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episode 5: LAFD vs. LAPD, Girl Scout Cookies Cancelled?! 01.10.25
In this episode, Jack and special guest co-host Andrew Ti are joined by writer/actor/comedian Blake Wexler to discuss… the L.A...
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Speaker 1
What else? What else?
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Speaker 2
How about what other lizards do your freaks? I don't know, wait,
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you know what could I handle? The what a komodo dragon?
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What is what like constitutes a good reptile to eat?
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Like is it muscle or is it fat? Like Romoto
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dragons are venomous, so poisonous.
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Speaker 1
In like a nasty way, Like there's a venomous animal
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where it's like yeah, where like it's like built into
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their DNA over many years, like just evolution, like built
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a fucking perfect weapon. And that's the sort of poison
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that I respect. The komodo dragon's mouth is just like dirty,
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It's just it's just nast ship They're just like h
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which is also kind of true humans, Like when you
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talk to emergency physicians, they're like the last thing you
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want to be bit by is a human being. Are
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fucking nasty.
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Speaker 3
This is me in middle school on my hand, you're
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still not right.
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Speaker 1
It's hello the Internet and welcome to season three seventy,
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episode five of Dirt Eily's Guys stayed production by Heart Radio.
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Speaker 3
This yes, yeah, this.
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Speaker 1
Is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
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American share consciousness. We now have a YouTube channel YouTube
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Slash at Daily's likee ice pod, how you can go
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check out what we look like as we're saying words
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like this. It is Friday, January tenth, twenty twenty four.
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My name is Jack O'Brien. AKA. If I could fill
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this bag with beans, do you think guy could take
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a seat, because you know, I feel so darn comfy
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if I could just sit on some beans. That is
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courtesy of Manish. It was supposed to be A thousand
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Miles by Vanessa Carlton. Uh, doing my best. You know,
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I am no Vanessa Carlton. I am, though, thrilled to
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be joined in our second seat by one of our
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favorite guests, the hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer
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you know him from yos This racist podcast.
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Speaker 3
It's Andrew two.
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Speaker 4
I'm gonna tell you I didn't have one, and now
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I'm gonna wing one. I'm looking up for Larrys right now. Okay,
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it's raining.
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Speaker 2
Ash, it's raining Ash.
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Speaker 3
I don't actually know how the rest of this ting goes.
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Speaker 4
Anyway, I walked outside this morning at Echo Park and
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I was like, things are bet no, and wait a second, yeah,
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legitimately snowing Ash right now.
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Speaker 1
Is it continuously coming down on you.
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Speaker 4
I didn't think so, but it does sort of a
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you know, like a like for anyone who's from where
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snow falls, it's like the first snow.
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Speaker 3
Of the year.
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Speaker 5
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, like a lot of nice little.
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Speaker 2
Little yeah, smaller than a flurry, but it's it's I mean,
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it's definitely coming down.
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Speaker 1
There's this in terms Blake would understand in his sheltered
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little world out there that's not on fire. Andrew, We're
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thrilled to be joined in air third seat by a
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brilliant comediuan writer and actor who's new specialist Daddy lung Legs.
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He is the coiner of the disgusting phrase plumpers to
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describe his size, Please welcome Blake wackfle.
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Speaker 2
Or this is Blake Wexler, and I am going to
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do an aka, but uh, I just need to say
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heart thinking about everyone in the fires, so much love
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to them. It's horrific. And now this is Blake Wexler AKA.
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These shorts are too tight on me because I'm one
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step closer to the trend and I'm about to Blake.
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Plumpers need a little room to breathe because I'm one
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step closer to the trend and I'm about to blake.
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That was from Blankie heck hell yeah, he which sounds
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like like a fake. The name I give it hotels
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when checking so I don't get bothered.
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Speaker 1
When you're extremely drunk and.
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Speaker 2
When I'm trash. Yeah, they're like, you want another room.
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Speaker 1
I'm like, yes, go join, Yeah, I want the room
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of the one I went to by accident.
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Speaker 3
Yeah, I forgot my first room.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, the hollering dude, I did that once where I
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lived when I was living in LA This was back
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in my drinking days, and got off on the wrong
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floor and could not get into my room what I
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thought was my room, and I kept like knocking and
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then like trying to pull the torn up as if
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that would make it unlock. And I just heard someone
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from the other sid I just go, please stop.
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Speaker 3
Yeah, I'll do it.
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Speaker 2
That'll that'll either really wake you up or really not
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wake you up. Yeah yeah, no, yeah that coming to that.
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That moment when the light switch switched back on was humbling,
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and I apologize.
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Speaker 1
Still, yeah, great, well, it's all great, it's all great.
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Everything is super great.
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Speaker 3
Right, do you want to get to know me in
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a few minutes?
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Speaker 1
You know, what I would really like to get to
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know you a little bit better.
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Speaker 3
But I'm gonna I'm gonna.
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Speaker 2
Hold off for a couple of your time. There's no rush.
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Speaker 1
Andrew and I are gonna tell our listeners a couple
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of things we're talking about. You can kind of jump
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in if you'd like later in the episode. It's called
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a tease in the business. And then we're gonna come back.
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We get to know you.
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Speaker 3
We like to.
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Speaker 1
It's called the weave. You've ever heard of it?
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Speaker 2
Okay, I'm sure I'll see what's going on, is as
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it as the show goes? Yeah, get the head of it.
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It happened to you, yes, exactly. This show breathes you,
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you know what I mean? All Right, some of the
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things we're talking about. LA wildfires are.
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Speaker 1
Still raging out of control right now. We we're recording
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this yesterday on Thursday. But it's uh yeah, we're continuing
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to just see unimaginable tragedy around us. We'll just you know,
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talk about firefighters, talk about press conferences with firefighters and
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the police, a real nice like compared contrast there, uh
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and the local news coverage which is fucking I don't know,
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have you Andrew watched any local news.
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Speaker 3
The local news. I just had a real I am
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in a.
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Speaker 4
Group that moves too quickly for human comprehension. But that's
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been all I can kind of handle.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, so, you know, you're like on top of the
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latest happening.
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Speaker 3
I can't tell. It's sort of the opposite.
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Speaker 4
It's sort of just like a lot of reactions from
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fucking you know anywhere, from progressives to hardcore communists about
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what's happening. And it's a little hard to figure out
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what's happening sometimes, But that's.
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Speaker 1
Just experiencing unimaginable tragedy through the fog of memes. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, so I just wait for the evening edition of
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the La Times to come out, having a newspaper in
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my Yeah, tangible we're going to.
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Speaker 1
Talk about this was just like a story I kind
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of needed right now. New York putting congestion pricing in
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place at the beginning of this week just like a
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thing that they did with like a long, long term
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benefits that they'd like to achieve, and just I don't know,
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it feels like miraculous when a government intervenes in a
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way that is designed to like make people's lives better,
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So we'll talk about that and why it's incredibly unpopular.
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We'll talk about which Girl Scout cookies are being canceled
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not not in the card, why and why? Yeah, but
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they're actually a couple that I like, one that I like,
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and one that I've spent probably an episode's worth of
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time on this podcast, just like uh railing about the
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name of uh.
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Speaker 3
Here's here's a tease.
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Speaker 4
Which Girl Scout cookie, which everyone agrees is the fucking worst,
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is Andrew T's favorite find out?
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Speaker 1
Yeah? Anyways, all of that, plenty more. We might even
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talk about Sean Hannity. But before that, Blake, we do
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like to ask our guests, what is something from your
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search history.
