Speaker 1: What if my thing was that I've been trying to
Speaker 1: change my Social Security number for like a more esthetically
Speaker 1: pleasing number.
Speaker 2: And it's tubes or something, just like, yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, about the exact numbers to be eight zero eight five,
Speaker 3: and then that again, actually I've eight.
Speaker 4: Zero zero eight right, because you're turning it upside down?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Bless, I guess any times?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, damn. How many numbers is that? Because
Speaker 4: so social Security Damn dude, how many numbers is that?
Speaker 4: I'm just impressed by. No, I'm just wondering if there
Speaker 4: is somebody with the social Security number bobless but also
Speaker 4: impressed by anytime someone gives me a phone number, I'm like, damn, dog,
Speaker 4: how many numbers was that?
Speaker 2: Numbers?
Speaker 4: Slow down? Man? What is that? How do you keep
Speaker 4: shreck of all these? So I just counted on my fingers.
Speaker 4: There's nine on the Social Security number. B O O
Speaker 4: B L E s STA.
Speaker 1: We're one short, yeah, one put an Erica like you know.
Speaker 4: You can do boo bliss? Yeah, you know, all right,
Speaker 4: that's plenty for you. Just enough.
Speaker 1: It's a freezing cold open. Someone say too much.
Speaker 4: Some would.
Speaker 1: People with industry experience would say that's too much.
Speaker 4: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three, eighty nine,
Speaker 4: episode five of Derdaly's I Guess It's a production of
Speaker 4: Iiheart Radio. It's a podcast where you take a deep
Speaker 4: dive into America share consciousness. And it's Friday, May twenty third,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. My name is Jack O'Brien aka I
Speaker 4: drink warm milk in the shower above my chestay my hands,
Speaker 4: guzzle that shit for hours. Alpha bros don't understand that one,
Speaker 4: courtesy a fashionable dinosaur on the discord in reference to
Speaker 4: I'm going anti grind set bros, who are like all
Speaker 4: about the quick cold shower, I'm all about returning to
Speaker 4: the womb via hours long warm showers where I drink
Speaker 4: some warm milk, and yeah.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. That's We'll talk about drinking a beer in
Speaker 1: the shower, but drinking a whole gallon of milk in
Speaker 1: the shower.
Speaker 4: Is warm milk until you fall asleep in the warm
Speaker 4: shower eight percent milks. And it's actually good for the environment.
Speaker 4: There's a certain point at which you leave the warm
Speaker 4: water on for so long that it becomes good for
Speaker 4: the environment somehow, I agree. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be
Speaker 4: joined by today's guest co host, a writer and act
Speaker 4: and comedian whose newest special, Daddy Lung Legs is a
Speaker 4: mustwash and available on YouTube. The coiner of the disgusting
Speaker 4: phrase plumpers to describe his thighs, It's Blake Wexland.
Speaker 1: This is Blake Wexor aka. I'm gonna blake till the
Speaker 1: midnight hour. That's when my legs come tumbling out. I'm
Speaker 1: gone to blake till the midnight hour because these thighs,
Speaker 1: they are so round. Thank you. I swave it or not.
Speaker 1: This might shock you, but that came from my head.
Speaker 1: I wrote, really, Yes, the Lord did that, God did.
Speaker 4: God is speaking through me.
Speaker 1: God that's right, which is mightier some would say. And
Speaker 1: this sword I have and came up with right there,
Speaker 1: that is Today's a good brain day for.
Speaker 4: Me, Blake. We're thrilled to be joined in Arisquar seats
Speaker 4: by someone who called you blakey to day, which is
Speaker 4: now what I will be calling you. Uh. A very
Speaker 4: sunny comedian, actor and Emmy nominated writer who's written for
Speaker 4: a good mythical morning. Reductress Brockmeier. You've seen them everywhere
Speaker 4: from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the latest season of
Speaker 4: Girls five EV please welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2: I don't have a song today, but I'll just double
Speaker 2: down on Blakey Blakey. I didn't even realize I did
Speaker 2: that until you said that Blake's name. I think Blake
Speaker 2: and I actually met on the Cracked podcast, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think you guy.
Speaker 4: Episode of the Cracked podcast. Yeah, at that u UCB side.
Speaker 2: When I was producing then, yeah, wild.
Speaker 1: So fun.
Speaker 2: And then there was one.
Speaker 4: Time You're a guest right on that episode Blake.
Speaker 2: I was producing. Was I on there? I know we
Speaker 2: were on one together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Those were great. But I
Speaker 4: my blaky blaky heart. Sorry, that's a good one, my heart.
Speaker 2: I have an anecdote about Blake. I always remember because
Speaker 2: I went this was like a random, like pre pandemic,
Speaker 2: one of those late night bar shows that were weekly
Speaker 2: that nobody comes to you or whatever. Do you remember
Speaker 2: there's a public house and then you were about to
Speaker 2: go on and I was like you have to go
Speaker 2: last and whatever. It was like I'm like so sorry whatever,
Speaker 2: You're like, no, it's all good. And then you texted me,
Speaker 2: but you were trying to text your wife.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: But it was like so sweet. But you were like
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, honey boo, like like I'm almost done,
Speaker 2: I'll be right, sir, I'm missing you, and like but
Speaker 2: it was funny because you had just like been like
Speaker 2: oh so so fine and then turned away and texted
Speaker 2: and I just get this mess like from Blake's like
Speaker 2: like I miss you, and it was so cute. It
Speaker 2: was like, you know, it was just a very sweet message.
Speaker 3: But I was like for me, that was actually for you.
Speaker 2: I'm giving you.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's the moral the story place inappropriate with.
Speaker 4: They're just like, no, that was just nice to you. No, No,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry you got up on stage five.
Speaker 1: I misread the room. No, it is that is a
Speaker 1: sweet thing of like because it could go either way
Speaker 1: of like oh you could get a window into someone's
Speaker 1: life and it is the scene is not nice and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, No, I had a great That was always
Speaker 1: such a fun show. It was in the back of
Speaker 1: the public House and like that was the only show
Speaker 1: I could walk to in La and it was still
Speaker 1: like uphill, so I would be soaked I could get
Speaker 1: in there. But I'm like, no, I need to walk
Speaker 1: to shows with it if it's within like two miles. But yeah,
Speaker 1: oh that's sweet. I forgot about that story.
Speaker 4: That's cool.
Speaker 2: But it made me realize because I'm you know, like
Speaker 2: I'm just out and about and now I'm in a relationship.
Speaker 2: But I'm like those kind of moments give me like
Speaker 2: now with that I'm in a relationship, like little markers
Speaker 2: of like oh, those are like nice things to have,
Speaker 2: like keeping your partner updated and when you're out like
Speaker 2: doing shows like that, because I feel like when I
Speaker 2: was younger, I didn't have those models and I was
Speaker 2: just thinking when I when you're texting me at like yeah,
Speaker 2: it's funny. Now that I'm married and I'm thinking about that,
Speaker 2: but just like, oh, that was such a like kind
Speaker 2: of little core memory of like, oh, that's like what
Speaker 2: a good relationship is. It's just up to it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be a little late, but you know, just
Speaker 2: an update my partner, miss you will be home soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that was really nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah you aren't like I'm gonna be late and I
Speaker 4: don't want to hear it. Okay, yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 4: be late and then I'm gonna go to the strip
Speaker 4: club and then I'm gonna go I have to do.
Speaker 1: Drugs in the park, you know, Yeah it was I
Speaker 1: did go home after the show, but yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: guess it makes sense where you're like for us, like
Speaker 1: we're so used to being out late. But then you know,
Speaker 1: if you have like a partner who doesn't who isn't
Speaker 1: you know, like that's not part of their second nature.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, yeah, by the way, this, I could
Speaker 1: be home at this time, or I could be home later.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's cool. Thank you for telling that story.
Speaker 4: That is Blake's an inspiration to us all.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm thrilled to have both of you here today.
Speaker 4: T T. We're going to get to know you a
Speaker 4: little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell
Speaker 4: listeners a couple of those stories we're talking about today.
Speaker 4: The Enhanced Games are coming to Vegas, that is Olympics
Speaker 4: where you're allowed to do performance enhancing drugs. That those
Speaker 4: are going to happen in Las Vegas in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: six thanks to wrestling. Yeah, it's like wrestling, ww right,
Speaker 4: I don't know they could have made it cool. Like, well,
Speaker 4: we'll talk about it, it's being Russians, it's being funded
Speaker 4: by Donald Trump Junior, and it's like one of these
Speaker 4: like those all the worst you know, libertarian tech bros
Speaker 4: are into it, And before like really digging into it,
Speaker 4: I was like, I mean, you know, broke clocks right
Speaker 4: every once in a while. This is intriguing, I am.
