Speaker 1: Have you seen there's that video of like this British
Speaker 1: comedian there was like j k Rowling coming up with
Speaker 1: ethnic characters. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it, but it's I can imagine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was. They like it started off being like
Speaker 1: there's you know, uh Cho Chang. It like would be
Speaker 1: like Chinese flag, and then it'd be Ghanaian flags like
Speaker 1: Kingsley shackle Bolt because it and then it was like
Speaker 1: then it said Turkish and it's just like Schwarmababa, just like.
Speaker 2: The road I mean Kingsley shackle Bolt one. She literally
Speaker 2: had and was like, oh, I mean, didn't she like
Speaker 2: claim to start writing the book on nap napkins.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's something out of here at a
Speaker 1: donor kabab place.
Speaker 2: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three eighty seven,
Speaker 2: Episode three of Dead Eely.
Speaker 1: Hi guys, that's right.
Speaker 2: It's a production of iHeartRadio and it's a podcast where
Speaker 2: you take a deep dave into American share consciousness. And
Speaker 2: it is Wednesday, May seventh, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Oh man, what a day? What a day? They call it.
Speaker 1: They call it Tourism Day is what they call it.
Speaker 1: It's also National Bike to School Day, National Interpreter Appreciation Day,
Speaker 1: National Packaging Design Day, National Skilled Trades shout out the trades,
Speaker 1: National Barrier Awareness Day, that's about accessibility. National School Nurse Day,
Speaker 1: shout out Miss Lee, the school nurse who we would
Speaker 1: always lie say we bumped our mouth so we could
Speaker 1: get a bag of ice, just to eat the ice.
Speaker 1: That's what romped our mouth. Yeah, I hit my mouth
Speaker 1: on the teather ballpool. I wasn't looking. I need to
Speaker 1: go to Miss Lee, and she was just let's keep
Speaker 1: bumping their mouth, I know. And you would get this
Speaker 1: big ass bag of crushed ice and they would just
Speaker 1: bite the things, just eat that all day and.
Speaker 2: Then be sure it wasn't like the gel the like
Speaker 2: the blue gel pack, Like you're sure you were just
Speaker 2: eating straight up? All right?
Speaker 1: That's I don't know. I mean I did. My stomach
Speaker 1: did go into a state of paralysis every time I
Speaker 1: had one of those icebags. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: The jury's out.
Speaker 1: It's also National Roast leg of Lamb Day and National
Speaker 1: paste up Day. Paste up, Yeah, it's it looks like
Speaker 1: a serial killer cutting letters out of a newspaper. It's
Speaker 1: what the images like with an exact knife.
Speaker 2: That sounds like people in scrapbook trying to like come
Speaker 2: up with like a street sounding name for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're doug. This is this is This is a
Speaker 1: tip of the hat to the old times of putting
Speaker 1: together a newspaper where shit literally had to be pasted together,
Speaker 1: pasted up. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, so remembering the titans
Speaker 1: of industry of Prince. All right, my name is Jack O'Brien.
Speaker 2: Akay I peel the bananass b A and a and
Speaker 2: a ass that one courtesy of David Lesser, honor of
Speaker 2: you know, the conversation that we had yesterday about where you.
Speaker 1: Peel the banana from.
Speaker 2: You peel it from the handle that's at the top,
Speaker 2: the hand, feel it from the bananas, yeah, the bottom
Speaker 2: part that where all the little things come together in
Speaker 2: a little banana asshole. And some say, and I've had
Speaker 2: this experience that the bananas is actually more efficient place
Speaker 2: to peel from. And I just don't believe it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think fast to try. I know
Speaker 1: you know what, yo, Loki, I did this this morning,
Speaker 1: did you. Yeah? Because the kid woned the banana and
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, assholes, let's have it. You're away.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, and I mushed the ship
Speaker 1: out of it. I'm like, nah, bro, you mushed a
Speaker 1: good old yeah, just trying to separate the other part.
Speaker 1: I don't know, bro, I can get that peel off
Speaker 1: so clean from.
Speaker 2: The hand top side, yeah, yeah, handleside. All right. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm thrilled to be joined by my former coast. I
Speaker 2: don't know if we're gonna survive that revelation that we
Speaker 2: peeled from two different side.
Speaker 1: What mister miles shit? All right, well, I guess for
Speaker 1: my last one, I'll go out like this one.
Speaker 3: Oh shin saw me ow sa Sam's Club, stumbling like
Speaker 3: a drug until I floaded my back foot in line
Speaker 3: and land. It would not bum you see that, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: I never failed. I never failed, bitch. Okay, that was
Speaker 1: bone crusher, never scared. But that was an illusion to me,
Speaker 1: slipping and recovering in the grocery store parking lot and
Speaker 1: one dude not giving me the fucking big ups I
Speaker 1: respect you deserve anyway, Shout out.
Speaker 2: House you on sound for that fantastic. One of these
Speaker 2: days you're gonna get the respect. You're it's gonna like
Speaker 2: have it on national television.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to do.
Speaker 2: You're gonna like glide across an icy street like through traffic.
Speaker 2: You're gonna become internationally famous, and you're gonna be like
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 2: where you just like still are motivated by your hatred
Speaker 2: of that one guy who wouldn't respect you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like, how did it feel?
Speaker 2: I'm like, and I took that personal.
Speaker 1: You know this one motherfucker. You know this all started
Speaker 1: because of one motherfucker. And he doesn't respect you.
Speaker 2: He doesn't he doesn't know how how much skill it
Speaker 2: takes to recover from a slip like that, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2: That's some ship that I will throw my back out over,
Speaker 2: just like a slip, you know, like or something like So,
Speaker 2: just like I'm gonna go seize up all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the Northeast where they say the
Speaker 1: slips are intense, and I'm gonna have to dominate the region,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Him like Batman begins going to the Himalayans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, on my icy sidewalk sliding game.
Speaker 2: The way his name in that movie is, Batman begins,
Speaker 2: I hope everybody respects that it's not Bruce Wayne's that
Speaker 2: there goes Batman begins. Miles were thrilled to be joined
Speaker 2: in our third seat by one of our favorite guests,
Speaker 2: a very funny comedian writer, Banana Ass Peeler. Yeah, you've
Speaker 2: seen doing stand up in places like uh, your TV
Speaker 2: and internet. His album ran Through is now available on
Speaker 2: Apple and Vinyl. His podcasts Finding My Audience is available
Speaker 2: wherever fine podcasts are away for free. Please welcome back
Speaker 2: to the show. The hilarious Alan Strickler, Will.
Speaker 4: Y'all, y'all gonna be here? Yeah, and just on the
Speaker 4: banana ass peeling piece. I the reason why I do
Speaker 4: that is because my friend in high school said, that's
Speaker 4: the way the monkeys do it.
Speaker 2: That's right, That's how we got to it yesterday.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I figured, I'm like, well, if that, if
Speaker 4: that's how they do it, then I feel like that's
Speaker 4: how we sho Why do they do it? They're crazy?
Speaker 1: Also, throw their ship at each other. Yeah, do that too.
Speaker 4: We should do that too.
Speaker 1: We are starting to do that.
Speaker 4: We should that.
Speaker 2: So we're doing a rehearsal style training for the one
Speaker 2: hundred man versus Gorilla fight. So we're just trying to
Speaker 2: get in their head, right, I'm throwing my ship everywhere.
Speaker 1: Start at birth as a baby gorilla. Yeah yeah, did
Speaker 1: you watch? Did you watch the third up? I did?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, somebody because I'm like, babe, we gotta
Speaker 2: I hear. I hear the third episode of rehearsals like amazing,
Speaker 2: we gotta check it out. And then I'm the one
Speaker 2: who's like vouching for this thing that is just so
Speaker 2: fucking during Over the Top. Al are you watching?
Speaker 4: I haven't seen the new season yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's if you're If you like Nathan Fielders ship
Speaker 1: like it's not, you will not be disappointed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been. I've been on the I've been finishing
Speaker 4: up the Righteous Jomstones.
