Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 3: Pretty good? All right, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a loaded question. I shouldn't ask you, right,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, so good, so good this past year.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think bad before, but good yeah
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen on really yeah? Yeah? Oh shit, yeah. I
Speaker 1: need to stop asking people how are you? Give me
Speaker 1: an answer to how you're doing. Let's get it, let's
Speaker 1: get into it.
Speaker 2: The news.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the thing, because it's like you're either doing horrible
Speaker 4: like most people, or if you're doing well, no one
Speaker 4: wants to hear that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 2: Shit.
Speaker 1: How bad are you? That's what I should ask? How
Speaker 1: bad are things for you?
Speaker 3: That's the worst thing going on?
Speaker 1: What's the saddest shit? This happened recently? My hairline? Oh on,
Speaker 1: your hairline looks spray air.
Speaker 4: Nice to do the doopostical.
Speaker 1: Worst thing, Brian, you were trying to ask me something,
Speaker 1: and I apologize. I just okay, just about your hairline?
Speaker 4: How's it look?
Speaker 2: Jack?
Speaker 1: Jack?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 1: Real quick? How's my hair look? Hello the Internet, and
Speaker 1: welcome to season four to sixteen, episode four of DIRNDAILYSI guys,
Speaker 1: Oh god are you okay? Sorry? Sorry? Real quick, wellness
Speaker 1: check on Morse sprain my ankle. Uh. It's a production
Speaker 1: of iHeart Radio as a podcast where you take a
Speaker 1: deep dive into America's share consciousness. And it's Friday, November
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. It's Black Friday. The reason for the season.
Speaker 1: You know, we've moved Thanksgiving forward and backward just to
Speaker 1: you know, get people time to shop, the corporations time
Speaker 1: to make that dang line go up.
Speaker 5: I'm grateful to say eleven percent on flat screen TV.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm great. That's my name's Jack O'Brien aka
Speaker 1: zip Ties, zip ties, so zip ties sold close to me?
Speaker 1: That one courtesy a Smitty Werbin Jaeger mun Jensen in
Speaker 1: reference to the Google search that undid the perfect crime
Speaker 1: that we covered earlier in the week, when a woman
Speaker 1: from Asian City, New Jersey, had herself zip tied and
Speaker 1: hired a scarification expert carved Trump whore into her body
Speaker 1: in order to try to make herself the next conservative
Speaker 1: victim who gets one hundred thousand dollars to go collect
Speaker 1: an award for being brave. Unfortunately, her accomplice had just
Speaker 1: googled zip ties close.
Speaker 2: To me.
Speaker 1: And they were like oh boy, that's also you guys,
Speaker 1: this one was most recent Google. That's right. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that they should just have have an alarm that
Speaker 1: goes off every time somebody searches that that's not good. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Thrilled to be joined in our second seat by a
Speaker 1: very funny comedian, actor, writer. Improvisers podcast is rebrand got
Speaker 1: a new special coming up called a Timeless Masterpiece. He
Speaker 1: just knows grinded into this meeting because he is our
Speaker 1: skateboarding man on the street. It's more what's up, God,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me, dude, Hello, mort what's up? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Thank you for being here. On to be here the
Speaker 1: slowest news week of the year. Yeah yeah, not really risk,
Speaker 1: that's nothing happening. Yeah, So we're thrilled to have you
Speaker 1: here and more we're thrilled to be joined. You're in
Speaker 1: for a treat. One of the funniest stand up comics
Speaker 1: in the world, one of our favorite guests on this podcast,
Speaker 1: and it's been way too long, you know. Here from
Speaker 1: TV podcast. You can see your headlining at a theater
Speaker 1: near you go. Check the website. Some dates coming to
Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest Ashland Sarcasm Fest in December. I dang sarcasm. Uh,
Speaker 1: that that'll be there. It is made the same exectveling. Yeah, please,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. It's Amy Miller. What's up? Amy?
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 1: So good to have you, I know, great to have
Speaker 1: you back. How are you? How are how's everybody planning
Speaker 1: to spend their Black Friday?
Speaker 2: Oh I'm gonna like, I'm gonna lie I'm gonna lie down.
Speaker 1: Probably that that is the correct answer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my couch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think think that's that's where everybody should be
Speaker 1: on this entire weekend.
Speaker 3: Maybe a little small amount of.
Speaker 1: Crying, gentle sobbing, Are you going to really go for it?
Speaker 1: Do you think?
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to have maybe a good big
Speaker 2: sob sash for a few minutes, But then you got
Speaker 2: to hydrate after. Don't forget to hydrate.
Speaker 1: That's true, like some gatorade for a.
Speaker 2: Good water coming out of your check.
Speaker 3: Yeh, never cried before.
Speaker 2: Let's try to relate to the humans on this.
Speaker 1: I got a bad headache. Yeah, it was rough. My
Speaker 1: face was making weird shapes. I do cry sometimes, but
Speaker 1: my face doesn't change shape. There's just tears rolling down
Speaker 1: my face and I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2: From Ghosts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, in that I have a lesbian scene with
Speaker 1: Whoopi Goldberg.
Speaker 2: You wish I would leave. I would love to see
Speaker 2: you act in the dramatic film Jack.
Speaker 1: Yeah too. Yeah, there's a dramatic range. Oh yeah, for sure. Amy.
Speaker 1: We're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get
Speaker 1: to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things
Speaker 1: we're talking about. In terms of the news, we'll just
Speaker 1: cover that it is the slowest news week of the year.
Speaker 1: So like I I can remember a story that broke
Speaker 1: in like two thousand and nine. That's how slow the
Speaker 1: news were. The news is. I'm like, oh, yeah, there
Speaker 1: was one story, so I want to talk about that.
Speaker 1: It was when Tiger Woods, like drunk drove into his garden.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was good.
Speaker 1: That was good, and like everybody remembers. So it's like
Speaker 1: a double edged sword because like the news media is
Speaker 1: not around, nobody's working, but if you fuck up, everyone's
Speaker 1: going to see it because there's nothing, nothing else is happening.
Speaker 2: You would think more solebrities would just try to be
Speaker 2: the news story. Something fucked up and crazy.
Speaker 1: This is your chance.
Speaker 2: They said celebrities Jack.
Speaker 1: That we should we should game plan something for for
Speaker 1: all of us to do. It's gotta Yeah, well, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about the makings of the perfect celebrity news story
Speaker 1: in this Tiger Woods gandal.
Speaker 2: That's like fun It doesn't make people hate you and
Speaker 2: you're not hurting anybody give them on the coverage.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, it's funny if you started publicly
Speaker 5: dating the January sixth shaman guy, but that really make
Speaker 5: people hate you?
Speaker 4: Up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he seems cool and.
Speaker 2: We're not getting back together. Messed it up.
Speaker 1: And then, as if to illustrate how slow the news
Speaker 1: day is, we're gonna cover the fact that six Flag
Speaker 1: just hired a CEO who kind of looks like the
Speaker 1: six Flags guy, And uh, I want to talk about that.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the pope introducing like having
Speaker 1: a video at the front of a EDM rave. And
Speaker 1: then I want to talk about Black Friday news stories
Speaker 1: in general, the trend. We've covered this before, but uh,
Speaker 1: it don't stop, and it don't quit. They continue to
Speaker 1: treat Black Friday as if it's a capitalism thunderdome. And
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the reality behind those stories, all of
Speaker 1: that plenty more. But first Amy, we do like to
Speaker 1: ask our guest, what is something from your search history
Speaker 1: that's revealing about who you are?
Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, well, I I was looking up a picture
Speaker 2: of that that played a fancy food from Missus Doubtfire.
Speaker 1: Like, oh yeah, from the restaurant at the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's like jumping heat.
Speaker 1: And he's jumping back and forth, yeah.
Speaker 2: From table to table, right, And it always just looked
Speaker 2: as a kid like like that was like a peak
Speaker 2: of like California cuisine, like this is what good delicious
Speaker 2: food looks like with those like tiny tiny carrot.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, what if I just recreated this meal
Speaker 2: for friendsgiving?
Speaker 1: I'll have one Missus Doutfire please? Yeah, and then you
Speaker 1: get to stick your face into a cream pie at
Speaker 1: the end, you're still pretending to be a different person,
Speaker 1: but you're changing clothes.
Speaker 3: Nast your search history, Jack, Yeah.
Speaker 1: How do I cream pie myself? Is what I said?
Speaker 1: And people there was a lot of complicated and confusing diagrams.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to pull off, apparently, man, I yeah,
Speaker 1: just what rewatching Missus out Fire with my kids for
Speaker 1: the first time this past year. It is so good.
Speaker 1: Some of his riffs, as when he's just being funny
Speaker 1: Robin Williams, are like hard for kids to get, Like
Speaker 1: he's doing a lot of like old timey actor things,
Speaker 1: like old timey actor reference is. They still liked it,
Speaker 1: but to them it was just like he was doing
Speaker 1: imitations of just random voices.
Speaker 2: You know, he would be like doing jive talk or whatever,
Speaker 2: and you're like, hey, yeah.
Speaker 1: And then there's the subtle races. Ignore that one. We
Speaker 1: don't do that voice, we don't do that one, the
Speaker 1: seventies racism, which is a funny specific kind of yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like that's Humphrey Bogart. Never mind, okay that ignore that one.
Speaker 1: But it's also like a lot of the genie riffs
Speaker 1: in Aladdin are like here's Johnny and like references to
Speaker 1: the Tonight Show that they have no.
Speaker 2: Frame of reference or the Shining.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, well they have seen the shining and they
Speaker 1: do love that. Yeah. My seven year old, in particular,
Speaker 1: I had.
Speaker 3: A seventh grade teacher that was an alcoholic.
Speaker 5: Uh huh, yeah, I'm familiar with that phrase. I know
Speaker 5: about those one that wasn't that was a ship.
Speaker 2: Anytime she like wasn't feeling well or whatever, like that
Speaker 2: was the go to.
Speaker 3: Like we would always be shining missus.
Speaker 1: Kids in it. The kid's a star, it's a kids movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she would just throw on missus doubtfire. But uh,
Speaker 2: you know, it was a lot. It was many, many
Speaker 2: times of the year.
Speaker 1: That's that's an interesting one. That's an interesting one because
Speaker 1: I'm trying to wrap my head around like we had
Speaker 1: a I went to a Catholic high school in Kentucky
Speaker 1: and we had a priest who not not like because
Speaker 1: he was hung over that day, but like as part
Speaker 1: of his curriculum at the outside of the year, it
Speaker 1: was like three solid days you were going to be
Speaker 1: watching Brave Heart for some reason, which everyone was like, fuck, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that's that's fine. I'll take that. But I think the
Speaker 1: way he justified it was that it was like based
Speaker 1: on history, Uh, missus doubt fire. I'm trying to figure out, like,
Speaker 1: based on history to you about drag in a way
Speaker 1: that isn't going to scare people. We had a I
Speaker 1: had a public health teacher who was also the pe teacher,
Speaker 1: and one time he came in class and he wrote
Speaker 1: public health but he forgot the l in public. So
Speaker 1: it's a pupil and that was our super Bowl, Like
Speaker 1: I've never seen your children.
Speaker 2: You don't think he did it on purpose.
Speaker 1: That almost feels that almost feels like he that was
Speaker 1: his introduction to sex ed And then he was like,
Speaker 1: people think this phrase is weird. Once he saw your reaction, public, public, public,
Speaker 1: I gotta go. He just really wanted to talk about it.
Speaker 1: He asked questions for us about what is something amy
Speaker 1: you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Not going home for Thanksgiving underrated?
Speaker 1: Not going just.
Speaker 2: Underrated, like ignoring the actual dates that things happen, Like
Speaker 2: I don't know why. We're just like I've never really
Speaker 2: got I didn't even really care about my own birthday
Speaker 2: on the day, I mean my birthday. Heills in New
Speaker 2: Year's Eve, so there's probably a reason for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Can I just drive up next week when there's not traffic? Yeah,
Speaker 2: it just it's just insane. I'm opting out this year
Speaker 2: nice thankfully. Yeah, I feel good. I feel strong about it.
Speaker 2: I can't be guilted any longer.
Speaker 1: That is not an overblown story. The way that travel
Speaker 1: is just an absolute fucking nightmare around Thanksgiving yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just like in America tries to fit on one plane. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my family lives in the Bay Area. And even
Speaker 2: driving it was like there was a year that I
Speaker 2: three years ago, I drove back and it was like
Speaker 2: literally twelve hours to get from like Oakland to LA. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you're wondering why mort is here instead of Miles Gray,
Speaker 1: it is exactly to avoid that situation. Was the way
Speaker 1: up to the Bay Area and he was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: if I record this podcast, we're just going to drive
Speaker 1: up there, get there and leave right away because it
Speaker 1: will take us twenty four hours. But yeah, it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's hell out there. I think that's a I think
Speaker 1: that's very valid. Why yourselves, Yeah, yourselves to coordinate with
Speaker 1: the people. Yeah, freedom, I think he said, for your
Speaker 1: mind and the rest will follow. The color blind. That
Speaker 1: was what he screamed at the end. What is uh,
Speaker 1: what's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't hear. I didn't see it in the
Speaker 2: stories we're going to cover, So I have to say
Speaker 2: Campbell's soup. Yeah, a big piece of news.
Speaker 1: Did you guys We covered it yesterday? Yeah, that one
Speaker 1: we covered it on every day two Damn much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of our nine episodes yesterday we did record three.
Speaker 2: I've always felt it to be overrated, and I am
Speaker 2: one of the fat poors. He mentioned, I grew up
Speaker 2: eating it, and it's like, no, it wasn't. There's not
Speaker 2: even a comfort to it in the way that like
Speaker 2: a pack of blue ramen is still comforting. And I
Speaker 2: still do you know what I mean, it's like always
Speaker 2: been disgusting. Like and also why am I cooking? Like
Speaker 2: the whole point, why do I have to add water
Speaker 2: to this? Like we already decided. If I'm gonna buy
Speaker 2: a can of soup, it's because I don't want to
Speaker 2: cook soup. Don't make me put an ingredient in it.
Speaker 1: One place he was completely on the money was when
Speaker 1: he described the chicken as seeming as though it were
Speaker 1: three D printed.
