Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three fifteen, Episode
Speaker 1: three of Daly's Like Guys Day production of iHeartRadio. This
Speaker 1: is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America.
Speaker 1: Check cosen. It is Wednesday, November twenty ninth, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: the last day of November. Surely, Miles, this is the
Speaker 1: last one.
Speaker 2: You hate to acknowledge. There there's thirty days.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: This gotta be it, man, it's one of those. Leep,
Speaker 1: it's a leap member. Ain't come on, man, thirty I mean,
Speaker 1: I've heard of November twenty ninth, but November.
Speaker 2: Thirtieth, that's come on, man, Yeah, okay, And I was
Speaker 2: born on March thirty sixth pow okay. But anyway, it's
Speaker 2: November twenty ninth. It's Electronic Greetings day. I feel like
Speaker 2: that just means like this, put your fucking device down.
Speaker 2: Don't no need we electronically greet all the time? National
Speaker 2: Package Protection dates apparently about porch pirates. Again a bit
Speaker 2: of a weird one, but hey, here's one.
Speaker 4: Can't gotta protect your packages that you take, keep that
Speaker 4: thing on you and just stay strapped right by the
Speaker 4: front door with the people rock and share on the
Speaker 4: porch with my good old friend cult forty five and
Speaker 4: I ain't talking about the forty ounce And I guess
Speaker 4: what also, this is a this is appropriate.
Speaker 2: It's also International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Speaker 2: Uh November twenty ninth, Okay, and this has been I
Speaker 2: think the UN started this in the seven So damn
Speaker 2: the UN. Damn the Wow, such a powerful body. We
Speaker 2: have a story later today about like how.
Speaker 1: People are becoming more divided than ever. And yeah, the
Speaker 1: chart that they used shows like, you know, how liberal
Speaker 1: and conservative people were, and like the seventies was just
Speaker 1: fucking off the chart, like we were so much more
Speaker 1: liberal as a nation. Then, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Wonder what that what version? Like what's the definition of
Speaker 2: that though? Like we're seventies liberals like talking about like
Speaker 2: you know, getting rid of qualified immunity or was that
Speaker 2: even a thing that was around? I don't know. Hey, look, yeah,
Speaker 2: what was what was progressive?
Speaker 1: What was progressive?
Speaker 5: Ever?
Speaker 1: I mean fucking ask gen z Tellum all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: probably My name is Jack O'Brien, aka, is there something
Speaker 1: trending in your neighborhood? Who you gonna call zeitgeisters? That's
Speaker 1: courtesy of doctor Fattist Turnip Pie, doctor thattiust Turnip Pie.
Speaker 2: Third, I I I is that what you maybe?
Speaker 1: It's all lowercase, so it's hard for me, you know
Speaker 1: how my brain works, Miles. I need those I need
Speaker 1: those Roman numerals. I need the capitalization on those Roman noomes.
Speaker 2: Yes, doctor Thattius t Turnip the third I believe is
Speaker 2: what is displayed here.
Speaker 1: But they said, because the literal translation of Zeitgeist is
Speaker 1: time ghost here's a Ghostbusters AKA. It's short and it was,
Speaker 1: and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my
Speaker 1: co host, mister Miles Ground. All right, it's mister.
Speaker 2: Miles Gray Gay, big scrote, huge ball stick chef.
Speaker 1: Massive sack. Yeah, that bone is a giant dick.
Speaker 2: Okay, shout out to time Bomb by Rancid, shout out
Speaker 2: to Blinki Hack on the discord, and shout out to
Speaker 2: that man who found what was definitely a fucking dinosaur
Speaker 2: femur and goes, yeah, that's a big scrotum.
Speaker 1: That's a giants scrotum.
Speaker 2: We can just put a pin, we can just all right,
Speaker 2: case closed. What's your next mystery?
Speaker 6: For anything else? You need me to tell you what
Speaker 6: it is? Because that definitely there's a big old ball sack.
Speaker 6: I don't know what a dino sour is. I know
Speaker 6: what a ball sack is, and that's what that is.
Speaker 1: Yes, Blinkie Heck also said bonus band name they might
Speaker 1: be Giants balls. Oh yeah, that would have been. That
Speaker 1: is the full name of they might be Giants. They
Speaker 1: might be Giants balls. Well, Miles, here we are on
Speaker 1: the final day of November, and we are joined by
Speaker 1: one of the great a writer, one of the best
Speaker 1: podcast hosts and executive producers doing it. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: from stuff that I want you to know. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm from ridiculous history. Please welcome the brilliant, the talented
Speaker 1: Ben Bowling smokes.
Speaker 3: I got my own. I got my own aka baked
Speaker 3: in courtesy of mister Miles Gray. I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1: For having.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, nothing but nexte hit yeah aka AKA Wandering
Speaker 3: Wizard of Wisdom. That's Brandon falls a k A bendied
Speaker 3: over backwards with benevolence, Sir Ben and Bolin. I took
Speaker 3: a queue from you guys and I went on Twitter
Speaker 3: f x FK Twitter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we believe it is called Twitter.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is by far, I think the most conservative
Speaker 3: take the three of us are going to have for
Speaker 3: a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we honor the past in this house. Yeah, exactly
Speaker 1: by saying it's still Twitter as long as I can
Speaker 1: type Twitter into the little window and it go to Twitter.
Speaker 1: That's what it's called to me.
Speaker 2: Ye might imagine when's that day coming when they completely
Speaker 2: nuke that uurl. They won right, can't because then someone
Speaker 2: else can just swoop it up, right, that is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And Elon Muska has never done anything that's bad
Speaker 1: for business, so I don't think it's gonna happen, not once,
Speaker 1: not never. Miles, did you notice something about Ben's AKA
Speaker 1: When he asked his listeners for Ak's they were very
Speaker 1: like deferent and were like, we honor you, sir. You
Speaker 1: are a wizard, you are wise, and our dang listeners
Speaker 1: are out here. You know. Wright in AKA after AKA
Speaker 1: about that one time that I pissed my pants allegedly
Speaker 1: allegedly don't remember. I'm pretty sure I didn't even piss
Speaker 1: my pants. It was my pants just were wet somehow
Speaker 1: after I went on scary ride.
Speaker 3: You're pretty sure, You're like clear, it.
Speaker 1: Was really I think I think I got pranked by
Speaker 1: my young nephew. You know, he was right next to me.
Speaker 1: I come off, my pants are wet. I didn't feel
Speaker 1: myself pee my pants. And I used to do that
Speaker 1: ship all the time when I was drinking, So you
Speaker 1: know I have some Yeah, I just learned about that.
Speaker 1: Is that true? Yeah? I mean there's so many pictures
Speaker 1: having pissed himself. Yeah, yeah, to a degree that it
Speaker 1: just seemed like at a certain point he was just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm famous enough that I don't have to go to
Speaker 1: the back.
Speaker 3: Yeah. He has such confidence, Yeah, such confidence in the pictures.
Speaker 3: He's like.