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Speaker 2
I wrote this down before I looked at the show
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run run of show whatever the industry term is that
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you guys use, and it was congestion pricing. We don't
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have to get too far into it. But I live
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right out So I live in North Jersey, in Jersey City,
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So the Holland Tunnel is to Lower Manhattan, where a
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lot of the congestion pricing is is like three minutes away.
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And I had a show in Brooklyn last night, and
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I'm like, oh, maybe I'll drive. And I've heard a
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lot about congestion pricing, but I've just never researched any
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of it. I'm like, well, whatever this is is going
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to happen to me at some point. And then I'm like, oh,
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I should look into it, into this and yeah, I
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would get charged, you know, and we'll go more into it.
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But I'm like, at first, I was pissed, So I'm like, well,
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I want to fucking pay nine dollars to go do
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this shitty show in Brooklyn in addition to the tolls
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that I'm already paying. But then I'm like, oh, wait.
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Speaker 1
Should pay me to do this shitty show in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 2
Everyone should pay me. I shou I didn't have to
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pay rent. I should be treated like an ambassador. Basically,
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where have my lodging provided for me? Like a diplomat?
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But I then realized, oh this, we should just be
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taking public transit. They should put fucking bike lanes that
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where you don't get murdered by a car, like if
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you just get on a bicycle. They should have that
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infrastructure in cities. So yeah, when I was pissed off
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about it selfishly am I go, this is a good thing.
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So yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's my opinion, and I'm
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not going to during the segment.
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Speaker 1
You'll just be curious.
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Speaker 4
It's so curious about the details of it because you
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are right at the interface of I guess I just
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assume congested pricing meant it was within when the city
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was likely to be congested.
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Speaker 2
It's a big Yeah, it's a big range where I
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believe on weekdays it goes until nine pm. I think,
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so it's not Yeah, no, it won't sleep here. I
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am exhausted. I cannot sleep in this fucking city. But yeah, no,
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you're right. I mean, it's obviously a controversial issue for
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a reason where I think the big issue people had
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with it was like, oh, like a teacher, for instance,
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who has to drive into the city. Now they're paying
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more money coming in from North Jersey to the city.
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But yeah, in a perfect world, this would make the
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public transit, you know, better, and make.
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Speaker 1
Better you take public transit, or you could take public transit.
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Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah, from Jersey into Lower Manhattan. Is the is
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the point where like, oh right, yeah, I guess that
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makes sense.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, And if I was in New York, I wouldn't
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want people from Jersey in there either, So like I
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do understand there the design.
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Speaker 1
Yeah yeah, yeah, keep people from New Jersey out of here, please.
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Speaker 2
Sorry, we got yeah, we're selling the previous. We're selling
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the previous.
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Speaker 1
So you see how they reacted to drones.
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Speaker 3
Way, why don't we fly them in on drones.
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Speaker 2
See now we're two birds with one drone.
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Speaker 1
You can do that, you fit, you fix congestion, all
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the congestion just by covering. This is the island of
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Manhattan and drones and the people in Jersey.
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Speaker 3
Yeah, sort of a dome of drama. Drune dome, drum dome.
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Speaker 1
Blake, what's something you think is underrated?
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Speaker 2
Underrated non alcoholic beers? And uh, I'm a beer drinker.
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Love that ship, but you don't. You can't get enough
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of that that ship, that hot ship.
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Speaker 1
And this is a word for word recreation of what
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Blake says every time he enters a bar.
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Speaker 3
It's fucking crazy.
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Speaker 2
Three hot ships, please pull the rocks.
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Speaker 1
I'm a beer drinker, just f y I I'm a
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beer drinker by trade, love that ship.
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Speaker 2
By trade, by birth, my lineage. It goes way back
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of beer drinkers. And but sometimes you don't want to
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drink and Uh, it's good too. By the way, everybody's different.
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Some people don't drink it all, some people, you know,
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like have a problem. But I like the idea of
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having a prop first of all, in that like when
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you're hanging out, it is almost just a motion that
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you're doing, like you want something carbonated, and the taste
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is like unbelievable in these things now where it does
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just taste like a beer and then you don't have
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to deal with the alcohol of all of it. I
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think Brian put hop water in here, which is like
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very good as well. So yeah, shocking how good hopwater is.
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Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah for a thing that sounds genuinely disgusting nasty.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, yes, you think it's gonna be like cloudy and
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I don't know, just be like ipa but like mixed
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with water. But yeah, hop water is just like if
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Lacroix made a really good ipa flavor.
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Speaker 3
Yeah, what's so weird? Yeah, it's really Do you do
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you have a favorite? I do have.
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Speaker 4
I recently had a new favorite of teeing you Up
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to te myself Up.
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Speaker 2
No, no, no, I want to hear what yours is?
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T Myself Up? Is your new podcast coming out the spring.
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Speaker 3
Where I just asked.
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Speaker 2
Leading self serving questions.
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Speaker 3
The most miserable person in the world.
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Speaker 2
So You've had a really interesting the thing that I'm
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interested in.
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Speaker 3
What do I think about you talking about that?
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Speaker 1
You see like someone with opinions on nos Faratu because
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I've not seen it because so.
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Speaker 2
Much I have And yeah, I didn't get it at all?
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What was that movie about? I really like Sam Adams
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has this like hazy. I P a thing that I
14:43
tried the other night that was really good, But what
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is if I made comfortable?
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Speaker 3
I don't know if you could tell?
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Speaker 1
All right, Sam Adams has probably got his answer is
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going to be a dunkin Donuts flavored I P a water.
14:57
Speaker 2
I think when I'm doing knuckle boxing, what's the mustache
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wax is off your little fingers?
15:06
Speaker 3
I know.
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Speaker 2
I was in fucking Atlanta for Christmas and I went
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to this ooh pub called I think the Porter or
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something like that was fucking great and they had crazy
15:16
food there. They did shrimp toast and it was like
15:20
a real weird lost in translation, but it was just
15:23
these huge shrimps on pieces of toast.
15:28
Speaker 3
Yeah yeah, well yeah it must have been.
15:30
Speaker 4
But they were like whole like Georgia shrimp, which I
15:32
guess is a thing, but oh my god, it was
15:34
so good. Anyway, their non alcoholic beer was by this
15:37
company called Untitled Art. Huh, and their ipa was the
15:42
closest to an ipa. I think of the non alcoholic beers,
15:47
I tend to be like on the watery side is
15:49
more accurate. Like I think like a na Corona tastes
15:53
exactly like a corona, but for like the obvious reasons.
15:57
But I think some of the happier ones, I'm like,
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that's not that close. Anyway, Fucking Untitled Art so so good.
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Speaker 3
I'm pretty sure.
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Speaker 1
I'm gonna give a like poptimist like mainstream answer. I
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actually think the Heineken zero point zero tastes it's a
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lot like a Heineken. It's zero, like a lot of
16:17
non alcoholic beer like has some at like it's like
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point five alcohol or whatever. Like the Heineken has no
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alcohol tastes like a Heineken. I feel like that one's actually.
16:29
Speaker 2
Yeah and is readily available.
16:31
Speaker 1
Yeah, and that's also the most available one.
16:34
Speaker 4
So the Guinness, it tastes just like a Guinness because
16:37
guests apparently just tastes like everything else besides alcohol anyway, Right.
16:43
Speaker 3
But how much? How much guinness can you really drink?