Speaker 2: He's very funny. I mean, he's gonna if if it's
Speaker 2: like not too late to add anyone to Trump's cabinet,
Speaker 2: he would be a shoe in.
Speaker 1: A Department of Defense and healthcare. He's like it's like
Speaker 1: nine per so he's he's he's he does see it.
Speaker 1: I mean he seems like could be a perfect fit
Speaker 1: in that I feel like a lot of the people
Speaker 1: like Rudy Giuliani became a perfect fit for his cabinet
Speaker 1: when he just was like what if I stayed drunk
Speaker 1: all day? And like this rant definitely feels like somebody
Speaker 1: who was just hammered, Like nobody has that much stamina
Speaker 1: to be like and another thing for an hour long
Speaker 1: zoom call where everyone else is like video off and
Speaker 1: he's still going. It's like the backstage at the comedy
Speaker 1: store when like people have been doing cocaine for too
Speaker 1: long or whatever. He's like, you want to go home,
Speaker 1: but it won't stop. He could have been cocaine actually,
Speaker 1: because he is he was in the c suite of Campbell's.
Speaker 1: Campbell's was like, uh he was like some tech guy
Speaker 1: and it's like no, he was a chief technology security whatever.
Speaker 1: Like he he's in this c suite. He's like one
Speaker 1: of your main dudes. And and a lot.
Speaker 2: Like Rudy Giuliani, he is red wine drunk, which is
Speaker 2: a special kind of It was like that drunk you
Speaker 2: know what a jug of not even good red wine,
Speaker 2: Like it's just a different kind of alcoholic. Like they
Speaker 2: they they're very emotional.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dewey eyed and slow kind of that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like rosy but you know, just yeah, dark teeth.
Speaker 1: The teeth they need another hug, stained teeth, needing a
Speaker 1: hug for a hug.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're listening to a lot of opera.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretentious, their pretentious alcoholics. Yeah, we did. We did
Speaker 1: take a look into not just that rant, but also
Speaker 1: just their history and there's there's a lot of ship that. Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They were like dumping toxic waste into Lake Eerie. For
Speaker 1: a number of you, that sounds that's why if you
Speaker 1: swim in it, it tastes like it tastes like chicken noodle.
Speaker 1: That's right. They were like, fine, we did it nine
Speaker 1: hundred times over the course of like three years. So
Speaker 1: they were doing it three times a day, dumping toxic
Speaker 1: waste into Lake Erie, and it like contributed to a
Speaker 1: algae bloom that made the entire city of I think
Speaker 1: it was Toledo have to turn off their water for
Speaker 1: four days.
Speaker 2: How are they going to make the soup?
Speaker 1: Exactly? Thank you.
Speaker 2: Can I say something about those chicken noodle noodles too,
Speaker 2: because there's nothing like it. They don't exist anywhere else.
Speaker 2: Because they could just use a short, small noodle like
Speaker 2: a shell or macaroni or whatever. But instead they're chopping.
Speaker 1: Spaghetti, chopping chopped spaghetti.
Speaker 2: It's like little pieces of noodle chunks.
Speaker 1: But the least aldente pasta has ever been. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: tastes like it has the flu.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's like gladness.
Speaker 1: It is so fucked up. The substance of that is
Speaker 1: like the fact that that was the first pasta that
Speaker 1: I probably ever ate is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that spaghettios for sure are delicious. If that guy
Speaker 2: goes off, I don't know what I was in charge of, mister.
Speaker 2: If mister Boyardy lose.
Speaker 3: Is it a jug of wine?
Speaker 1: That's right, doctor Boyard. I think I think he got
Speaker 1: his PhD in spaghettios with Pepper old friends. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a very good point about the ramen too, Like that
Speaker 1: that has totally supplanted any at home soup option. Like
Speaker 1: if you're gonna you have to add water to that
Speaker 1: one too, But like if if we're adding water, might
Speaker 1: as well make it fucking awesome.
Speaker 3: I mean, I am cooking that one.
Speaker 2: I'm adding proccoli, I'm atkins shit onions.
Speaker 5: Oh so much better than Campbell's to say. In the
Speaker 5: first fifteen years of my comedy career, like I owed
Speaker 5: all wrong the baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's your color?
Speaker 1: Uh dude, well, I do the the I don't think
Speaker 1: we should call it oriental, but that's what I did.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: That's what it's called. Yeah, that's that's what it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the blue one.
Speaker 1: I'm chicken just because that's what we had in my
Speaker 1: dorm when I was like in high school, and yeah
Speaker 1: it was I've never given up on the chicken.
Speaker 2: Is the saltiest.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And when we eat one of those freaks in your life,
Speaker 2: that's like I only use half the packet, you know,
Speaker 2: Like I don't want to know you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just wanting to get out of here. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: too busy exercising. You're like relaxed. I like how you
Speaker 1: define it by color. I'm going to start doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of love to say oriental like you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm on the edge of my scene. I have
Speaker 1: a gong that I hit like Jackie can't enters Rush
Speaker 1: Hour of Seeds.
Speaker 2: Does anybody eat the beef one? I don't. I think
Speaker 2: beef is like like mag I mean, I just I've
Speaker 2: never met anyone that defaulted.
Speaker 1: The prefers read.
Speaker 5: Yeah, anything that anything any they think that's be flavored
Speaker 5: makes me want to retire, like that's yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 5: so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah being alive. I don't want to be around anymore.
Speaker 1: All Right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back to talk about the slowest news day of
Speaker 1: the year. Into her back and guys, the pressure is off.
Speaker 1: It's slowest news time of the year. Everyone who makes news,
Speaker 1: both the journalists and the famous people, usually take a
Speaker 1: break from doing anything interesting or over the long weekend,
Speaker 1: and we get stories they wrote last week that they
Speaker 1: like try to pass off as breaking news. I just
Speaker 1: got a breaking news alert on my phone from Smithsonian
Speaker 1: magazine that scientists just discovered a second lion roar.
Speaker 2: I know, can you demonstrate it?
Speaker 1: Jet, It's just like, that's what it sounds like. I
Speaker 1: was like, well, there might have been a reason we
Speaker 1: weren't we didn't go with that one on the speaking spell,
Speaker 1: but you know, we're in the doldrums of the news cycle.
Speaker 1: Let's luxuriate. And then I did just want to really
Speaker 1: briefly talk about the one big breaking news story from
Speaker 1: this time of year, which was totally unplanned. It was
Speaker 1: such a weird story. So this is for anybody who's
Speaker 1: trying to go viral this long weekend. I think it
Speaker 1: had some key elements because the very first version of
Speaker 1: the story we got didn't make any fucking sense. Do
Speaker 1: you remember? It was like Tyr Woods crashed his car
Speaker 1: into his garden on Black Friday at two in the
Speaker 1: morning while driving away from his house as we all do.
Speaker 1: So it was like day after Thanksgiving. He's driving away
Speaker 1: from the house like so fast that he crashes into
Speaker 1: a fire hydrant in his garden. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: guess when you're when you live in a ten million
Speaker 1: dollar mansion, you have a fire hydrant in your garden.