Speaker 2: Yeah that or just completely like eyes half open, like
Speaker 2: you wouldn't even know that he even knew the concept
Speaker 2: of urinating in a toilet, so who knows.
Speaker 1: Taking a pissy pants? This is more like more like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm taking the piss. Yeah, I'm taking taking up. I
Speaker 1: like I like that that hypothetical conversation because somebody has
Speaker 1: just said, hey, it's taken, which I call him taking,
Speaker 1: Hey taken. Yeah, yeah, I'm taking I'm taking a piss
Speaker 1: in my pants, my trousers.
Speaker 2: I thought you meant the idiom in British English. Have
Speaker 2: taken the piss, like around, taking the piss.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Now we got taken taking the piss, taking up.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Anyway, this is what they come here for.
Speaker 1: That's what they're here for.
Speaker 3: A certain set of skills.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, yes, exactly, a very particular set of skills,
Speaker 1: particularly useless. Yes, all right, Ben, we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: a couple of things we're talking about. The Washington Post
Speaker 1: editorial board brought it this time with a great update
Speaker 1: on why these kids are too too woke for marriage.
Speaker 2: Is basically gonna do it's gonna do us all.
Speaker 1: Yes, a chart that's like only about white people for
Speaker 1: some reason, and it's like the young whites.
Speaker 2: Young white, politically heterosexual, very specific.
Speaker 1: This survey that they're using very specific. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: look at that. We're gonna look at MTG's book. Finally
Speaker 1: dropped the book MTG. And it's didn't it didn't do ship.
Speaker 1: It's a very few people bought it.
Speaker 2: Shocker.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're not talking about magic the gathering. I've no
Speaker 3: nerd the bad one. Taylor Green.
Speaker 2: Oh Yeah, yeah, we only give respect to the Wizards
Speaker 2: of the West.
Speaker 1: Coast. That's right.
Speaker 2: Actually, that's my new Wizard of the West Coast.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 1: There, we got elons.
Speaker 2: You play magic?
Speaker 1: What's that you play?
Speaker 2: You play magic?
Speaker 1: I did not play.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's why maybe that one resonated with Ben and
Speaker 2: you're like, all right, all right, okay, yes.
Speaker 1: Bro probably played all Green Deck and ship.
Speaker 3: He's not about that life.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, sorry, sorry, all right. We'll talk elon Musk
Speaker 1: trying to bring pizzagate back. We'll talk. We got a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff on the dock. They try, they're trying
Speaker 1: to bring sex sexy back to lifetime Christmas movies. I
Speaker 1: do want to get Miles's take on that. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I don't even know all of that. Some of that,
Speaker 1: plenty more maybe. But before we get to any of it, Ben,
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guests, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Oh?
Speaker 3: Man, okay, so sorry, I've got a cat unrelated to
Speaker 3: search history. Hang on it. I gotta make this. I
Speaker 3: gotta make this cat litter money. So the couple things.
Speaker 3: In an earlier episode, we talked about how I thought
Speaker 3: the calendar was overrated, and you guys asked a very
Speaker 3: valid question that I did not have an answer to.
Speaker 3: You were like, okay, so fine. If it's fucked up,
Speaker 3: then what's the good calendar? Apparently the most technically accurate
Speaker 3: one is the revised Julian calendar, which no one uses.
Speaker 3: And I've read about it and I was like, yet again,
Speaker 3: I have learned something that will not matter for the
Speaker 3: rest of my life. But just so you guys know,
Speaker 3: I wanted to make good on that. That's the answer.
Speaker 1: The more it's like twenty seconds different from the one
Speaker 1: we currently use though, right.
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, it's not earthshaking, except over feel you have
Speaker 7: a sensitivity to time that the rest of us lack,
Speaker 7: and so you you noticed the twenty second difference for sure.
Speaker 3: Man, I feel like a disturbance in the force around
Speaker 3: you know, around the the end of the year, I'm
Speaker 3: like twenty seconds off right, don't like it? Yeah, so
Speaker 3: I the gun guys were not there yet, don't jink.
Speaker 3: So I'm that guy at the New Year's Eve party.
Speaker 3: I'm like psych you.
Speaker 2: Thought, Yeah, You're like, they're like, Happy New Year, and
Speaker 2: you're like twenty five, twenty twenty four, twenty.
Speaker 1: Three pushing people out of the way. Party I better
Speaker 1: got ruthless atomic time. Man. It's like it sounds kind
Speaker 1: of cool, but then you're like, the only thing you
Speaker 1: get is like a really good sense of time that
Speaker 1: is like off from everybody else's.
Speaker 3: Right, super good too, yeah, super fun at parties.
Speaker 1: That guy. Uh.
Speaker 3: The one I thought you guys might find more interesting
Speaker 3: is I did not know this. But back in the day,
Speaker 3: Ben Franklin decided he would in a burst of humility,
Speaker 3: he decided he would fix the English alphabet. He was like,
Speaker 3: some of these letters are just straight bullshit. He really
Speaker 3: hated the letter C.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 3: It was like we got all the sounds that the
Speaker 3: letter C makes already. It was like we have C
Speaker 3: at home, we have you know, we have K and
Speaker 3: S exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Just interesting. Oh because just because like the hard cut
Speaker 2: continents sound. They're like, that's actually why can't it be K?
Speaker 3: Right, it's a good question, right, Ben Frankly, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I mean, not this guy. He went he
Speaker 3: went nuts. Though It was while he was living in
Speaker 3: London during a period of his life that would later
Speaker 3: give rise to the rumors that he was a serial killer.
Speaker 3: Tune end of that episode of Stuff They Don't Want
Speaker 3: You to know. But while he was there, he wrote
Speaker 3: something called a scheme for a new alphabet in a
Speaker 3: reformed mode of spelly. Super sexy, super sexy title, it's
Speaker 3: it's the New Twilight. I'm sure, but but I.
Speaker 1: Thought I thought that was succinct, by the way, when
Speaker 1: compared to like most titles of the day, which were
Speaker 1: like usually five hundred words.
Speaker 3: Right semi Colin's scattered around Billy nilly.
Speaker 2: On the notion of spelling and whether or not you're like,
Speaker 2: oh my God, Jesus, yeah, fu on the ocean?
Speaker 3: Do you think it's the end? And then they hit
Speaker 3: you with that shyamala on where they.
Speaker 1: Go or a different title or how I spell different
Speaker 1: right exactly?
Speaker 3: So I I one thing I thought was interesting about this,
Speaker 3: and you guys know, doing a show that applies critical
Speaker 3: thinking to conspiracy theories in twenty twenty three, my search
Speaker 3: history is already the equivalent of having a face tattoos,
Speaker 3: as we have mentioned in the past. So I've got
Speaker 3: all gas, no breaks. It's over for me, uh as
Speaker 3: far as the NSA is concerned. But this one was
Speaker 3: interesting because we things become normalized so quickly, and we
Speaker 3: all grow up with the alphabet right or with an alphabet,
Speaker 3: and we never really ask how it came to be,
Speaker 3: whether it should be improved. Everybody's like, look, life is
Speaker 3: the weirdest group project ever. Let's not rock the book
Speaker 3: too much on the stuff that we all agreed on.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, do you guys think you could
Speaker 3: improve the alphabet?