Speaker 4: You know, the question that is begged by all of
Speaker 4: the like you know, performance enhancing drug testing around the
Speaker 4: Olympics is like, how cool would this be if they
Speaker 4: were allowed to just like do stuff that made them
Speaker 4: like fucking vibrate off of the planet Earth. But I
Speaker 4: think there's some issues. Ways, we'll talk about that. We'll
Speaker 4: talk about a punk band that just released an album
Speaker 4: that smells like Wyneth Poutraw's Vagina Candle. We will talk
Speaker 4: about the next Mission Impossible movie, and just generally the
Speaker 4: politics of Tom Cruise movies, all of that plenty more.
Speaker 4: But first, T T Lee, we like to ask our guest,
Speaker 4: what is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 4: who you are?
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, this has just happened this morning. So I
Speaker 2: googled how to undo delete in a contact on your
Speaker 2: iPhone because and this is I'm exposing me, I am like,
Speaker 2: you know those reddits when they're like, am I the asshole?
Speaker 2: I'm one hundred percent of asshole, just gonna be out
Speaker 2: of there.
Speaker 4: But my I'm a much less popular reddit thing.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely the asshole here, and you know what, And
Speaker 2: I honestly it's okay. Sometimes you got to be the asshole.
Speaker 2: And but this is what I did because my my
Speaker 2: husband met with and I'm not gonna get into the
Speaker 2: whole story, but anyways, he met with an ex who
Speaker 2: I said you should meet with her because she had
Speaker 2: reached out and after a long time, I'm not talking
Speaker 2: and this was like whatever you know there, This was
Speaker 2: a lot of childhood thing. But they met and then
Speaker 2: they like met for a while and everything was fine.
Speaker 2: But I when he came home, I realized. I was like,
Speaker 2: and now I think you should never talk to her again.
Speaker 2: Like that's how I felt like. I didn't feel that before.
Speaker 2: But then I was like, sounds like that was that's good.
Speaker 2: And I said you should delete her number, and he
Speaker 2: like didn't want to, but I was like he laughed,
Speaker 2: and I was like, okay, whatever, delete her number. That
Speaker 2: this morning I still was like, you should delete your number.
Speaker 2: So then I said, can you give me your phone?
Speaker 2: And he was so trusting he just gave it to
Speaker 2: me and I deleted it and he got very upset
Speaker 2: and he was like, that was very rude, which it was,
Speaker 2: but I did want the number off of his phone.
Speaker 2: But then after I saw how he was and I betrayed,
Speaker 2: the trust was because I don't think he expected me
Speaker 2: to do that, which I thought. I mean, that's like
Speaker 2: what I what do you think I'm going to do?
Speaker 2: I'm asking? Yeah, So then I.
Speaker 1: Do phone, Yeah, I don't have you're going to delete
Speaker 1: that number off?
Speaker 4: The fuck?
Speaker 2: I felt very bad. So then I did google it
Speaker 2: and you just shake your phone and it comes back.
Speaker 4: But yeah, shaking the phone thing is so weird that
Speaker 4: they're just like the way to like do jump back
Speaker 4: at step on your phone. It's just like shake it
Speaker 4: like motherfucker. Yeah. I always feel violent. I always. I'm
Speaker 4: like you always. Yeah, there's no real like cool way
Speaker 4: to do it. Always. Yeah. So yeah, I'm glad that
Speaker 4: you're agreeing that you're the asshole in that situation.
Speaker 2: I will say when I when I put it back
Speaker 2: on his phone, I did say because at first he
Speaker 2: was like, that's fine, and then I was like, no,
Speaker 2: it'll mean more when you do it. So I do
Speaker 2: still expect him to delete it at some point.
Speaker 4: Will when you do it is so good? I was
Speaker 4: gonna say it's it was a lot that you did,
Speaker 4: like a mission impossible style break into his ex's house
Speaker 4: to delete his number off her phone. That was impressive. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: and on that level, it like kind of wraps back
Speaker 4: around to just being awesome again. Yeah, right right.
Speaker 2: We had to cut that part of the story for time,
Speaker 2: but there was a whole thing and yeah.
Speaker 4: Involved, yeah, what is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 2: Underrated? I wrote down two things. I wrote down sex
Speaker 2: streams and landing page websites, which I just missed, like
Speaker 2: going somewhere online, like you know when you like log
Speaker 2: on and now it's all social media, but I'm like,
Speaker 2: I just want to go to a page like how
Speaker 2: kind of how like how cracked was or you know
Speaker 2: that you.
Speaker 4: Had a page that you just were like, what are
Speaker 4: they up to?
Speaker 2: You can hang out and stuff and it's not just news,
Speaker 2: it's things, and yeah I missed that. I don't know
Speaker 2: if there's a place everyone's hanging out, but I am
Speaker 2: not invited, So let me know if there's a website
Speaker 2: we're all hanging out at that isn't our own social media's.
Speaker 2: And then also sex streams because I don't know, I
Speaker 2: just uh, and maybe this is a merry thing, but
Speaker 2: I feel like I have less sex streams. But then
Speaker 2: recently I did have one and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: these are fun, and I think I had more of
Speaker 2: them when I was younger, in my twenties, and maybe
Speaker 2: I am just dating myself because I'm getting older, but I.
Speaker 4: Don't know, they're underrated.
Speaker 2: I feel like when we were younger, we're like, oh,
Speaker 2: sex rooms are funny, but now as an adult, you're like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, they add some liveliness to your night,
Speaker 2: Like why not watch a raunchy movie while you're in bed?
Speaker 2: Why not wake up and feel nice. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's a little different for my automatic. My anatomy is
Speaker 2: a little different for you guys than you guys I think,
Speaker 2: so it might have different consequences for all of you
Speaker 2: out there. But I wake up and you know, I
Speaker 2: can just start my day. I don't feel like do
Speaker 2: any laundry.
Speaker 1: So it's like that term like sober people use, like
Speaker 1: a free lapse where like if you have like like
Speaker 1: surgery or something, you have to like go under some
Speaker 1: medicine where it's like that, but with married people where
Speaker 1: it's like cheating for free.
Speaker 2: Saying who the sex rooms were about? Okay, no, but
Speaker 2: just in general, like it's just the idea of a Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just fun to be like, yeah, because I think
Speaker 2: when you're with someone's like different because you don't have
Speaker 2: the newness of like like discovering something. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: sex dreams are underrated.
Speaker 1: That's interesting, Yeah, because you do just travel to a
Speaker 1: different world, like it seems real, and then you wake up,
Speaker 1: You take off your breathing machine.
Speaker 4: We all take off our breathing machine. We surface to
Speaker 4: the level of the black goo that we submerged ourselves
Speaker 4: in as we go to sleep at night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, rise from my coffin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. I love the ideas. Blake and I are
Speaker 4: constantly having wet dreams late. Yeah, I'm just kind.
Speaker 2: You only took one class in an eighth grade about
Speaker 2: the male body, and that's that's where we stopped.
Speaker 4: I'm burning through three pairs of boxers a night over
Speaker 4: on this.
Speaker 1: And you do mean yeah, yeah, it's a problems.
Speaker 4: Ye dreams are crazy that we just have movies and
Speaker 4: sometimes our brains, Like, here's a porno one for you,
Speaker 4: have a great night. What is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 2: Okay, I wrote this down and I was like, people
Speaker 2: might get mad, but it just came from because I
Speaker 2: didn't have time to like, I just like this is
Speaker 2: from the gut. I think the Brina Carpenter is overrated.
Speaker 2: Oh I know, and I'm already like regretting saying it,
Speaker 2: but it is my truth and I don't even like
Speaker 2: It's not that I don't like her. I just I
Speaker 2: think there's this like stardom that happens now that I
Speaker 2: think she's great, but I think the level of stardom
Speaker 2: that happens in the few years to become these megastars
Speaker 2: because of I don't know, digital consumption, it feels blown
Speaker 2: out of proportion compared to the artists we saw growing
Speaker 2: up that like we've tracked over career and watched them
Speaker 2: really rise and hone their talent. But specifically it's a
Speaker 2: Brina Carpenter, but she kind of represents that from I
Speaker 2: don't know, because I see her everywhere and she's cool,
Speaker 2: but like I I don't I don't know. I'm just like,
Speaker 2: why is she that big? She's fine. I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm already saying this and I'm gonna like
Speaker 2: get backlash. But you know, I think she's overrated. I
Speaker 2: don't think she's a bad singer. I just when I
Speaker 2: hear her early stuff, I don't hear like she didn't
Speaker 2: find her voice for a while, and now her whole
Speaker 2: thing has just kind of being like she's got a
Speaker 2: look and she's funny, which I think is cool, But
Speaker 2: like as a singer, I don't really know, like I
Speaker 2: don't really know where her voice is.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. It is weird, like who gets anointed the
Speaker 1: next thing where I'm sure there's like a hundred, you know,
Speaker 1: like Cybrina Carpenter Ayprina Carpenter Bees, you know, like like
Speaker 1: a bunch of different ones. So but I'm but I
Speaker 1: think she's great.