16:46
Speaker 1
Right, fellas? Before you move on, I like my I
16:52
pas with viscosity though, I like you to, you know,
16:56
blop out a little bit, you know, just like like
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I'm crazy. I like it to be like somewhat watery,
17:03
not not as much a paste.
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Speaker 2
My face gets red when I drink Guinness, where like
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I get like a guineas only yeah's interesting and.
17:16
Speaker 4
Yeah you're you're like like the like the just the
17:19
rosy cheeks knock back a guinness.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, pale, Yeah, some sort of immunocompromise situation, like the
17:28
look of it. Yeah, no, that's me.
17:30
Speaker 1
It's where all your proteining or diet comes from. Guinness.
17:33
Speaker 3
It's just what is if you have enough? Yeah?
17:37
Speaker 1
What is something blake that you think is overrated?
17:41
Speaker 2
So I think overrated as a practice is street cleaning,
17:46
like residential street cleaning in cities where I've never First
17:51
of all, I've never seen street cleaning happen. And I
17:53
go outside and look and like, wow, look how clean
17:55
this fucking street is? Like they don't nothing gets cleaned,
17:59
And if you don't know what it is like basically
18:01
it's alternate street cleaning. So if you're in a city,
18:03
they like, you're not allowed to park on a side
18:06
of the street from X time to X time because
18:09
allegedly a fucking sweeper truck comes by and cleans the
18:12
street and you get ticketed if you leave your car there.
18:15
So I don't have a like a garage or a
18:18
parking spot, so like I move my car. And this
18:20
also happened when I lived in La too, But it
18:24
just seems to me like a shitty way for the
18:27
city to get revenue with no benefit to people whatsoever
18:32
street cleaning. So there is an interesting where I saw
18:35
in Brooklyn, there's this weird community thing that like neighborhoods
18:40
will do where they'll double stack their cars on one
18:43
side of the street, so say, like the right side
18:46
is being cleaned street cleaning, cars from the right side
18:49
will just park next to the cars and trap them
18:51
in on the left side of the street. But like,
18:55
I guess people know each other and have each other's
18:57
numbers where if they have to leave. Ye, Yeah, it's
19:01
a pretty elaborate system that I would imagine doesn't work.
19:05
Speaker 1
Yeah, that just stressed me out so much too. My
19:08
heart rate shot through the roof just hearing about that arrangement.
19:12
Speaker 4
I do kind of genuinely believe that it's a little
19:15
bit like velociraptor rules for the non ticketable side of
19:19
the street on on alternate side parking, like yeah, fucking
19:23
double park the entire street. Like I feel like, and
19:25
I know this can't be true, but I genuinely feel
19:28
like the fucking like traffic cops, the whatever, the people
19:32
giving tickets, it's like they can only see the side
19:35
of the street where people were like, you're not supposed
19:37
to be parked, and it's lawless on the other side
19:41
on here.
19:42
Speaker 1
Yeah, all right, this is this is crazy. Brian the
19:45
editor has come through and described a situation that doesn't
19:51
make any sense to me. Brand the editor lives in
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Mexico City.
19:59
Speaker 3
If you sit where to America City.
20:01
Speaker 1
Thank you? Yeah whatever. But they employ people who need money, okay,
20:09
weird and give them a high viz vest and broom
20:14
and then they just actually clean the.
20:17
Speaker 3
Streets every day.
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Speaker 1
So like, where do you get the big machine that
20:21
comes through and uh blows ship in your face if
20:26
you have to be yeah, because I have seen the streets.
20:31
Speaker 3
Yeah, it does.
20:31
Speaker 1
It just turns it out of the way into a
20:34
different direction.
20:36
Speaker 2
Because it makes it makes It's like what if you
20:38
only had a broom and no dust pan.
20:40
Speaker 3
Yeah, it's exactly what's.
20:43
Speaker 1
Great if we created a three hundred thousand dollars machine
20:47
that was like a broom with no dust pan and uh,
20:51
there's some water I think mixed in a little bit
20:53
where likes it down.
20:55
Speaker 4
Yeah, it's a change. The leaves are moved, but they
21:02
are there.
21:04
Speaker 1
So many things could be fixed with. Just like we're
21:07
going to invent four hundred jobs based on like talking
21:11
to people in the city, like jobs that they think
21:14
should exist, and yeah, the task we're going to pay them.
21:18
Speaker 4
Well yeah, yeah, one utility for those street cleaning things.
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Speaker 3
I don't know if this is actually as.
21:23
Speaker 4
True anymore in the era of three D printing, but
21:27
if you're looking to create DIY lock picks, the bristles
21:32
from a street cleaning thing are some of the best
21:36
in the biz as far as lock picking tools.
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Speaker 1
How the fuck do you know that.
21:42
Speaker 2
This mustache as well? I want to add that.
21:47
Speaker 1
But only at certain times of the month. You have
21:50
to get it at a certain times after they molt, yes,
21:57
right before they molt. So you can't at it unless
22:00
you can make friends with the walrus right before they
22:03
mold off.
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Speaker 3
The lock pick thing.
22:05
Speaker 2
Editor Brian has in Chat started on a path of
22:09
proclamations that I'm worried are going to become legally actionable.
22:12
Speaker 3
So I'll just say he agrees it works.
22:16
Speaker 1
So well, I know that that's amazing, all right, you
22:21
guys are much cooler than me. Also, the street cleaning
22:25
thing I wasn't talking about you, Blake. The street cleaning
22:29
thing does tie in with I think what we're going
22:32
to talk about with regards to the police, because it's like,
22:37
how do we have just every What if the only
22:40
tool you had was a hammer and you had to
22:43
make it do every job with the blunt end of
22:46
a hammer.
22:47
Speaker 4
A bunch of hammers that actually shoot really little hammers
22:50
via concussive force, and that's all you can do with them.
22:54
They're not really designed for hammering anything.
22:56
Speaker 3
By the way, we.
22:56
Speaker 1
Don't have people who go out in the street clean
22:59
the street. We have one really fast, heavy machine that
23:02
goes around and if you get in it the fucking way,
23:04
you have to deal with the cops. Asshole. Okay, A
23:08
weird way to street clean clean up the streets. We're
23:13
taking out the trash. Were No, we just like literally
23:16
mean we want the streets to be.
23:19
Speaker 3
Not literally trash. Yes, asshole.
23:25
Speaker 1
As Biden said, we count on police to be our teachers,
23:28
are psychiatrists, our librarians are our custodians, our wives. We
23:37
don't need to defund the police. We need to fund more.
23:40
That was his argument, giving them more fun. Anyway, let's
23:45
take a quick break, we'll come back, we'll talk about
23:48
the wildfires. And we're back. And as mentioned up top,
24:02
Miles is not here because of the wildfires. I'm gonna,
24:05
you know, give him space to you know, talk about
24:09
it when he gets back. But you know, sending a
24:11
lot of love and good energy to him and his family.
24:16
But you know, we're our producer. Justin is out because
24:20
you know, his area has been without power for forty
24:24
eight hours. Just a lot of people dealing with a
24:27
lot of shit. I've got somebody who's a good friend
24:31
of mine who was evacuated who's staying with us right now. Andrew,
24:34
it sounds like you've got some of that.
24:36
Speaker 3
Yeah, turning your way.
24:40
Speaker 1
And yeah, it just it's it's not one of those
24:44
like I know a guy who has a friend who
24:47
like this impacted. It's like every everybody's like one degree
24:51
of separation away from people who are losing.
24:55
Speaker 4
And you know, to the extent that there is any
24:58
kind of silver lining to the well, I don't know.