Speaker 1: And then he was rescued from the wreck by his wife,
Speaker 1: who had to break the back window of the car
Speaker 1: with a golf club. I was like, wait, what why
Speaker 1: did she have to do that? You got to climb
Speaker 1: out in the back of it. I think it was
Speaker 1: like a big suv and it was. And then people
Speaker 1: were like, you know, the National Enquirer had just dropped
Speaker 1: a story about how he was having an affair, like
Speaker 1: it was like next to a story about like Aliens,
Speaker 1: and so nobody took it seriously. But then it just
Speaker 1: like that was the beginning, and then it was like
Speaker 1: the next week twenty people came out and were like,
Speaker 1: I fucked Tiger Woods. I fucked Tiger Woods Woods. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're fucking Tiger Woods. So I think that's what you need.
Speaker 1: I think you need a story that gets people's attention
Speaker 1: but also like sticks in their brain because they're like, wait,
Speaker 1: what what? Yeah, there's some things, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: mystery to solve that we don't need the mainstream media's
Speaker 1: help with. In fact, the mainstream version sucks and the
Speaker 1: fact that nobody's working. It's actually kind of helpful that, uh,
Speaker 1: that nobody's working, because they just gave us this bullshit,
Speaker 1: like straight from the mouth of Tiger Woods's publicist, version
Speaker 1: of what they wanted it to be.
Speaker 2: Well, we love when a celebrity man cheats and then
Speaker 2: the lady goes off in something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, burns something.
Speaker 2: Down, smack those nudes or whatever.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, when.
Speaker 1: Lisa LEFTI Lopez burnt down Andre Risin's was that? Who
Speaker 1: did it? I feel like, yeah, she burnt down, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like her boyfriend's mansion.
Speaker 5: Feel like the closest was recently was Puffy going after
Speaker 5: kit Cutti's car.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thing he ever.
Speaker 1: Did, that's the one I won't forgive.
Speaker 3: I'm waiting for Malania's freak out.
Speaker 1: That is so great.
Speaker 2: Christmas this year, we're not decorating.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, they like because she she'll disappear sometimes,
Speaker 5: That's what I'm assuming that is.
Speaker 1: It's amazing she has him in such a like she's
Speaker 1: in such a powerful position right now, like ever since
Speaker 1: all the Epstein emails dropped, and it was like, not
Speaker 1: only is he mentioned, he's the most mentioned, He's the
Speaker 1: person whose name is the most all over these fuckers.
Speaker 1: He has been dropping Like the the White House was
Speaker 1: like posting just pictures of them holding hands, being like
Speaker 1: Washington power a couple much. It's just like they they
Speaker 1: need her so much right now, and you know she's
Speaker 1: not happy in that marriage, like she could we could
Speaker 1: see like a fucking I don't know, something happened here
Speaker 1: in the coming days where she's just like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't fucking need this shit. She was like this dude sucks.
Speaker 1: Actually she tweets it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's good.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: We were talking on Wednesday's Trending episode about how at
Speaker 1: the White House, like Turkey Pard in media event, He
Speaker 1: just like went into this fake conversation between him and
Speaker 1: Milania that was like really forced. It was like when
Speaker 1: somebody forces in that they have a boyfriend or girlfriend
Speaker 1: so that you know they're they're just like trying to
Speaker 1: let you know that. Yeah, yeah, exactly, I have people
Speaker 1: in my life they love me. Because it was like related,
Speaker 1: he was like, I should call these uh turkeys Nancy
Speaker 1: and Chuck, but Malani would tell me not to do that,
Speaker 1: that I have to pardon them, and I'd say darthing.
Speaker 1: He like made up this fake dialogue those like you
Speaker 1: guys have never talked to each No.
Speaker 2: Were you guys following the story when that guy was
Speaker 2: on Twitter and he had been like a former like nanny,
Speaker 2: you done childcare for another kid at Baron's school for
Speaker 2: many years, and then he was saying like every day
Speaker 2: that she is ever at school, her like coffee cup
Speaker 2: is filled with wine.
Speaker 1: Yes, amazing. So she's a white wine drunk. So that's
Speaker 1: why we haven't gotten the rant from her quite yet.
Speaker 1: But the second she switches to red, yeah, any good
Speaker 1: people inside the White House maybe uh maybe be like
Speaker 1: you know what go well with that? Ham? Eleven glasses
Speaker 1: of wine eleven glasses of red.
Speaker 2: My very good friend currently has her child at the
Speaker 2: same school as the vance's child.
Speaker 1: Oh and so.
Speaker 2: She just like sees them all the time and it's
Speaker 2: really bizarre. But she's like, I can't like tell my
Speaker 2: kids did not play with that kid.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, not nice. Not their fault necessarily.
Speaker 2: I don't want to just casually talk to that lady
Speaker 2: like a demon, you.
Speaker 1: Know, right, yeah, but you do the child, like they
Speaker 1: do have the opportunity to open that child's mind. Because
Speaker 1: I have friends whose parents.
Speaker 5: My parents were really progressive, but I have friends whose
Speaker 5: parents were super conservative, and they ended up because like
Speaker 5: we talked to them like human beings and explained him
Speaker 5: how the world worked. They became like way more progressive.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: You guys had like a Kami re education camp for
Speaker 1: your friends. You're like, step in here. Yeah, my fellow comrade,
Speaker 1: do you mind if I call you comrade in third
Speaker 1: grade with yeah? All right, So let's get to the
Speaker 1: non news that we'll be covering. The new six Flag
Speaker 1: CEO kind of looks like the Six Flags guy, we do,
Speaker 1: mean of kind of. Yeah, he's both bald and has
Speaker 1: classes not old enough to really look like him, but
Speaker 1: his name is John Riley, not John c Riley. And
Speaker 1: uh yeah, they they named a new CEO. This is
Speaker 1: slightly related to a story that I wanted to cover
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, where Travis Kelcey announced that
Speaker 1: he's part of an activist investor group that is uh
Speaker 1: investing in like bringing six Flags back. Is there any
Speaker 1: more evidence the word activist means nothing now? Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: There's shit to worry about, dude. I do love that.
Speaker 1: It's I think activists, like technically in the world of finance,
Speaker 1: they've they've given up on it meaning anything like progressive,
Speaker 1: and they're just like just means they want to like
Speaker 1: fire people, hire people, and like change the leadership.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like Republican activist Ben Shapiro. You're like, no, he's
Speaker 5: a hateful nerd. Yeah, stop calling him activist.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is a cause. It's the cause is fun.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying. Okay, I'm team Kelsey on
Speaker 1: this one. Start a new one. Six flags mold and broken.
Speaker 2: Let's do eight flags?
Speaker 1: Okay, what about seven? What if we just start with seven?
Speaker 2: You know you're such a small thinker, Jack, I know,
Speaker 2: I don't know why you would just go right to eight.
Speaker 1: That's a really good point. The even number has been
Speaker 1: working for so many years. And by working, I mean
Speaker 1: they're in a lot of debt and thinking about declaring
Speaker 1: bankruptcy for like the thirteenth time. I'm underwater of this
Speaker 1: roller coaster. Baby, you know what I mean. The market
Speaker 1: I don't understand though, like it. Why are they failing?