Speaker 4: I like her.
Speaker 2: I just she's so big or maybe I'm maybe I'm
Speaker 2: just getting a lot of it on TikTok, but I
Speaker 2: am getting a level of Sabrina makes it look like
Speaker 2: she's like Brittany, and I don't feel like she's our Brittany.
Speaker 2: Like I don't think she's there. Unless I'm being naive,
Speaker 2: but I feel like we saw, like, you know, like
Speaker 2: and before Brittany, there's a Madonna, and people compared Brittany
Speaker 2: to Madonna, and they compared her early and I think
Speaker 2: she rose to that. So maybe Sabrina will rise to that.
Speaker 2: But I feel like she's getting that kind of exposure
Speaker 2: where I'm not seen as an artist. It feels like manufacturer,
Speaker 2: like the people around her like, let's keep making money
Speaker 2: off of this person, as opposed to like she's like,
Speaker 2: this is what I want to do next.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, in Jack that Sabrina Carpenter is a pop star.
Speaker 4: Who is She's not a Carpenter. Sorry, I was over
Speaker 4: here at Google. I'm trying to find out trying to
Speaker 4: find some of her work. She's yeah, she has a.
Speaker 2: Neo baby, she's related to Jesus.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like Nick Offerman. And then I was trying to
Speaker 4: find out if this was another one of these Carpenters.
Speaker 4: I know, I don't know enough about Sabrina Carpenter to
Speaker 4: like hold day strong opinion. I know the song is pressed,
Speaker 4: and I know Miles was just talking about the fact
Speaker 4: that there's a part of that song where she goes
Speaker 4: Kazama singer.
Speaker 2: And see, I do like that those little moments she
Speaker 2: has some funny I think she's getting into like she's
Speaker 2: exploring her voice and that funny part is coming out more.
Speaker 4: But yeah, but yeah, it does feel like, you know,
Speaker 4: the eighties monoculture where it was like Madonna and Michael
Speaker 4: Jackson and that's plenty. We have all the we have
Speaker 4: all the artists that we need, and then it's been
Speaker 4: just like a fracturing into like all the pieces of
Speaker 4: those artists just like break out into different musicians and
Speaker 4: they all become big and everybody buys all the albums,
Speaker 4: and I don't know, it seems to be working out
Speaker 4: for them, but I feel you.
Speaker 2: I do hope it's working out for them. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think it's working out for her. But it does
Speaker 2: scare me about the industry a bit, because I think
Speaker 2: it's becoming more and more the same people behind the
Speaker 2: scenes making money and they'll just throw her away or
Speaker 2: put someone else new out there and hopefully she you know,
Speaker 2: it's savvy. But it does scare me a bit the
Speaker 2: way they turn people out.
Speaker 4: You typically a fan of, like is Brittany. The previous
Speaker 4: version of this that you're like, this is, this is
Speaker 4: how it's done, this is and I don't look I'm swist.
Speaker 2: I went to Taylor's, so I don't you know, I'm
Speaker 2: not like here to like I'm not saying like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, Sabrina Carpenter a girly pop like that's not
Speaker 2: really what I'm trying to say, but I think I
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe it's something. Wow, this feels like therapy,
Speaker 2: maybe something more sinister. I feel about the industry like
Speaker 2: it's like as it's falling apart and they're taking away
Speaker 2: from new independent artists. They are also like slapping, like
Speaker 2: you know, people like Sabrina, she's going to make a
Speaker 2: lot from it, but they're not necessarily have her best
Speaker 2: interests at her. And I feel like you see that
Speaker 2: with Chaperone, but she's more vocal about it. But it
Speaker 2: feels like there's something like crumpling in the back and
Speaker 2: that scares me. And meanwhile, everyone's just like money, money,
Speaker 2: you give me more. But no, to answer your question,
Speaker 2: I love pop, all right. I mean I had a
Speaker 2: podcast about Ariana Grande, so that's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, on a ground day, is the is the truth?
Speaker 4: And Sabrina Carpenter is.
Speaker 2: Against each other. No, I'm not going to pick a.
Speaker 4: Woman against you can like both.
Speaker 2: But Ariana's voice, I will say, it's very consistent from
Speaker 2: the beginning. Like you hear her voice and it's like,
Speaker 2: you're like, that's why that that needs to be recorded?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I hear her sing and I'm like, why
Speaker 4: she got to show off like that? Yeah, but she's
Speaker 4: a She's a great singer, Serena Carpenter. The only other
Speaker 4: thing I'm aware of, other than because I'm a singer,
Speaker 4: is the there seems to be a meme linking her
Speaker 4: as like the Hillary Clinton via with the substance, Like
Speaker 4: if if Hillary Clinton took the substance, she would be
Speaker 4: super Carpenter.
Speaker 2: I have not seen that, and that is interesting.
Speaker 4: I see that a lot.
Speaker 1: To me, I see that a lot.
Speaker 4: I see that. I see it everywhere I see it. Ever, anyways,
Speaker 4: let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 4: we'll talk about the Enhanced Games. We'll be right back
Speaker 4: and we're back, And had you guys heard of this?
Speaker 4: The enhanced Games? An Olympics where a substance, Yeah, basically
Speaker 4: the Olympics on steroids. Literally, my first thought on this
Speaker 4: is They're like, it's terrible that our world is run
Speaker 4: by a bunch of men who are developmentally emotional and
Speaker 4: mental children, Like it's bad in so many ways, and
Speaker 4: then like there will be like the occasionally fun thing
Speaker 4: that happens, and I don't think we should deny ourselves
Speaker 4: the ability to look at the fun thing and be like, well,
Speaker 4: at least this is a thing that we can look
Speaker 4: at in horror and be entertained by. I don't think
Speaker 4: it's actually going to be entertaining however, on the execution,
Speaker 4: but just generally, I feel like I'm grouping this in
Speaker 4: in the world with like Alcatraz being opened again by
Speaker 4: Donald Trump and military parade, just like things that like
Speaker 4: five to eleven year old boys are going to be
Speaker 4: like yo, sick. You know, it is interesting.
Speaker 2: He's so close with I don't know if he still is,
Speaker 2: but with Vince bookmahon, but like it really feels like
Speaker 2: one of those like it's like entertainment sports, right, which
Speaker 2: is like, ww did that really well? For whatever? You know,
Speaker 2: all their controversies, but they're basically like what if we
Speaker 2: could just do all of this? It's you know, they're
Speaker 2: these strong men on drugs and make them do cool things.
Speaker 2: Are crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a step away from like, oh, we
Speaker 1: could have a guy fight a gorilla, you know, like
Speaker 1: we can have I think this is like.
Speaker 2: The hundred guys and a gorilla.
Speaker 1: One hundred guys in a gorilla, because they can't do that,
Speaker 1: because even they for some reason can't find a loophole
Speaker 1: into like beating on animals. That's their next thing.
Speaker 4: I can't trump.
Speaker 1: That's the fourth trunk, the fourth Reich. And so they
Speaker 1: are like, okay, like why don't we just juice up
Speaker 1: these guys. When you said five to eleven year old boys,
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna say five foot eleven men.
Speaker 1: Is just men who are five foot eleven almost six
Speaker 1: feet and to get that extra inch, they're gonna get
Speaker 1: jacked up on steroids and it's.
Speaker 4: It's dangeroussles at the bottom of their feet. Can see
Speaker 4: them rising up as they Yeah, I don't know. It's
Speaker 4: obviously intriguing when when you see how adamant the Olympic
Speaker 4: committees are about like they're not being drugs and you know,
Speaker 4: drug testing, It's like, man, so like what but what if?
Speaker 4: What if?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 4: Like what if we were able to just see what
Speaker 4: those people would do. I think the two problems with
Speaker 4: this actually being as fun as it seems like in
Speaker 4: theory it would be. One. Obviously, it's like really bad
Speaker 4: for the people's health. Blah blah blah. It's gonna hurt people.
