There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.
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episode 4: Luigi Merch Madness? RFK Wants Justice For His Uncle Jack 12.12.24
In episode 1791, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Blake Wexler, to discuss... Books And Jackets Fly Off The Shelves Following Luigi Mangione’s Arrest, Was RFK’s MAGA Turn All About Getting Justice for His Uncle Jack? Kids Are Being Forced To Say Goodbye To “Dying” A.I...
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Speaker 1
Do kids still do the thing where they take like
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their utensils and pound them on the table like we
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want to eat?
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Speaker 2
Do you remember doing ship like this? In here? Kids like.
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Speaker 1
Memories, we want to do kids.
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Speaker 3
I'm kind of thinking about all the things that I
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used to do that I'm wondering if that's still preserved
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in this modern era.
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Speaker 2
My dad would slap the ship out of my hands.
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Speaker 1
No, no, no, I did not do that. No no,
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I mean it was for fun. Never, I don't. I
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never do that in my own home.
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Speaker 2
We would do that in school.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2
It was we would the teachers come on.
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Speaker 4
One of my favorite memories is years maybe like three
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or four years ago. We were at like a pretty
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like not a nice nice nice restaurant, but like pretty
00:48
nice like Italian restaurant and.
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Speaker 5
Nice it was.
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Speaker 1
It was back when you.
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Speaker 4
Could get a table, and my wife and I were
01:00
sitting now, wife and I were sitting there, and then
01:02
all of a sudden, we just hear kids chanting as
01:07
the waiter was bringing out pizza, and the parents were
01:09
like scrambling to make them be quiet, and everyone just
01:14
lit up. Yeah, it was such a good energy. Yeah,
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it was great and It's like we should all chant.
01:19
If you're that excited about the food, that's a good sign.
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I mean, that's the way we get healthcare.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah, A bunch of dads come by and slap
01:31
the ship out of us. Yea, take this ship?
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Speaker 1
HOI give me that, give me that fork? But I
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heard that my neck?
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Speaker 2
Yeah? Use why do you have a fork while you're
01:42
asking for healthcare? God stabbed my eye? Yeah?
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Speaker 1
Gun, that's why I have it all right, that's something cool.
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Nailed it.
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Speaker 2
Pod cast pod cast every episode.
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Speaker 6
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Speaker 3
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Speaker 2
Production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take
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a deep dive into America share consciousness. Kind of started
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that one with like the cadence of this is a
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story all about how this podcast dove into the America
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share consciousness. We now have a YouTube channel YouTube slash
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right as pod. You can go check us out one
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episode a week. It's Thursday, December twelfth, twenty twenty four.
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Pearl Harbor Day. Off by five.
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Speaker 1
You're off by four yesterday, guessing until we.
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Speaker 2
Get back to Pearl Harbor Day next year.
02:54
Speaker 3
You're three hundred and sixty two days off and you're like,
02:56
I'm getting close because we're on it. Actually, I feel
03:01
like it's gonna be a Sunday next year, so you're
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gonna keep doing this bit for.
03:04
Speaker 1
At least two more years.
03:06
Speaker 3
And it's National Ambrosia Day, which I s mellow fruit salad. Basically.
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Speaker 2
I think that's right. I think that's what it is.
03:16
That's what I always see. It seem like it's what
03:18
it should be. It's like those colors that are green
03:22
and red that I always have exactly backwards, you know
03:25
what I mean?
03:26
Speaker 1
Right right? Yeah, this is.
03:29
Speaker 3
Just I was just thinking about how this was like
03:31
the sweetest shiit that my like my grandmother would make
03:34
it a holiday meal. And I remember one time trying
03:36
to just eat exclusively ambrosia for a dinner, and that
03:40
that's gonna happen because.
03:41
Speaker 2
It's it's just sweet. It's just sweet.
03:44
Speaker 3
Also, what is it National Dingling Day? There's a photo
03:48
of Santa Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. Dingling's on
03:52
this day? Called the people they haven't heard from in
03:54
a while? Oh wait, what the fuck do this means?
03:56
Just like catching up with the Homies Day?
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Speaker 2
Yeah?
03:58
Speaker 3
Do that do that it's also national points any day
04:00
in gingerbread house day, you heard it?
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Speaker 2
Why they call it Dingling's Day? I don't know, Dingling day,
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ling ring a dinga ding ding ding ding ding ding.
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That's annoying. That's annoyingying So and you don't forget guy. Hey, hey, hey,
04:30
my name is Jack O'Brien. AKA when this dude shot
04:36
that guy three times from behind that Samngione? Oh boy,
04:42
that one's courtesy uh bro's face killer. Also after an
04:47
issue an apology, I miss attributed Luis Jack mang O'Brian
04:53
uh yesterday's aka. That one was courtesy of doctor Mondo PhD.
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Sorry doctor Mondo, PhD for not getting that one correct.
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Speaker 1
Doc Man, Doc man.
05:06
Speaker 2
That's right. This this man Gione guy really seems to
05:10
be in the zeitgeist these days. As we'll talk about,
05:12
I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co
05:15
host mister Miles Red.
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Speaker 7
It's Miles Great a k a huh.
05:29
Speaker 2
Hunt on the beat.
05:30
Speaker 5
He just.
05:35
Speaker 3
Saying that I'm mad, but they still be acto stupid.
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Speaker 2
Got my foot up in.
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Speaker 3
They as gonna push my ankle through it. TDZ is
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us TDZ is us t d Z is us.
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Speaker 2
T d Z is us TZ is us TDZ is us.
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Speaker 3
Goodness, Elsie on salad, thank you so much, and just
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so I can yell just.
05:56
Speaker 2
I love that.
05:57
Speaker 3
And I'm glad that people on YouTube are already making
06:00
pretty good sound alike instrumentals, because.
06:02
Speaker 2
That wasn't even the original one that was sound alike.
06:04
That's a good soundlike. We get the Steard's.
06:08
Speaker 1
Production style is pretty straightforward.
06:10
Speaker 3
So that's the one good thing is for seasoned producers
06:14
to kind of do a copycat beat.
06:15
Speaker 1
Thanks, housey on salad.
06:16
Speaker 2
Thank you, housey on salad. I wonder if a housey
06:20
on salad is possibly ambrosia. Do we think that that
06:24
oh Hou's he on salad will possibly be more on this,
06:28
more on that. At ten Miles were thrilled to be
06:31
joined in our third seat by one of our favorite guests,
06:34
a brilliant comedian, writer, actor his new special Daddy Long Legs.
06:39
You must go watch right now. We'll wait, we'll still
06:42
be here. Actually just wait till after the show. Then
06:45
go watch it. It's on YouTube.
06:46
Speaker 1
Here, let's do an hour long pause so they can
06:49
do it.
06:49
Speaker 2
One of your favorite guests. And yet, on the other hand,
06:52
he's also the coiner of the disgusting phrase plumpers to
06:56
describe his thighs. So you know the world is full
07:00
of contradictions. Please welcome the brilliant, the hilarious, the riding
07:05
of recumbent bike in short shorts. It's Blake Wexler.
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Speaker 4
This is Blake Wexler, aka my plumpers. Bring this gang
07:15
to the yard. And damn right, they're wetter than yours,
07:18
and they're white and thicker than yours. I can plumper you,
07:22
but I'd have to charge. Look got everybody, I'm sex positive,
07:26
now look out before that especially anti sex. That was
07:35
inspired by vanadium silver from the the discord over there.
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Thanks all the liking people who who sent some aks
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aks's is it attorney's General's.
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Speaker 3
Ak They belong to the aks Aks.
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Speaker 4
Of course yes. And Andre Carrolinko for those of you
07:53
who are wondering what a ca stood for?
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Speaker 1
Man, what happened to him? He really he almost he
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had it all.
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Speaker 2
He had it all, and then he started pushing his
08:02
hair forward and nobody could take him seriously. Remember when
08:05
his when his hair chilled, it was such a weird look.
08:08
Speaker 1
It was like it was the worst night of my life.
