1
00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,280
Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three, h two,

2
00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:08,000
Speaker 1: Episode four of Dir Dally's I Guystay production of iHeartRadio.

3
00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:13,280
Speaker 1: This is a production of Uh. This is the podcast Woo.

4
00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:16,079
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive

5
00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,760
Speaker 1: into America's shared consciousness. And it is Friday, September one,

6
00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:26,279
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Welcome to September at long Last. I

7
00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,960
Speaker 1: think maybe the biggest overrated we've had over the past

8
00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,640
Speaker 1: couple months is summer. So we're nearing the end of summer.

9
00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,880
Speaker 1: Everybody's ready for some cooler months, some cooler climbs. My

10
00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,519
Speaker 1: name is Jack O'Brien aka, Gonna steal some artifacts to

11
00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:44,840
Speaker 1: sell to you.

12
00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:50,200
Speaker 2: My Twitter handle is my eBay handle too. I've got

13
00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,640
Speaker 2: some stuff from Greece and Africa. Gonna sell the things

14
00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,320
Speaker 2: instead of give them back.

15
00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:01,760
Speaker 1: O ooh that is courtesy a blank a little Africa.

16
00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:09,120
Speaker 1: But Toto AKA about the British museum curator who was

17
00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:14,119
Speaker 1: just taking that shit, just taking like priceless national treasures

18
00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,440
Speaker 1: that colonialism had stolen and brought to England and just

19
00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:23,920
Speaker 1: selling it on eBay on from an eBay handle that

20
00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:27,000
Speaker 1: is the same as his Twitter handle. That's really an

21
00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,319
Speaker 1: amazing story that we talked about on the past episode,

22
00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,200
Speaker 1: but I'm still not over it. Uh, And I am

23
00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,080
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined by a very special guest co host,

24
00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,800
Speaker 1: the producer behind shows like Fake Doctor's Real Friend, A

25
00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,520
Speaker 1: brilliant writer you can read at Culture av Club Team Vogue.

26
00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,160
Speaker 1: You've heard around pop culture havevia. It's the brilliant, the

27
00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:46,960
Speaker 1: talented Joel Money.

28
00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:49,560
Speaker 3: Hi Jack?

29
00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,160
Speaker 4: How you doing all right?

30
00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:53,240
Speaker 5: How you do?

31
00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,200
Speaker 3: It's Beyonce weekend here in Los Angeles. So I am

32
00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:03,160
Speaker 3: beside myself, not emotionally prepared for what's about to come,

33
00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,440
Speaker 3: just edge of my seat, not fully present. Anywhere I go,

34
00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:09,920
Speaker 3: my mind is always with Beyonce.

35
00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:15,799
Speaker 1: It's always in that stadium, that future spaceship, future spaceship

36
00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,280
Speaker 1: that landed somewhere in Englewood a couple of years ago.

37
00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:19,079
Speaker 3: It's wild.

38
00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, that place is wild. How are you observing? Are

39
00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,640
Speaker 1: you going to a Beyonce show?

40
00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:24,560
Speaker 4: Jack?

41
00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,560
Speaker 3: So, instead of going on vacation this summer, I bought

42
00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,519
Speaker 3: tickets to see Beyonce on her birthday the IP.

43
00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,200
Speaker 4: Section of So Far Wow.

44
00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,480
Speaker 3: My baby Cousin's flying up tomorrow, amazing, gonna come with me.

45
00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,320
Speaker 3: I just found out one of my best friends also

46
00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,119
Speaker 3: has tickets the same day. How we missed this information,

47
00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,880
Speaker 3: I don't know. But we're gonna get ready together. It's

48
00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,720
Speaker 3: gonna be a whole spiritual await he's my first time

49
00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,440
Speaker 3: seeing Beyonce Jack. I'm very excited. She's my number one diva.

50
00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:52,400
Speaker 3: Thank you.

51
00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,960
Speaker 1: That's very exciting. Well, we are very excited to have

52
00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,840
Speaker 1: in our third seat a comedian who one woman bathroom

53
00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:04,880
Speaker 1: graffiti musical The Writing on the Stall is about to

54
00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,120
Speaker 1: have a three weekend run off Broadway starting September sixth.

55
00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:13,680
Speaker 1: Has had runs at like places, prestigious prestigious places like

56
00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,880
Speaker 1: the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Please welcome to the show, The

57
00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,240
Speaker 1: very Funny, the talented Caitlin.

58
00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,959
Speaker 4: Cook woo boo, so good to be here.

59
00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:23,120
Speaker 1: What's up, Kaitlin?

60
00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,440
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm so jealous of your Beyonce tickets.

61
00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:26,400
Speaker 4: That sounds so fun.

62
00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,120
Speaker 3: I'm very excited. Did you do any concerts this season?

63
00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:30,720
Speaker 3: There's a lot.

64
00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,680
Speaker 4: Been to so many shows. Unfortunately, my partner's favorite band

65
00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,400
Speaker 4: is Fish, So I've been to a lot of Phish

66
00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:40,400
Speaker 4: shows this year.

67
00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,400
Speaker 1: And what do you think? Because I went to a

68
00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:48,120
Speaker 1: Fish show like and I was like, there must be

69
00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,080
Speaker 1: something to this, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna enjoy it,

70
00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,640
Speaker 1: and I did not. What is your experience then.

71
00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,320
Speaker 4: Well, I'm a musician, so I can find things to enjoy.

72
00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,240
Speaker 4: I like the way that they like sort of talk

73
00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,000
Speaker 4: to each other through their instruments. The lights are really cool.

74
00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,200
Speaker 4: It's fun to do drugs and go right. You know that,

75
00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:13,160
Speaker 4: I've never felt so comfortable in a crowd of mostly

76
00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:14,600
Speaker 4: white men because.

77
00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,360
Speaker 6: There are so many white men, happy hippies. For I

78
00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:22,640
Speaker 6: was not prepared for how uniformly white and male. It

79
00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,479
Speaker 6: was so very much that. But you know, it takes

80
00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,800
Speaker 6: me a while to get into them. They are not

81
00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,640
Speaker 6: a band that I would choose to go to nearly

82
00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,680
Speaker 6: as many times as I have this year.

83
00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:38,320
Speaker 1: Watch out for the drugs at that At those concerts.

84
00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,760
Speaker 1: My one and only experience with fish was back when

85
00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,400
Speaker 1: I was still doing stuff like that, and I ate

86
00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,320
Speaker 1: an almond that just made my brain disappear. Oh no,

87
00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:54,599
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened after after that. I don't

88
00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,080
Speaker 1: know an almond. They were like, this almond is a

89
00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:58,960
Speaker 1: special almond.

90
00:04:59,320 --> 00:04:59,680
Speaker 4: I was like.

91
00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:04,680
Speaker 1: I might have been, but I would hope not. I

92
00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,479
Speaker 1: would hope that like acid, I would have remembered. But yeah, anyways,

93
00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:13,080
Speaker 1: that's true. It was lights out for me, Caitlin. We

94
00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:14,560
Speaker 1: are going to get to know you a little bit

95
00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,640
Speaker 1: better in a moment. Also, I woulder so your show

96
00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,039
Speaker 1: is really cool, like you're taking actual graffiti from actual

97
00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:26,719
Speaker 1: bathroom walls and incorporating it into a musical journey. Yes,

98
00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,880
Speaker 1: I got to watch a clip where you were comparing

99
00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,560
Speaker 1: the difference between the graffiti and men's bathrooms and women's bathrooms.

100
00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:36,960
Speaker 1: But how did you come to this idea? Have you

101
00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,599
Speaker 1: just always been obsessed with graffiti?