Speaker 2: A lot of athletes like will take it take steroids
Speaker 2: off season, right, this is kind of a thing. I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe not Olympics because they're so they have to like
Speaker 2: be ready to be tested at any point. But I'm
Speaker 2: guessing what this league people are going to push the
Speaker 2: limits and not.
Speaker 4: Just do it. Yeah, this is the main reason that
Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna works. It's that everybody already cheats. Yea,
Speaker 4: like the actual Olympic athletes. When you hear people who
Speaker 4: like understand how the sport works, almost in every instance,
Speaker 4: they're like, yeah, no, it's just you have to be
Speaker 4: an incredible athlete and very good and sophisticated at cheating,
Speaker 4: Like those are the two things that make you a
Speaker 4: good Olympic athlete. And so I think what this is
Speaker 4: going to reveal is probably just that like all Olympians
Speaker 4: are already juicing or like already using performance enhancing drugs.
Speaker 4: Just they they can't use them like right up to
Speaker 4: the starting gun, but they do use them, and you know,
Speaker 4: there are ways to get around the testing. And then
Speaker 4: you're also having to choose from a pool of athletes
Speaker 4: who are just like willing to be like yeah, fuck it,
Speaker 4: I don't got anything else going on, you know, because
Speaker 4: they can't go back on the right. Yeah. Once you
Speaker 4: do this, you're basically giving up the dream. So I
Speaker 4: feel like it's probably not going to be not going
Speaker 4: to be the highest level of athlete. So I feel
Speaker 4: like it'll just like even out and you'll end up
Speaker 4: with people who are about as good as It'll just
Speaker 4: be like the Olympics, but like.
Speaker 2: Regular people who want to be Olympians.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, everyone the Olympics, but everyone's eyes are yellow
Speaker 4: like whatever and tiny balls. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of like you know, those comedy shows
Speaker 2: where they'd be like, oh, everyone's stoned or everyone's drunk,
Speaker 2: everyone's on mushrooms. Yeah, there is something like you said,
Speaker 2: like entertaining about like Okay, let's all get in the
Speaker 2: ring and everyone's just gonna like cheat and see what happens.
Speaker 2: But it's uh less about the sports medical supervision. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's like yes, exactly like the comedy shows, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like that video I did for Cracked when Jack was
Speaker 2: my boss who was responsible for that by the way.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I was like, which one of you am
Speaker 4: I gonna have to drug to get a hit video here?
Speaker 2: But it does make me think, like what if they
Speaker 2: did stuff like that for Like what if they did
Speaker 2: like science and posiums and everyone was on acid and mushrooms,
Speaker 2: Like that would be cool. Let's watch a bunch of
Speaker 2: like Nata people space people get high and talk about space.
Speaker 1: You know, much better because yeah, we're talking about steroids.
Speaker 1: But that's a good point. Like what if there is
Speaker 1: a street drug?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, could you just be on molly and like
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do the triple job.
Speaker 4: Like that's what it should be, like it should be
Speaker 4: like just any drug. But like they're specific because it's
Speaker 4: being run by like Donald Trump Junior is one of
Speaker 4: the funders, so they're like, we will be doing absolutely
Speaker 4: no illicit drugs and any enhancement routines will be done
Speaker 4: like strictly like with doctor supervision, which I guess again, yeah,
Speaker 4: like good, probably better for the health of the people
Speaker 4: they have Also, like you know, because it's being run
Speaker 4: by people who are generally pretty incompetent, like Donald Trump Junior,
Speaker 4: Like they don't know that this is the one like
Speaker 4: fun idea they have. They're just gonna like do a
Speaker 4: bad job with this one as well. And so the
Speaker 4: only the only things that are like part of it
Speaker 4: so far are swimming, sprinting, and lifting, which don't feel
Speaker 4: like they're gonna be much different to watch, Like watching
Speaker 4: a swimming race where people are on like even the
Speaker 4: best that sounds like they're gonna be like launching out
Speaker 4: of the pool like dolphins. You know, it's just like
Speaker 4: a normal swimming race at like one point one speed
Speaker 4: at best case scenario. You know, reading is one.
Speaker 2: I want to see, Like I don't know, something where
Speaker 2: there's a contact sport.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, like baseball in like, because that's my
Speaker 1: reference for it, was like in the early two thousands,
Speaker 1: it was like steroids were rampant in baseball, and if
Speaker 1: you look back on it, you're like, oh, yeah, that
Speaker 1: guy's a steroids. That guy's head grew, like you see
Speaker 1: it before or after, it's like, oh it's head. It's
Speaker 1: twice the size that you can't grow ahead, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead, No, And I was just going to say
Speaker 1: that I don't know if like those I almost called
Speaker 1: them exercises, those sports that you outlined aren't like, uh,
Speaker 1: like you don't want to be a big, massive, roided
Speaker 1: out guy in a pool, like you'll sink. You know,
Speaker 1: you'll try, so like weightlifting makes sense. But I feel
Speaker 1: like that's their mistake is that if you're gonna do
Speaker 1: this moronic thing, just make it all like big buff
Speaker 1: buff daddy, you know, stuff like weird shit like that.
Speaker 1: And professional wrestling there should be a professional who acts
Speaker 1: the best.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there should just be like person throwing where they're
Speaker 4: just like spin someone around and then try and toss
Speaker 4: them as far as they can. But just like go like,
Speaker 4: don't if you're going to do this, go full World
Speaker 4: Wrestling Federation or Entertainment or whatever the fuck it's called.
Speaker 4: You know, like bring in man as a as a consultant,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump Junior. It does feel like, I don't know,
Speaker 4: he's like a walking restaurant idea from a cocaine binge.
Speaker 4: So but I feel like this doesn't have enough cocaine
Speaker 4: energy like that in execution, like the idea has cocaine energy,
Speaker 4: but then the execution is just like and we're gonna
Speaker 4: have like scientific you know rigor to this to see,
Speaker 4: like they did a test swim, like they they did
Speaker 4: some early preliminary things with athletes who are willing to
Speaker 4: do it, and like they used you know, enhancement routine
Speaker 4: and like somebody one of the swimmers like came close
Speaker 4: to or like might have like slightly beat a world record.
Speaker 4: But they also had like some illegal like wetsuit on.
Speaker 4: So it's just like there's a lot of there's like
Speaker 4: a lot of things you can do. It's like, you know,
Speaker 4: if they.
Speaker 2: Should do a no rules one, if that's the whole idea, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: then we just like have rockets, sneakers, just fast. It
Speaker 2: is interesting that they're trying to present it as like
Speaker 2: a like a competitor for the Olympics, because that's a
Speaker 2: lot of the news that I'm on BBC. They're talking
Speaker 2: about how it'll be they expect it or you know this.
Speaker 2: Most people were saying like we think it'll be Olympics,
Speaker 2: and then you can also play in this league. And
Speaker 2: it's like I don't think like you're saying Jack, like
Speaker 2: if it really is just all these rules, but you
Speaker 2: can dope up. I don't think it's going to have
Speaker 2: the appeal of Olympics, but if it is so different
Speaker 2: where it's like anything goes fire, like sabotage your opponents,
Speaker 2: you know, Like I mean I probably wouldn't watch it,
Speaker 2: but like somebody would, you know, that's like my god
Speaker 2: death games.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Here's here's another thought too, where it's like I don't
Speaker 1: even know if I made this joke earlier. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not well in my head, but I if I
Speaker 1: didn't say this, it reminds me of like because Russia
Speaker 1: got banned from a couple Olympics because all their athletes
Speaker 1: were doping. So I wonder if this is another way,
Speaker 1: like if this ends up being another way for Trump
Speaker 1: to kiss Russia's ass where all the athletes are just
Speaker 1: Russian Russian athletes because they're juicing anyway, and you know.
Speaker 4: They're the best, the best. Yeah, it is like a
Speaker 4: very Trump world idea, and like he the guy who
Speaker 4: is behind it, is like I've had the great fortune
Speaker 4: of you know, just like doing all the ass kissing
Speaker 4: of like the Trump administration and how great it is
Speaker 4: for America.
Speaker 2: So what sport would you So if you could have
Speaker 2: like superpowers to be really good at one sport? Which
Speaker 2: one would you compete in?
Speaker 4: Superpowers to be really good at one of these sports?
Speaker 2: Or you could have yeah, like the flowers for Aldronon.
Speaker 2: I guess if you could do steroids, But I'm not
Speaker 2: because I don't really know how steroids affect each sport.
