange that it's based specifically on the donut shape, like
Speaker 1: it munchkins they can make.
Speaker 3: But yeah, well there's just holes. Yeah, there's just the holes.
Speaker 3: So like, what's happening to the surrounding Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: I think that the inclement weather was perhaps rain washed
Speaker 2: away the outer.
Speaker 5: Crust of the left middle parkho. Yeah, but it's stores
Speaker 5: in Omaha, Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska, and areas near Albuquerque,
Speaker 5: New Mexico. We're just completely without donuts on Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 5: And yeah, it just it feels like. One manager in
Speaker 5: Omaha said that she had been ordered not to provide
Speaker 5: any information by Duncan HQ don with the company's name
Speaker 5: Christ Duncan h Christ. What's going on here, which sounds
Speaker 5: pretty suspicious.
Speaker 2: What's your Duncan Donuts order? If I can, if we
Speaker 2: can edit the sad if that's too personal.
Speaker 1: It's way too, way too personal. I don't go to
Speaker 1: Duncan Donuts. I haven't been to Duncan Donuts a long time.
Speaker 1: Like I it's a very situational special thing for me.
Speaker 1: And in those cases, it's usually some manner of breakfast
Speaker 1: sandwich on a donut. Just tell them to put the bacon,
Speaker 1: egg and cheese on a donut of some sort of
Speaker 1: glazed donut. Now, you know, a bagel sandwich is usually
Speaker 1: what I go with and then a big iced coffee,
Speaker 1: usually one that's sweet as hell. You know, it's the
Speaker 1: long usually like I'll.
Speaker 2: Usually go sweet as hell. I can I get that
Speaker 2: sweet as hell.
Speaker 1: Bro I usually go pretty standard like black coffee and
Speaker 1: all coffee products. But for some reason, Dunkin Donuts I
Speaker 1: can give myself permission to. It's like this should should
Speaker 1: be like eating a piece of birthday cake.
Speaker 3: This coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's I also only go on like anniversaries,
Speaker 2: like special occasions as well. But on an anniversary, yeah,
Speaker 2: when when my number gets called, I spend it all
Speaker 2: on Dunkin Donuts. No, it's I'm sim I'll get coffee
Speaker 2: from there, like at the airport if like the other
Speaker 2: lines are too long, you know, yeah, when you know,
Speaker 2: if or if the other people are striking, go to
Speaker 2: whichever coffee shop it's not being where their union isn't
Speaker 2: being suppressed. I remember in La when they brought the
Speaker 2: first Dunkin Donuts up, like I feel like because La
Speaker 2: is such a transplant city that obviously it has its
Speaker 2: own identity, but a lot of people, you know, get
Speaker 2: nostalgic first stuff like from wherever they're from. And I
Speaker 2: remember the first dunkin Donuts in LA was placed in
Speaker 2: Santa Monica, and the pilgrimages that were made to that place,
Speaker 2: it was as if it was like, you know, the
Speaker 2: most rare sneaker or whatever, Like the lines outside was wild,
Speaker 2: and it's like, guys, this is shit, Like we all
Speaker 2: know this is shit, but we miss that shit from
Speaker 2: whatever coast you're from.
Speaker 1: But got gotta go there and get your hand manufactured
Speaker 1: donuts because apparently manufacturing errors are what's causing this shortage.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't begrudge anybody there, you know, creature comfort like
Speaker 1: Blake does. Blake clearly begrudges you that, but not me
Speaker 1: over here, man of the people.
Speaker 3: I'm an artisan. But yeah, I don't know. I feel
Speaker 3: like this this one goes all the way to the top.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It's a it's a sigh off of
Speaker 3: some sort for sure. Tread on Marjorie Taylor Green's territory
Speaker 3: because she's not good at it. I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 3: and say this is a.
Speaker 2: Sign she's dumb and sucks at it. It's like you
Speaker 2: could there are people who are dumb and like unfortunately
Speaker 2: excellent at it. But it's she's getting sloppy. Yeah, she's
Speaker 2: getting sloppy.
Speaker 1: Well, A spokesperson for Duncan's parent company, which is Inspire.
Speaker 2: Brand Smith and Wesson. Yeah, is their very company.
