Speaker 1: I be in Reddit, and I be in like the
Speaker 1: m id asshole sub reddin like a lot and are
Speaker 1: a I T a yep?
Speaker 2: Yeah a I t a h.
Speaker 1: And then so one of the one of the reddit
Speaker 1: questions was my wife just passed away and am I
Speaker 1: the asshole because I won't let her a fair partner
Speaker 1: come to the funeral. So backstory, the wife cheated on
Speaker 1: her husband. They've been separated for about six months. She's
Speaker 1: been like fucking with the fair partner, the person she
Speaker 1: cheated with. They have two teenage children. The mother just
Speaker 1: passed away in a car crash, and he's asking m
Speaker 1: id asshole for not letting him come to the funeral.
Speaker 2: Is a funeral, Yeah, you just pull up.
Speaker 3: I think this is more nuanced than is the binary.
Speaker 3: Is he an asshole or yeah? I get his point
Speaker 3: of view, but I'm like, yeah, it's a it's a funeral,
Speaker 3: And if dude wants to come, I'm like, I'd be like,
Speaker 3: you can come, but.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see you.
Speaker 1: But you also, I think people are not taking into
Speaker 1: account the children as well, Like if the children don't
Speaker 1: want him there, he ain't there, Like I don't.
Speaker 2: Want him there. I get that too, because they're already
Speaker 2: dealing with the loss of a parent. They maybe don't
Speaker 2: want to compound that pain. But this is not a
Speaker 2: great cold open, I would say. Also, do you ever
Speaker 2: do you ever go on, am I overreacting? Oh? All
Speaker 2: the time? Am I overreacting? It's so stupid.
Speaker 3: It's it's like, it's like, obviously I'm being fucked over.
Speaker 2: Am I overreacting?
Speaker 4: It's like what?
Speaker 2: Well. It's funny too, because there are sometimes people are
Speaker 2: getting gas lit actively and they go to Reddit to
Speaker 2: be like, am I overreacting? Like you need to get
Speaker 2: out of this fucking marriage based on what you're describing
Speaker 2: the Oh, someone just put am I overreacting for thinking
Speaker 2: this is a normal group photo? Pah, wait, hold on,
Speaker 2: this is stupid as hell.
Speaker 5: You said a normal group photo pose?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this is like it says I. Twenty three
Speaker 2: mail went to meet and greeted some see some members
Speaker 2: of a YouTube channel called Donut Media. I went to
Speaker 2: this meet and greet alone, even though it did donut
Speaker 2: donut Yeah. She asked how the event went, and I
Speaker 2: sent her this photo not really thinking much of it,
Speaker 2: like I had about thirty seconds to take a photo.
Speaker 2: Get some signatures, and I didn't pre plan how I
Speaker 2: was going to pose. I'm naturally kind of awkward person,
Speaker 2: so I defaulted to just having my arm around everyone's shoulder. Anyways,
Speaker 2: my significant other ghosted me out of anger slash sadness
Speaker 2: and said that I was basically crossing the line by
Speaker 2: putting my arm around the lady to the left of me.
Speaker 2: I'm wearing the blue shirt and pose they were in
Speaker 2: leaning towards me. This is the picture. Wait, what's what
Speaker 2: I think there's? Significant other is saying that this guy's violating.
Speaker 5: Does he put in his arm around the girl?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, It's not like I put my arm
Speaker 2: around her waist or anything like in the picture of Jesus.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now you're not overacting.
Speaker 2: But yeah, whatever this is, this is not a good
Speaker 2: cold open. Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three
Speaker 2: eighty two, Episode four of the dailies I Guess the
Speaker 2: production of iHeartRadio. This is the podcast where we take
Speaker 2: a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. You say, what
Speaker 2: is today? I actually need to know too. What day
Speaker 2: is it today?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: You know what? It's April third, twenty twenty five. It's
Speaker 2: National Film Score Day, National Burrito Day, National Chocolate Moose Day,
Speaker 2: National tweed Day, National Finder Rainbow Day. So if you
Speaker 2: could wear your tweets good as day, I know, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I like a film score, I like a burrito, chocolate, moose,
Speaker 2: rainbow tweet.
Speaker 5: I could try some tweet.
Speaker 2: Yeah why not? I mean that feels like a sort
Speaker 2: of scratchy fabric. But hey, uh anyway, my name is
Speaker 2: Miles Gray, aka I got I got I got I
Speaker 2: got bankruptcy. That forcing me to sell your DNA. This
Speaker 2: insolvency requires me to sell your DNA. Your privacy is
Speaker 2: my property. When I sell your DNA, the cops and
Speaker 2: pharma companies will buy your DNA, y'all if you made
Speaker 2: the mistake or the right decision to give your chromosomes
Speaker 2: to twenty three ande meters. Just so you know, if
Speaker 2: you missed that episode, they are bankrupt and they will
Speaker 2: sell your DNA for whatever they can because that is
Speaker 2: the one asset they have. You can go to their
Speaker 2: website and say, destroy my sample, my saliva, get rid
Speaker 2: of it. So if that kind of sci fi dystopia thing.
Speaker 5: Bothers, you need to do that, Yeah, you should.
Speaker 2: You should. Anyway, Besides that, I have to introduce my
Speaker 2: co host today. Obviously you've heard him yesterday, you've seen
Speaker 2: you've heard him on trends, You've heard him everywhere. He's brilliant,
Speaker 2: he's talented. He's a host, he's a voice actor, he's
Speaker 2: a comedian, he's an improviser, he's he does everything. Okay,
Speaker 2: and you probably know him from I mean, I'm the
Speaker 2: intro is too long. Just give it up for Chicago's
Speaker 2: very own jockeys.
Speaker 4: Now, whoa oh Jack Jack, he's me ooh T d
Speaker 4: Z yay what it used to be? No, where did
Speaker 4: Jack go? Brian go? Where is he? He's not working
Speaker 4: for you? Oh oh what gross?
Speaker 6: How we doing?
Speaker 2: How wee feeling so good?
Speaker 5: We are back back to back days. We got the
Speaker 5: two black hosts.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, it's funny. I love it. Monday started
Speaker 2: with Francesca. I got to honor my Asian side. Now
Speaker 2: I'm year there you go my brother black side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then by and then tomorrow will honor need
Speaker 1: I need.
Speaker 2: Alaz Yeah yeah, my white will come on.
Speaker 5: You will hear from I don't have a white partner, No, no,
Speaker 5: you I long time.
Speaker 2: Listen back in the day. Look, we're all going in
Speaker 2: the day. Our lives have seasons, don't they. And speaking
Speaker 2: of seasons, this is one of the most seasoned our
Speaker 2: guest today, one of the podcasters, I would say, the og,
Speaker 2: one of the ogs of the game, one of the
Speaker 2: few people who can claim a billy okay, a billion downloads,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. We're out here struggling trying
Speaker 2: to get to a million a month, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, We're out scrape and trying to This man
Speaker 2: has done it all. He's a brilliant podcaster, a brilliant voice,
Speaker 2: a fantastic voice. I mean, like not just speaking musically,
Speaker 2: he's and also look, it should be no secret that
Speaker 2: someone this talented is so notable and gracing our second
Speaker 2: rate podcast with his presence. Please welcome today's guest, mister
Speaker 2: Chuck Bryant from the show Stuff You Should Know.
Speaker 4: Ow.
Speaker 5: Hey, guys, thank you for accepting me in my middle
Speaker 5: aged whiteness to the cool club.
Speaker 2: Hey. Look, when Jack's here, he's keeping the he's keeping
Speaker 2: the quotas up, so you know.
Speaker 4: What I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're all we're doing perspect There we go.
Speaker 2: How are you, man? Have you been? I'm great.
Speaker 5: It's good to see you man, it's it's uh, you know,
Speaker 5: I figure, what year is this for you guys?
Speaker 2: Eight nine, I've been going into eight. This is the
Speaker 2: beginning of year eight.
Speaker 5: Okay eight years in having me on for the first time,
Speaker 5: that seems about right.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Yeah, I had to ask Jack. Was
Speaker 2: like Jack, you know, I know, you know what it
Speaker 2: is like one of those things too. It's like you think,
Speaker 2: like Josh or Chuck would ever come on, and like
Speaker 2: we get all self conscious. So I'm glad that you
Speaker 2: come on. You you you you actually made the approach
Speaker 2: because yes, we're huge fans of you and everything man,
Speaker 2: happy to be professionally. You're such a good dune guys.
