Speaker 1: Oh oh.
Speaker 2: Here I come from with you mom.
Speaker 1: If I was a bad and I people thought that
Speaker 1: that's what my music saided like, I'd like, I'm never
Speaker 1: doing anything creative ever again it's have you.
Speaker 2: Seen the video that's like getting passed around on Twitter
Speaker 2: of them performing it?
Speaker 1: No, but old moll do I go. Let me just
Speaker 1: read some of these lyrics. Alabama, Arkansas. I do love
Speaker 1: my mom, Paul, not that way I do love you. Wait,
Speaker 1: not that way as in, like I don't love my
Speaker 1: mother and my father the way I love my romantic interest.
Speaker 1: That's good they clear that up. It is important that
Speaker 1: they clear that up.
Speaker 3: And I think that's why they said Arkansas first. They're like,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna name these places that are kind of that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't love you like that.
Speaker 1: I'm not like that. FYI.
Speaker 2: Well, hot and heavy, pumpkin pie, chocolate candy, Jesus christ
Speaker 2: Ain't nothing please me more than you?
Speaker 1: And these people are from those felixes feels. It's true.
Speaker 1: Sharp was born in a Gelson's.
Speaker 2: Born in the Whole Foods hot food section, next to
Speaker 2: like a thirteen dollars piece of pizza. Yes, it would
Speaker 2: be more appropriate to say Arawan but Arawan wasn't that
Speaker 2: bougie and widespread and that far east in Los Angeles
Speaker 2: until then?
Speaker 1: That's correct. But if I was.
Speaker 2: From Alabama or Arkansas, I would be so offended, Like
Speaker 2: this is the most like they're like doing Arkansas hillbilly face.
Speaker 2: He pass those spoons over here, Paul, let me get
Speaker 2: let me get a spooning' not like that.
Speaker 1: I don't love you like that, Pa, but I love
Speaker 1: that like Paul.
Speaker 2: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season four hundred, episode
Speaker 2: five of Dirdays. Heyay, this production of Iheartradios, the podcast
Speaker 2: We're taking Deep to have a too American share concouenness.
Speaker 2: It's the season finale of the eagerly anticipated season four hundred.
Speaker 2: It's Friday, August eighth, twenty twenty five. My name is
Speaker 2: Jack O'Brien aka. I eat pieces of pizza like you
Speaker 2: for breakfast that.
Speaker 1: One crazy of David Lesser.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I eate pizza yesterday for breakfast Manco and Manco's.
Speaker 2: I felt bad, and then today I was like, how
Speaker 2: can I eat something for breakfast that will make me
Speaker 2: feel worse? And I ate a plate of leftover beef
Speaker 2: and mashed potatoes.
Speaker 1: What that he was going on with you. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I come home and I eat like I don't know
Speaker 2: how food works for some reason, but I can report
Speaker 2: I feel like shit again for some reason.
Speaker 1: Because beef is so vague. What was it? But I
Speaker 1: think you don't know. That's who you would have said
Speaker 1: that it was like a steak or that's why it's
Speaker 1: so concerning, that's what. You don't know.
Speaker 2: What it was just a red red meat of some sort.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something rare. Yeah, Now it was a couple of
Speaker 1: days old.
Speaker 2: It's been reheated a couple of times, but it was
Speaker 2: really good on the last reheat, and this time I
Speaker 2: was very hungry, and so I didn't notice if it
Speaker 2: was good or bad, And now I feel terrible. I'm
Speaker 2: thrilled to be joined in our second seat by a
Speaker 2: brilliant comedian, writer actor. Please welcome uh the Hilarious The
Speaker 2: Riding of Recumbent Bicycle In short short.
Speaker 4: It's Blake Waxland's Wexler aka let me go on like
Speaker 4: a Wexler in the sun, Let me go on plump legs.
Speaker 1: You know I'm the one when I'm out walking, I
Speaker 1: strapped my stuff. Yeah, these plumpers are out. Big thighs.
Speaker 1: Big thighs were come bent by I might I just
Speaker 1: by stopped to show them off. Let me go on,
Speaker 1: And that was from Gross Space Killer. Today is my
Speaker 1: dad's birthday, but I don't want to talk about that,
Speaker 1: so to talk about these leggs. He's the man I
Speaker 1: inherited the original plump pet my dad. Your dad have
Speaker 1: great legs. Uh, they used to. They're not aging well,
Speaker 1: but they were once. They were once a good yeah,
Speaker 1: a good leg like the rest of them. They're it's
Speaker 1: gone the ship. But you know he had good legs
Speaker 1: in his in his heyday. Heyas congratulations Blake, thank you, thanks.
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to.
Speaker 2: Be joined in our third seat by a brilliant anti
Speaker 2: racism educator, activist, writer, creator the acclaimed podcast White Homework.
Speaker 2: Please welcome back to the show, Tory Williams Douglas.
Speaker 5: Thanks so much for having me back on. I would
Speaker 5: get to be back on to This is my first
Speaker 5: different second host.
Speaker 1: Oh really, Oh yeah, you've had Blake as a co
Speaker 1: host before and it is an.
Speaker 5: Honor and a privilege and a delight.
Speaker 2: Tory, congratulations, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 5: Happy to be here.
Speaker 1: We're thrilled to have you back.
Speaker 2: I am coming from DTS down the shore for the
Speaker 2: part of the Jersey Shore I.
Speaker 1: Grew up going to.
Speaker 2: Did we talk about the abandoned amusement park yesterday's episode?
Speaker 1: We somehow didn't get to it. We got to everything
Speaker 1: else under the fucking sun.
Speaker 2: But because we were talking about the amusement park where
Speaker 2: I appeared to pee my pants even though I didn't,
Speaker 2: that place is now for the first time in my life,
Speaker 2: the rides are not open this summer.
Speaker 1: It is enough.
Speaker 2: It is a straight up abandoned amusement park that's been
Speaker 2: purchased by a hotel developer, which is like scary. We're
Speaker 2: so close to a Scooby Doo, Like I feel like
Speaker 2: I need to go there and start dressing up and
Speaker 2: like you know, ghost mask and like trying to scare
Speaker 2: people to do something with the property value. Probably scare
Speaker 2: the hotel operators so they bring them rides back.
Speaker 1: That'll work. Both of you have kids, so you'll probably
Speaker 1: have like a more in depth analysis on this, since
Speaker 1: mine is purely selfish. But getting on amusement park rides
Speaker 1: where there's clearly been no regulation or anyone looking into
Speaker 1: how unsafe they are where, Like it's one of the
Speaker 1: scariest things in the world. Like do you blink when
Speaker 1: you bring a kid to a fair, you know, like
Speaker 1: do you let them go on the better not to
Speaker 1: think about it, just get on the ride.
Speaker 2: There's reason like Carneye is derogatory like that. The people
Speaker 2: who run carnivals are Yeah, it's I don't know. I
Speaker 2: guess they're good at putting the rise together because they
Speaker 2: like take apart and put them back together so frequently.
Speaker 2: But man, I've like gotten on rides that are like
Speaker 2: creaking and sputtering, and the person who is running it
Speaker 2: does not have a shirt on, doesn't have all their teeth,
Speaker 2: and just like appears to be out of their mind
Speaker 2: on something or another.
Speaker 5: You're risking so much.
Speaker 2: I know, you're risking everything, your children's lives.
Speaker 1: Pair whimsy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it isn't important. It is an important milestone though,
Speaker 2: Like I I sure very distinctly remember going on the
Speaker 2: thing that spins around so fast that like you can't
Speaker 2: have it at normal amusement parks, the one that like
Speaker 2: sticks you to the wall.
Speaker 1: And as we were.
Speaker 2: Doing that at the Kentucky State Fair, the guy who's
Speaker 2: operating it again jeans, no shirt, long long rattail in
Speaker 2: the back.
Speaker 1: You didn't even have to say that part started.
Speaker 2: Started walking on the wall, like so that we're sticking
Speaker 2: to He was walking on it so like parallel, his
Speaker 2: body is parallel to the ground. And it was the
Speaker 2: sickest thing I'd ever seen. It was so dope, just
Speaker 2: like look what I can do. I was like it
Speaker 2: was hock rating that. It's like like every amusement park
Speaker 2: is like, don't get any ideas, and he's like, here's
Speaker 2: one exactly, Like if he had died, the thing just
Speaker 2: would have kept going faster and faster, like taken off forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And some of the roller coasters are made of wood,
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, so you have something that's already
Speaker 1: probably going to break and kill someone at some point,
Speaker 1: let's just make it made of a substance that it
Speaker 1: never should have been made out of, like to begin with,
Speaker 1: like the like a log flume. Also, why is the
Speaker 1: wood going in water? That's not that's great and wise
Speaker 1: wise is the perfect. It's it's weird to me, Like.