Speaker 1: Yeah oh yeah, and I'm behind on that. So it
Speaker 1: is the better, it's the better. Walton Goggins on HBO performance.
Speaker 1: I gotta say everyone, White Lotus I'm like, bro, you're uncle.
Speaker 2: Baby Billy White Lotus was a crime. Like the way
Speaker 2: that character was written. He didn't have ship to do.
Speaker 1: He just likes that.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was great in that one scene where
Speaker 2: the what Sam Rockwell was giving that speech and his
Speaker 2: just reactions were incredible, but like for the most part,
Speaker 2: he was just like I feel like the direction was
Speaker 2: just like act like you have a headache the whole time,
Speaker 2: you know, like it just felt like yet ahead, I
Speaker 2: act like you don't want to be on this showy
Speaker 2: Like I was like, for what, like have you seen him?
Speaker 2: And vice principles? That shit is so fucking funny. He
Speaker 2: is so hilarious and like so just like high energy
Speaker 2: and then too like that role I guess was supposed
Speaker 2: to be uh, Woody Harrelson, right, Woody Harrelson, and that
Speaker 2: that makes sense, Like that's who should have played that role,
Speaker 2: I guess, But.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That probably would have brought out a
Speaker 1: lot of his recent comments to like and feel have
Speaker 1: been like Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: So I don't even know and don't want to. I
Speaker 2: just enjoy him in the whatever commercials those are with
Speaker 2: Matthew McConaughey. He's in those now two Yeah, he keeps
Speaker 2: like one uping Matthew McConaughey. Matthew McConaughey is like just
Speaker 2: getting shipped on by the world.
Speaker 1: Just so funny, man.
Speaker 4: Those commercials are like whether for like bank stuff, but
Speaker 4: it's Power Bay by AI, and it's like, these really
Speaker 4: folksy guys just like, hey, that's great.
Speaker 2: Which is exactly why they picked them, by the way.
Speaker 2: You know, they're like, how do we make this not
Speaker 2: seem like we are the borg mind that is going
Speaker 2: to take over your whole world and family. It's like, well,
Speaker 2: let's get like some folksy, Southern kind of guys who
Speaker 2: seem to chill.
Speaker 1: Yeah. If the guy who seems chilling narrates the RFK
Speaker 1: junior documentary, oh good good Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, man, maybe it's pretty chill. It
Speaker 2: just needs to take a step back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny for guys who like are kind of
Speaker 1: crunching and into the earth that they'd also advocate to
Speaker 1: it for a technology that's actively destroying the earth. Right.
Speaker 1: But again, the checks though, the checks, that's what makes
Speaker 1: you marketable. You know.
Speaker 2: You start your career with like a certain set of
Speaker 2: presumed values that are needing a hairline.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they.
Speaker 2: Sell those off to the big corporations as they as
Speaker 2: they require you do.
Speaker 4: By the way. Matthew McConaughey's Green Lights great read, great read,
Speaker 4: and great read and a great audiobook because it's just
Speaker 4: him talking about his life. But yeah, pretty pretty pretty insane.
Speaker 4: And he was like he was like going bald as
Speaker 4: a like in high school or something. He did like
Speaker 4: some crazy back then, some crazy hair treatment and stuff
Speaker 4: he talks about. But it's just really funny because this
Speaker 4: whole the whole thing is about like green lights, about
Speaker 4: like in life, there's green lights that like get you
Speaker 4: on your way. And he'll just write this long thing
Speaker 4: and it's like about like love or whatever, and that
Speaker 4: he just goes green light.
Speaker 1: That's like punctuates a line. That's a green line, green line.
Speaker 2: That line.
Speaker 1: I watched his kick flip.
Speaker 2: I like the big like personal challenge he went through
Speaker 2: is like almost losing his hair, like the mostly we're
Speaker 2: just human.
Speaker 4: Went through an awkward phase.
Speaker 2: It wasn't always easy for me.
Speaker 4: And then I got the first job I auditioned for
Speaker 4: and it's been working and just sing it uh.
Speaker 2: And that's what we call green light, green line. All right,
Speaker 2: we're going to get to know you a little bit
Speaker 2: better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the
Speaker 2: listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today.
Speaker 2: We want to check back in with Trump's Alcatraz plan
Speaker 2: because we got we got some insight into what where
Speaker 2: this decision came from a fascinating little monologue that you delivered.
Speaker 2: We'll check in with the tariffs, both, you know, the
Speaker 2: monetary side of it, like how what what it's supposed
Speaker 2: to be bringing in money wise and what it's actually
Speaker 2: going to and also the movie tariff. You know, we're
Speaker 2: we like movies on this podcast. Yes, dang tariff come
Speaker 2: coming home to roost. So we just want to look
Speaker 2: at the history of that decision, where it came from.
Speaker 2: Why it's not like it's.
Speaker 1: Impossibly there came from a guy who was in anaconda. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but also like it can't be.
Speaker 2: It's so weird because everybody, like the Hollywood reporter La
Speaker 2: Times is all just like front page, like what does
Speaker 2: this mean for the future of Los Angeles and like
Speaker 2: it's not even possibly, Like I don't know, it doesn't
Speaker 2: seem like it's a thing. It's not a terifable thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyways, we'll talk about that. We might get to how
Speaker 2: Newark Airport doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 1: It's just I saw it headline or I saw one
Speaker 1: headline that was like a former guy was like it's
Speaker 1: a disaster waiting to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just like lost they lost contact, you know
Speaker 2: when like a phone will drop, that like a phone
Speaker 2: call will drop. That happened to their entire connection from
Speaker 2: their air traffic control to all the airplanes for thirty seconds.
Speaker 4: I heard they're actually changing the name of the airport
Speaker 4: to no.
Speaker 2: Work, no work, don't work, more like don't don't work
Speaker 2: liberty Internet ego, did it out? Do not talk? Was good?
Speaker 1: Yours was good? All that plenty more.
Speaker 2: But first, alum, we do like to ask our guest,
Speaker 2: what is something from your search history?
Speaker 4: Okay, so this is connected to another thing of mine,
Speaker 4: but I'll just I'll just leave it at this. I
Speaker 4: was looking up Mary Lou Henner because she I thought
Speaker 4: she showed up in the season finale of Er and
Speaker 4: it was her, And then from that I jumped over
Speaker 4: to she has something called I think I have the
Speaker 4: tab up right now. She has something called hyperthymesia, which
Speaker 4: is there's like one hundred people in the world that
Speaker 4: can it's not just memory, but it's like they can
Speaker 4: recall pretty much everything that they've ever experienced, who was there,
Speaker 4: what they were wearing, everything around it without it really
Speaker 4: even being recall, it's not like they're using tricks or
Speaker 4: trying to remember it. It's just like their brain just
Speaker 4: works this way. So that's what I don't I don't
Speaker 4: do Google search really anymore. So I I just like
Speaker 4: looked at what I was been on up to on Wikipedia.
Speaker 4: But that's it. Hyperthymeesia blew my world two nights ago.
Speaker 2: That's wild.
Speaker 1: But also before that, you said you were watching the
Speaker 1: A season finale of ER.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I mean kind of connected to the other
Speaker 4: stuff I got after I watched the Pit talking about
Speaker 4: great TV shows. Watched the Pit, Pit ended, and I
Speaker 4: was like, I need my fix, So I I just
Speaker 4: went to the methadone to the pits Heroin and try
Speaker 4: to watch an ER.
Speaker 2: So the Pit is better than ER.
Speaker 4: It's different. It's like ER is more of like a
Speaker 4: ER is way more of like an old older TV show,
Speaker 4: like like there's like very special episodes. There are similar
Speaker 4: people involved in the creation of it. The main guy
Speaker 4: on the Pit, he starts as a like first year
Speaker 4: medical student or whatever at the hospital on the first
Speaker 4: episode of R so you get to watch him, but
Speaker 4: he is like fifteen. It's fifteen seasons long.
Speaker 1: It's in safe.