Speaker 5: In a while, the La wildfires brought us together because
Speaker 5: that's when yeah, you connected checking in on you guys,
Speaker 5: and yeah, man, well, while I'm mad at you know
Speaker 5: on the.
Speaker 2: Show, No, no, I know, I was like, I was like,
Speaker 2: Chuck ain't just checking on me because he wants to
Speaker 2: be on the show, Like Chuck, No, No, obviously, you're,
Speaker 2: like I said, you're such a good guy man, and
Speaker 2: it's great having you. Look just since it is music
Speaker 2: score day and I know you're a film buff. And
Speaker 2: I know jack Keys is too. Uh does everyone mind
Speaker 2: sharing a film score that is near and dear to
Speaker 2: their heart? Or maybe a composer of film scores? That's
Speaker 2: that's a good chuck. I know, I feel like you.
Speaker 2: You probably have one pre set ready to go as
Speaker 2: a lover of music and film, But is there a
Speaker 2: score that touches you? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, maybe I can avoid the John
Speaker 5: Williams stuff because that's just sort of easy to go to.
Speaker 5: And sure, yeah, and Danny Elfman, uh, you know, all
Speaker 5: the old Hitchcock stuff, and I'm not sure the composers,
Speaker 5: but you know it's hard not to listen to something
Speaker 5: like Psycho and not just the you know, the shower
Speaker 5: scene stuff, but right, just that great string score through
Speaker 5: the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Bernard her Money. Oh is that who it is? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah that's what I just I looked it up. I
Speaker 2: didn't know he goes off the podcast or stuff where
Speaker 2: you don't hear my keyboard typing as I do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're a real Yeah, yeah, obviously I've been doing this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what I do.
Speaker 1: Is I got too, like, come to mind, I really
Speaker 1: love the Eternal Sunshine with the spotless mind score.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 5: Think it's beautiful in heartbreaking and the music when that
Speaker 5: with the movie.
Speaker 2: Oh that's John Bryan Okay, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: really beautiful.
Speaker 1: And then the last like the last like twenty minutes
Speaker 1: of Zombie Land score is fantastic, really, like it is
Speaker 1: so fantastic.
Speaker 2: I like downloaded it.
Speaker 1: I downloaded all the songs just from the last twenty
Speaker 1: minutes to like listen to as part of.
Speaker 2: My regular rotation. Wow, just because I love it so much.
Speaker 2: So those is the composer there. Look, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 2: gonna look it up so everybody can properly look all
Speaker 2: these up. I love anything by John Berry, like all
Speaker 2: that Double O seven stuff, because a lot of that
Speaker 2: is like upstream from hip hop, like a lot of those.
Speaker 2: I got really familiar with John John Barry's like compositions
Speaker 2: because of the samples that it was in, like Senior,
Speaker 2: Pimps six Underground, like all so many interesting songs. He also,
Speaker 2: I think, most recently Wash from tru TV off by
Speaker 2: Kendrick Lamar where it goes Mustard. That horn sample is
Speaker 2: from The Black Hole, which is a Disney live action film. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not a good movie. No, no, that was a weird
Speaker 2: run when Disney was like doing the live action thing,
Speaker 2: and they're like, you know what, maybe not they weren't
Speaker 2: there yet.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, the live action of the black Hole?
Speaker 2: What they were They were making films that were completely
Speaker 2: separate from like sort of the universe of characters we know,
Speaker 2: like their Disney characters.
Speaker 1: Right right right, yeah, and it made something called The
Speaker 1: black Hole not not a good movie.
Speaker 5: That's sort of their early stab a sci fi.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because what Flight of the Navigator that was
Speaker 2: a Disney one too, wasn't was it?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, no, anyway, for Lisa felt like it was all
Speaker 2: that to say, good having you, Chuck. We are going
Speaker 2: to get to know you a little bit better. But
Speaker 2: first I'm gonna do the thing I did yesterday. Just
Speaker 2: up top, we're gonna eat some news vegetables so we
Speaker 2: can get to the fun things and less feeling like
Speaker 2: we live in a rapid fire dystopia. But you know,
Speaker 2: these are little less messed up than yesterday's. But nonetheless
Speaker 2: we should touch on the fact Eric Adams, the mayor
Speaker 2: of New York City, his corruption case has been dismissed
Speaker 2: a federal judge dismissed the case on Wednesday, but he
Speaker 2: also denied prosecutors the ability to refile the charges after
Speaker 2: the mayor election. Judge Dale Eho dismissed the case with prejudice.
Speaker 2: So basically, this dismissal actually kind of helps Eric Adams
Speaker 2: from being sort of coerced by the Trump administration because
Speaker 2: because of this, the Justice Department couldn't wouldn't be able
Speaker 2: to revive the charges if they wanted to, to sort of
Speaker 2: be like, you need to play ball or else we'll
Speaker 2: revive the charges. So because it was just dismissed with prejudice,
Speaker 2: that's really not on the table. That might be to
Speaker 2: the dismay of Trump. But also, what are laws anymore?
Speaker 2: The judge did say this, though, quote there are many
Speaker 2: reasons to be troubled by the government's decision. Everything here
Speaker 2: smacks of a bargain dismissal of the indictment in exchange
Speaker 2: for immigration policy concessions. He found it disturbing, and yes,
Speaker 2: that seems to be the word of the year. And
Speaker 2: also yesterday or as we record this is quote unquote
Speaker 2: Trump's Liberation Day, where we were about to find out
Speaker 2: what the tariffs exactly are. Will they bring us to
Speaker 2: an age of prosperity unlike we have ever seen, or
Speaker 2: will this be one of the biggest economic ls that
Speaker 2: we will witness in history. I don't know, but experts
Speaker 2: did say his tariffs would quote royally fuck the US economy,
Speaker 2: I believe, cost the average household an extra thirty eight
Speaker 2: hundred dollars per year. So that means if you're living
Speaker 2: check to check, you need to come up with an
Speaker 2: extra three hundred dollars a month. That's another way to
Speaker 2: put it. Things just got three hundred dollars more expensive
Speaker 2: per month. Lower income households will obviously be paying a
Speaker 2: huge percentage their income five point five percent difference, you know,
Speaker 2: a difference compared to one point nine percent for the
Speaker 2: top ten percent. So we will see, we will see.
Speaker 2: But there does seem to be more and more Republicans
Speaker 2: grumbling about the fact when they realize you're like, wait,
Speaker 2: I'm bordering Canada. Wait, my local economy does depend on
Speaker 2: robust trade between the two nations. That isn't completely off
Speaker 2: the rails. So we'll see. But again, we'll probably talk
Speaker 2: more about that, so we'll keep our eye on that.
Speaker 2: But now, Chuck Bran, thank you for joining us. What
Speaker 2: is something from your search history that's revealing about who
Speaker 2: you are, what you're into right now?
Speaker 5: Oh boy, let me see here. This is something that
Speaker 5: should really interest you, guys. I was looking at my
Speaker 5: search history yesterday and it was Bob Dylan setlists.
Speaker 2: Okay, from what like specific years or like is he
Speaker 2: touring or he's not touring right now? Is constant?
Speaker 5: I truly thought that I thought he was dead.
Speaker 2: Alive.
Speaker 5: I saw him twice last year and oh, dope going
Speaker 5: in the summer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's still going to hate the movie about him.
Speaker 2: So I was like, oh, he must be dead.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 2: Usually, like I can't do a biopic if they're alive.
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, usually right for black people, they don't
Speaker 5: do loud.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was looking at Bob Dylan setlist because I'm a
Speaker 5: big Dylan fan. And if you're sort of I'm not
Speaker 5: quite like Dylan ologist level, that's the like the super Nerds.
Speaker 5: But if you're into Dylan and you've seen him a bunch,
Speaker 5: it's always very interesting to see what he's going to play.
Speaker 5: And so he started up his new tour last week
Speaker 5: and you know, all the all the old middle aged
Speaker 5: white guy nerds were like, Oh, what's Bob gonna play?
Speaker 5: So I was checking out what Bob was going to play?
Speaker 5: Are you requisitely satisfied?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know he pulls out a few old favorites,
Speaker 5: but you know, he's very famous for the re arranging things,
Speaker 5: you know, beyond recognition live, Like he's always kind of
Speaker 5: done that. So you know, just because you see a
Speaker 5: song like all Along the watch Tower or you know,
Speaker 5: one of his big hits, doesn't mean that you're going
Speaker 5: to recognize it when you show up, because he's just gonna.