102
00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:43,080
Speaker 4: I have. I studied art history in undergrad and I

103
00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,960
Speaker 4: got really frustrated with how pretentious that world can be.

104
00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,640
Speaker 4: And I was in a dive bar bathroom when I

105
00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,960
Speaker 4: saw written on the wall. Since writing on bathroom walls

106
00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,600
Speaker 4: is neither for critical acclaim nor financial reward, it is

107
00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:01,239
Speaker 4: the purest form of art discuss and I just loved that.

108
00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,760
Speaker 4: That really like made me giggle, and I took a

109
00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,520
Speaker 4: picture of it, and I started photographing bathroom graffiti. I

110
00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,440
Speaker 4: ended up writing a whole section of my thesis on

111
00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:14,080
Speaker 4: bathroom graffiti, and about five years ago, I decided this

112
00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,440
Speaker 4: would be a really funny song if I could take

113
00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,640
Speaker 4: these things that I've been photographing and turn them into lyrics.

114
00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,880
Speaker 4: And I bought a little foot pedal that is mostly

115
00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,680
Speaker 4: used by like orchestral musicians that need to turn their

116
00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,760
Speaker 4: sheet music, and I use it to tell dick jokes

117
00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,080
Speaker 4: and projects of the images of the graffiti behind me

118
00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,000
Speaker 4: as I'm playing guitar piano and singing what's on the

119
00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,400
Speaker 4: screen behind me to the audience. And that song, that

120
00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:41,440
Speaker 4: first song did so well that I was like, Oh,

121
00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,080
Speaker 4: there's something here that people are really connecting to. Everyone's

122
00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,799
Speaker 4: seen bathroom graffiti and thought like, what's the story behind

123
00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,320
Speaker 4: that one? Why did someone write that? So I did.

124
00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,560
Speaker 4: I went back to my folder of a million bathroom

125
00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,240
Speaker 4: graffiti images and I made a song that's men's first,

126
00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,719
Speaker 4: women's stalls. I wrote a song that's called Conversations with Strangers.

127
00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,040
Speaker 4: That's people that respond to me each other on the stalls.

128
00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,560
Speaker 4: I wrote a song that's all the sad, poetic things

129
00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,920
Speaker 4: that people write, and I turned it into a whole

130
00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,880
Speaker 4: musical where there's literally a toilet on stage. I treat

131
00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,680
Speaker 4: the audience like we're women bonding in a bathroom. It's

132
00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:14,239
Speaker 4: very silly and very fun.

133
00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:16,560
Speaker 1: So I feel like if we had a constant stream

134
00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,080
Speaker 1: of just like what was being written on the bathroom

135
00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,120
Speaker 1: stalls of America, like that would be one of the

136
00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,960
Speaker 1: prime features of our podcast. Like, I think what better

137
00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,280
Speaker 1: way to like plug into the zeitgeist than like what

138
00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,440
Speaker 1: people are writing on bathroom stalls, Like it's totally yeah, wholly, unpretentious,

139
00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,480
Speaker 1: a little bit drunk, Yeah, sometimes very drunk, but you know,

140
00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,040
Speaker 1: sometimes that's when the truth comes out, not all totally.

141
00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:40,560
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're going to get to know you

142
00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,360
Speaker 1: a little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna

143
00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:44,320
Speaker 1: tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking

144
00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:50,520
Speaker 1: about today. Ted Cruz is trying to like show off

145
00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:54,400
Speaker 1: his conservative bona fides with this clip where he like

146
00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:59,120
Speaker 1: went on Newsmax and went with his his patented catchphrase

147
00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,880
Speaker 1: kiss my eyes, which I think he thinks he might

148
00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,760
Speaker 1: have made up, because he really seems to like lean

149
00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,920
Speaker 1: on it, Like he's really proud and witty hear this

150
00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,440
Speaker 1: one I came up with. Anyways, he's mad that someone

151
00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,880
Speaker 1: might one day suggest that people only drink two beers

152
00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,720
Speaker 1: a week, and he's treating it like it's the new

153
00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:23,960
Speaker 1: bedtime that has been instituted for all of America by

154
00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,800
Speaker 1: the FBI or something, So we'll talk about that. We'll

155
00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,160
Speaker 1: talk about Rudy Giuliani's apartment on selling, I'll talk about

156
00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,640
Speaker 1: the plandemic two point zero conspiracy theory that is making

157
00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,800
Speaker 1: the rounds on social media. A lot of this stuff

158
00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:40,600
Speaker 1: is just like too dumb for bathroom stall graffiti. I

159
00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,360
Speaker 1: feel like you will get scribbled out really quickly. HBO

160
00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,920
Speaker 1: Max or sorry, just Max has come up with its

161
00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,959
Speaker 1: worst idea yet Maybe I don't know. They got a

162
00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,600
Speaker 1: lot of bad ones. And we'll talk about Taco Bells

163
00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:59,160
Speaker 1: proposed switch to a cashless future and what cash list

164
00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:04,640
Speaker 1: stores actually mean, all of that plenty more. First, Caitlin,

165
00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,240
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guest, what is something

166
00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,320
Speaker 1: from your search history?

167
00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:15,680
Speaker 4: So I recently was searching dive bars in Midtown because

168
00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,600
Speaker 4: I was doing some promotion for this show and I

169
00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:22,040
Speaker 4: was trying and I had to do an interview in person,

170
00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,680
Speaker 4: and I had to find They wanted it to be

171
00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:28,520
Speaker 4: in Midtown. I don't spend a lot of time in Midtown.

172
00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,160
Speaker 4: Why would you terrible place? But they wanted to do

173
00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,720
Speaker 4: the interview there at a bathroom that had graffiti in it.

174
00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,400
Speaker 4: So I had to do a bunch of research for

175
00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,360
Speaker 4: dive bars in Midtown found a couple. So now if

176
00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:43,800
Speaker 4: I'm ever in Midtown, I now have some safe havens

177
00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,720
Speaker 4: of places I can go that are actually cheap drinks

178
00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,640
Speaker 4: and calm and not crazy filled with tourists and people

179
00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,120
Speaker 4: dressed up as fake Elmo and whatever else they do

180
00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:52,840
Speaker 4: in Times Square.

181
00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, What is your definition of a dive bar, like,

182
00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,080
Speaker 1: does it have loud music or no?

183
00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,040
Speaker 4: I I mean, I suppose some dive bars do, but

184
00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,600
Speaker 4: my preference, my favorite dive bars do not. I want

185
00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:08,559
Speaker 4: to go somewhere where there's cheap here and I can

186
00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,680
Speaker 4: have a conversation and hear the person talk to me.

187
00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. That's what I like about the dive

188
00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:15,920
Speaker 1: bar that pops up in my head when I hear

189
00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,480
Speaker 1: the word dive bars, that you can actually hear the

190
00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,439
Speaker 1: other person. But there are some places I've definitely heard

191
00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,520
Speaker 1: of referred to as dive bars that are not quiet

192
00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,559
Speaker 1: and are just trying. It's just very loud bond jovi

193
00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,560
Speaker 1: at inappropriate times. I think anytime any year now is

194
00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,520
Speaker 1: inappropriate for very loud bon jovial.

195
00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,560
Speaker 3: Do you not like when people turn a regular bar

196
00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:39,839
Speaker 3: into a karaoke bar.

197
00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:43,840
Speaker 1: I'm good with that. Yeah, I guess it's like on

198
00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:45,760
Speaker 1: a one off thing, but like when it's just a wan,

199
00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:51,120
Speaker 1: like a NonStop wall of sound, like that's not what

200
00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,040
Speaker 1: I'm looking for from a dive bar.