Speaker 2: The roller coasters were invented and they were just like wood,
Speaker 2: and we all take it for granted. We're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: well that's all they had back then. But it was
Speaker 2: like the twenties they were also they were making things
Speaker 2: out of metal in the twenties. They knew knew, they
Speaker 2: knew about metal back then, Like, well, it was the
Speaker 2: Bronze Age.
Speaker 5: You have steam engines, so that you got the infrastructure
Speaker 5: here for some reason, these things around.
Speaker 2: No, that's they couldn't have possibly made a roller coaster
Speaker 2: out of anything except for what appears to be like
Speaker 2: forty large Jenga piles.
Speaker 5: They had the Brooklyn Bridge back then, which.
Speaker 2: Is not made of wood, I mean not at all
Speaker 2: looks like a roller coaster.
Speaker 1: Kind of those hipsters are going to make it made
Speaker 1: of wood.
Speaker 5: I always wonder. I'm like, are the ones that they
Speaker 5: bring into town for a week or a couple of weeks,
Speaker 5: like they do in Portland for the roast festival and
Speaker 5: set up and then they take it down, you know,
Speaker 5: ten days later or whatever and go on to the
Speaker 5: next town. Or the one that's here is just always here.
Speaker 5: I'm like, which one is safer? And I don't want
Speaker 5: to look it up because I actually don't want to know.
Speaker 5: But the one that's just always here, always open, with
Speaker 5: the wooden roller coaster that we have. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Should I look at the data on how many children
Speaker 5: have lost.
Speaker 2: Digits all the high profile, like horrible things happen at
Speaker 2: the place, the ones that are permanent. But I just
Speaker 2: wonder if it's because when a bad thing happens at
Speaker 2: a carnival, they leave town before the sun rises. Like
Speaker 2: it was just like, I don't know how to pack
Speaker 2: it up to say who that was. There's just a
Speaker 2: mangled body in the in the field somewhere.
Speaker 1: There's no paper trail or record of anyone works there exact,
Speaker 1: they have no permits. Yeah, they just kind of show up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well, Tory, we're thrilled to have you here.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 2: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell the listeners what
Speaker 2: we're talking about today. We're gonna talk about Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't know. Yeah, we're gonna do that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it seems bad, seems dumb. We'll talk about this vanity
Speaker 2: fair profile of like this yacht that had all the
Speaker 2: most famous people on the planet on it, and it's
Speaker 2: truly upsetting. It feels it feels like they should be
Speaker 2: ashamed of themselves for this one. And we'll talk about
Speaker 2: why that song home is suddenly so popular, to shit
Speaker 2: all over all that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first Tory, we do like to ask our guest,
Speaker 1: what is.
Speaker 2: Something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
Speaker 5: The thing that I have been searching the last week
Speaker 5: or so, and this is just gonna be TMI and
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do it anyway, is how soon after hitting
Speaker 5: perry menopause you can get HRT. Because I've been feeling
Speaker 5: very toasty lately and I'm like, well, I was going
Speaker 5: to try to power through, and then my sister was like, no,
Speaker 5: if you start my younger sister, who probably shouldn't know
Speaker 5: these things, I don't think because like, no, if you
Speaker 5: start earlier, it helps more. So I'm honestly just like
Speaker 5: searching for HRT, and then I'm slowly watching places change
Speaker 5: the name of it from like hormone replacement therapy, which people,
Speaker 5: well bigots just automatically associate with trans to menopause therapy
Speaker 5: or menopause hormone therapy, which I think is really interesting.
Speaker 5: And so I'm going to die on the hill of
Speaker 5: calling it HRT because.
Speaker 1: The hormone therapy to.
Speaker 5: Feel uncomfortable and I want them to be like, wait,
Speaker 5: what what gender were you assigned at birth? I can't tell.
Speaker 2: So hormone replacement therapy is now menopause hormone therapy, according
Speaker 2: to the Mayo Clinic, because everybody is scared.
Speaker 1: And men capitalized for some reason in menopause. They wanted to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so just I've been searching up a lot of
Speaker 5: gender affirming care, I guess is what we're going to say.
Speaker 5: And yeah, it's interesting trying to figure out, like does
Speaker 5: my insurance cover this? Do I have to pay out
Speaker 5: of pocket? We live, obviously you will know this in
Speaker 5: a hell country, one of the shithole countries we've heard
Speaker 5: so much about.
Speaker 2: We live in a country, I agree, hell of a country.
Speaker 5: Hell here I am. I'm trying to figure out, hmm,
Speaker 5: is there any going to like mitigate some of these
Speaker 5: very miserable symptoms. And then you know, thinking about, oh,
Speaker 5: we we don't know very much about how to deal
Speaker 5: with menopause lash perimenopause because we don't invest in even
Speaker 5: before all of the breeds got canceled, we don't invest
Speaker 5: in researching anything about women's self because it's not urgent.
Speaker 1: It's a real mystery.
Speaker 2: Actually, I feel like that's like the first complicated.
Speaker 1: It's very complicated. It's scary.
Speaker 5: God intended women to suffer. And so here we are, Yeah,
Speaker 5: believing that science isn't real. And I'm trying to get
Speaker 5: answers from Google that aren't AI generated because helping it
Speaker 5: turns out not helpful when the entire medical establishment doesn't
Speaker 5: really know what the fuck they're talking about.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to trust Google's AI to kind of
Speaker 2: summarize my way out together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're pretty good.
Speaker 2: So I'm sorry you're going through that. Well, the symptoms
Speaker 2: I've heard of, the hot flashes or the hot flashes,
Speaker 2: how hot, how flashy you're talking, you asked the tough questions.
Speaker 1: We're talking.
Speaker 5: I had this very strange moment where I've been trying
Speaker 5: to be responsible and be in bed reading a book
Speaker 5: at ten pm every night, right, and obviously it's summertime, right,
Speaker 5: so the windows are open, I don't have the comforter on.
Speaker 5: I'm just got like my little one sheet and I'm
Speaker 5: like reading my book and there's like you can feel,
Speaker 5: you know, how you can feel the air like under
Speaker 5: the sheet that's like around your body. I feel it,
Speaker 5: like I can feel the temperature rising under the sheet.
Speaker 2: As I going like a meter you're creating at the sheet.
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, oh this sucks. I was like,
Speaker 5: what is happening here? So I think I need to
Speaker 5: start taking an ice pack to bed with me, just
Speaker 5: to be safe, just an emergency. You know those like
Speaker 5: break in case of emergency ice packs and these take Yeah,
Speaker 5: yeah that I take on like pikes and stuff from
Speaker 5: my kids.
Speaker 2: A chemical one.
Speaker 5: I need one of those, but like for my bed, yeah,
Speaker 5: just to be safe.
Speaker 1: Back of the neck, yep, yep, I like it. I
Speaker 1: have to sleep with a blanket as well, Like even
Speaker 1: if it's like so high, I have to like need
Speaker 1: some sort of in my mind, it's like protecting me
Speaker 1: from an intruder. You know, this thing could come into
Speaker 1: your They can't get.
Speaker 2: Through the blanket though, so yeah, yeah, something about like
Speaker 2: sleeping without a blanket.
Speaker 1: My body is like we're not actually sleeping. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you think this is, but this
Speaker 2: is not bedtime. If you're just sleeping with nothing on
Speaker 2: top of you.
Speaker 5: I can't even nap without something on top of me,
Speaker 5: like that's how ingrained it is. And it's like, oh, well,
Speaker 5: what are we doing here, We're just hanging out on
Speaker 5: a bed. This is this is nothing. So yeah, I
Speaker 5: really I'm.
Speaker 1: Thinking great, I'm thinking now.
Speaker 2: I'm like reverse claustrophobia. I like to have something close
Speaker 2: and like I like, I find it nice and cozy.
Speaker 2: I think I descend from pack or like Den you know, animals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got that.
Speaker 2: I got that Den animal inside of me, that dog,
Speaker 2: that Den dog dog.
Speaker 1: I sleep with a bunk bed just laying on top
Speaker 1: of me, and there's no yea, take the leg right off.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: I used to like feel very comfortable under beds, Like
Speaker 2: as a kid, I would just like kind of hide
Speaker 2: under a bed. Then they would come and take me,
Speaker 2: and my dad would tell them that he has a
Speaker 2: very particular set of skills.