Speaker 2: Play it in a kind of a crazy way. That's tight.
Speaker 1: I love an artist do that when they give you
Speaker 1: a little different flavor. Yea for the live performance and
Speaker 1: then like sometimes I was become like my favorite versions
Speaker 1: of total if they are released, you know, for public consumption.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I love that. Also, do you get like,
Speaker 1: when you go see the set list, will that make
Speaker 1: you less excited about a concert and not want to
Speaker 1: go see it or do you just like to be
Speaker 1: in a room?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 5: I just love live music. I've been going to shows
Speaker 5: since I was eleven, and nineteen eighty two is my
Speaker 5: first show. So I would volunteer usher at you know,
Speaker 5: the big Omni Arena in Atlanta. I was I was
Speaker 5: fourteen years old, like I looked probably nine, and I
Speaker 5: was just showing full grown drunk adults to their seats
Speaker 5: and stuff. So I just wanted to get in the room.
Speaker 5: I usually don't if it's a band that I really like,
Speaker 5: I won't look at the setlist beforehand because I'd just
Speaker 5: rather be surprised. But with Dylan, it's just so he's
Speaker 5: one of those guys where it's like, what's Bob gonna
Speaker 5: play next? Like you kind of never know where he's
Speaker 5: gonna go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gotcha. Wait, what was that first concert you went to?
Speaker 2: The very first one?
Speaker 5: Yeah, my first show was a cheap trick at the
Speaker 5: Fox Theater in Atlanta in nineteen eighty two, and my
Speaker 5: second one was Van Halen in nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2: So oh, no, good concept I got going on. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my first concert, I was nine years old, okay, and
Speaker 2: I went to see UB forty with US three and
Speaker 2: US three rings such a bell? Who was here? Okay?
Speaker 2: They played that song Candeloop that was like hot up up.
Speaker 2: It was like in every commercial here, I'll play this
Speaker 2: is just for just so we'll see if we get
Speaker 2: hit with a copyar strike, as you.
Speaker 5: Know, we have something special down here.
Speaker 2: Last, this is like the most nineties.
Speaker 5: Track recording for Blue Nold Records.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this one. So this was the first concert
Speaker 2: I went to and my dad took me, and there
Speaker 2: were so many people smoking weed during the UB forty
Speaker 2: part of the concert. But I was nine. I had
Speaker 2: no idea, and I was like, I was like, they
Speaker 2: could smoke cigarettes in here and I don't. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah we.
Speaker 1: Shouldrobably get yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: I smelled your Nose cover of Nose.
Speaker 5: I smell made it that cheap trick show and I
Speaker 5: never smelled that before, and I just remember thinking, like,
Speaker 5: because you know, the first time you smell it, it smells
Speaker 5: like nothing else on the plane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, You're like, you've ever smelled it? Burns? I was like,
Speaker 2: what is that? Oh my god? Yeah, yeah, what a time.
Speaker 1: You guys' first concerts were like, you know, young, cool
Speaker 1: and fun. No, mine was pretty ump. My mom was
Speaker 1: around the ten to twelve ages. I can't exactly remember what,
Speaker 1: but mine was. Mine was the all that concert in
Speaker 1: ninety seven, ninety eight, somewhere around that, and like, so
Speaker 1: it was all that they brought the sketches live, but
Speaker 1: then it was also a concert, so it was ninety
Speaker 1: eight degrees and Tatiana Ali were like the first people
Speaker 1: I went to go see in concert, and then my
Speaker 1: second concert was R.
Speaker 2: Kelly No Shame, one of the at the time Chicago's
Speaker 2: beloved the time. You know. Yeah, we were stopping in
Speaker 2: the name. You know, I missed with like TV shows
Speaker 2: like would do concerts and stuff like I remember seeing
Speaker 2: the Ninja Turtles live and ship the whole thing. Chuck,
Speaker 2: what is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Napps. Yeah, I came out.
Speaker 5: I came out very publicly on stuff you should know
Speaker 5: when we did a full episode on napping and uh,
Speaker 5: I came out as a napper, daily napper if I can.
Speaker 5: And uh I got a lot of email from people
Speaker 5: that not were shaming me, but just you know, I
Speaker 5: can't believe you can find time in the middle of
Speaker 5: your days just to lay down and do nothing.
Speaker 2: I'm not doing nothing, I'm sleeping.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's something you're reading and recharging.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're also how are we talking here? How long? Well?
Speaker 5: They say, and this is the you know, the stuff
Speaker 5: you should know part, like the science of it is,
Speaker 5: is that whatever your your one sleep cycle, one rim
Speaker 5: cycle is is the best nap. So you don't want
Speaker 5: to cut it short and you don't want to go
Speaker 5: over that because both of those can make you feel sleepy.
Speaker 5: So I set my alarm for forty five minutes, but
Speaker 5: it usually ends up being like thirty five to forty.
Speaker 5: I'll just sort of naturally wake up feeling good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's funny when people are like, how do you
Speaker 2: find the time, and like, meanwhile, we're scrolling on our
Speaker 2: phones for like an hour and a half.
Speaker 5: Straight, look at that screen time number and ask about
Speaker 5: your time exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you mean? How do you?
Speaker 1: Nobody anybody who says that, I guarantee you does nothing
Speaker 1: for seventy percent of their day, right because because people
Speaker 1: who are actually busy know how you can find the time.
Speaker 2: Delivering ground down? Sure? Yeah, yeah, but it all depends.
Speaker 1: Because we actually have little blocks of time where we
Speaker 1: are in between shit that we could fucking nap.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that's why you know, we gotta I think
Speaker 2: we just have to normalize napping across the board, like
Speaker 2: dreams and things, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Can I all?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: So you're a napper I agree.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you, you know, because some people
Speaker 1: and I like, my girlfriend naps too much. Like she'll
Speaker 1: take she'll go to sleep for like two to four
Speaker 1: fucking hours. Like that's not a nap. You're fucking yourself.
Speaker 2: Up, making it worse. I mean, yes, but like.
Speaker 1: But also like I, you know, I try to do
Speaker 1: like the set the alarm for like twenty to forty
Speaker 1: minutes somewhere in that rang no one that'll take me
Speaker 1: a few minutes.
Speaker 2: To go to sleep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, blah blah blah. But I also do not nap
Speaker 1: in my bed. I only save same like actual sleep
Speaker 1: time for my bed. Is it just like couch or
Speaker 1: chair napping?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a nap.
Speaker 5: I got a napping couch in my h my spirit
Speaker 5: my office area.
Speaker 2: So that's where I go.
Speaker 5: All right, turn on the white noise actually brown noise,
Speaker 5: and put on the sleep sleep mask and.
Speaker 2: Brown noise like a bunch of farts. Yeah, if white
Speaker 2: noise is this brown noises?
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh okay, just lower lower frequencies.
Speaker 2: Oh I like that too. There's my beat.
Speaker 1: There's also pink noise, I think, Yeah, I've heard of
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of noise there's a bunch of noises.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a bunch of noise out there, A bunch of noise.
Speaker 2: The noise economy is thriving right now. Yeah, Chuck, What
Speaker 2: is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 5: Well, I have a I have a whole list of
Speaker 5: people I think are both overrated and overexposed that I
Speaker 5: sort of go off about to my friends all the time.
Speaker 2: Spill that tea. I think we.
Speaker 5: Should get Peyton Manning, Dave Groll, Matthew McConaughey, Jimmy Fallon
Speaker 5: in the Rock and put them on a rocket ship
Speaker 5: and shoot them out to the ISS and tell them
Speaker 5: just to spend a couple of quality years there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm tired of all those guys.
Speaker 1: Okay, I can I can rock with you, except on
Speaker 1: a rock because I'm a wrestling fan. So he'd become
Speaker 1: he'd be coming back sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he'd becoming I think that would be tolerable, right,
Speaker 2: the rock, just coming back to do wrestling. It's all
Speaker 2: the other stuff. I'm like, that's fair, that's fair too much.
Speaker 5: Without guys, he's he's I mean, I'm not a big
Speaker 5: Dave girl fan, so I should say I'm probably a
Speaker 5: little biased. But he's dialed it back a little bit
Speaker 5: since he got outed with his uh extra marital affair.