Speaker 2: I means yeah, I guess me personally.
Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, yeah. I believe Jack believes that for sure.
Speaker 1: I'm like the Spanish language being so intuitive to spell,
Speaker 1: and like being at a stage where I'm trying to
Speaker 1: explain my children why certain words are spelled the way
Speaker 1: they are and not having any good explanation other than yeah,
Speaker 1: the English language is an asshole. You know, it's tough.
Speaker 3: Well, as you point out before Miles, which I think
Speaker 3: is a really important point, it is a colonizer language.
Speaker 3: It is like, let me get some of this and
Speaker 3: some of that right, and uh, never mind the details.
Speaker 3: But it's it's really weird to think about it English
Speaker 3: from a non English speaking perspective. Learning that language. Sometimes
Speaker 3: you're close to stuff, Sometimes the store is about to close.
Speaker 3: What does that mean? You know, it's it's just it's
Speaker 3: a whole messy bowl of spaghetti.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder if the messiness is a design feature
Speaker 1: to like separate people who are educated, like so that
Speaker 1: you can tell by somebody who's writing how educated they are,
Speaker 1: and like having this like encoded you know, educational barometer
Speaker 1: built in, so like it doesn't like there's no reason
Speaker 1: ceiling should be spelled that way, but that I guess
Speaker 1: maybe there is socially a reason for that.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, yeah, encoded social jams.
Speaker 1: So it's an op it's an exactly that.
Speaker 3: Makes sense.
Speaker 1: What's something Ben? Do you think is overrated?
Speaker 3: All right? Well, I try to play nice on these.
Speaker 3: You saw in some of the notes, guys. The Hot
Speaker 3: Odyssey minivan absolutely operated. Yeah, wet garbage on wheels, the
Speaker 3: whole thing. We don't even have to you know, I'm
Speaker 3: still this.
Speaker 2: Is what's going? Did you have a like I when
Speaker 2: I saw you write this, and I'm like, what the
Speaker 2: fuck is up with Ben? In this Honda Odyssey minivan
Speaker 2: because I know it as like the most like I
Speaker 2: remember when it first came out it didn't have sliding doors.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is not a van. This is a
Speaker 1: car with four doors that's just big.
Speaker 2: And now that but like, why are you actually being like,
Speaker 2: I don't even want to get into it, upsetting you don't.
Speaker 1: Get me started.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, okay, So I don't know how you guys
Speaker 3: are in the fair metropolis of Los Ange, but I
Speaker 3: am increasingly convinced, you know now that people are being
Speaker 3: forced to go back to offices and go places and stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm on the road more often, and I swear, at
Speaker 3: least in Atlanta, every time somebody buys a Honda Odyssey,
Speaker 3: whoever sells it to them must be like, also, we
Speaker 3: can give you a couple of bucks off if we
Speaker 3: put this alarm in your car. It lets you know
Speaker 3: whenever Ben Bollin is on the road and in a hurry,
Speaker 3: and all you have to do is get in front
Speaker 3: of us and drop down to about thirty two miles
Speaker 3: an hour, you know, no matter what they're just I
Speaker 3: think maybe it's just road rage coming out. I got
Speaker 3: it a lot of I.
Speaker 2: Love it too.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. It's like each of
Speaker 1: these things has a device in it to find me
Speaker 1: and slow me the fuck down.
Speaker 3: Nothing narcissistic about that paranoia.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 3: So I'm glad we got that out of the way.
Speaker 3: I want to put the word out before more lives
Speaker 3: are ruin the real overrated thing. And it was really
Speaker 3: interested in you guys opinions on this as well as
Speaker 3: all of us tuning in today. Wrist watches Are wristwatches overrated?
Speaker 2: Are you asking?
Speaker 3: Come on? Okay, yeah you know, and then I'll come
Speaker 3: in Yeah yeah, I just look, I don't want to
Speaker 3: yuck anyone's yum. But everybody has a phone. Now your
Speaker 3: phone tells time?
Speaker 1: Does this mean that?
Speaker 3: In my opinion, usually when I see people wearing wristwatches,
Speaker 3: it's some sort of status symbol. Right. Arguably it could
Speaker 3: be an investment when you're talking about the really fancy ones,
Speaker 3: or it could be creepy medical monitoring stuff, which I
Speaker 3: get it. But now, like if I see someone with
Speaker 3: a rolex or ptec, I think they're called if I
Speaker 3: see someone with that, right, I.
Speaker 1: Always thought it was.
Speaker 2: I just I mean, this is how like American watch
Speaker 2: YouTubers call it a paddick pat. Okay, Look, there's many
Speaker 2: ways to say these things, because many things are. It's like,
Speaker 2: it's like how there's a RISHID mean, it's like you
Speaker 2: got that Richard mill On.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, people people don't.
Speaker 2: People don't respect the fucking pronunciations that but go on,
Speaker 2: So you're hanging out with big ballers with their rollies.
Speaker 3: On the right and uh, and obviously we can tell
Speaker 3: where I am at because I can't even pronounce the
Speaker 3: fancy watch games and and I just every time I
Speaker 3: see it, I feel like someone saying, you know, look
Speaker 3: at me, man, I got so much money. I can
Speaker 3: tell time twice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really interesting what.
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I oh ship, oh ship, I might
Speaker 2: be wow. I might be rocking to watches right now.
Speaker 2: I have a medical monitoring one and uh, cassio. But
Speaker 2: I I think I agree. I agree with like the
Speaker 2: idea that perhaps they are obsolete because the way that
Speaker 2: we can tell the time now, like it's available to
Speaker 2: us and another device.
Speaker 1: That we have for me.
Speaker 2: I love wristwatches because since I was a child, like
Speaker 2: they've been like a portal into magic shit.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 2: So there was like this Japanese show It'll call like
Speaker 2: come in Die though. It's like the Masked Rider, and
Speaker 2: he had this fucking watch that he would fucking activate
Speaker 2: and then he would turn into like the superhero or
Speaker 2: like Dick Tracy had a fucking fun watch that he
Speaker 2: would do shit on. And I remember as a kid,
Speaker 2: I always wanted to watch, but my mom would be like,
Speaker 2: you're a fucking kid, like you don't need a watch,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, but I want like just a you know,
Speaker 2: like a like a swatch or just some shit that
Speaker 2: I can have a watch. And because of that, just
Speaker 2: like with sneakers, I love, I love a watch, but
Speaker 2: I'm not I agree with you, like when it gets
Speaker 2: to spending like car money or something on a watch.
Speaker 2: That's but again, I think like many of us listen
Speaker 2: to the show. One day we want to have Lambeau
Speaker 2: and one day we want to learn how to uh
Speaker 2: what is the unburden ourselves of the mess? I've got
Speaker 2: to unburden myself with all this money I have slashing around. Man,
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with you. This feels like I'm
Speaker 2: listening to atomic Clockman privilege. Oh wow, this is like
Speaker 2: Superman being like planes are overrated. These people have to
Speaker 2: like get in a tube to fly around to this
Speaker 2: boring don't do that?