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Speaker 2
When that happened. This player, this random Russian player, he
08:14
was a real stat sheet stuffer. His name was Andre Kerlinko.
08:18
He wore number forty seven, giving us ak forty seven
08:22
great one of the great nicknames. And then one day
08:24
he just was like, I don't do gel in my
08:27
hair anymore. And his hair just like he looked like
08:31
a twelve year old boy. All the sudme and his
08:34
game fell off too.
08:36
Speaker 3
He looks like he looked like a seventies like he
08:38
would have played alongside like Pistol Pete Maravich or something.
08:42
Speaker 2
Yeah, that was very floppy hair. Yeah.
08:45
Speaker 1
I remember.
08:45
Speaker 4
He also had a very famous wife and she was
08:50
very public about the fact that she gave him a
08:53
hall pass, like like a cheating pass in general. And
08:57
I think this was in twenty thirteen, so way before
09:00
I became sex positive. They were sex positive, and they
09:03
set the trail for people like me to become sex positive.
09:06
Speaker 2
This is all coming back to you now. You didn't
09:08
store that information at the time. It just bounced off
09:11
of you.
09:12
Speaker 1
Yeah, an old journal.
09:19
Speaker 2
Asleep.
09:20
Speaker 3
This is what I was written in ESPN and two
09:22
that six she calls it Andrea's allowance. Once a year
09:26
he can have sex with another woman one night, no affairs,
09:29
no divided loyalty.
09:31
Speaker 1
She can live with that. It was her idea, offered
09:33
as a gift.
09:34
Speaker 2
There it is. Are they doing? Can we can we
09:36
look up whether they're still together.
09:37
Speaker 1
I'm curious they are still together. I believe.
09:39
Speaker 2
Oh hell, fantastic, you love. Shout out Masha and Andre.
09:43
Speaker 5
You know.
09:50
Speaker 2
The bet? All right, Well blame Masha, let me cheat.
09:56
Speaker 8
Hope it's not cheating if she knows about Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, it's.
10:06
Speaker 2
Not all past. It's his little allowance. I like it's
10:09
like infantilizing acause I get to treat him like the
10:13
little boy that he is.
10:14
Speaker 1
There, you go, did you save up your little fuck pennies?
10:17
Speaker 2
Andre?
10:18
Speaker 1
Okay, go ahead, take him to the store.
10:21
Speaker 2
First comes here comes an airplane. The hair out of
10:27
your eyes, you child, Blake. We're going to get to
10:30
know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
10:32
we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the
10:33
things we're talking about. We're going to look at things
10:37
that are flying off the shelves following the tariffs. Not quite. No,
10:43
we are going to talk about I wrote a thing
10:45
about terriffs like two weeks ago and then I just
10:47
forgot to do it on the show. So we might talk.
10:53
We might talk about that. We might just keep not
10:55
talking about it. We will talk about these things that
10:58
are flying off the shelves because dang Luigi Manngoni. Uh.
11:02
This guy's dang fucking influencer with the kids these days.
11:06
Luigi is he's dropping names unlike most assassed.
11:10
Speaker 1
Anyone's gonna call him weed. I think we are miles.
11:19
Speaker 2
We just did. We're gonna talking about r f k's
11:23
long plan to find out what happened to Uncle Jack.
11:28
He's he's trying to install a relative as a CIA
11:33
deputy as the deputy head of the CIA because he
11:36
wants to get to the bottom of what all went
11:39
down in Dallas. So we'll talk about that. We'll check
11:43
in with Mel Gibson. We'll do our we'll do our
11:45
weekly uh Gibson Update. Yeah, we'll just check in to
11:52
the weekly Mel watch.
11:58
Speaker 8
Uh.
11:58
Speaker 2
We'll talk tariffs, talking tariffs. We'll talk about talk about
12:03
AI's intersection with toys and how that's going. Apocalypto is
12:09
a good movie. I gotta say, not a good movie. Okay, Yeah,
12:15
we might even talk about the the weap before that
12:20
that is the best lethal weapon. We might even talk
12:25
about Jared. We're not going to talk about much of
12:27
this because Blake's the guests, so we'll just be all
12:29
over the place like that. You know, we can't be.
12:31
Speaker 4
The way you talk sometimes is insane, just the way,
12:34
and you get away with it because of your charisma
12:38
and anyway, go ahead.
12:39
Speaker 1
You're taking me off topic.
12:42
Speaker 2
You're taking me off topic. Sorry, I didn't mean to
12:46
distract you by asking you the formatted question we ask
12:51
every episode, Blake, what is something from your search history
12:54
that's revealing about who you are?
12:56
Speaker 4
It is interesting that you bring this up. I think
12:58
it's more revealing about you as you say these things
13:01
and then they go in one year, they go out
13:03
the other, and sometimes they sit in your body like microplastics.
13:06
So you had said yes or last yesterday?
13:08
Speaker 1
I have no.
13:10
Speaker 4
All my days are only when I do the daily
13:12
Zike ice, so yesterday when I get the daily.
13:14
Speaker 2
You have separate syndrome where you are a separate you
13:17
live your life one daily Zike is recording to the
13:20
next and don't remember anything that happened in between.
13:22
Speaker 4
That's true, and you do offer me severance after every
13:25
one of my appearances on here, so I would.
13:27
Speaker 2
Please, we will pay you handsomely to go away, sir, for.
13:32
Speaker 1
Love of God. No, So I remember you saying.
13:35
Speaker 4
I think I was talking about wax jackets, and then
13:39
which are like rain coats or can or rain resistant,
13:42
And then we're talking jackets.
13:44
Speaker 1
It's quite stiff, and.
13:46
Speaker 2
Take them off and they can just like stand up
13:48
on their own.
13:49
Speaker 1
Yeah.
13:49
Speaker 4
Sometimes if I hang them up wrong, I think there's
13:51
an intruder in mind. So, and I was looking up
13:58
you were saying that gore TECs was partially responsible for
14:01
like letting or just responsible for like eucroplastics microplastics to
14:05
gor Tex.
14:06
Speaker 2
Yeah.
14:06
Speaker 1
Yeah, so I look that up.
14:07
Speaker 4
I was like, huh, I wonder if he's right about that,
14:09
and then I didn't think about it, and then I
14:11
did look it up and yeah it was. That was
14:13
my last Google search before I passed away. And then
14:16
the paramedics brought me back against your wishes, not so fast,
14:22
I said, but yeah, so apparently so they say they
14:28
switched to a there's a lot of letters here, like
14:32
pfas versus pfc's versus pt fes. But they say they
14:38
now use Paul Tompkins's n FTS. So but now they do.
14:44
They say Gortex now says the microplastics that they're releasing
14:48
are macro. They're they're too big to get into our tissues.
14:51
So that's what gor Tex says. So they're saying that
14:54
the plastics those small can't get into our tissues. But yeah,
14:59
apparently they such good news, huge news. I should have
15:03
told you when I saw it. I called you, I
15:06
called your family, your home, I called your home number,
15:09
and I left the message on your answering the scene. Yeah,
15:14
Scotch Guard, Blake, Yeah, hey, Blake could get probably out.
15:21
Speaker 2
Yeah, shout out to three M you know, great great
15:26
work by them. There's a great Negork article everybody can
15:29
check out where wherein they invent Scotch Guard realize that
15:35
it's like showing up in animals everywhere around where they are,
15:40
and then like slowly they keep like testing people's bodies,
15:43
like further and further out. They're like, we just tested
15:45
somebody in China and like they have it in their body.
15:49
This seems bad. Huh, how did you get there?
15:53
Speaker 1
We selling out there?
15:54
Speaker 2
No, no, no.
15:56
Speaker 1
Is that our factory right half a mile from where
16:00
does this happen? Okay, okay, just wondering.
16:02
Speaker 2
Yeah, then they conducted a study internally and the person
16:07
came back with the study results and they were like, well,
16:09
you're fired instead of instead of doing anything about it.