Speaker 2: But before that, he was just one of those overexposed guys.
Speaker 5: He was everywhere all the time, showing up like McConaughey
Speaker 5: these days, like I don't need to see Matthew McConaughey
Speaker 5: on the sideline of every Texas football game fifteen times.
Speaker 1: You know, right, or selling me insurance? Yeah cars? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that I'm like he does he does a few. He
Speaker 1: does like Hulu commercial. He'd be doing a lot of commercial.
Speaker 2: It was true, like Dave Groll for a second would
Speaker 2: be like in so many like viral internet videos, like
Speaker 2: there was a stretch. It's like Dave girl showed up
Speaker 2: to play with this kid's birthday and it's like sort
Speaker 2: of how Jackie's you know, It's like how on Ham
Speaker 2: kept showing up at you stuff and like doing comedy
Speaker 2: stuff all the time. We're like, Okay, John, we get it. Bro.
Speaker 5: You like comedy, yes, and we get it. You have
Speaker 5: a big dick and you like.
Speaker 2: Every character you come in when sorry, John, one note
Speaker 2: for your improv every time you come in you go doctor.
Speaker 2: My penis is so big what should I do. No,
Speaker 2: it wasn't surprising.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wait so you said, okay Fallon, yep, we said Fallinton,
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning Man just like Eli's on the list now too.
Speaker 2: But god, I'm so tired of those guys.
Speaker 1: They do a lot, They do a lot, especially just
Speaker 1: I mean I I do think Peyton is funny ish,
Speaker 1: like he has a natural like time. Yeah, but the bars,
Speaker 1: but the bar is low for athletes. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: that's fair. But he is he is out there in
Speaker 1: these streets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, he's And don't they have like a whole
Speaker 2: man show. It wasn't like a show with all them
Speaker 2: too or something. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Well, when you can watch Monday night football with just
Speaker 5: those two brothers as the you know, like in their
Speaker 5: bedroom watching it or whatever, like the Manning cast.
Speaker 2: Oh right, right, right, Because Tom Brady is not great
Speaker 2: on Mike put him on that rocket too. I'm tired
Speaker 2: of that guy. Yeah, yeah, I'm tired of touchdown Tommy.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 2: come back, because hey, the Trump administration is finally starting
Speaker 2: to wobble, so we will take a look at that
Speaker 2: right after this, and we're back. So, you know, after
Speaker 2: a few really shitty months under Trump and Musk, we
Speaker 2: are finally starting to see some of the weaknesses emerge
Speaker 2: from this administration. And early this week, Tuesday especially, seem
Speaker 2: to be a really bad day for Trump and the
Speaker 2: GOP at large. The first thing, so, the GOP attempted
Speaker 2: to kill a proxy voting bill for new parents. Right,
Speaker 2: So the whole thing was like, hey, if you've had
Speaker 2: a new kid, you don't have to come to DC
Speaker 2: for the first three months. You can you can vote
Speaker 2: by proxy. So it also doesn't completely negate your vote
Speaker 2: as a member of Congress. Now Speaker Mike Johnson really
Speaker 2: did not want this to happen, but they they overcame
Speaker 2: this when nine Republicans defected to join the Democrats on
Speaker 2: this one, and hey, they're like, yeah, maybe we should
Speaker 2: be okay with new parents like still being able to
Speaker 2: like cast their vote as Congress people. You know, I
Speaker 2: think this kind of made things a little bit tough
Speaker 2: for Mike Johnson because he was so mad he adjourned
Speaker 2: the House for the rest of the week, meaning, you
Speaker 2: know what, we're not even gonna vote in to We're
Speaker 2: not doing any work this week. We're done. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: play this clip from him where he's gonna sound very
Speaker 2: like acting as if something terrible happened. But really, just
Speaker 2: keep in mind, all of this is because he lost
Speaker 2: So he just lost control of his you know, his members,
Speaker 2: so publicly. This is Mike Johnson talking about that this
Speaker 2: was this was so bad and now we can't vote anymore.
Speaker 9: Ninety six percent of House Republicans voted against proxy voting
Speaker 9: because they believe it's unconstitutional and they agreed that it
Speaker 9: would open a Pandora's box. And so that's what we
Speaker 9: just saw. Let me just make this clear. That rule
Speaker 9: being brought down means that we can't have any further
Speaker 9: action on the floor this week. That means we will
Speaker 9: not be voting on the Save Act Election Integrity, We
Speaker 9: will not be voting on the rogue judges who are
Speaker 9: attacking President Trump's agenda. We will not be taking down
Speaker 9: these terrible Biden policies with the CRA votes. All that
Speaker 9: was just wiped off the table is very unfortunate. We'll
Speaker 9: regroup and come back and we'll have to do this again.
Speaker 2: So sure, Mike, Sure, jan as we say, and that's
Speaker 2: what happened. That's now now we can't do all these
Speaker 2: other things we said we are going to do. I
Speaker 2: just don't believe it. But they're really into the constitution
Speaker 2: when they're into.
Speaker 5: It, yeah, I know, right, yeah, when it's convenient.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really jarring to see them always like do things
Speaker 2: that are completely are so purely on its face unconstitutional,
Speaker 2: but then still try and use that rhetoric to evoke
Speaker 2: the Constitution to act like there is some kind of
Speaker 2: higher purpose to any of this.
Speaker 5: When isn't that surprise in miles.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, yes, I say, I say, I say that,
Speaker 2: But I've I think I've lost the capacity to be
Speaker 2: surprised or shocked to do the city of them.
Speaker 5: It's very funny.
Speaker 1: Is it is so interesting to me too, because I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been wondering, like, will we start to
Speaker 1: see the cracks like at this point or not? Man Like,
Speaker 1: we all know what's going on in a dangerous administration
Speaker 1: and everything like that, But.
Speaker 5: Like it's so they they don't like this.
Speaker 1: Man Like when when they thought like Trump was done
Speaker 1: after he lost the first election, they was like, this
Speaker 1: motherfucker is terrible.
Speaker 2: He's b and they was like, damn here about to
Speaker 2: win again?
Speaker 1: He's great, He's fantastic, right, and it's just so clear,
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm waiting for. I'm waiting for the
Speaker 1: moment when it's clear that like, all right, we're finally
Speaker 1: done with Trump's policy like blah blah blah. I want
Speaker 1: to see, like how much infighting it's going to happen.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's already happening, happening because there's I think
Speaker 2: because right now the policies are so terrible and unpopular
Speaker 2: that even like his biggest supporters are having trouble like
Speaker 2: wrapping their heads around like even like the tariffs is
Speaker 2: a really good example of that, because as much as
Speaker 2: they want to sort of be like exactly America first,
Speaker 2: they really don't realize the pain that it's going to
Speaker 2: inflict on their own constituents and even their own donors
Speaker 2: within the state whose industries will be affected, who they
Speaker 2: need that cash to stay in office. It's it's a
Speaker 2: very tight rope they're walking. And I think that's also
Speaker 2: why there are Republican in the Senate we are now
Speaker 2: considering joining the Democrats to like rebuke the Canadian tariffs,
Speaker 2: so basically stop this emergency declaration that Trump made to say,
Speaker 2: like we have to have tariffs because of Fentanel crossing
Speaker 2: the border, which is like not even a thing that
Speaker 2: even Pulsi Gabbard agrees with. She's like, yeah, it's not
Speaker 2: really coming in from there. And again these are there
Speaker 2: are small things like I it's it's hard to say, like,
Speaker 2: will there be a moment where they finally just say,
Speaker 2: you know what, we're off this because I just don't.
Speaker 2: It's truly a cult at this point. But on some level,
Speaker 2: that instinct for self preservation as a politician like begins
Speaker 2: to like sort of bubble up and it comes out
Speaker 2: in this kind of way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you gotta hold onto that power, guys. Yeah,
Speaker 5: by all any means necessary. It's uh, at some point
Speaker 5: the House in the Senate that we're gonna want to
Speaker 5: actually do their jobs. I would think, uh, because they're
Speaker 5: gonna want to govern and their and their constituents are
Speaker 5: gonna want them to govern, and they're not doing that.
Speaker 5: So I mean, I think that's when the cracks might
Speaker 5: start furthering a little bit. It's like, yeah, when they
Speaker 5: realize that they don't even have a job. Their job
Speaker 5: is just to their cheerleaders. At this point, right.