25:02
And I'm also going to say something that I'm not
25:03
even totally sure.
25:04
Speaker 2
Is true, but I think this is the first like
25:10
climate major climate disaster that has affected large numbers of
25:15
middle and upper middle class white people.
25:17
Speaker 3
Yeah, I think that's true.
25:20
Speaker 2
I mean maybe assumption in the UK that is, but
25:23
you know, in this far Australia, you know, this is
25:28
certainly like I don't know what sort of like change
25:31
in political will this could possibly bring, but it is
25:35
sort of that where it's like, you know, you can't
25:38
hide from this, like, you know, as much as it's
25:41
a result of us, like you know, exploiting the global
25:45
South and people of color and poor people everywhere, it's like, yeah,
25:48
but it's it's we're changing shit, and it's it's there's
25:52
no protection from this really.
25:54
Speaker 3
Yeah.
25:55
Speaker 1
Yeah, I mean I think that's right.
25:56
Speaker 3
It's not that that seems good, but that's the truth.
26:00
Speaker 1
Right. It feels like we're in a you know, the
26:05
scale seems biblical, Like I feel like it needs to
26:07
be biblical for like people to get their heads around
26:11
what is happening and like the amount of change that
26:14
needs to happen. But yeah, hopefully this is cutting across
26:19
enough borders that there's political will to do something beyond
26:26
the guy being like, hey, is anybody know any private firefighters? Yeah,
26:30
that could come through and save my house.
26:33
Speaker 2
Uh, andrew rained on that parade for me because I
26:36
thought there were cool like you know, yeah fighters.
26:41
Speaker 4
During that And look, I'm not saying I know for
26:44
sure that there are not, but it's just a thing
26:47
where it's like it's not from what I read about
26:51
like the private fire services that exist.
26:53
Speaker 3
It's not like a uber for firefighters.
26:55
Speaker 2
It's more like a service that you have worked with
26:58
for years.
27:00
Speaker 1
Yeah, or it's not a last second you can't cram
27:03
it as the fire is closing in on your home.
27:05
Speaker 2
You can't price firefighters. Oh yeah, I guess there's right.
27:10
There are planes that you can hire, but the general
27:12
firefighting I think is like part of like, you know,
27:16
a service that you've had. I've I heard it described
27:18
as like a lot of it was honestly landscaping advice
27:22
like it's just like, you know, you're you're you're maintaining
27:25
a house that can be saved in the event of
27:28
a fire rather than just like Blackwater but for firefighters.
27:34
Speaker 1
Right, Yeah, that is a movie starring Mark Wahlberg that
27:39
is going to be made because of this tragedy. That
27:42
that is one outcome that I can foresee is like
27:46
a person facing down wildfire season and they're like, we
27:51
got to call in the fizz or what just.
27:55
Speaker 2
Shit face drunk in like Quincy, Massachusetts, turns on the
28:00
who cease fire and then yah's that Logan airport on
28:03
a Jet Blue flight to La Yeah.
28:05
Speaker 1
Yeah, I don't know where Mark Wahlberg was this week,
28:08
but Victor suproducer Victor points out that if he was here,
28:11
it wouldn't have gone down the way it was.
28:14
Speaker 3
Sure would have punched that fire right out.
28:17
Speaker 1
Yeah.
28:17
Speaker 2
But yeah, which is not to say that there's not
28:19
like resources to be marshaled, but like the best way
28:24
to spend you know, this money is on things like
28:30
taxes and an appropriate city budget that funds the Los
28:34
Angeles Fire Department or whatever fire department you're in.
28:39
Speaker 3
Like it or not, we're all on some level in
28:41
this together. Yes, I do just want to like firefighters.
28:45
Speaker 1
I think they come into the national spotlight every once
28:48
in a while, and when they do, it's not like
28:52
the cup where we're just like, wait, why the fuck
28:54
do we have these guys anything, like these guys are
28:56
fucking terrible, Like it's a you kind of get reminded
29:00
why everybody wants to fuck them and uh and why,
29:03
Like if you have to give a movie character a
29:05
heroic job, you go with firefighter, Like to.
29:08
Speaker 2
Give this guy a calendar.
29:10
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, I don't care what he looks like, Uh,
29:13
turn him into Jack Off material. But there was I
29:18
don't know, like I'm probably in the midst of you know,
29:22
of just this story, but like there was the equivalent
29:25
of an NBA like highlight where a fire helicopter just
29:29
dropped a swimming pool of water on a fire that
29:31
was like spreading out of the Hollywood Hills. It was
29:33
literally like everybody, it's you know, fairly close to where
29:37
we live, and like all our neighbors were like, holy shit,
29:40
like here comes the one that's gonna and this. Yeah,
29:43
I don't think this single handedly stopped it, but like
29:46
a helicopter dropped a swimming pool of water on a
29:49
fire and it just fucking went out like the It
29:55
was like swish from way downtown. I was like, holy shit.
30:01
Speaker 4
Without getting too dark, I saw I don't know, blue sky.
30:04
I guess the comment threat underneath it was like you know,
30:08
various things that you could yell when you when you
30:12
make a great shot in basketball, and someone was like,
30:15
you know that pilot was yelling Kobe. And then people
30:18
pointing out, yeah.
30:24
Speaker 2
I'm zooming in on the photo of the helicopter. Oh
30:27
my god, that's Mark Wahlberg flying that bird.
30:32
Speaker 1
Hey, you know he wouldn't tell anybody if he did.
30:35
He's just like a humble.
30:38
Speaker 3
By.
30:38
Speaker 2
The helicopter is just a fancy drone. So I just
30:40
want to say that as a Jersey person, I saw
30:42
a copter and I wanted to shoot it down. Then
30:48
is that thing doing up there? I started spinning it.
30:51
I was spinning at the sky.
30:53
Speaker 1
New Jersey people would be freaked out by l a
30:55
man lord.
30:58
Speaker 3
Aliens.
31:02
Speaker 1
So I've been kind of like glued to this coverage.
31:06
You know, our kids are out of school, so we're
31:09
just you know.
31:09
Speaker 4
I had a friend who had school yesterday, which is
31:12
also insane.
31:13
Speaker 1
Really god, but you know, glued to the fire map.
31:17
I see fire maps when I close my eyes now,
31:20
like the varying colors, which Andrew you were pointing out before.
31:24
Speaker 4
I do have a note for the listen. I understand
31:27
fire watch app wonderful service. People have been really enjoying it.
31:30
Speaker 3
Watch duty.
31:32
Speaker 4
We'll say there you I bright red fire makes sense,
31:38
dark magentaish or dark pink. Let's say fire warning, yellow
31:44
fire whatever, the equivalent of tornado watches.
31:47
Speaker 3
It's like you'll be ready to be evacuated, but.
31:50
Speaker 2
Then they just have a you're in a dry fire
31:53
prone area and that's like a different shade of pink,
31:56
which is very alarming, and get the map.
32:00
Speaker 4
Yeah, because you're like, yeah, I guess the other one's orange.
32:03
The point is the gradations of danger go from red
32:07
dark pink, yellow, and then least dangerous is light pink,
32:12
which I think is bad ui.
32:14
Speaker 3
On a personal level, we.
32:15
Speaker 1
All agree that it should be like yellow orange, red,
32:20
and some like grading it in there right, like.
32:23
Speaker 3
That that's my pitch. That's what they're doing.