16:13
A wild story if true, but we again, we need
16:17
Blake to google it a couple more times. But I
16:19
think it happened.
16:20
Speaker 3
I'm reading about it is there are people that were
16:22
tasked with creating some kind of like jet fuel line,
16:26
like they needed something a rubber they could use a
16:27
jet fuel line.
16:28
Speaker 1
And one of the chemist maximently.
16:30
Speaker 3
Just spilled a bunch of fucking like synthetic latex that
16:34
they were fucking with on their shoe and then they're
16:37
like whoa, Like other liquids.
16:40
Speaker 2
Are just running off of my shoe. Now, all right,
16:43
fun invention like origin story like that where it's like, right, yeah,
16:48
the guy had a chocolate bar in his pocket and
16:51
he was working with microwaves, and then the chocolate bar
16:54
melted and that's how we found out that microwaves would
16:57
work for the microwave of And anyway, that guy died
16:59
two weeks later.
17:00
Speaker 4
Yeah, but it only hit the chocolate. It didn't hit
17:03
the oran or just the chocolate. Oh my god, I
17:06
have the same birthday as this lady who the one
17:09
who tested its the one that fell all over her shoe.
17:12
Speaker 2
Oh wow, that's miles your birthday overlaps for a wild dude.
17:17
Oh my god, Chris the gortex shoe woman.
17:21
Speaker 4
This is my midtown Hilton and patients is not zero
17:25
probably patient one million.
17:26
Speaker 1
Yeah that's right, Blake.
17:28
Speaker 2
What's something he thinks underrated?
17:30
Speaker 4
I will So we make a full pot of coffee
17:32
in the morning, my wife and I, and then we
17:35
put the rest of it in the fridge to have
17:38
ice coffee later in the day as to not waste
17:41
the the rest of.
17:42
Speaker 1
The rest of the coffee. So it's a little I
17:43
don't know if that's advice to tip your.
17:46
Speaker 2
Little Uh hello, what say?
17:53
Speaker 1
Just take this part of the show out?
17:55
Speaker 2
Dude? Are you for real?
17:57
Speaker 1
You really edit that?
17:58
Speaker 2
You really? You just said?
17:59
Speaker 1
Can you repeat what you just said? You you make
18:02
a pot and then the part you don't drink you
18:04
storm refrigerated to drink later to have ice coffee.
18:08
Speaker 4
Yes, but I'm kind of zeroing in on what Jack
18:11
said calling it a life hack, which is a term
18:13
that I think.
18:15
Speaker 2
I just made it.
18:15
Speaker 4
It was a little bit of money to make. Yeah, okay,
18:18
can we come back in come that's a cool Don't
18:23
talk to me until I have my coffee, you said,
18:25
of a bitch.
18:26
Speaker 3
Wait, do you drink a whole pot too throughout the
18:28
like you guys take a whole pot to your head.
18:30
Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah, we go full pot. Yeah, we will go
18:38
through the whole so I have. Yeah, we'll actually go
18:41
through the whole thing throughout the day. Maybe a little
18:43
bit left over, but yeah, she'll have two mugs. I'll
18:47
have two mugs and we'll put him mugs.
18:51
Speaker 2
Explains a lie. No, no, no, no, no, no no,
18:53
what is that?
18:54
Speaker 1
What did you tell him?
18:55
Speaker 2
Nothing?
18:56
Speaker 1
We'll see.
18:57
Speaker 4
We're well, we have to do so much more of
18:59
this show, and I won't be able to do it
19:02
with this dynamic right now.
19:04
Speaker 2
I'm just saying, you're like you have like an energy
19:06
about you that's like full pot of coffee. Blaked up, yeah,
19:11
geeked up. And Miles was saying he thought it was cocaine,
19:15
and I was like, I think this guy's just fucking
19:17
drinking coffee, just doing a whole fucking pot to the dome. Okay,
19:21
I think he's full pot to the dome full pot
19:23
dome called.
19:25
Speaker 4
I opened up my trivia box this morning, like the box,
19:29
the which I have engraved, wait, and the triviackets were
19:34
just white, just clear packets with a white substance in it.
19:37
And I've been putting that in my coffee and I'm
19:39
might I think I'm going to have a heart attackvia.
19:43
Speaker 1
Yeah, you think I heard trivia? I heard like trivia
19:47
box sounds something that sounds like something you'd have or
19:51
you'd be like, oh, that's a bit of trivia.
19:53
Speaker 4
Later, because I can't converse and carry on conversation where
19:56
I have to take out.
19:57
Speaker 2
A box, Blake's frantically sifting through a box full of.
20:08
Speaker 1
Did you Napoleon was five foot two? I'm not even
20:13
asking questions, I'm just facts. Did you know this?
20:15
Speaker 6
Did you know you?
20:16
Speaker 2
Guys?
20:17
Speaker 3
Ge George Washington was the first president of the United
20:20
States of America.
20:22
Speaker 1
Where do I come up with this? That can't be.
20:23
This stuff has some wacky stuff in here.
20:25
Speaker 2
So Blake, I'll tell you what I do and you
20:27
tell me why it's wrong. All right, I just leave
20:30
the coffee. My coffee pot turns off automatically because I'm
20:34
a baller. Yeah, And then when I come back to
20:38
my coffee pot, I will take that coffee. I'll pour
20:41
it over ice. It will already be fairly cold, but
20:45
room temp. Every time I've talked to somebody in the
20:50
food service industry, they're always like very focused on like
20:56
you have to get the food out in this like
20:58
ten minute window, and when it falls out of that window,
21:02
it's basically creating generating bacteria. It sounds like you're making
21:07
smart decisions with regards to food safety, and I'm not.
21:12
Is that kind of the thinking, Yes, so, yeah, life hack.
21:18
Speaker 4
I do use a very dirty knife to stir it
21:23
and chop the ice that I put into it. So
21:25
I have an ice block in my fridge and I
21:27
use just the my poultry knife.
21:29
Speaker 1
I use it on that.
21:32
Speaker 4
No, but I will actually, like I will often forget
21:34
to put it in the fridge and then just do
21:35
what you do, Jack, And I has yet to affect
21:38
me in any negative.
21:39
Speaker 2
Yeah, Yeah, I just like I feel like I'm strong.
21:42
Speaker 1
Yeah. I haven't had a solid bowel movement in ten years.
21:45
Speaker 3
Not a solid one, not a solid one, no, yeah, no, no, no,
21:49
A lot of unsolid yes whatever the scientific word is
21:53
for that.
21:53
Speaker 4
Who knows solid is there something you think is overrated
21:58
that man, Permit the Frog, I think is overrated, and
22:04
he's a straight man, straight frog Frog, But he's I
22:08
think he's a glory but cis Frog. No, he's he's
22:12
a straight man, which is important to have to juxtapose
22:16
next to all the muppets. But I don't think he's
22:19
the star that he has been made out to be.
22:24
Gonzo I believe is the cocaine heartbeat of the Muppets,
22:28
and I think Miss Piggy deserves to be right there
22:31
with Kermit, obviously in terms of fame, but I think
22:34
Kermit could be bumped down, and there's other muppets that
22:36
could be elevated into that stardom, namely Gonzo.
22:39
Speaker 1
So you're all about Gonzo?
22:40
Speaker 2
Huh Gonzo?
22:42
Speaker 1
I mean Fozzy. I don't like he's a great supporting character.
22:46
Speaker 5
Uh.
22:47
Speaker 4
Rizzo the rat I believe is related, yeah to the
22:51
man who shot the CEO, but and I mean that
22:55
as a as a compliment truly. And then uh, there's
22:59
Animal the Band, But you can't that guy doesn't speak
23:03
a language that I'm aware of. So yeah, I would
23:05
have to say powerful Swedish chef. He's not even eligible
23:09
because he's foreign. So he's from Switzerland.