Speaker 2: See, this would be a great time for safe Light
Speaker 2: to sponsor the show because I could say, and much
Speaker 2: like when you get a little nick on your windshield
Speaker 2: but starts as a small star can turn into a
Speaker 2: large crack that will compromise the structural integrity of your windshield.
Speaker 2: That's why safe Light repairs, Safe Light replace. Okay, got you, man,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get my dad on that. Bro he started,
Speaker 2: he started, He helped start safe Light, So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get my dad on that. Really.
Speaker 10: No, I don't know, man, I thought that I know,
Speaker 10: and I know there's intellectually too about you, but damn,
Speaker 10: this is the dry delivery of improvisers that is very
Speaker 10: hard to deal with sometimes in a serious news not
Speaker 10: a serious news show, but when you're talking about the news.
Speaker 5: Well you change your name from from Neil from safe
Speaker 5: Light because.
Speaker 1: That was that was that was, that was what gave
Speaker 1: it away, right because you know Jack Keyes is like
Speaker 1: a NEPO baby, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: His dad's a Safelight.
Speaker 1: We said, that's while his glass looks so good, man,
Speaker 1: Yeah you.
Speaker 2: Never noticed, you never notice, has nothing no glasses cracked
Speaker 2: around him?
Speaker 1: No, that's never not even in his not even his
Speaker 1: skin no crush. I saw him drop a drop a
Speaker 1: cup and it didn't break.
Speaker 2: And when I saw one time, yeah, one time he did.
Speaker 2: One time he dropped a wine glass and shattered. Someone
Speaker 2: came out, the shadows replaced it for him, just came.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. Another one. So here, let's move
Speaker 2: on to some trouble and Musk world, because I think
Speaker 2: that's some of the most satisfying news right now. To
Speaker 2: start off right, Politico is reporting that President Trump has
Speaker 2: told members of the Cabinet and other people within the
Speaker 2: White House that Elon Musk will be stepping back soon
Speaker 2: to follow his dreams of making just the worst ship
Speaker 2: posts on Twitter. Just a month ago, officials were stating
Speaker 2: that Musk was like, They're like, he's here to stay.
Speaker 2: He's doing a great job. He's really bringing all these
Speaker 2: innercies to light by errantly firing people who are in
Speaker 2: charge of nuclear safety. Sure, but again, because he has
Speaker 2: a nonsenate, confirmed confirmed position and is a technically temporary
Speaker 2: government employee, he can only be employed for one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty days legally. And I say legally, because what
Speaker 2: are laws anymore? But we don't still don't know, you know,
Speaker 2: what is going to happen. But you know, the if
Speaker 2: he actually steps back, if he just does this shadow
Speaker 2: thing to keep the heat off of Trump. But either way,
Speaker 2: I'm glad to see that his kid will finally be
Speaker 2: retiring as a Secret Service agent he go to preschool,
Speaker 2: because that will be you know, kids deserve to play.
Speaker 2: They don't need to be meat chias, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. They deserve to have fun. So to that end, right,
Speaker 2: this brings us to the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
Speaker 5: So whoa eat shit, my boy.
Speaker 2: Liberal Susan Crawford won the Wisconsin Supreme Court race against
Speaker 2: Brad Shimmel on Tuesday. They called that race like fucking
Speaker 2: almost instantly. That's how much of that's how much of
Speaker 2: a smash job this was, and how big of a
Speaker 2: fucking loss this was for Brad Shimmel, the conservative seeking
Speaker 2: that court bench position. So we all know Elon put
Speaker 2: about twenty million dollars of his money and associated groups
Speaker 2: that are aligned with him into this race in an
Speaker 2: attempt to swathe.
Speaker 1: He was like giving out. He was like giving out
Speaker 1: million dollar checks and shit, yeah with a.
Speaker 2: Big old cheesehead, you know, Wisconsin. Yeah, he pulled up
Speaker 2: to Wisconsin with a cheesehead hat on giving out million
Speaker 2: dollar novelty checks, one of them to like the kid
Speaker 2: who was like the head of like the college young
Speaker 2: Republicans in the area. It's like, these weren't even normal people.
Speaker 2: They're just like, yeah, total plants. I'm sure. He's like, look,
Speaker 2: we'm gonna give you this million dollar checks, right, you can
Speaker 2: keep you can keep like fifty grand, okay, yeah, and
Speaker 2: let's just yeah. And also, man, after taxes, this one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand probably ended up being like, you know, like
Speaker 2: three fifty anyway, So like, let's just let's just call it.
Speaker 2: Let's let's just make this simple for everybody. But Crawford's
Speaker 2: win now to this bench now established liberals as the
Speaker 2: majority on the four to three court. So it's maintaining
Speaker 2: the liberal majority, which is huge because there are things
Speaker 2: like the census coming up where you know that has
Speaker 2: huge implications on how districts are drawn. And this is
Speaker 2: again a very consequential thing because again with Wisconsin being
Speaker 2: a purple state, there are a lot of things that
Speaker 2: are going to go in front of that court that
Speaker 2: can be pushed either way, like again, labor rights, access
Speaker 2: to abortion care, all those kinds of things so great,
Speaker 2: fantastic the thing that people are really starting to see
Speaker 2: now it's like Elon truly like verifiably made things worse. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Brad Shimmel, You know, like Crawford's data suggested that she
Speaker 2: was at an advantage, but not a ten point blowout
Speaker 2: like that. It ended up being so one writer in
Speaker 2: Politico sort of put it this way, just showing how
Speaker 2: sort of naive Musk is with his sort of show
Speaker 2: voting quote. Insisting on showing up to campaign to a
Speaker 2: campaign in the final weekend of the campaign was self
Speaker 2: defeating enough. But it's hard to think of another state
Speaker 2: besides neighboring Minnesota that would be less receptive to handing
Speaker 2: out money for votes. These are high turnout, healthy civic
Speaker 2: culture states. Musk may not have known that, But why
Speaker 2: didn't any Republicans who did steer him away from Like
Speaker 2: why didn't any Republicans steer him away from the cash gambit?
Speaker 2: I think because I don't speaks to his arrogance.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it well, it wouldn't matter because he thinks,
Speaker 5: you know, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, he brought he brought the presidency.
Speaker 1: So yeah, in his mind, he just like, I'm the
Speaker 1: richest man on the planet. I got the most power
Speaker 1: on the planet. Uh, you know, I'm an immigrant who,
Speaker 1: like you know, apparently exactly.
Speaker 5: Of course he wouldn't listen, right, So, Miles, are you
Speaker 5: saying that Elon Musk potentially persuaded this election in the
Speaker 5: wrong direction and the very next day it was announced
Speaker 5: that he would be stepping away a little bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, very straight. The grumblings happen like that.
Speaker 2: And I also wonder if the Elon announcement is timed
Speaker 2: with the tariff stuff, because I wonder if that story
Speaker 2: leaks for people to go, okay, well, maybe the doge
Speaker 2: stuff will finally die down and give a little bit
Speaker 2: of confidence to the market because the tariffs aren't being
Speaker 2: announced till the fucking market's close. Yeah. Like, people, it's
Speaker 2: very intentionally, you know what I mean. Like, that's one
Speaker 2: thing about Trump. He knows he's like, Okay, I don't
Speaker 2: want to have a headline about how I announced it
Speaker 2: that morning and then what it did to the stock market.
Speaker 2: I mean, now they'll just say what it did to
Speaker 2: the stock market the next day, right, But it's gonna
Speaker 2: fucking yeah, oh yeah, yeah. I mean a lot of
Speaker 2: people are saying because none, none of the tariff stuff
Speaker 2: as of this recording has been really cemented. Like even
Speaker 2: Caroline Levitt, who's the Press secretary, is like, I yeah, maybe,
Speaker 2: like there's no real concrete answer yet. It's all very
Speaker 2: much in this man's brain, if that's what we called
Speaker 2: that in his skull. But I mean, like, if you
Speaker 2: look at this the swing map that the New York
Speaker 2: Times put out from this congressional race, the entire fucking
Speaker 2: state swum left after voting for Trump in the presidential election.
Speaker 1: So you know, some of these races and some of
Speaker 1: this this past election was weird, man, like not speaking
Speaker 1: you know, progressiveness of side and how we were very
Speaker 1: disappointed and disheartened and disinterested in our own side for
Speaker 1: multiple reasons. Uh, there were so many instances of like
Speaker 1: X Y and Z one but Kamala.