Speaker 1: Like I think theme parks are like perfectly timed for
Speaker 1: right now. They put you out into the world with
Speaker 1: other people. They're thrilling. They are like the cure for
Speaker 1: what ails us. They everyone's like phones have ruined all
Speaker 1: the old stuff we used to like to do. This
Speaker 1: is the one fun activity that phones have made way
Speaker 1: better because now you have phones when you wait in line,
Speaker 1: like you don't, Yes, it makes waiting in line. Waiting
Speaker 1: in line is so much better than it was the
Speaker 1: last time you waited in line.
Speaker 2: Like I used to play cards.
Speaker 1: We used to play brought cards with you. Oh yet
Speaker 1: did someone have to get on all fours so you
Speaker 1: could like put use them as your card table in
Speaker 1: line on the ground. We used to play twenty questions,
Speaker 1: just over and over, and by the third time my
Speaker 1: dad was like, is this a character? From Jaws. Yes,
Speaker 1: is it Sheriff Brody? You got it into this time?
Speaker 1: Holy shit, it's we know it's always Richard Dreyfus Jack.
Speaker 2: I think they're just overpriced, but it's fucked up because
Speaker 2: that's like the one thing there's not a lot of
Speaker 2: shit you can offload from an amusement park, but you
Speaker 2: can't like resell the coaster or whatever. I also don't
Speaker 2: want them to be struggling financially and then go on
Speaker 2: a coaster knowing like, hey, they might be cutting some
Speaker 2: corners with the maintenance or right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we haven't lowered the price. We've raised the
Speaker 1: prices on cotton candy, and there's more air in the
Speaker 1: cotton candy less candy, but we have lowered the amount
Speaker 1: of axle grease we use on the roller coasters. We've
Speaker 1: cut down on that. About six Flags, it was like
Speaker 1: that it's either operating those things. It's either like a
Speaker 1: methadict or a teen and I feel safe with neither
Speaker 1: of those people. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my ex, like the first time he met my
Speaker 2: niece who's who was twelve at the time, Like we
Speaker 2: were at six Flags Valo, maybe the worst one in
Speaker 2: the country, and they got stuck on a ride for
Speaker 2: three hours and like the burning hots and I was
Speaker 2: just like sorry, dude, Like he wore her down over time.
Speaker 2: Like they came off really liking each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good friends.
Speaker 2: Plus side of six Flags. I'm like, Disneyland is that
Speaker 2: they sell big beers everywhere, So by the time he
Speaker 2: got off, I was just like, here's a jug of beer.
Speaker 1: There's so much beer for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was a teenager like climbing up on
Speaker 2: the tracks to like fix something god knows what, and
Speaker 2: it was terrifying.
Speaker 1: It's that's so crazy scary. Yeah, it's the case. It's
Speaker 1: like the teen from the Simpsons. He's like, hell this
Speaker 1: you know, it's a sunburnt and pimply and you're like,
Speaker 1: this is my own family life is in his hands.
Speaker 2: I bet if you're a Carney teen that's really skilled
Speaker 2: and good at your job, you're offended by this stereotime totally.
Speaker 1: It's a coaster with like a paper clip, and he's
Speaker 1: like he's a master genius.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm like really in my thirties and forties like gotten
Speaker 1: new appreciation. Like we just I went to this scheme
Speaker 1: park Kennywood outside of Pittsburgh, which is I think its
Speaker 1: own thing and is so fun. Like it's just I
Speaker 1: don't know, like if you go to a good theme
Speaker 1: park that's not Disney, because I went to Disney World
Speaker 1: with my kids and it was like we got stuck
Speaker 1: on rides and it's got all the same shit. It's
Speaker 1: just like five times more expensive than any you're you're
Speaker 1: just paying for the IP at those places, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the same level of ride, maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: safer the rides, but like I don't need, like the
Speaker 1: the lack of safety is what kind of makes it fun,
Speaker 1: you know. So like Kenny is that just owned by
Speaker 1: a guy named Kenny that's just like a stepdad, like
Speaker 1: a cool stepdad who's like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kenny Rogers and.
Speaker 1: You get to see there it's not no, it's wait,
Speaker 1: is he dead Kenny Rogers?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did quarantine, so you might have lost chat.
Speaker 2: It was like the first big celebrity death like maybe
Speaker 2: like I.
Speaker 3: Don't know, April or May twenty twenty. I was devastated.
Speaker 1: That's tough.
Speaker 2: Yeh.
Speaker 1: It's not Annie Rogers. The other good thing that you
Speaker 1: you get to see like their misfires at like attempts
Speaker 1: to create where it's just like a weird mascots, just
Speaker 1: different people named Kenny.
Speaker 2: I want to see some weird ip like that, like yeah,
Speaker 2: like found it down amusement park.
Speaker 1: Like would be so fun amazing. Yeah, this also the
Speaker 1: CEO thing. I think that mascots should be recorded. There
Speaker 1: should be a week where every company lets their mascot
Speaker 1: be the CEO and we get to see it. So
Speaker 1: like Tony the Guy, Tony the Tiger costume.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just found out there was a Twinkies mascot.
Speaker 2: Never knew it in my life.
Speaker 1: All these Twinkie with cowboy stuffy. Yeah yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we've all done for a long time. Every year I think.
Speaker 2: Filled with cream.
Speaker 1: That's right, cream pied himself. That's I've taken all covers.
Speaker 1: Three holes on my back have three holes. That's bunge cake,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah. By the time I'm done with them,
Speaker 1: they got three holes. I'm so sorry you far Jack.
Speaker 1: I know that one was way too far. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the Catholic Church real quick. I got
Speaker 1: to get a religion story and for amy and know
Speaker 1: how much you love the Catholic Church. I don't know
Speaker 1: there they've been doing stuff like that. There was an
Speaker 1: event at the Vatican where Clips performed with like a
Speaker 1: full orchestra. There's just like these little drips and drabs
Speaker 1: of this new Pope just being like, guys, I'm cool,
Speaker 1: I can get it, just like pulling his hatter out
Speaker 1: of the back.
Speaker 3: Three trans people for dinner.
Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, what a hero's.
Speaker 1: Not like publicly anti, you know.
Speaker 2: Not something. But it's also hilarious. Can you imagine having
Speaker 2: to be one of the like three mouthpieces for the
Speaker 2: entire trans community with the Pope.
Speaker 3: Be cool at dinner?
Speaker 1: Okay, used as a prop for them to be like, hey,
Speaker 1: we don't hate you that much exactly.
Speaker 2: But then if one of those people was just like
Speaker 2: super fucking annoying you know, yes, you know trans.
Speaker 1: Thinking of we're thinking of acknowledging your personhood. I know
Speaker 1: it sounds crazy.
Speaker 2: Person's just chewing with her mouth open.
Speaker 1: That's a great idea. Yeah, like you has got any
Speaker 1: chicken nuggets?
Speaker 2: You have any ketchup for this spaghetti.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. All right, we're gonna watch a little clip
Speaker 1: of this. It's basically they use the Pope as like
Speaker 1: the build up to the drop. Mmm, he like gives
Speaker 1: a weird little blessing.
Speaker 2: The Son and the Holy Spirit will come upon you
Speaker 2: and remain with you always.
Speaker 1: He like gives a big lung blessing and then goes, amen, Amen, Amen.
Speaker 1: It worked on Catholic again, how you guys are at?
Speaker 1: But that did it? Has this ever? Has this ever worked?