Speaker 1: Torri, what is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 5: Okay, So I'm gonna lie a little bit because this
Speaker 5: is not technically underrated, because back in the day it
Speaker 5: was huge. It was a sensation. But I am feeling
Speaker 5: a little bit of a way about the book The
Speaker 5: Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, which is one of my absolute
Speaker 5: favorite books, and it came out in two thousand and five. Right,
Speaker 5: it's a novel and it's just really beautiful, beautifully written.
Speaker 5: Came out during like kind of like when I don't
Speaker 5: remember when Twilight came out, but it feels like it
Speaker 5: was kind of the Twilight era, so like vampires were
Speaker 5: in the air. That was just the thing, and I
Speaker 5: just there's.
Speaker 1: A up group on every corner.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm not that also, vampires who were everywhere. Twilight
Speaker 2: was at the top of the charts, there was a
Speaker 2: duop group on every corner.
Speaker 5: This is like this book specifically was also like a
Speaker 5: New York Times bestseller. It was amazing and I can't
Speaker 5: believe no one's turned it into a film yet. But
Speaker 5: it's like this really beautiful story about this girl who,
Speaker 5: like this young girl who finds these handwritten letters in
Speaker 5: like her father's library and that each of them starts
Speaker 5: out my dear and unfortunate Successor, and they're written by
Speaker 5: the historian who is very concerned that he might be
Speaker 5: being hunted by Dracula, and so he's writing down and
Speaker 5: they're like all date mark like nineteen thirty, like December
Speaker 5: nineteen thirty, right, So she is like, what is this
Speaker 5: and decides to go and ask her dad about it,
Speaker 5: and then they have all these adventures together all over
Speaker 5: like Southeast Europe, and it's just like very romantic and
Speaker 5: like cozy in the way that she describes like all
Speaker 5: of these different country sides is amazing and obviously, like
Speaker 5: you know, you're talking about Romania because Dracula and it
Speaker 5: just it just seems like a really perfect, beautiful story
Speaker 5: to turn into. It would have the book is so
Speaker 5: long it would have to be two movies. But I
Speaker 5: am on a campaign. If anyone is listening, please hit
Speaker 5: me up. Please. I just really want to see this
Speaker 5: on film. It would be stunning.
Speaker 2: I just think it's interesting that when this character writes
Speaker 2: a bunch of letters about how they're being hunted by
Speaker 2: a Dracula, it's art. But when I write, Blake, like
Speaker 2: just a couple letters about how I'm being hunted by
Speaker 2: a swamp thing, he yeah, harassment and stop doing this.
Speaker 1: Is this a joke?
Speaker 2: This doesn't really add to anything. You won't let me
Speaker 2: bring it up and make fun of you for it
Speaker 2: on the show. These are the things he says to me, Jah,
Speaker 2: we just got.
Speaker 5: To punch up your writing, man, We just got to
Speaker 5: make it eloquent and.
Speaker 1: Beautiful about the subject matter right exactly, it's.
Speaker 5: How you're writing it.
Speaker 1: He's on my six swamp I just used. The tone
Speaker 1: is so fucked. We got a smoky in the swamp.
Speaker 5: Exactly, Jason me for twenty clicks, I'm about to die.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds really lovely.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 5: If you're a reader and you haven't read it, highly
Speaker 5: recommend if you like novels not terribly smutty, but because
Speaker 5: I know that's all the raid right now, a little
Speaker 5: bit of romance, but yeah, mostly just good times.
Speaker 2: You just like have the misfortune of being the other Dracula,
Speaker 2: the other vampire novel that was popular at the same
Speaker 2: time as Twilight, and so they were like, we're going
Speaker 2: to be busy making these over.
Speaker 5: Here, probably, and it was more for adult like I
Speaker 5: think it was more. It was more written to an
Speaker 5: adult audience. It's not particularly hya and obviously like ya
Speaker 5: is where all the money is because you get all
Speaker 5: the girlies screaming about Robert Pattinson, who turned into an
Speaker 5: amazing actor. I just watched Mickey seventeen fucking sucked, and
Speaker 5: I'm like sobbing because his performance is so compelling, but
Speaker 5: it's weird. It's like two movies are two trains, one
Speaker 5: is going fifty five miles an hour, and you're just like,
Speaker 5: what is fucking happening?
Speaker 2: Is your recommendation? The historian as well written as Twilight?
Speaker 2: And I'm going to read a pool book from Twilight
Speaker 2: for you, just to get you to know what you're
Speaker 2: competing with. Aren't you hungry? He asked, distracted. No, I
Speaker 2: didn't feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full,
Speaker 2: m dash of butterflies?
Speaker 1: No, are you serious?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a straight up bar that that. Yeah, well
Speaker 2: I try, Okay, I can't get out of my cops spirit.
Speaker 1: I know you can't. So at this time.
Speaker 2: I walked into the street and ascertained an individual of
Speaker 2: the description of a swamp thing.
Speaker 5: Beautiful.
Speaker 1: The guy's not a cop. The protagonist is not a cop.
Speaker 1: That's the crazy. That's just how that's how he talked.
Speaker 1: He's a social worker. And yet you're still making him
Speaker 1: talk like a cop.
Speaker 2: Oh man, But that twist when she says her stomach
Speaker 2: was already full.
Speaker 1: And I was like, wait, but what was going on?
Speaker 1: Of butterflies? What?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: Is that a literal and by the way, we don't
Speaker 1: This doesn't have to be a liter you know, a
Speaker 1: literature podcast. But so is did she eat actual physical
Speaker 1: butterflies because things or what is this like a cue?
Speaker 1: You're not a butterfly yet.
Speaker 2: She's not a vampire yet yet, And I'm sorry for
Speaker 2: any spoilers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a butterfly yet. She's not a butterfly yet.
Speaker 2: In many ways, she's not a butterfly yet. She's just
Speaker 2: learning to to blossom. Creepy, creepy metaphor that if this
Speaker 2: was written by Stephen King, there would be a lot
Speaker 2: of butterfly metaphors probably, But yeah, she's not a vampire yet.
Speaker 2: She's just eating butterflies by the handful.
Speaker 1: Okay, strange she's a frog.
Speaker 5: Yeah, compulsive. It's like how you get pico when you're pregnant.
Speaker 5: That's what's going on with her. Butterflies You like craved
Speaker 5: chalk or sand or something just like butterflies for me.
Speaker 1: Thanks, No.
Speaker 2: I was being reminded because because we're down the shore,
Speaker 2: I was being reminded by my sister that I used
Speaker 2: to eat sand, and I was like, was I pregnant
Speaker 2: when I was four years old? Because I eat a
Speaker 2: lot of sand, and I remember it being delicious.
Speaker 5: It's a texture thing. I think when you're little.
Speaker 1: It was salty too. I like salty.
Speaker 5: Beach sand is salty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody salty.
Speaker 5: It's all the peah.
Speaker 1: No, that would make it.
Speaker 2: That would explain everything toy you think is overrated.
Speaker 5: Okay, So I think the thing that is overrated is
Speaker 5: buying a new cell phone when your contract is up.
Speaker 5: I think that's bullshit. I don't think we should buy
Speaker 5: be buying tech on big tech schedule, and we should
Speaker 5: try to keep our things as long as possible.
Speaker 1: So love it.
Speaker 5: That's the hell I'm dying on. I have never gotten
Speaker 5: a new device and be like, oh my god, this
Speaker 5: is changing my life. It's just like I need this
Speaker 5: to be able to like contact friends, family, whoever, to
Speaker 5: do my work right, to record podcasts. Like There's never
Speaker 5: been a moment where I'm like, oh yeah, baby, this
Speaker 5: is a game changer. This is it for me. And
Speaker 5: so I'm like, Okay, what can I do to minimize consumption?
Speaker 5: If you just like double that, like oh yeah, you're
Speaker 5: supposed to get a new phone every two years, Like
Speaker 5: fuck that, Like, make make it last for four years.
Speaker 5: I know, you do get throttled. That sucks, that's real. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but you don't that new phone is not going to
Speaker 5: make it feel good, feels for more than like a
Speaker 5: day or two.
Speaker 2: It immediately becomes invisible, like a day is stretching it.
Speaker 2: It's just immediately, it's just like, oh yeah, now I
Speaker 2: don't notice the thing that was like kind of wrong
Speaker 2: with the last one, but impiately everything else immediately becomes invisible.
Speaker 2: And I like put the same like, you know, protector
Speaker 2: on the phone, so.
Speaker 1: Like I don't even remember, don't even know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, same case, same protector.