32:26
Speaker 1
Great inherent Yeah, they are doing a great job. Also,
32:29
Like my eight year old is like addicted to that
32:32
app now, like he just we were like he's like
32:34
scrolling it and like obsessed.
32:37
Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, one of the It's different where in La
32:42
we had like an earthquake kit in our place because
32:44
I love for the listeners. I live in LA for
32:46
ten years and it's one of the only it's the
32:49
only place I've ever lived where I had an emergency
32:52
kit basicly go bag.
32:54
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah, I could.
32:55
Speaker 2
Go bag, which isn't necessarily you know, there are obviously
32:59
situations in other places where you could need that. But
33:02
I remember having like earthquake water, Like we would always
33:05
have like a case of water somewhere and then we
33:08
would get thirsty on our way out and grab the water,
33:10
so we just wouldn't have any water. Yeah, is this
33:14
something that you like? Do you guys have earthquake kits? Like,
33:17
I know, like some of you have packed up I
33:18
was talking to yeah before.
33:20
Speaker 4
Yeah, mine's not freshened up since the last time. I
33:24
probably put in the big work to do it in
33:26
twenty twenty. Like I think my cube of water cannot
33:29
possibly be good. I will say before that I did
33:32
have an earthquake kit that was based on gallons of
33:34
water and being hungover in my late twenties early thirties.
33:40
Speaker 3
The fact that I like.
33:42
Speaker 2
Drank my earthquake water really says something about America.
33:46
Speaker 3
I think because I was too hot.
33:50
Speaker 2
But yeah, I got the cube that's allegedly non toxic.
33:56
Speaker 3
But there's just no way the cube's been there for
33:57
like four years. It can't be good.
34:00
Speaker 2
Quake diet coke.
34:02
Speaker 1
Yeah, I got a twelve pack of coke for what
34:05
lukewarm diet coke from the early nineties. What the cube
34:10
is like a separate It's not just like a two
34:11
gallon thing of arrow.
34:13
Speaker 4
Oh, I mean it's it's it's like a water container
34:17
that someone recommended.
34:18
Speaker 2
That's like, okay, a square thick, Yeah, the square. You
34:24
can see a square. Everyone can see a square.
34:29
Speaker 1
Can't can't Now you've lost to tell.
34:31
Speaker 2
You about spears afterwards, and you're gonna flip that.
34:34
Speaker 1
Wait, so you're talking about like a third dimension. That's
34:38
I'm not you.
34:38
Speaker 3
Know what doesn't make sense to people would say that. Yeah.
34:42
Speaker 1
So I was watching this press conference yesterday and it
34:45
just really drove home the thing we were talking about
34:48
about the police, Like, the police are coming into this
34:51
in a couple of ways. One, because people noticed that
34:55
the firefighting budget was cut a small amount last year.
35:00
You know, like people who are defensive or you know,
35:05
hate the Republicans are Like the Republicans are making this
35:08
seem like they slashed the entire budget. It was, you know,
35:11
a two percent budget cut. Fine, they also like massively
35:16
increased the police budget as crime is going down and
35:20
the fire the danger of fire is going up. And
35:23
it's not specific politicians fault. It's the entire American apparatus
35:30
that does this. But I was actually this press conference yesterday.
35:33
It was like the Pasadena fire chief and then police chief,
35:36
and just the rhythm of this press conference was so wild,
35:39
Like they first half it's the fire chief. He's just
35:43
this weird little guy, just answering difficult questions, like here's
35:47
why it's spread, here are the challenges we faced here
35:50
where like we could have done better. Here, here's what's
35:53
still going on, like ending his answers with like, did
35:56
that answer your question? And like it seemed genuinely curious
36:00
about whether it had like not a genius, nothing particularly noteworthy,
36:06
just a person doing the job that they have at
36:11
a difficult time. When people like not a job speaker,
36:14
not a public speaker in any way, then they give
36:16
the next part of the press conference to the police chief,
36:19
and he like opens up like bragging about individual people
36:24
that they had evacuated from their homes, like just having
36:28
to like just flex on everybody, and then started talking
36:35
about and he's like, and now we're moving into the
36:37
problem solving situation where we're gonna deal with anybody who's looting,
36:43
and like starts seating this like looting story. By the way,
36:47
could a better funded fire department have done the evacuations? Yeah,
36:51
who's to.
36:52
Speaker 4
Say there's a thing with like we're watching the argument
36:57
for defund the police.
36:59
Speaker 3
Like literally, even if you're the most like.
37:00
Speaker 4
Conservative non maniac possible who thinks we need some kind
37:04
of police, Like, most of the money that goes to
37:08
the police is the least efficient way to do those
37:12
job descriptions like the non fucking law enforcement allegedly side
37:17
of things.
37:18
Speaker 3
You're like, what the fuck are you talking about?
37:20
Speaker 4
You you got in like the cops having five times
37:24
more budget or more than the than the fire department.
37:28
But talking on a retail level about helping individuals versus
37:32
people try to help communities several orders of magnitude in
37:37
both the wrong direction. Yes, So this is just a
37:39
bad investment, you fucking business dickheads, Like, yeah, explain that exactly.
37:44
Speaker 2
Well, the police, there are, there are teachers, there are doctors,
37:48
and there are firemen.
37:50
Speaker 3
Police are our firemen.
37:52
Speaker 1
Yes, exactly, there are doctors, there are wives, there are firemen.
37:56
Speaker 2
It's just a more expensive, least effective version of all
37:59
those things.
38:00
Speaker 3
Yeah, why would you want that?
38:02
Speaker 1
And then the second half of the police part was
38:04
just the most essentially the verbal equivalent of firing is
38:12
gun in the air with the like inscrutable police speak
38:15
about the possibility of looters where they're just like, uh,
38:20
and we just got one message for you, don't even
38:23
try it. We're now shifting into the safety operation where
38:26
we will be on the lookout for looters. Make no mistake,
38:30
we will act decisively and with definitive kinetic means in
38:34
the eventuality that we you know, just like throwing all
38:37
those fucking bullshit police worth any individual perpetrating such criminal
38:42
activity for.
38:43
Speaker 2
The fullest extent of the law. Yeah, exactly, shiit not
38:47
to invoke you know, previous week's biggest story, but the
38:52
biggest theft that will be occurring in southern California will
38:55
be on behalf of insurance companies have already stolen tons
39:00
of money and will not be paying out on things
39:03
that they owe.
39:03
Speaker 3
That is oh yeah, my prediction.
39:06
Speaker 1
My prediction is that that they are going to be
39:11
going bankrupt and it's going to be up to the
39:13
government to yeah there is all people's yeah, which I
39:20
don't know.
39:20
Speaker 4
People will simply not be made whole on the things
39:22
that are absolutely owed, which I feel like is likely anyway.
39:26
And if you're thinking about theft Californians and the globe,
39:30
just remember the theft already happened, and it's a bunch
39:33
of guys in boardrooms.
39:35
Speaker 1
Two nights into many homes across the city being evacuated,
39:39
and the police are reporting they've encountered three instances of looting,
39:42
I think. And by the way, they give themselves a
39:44
very wide latitude when determined something is looting.
39:47
Speaker 2
So someone picked a quarter up off the ground, and yeah,
39:51
so they were looting the ground.
39:52
Speaker 1
Yes, yeah, we saw they're looting our city. The very
39:55
foundation of our city is our grounds.
40:00
Speaker 3
It's our ground. That's true.