Speaker 1: Like trying to meet the people where they are by
Speaker 1: being like, we're actually kind of cool and here's here's
Speaker 1: our leader, the mouthpiece of God blown up five hundred
Speaker 1: times his size to look like snoke and then just
Speaker 1: like opening a rave is like it is the best attack,
Speaker 1: Like it's better than a cool youth minister, like putting
Speaker 1: his hat on backwards and yeah, like taking out his
Speaker 1: acoustic guitar, being like, I got a song about a
Speaker 1: guy who is a little punk rock that clips album
Speaker 1: is legitimately so good, it's wild. Yeah, but do we
Speaker 1: feel like this is gonna work? Are you guys Catholic? Now?
Speaker 1: Are you interested?
Speaker 5: I could feel our nation changing and becoming more and
Speaker 5: more hippid Catholic.
Speaker 2: He needs to do like a full just Campbell soup level,
Speaker 2: just like this company sucks right.
Speaker 1: Some audio where he's like, these guys are fucking idiots,
Speaker 1: but they're all child resters.
Speaker 2: Like until he really acknowledges the place he works, I don't.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna trust him. I'm never gonna think the
Speaker 2: Pope is cool unless he's like, we got a couple
Speaker 2: of things to fix around.
Speaker 1: Here, right, Yeah, he needs to snowboard into masks. Then
Speaker 1: I'll start listening. That's I think you were saying a
Speaker 1: slightly different thing than a Jamie's saying, like more substantive
Speaker 1: changes to the ideology snowboarding. I'm saying snowboarding. I think
Speaker 1: that would imply all the changes that we need.
Speaker 2: Just do a kickflip.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is like they are marshaling all the powers
Speaker 1: at their fingers, Like they're like, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do this in front of a grand cathedral and just
Speaker 1: have the Pope giant behind us.
Speaker 2: This is a weird thing that kind of happens, Like, uh,
Speaker 2: Like I've been to these like cathedral shows, like in
Speaker 2: Mexico and then in some like parts of France where
Speaker 2: it'll just be like, hey, stand in this courtyard of
Speaker 2: this beautiful cathedral and then they'll be like a light
Speaker 2: and DJ show and that's like you know, and a
Speaker 2: bunch of tourist groups go on it and it's like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't think this is the best
Speaker 2: way to showcase this architecture, right yeah, And then and
Speaker 2: then they think it's going to turn into a party
Speaker 2: and it doesn't. It's just a bunch of people staring
Speaker 2: and it's very bizarre. This has happened for a while,
Speaker 2: but like, I don't know if the Pope usually is there.
Speaker 1: The Pope is usually like weird dropping bars on top
Speaker 1: of it. Let me just lace the track real quick. Well,
Speaker 1: And in Saint Louis there was an abandoned church that
Speaker 1: since burned down, but they speaking of may you would
Speaker 1: have loved this. They put a serious vert ramp in
Speaker 1: there and basically a skate park in this like beautiful
Speaker 1: abandoned church and it was really Yeah, the instagram is amazing.
Speaker 1: I figure what it was called, but it has since
Speaker 1: burned down, but it's like maybe very proud to be
Speaker 1: from Saint Louis finally, and you would have loved this.
Speaker 1: I think I remember you saying something about how it
Speaker 1: would help if the Pope would snowboard into a cathedral.
Speaker 1: I think that was your pointing this for years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they could also sell all those priceless works of art
Speaker 1: and give the money to the poor. That'd be kind
Speaker 1: of chill. Like the last pope was like I think
Speaker 1: we should be like more about poor people and that
Speaker 1: sort of thing, and this one's like we're about E
Speaker 1: D M and dance parties. Uh, and he wants to fuck.
Speaker 3: I think he does.
Speaker 2: I do feel like he's had sex, Like, am I crazy?
Speaker 1: I don't think so seems you got to ask God,
Speaker 1: But yeah, he doesn't know.
Speaker 2: As Yeah those guys fu dude, it's.
Speaker 1: From Chicago because he's also fun drunk at noon, he
Speaker 1: beat up a he beat up a Cubs fan, And
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll talk Black Friday. We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about Black Friday, which I think
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people associate with Mayhem. Scariest
Speaker 1: time of year. Yeah, yeah, can't even got kids to
Speaker 1: fucking tickle me elmo. Yeah, or like disembowel this guy
Speaker 1: for tickle me elma, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 1: the sales have kind of they've changed. They're now like
Speaker 1: migrating into October, but the day is still being covered,
Speaker 1: Like there's a story in the sun Friday Frenzy inside
Speaker 1: worst Black Friday violence, from Walmart worker trampled to death
Speaker 1: to shooting at Toys r us five times Black Friday
Speaker 1: shopping matess turned violent, even deadly. Black Friday's most gruesome
Speaker 1: injuries and deaths through the years. These are that was
Speaker 1: the headline in the New York Post, like top five
Speaker 1: most gruesome injuries and deaths on Black Friday. Dude, there's
Speaker 1: a website that tracks every single Black Friday death and injury,
Speaker 1: the most recent death being twenty twenty one. Because I
Speaker 1: think people are staying home, but it's also have you
Speaker 1: guys seen the movie Thanksgiving, the Eli Roth movie. It's
Speaker 1: like an entertaining slasher movie that opens There was a
Speaker 1: Bruce Campbell movie called Black Friday that I didn't see,
Speaker 1: but Eli Ross Thanksgiving starts with a scene that is
Speaker 1: said in a Walmart esque store on Black Friday, and
Speaker 1: basically people just get just destroyed. Like someone's head gets
Speaker 1: like the top of their head gets ripped off. It's
Speaker 1: just like everybody tramples each other. Someone gets like destroyed,
Speaker 1: like multiple people die. It's very It is what will
Speaker 1: always be in my head when I think of Black
Speaker 1: Friday from this point on, Like they did a good
Speaker 1: job of capturing what I think we all think of
Speaker 1: when we think of Black Friday because we've seen the
Speaker 1: local news stories. However, there's some problems with this. First
Speaker 1: of all, it's like very classist. Research has shown that
Speaker 1: the majority of Black Friday shoppers are people who are
Speaker 1: low income people looking for deals because they're struggling, which
Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah, they're as Brian put a Campbell soup buyers,
Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying. But it's also like
Speaker 1: wildly overblown. Most Black Friday violins. Yeah, usually it doesn't
Speaker 1: have anything to do with Black Friday. It's just anytime
Speaker 1: someone gets hurt in or near a retail location on
Speaker 1: Black Friday, they turn it into a story like this.
Speaker 1: They're like all these examples when you look back at
Speaker 1: the stories where like they don't report on the truth
Speaker 1: of it day, Like there was a story at like
Speaker 1: a Colorado mall where like these two teenage girls were
Speaker 1: fighting and they were like they were fighting over these
Speaker 1: like this buckle store and they were just like they
Speaker 1: hated There were two people who went to the same
Speaker 1: high school who hated each other and like started fighting.
Speaker 1: There's also like a Toys r Us shooting that it
Speaker 1: turns out like happened to the parking lot and it
Speaker 1: wasn't even on Black Friday and it was gang Really
Speaker 1: that's just a standard American shootings. Yeah, that's just a
Speaker 1: straight up normal American shoot I.