Speaker 1: It's an insane process too, where it's like, okay, so
Speaker 1: I just paid off this phone, you know, and like
Speaker 1: you wouldn't just buy a new car every single time
Speaker 1: you paid off your car, Like it's just so stupid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, Like it's sure it's not as fancy as
Speaker 5: it was. I'm about to pay off my car. I
Speaker 5: feel very proud of myself and but yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 5: I still love this thing. It's amazing. It's a Sumeer
Speaker 5: roof for sor. I live in Portland, so obviously it's.
Speaker 1: The perfect I got a cross tracks they just gave
Speaker 1: you those when you moved there.
Speaker 5: Standard issue, Yeah, if you if you're queer and you
Speaker 5: live in Portland. So not all Portlanders get them. There's
Speaker 5: some reparations going here for super specifically.
Speaker 1: They get in presents if you get a super impressive.
Speaker 5: Oh man, oh man.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: So it's like nobody's ever gonna spot me in my
Speaker 5: car because it's the same car everybody else in Portland
Speaker 5: is driving. It's the perfect vehicle.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But yeah, all.
Speaker 5: I have to say, I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna have
Speaker 5: this pubby paid off, very proud of myself, and also
Speaker 5: like I don't I don't want a new car, Like
Speaker 5: if I can keep this thing another ten years, that'd
Speaker 5: be fucking awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So yeah, and that's how I feel about my phone
Speaker 5: and my lap Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like the battery always wear it like that.
Speaker 2: That's just the question is like how long is the
Speaker 2: battery going to last until you need to do like
Speaker 2: a second charge at noon every day, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? And that that's always the thing that like
Speaker 2: at a certain time, can you can visibly see the battery,
Speaker 2: like the battery chart going down.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 1: It's not like a slow decline, it just jumps right
Speaker 1: in quarters. It's not even smooth. Yeah all right, Well yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't know me.
Speaker 2: Tim Cook, Tim Apple, Steve Job, you don't know. You don't,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't work for you, asshole. Let's uh,
Speaker 2: let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: Would that be fun? Yeah, let's take I'm exhausted. This
Speaker 1: is fucking holy fucked up. I am so fucked up
Speaker 1: right now. I need ten uh yeah, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: be right back. We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back. Oh good, Okay, thank you for confirming that, Blake.
Speaker 1: Of course.
Speaker 2: Wait, god, are you guys ready to talk about tabor.
Speaker 1: Terrorists?
Speaker 2: My favorite thing to pretend I understand. Yes, it's I mean,
Speaker 2: I will say it's a tool that has been used,
Speaker 2: it's but it is the only tool that Donald Donald
Speaker 2: Trump is. Like if a car mechanic only had a
Speaker 2: hammer and that was the only thing he used to
Speaker 2: work on your car with, you just like beat the
Speaker 2: ship out of your car with the hammer. Only if
Speaker 2: your car was like actually way more complicated than a
Speaker 2: car and was in fact the global economy. So he's
Speaker 2: hammering away. I'm tired of even like real, like is
Speaker 2: this the real one? Or that, because he's like been like,
Speaker 2: these tariffs are happening, but I think these are the
Speaker 2: real tariffs, Like they're.
Speaker 1: Happening, right, And.
Speaker 2: Indiana, India and Brazil not Indiana.
Speaker 1: India and Brazil have been.
Speaker 2: Quote punish the worst with fifty percent tariffs, and there
Speaker 2: are reasons that have to do with just like them
Speaker 2: being mean or nice too, Like it's it's completely illegal
Speaker 2: for the president to be like I'm doing tariffs on
Speaker 2: a country because they're being mean and like I'm punishing them.
Speaker 2: Is not at least so far beyond like how things
Speaker 2: are supposed to or allowed to work. Brazil is being
Speaker 2: punished for having a socialist leader that people actually like,
Speaker 2: Like that's the subtext, and then the yeah, that's humiliating
Speaker 2: for him. And then they're also quote persecuting his friend
Speaker 2: Yai Ra Bolsonaro.
Speaker 5: Oh because he has consequences for his actions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he doesn't like persecution.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is also not great for him to be
Speaker 2: setting the president of authoritarian leaders facing consequence says yeah, no,
Speaker 2: thank you. And so after Brazil's justice system charged Bolsnar
Speaker 2: with attempting to orchestraate to coup in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: which that must have been weird for that of brazilience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been hard. Hold on.
Speaker 2: He demanded Brazil's legal system intervene on Bolsnar's behalf or
Speaker 2: face tariffs on the entire country. They did not change
Speaker 2: their decision, and so they're facing big tariffs. India their
Speaker 2: tariffs doubled from twenty five percent to fifty percent because
Speaker 2: they were buying Russian oil despite the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Will be interesting to see how Tim Poole and the
Speaker 2: other paid Russian assets feel about this, who are also
Speaker 2: like mega people. But you know what one could say,
Speaker 2: it would be we wouldn't have this problem if the
Speaker 2: end of the war on Ukraine in twenty four hours,
Speaker 2: like he promised he would. But I guess that's neither
Speaker 2: here nor there. People are like, ooh, he's being mean
Speaker 2: to Putin. I think he has a meeting coming up
Speaker 2: with Putin, so that should end right around immediately after that.
Speaker 2: Meetings between Trump and Putin typically involve them meeting Putin
Speaker 2: like taking him to behind a closed door without the
Speaker 2: media present, and then Trump suddenly deciding to capitulate to
Speaker 2: whatever Russia wants because he is not a good negotiator.
Speaker 2: And because it would appear that they might have something
Speaker 2: on this guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like that toxic like your friend
Speaker 1: who's always like, oh, I'm just gonna get you know,
Speaker 1: like get drinks with my toxic accidents. They're gonna fuck.
Speaker 1: They're gonna each other, They're gonna suck each other. God damn,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get back together. Yes, and yeah.
Speaker 2: We we've I feel like the Compromat stuff, like everyone
Speaker 2: was like, oh, the Pee tapes, and then we like
Speaker 2: started laughing at the Pe tapes, and like Russia Gate
Speaker 2: was maybe over a bit overblown. I don't know that
Speaker 2: it necessarily won him the election, but as we've seen
Speaker 2: his behavior around the Epstein files, I feel like there's
Speaker 2: probably no shortage of potential things that they might be
Speaker 2: holding over his head. Would be my guess, based on
Speaker 2: how he has been acting around around that stuff and
Speaker 2: his inability to act like it's weird to be a
Speaker 2: sexual predator.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's a power play. That's just all it is.
Speaker 5: It's like that's what guys like him do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: So anyways, well we'll see where that Switzerland got a
Speaker 2: thirty nine percent tariff because.
Speaker 5: Boring not my chocolate.
Speaker 2: Yeah chocolate, Oh no chocolate. Americans import more from Switzerland
Speaker 2: than we export to them. So he was like, you
Speaker 2: got to start buying our shitty weapons and energy and
Speaker 2: or corn?
Speaker 1: Why our corn?
Speaker 2: How would you like to make everything out of corn
Speaker 2: for a couple of years? And they were like, I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: That seems bad. We wouldn't.
Speaker 2: We've noticed that everyone in your whole country smells like corn.
Speaker 2: We probably don't notice that, but I think we all
Speaker 2: probably smell like corn because we're mostly made of corn.
Speaker 5: At this point, fair valid.
Speaker 2: Anyways, So they got hit with the tariff hammer, and
Speaker 2: then the EU was able to limit tariffs by agreeing
Speaker 2: to buy a bunch of natural gas. People are saying that,
Speaker 2: you know the like in cases like the EU, he's
Speaker 2: able to get a temporary concession here and there, but
Speaker 2: the long term impacts on trade are going to be bad.
Speaker 2: Like already you were seeing countries just decide not to trade,
Speaker 2: like find other people to trade with, like they now
Speaker 2: know that the US is completely unstable, completely irrational, and
Speaker 2: so like the Prime Minister of Malaysia set at a
Speaker 2: conference across the world tools once used to generate growth,
Speaker 2: are now wielded to pressure, isolate, and contain. As we
Speaker 2: navigate external pressures, we need to fortify our foundations, trade
Speaker 2: among ourselves, invest more in one another. And India and Brazil,
Speaker 2: the aforementioned countries that are really getting the hammer the
Speaker 2: only thing you know how to wield, have been talking
Speaker 2: to each other even before this latest hike, and have
Speaker 2: planned to increase trade between those countries trade with each
Speaker 2: other to twenty billion dollars over the next five years.