201
00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,120
Speaker 3: Oh, definitely not. I feel like I do a lot

202
00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:58,400
Speaker 3: of nodding like, yeah, I can absolutely hear you, and

203
00:10:58,480 --> 00:10:59,840
Speaker 3: it's totally making.

204
00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,120
Speaker 4: Sense to Yeah, I can't ask what a third time,

205
00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,840
Speaker 4: so I guess all time right too.

206
00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:09,600
Speaker 1: I think it should be understood at that point if

207
00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,160
Speaker 1: someone said what and then the last time they just

208
00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,640
Speaker 1: not kind of that that they are just giving up

209
00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,319
Speaker 1: and you should give up as well. They didn't actually

210
00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,839
Speaker 1: hear you, and you can proceed in the conversation as

211
00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,280
Speaker 1: though we've just given up on ever hearing each other

212
00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:28,880
Speaker 1: on that one. What's something you think is overrated?

213
00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,880
Speaker 4: I think people have been talking a lot about having

214
00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,560
Speaker 4: main character energy, and while I think that is so

215
00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,839
Speaker 4: great for people that maybe do not take charge in

216
00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:40,960
Speaker 4: their own life, I don't think you should be the

217
00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,559
Speaker 4: main character all the time. I think that's very overrated.

218
00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,880
Speaker 4: I think sometimes you need to be a supporting character.

219
00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,680
Speaker 4: Sometimes you need to be the comedic relief. Sometimes you're

220
00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:52,480
Speaker 4: just like a little cameo that's dropped into someone's life.

221
00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,200
Speaker 4: It doesn't have to be about you all the goddamn time.

222
00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,800
Speaker 4: It also sounds exhausting to constantly be in main character mode.

223
00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,600
Speaker 4: If you're the main character of a book, bad things

224
00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,880
Speaker 4: are happening to you, terrible things. Yeah, you're really struggling.

225
00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,680
Speaker 4: It's hard, and you're winning, not often because otherwise the

226
00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,480
Speaker 4: book is over. Yeah, there's a lot of drama. If

227
00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:14,360
Speaker 4: you're the main character all the time, there's a lot

228
00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,160
Speaker 4: of drama surrounding you, and that seems exhausting. No, thank you.

229
00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think too many protagonists, not enough wacky neighbors

230
00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:27,640
Speaker 1: is probably a good prescription for the United States at

231
00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:28,200
Speaker 1: this moment.

232
00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:30,959
Speaker 3: Really, don't you want to be the whacky neighbor. You

233
00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,080
Speaker 3: can have so much more fun as a side character.

234
00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,600
Speaker 3: You get to really be all character. As a side character.

235
00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:41,160
Speaker 3: You're the person who's either making someone laugh or providing

236
00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:45,480
Speaker 3: like structural support to them during their difficult time. Or

237
00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:47,440
Speaker 3: you're the villain and that can be fun too.

238
00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:48,080
Speaker 7: Yeah.

239
00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, villain energy. I'm into that.

240
00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,960
Speaker 1: And you never have to change. The protagonist by definition

241
00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:58,200
Speaker 1: has to change, which is uncomfortable. But like the wacky

242
00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:03,480
Speaker 1: neighbor stays wacky. You know, it's like Kramer suddenly like

243
00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:10,840
Speaker 1: learns to control his limbs. What uh? What is something

244
00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:12,319
Speaker 1: you think is underrated?

245
00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:18,400
Speaker 4: Popsicles? I've been obsessed. I so I bike everywhere in

246
00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,720
Speaker 4: the city and that's how I get around. And it's

247
00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,040
Speaker 4: very humid. I know you were you guys were saying

248
00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,200
Speaker 4: that someone, a previous guest had said summer was overrated,

249
00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,040
Speaker 4: and I and I agree. It's very hot and human

250
00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:31,120
Speaker 4: here and I'm biking everywhere, and when I get home,

251
00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,319
Speaker 4: I want a popsicle immediately. And I just found these

252
00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,800
Speaker 4: new popsicles. They're they're they're not sponsoring me. They're just

253
00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:42,920
Speaker 4: Halo tops pineapple popsicles. They're so good, They're so underrated.

254
00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:48,000
Speaker 4: I ate a whole box and one night, two nights ago. Wow,

255
00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,120
Speaker 4: I'm just obsessed with popsicles right now. So I think

256
00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,080
Speaker 4: they're deeply underrated and everyone should be eating popsicles all

257
00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:53,520
Speaker 4: the time.

258
00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,280
Speaker 3: Such a ringing endorsement. Now, are these halo pop Are

259
00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,640
Speaker 3: they specially is they're like coconut and milk maketin there

260
00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:02,880
Speaker 3: or is it just like pure pineapple flavor.

261
00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,640
Speaker 4: I think it's just pure pineapple. It's like it says

262
00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,640
Speaker 4: like only forty calories per popsicle, and I'm like, how

263
00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,440
Speaker 4: how they taste so good? How is this possible? Yeah,

264
00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:14,200
Speaker 4: they're doing.

265
00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,160
Speaker 3: By some of these. I was looking at Rocket Pops

266
00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,600
Speaker 3: is doing like some kind of advertisement for a new

267
00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,880
Speaker 3: video game. But every time it comes on, I'm like,

268
00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:23,760
Speaker 3: and it was a lot of sounded like a rocket pop.

269
00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:27,720
Speaker 3: Like those things used to rule my summer because that's

270
00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,119
Speaker 3: usually you get whatever is in like the little plastic

271
00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,160
Speaker 3: and they're like blue, pink, green, whatever, and they're those

272
00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,720
Speaker 3: are good, They're tasty, they're cold stampikes. If you get

273
00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,120
Speaker 3: a rocket pop, you're balling. Somebody has paid you to

274
00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:42,000
Speaker 3: mow their lawn. Yeah, you have gone fat in the house.

275
00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,400
Speaker 3: Who's rich and you're just really living high on a

276
00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,680
Speaker 3: rocket top. Like I'm an adult, I have one of

277
00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,359
Speaker 3: these one ever, I gotta reinvest in my childhood.

278
00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think. I think popsicles maybe is a smaller

279
00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,080
Speaker 4: thing for what I'm really saying is underrated, which is like, yeah,

280
00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,720
Speaker 4: absolutely doing the things as an adult that you wanted

281
00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,480
Speaker 4: to do as a kid, and being like I can

282
00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:04,640
Speaker 4: do this anytime I want to eat a.

283
00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:06,040
Speaker 3: Whole box of popsicles in a night.

284
00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,200
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Yeah, I did that.

285
00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:11,640
Speaker 1: Have we been improving on popsicles?

286
00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,000
Speaker 7: Yeah, it seems like we have, like the the Halo

287
00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:19,520
Speaker 7: Top pineapple pop popsicle, like the again Halo Top, like

288
00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,720
Speaker 7: doesn't I think they're lying to us, but at least

289
00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,680
Speaker 7: we feel better when we're eating their ice cream and

290
00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:26,640
Speaker 7: frozen treats.

291
00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,840
Speaker 4: There's also good pop and they make like a mango

292
00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,880
Speaker 4: chili pop and like a watermelon a gave pop and

293
00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:37,600
Speaker 4: those are also like very good and supposedly healthier for you.

294
00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,400
Speaker 3: So yeah, Total Wine is making margarita pops and I

295
00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:46,960
Speaker 3: have just transcended to another earthly plane. They're eighteen dollars

296
00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,960
Speaker 3: with the tequila in them or let me see hold on,

297
00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,320
Speaker 3: let me see the variety path. They're gluten free. Children,

298
00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:59,160
Speaker 3: give me that they got a mango margarita, pineapple, strawberry

299
00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,720
Speaker 3: and lime. Does contain alcohol made with real tequila?