Speaker 4: It's also back back when like TV shows had twenty
Speaker 4: episodes a season. Yeah, and it just goes through so
Speaker 4: many different like people show up. And this was also
Speaker 4: back when like the big thing was like you'd have
Speaker 4: like a movie star guesting on a TV show, right,
Speaker 4: so it'd be like that'd be like, oh wow, it's
Speaker 4: really special that like Ernest borgnine a.
Speaker 2: Very special episode of Are Within.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so, and I was a big I watched
Speaker 4: a lot of nickd Night of a kid. I just
Speaker 4: saw someone talking about how there's no Nick ad Night anymore.
Speaker 4: But you know it's like where you see like old
Speaker 4: chest from the seventies or sixties.
Speaker 1: Or whatever they ship Cannick Night.
Speaker 4: I just think it's like it's two yeah was dead.
Speaker 1: Who was watching?
Speaker 4: If young people would know how to do anything with it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2: We watched that out of like boredom because there's nothing else.
Speaker 1: There's nothing time, right, I com barely you would watch
Speaker 1: nicked Night, oh really?
Speaker 2: But sometimes incidentally, Passing by Taxi was so good.
Speaker 4: It had it had Mary Lou and it had Danny
Speaker 4: DeVito and Christopher Lloyd and and uh, who's the crazy
Speaker 4: guy Andy Kaufman coffin any Kaufman. But yeah, so I
Speaker 4: was like, that looks like Mary Lou Henterory who used
Speaker 4: to watch Watch every night at ten pm or whatever
Speaker 4: and it was her. But yeah, so she's got that
Speaker 4: crazy thing. I don't know that does she it?
Speaker 2: Like when when she talks about it, does she is
Speaker 2: she glad she had? There's a bourgeous short story called
Speaker 2: The Memorious that's like about somebody who very seventies TV
Speaker 2: style like gets hit on the head and has this
Speaker 2: ability to stop remembering everything and like they come to
Speaker 2: view it as a curse. Like does she does she
Speaker 2: feel like it's a curse or.
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I think she probably likes it.
Speaker 4: I mean she's pretty like hippie dippy too. I remember
Speaker 4: this weird. I remember seeing her on like Oprah or
Speaker 4: something and also being like, is that the lady from Taxi?
Speaker 4: But she was like hawking some like scrub like it's
Speaker 4: like literally like a like a sponge and she was
Speaker 4: just about how I was like, it's good to like
Speaker 4: wipe off your dead skin cells in this in this
Speaker 4: certain direction. And I was like, oh this cry out
Speaker 4: there or whatever. But but yeah, I didn't really read
Speaker 4: too much about her her specific experience with it. I
Speaker 4: just kind of I do that. I'm a big Wikipedia.
Speaker 2: Wikipedia is the only unbroken part of Yeah. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: only thing that technology has given us that. I'm still like,
Speaker 2: you should give me a good idea, like a plus
Speaker 2: on this one.
Speaker 1: I just a couple bucks every year. Oh yeah, me too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like hanging out that. Wikipedia is my third space.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's square. What's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm gonna say. We spa right here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: We spas a twenty four hour, seven day a week
Speaker 4: Korean spa. I feel like you can go at any time.
Speaker 4: I think us thirty five dollars just to get in
Speaker 4: and then you can just you can enjoy the hot
Speaker 4: tubs and the songs and everything. It's just amazing. And
Speaker 4: I just feel like, especially in LA, it's like I
Speaker 4: I feel like if it's recognized and everything, but I
Speaker 4: still don't feel like enough people are going. I feel like.
Speaker 2: People no, no, for sure like love talking about it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so all right, get described because I've had
Speaker 2: this pitch to me. My wife is Korean and we
Speaker 2: she's gone, but I just like have not been able
Speaker 2: to like get myself motivated to go, like when you go,
Speaker 2: what what's what's that afternoon?
Speaker 4: So the thing about it that that does turn people
Speaker 4: off is it's like when you're in this sort of
Speaker 4: like gendered it's like separated, like so men women women, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: And I think that they're also pretty good on on
Speaker 4: the gender fluidity stuff. But you go and the thing
Speaker 4: is that you have to be when you're in those areas,
Speaker 4: you're naked. So it's like and you don't have to
Speaker 4: be naked. There's tons of people that just wear the
Speaker 4: shorts or whatever. But that's the thing that tows you off.
Speaker 4: You get a little locker. But then it's like what
Speaker 4: I typically do is like you go, they have showers,
Speaker 4: You take a shower, and then I'll I usually go
Speaker 4: straight to the sauna. I like the wet sauna I
Speaker 4: think they call it, which sounds really gross actually, but
Speaker 4: it's not the dry one whatever it is.
Speaker 2: So but it's not a steamroom. It's a sauna where
Speaker 2: they're pouring water on the rocks.
Speaker 4: Oh maybe it's a steam room because the thing comes
Speaker 4: out the thing comes out of something. It's not rocks.
Speaker 1: There's like five different levels that you can get hit
Speaker 1: with in there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and so so so there's like the lower
Speaker 4: levels where like you're chilling and you can like, yeah,
Speaker 4: you get in the soda. Then there's a hot tub,
Speaker 4: a warm tub, a cold tub. You can chill there.
Speaker 4: And then there's like there's a room that's just recliners
Speaker 4: and like a TV that's usually showing whatever sports is on.
Speaker 4: You can go there. You can I have my I'll
Speaker 4: take my laptop and I'll work. I'll work in that room.
Speaker 4: And then there's a sleeping room where you can straight
Speaker 4: up just be like I'm I feel like I can
Speaker 4: sleep right now. You can go steal an hour or
Speaker 4: two in there, and then you go upstairs to the
Speaker 4: Jim Joel Bang I think it's how you say it,
Speaker 4: and it's like there you there. You have like these
Speaker 4: multiple different rooms that are co ed. People are you're
Speaker 4: obviously wearing like a shirt now or whatever, but and shorts,
Speaker 4: but uh you you can go there and that's also
Speaker 4: pulling it and the floor is like heated in this
Speaker 4: huge room, so it's a lot of people. It's like
Speaker 4: you just go in to sort of lie down there.
Speaker 4: Read there's a little cafe that has good food, and
Speaker 4: then there's also upstairs there's like a sort of outdoor
Speaker 4: area where you can chill like ancient.
Speaker 1: It's very like chilling laying down.
Speaker 4: It's like it's like it's like a Korean version of
Speaker 4: like a of like a bath house, I guess. But
Speaker 4: but it's like families go and stuff. So it's not
Speaker 4: you don't feel weird there or whatever, but I know
Speaker 4: that it can be weird with like they're getting naked thing,
Speaker 4: but I and it was, And the weirdest part about
Speaker 4: it is it's not that you're naked. It's like you
Speaker 4: don't know where to go the first time you're there
Speaker 4: and to be naked and kind of like that's naked
Speaker 4: it afraid for real. But but you so you go
Speaker 4: the first time and maybe go with like a friend
Speaker 4: or go with your wife, and then that way you
Speaker 4: can beat up later. But then then it's like the
Speaker 4: second time, then you're like then you're like a pro
Speaker 4: and you see the p yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 4: you don't get and then it's kind of yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: So so anyway, that's.
Speaker 2: The people who are new and start like being naked naked.
Speaker 1: Triangle Bell.
Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break, we'll come back, We'll hear
Speaker 2: what you think is overrated and get into some news,
Speaker 2: and we're back. We're back, and Alan Strickland Williams, we
Speaker 2: love to ask, I guess we love it. What is
Speaker 2: something that you think is overrated? Okaya is underrated? What's overrated?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go kind of in the same same like direction,
Speaker 4: but the other way, I'm gonna say Florida. I know
Speaker 4: Florida is already I would say underrated, it's not underrated enough,
Speaker 4: or it's not or it's people already don't think highly
Speaker 4: of it. So I think I think it. I think
Speaker 4: it's but I still think it's it's too overrated. It
Speaker 4: is a sign, and it's a it's an uncontrolled sign
Speaker 4: in a lot of ways. But yeah, it's like because
Speaker 4: people are moving there, like and you know, it's like
Speaker 4: still you are moving there in Texas purpose on purpose
Speaker 4: has a choice and yeah, so that's sort of like
Speaker 4: I'm from there, so I can. I can definitely, I
Speaker 4: definitely researched that. I've definitely done the time, gone back recently,
Speaker 4: did some Wikipedia and yeah, and it's still uh, it's
Speaker 4: still just a mess down there, very overrated, very These
Speaker 4: people don't know that. These people do not know the
Speaker 4: the psychic trauma that they're setting their celves up for
Speaker 4: when they moved to Florida.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did a Thanksgiving in Florida and my parents
Speaker 2: got the turkey at a place that is just like
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but it's like Trump the Like
Speaker 2: there was a cutout of Donald Trump and a urinal
Speaker 2: cake that had Joe Biden's face on it. But then
Speaker 2: they bought their turkey from this place, like yeah turkey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's like a furinal furin cake.