Speaker 2: Feel like we grew up with just like like in
Speaker 2: the East Bay, there's like the fighting mall and then yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: but it's also like the fun mall a lot of
Speaker 2: the times. So yeah, like, yeah, that's where you want
Speaker 2: to hang out because there's this more other teens. You know,
Speaker 2: you might meet a boy or whatever. And then there
Speaker 2: was like the safe, boring mall where you won't get shot,
Speaker 2: but also everything's more expensive.
Speaker 1: Oddly you might get shot by it, but it's by
Speaker 1: the private security company that they've hired. It's just normal
Speaker 1: ex masade agents.
Speaker 2: I mean, what movie it makes me. I feel like
Speaker 2: it gave us jingle all the way.
Speaker 1: Right now exactly really.
Speaker 2: Think about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's and that's.
Speaker 2: You know, I mean that Beef wasn't only about the doll.
Speaker 2: That's you know, Sinbad. They're both just trying to do
Speaker 2: the best for their families and sin has been treated
Speaker 2: poorly by the United States Postal Service.
Speaker 1: No, not the US Postal Service. I will say Eli Roth,
Speaker 1: by the way, the director of Thanksgiving, not always great
Speaker 1: at knowing how to tell the truth of between propaganda
Speaker 1: and reality. He's like one of the most outrage staunch
Speaker 1: pro Israel voices in the world. He said, Greta Thunberg
Speaker 1: should be eaten by cannibals for trying to deliver aid
Speaker 1: into Gaza.
Speaker 5: So there's so many of these And same with that
Speaker 5: kind of filmmaking, which can be fun, but it's like
Speaker 5: so unsubtle. It's like people who were and not you know,
Speaker 5: I'm not I don't hate professional wrestling, but there are
Speaker 5: people who've like adopted that worldview of like a seven
Speaker 5: year old you know, it's like extremely black and white.
Speaker 5: I feel like those people are very likely to fall
Speaker 5: for propaganda and strong man shit.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is one of the key filmmakers behind
Speaker 1: the torture porn trend. That is like, if you look
Speaker 1: at it in history, was around the time that America
Speaker 1: started torturing people. And he's like, hey, that's a good
Speaker 1: idea for a movie. Yeah, it relates to this story too,
Speaker 1: because it's like the those basically the media has kind of.
Speaker 5: Turned into like a modern version of rotten dot com
Speaker 5: if you remember those websites. Yeah, this is like faces
Speaker 5: of Death stuff. It's but it's just like it's totally normalized.
Speaker 1: It's real weird. Yeah, we need our bloodlust. He claimed.
Speaker 1: The theme of his movie was the commercialization of Christmas
Speaker 1: and the hypocrisy of Thanksgiving, when Americans go from giving
Speaker 1: thanks to trampling someone to death for a waffle iron.
Speaker 1: And it's like, all right, that's on one way to
Speaker 1: interpret this the big story that I think everybody remembers.
Speaker 2: They're not even expensive.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, that's what I'm saying. Guys don't
Speaker 1: trample each other to death for a waffle iron. They're
Speaker 1: not that much. One of the few clear cut examples
Speaker 1: of like black Friday leading to a death, there was
Speaker 1: a Walmart employee who was trampled to death by a
Speaker 1: crowd after opening the stores doors, like back in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight. And this is the scene that seemed
Speaker 1: to like directly inspire Thanksgiving. But some people might argue
Speaker 1: that the unruly crowd was part of Walmart's plan to
Speaker 1: create a spectacle and generate publicity for their deals and
Speaker 1: like that. This is like I think there's like you
Speaker 1: guys are saying there's always violence in malls and like
Speaker 1: retail locations every other day of the year, and that
Speaker 1: shit just like the mainstream media and retailers just agree
Speaker 1: not to report it because they're like, you know, that's
Speaker 1: bad for business, But this is the one day of
Speaker 1: the year where they're like we can actually say what's
Speaker 1: actually going on. And in fact, like the violence is
Speaker 1: like good. It makes it seem like our deals are crazy.
Speaker 1: It's like the I'm crazy Eddy, I'm slashing prices. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's also like we don't we don't pay you
Speaker 1: a money when you work, and we hypnotize your children
Speaker 1: with billion dollar advertising, so you're required to get the stuff,
Speaker 1: and then when you are like clumsy about it, then
Speaker 1: we sort of make fun of you and exploit you.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, yeah yeah. They basically like fostered the
Speaker 1: mob because they wanted to like create this sense of like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. And then it also for the people
Speaker 1: who are actually there, not just with the media specta,
Speaker 1: but for the people who are there, like everybody's making
Speaker 1: impulse buys, so it's it's how they would ideally like
Speaker 1: us to shop like supermarket sweep styles, just like we
Speaker 1: let you in for fifteen minutes and you have to
Speaker 1: get everything you can possibly get. But a lot of
Speaker 1: people have said that the Walmart thing was a textbook
Speaker 1: case of horrible like negligent crowd control. Like there are
Speaker 1: ways to like, when you know there's going to be
Speaker 1: a crowd, you have security present, you have like safety
Speaker 1: barriers in place. They didn't have any of that shit,
Speaker 1: even though they were specifically like trying to rereate this
Speaker 1: atmosphere of like frenzied shopping. Yeah, they had a guy
Speaker 1: on a megaphone going like go ape ship had like
Speaker 1: an airport and that's.
Speaker 2: What the greeters do.
Speaker 1: Look to your left.
Speaker 2: Well. Also, they didn't have like medics on him or whatever,
Speaker 2: like anyway like save him, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Nah, they're just like where's where.
Speaker 2: Add to the chaos? I mean they should have ambulances
Speaker 2: like parked outside the lights on. That's right, like when
Speaker 2: you're going into a crazy concert or whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, feels so good, you'll be badly injured.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission find Walmart
Speaker 1: for the incident, pointing out that the retailer failed to
Speaker 1: take steps that could have saved his life, that the
Speaker 1: employee was exposed to a physical hazard that Walmart was
Speaker 1: aware of from previous Black Friday events, and Walmart spent
Speaker 1: more than two million dollars to try to overturn the
Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars. Fine, God, not on like making sure
Speaker 1: it never happened again, to try and like make it
Speaker 1: so that they could be like, wasn't our fault? Which
Speaker 1: is wild. So yeah, the moral of the story is
Speaker 1: like corporations treat their blue collar employees like shit, and
Speaker 1: we'll spend millions of dollars rather than admit that they
Speaker 1: do that. And then the moral that the US mass
Speaker 1: media took is like blue collar people are basically zombies,
Speaker 1: Like the fucking kill each other for a fucking waffle arm. Dude,
Speaker 1: they're crazy, Campbell, that's right, just pelting them with Campbell's
Speaker 1: soup cans. Amy as always such a pleasure having you
Speaker 1: on the.
Speaker 3: Daily seeing here.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you see all that
Speaker 1: good stuff?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Follow me at Amy Miller Comedy on Instagram and
Speaker 2: everything pretty much. I'm heavy into threads now since you
Speaker 2: last saw me. Oh, I'm a thread stir, I'm big. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so follow me there. I've only been mildly canceled once
Speaker 2: for a thread. Okay, d'angelo's coum gutters. I shouldn't even
Speaker 2: say it. They were so mad at me. Everybody was
Speaker 2: so mad.