Speaker 5: Lass down ballot. It's so weird, man, it was. And
Speaker 5: then like now this blowout and like, I get it.
Speaker 5: We have what.
Speaker 1: Month is this, February, March, Mar, April. I've been too busy.
Speaker 1: We have four months of this presidency second term.
Speaker 2: We get it.
Speaker 5: We knew it was happening, but like.
Speaker 1: Are people that dissatisfied where they're like, damn, this foremost
Speaker 1: was so bad list have a blowout, or like there
Speaker 1: was that race closer than it was supposed to be
Speaker 1: an Elon. Really, I mean there are people are not
Speaker 1: wait to be like that because I never thought that before.
Speaker 2: But like, plenty of people are casting expersions on like
Speaker 2: what the materially may have happened in the election. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I definitely see how people became disinterested in
Speaker 2: this election based on the fact that nothing was being
Speaker 2: addressed that affected working people directly, Like it was all
Speaker 2: this very like high altitude political talk. Rather than telling
Speaker 2: people like we will get you free health care, we
Speaker 2: are going to raise minimum wage, we are like these
Speaker 2: are the exact stated policies, And there was this whole
Speaker 2: they were chasing the mythical Trump voter who was an
Speaker 2: independent who they might be able to pick up off,
Speaker 2: rather than really energizing the base. But anyway, plenty of
Speaker 2: course mortems have happened on the presidential election. But I
Speaker 2: do think sadly so many people went into that election
Speaker 2: so uninformed that now they see what is actually happening
Speaker 2: and they're like, oh no, no, no, all right, boy,
Speaker 2: what's what's happening here, but you know, around the around
Speaker 2: the country, there were also special elections where Republicans were
Speaker 2: defending seats where like Matt Gates had left and others,
Speaker 2: and they they did win those special elections. However, they
Speaker 2: get underperformed considerably.
Speaker 5: So by like I think the Trump win some of
Speaker 5: these by like thirty points, and then they won by
Speaker 5: fourteen or fifteen.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's a bit, that's a big dip. It's definitely, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's happening. It's definitely the thing. Something is in the air,
Speaker 2: for sure. But hey, let's not let's not worry about
Speaker 2: Elon because he is being as predictable as any thin
Speaker 2: skinned bully who just got shot on so publicly. He
Speaker 2: claims that the actual thing he was spending money on
Speaker 2: in this race where he was out here handing out
Speaker 2: million dollar checks to vote for Brad Shimmel for Supreme Court,
Speaker 2: he said, it was the voter ID law that that
Speaker 2: got voted and approved during that election. That's actually that
Speaker 2: was the whole point. Oh, come on, so no else taken.
Speaker 2: That's the thing he said, I expect. This is what
Speaker 2: he tweeted like last or this technically this morning. He said,
Speaker 2: I expected to lose, but there is value that losing
Speaker 2: a piece for a positional game. I'm sorry, what is
Speaker 2: you spent twenty You spent twenty million dollars expecting to lose? Man,
Speaker 2: he's give me twenty million. Yeah, he go ahead and
Speaker 2: get me.
Speaker 1: He'd give me ten million dollars for me to play
Speaker 1: Lebron James and basketball.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna lose. I'm gonna lose. But if that's okay
Speaker 2: with him?
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, yeah, I'll make it interesting. I'll
Speaker 11: make it into Oh yeah, you want me to dunk
Speaker 11: on Lebron? Yeah, yeah, okay, I'll make it yeah, easy, easy,
Speaker 11: I can make that happen. Then, yeah, first possession. Boy,
Speaker 11: I knew that was gonna happen. I knew that was
Speaker 11: to happen.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean because right before this specific election
Speaker 2: for the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, he was saying this
Speaker 2: specific race could quote determine the future of Western civilization. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but of course, but of course, but it was it
Speaker 2: was about No, I wouldn't really concerned about that. This
Speaker 2: is giving peak ray J behavior, Chuck. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if you're familiar with the very famous interaction between ray
Speaker 2: J and speedy. Ray J the entertainer. He was out
Speaker 2: here hawking new sunglasses that he said were indestructible. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna play the clip because it's it's the exact same
Speaker 2: energy when ray J is like, I have unbreakable glasses,
Speaker 2: and they're like.
Speaker 5: You've never seen this before.
Speaker 2: This is this is basically Elon Musk saying, yeah, you
Speaker 2: expected to lose.
Speaker 8: I just feel like you're so.
Speaker 5: Frivolous with your products.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: You're slapping the table, they're flying everywhere.
Speaker 7: You're tossing the glasses.
Speaker 3: They're unbreakable, unbreakable, breakable.
Speaker 7: Break them.
Speaker 2: Step on right now. No, you step on them. It's
Speaker 2: your product. You step on all that.
Speaker 4: Speedy, step on them.
Speaker 8: I can't do that.
Speaker 2: I bet you can break these. They're unbreakable. They're not unbreakable, Speedy,
Speaker 2: don't tell me the unbred Listen, don't challenge Listen, don't
Speaker 2: challenge there, break Listen.
Speaker 5: Speedy, they're unbreakable, they cannot break.
Speaker 4: It's impossible.
Speaker 2: I don't care, but that's amazing. Boom, I don't care.
Speaker 2: That's really funny.
Speaker 5: No one in R and D and testing did no
Speaker 5: one ever try to just snap them in half like that.
Speaker 2: Like hand them to a four year old my gosh right, exactly,
Speaker 2: wear them near a toddler who likes to grab that
Speaker 2: people's breakable. It's not boo, I don't care that. That's
Speaker 2: really funny. Great, thanks Elon, You're in good company here.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean crack man.
Speaker 5: He is a rich white boy who was a fucking nerd.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we should say olivegark, you know, rich oligause he
Speaker 2: is a little more loaded. I think, yeah, yeah, you're rich.
Speaker 2: You know we are rich.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we are rich and spirit poor in cash.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And who was a nerd and probably got bullied for
Speaker 1: being a fucking nerd, and which is not good.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that's good.
Speaker 1: Stop, you know, tell your children to stop bullying nerds
Speaker 1: because they grow up to be Elon musk uh. And then,
Speaker 1: like most nerds were people like that who grow up
Speaker 1: and get money in a little power, they become the
Speaker 1: worst human beings on the planet.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: And then funny thing is he just still doesn't know
Speaker 5: how to do it.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know because he's still getting we still roast
Speaker 1: the ship out of I know it affects him so much,
Speaker 1: and it brings me a measurable joy.
Speaker 2: He said. Something that's really telling is that he said
Speaker 2: empathy is destroying the United States.
Speaker 5: Sure, that's the thing I've seen that. That's sort of
Speaker 5: like the the men's rights movement. There's this this supposed
Speaker 5: Christian empathy is destroying our you know, our manhood are
Speaker 5: and and like and then the clip I saw was
Speaker 5: one of the guys that's like, you know, especially Christian women.
Speaker 5: You know, these fine Christian women are just far too empathetic, Like, man,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, what a world we're living in.
Speaker 2: And that's I want those people to go. You know
Speaker 2: what Jesus' fucking problem.
Speaker 5: Was, right, Yeah, too much empatic empathy?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna say too much? I mean, they probably
Speaker 2: would because at this point it's this religiosity has just
Speaker 2: been a cover to sort of excuse their tools.
Speaker 6: I wish they would have put me up on that cross.
Speaker 6: Do you think I was gonna let them nail me
Speaker 6: to the crossing? I would have let them nail me
Speaker 6: to the cross. I would have put them ships out
Speaker 6: like this, what's up?
Speaker 2: I'm the son of God. Try it. I would have
Speaker 2: vaporized them all with my laser.
Speaker 5: Eyes, like the wine baby turning ya all on one.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, gol Gotha would have been a pile
Speaker 2: of empty wine bombs. Baby, that's what That's what would happen.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so.
Speaker 8: The the other thing, too is I think, well, that's
Speaker 8: what the christ is gonna be about. Matter what I mean,
Speaker 8: I feel like we're close to some kind of completely
Speaker 8: retailing of the Bible where Jesus is some like badass
Speaker 8: with no empathy who hates immigrants or.
Speaker 5: Something that might be that because there's too many punish
Speaker 5: your t shirts like super white thin from the Middle East,
Speaker 5: but super white somehow super.