Speaker 2: Tough. Yeah, yeah, exactly, it's Yeah, it's like a Whole Foods,
Speaker 2: but Florida style. I want to publics. It's not a
Speaker 2: public so it's like some some something that's unique there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not shout out to wind Dixie. That's where my
Speaker 2: sister used to work when we lived in Kentucky. All right,
Speaker 2: should we get into some news. Yeah, it's still happening,
Speaker 2: this news stuff, but yeah, we wanted to check back
Speaker 2: on the evolving story of why Donald Trump wants to
Speaker 2: open Alcatraz.
Speaker 1: Evolving and that we solved it immediately too. He must
Speaker 1: have saw it on TV. Yeah.
Speaker 2: We were like, he probably saw Escape from the trast.
Speaker 4: My thing is, I'm like, yes, probably, but it would
Speaker 4: be funnier if he got the idea from watching So
Speaker 4: I married an axe murderer, right and the Phila?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what was it? Something about a bitch and
Speaker 1: their ocular cavities or something. I remember always being like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck? And that was that would just be on.
Speaker 2: Comedy Central, no editing, I remember as a kid. But yeah,
Speaker 2: he was asked and you know, just went off prompter
Speaker 2: and gave his answer, and it was an amazing answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's it is wild because you're just like,
Speaker 1: what the what could it? What prompted this? And the
Speaker 1: answer he gave when a journalist asked was actually better
Speaker 1: than I could have even hoped because it was so
Speaker 1: all over the place and senile, Yeah, let's just realize
Speaker 1: that one of the one of his first responses here
Speaker 1: is that he says that he should have been a movie.
Speaker 1: Oh you're gonna hear this part, and here here we go.
Speaker 5: That you decide to reopen Alcatraz? Can you walk us
Speaker 5: through that decision? What to reopen Alcatraz?
Speaker 2: How will you get it?
Speaker 5: How did you come up with the idea.
Speaker 6: I guess I was supposed to be a movie maker.
Speaker 6: We're talking about we started with the movie making will End.
Speaker 6: I mean it represents something.
Speaker 2: So hold on, we started with the movie making will End.
Speaker 4: So talking about the tariff thing right before.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's talking about the tariff thing that we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about in a moment where he was like
Speaker 2: tear making tip. But what does that happen to do
Speaker 2: with alcatraz I think he's like trying. He's this is
Speaker 2: Trump jazz, this is Trump poetry, where he's like being
Speaker 2: like with I'm in touch with like the cinematic elements
Speaker 2: of like he does something to talk about. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: goes on to talk about like its power as an image,
Speaker 2: which is interesting.
Speaker 4: That's also true, but there's also funny because he a
Speaker 4: lot of these guys did want to be movie makers. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think them, well he got shut out and everything. Okay,
Speaker 4: so this is so he's making it so in his head,
Speaker 4: he's making a little movie.
Speaker 1: I think. So let's okay, that's a charitable uh sort
Speaker 1: of analysis. Let him go on, he should I should
Speaker 1: have been a movie made. Then the movie I guess
Speaker 1: that was supposed to be a movie maker. I guess
Speaker 1: one more time movie maker. Let's let's just hear it
Speaker 1: again that you decide.
Speaker 5: To reopen Alcatraz. Can you walk us through that decision?
Speaker 5: What to reopen Alcatraz? How will you use it? How
Speaker 5: did you come up with the I?
Speaker 6: I guess I was supposed to be a movie maker.
Speaker 6: We're talking about we started with the movie making, or
Speaker 6: we'll end. I mean it represents something very.
Speaker 1: So Okay, I think he was saying it must be
Speaker 1: that the press conference was about the movie making. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and now he's booked, and I think he said and
Speaker 1: will end. I think he's trying to say that he's bookend.
Speaker 2: With movie talk. Yeah, okay, it's it's a gum.
Speaker 4: Is a Dan Harmon story cycle.
Speaker 1: He's going to student. Yeah, He's like, I'm actually more
Speaker 1: of the Joseph Campbell ver. I YEA Harmon took a
Speaker 1: lot of liberties with that, and they think he's a genius.
Speaker 4: But you know, not everything has to mean something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, strong, very powerful in terms of law and order.
Speaker 6: Our country needs law and order. Alcatraz is I would
Speaker 6: say the ultimate right, Alcatraz sing sing and Alcatraz movies.
Speaker 1: But the movie it's right now a museum.
Speaker 6: Believe it in a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Go there, wait, wait, I can't believe it. I believe
Speaker 2: you able to believe that I'm here. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: just like that's great affility to believe it for anyone
Speaker 2: that he's just learning as like it new to everybody else,
Speaker 2: and they're saying, it's a a museum.
Speaker 1: Now, believe it.
Speaker 2: Like that that is the pretext of the Rock, like
Speaker 2: the movie that we're all talking about, and assuming that
Speaker 2: he saw and like gave him the idea for this,
Speaker 2: the pretext is it's a museum now, Like that's the
Speaker 2: whole Everybody knows it's a museum, to the point that
Speaker 2: Michael Bay didn't feel the need to explain that it's
Speaker 2: a museum, and it was like, it's a museum.
Speaker 1: There is taken over, Yeah, deal with it.
Speaker 2: So I married an ax Berger, also an iconic as
Speaker 2: we mentioned, like a big scene that takes place at
Speaker 2: the Alcatraz Museum. But yeah, I think he's just his
Speaker 2: brain is not drawing necessarily on the nineties movies. I
Speaker 2: think it's like the seventies. I really think it's like
Speaker 2: Escape from Alcatraz mixed with like a coloring book picture
Speaker 2: of a jail cell on an island with a bunch
Speaker 2: of sharks circling it. Yeah, you know this would have
Speaker 2: been like that's the level of like a children's coloring place,
Speaker 2: Matt at a Caro's restaurant, you know, in the Bay Area,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, old, can you color around the sharks
Speaker 2: around Alcatraz? I mean yeah, even in the rock there's
Speaker 2: the guy when they when when they get put in
Speaker 2: the cell, that one guys goes, man.
Speaker 1: What kind of fucked up tour isness? And still great?
Speaker 1: Sure he goes on. Though there's there's a lot more.
Speaker 1: It's a very powerful image, okay, And I believe it
Speaker 1: or not, it's a museum and also dilapidated.
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know.
Speaker 6: This, and nobody ever escaped. One person almost got there.
Speaker 1: But that's not true. Three people access and found again,
Speaker 1: but okay, sorry to fact check.
Speaker 6: They as you know the story, they found his clothing
Speaker 6: rather badly ripped up, and it was a lot of
Speaker 6: shark bites, a lot of a lot of problems. Nobody's
Speaker 6: ever escaped from Alcatraz, and.
Speaker 2: You know, they found his clothing badly ripped up and
Speaker 2: it was a lot of shark bites, a lot of
Speaker 2: how many shark bites at least a few packs? How
Speaker 2: big was this shirt?
Speaker 1: Remberme those candies from the eighties, we used to shark bites.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was tiny sharks. They like hundreds of bites.
Speaker 4: They only eat shark bites.
Speaker 1: A lot of problems that even like the guy got
Speaker 1: so bit up. He's like, oh man, a lot of
Speaker 1: problems with that dead body that.