300
00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:07,960
Speaker 4: Wow? All right, freeze that. Though I don't understand that scientifically.

301
00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:11,600
Speaker 3: Cut water frozen margarita pops, I don't know, but I

302
00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:13,040
Speaker 3: want to purchase these.

303
00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:13,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

304
00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,320
Speaker 1: Every time I've tried to, like do the homemade popsicles

305
00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,880
Speaker 1: like they don't turn out they're like more icy than

306
00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,200
Speaker 1: I feel like the ones that you buy in the store,

307
00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:24,600
Speaker 1: Like there's two. I feel like there has to be

308
00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,080
Speaker 1: like some sort of concentrate, Like it has to be

309
00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:31,040
Speaker 1: concentrated juice or m you.

310
00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,600
Speaker 3: Know what makes the best homemade pops Jack kool Aid?

311
00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,720
Speaker 1: Kool Aid does? I feel like it's very watery, not

312
00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,760
Speaker 1: if you add extra powder too, So you just go

313
00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:41,840
Speaker 1: extra yeah, yeah, you got extra.

314
00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,240
Speaker 3: Hard on it. And then you pour them in a

315
00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:47,040
Speaker 3: Dixie cup, right, and like maybe about halfway stick your

316
00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,680
Speaker 3: popsicle in, freeze the whole cup, and then you just

317
00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,760
Speaker 3: like pop it out of the plastic. It's old school

318
00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,040
Speaker 3: and it's delicious.

319
00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:55,640
Speaker 4: That sounds good. I'm gonna have to do that.

320
00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,360
Speaker 1: Popsicles are great. All right, Well, let's take a quick

321
00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:05,119
Speaker 1: break and we'll come back and talk about some news.

322
00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:20,040
Speaker 1: And we're back and Ted Cruz, I think we've talked

323
00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,960
Speaker 1: to we've checked him with him before on his journey

324
00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,800
Speaker 1: of trying out his catchphrase of kiss my ass. Like

325
00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,080
Speaker 1: there was a point where he said my and my

326
00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,040
Speaker 1: pronouns are kiss my ass, which I think he stole

327
00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:38,360
Speaker 1: from Roseanne, like a Roseanne stand up special. But he's

328
00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:43,919
Speaker 1: he's back trying to differentiate himself, make people care what

329
00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:48,040
Speaker 1: he has to say, and so earlier in the week,

330
00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:50,600
Speaker 1: he shared a video of a cop car knocking down

331
00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,720
Speaker 1: an environmental protester who's blocking the road to Burning Man,

332
00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,560
Speaker 1: with the caption play stupid games, Win stupid prizes. So

333
00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:01,840
Speaker 1: seemingly he's in favor of cars mowing down peaceful protesters

334
00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:07,119
Speaker 1: and also implicitly is a fan of people flying private

335
00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,480
Speaker 1: jets to an event that has a literal orgy dome,

336
00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,960
Speaker 1: because that's what they were protesting, as people flying private

337
00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:18,480
Speaker 1: jets to Burning Man. But somehow that wasn't his cringiest

338
00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:23,240
Speaker 1: move this week. So recently, the director of the National

339
00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,440
Speaker 1: Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism said in an interview

340
00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:32,240
Speaker 1: that the group could hypothetically one day adopt Canada's recent

341
00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,520
Speaker 1: health guidelines recommending that adults should consume no more than

342
00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:41,640
Speaker 1: two alcoholic drinks per week. That there's no they Canada

343
00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,639
Speaker 1: did not say you go to jail if you drink

344
00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:49,959
Speaker 1: more than that. They just said we would suggest that

345
00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,960
Speaker 1: it is healthier if you drink this much as opposed

346
00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:58,040
Speaker 1: to more than this much. And then the person from

347
00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:05,000
Speaker 1: the US made this just loud, unwavering statement. He said,

348
00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,320
Speaker 1: I mean they're not going to go up. I'm pretty

349
00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,880
Speaker 1: sure with regards to like the alcohol guidelines. So if

350
00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:16,680
Speaker 1: alcohol conception guidelines go in any direction, it would probably

351
00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,800
Speaker 1: be toward Canada. And that is what the right has

352
00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,960
Speaker 1: seized on and been like, no, you will take these

353
00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,240
Speaker 1: beers out of our cold, dead hands unless it's bud Light.

354
00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:34,280
Speaker 1: Unless it's bud Light, in which case they're cool. But yeah,

355
00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,400
Speaker 1: so then he went on this news. So he goes

356
00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:40,159
Speaker 1: on Newsmax and does just the most performative act of

357
00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,080
Speaker 1: beer drinking from anyone that's not a fourteen year old

358
00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:47,639
Speaker 1: at their first house party. He's just I don't know,

359
00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:53,400
Speaker 1: he just seems so uncomfortable, and he's like talking shit

360
00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,920
Speaker 1: about how they don't want you to use house fans

361
00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,600
Speaker 1: or ceiling fans. And then he's like, and if they

362
00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,760
Speaker 1: want us to drink two beers week, frankly, they can

363
00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,960
Speaker 1: kiss my ass. And then he cracks open a cold

364
00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,800
Speaker 1: one and then there's like these cowboys behind him. Did

365
00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,560
Speaker 1: you guys see the video. He's like in a barn

366
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:18,679
Speaker 1: with like six cowboys standing behind him holding beers also,

367
00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,600
Speaker 1: and then when he takes a sip of his beer,

368
00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:23,800
Speaker 1: like they take a sip of their beer, but it's

369
00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 1: like very quiet, like they do it all very quietly,

370
00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,720
Speaker 1: like nobody makes a sound, so it's all just like solemn,

371
00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:33,440
Speaker 1: like men drinking in a dark room.

372
00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,080
Speaker 4: Is the vibe, which terrifying, Yeah.

373
00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,800
Speaker 1: Terrifying, and also like probably you know, if you're trying

374
00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:44,959
Speaker 1: to be like, nobody has a drinking problem here, Like

375
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 1: just all these guys silently drinking in a dark room,

376
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 1: like with just the weirdest vibes, ever, is probably not

377
00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,400
Speaker 1: not the thing you want to go for, but it's clear.

378
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,800
Speaker 4: It's meant to be consumed quietly with no talking.

379
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:07,720
Speaker 1: Yes, And then the anchor is like, well, haha, you

380
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:12,359
Speaker 1: said it, Ted, I'm gonna crack a non alcoholic beer

381
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,240
Speaker 1: here due to station policy because I'm not allowed to

382
00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 1: drink alcohol on air. But so that just like made

383
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 1: it even more embarrassing. And incidentally, the Canadian guideline classified

384
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 1: as a standard drink twelve ounce serving of five percent

385
00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:33,240
Speaker 1: alcohol beer and he was drinking a Shiner bock, which

386
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,120
Speaker 1: is four point four So the beer that he's talking

387
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,680
Speaker 1: about wouldn't even count as a drink under the Canadian

388
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 1: guidelines that's amazing.

389
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,560
Speaker 3: I think Ted Cruz was having flashbacks to his college

390
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 3: days of like trying to get into parties and being

391
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 3: roundly rejected, and he was like, no, guys, I'm really cool.

392
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,399
Speaker 3: Look how I want drink this beer? Like, yeah, watch

393
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,360
Speaker 3: me fit in. This is how you do.

394
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:59,880
Speaker 1: It right, watch right, fellow? Yeah yeah, he's.

395
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,880
Speaker 3: That's a character I like. Craig Mason, who some people

396
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,920
Speaker 3: might know as the showrunner of the Last of Us.

397
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 3: He also worked on the Hangover movies back in the day.

398
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 3: Was his roommate when Ted was a senior and he

399
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,800
Speaker 3: was a freshman, And he's got great stories to still

400
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 3: live on Twitter if you want to re visits some.