Speaker 1: My my, Inspire Brands does make Smith and Wesson and
Speaker 1: Duncan donuts. That's not true, don't sue us. I was
Speaker 1: just satire. Satire, satire. But that's so wild that it's
Speaker 1: like called Inspire brands. Like Spot that's like the name
Speaker 1: of I don't know, some like healthcare provider yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, or like like a children's learning company. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: should be called Inspire brands, Like look at this puzzle
Speaker 2: that helps kids learn or whatever.
Speaker 1: So everybody just uses all the words that test well
Speaker 1: with in group tests and folks group testing until everything
Speaker 1: is meaningless. Uh yeah, Inspire brands, which brings you dunk
Speaker 1: it didn't They used to be yum. I thought they
Speaker 1: were young at one point.
Speaker 2: I could be yum. I believe you, Pizzabel and KFC,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: I feel like an idiot. You sound like one and
Speaker 3: you sound like one. Two.
Speaker 1: Anyways, we're going to keep that this is a story.
Speaker 1: I keep saying this is the story we'll be will
Speaker 1: continue to follow closely because somebody's got to.
Speaker 3: Pay for that. For this, someone's got to pay for this.
Speaker 1: Four percent of Dunking US stores impacted by the issue.
Speaker 1: Think about all those people who couldn't get the Krolla
Speaker 1: the Boston cream. It's my impression of people in Omaha
Speaker 1: gos that's where you were saying there's only one type
Speaker 1: of cream and that's Boston cream. That was yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's what I believe that in this house, all right.
Speaker 1: And finally, in the world of the box office, a
Speaker 1: movie dropped that what we talked about when we first
Speaker 1: heard of it. A movie called Better Man tells the
Speaker 1: story of British pop star Robbie Williams. He is represented
Speaker 1: as a CGI monkey in the film. It got really
Speaker 1: solid reviews like it was getting I think as good
Speaker 1: or not, if not better reviews than the Bob Dylan biopic.
Speaker 1: And it's yes again about Robbie Williams, who was like
Speaker 1: one of the boy band Idol who then became a
Speaker 1: you know, solo artist of note in the UK and
Speaker 1: in the US that he had like a hit or two.
Speaker 1: They dropped this movie. It was treated like it was
Speaker 1: going to be a blockbuster. They made it for one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten million dollars because CGI monkeys aren't cheap.
Speaker 1: If you watch it, it looks expensive. Then it was
Speaker 1: acquired by Paramount for twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 3: That's not good to distribute it.
Speaker 1: And this weekend it made one million dollars in the
Speaker 1: US and it struggled to get there. It's that's bad.
Speaker 1: That's the most it's going to me in a in
Speaker 1: a given week is one million dollars, and.
Speaker 2: It keeps going up, so like there's the premiere weekend
Speaker 2: and then that's the lowest, and then it keeps going up.
Speaker 2: I had no idea who the fuck this was, like
Speaker 2: Robbie Williams, And then I'm like, oh, this is probably
Speaker 2: one of those things where it's I would recognize them
Speaker 2: if I saw them, but like I didn't know them
Speaker 2: by name, And then I read Rebullliams's entire Wikipedia page
Speaker 2: and I still don't know who this is. So like,
Speaker 2: I think that is a tough sell. And internationally it
Speaker 2: didn't do well either.
Speaker 1: No, even at the in the UK, which is like
Speaker 1: where he is very famous. It made four point seven
Speaker 1: million dollars. To date, it has made four point seven total.
Speaker 1: To date, A lot of people have been on social
Speaker 1: media making the same point that you just made, Blake,
Speaker 1: didn't really make sense to make this movie a biopic
Speaker 1: of a person who nobody knows who it is or
Speaker 1: is familiar with like their work. Like I guess that's
Speaker 1: true of many biopics of like people who did inspirational things,
Speaker 1: and it's like, you didn't know, but this person actually
Speaker 1: shaped the way that everything is done today. But this
Speaker 1: is just a pop star who the point of the
Speaker 1: movie is like, look how famous this person got despite
Speaker 1: looking like a monkey.
Speaker 3: I guess is a lot like a monkey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but people were like this this is a particularly
Speaker 1: good one. Nick is Sad on Twitter tweeted the mad
Speaker 1: Men scene between Peggy and Don where Peggy's saying no
Speaker 1: one in America knows who Robbie Williams is and Don
Speaker 1: is saying, that's what the monkey is for, because.
Speaker 3: It's that that's what the money is for. Scenes monkey
Speaker 3: is for.