Speaker 2: Jail. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Wait, that's funny too. It sounds like the way he talks,
Speaker 4: it sounds like he's talking about a guy named al Katrazz,
Speaker 4: tough guy made a prison.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He then goes on to reiterate the stupid ass point.
Speaker 1: He's like, and then we're gonna do it a lot bigger,
Speaker 1: a lot of big expanded on a an island with
Speaker 1: very limited square footage. You're gonna somehow expand the anyway.
Speaker 1: So it stood out it's just like one of those
Speaker 1: things too, because Stephen Miller also went on TV to
Speaker 1: try and defend it and just was like so bad
Speaker 1: at that.
Speaker 2: He was just doing the same.
Speaker 1: Like Stephen Miller's angle was more like, we need to
Speaker 1: do this to scare the ship out of evil people
Speaker 1: who will never anything more than murderers. And that's why
Speaker 1: Alcatraz is a great symbol. Like he was trying to
Speaker 1: pivot that. It's like, it's not that he thinks it's
Speaker 1: functionally great, but as a as an icon, it's great
Speaker 1: to scare. What do you remembering seeing the movies?
Speaker 4: Remember when Alcatraz was was in operation, no one was
Speaker 4: murdering anybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, it was America and still it was the
Speaker 2: fifties and sixties and seventies when murder was at an
Speaker 2: all time low.
Speaker 4: No one was murdering. There weren't even And it's not
Speaker 4: like anyone's going around and murdering multiple people and not getting.
Speaker 1: Away whatever in the Bay Area.
Speaker 4: No, never, hear No, I never heard of that.
Speaker 2: I never heard of that, not on Alcatraz.
Speaker 1: Watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, murdering people with Alcatraz in the background, the fucking
Speaker 2: Zodiac killers killing people with Alcatraz is the background.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's also the height of like murder in the United States.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, what why this guy's look? Why
Speaker 1: you why you pok in front of a senile old
Speaker 1: man that has no business being president of the United
Speaker 1: States of America. Should I should go easier and he
Speaker 1: just trump just goes man, you should really be punching
Speaker 1: up jack. Really, that's right.
Speaker 4: That's how you get that's how you get out of alcatraze.
Speaker 4: You gotta you gotta punch up through the soil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, with a plastic spoon, and you can
Speaker 1: eat away at the concrete walls.
Speaker 4: And then you can actually you can actually write a
Speaker 4: shark to see right, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sharks are bad prison guards. They don't give a
Speaker 2: fuck about people. They aren't that like despite again, like
Speaker 2: this is from the quicksand image, how the world it's like.
Speaker 2: And then they have hungry sharks that are circling the island.
Speaker 2: He really believes that.
Speaker 1: Thunder with the James Bond classic Thunderball, you know, Emilio
Speaker 1: Largo had all those sharks around there. That's why.
Speaker 4: So I spent some time watching some Mike Myers movies
Speaker 4: this weekend, and I've got some ideas about multiple ideas.
Speaker 1: There should be a guy called fat Bastard that's yours.
Speaker 4: That's a good day.
Speaker 1: Sure, he's Scottish and he scares them. And then one
Speaker 1: guy who eats dead skin that'd be cool, called him
Speaker 1: gold Member. But anyway, this is his idea. We'll see
Speaker 1: where this goes. I feel like it's like everything he'll
Speaker 1: say it maybe mean it. Maybe it's a distraction. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's a distraction of the fact that tariffs are on
Speaker 1: the horizon and are going to absolutely.
Speaker 2: Make a ton of money. Right, Oh yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So this is another thing he's been While he's been
Speaker 1: saying stuff like Alcatraz and I'm gonna tariff the movies,
Speaker 1: he's also been saying stuff like we're collecting more revenue
Speaker 1: from tariffs than Sleepy Joe Biden ever did. And he's
Speaker 1: basically Okay, this is this is all on the horizon.
Speaker 1: Just just to put everything into perspective, right, there was
Speaker 1: the ninety day pause on tariffs Trump announced in April.
Speaker 1: That's gonna end on July eighth. And trade deals take
Speaker 1: months to put together, and many people were like, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to put together some new trade deals because
Speaker 1: like the other version is he just goes never mind,
Speaker 1: and that is he at least wants to have deals
Speaker 1: that he's made, and a lot of economists are like
Speaker 1: that takes months, in some cases years to flesh out.
Speaker 2: So any quote unquote deals deals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's why they say, like, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of economists are just being like they want to
Speaker 1: add the caveat there, like any perceived deal that he
Speaker 1: could make would likely lack the kind of complexity and
Speaker 1: thought that would actually end up being any kind of
Speaker 1: measurable win for the United States. So people like Hannity
Speaker 1: and Trump are talking up again amazing revenues that we're
Speaker 1: picking up and we're winning because of all this fucking
Speaker 1: tariff revenue. So just let's break the claim down for
Speaker 1: like one second. Trump has been bragging right that we're
Speaker 1: on course to collect over two hundred billion dollars in
Speaker 1: tariff revenue in twenty twenty five. And that's important because
Speaker 1: the whole reason Trump is obsessed with tariffs is because
Speaker 1: he's like, I like William mca Hindley, who was a
Speaker 1: terrible president who also loved tariffs. He coulds here, this
Speaker 1: is all a part of an effort to replace the
Speaker 1: IRS and get rid of income tax because that will
Speaker 1: be replaced with tariffs. That's the whole reason he's like,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great, we won't even need income tax
Speaker 1: anymore because everyone is going to be bankrolling our shit now.
Speaker 1: Two hundred billion dollars is the most we would collect
Speaker 1: this year. In twenty twenty four, the IRS collected two
Speaker 1: point four trillion dollars in income taxes alone, So how
Speaker 1: thats more right? I'm not great with math, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know B comes before T. Yeah, and you would
Speaker 1: think it's better alphabetically, but the T that's better. Actually
Speaker 1: two point two point four t trillion dollars very much
Speaker 1: a lot of money. So apparently he thinks he's gonna
Speaker 1: ten x that tariff to get to two point if
Speaker 1: he's claim he's like, we're about to get two hundred Okay,
Speaker 1: how do you get to two point four trillion? Because
Speaker 1: that's not gonna work. Oh that's right, because he's dumb
Speaker 1: and this makes no sense, and he's an old senile
Speaker 1: like fuck with whose best ideas come from other people's
Speaker 1: worst ideas. So please note the statistic to any like
Speaker 1: Maga person you talk to who thinks the tariffs will
Speaker 1: do anything except ruin this already fucked economy. It's like, okay, sure,
Speaker 1: two hundred billion, how do you get to two point
Speaker 1: four trillion?
Speaker 2: I do some very strong research.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, even beyond that. It's like I just saw
Speaker 4: something where the first shipments since all this started arrived
Speaker 4: in La gets everything first because it's closer to China.
Speaker 4: So it's like we just got the first shipment and
Speaker 4: it's like something like half full, like or not even
Speaker 4: half full.
Speaker 2: They say, yeah, it's sixty percent.
Speaker 1: Every week it's like volumes down thirty percent, thirty percent.
Speaker 1: This week the Port of La said it's down sixty percent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's like, yeah, at a certain point, it'll
Speaker 4: just be like they we won't need to do research
Speaker 4: or whatever. People would just be like I can't buy anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, And that's a huge thing.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are wondering, is will actually end
Speaker 1: up being the radicalizing event for MAGA people or will
Speaker 1: they dig down deeper because you know, like the pandemic,
Speaker 1: they didn't seem to give a fuck about like anything.
Speaker 2: They just created a new reality.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm like, what is that gonna happen? Although
Speaker 1: I feel like consumerism is like just part of the
Speaker 1: DNA of American society, Like so many people measure like
Speaker 1: how their life is going based on how much shit
Speaker 1: they can buy or how cheap shit is. So I
Speaker 1: think at the very least the people who aren't completely
Speaker 1: like maga to them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they'll peel off.
Speaker 1: They'll probably peel off, and then yeah, you'll probably get
Speaker 1: these other people like, actually, I love that gasoline? Is
Speaker 1: seven fifty a gallon? Have we like boiled it down?