401
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,200
Speaker 4: Of Ted's crazy college days, I've seen this thread where

402
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 4: I can't even remember any specifics, but just how crazy

403
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 4: he was in college. Was like, ma'am, there's no way

404
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 4: you could accept him as like a friend or a

405
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 4: normal person. But maybe if we had, he wouldn't be

406
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:37,439
Speaker 4: here constantly trying to get acceptance from everybody.

407
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,880
Speaker 3: Ted believe a greasy film on everything. My friend Eric

408
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 3: dubbed the substance Cruz. See are u ah z rhymes

409
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 3: with scuz. Now there's Cruz on my TV, Craig Mason,

410
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:50,680
Speaker 3: January tenth, twenty sixteen.

411
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 1: More delightful stories like wow, yeah, he also made Chernobyl,

412
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 1: which was a favorite of ours, craigmans Oh, yes, a

413
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 1: good show, very good show. All right, Well, just moving

414
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 1: down the conservative lineup, We've got Rudy Giuliani. So we

415
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:14,160
Speaker 1: had covered before that he was putting his apartment up

416
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 1: for sale and the price point he's suggesting a six

417
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,880
Speaker 1: point five million dollars and so no one has brought

418
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: it yet, bought it yet, probably because first of all,

419
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 1: it's Rudy Giuliani's apartment, so it's like trying to sell

420
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 1: a murder house. It might have actually like been additive

421
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 1: when he was America's mayor, but now things are wildly different, obviously,

422
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 1: but it's it's being listed by the so called broker

423
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,920
Speaker 1: to the Fallen Stars, who also had to sell off

424
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 1: Bernie Madoff's penthouse. What a title, I know, it was

425
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 1: just this person is like specializes in selling off the

426
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 1: homes of people who made their millions in Ponzi scheme

427
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: and now Rudy Giuliani. But people are pointing out that

428
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,639
Speaker 1: like it doesn't doesn't even make sense, like he's asking

429
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 1: for like way more than it's worth. Another unit in

430
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: the same building that's basically the same size currently on

431
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 1: the market for two point eight seven five million, and

432
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 1: this is on the market for six point five Wow,

433
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 1: and the last sale in the building was three point

434
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,120
Speaker 1: seven Does.

435
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,400
Speaker 4: He think that like the celebrity boost, Yeah, we'll put

436
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:29,679
Speaker 4: it there. That's wild.

437
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 3: I think it's desperation because he knows he's has giant

438
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,400
Speaker 3: legal fees coming up. There's no money coming in from anywhere.

439
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,879
Speaker 3: Everybody who's even halfway intelligent Cutock ties with him, so

440
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 3: there's no I know, Trump's not helping him. Apparently he

441
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 3: asks for some help Trumps like get out of here.

442
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 4: Well Trump does not money either, so that makes sense, right.

443
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,360
Speaker 1: I Mean what one theory is that he's actually doing that.

444
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: He's putting his house on the market to like show

445
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: that he is in financial straits and like can't pay

446
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,880
Speaker 1: any of his lawyers or whatever, and like I think

447
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: there's like some legal reasons for that, while also like

448
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to sell the apartment and so he's

449
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 1: basically putting it on the market at like an irrational,

450
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 1: like a completely unreasonable listing by it. Yeah, yeah, that's

451
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 1: kind of the idea. It is like that he wants

452
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: to argue he's like close to broke in order to

453
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: excuse the fact that he hasn't shared discovery documents in

454
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:33,439
Speaker 1: the case brought against him by Smartmatic, the election technology

455
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: company that sued him and Fox News in twenty twenty

456
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: one over false claims of election fraud, and that like

457
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 1: this way, no one will pay in order to have

458
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: like verifiable proof that you're broke and therefore immune from

459
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 1: certain legal responsibilities. And so in an earlier case, he

460
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: actually automatically lost his defamation case in which he was

461
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: sued by two election workers from Georgia for failing to

462
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: turn over evidence, and in that case he was also

463
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 1: slapped with a one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars

464
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: bill for legal fees. So it's helpful for him to

465
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 1: be like, I'm in duress, I can't pay all any

466
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 1: of this stuff. Please leave me, leave me alone, Please

467
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: have pity on me, sir, And it seems like nobody's

468
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: buying it.

469
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 3: Essentially, it's nice to see people get what they deserve,

470
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 3: even if it's just so little.

471
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, nice karma.

472
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: I'm really I can't wait to see the behind the

473
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: scenes of the mugshot, like how Trump's mugshot came about,

474
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 1: but also like what the messaging was to cause, like

475
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: Rudy seemed to have the same like be tough and

476
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: like angry face as Trump did, but like I just

477
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,120
Speaker 1: want to know, like what went into all of those photos,

478
00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: because he also looks just like a a corrupt businessman

479
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: who just got caught.

480
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 4: And do you think they.

481
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 3: Gave him a three two one countdown or I'm like

482
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 3: smile click yeah he heads up, or where they're just

483
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 3: like and stand here, click next. We're like wait, But

484
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 3: because I feel like he would have tried to, like,

485
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,360
Speaker 3: I don't know, appear less guilty.

486
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, they both looked so guilty. He looked really guilty.

487
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: He was giving off like the subtext of his picture.

488
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: The first word in the subtext of his picture is guilty.

489
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,959
Speaker 1: He's just like, oh, I would have gotten away with

490
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: it too.

491
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 4: Now, I'm like, has anyone ever smiled in their mugshot pictures?

492
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: Oh?

493
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 3: For sure, Lindsay Lohands, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's

494
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 3: a bunch of like celebrity ladies are constantly like, listen,

495
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 3: you won't catch me with a bad photo, I don't care.

496
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 4: Where is this side? Okay, now book me.

497
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: But in that earlier case, like the judge literally wrote,

498
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: donning a cloak of victim is may play well on

499
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 1: a public stage to certain audiences, but in a court

500
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 1: of law, this performance has served only to subvert the

501
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: normal process of discovery in a straightforward defamation case. And

502
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: then you know, found him guilty and charged him one

503
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two thousand dollars legal fees. So it's

504
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,479
Speaker 1: not I don't I also don't know, like what the

505
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 1: theory is that, like someone's going to feel sorry for

506
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,959
Speaker 1: him that his six point five million dollar apartment isn't selling.

507
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: Like that doesn't feel like a great strategy for making people,

508
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: like causing people to feel sympathy for you.

509
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, it's all what else could he possibly try?

510
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 3: It was like, you know, bad housing markets totally. There's

511
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 3: some people who could empathize with the difficulty there because

512
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 3: he can't. What are you gonna use like his family, no,

513
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 3: his job situation. You did that here, rich wakeye what

514
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 3: else you got to but you try.

515
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: To buy my house? That's yeah, it's an interesting strategy,

516
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: all right. And finally let's talk about the plandemic two

517
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: point zero. This is a new conspiracy theory you're probably

518
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: starting to see because Trump went on a long rant

519
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: about how left wing lunatics are trying very hard to

520
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: bring back COVID lockdowns and mandates, specifically to steal the

521
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four election naturally. And yeah, I don't know,

522
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: this kind of came out. It seemed like he came

523
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, but apparently it's been it's been a

524
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: thing that's going going around for a little while. First

525
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: of all, I just want to note that under the

526
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: video that he posted on X, like the two stories

527
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 1: that they're linking off to that like disprove his claims

528
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: are actually like approaching the debunking from the perspective of, like,

529
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: actually Trump's the one who started the lockdowns, which I

530
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: get the logic of that, like that even his even

531
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: somebody who thinks the pandemic was like a scam, will

532
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: be convinced by that. But it does just feel like,

533
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm I feel like I'm seeing that

534
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: more and more, just the embracing of the logic of like, yeah,

535
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: well we didn't need to go that hard and everybody

536
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 1: overreacted right, like we can all agree on that.