Speaker 2: But let's say you're like suddenly good at one of
Speaker 2: these you could cheat, which which one would you do?
Speaker 4: It's a great question. I think it would probably be sprinting, right, sprinting, swimming,
Speaker 4: or lifting, weightlifting? I mean, yeah, probably sprinting, Like that's
Speaker 4: just I feel like that comes in candy so so much.
Speaker 4: Maybe weight, like being strong is like a real superpower,
Speaker 4: Like that's so yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like because you're always at the edge, I
Speaker 2: feel like that's the problem with it. People watch you
Speaker 2: lift it, but if you're lifting out your limit, you
Speaker 2: always feel tired, right, like you're not like this is lazy,
Speaker 2: Like you're always going to be pushing yourself.
Speaker 4: But I would do I would be like a fucking
Speaker 4: couches and stuff all the time.
Speaker 1: Just you would you just work for a moving company,
Speaker 1: that's what you want to do.
Speaker 4: It's like I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: Can't really help run the house moving they multiple hurdles
Speaker 1: at the same time. Yeah, did you really?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 2: I was not very good. Uh, and then I ended
Speaker 2: up just quitting track to do dance, which was a
Speaker 2: much better fit for me. But I was like, I
Speaker 2: had good form, so they would always be like, but
Speaker 2: I wasn't fast, so when I ran, I just would
Speaker 2: end up either having good form or sacrificing that and
Speaker 2: just hitting every hurdle and running.
Speaker 4: Slowly.
Speaker 2: I was like a dancer, so I was like, you know,
Speaker 2: perfectly straight leg bend behind me, but it was like
Speaker 2: slow and graceful. So I did not place well. But
Speaker 2: hurdles is fun. I think I would do archery if
Speaker 2: I could do, because it's just the feeling of the Olympic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess not one of these running. Maybe swimming, that.
Speaker 4: Would be funny. If the one that like has changed
Speaker 4: the most by performing dancing is.
Speaker 2: Everyone makes everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do have a new I feel like. The
Speaker 4: sport at the last Olympics that went up the most
Speaker 4: in my estimation was the pistol shooting, the target shooting,
Speaker 4: where that one guy just like did it with like
Speaker 4: a hangover and his hand in his pocket and jeans
Speaker 4: like the the really like advanced people had like all
Speaker 4: this equipment on that like stabilized their arm and like
Speaker 4: these like weird future like RoboCop glasses that were like
Speaker 4: only on one eye. And then this guy just like
Speaker 4: came up and with like just looking like stepped on
Speaker 4: ship literally like had the had the energy of John
Speaker 4: McClean and Diehard being like, my wife just left me.
Speaker 4: And then in the postgame interview he was like, my
Speaker 4: wife just left me, and she took the dog, she
Speaker 4: took the gun, she took the family gun with her.
Speaker 1: So I put this gun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anyways, that that would be a fun one, I
Speaker 4: don't think. I guess probably useful to be good at
Speaker 4: in this modern day and age.
Speaker 1: Harder, shoot hard, so hard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's let's talk about this new punk album that
Speaker 4: I'm not familiar with the band. I am familiar with
Speaker 4: the scent of the album, though you personally, unfortunately not personally.
Speaker 4: I've just had to do it the way everybody else
Speaker 4: has and spend thousands of dollars to buy one of
Speaker 4: these candles. I actually didn't know the second like I
Speaker 4: knew the first act of this story that Gwyneth Paltrow
Speaker 4: put a candle on the market in Goop that was
Speaker 4: called this candle smelled like my vagina. I did not
Speaker 4: know that it sold out so fast that they're like
Speaker 4: a black market sprung up and it was like going
Speaker 4: for seven hundred and fifty dollars a candle afterwards, How.
Speaker 2: Could you even trust that because like if you buy
Speaker 2: it from Goop, you know it's from Goop, that someone
Speaker 2: could just be like this is the group, you know candle,
Speaker 2: And if you've never smelled it before, how would you
Speaker 2: even know if it was a fake?
Speaker 4: Great point. I think it was like a resale market,
Speaker 4: like the way that like sneakers.
Speaker 2: Like you could just fake it, like this smells like vagina.
Speaker 2: How are you going to know?
Speaker 1: It's a weird authentication job. You know, It's like, could
Speaker 1: I please authenticate the sneakers? I have to authenticate these disgusting.
Speaker 4: That's what Chris Martin's up to these days. Cold Player
Speaker 4: last album kind of flopped, So I'm just authenticating candles.
Speaker 4: But yeah, this punk band is called let Me See
Speaker 4: Yeah now so she Paltrow was recently talking about the
Speaker 4: candle at the recent Manifesting summit, which I feel like, Blake,
Speaker 4: you were at the Manifesting summit, right or you were
Speaker 4: supposed to like give a keynote there.
Speaker 1: It was such a blur and it's such a fun weekend,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it just goes by so quickly. I wish
Speaker 1: it was longer, but I was. I was there for
Speaker 1: all the Manifesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we got a little insight into how the
Speaker 4: product came about. That product is so fascinating because we
Speaker 4: were messing around with different scents one day and I
Speaker 4: smelled something and I was like, oh, that smells like
Speaker 4: you know which I feel like you named the candle.
Speaker 4: This smells like my vagina. So you don't need to, like,
Speaker 4: what are you talking about censor it when you're talking
Speaker 4: about it in the interview. But then she said that
Speaker 4: she feels like selling that candle was punk rock because
Speaker 4: women's sexuality is like supposed to be shameful, and so
Speaker 4: she was like, I think it'd be funny if I
Speaker 4: did this, which, sure, I don't know that selling a
Speaker 4: seventy five dollars candle is necessarily punk rock. But so
Speaker 4: there's this punk group in Australia, Private Function. They have
Speaker 4: a new album that is the shrugging hands up emoji
Speaker 4: like Sideway smile, and it has a scratch and sniff
Speaker 4: center that makes it smell like Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina. They
Speaker 4: literally had they hired a perfumery from Paris to like
Speaker 4: look into this and make sure that it actually like
Speaker 4: had all the elements of the candle. And they're saying
Speaker 4: this is for class solidarity. You know, you shouldn't have
Speaker 4: to be rich to have something in your house that
Speaker 4: smells like Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina, which is a great respect.
Speaker 4: You've always said that, Blake, is this a pop band? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sorry, no, no, no, no, no, Jack's right. I do always
Speaker 1: say that.
Speaker 2: Now please, Yes, you've been saying that is this punk band?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Female punk band?
Speaker 4: Or yes?
Speaker 2: Male?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Private punk? That's good.
Speaker 1: That helps, That does help, That does help.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would not be great. Just a sweaty guy.
Speaker 4: The guitarist said, this was potentially the greatest thing any
Speaker 4: speaking of the candle, the greatest thing anyone had ever done,
Speaker 4: and everyone at private function was beyond impressed. We immediately
Speaker 4: tried to buy one, but due to the overwhelming demand,
Speaker 4: it sold out instantly. They now sell for over seven
Speaker 4: hundred dollars each. Seven hundred dollars to smell Gwyneth Paltrow's
Speaker 4: vagina is quite frankly classist, and we at private function
Speaker 4: think that every working class person deserves to have access
Speaker 4: to that smell twenty four hours a day. So congratulations
Speaker 4: to everyone lucky enough to score a goopy record. You
Speaker 4: now own a scratch and sniff record that smells like
Speaker 4: Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina, So you know, it's a beautiful punk.
Speaker 2: Rock smell chained if you scratch it a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great question. Yeah, I am possible to
Speaker 4: say because I just got mine, so I've only scratched
Speaker 4: it for like twenty four hours in a row.
Speaker 2: But right, I wonder of the music, so you if
Speaker 2: it's timed with me, like, you can't do it. You
Speaker 2: can't scratch it while you're listening to it, so there's
Speaker 2: no there's no crossover function. It's just dual, dual utility.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I put pants on mine because
Speaker 1: I'm a bit of a prude, so you know, and
Speaker 1: I also left it out in the sun, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't really yeah, but yeah, keep it, keep it in
Speaker 1: a cold, dark place.