Speaker 2: Isn't it just like the pure fucking like iron or mega.
Speaker 2: At this point, it's like forty percent of the population,
Speaker 2: they've just like been there through all of it, and
Speaker 2: they're just like, I don't give a fuck. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: just decide what I think is good based from what
Speaker 2: he says.
Speaker 1: Yes, but I think the difference is now there's definitely
Speaker 1: a crop of people who are like trying to appeal
Speaker 1: to the president, like on the internet, who are like,
Speaker 1: at President, I supported you every election. I'm like, my
Speaker 1: small business cannot survive ninety days of it of like anything,
Speaker 1: what do I do. That's the part where I think,
Speaker 1: like the culture war grievances, I don't know if there'll
Speaker 1: be enough to like offset the material realities that people
Speaker 1: are facing. And that's the interesting I guess experiment or
Speaker 1: whatever weird shock wave we're about to see what happens.
Speaker 4: And not to not to talk up Florida, because I
Speaker 4: know I was just bagging on it. But last time
Speaker 4: I was home, and I'm from a pretty conservative part
Speaker 4: of the state, I saw protests and it was fucking
Speaker 4: fucking eighty five degrees as hot as hell, and there
Speaker 4: are people out there. President. I'm like, if people are
Speaker 4: protesting and this part of Florida like that is bad,
Speaker 4: that's saying something. That is saying something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of the stop the all Guarchy tour,
Speaker 2: like sold out arenas are in like those areas that
Speaker 2: would seem to be deep red and yeah, and as
Speaker 2: I made reference to the very wrong, the very strong
Speaker 2: research he's doing, very wrong st research is a reference
Speaker 2: to his Hollywood tariffs, which, as we talked about on
Speaker 2: yesterday's Trending, aren't a think like can't happen are illegal?
Speaker 2: Which tariff ghosts. Yeah, it's basically that it's like they
Speaker 2: there's a law from nineteen eighty eight that's like you specifically,
Speaker 2: like they passed a law explicitly barring the president from
Speaker 2: regulating in any way the import or export of things
Speaker 2: like movies, books, and music. So I think it's the
Speaker 2: very strong research he did, as we covered on yesterday's Trending,
Speaker 2: was just like talking to John Voight and the head
Speaker 2: of John Voight's production company. Yeah, and the head of
Speaker 2: the production company was like, I don't know, man, he
Speaker 2: he took like phrases from.
Speaker 1: What we said.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he took like the ten words on either side
Speaker 2: of tariff and then just cut out all other context.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he's a genius. So that's how we're going
Speaker 2: to pay for it is by imaginary tariffs that are
Speaker 2: legally impossible. Yeah, let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 2: be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back.
Speaker 2: We're And it's been a badge a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: abroad for Trump supporters.
Speaker 7: I'd say, yeah, your supporters abroad, supporters abroad, people who
Speaker 7: are like the goofiest people ever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know you're come over here. It's over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we've I've seen this reflected. And you know,
Speaker 2: the people who are even remotely associated with Trump losing
Speaker 2: badly in elections in Canada and Australia, who like that
Speaker 2: their opponents will make up wise about them to make
Speaker 2: them seem more Trump friendly. That's how bad it's gotten, right.
Speaker 2: But anyways, we wanted to check out, check in with
Speaker 2: like a person who is like pro Maga because those
Speaker 2: exist too.
Speaker 1: It's not just.
Speaker 2: People doing like the political politically expedient thingy. They also
Speaker 2: have supporters there who are like, yeah, man, that's what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. You know, They're just they just happen
Speaker 2: to be like fifteen percent of the population instead of forty.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people they're like, man, I'm racist,
Speaker 1: but I get too much shit wearing my Nazi stuff.
Speaker 1: So this Maga hat gives me a little bit more
Speaker 1: cover and we get to wink at each other. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this guy in Sydney, Australia decided to have a Maga cafe. No,
Speaker 1: and like, so this guy, so first he has a
Speaker 1: blatant Maga cafe and then that went under and then
Speaker 1: he waited a few years and then tried another cafe
Speaker 1: and soft mag at it. And so just to start
Speaker 1: off right, the first one that failed, uh happened when
Speaker 1: like he closed it in twenty twenty because he was
Speaker 1: quote involved in a series of internet controversies in which
Speaker 1: he called a.
Speaker 2: Community member a homophobic slur.
Speaker 1: He also declared his cafe a Donald Trump safe zone,
Speaker 1: which served pancakes with quote a side of racism.
Speaker 2: But that was from him that wasn't somebody saying that
Speaker 2: about him? That was like their claim, Oh that's him.
Speaker 1: Being like this is a this is a Donald Trump
Speaker 1: scife Zarren and we have pancakes or the sought of racism, Like.
Speaker 8: I was like, what does it makes anything you say
Speaker 8: feel like yeah, we're pro racism, Like they just don't
Speaker 8: usually come out and say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, but I'm saying that's where these people
Speaker 1: have it so fucked up in their minds, like I
Speaker 1: don't know, dude, this guy's the president over there and
Speaker 1: American stuff seems to be cool. I guess maybe this
Speaker 1: is covered for my racism. So yeah. Then basically after
Speaker 1: the place closed, he blamed the quote left left wing
Speaker 1: fake vegan community for the closure, telling those who criticize
Speaker 1: his attitude to quote go fuck yourself. So now he's
Speaker 1: got his newest place. It was a place called Bueno
Speaker 1: and again, unfortunately a very progressive part of Sydney and
Speaker 1: people did not forget that this guy was a maga
Speaker 1: asshole and just trying to open a new spot. This
Speaker 1: place now closed only six weeks after opening, and this
Speaker 1: time he blamed Snowflakes for the failing of the venture.
Speaker 1: So when like this time, I think he learned that
Speaker 1: he should keep his mouth shut and just like maybe
Speaker 1: don't talk about the mega stuff, And he kind of
Speaker 1: did that. When he was asked when this new place
Speaker 1: reopened about like how he said gay people weren't welcome
Speaker 1: at his last eatery and like how homophobic he was,
Speaker 1: he claimed that those were childish comments and those opinions quote,
Speaker 1: he does not hold them today.
Speaker 2: That sounds like you can trust him on that one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I feel like he's learned his lessons. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Cut to him trying to give away free coffee, the
Speaker 1: people boycotting the place, and he shut down his post
Speaker 1: announcing the shutdown. He just goes full mask off, homophobe, transphobe. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is like, this is a KO announcement for the
Speaker 1: business that close. Quote we closed. Yeah, we can't survive
Speaker 1: in an area where people can't figure out if they
Speaker 1: are male, female, dogs or cats. Unfortunately, the owner's views
Speaker 1: in parentheses his own. He puts his own name because
Speaker 1: he's running this thing. Mark DaCosta are simple, you got
Speaker 1: a dick, you're a male. You got a muff, you're
Speaker 1: a female. That's what he's posting in this fucking thing
Speaker 1: about announcing that his fucking restaurant closed. Then goes on
Speaker 1: what you think you are should be respected, but you
Speaker 1: cannot force that upon others. You must equally have respect
Speaker 1: for what other people believe to be truth, even though
Speaker 1: you're actively denying other this. Wait, so it's not reciprocal.
Speaker 1: It's like, let me say my backwards shit, don't push
Speaker 1: back and and everything, and you have to eat food exactly.
Speaker 4: But it's all it's all coming from a guy that's
Speaker 4: in the wrong place. Like this is location, location, location,
Speaker 4: do this in.
Speaker 9: Himself somewhere you'll be rich. We're probably like five blocks
Speaker 9: over in Sydney. Yeah, like like Australia is not a
Speaker 9: fucking progressive hub.
Speaker 2: Like there's play I've seen some commercials over there. There's
Speaker 2: like wildly racist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's they can find. Look, you'll always find your
Speaker 1: racist there. I think he was just trying to have
Speaker 1: his racist cake and eat it too. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to be in like the Poppin area
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I know we have Ozzie's Eye gang.