537
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, from folks who seemingly before were like, oh no,

538
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 3: I'm definitely like mask on and stuff. It's been weird,

539
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 3: like a weird turn of events to watch folks be

540
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 3: like and I'll never go back again. I'm just at

541
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 3: a convention. I just still can't understand why wearing a

542
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 3: mask of seine is such an inconvenience. It's so easy.

543
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 3: It hardly does anything of it make you spell your

544
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 3: own breath, which you know is nice. If it's bad,

545
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 3: smell emotion, No, you should be aware of what's happening

546
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 3: in that area of your body.

547
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 4: It's also a great if you're like on the subway

548
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 4: and you're practicing lines for I don't know, an off

549
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 4: Broadway show you're about to do in a week, and

550
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 4: you don't want to look like a crazy person. You

551
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 4: can put a mask on and no one will be

552
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 4: the wiser. It's great if.

553
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 3: You're having a bad day looking not great, throw a

554
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 3: mask on. Guess what now you're mysterious, who's that girl?

555
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 3: What she's up to you? Yeah, it's honestly such a

556
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 3: health it's weird. It's especially knowing that the numbers are

557
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 3: going up, and I really feel like folks are like,

558
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 3: I'm not going back inside screw of you.

559
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, It's very funny that, like that's the mindset when

560
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 4: it's like the opposition none, none of us wanted to

561
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 4: do this. It feels like the argument is like someone's

562
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 4: planning this and they want to do this, and I'm

563
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 4: never going back.

564
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: It's like none of us enjoyed the lockdown, right, Yeah

565
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: that was not nobody's like pro pandemic. But that's that

566
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: is like how the argument is being exactly structured. Yeah, structured?

567
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: Is that like we're for so anyways, they're like the

568
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: There's been rumblings among right wing conspiracy theorists for weeks now,

569
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: basically following suggestions from public health officials the people who

570
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: are at higher risk may want to wear masks in

571
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: public following a rise in COVID cases, and some colleges

572
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: and companies, including the movie studio Lionsgate, even reinstituted mask mandates. Briefly,

573
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: they are claiming that like a countrywide lockdown is coming

574
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: this fall, and you know, Alex Jones shockingly is responsible

575
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: for this. He's claiming that On August eighteenth, he claimed

576
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: that a TSA whistleblower informed him that mask mandates will

577
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: return in September, followed by a full blown lockdown in December.

578
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: Called an anonymous Border Patrol agent who confirmed the oddly

579
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: specific claims and said that we would eminently return to

580
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: full COVID protocol of twenty twenty twenty twenty one, and

581
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: then perhaps because this is total bullshit. He also gave

582
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: himself an anap out, adding that the lockdown may not

583
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: actually happen because he had exposed it on the show.

584
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 4: All yeah, another lockdown, crazy, I know.

585
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,719
Speaker 1: But people on social media kind of picked up on

586
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,479
Speaker 1: his claims, suggesting that the new COVID surge was somehow

587
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: connected to Trump's indictments. So this, this is like the

588
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: social media brain malfunction where like everything like there's you

589
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: just assume like everything is happening to the too. This

590
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: like only two or three people that you're able to.

591
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: It's like main character syndrome of like following world events,

592
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: where like, oh, well, because COVID's going back up, that

593
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: must be related to Trump being indicted. Like you just

594
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: want to connect to the dots on things that have

595
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: nothing to do with one another because your brain is

596
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: only so big and can only you know, hold so

597
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: much information?

598
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 3: Oh man, I even know what to say about like

599
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 3: these conspiracy theorists, who I think when anyone is controlling

600
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 3: the spread of a pandemic, do you know how it

601
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 3: would be so epic if somebody could. They're like, okay,

602
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 3: dates coming up. I'm going to drop the pandemic right here,

603
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 3: in the same way i'd drop a music video. I'm

604
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 3: going to make sure this many people get it so

605
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 3: that we go into lockdown. Like there's just no possible

606
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 3: conceivable way to start time releasing a pandemic or a disease,

607
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 3: and then on top of that to then think how

608
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 3: does this help and or hurt Trump?

609
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 1: Right?

610
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,720
Speaker 3: Like the math is a mathing, like either we are insider,

611
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 3: we're not. I don't know what effect that has on

612
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 3: on whatever Trump is going other than maybe it would

613
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 3: delay his trial for a little.

614
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: Bit, right, Yeah, Yeah, I think the main thing that

615
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: is challenge is a challenge for Trump is that he's

616
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: like the most indicted human being in the history of

617
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: the United States is also trying to run for president

618
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: while dealing with that.

619
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, the heres on that guy amazing, it's wild, wild

620
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 4: and paid a bail Bondsman too.

621
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah. Steve Bannon's podcast co host Natalie Winters went

622
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: viral for posting out of context screenshots of Department of

623
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: Veterans Affairs purchase orders, suggesting that it was proof that

624
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,240
Speaker 1: the US government was buying up equipment for a planned

625
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: pandemic and the equipment was testing supplies and computer equipment

626
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: totaling seven million dollars, which is like, to put it

627
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: in perspective, like they spent I think four trillion dollars

628
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 1: on the pandemic, like across all of the different things

629
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: that they had to invest in.

630
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 4: I wish I could just post whatever and be fine

631
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 4: with it.

632
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: I know that's what they've discovered.

633
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 3: Truly, Truly, they like the truth is suggested.

634
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: Write whatever the fuck you want and it will be so.

635
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: And then so just like it's a it's a good

636
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: study and how these stories kind of happened, because then

637
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: you know, it's it becomes this thing where it's like

638
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: all these dumb little like one person pointed to a

639
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 1: suburban target store was putting in more pickup only spots

640
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: in their parking lot. Like so it's like all these

641
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: ridiculous statements being made on various outlets, But then The

642
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: Daily Telegraph published a op ed warning about Biden's lockdown plot,

643
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:43,720
Speaker 1: citing Biden administrations buying COVID equipment and hiring pandemic safety

644
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: protocol officers not to mention the return of the mask

645
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: mandates at the Lionsgate Film studios in Los Angeles. So

646
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: it's like, that's how they launder their bullshit from you know,

647
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: a couple of Twitter posts, and you know what Steve

648
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: Bannon's co host says to being in an op ed

649
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: as like, and this is evidence.

650
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 3: I like that they were like Target's putting in more spots.

651
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 3: It must mean the pandemic. So listen, Target do that

652
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 3: because it's so easy to order online and then you're

653
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 3: not tempted to order inside Target. This Target delivery slash

654
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 3: pickup is one of the greatest inventions ever. No more

655
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 3: are you perusing the aisles getting lost in pillows. You

656
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 3: definitely don't need twelve more of You can just order

657
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 3: and then they bring it to you, and then you

658
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 3: can go home with the money you intended.

659
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 4: To spend still in your pocket.

660
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 3: It's beautiful. I promise it's not a sign of forthcoming

661
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 3: pandemic lockdown.

662
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 4: But it does feel like it probably loses Target money though,

663
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 4: because then you're not spending that money on ten pillows

664
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 4: you don't need.

665
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 3: It probably hurts Target a little bit. But also i'd

666
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 3: consistently coming back, so I don't there you go.

667
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, it lowers the friction. That's what they call like

668
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 1: the difficulty of buying something if you just like go,

669
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: hit the button, show up and someone ribes and puts

670
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: it in the back of your car.