Speaker 2: Thin blue line tattoo on his on his back or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it'll be, it'll be. It'll be dope. But again, I
Speaker 2: think it's important to keep in mind while the word
Speaker 2: is that Musk may sort of publicly or formally leave
Speaker 2: Doge and we don't know what happens after that. This
Speaker 2: cannot the media cannot let this be an optics wind
Speaker 2: for Trump and allow a narrative to take hold to
Speaker 2: be like, well, now that Musk is leaving the White House,
Speaker 2: maybe the country will go back to something recognizable. No
Speaker 2: oh no, it's not limited to Musk. And also, let's
Speaker 2: understand that he is putting money behind things to keep
Speaker 2: Trump's agenda going. So even if he's out of the spotlight,
Speaker 2: he's still very much part of this. And I don't know,
Speaker 2: we'll see how mainstream media handles this. But I just
Speaker 2: don't let up Musk, you know, faith in the mainstream media. God,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe maybe bring me back, Bring me back, guys,
Speaker 2: don't let don't let the Musk leaving thing become like,
Speaker 2: all right, well he's finally cleaned house. You still have
Speaker 2: a bunch of weird Cretans in that White House. Anyway,
Speaker 2: that's some l's for the Republicans. That was a nice
Speaker 2: little thing. Let's take a break, and when we come back,
Speaker 2: just some thoughts on the passing of Val Kilmer.
Speaker 4: What we do back.
Speaker 2: And we are back. So on we just Tuesday, we
Speaker 2: did have the fight out about the passing of the
Speaker 2: actor Val Kilmer. He passed away at the age of
Speaker 2: sixty five. He was battling cancer since twenty fourteen, but
Speaker 2: did succumb to pneumonia, as we found out from one
Speaker 2: of his children. I didn't realize that he was like
Speaker 2: initially hesitant to undergo medical treatment because I didn't know
Speaker 2: he was like a Christian scientist, but then later he
Speaker 2: did do He was like, no, I'm doing chemo, and
Speaker 2: he had multiple tracheotomies and eventually was using a feeding tube.
Speaker 2: But I just like it's interesting to think about Val
Speaker 2: Kilmer because he's sort of like one of these I
Speaker 2: feel like underrated in a way when I think about
Speaker 2: how powerful a lot of his performances are, but you
Speaker 2: don't people don't necessarily like sort of mention him in
Speaker 2: the same breath as like some other sort of huge,
Speaker 2: sort of superstar actors. But gotta say Doc Holliday was
Speaker 2: one of my favorite, Like it's like one of the
Speaker 2: first times I really liked a Western was Tombstone, and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this is again. He's just kind
Speaker 2: of there, like doing his thing. Top Secret was another
Speaker 2: comedy that I loved. I think is super underrated, at
Speaker 2: least for people my age and who could forget Willow.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just I just wanted to open it
Speaker 2: up because I think Val Kilver was just kind of
Speaker 2: one of those people who have they've sort of left it.
Speaker 2: He's left an impact on generations through like all the
Speaker 2: different kinds of roles he's at.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean it hit me kind of hard because
Speaker 5: like I wasn't you know, I wouldn't have listed him
Speaker 5: as like one of my favorite actors or anything like that.
Speaker 5: But gen x like my Instagram with gen x ers
Speaker 5: was just lit up with Val Kilmer tributes, and you know,
Speaker 5: if you're my age, you know, I'm in my early
Speaker 5: fifties now. As a teenager, it's like Real Genius and
Speaker 5: Top Secret, right, and then Willow and Top Gun and Tombstone,
Speaker 5: and then in college he's in he plays Jim Morrison
Speaker 5: in the Doors, and it's like he was just always
Speaker 5: there doing these roles that weren't like Oscar winning roles,
Speaker 5: but he was. He was in hugely popular movies from
Speaker 5: the time that you know, if you were a gen xer,
Speaker 5: from the time you were like, you know, nine, ten
Speaker 5: years old up through like you know, playing Elvis in
Speaker 5: True Romance, like doing cool Ship like that. So he's
Speaker 5: it's just one of those things. We also kind of
Speaker 5: had to mourn him twice in a way because of
Speaker 5: the devastation of his cancer, you know, basically making him
Speaker 5: go away and not being able to act anymore.
Speaker 2: So it's just super sad.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was, it was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 5: It was nice and sad to see him in the
Speaker 5: latest Top Gun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that was a big deal for him.
Speaker 2: He got to act one more time.
Speaker 1: You still see the acting shots, but he couldn't speak obviously,
Speaker 1: but it was it was I'm very happy that he
Speaker 1: got to have that experience before he passed away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: cancer kicked his ass the last years of his life,
Speaker 1: which and you know part I don't want to talk about,
Speaker 1: like his recently or not doing doing treatments.
Speaker 2: At first, it's more like, yeah, I didn't realize that.
Speaker 1: No, well no, no, no, I mean well, it was
Speaker 1: a huge point because people are saying people did say
Speaker 1: that that was a part of the reason why devastating
Speaker 1: and the accelerated in the way it did. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say something that's uh not a popular opinion.
Speaker 1: It's good for Vaucumer. But I liked Batman forever. Oh,
Speaker 1: Valcumer is my Batman man.
Speaker 5: I was waiting for his ass to go.
Speaker 1: No, no, I liked I like Batman forever, and Valcumer
Speaker 1: was my bat like I loved Michael Keaton. When the
Speaker 1: original Batman came out, I was three or four, so
Speaker 1: and I do remember those original Batman's before Batman Forever,
Speaker 1: which is why I wanted to go see Batman for
Speaker 1: Michael Keaton because like the Keaton Batman's because I loved those,
Speaker 1: and then the Batman anime the series, but like Batman
Speaker 1: Forever with Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey and Valcumer
Speaker 1: and Drew barrymore Nicole, like.
Speaker 5: The introducing of Robin and like it was like a and.
Speaker 1: Like the first two were very like gritty in and
Speaker 1: this one was very like colorful and and like a
Speaker 1: comic book.
Speaker 5: And I love Valcuum. I love Batman with.
Speaker 1: A lisp uh that movie and the Cole Kitman's fine
Speaker 1: ass in that movie. Like so I've always had an
Speaker 1: affinity for Val Kilmer since Batman Forever, and then like
Speaker 1: got to watch other his other stuff.
Speaker 2: So I think felt like the passing of the tour.
Speaker 2: Like that felt like millennial Batman, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like where because it was so nineties that Joel Schumacher
Speaker 2: directed Batman Forever, because so colorful to your point, like
Speaker 2: in way different and had Yeah, man, I loved it.
Speaker 2: I liked it.
Speaker 1: So I will I will say something that not many
Speaker 1: people say. Val Kilmer is my batman.
Speaker 2: Whoa, Yeah, I mean it ain't George Clooney for me,
Speaker 2: it will and not even Christian Bale for me, Like
Speaker 2: I it would be between Michael Keaton and Val Kilmer
Speaker 2: for me. Yeah, yeah, you know, I think I'll give
Speaker 2: the edge to Mike.
Speaker 5: That's fair.
Speaker 2: That's fair.
Speaker 1: That that is the that is the popular opinion, which
Speaker 1: is popular for a reason because it is generally true.
Speaker 5: But I love Val Kilmer. Did y'all see the documentary
Speaker 5: The Val Kilmer documentary a couple of years ago? I
Speaker 5: heard it was Finn heard it really good. Yeah, you've
Speaker 5: heard check it out, you know, I feel like maybe
Speaker 5: it's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Is it just like just sort of is it
Speaker 2: like a retrospective on his life or just kind of
Speaker 2: where he's.
Speaker 5: At or yeah, kind of all of both. It's really
Speaker 5: really well done. And his son narrates it and sounds
Speaker 5: exactly it's almost he's he's narrating it as his father
Speaker 5: in the first person, but his voice sounds just like him,
Speaker 5: so like it's almost like he got his voice back,
Speaker 5: you know, for this thing. And it's really very moving.
Speaker 5: Oh it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Well, Chuck, thank you so much for joining us on
Speaker 2: the Daily Zeitgeist. Man, it's been an absolute pleasure and
Speaker 2: an honor. Where do the people find you? Follow you,
Speaker 2: hear you all that good stuff?
Speaker 5: You know, stuff you should know. We're in our seventeenth year.
Speaker 5: So if you can't find that show, then you know
Speaker 5: you need more help than I can help you with.
Speaker 5: Wherever you get your podcasts that they say you could.