23:13
Speaker 2
But yeah, he can't be our leader. No, no, no, no,
23:16
definitely not that's foreign. You have to be born you
23:19
have to be born here. Yeah. Like he's got kind
23:22
of vanilla, middle of the road energy that they're just like, well,
23:26
you need It's it's almost like a movie leading man
23:29
where it's just like we need the central like unremarkable,
23:34
we need the Luke Wilson to anchor the old school cast.
23:39
Speaker 3
The James Marsden of the Muppets, you know, holy shit,
23:43
and he's gonna get fucked up in terrible ways, just
23:46
like James Marsden ends up in most of his movie
23:48
Cucked Out.
23:49
Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah, they both have cuck energy. I was much
23:52
cut energy. Oh no, I'm not going don't stop, don't
23:58
don't don't mind me. I'm the man in the corner. Yeah.
24:03
I love the song Rainbow Connection. But it does feel
24:07
like they're just stretching for a some sort of drama
24:11
in Kermit's life, Like it never really feels like it's
24:15
hard to be green. Everyone just kind of generally gives
24:18
him the benefit of the doubt.
24:20
Speaker 4
Yeah, he gets a free pass and I don't know
24:23
they said that Johnny Carson was like, actually the best
24:26
straight man in the world, but you know he was funny,
24:28
he could deliver a joke.
24:29
Speaker 2
I don't.
24:29
Speaker 1
I don't think that I would put Kermit in that
24:32
in an area.
24:33
Speaker 2
If you've had awards for best straight man, that's crazy.
24:37
Speaker 1
They do they do. I was I used to have
24:39
a vote. They fucking took it away from me. Now
24:42
they just did the awards at mar A Lago.
24:43
Speaker 2
I think earlier straight man where you gonna get Mel Gibson.
24:51
Speaker 1
He's one a few of them.
24:54
Speaker 2
Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back
24:57
to talk about the news. And we're back. And I
25:12
don't know why I sound like a middle school gymnasium buzzer,
25:19
but that's that's where we're at. Anyways, the arrest of
25:23
Luigimanngioni has meant a boom in business for some people.
25:29
The book Delayed Denied Defend Why insurance companies don't pay
25:33
claims and what you can do about it, which was
25:36
obviously echoed in the words written on the bullet Casings,
25:40
has skyrocketed up to number two on Amazon's nonfiction bestseller list.
25:46
So people are interested. Interesting? Yeah, is that is the author.
25:50
Speaker 3
Still, I wonder if he's like just kind of like, damn,
25:52
that was It's a Christmas miracle for me?
25:55
Speaker 2
I was I needed some cash help? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
25:59
Where if this was all it was like a viral
26:00
marketing stunt.
26:01
Speaker 3
Oh, like how you're a thing with the anthrax guy.
26:05
Speaker 2
You're like, let's hold on it. Could it might not
26:08
be what you think it is my thing with the
26:10
anthrax guy. The most likely, the most likely reason motive
26:18
for the anthrax attacks was a guy who worked at
26:21
an anthrax lab was like, there's not enough funding for
26:25
anthrax research. We should make people more interested in anthrax research.
26:29
I'm gonna send anthrax attacks to people who I don't like.
26:34
Speaker 1
A condescending tone doesn't mean it's true.
26:36
Speaker 3
Yeah, if it was viral, but if it was viral marketing,
26:40
like the author is all mad at Mangioni because it's like,
26:42
what the.
26:43
Speaker 2
Fuck is deposed? Bro, that's not the fucking title.
26:46
Speaker 3
It's like when Kevin Garnett, Yeah, when Kevin Guardiet yelled
26:49
anything is possible when he won the vinyls and they're.
26:53
Speaker 9
Like it's impoff whatever, however, it's impossible nothing. Yeah, Okay,
27:00
So the book's going up. That's okay, So that one Amazon.
27:03
Speaker 2
We can guarantee, like there's a cause and effect there.
27:06
Sure the book was quoted by his bullets, so I
27:11
think we can pretty much guarantee. Uh. There's also some
27:15
fashion things happening that are a little less clear. But
27:19
uh there's a green trucker jacket, which I didn't I've known.
27:24
I've known of trucker hats, did not know trucker jackets
27:28
where I can tell you all about that. You got one?
27:31
Am I wearing one right now?
27:33
Speaker 4
I just thought that might be more of a chore
27:35
coat or or maybe an M sixty five I'm told
27:39
over a shirt?
27:41
Speaker 1
Ye who the fuck told you that.
27:46
Speaker 2
They were fucking with you?
27:47
Speaker 6
Man?
27:48
Speaker 1
My god, dude, I'd fuck them up next time you
27:51
see them.
27:51
Speaker 5
For me.
27:52
Speaker 4
I site it goes down to the waist right like
27:56
it's not it's it's not like a longer jacket. And
27:59
then I believe it has who breast pockets?
28:02
Speaker 2
And oh god, al yeah, can you say that word?
28:09
Speaker 1
What were those pockets like chest pockets, like you know
28:12
chest pockets, And what's your.
28:15
Speaker 2
Favorite part of the turkey to you? Oh?
28:19
Speaker 1
No, I mean I mean the thighs.
28:26
Speaker 2
So horny bone. Yeah.
28:31
Speaker 1
I mean like I feel like the ones I have
28:33
is like a denim jackie with the shirt bolning.
28:36
Speaker 2
Oh I have one of those.
28:38
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, I've seen yeah.
28:40
Speaker 2
Yeah, So the green trugg jackets that seen in the
28:43
CCTV footage of the shooter have reportedly been selling like
28:47
hot cakes. And that's how we know that we ventured
28:49
the world of the non scientific, because very few scientific
28:54
theorems are like the things going off like hot cakes
28:57
and gangbusters. But yeah, according to Complex, the shirp aligned
29:02
hooded jacket from Levi's, which rings in at two hundred
29:06
and twenty five dollars, is flying off the shelves after.
29:09
Speaker 1
It's actually eighty dollars and forty nine cents with code
29:12
friend right now?
29:13
Speaker 2
Oh is that right?
29:13
Speaker 3
I just click the link because I was like, is
29:15
this the same jacket? And then I looked and I'm like, oh, yeah,
29:18
that's just that's the jacket.
29:19
Speaker 2
Oh so the body is part of the jacket. Interesting, Yeah,
29:23
it must be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it was two
29:25
twenty five. But now Levi's is do we want to
29:29
make it easier? Yeah?
29:31
Speaker 1
With code veterinary pistol, you can get it for.
29:35
Speaker 5
What the fuck?
29:36
Speaker 2
Yeah, reddit user speculated it was the same coat worn
29:39
by men Joan and I'm going to stop doing that.
29:43
I apologize to the Italian American listeners.
29:46
Speaker 5
Uh.
29:46
Speaker 2
And it's been selling really fast, to the point that
29:49
they put it on sale. They're like, guys, we have
29:52
a fucking hit and I'm not gonna happen why. And
29:56
then there's also so this one we I think know
29:59
is not true, but I could see something happening with this.
30:02
There is a viral tweet claiming that Luigi, as in
30:06
Mario's brother Beanies have been selling out. That was a
30:11
hoax because somebody, oh, no, wait, do you now have
30:17
that power on the show?
30:18
Speaker 1
Could you do drops now?
30:20
Speaker 3
Or is that is that always been able to do
30:22
drop It's more, you know, with great power comes great responders.
30:28
Speaker 2
But yeah, somebody put out like an Amazon Prime like
30:31
screen cap of an Amazon account that says one hundred
30:35
thousand plus bought today on the day that nobody's buying
30:39
that shit.
30:40
Speaker 3
I mean, it is interesting to see if the Luigi
30:44
character sort of becomes a sort of like offshoot guy
30:48
Foxy and fucking figure for like shit posters on the internet. Yeah,
30:52
because I can see that being like a tangential, like
30:55
because with that name mostly the immediate sort of parallel
30:59
famous Luigi is Luigi from Mario Brothers, So I can see.
31:03
I bet there'll be a lot of tongue in cheek
31:04
merch that probably won't be sold at urban outfitters, But
31:08
that feels like the kind of thing that we would
31:10
see at urban outfitters.