40:01
Speaker 1
Yeah, And that is true, and you can't you can't
40:04
deny that. And we're not taking questions and we will
40:07
take no further answers at Las time. Let's take a
40:10
quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back,
40:23
and we're back, and we'll be doing this whole episode
40:26
with this New York accent.
40:29
Speaker 3
Smart voice.
40:30
Speaker 2
Hey fucking smart over here. I went to Sunny Yonkers
40:36
for one and a half years.
40:38
Speaker 3
A lot of.
40:39
Speaker 1
Great people out of the seaming system.
40:40
Speaker 2
Man, I couldn't agree more.
40:42
Speaker 1
I'm just jealous. Okay. New York has introduced a policy
40:48
that seems to be aimed at overall improving their infrastructure
40:53
and quality of life while making business interests angry and uh,
41:01
making people less likely to drive cars. Like that, anything
41:04
that has anything to do with people's right to drive
41:06
a car seems to be such a fucking like, uh
41:10
just hot button issue. So the fact that this is
41:15
happening seems like a minor miracle. The fact that it
41:18
seems like a minor miracle is devastating. That that means
41:22
that we're in a very bad place.
41:23
Speaker 2
I keep my guns in my car, so these are
41:26
this is a hot But you take away my car,
41:29
you take away my Yeah, I.
41:31
Speaker 3
Mean you could, I mean you could.
41:32
Speaker 2
You could get your like if you replace the water
41:36
bottle rack on your bike, you could fit at least one.
41:38
Speaker 3
Gut in there.
41:40
Speaker 1
Yeah, and then.
41:41
Speaker 3
Maybe maybe turn the top bar into a shotgun. Yeah,
41:44
shotguns about it, just tink it about it.
41:46
Speaker 2
I keep a grenade in my tail, which I know
41:51
it's not a gun, but it's still fun.
41:53
Speaker 1
And if it backs up, you know, if your car
41:56
is backed up, that's it becomes rolled out.
41:58
Speaker 3
Yeah, that's true.
42:00
Speaker 2
All right, I'm not secured in there.
42:01
Speaker 4
I'm sorry, pens in It's fine.
42:07
Speaker 1
Yeah, So people taking cars into Manhattan's busiest neighborhoods will
42:11
now have to pay a toll up to nine dollars.
42:14
Up to nine dollars, so that's that's where we're maxing out.
42:18
This is the new Congestion Relief Zone plan. It went
42:23
into effect because of federal judge ruled against New Jersey's
42:26
lawsuit to stop it. And this makes New York the
42:30
first city in the US to implement a congestion relief
42:34
plan like this. There have been other plans in like
42:37
London that we've talked about before with admiration and like
42:43
couldn't happen here, especially like during the pandemic when the
42:46
cities like were nicer because they weren't just like choked
42:50
with traffic, and people were like, yeah, we're going to
42:53
like actually close this street and just let it be
42:56
like a pedestrian walkway where people can like walk around
43:01
and you know, have their blood pressure lower a little
43:06
bit because they don't feel like they're about to get
43:08
run down by a taxi. And yeah, they've gone back
43:13
to that not being a thing. And yeah, we've talked
43:16
about like parking spots, like getting rid of parking spots
43:18
can be a good thing, but yeah, people will freak
43:22
the fuck out and seem to be freaking the fuck
43:25
out when it comes to this. There's the New York
43:27
Post has just been keeping up a steady stream, just
43:32
like the pressure is unrelenting on this law. And like
43:36
they they blamed somebody like doing something violent on the
43:40
subway on this. I think they're they're just like this
43:45
guy snapped, probably because of congestion pricing.
43:48
Speaker 4
It's probably yeah, ship blake again.
43:56
Speaker 2
Oh, by the way, I love Brian just wrote I
43:59
love how people pay for a car, insurance, gas, parking,
44:01
maintenance and not nine dollars. It's my approach to that
44:06
is like, oh, like I order like a Burger fries
44:10
wings and then like a diet coke with dinner. You know,
44:13
I can't have I've already pushed myself to such a limit.
44:17
I can't have this extra one hundred and fifty calories
44:19
or whatever my one. So I agree this is a
44:22
good thing. The you know how, I'm mister both sides. Yeah,
44:27
I love and it's a term that I've really fell
44:29
in love with in the past couple of years. But
44:32
my Jersey complaint, my Jersey complaint is that public transit.
44:37
And by the way, the goal of this is to
44:38
make public transit better, obviously and more like make that
44:42
the default way of getting around obviously. And the issue
44:47
currently I think why why people are complaining there's some
44:51
legitimacy to it, is that the Holland Tunnel is like
44:53
one of the main tunnels that go from North Jersey
44:56
into New York and it shuts down at a then
45:00
pm during the week because of damage that it sustained
45:05
during like a hurricane from god knows how many years,
45:07
like maybe like six years ago or something. Maybe it
45:09
was Sandy, I don't know which one it was. But
45:11
so that shuts down and then the uh it's called
45:15
the path, which is the port like authority transit whatever
45:19
is the Jersey Subway that takes you into New York,
45:22
and then that runs I believe every forty minutes, I
45:26
think like after eleven So the problem is that or
45:31
a problem? So this is a good thing. And then
45:34
also separately, a additional problem here is that the Jersey
45:39
public transit system is such a disaster that it's kind
45:44
of fucked people, where like this good thing that's happened
45:47
has like started to get negative feedback because of how
45:51
bad the transit system is here. So I don't have
45:55
a solution to that. And Hoboken's train station is also
45:58
shutting down, so.
45:59
Speaker 3
I was going to ask, what is it.
46:00
Speaker 4
It's like the ferry the path trains, and that's it, right, yes,
46:06
And then you could so when the Holland Tunnel shuts
46:10
down at eleven sharp, you would have to drive up
46:13
from Lower Manhattan to what is called the Lincoln Tunnel,
46:16
which the whole rest of the world is doing simultaneously.
46:20
Speaker 2
So that I think is a complaint. It's not an
46:24
argument against congestion pricing. I'm just adding like, whatever the
46:28
hell else is going on?
46:29
Speaker 4
Yeah, but can't I mean, surely they can just up
46:33
the frequency of the path trains also they should do that. Yeah, yeah,
46:36
it has been night. Public transit just takes an hour. Yeah,
46:39
that's life in New York, baby, it's life anywhere. Yeah,
46:43
like like Boston anywhere. So I think that's the problem
46:45
is that Jersey, I think has fucked itself, and then
46:49
that's the problem. They're getting mad at congestion pricing. I
46:51
think the issue is actually that New Jersey completely screwed
46:54
itself over right now icing public transfer?
46:57
Speaker 1
Yeah, but yeah, I mean.
46:58
Speaker 3
Jersey fucked itself is kind of the state modle it.
47:02
Speaker 1
Is on my Jersey. We fucked ourselves.
47:04
Speaker 3
Hey, go fuck ourselves. Do we fuck ourselves on this one?
47:09
Speaker 1
I think it got damaged in such a way that
47:14
it's okay to operate during daylight hours.
47:16
Speaker 3
They're repairing it at night.
47:18
Speaker 1
Oh, they're repairing at night. Yeah, yes, okay, that makes.
47:21
Speaker 3
Still it's a good question.
47:23
Speaker 2
The question is still there or how bad, how badly
47:27
does it need to be repaired that you're shutting down
47:29
one of the two major arteries into New York and
47:33
again the city doesn't sleep.
47:34
Speaker 3
Yeah.