Speaker 3: Just fly like me? Maybe I just have maybe I
Speaker 3: just have wristwatch envy because I do remember exactly like
Speaker 3: very similar things to what you're describing. Dick Tracy had
Speaker 3: that two way watch.
Speaker 1: Screen and ship.
Speaker 3: It was basically his phone and then and then I
Speaker 3: also I remember having one of those. It wasn't a
Speaker 3: Swatch but one of those calculator watches. Oh maybe it
Speaker 3: was a Cassio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Casio made one.
Speaker 3: I didn't even you know, I was never great at math,
Speaker 3: but I remember thinking it was quite a flex to
Speaker 3: be like, oh, I'll divide that right now. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: You have many to divide an even number by fucking
Speaker 2: three right now?
Speaker 1: Check this ship out simple point too.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, I think there is that version though too,
Speaker 2: where like there I've been around people who are like
Speaker 2: like luxury watchheads, and that is when.
Speaker 1: It gets I can see.
Speaker 2: It can be a little insufferable when like people like
Speaker 2: it's all about this one piece of metal that I
Speaker 2: have right now, scene look at this, but like we
Speaker 2: all we all like, we all collect different ship. I
Speaker 2: think it's when it looks goofy if you're like, if
Speaker 2: you're spending all of your money for those kinds of
Speaker 2: like consumer status objects.
Speaker 3: At the same time, get a lowly Cassio, you know,
Speaker 3: at the same time, I I love it when people
Speaker 3: are passionate about very specific things. I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 3: I don't like that. I don't like that at all.
Speaker 3: Classic especially I'm annoying me right now. I go to
Speaker 3: those I went to some subreddits for like watchheads.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The guys were like, well, that's not the best year
Speaker 3: for Rolex, and I'm like, what the what are you doing? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know we're all reading this while we're pooping and
Speaker 3: we're on our phones. They'll try to big time me,
Speaker 3: but uh but I I don't know, maybe maybe yeah, ma, do.
Speaker 2: You wear did you ever wear a watch?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Have you always kind of like what did you do
Speaker 2: pre cell phone?
Speaker 1: Did you wear? Or were you never just really a
Speaker 1: watch a person who wore a watch.
Speaker 3: After after the calculator watch. I was just moving on vibes,
Speaker 3: you know, just using my power to sense weird disruptions
Speaker 3: in the calendar. Yeah, I'll be there twenty seconds off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you know the calendar is off, what's
Speaker 2: the point of telling the time anymore? You're like, dude,
Speaker 2: we're so far fucking behind. I don't even know. It's
Speaker 2: not even just twenty seconds, Like it could be just
Speaker 2: stressful to me forty seven minutes.
Speaker 1: At this fucking point, you serious the.
Speaker 3: Most interesting eighth grader.
Speaker 1: I'm sure fucking Ben's talking about how we're behind on
Speaker 1: the calendar again.
Speaker 2: Wait, so when does this actually do? Is it do Friday?
Speaker 2: Or is it actually in forty three hours?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: So I don't know, man, your teachers just like I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fucking this when I on fucking Friday? When you
Speaker 2: come in, Man, we can call whatever you want. Ben, Yeah,
Speaker 2: just yes, just turn it in whenever you want. Man,
Speaker 2: leave me alone. I got a lot of papers. All right,
Speaker 2: let's take you a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. We'll hear you're underrated and slip into
Speaker 1: a little news. We'll be right back, and we're back
Speaker 1: and Ben, we do like to ask our guests, what
Speaker 1: is something you think is underrated? That is revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are? And you're somebody who is enthusiastic about things,
Speaker 1: so I'm always looking forward to your underrated What what
Speaker 1: do you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Well? Number one, enthusiasm and thank you an enthusiast. I
Speaker 3: love enthusiasts. Recently I got really into certifications. You guys,
Speaker 3: life is a roller coaster of ups and downs. Everybody
Speaker 3: needs a little validation. Sometimes you feel like you need
Speaker 3: to win, and so I got. I got super into
Speaker 3: learning and being certified for various things, and a lot
Speaker 3: of them if you're like me, if you're lazy, a
Speaker 3: lot of them are way easier than you think and
Speaker 3: maybe way easier than they actually should be. But don't snitch.
Speaker 3: You can learn CPR, like I didn't know this. You
Speaker 3: can learn CPR entirely online now, which is a bit concerning.
Speaker 3: Like if you're in a CPR situation, you're like, does
Speaker 3: anyone know CPR? Now you have to ask do you like,
Speaker 3: no nos.
Speaker 2: Online or did you go to some kind of like
Speaker 2: class and biblically no? Yeah, Like, oh no, no, no,
Speaker 2: this guy's gonna be weird with those compressions. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: got a CPR dummy at home and we don't know.
Speaker 1: What he's doing with it. He is not using it correctly.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you that.
Speaker 3: You can also be a notary public very very easy.
Speaker 3: I'm about to be Actually, I'm going into the office
Speaker 3: this week because it's the only place I know that
Speaker 3: has a printer and I have to print out my
Speaker 3: paperwork and then you just go there at least. The
Speaker 3: way it works in in this part of the US
Speaker 3: is you have to get two people who live in
Speaker 3: your area to say, like, this person's not a piece
Speaker 3: of shit.
Speaker 1: Tap you in, yeah, yeah, to tap you in so
Speaker 1: I I.
Speaker 3: Will be completely clear. All I think notary public likes
Speaker 3: just like put the stamp on things. You just right, yeah,
Speaker 3: like this is official. Yeah, yeah, the seal. That's super easy,
Speaker 3: and you know you feel like a win. I'll be honest, guys,
Speaker 3: I just like whenever I feel down, like getting a
Speaker 3: little certificate, you know, yah, putting it a little frame
Speaker 3: and being like I did something.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2: That's that's why I do so many like charity like
Speaker 2: five K, like five K ten k's because they give
Speaker 2: you a medal afterwards. And what I do is I
Speaker 2: just steal somebody's bib and I cut through the course
Speaker 2: and I get to finish, get my medal.
Speaker 1: Hop out of the cab about yeah. I'm like, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Did the fucking Alhambra Pumpkin, run the fuck out my way, please.
Speaker 2: Well how many doors do you how many startch do
Speaker 2: you have?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: When you say do you have? Are there other like
Speaker 2: what are you hiding from?
Speaker 7: Us.
Speaker 3: Oh no, not hiding. I've got a like a lot
Speaker 3: of people. I took one of the online things where
Speaker 3: you can officiate weddings that was.
Speaker 1: In the Universal Life Church ship. Yeah yeah, oh, shout
Speaker 1: out yeah, all.
Speaker 2: The freest out there like us, you know it for
Speaker 2: saving their friends a couple of bucks for their wedding.
Speaker 2: And then they've done like eight weddings.