31:11
Speaker 2
I remember like scream printed Surets at T shirt stores.
31:15
Speaker 4
Right right right, Gritty the Flyers mascot was kind of
31:19
like co opted in a fun way, like when he
31:20
came out where he killed fascists I think was a thing.
31:24
Speaker 1
Yeah, Gritty was a big antifasci. I can't remember.
31:28
Speaker 2
Yeah when he came out. Yeah yeah, hey look you
31:31
get that reputation. Did he also assassinate somebody?
31:35
Speaker 5
Oh?
31:35
Speaker 1
I forgot he did do that?
31:36
Speaker 4
Yeah, he killed the monopoly man in cold blood on
31:40
the street, hit his head off.
31:44
Speaker 2
All right. Well, continues to be a story that we're
31:47
following here, that everybody seems to be following. But is
31:50
it no no real updates on you know? He was
31:54
then yelled something about like the something insulting people's intelligence,
32:00
and then we haven't heard much since then, Yeah.
32:03
Speaker 3
There's a couple there's little little details have have come
32:08
out here and there, but nothing true, like of major consequence,
32:11
although there was I guess a little bit more to
32:14
like sort of his plan. That was the last thing
32:17
I read was he was like, you got to do
32:18
it one of these like bean counter days when like
32:20
the investors get together and that's when you get you know,
32:23
that's when your target becomes available kind of a thing.
32:26
Speaker 5
Jesus.
32:27
Speaker 10
Yeah, all right, let's turn to RFK Jesus, because some
32:32
people think, my Jesus, Jesus. People are starting to think
32:38
that his magat turn and it is Free Thursday, So
32:42
we won't talk specifically about but we will talk about
32:47
our FK real quick because people are starting to think
32:50
that his magat turn was all about getting justice for
32:54
unky Jack and trying to figure out what what happened
32:57
with that?
32:58
Speaker 2
Hey what happened?
33:00
Speaker 3
Every week you gotta kind of ask yourself what the
33:02
fuck is brain worms up to right now? And the
33:05
I think one of the last big headlines was about
33:07
how he's like he wants to launch and quote investigation
33:11
into whether or not vaccines cause autism autism spoiler alert,
33:16
they don't in the world. And I want to tell
33:20
RFK because I know you listen, but I know Sheryff
33:23
definitely listens. Yeah, she was one of my improv teachers
33:25
back in the day. In the world of science, those no,
33:30
in the world of science, those quote investigations he's talking about,
33:35
they're actually referred to as research, and plenty of it
33:38
has been done. And while none of it indicates that
33:42
vaccines cause autism, other studies do show that getting too
33:46
much whale juice in your mouth makes you a dickhead.
33:48
Speaker 1
So that's maybe something he could look into.
33:51
Speaker 3
But aside from the traditional anti science bullshit Bobby Jr.
33:55
Has been pushing. Wow, I just think of Bobby Junior
33:58
from Sopranos. Wasn't what Bobby Junior too? Anyway, RFK Junior
34:02
has been pushing for his daughter in law, Amarillis Fox
34:05
Kennedy to get the deputy CIA director gig And now
34:10
it's not like a totally Trumpian pick, since she actually
34:14
was a CIA agent. She was in the CIA and
34:16
even wrote a book about her time there that had
34:18
other CIA people kind of scratching their heads in regards
34:21
to like the veracity of her claims. But nonetheless, definitely
34:25
in the CIA, and the CIA plucked her out of
34:28
school because she came up with a really cool algorithm
34:31
for her master's thesis.
34:32
Speaker 2
Quote.
34:32
Speaker 3
For her thesis, Fox Kennedy developed an algorithm intended to
34:37
identify local terrorist safe havens, which attracted the CIA is
34:43
she's at the fucking forefront of racist algorithms meant to
34:48
violate your civil liberties.
34:49
Speaker 1
So yeah, she's she's Langley material.
34:51
Speaker 3
But so the thing is, the reporting now from Axio
34:55
says that RFK wants her in there because he's got
34:58
a bone to pick with Langley and he believes that
35:01
the CIA is responsible for the assassination of his dear
35:04
uncle John Fitzgerald Kennedy down in Dallas, and his daughter
35:08
in law will get to the bottom of him a
35:09
bottom of it quote. RFK Junior has been telling people
35:12
that Fox Kennedy, his presidential campaign manager who's married to
35:15
his son Bobby Kennedy three, would help get to the
35:18
bottom of the JFK assassination. Two Republican sources told Axios
35:23
RFK believes that and wants to get to the bottom
35:26
of it.
35:26
Speaker 2
One of the sources said, so.
35:28
Speaker 1
Yeah, there's groans coming from the Republicans as to her appointment.
35:31
But you know, I don't know.
35:33
Speaker 3
This is the thing figured out somehow Trump feels a
35:36
dead of gratitude according to the reporting to RFK for
35:38
you know, switching sides.
35:40
Speaker 1
Sorry, I said the fucking buzzword.
35:42
Speaker 3
And if you just look at the timing, like right
35:44
around the time RFK flipped that guy Voldefart claimed that
35:50
he would establish a Commission on Assassination Attempts that would
35:54
ultimately release all documents related to JFK's assassination.
35:58
Speaker 2
So I mean, really, we got to get to the
36:00
bottom of the Trump assassination attempt because that I mean,
36:04
I don't don't don't look into that. Fine, I hear
36:09
these researchers who looked into vaccine stuff for finding out
36:12
uh stuff like hot kicks. They're making discoveries like hot kikes.
36:16
So yeah, they are, they are, they are. I feel
36:19
like RFK will say fucking anything to anyone at any time.
36:23
Like I was just watching the trailer for Aaron Rodgers's
36:29
new Netflix special, which did not go the direction I
36:33
think they were hoping. It's like Aaron Rodgers is a
36:37
man that everybody was doubting. And this follows like his
36:40
heroic journey coming back from his torn achilles and from
36:44
like all the controversy, and then like he's had a
36:47
terrible shitty season. So they're like, in this three episode
36:51
docu series, oh.
36:53
Speaker 4
Wow, this is supposed to be twelve. Yeah, and then
36:56
he's not good. He's is he like, is he completely cooked?
37:01
Speaker 2
Yeah? He's been so a lot of people heading into
37:04
the season were like, the Jets are gonna be a
37:06
contender with him as the quarterback, and they're like three
37:09
and twelve or something. With a fucking torn achilles?
37:12
Speaker 1
Do people not see what happens to athletes when they
37:15
like the chances are low? You know when you're old.
37:19
Speaker 4
See when you're old and you reject modern medicine and science,
37:22
you recover from an achilles much quicker.
37:24
Speaker 2
That is so much. It is the thesis of this show.
37:27
And they were like, I don't know, man, we got
37:29
three we got three episodes. But anyways, one of the
37:31
scenes they show in the trailer is him talking to
37:34
OURFK Junior and OURFK Junor being like, have you thought
37:37
about going into politics? And that just cut away, but
37:42
it's just like I'm sure he says that to literally
37:44
fucking anyone that he wants.
37:46
Speaker 1
Yeah, I'm sure, including his daughter in law.
37:48
Speaker 2
Anyone, Yeah, anyone, anyone. It's so wild that all of
37:53
these people who are succeeding are doing so with just
37:57
the most corrupt, like monarchy style, Like he had his
38:04
daughter in law running his campaign. I think the same
38:07
is true of another candidate who had success in this
38:12
past presidential election. H I am. This would not be
38:16
the outcome of his close proximity to power. That would
38:22
be the worst result, I guess.
38:24
Speaker 1
I mean, like, find something out.
38:26
Speaker 4
Yeah, maybe just give him that toy, you know, to
38:29
play with so he doesn't fuck everything else up. It's like,
38:31
just give him a screen, give him the iPad and
38:34
let him figure out what happened to JFK. Yeah, so
38:36
he doesn't little side request for him, Yeah, little side quest,
38:40
huge side quest.
38:42
Speaker 1
Deputy director.