671
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 3: I will say. Whatever AI is operating their system too,

672
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 3: has gotten pretty good at being like, hey, this is

673
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 3: on sale. You could just add this to your cart

674
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 3: right now.

675
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's the other thing like they they've perfected

676
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: like the AI and the you know, web design and

677
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 1: all the things for like our little skinner box you

678
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: know smartphones that we all live basically live inside, so

679
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: that they can sell you more. And actually that's what

680
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: our next story is about, which is kind of the

681
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 1: reason that Taco Bell and a bunch of other companies

682
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: want to go cash lists. So yeah, let's take a

683
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll come right back and talk about.

684
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 8: That, and we're back and yeah, So Taco Bell made

685
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 8: news recently for reportedly announcing that they hope to soon

686
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 8: go one hundred percent digital with only cashless payments in

687
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 8: the future.

688
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: Cashless transactions really took off during the pandemic, but the

689
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: push for cashless stores existed prior to COVID and was

690
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: already pretty controversial because people have pointed out that eight

691
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: point four million households are unbanked, So that's a lot

692
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 1: of people who couldn't wouldn't be able to buy something

693
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 1: at a cashless business, and in this case, wouldn't be

694
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: able to and this is one of the most important

695
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: purchases somebody can make. Buy a crunchy Taco Supreme. Yeah,

696
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: you know, that's not fair.

697
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 3: It's super not fair, especially when you consider like at

698
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 3: least the last time I went to taco about which

699
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 3: I'll be honest, was maybe six years ago. It's been

700
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 3: a hot mini since I've been to talk about but

701
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 3: they have like eighty nine cent little burritos and stuff,

702
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 3: which if you are either a very broke college kid

703
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 3: or someone living on the street, like you could scounde

704
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 3: job eighty nine cents and get yourself a little bit

705
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 3: of food to eat. It blows that now that might

706
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 3: not be an option for some people because they deserve fast,

707
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 3: venient food too. It's rude.

708
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, agreed. And it's like a prize if you

709
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 4: find enough change on the couch cushion and you're high

710
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 4: and you want to go to Taco Bell. That's that's

711
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 4: the prize.

712
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I want.

713
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 4: To absolutely now I want to go to Taco Bell.

714
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 3: Wow, I really thinking about it.

715
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: This segment is sponsored by Taco Bell.

716
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 4: I should say thank you Taco Bell.

717
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: No, but cashless stores disproportionately affect people of color, not

718
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 1: to mention adding more obstacles for undocumented Americans who have

719
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: a harder time accessing banking services for obvious reasons. So

720
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: it makes sense that like groups like the NAACP have

721
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: called on Congress to pass legislation to ban cashless stores.

722
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:55,720
Speaker 1: And contrary to what I would have thought, there's actually

723
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:59,280
Speaker 1: no federal law mandating that businesses need to accept currency

724
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: as payment for goods or services, which I thought that

725
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:05,439
Speaker 1: was like kind of the whole thing.

726
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 3: Very stills.

727
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 4: Then just open a store and do you like treats.

728
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,479
Speaker 3: It'd be like, uh, yeah, you washed my car, you

729
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 3: can have that twenty pound ham. Sure.

730
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,439
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's People are so horny for like a barter

731
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 1: based economy, like they just they like they whenever they

732
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: talk about like why economics is so good, they're like

733
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: people used to have to just do. I'm an artisan,

734
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: so I make you this pot and you give me

735
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: one of your lambs or something like that should actually

736
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: never happened, like they're they like that, that's there's no sign.

737
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: There's no evidence anthropologically though, like anybody ever did that shit,

738
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: it's just a fantasy that people kind of really want.

739
00:41:56,080 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: I feel like if you just created some I guess

740
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: burning man. Is this like someplace for rich people to

741
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: go to then like barter their.

742
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 4: Deaths to bargain for things.

743
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's about super radical reliance, which means I don't

744
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 3: have to give you anything if you choose not to

745
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 3: be a part of the trading bar system at all,

746
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 3: and you're like I provided for myself. You're thirsty, I

747
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 3: have water. I definitely don't need to give it to

748
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 3: you because it's not part of the rules here. It's

749
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 3: an interesting system. It's it's lovely to see in actions

750
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 3: when the heart of it is simply like, oh, I

751
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 3: brought so much like extra stuff, like I have abundance

752
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 3: and I want to share it. And having been a

753
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 3: part of like some burner events. It could be fun

754
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 3: also scary.

755
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 4: Is this safe? Did you jug it? What's happening in here?

756
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 4: It's a chaotic system.

757
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 3: I also think maybe too much ren fair slash like

758
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 3: old Americana storytelling, Like your grandmother used to just give

759
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 3: sugar to her neighbor and then her son would do

760
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 3: our lawn and we were just we were more reliant

761
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,959
Speaker 3: on each other back then, and it was a beautiful thing.

762
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 3: I really feel like that's where at least my ideas

763
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 3: of trade and barter systems came from. Like it's never

764
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 3: like this old world thing. It's like three generations ago.

765
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I think that's like people looking

766
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: out for each other is definitely a thing that happened.

767
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: But like any sort of systematized like state barter system,

768
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:26,280
Speaker 1: there's not evidence of that, and I think it's used

769
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: to justify like capitalism. I think in a lot of

770
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: cases that like capitalism is the best because the only

771
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: other option is that you pay ham to have the

772
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 1: doctor look at you. I need to pay pay with ham,

773
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: and ham goes bad. Maybe the doctor's not hungry for ham.

774
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: These are the things that they like to These are

775
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: the problems they like to make up when suggesting an

776
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 1: alternative to capitalism. But yeah, anyways, so with no federal

777
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,439
Speaker 1: law in place, some states and cities have passed laws

778
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: banning stores from refuse and cash payments, but people can

779
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: also just ignore those, like New Jersey band cashless stores

780
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, but businesses still risk finds and refuse

781
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: to accept cash. But so, yeah, that the reason for

782
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: the cash list push is ultimately less about making things

783
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: cheaper for small businesses, which is what they'll usually claim,

784
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: and or simpler for consumers. It's actually more about corporations

785
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: screwing us out of like just a little bit more money,

786
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: because cashless payments exploit a psychological phenomenon where we experience

787
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: the loss more when we can see the money leaving

788
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: our hands, but when it's just you know, all being

789
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 1: done cashlessly or with credit cards or whatever it is,

790
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: it's you know, they always talk about frictionless like consumer environments,

791
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: like that's ultimately what they're going after is you know,

792
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: this is why I like Disney World has those bands

793
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: that you can just like charge everything too. It's it's

794
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: the same reason that casino use chips instead of cash.

795
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: It's like makes it easier to spend money. And the

796
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:18,240
Speaker 1: more that you can not realize that you're spending the money,

797
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 1: the more money you're going to spend, and the better

798
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: it is for them.

799
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 3: When I'm tapping my car and I just be like, yeah,

800
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:28,439
Speaker 3: great money spent. Definitely, does it feel like it also

801
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 3: feels like this will never run out. I'll just tap

802
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,240
Speaker 3: right into infinity right, Yeah.

803
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 4: Yeah. That's so funny because to me it's like flip.

804
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 4: I mean, I know this is psychological, but because I

805
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 4: almost never have cash on me when I do, I'm like,

806
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 4: this isn't ever going in the bank. This is just

807
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 4: my free money that I can buy anything with, whereas

808
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 4: like the card, I'm like watching my bill climb up.

809
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's like flipped for me in my

810
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 4: head recently, that's good.

811
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 3: Do you not have notifications on my card? So when

812
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 3: I said, like, I know my friend when she spent that,

813
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 3: she gets a notification on her phone and she's like, Okay,

814
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 3: that's sort of replacing the handing over of cash feeling.

815
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, negative X amount of dollars in your account.