Speaker 3: I think since eight you've done eight weddings.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Like when I worked at other places and like
Speaker 2: I had like younger coworkers than me who are like
Speaker 2: getting married and they're like, oh my god, everything's so expensive.
Speaker 2: Like yo, I'll officiate your shift or not, Like can
Speaker 2: you make me a plate at the end. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to stay for the whole thing, but I will
Speaker 2: eat and go work out.
Speaker 3: The thing I always take paytents to tell people is, look,
Speaker 3: we can put you together with this, but I can't
Speaker 3: divorce you. That's like a that's a real qualification. So
Speaker 3: this is a one way road.
Speaker 1: When I'm a notary public for that exactly, once I
Speaker 1: get my seal.
Speaker 3: The big goal speak of underrated stuff. The big goal
Speaker 3: right now for next year on my end is to
Speaker 3: get a pilot's license, a private license, not a commercial one.
Speaker 3: I got no chance of that. But it's gonna take
Speaker 3: forever because it turns out it's kind of expensive.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, oh right, to get all that flight time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm probably never gonna own a plane. I
Speaker 3: just think it would be super dope to be in
Speaker 3: a situation where someone's like, oh gosh, I wish we
Speaker 3: could get out of here.
Speaker 2: We got your You're exactly like my friend who did
Speaker 2: the exact scenes, Like he's like, I don't know what
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do. He's like, but I might need it,
Speaker 2: and he has a pilot's license.
Speaker 1: Now, all right, should we? Let's let's get into a
Speaker 1: little bit of news. The Washington Post editorial board they
Speaker 1: dropped an opingon piece that was like a concerned about
Speaker 1: young people not marrying enough because the women are too woke.
Speaker 1: Is essentially, yeah, we're too polarized. The headline was, if
Speaker 1: attitudes don't shift, a political dating mismatch will threaten marriage,
Speaker 1: written by the editorial board of the Washington Post.
Speaker 2: That's the fucking headline, And it's just a rant about
Speaker 2: how like polarizing political affiliations will destroy marriage for gens.
Speaker 2: According to surveys because they're saying like, women are becoming
Speaker 2: liberal and identify as feminists, and some men aren't doing
Speaker 2: it as quickly, but some are also conservative, and that
Speaker 2: mismatch could be bad.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna read this one. This is really instructive.
Speaker 1: This is what it said. Quote. The problem with polarization, though,
Speaker 1: is that it has affects well beyond the political realm,
Speaker 1: and these can be difficult to anticipate. One example is
Speaker 1: the collapse of American marriage. I feel like I'm fucking
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson right now.
Speaker 2: A growing number of young women are discovering that they
Speaker 2: can't find suitable male partners. As a whole, men are
Speaker 2: increasingly struggling with or suffering from higher unemployment, lower rates
Speaker 2: of educational attainment, more drug addition, more drug addiction, and
Speaker 2: deaths of despair, and generally less purpose and direction.
Speaker 1: In their lives. And then it goes on to say that, like,
Speaker 1: for anything to work out, someone will have to compromise
Speaker 1: what And we're not looking at you fellas girls. Come on,
Speaker 1: we know this is the dropt standard. I'd imagine that
Speaker 1: group is gonna be the women that need to like,
Speaker 1: what are we talking about? Like it's so it's like
Speaker 1: that goes on a culture quote. A cultural shift might
Speaker 1: be necessary, one that views politics as part of people's identity,
Speaker 1: but far from the most important part. American's ability to
Speaker 1: live together quite literally might depend on it.
Speaker 3: Wow, terrible, I've went for our lives here, guys, come on, terrible. Okay,
Speaker 3: I already got a got a red flag on this one.
Speaker 3: When you when you said at the top right by
Speaker 3: the headline, you were like by the editorial board. So
Speaker 3: whoever wrote this, yeah, knew that they didn't want their actual.
Speaker 2: Name on it, right, right, But then when you do that,
Speaker 2: does that doesn't that rope in everybody who writes on
Speaker 2: the edit like editorial stuff, Like, wouldn't that make sense?
Speaker 2: You're like, broll, That ain't mean.
Speaker 1: The official position of the Washington Post. Yeah, how I
Speaker 1: read it right?
Speaker 2: Isn't that because that's why you would do it right
Speaker 2: to say, like it has the the omph or behind
Speaker 2: it are the you know, it's the intentionality behind it
Speaker 2: by being that this is the stated opinion of the
Speaker 2: entire editorial board.
Speaker 3: Dude, if I was a female or female identifying journalist
Speaker 3: at the Washington Post, I would be like, fuck you guys,
Speaker 3: don't rego me in with this, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, how how right?
Speaker 3: Because you're right, it is representative of the institution, it's
Speaker 3: the voice of this paper of note, and it's it's
Speaker 3: it's garbage. It reminds me of that. Oh, there was
Speaker 3: some study that came out a few years back, or
Speaker 3: study puff piece maybe where they were like, uh, I got,
Speaker 3: I can't remember the source, but they said guys are
Speaker 3: having a tougher time dating on dating apps because they're conservative, right,
Speaker 3: So I get.
Speaker 2: I guess it does feel the same way where it's
Speaker 2: like no one wants to fuck Republicans or even if
Speaker 2: they're not Republican. It's like maybe the norms are shifting
Speaker 2: for a generation where people are like, yeah, I'm into
Speaker 2: something more equitable. So if you're on some like nah, dude,
Speaker 2: I think the fucking the girl should fucking like cook
Speaker 2: dude and do that. Like, yeah, you may be out
Speaker 2: there being like I'm not having luck out there. Well
Speaker 2: maybe because things are shifting a bit, I think.
Speaker 1: Someone's gonna have to compromise them. Because these guys aren't
Speaker 1: gonna fuck themselves forever. I mean, they're sure they're doing
Speaker 1: that now.
Speaker 2: But this is so upsetting though, this perspective, right, Like,
Speaker 2: especially when they're like it's just like people are gonna
Speaker 2: have to get past this stuff so they can, like Americans'
Speaker 2: ability to live together quite literally might depend on it.
Speaker 2: You're just like flattening these kinds of issues like I
Speaker 2: don't know, reproductive rights or like climate change whatever, into
Speaker 2: like these mere inconveniences that should be ignored if a
Speaker 2: potential life partner is diametrically opposed to that.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, it's like they're treating it like it's Yankees
Speaker 1: fans and Red Sox fans choosing not to date one another. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how do they make it work?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like, right, it's not like if the
Speaker 2: Red Sox win the World Series, black people lose their
Speaker 2: right to vote or some shit, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 2: the stakes are very different when you look at certain
Speaker 2: political ideologies, so like to be like, can we just
Speaker 2: get over that and please bang them? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: and then by the end of the piece they're saying
Speaker 2: shit like quote. While politically mixed couples report somewhat lower
Speaker 2: levels of satisfaction than same party couples, they are still
Speaker 2: likely to be happier than those who remain single.