Speaker 1: That was the point of the Monkey was like, well,
Speaker 1: people will go see a movie where a monkey becomes
Speaker 1: a singer for some reason that doesn't totally scan at
Speaker 1: least in the trailer. Maybe if his you know, had
Speaker 1: had fallen off midway through, and it was revealed that
Speaker 1: this monkey head mail pattern baldness, we would have would
Speaker 1: have gotten butts in the seats.
Speaker 3: We got more asses in the seats. That's right. I
Speaker 3: did not like the way you just said that.
Speaker 2: But sometimes I speak to exhale all the air out
Speaker 2: of my body and it's They taught me that at
Speaker 2: broadcasting school, kind.
Speaker 3: Of the death rattle line delivery method footnotes. But anyways,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a sad day for people who were
Speaker 1: hoping to see more unorthodox biopics where like monkeys played
Speaker 1: the main characters.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's good. I've heard it's good, but I have Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's what the reviews say, so it'll be a forgotten class.
Speaker 1: You know, Citizen Kane was not well loved when it
Speaker 1: first came out, so think about it.
Speaker 2: It was originally a walrus and they had to.
Speaker 3: They actually used CG to make it look like it.
Speaker 3: Zors and Wells.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Blake, pleasure having you on the show. Appreciate you
Speaker 1: stepping in. Where can people find you? Follow you all
Speaker 1: that good stuff?
Speaker 2: Find me at Blake Wexler all social media stand up,
Speaker 2: They coming up March thirteenth, Fort Collins at the Comedy
Speaker 2: Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado. I don't that was just added.
Speaker 2: I don't know if those tickets are up, but just
Speaker 2: say the date in your calendar. It will not sell out.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 2: And then, I don't know that this is a weird
Speaker 2: thing to even like bring. I'm supposed to be in
Speaker 2: La March fifteenth at the Ice House, but obviously there's
Speaker 2: way more important things going on. And then in April
Speaker 2: I'm going to be in Minneapolis. But I'll post about
Speaker 2: all these things and they'll be up on black lexlur
Speaker 2: dot com.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also, superroducer Victor just pointed out that one of the
Speaker 1: lines from one of the reviews is there's nothing glamorous
Speaker 1: about a monkey doing cocaine, And yeah, I did. Actually
Speaker 1: saw somebody talk about the scene in which Robbie Williams
Speaker 1: monkey does cocaine, and they like say it as like
Speaker 1: a compliment. Inside the Wild Robbie Williams biopic, it's sad
Speaker 1: seeing the monkey do cocaine. The unexpectedly brilliant better Man
Speaker 1: dives into the right would so apparently like the weirdness
Speaker 1: of seeing a monkey do cocaine is like part of it.
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, that's yeah exactly man.
Speaker 2: Because of course, if you give a monkey cocaine, they're
Speaker 2: gonna love.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, And has anyone ever done that? I
Speaker 3: hope not, but.
Speaker 2: I honestly I think probably because I was watching that
Speaker 2: remember Chimp Crazy, that HBO thing, HBO documentary about the
Speaker 2: lady who just owned a and also just how chimps
Speaker 2: go wrong in general.
Speaker 3: If you try to very close to starting to watch
Speaker 3: that this weekend, is it? Is it worth it? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 3: yes it is. So it's by the.
Speaker 1: Person who made Tiger King, and it's just another like
Speaker 1: banger of a yeah, weird animal people.
Speaker 3: It's insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I mean, it doesn't necessarily it doesn't make
Speaker 2: you feel good watching it, but it is definitely interesting.
Speaker 2: But they feed this and this is why people shouldn't
Speaker 2: own chimpanzees. Is this lady would give them like McDonald's,
Speaker 2: like that was the food that they would have, So
Speaker 2: would give them like fries. Not to equate McDonald's with cocaine.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's that good, I guess is what
Speaker 2: I tried to say.
Speaker 1: I would actually be like a really good advertising player.
Speaker 1: For McDonald's, the cocaine of things that are legal.
Speaker 3: The cocaine of in quotes food. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also, I have to again backcheck myself. Two fact checks
Speaker 1: in a fucking single episode. That's qu not come from
Speaker 1: a review. It came from the director explaining why he
Speaker 1: made the decision.
Speaker 3: To use a monkey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, those are the things that are trending
Speaker 1: on this Monday morning. We're going to be back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with a whole last episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
Speaker 1: the vaccine, get your flu shots, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to you out tomorrow.
Speaker 3: But