Speaker 1: Let me know if that Saint Peter's area is as
Speaker 1: progressive as they are reporting in the news. But that
Speaker 1: seems to be one thing I hear over and over again.
Speaker 1: And then so he goes on he said this is
Speaker 1: the best part. He goes on to pivot to promote
Speaker 1: his shitty music. Oh, so he goes on me the
Speaker 1: owner parenthetical again. Mark Acosta ex Australian Idol two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven. He's finally releasing a song under the rock
Speaker 1: and roll name Marcus black Bed, titled only a Lie.
Speaker 1: I encourage you quea freaks to have a listen. Don't
Speaker 1: confuse gay with quia please. Quia's are confused and angry.
Speaker 1: Gays are happy and normal, and then put Instagram to
Speaker 1: his music at Marcus Blackbird Music.
Speaker 2: Oh myles, do we have to listen to this? I
Speaker 2: feel like we need to check out this guy.
Speaker 1: I there he I've sadly I did go to the
Speaker 1: Marcus Blackbird and it's really age you watch. Actually, I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear it. It doesn't even like there's
Speaker 1: not even lyrics. When I listened to it, I'm like,
Speaker 1: is this an AI backing track? Like the quality was
Speaker 1: so weird that I'm like, is this real guitars or
Speaker 1: what AI thinks get ours are? And I wouldn't put
Speaker 1: it past him. But it's just funny that he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm putting the magat. He even said when he opened this,
Speaker 1: like I'm over twenty twenty in the Donald Trump stuff,
Speaker 1: but in this post where he's saying, like fuck all
Speaker 1: of you, he's wearing a Maga hat and giving fucking
Speaker 1: double barrels like.
Speaker 2: A Donald Trump T shirt where Donald Trump doesn't have
Speaker 2: a shirt on and looks like he's like tatted up
Speaker 2: like bieber tatted it up, but also like obese, like
Speaker 2: one of the guys from Dune two, like coming.
Speaker 1: Like an oar math.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he looks like a like is that cool?
Speaker 1: I feel like it's Donald Trump. That's cool enough to
Speaker 1: these people. But yeah, they I just there. I found there.
Speaker 2: So he won Australian Idol, because that would have been
Speaker 2: the implication miles of that the most it sounded like,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Australian Australian idol and copy and how do you do
Speaker 1: on the blog? Joe my god, they dug up the
Speaker 1: clip from him on there. Oh no, I he can
Speaker 1: he can kind of sing, I'll give him that. But
Speaker 1: the most memorable part was this opening package about Mark
Speaker 1: DaCosta as a as like a contestant was that he
Speaker 1: got stage fright. Mark DaCosta has been a face on
Speaker 1: the Sydney Music saying for years, but he flew under
Speaker 1: the writar in his first audition You need.
Speaker 2: A Baby, I'm not fooling in the.
Speaker 8: Lines of ten, Mark had an uncharacteristic attack of stage fright.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, they are stretch if anyone says in.
Speaker 2: Look at the look too. He's wearing a baby tea
Speaker 2: with like a black scarf, just like kind of folded set.
Speaker 4: His idols for Liam Gallagher and Jet hire Band Jet
Speaker 4: my idol.
Speaker 1: Yet I want to be an entire group of people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to be that iPod commercial. That's me. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just wild. They're like again, they're like terrible case
Speaker 1: of strange states, right, He's like absolute paralysis. He goes
Speaker 1: on to like perform or whatever. But that just stuck
Speaker 1: out out to me because, like you were saying, I
Speaker 1: like so many of these MAGA shit heads are like
Speaker 1: failed artists. Yeah, and this exact sort of art kind
Speaker 1: of reminds me of Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boring at
Speaker 1: The Daily Shapiro because they're both they were both film guys.
Speaker 1: Shapiro was trying to write scripts and like had a
Speaker 1: represent like a rep who got him like meetings and stuff.
Speaker 1: But everyone's like, is this the guy who's writing those
Speaker 1: like weird in Cell books where he calls Christina Aguilera
Speaker 1: like a whore? Like, nah, we're good on this guy.
Speaker 1: You hear him talk about wicked and like he's like
Speaker 1: very incisive and like cutting and he like he has
Speaker 1: he's like the the critic in Ratitui, you know, like
Speaker 1: he's just like he has hatred in his heart because
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to do the thing that he loves.
Speaker 1: Oh oh that's like the character is like, yeah, they
Speaker 1: couldn't do therefore I'm a critic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, therefore he's a critic and who is like mean
Speaker 2: to everybody because he like you know that hates food
Speaker 2: for some reason.
Speaker 1: Right Yeah. But like ye, it's funny too because then
Speaker 1: the Daily Wire had their whole streaming service like thing
Speaker 1: that they unleashed or like movies, remember they had like Run, Shoot, Hide,
Speaker 1: and like there was like these other movies they were
Speaker 1: putting out. That thing completely failed, and then they just
Speaker 1: blamed transgender people for that. Yeah, Like that's a Jeremy
Speaker 1: Boarding question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in that post where he's blaming trans people for
Speaker 2: the failure of his cafe, what did you think they
Speaker 2: were doing? And what does Ben Shapiro think they're doing
Speaker 2: to stop his movie from being.
Speaker 1: It's pidler with people guessing it's the coordination. People get
Speaker 1: organized and they boycott your fucking business.
Speaker 4: But that's also crazy because also these are the companies
Speaker 4: that do what they call it astro turfing. Sure, it's
Speaker 4: like they'll do like basically it's like a GoFundMe for
Speaker 4: their like conservative movie, but really it's just they take
Speaker 4: all that money and they buy tickets so that the
Speaker 4: as are sold, but then you go in the movie
Speaker 4: theater and there's like no one in there actually watching
Speaker 4: the movie.
Speaker 2: Well, the entire movement is astro turfed from billionaires like
Speaker 2: not billionaires, like billionaires pay for the only reason that
Speaker 2: we've heard of any of these fucking people is because
Speaker 2: the fucking Cooke brothers at a certain point where like
Speaker 2: we need to create a whole right wing media apparatus.
Speaker 4: And I forgot about the Koch brothers.
Speaker 1: That's how far we are now.
Speaker 2: The yeah, I mean was it. Steve Bannon also failed like.
Speaker 4: He was successful. He's he's pretty Seinfeld. His name's on
Speaker 4: Seinfeld episode.
Speaker 2: He did, but like he also when he tried to
Speaker 2: like write his thing, that was like his vision was
Speaker 2: a rap musical about the La Riots. That amazing, amazing,
Speaker 2: Oh god, because he I think what was it?
Speaker 1: He got a steak in like Castle Rock who was producing.
Speaker 1: It was just business. It was just busy, like he
Speaker 1: didn't Yeah, he didn't have anything new thing creative to do.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you just like see.
Speaker 4: He came up with the Summer of George.
Speaker 1: He's like actually, he's like, my therapist has been telling
Speaker 1: me to just ignore my.
Speaker 2: First instinct and save the planet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is like yeah. But there was like another
Speaker 1: interview with an Australian newspaper and the way this thing
Speaker 1: is written was just funny because apparently he got hostile
Speaker 1: with the woman who was asking him about the closure
Speaker 1: of the place. He said. In a statement to news
Speaker 1: dot com dot Au, mister DaCosta said Newton was infested
Speaker 1: with rats and hairy men. What a shit hole. Releasing
Speaker 1: a song about it in June so that you can
Speaker 1: be offended by it. Fucking snowflakes, a lot of them,
Speaker 1: he wrote before calling this author a bitchs wow, I'm
Speaker 1: just angry to like see be able to watch the
Speaker 1: song like he has a song in his heart and
Speaker 1: then you get to see it die as he like
Speaker 1: fails in America, Australia idol and then fucking cut, cut
Speaker 1: cut two fifteen years later and he's like, you're all
Speaker 1: fucking relph flakes. Oh really, the guy who couldn't get
Speaker 1: his ship together in an audition, who wouldn't know a
Speaker 1: genius if you if it came up and bit you,
Speaker 1: snowflakes the load, yeah, like yeah, all right, I gotta go,
Speaker 1: you Bach, Like is that how the phone Like I'm
Speaker 1: just curious how that conversation ended or the author or
Speaker 1: the journalist is like after calling.