Speaker 2: So there's just like, why the fuck would we ever
Speaker 2: work with you? And this is also happening at a
Speaker 2: time when America is just like naturally becoming less of
Speaker 2: a hegemonic power, So like the you know, China is
Speaker 2: obviously going to become like this is the best possible
Speaker 2: thing that could happen for China, and all the people
Speaker 2: who are like, we've got to be competitive with China,
Speaker 2: that's all we're worried about, are like, I don't I
Speaker 2: don't see how they are letting this happen and being
Speaker 2: like good, good call sir.
Speaker 1: Other than they're just like scared of him and cowards.
Speaker 1: Even if you think that there's a reason for him
Speaker 1: doing this beyond him being a petty little piece of
Speaker 1: shit with no fucking plan whatsoever, which is what's going on.
Speaker 1: His other reasoning is that, oh, it'll boost like American manufacturing.
Speaker 1: But the problem is that these alleged facilities, like you know,
Speaker 1: these steel mills, you know, like these cold natural gat
Speaker 1: like these these factories take a while to fucking build.
Speaker 1: They take years to build. So you can't just go
Speaker 1: cold Turkey and be like, yeah, no, we'll just build
Speaker 1: this enough steel manufacturing to support all these like us
Speaker 1: cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world. Like
Speaker 1: that's just not humanly possible. Like, if you're going to
Speaker 1: do this, you kind of ease into it, and it
Speaker 1: just it's that hammer approach a tool that he's never held,
Speaker 1: a literal tool, that he's never touched eddie tool whatsoever.
Speaker 2: But I bet he's picked up a hammer once. I
Speaker 2: bet there's so many pictures of him with those.
Speaker 1: And like prepairing.
Speaker 2: But like, has he ever successfully driven a nail all
Speaker 2: the way in?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: No, oh no, not once? No, no, no, no, no, he's
Speaker 1: never swung it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's held it while wearing a suit and
Speaker 2: in a hard Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's what it is what an idiot?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna
Speaker 2: be bad. I mean I always you know, the it's
Speaker 2: like the macro economic version of the Great Leap Forward
Speaker 2: with like this famous disastrous policy where in China where
Speaker 2: mal was like you, we don't need to make all
Speaker 2: the pig iron, Like, well, we'll make all the pig
Speaker 2: iron in your backyard.
Speaker 1: And it's like.
Speaker 2: Well that what what? What exactly is that? So just
Speaker 2: like stop up farming, start making iron, and everybody start
Speaker 2: to death.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's like problem solved.
Speaker 1: Everyone forward that we ourselves.
Speaker 2: Read the first first paragraph of the background section of
Speaker 2: Wikipedia and then didn't didn't get any further than that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so interesting because we clearly have I don't
Speaker 5: know what I want to say, Like it's clearly within
Speaker 5: like the American myth that we could resurrect all of
Speaker 5: these industries. I think that we have like a big
Speaker 5: enough clearly economy, we have intelligent enough people we could
Speaker 5: do that. But that requires a plan, and that's like
Speaker 5: antithetical to anything that Trump has ever done.
Speaker 1: Yes, and we have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we can build up, right, we can build up
Speaker 5: to producing enough steel or we can build up to
Speaker 5: doing whatever, and we can offer you know, obviously we'd
Speaker 5: have to be giving subsidies to people because it's more
Speaker 5: expensive to manufacture here, and that's something we do already
Speaker 5: with farm Like, like there are tools available to him
Speaker 5: that he has no interest in using.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have manufacturing still in this country. It just
Speaker 2: doesn't look like it used to. The time that they're
Speaker 2: fetishizing was a time of very powerful unions. The reason
Speaker 2: that things worked back then was because of very powerful
Speaker 2: unions that fought on behalf of the working people, the
Speaker 2: people who like worked at companies and the So if
Speaker 2: like you could rebuild manufacturing here, it's still going to
Speaker 2: be predatory and the workers are still going to be
Speaker 2: treated like shit and have to like get off work
Speaker 2: at the factory and fucking drive uber.
Speaker 1: You know, like that's still going.
Speaker 2: To be the case because it's a system that completely
Speaker 2: has given all the power to corporations. So like it's
Speaker 2: the thing that they're looking back on, so finally fondly
Speaker 2: is union membership and like a very strong yeah, the
Speaker 2: thing that they think is communism. So so this is
Speaker 2: going to be bad. The thing that these tariffs do,
Speaker 2: it passes costs onto companies. As we've seen during the pandemic,
Speaker 2: American companies do not take the hit, and they're like, well,
Speaker 2: our stock price has gone down a little bit now
Speaker 2: because of these things that are costing us money or
Speaker 2: like making it harder for us to they pass those
Speaker 2: costs onto consumers, and that in the form of inflation.
Speaker 2: So we're, you know, we're going to feel the hit
Speaker 2: of these tariffs. And then Trump is also trying to
Speaker 2: get Jerome Pal, the head of the Fed, to cut
Speaker 2: interest rates. But like, the thing that cutting interest rates
Speaker 2: causes is inflation. So we're getting inflation from the tariffs.
Speaker 2: And if he he has his way and fires Jerome
Speaker 2: Pal and puts in like one of his yes men,
Speaker 2: we're going to get inflation coming from that end, and
Speaker 2: we could have you know, runaway inflation and all the like.
Speaker 5: That's Biden's thing. Man, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Hey man, hey, hey man, it's kind of it's' fault.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like all the all the economic like horror
Speaker 2: stories like the Great Leap Forward where they tried to
Speaker 2: make pig iron in their backyard and like on farms
Speaker 2: instead of it's like, I don't know shit about economics
Speaker 2: or economic history. But like the handful of like horror
Speaker 2: stories I know are that and then like runaway inflation
Speaker 2: where people are like bringing wheelbarrow wheelbarrows of like cash
Speaker 2: to the bank, like and just like or like bring
Speaker 2: it to the grocery store to buy like a gallon
Speaker 2: of milk, like those everywhere like that.
Speaker 1: Those are the.
Speaker 2: Two things that are in play now with this brilliant
Speaker 2: negotiator taking things over. So well, you know, he's a
Speaker 2: shrewd negotiator and his ways are mysterious. Oh wait, no,
Speaker 2: he's just a fucking idiot. It's just mysterious. What what
Speaker 2: what is he thinking some of the time.
Speaker 5: But I think it's just self enrichment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's also possible that he's just like, yeah, we're
Speaker 2: gonna like fuck this.
Speaker 5: Up the economy, buy up a bunch of shit. I mean,
Speaker 5: that's like the game plan.
Speaker 1: The The only problem is that he's the president of
Speaker 1: the United States. This job problem, it's just the one problem.
Speaker 1: If he didn't have such a high stakes job, this
Speaker 1: wouldn't matter his personality and every of the billion things
Speaker 1: they're wrong with that fucking guy. But yeah, no, if
Speaker 1: only there was a way not to put him in
Speaker 1: that job.
Speaker 2: You know, I think he might if we were like
Speaker 2: we're bringing we're firing Jimmy found Who's the one who
Speaker 2: has like the Johnny Carson Show, Like, now, is it
Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon?
Speaker 1: I think not a comedy fan, so I wouldn't I
Speaker 1: know it is is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, if they were just like we're firing Jimmy Fallon
Speaker 2: and we want you to take over, sir. We just
Speaker 2: need you to like resign the office of president, you know,
Speaker 2: give it to whoever you want, but like we like
Speaker 2: just his response when he found out that Sidney Sweeney
Speaker 2: was a registered Republican, it was the happiest I've ever
Speaker 2: seen him. I really think all he wants to do
Speaker 2: is just get on TV for two hours a night
Speaker 2: and riff and like think that he's funny and cool
Speaker 2: and like, I feel like we might be able to
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 1: I think, and you change the title from Tonight's Show
Speaker 1: host to Tonight's Show CEO, he would shows president. Yeah,
Speaker 1: f're Tonight's show, And I think you would do it.
Speaker 1: I think you're right, Like he just needs to feel important.
Speaker 1: He needs to have some sort of power over a dominion.
Speaker 1: This dominion is too big that he has right now,
Speaker 1: give them a smaller. Our friends who work for the
Speaker 1: Tonight Show, I know, I think they would go. I
Speaker 1: think they would give it up. I think I think
Speaker 1: so too Bear. Wait, yeah, all.
Speaker 2: Right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back,
Speaker 2: and we're bag And as as we were talking about
Speaker 2: before we started recording, possibly in the cold open, there's that.
Speaker 1: Song home Here Do I Go Wrong with You?
Speaker 2: That is making the rounds everywhere, causing a reappraisal of
Speaker 2: the hey ho stop clap stomp genre of like kind
Speaker 2: of lo fi indie from the two thousand Hens. I
Speaker 2: guess it was like that hey hose song about lumineers and.