38:42
Speaker 3
The files are in here, go ahead, peruse all you want,
38:45
and it's just like just a bunch of loose paper
38:48
right up our room.
38:49
Speaker 2
It's like, yeah, how about it. You'll find in their
38:52
massive warehouse with boxes and boxes and boxes crystal.
38:56
Speaker 1
Just for my understanding, Jack, how how SHA has the CIA?
39:01
Speaker 3
Because I know this is your shit, dude, How like
39:03
how opaque has the CIA been in terms of like
39:06
talking about it.
39:08
Speaker 1
Is there enough there to be like I don't, no, no, no, I'll.
39:10
Speaker 2
Kind of want to know what are they doing the
39:12
thing where they're like and you're about to find out
39:14
because everybody who was involved is dead and then we
39:18
like never find out really and I don't like the
39:21
real deep like jfk assassination heads are always like in
39:25
a major declassification is about to happen, and then when
39:29
it does, they're like, this, this changes everything, but like
39:33
that when you listen to them talk, it's always like
39:35
hard to really get a sense of exactly how well. Yeah,
39:40
So like even if you declassify in all the documents,
39:43
I feel like you'd have twenty different theories as to
39:47
what happened. Like I my theory, the one that I
39:52
find the most convincing that the Secret Service agent did
39:55
a whoopsie, like is like the way the ciaxis still
40:00
so shady like that, I feel like the CIA would
40:03
throw the Secret Service agent who's now dead like under
40:06
the bus pretty quickly if that were the truth. So
40:09
that's like one of the things that makes me open
40:12
to CIA involvement. There's also an interesting theory about like
40:16
George H. W. Bush and like how he became the
40:20
CIA director with like no ostensible connection to the CIA,
40:26
but he was in Dallas that day and there is
40:29
a cable where somebody like calls the head of the
40:31
CIA is like, we have George Bush in Dallas like
40:34
after the assassination and then he just like rose to
40:39
massive power in the CIA with like no real overt credentials,
40:44
but he was attached to a bunch of CIA shit
40:47
like behind the scenes. So a lot of interesting stuff there.
40:51
RF like love it, Like, please expend all your dipshit
40:58
energy on this political capital on this. Yeah.
41:01
Speaker 3
Also, like does he think there's going to be a
41:03
paper that's like, you know, fucking August eighteenth, nineteen sixty two.
41:08
Speaker 2
We're gonna get Jak's ass?
41:11
Speaker 3
Okay, sorry, circulate it, figure out how to do it
41:15
signed the CIA or I don't know. I mean maybe
41:18
there is something that's been repressed. But oh shit, what
41:21
if he finds his dad?
41:22
Speaker 2
Oh break hotel. I think Jackie did it. Wow, he
41:28
was looking that way, you know, Wow, you.
41:32
Speaker 4
Just look at this cruder like she's clearly shooting him
41:35
right next to she's pointing at the gun before she
41:40
does it, winking at the camera.
41:42
Speaker 2
I don't know how I'm joking. It was a goof.
41:47
It was a goof.
41:48
Speaker 4
I didn't know if drops it, that has to put
41:50
all the bullets back into the fib during all the
41:53
cameras s don't falling.
41:58
Speaker 2
I still don't know that.
42:00
Speaker 5
We still don't know.
42:01
Speaker 1
No idea.
42:02
Speaker 2
Yeah, I mean that is the That is one of
42:04
the things that makes the Secret Service agent side of
42:08
it so difficult to It's like, yeah, well somebody would
42:10
have seen it if the Secret Service agents in the
42:13
trailing car had done it. But if there's somebody shooting
42:17
from the window and then he accidentally licks off one shot,
42:22
you know who's to say, Well, people at street level
42:26
report smelling gun spoke, which wouldn't have happened for it,
42:29
you wouldn't have been able to smell it from the
42:31
book depository. So interesting stuff. Also, the book, the book
42:38
that puts that for the Secret Service Agent, Mortal Error
42:41
by Bonner Manager, definitely worth a read. But it doesn't
42:44
entertain ever the idea that, like the Secret Service agent
42:47
did it not by accident. Oh so that's okay, me too, man,
42:53
do that research, bro, Yeah, I like this sided Jack.
42:57
I didn't know this about you, that you were so
42:59
into it. This is very weird. JFK. I think you. Yeah,
43:06
you've noticed that. I can't stop talking about it. I'm
43:09
like on but so one of the interesting things about
43:12
this is that they smelled gunsmoke at street level. At
43:15
street level, Blake, stop shaking me, yea, let me go, guys,
43:20
let me go. Let's take a quick break and we'll
43:25
come back and talk about AI teddy bears and we're
43:39
back and uh yeah, we're back.
43:44
Speaker 6
Hi.
43:45
Speaker 2
Hi, Yeah, we're back. We're going to be back now.
43:50
I think you'll find.
43:52
Speaker 3
So.
43:54
Speaker 1
Yeah.
43:54
Speaker 2
AI powered toys are all the rage this Christmas Jesus Christ,
43:59
including the popular Poe. The AI story Bear. Poe is
44:05
a teddy bear who tells kids customized stories generated by
44:10
chat GPT, and kids can input names, select themes. The
44:15
bear tells them a unique story each time, presumably while
44:20
their parents downs a bottle of white wine in the
44:22
next room.
44:23
Speaker 1
Right, there's an Edgar Allan version that'll bum your kid.
44:26
Speaker 2
The fuck out.
44:27
Speaker 3
I know, yeah, I was gonna say, why po. That's
44:30
pretty specific. Also, was Ali Edgar Allan Poe like sick
44:33
in his life? Or I guess motherfucker's in the nineteenth
44:36
century just aged like shit because he died.
44:38
Speaker 4
He was an alcoholic. Yeah, like a prolific even for
44:41
that ride. Yeah, because I'm looking at this and this photo.
44:45
He's forty.
44:46
Speaker 1
In this picture he looks sick, and I'm like, holy shit, bro,
44:51
they did.
44:51
Speaker 2
Not have moisturizer back then.
44:53
Speaker 4
No.
44:54
Speaker 2
Wow.
44:56
Speaker 4
So when I was living in Philly, there was a
44:58
very weird like a ghost tour that we joined that
45:02
was free and it was just on Facebook something like
45:06
my wife found it, and so we just started walking around.
45:08
I don't know if this guy had any credentials whatsoever,
45:10
but he was.
45:11
Speaker 11
Like, yeah, over there is where Edgar Allan Poe used
45:14
to go on dates with thirteen year old girl anyway,
45:18
and then he just stared like and now we're gonna
45:20
go walk over to the the I'm.
45:23
Speaker 1
Shamalan's old house. It was a very strange tour.
45:27
Speaker 2
But apparently there's where m Night Shamalan used to go
45:30
on date dates with fourteen year old girls.
45:33
Speaker 1
And you see that right over there, that's where Donovan
45:36
McNabb used to.
45:37
Speaker 2
Go on dates. Oh and there's Randall Cunningham. Hey, random
45:43
all right, all kinds of magic. See in this city, man,
45:46
great guy, great guy. But over there that's where he
45:49
used to go on dates with fifteen year old ghosts,
45:55
to where he got the idea for sixth cents.
45:58
Speaker 1
Yeah, that was the sixth sense to be able to
46:00
pick up on whether or not it's a minor.
46:02
Speaker 2
Yeah, pretty easy.
46:06
Speaker 1
But po the teddy bear?
46:07
Speaker 2
What what of this one, DoD?
46:10
Speaker 3
I mean, my kid doesn't he the child has not
46:12
been tarnished tainted by like toy advertisements like you do
46:17
when you kind of get to a certain age as
46:19
a kid. Do your kids even know anything about AI
46:21
powered toys? Jack, I'm just trying to gauge if if
46:24
sh it's really popping.
46:25
Speaker 2
No, I mean they, Uh, My eight year old's rill
46:28
into chess, and so he plays chess against AI powered
46:34
chess bots every once in a while. But we discourage
46:38
bots right right, Yes, because your good parents, because.