Speaker 5: I'm on Instagram. That's the only thing I do, Chuck
Speaker 5: the podcaster is my Instagram handle.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: I want to see pictures of me and my dogs
Speaker 5: and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And also your Apron shout out your new Apron you
Speaker 2: bought at the beginning of the year. I also want
Speaker 2: Apron man Geese. I can't remember the brand now, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it's good looking Apron. I'm I've been on the Apron
Speaker 2: game for three years now because I love cooking, and
Speaker 2: especially when you're trying something sizzling. I had I would
Speaker 2: just get all something like oil pop stains on my
Speaker 2: shirts and stuff. Then I'm like, what yeah I doing?
Speaker 2: Is there a work of media, social or otherwise any
Speaker 2: kind of media that you've been enjoying that you want
Speaker 2: to put people on to or just shout out generally.
Speaker 5: I'm going to shout out a TV show that's kind
Speaker 5: of newish, but I know a lot of people are
Speaker 5: watching the Studio, but I am way into that show.
Speaker 5: I think it's any industry, movie industry, TV industry stuff
Speaker 5: is always fun for me, and I think it is brilliant.
Speaker 5: I think seth Rogen is just fucking amazing. How incredibly
Speaker 5: talented that guy is. The second episode, the Ononer, is
Speaker 5: just incredible. Tell me and everything about it.
Speaker 2: I just I just started it, and Jackie is you'll.
Speaker 2: I think it's definitely requisite viewing for anyone interested that
Speaker 2: idea appeals to you. But when you're when you really
Speaker 2: when you know kind of the vibes it's it's in
Speaker 2: a way that it's terrifyingly hilarious. And also they say
Speaker 2: Catherine Hans's character is like shading someone very specific in
Speaker 2: the industry, and now I'm really curious what that is.
Speaker 2: Have you seen you see?
Speaker 5: I'll watch it.
Speaker 1: I have I do have trouble watching things that I
Speaker 1: went up for and didn't get, but I will watch
Speaker 1: it because, like it did go to someone who is
Speaker 1: I love Dwayne Perkins is fantastic and he's great, and
Speaker 1: I love Dwayne and like, it seems like such a
Speaker 1: fun show, and I've heard nothing but good things about it,
Speaker 1: so I'll swallow my pride try to bring.
Speaker 5: Up a pain point for you.
Speaker 1: It's completely fine, It's completely fine. I hear it's fantastic though.
Speaker 1: I hear it's great people and there's so many good
Speaker 1: people in it too. Yeah, yeah, it's really I was.
Speaker 2: I was taking it back, absolutely, Jackies, where do the
Speaker 2: people find you? Follow you? Hear you all of that
Speaker 2: good stuff?
Speaker 1: Listen, you know, if you give me just sixty seconds,
Speaker 1: I'll say, you can find me always in these streets. Yes,
Speaker 1: you can also find me at Jackie's Neil on Instagram,
Speaker 1: a blue Sky, whatever you are on. Also, I mentioned
Speaker 1: this yesterday. I'll mention it again. Comedian Clash. We are
Speaker 1: doing a little mini Texas tour coming in June to Texas.
Speaker 1: We're doing three city tours Austin, Houston, Dallas. I still
Speaker 1: have not announced it. We have not fully announced it
Speaker 1: officially yet, so these are the first eyes announcing it,
Speaker 1: So keep your eyes out. In the next like three
Speaker 1: ish weeks, will be announcing the tours and tickets will
Speaker 1: be going on sale and everything like that. I'm also
Speaker 1: keep an eye on on dropout TV.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's all I can say until things are announced,
Speaker 1: but just keep your eyes out for that. A work
Speaker 1: of media, and I am liking I just put something
Speaker 1: in a chat this this this, this, this is so
Speaker 1: you know, like during halftime when like or like timeouts
Speaker 1: or whatever where they have like little games at basketball games,
Speaker 1: they have little like things for the fans to do.
Speaker 1: This one was two fans and they had to like
Speaker 1: run to opposite ends of the court and do layups
Speaker 1: and like do multiple layups and blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: That's basically what the game was. Layup contest.
Speaker 1: If you started at like thirteen seconds, one of the dudes,
Speaker 1: who's going to do a layup? Like tears this ACL's
Speaker 1: the layup and then.
Speaker 5: The woman who's the host does not know what to do. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and I was.
Speaker 1: I was so high when I watched this last night,
Speaker 1: and I was on the fucking floor last ye.
Speaker 2: That's why I make sure if you do one of
Speaker 2: these things, look at the paperwork you're signing. Okay, I
Speaker 2: don't know, he might be sl with that a c
Speaker 2: L surgery, but here we go.
Speaker 4: Placing on the board the bust off.
Speaker 2: So they're at the half court line. They're getting warmed up.
Speaker 4: We'll be a winner.
Speaker 2: Here we go, Dad, Are you writing.
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 2: Oh he's already took off so hard.
Speaker 7: Oh no, he is not good. Oh man, man is
Speaker 7: just going he's a man.
Speaker 5: Is just still doing layup.
Speaker 2: He's winning that take second.
Speaker 5: She's just in the back like can you.
Speaker 1: Even his opponent is like hey to and she makes
Speaker 1: him stop doing the layops, like here, you stop doing layups?
Speaker 5: Some check old with me.
Speaker 1: It is so fucking funny to me, It might not
Speaker 1: be funny anybody else.
Speaker 2: I was at that game.
Speaker 5: You were at that game.
Speaker 2: I was. I didn't see that though I was.
Speaker 5: It was I was, you know, I was getting a
Speaker 5: beer or something because I wasn't in there, but my
Speaker 5: buddy told me about it. When I got back. I
Speaker 5: got a lot of Hawks games.
Speaker 2: So so funny, that's oh god, that was just also
Speaker 2: like that's also a terrible injury. That's I'm like, like
Speaker 2: it's funny, like in a comedic sense, but like it is.
Speaker 2: But I feel you're like, damn, you did that added Hawks.
Speaker 1: Game for man and then he got to have he
Speaker 1: got to he had to be taken off on the stretcher.
Speaker 2: Also, did he slip on some moisture like he slipped
Speaker 2: I don't know if he slipped his knee gave out
Speaker 2: like I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm sure he signed something.
Speaker 2: Where James called Sweet James. This would be another moment.
Speaker 1: If we were.
Speaker 2: Sponsored by Sweet James Law, you could have this man
Speaker 2: should be suing that. That's Chuck's dad, right, James James? Right?
Speaker 2: We oh, yeah, that's right, that was James. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 2: here we are.
Speaker 5: Tell you he's no Jimmy Safelight though.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah. A work of media I like is
Speaker 2: from at Janis dot bsky dot Social posted give Hayao
Speaker 2: Miyazaki a gat full legal immunity and the home addresses
Speaker 2: of open Ais border directors because of the ghibli Ai
Speaker 2: stuff is an abomination to jibli fans. I gotta say.
Speaker 2: At Leayonbscott dot bsky dot Social posted my new theory
Speaker 2: is that once you have a certain amount of money
Speaker 2: and wealth, you start to go crazy and detached from reality.
Speaker 2: That number is different for everyone. For me, it's twenty dollars.
Speaker 2: Uh and I just really diea I know that feeling.
Speaker 2: That's like when the paycheck hits. Anyway, you can find
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Speaker 2: the information we talked about in the episode, and also
Speaker 2: the song that we are going to ride out on.
Speaker 2: I just want to say, as you probably heard on
Speaker 2: Monday's episode, I'm getting back into music because after the fire,
Speaker 2: lost all my musical equipment and I've just been yearning
Speaker 2: to make music again. But part of that has been
Speaker 2: for me has been DJing because I used to DJ
Speaker 2: a ton when I was in high school in college,
Speaker 2: so I just started dipping my toe back in djaying,
Speaker 2: and I'm like so overcome by some of these old
Speaker 2: school like dance house tracks from yesteryear that just hits
Speaker 2: so hard for whatever reason, and there's just one song
Speaker 2: I want to I just need to shout out. It's
Speaker 2: everyone's heard it, but it is I think one of
Speaker 2: the best tracks. It's the Bomb by the Bucketheads. Okay,
Speaker 2: this sounds moving through my mind on ye that track,
Speaker 2: that whole track, but the longer version has such a
Speaker 2: great build up. I just want to say, put that
Speaker 2: in your stereo and have a good time, because it
Speaker 2: gives me great joy and I hope it does for
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