Speaker 1: How's that go? Oh? They go hey and then they
Speaker 1: go Okay. I understand why is it so catchy?
Speaker 5: It's abusive, It's but this is the one that I
Speaker 5: have heard in the most Volkswagen commercials.
Speaker 2: I believe the home heard and the lyrics. So the
Speaker 2: thing that I think people are responding to is the performance.
Speaker 1: First of all.
Speaker 2: It's like I think we all heard it in the
Speaker 2: car commercials and assumed it was like some American idol
Speaker 2: runner ups, like number five pop song.
Speaker 1: You know, I did.
Speaker 2: I did not know that this is what the people
Speaker 2: look like. I'm going to now share my screen so
Speaker 2: we can watch this. And there's nothing wrong with the
Speaker 2: way they look. It's just not exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't neuter all my comments before I make Their.
Speaker 2: Look is great. I think what they're doing is fantastic.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 2: So I'm playing the video without sound for you guys
Speaker 2: so you can see the vibe of people.
Speaker 5: Is this a tiny desk concert?
Speaker 1: I can't tell.
Speaker 5: So it's a tiny desk concert, is what's going on?
Speaker 1: They had to hear that desk away.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna play the audio because a I will
Speaker 2: crawl it and make us take this episode down. But
Speaker 2: that that you gotta look at what they're what they're
Speaker 2: looking like. She does herself in the head so far
Speaker 2: that her little beanie falls off, and the lyrics are Alabama, Arkansas.
Speaker 2: I do love my mom Pa, not that way that
Speaker 2: I do love you. Well, holy holy me, oh my,
Speaker 2: you're the apple, love my girl. I've never want loved
Speaker 2: one like you. Man, oh man, you're my best friend.
Speaker 2: I scream at to then.
Speaker 1: Anyways, these word Jack's vows heavy pumpkin pie chocolate candy.
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, ain't nothing please me more than you, darling.
Speaker 1: So I do.
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. Jesus Sorry, Jesus Christ, I stepped in some
Speaker 2: chocolate candy while I was writing my vowels.
Speaker 1: Handy with Jesus Christ to hey, I write this ship.
Speaker 5: What is happening?
Speaker 1: It does? It does feel a little bit like that.
Speaker 5: It does feel a little bit like that.
Speaker 2: I did not know they looked like this. The guy
Speaker 2: looks like he has spent I don't know if he
Speaker 2: has actual dreadlocks in this video, but he is flirting
Speaker 2: with him and he has he is he is very
Speaker 2: seriously considering it.
Speaker 1: It's the look is so bad. I'm going to I
Speaker 1: hate what I'm about to say, but it's true. I
Speaker 1: do have this album on the final oh man ed
Speaker 1: I didn't know they looked like this, So this is
Speaker 1: like music that It's like, Okay, I'm shuffling around my house,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, paying outstanding bills and taking eviction notices
Speaker 1: off my home and this is good to play in
Speaker 1: the background during that.
Speaker 2: But the look of like a children's song is what?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: That's what That's how I I felt like. I was like,
Speaker 2: this is a good. This is good children's movie soundtrack
Speaker 2: music like and so to have a guy who seems
Speaker 2: like a cult leader singing it into the eyes of
Speaker 2: somebody who appears to be on all sorts of drugs.
Speaker 1: She does.
Speaker 5: She looks like a child who is on drugs. That's
Speaker 5: that's the energy.
Speaker 2: I think that's what's throwing me. That's what throws means.
Speaker 1: That's what your hag off is David Koresh and the
Speaker 1: Magnetic Zero.
Speaker 2: Anyways, but this song, as much as every everybody's like
Speaker 2: it's the worst written song of all time, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's just it. I think again, it's doing what it
Speaker 2: set out to do, which is the earnest as hell.
Speaker 5: And the one feels try hardy to.
Speaker 2: Me, Oh so try hardy, But I think they're earnestly
Speaker 2: trying it is the try hardest. Yeah, I think they are.
Speaker 2: They they're trying so hard and they do not give
Speaker 2: a fuck. Yes, try hard is one of the like
Speaker 2: if you had to describe this in three words, like
Speaker 2: I do feel like.
Speaker 1: Try hard, try hard, Yeah, try hard. It's it's like
Speaker 1: the audio equivalent of like p DA, you know, where
Speaker 1: like you're in public and you see like a couple like.
Speaker 2: Just like it's humiliating. The whole thing is humiliating. It's
Speaker 2: so embarrassing. Yeah, what's that clip of is it Tyre
Speaker 2: Banks saying?
Speaker 1: So you milliating?
Speaker 2: That's kind of how I feel watching this. I love her, Yeah,
Speaker 2: truly giving us some of our great are great names,
Speaker 2: uh speak of humiliating. I do want to move on
Speaker 2: to a real world like kind of glass Onion situation,
Speaker 2: real world White Lotus meets glass Onion meets Oscar after
Speaker 2: Oscar's after party, and they like.
Speaker 5: I'm so intrigued.
Speaker 2: No unfortunately, I mean, I'm not gonna say unfortunately, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it's for some reason they let a Vanity Fair reporter
Speaker 2: tag along and like take acid with them on this
Speaker 2: Ritz Carlton yacht cruise.
Speaker 1: So it's like a it's like, what what would a
Speaker 1: what would a cruise.
Speaker 2: Look like for Dakota Johnson, Kendall Jenner, Tom Brady, Orlando
Speaker 2: bloom Farrell, Williams, Martha Stewart, Naomi Campbell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Ricky Martin,
Speaker 2: Jaden Smith, Toby Maguire for some reason, Alicia Silverstone for
Speaker 2: some reason, Janelle Monet, Sophia Vergara, and of course Unheardo
Speaker 2: DiCaprio is there.
Speaker 5: You know, but this is a yacht. It's not a
Speaker 5: cruise because like.
Speaker 1: It's but that many people.
Speaker 2: It's like a giant Yeah, it's like a mini ship,
Speaker 2: giant yacht. And they're just like everybody is treated like that,
Speaker 2: you know, like they I'm sure people were being carried
Speaker 2: around like you know what I mean, like just like yeah,
Speaker 2: nobody's they're just like piggyback, I said, piggyback like as
Speaker 2: they just went from daker to dakery. They do still
Speaker 2: drink dakeries, which I was a little disappointed, and throughout
Speaker 2: I was like, is that that doesn't seem like it
Speaker 2: seems like they should have some version of dakeries that's
Speaker 2: like beyond what we have access to.
Speaker 1: Well, we love Hemingway everyone.
Speaker 5: Yea, I have a dak Ray for you next time
Speaker 5: we hang out.
Speaker 1: Next level doackries. Okay, it's not the stuff I'm picturing.
Speaker 2: I'm picturing the virgin I used to order it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Friday is it is nothing like that.
Speaker 1: Picturing Tom Brady drinking a TGF Friday's Dachary with a
Speaker 1: big dollop of a whipped cream on top as his
Speaker 1: skin continues to constrict around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it does keep getting tighter. I guess it's
Speaker 2: tightened a little bit.
Speaker 1: I need a skin tightening at noon, so I gotta
Speaker 1: go pretty soon.
Speaker 2: The article does note that the ship set sail as
Speaker 2: the big beautiful bill was being passed, So like as
Speaker 2: normal people are being robbed of their healthcare and like
Speaker 2: this massive bill to make wealthy people more rich is passing.
Speaker 2: These people are all getting on a massive yacht and
Speaker 2: like the the one celebrity who was there that I
Speaker 2: have to give a shout out to is Miguel the
Speaker 2: musician is there, but he does not post about it,
Speaker 2: and he's just there to perform. And then he gets
Speaker 2: the fuck out, and I'm like, hell, yeah, we go
Speaker 2: like that probably, but we just get these little little views,
Speaker 2: these little pinhole views into like what these people are like.
Speaker 2: So the writer is told that twenty eight year old
Speaker 2: Brooks Nader is poised to be the breakout star of
Speaker 2: what just breakout star of of this like influencer and parentheses,
Speaker 2: A mover and shaker baby, says Sarah Jane. We'll get
Speaker 2: to Sarah Jane.
Speaker 1: In a moment.
Speaker 2: The striking blonde is a former Sports Illustrated swimwear model,
Speaker 2: and rumor has it is dating Brady, whose head I
Speaker 2: can see across the deck in his new spectacles, a
Speaker 2: six foot four library and I like that Tom Brady's
Speaker 2: like wearing glasses to be like.
Speaker 1: Then get hotter. He's a six foot four librarian. It's
Speaker 1: like it's a new look for him and it sounds right.