Speaker 2: It's interesting that I never heard her quote about the
Speaker 2: punk rock because I agree with you Jacket's like, the
Speaker 2: whole idea of Goop is not punk rock. But it's
Speaker 2: interesting to hear a frame like that because I think
Speaker 2: when it first came out, I just said the same
Speaker 2: thoughts everyone else did, which is like, why and she's
Speaker 2: just doing her weird woo woo wellness thing. But there's
Speaker 2: something there is something interesting about the idea of like,
Speaker 2: you know, neutralizing how people feel, or not neutralizing, but
Speaker 2: like owning the idea that, especially if she grew up
Speaker 2: in Hollywood when when it was much more misogynists. Well
Speaker 2: arguably right, but just like you know, people making just
Speaker 2: even comedy clubs jokes about fishy vaginas and things like
Speaker 2: that and smells and so there. I think that that
Speaker 2: does make me like her a little more for doing that,
Speaker 2: But I also do think that it's not punk rock.
Speaker 2: But because.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, I like the quote. I wish it wasn't
Speaker 4: about a candle that costs seventy five dollars, but I
Speaker 4: wish it wasn't made at the Manifesting Company, right, which probably,
Speaker 4: like you know, requires three thy five hundred dollars to
Speaker 4: like just attend at the lowest level where they like
Speaker 4: throw food at you instead of like feed you.
Speaker 2: But you are allowed to do drugs at that one.
Speaker 4: So yes, yes, that is true. The best. I like
Speaker 4: to go to the manifesting conference and just take E.
Speaker 4: Let's uh, let's take a quick break. Well I'll take
Speaker 4: E and we'll be back to talk about Mission impossible
Speaker 4: and we're back.
Speaker 1: God, that's good.
Speaker 4: Eat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is that is for sending that over.
Speaker 2: Color.
Speaker 4: Been called molly for like twenty years. What I call
Speaker 4: it because I'm old back hey, speaking of being old,
Speaker 4: I do. There's a new study out of the UK
Speaker 4: where they asked people sixteen to twenty one years old
Speaker 4: would they rather live in a world without the Internet,
Speaker 4: like if they could just have no digital technology, would they?
Speaker 4: And forty six percent said they would rather be young
Speaker 4: in a world without the Internet altogether. And I'm curious what,
Speaker 4: just to get everybody's thoughts on, would you take that
Speaker 4: like I think I would? Would you take it all
Speaker 4: back now, just like hard reset to analog technology circa
Speaker 4: like I don't know. Nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1: Was the question was it be young without inn? Was
Speaker 1: that the question without it.
Speaker 4: Just like not every the Internet goes away.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, I would not. I mean, I think there's a
Speaker 2: lot of issues at the Internet. I do really love
Speaker 2: and I think it defines our specific millennial generation growing
Speaker 2: up with it. I mean I went to computer camp
Speaker 2: when I was like seven at Stanford, and so very
Speaker 2: much was like like it was cool to watch the
Speaker 2: Internet unfold and see, you know, all it's maybe gotten
Speaker 2: out of hand now, but there was something really cool
Speaker 2: about like plugging into the world as everyone was plugging
Speaker 2: into each other. That was very exciting and I feel
Speaker 2: like as a core part of our generation. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't have TikTok when I was in middle school,
Speaker 2: thank god. And I wouldn't do middle school with YouTube
Speaker 2: or TikTok because yeah, so I think we had a
Speaker 2: limited amount of Internet and that was good. So maybe
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe I would control the amount of Internet.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think we're the age too of like we might
Speaker 1: be the best generation to ask this for because we
Speaker 1: are like right in the middle where we do like
Speaker 1: remember a more analog life, but we had both, Like
Speaker 1: I do think about for you, like with your kids,
Speaker 1: I think being a kid right now with the Internet,
Speaker 1: like you know, with social media and stuff, is a
Speaker 1: fucking that's so scary to me. And I don't know
Speaker 1: how you do it with like you know, how you
Speaker 1: control that with your kids, Jack. But I think being
Speaker 1: young now with the Internet, like with the Internet the
Speaker 1: way it is, I would be like, oh, that's scary
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, but I'm with you t t that
Speaker 1: I would still want it, Like I would still keep
Speaker 1: the Internet even with all that all the.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's like a lot of ways that it cuts
Speaker 4: out the gatekeepers and you know, all the like monoculture
Speaker 4: like bullshit where like just a handful of you know,
Speaker 4: white guys have all the power to like tell people
Speaker 4: like make decisions about what people watch and stuff. But
Speaker 4: there's just so many, so many ways. It's it's probably
Speaker 4: just a thing where we're like early stages of getting
Speaker 4: this right and we just it's just very wrong right now.
Speaker 2: But maybe there would be like a reset, reset in
Speaker 2: terms of the way we use it, you know, because
Speaker 2: there was a lot of stuff like we did well
Speaker 2: like before YouTube became this giant conglomerate and that's you know,
Speaker 2: it's all ads. You were discovering really silly songs and
Speaker 2: playing them for our friends and just literally, like I
Speaker 2: remember college parties were just playing YouTube videos for each
Speaker 2: other and that like that felt punk rock at the time.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, I don't know, it was interesting,
Speaker 2: like there was something we were discovering together, which I
Speaker 2: don't think is how people use the internet now.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, yeah, have you seen that movie Hannah
Speaker 4: where the guy like raises his daughter out in the wilderness,
Speaker 4: was like no technology and stuff like that. I'm not
Speaker 4: that bad, but like I'm pretty uh, I don't really
Speaker 4: have my kids on screens very much because yeah, it
Speaker 4: just seems seems precarious.
Speaker 2: Well, give you basically give children like a microphone to
Speaker 2: the whole world when you and a receiver, right when
Speaker 2: you give them social media, and it's like we wouldn't
Speaker 2: just put children or adults, but we wouldn't just put
Speaker 2: anyone on TV or on the radio when they're like
Speaker 2: five into the talk, you know. But that's what that's
Speaker 2: what happening. Access to social media and the internet is
Speaker 2: like for children.
Speaker 4: I think there are also better pop culture examples than
Speaker 4: the movie Hannah, where the guy trains his daughter to
Speaker 4: be a killer. She's like, I don't know if the
Speaker 4: world class assassin who just like doesn't have the Internet,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, yeah, so I'm pulling that thing from
Speaker 4: it and then a real career.
Speaker 2: How do you control their use of internet? They're your
Speaker 2: oldest your kids aren't school.
Speaker 4: They're nine and seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, so limited outside of the home, because
Speaker 2: I feel like once they're in school, they're sort of
Speaker 2: like that's how do you control that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just have to like talk to your teachers
Speaker 4: and they I mean they're they're generally not on the internet,
Speaker 4: like obviously they use like some screens for education. But yeah, no,
Speaker 4: no fun answer to this other than just like yeah,
Speaker 4: you I wasn't.
Speaker 2: Allowed to watch MTV. But I would just like like.
Speaker 4: We're going to be that family like that. That's I'm realizing,
Speaker 4: Like my cousins grew up in a house where like
Speaker 4: they didn't have a TV, and like they I would
Speaker 4: like tell my friends about it. I'd be like, I
Speaker 4: have cousins who like don't have a TV like in
Speaker 4: their house. They just like don't have one, and everyone's
Speaker 4: like what the fuck? And that's like kind of I
Speaker 4: think what my kids are gonna end up being like
Speaker 4: because I'm just not gonna get them phones or you know,
Speaker 4: I'll get them like flip phones, and they won't walkie talkies.
Speaker 4: Be on the internet. Yeah, they'll be all like make stuff,
Speaker 4: but they can't be like on the internet on social
Speaker 4: media and shit, because it just seems bad. I don't
Speaker 4: I have yet to hear somebody who's like, it's actually
Speaker 4: really cool for them, Like it's really good for the kids.
Speaker 1: That's the thing too, because like it gets rid of
Speaker 1: the gatekeepers, which is great, but then you see these
Speaker 1: like white supremacist twitch streamer people and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: not everybody needs a voice, Like that guy doesn't need
Speaker 1: a voice for sure. This person who's not a doctor
Speaker 1: who's giving medical advice is not to serve a voice.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's the part of it. That's the
Speaker 1: double edged sword.
Speaker 4: Great pronunciation of swords.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I was allowed to watch v
Speaker 1: H one, but I couldn't watch to watch MTV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the rule.
Speaker 4: That's a that's a line that I feel like a
Speaker 4: lot of people. I could only.