Speaker 3: So wait, wait though, also that's that's a nice little
Speaker 3: bit of linguistic linguistic parkour, a little bit of linguistic
Speaker 3: jiu jitsu stuff. They just said politically mixed couples dropping
Speaker 3: that one in, Like, is that the new mis engination?
Speaker 2: Like, I come from a bi party household, you know,
Speaker 2: so it's very difficult for me, Like I mean, and
Speaker 2: I'm and many people do, like I mean, I know
Speaker 2: some many people actually, like from like my my friend's
Speaker 2: parents generation and beyond, who are like dad is like
Speaker 2: a mega trumper and the mom is like liberal, and you're.
Speaker 1: Like, what the fuck like and how do they stay together?
Speaker 2: And then they're like, yo, they got divorced, Like they're like,
Speaker 2: we were together for the sake of the family. And
Speaker 2: some people have that other people. I can see how
Speaker 2: this would lead to some kind of discord within your home.
Speaker 2: But again, it's just this feels like this piece feel
Speaker 2: like the dating equivalent of like when newspapers like.
Speaker 8: Why are young people becoming so progressive? You're making it
Speaker 8: hard to maintain the status quo. It's like, yeah, well,
Speaker 8: the status quo being what being in a fucking loveless
Speaker 8: marriage and staying with someone that has an antithetical worldview
Speaker 8: for the good of the institution of MARI, Like, come on, y'all,
Speaker 8: come on watching a post.
Speaker 1: The chart is like, it's really interesting how much the
Speaker 1: different groups like stick together. That was the thing that
Speaker 1: was surprising to me is that, like, when there's an
Speaker 1: upturn in men being liberal, there's an upturn in women
Speaker 1: being liberal. When there's downturn and men being conservative, there's
Speaker 1: a downturn women being conservative, And like that would be
Speaker 1: the thing that if I was seeing this with fresh eyes,
Speaker 1: I would be like, oh, that must be what the
Speaker 1: article is about, is like they but but instead it's
Speaker 1: just like they're finding the slight differences between the male
Speaker 1: levels and female levels and being like this is bad.
Speaker 1: They're not fucking each other enough. It's very strange. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, also wild that they needed to reduce it
Speaker 1: to only the white people to even like find an
Speaker 1: interesting statistical trend. Yeah.
Speaker 2: When you read the article, you're like, oh, who is
Speaker 2: this viry, like it's only gen z And then you
Speaker 2: get further like it's only white gen z and you're like,
Speaker 2: it's only white cis gender gen z it's only white
Speaker 2: cis head gen z couples.
Speaker 1: It's only like this gen Z journalists at the Washington
Speaker 1: Post named Michael named made three guys named Michael who
Speaker 1: work at the Washington Post. I yeah, it so that
Speaker 1: all the more reason to kind of look at this
Speaker 1: out of the side of your eye, because it's like
Speaker 1: they didn't really have an interesting statistic to hang this on.
Speaker 1: They just like kind of forced it. They just like
Speaker 1: really wanted to talk about how people need to fuck
Speaker 1: more Republicans.
Speaker 2: That's really what it feels like. It boils down to,
Speaker 2: cause it's also doing like it feels kind of like
Speaker 2: manfluencer type shit too, when they're like, dude, it's fucking
Speaker 2: hard out here for men. Dude, it's hard out here
Speaker 2: for fucking women and women. I did, like, what are
Speaker 2: you talking about? Like this? This is not and I
Speaker 2: get and I think part of that too. That's a
Speaker 2: broader issue about our culture of toxic masculinity and rigid
Speaker 2: definitions of masculinity that people are falling victim to. It's
Speaker 2: not because women are getting so woke that they that
Speaker 2: they're gonna fucking become sexually inert and then what they
Speaker 2: fucking marriage crumbles like come on, but anyway, they tried,
Speaker 2: They tried, and whoever wrote this really tried with that one.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people saw this last week
Speaker 2: and were like, what the fuck is this op ed?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, uh, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll come back with some more ship. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back, And Elon.
Speaker 1: Musk is just found out about Pizzagate. It feels like
Speaker 1: so last week as twitters advertisers jumped ship faster than
Speaker 1: the propeller guy from Titanic. Elon Musk endorsed a comment
Speaker 1: pointing out that the founder of Media Matters dated the
Speaker 1: owner of the Pizzagate restaurant, Which I mean, do I have.
Speaker 2: To connect the dots for you thread get Olivia Pope
Speaker 2: on the phone, because this is a scandal.
Speaker 3: What does the Washington Post say? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is it just is it just him pointing out that
Speaker 2: they dated, like just.
Speaker 1: Like and so somebody pointed out, you know that they
Speaker 1: dated to people who ran businesses with zero connection to
Speaker 1: human trafficking, dated while living in the same city, and
Speaker 1: Ela Musk replied, weird, but now he's.
Speaker 3: Weird.
Speaker 1: Weird, but now he's really trying to reboot Pizzagate. He
Speaker 1: just posted a meme from the office claiming that the
Speaker 1: only person to debunk Pizzagate has subsequently gone to jail
Speaker 1: for child porn. Oh he so the tweet from Ela
Speaker 1: Musk does seem at least a little suspicious. And then
Speaker 1: it Michael Scott saying Pizzagate is real Pam from the office.
Speaker 1: No it isn't. We have experts, Michael Scott. They traffic children, Pam,
Speaker 1: But we have experts, Michael Scott. Your experts just went
Speaker 1: to jail for child porn. Pam puzzled, defeated, Look surprised.
Speaker 1: You've been truth to death. Yeah, just the life has
Speaker 1: left her eyes. First of all, like just for somebody
Speaker 1: who wants so badly to be like meme Lord, why
Speaker 1: is Michael Scott the one saying that if you're trying
Speaker 1: to make a point in meme form, maybe don't make
Speaker 1: the person who vocalizes that point one of TV's most
Speaker 1: famous idiots.
Speaker 2: But I think that's precisely why. It's like, what if
Speaker 2: the idiots won this?
Speaker 5: Reund tired of the idiots losing, tired of like, why
Speaker 5: can't Michael be the one and catch Pam off guard.
Speaker 1: Yes, by the way, that ABC reporter did not debunk
Speaker 1: pizza to get that claim originates with a bogus image
Speaker 1: of a New York Post headline, which circulated the internet
Speaker 1: last summer was widely called out for being a fabrication
Speaker 1: at the time. So you can go find the New
Speaker 1: York Post headline. It's been altered and the story doesn't
Speaker 1: even mention Pizzagate, so they just somebody has altered the
Speaker 1: headline to continue keeping this as a story that people
Speaker 1: give a shit about.
Speaker 2: And now he's talking QAnon too, so he's trying to
Speaker 2: do he's doing it all right now, you know, just
Speaker 2: trying to get shake the trees and see what comes down,
Speaker 2: falling into the fertile soil of X. But I don't know, dude,
Speaker 2: it's just a lot of weird shit you're doing.
Speaker 1: It's just as echo chamber of bullshit and like myths
Speaker 1: and yeah lies.