Speaker 1: I still want to fuck him. Lauren Sanchez that then
Speaker 1: they say Lauren Sanchez Bezos first noticed Brooks on Instagram
Speaker 1: and decided to befriend her. Sarah Jane tells me, so,
Speaker 1: Lauren Sanchez Bezos, like Jeff Bezos's wife is just like
Speaker 1: going around discovering people and being like you get to
Speaker 1: come to our parties now, and like you're hot enough
Speaker 1: to come to our party, right, jesus, Oh, this.
Speaker 5: Is so fascinating. I was wondering how all those people
Speaker 5: wound up at their wedding, at the Bezos people their wedding,
Speaker 5: Like what you're just you're just sending out like invitations
Speaker 5: to everybody who is at what the oscars? Like, I
Speaker 5: don't get what the metric is here, because you guys
Speaker 5: aren't real friends, because you're barely even real people.
Speaker 1: They're not.
Speaker 2: They just they only surround themselves. There's a good quote
Speaker 2: later from Martha Stewart that talks about this. Martha Stewart
Speaker 2: is on another fucking planet.
Speaker 1: It's wild.
Speaker 2: But like Patrick Schwarzenegger, Kate Hudson, and Janelle Monet have
Speaker 2: all been and things that are like about shit like this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they've been in like White Lotus and then Glass Onion,
Speaker 2: which was about like a Elon Musk type inviting a
Speaker 2: bunch of people on like a weird thing like this,
Speaker 2: and like the writers like, so is this like weird
Speaker 2: for you? Patrick Sarsner, He's like, you know, but what
Speaker 2: am I gonna do? Say no to this horrifyingly humiliating thing.
Speaker 2: Janelle Monet is like just straight up as like is
Speaker 2: this glass Onion or what? Even Kate Hudson.
Speaker 1: Is here, good for her? Yeah, just owns it.
Speaker 2: I will allow it with Janelle Monet because yeah, that's
Speaker 2: Janelle Monae can do absolutely nothing wrong. I do want
Speaker 2: to talk about Sarah Jane though, because she has some
Speaker 2: great quotes defending Sanchez Bezoso. Yeah, she's got some things
Speaker 2: to say. She's like, I guess Jeff Bezos is the
Speaker 2: top of the richest people, but like there are a
Speaker 2: lot of big people where it's like, yeah, it should
Speaker 2: be like that. He made it fucking big and like
Speaker 2: they've been in love for like years or something. They're
Speaker 2: so secure and real. If the press was going to
Speaker 2: attack her friends, emblematic of the age of oligarchs, well,
Speaker 2: Sanchez doesn't give a fuck.
Speaker 1: It's fuel.
Speaker 2: I find that so inspiring. So just it's not it's just,
Speaker 2: you know, she's aspiring to be a Kardashian and like this,
Speaker 2: like fuck the poor thing. She's like so hungry for
Speaker 2: wealth and fame and status, and like that hunger is
Speaker 2: like powering her, you know. Like that, so she's like
Speaker 2: both embarrassingly like bougie and into this shit and also
Speaker 2: embracing that in a way that she should be embarrassed about,
Speaker 2: but like a thing that should be embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Instead, she's like, that's my personality. Actually, this isn't one mistake.
Speaker 1: This is me. This is just my shit, this is
Speaker 1: my ship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is being put on by a billionaire Israeli
Speaker 2: billionaire who is a billionaire because he said, well, he
Speaker 2: made his money by selling a poker site.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so don't you feel silly toy if you're making
Speaker 1: that statement.
Speaker 5: Yeah, poker not predatory at all.
Speaker 2: No, it's actually fine. He made his money off of
Speaker 2: people's gambling addictions.
Speaker 1: The good old fashion.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the old fashioned, good old fashioned way.
Speaker 1: It's not some tech idiot a vulture. Yeah.
Speaker 2: He talks to one of the people who like sells
Speaker 2: these sorts of yacht experiences, and he says, say, you
Speaker 2: want to go to Greece tomorrow, you go to Greece.
Speaker 2: And then they explain it with with crypto and AI
Speaker 2: cash piling up in recent years, the boats have to
Speaker 2: get bigger. That's a very positive effect, but of course
Speaker 2: still the ultimate luxury. So like it's they treat this
Speaker 2: as like it's solving a problem that people have, which
Speaker 2: is like too much money because of crypto and AI.
Speaker 1: So it's just you know, the.
Speaker 2: Upward all of these new every new development that people
Speaker 2: write about in the mainstream media and seem excited about
Speaker 2: on Wall Street is all just ways to redistribute money upward.
Speaker 2: And then those people, unfortunately, they have a problem they
Speaker 2: have to deal with, which is like what am I
Speaker 2: going to spend all this money on?
Speaker 1: And so it's small not definitely not a small shit boat.
Speaker 2: Martha Stewart has some amazing quotes in here. So she's
Speaker 2: talking about how, like she, it used to be cool
Speaker 2: to be on yachts, but she says, I mean it's
Speaker 2: almost common now extreme wealth. We know everybody that's really rich,
Speaker 2: we know them all. I mean it started in the
Speaker 2: nineteen nineties when I first went public with like her,
Speaker 2: I'm Martha Stewart Omnimedia. I was hanging out with Bill
Speaker 2: Gates and Charles Simonia.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is.
Speaker 2: The and the Google Boys. I mean that's when it starts.
Speaker 2: The Google boys, them Google boys, but uh now everybody
Speaker 2: has one.
Speaker 1: She says. The reason he got a got.
Speaker 2: Envy, why she's talking about next husband was when he
Speaker 2: visited Ron Perlman's boat. I was on the board of
Speaker 2: Revlon Like, it's just all the shit, I don't Yeah,
Speaker 2: she's just going from one statement. She just seems so
Speaker 2: like bored and just insulated.
Speaker 1: I was CEO of the Atlantic Ocean, so yeah, I
Speaker 1: was on Ron Perlman's boat.
Speaker 2: At one point, she's slipping through her Instagram feed and
Speaker 2: finds that she's just getting a lot of outrage comments
Speaker 2: from fans. Somebody wrote, meanwhile, people can't afford food or rent.
Speaker 2: And her agent leans over and whispers to me, to
Speaker 2: the writer, there's not a better Instagram follow than Martha
Speaker 2: Stewart forty eight at Martha Stewart forty eight.
Speaker 1: So that's yeah, next president.
Speaker 2: Like they still they like know they get it. So
Speaker 2: like the writers like does this bother you? What with
Speaker 2: like Zoron Mamdani being nominated in New York and like
Speaker 2: Donald Trump trying to like help billionaires, And she's like
Speaker 2: the Roman Empire's coming to an end. I always get
Speaker 2: that I'm mother hen I'm not supposed to be doing
Speaker 2: this stuff. I'm supposed to be in the garden picking tomatoes.
Speaker 2: So she turns it into like a women empowerment thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then she has a run where she's like mad
Speaker 2: about people caving to Donald Trump. But then she goes
Speaker 2: on to say, I'm a great admirer of Elon Musk
Speaker 2: and what he's done. He's an inventor. He's like the
Speaker 2: Michael Angelo of our time. And look what's happening to him.
Speaker 2: Even he is struggling and there's very little he can
Speaker 2: do until something big happens.
Speaker 1: People hate him. I mean I had to put my
Speaker 1: tesla in the garage, and I like, my tesla? What
Speaker 1: kind do you have? The fanciest one, self driving tesla?
Speaker 2: Even my daughter won't take it, and she's an environmentalist,
Speaker 2: she won't take it.
Speaker 1: I can't give this fucking thing away. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then there's like a model dancing and she's like, keep dancing,
Speaker 2: you're setting the vibe.
Speaker 1: Girl. Oh why, oh why?
Speaker 2: Toby Maguire is there with his teenage son. Everyone's doing
Speaker 2: small doses of LSD, getting shit fased on margs and daks,
Speaker 2: and just like go back and forth between talking about
Speaker 2: how surreal it is to be famous and around this
Speaker 2: many other famous people, and then like trying to justify
Speaker 2: why it's okay, and yeah, it's just they're like LARPing
Speaker 2: as people from before we knew that this is unsustainable.
Speaker 2: It feels like they're like, yeah, this feels like the
Speaker 2: nineties anyways.
Speaker 1: Uh, it just it feels like. Oh.
Speaker 2: Also, at the end, as the guy's getting off the boat,
Speaker 2: he gets a call from like one of the people
Speaker 2: involved with organizing it, and they're like, oh, could you
Speaker 2: not say that this person was there? Also this person
Speaker 2: And then like a little later they're like, actually, you
Speaker 2: can't write this article. He's like, yeah, sorry, I was there.