Speaker 2: Watch PBS and not Cartoon Network or any of the
Speaker 2: other cartoons. But I do think that's why I love
Speaker 2: like I was, I love writing kids animation, and I
Speaker 2: still very much look at like cartoons right now as
Speaker 2: like entertaining as an adult. And I think part of
Speaker 2: that is because it tapped into my independence. Whenever I
Speaker 2: was allowed to watch Cartoon Network, it be like at
Speaker 2: a friend's house or like my grandma's you know, but
Speaker 2: just never at home. And I don't know, there's something
Speaker 2: about like I wonder what are these kids will be
Speaker 2: like when they're older and what they'll connect to the Internet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I think parents who like wouldn't let people
Speaker 4: watch MTV were like wrong in our generation, and I'm
Speaker 4: like going to be that parent, going to be like
Speaker 4: no YouTube, But it just it freaks me out a
Speaker 4: little bit. I mean I'm also like at the very
Speaker 4: beginning here.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well, there are a lot of bad actors
Speaker 2: on the internet targeting children, and that I think that
Speaker 2: is a bigger problem than before because with MTV, it's
Speaker 2: like you might say, like, oh, the back for the kids,
Speaker 2: but there was like you know, curation and executives and
Speaker 2: people held responsible. And now there are like actual bad actors,
Speaker 2: actual Nazis, yeah, yeah, and propaganda and robots and things
Speaker 2: that are actively targeting young minds that don't know how
Speaker 2: to discern.
Speaker 1: M hm.
Speaker 4: Well, speaking of propaganda, we should talk about the latest
Speaker 4: Mission Impossible is coming out this weekend. It's the final
Speaker 4: Mission Impossible.
Speaker 1: If you believe, by the way, than you should get
Speaker 1: the AI function where you look like Tom Cruise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is actually just an AI version of Jack.
Speaker 4: It's not it's not actually me. They just like this Jack. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a new it's a new function that they've added.
Speaker 1: This one so much better.
Speaker 4: Jack's sick. But the first movie came out in nineteen
Speaker 4: ninety six. This is gonna be the final one. Obviously,
Speaker 4: the first movie was dated by like landlines and floppy disks,
Speaker 4: but it was ahead of its time in that John
Speaker 4: Voight plays a complete piece of shit. So it was
Speaker 4: the first time that we got to see John Voight
Speaker 4: as the human monster that he actually is.
Speaker 1: Now, that's a bad actor, go ahead, Jack.
Speaker 4: Hey, and that is a bad actor before the Internet.
Speaker 4: But people asked Tom Cruise, he's been like kind of
Speaker 4: all over the place, do we think, did you guys
Speaker 4: see him eating popcorn?
Speaker 1: Did you see what it was like?
Speaker 4: He just like whips like an individual piece of popcorn
Speaker 4: at his mouth, like want at a time in like
Speaker 4: quick succession, and it's just like, yeah, and try and
Speaker 4: picture the most intense way to eat popcorn that you
Speaker 4: could possibly imagine, and that's obviously what he's doing. I'm
Speaker 4: curious if that was a thing where they were like, hey,
Speaker 4: could you like do something weird with the popcorn? We
Speaker 4: feel like that will get people talking about you. Because
Speaker 4: he's also like this is on the same tour where
Speaker 4: he's like climbing rooftops and fucking like jumping out of
Speaker 4: planes and just trying to kill himself over and over
Speaker 4: again in fun entertain ways. Yeah, but somebody was like, oh,
Speaker 4: is this gonna be you know, this movie is made
Speaker 4: all over the place and like lots of different locations.
Speaker 4: Will it be affected by the tariffs? And he was like,
Speaker 4: we'd rather answer questions about the movie thank you and
Speaker 4: thank you. But he he's like weirdly a political Like
Speaker 4: he's been in things that clearly have a political bench,
Speaker 4: like the Top Gun movies are essentially funded by the Pentagon,
Speaker 4: and but they're also like the second always a.
Speaker 2: Faceless, right, Isn't that a whole point he makes is
Speaker 2: like there's like, I mean, it feels very like obviously
Speaker 2: American military propaganda. But he'll stay never fighting.
Speaker 1: They're fighting, they're just enemy.
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly. Yeah, that's how they and that's kind of
Speaker 4: how the like Mission Impossible movies are like they just
Speaker 4: try and always have it both ways. But yeah, you're right,
Speaker 4: like Top gam Maverick was they specifically like didn't even
Speaker 4: say what the other country was. They're just like, and
Speaker 4: we have a target behind enemy alignes, you know, the
Speaker 4: way that people would talk about a thing. They wouldn't
Speaker 4: they wouldn't. We don't want to get specific here. No,
Speaker 4: isn't he not allowed to.
Speaker 2: Read the news though? I mean is that I mean,
Speaker 2: still is he still with is he still with signology?
Speaker 2: Like I remember the I just explode into a bunch
Speaker 2: of Dayden's or whatever, the.
Speaker 4: Focused energy being that just comes from Tom Cruise, just
Speaker 4: from his sheer magnetism.
Speaker 2: Like my understanding what he doesn't really have access to
Speaker 2: the same information we do. I mean, he obviously has,
Speaker 2: you know, a very bubble life, and I think he's okay,
Speaker 2: I hope, but uh, I hope blink. But but yeah,
Speaker 2: I understanding is he not like plugged in?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think that's probably like it's that's why I
Speaker 4: think it's That's why I think it's interesting to think
Speaker 4: about Hit the political content of his movies because so
Speaker 4: like he made Top Gun a top Gun, by the way,
Speaker 4: named after a real military Air Force program that was
Speaker 4: literally created during Vietnam in order to improve the Navy's
Speaker 4: kill ratio, like in in the Vietnam War. But then
Speaker 4: like a couple of years after that, he starred in
Speaker 4: Born on the fourth of July, directed by Oliver Stone,
Speaker 4: like a complete anti war movie that Oliver Stone specifically
Speaker 4: like cast him because he thought it would be funny
Speaker 4: to like put the guy from Top Gun, which he
Speaker 4: called a fascist film, in a anti war movie, but
Speaker 4: mission impossible. Specifically are I don't know, they have this
Speaker 4: like weird thing where I think the show that they're
Speaker 4: based on was specifically sort of inspired by this guy,
Speaker 4: Robert Mayhew, who was basically the CIA's fixer, Like we
Speaker 4: hear the fixer, which is like the guy who does
Speaker 4: the dirt for an organization famous for like doing the
Speaker 4: world's doing capitalism's dirt. Like you have to be like
Speaker 4: there's just all sorts of you know, hiring the mafia
Speaker 4: to kill Fidel Castro quote, lining up sex workers for
Speaker 4: foreign dignitaries. There's a new book that claims he was
Speaker 4: involved in the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and the First
Speaker 4: Mission A Possible movie was made with the help of
Speaker 4: the CIA's Public Affairs office. Specifically, they were like, well,
Speaker 4: holy shit, we'd like to be involved in helping you
Speaker 4: shape the public perception of the agency. And then when
Speaker 4: you like kind of look at the content of the movies,
Speaker 4: it's always this weird thing where they are both an
Speaker 4: Intelli Gents agency, but they're also like fighting the American
Speaker 4: Intelligence Agency. Like that. It's always somehow like a double
Speaker 4: cross so that they can never be seen as like
Speaker 4: just being the CIA. You know. It's always like, well,
Speaker 4: we've got to do got to sneak sneak in here,
Speaker 4: and like do the skunk works.
Speaker 2: There's always that kind of map, like the sort of
Speaker 2: like oh, they said stand down, it's like no, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll do it anyway. Let's get Langley on the phone,
Speaker 4: and he's like too, He's really like when you think
Speaker 4: about it, he's like kind of punk rock.
Speaker 1: He's so punk rock that that was the word I
Speaker 1: was trying to think of. He's punk rock.
Speaker 4: That's gonna be funny if just one of the things
Speaker 4: was just about him shooting John F. Kennedy top guns laughing.
Speaker 1: Imagine that movie, Like imagine you don't know who the
Speaker 1: target is behind the enemy lines, but those lines are
Speaker 1: in Dallas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just texting, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the big reveal.
Speaker 4: That actually would be pretty good, like sick just like
Speaker 4: an Ocean's eleven style caper where they're like just trying
Speaker 4: to plan the jack assassination.
Speaker 1: Do you think we should shoot one more? Do you
Speaker 1: think we should shoot one more?
Speaker 4: Let's go a second ship's good shooters on grassing. Just
Speaker 4: make sure they're ingrassing noll covered clothing. But yeah, the franchise,
Speaker 4: first post nine eleven movie, he is arrested by the
Speaker 4: IMF and like forced to endure enhanced interrogation, so like
Speaker 4: just like have it both ways, you know, like there
Speaker 4: and also like at the end of that, the IMF,
Speaker 4: that's like the name of his agency, I think, want
Speaker 4: to like plant a super weapon in a Middle Eastern
Speaker 4: country in order to justify an invasion. So basically just
Speaker 4: like the bad guy is the George W. Bush administration.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's so were those also working with the government,
Speaker 2: or they sort of took off.