Speaker 3: Did you guys see that. I was going to save
Speaker 3: this for the end, but it has to occur. Now,
Speaker 3: did you guys see that tweet he made where he
Speaker 3: is literally doing the edgelord thing of old. He's like
Speaker 3: holding a sword and he's talking about how he's prepared
Speaker 3: for his enemies. Did you guys see that one?
Speaker 1: When was that?
Speaker 2: I think it was over the Thanksgiving Bria. Thank god,
Speaker 2: I was looking out for my mental and didn't even
Speaker 2: open this.
Speaker 3: I missed that.
Speaker 1: Chilling with a fucking sword. Yes, I mean likes been
Speaker 1: doing like there there's the sword one. There was one
Speaker 1: where he was like firing a gun and he was like,
Speaker 1: my enemy is better watch out or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah he is, uh he is. You know what, I
Speaker 3: rescind my title, he is now the most interesting eighth
Speaker 3: grader because that's like, yeah, it was a very tone
Speaker 3: death attempt to emulate something that he thought would be relatable.
Speaker 1: I imagine, right, emulate the coolest guy any of us know,
Speaker 1: which is always sword guy guy. He's really into swords,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, that spoke right to me when it's
Speaker 1: is that a Joe Rogan studio? Uh?
Speaker 3: Oh are you seeing it now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? As one in his basement the way Barbara streisand
Speaker 1: has them all studio.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he's stood in front of an American flag
Speaker 2: with like a steerhead and a fucking katana.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow wow. I try not to pick fights, but I
Speaker 2: do finish them, Okay.
Speaker 3: Oh, do the whole. Do the whole. You gotta do
Speaker 3: the whole caption. He worked hard on it.
Speaker 2: Wait, where's the other one do I'm seeing so many
Speaker 2: versions of this post? Well, what's the other one?
Speaker 3: I think it's he says something like there's a large.
Speaker 2: Yard filled Oh yeah, yeah, with his enemies.
Speaker 3: It's it's very like back in the earlier days of
Speaker 3: the Internet there was that copy pasta of someone saying, well,
Speaker 3: you studied so and so I studied the bleak. Right,
Speaker 3: it's given off unhappy middle school energy.
Speaker 2: He definitely believe that studied the blade. He'd definitely been
Speaker 2: studying the blade. And by the looks of that sort,
Speaker 2: I think you got on a QVC. Yeah, well you know,
Speaker 2: you get a price break if you buy five. So right,
Speaker 2: he's got exactly, he's got a couple. But this is dangerous, right,
Speaker 2: this guy is hemorrhaging money for a purchase that he
Speaker 2: couldn't get out of. He's weaponizing social media, and I
Speaker 2: think it's it speaks to like this larger ground swell
Speaker 2: of very financially powerful forces attempting to push the Overton
Speaker 2: window further and further to the right.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, and yeah, just be straight up fascist and
Speaker 1: be like, I'm I will control you with violence and
Speaker 1: loneliness my basement, Rogan, someone please visit me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I realized that. He then replied to that post
Speaker 2: at the bottom and said, oh yeah, I forgot to
Speaker 2: add that I'm my own worst enemy by far. No
Speaker 2: need for others to dig my when I'm doing it
Speaker 2: so well myself.
Speaker 3: Lm A. Oh oh my god.
Speaker 2: They're like, dude, is it Are you fucking badass sword
Speaker 2: man or are you self depreciating comic? They can't do both.
Speaker 2: My man got here with this ship.
Speaker 3: Pick a lad. Also, I will say one aspirational note
Speaker 3: definitely proved to us yet again that if you have
Speaker 3: enough money, you can just host SNL. You don't have
Speaker 3: to be good. You could just be on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: You need to be on the list of five people
Speaker 1: of like relevance that gets delivered to Lorne Michaels every day,
Speaker 1: the biggest movers, the biggest movers of Q rating this
Speaker 1: this week? What's the Q score?
Speaker 2: All right, let's have okay, then let's have this guy
Speaker 2: on what's actually.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Has Bezos hosted? He's going to at this?
Speaker 2: I mean, why not if by this logic he should
Speaker 2: have He should have more fucking hosting like opportunities than
Speaker 2: John Goodman, m.
Speaker 1: Because he was what's John Goodman's net worth?
Speaker 2: He's not worth ship?
Speaker 3: I know he's sayingser, Wow, that is a quote from
Speaker 3: Lord Michaels. We're gonna start that here.
Speaker 1: Bezos at home, just furious that he hasn't hosted SNL yet.
Speaker 2: Dude, Oh, mich can you but you believe it? With
Speaker 2: those kinds of guys too, that like they hold onto
Speaker 2: this like weird impossible dream that like their money apps
Speaker 2: normally just it's just like the one thing they can't
Speaker 2: make happen with their money.
Speaker 5: It's like I should be on I should be a
Speaker 5: featured cast, like what they should just replace the cast
Speaker 5: with me, Jeff Bezos characters.
Speaker 1: Watch what is Oh Hi, it's me Karen. See that's
Speaker 1: a character I called Barbara. Now watch this one. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: and now our room full of Ivy League grads are
Speaker 1: laughing uproariously. I must be hilarious. Has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the fact that I employ them.
Speaker 2: I have sweeten stitches every.
Speaker 3: Fucking day, Yeah, because that's a big part of it too,
Speaker 3: Like the Vanity Projects, yes, there is great scientific benefits
Speaker 3: right to exploring space and so on, even though obviously
Speaker 3: it's a problematic vanity project for a lot of these guys.
Speaker 3: But you can't buy your way into people genuinely liking you.
Speaker 3: You cannot purchase that. And I think we see that
Speaker 3: in these posts in Twitter, right, we see a guy
Speaker 3: who wants desperately to have a crowd of folks simping
Speaker 3: for him or being syncophants and saying like, right on, buddy,
Speaker 3: you get it. We're not so different you and I,
Speaker 3: which is always a villain line, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just so needy though, because like you would
Speaker 1: assume as the world's rightest man who was like, you know,
Speaker 1: has all these problematic beliefs that like there would be
Speaker 1: this like calculating nature, but like he's just so needy
Speaker 1: and desperate and kind of pathetic in a lot of ways. Right,
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing that's unexpected to make.
Speaker 3: And look, hey, we're I think all of us on
Speaker 3: the show today and all of us listening at home,
Speaker 3: hopefully we're somewhat ethical people. So honestly, if it comes
Speaker 3: out that somehow this pizza Gate stuff was real, or
Speaker 3: if it turns out that Elon Musk is actually yea,
Speaker 3: what if this whole thing is like some kind of
Speaker 3: Kaufman bit, you know, And he's like, sorry, faked you out.
Speaker 2: It's all right, guys, Yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm nipping
Speaker 2: this climate change thing in the butt, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I want go on too long. I'm giving all my
Speaker 2: money to help figure that out. All right, I'm out
Speaker 2: of here right exactly.