Speaker 2: You let me there. Yeah, I'm allowed to say what
Speaker 2: I saw. But makes sense that they wouldn't want him
Speaker 2: to say that. It's just I guess they get they're
Speaker 2: getting a little lazy and they chose not to like
Speaker 2: car bomb him or whatever. Likes a person who the
Speaker 2: Panama Papers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh brutal.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyways, how sick would it have been to be there?
Speaker 2: You guys write the amount of stuff I would have stolen.
Speaker 5: All these people were doing drugs. I just be like
Speaker 5: checking all of the doors to all of their friends.
Speaker 5: You're gonna sell all this ship on eBay and then
Speaker 5: just like give all the money away help someone pay
Speaker 5: their rent. Like I would have been a problem on this.
Speaker 1: But like the FORCA signal.
Speaker 5: And like pointing it directly into the water, like I
Speaker 5: would have been a major fucking problem. So I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm not sick for me personally.
Speaker 1: There's that high pitched squeal that don't ask, don't ask
Speaker 1: about it's fine.
Speaker 5: Two more drugs, two more drugs, two.
Speaker 1: More drug drugs. This is going to really freak you out.
Speaker 1: Winger on LSD and the and the Orc is finally up.
Speaker 1: They can smell it. They can smell the LSD through
Speaker 1: the whole of the boat. Orcas love LSD. They can't
Speaker 1: get enough of it. Their whole world's one big acid trip,
Speaker 1: those stupid fish.
Speaker 2: I will, I will admit that I'm a little hostile
Speaker 2: to this because I'm fucking a hater and I'm jealous,
Speaker 2: and like I just am not on my grind set
Speaker 2: hard enough, and like I wish I could have done that.
Speaker 1: You know, one of these.
Speaker 2: Days I'll taste what a true dacory taste like in
Speaker 2: the mouth of Tom Brady. That makes it sound like
Speaker 2: I want him to baby burd it to me, which
Speaker 2: is fine. And that's how they drink.
Speaker 1: There's no straws. They have to regurgitate food to one
Speaker 1: another just so it doesn't get contaminated by the upper
Speaker 1: middle class.
Speaker 5: I feel like that was the Epstein thing. I don't
Speaker 5: know if that was this yacht specifically.
Speaker 1: You're right, gets I confuse these two things. All it's
Speaker 1: easy to do.
Speaker 2: We have no glasses on this on this island, all
Speaker 2: drinks are mixed in mouths and regurgitated between guests. Toy,
Speaker 2: such a pleasure having you as always on the Daily
Speaker 2: zeit Geist. Where can people find you? Follow you all
Speaker 2: that good stuff?
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. I have some podcasts that I do. You
Speaker 5: can find me there. White Homework that I do with
Speaker 5: Benjamin Fay. We talk about collective liberation, anti racism, and
Speaker 5: then I do a podcast called Go Home Bible You're
Speaker 5: Drunk with Justin Gentry and we talk about what it's
Speaker 5: like to survive all of the fascism when you grew
Speaker 5: up in all of the pre fascism of you know,
Speaker 5: just really hyper conservative evangelicalism. So yeah, I'm on Blue
Speaker 5: Sky occasionally Tory Glasts Guide to Social That's usually where
Speaker 5: you can find me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 2: What I'm up to is there a work in media
Speaker 2: that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 5: Prop posted I don't know if it was like a
Speaker 5: tweet or a thread or something. It just really spoke
Speaker 5: to me. He goes, Look, man, when speaking on black people,
Speaker 5: anything said after the blacks in your sentence will most
Speaker 5: likely make me want to punch you with a throat.
Speaker 5: The blacks is the road ends and one hundred feet
Speaker 5: of your sentence.
Speaker 2: And I was like, that is for me, my god,
Speaker 2: prop is the best.
Speaker 1: Wait, where can people find you.
Speaker 2: Is there a working media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: People can find me at Blake Wexler on all social media.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be doing my reviews are in show
Speaker 1: in Philly on August twenty third. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: in Wilkes Baerry, Pennsylvania doing stand up August twenty ninth
Speaker 1: to thirtieth, and then coming up Ashville, Arkansas, Boston. I
Speaker 1: also posted a video where I accidentally offered to suck
Speaker 1: off an entire audience of Daily zeyicing members, So you
Speaker 1: can check that out on my Instagram and then also
Speaker 1: work of media. So this is not if you're not
Speaker 1: a sports fan. This you don't have to be a
Speaker 1: sports fan who enjoy this. There is a announcer for
Speaker 1: the Phillies named John Cruck and he I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's losing his mind or what's happening, but he
Speaker 1: starts rambling during like these broadcasts about the craziest stories.
Speaker 1: Like John Oliver did a segment on him where he
Speaker 1: started talking about like playing in a prison. He's nuts.
Speaker 1: So he had another one that happened the other night
Speaker 1: where this Instagram account it's called the Philly fly fl
Speaker 1: Y posted about it, and he started talking about how
Speaker 1: you can just in the middle of a baseball game,
Speaker 1: if you apply twenty five pounds of pressure to a
Speaker 1: human ear, you could rip it off someone's head. He
Speaker 1: just started talking about that during a baseball game. And
Speaker 1: then he was like, Oh, I was at a museum
Speaker 1: and I learned it. And the other announcer goes, when
Speaker 1: were you at the museum and the guy goes crook
Speaker 1: goes what day is it? And he goes, It's Monday,
Speaker 1: and he goes, yesterday. That just doesn't matter. So the
Speaker 1: guy's completely losing it. So yeah, if you get a chance,
Speaker 1: you won't have to be a sports fan. You can
Speaker 1: just appreciate an old man slowly losing his mind during
Speaker 1: a baseball game. So yeah, amazing workmedia.
Speaker 2: I've been enjoying tweet from Demia did you eBay at
Speaker 2: electro lemon on Twitter tweeted, Oh, that trailer is bad.
Speaker 2: The movie must not be good, you goon, you stooge.
Speaker 2: Listen to yourself. A marketing team's trying to make your
Speaker 2: movie averse. Aun't buy a ticket and you want to
Speaker 2: take them at face value. You are weak. You won't
Speaker 2: survive the winter. You should be put down like a dog.
Speaker 2: I fully agree. I'm not gonna fully endorse that idea.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, movie trailers are not always indicative of quality of movie.
Speaker 2: You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscorell Brian
Speaker 2: on Blue Sky at Jack ob the Number One. You
Speaker 2: can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zeitgeist.
Speaker 1: We're at the Daily Zeitgeist. On Instagram.
Speaker 2: You can go to the description of this episode wherever
Speaker 2: you're listening to it, and underneath the show description you'll
Speaker 2: find the footnotes, which is where we link off to
Speaker 2: the information that we talked about in today's episode. We
Speaker 2: also link off to a song that we think you
Speaker 2: might enjoy. Super producer Justin is there a song that
Speaker 2: you think the people might enjoy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this song has a big lo fi sound that
Speaker 3: has like a slow tempo that makes a lot of
Speaker 3: space for them.
Speaker 1: It's gonna no, it's not gonna help, no, I thought,
Speaker 1: because it's low five.
Speaker 3: No, I mean no that okay, it's a ry no,
Speaker 3: we can stop that.
Speaker 1: Uh man, you really threw me off there.
Speaker 3: So the song is as a slow tempo, it has
Speaker 3: a lot of space for the dreamy chords and the
Speaker 3: silky vocals. Fittingly, it starts off with the sound of
Speaker 3: like a river or a creek and a forest or something,
Speaker 3: because it really makes me feel like I'm floating in
Speaker 3: warm water. So this song is called Meeting Pharaoh by
Speaker 3: Jadu Hart and you can find that song in the footnote.
Speaker 1: The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: For more podcasts from My Heart Radio, visit Yeah Heart
Speaker 2: Radio app Apple podcast wherever you listen your favorite shows.
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for us this week.
Speaker 2: We're back tomorrow with a cutdown of some of the
Speaker 2: best moments from this week's episodes. And then we're back
Speaker 2: on Monday morning. Miles back and we will tell you
Speaker 2: what was trending over the weekend and on Monday morning
Speaker 2: and we will talk to you all that Bye bye bye.
Speaker 2: The Daily Zeite Guys is executive produced by Catherine Long.
Speaker 5: Co produced by Bee Wag.
Speaker 1: Co produced by Victor Wright, co written by j M mcnapp,
Speaker 1: edited and engineered by Justin Conner.