Speaker 4: I don't know, like yeah, at that point they probably
Speaker 4: didn't need like funding or consultation from the CIA. But
Speaker 4: it does seem like when you just think about the
Speaker 4: overall impression that you get from the movies, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: the CIA has like got some bad guys, but there's
Speaker 4: also good guys working the.
Speaker 2: Like you get a price essentially because you want him
Speaker 2: to win, but you're also like, oh, you know, we
Speaker 2: all don't like authority, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: the authority, you know, still accepts him once they saw that.
Speaker 4: He was right. Or like when a CIA agent's kid
Speaker 4: catches them like disposing of a body in their backyard,
Speaker 4: the thing that they like will tell their kid is
Speaker 4: it's complicated, you know that, Like, well, it's a complicated
Speaker 4: world where like this this person was a bad guy
Speaker 4: that you know before they have to like kill their kid,
Speaker 4: that's what they shovel. And I'm going to put you
Speaker 4: in the same hole.
Speaker 2: I wonder because it's interesting this administration is much more
Speaker 2: hands on with like media and press, and I do
Speaker 2: see us going closer to like how China is where
Speaker 2: they late everything that comes out. I think it would
Speaker 2: be naive to assume we didn't do anything like that before.
Speaker 2: I think you're right Jack that even with without funding,
Speaker 2: and I think with big movies like this, there's probably
Speaker 2: some level of like transparency, like the government or CIA
Speaker 2: you know, watches it because I imagine even if something
Speaker 2: gets close to something that's actually happening, they probably would
Speaker 2: be like, you have to kill that storyline. But I
Speaker 2: just scare me a bit how much we're going into
Speaker 2: this world where we're just everything's going to be monitored
Speaker 2: and changed. Or maybe we're already are, but that's literally
Speaker 2: we talked about free speed, but that's literally like all
Speaker 2: these countries that regulate art and media, we're just doing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely we've like turned a corner where,
Speaker 4: you know, with the like CBS News thing that's happening
Speaker 4: right now, where that you know it's a they can't
Speaker 4: reach out and directly kill a story, but they can
Speaker 4: use the machinations of you know, Trump being able to
Speaker 4: do corruption without any any consequences whatsoever, and just being
Speaker 4: like I'm going to make it so you can't like
Speaker 4: do the merger that you want to do. If you
Speaker 4: write a bad story about me and then like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's essentially the same thing as having a government propaganda
Speaker 4: office or like somebody who's just reviewing everything to make
Speaker 4: sure that it's friendly. It's a good world. So yeah,
Speaker 4: this is in many ways just world. Just pointing this
Speaker 4: out is like nostalgic for a time when, like you,
Speaker 4: when they weren't just like yeah, no, we want to
Speaker 4: make a movie where the Cia is the hero, which
Speaker 4: is probably where we're headed for. Well t t What
Speaker 4: a pleasure of having you as always on the podcast
Speaker 4: Lovely Where can people find you? Follow you all that
Speaker 4: good stuff? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Actually I'm doing a Hollywood fringe that you live in LA.
Speaker 2: I have a discount code. I'm going to do four
Speaker 2: shows in June as my solo show I took to
Speaker 2: Edinburgh last year. It's called Good Girl Gone Battie Comedy.
Speaker 2: It's about me discovering my drag identity after my little
Speaker 2: brother died. There's some emotional parts, but a lot of fun,
Speaker 2: a lot of dancing, and there are boobs, so don't
Speaker 2: bring your kids. The code is Zeit Gang all Capital
Speaker 2: and you can you can find me, oh yeah, find
Speaker 2: me online, so you can well don't find me in person,
Speaker 2: find me or find me in person at the show.
Speaker 4: Whatever.
Speaker 2: Find me in person at the show, find me online
Speaker 2: to get tickets at Teresa Lee bought on Instagram, and
Speaker 2: I'm not really using any other social medias, but if
Speaker 2: you find me, you can follow me on the other
Speaker 2: ones too.
Speaker 4: There you go. That sounds good. Is there a work
Speaker 4: of media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 2: Well, okay, you know a work of media because I
Speaker 2: just I just watched the Penguins documentary on Disney, which
Speaker 2: I highly recommend just generally getting into penguins. Every once
Speaker 2: in a while, I get into an animal and just
Speaker 2: search those videos on TikTok and it's just like a
Speaker 2: nice way to like look at animals and connect and learn.
Speaker 2: I don't know, that's like my Discovery channel. But there's
Speaker 2: the Dock on Disney Plus. I think it's been out
Speaker 2: for a while, but it's called I think it's literally
Speaker 2: called Penguins and they follow these penguins around. But the part,
Speaker 2: if you watch the whole thing, watch till the end
Speaker 2: during the credits, because my favorite part is at the
Speaker 2: end where they show the crew filming it and you
Speaker 2: see just because it's beautiful and you know, you think
Speaker 2: they must have all this high tech equipment that zooms
Speaker 2: in and whatever, but then they show them behind the
Speaker 2: scenes and it's literally the crew is just like hanging
Speaker 2: out with penguins in this vast arctic and the penguins
Speaker 2: just like walk up to them and walk past. And
Speaker 2: it's really cool to see how it was done because
Speaker 2: you really realize, like, oh, they were right there hanging
Speaker 2: out with.
Speaker 4: The penguins to hang out.
Speaker 2: So just watch the end, just watch the credits part
Speaker 2: that that part's fun.
Speaker 4: You'll get it. You'll go yeah.
Speaker 2: And then this thread okay, wait, this is the one
Speaker 2: that I found that I was gonna say, it's okay
Speaker 2: from at Mimi Blair. Everyone is born owing one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty thousand bad art pieces to the god of
Speaker 2: bad art, and you can't make good art until you
Speaker 2: pay off all your debt. So yeah, people who made
Speaker 2: a lot of art as a kid are good at
Speaker 2: it now they paid off their debt.
Speaker 4: I like that. That's pretty cool. I like that, Blake.
Speaker 4: Where can people find you their workI media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, also go see t t live Tt is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite people performers so go go see
Speaker 1: those shows, and then I, for the love of fucking God,
Speaker 1: follow me on social media if you don't and at
Speaker 1: Black Westler on everything. And then also I did a
Speaker 1: bike ride to raise money for autism research and awareness,
Speaker 1: and a lot of zeit Gang donated, so I just
Speaker 1: want to like, I saw all the donations and I
Speaker 1: shout it out Zychang, So there are at least like
Speaker 1: five or six seven people who from Zychang who donated,
Speaker 1: so thank you. I saw that. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And then stand up. I'm doing stand up and on
Speaker 1: August first, there's a Blake and Friends in Philly, so
Speaker 1: my favorite local comics are going to be on that.
Speaker 1: On August twenty second, I'm headlining the first ever comedy
Speaker 1: festival in Philadelphia, so I'm doing one of those shows.
Speaker 1: And then August twenty ninth to the thirtieth, I'll be
Speaker 1: in Wilkes Barry, and then there'll be other non Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: based shows at some fucking point. And also I have
Speaker 1: a piece of media that I would like to read
Speaker 1: where I guess like the Airbnb person wrote, tomorrow we're
Speaker 1: unveiling Airbnb's next chapter. And then at Tanya Sabrina wrote
Speaker 1: water BnB, Fire B and B and Earth the B
Speaker 1: and B. So that's Tanya Sabrino, who's very funny comic.
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Speaker 4: That's me there it is. I do wonder what they're
Speaker 4: I mean, it's going to be incredibly disappointing, but.
Speaker 1: Just a totally fucked company. Also the ways they fucked everybody, everyone, everyone,
Speaker 1: their hosts, they're all right anyway, That's all I.
Speaker 4: Have a feeling. If I had to guess it involves AI.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, then so the AI and air Airbnb is
Speaker 4: going to be capitalized, the house AI. You can find
Speaker 4: me on Twitter at Jack Undersquirrel, Brian on Blue Sky
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Speaker 4: enjoying at Tim Ross Comedy tweeted Give a man a
Speaker 4: fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man
Speaker 4: to fish, buy the pond, tell him he can't have
Speaker 4: the fish, but he can fish for you, and you
Speaker 4: sell the fish and give him a very small cut,
Speaker 4: and then he'll say stuff like I am hungry at
Speaker 4: my teeth hurt. Nobody wants to fish these days. That's
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Speaker 4: to a song that we think you might enjoy. Superducer
Speaker 4: Justin Connor, is there a song that you think the
Speaker 4: people might enjoy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's about to be the weekend, so I thought
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