47:35
Speaker 1
I feel like the most American answer to this is just,
47:38
you know, we've all seen the Sylvester Salom movie. Where
47:41
the tunnel gets damaged daylight, just you know the man up.
47:48
There's gonna be some heroes on when that thing eventually
47:52
goes down, and uh, we'll all be fine.
47:55
Speaker 3
My pitch.
47:56
Speaker 2
We have city bikes, why not have a city motorcycle
48:00
have a whole line at d y evil over. Yes,
48:05
we need a ramp and several ramps. We can't just
48:08
have one ram because then that whole bottlenecks. So yeah,
48:10
I think evil canieveling over the Hudson is the solution
48:13
here into a harp.
48:15
Speaker 1
They get do they get parachutes on the way back.
48:18
Speaker 2
You don't get charged going back into Jersey.
48:26
Speaker 1
Yeah, all right, it is Girl Scout Cookie season. Do
48:31
you guys partake?
48:32
Speaker 4
I haven't in a minute, but I did tease my
48:35
favorite because I guess I've just been an old man
48:38
since forever and I think they're no longer available. But
48:41
my favorite Girl Scout cookie is the fucking nearly flavorless
48:44
short bread one apparently oils trefoils.
48:51
Speaker 2
The name is you dip it in anything, or you
48:53
just like so much milk.
48:56
Speaker 4
It's basically what I do, because I take any number
48:59
of oils and turn it into sort of like a
49:01
paste with milk. I don't know why it's it's objectively gross.
49:07
I understand that, but they are my actual, factual favorite
49:10
girl Scout cookies.
49:12
Speaker 1
I like, like every time I have them, Like in concept,
49:15
I'm like, nah, I don't funk with those, Like why
49:18
would I get that instead of something with like chocolate
49:22
on it? Tea, yeah, some something thermal I think my favorite.
49:30
But the trifoils really do hit like I I only
49:33
eat there too, and yeah, I always enjoy the hell
49:37
out of them.
49:38
Speaker 3
I think it is.
49:39
Speaker 4
Because we fought a war against those fucking tea drinking
49:42
breads to not have short in.
49:45
Speaker 3
Our in our life. They're fucking they're my favorite.
49:49
Speaker 2
Thin mints in the freezer is going off on trifoils,
49:52
but just yeah, the producer.
49:55
Speaker 1
Producer Victor is second third hour trifoil has completely lost it,
50:03
uh and is saying Trefoil's got that savory butteriness which
50:10
is so funny, that's right, but also really surprisingly sweet,
50:17
like just a fun a big, a big sugar punch,
50:20
which is something that I'm always looking for. I don't
50:23
want any sort of sweet treat that is not going
50:29
to make my teeth hurt. A little bit.
50:32
Speaker 3
Jesus Christ.
50:33
Speaker 2
Sorry, I just saw that they were they were retiring
50:36
their smore cookies that were so good.
50:39
Speaker 1
Yeah, so that's exactly where where I want to go
50:43
with this. They're retiring the I'm so bummed about this.
50:48
The s'mores are of all the cookies. They don't seem
50:52
like like they seem you know, they're just sandwich cookies.
50:55
They don't seem like they would be that sweet, but
50:58
they are so packed with sweetness and sugar like they're ah,
51:03
I love I love those s'mores so much cookies, and
51:07
they're on their way out as well as the toast ya.
51:11
Speaker 3
That is crazy A toast yea.
51:14
Speaker 1
I think it was introduced fairly recently, or maybe I
51:18
just found out about it. Like, while this show is
51:20
the thing, the name of the toast ya has baffled me.
51:26
Speaker 3
What is it?
51:28
Speaker 5
Like?
51:28
Speaker 1
It seems to be made by somebody who thinks that
51:32
there is like a like, is it supposed to be
51:35
toasty but like the it's.
51:37
Speaker 2
Toast, Yeah, it's squat toast.
51:43
Speaker 1
It does look like a squeak.
51:44
Speaker 3
Is it supposed to be a call in response like toast?
51:48
Speaker 1
Yeah yea, but it's got a dash in between so
51:52
almost like it's single.
51:53
Speaker 2
Word that's ah.
51:55
Speaker 1
So it's a French toast inspired cookie dipped in delicious.
51:59
Speaker 3
Icing that looks good.
52:01
Speaker 1
It's fluid, it's not bad like I actually think the
52:04
most overrated cookies like the ones that I wouldn't have
52:08
been sad to see. The peanut butter patties I don't
52:11
fuck with. They're like the chocolate covered peanut butter on
52:14
the inside. I just think there's something off with the balance.
52:17
I don't I don't think it works.
52:19
Speaker 4
I think they were trying to dodge the Reese's pieces
52:21
or the Reese's peanut butter cup allegations, and they just,
52:24
you know, Reesa's is just holding down like a market
52:28
ratio segment that is going to fuck anyone else that's
52:31
trying for chocolate peanut buttery.
52:33
Speaker 1
I think like the caramel delights, the thin mints, the trefoils,
52:38
I think are all like goaded should have just not
52:42
touched as well as the s'mores and the toasty is good.
52:45
I just can't get my mind. I think they just
52:49
need to take it away and then reintroduce it with
52:51
a name that.
52:53
Speaker 3
Doesn't like suck that's on some.
52:55
Speaker 1
Unconscious level make me furious, like other people might be
53:00
that way too, Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
53:03
Speaker 2
No, I'm not getting whatever that. What are lemon ups?
53:06
Speaker 1
Lemonade?
53:07
Speaker 2
Lemonades and lemon No, no, it's two lemon cookies. There's
53:10
two lemons.
53:11
Speaker 1
All right, this is what this is.
53:13
Speaker 2
I don't want to start this. I don't want to
53:15
do that. I don't want to do this today. Go ahead,
53:17
go ahead, get it out.
53:19
Speaker 1
There are two regional Girl Scout cookie makers that make
53:24
different cookies. So in some places you'll get them and
53:30
they are definitely like have a thick coating of chocolate
53:34
around them. Others they're just very thin like chocolate wafers
53:38
with like that. I think they have like some Yeah,
53:44
there there is like a definitely a superior senment.
53:47
Speaker 3
Fuck so East Coast, West Coast beef.
53:50
Speaker 1
Over West Coast, beef over Girl Scouts.
53:52
Speaker 2
Jesus, I'm scrolling down on this article that we're looking again,
53:55
and it does say the Girl Scouts of America said
53:57
they were quote disappointed about the quote unauthorized resales out
54:02
a statement about cookies. There's fucking Girl Scout cookie scalpers,
54:07
which is the fucking lowest possible thing. You could be
54:11
crazy going to stocks people.
54:14
Speaker 3
Do you go?
54:15
Speaker 1
Do they trail the girl scouts and like be like
54:18
a a you know, I know you just like made it,
54:21
but just cancel your order. I got I got that
54:23
for like a better better price.
54:24
Speaker 3
You know they're they're higher. I think I think it's
54:27
more stock X. It's like, oh ship, they're sold out of,
54:31
sold out of. Oh damn yo.
54:35
Speaker 1
You know what what she just come through with. She
54:37
just came through with trefoils. That's all she's got left.
54:41
Speaker 2
That's crazy, hey, for you to have.
54:45
Speaker 1
To miss out on these caramel delights? Oh many? All
54:49
these looks so good.
54:51
Speaker 3
Do you have a favorite?