Speaker 3: But I again, I think that that appeal for inclusion,
Speaker 3: or that aspiration toward inclusion is, as you guys put
Speaker 3: it so aptly, that is dangerous. First off. That is
Speaker 3: also if you are another bad faith actor in the
Speaker 3: rarefied air of billionaires and state leaders. That lets you
Speaker 3: know that guy's easy to push, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: You just be like, Hey, it's it's me Kim from
Speaker 3: DPRK sick tweets.
Speaker 1: Bro, Really you liked them, That's what I was saying. Man.
Speaker 2: My publicist said, I'm gonna completely fuck up everything if
Speaker 2: I do. But thanks, dude. I really appreciate that. Man anyway,
Speaker 2: can't help you with anything exactly exactly. That guy's cool,
Speaker 2: he gets it. Yeah, Like, I'm sorry, Kim Jong yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's cool.
Speaker 3: He's I mean, I'm kind of joking, but that's exactly
Speaker 3: what happened with Donald Trump, right.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, guys, we're so fucked if Donald Trump got
Speaker 1: liked it again, like we're oh gosh, it's crazy. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we got a wold.
Speaker 3: So because we're an audio show, you just need to know,
Speaker 3: folks that while we're recording this, when Jack dropped that bomb,
Speaker 3: Miles and I both just sort of sighed heavily and
Speaker 3: both looked away from the camera and we were thinking
Speaker 3: about our lives.
Speaker 2: We just I just had to be like, Okay, what's
Speaker 2: the healthy thought here? And I'm like, oh, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of time. There's a lot of time before I
Speaker 2: have to really contend with that Project twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: coming to a fucking office near you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Project twenty twenty five. Fuck, Ben, what a pleasure
Speaker 1: having you as always? Where can people find you? Follow
Speaker 1: you all that good stuff?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can find me calling myself in a burst
Speaker 3: of creativity at Ben Bullet on Twitter. You can find
Speaker 3: me at oh wait appen Bowlin hsw on Twitter unprofessional bad,
Speaker 3: bad bad, And you can find me on Instagram at
Speaker 3: Ben Bowlin bo w l I n tune into stuff
Speaker 3: they don't want you to know. Check out Jack and
Speaker 3: Miles on Ridiculous History as well. Coming back to you
Speaker 3: soon with some more historical flexes, which is which is
Speaker 3: always a fun time. I think this will be our
Speaker 3: third iteration if we can, if we can get it
Speaker 3: on the books and in the meantime most important. Nope,
Speaker 3: that's it. Fake out.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I bit and is there a work of
Speaker 1: media that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 3: Yes, so thought we thought we were done right with
Speaker 3: the shout out to that, you know, peak internet meme
Speaker 3: of a guy in a katat with a katana burying
Speaker 3: his enemies on the Internet. Here's what I want to
Speaker 3: read to you. It is from Zach Silberberg on on
Speaker 3: Twitter says I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus. Now they're
Speaker 3: going to bed and my stomach is sick and it's
Speaker 3: all in my head.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just for a good note, a good note, So
Speaker 3: shout out, shout out Zach.
Speaker 1: There you go, Miles. Where can people find you as
Speaker 1: their working media you've been enjoying? Find me on at
Speaker 1: based platforms at Miles of Gray. Uh even laps that
Speaker 1: Anna sent me an invite to, and I was like, what,
Speaker 1: how do I use? There's so much new app Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's like it's like a it's like a disposable camera
Speaker 1: type thing.
Speaker 2: But it's like you apps, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: Uh do you want to invite to an app you'll
Speaker 2: never use? Hit me up, bro, I got them for
Speaker 2: you because I'm the same way.
Speaker 1: I'm like, let me get an invite.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'll use this ship for five minutes and
Speaker 2: then forget that I have this ship because.
Speaker 1: Oh that's my boy. And Miles he has the invite
Speaker 1: to all the apps he'll never use.
Speaker 2: He'll never use. Bro, He's the plug dude. He doesn't
Speaker 2: even know what half of them are. Anyway, find me there,
Speaker 2: Find Jack and I on our basketball podcasts. Also find
Speaker 2: me on my ninety Day Fiance podcast for twenty Day
Speaker 2: with Sophia Alexandra work at Media. I like, actually, what
Speaker 2: I would like to do is big up my friend
Speaker 2: Kim Cooper, who has a live show happening Tuesday, December fifth.
Speaker 2: If you're in LA I promise you this is a
Speaker 2: one woman show that you'll want to see. It's called
Speaker 2: Trauma Response, and it's her story as a transracial Korean
Speaker 2: adoptee and just like a very comedic one hour show
Speaker 2: about her, just like everyday life traumas. And you know,
Speaker 2: she was born in Korea but then adopted by a
Speaker 2: family in Iowa, and she had a lot of questions
Speaker 2: growing up because she was the only Korean person she
Speaker 2: knew and pretty much thought she was white. And this
Speaker 2: is like a very interesting, powerful show and I really
Speaker 2: would love for people who live in LA to check
Speaker 2: it out support her. We will have a link for
Speaker 2: those tickets in the footnotes, but it's going to be Tuesday,
Speaker 2: December fifth at the Broadwater Sect Stage on Santa Monica
Speaker 2: in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: So yeah, please check that out.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep plugging it because I saw it saw
Speaker 2: earlier performance and it was really fucking dope and like
Speaker 2: just the I don't know, there's something really great about
Speaker 2: a well done one person show. I know Marcella was
Speaker 2: talking about it last time she was on, But this
Speaker 2: is kind of like in line with it, where you
Speaker 2: get you get it all, you get the feelings, you
Speaker 2: get the thought provoking stuff, and you get a lot
Speaker 2: of laughs. So yeah, that's what I'm telling people to.
Speaker 1: Check out how to link at the footnotes.
Speaker 2: There you got footnotes.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien.
Speaker 1: A couple tweets, I've been enjoying Destry at Destry, broad
Speaker 1: tweeted if carbs were so bad for us, why is
Speaker 1: Jesus made of them? Oh? And then at Marissa tweeted,
Speaker 1: I like my chicken tends the way I like my
Speaker 1: Holy Infants tender and mild two the based body of
Speaker 1: Christ jokes. Yeah, I really enjoyed. You can find me
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Speaker 1: talked about in today's episode, as well as a song
Speaker 1: that we think you might enjoy. I was listening to
Speaker 1: you him people might endro This is.
Speaker 2: A track called Gotta Come from Somewhere and it's by
Speaker 2: the band Golf Alpha Bravo and they're like a psychedelic
Speaker 2: surf blues.
Speaker 1: Kind of band.
Speaker 2: This is how I guess they would describe themselves. But
Speaker 2: this is like a really dope track because not many
Speaker 2: people have been listening to it on Spotify.
Speaker 1: It might be big elsewhere. But if you like a
Speaker 1: little bit of psych rock but has like a little
Speaker 1: bit of.
Speaker 2: Backbeat to it, like you know, you can kind of
Speaker 2: nod your head to it, check this out. It's called
Speaker 2: Gotta Come from Somewhere by Golf Alpha Bravo.
Speaker 1: All right, we will link off to that in the
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