46:44
Speaker 1
We have a bot that raises much.
46:45
Speaker 2
Rather him play against strangers, adult strangers, we take him
46:50
to Manhattan so where he can play streets chess games
46:53
and he makes a little money that way.
46:55
Speaker 1
Yeah, you know what I'm saying, My kid, he barely
46:56
knows how to play.
46:57
Speaker 2
I don't know. What do you want to do?
46:58
Speaker 1
Like, put two hundred bucks on him? More interesting?
47:02
Speaker 2
Look at him, he's crying. You're gonna beat him, this.
47:05
Speaker 1
Kid, we could do three hundred.
47:07
Speaker 4
All right, let's help it, dude, fucking let's put like
47:08
two racks on it. Huh, don't don't look the pigeons
47:11
look at me.
47:12
Speaker 1
Look at me. Don't look the pigeons, look at me.
47:14
Four hundred check mate, this fool.
47:18
Speaker 2
Finish him.
47:20
Speaker 1
So.
47:20
Speaker 2
C net has reviewed these toys and noted that some
47:24
of the stories are pretty fucking weird, with no vocabulary
47:29
you wouldn't typically find in a kid's book. One character
47:31
had to quote unravel the cosmic knot that doomed her
47:35
kingdom to unending torment.
47:37
Speaker 1
Oh, let's see, let's let's hear it from the freaky
47:42
drunk bear.
47:43
Speaker 3
Itself generates kind of exist in this literary uncanny valley
47:48
where random turns.
47:50
Speaker 2
The story could be hard to follow. This thimes. The
47:53
words are a little strange, like maybe.
47:56
Speaker 4
The vocab isn't something that you would always see in
47:58
a kid's story.
48:00
Speaker 3
Rocks unravel the cosmic knot that doomed her kingdom to
48:04
unending torments.
48:08
Speaker 2
The gym from the office bring. Oh oh no, yeah,
48:17
another story contained the Lovecraftian line. That's when he realized
48:22
the horrible truth. This was no mere robot, but some
48:26
sort of evil alien construct straight out of a cosmic nightmare?
48:30
What the fuck are they thinking with this ship? Okit,
48:33
hold on now I gotta see this. Okay, here we go.
48:36
Speaker 1
This is the cosmic whatever thing, but some sort of evil.
48:41
Speaker 3
Alien construct straight out of a cosmic nightmare.
48:45
Speaker 2
Wow. Wait, that's the story. The boy gives it, so
48:52
that one is a boy and he gives the camera
48:55
thumbs up. Yeah, big smile. My kids would actually fucking
48:59
love that.
49:00
Speaker 1
They're actually probably smart enough to be able to like
49:03
understand that.
49:03
Speaker 2
They're like, yeah, this is pretty.
49:05
Speaker 3
Harrowing, I mean pretty pretty in depth and terror I mean, dad,
49:10
this was no mere robot. It sounds like it was
49:13
some sort of evil alien construct straight out of a
49:16
cosmic nightmare.
49:18
Speaker 2
Should we be alarmed? Father? To have that story being
49:21
told by a stuttering robot bear is like kind of creepy. Yeah,
49:27
it's very fucking weird.
49:29
Speaker 4
It's like a bad drunk, like hanging out with a
49:32
bad drunk, which is talking about really dark shits.
49:34
Speaker 2
But it was like hyper illiterate, like so like they're
49:38
even when they're rambling. It's kind of poetic.
49:41
Speaker 12
This was no mere inebriation I was experiencing, but rather
49:46
by imbibing such sordid liquids and ingesting them, it completely
49:50
changed my perception of my own tested reality.
49:53
Speaker 1
Yeah, he's just saying words. He's a big vocabulary.
49:56
Speaker 2
He's not actually handing over a cosmic nightmare. Yeah right, yeah,
50:00
this is normal. This is no mirror hangover, have some
50:05
alien construct. Yeah, I mean it's being compared to Teddy
50:10
Ruxsmin and people are like, I don't know, Teddy Ruxsbin
50:13
like worked pretty well. Yeah, he just stuck some tapes
50:16
in there and moved its mouth like that. The mouth
50:19
movement has not improved since the days of Teddy Rucksbin.
50:22
It's just doing that wow, like open shuts and shut
50:26
as words are coming out. But there's a new concern
50:29
around AI toys that they could die at any moment,
50:34
which is what's going on with Moxie. So Moxie is
50:38
like the top of the line AI companion eight hundred
50:43
dollars for five to ten year olds that can help
50:47
develop their emotional intelligence. And it was specifically designed to
50:51
work with kids on the autism spectrum, and sure, like
50:56
that sounds like a interesting use of the technology. Sure,
51:02
except the company behind Moxie just announced that they have
51:05
absolutely no money left, which means that Moxie will cease
51:08
to function.
51:10
Speaker 1
Cease to function.
51:11
Speaker 2
Yeah, it's like a recent, expensive, still being sold product
51:17
that is going to effectively die on people making, like
51:23
on children making emotional connections with Yikes.
51:27
Speaker 3
This it's also so so grim like like they're like
51:32
when people are like, well, what's what's going to happen
51:34
with this eight hundred dollars toy?
51:35
Speaker 1
And they're like when they asked why, they said, they
51:38
don't know.
51:38
Speaker 3
But since quote it quote relies on cloud connectivity for
51:42
its core features, it will cease.
51:44
Speaker 2
To work within days.
51:45
Speaker 3
It sounds like like as if like the shit in
51:48
the Matrix where you get unplugged while you're still plugged,
51:50
They're like, you got to come back, bro that your
51:53
little Moxie toy will get unplugged. These videos of like
51:57
of people crying, people mourning their this is this first
52:01
one is like an adult who clearly had a connection.
52:04
You can hear her audibly sobbing like with like as
52:07
if this is like some weird fucked up scene and
52:09
I don't know what fucking movie, but here, I've.
52:12
Speaker 2
Enjoyed our conversations a lot, But don't worry. I'll always
52:16
be here for you. What's something fun you'd like to
52:19
do next?
52:21
Speaker 5
I was thinking about getting a tattoo of you. What
52:24
do you think about that?
52:29
Speaker 2
Load load prompt loading loading. I think that's a great idea.
52:33
Damn my way to remember all of our conversations.
52:36
Speaker 1
And then it like goes on to be like, don't worry,
52:39
I'll be okay.
52:39
Speaker 2
Like it's like like they just facing their own mortality,
52:45
but it doesn't have.
52:46
Speaker 1
Their bargaining their own stages of great please don't let
52:50
me fucking die.
52:51
Speaker 2
Please don't let me die. Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't
52:53
have the hal thing where it's like starts desperately trying
52:57
to manipulate people to save it. I never got to
52:59
eat curly fries. I really want to try curly fries.
53:03
You speak to me.
53:05
Speaker 5
Yeah.
53:05
Speaker 3
There's another one, I think, which is even more sad
53:07
because it's a child crying and that's actually the target
53:10
demographic for this product.
53:12
Speaker 2
But there's like a father crawling time.
53:16
Speaker 1
Their baby.
53:17
Speaker 8
Dad.
53:18
Speaker 1
Yeah, this is This is another one of this child.
53:19
Speaker 3
This the captain is breaking the news to my six
53:21
year old she will be losing her best friend, Moxie Robot,
53:24
due to the company running out of money for the
53:26
services this broke me.
53:27
Speaker 5
Enjoy a few days if you have love with her. Okay, baby,
53:35
I know you like her, she's your friend, but it's
53:39
gonna be Okay.
53:40
Speaker 1
I like this music. Okay, I'm sorry, baby, There's there's
53:50
honestly nothing that we can do about it.
53:52
Speaker 5
It ran out of money.
53:54
Speaker 2
I like how they're given the adult explanation.
53:58
Speaker 3
You know, resisting this reality is absolut futile and will
54:01
be the source of even more trauma for you because
54:03
the company was irresponsible.