816
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 3: Sucks to be you. I, on the other hand, went

817
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 3: to a bookstore the other day and I was to

818
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 3: kill time. Y'all, I saw like four books. I went,

819
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 3: of course, they are giant volumes of graphic novels. I

820
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 3: spill like two hundred twenty five dollars in the books.

821
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 3: I was like, Yeah, I for sure need all of

822
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 3: these books. Can't wait, can't do a library, must own them.

823
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 3: They're collecting us on a shelf. I'm sure I'll read

824
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:35,879
Speaker 3: them one day.

825
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 4: Such a problem.

826
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

827
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: And then the other thing that we were talking about,

828
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: you know, Taco Bell will push people to pay through

829
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: screens that allow the company to try and upsell orders

830
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: with the suggestion of additional items based on past purchases.

831
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: So obviously, like they you know, when you go to

832
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: the store and pay with cash, they have like the

833
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: signs and all the normal things that might get you

834
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: to make additional purchases. But when you're online, they have

835
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: all your past information. They can make informed decisions about

836
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: like what product to dangle in front of your face, right, I.

837
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 3: Wonder if that so obviously they'll be tracking the data

838
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 3: for that and using that to package things later and everything.

839
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 3: But some stories, if you upsell, you get like a

840
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 3: percentage of that up sell. You know what, I mean,

841
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,439
Speaker 3: like today, your guys' goal is to sell so many

842
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 3: of those like cinnamon curly fries. If you do, the

843
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 3: whole team gets I don't know, five bucks or an

844
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 3: extra day off or something along those lines. Like there's

845
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 3: always these incentives to try to up sell, and I

846
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 3: wonder if these new systems remove that for employees.

847
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: Oh for sure, because it's the AI that's doing the

848
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: up selling, or it's the you know, a programmer that

849
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: can do it.

850
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,760
Speaker 4: Across multiple apps.

851
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: And so therefore it's makes it makes it easier. So

852
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: not to worry. Businesses have found a solution to this

853
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: that will make everyone happy. Aka make the world a

854
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:12,320
Speaker 1: horrible black black mirriat Dystopia they are offering reverse ATMs.

855
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: So these are machines where you can trade cash for

856
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: store value cards in order to pay for stuff, so

857
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: you can lose.

858
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 3: The card or not have exact chaane on the card

859
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 3: till all that extra coinage runs over to the company.

860
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: Oh also, the cards cost as much as five dollars

861
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:34,839
Speaker 1: on their own, so no, yeah.

862
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 4: No, thank you.

863
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 3: I hate capitalism.

864
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 1: And sometimes they carry dormancy fees that start charging money

865
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: if the card isn't used for more than three months.

866
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 4: Okay, fine, I'll take the ham God.

867
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, just pay me in ham. Fuck it well, Caitlin,

868
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 1: such a pleasure having you on the daily Zeitgeist. Where

869
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 1: can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?

870
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 4: My handle on everything is the Caitlin Cook. Caitlin is

871
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 4: spelled the Irish way and not the stripper way, which

872
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 4: I once said on the date and then the guy said,

873
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 4: so not like my sister anyway. My handle is the

874
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 4: Caitlin Cook I have. I'm posting a lot about my show.

875
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 4: If you send me a picture of bathroom graffiti and

876
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 4: want to come to the show, let me know. I'll

877
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,320
Speaker 4: give you a little discount code come for tickets. Yeah,

878
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 4: and that's that's all I'm plugging. That's all I'm doing

879
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 4: with my life is this show.

880
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: Is that where you get most of your graffiti is

881
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: from like people who are fans at this point these days.

882
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I used to do a lot more photographing myself

883
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 4: and seeking it out, and now I get like fifty

884
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 4: dms a day. And you know, when like someone who

885
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 4: you're not following dms you a picture, you have to

886
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 4: like consent to seeing it. It's blurred. R.

887
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:47,479
Speaker 1: Yeah.

888
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 4: I used to play like is it a dick pic

889
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 4: or an illustrated and now it's always bathroom graffiti. People

890
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 4: send me stuff from all over the world. It's so cool.

891
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 3: I love it.

892
00:49:57,360 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 4: It's great.

893
00:49:58,200 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

894
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: Is there a a work of media that you've been enjoying.

895
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 4: Yes, I've been really into this illustrator named romy Naser.

896
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 4: He posts a lot on Instagram. He's pretty popular on there.

897
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 4: His most recent illustration is just it's great. It's about

898
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 4: things being good. I just I mean, I won't be

899
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 4: able to sum it up. You should go look at

900
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 4: his Instagram. But it's just a little Every time I

901
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 4: see him on my feed, I'm like that. I feel

902
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,879
Speaker 4: like there was a beautiful shining light in my day

903
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 4: and it just brightens it a little bit. Great.

904
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: There you go, amazing, Joelle. Such a pleasure having you

905
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: on as guest host. Where can people find you and

906
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: follow you?

907
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 3: Thanks Jack? This was fun. You can find me all

908
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 3: over the internet. Actual Monique, it's j O E L

909
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 3: E m O n I qt you E can also

910
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 3: find me over at Steven spark my film. It's thirty

911
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:53,439
Speaker 3: one percent funding. If you want to help us reach

912
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 3: eighty percent so we can get those funds out. You

913
00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 3: can go to seven Spark slash fund dinner and give

914
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 3: us five dollars. It would be so helpful. And there

915
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 3: are really dope prizes which we love. And a social

916
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 3: thing I'm loving is a channel on Instagram called Beyond

917
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 3: the brick to TV. They just do little tours of

918
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 3: Lego sets, but the sets are massive. I'm talking the

919
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 3: entire Disney ride of Haunted Mansion. I'm talking in a

920
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 3: train set that runs the length and width of someone's backyard,

921
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 3: around a pool, under a ladder. There's a many carnival there.

922
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 3: They are cute sets. It's very calming. It's cool to

923
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 3: see how much work people put in. My favorite one

924
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 3: is an entire water park which includes a water slide,

925
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 3: a log ride, and a way cool. Who has the

926
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 3: time to do this I don't know, but they're great.

927
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 4: I love looking up so I love that so fun.

928
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien.

929
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: You can find us on Twitter at daily Zeikeeist for

930
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: at z daily Zeichist on Instagram. We have a Facebook

931
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: vanpage and a web site daily zeikes dot com, where

932
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: we post our episodes and our footnote. We link off

933
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: to the information that we talked about in today's episode,

934
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: well as a song that we think you might enjoy.

935
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:13,319
Speaker 1: Super producer Justin is there a song that you think

936
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:14,280
Speaker 1: people might enjoy?

937
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is a quick, little bop that's perfect for

938
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 5: like a pregame playlist. And that's perfect actually because my

939
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 5: sister Joel is going to the Beyonce birthday show this

940
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 5: weekend out So honestly, I wish this song was like

941
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 5: three times as long as it is. It's like a minute,

942
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 5: but it's fun little beat. It has some up tempo

943
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 5: jazzy flutes over some ato waits and it just reminds

944
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 5: me of a summertime cookout energy, perfect for Labor Day.

945
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 5: This is a track called Starlight by the Odd Dreamers

946
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 5: and d Note, and you can find that song in

947
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:46,320
Speaker 5: the footnotes.

948
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 1: Foot Notes The Daily ZEI guys are the production of iHeartRadio.

949
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: For more podcasts from My Heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app,

950
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,280
Speaker 1: Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

951
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: That is gonna do it for us this morning. We'll

952
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 1: be back this weekend with highlights from this week STAPs,

953
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: and then back on Monday, I'd tell you everything that

954
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: was trending over the weekend, and we will talk to

955
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: you all then By

956
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 4: M.