Speaker 1: Are they so mad? Was it like right after he passed?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was like, you know all I mean
Speaker 3: that's a.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he was well, he was hot. All right. Wait, okay,
Speaker 1: so if you're gonna like make a statue and tribute
Speaker 1: to him, will he not have amazing cum gutters and
Speaker 1: you're just gonna like not.
Speaker 2: Have to vote on this statue be involved in anyway.
Speaker 2: But I also said voice of an Angel, I loved
Speaker 2: you anyway. Follow me there on threads and then I'll
Speaker 2: be in Seattle at the end of January, and I
Speaker 2: have tour dates at Amy Miller Comedy.
Speaker 1: Dot com Go check them out. Amy. Is there a
Speaker 1: work Amedia that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, Oh, I mean it's a thread, you know what? Really?
Speaker 2: When it's when it started to take off for me?
Speaker 2: Maybe my favorite tweeter of all time that I know
Speaker 2: and love as a personal friend. Solomon Georgio joined. Yes,
Speaker 2: so it's a it's a Solomon post nice and it's
Speaker 2: been Hayden cowardly Lion since the Wizard of Oz, acting
Speaker 2: all shy and afraid but still managed to roll or
Speaker 2: curl your hair before step.
Speaker 1: I was just talking about how beautiful his hair is
Speaker 1: and that like two days ago. Yes, so gorgeous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go with the.
Speaker 2: Red bow and again old choice. That's not a cowardly choice.
Speaker 1: No, cowardly lion, and then just serving kunt I think
Speaker 1: he is the source of the second Lions, or we
Speaker 1: got it up.
Speaker 2: That's so good. No, it's like a friend that you
Speaker 2: know is struggling and they come out like way too
Speaker 2: overdressed for the occasion, like they're just meeting up meta
Speaker 2: bar or whatever, and then you're like, oh, you look
Speaker 2: amazing and they're like no, like, don't bring it up.
Speaker 1: No, no, I don't. I look like fucking shit. I
Speaker 1: look like No, you're strong, you know you're how strong
Speaker 1: you are?
Speaker 2: More?
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Is there a workimedia you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying?
Speaker 5: Yeah, follow me at mort Burke. Been posting sketches and
Speaker 5: stuff on Instagram with my buddies. A Mendos that's fun here.
Speaker 5: This is this media thing involves the story. I want
Speaker 5: to go to listen, lads, that's my Yeah, that's my
Speaker 5: morning DJ voice.
Speaker 1: So okay. My friend and I used to just text
Speaker 1: each other funny tweets, and I don't remember who tweeted this,
Speaker 1: so I need to know. I texted my friend this tweet,
Speaker 1: just thought it was a funny tweet getting my dick
Speaker 1: sucked at this webinars, Like, that's a great tweet. But
Speaker 1: I asked and only texted that to my mom. No,
Speaker 1: And my mom texted me back. Who's she's like? She
Speaker 1: was an elementary school teacher. She's always like, I'm not funny.
Speaker 1: She texted me back, Well, we've all been there.
Speaker 2: WHOA nice?
Speaker 1: I did? My mom's killing it. That's really good.
Speaker 2: I think she might have been my teacher that showed
Speaker 2: me missus douk.
Speaker 1: That's right. Check what's in the mug? Mark check what's
Speaker 1: in the mug? All right? You can find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter at jack Undersquirrel Brian and on Blue Sky at
Speaker 1: jack Obe the number one. Not on threads, but maybe
Speaker 1: I should get over there. Probably it's over there. People
Speaker 1: are living it up. Huh.
Speaker 2: It's fun It's really wild because you get a lot
Speaker 2: of input from strangers, like way more than ever happened
Speaker 2: on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Wow, crazy, that's what I That's what I'm in it
Speaker 1: for from strangers who don't like me.
Speaker 2: Excited, but they'll hate you for reasons that they made
Speaker 2: up because they have no context for you.
Speaker 1: Right, you're actually getting sort of like a refreshing new view.
Speaker 3: From me me, they don't know me.
Speaker 1: This is what I should be insecure about now, not
Speaker 1: the other stuff that people have been saying about me before.
Speaker 1: I get a whole new vibe people find off putting
Speaker 1: in a way that I wasn't even prepared for. I
Speaker 1: like to tweet by The Onion an article by The
Speaker 1: Onion that says man who thought Fleetwood Max the chain
Speaker 1: was over in for the thrill of his fucking life.
Speaker 1: You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at
Speaker 1: Daily Zeitgeist. We're at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. You
Speaker 1: can go to the description of this episode wherever you're
Speaker 1: listening to it, and they're at the bottom you will
Speaker 1: find the footnotes, which is where we link off to
Speaker 1: the information that we talked about in today's episode, and
Speaker 1: we also link off to a song that we think
Speaker 1: you might enjoy. With Miles out, we like to ask
Speaker 1: Brian the editor, Brian, is there a song that you
Speaker 1: think that people might enjoy? Damn it? Jack?
Speaker 4: Oh no, don't you know it's incredibly dangerous to disturb
Speaker 4: someone when they're in a jazz hole.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, you have been in a little that. I've
Speaker 1: been getting some very smooth vibes every time we enter.
Speaker 1: Brian likes to have some music going whenever we enter
Speaker 1: the recording, and it's been nice. Wee in a jazz
Speaker 1: hole sign on the door handles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so call me Chris Nolan because I'm about to
Speaker 4: take you on an odyssey.
Speaker 1: Oh what if Chris Nolan was also about to take
Speaker 1: us on a jazz office? What if they're scatting in this? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, he'd have to put a black person in a
Speaker 2: movie if.
Speaker 1: He did so.
Speaker 4: This is Freakadelic by Jeff Parker ETA for the Vinyl.
Speaker 1: Yes albums called The Way Out of Easy and It's
Speaker 1: got everything Jack.
Speaker 4: It's got Jeff Parker on guitar, it's got j Bella
Speaker 4: Rose on drums, it's got Josh Johnson not the comedian
Speaker 4: and former guests on saxophone and Anna Butter's on bass
Speaker 4: and they just make it up.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. They're just making it up. So that's the
Speaker 1: thing about jazz that I heard, but I never believed it.
Speaker 1: They're just making it up. Yeah, that sounds awesome. Well,
Speaker 1: so the song will be linked in the footnotes. Is
Speaker 1: that grimy? Yep? Yep? All right, well, thank you, Brian.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for us. This morning. We are
Speaker 1: back on Monday morning with the third episode in our
Speaker 1: icon series, The Iconograph. This one's about Miss Piggy. It's
Speaker 1: got Jamie loftus. It's a super fun time. That is
Speaker 1: the correct uh pronunciation of haya. Here's better. I got
Speaker 1: an hour of Muppet impressions. Oh hell yeah. Until then
Speaker 1: your weekend, you're staying miller. We'll talk to y'all on
Speaker 1: Monday morning. Bye bye.
Speaker 2: The Daily zeit Geist is executive produced by Catherine Long.
Speaker 1: Co produced by Bye Wayne, co produced by Victor Wright,
Speaker 1: co written by J. M McNabb.
Speaker 4: And edited and engineered by Brian Jeffries