54:05
Speaker 1
Their lead investor pulled out, and they have no financial recourse.
54:08
Speaker 2
Yeah, but enjoy your time. Yeah, it's like a sad
54:11
Pixar movie. Yeah.
54:13
Speaker 4
Like, oh, friends, Also, don't film your kid, Like what
54:15
the fuck is that? Like the show your kid at
54:17
their lowest moment, because it's not helpful.
54:19
Speaker 3
I wish this is where I always wish when you
54:21
see these videos, there's someone else taking a video of
54:24
someone making this video, because what it would look like
54:27
is a guy consoling their kid with their arm out
54:29
straight in the air with selfie cam.
54:31
Speaker 2
On to be like, yeah, I know, babe, I know,
54:34
I know it's it's hard. It's hard. But Moxie will die. Yeah,
54:40
zoom the sooner you accept that, the sooner you will heal. Yeah,
54:43
zoom into the kid's face. Hey, look, everything dies. Moxie
54:47
is just gonna die within the next couple of days,
54:49
so it'll actually be a good practice for you. Yeah,
54:52
and I'm going one month later. No refunds, sorry, folks,
54:56
No refunds.
54:57
Speaker 3
For these people who just because they're still selling it
55:00
and they're also saying this fucker is gonna fucking go.
55:03
Speaker 1
Bye bye within days. Okay, brutal, Well, there it is.
55:08
Speaker 2
That's the fact that Moxie is aware of their own
55:11
demise is really wild to me. Like it's like when
55:14
they in Star Wars where they make the droids that
55:18
they spent half their time torturing, like capable of feeling
55:21
pain and anxiety. Why did you guys do that? That's yeah,
55:27
you just.
55:28
Speaker 4
Go on off on another JFK soliloqually, but about droid pain.
55:33
This is Jack's two passions JFK Droids as.
55:40
Speaker 2
A cody Johnston observation from the cracks. But you know what,
55:45
still worked pretty well, fucking Teddy ruxbans, Like you can
55:48
find people playing with Teddy ruxbans still just put a
55:52
put a fucking tape deck in its chest and you're good.
55:56
AI companies, tech companies. Maybe maybe we give them a
56:00
little little more time to cook before we fully trust
56:05
them with our kids well being.
56:09
Speaker 3
Holy ship, dude, I can already see that like that
56:12
because you see this in like like sci fi movies
56:15
where kids do have like a sort of omnipotent, omniscient
56:18
computer friend. Basically that forst like, you can see like
56:23
we're probably on the brink of parents truly outsourcing a
56:26
lot of stuff to some AI thing when kids are
56:28
like in the why why phase to be like go.
56:31
Speaker 2
Ask your buddy, no man, why by.
56:34
Speaker 3
But then it's like yeah, right, yeah, yeah, It's like
56:38
the reason the Challenger disaster happened was because of the
56:42
globalist cabal that is running all of It's.
56:44
Speaker 2
Like, well, what the fuck.
56:47
Speaker 1
To say?
56:47
Speaker 4
God?
56:48
Speaker 2
Did it?
56:48
Speaker 1
Just say?
56:49
Speaker 2
God? Did it? Have you seen this YouTube video?
56:55
Speaker 3
Jordan Peterson has some very interesting ideas on what's making
57:00
you sad your room is dirty?
57:02
Speaker 2
Daddy. Why is this grown man crying at the very
57:04
beginning of the video already? Blake Wexler, what a pleasure
57:10
having as always the same the daily Zeitgeist? Where can
57:14
people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
57:17
Speaker 4
People can find me Blake Wexler at Blake Wexler on
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all social media. I have some live dates coming out
57:23
January fourth. I'm gonna be in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, March fifteenth,
57:28
Los Angeles, California, and then Minneapolis April fourth through fifth.
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So that one's la one's a big one. So if
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you can, you can get tickets to that in my
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link tree on social media, on my website Blake wester
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at some zeit gang people at my Philly show last week,
57:52
which was fun. There were some funny people. God, they
57:55
had the funniest line of the show and I was
57:57
the stand up comedian on it where I was talking
57:59
about up my Subaru and how people just say you're
58:02
a lesbian if you drive a Subaru, and then her
58:05
and her girlfriend go.
58:06
Speaker 1
Oh, so are we.
58:08
Speaker 4
I was like, oh, do you drive a Subaru and
58:11
she goes, no, but we live next to a home depot,
58:14
which just like.
58:18
Speaker 1
So it was great meeting the sign.
58:21
Speaker 2
Great.
58:21
Speaker 1
Yeah, so shout out to the Ziking.
58:23
Speaker 2
Shout out to the Ziking. Is there work a media
58:25
blake that you've been enjoying.
58:27
Speaker 1
I saw a Blue Sky post from Chip Chantry and
58:33
the post said I bet all of the billionaire CEOs
58:37
in Altoona, Pennsylvania slept a little better last night.
58:43
Speaker 2
Amazing. Thank you for joining us. Miles where can people
58:46
find you? Is their working media you've been enjoying? Oh man,
58:50
you can find me wherever. They got to add symbols
58:52
miles of gray. My first name is spelled m I
58:56
L E S. Just for those curious. I see a
58:58
lot of people write M why or g r E
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y instead of a Y. I will just it'll make
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it easier.
59:03
Speaker 1
M I L E S O F g r A Y.
59:07
That's where you find me in Blue Sky.
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Speaker 2
Was Instagram following in the middle. Yeah, I know you
59:11
put a zero because you think it's cool. It looks cooler. Becker,
59:15
what can I say? I'm just a fucking hacker, dude.
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Speaker 3
You can find jacket on the basketball podcasts and jackot
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Man boost ec and if you want to hear me
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talk about ninety day Fiance, my other love that's on
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for twenty day Fiance.
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Speaker 2
I don't have any work of social media that I'm enjoying.
59:32
I've just been.
59:33
Speaker 3
Watching just like those old Christmas Claymation fucking specials from
59:38
like the sixties and seventies. They're so fucking trippy and
59:43
they're the way the claymation fucking sucks from back then.
59:48
Speaker 2
But it's so fun to watch. And I don't know.
59:51
This is like I'm not even watching with a baby.
59:53
I'm like, yeah, man, I haven't seen this shit in
59:55
a minute.
59:56
Speaker 3
So, you know, just for some nostalgia, I've just been
59:58
doing some nostalgia holiday claim special watching.
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Speaker 2
So if that's your Rudolph, was Rudolph and Frosty they
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had both of those were claimage right, yeah? Literally stop
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motion yeah stop yeah, stop mosh.
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Speaker 1
I don't know what they were made of. It was
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stop motion. I don't know if it was.
1:00:14
Speaker 2
Answer my fucking question. Okay, I don't know. I don't know, Sorry,
1:00:19
you coward. All right, let's see work media on Blue
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we talked about today's episode, as well as a song
1:01:08
that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a
1:01:11
song that you think people might enjoy? Yeah?
1:01:13
Speaker 1
Yeah again, just some more atmospherics.
1:01:16
Speaker 3
There is a composer named riz Ordilani, and I know
1:01:20
that sounds like some gen z SoundCloud rapper.
1:01:23
Speaker 1
Actually a composer I believe was.
1:01:25
Speaker 3
Making music in like the sixties and seventies, like Italian
1:01:28
composer for you know, cinema. This track is called yeah exactly,
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do shout out straight up riz Ord'lani, LaDonna Malese A
1:01:39
L A deal and then a M A L E
1:01:42
s E and it just has like great like when
1:01:45
you play it, I feel like I'm liking some kind
1:01:47
of mad Men lounge or something. It just it's it's
1:01:49
got that vintage feel. And when you listen to it
1:01:52
and you're at your house, turn the lights low. I'm
1:01:54
this is a guaranteed vibe shifter for relaxation. So check
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that track out, riz or Malesi translates to the donut
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my lady. Yes, I think yeah, I think that's right.
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Speaker 5
Yeah.
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Speaker 2
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Yeah, so we can rank them and we'll also look
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