54:52
Speaker 2
It's thin mints for sure, in the freezer and it
54:56
has to be for some reason. It has to be
54:57
in the freezer. And because it doesn't like get hard
55:00
to eat, it's just nice and chilled. It's great. We'll
55:03
get them from my niece, but she takes a while
55:07
to get them, Like I'll order them from her so
55:11
she gets like the bump, you know, the financial bump.
55:16
Walk outside a store down around the corner and just
55:18
get them so I can have.
55:19
Speaker 1
The one that you can actually have when you want them.
55:23
Speaker 2
Yeah, when I want them, which is right now, Yeah.
55:25
Speaker 1
You should like send a send a note to her
55:27
girl Scout leader about how she's.
55:29
Speaker 2
I'm showing in person. There's gonna be no note. I'm
55:33
gonna kick the door.
55:35
Speaker 4
It's gotta be sort of like a Glengarry glen Ross
55:37
situation where you're just fucking like school and these girls
55:40
about actual sales, about being closed, you know, about closing
55:44
deals because it's sucking unacceptable exactly, you should fire them.
55:49
Speaker 2
Just got a cop badge, give away sergeant badges? They
55:56
might actually is that a thing boy Scouts? I mean
55:59
I way too far in the Boy Scouts for someone
56:02
with that. That is who I am, and I will
56:07
just tell you that it is.
56:09
Speaker 4
I mean, it is for nerds obviously even when I
56:11
was coming up. But it is shockingly paramilitary and like
56:16
if it's really god, yeah, you're like.
56:19
Speaker 1
It's yeah, yeah, you know my kids are in boy
56:24
Scouts and I am the leader of my six year
56:26
old's troop.
56:30
Speaker 2
Ours was like a fucking cop and then this like
56:32
super religious guy and then it's like a horrible Yeah,
56:36
I was just was my Scout leader. You know, at
56:41
that age of the age, gap doesn't work amazing.
56:44
Speaker 1
Well, thank you guys for joining Blake. Wonderful having you
56:47
as always. Thank you, thank you for being so vulnerable
56:51
about your girl scout cookie taste not a problem. Where
56:54
can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff.
56:57
Speaker 2
People can find me a like Wexler on all social
57:01
media like Westory dot com. I have some stand up
57:04
dates coming out March thirteenth for Collins uh the comedy
57:08
for it, and also I mean March fifteenth, I'm in Pasadena.
57:11
Who gives a ship at this point, you know? And
57:13
then April fourth to fifth, uh, Sissyphis in Minneapolis.
57:18
Speaker 1
Amazing, That's where I'm going to be. Yeah, it sounds
57:21
like you're going to be a busy boy.
57:22
Speaker 2
Now I'm going to be a busy boy.
57:23
Speaker 1
Oh no, I said it like I was.
57:25
Speaker 3
San is such a great name for I assume a
57:27
comedy club.
57:28
Speaker 2
Busy boy, comedy Oh Sisyphis, busney boy, busy boy.
57:33
Speaker 3
It's not that bad.
57:34
Speaker 2
Yeah, I mean all the lineips are like mail anyway,
57:39
but uh yeah, Sissyphis. It's this cool brewery and that
57:43
has a comedy club attached to it. It's a really
57:45
cool spot in.
57:47
Speaker 3
To roll up the Hill.
57:49
Speaker 2
They named it after our careers.
57:51
Speaker 1
Uh, Blake, is there a workip media that you've been enjoying? Yeah?
57:55
Speaker 2
Do you mind if I share it?
57:56
Speaker 3
Oh?
57:56
Speaker 1
I would love I would love for that. Actually, well,
57:58
here it is. It's crazy about to ask you that.
58:01
Speaker 2
Let's see, we've finally synced up. At we finally after
58:05
all these years? Understand hold another? All right social post
58:10
at smiling nodding on blue sky. Every new restaurant in
58:14
a major city is either called thistle and Thorn and things.
58:17
Adding turmeric to Brussels sprats makes them worth thirty dollars,
58:21
or it's called burger bitch and as a neon sign
58:24
in the window that says I'm gonna fuck a Hamberger's
58:30
smiling nodding.
58:33
Speaker 1
Yeah, that's a good one. That really got me. Andrew,
58:37
where can people find you as their working media you've
58:40
been enjoying?
58:41
Speaker 3
I mean, you know, is this racist? Is my podcast?
58:44
Speaker 4
I will just say the only media I've consumed is
58:46
this unbelievably hectic signal group called La Fire's Mutual Aid.
58:51
I guess what I will say is please send resources
58:55
to California. However, Yeah, like many times of Naturals, I
59:00
think a lot of people's first instinct is like the
59:03
big name brand things, the places like Red Cross or
59:07
you know, Planned Parenthood, and almost always those.
59:11
Speaker 3
Are the least helpful places.
59:13
Speaker 4
They're already well funded, they are often politically compromised, and
59:19
you know sense it's possible to do your own research truly,
59:23
do like look around, figure out what you actually believe in,
59:27
and you can send money directly to people easier than
59:29
ever before.
59:31
Speaker 3
Do I have a specific one?
59:32
Speaker 4
I know K Town for All's been doing a ton,
59:34
but you know that's my own personal bias. Because this
59:37
is only going to be happening more and more. The
59:40
name brand in national and international aid organizations tend to
59:45
not be the best place to send your money.
59:47
Speaker 1
Yeah, so do your research. You can find me on
59:50
Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien and on Blue Sky at
59:54
Jack ob The number one tweet I've been enjoying mister
1:00:01
Mitch at one eight hundred. Ghost Man tweeted Bill Sar's
1:00:04
guard as a Noospatu voice, what is your wife's Instagram?
1:00:13
And uh Zach Dunn tweeted water isn't for putting out wildfires.
1:00:18
It's for powering a machine that lets me hear what
1:00:21
it would sound like if Cartman read my Grandpa's will.
1:00:26
Speaker 3
Oh my god, gotta cool.
1:00:28
Speaker 1
Those AI engines? Baby? What does every time I see
1:00:33
them draw a helicopter drop a bunch of water on this?
1:00:36
Speaker 3
So much server?
1:00:37
Speaker 1
Yeah, so much server cooling. That could have been done
1:00:40
with that water.
1:00:42
Speaker 3
Rip to the real victims.
1:00:44
Speaker 1
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1:01:02
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1:01:05
we link off to the information that we talked about
1:01:07
in today's episode. We also link off to a song
1:01:11
we think you might enjoy. Brian the Editor, is there
1:01:16
a song that you think people might enjoy?
1:01:19
Speaker 5
Uh?
1:01:20
Speaker 1
Yeah, I think I got something. Okay.
1:01:22
Speaker 5
So this is a track from slosson Malone One called
1:01:26
King Sisyphus of the Atlantic from his album A Quiet Farewell,
1:01:31
and it's got this sort of psychedelic low fi almost
1:01:36
like a poet what I would call like a post
1:01:38
hip hop kind of sound that flips a classic soul
1:01:43
sample in the song called Nothing I Can Do About It.
1:01:47
I can't remember the band's name, but he flips, he
1:01:50
flips this soul sample in a really interesting way in
1:01:53
six or four time and yeah, Saws the Malone is
1:01:59
just like a really exciting artist that makes very interesting music.
1:02:04
He just released his first album on What Records last
1:02:06
year called Excelsior, and yeah, check it out. King Sissyfus
1:02:12
of the Atlantic by Slosson Malone one.
1:02:16
Speaker 1
Damn King Sisyphus of the Atlantic by Slossa Malone one.
1:02:20
We will link off to that in the footnotes footnotes.
1:02:24
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Speaker 5
Fight