Speaker 4: This author, I'm just thinking of him like later alone,
Speaker 4: blasting that like are you gonna be my girl? And
Speaker 4: he's just sobbing, just.
Speaker 2: Shob today was gone.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, oh wow, Wonderwall just looking in the mirror,
Speaker 1: tears streaming down his face. Then he'll then he'll do
Speaker 1: cold play so he can actually sing.
Speaker 2: Tears stream down your face. M m mmmm.
Speaker 1: You hate to see it and you love to see it.
Speaker 1: I think an important lesson, don't Yeah, very important. Stop
Speaker 1: magging around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just move on to doing something else.
Speaker 1: Don't don't be a regular racist in your town and
Speaker 1: just fucking have to exist in varying levels of shame
Speaker 1: depending on where you live.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, good advice, be a regular racist.
Speaker 1: Just be a regular racist. You know, an old school
Speaker 1: one who was just who was scared of people of color.
Speaker 1: I miss those days they get away, get away.
Speaker 2: Well, Alan Striggling Williams, what a pleasure having you back
Speaker 2: on the daily Zeitgeist. Thanks for having people find you,
Speaker 2: follow you, hear you all that good stuff.
Speaker 4: I'm Alan stugglel wings dot com. You can order my
Speaker 4: album on vinyl there. All the links to streaming are
Speaker 4: there as well by digitally at Tooley Allen on x Twitter,
Speaker 4: Alan Strigawans on Instagram. Love to see out there, guys.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me. This is really fun.
Speaker 2: Oh man, always great having you. Where can people? Is
Speaker 2: there a work of media that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I was going to say physical media. I've
Speaker 4: been reading Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. I'm a big Sally
Speaker 4: Rooney guy. I'm not done with it yet, but I'm
Speaker 4: about like just kind of halfway through it great read
Speaker 4: if you like Sally Rooney. If you don't check out
Speaker 4: Normal People Beautiful World, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Nice, good stuff, you have to check out some Sally
Speaker 2: Rooney miles. Where can people find you as their working media.
Speaker 1: You've been enjoying? Oh man, just everywhere at miles of Gray.
Speaker 2: You can find me and Jack on.
Speaker 1: The basketball podcasts and Jack got mad and then you
Speaker 1: can find me talking ninety on four to twenty Day Fiance.
Speaker 1: Just fucking June Juniper dot Beer Blue Sky posted, so
Speaker 1: the GTA six trailer came out and naturally, like fucking maggot,
Speaker 1: people don't even know what to fucking do anymore, Like
Speaker 1: this is like one of the most popular video games ever,
Speaker 1: and June like just posted something. It's like a tweet
Speaker 1: that just had like the characters, like if that were
Speaker 1: revealing the characters from the game. And then the replies
Speaker 1: just like these maga replies. One just said if the
Speaker 1: game is anti cop, I'm not playing. Another one said
Speaker 1: this story looks anti cop.
Speaker 2: It's like have you played Grand Theft Auto.
Speaker 1: The most thing people do is attack the police to
Speaker 1: try to get a five star wanted level and then
Speaker 1: try and avoid the police. The whole time, and that's
Speaker 1: where America went wrong, you know, yeah, exactly GT. Three
Speaker 1: that we can all it all goes back to GTA three.
Speaker 1: So again, I'm just always amazed at this. Looks anti cop.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is.
Speaker 2: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore Brian
Speaker 2: and on Blue Sky at Jack Obie the number one
Speaker 2: on Blue Sky, and I was enjoying. Becca Laurie retweeted
Speaker 2: excerpt from a New Yorker profile of Bill Deblasio or
Speaker 2: It's a New Yorker piece about like why can't New
Speaker 2: York have normal good mayors? And there's just this part
Speaker 2: where they like meet up with Bill Deblasia, former mayor,
Speaker 2: and they meet him. He's coming from the gym, going
Speaker 2: to his favorite little breakfast spot, and I just want
Speaker 2: to read this excerpt. He held forth among his fellow
Speaker 2: patrons with a spirit of magnanimous possibly unreciprocated, unreciprocated camaraderie,
Speaker 2: greeting a startled man by the door with a familiar
Speaker 2: how you doing, brother, Oh no no, and ordering his
Speaker 2: breakfast scrambled egg whites cheddar ham and tomato and malta
Speaker 2: grand toast as me sandwich especial. These days Deblasio. Deblasio
Speaker 2: most often makes the news for his love life or
Speaker 2: for such momentous moves as dyeing his salt and pepper
Speaker 2: crew cut, but he sensed a bit of Deblasio nostalgia
Speaker 2: creeping into town since I left office. The number one
Speaker 2: thing people come up to me on the street and
Speaker 2: talk about is pre k, he told me, lacing his
Speaker 2: ice espresso with a heavy pore of simple syrup. The
Speaker 2: number two thing that people talk about is that Onion headline.
Speaker 2: He quoted it for me, savoring every word. Well, well, well,
Speaker 2: not so easy to find a mayor that doesn't suck ship. Huh,
Speaker 2: that's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's a paragraph home. My god, I need to see
Speaker 1: that door man. Please tell me that doormail was black.
Speaker 1: That he say, you know, brother, that that's that's that's
Speaker 1: a that's especially like trying to create common ground, out
Speaker 1: of touch white guy thing to say. So like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got this.
Speaker 2: New Yorker profile with me.
Speaker 1: Let me uh, let me seem like a man that
Speaker 1: has confused hands, just like puts his pinky out like
Speaker 1: the profile is around is from the Around City Hall section.
Speaker 2: It's from Eric Locke l A. C. H So we'll
Speaker 2: link off to that in the footnotes. You can find
Speaker 2: us on Twitter and blue Sky at daily Zeit. Guys
Speaker 2: were at the daily Zeit guist. On Instagram. You can
Speaker 2: go to the description of the episode wherever you're listening
Speaker 2: to it, and you can find footnotes where we link
Speaker 2: off to the information we talked about in today's episode.
Speaker 2: We also link off to a song we think you
Speaker 2: might enjoy, Miles, is there a song that I think
Speaker 2: people might enjoy?
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 1: Sandwich should get you someere summarily executed in the street.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's for whatever. That one I can't shake
Speaker 1: from you know me? Sandwich especially, I'm sorry, we don't
Speaker 1: that's not on the menu. Sorry, what did you want?
Speaker 1: Who are you? Scrambled egg, whites cheddar ham and tomato
Speaker 1: and multi grain toast basic or just say that sandwich especially?
Speaker 4: Shut up?
Speaker 1: De Blasio?
Speaker 4: Also, why is that me tortaise? But he can't say
Speaker 4: torta like he's got.
Speaker 1: Come on, that's that's it, the man of the people. Yeah, famous,
Speaker 1: it's not fancy, this is it's it's fitting that this
Speaker 1: song is going out on the like a Mexican artist.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's like the what's what's ther? What
Speaker 1: the fuck is homegirl's name?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Rosalia like like from what like what Rosalie is to
Speaker 1: like Spanish music? This girl, as Stevie is like this
Speaker 1: Mexican girl. She's bringing Cumbia like in this like modern way.
Speaker 1: It's really dope. I really fuck with it. Uh, I
Speaker 1: think just being an angel, you know, like you hear
Speaker 1: this music ambiently, but this is like this.
Speaker 2: Younger version feels great.
Speaker 1: The track is called un eror you n e r
Speaker 1: r o r ooon error, which one era might be
Speaker 1: calling your fucking toast, uh, you know, scrambled egg toast
Speaker 1: me sandwich especial. But this is a dope track from
Speaker 1: stev E s t e v i E un error.
Speaker 1: It's just again giving you that giving you that modern
Speaker 1: Cumbia flavor. So shout out to Stevie and put this
Speaker 1: one into your earphones.
Speaker 2: Uh, your earphones, especial.
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